The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-11-16
WORKING ON MUSTER ROLLS.
GUARDS BATTALION TO GET OUT
NEXT TUESDAY.

Efforts Being Made to That End
Now-UncIe Sam VIII Have to Pay
some 100000 TO Close Up Accounts
With the First BattaIion-Men
Getting Only 51s Cents a Day on
Clothing Account NOw-Transfers
Not to BE Given Men Who Want to
stay i'm the Service.
The work preparatory to mastering out
the men of the First Battalion of the
Second Georgia is being pushed forward
as rapidly as possible. The company ac-
counts are now being gotten in shape for
a final settlement with the government
and the company clerks are busily at work
upon the mnster-out rolls.
Capt. Trippe, the mastering out officer.
yesterday fixed the date on which the
men will be finally mustered out for Tues
day, Nov. %. He was DESTROYS of fixing
an earlier date if possible, but it was de-
cided after conference with the company
officers that Nov. p would give none too
much time for the work. Itis hoped. how
ever, to have everything finished by Mon
day. A paymaster has been telegraphed
for and the men will be paid promptly on
receiving their discharges. The men are
required to report at camp every after
noon now at . o'clock. This is inconven-
lent for many of the men who have re-
sumed their occupations in the city, but
is required by the mastering out officer.
1t will be a very neat sum of money
which the government will turn loose in
discharging its final obligations to the
men of the First Battalion. There are
some 800 men to be paid off besides officers
and each will have some $50 to $50 coming
to them, and many will have more than
the latter figure. Including the officers,
accounts it is safe to say that the sum
total will be somewhere between $4,000
and $4,000 The men will be paid up to
the exact day on which they are discharg-
ed and not for the full month of Novem-
Der, as some of them seem TO think. Each
private will receive pay for one month
and twenty-five days, at the rate of $3.50
per month, or $27.04. In addition he will
receive communication of rations at the rate
of 26 cents day for the month he was
on ,furlough, or $3.50 more.
Then comes the clothing account. Here
is where the company clerks have to do a
lot Of figuring. For the first two months
the men were in the service their clothing
allowance was 26 cents a day Then it
was increased to 81 cents q day, but at
the end of six months from enlistment the
allowance drops to 51a cents day. The
theory is that man needs clothing when
he comes into the service but that at the
end of six months he ought to be pretty
well supplied. The men who are now be-
ing mustered out are lucky in not having
to draw winter clothing, otherwise they
would have very little coming to them on
clothing account. As it is each man will
receive from $50 to $50 on clothing
account. Some few who were alb
sent on sick Burroughs large part of the
time andsi drew very little clothing, will
have quite neat sums coming to them.
Some of these men also have two or three
months pay due them. The corporals and
sergeants receive little more pay and a
little larger clothing allowance than the
privates The officers receive much great
er pay but no clothing allowance.
disappointment seems to be in store for
those men who wish to continue in the
service as there seems to be no means of
Trippe, the mastering out officer, has stat
ed that there is no provision made by the
war department for transferring men to
other regiments from regiments about 10
be mustered out. The men were also in
formed when the census was taken of
those who wished to stay in and those
who wish to get out that the men who are
discharged now will not be allowed to re-
enlist in any volunteer regiment. There
are few men of the First Battalion who
desire to remain in the service, even if
they have to join the regulars, and they
will probably arrange to do so.