accepted) as contractor, provided such guarantor or guarantors are able duly to justify, as required, for the bond. 1547. Bidders' guarantees and contractors' bonds are to be executed in duplicate. BY COMMAND OF GENERAL SHERMAN: OFFICIAL: R. C. DRUM, Adjutant General. Assistant Adjutant General. No. 61. ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE, Washington, August 3, 1883. The following detail will be made for the recruiting service for the period from October 1, 1883, to October 1, 1885: One company officer from the 2d, 4th, 6th, and 8th Cavalry will be selected and ordered to report to the superintendent of the mounted recruiting service, Jefferson Barracks, Missouri, by October 1, 1883. One company officer from the 2d, 4th, 6th, 10th, 12th, 14th, 16th, 18th, 20th, 22d, and 24th Infantry will be selected and ordered to report to the superintendent of the general recruiting service, New York City, by October 1, 1883. These officers will be selected by the respective regimental commanders actually with their regiments, and in making the selection regard will be had to fitness for the responsible duty of recruiting. The superintendents will relieve officers of the above-named regiments in charge of rendezvous or at the depots as those of the new detail report, and order them to join their companies. Recruiting officers are expected to give close personal attention to their duties, and the regulations prohibiting the enlistment of minors and men of doubtful habits will be strictly enforced by the superintendents. In accepting recruits at rendezvous, Tripler's Manual, paragraph 786 of the Regulations, and letter of instructions from this office, dated December 28, 1880 (printed for general information, November 11, 1881), afford the required standard of qualifications, and they are in like manner the standard for inspection of recruits after their arrival at depots. BY COMMAND OF GENERAL SHERMAN: OFFICIAL: CHAUNCEY MCKEEVER, Acting Adjutant General. GENERAL ORDERS, No. 62. HEADQUARTERS OF THE ARMY, Washington, August 4, 1883. I.. By direction of the Secretary of War paragraph 2074 of the Regulations is amended to read as follows: 2074. Unmade, cut-out uniform coats, blouses, and trousers may be issued to the enlisted men at cost of the materials. They will be obtained from the Quartermaster's Department, in the same manner as other articles of clothing. The materials for each coat, blouse, or pair of trousers, with the buttons, thread, needles, and all necessary trimmings, shall be rolled up in a bundle, securely fastened, and marked with the size of the garment. II..Until the publication of a new price list of clothing, the unmade uniform coats will be issued at the following prices: inated as $5 94 $5 89 $5 89 $5 75 $5 75 584 579 5 79 5 65 5 65 The unmade blouses will be charged for all arms of the service at $2.72 each, and the unmade trousers at the prices established by General Orders, No. 45, Headquarters of the Army, of 1883. The garment denom'great-coat" in that order will be known and designated as "overcoat," as prescribed in paragraph 2780 of the Regulations. III.. By direction of the Secretary of War so much of General Orders, No. 9, Headquarters of the Army, series 1882, as has reference to paragraph 2070 of the Regulations, is revoked, and the paragraph referred to will stand as originally published. The following paragraph is added to 2090. There will be issued to troops stationed in extremely cold regions, when the necessity for such issue is certified by the department commander, an overcoat made of fur or other suitable warm material. Said issue will, however, be confined to the men on guard duty, special scouts and expeditions involving such exposure to freezing as to jeopardize the life or limbs of those engaged in them. The coats should be borne upon the returns of clothing and equipage as camp and garrison equipage," and charged to the enlisted men only in case of loss or damage other than from ordinary wear and tear. The fur overcoats on hand at the various posts will, when no longer needed by reason of the approach of warm weather, be turned over for protection to the respective post quartermasters, who will observe the following directions: 1. The coats should be exposed to the sun and then beaten with a light twig or rattan. The most important point being to make sure that all moth eggs, should any have been deposited, are destroyed before putting them away, the sunning and switching for this purpose should therefore be thorough-the latter, however, not severe enough to injure the fur or pelt. 2. Any coat requiring it should be repaired-using for this purpose, as far as practicable, such articles of a corresponding character as cannot be again rendered serviceable-and packed in boxes well lined with petroleum and wrapping paper (the latter being next the goods), care being taken that no holes or other openings are left in the wrappers for moths to enter; the boxes to be secured, nailed, and paper pasted over all joints. This will, it is thought, be sufficient to preserve the articles from damage. 3. The original packages of clothing opened for issue will usually supply sufficient petroleum paper to cover the fur articles in the spring. Should it be dry from age or use, it can be freshened up by rubbing into the surface a little of the ordinary illuminating coal-oil, taking care not to rub enough to penetrate the manila wrapping-paper. Commanding officers will see that these instructions are strictly complied with. One fur cap and one pair of fur gauntlets will also be issued annually to all enlisted men in the Departments of the Platte, Dakota, and the Columbia, and in other departments, when specially authorized by the division commander, at the prices established for such articles in the annual price list. Their money value is to be charged on the clothing accounts of the men to whom they may be issued, but is not to be computed in their clothing allowances. |