GENERAL ORDERS, No. 99. HEADQUARTERS OF THE ARMY, By direction of the Secretary of War the annexed form, to be known as Form No. 45, Quartermaster's Department, is adopted. for issue to the Army by the Quartermaster General. BY COMMAND OF LIEUTENANT GENERAL SHERIDAN: OFFICIAL: R. C. DRUM, Adjutant General. Assistant Adjutant General. (FORM NO. 45-VOUCHER TO RETURN OF C. AND E.) We, the commissioned officers U. S. Army whose signatures are hereunto affixed, do hereby certify that we have purchased and received for our own personal use from -, quartermaster, U. S. A., the several articles of clothing specified opposite our respective names, and that we have paid the amounts specified. I certify that the above receipt roll is correct and just; that the articles enumerated were sold as stated; and that the amounts received therefrom have been taken up on my account current for the month of Signatures of officers. GENERAL ORDERS, No. 100. HEADQUARTERS OF THE ARMY, Washington, September 7, 1885. By direction of the Secretary of War paragraph 2233 of the Regulations is amended to read as follows: 2233. Commutation of rations, at the rate of twenty-five cents, is allowed to soldiers on furlough by competent authority, provided they report for duty at their proper station, as required by the furlough, on or before the date of its expiration. Payment will not be made until the expiration of the furlough and return therefrom. The furlough must state the date up to which the soldier has been subsisted, and must be presented with the claim for commutation (Form No. 13), with the certificate of a commissioned officer that the soldier had returned to duty at its expiration. The officer who pays the commutation will indorse the fact upon the furlough, and certify upon his account of the payment that he has so done. BY COMMAND OF LIEUTENANT GENERAL SHERIDAN: OFFICIAL: R. C. DRUM, Adjutant General. Assistant Adjutant General. GENERAL ORDERS, No. 101. HEADQUARTERS OF THE ARMY, Washington, September 10, 1885. By direction of the Secretary of War section 2, paragraph V, General Orders, No. 50, series of 1881, from this office (which order amended paragraphs 2150 and 2184 to 2191 of the Regulations), as modified by General Orders, No. 80, series of 1882, from this office, is amended to read as follows: 2. For the guard-houses, post school-rooms when used at night, and the authorized offices, a lamp with single burner for each room. For post reading-rooms and post libraries, such number of burners, not exceeding four for each room, as may be shown by the certificate of the post commander to be necessary. For post hospitals, such number of burners, not exceeding one for each room, as may be deemed necessary by the post surgeon and post commander. A sick-ward to be rated as a room. BY COMMAND OF LIEUTENANT GENERAL SHERIDAN: OFFICIAL: R. C. DRUM, Adjutant General. Assistant Adjutant General. |