Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1862-01-30


Transportation and Pay.
oUARTERMAsrER's OFFICE, G. S: A. J
MH1TARY DEPARTMENT OF S. c. :
~ Charleston, January 81, 1862.
Editors Courier Several misappre-
tensions having arisen relative to the Trans.
portation and Pay Department of my Office,
/ beg of youto publish the following Cir
culars, which, l doubt not, contains that
which will be serviceable to many of your
readers.
Very respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
HUTSON LEE,
Major and Quartermaster.in-Chlsf,
Military Department of South Carolina.
OuARrERMAsrER' OFFICE, G. S. A, [
Department of South Carolina. {
The following Circular having been re-
ceived at this Office, is published for in-
struction of all concerned.
RUTSON LEE,
Major aud Brigade Quartermaster.
Charleston, Noeens6er 2S, 1861.
(CIRCULAR.
CoNFEDEaATE STATES OF AMERICA,
Quartermaster. Generals Department,
4 Richmond, November 5, 1861.
l. All accounts against the Quartermas.
ter's Department, for current expenses, will
be paid by the Post, Regimental, or Brig
ade ,Quarternaster, serving with troops
where the expenses are incurred.
2. Certified accounts, (Form IL, Quar-
termaster's Department. requiring pay
ments from other Quartermasters than those
given them, will be made only in cases Of
absolute necessity.
8. Quartermasters attached to regiments
will make all payments to the officers and
men of the same, aud TO discharged men.
1 Where there is no Quartermasters at
tached to a, regiment, the Post or Brigade
Quartermaster will make the payments.
5. Requisitions for supplies will be made
through the principal Qaartermaster of an
army, who will endeavor to keep the Depot
Quartermasters of the same army prepared
to ELL those acquisitions.
6 Reqaisitious for Clothing and Equip
age will state the number of men for whom
the articles are required.
7. The station and rank of the writer
will be given in all official communications,
and the receipt of all communications from
the Quartermaster Generals Office acknowl-
edged ~
A. c, MYERS, euartermaster General.
From another official circular relating to
transportation, we give the following ex-
tract:
SPECIAL ORDERS.
Persons who 90 for the remains of SOL
diers must have an order from Quarter
master.
Nurses must have an order from the Sur
ceou General or Medical Director.
GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS.
State officers have no authority to give
orders upon the Confederate States Gov,
ernmeut for transportation
The orders of army officers for transpor.
tatiou for other than legitimate army busi;;
ness will not be respected.
Transportation will not be given on verb,
al orders and the papers presented must
always be in the proper form.
The practice heretofore existing of send
ing recruiting officers from the army has
been prohibited by the Secretary of War
Officers are required to use great discre
ton in sending details from their com
mands, and to confne them to strictly ne
cessary business. This is urged in conse
quence of the great abuse in this respect
which has heretofore prevailed.
Transportation for guards or details must
embrace the whole party.
Recruits must have certificate of fitness
from an Army Surgeon.
Quartermasters must always endorse or
discharges Transportation furnished il
kind" -...-.---
Ouartermasters will be careful not tt
give transportations for "sutlers' stores"
Quartermasters have no power to dele
gate to others authority to sign for them.
Officers and soldiers must not be depri
we'd of their orders or furloughs.
Public stores must not be sent by mai
train without special orders from Quarter
master General
officers at the different posts aoaH be go0
erned by these Instructions.
A. c. MYERS, Quartermaster General