Dunlap's Pennsylvania packet , The general advertiser — Philadelphia, Pa., 1777-07-15 00:00:00, page 1

The federal Printers of Nms- Payers in the United States
are requeued to insert the Receives of Congress @ll the
Cemmifarfs Department, for the information of the
Public.
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In CONGRESS, June to, 1777.
RESOLVED,
XL „r^ H AT the purchasing CommifTarics deliver
live frock and other provisions required by
the Commissary or several Deputy Coinmif
firies General of Issues at such places as they (hall re
fpeftively dire&.
XII. That the Deputy Commissary General o r Pur
chases in each didrifl shall specially appoint one or
more Affiants to purchase live-stock, who shall cause
to be branded on the horns of all cattle by them pur
chafed the number and initial letters of their names re
fpeaively, and shall also have power to employ drovers
and a person at each place, to which they may respec
tively be directed to fend cattle, to receive, kill and
deliver the fame as hereafter directed.
XIII. That each drove of live-stock, or quantity o f
provisions or other stores, that may be sent to any post,
place or magazine by any purchaser, shall be accompa
nied with duplicate invoices, taken from the entries
directed t) be made in the books of the purchasing Com
missaries, one of which, together with the live-stock or
other stores shall be delivered at such post, place or
magazine to the person appointed to receive live-stock,
or to the issuing Commissaries refpe&ively, who, on the
other, shall give his receipt for the articles received,
to be transmitted to the purchaser by the person deli
vering the said articles; provided that if any live-stock,
under the care of the drover, shall be wanted at any
other post, than that to ,whick they were ordered, the
purchaser's Deputy at such post may'detain them, tak
irg a copy of the invoice, as far as it refpets the live
stock dr tained and giving his receipt for the fame on the
back of the said invoice, fpecifying their marks and
numbers, and the person to whom the residue may be
delivered, shall give his receipt therefor on the fame
invoice, and detain the other for his use as aforefaid.
XIV. That each drove of live-stock shall be killed
under the direction of the Purchaser's Deputy receiving
the fame, who shall weigh and deliver the meat to the
Commissary of Issues of the refpe&ive post, together
with duplicates of the invoice left by the drover, enter
ing in the eighth column the weight of the quarters of
the several creatures; in the ninth, the weight of the
hide; in the tenth, the weight of the tallow; and at
the foot of each invoice, rhe number of heads and
tongues. And the Commissary oflffues shall indorfe his
receipt on one of the invoices and deliver it to the De
puty aforefaid, who shall return it to the purchaser as
his voucher, and to enable him to fill up the eighth,
ninth and tenth columns of the entries in his book ; and
the other shall be kept by the issuing Commissary for his
own use.
XV. That tl^ Commissary General of Purchases shall
contract by himielf, or the refpe&ive Deputy Commis
saries General, with one or more persons in each dit
trid, to make or supply a fufficient quantity of vinegar
for the use of the army.
XVI. That the Deputy Commissaries General of
Purchases take fpccial care to procure full supplies of
vegetables, as being essentially necessary to the health
of the army; and they are refpe&ively empowered and
directed, with the advice of the Commander in chief,
or Commander of the refpeftive diftrid, to hire land
therein, and raise such quantities of vegetables as are
wanted and cannot be otherwise procured for the army;
and tor this purpose, to employ suitable persons to con
dud, and labourers to assist in carrying on the said
business.
XVII. That the Commissary General of Purchases
shall, from time to time, apply to Congress for all the
money wanted in his department, and shall make the
necessary advances to the refpedive Deputy CommifTa
ries General, calling them to account as often as he
shall judge it necessary ; and the Deputy Comniiffaries
General shall, in like manner, make advances of the
money received of the said Commissary General, to
their refpedive Assistants, and call them to account as
aforefaid.
XVIII. That the Commissary and peputy Commis
saries General of Purchases and Issues (hall refpedively
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be accountable for the conduct of the officers of their
own appointment ; and a^ the accounts of purchases,
and issues, shall, once in fe months, be fettled by the
respective CommifTaries General with the proper Com
missioners of Accounts; each account of purchases to
be vouched by the several bills and receipts of the
venders Specifying the cost, and the receipts of the is
suing Commissaries shewing the delivery of all articles
therein charged ; and each account of issues by the
victualling returns hereafter directed to be made; and
receipts for all provisions charged therein as rations, or
sent by the refpetive iftaing Commissary to any other.
Andithe CommilTdries General shall produce the month
ly returns of the several purchasing and issuing Com
mifTaries, to be used by the Commissioners in adjusting
their respective accounts,
XIX. That the CommifTarics General of Purchases
and Issues, and their refpetive Deputies, for neglect of
duty, or other offences in their respective offices, shall
be fubjed to military arrest and trial by order of the
Commander in chief, or any General Officer command
ing a division of the army, post or department, where
such neglect of duty or offence may happen ; and the
respective Assistants of the Deputy Cemmiffaries Ge
neral of Purchases and Issues shall, for the fame causes,
be liable to military arrest as commissioned officers in
the army, by any General Officer, o any officer com
manding at a detached post to which such Affiftaats
may be assigned.
XX. That the Commissary General of Issues shall
Superintend the refpeCtive Deputy Commissaries Gene
ral, and assign to each a separate diftria, and have full
powers to fufpehd them and appoint others for a time,
as already appointed for the Commissary General of
Purchases.
XXI. That every iffufog Commissary shall enter in
diftind pages of the book mentioned in the ninth arti
cle, each species of provisions or other stores received
by him, including the provisions delivered by other if
suing Commissaries or the present Commissary General,
and the lame entries shall be made with refpe& to these,
as therein are directed, when provisions are received
from the purchasers; excepting that the prices and cost
of articles delivered by the said CommifTaries may be
omitted.
XXII. That every issuing Commissary shall be fur
nifhed with a book of issues, in which he shall open a
separate account with each regiment, corps or detach
ment to which he may issue, or Commissary to which
he may fend or deliver provisions; and each page there
of shall be divided into columns, in the firft of which
shall be entered the time of delivery; in the second, the
name of the officer upon whole return provisions are is
sued, or by whom sent to any other issuing Coaimif
fary; in the third, the number of rations, and in other
separate columns the several quantities of each species
of provisions delivered as rations, or sent to the Com
miffaries as aforefaid, And on the last day of every
month, he shall foot the said accounts, and all® all the
accounts of provisions received and entered in the book
mentioned in the preceding article.
XXIII. That every issuing Commissary shall take
duplicate receipts for each quantity of provisions and
stores by him sent to any post, place or magazine, agree
ably to the form of the entries directed to be made in
the book ofiffhes, one of which he shall deliver to the
officer, or person employed to deliver the said provisi
ons or stores; and the issuing Commissary at such post,
place or magazine, or at any intermediate post, who
may receive such provisions or stores, or any part
thereof, shall certify the quantity on the back of the
said receipt, which the officer or person, who deliver
ed the provisions, shall return to the Commissary that
sent them as his voucher. And in cases of deficiency,
the Commissary who sent the provisions shall credit the
Comreiffary to whom they were directed for the quan
tity loft, if the fame has been placed to his debit, and
shall charge twice the Mhount thereof to the account
of the officer or person employed to deliver it, and shall
also transmit a copy of the said accoant to the Pay
master or Deputy Pay-Matter General in the diftria,
who shall fend to the issuing Commissary a receipt for
such account to be produced by him on settlement, and
shall also deduct the amount thereof from the pay of the
delinquent, and credit the United States therefor :
Provided that if any provisions or stores shall be loft by
unavoidable accident, and the feme is proved by sworn
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evidences before the Commanding Officer of ('e left
from or to which such provisions or stores wer ; er,
his certificate with the proof annexed, shall an tize'
the Commissary to cancel such charge.
XXIV. That no provifi ns be freed to any persons
but by the written order of the Commander i; efref,
the Commander of any department, theQuater MUtet'
General, any of his Deputies or Assistants, the Com-
Standing Officer of a post, defertbing the perfa i^ vhofe
favour 'uch order shall be given; or upon a re+tun fion
ed by the Commanding Officer of a corps or detar ent
thereof, whether c^ missioned or non commifyned,
or by the Regimental Quarter Master
XXV. I i:at when any troops are ordered to quit a
post, ard the issuing Comnrffitry remains at such post,
the refpe&ive Commanding Officers of the fevera. re*i
loents or corps (hall call on the issuing Gommiffaty for
a certificate. Specifying the day to which thev were
victualled inclufivefy; and in case detachments of dif
ferent regiments or corps are made, the Commanding
Officer of such detachments shall procure a certificate
from the Commissary, in which shall be inserted the
days to which the different troops of which his detach
ment may be composed were victualled, and the next
and every subsequent provision return for fi c h detach
ment shall diflinguilh the corps out of which it is formed,
and the number of each corps, to the end that the
Commissary may charge each corps with the provision
iflued to it; and if any Commissary, at any other post,
fha.il victual any corps or detachment comprehended in
the foregoing description before inch certificates are
produced, he shall charge the officer commanding the
fame, with twenty days provision for the whole number
if m A n under his care, and make return thereof to the
Pay-Matter General, or Deputy Fay Master General
in the diftria, who shall make the proper flop "ages,
ana arto to the board of 1 reafury, who ihan charge
him therefor. Provided, That if such certificates be
procured and delivered within thirty days after the firft
drawing of such provisions without certificate, the Com
mifTary General shall cancel the charge, keeping the
certificate as a voucher for so doing: Provided also,
I hat notwithftanaing such certificate may be produced,
if it shall appear that the officer commanding an\ corps
or detachment, has drawn more provision than the
corps or detachment was entitled to, he shall fland
charged the double quantity so over dan.
XXVI. 1 hat every issuing Commissary shall take re
ceipts for the number of rations, and for io much of
every species of provisions as he may issue therefor.
XXVII. That every issuing Commissary on the last
drawing day, preceding the last drawing day of every
month, shall victual the troops up to the last day of the
month inclusive; and if provisions Should be ordered for
troops going on detachments for such time as would
run beyond that day, two returns shall be made out,
one to the last day of the month inclusive, and one
from the firft day of the month inclusive to the time
ordered.
XXVIIL That every issuing Commissary shall num
ber the provision returns, and indorfe the fame with the
date thereof and the number of men victualled, and put
-he returns of each detachment or corps on separate
files, each to contain the returns of a month for such
corps or detachment.
XXIX. That wherever any capital magazine shall be
established, the Commander in chief or Commanding
Officer of the department shall order store-houses to be
built, and a barracks for fifty men, and the fame to be
inclofed with a stockade.
XXX. That whenever any of the provisions or stores
in any of the magazines become so damaged as to
threaten a total loss of all such damaged provisions, the
Commissary of Issues to whose care such provisions may
be committed, shall make return thereof immediately
to the Deputy Commissary General oflffues, who is to
apply to the Commander in Chief or force General
Officer to order a court of Enquiry, who shall there
upon grant one, and such provisions as may by the
court be condemned shall be fold at public vendue,
under the direction of the Deputy Commissary General
of Issues, public notice being given of such sale by ad
vertifemefits at Icaft ten days before the day of sale,.
uulefs the court should determine that the fame ougff
to be fold at an earlier day.
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