Daily national Republican., 1863-08-13
Gen. NElGs's LATE ORDER-A FEW
.r. FGRTlaBaT INoUlRIEs.
WAeHINoTON. Aurust IJ.

WAeHIN0TOS, August IL, 1875.
~ 'he Editor cfme National Republican;
~ Your very sensible rumarks ON tho late and
extraordinary order Of Quartcrrlaster General
Ncigs, In yesterdays RErr BLIcAS, must attract
considerable notic,. The order itself calls for
the prompt attention Of his supcriors. II pro.
Wkce the inquiries as TO whether Gen. Meigs
has heretofore permitted his numerous assis.
tanss 10 disrcgardlhc requirements Of the Army
Regulations. Norcau he screen himself with the
remark, that his object was TO get information.
Bce"u,cparagrapL No. i,l15, OF tho revised cdi-
iouolthc Army Regulations, say st that !" Officers
serving In the Qusrtcrmsstcr's Department
VIII report 10 the Qusrtermastcr General useful
Information in regard 70 the routes and means
o' transportation and supplies" This para
graph is one among others referred TO iu para
graph No. ,l69, which says that "Ar Officers
u tsd dsehfs having money snd property of the
Department IN account for, are required tn
make the monthly and quarterly returns to the
Qusrtermsster General prescribed In the fol-
lowing articles" p. No. l,l7O. Monthly re-
turns 70 DO transmitted rifhin fee days af,er
ns month 10 shiea they relate, viz: A summary
statement (Form 1. This Is what q merchant
would call an account currently "Report
OF persons and things, (Form 81 Roll Of
extra duty men, (Form 81 Report OF stores
ioT transportation, &C., (Form A Re nm
g an'n'dss, "dao'.s, harness, de-, (Form So
Report OF forage, CForm 81 Report Of fuel
and quarters commuted, (Form - Report of
pay due, tForm s.) An estimate OF funds for
one month, (form o. will be sent with the
monthly returns" Now, has the Quartermas-
teE General been sending monthly remittances
without the above returns, and thus making
himself party to the delinquencios of his
assistants
q All the above forms. like the money form,
srs merely accounts current; but p. III calls
for quarterly returns Of the same articles, to DO
made out pi1iis tssnfy days after the expiration
oi the qusrtsr 70 which they related, backed by
abstracts and poaehtrs, showing from whom he
received the money, how much he has dsbursed,
to whom paid, for what purpose, on whose au-
thofity, &C., Gowns Nos. II to 22.) A return
Of property, (form 23,) with abstracts and
vouchers as above, as shown In forms Nos. "a
oA5. o.. ...,'
These iorms embrace all the property tho
pusrtormaster has received, including that
.lioand al the post, rs also that captured from
the enemy, and all that he has fabricated,
issued, lost, or had destroyed.
P.Er, 900: "Every officer having public
money 10 account for, and falling To render his
account thereof quarter-yearly, with the vouch.
ers necessary 70 Its correct and prompt settle-
inent, within three months after the expiration
OF tho quarter, II resident In the United States.
will be promptly dismissed by the President"
II. 90. every officer intrusted with public
money or property, shall render all prescribed
returns and accounts TO tho bureau Of the De-
patment In which he Is serving, whom all such
returns and accounts ahsll pass through rigid
administrative scrutiny before the money sc-
counts arc transmitted 70 the proper officers Of
the Treasury Department for settlement"
. p. l,04l. Tho head OF the Bureau shall
cause his dccislon on each account TO be In
Z dorsed ON Ii, He shall bring TO the notice Of
Z tho Aocrstary OF War all accounts snd matters
of account that require or merit IL.
o. The 'sbove will serve to prove one of two
things. Either that the recent order u uncsllsd
for, or matters have been heretofore sadly neg.
lccted In the Quartermaster Generals Depart
meat. The subject 10 BY no meaus exhausted.