ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE, No. 103. For convenience of, and to prevent delay in, the public business where considerable amounts are required for postage monthly, as at the Headquarters of Military Divisions, Departments, and Districts, the following will be observed: Commanding officers of Divisions, Departments, and Districts may order their disbursing Quartermasters to purchase such postage stamps as may be required for use during the month at their respective Headquarters-these stamps to be accounted for as so much money in safe. The stamps to be used in the transmission of official mail matter. At the end of each month an account in favor of the individual officer purchasing the stamps will be prepared and presented to the proper officer of the Pay Department, who will reimburse the officer, as now prescribed in General Orders No. 141, Adjutant General's Office, of December 2, 1870. Such stamps as may be used by the Quartermaster during the month will be accounted for on a memorandum postage book, as prescribed by the same General Order. BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF WAR: OFFICIAL: E. D. TOWNSEND, Adjutant General. GENERAL ORDERS WAR DEPARTMENT, No. 104. ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE, The military cemetery at Fort Vancouver, Washington Territory, is aunounced as a National Cemetery of the fourth class, in addition to those named in General Orders No. 51, of 1872; Nos. 3 and 53, of 1874, and Nos. 48 and 87, of 1875, from this Office. BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF WAR: OFFICIAL: E. D. TOWNSEND, Adjutant General. GENERAL ORDERS WAR DEPARTMENT, No. 105. ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE, I...General Orders No. 103, War Department, Adjutant General's Office, 1874, is so far modified as to allow, at posts where there may be arms and metallic ammunition, calibre .50, on hand, an expenditure for target practice, in addition to the ten rounds of calibre .45 now authorized, of ten calibre .50 cartridges per man each month, or, if preferred, twenty calibre .50 in lieu of ten of each calibre. II...General Orders No. 2, War Department, Adjutant General's Office, 1873, is hereby so modified as to restore to the Quartermaster's Department the duty of supplying horse and mule shoes and smiths' tools and materials to the Cavalry, in addition to the other supplies now issued by that Department. BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF WAR: OFFICIAL: E. D. TOWNSEND, Adjutant General. |