Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1866-04-18
WAR DEPARTMENT,
an DEEhhlM MbNIJ
ADJUTANT GENERALS OFFICE,
WASHINGTON, April 18th, 1866.

First. Officers of the regular army,
when mustered out of service under COM
mission as volunteers, will be allowed iull
pay and allowances of their grade in the
regular army, during the term they are
authorized to delay joining their regiments
or corps subsequent to their muster-Out of
tie volunteer service, except in cases where
they receive leave of absence in ordinary
iorm, on their own application, when the
usual regulations will apply which govern
allowances of officers on leave.
Second. Such officers, when not fur
nlshed transportation in kind, will be al
lowed mileage from the place where they
are mustered out of the volunteer service
to the station of their regiments or COM
lnands, or place where first assigned to
duty after muster-out.
Third. Officers of the volunteer service,
including the Veteran Reserve Corps,
when mustered out of service, or relieved
from duty, or ordered to their homes to
await further orders, are entitled to trans
p0rtation to the place where they are mus
tered out OF the volunteer service, to the
station OF their regiments or companies, or
place where first assigned to duty after
muster out.
Fourth. Officers in the volunteer service
ordered to their homes preparatory to be-
ing mustered out of service, are consider
ed as changing by station, and entitled to
the allowances provided for in paragraph
LIS, Revised Army Regulations.
BY order of the Secretary of War.
[Signedl Il. d. TOWNSEND,
Asst. Adjt. General.
Circular Concerning the Reman-
ufdcture OF Tobacco.
The Commissioner Of Internal Revenue
has issued q circular concerning the reman-
ufacturing of tobacco, as follows
BY direction of the Secretary of the
Treasury the privilege of the rewOrking or
remanuiacturing of old or damaged tobac-
co, with the payment of duties only upon
the increased weight, which, by the late
circular of the Commissioner of Internal
Revenue, was limited to the 18th day of
April, 1866, is hereby extended to all parties
| now engaged in the business and having
stock on hand, purchased with special ref
erence to reworking the same, until the lst
day of May proXimo. But no tobacco
purchased on or after the 10Th Of April will
| be allowed to be reworked without the
| payment of the same rates of duty as like
| descriptions of tobacco made from the new
material.
Ordered TO Discontinue.
| Inc ASSlsJanJ treasurer OF the United
States at New York, Philadelphia and BOs-
ton. and the designated depository at Bal
timOre, have to-day been instructed, by the
Secretary OF the Treasury, to discontinue
receiving deposits on account of Temporal
ry loans for clearing house purposes at five
| per cent. per annum, on and after May J.
| 1866, from which date all certificates out
standing and unpaid will carry 4 per cent
interest per annum OH said lst of May; and
until further notice, said Assistant Treas
urers and designated depository will re-
ceive such deposits in lawful money aud
issue therefor clearing house certificates
payable on demand in legal tender notes
with interest at per cent. per annum.
Approved.
The President has approved the joint res
olution authorizing and directing the Sec.
retary of War to take immediate measures
to preserve from desecration the graves OF
the soldiers OF the United States who fell In
battle or died of disease in the field and in
the hospital during the war of the rebellion
to secure suitable places in which they may
be properly inferred, and to have the
grounds inclosed so that the resting places
of the honOred dead may be kept sacred fol
ever.