The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1863-07-29
ADJUTANr AND INSPECTOR GENERALS OFFICE
RICHMOND, May 29th, 1868. {
GENERAL ORDERS No 7Ol

ADJUTANT AND INSPECTOR GENERALS OFFICE
RICHMOND, May 29th, 1863.
GENERAL ORDERS, No. 70.
|. The following act of congress and regula-
tions adopted by the department in pursuance
thereof are published for the information of all
concerned:
An act to abolish supernumerary Officers in the
Commissary and Quartermaster's Departments.
The congress of the Confederate States of Ame-
rica do enact, That the Office of regimental Com
missary be and the same is hereby abolised, and
the duties heretofore devolved bv law upon said
commissary shall be performed by the regimental
quartermaster; provided, that's quartermaster
shall if required by the secretary of wal, execute
a new bond, with such additional penalty as be
may require.
Section 2. That the commanding officer of
regiment or battalion shall, when the good of the
service in his opinion requires it, detail non
commissioned officer or private commissary
sergeant, who shall be assigned to the regimen
tai quartermaster to perform the duties now per-
formed by commissary sergeants, and the non
commissioned officer OF private SO detailed shall
receive, as extra pay, twenty dollars per month
Section 8. Thatther regimental quartermasters
acting commlssarles, shall draw SUPPLIES for
their respective regiments on Provision Returns
Form IA and not in bulk land when detached from
their brigades SO that it is impractcable to draw
supplies from the brigade commissary, it shall be
the duty of the nearest brigade or post commits
sary te supply his regiment on Provision Return
No. IA.
Section 4. Sales to officers shall be made by
the brigade commissaries to which such officers
are attached.
Sections That quartermasters and commissa
ries, assistant quartermasters and assistant com
missaries, who become permanently detached
from divisions, brlgadeS or regiments to which
they are originally appointed and assigned res
pectiTely, whether by resignation or otherwise
shall cease to be officers of the army. and their
names shall be dropped from the rolls of the army
unless reassigned by special order of the secre
tary of war.
Section g. That it shall be the duty of the
secretary of war to issue the necessary orders for
the earliest practicable enforcement Of the proyi
sions of the law; and that he shall communicates
to the chiefs of the subsistence and quartermas-
ter's bureauX the names Of the commissaries and
assistant commissaries, quartermasters and assis
tant quartermasters retained and dropped from
the rolls, under this act.
Section T. That all laws and parts Of laws CON
travening the provisions Of this act, be and the
same are hereby repealed. [Approved May lst
1863
H. REGULATIONS.
AFTER this date no appointme ent will be made
of regmental or battalion commissaries in the
provisional army. Departmental commanders
will direct the transfer, by regimental commissa
ries Of all money, effects and property in their
hands to the proper reglmental quartermasters
who will thereafter discharge the duties of the
former in accordance with the provisions of this
act Until such transfer is perfected repimental
commissares will continue in the performance of
their usual duties but after the 81 st day of Julv
next all quartermasters and commissaries assis
tant quartermasters and assistant commissarias
who have not been or may not be, prior to July
31st, especially detailed assigned to duty, will
cease to be officers in the Confederate service.
2-Sales to officers, will, after the 3Ist of july
next, be made by the brigade commissary, as re-
CURED in the tenth section of the act and to ena
select and report to the war department. thronoh
the usual channel, the best qualified regimenfal
commissary of his brigade, for assignment to
duty with the brigade commisSarv. It shall be
the duty of the commissary thus assigned to re-
ceive supplies in bulk, and to make the usually
required sales to officers of the army He viii
be under the Immediate direction of the BRIGADE
commissary; will receipt to him for all PROPERTY
received and make through him the proper re-
ports and returns of his transactions
3-In cavalry regiments, aleutenant of cavalry
or other competent officer may be detailed, when
necessary, to aid the regimental quartermaster in
the discharge of such additional duties as may he
devolved upon him under the operation of this
law.
Additional bonds will not be required of
regimental quartermasters charged with commits
sary duties, except where directed by the secre-
tary of war.
By order of S. COOPER.
Adjutant and Inspector General.
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