V..Kindling wood may form a part of the regular issue of fuel in proportion equal to one-sixth of the whole allowance authorized, according to the scale of equivalents established by General Orders No. 13 of 1869, from this Office, and the rate of commutation therefor at each military post or station shall be the market price of kindling wood at the time such commutation occurs. The foregoing allowances will take the place of those prescribed in Paragraph 1068, Revised Army Regulations, 1863. VI..Merchantable hard wood is the standard; the cord is 128 cubic feet. VII.. Paragraphs 1068 and 1069 of the Regulations are modified so as to provide that in the issue of fuel the following scale of equivalents shall be used, the standard being merchantable oak wood, delivered, viz: One cord of the standard oak wood equals One cord of merchantable oak; One and one-fifth cord of yellow pine; One and three-fourths cord of white pine, poplar, cottonwood, or other soft wood; One thousand six hundred pounds of anthracite or bituminous coal. VIII.. In the issue of coals of the Pacific slope the following scale of equivalents shall be used, the standard being merchantable oak wood, delivered, viz: One cord of the standard oak wood equals Two thousand five hundred pounds Rocky Mountain brown coal, Wahsatch range; Two thousand six hundred pounds Mount Diablo, California, and Coose Bay, Oregon, brown coal; Two thousand four hundred pounds Seattle, Washington Territory, brown coal; Two thousand two hundred pounds Bellingham Bay, Washington Territory, brown coal; and One thousand eight hundred pounds Nanaimo, Vancouver's Island, British Columbia, brown coal. IX..A mess-room, and fuel for it, are allowed only when a majority of the officers of a post or regiment unite in a mess; never to less than three officers, nor to any who live in hotels or boarding-houses. Fuel for a mess-room shall not be used elsewhere or for any other purposes. X.. Fuel issued to officers or troops is public property for their use; what they do not actually consume shall be returned to the Quartermaster and taken up on his Quarterly Return; with this exception, however, that the fuel issued to troops and not actually used in quarters may be used in baking their bread. [Par. 1073.] Particular attention of officers is called to the foregoing provision. XI.. In October, November, December, January, February, March, and April the fuel is increased one-fourth at stations from the 38th to the 43d degree north latitude, and one-third at stations north of the 43d degree. (Substituted for Par. 1074, Revised Army Regulations.) XII..All previous orders authorizing greater allowances than those herein given are revoked. XIII....This order will go into effect on the date of its receipt at each military post and station. BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF WAR: OFFICIAL: E. D. TOWNSEND, Adjutant General. Assistant Adjutant General. No. 23. ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE, The following extracts of an Act of Congress are published for the information and government of all concerned: AN ACT making appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the Government for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-six, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the service of the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-six, for the objects hereinafter expressed, namely: PUBLIC BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS. For clerk in the Office of Public Buildings and Grounds, one thousand four hundred dollars For messenger in the same office, eight hundred and forty dollars. For the laborer in charge of the water-closets in the Capitol, seven hundred and twenty dollars. For a foreman and laborers employed in the public grounds, twentyone thousand four hundred and fifty-six dollars. For four laborers in the Capitol, two thousand eight hundred and eighty dollars. For furnace-keeper in charge of heating apparatus under the old hall of the House of Representatives, eight hundred and sixty-four dollars. For the following employés at the Executive Mansion, namely: For furnace-keeper, eight hundred and sixty-four dollars; two policemen, two thousand six hundred and forty dollars; one night watchman, nine hundred dollars; one night usher, one thousand two hundred dollars; and two doorkeepers, at one thousand two hundred dollars each, in all, For two draw-keepers for Navy-Yard and Upper bridges, and for fuel, oil, and lamps, one thousand six hundred dollars. For watchman in Franklin Square, seven hundred and twenty dollars. For the person in charge of the heating-apparatus of the Library of Congress, and other steam-heating apparatus in the central building, eight hundred and sixty four dollars. For four watchmen in reservation numbered two, being the Smithsonian grounds, two thousand eight hundred and eighty dollars. For watchman in Lincoln Square, five hundred and forty dollars. For watchman at Lafayette Square, seven hundred and twenty dollars. For watchman in Washington Circle, five hundred and forty dollars. For one bridge-keeper at Chain Bridge, seven hundred and twenty dollars. For watchman for circle at intersection of Massachusetts and Vermont avenues, five hundred and forty dollars. For watchman at Rawlins' Square, and one at Pacific Place, at five hundred and forty dollars each; in all, one thousand and eighty dollars. For watchman for Judiciary Square, seven hundred and twenty dollars. For contingent and incidental expenses, two thousand dollars. WAR DEPARTMENT. For compensation of the Secretary of War, eight thousand dollars; one chief clerk, at two thousand five hundred dollars; one disbursingclerk, at two thousand dollars; two chief clerks of division, at two thousand dollars each; seven clerks of class four; six clerks of class three; six clerks of class two; fifteen clerks of class one; two messengers, nine laborers; seven watchmen for the Northwest Executive building; in all, seventy-eight thousand three hundred dollars. For eight messengers, six thousand seven hundred and twenty dollars, For contingent expenses of his office, twelve thousand dollars. For the purpose of examining the rebel archives, and having copies furnished for the Government, six thousand six hundred dollars. For postage on official matter of the War Department and its Bureaus, eighty-five thousand six hundred and sixty-nine dollars. That so much of the act entitled "An Act to incorporate a National Military and Naval Asylum for the relief of totally disabled officers and men of the volunteer forces of the United States," approved March third, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, and of all acts amendatory thereof, as provides "that for the establishment and support of said asylum there shall be appropriated all stoppages or fines adjudged against officers and soldiers by sentence of court-martial or military commission, over and above the amounts necessary for the re-imbursement of the Government or of individuals; all forfeitures on account of desertion from the service; and all moneys due deceased officers and soldiers which now are or may be unclaimed for three years after the death of such officers and soldiers," be, and the same is hereby, repealed, to take effect on and after the first day of April, eighteen hundred and seventy-five. And from and after April first, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, no clerk shall be employed or paid in any Department of the Government for services rendered under any provision of said act of March third, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, or the acts amendatory thereof. And from and after the first day of April, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, no money shall be appropriated or drawn for the support and maintenance of what is now designated by law as the "National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers,” except by direct and specific annual appropriations by law. And it shall be the duty of the managers of said home, on or before the first day of August in each year, to furnish, to the Secretary of War, estimates, in detail, for the support of said home for the fiscal year commencing on the first day of July thereafter; and the Secretary of War shall annually include such estimates in his estimates for his Department. And no moneys shall, after the first day of April, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, be drawn from the Treasury for the use of said home, except in pursuance of quarterly estimates, and upon quarterly requisitions by the managers thereof upon the Secretary of War, based upon such quarterly estimates, for the support of said home for not more than three months next succeeding such requisition. And no money shall be drawn or paid upon any such requisition while any balance heretofore drawn or received by said home, or for its use, from the Treasury, under the laws now or heretofore existing, and now held under investment or otherwise, shall remain unexpended. And the managers of said home shall, at the commencement of each quarter of the year, render to the Secretary of War an account of all their receipts and expenditures for the quarter immediately preceding, with the vouchers for such expenditures; and all such accounts and vouchers shall be authenticated by the officers of said home thereunto duly appointed by said managers, and audited, and allowed, as required by law for the general appropriations and expenditures of the War Department. In the Office of the Adjutant-General.-One chief clerk, at two thousand |