The Opelousas courier., 1863-08-15
ADJUTANT AND INSPECTOR
GENERALS S OFFICE. }
IL Richmond, Nav %. 1963


GENERALS OFFICE. }
Richmond, May 80, 1863. {
GENERAL ORDERS No. 70.
!. The following Act of Congress, and Req,
latpns adopted by the Department in pursuane
concerned: ga.
a" 7ict 20 a0osssn supernamerary officers IN I'll
eaaAsaa'n'ssary aAa and qrartermaster's department.
IAe Congress Of the Confederate States O
amSy1cG 4 DO enact. That the office of regmenta
eoMnaissary be and the same is hereby abolished
ana file duties heretofore devolved by law upo,
sala Gernnssary shall De performed by the regi
meal anartefniassrr, provided, that said auar
teThaster shall, if required by the Secretary o
war; execute new bond. with such additiona
penalty as he may require
oecuon & That the commanding officer ot g
regiment or battalion shall; when the good o4 the
service IN his opinion reqtlires it, detail non.
commissioned officer or private as commissary.
sergeant, who shall be assigned to the regimen
tai quartermaster to be performed by commjssary
seigeants; ard the non-commissioned officer or
private SO detailed shall receive, as extra paw,
twenty dollars per month
sect. 5. That the regmental quartermasters,
aclng as co9lmlsssries, shall draw supplies for
their respective regiments on Provision Return,
Form IA, and not in bulk: and when detached
from their brgades, so that it is impracticable to
draw supplies from the brigade-commissary9it
snail be the duty of the nearest brigade OF post
Ggommlssary GO to supply his regiment on Provision
Return, IA.
Sect. a. Sales to officers shall be made by the
brigade-cemmissaries to which such officers re-
attached.
Sect. 5. That quartermasters and commissa-
rl9s' assistant quartermasters and assistant COM
mlssaries, who become permanently detached
Tolh DIVISIONS, bligades OF regiments to which
they are originally appointed and assigned,
respectively. whether by resignation or other
wise, shall cease to be officers of the army, and
their names shall be dropped from the rolls of
the army, unless re-assigued by special order
OF the Secretary of War.
Sect. That it shall be the duty of the Secrc-
tary OF War to issue the necessary orders for the
earliest practicable enforcement of the provisions
ot this law; and that he shall communicates to
he chiefs OF the subsistence and quartermaster.s
9nfsaaS, the names of the tommissaries and as
'stant commissafies, qnarternasters and assistant
luartermasters' retained and dropped from the
Gls. under this act.
Sect Z. That all laws and parts of laws con~
ravening the provisions of this act, be and the /
anne anne are hereby repealed. [Approved May 1st, |
III Regulations.
!. After this date no appointment will be
aade of regimentai or battalion conmissaries in
ne provisional army. Departmental cemman
ers will direct the transfer, by regilnentai COM
1issaries, of all money, effects and property in
neir hands to the proper regimeutal quarterlnas
rs who will thereafter discharge the duties of
le former, in accordance with the provisions of
lis act Until such transfer is perfected, regi-
rental commlssarles will continue in the per- 4
m nf thar I I,,A
ay OF July next all quartelnasters and commits
lTies, who have not been OR may not be. prior
} July 3Ist specially detailed or assigned to
aty. will cease to be officers in the Confederate
rvice.
. Sales to officers will, after the 31st of July
Ext, be made by the brigade-commissary as re- ..
lired IN the fourth section of the act and to
liable him to do so, the brigade commander will
lectan report to the War Department, through
e usual channel, the best qualified regimental
OF his brigade for assignment to du-
with the brigade-commissary. 1t shall be the !
lty OF the commissary thus assigned to receive .
liIed sales to officers of the army. He will be q
'der the immediate direction of the brigade b
mmlssary; will receipt to him for all property +
;eIVed, and make through him the proper re-
fts and returns of his transactions. a
.. I'D cavalry regiments. a lieutenant of cayal- Q
or other competent officer may be detained, =
Zen necessary, to aid the regimental quarter
'sters in the discharge Of such additional du- tt
as may be devolyed upon him under the v
Grafton of this law d
1. Additional bonds will not be required of 81
;lmental quartermasters charged with commits
y duties, except where directed by the Secre.
OF War. By order of
S. COOPER,
Adjutant and Insp. Gen.
DEPARTMENT TRANS Miss. J
Shreveport, La July 9th 1863. {