Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1898-09-27
MUSTER-OUT ORDERS.
ALSO AN ORDER As TO PAYING VOL
pNTEER TROOPS.
PERSONAL NOTES OF INTEREST.
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Surgeon.

Especial )-For the instruction and guld-
Rnce Of all mustering-out officers, the fol-
lowing general order has been issued from
the Adjutant Generals office:
by direction Of the Secretary of War,
when volunteer soldiers whose regiments
have been ordered to be or have been
mustered out OF the service report AT
military posts or stations from furlough
or other absence from their commands.
txcept desertiOn. the commanding oihcers
thereof will notify the acknowledgement
OF the army. giving all possible informa-
ton obtainable from the men covering
the period Of absence, 10 what date ana
where last paid. etc. Descriptive lists OF
such men will be furnished from TINS OF
fee. on receipt Of which commanding Oh
ficers will cause the men 10 he examined
by a medical officer on the prescribed
blank form provided for the purpose, as
required in General orders, No. l24. Au-
gust %. 1895 from this Office. The declara-
tion on the physical examination blank
required Of the person TO be discharged
Will be completed before the medical eH-
animation is made, but the certificate or
the company commander thereon Will not
be executed.
Commanding officers will act as mus
terlng officers In such cases, unless there
is a mastering officer present, and VIII
have four detachment muster-out rolls
prepared for men belonging TO the same
regiment with the necessary discharge
certificates which latter will be delivered
10 The men with directions TO proceed, II
practicable, 10 the nearest paymaster for
final payment, TO whom two copies OF the
muster-out roll will be sent by registered
mail. with the notification required by
paragraph 100 Of the Army Regulations.
eff the station of the nearest paymas-
ter is at a distance from the place OF
muster out the discharge certificates Will
be sent with the rolls. and the paymaster
will make payment by check through the
commanding officer, Quarters and sub
slstence will be furnished the men until
tnal payment is made.
1.-THE third copy Of the muster-out rolls,
with the descriptive lists. will be for
warded to the adjutant-general Of the
army. and the fourth copy to the Adju-
tant-General Of the State TO which the
organization belongs. Men of different
regiments will not be mustered out on
the same rolls.
"By direction of the Acting Secretary
OF War. soldiers of volunteer organiza-
tons ordered 10 be mustered out of the
service who are undergoing sentences OF
confinement imposed by courts-martial,
but not dishonorably discharged, will be
paroled during the period for which the
organization is on furlough, and the I'M
executed parts Of their sentences will
stand as RENTED on the date OF the mus
ter out OF their companies, with which
they will be discharged"
PAY OF VOLUNTEERS.
The following important order is also
just published for the information of all
concerned:
Headquarters of the Army,
"Adjutant- Generals Office,
washington September 20, 1898.
by direction of the Secretary of War,
the following instructions. in the matter
OF pay of commissioned officers and en-
listed men OF volunteer organizations in
the service of the United States, are
published for the information and
guidance of all concerned.
Battalion adjutants and battalion SER
geants major. as extra officers and non
commissioned officers. are not authorized
by law, and cannot be paid as such, ex-
cept In cases where they held those posi-
tions in. and were in service with, State
or Territorial militia organizations,
whose members enlisted in the volunteer
army in body. and were duly appointed
to corresponding positions in the yolun-
teer organizations composed of members
OF militia organizations so enlisting.
SHOULD vacancy occur In any Of these
Offices after the muster in of the
organization. an appointment 10 fill such
vacancy (Which is prohibited by General
Orders, No. 9S War Department. Ad-
5utant Generals office July Is, 1899. Will
not, If made, entitle tho appontee TO pay
as battalion adjutant or sergeant-major,
ha mill 10 IN nnlN &C
hereinafter provided for. In cases where
details are made 10 those positions.
I'm all cases where extra officers as
adtutants and extra sergeants major for
battalions are not authorized, Aeuten-
ants detailed as battalion adjutants can
receive no more than mounted pay of
their grade. their regimental commanders
certifying that their duties require them
TO be mounted: and battalion sergeants
major. who may be detailed from SER
geants OF companies, will not be entitled
90 any pay other than the pay of their
grade ss company sergeants.
''In cases where extra officers as adju-
tants and sergeants major for battaiions
are authorized by law. the adjutants will
be entitled 10 the pay of regimental adj
Jutant and the sergeants major TO the
pay OF reglmental sergeant major: but
should any such adjutants or any regi-
mental quartermasters or assistant sur
geons hold the rank Of captain under
State laws they can receive no more than
the pay provided by the United States
laws for the Offices held by them re-
spectiyely-that is TO say, the salary at
tached TO the Office of adjutant or quar-
termsster Is 81 800 per annum. and the
salary attached TO the Office of assistant
surgeon. OF less than five years service.
Is 81 600 per annum.
1.-THE Acting Comptroller of the Trea-
sury has decided that the salary attaches
20 the Office and not 10 the rank OF the in
cumbents of these Offices.
"By act OF Congress. approved July Z,
1895. the pay Of chaplains OF volunteers
Is fixed at that OF captain. mounted,
and they will be so paid from and after
the date OF the act.
"By act of Congress. also approved
July Z. 1893 II is provided that all officers
and enlisted men OF volunteers shall be
paid from the day on which they had
their names enrolled for service in the
volunteer army of the United States and
5oired for duty therein. after having
been called for by the Governor on the
authority OF the President. Officers and
enlisted men OF volunteers who have no;
been paid for the period between date
OF enrolment and date of MUSTER into
the service OF the United States may be
paid the same upon the next pay-rolls
OF their commands. upon proper muster
for the same. great care being exercised
TO correctly state the date OF enrolment
and date from which pay was paid by the
United States.
''Ey order OF Maicr.Generai Miles:
III G. cCRBIN, Adtutant GENERA"