The weekly Arizona miner., 1872-04-20
HID. QRs., ETC., PREscorr, April 9, 1872.

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 HID. QRs., ETC., PRESCOTT, April 9, 1872
 (GENERAL ORDERS, No. 16.)
 The following instructions for the procure ment of forage and fuel from Road station keepers by escorts and detachments, while ca route, under orders in this Department are published for the information and guid ance of all concerned:
 | l. The allowance of forage for public ami mals, is (l2) twelve pounds of grain daily for each horse, habltually (9) pounds of grain daily for each mule, and (l4) fourteen pound: of hay daily for each horse and mule.
 By authority of the Quartermaster Gen eral the grain ration for each mule may be increased to (12) pounds daily, when actu- ally necessary from want of long forage.
 A statement to this effect will be furnish ed by the Quartermaster of the post who provides the transportation, to each officer or other person in charge of it, before commenc- ing the journey, to be shown to the station keepers en route as authority for the increas- ed issue, when it may be required, the neces. sity for which must be stated on the receipt, and no payment to road station keepers in excess of the allowance herein authorized will be made by any disbursing officer.
 II. Fuel for escorts, attachments and oth- CT parties en route, will habitually be collect ed by the labor of the troops, or drivers, when practicable.
 Where from its distance, or other circum- stances, it is impracticable so to procure fuel, it may be obtained from road station keep CTS and receipted for by the officer in com mand, or other authorized person, who will furnish the District Disbursing officer of the Quartermaster's Department in which the station is situated with a statement of the circumstance requiring the purchase, accom- panied by a requisition and receipt covering the quantity of wood so procured, aud a cer- tificate that it was impracticable to procure the wood otherwise.
 The disbursing officer will prepare and for ward the requisite accounts to these Head quarters for approval, or otherwise, before payment.
 The quantity of wood to be obtained by purchase will in no case exceed the regulation allowance for the officers, enlisted men and civilian employees of the Quartcrmaster's and Subsistence Departments, and for Guard fires, as prescribed in Army Regulations and existing orders, and fuel SO obtained in ex cess of those allowances will be charged tt the officer or other person who ordered it. HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF ARIZONA, l
 Prescott, April 4, 1872. { GENERAL ORDERS No. 15.
 I. The following named papers heretofor, required to be furnished by each A. c. S., tC the Department Chief Commissary, will il future be dispensed with by him, viz j.
 List of stores on hand for issue.
 List of stores on hand for sale.
 Computation of the cost of the Hospital ration
 Abstracts of sales.
 II. All Officers performing subsistence duty in this Department, will in future sent to the Department Chief Commssary of Sub sistence, for file in his office, copies of the fol lowing Monthly and Quarterly papers, viz
 RETURN OF PROVISIONS. (To contain or the last page statement of the number O officers, enlisted men, laundresscs, citizens Indians etc., to whom iss ues or sales are being made as shown on the list of stores fo: IS sues and at foot of columns below Batanc remaining on hand, in red ink, the numbers O. articles unfit for issue, aud whether acted on by Board of Survey or by an Inspector, to be designated by the abbreviations B. $. or Insp., placed below).
 RETURN OF CoMMIssARY PROPERTY, (with the unseryiceable articles indicated as on the Return of Provisons).
 ACCOUNT CURRENT; ABSTRACT OF PUR- CEASES ABSTRACT OF CONTINGENCIES; Lls1 OF OUTSTANDING DEBTS ABSTRACT or BEEF CATTLE AND FORAGE; PERSONAL REPORT, (tc contain, with other information given by it the computed cost of the hospitable ration fol the month).
 REPORT OF PERSONS BY NAME, (other than | T~Is r< WHOM ISSUES OR SALES ARE MADE. EXTRACT FROM THE ABSTRACT OF ISSUES TC INDIANS, (showing the number of Indians is sued to the names Of the articles issued, and the money value of the same, including cost of transportation required by General order. No. 12, Headquarters Military Division of tho Pacific, of December 4, ls7l). 1 Should circumstances, or the nature of the duties of an officer render unnecessary hi making any of the above returns, the fac will be indicated in his letter of transmittal
 III. The List of Stores on hand and fol sale, and list of Stores on hand for issues Icon taining all the information called for by tn, blank forms at present in use) will, as hereto fore, be sent monthly to the Depot Commis sary at Yuma Depot by each A. c. s. in tht Department.
 | lN. arguments TOT supplies oeilsereu to tn' Subsistence Department, whether unde contract or by purchase in optn market at Camps Mojave, Beal's Springs, Hualpai Date Creek, Whipple. Verde, Mcdowell ant Apache, will be made by the Department Chief Commissary at Prescott; those a Camps Grant, Lowell, Crittenden and Bowie by the Commissary of Tucson Depot; thos' at Fort Yuma, by the Commissary at Yum. Depot.
 Vouchers will be transmitted direct to tn. officer empowered to make payment, the con tractor or seller being furnished with mem orandum receipt for the amount delivered by him.
 I ". As funds accumulate from sales at any post, they will be transferred to the officel who pays the vouchers for that post, (month ly whenever practicable only sufficient being reserved for the payment of local employees