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All articles of distinctive uniform pertaining to general prisoners under sentence for purely military offenses alone will be removed from the possession of each such prisoner immediately after receipt of sentence. Such clothing will be listed, marked, and stored under custody of the prison officer (or adjutant), and will be available for return to the prisoner should he be restored to duty. This clothing will accom. pany the prisoner to the post or disciplinary barracks to which he is sent for his confinement, and will be available, in whole or in part, for use by the prisoner at a disciplinary barracks upon his enrollment in a disciplinary organization. Upon the release from military control of general prisoners of this class, either at a post or a disciplinary barracks, without restoration to duty, the clothing in reference will be retained by the United States, and at posts it will be disposed of as is deserters' clothing, but at the disciplinary barracks it will be taken up by the quartermaster and will be available for issue to men restored to duty, if suitable for that purpose, or for conversion into special clothing for use of general prisoners.

Except as authorized for disciplinary organizations, the wearing by a general prisoner of any distinctive article of the uniform provided for enlisted men is prohibited unless in cases of temporary emergency. In no case will any distinctive article of the uniform prescribed for enlisted men be marked with the letter "P."

Special clothing for general prisoners at posts will be supplied on requisition to the depot quartermaster, Philadelphia, Pa. (G. O. 67, W. D., 1915.)

2497. The allowance for band instruments, requisitions for same, accounting for the instruments, action on unserviceable instruments, and method of making minor repairs. (A. R. 1179, 1913.)

2498. In making requisitions for musical instruments and parts, care will be exercised in describing articles required, giving name of instrument and manufacturer, in order that delay in filling requisitions by having to communicate with quartermasters for additional information may be avoided. Requisitions for reeds in particular should state the brand required.

Only instruments of domestic manufacture will be supplied. (Bul. 19, W. D., 1915.)

2499. Band instruments and parts will hereafter be procured as Class A, in accordance with the provisions of paragraph 2237 hereof.

Articles of camp and garrison equipage listed herein, and band instruments and parts, will, except as otherwise specified, or when transferred from posts where there is surplus, be supplied from depots of the Quartermaster Corps, as follows:

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2500. In making requisition upon the quartermaster for corn brooms, scrubbing brushes, mops, sapolio, concentrated lye, and stove polish, organization commanders will use Q. M. C. Form 176.

The quartermaster will drop the articles issued on these requisitions on monthly list of stores expended and will file the requisitions covering such issues with his retained list of stores expended. Sapolio, concentrated lye, and stove polish are not articles of "Clothing and equipage."

2501. Black oilskin clothing, including hats and half-hip rubber boots, will hereafter be furnished by the Quartermaster Corps for the use of enlisted men of each mine company, Coast Artillery Corps, and of each mine planter and cable steamer.

They will be supplied upon duly approved requisitions from the post quartermaster or the quarter master of the mine planter or cable steamer, who will be accountable for and will issue the clothing upon memorandum receipt furnished by the company or detachment commander. The clothing will remain the property of the United States, and will, in the event of loss or destruction through other than unavoidable circumstances, be charged to the enlisted men on the muster and pay rolls at cost or invoice prices. The number and sizes of these articles to be estimated for will be as follows:

(a) For each mine company and mine planter | (b) For each cable steamer24 oilskin jackets

14 oilskin jackets

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LAUNDRIES.

2502. Post laundries are established and maintained under specia Iregulations by the War Department. The amount of indebtedness of a soldier to a post laundry contracted in accordance with such regulations will be noted on the pay rolls for the current month and will be deducted, if practicable, from his pay by the quartermaster making the payment and turned over to the officer in charge of the laundry, who will duly receipt to the quartermaster and the soldier for the amount so received. Where the soldier is detached the amount due the laundry will be noted on the detachment pay roll or descriptive list and will be deducted by the quartermaster at the next payment and forwarded to the officer in charge of the laundry in which the indebtedness was incurred. In case of the discharge of a soldier the amount of any such indebtedness will be noted on the final statement and will be similarly deducted from payment made thereon and transmitted to the officer in charge of the laundry. (A. R. 341, 1913.)

2503. The following regulations for the operation and maintenance of laundries established at military posts by the Quartermaster Corps are published:

1. Laundries of this class are established by authority of law, contained in the act of Congress, approved March 3, 1909, as published in General Orders, No. 49, War Department, 1909, and in subsequent acts of Congress making appropriations for the support of the Army. They will be known and designated as post laundries. Laundries at military posts operated by post exchanges will be known as post exchange laundries, and all other laundries at military posts by the name of the firm, party, organization, or corporation that operates them. The laundry at Fort Leavenworth, Kans., will be known as the Fort Leavenworth Laundry.

2. These regulations apply only to post laundries and do not affect or modify in any way existing regulations for other classes of laundries now in operation or that may be hereafter established or authorized at military posts or stations.

3. Post laundries will not be established at posts where post exchange laundries or other classes of laundries are in successful operation.

4. Post laundries will be in charge of the post quartermaster, who will render the returns and money accounts pertaining to the laundry and incident to its operation, as required by existing laws and regulations, from officers of the Quartermaster Corps accountable for public property and funds. He will be assisted in all that pertains to the management and operation of the laundry by an officer detailed by the post commander and designated as post laundry officer.

5. The post quartermaster, as soon as practicable after the end of each fiscal year, but not later than July 10 of each year, will submit to the post commander on Q. M. C. Form 411 a complete report in triplicate of the operations of the laundry for the fiscal year. This report will show in detail the quantity, class, and cost of supplies purchased and expended, number, designation, and compensation of persons employed in its operation, also cost of repairs in the maintenance of the equipment and building. One copy of this report will be retained by the post quartermaster and two copies forwarded by the post commander, with such remarks and recommendations as he deems pertinent, to department headquarters, where one copy is retained and the other forwarded by the department quartermaster to the Quartermaster General of the Army.

6. A charge will be made for all laundry work done, whether for individuals or branches of the Government. This charge will be uniform and fixed by the post commander upon the recommendation of the officer in charge, except in the case of enlisted men, when in the discretion of the post commander a flat rate per week or month may be charged, this flat rate to be uniform for all enlisted men. A copy of the established price list will be published and will accompany the annual report.

7. All funds furnished by the Quartermaster Corps and those taken in for laundry work will be properly accounted for on the books of the laundry and will be taken up on the account current, with proper vouchers for all disbursements. At the end of each month the funds in excess of amount required for payment of any outstanding accounts and the following month's expenses of maintenance and operation on hand will be deposited to the credit of the proper appropriation for that fiscal year.

8. The original installation will be paid for from funds of the Quartermaster Corps, as will all material extensions; but all operating, maintenance, replacement, and repair expenses, except ordinary repairs to the building, which will be provided for from the allotment for annual repairs to buildings at the post, will be paid for from the revenue of the laundry. Replacements, except of minor articles not exceeding $100 in value in any one month, will be made only on the approval of the Quartermaster General.

9. All civilian employees required for the maintenance and operation of the laundry will be hired by the quartermaster, who, with the approval of the post commander, will fix the rate of compensation for each according to the duties which the employee performs.

10. The Quartermaster Corps will furnish funds for beginning operation of the laundry, which must, however, be replaced by revenues of the laundry as soon as practicable, and when so replaced will be deposited to the eredit of the appropriation from which they were taken. It is intended that the laundry shall be self-sustaining and expenses of its operations and maintenance paid from its revenue, except for repair to buildings as mentioned in paragraph 8 above. In fixing the prices for work done by the laundry this will be kept in view.

11. When a post laundry is put into operation, either when first constructed or after having been shutdown for a considerable period, requisition will be made for the supplies and services necessary for three months' operation. These supplies and services will be paid for from funds of the proper appropriation,

and reimbursement by deposit in the Treasury will be made from month to month from the laundry revenues. All supplies other than these will be purchased with funds from laundry revenues.

12. The expense account will include all the expenditures, receipts, and bills receivable during the fiscal year from whatever source.

13. A set of books will be kept showing a detailed record from month to month of all matters pertaining to the laundry and its operations and furnishing the information for making up the annual report and money and property accounts required by laws and regulations.

14. Any laundry work damaged or destroyed will be repaired or replaced according to rules to be prescribed by the post commander. Repairing damages to articles sent to the laundry by any of its patrons and replacing or paying for those damaged beyond repair or lost or destroyed will be a legitimate charge against the revenues of the laundry and considered a part of the expense of its operation.

15. Service rendered by the post laundry to any bureaus of the War Department, other than the Quartermaster Corps, or to any other department of the Federal Government, will be settled in the manner prescribed by paragraph 671, Army Regulations, 1913, for supplies, payment therefor being arranged by Treasury settlement, through the Quartermaster General's office, the post laundry receiving credit on all such requests for transfer settlements on estimates of funds in accordance with rules governing such settlements issued by the Quartermaster General of the Army.

16. Services rendered by post laundries for the Quartermaster Corps, under provisions of paragraphs 1167 and 1169, Army Regulations, 1913, and by authority of law and regulations under other circumstances, will be paid to the laundry by the Quartermaster Corps with funds provided for that purpose from its appropriations, as is now done for like service when performed by post exchange or private laundries.

17. Attention is called to the provisions of paragraph 2505, relative to competition of the post laundry with private establishments for doing laundry work, which must be strictly observed. (G. O. 92, W. D., 1914.)

2504. In laundering uniforms manufactured from the new olive-drab cotton cloth, the clothing should be washed in cold or lukewarm water. No starch should be used. In ironing, a woolen cloth should be placed over the uniform before the iron is applied, or the uniform should be ironed on the reverse side. (Cir. 59, W. D., 1910.)

2505. The practice of obtaining occasional services from post exchanges, post laundries, and other quasi public agencies that are established and maintained at military posts by the authority of the War Department, will hereafter be authorized only in cases in which services of the same class can not be as conveniently or reasonably obtained elsewhere, and where a direct advantage will accrue to the Govern ment from the method resorted to. In no case will a post exchange or post laundry be permitted to enter into public competition, or to submit bids in response to advertisements calling for proposals for furnishing supplies or services. When accounts are submitted for purchases of the kind described above, the vouchers will contain a full statement of the grounds upon which the purchase of supplies or the procurement of services was based and will fully set forth all the circumstances of the transaction, with a view to enabling the proper bureau of the War Department and the accounting officers of the Treasury Department to determine whether the purchase was in the public interest. Public funds received for such services will be taken up in the accounts of the post exchange or post laundry and will be accounted for in the manner prescribed for such accounting in the Army Regulations. (G. O. 253, W. D., 1907.)

FORAGE AND STRAW.

2506. The Quartermaster Corps furnishes all public animals employed in the service of the Army, the forage consumed by them, wagons and all articles necessary for their use, and the horse equipments for the Quartermaster Corps. (A. R. 1000, 1913.)

2507. The allowance of forage and of bedding for public animals and for the authorized private mounts of officers, and the regulations concerning the issue of forage and straw, appear in paragraphs 2531, 3031 to 3035, and paragraph 3043 hereof.

2508. As forage, 10 pounds of hay equal 14 pounds of corn fodder or 15 pounds of Kafir-corn fodder. 2509. The Quartermaster Corps is authorized to sell at cost price from stock on hand, or to be delivered under contract such forage as may be necessary for hospital cows, whenever it can be spared. (Cir. 12, A. G. O., 1887, concurred in by Secretary of War, Nov. 27, 1908.)

2510. Good oats should be sound, well developed and well matured, bright, sweet, quite dry, without smell, clean and practically free from other grain. A sample should be judged by the small, rather than the large, grains; if the small grains are full of meal it follows that the large ones are full also. Oats are considered the best of all grains for horses and mules, but are a very concentrated form of nourishment, and should be fed with a bulky food, the best form of which has been found to be hay.

The term "clipping," as applied to oats, is a shaking process, effected by machinery, whereby any excess of beard is removed without damaging the grain. As a result, the skin of the oat is polished, the grains lie closer together, and both weight and appearance are improved. The adherence of large quantities of oat beards to the hand, as a result of inserting it well into a sack of oats, in an indication that the oats have been clipped. Clipped oats should weigh about 2 pounds more per measured bushel than the unclipped. 2511. A good hay for feeding should be properly cured, bright, natural color, moderately fine, sound, crisp, clean, fresh, sweet smelling, the flowering heads of the grasses present, and free from weeds, sticks, dust, and other foreign matter.

2512. The specifications for forage for the use of the Army are prescribed by the Quartermaster General. For posts and stations in the United States, they include oats, hay for feeding, hay for bedding, bran, barley, corn, and straw. All forage (except green forage) for animals in the Philippine Islands is purchased in the United states.

2513. Forage for the use of any portion of the Organized Militia called into the service of the United State (A. R. 456, 1913.)

2514. No authority of law or regulations exists for the sale of forage to officers of the National Guard for their private horses. If forage is required for animals pertaining to the militia, requisition therefor should be submitted by the governor of the State for approval of the Secretary of War, cost thereof to be charged to National Guard appropriations.

2515. Straw for bed sacks. (A. R. 1084, 1913.)

2516. Forage for military attachés. (A. R. 1100, 1913.)

2517. Vouchers for the purchase of the authorized allowance of forage for horses kept by a military attache serving abroad were disallowed by the Auditor for the War Department on the ground that the horses for which the forage had been purchased were not owned by the officer, but only hired for his tem porary use.

Heid, on appeal from the auditor's decision, that the acts of June 18, 1878, and February 24, 1881, did not repeal section 1272, Revised statutes, but that they merely imposed an additional condition upon officers of the Army serving in this country, requiring that they should not only keep but should actually own their horses used in the performance of their military duties; and that the issue of forage for the authorized mounts of officers serving abroad as military attachés was governed by section 1272, Revised Statutes, which did not impose such additional condition. The action of the auditor was, therefore, overruled. The decisions in 16 Comp. Dec., 128, and 19 id., 11, were overruled, in so far as they were in conflict with this devision (19 Comp., 400, Jan. 23, 1913; Bull. 13, W. D., 1913.)

2318. It had been the practice of officers of the Army on foreign service in France to pay for forage, sta: ung, horseshoeing, and veterinary services for their private mounts used in the service, afterwards procuring publie bills to be made out and signed by the persons furnishing the service,

Held, that while this practice was contrary to the well-established rule that payment could be made only to the person rendering the service, and that the claim of persons who voluntarily pay the Government's obligati nis can not be recognized, yet as these supplies and services were furnished by Frenchmen unfamilar with our language, who did not understand our system of vouchers, and who held the officers themselves personally responsible for the service, officers incurring necessary and proper expenses for the purposes stated might be reimbursed upon vouchers properly executed, accompanied by subvouchers showing that the bails were actually paid by them, together with satisfactory certificates as to the necessity therefor. (Comp, June 19, 1914, Bull. 33, W. D., 1914.)

2519. Forage issued in the field for horses and mules, including supplementary articles, reductions, ani increases, and their forage on the march are treated in paragraphs 2531, 301 to 133.

A work ox requirem daily from 4 to 7 pounds of barley, which should be fed in the evening after work is frihed, and, in addition, from 30 to 35 pounds of green or 15 to 25 pounds of dry fodder or coarse grass. If time for grazing is available, as, for example, when the work is done at night, grazing should be substi tuted for the fodder component. Ordinarily grazing should be for six hours, one of which should be just bef we starting work.

For amount and kind of forage for beef cattle, see paragraph 2307.

2520. Grain is issued, not to officers or enlisted men, but to public snimals, or to private horses that are entited to forige by law or regulations; it is never issued to a person as are rations, and, unless there is an authorized sale, as in the case of forage sold to an officer, no title to either the package or its contents pawes from the United States to the owner of the animal or to the officer accountable for him. (Op. J. 4.6, Apr. 30, 1998.)

2521. There is no authority of law or regulations for the sale or issue of forage by the Quartermaster Corps for feeding the private horses of a contract surgeon or a contract dental surgeon. (Cir. 61, A. G. O.,

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2522. The Philippine Islands is a foreign country from which horses are not allowed to enter the United states, therefore forage can be allowed for mounts of officers left in the United States, (Comp Ireas, May 8, 1913.)

2523. Any excess of forage igmed for the authorized number of horses of officers, above the amount specified as the allowance, should be taken up and accounted for as provided in Army Regulations and may not be used in maintaining horses not required to be kept by them in the public service. (Op JA 6, Mar 12, 1913)

2524. The Secretary of War regards the duty of student officers at the Mounted Service School, Fort Kiev, kans., as a temporary detachment from their permanent stations, and during such temporary detachment sucf, student off cers as have provided themselves with suitable mounts under act of CongreM, May 11, 1908, may leave their mounts at their permanent stations where under paragraph 1088, Army Regulations, 1915, forage will be issued for their authorized horses during said temporary separation. 2525. Forage allowance: Officers of the Medical Reserve Corps on leave of absence: Held, that the arts of June 18, 1878 ( 20 Stat., 150), and February 24, 1881 (21 Stat, 347), providing for the format ing of forvre in a ind to officers of the Army who own and keep their own mounts, contemplate the

*ng of such for ace to officers for her as owned and kept by them in the performance of their official maitary duties when on duty as in said act specified, and at places where they are on duty, and that an

and reimbursement by deposit in the Treasury will be made from month to month from the laundry reve nues. All supplies other than these will be purchased with funds from laundry revenues.

12. The expense account will include all the expenditures, receipts, and bills receivable during the fiscal year from whatever source.

13. A set of books will be kept showing a detailed record from month to month of all matters pertaining to the laundry and its operations and furnishing the information for making up the annual report and my and property accounts required by laws and regulations.

14. Any laundry work damaged or destroyed will be repaired or replaced according to rules to be pre scribed by the post commander. Repairing damages to articles sent to the laundry by any of its patrons and replacing or paying for those damaged beyond repair or lost or destroyed will be a legitimate charge against the revenues of the laundry and considered a part of the expense of its operation.

15. Service rendered by the post laundry to any bureaus of the War Department, other than the termaster Corps, or to any other department of the Federal Government, will be settled in the manner prescribed by paragraph 671, Army Regulations, 1913, for supplies, payment therefor being arranged by Treasury settlement, through the Quartermaster General's office, the post laundry receiving credit on all such requests for transfer settlements on estimates of funds in accordance with rules governing stoch settlements issued by the Quartermaster General of the Army.

16. Services rendered by post laundries for the Quartermaster Corps, under provisions of paracra 1167 and 1169, Army Regulations, 1913, and by authority of law and regulations under other circumstanOM. will be paid to the laundry by the Quartermaster Corps with funds provided for that purpose from its appro priations, as is now done for like service when performed by post exchange or private laundries.

17. Attention is called to the provisions of paragraph 2505, relative to competition of the post launstry with private establishments for doing laundry work, which must be strictly observed. (G. O. 92, W D., 1914.)

2504. In laundering uniforms manufactured from the new olive-drab cotton cloth, the clothing shouri je washed in cold or lukewarm water. No starch should be used. In ironing, a woolen cloth should be púarć. over the uniform before the iron is applied, or the uniform should be ironed on the reverse side. ( W. D., 1910.)

2505. The practice of obtaining occasional services from post exchanges, post laundries, and other quasi public agencies that are established and maintained at military posts by the authority of the War Department, will hereafter be authorized only in cases in which services of the same class can not be an conveniently or reasonably obtained elsewhere, and where a direct advantage will accrue to the Goversment from the method resorted to. In no case will a post exchange or post laundry be permitted to enter into public competition, or to submit bids in response to advertisements calling for proposals for furtash ng supplies or services. When accounts are submitted for purchases of the kind described above, the votes will contain a full statement of the grounds upon which the purchase of supplies or the procurement of services was based and will fully set forth all the circumstances of the transaction, with a view to enang the proper bureau of the War Department and the accounting officers of the Treasury Department to determine whether the purchase was in the public interest. Public funds received for such services will taken up in the accounts of the post exchange or post laundry and will be accounted for in the man prescribed for such accounting in the Army Regulations. (G. O. 253, W. D., 1907.)

FORAGE AND STRAW.

2506. The Quartermaster Corps furnishes all public animals employed in the service of the Army, the forage consumed by them, wagons and all articles necessary for their use, and the horse equipmerita for the Quartermaster Corps. (A. R. 1000, 1913.)

2507. The allowance of forage and of bedding for public animals and for the authorized private mousia of officers, and the regulations concerning the issue of forage and straw, appear in paragraphs 2531, à to 3035, and paragraph 3043 hereof.

2508. As forage, 10 pounds of hay equal 14 pounds of corn fodder or 15 pounds of Kafir-corn fod-fam 2509. The Quartermaster Corps is authorized to sell at cost price from stock on hand, or to be desvereni under contract such forage as may be necessary for hospital cows, whenever it can be spared. (Cir. L., A. G. O., 1887, concurre i in by Secretary of War, Nov. 27, 1908.)

2510. Good outs dould be sound, well developed and well matured, bright, sweet, quite dry, will. a smell, cican and practically free from other grain. A sample should be judged by the small, rather than the large, grains, if the small grains are full of meal it follows that the large ones are full also. Oats are considered the best of all grains for horses and mules, but are a very concentrated form of nourishme and should be fed with a bulky food, the best form of which has been found to be hay.

The term "Chippang,' as applied to oats, is a shaking process, effected by machinery, whereby any ex.wm of beard is removed without damaging the grain. As a result, the skin of the oat is polished, the gram lie closer together, and both weight and appearance are improved. The adherence of large quant.t.m oat beards to the hand, as a result of inserting it well into a sack of oats, in an indication that the oats 2.15 been clipped. Clipped oats should weigh about 2 pounds more per measured bushel than the unclip „od. 2511. A good hay for feeding should be properly cured, bright, natural color, moderately fine, sunt, crisp, clean, fresh, sweet smelling, the flowering heads of the grasses present, and free from weeds, stis dust, and other foreign matter.

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