REVISED REGULATIONS FOR THE ARMY. Quartermaster's Department.- -Barracks and Quarters. 159 ARTICLE XLII. QUARTERMASTER'S DEPARTMENT. 1064. This department provides the quarters and transportation of the army; storage and transportation for all army supplies; army clothing; camp and garrison equipage; cavalry and artillery horses; fuel; forage; straw; material for bedding, and stationery. 1065. The incidental expenses of the army paid through the Quarter master's Department include per diem to extra-duty men; postage on public service; the expenses of courts-martial, of the pursuit and apprehension of deserters, of the burials of officers and soldiers, of hired escorts, of expresses, interpreters, spies, and guides, of veterinary surgeons and medicines for horses, and of supplying posts with water; and generally the proper and authorized expenses for the movements and operations of an army not expressly assigned to any other department. BARRACKS AND QUARTERS. 1066. Under this head are included the permanent buildings for the use of the army, as barracks, quarters, hospitals, store-houses, offices, stables. 1067. When barracks and quarters are to be occupied, they will be allotted by the quartermaster at the station, under the control of the commanding officer. 1068. The number of rooms and amount of fuel for officers and men are as follows: The General commanding the army.. From May 1 to Sept. 30. From Oct. 1 to April 30. ... The commanding officer of a division or department, an assistant or deputy Quartermaster-General.... Or coal, at the rate of 1500 lbs. anthracite, or 30 bushels bituminous, to the cord. Two cords of pine wood for fuel may, at the discretion of a department commander be issued in lieu of one cord of oak, provided the cost be not greater. The commanding officer of a regiment or post, Quartermaster, Assistant-Quartermaster, or Commissary of Subsistence The senior Ordnance Officer stationed at the Head-Quarters of a Military Department........ The Assistant Adjutant-General at the Head-Quarters of the Army, the Assistant Adjutant-General, the Medical Director and Medical Purveyor of a Military Department, each Officers of the Pay Department..... Quartermaster-General.... Wagon and forage master, Sergeant-Major, Ordnance Sergeant, Quartermaster-Sergeant, Medical Cadet, or Principal Musician..... Each non-commissioned officer, musician, private, officer's servant, and washerwoman. Each necessary fire for the sick in hospital, to be regulated by the surgeon and commanding officer, not exceeding...... Each guard-fire, to be regulated by the commanding officer, not exceeding....... A commissary or quartermaster's store-house, when necessary, not exceeding.......... A regiment or post mess..... To every six non-commissioned officers, musicians, and privates, servants and washerwomen, 225 square feet of room north of 38° N., and 256 square feet south of that latitude.. 1069. Merchantable hard wood is the standard; the cord is 128 cubic feet. 1070. A particular set of quarters will be set apart at every chaplainpost for the chaplain. He will not be disturbed in these further than by a reduction of his allowance when that of the other officers is reduced Nor will he be allowed to choose other quarters. 1071. No officer shall occupy more than his proper quarters, except by order of the commanding officer when there is an excess of quarters at the station; which order the quartermaster shall forward to the Quartermaster-General, to be laid before the Secretary of War. But the amount of quarters shall be reduced pro rata by the commanding officer when the number of officers and troops make it necessary; and when the public buildings are not sufficient to quarter the troops, the commanding officer shall report to the commander of the department for authority to hire quarters, or other necessary orders in the case. The department commander shall report the case, and his orders therein, to the Quartermaster General. Quartermaster's Department. -Barracks and Quarters. 1072. 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 purpose. 1073. 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. 1074 In November, December, January, and February, the fuel is increased one-fourth at stations from the 39th degree to the 43d degree north latitude, and one-third at stations north of the 43d degree. 1075. Fuel shall be issued only in the month when due. 1076. In allotting quarters, officers shall have choice according to rank, but the commanding officer may direct the officers to be stationed convenient to their troops. 1077. An officer may select quarters occupied by a junior; but, having made his choice, he must abide by it, and shall not again at the post displace a junior, unless himself displaced by a senior. 1078. The set of rooms to each quarters will be assigned by the quar termaster, under the control of the commanding officer; attics not counted as rooms. 1079. Officers cannot choose rooms in different sets of quarters. 1080. When public quarters cannot be furnished to officers at stations without troops, or to enlisted men at general or department head-quarters, quarters will be commuted at a rate fixed by the Secretary of War, and fuel at the market price delivered. When fuel and quarters are commuted to an officer by reason of his employment on a civil work, the commutation shall be charged to the appropriation for the work. No commutation of rooms or fuel is allowed for offices or messes. 1081. The following rates of monthly commutation for quarters, when officers are serving without troops and at posts where there are no public quarters which they can occupy, have been established: 1. At Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington City, Charleston, Key West, Mobile, and New Orleans, and at all posts and stations in Texas, and in the Territories of New Mexico, Oregon, and Washington, $9 per room. 2. At Detroit, Chicago, and St. Louis, and at all places east of the Rocky Mountains, not heretofore enumerated, $8 per room. 3. At San Francisco, $20 per room, and at all other places in California, $12 per roɔm. Quartermaster's Department. -Barracks and Quarters. 1082. An officer is not deprived of his quarters and fuel, or commuta tion, at his station, by temporary absence on duty. 1083. Officers absent from their appropriate duties for a period exceed. ing six months, either with or without leave, shall not receive the allowances authorized by the existing laws for servants, forage, transportation of baggage, fuel, and quarters, either in kind or in commutation. (Act 5 Aug. 1861, chap. 38, sect. 20.) 1084. Officers and troops in the field are not entitled to commutation for quarters or fuel. 1086. An officer arriving at a station shall make requisition on the quartermaster for his quarters and fuel, accompanied by a copy of the order putting him on duty at the station. If in command of troops, his requisition shall be for the whole, and designate the number of officers of each grade, of non-commissioned officers, soldiers, servants, and washer women. 1087. Bunks, benches, and tables provided for soldiers' barracks and hospitals, are not to be removed from them, except by the quartermaster of the station, or order of the commanding officer, and shall not be removed from the station except by order of the Quartermaster-General. 1088. The furniture for each office will be two common desks or tables, six common chairs, one pair common andirons, and shovel and tongs. 1089. Furniture will be provided for officers' quarters when special appropriations for that purpose are made. Sales to officers of materials for furniture may be made at cost, at posts where they cannot be otherwise obtained. 1090. When buildings are to be occupied or allotted, an inspection of them shall be made by the commanding officer and quartermaster. Statements, in triplicate, of their condition, and of the fixtures and furniture in each room, shall be made by the quartermaster, and revised by the commanding officer. One of these shall be retained by the commanding officer, one by the quartermaster, and the third forwarded to the Quartermaster-General. 1091. Like inspection of all buildings in the use of troops will be made at the monthly inspections of the troops, and of all buildings which have been in the use of officers or troops, whenever vacated by them. Damages will be promptly repaired if the quartermaster has the means Commanding officers will take notice, as a military offense, of any neglect by any officer or soldier to take proper care of the rooms or furniture in his use or occupancy; but such officer or soldier may be allowed to pay the cost of the repairs when the commanding officer deems that sufficient in the case. Commanding officers are required to report to the Quarter Quartermaster's Department. -Army Transportation. master-General their proceedings in all cases of neglect under this regulation. 1092. An annual inspection of the public buildings at the several stations shall be made at the end of June by the commanding officer and quartermaster, and then the quartermaster shall make the following reports: 1st. of the condition and capacity of the buildings, and of the additions, alterations, and repairs that have been made during the past year; 2d. of the additions, alterations, and repairs that are needed, with plans and estimates in detail. These reports the commanding officer shall examine and forward, with his views, to the Quartermaster-General. 1093. Necessary repairs of public buildings, not provided for in the appropriations, can only be made by the labor of the troops. 1094. When private buildings occupied as barracks or quarters, or lands occupied for encampments, are vacated, the commanding officer and quartermaster shall make an inspection of them, and a report to the Quartermaster-General of their condition, and of any injury to them by the use of the United States. 1095. Military posts evacuated by the troops, and lands reserved for military use, will be put in charge of the Quartermaster's Department, unless otherwise specially ordered. ARMY TRANSPORTATION. 1096. When troops are moved, or officers travel with escorts or stores, the means of transport provided shall be for the whole command. Proper orders in the case, and an exact return of the command, including officers' servants and company women, will be furnished to the quartermaster who is to provide the transportation. 1097. 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 effects 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. |