Officers' Baggage. Paragraph 1097, Revised Army Regulations, is modified as follows: The baggage to be transported is limited to camp and garrison equipage and officers' baggage. Officers' baggage shall not exceed (mess-chest and all personal baggage included) as follows: These amounts shall be reduced pro rata by the commanding officer when necessary, and may be increased by the Quartermaster General on transports by water when proper in special cases. BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF WAR: OFFICIAL: E. D. TOWNSEND, Adjutant General. Assistant Adjutant General. GENERAL ORDERS WAR DEPARTMENT, ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE, No. 91. Cases have occurred of payment to assignees of forged final statements on which the transfer was attested by the genuine signature of an officer, witness to the transfer, as prescribed in Note 3 on printed form of final statement. In future it will be held to be the duty of such witnessing officer to satisfy himself of the genuineness of the papers, (both discharge and final statements,) and in the event of their proving to be forgeries the amount, if any, paid thereon will be charged against and stopped from his pay. BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF WAR: OFFICIAL: E. D. TOWNSEND, Adjutant General GENERAL ORDERS WAR DEPARTMENT, No. 92. ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE, So much of General Orders No. 99, of 1857, from this Office, establishing an Artillery School at Fort Monroe, as designates "the senior officer of Ordnance stationed at the post" as a member of the "staff of the school," is hereby rescinded. BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF WAR: OFFICIAL: E. D. TOWNSEND, Adjutant General. |