GENERAL ORDERS, No. 33. HEADQUARTERS OF THE ARMY, Washington, March 23, 1882. By direction of the Secretary of War paragraphs 1857 and 1895 of the Regulations are amended to read as follows: 1857. The law permits sale to officers only of fuel which they actually use. There is no right to sell, barter, exchange, or dispose of it. Fuel will only be sold on the officer's certificate that it is for his personal or family use. The commanding officer will compare the requisitions and certificates with the quartermaster's abstract of sales of fuel, and, if correct, so certify.-[G. O. 78, 1878.] 1895. No officer shall sell forage issued or sold to him. Forage issued to public horses or cattle is public property; what they do not actually consume is to be properly accounted for. The commanding officer will compare the requisitions with the quartermaster's abstracts of issues and sales of forage, and, if correct, so certify.—[ Regs. 1863, ¶ 1125.] BY COMMAND OF GENERAL SHERMAN : OFFICIAL: R. C. DRUM, Adjutant General. Assistant Adjutant General. ENERAL ORDERS, No. 34. HEADQUARTERS OF THE ARMY, Washington, March 24, 1882. The following order is, by direction of the Secretary of War, on the ecommendation of the Inspector General, published for the information f the Army: At recruiting depots the Subsistence Department will keep suspenders ad handkerchiefs for sale on credit, under section 1144, Revised Statutes, recruits who have not been paid and who have pay due them. BY COMMAND OF GENERAL SHERMAN: OFFICIAL: R. C. DRUM, Adjutant General. Assistant Adjutant General. GENERAL ORDERS, No. 35. HEADQUARTERS OF THE ARMY, Washington, March 31, 1882. The following promotions, appointments, and transfers in the Army of the United States, made by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, since the publication of General Orders, No. 77, of October 31, 1881, together with list of casualties, are announced. The names of captains and lieutenants of the line are arranged so as to show the troops, batteries, and companies to which they have succeeded by promotion, or to which they have been assigned by competent authority: I..PROMOTIONS. QUARTERMASTER'S DEPARTMENT. Lieutenant Colonel James A. Ekin, deputy quartermaster general, to be assistant quartermaster general with the rank of colonel, February 13, 1882, vice Rucker, appointed Quartermaster General. Lieutenant Colonel Rufus Saxton, deputy quartermaster general, to be assistant quartermaster general with the rank of colonel, March 10, 1882, vice Ingalls, appointed Quartermaster General. Major James J. Dana, quartermaster, to be deputy quartermaster general with the rank of lieutenant colonel, February 13, 1882, vice Ekin, promoted. Major Richard N. Batchelder, quartermaster, to be deputy quartermaster general with the rank of lieutenant colonel, March 10, 1882, vice Saxton, promoted. Captain Andrew J. McGonnigle, assistant quartermaster, to be quartermaster with the rank of major, February 13, 1882, vice Dana, promoted. Captain Edward B. Grimes, assistant quartermaster, to be quartermaster with the rank of major, March 10, 1882, vice Batchelder, promoted. PAY DEPARTMENT. Major James B. M. Potter, paymaster, to be deputy paymaster general with the rank of lieutenant colonel, March 17, 1882, vice Larned, deceased. FOURTH REGIMENT OF CAVALRY. 1st Lieutenant Frank L. Shoemaker, to be captain, November 1, 1881, vice Hemphill, dismissed. [Troop I.] 2d Lieutenant Fred. Wheeler, to be 1st lieutenant, November 1, 1881, vice Shoemaker, promoted. [Troop F.] |