2d division.

3d division.

4th division.

5th division.

Quartermaster's department. 6th division.

7th division.

The second division shall have charge of the purchase, procurement, issue, and disposition of cloth and clothing, knapsacks, camp and garrison equipage and all accoutrements of the soldier which are provided by the quartermaster's department.

The third division shall have charge of the purchase, charter, hire, and maintenance of all vessels to be used in the transportation of the army, and of prisoners of war, and of their supplies, on the ocean, and the bays and sounds connected therewith, and upon the northern and northwestern lakes, including all vessels propelled by steam or otherwise, owned or employed by the War Department, excepting river steam-vessels and barges upon the western rivers.

The fourth division shall have charge of the purchase, charter, hire, maintenance, and procurement of all transportation for the army, and its supplies by land and upon the western rivers, (other than transportation by animal power in the field, and at camps, garrisons, posts, depots, and stations,) including all railroad and telegraph lines operated by the United States for military purposes, and of all steam rams and gunboats owned or employed by the War Department upon the western rivers, until other disposition shall be made of them by competent authority.

The fifth division shall have charge of the purchase, procurement, issue, and disposition of forage and straw for the army.

The sixth division shall have charge of the erection, procurement, maintenance, disposition, and so forth, of all barracks, hospital buildings, storehouses, stables, bridges, (other than railroad bridges,) wharves, and other structures composed in whole or in part of lumber, and of all lumber, nails, and hardware for building purposes; and of the hire and commutation of quarters for officers, the hire of quarters for troops, the hire of grounds for cantonments, or other military purposes, and the repair and care of all buildings and other structures. herein mentioned, and of all grounds owned, hired, or occupied for military purposes, except such as are lawfully under the charge of other bureaus of the War Department; and of extra pay to soldiers employed in erecting barracks, or other fatigue duty, under the acts of March second, eighteen hundred and nineteen, and August fourth, eighteen hundred and fifty-four.

The seventh division shall have charge of the purchase, procurement, issue, and disposition of all wagons, ambulances, travelling forges and harness, (except such as are furnished by the ordnance department,) and of all hardware except as herein before provided; and of all fuel for officers and enlisted men, camps, garrisons, hospitals, posts, storehouses, offices, public transports, steamrams, and army gunboats, and of all transportation by animal power in the field, at camps, garrisons, posts,

depots, and stations; and of the construction and repair of roads other than railroads; and of the compensation of wagon and forage masters, and of clerks to officers of the quartermaster's department; and of the purchase of heating and cooking stoves; and of the expenses of courts-martial, military commissions, and courts of inquiry; and of mileage and allowances to officers for the transportation of themselves and their baggage when travelling upon duty without troops, escorts, or supplies, and of supplies for prisoners of war and such refugees as the Secretary of War may direct to be temporarily provided for; and of the purchase of stationery, blanks and blank books for the quartermaster's department; and of the printing of the division and department orders and reports; and of the proper and authorized expenses for the movements and operations of an army not expressly assigned to any other division or department.

Power of inspecting officers.

The eighth division shall have charge of all inspections 8th division. of the quartermaster's department, and of all reports made by officers assigned to inspection duty, analyzing and preserving the reports as received, and communicating through the quartermaster-general, to the chiefs of the proper divisions such portions of these reports as may be necessary for their information and use: Provided, That the officers assigned to inspection duty shall have power not only to report and to point out any errors or abuses which they may discover in the practical operations of the quartermaster's department, but to give, by order of the quartermaster-general, the orders which may be immediately necessary to correct and to prevent a continuance of such abuses or errors: Provided, further, Proviso. That all such orders shall be immediately reported to the chief of the inspection division for the approval, or otherwise, of the quartermaster-general.

9th division.

eral divisions to

The ninth division shall have charge of all the correspondence, returns, reports, and records, received, filed, and preserved in the office of the quartermaster-general, and of the transmission thereof to the several other divisions of this office, and departments of the government. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the heads of Heads of sevthe several divisions above mentioned shall, under the advertise for prodirection of the quartermaster-general, from time to time, plies. posals for supadvertise for proposals for the supplies necessary for the movements and operations of the several armies, posts, detachments, garrisons, hospitals, and for other military purposes, in newspapers having general circulation in those parts of the country where such supplies can be most advantageously furnished, having regard also to the places where such supplies are to be delivered and used; and all such supplies, so purchased or con- supplies to be tracted for, shall be subject to careful inspection, and all clothing and camp and garrison equipage, shall be subject to a double inspection, first, as to the quality of the

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material, and second, as to the kind and character of the workmanship, which inspection shall in all cases be performed by a competent inspector, with suitable assistants, who shall have had ample experience in the inspection of cloth, clothing, knapsacks, camp and garrison equipage; for and all payments for supplies so purchased shall be made under the direction of the officers in charge of the several divisions above mentioned, upon receipts or certificates from the officers inspecting and receiving such supplies, prepared in such form and attested in such manner as may be prescribed by the quartermaster-general.

supplies, how made.

Depots for receiving and dis

in the field.

supplies may be

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That it shall be the tributing sup- duty of the quartermaster-general to establish depots, plies for armies from time to time, at places convenient to the principal armies in the field, for receiving and distributing the supplies necessary for such armies, and for the detachments, posts, and hospitals most accessible to such depots; and the business of inspecting, weighing, measuring, and receiving supplies for such armies, detachments, posts, and hospitals, and of giving receipts or certificates therefor to the persons furnishing such supplies, shall be carried on as far as practicable at such depots; but the quartermaster-general, or the heads of the several divisions above mentioned, may cause such supplies to be sent from the place of purchase directly to the quartermasters of the commands for whose use they are procured, in any cases where it may be more economical or advantageous so to do; and in cases where horses, mules, clothing, or camp and garrison equipage may be so sent, suitable and competent inspectors shall be sent to examine the same before they shall be issued and receipted for. In emergencies, SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That when an emerobtained without gency shall exist requiring the immediate procurement of supplies for the necessary movements and operations of an army or detachment, and when such supplies cannot be procured from any established depot of the quartermaster's department, or from the head of the division charged with the duty of furnishing such supplies, within the required time, then it shall be lawful for the commanding officer of such army or detachment to order the chief quartermaster of such army or detachment to procure such supplies during the continuance of such emergency, but no longer, in the most expeditious manner, and without advertisement; and it shall be the duty of such quartermaster to obey such order; and his accounts of the disbursement of moneys for such supplies shall be accompanied by the order of the commanding officer as aforesaid, or a certified copy of the same, and also by a statement of the particular facts and circumstances, with their dates, constituting such emergency, General to require SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That it shall be the monthly state- duty of the quartermaster-general, immediately after the on hand, and esti- passage of this act, and at least once in every month thereafter, to require from the principal quartermasters

advertisement.

Quartermaster

ments of supplies

mates.

of the several military departments and depots, approximate statements of the aggregate amounts of supplies on hand, and estimates of the additional amounts required for the service for the ensuing month, stating at what places such supplies will be required, and what amounts are legally contracted for but not yet delivered. And it shall be the duty of the heads of the several divisions above mentioned to cause to be made purchases or contracts for the supplies which the quartermaster-general may estimate to be necessary in accordance with law, and all quartermasters shall forthwith report to the quartermaster-general, to be referred to the heads of the several divisions above mentioned, all contracts not yet fulfilled which they may have executed on behalf of the United States, and all proposals which they may have received in answer to advertisements for future supplies, and shall here after regularly report to the quartermaster-general copies of all contracts made and all proposals received Copies of confor supplies of any kind to be furnished. And if anyposals. quartermaster shall neglect or refuse, for the space of onelecting, etc., to month, to report to the quartermaster-general any suchreport contracts, contract or proposal, such neglect or refusal shall be deemed prima facie evidence of fraud, and the pay of such quartermaster shall be stopped until he shall have made a satisfactory explanation to the Secretary of War of such neglect or refusal.

tracts and pro

Penalty for neg

sworn.

ruption, willful

contractor for

SEC. 6. And be it further enacted, That all inspectors Inspectors to be of horses, mules, clothing, fuel, forage, lumber, hired transports, and other supplies of the quartermaster's department, shall be sworn (or affirmed) to perform their duties in a faithful and impartial manner, and shall, for any corruption, wilful neglect, or fraud in the perform- Penalty for corance of their duties, be liable to punishment by fine and neglect, etc. imprisonment, by sentence of court-martial or military commission; and if any contractor or person furnishing Penalty upon such supplies or transportation shall give, or offer to give, offering, etc., to any inspector of such supplies or transportation, or to moperete., to any other person for his use, directly or indirectly, any money or other valuable consideration, such person giving, or offering to give, such money or other valuable consideration, shall forfeit to the United States the full amount of his contract or contracts with the United States, and the name and offerce of such person shall be published in general orders, and also in one newspaper of general circulation nearest to his place of residence.

SEC. 7. And be it further enacted, That the provisions Agents or assignees of certain of the sixteenth section of the act entitled "An act to de- contractors subfine the pay and emoluments of certain officers of the ject to, etc.. army, and for other purposes," approved July seventeen, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, shall apply to all persons engaged in executing the contracts therein referred to, whether as agents of such contractors or as claiming to be assignees thereof, or otherwise, and to all inspectors

etc.

employed by the United States for the inspection of subsistence, clothing, arms, ammunition, munitions of war, or other description of supplies for the army or navy of the United States: Provided, That any person arrested to answer charges for a violation of the provisions of this act, or of the act to which it is in addition, shall be adBall allowed, mitted to bail for his appearance to answer the charges made against him before any court-martial constituted to try him, in such sums and with such sureties as shall be designated and approved by the judge of the district. court of the district in which the arrest is made, or the offence is charged to have been committed, or any commissioner appointed by such court.

tractors furnish

Penalty on con- SEC. 8. And be it further enacted, That if any coning supplies, etc., tractor or person furnishing supplies or transportation for offering, etc., shall give, or offer to give, or cause to be given, to any any officer, etc., officer or employee of the quartermaster's department ter's department, having charge of the receipt or disposition of the sup

money, etc., to

in quartermas

etc.

accepting such money, etc.

chasing vessels

plies or transportation furnished by him, or in any way connected therewith, any money or other valuable consideration, directly or indirectly, all contracts and charters with such person shall, at the option of the Secretary Upon office for of War, be null and void; and if any officer or employee of the quartermaster's department shall knowingly accept any such money or other valuable consideration from such person, he shall be deemed guilty of malfeasance, and shall be punished by fine and imprisonment, or both, as a court-martial or military commission may direct. Rules for pur- SEC. 9. And be it further enacted, That whenever it for Quartermas-shall become necessary to purchase any steam or sailing ter's Department vessel for the use of the quartermaster's department, the same shall be first inspected by one or more competent naval officers detailed in accordance with the provisions of the "act authorizing the detail of naval officers for the service of the War Department," approved February twelve, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, and all steamvessels shall be inspected by an officer skilled in the construction and operation of steam machinery, in addition to the other usual inspection of such vessels: Provided, That the provisions of this section shall not apply to steamboats or other vessels in military service on the western rivers; but such river steamboats or vessels shall be so inspected by competent builders, to be designated for that purpose.

Proviso.

Officers in

charge of divisions

and pay.

SEC. 10. And be it further enacted, That the officers to have what rank placed in charge of the several divisions provided for by the first section of this act, shall, during the time they remain in such charge, each have the rank, pay, and emoluments of a colonel in the quartermaster's departDistribution of ment: Provided, That the Quartermaster-General may, with the approval of the Secretary of War, from time to time, and according to the necessities of the public service, change the distribution of duties among them; and all

duties may be changed.