GENERAL ORDERS, No. 87. HEADQUARTERS OF THE ARMY, Washington, August 7, 1885. I.. By direction of the Secretary of War paragraph 1369 of the Regulations is amended to read as follows: 1369. The inspections of disbursing officers' accounts (required by theact of Congress approved April 20, 1874) will be made once every four months, allowing a reasonable interval between any two examinations. II..The change above directed will take effect with the commencement of the present fiscal year. BY COMMAND OF LIEUTENANT GENERAL SHERIDAN : OFFICIAL: R. C. DRUM, Adjutant General. Assistant Adjutant General. GENERAL ORDERS, No. 88. HEADQUARTERS OF THE ARMY, Washington, August 10, 1885. By direction of the Secretary of War paragraph 474 of the Regulations, as amended by General Orders, No. 94, November 27, 1883, from this office, is further amended to read as follows: 474. The commanding officer of each artillery regiment may, on or after the 1st day of September of any year, nominate to the General commanding the Army one subaltern for detail at Willets Point, New York, for a course of instruction in torpedo service, commencing on the 1st day of December and ending on the 30th day of June, following; provided, that at the time of such nomination the number of subalterns absent from the regiment shall not exceed fourteen. The nominations thus made will be forwarded through the regular military channel. BY COMMAND OF LIEUTENANT GENERAL SHERIDAN: OFFICIAL: R. C. DRUM, Adjutant General. Assistant Adjutant General. GENERAL ORDERS, No. 89. HEADQUARTERS OF THE ARMY, Washington, August 12, 1885. By direction of the Secretary of War paragraphs 2045 to 2064 inclusive, of the Regulations are rescinded, and the following Regulations are substituted for paragraphs 2045 to 2055 inclusive. LAND-GRANT AND BONDED RAILROADS. 2045. General Orders will be issued publishing tables of Land-Grant and Bonded Railroads, and directing the mode of stating and rendering accounts of such railroads for military transportation. These tables will show the names of such railroads, termini, mileage, the compensation accruing to each for services performed in transporting U. S. troops and property, the places of preparation of their accounts by the Quartermaster's Department, and such explanatory remarks as may be pertinent. A compendium of the United States laws relating to such railroads, showing dates of the laws, numbers and pages of statutes, and conditions of the grants or subsidies, so far as they relate to the use of the roads by the United States, will be published with the tables. 2046. Officers of the Quartermaster's Department stationed at the places designated will receive and prepare upon proper forms the accounts of these railroad companies for the transportation of U. S. troops and prop erty. 2047. The accounts of those Land-Grant Railroad Companies to which "no payments can be made,” as indicated in the tables, being those which are bound by law to transport the troops and property of the United States over their railroads free of cost, charge, or expense to the United States, will, if presented, be forwarded to the Quartermaster General's Office, to be transmitted to the Treasury Department for the action of the accounting officers. 2048. The accounts of those Land-Grant Railroad Companies to which "payments may be made," as indicated in the tables, being those to which no conditions attach in relation to the use of the roads by the United States, or those (excepting the Bouded Pacific Railroads) which "shall not charge the Government higher rates than they do individuals for like transporta |