Proposals will not be opened until the time shall have elapsed within which they are to be received, and in all cases, the several bidders shall, on application, have the privilege of reference to the proposals after they shall have been acted upon. A copy of all advertisements for proposals will be transmitted to the quartermaster general's office, with the contracts to which they relate; also, an abstract of the proposals, shewing the names and terms of the several bidders. The proposals themselves will be carefully preserved for future reference. Officers of the quartermaster's department have the right, without reference to any other authority, to pay for all supplies or services for which they are authorized by these regulations to contract; but advances on contracts being strictly prohibited by law, under all circumstances, payment shall in no case be made for supplies until they have been delivered, nor for services until they have been performed. Payment for services or supplies shall, as far as practicable, be made within the quarter during which the service shall have been rendered, or the supplies furnished. When this shall not be practicable, either from the want of funds, or any other cause, the fact must be reported to the quartermastergeneral at the close of the quarter; and all property received, whether paid for or not, must appear on the property returns of the quarter in which it shall have been received. Due bills shall not, in any case, be given by officers of the quartermaster's department; nor shall receipts be taken from any claimant, whether for supplies or services, unless the amount specified be actually paid. No officer or other person employed in the quartermaster's department shall be concerned, directly or indirectly, either for himself or others, in any contract with any department of the government, nor in the purchase of any claim on the government, whether of a soldier or a citizen, nor in the purchase or sale of any article of military supply, except on public account. All officers and agents of the quartermaster's department, will keep and render their accounts, both of money and property, according to the forms prescribed by the regulations; and each officer and agent of the department, shall forward his accounts to the office of the quartermaster general, within twenty days after the expiration of the quarter; and it shall be the duty of the quarterniaster general to examine and transmit them, with his remarks, to the proper accounting officer of the treasury department. Any officer or agent of the quartermaster's department, who shall fail to forward, at the time prescribed, any repòrt, estimate, return, or statement, which he is required by the regulations to make, shall be removed, and his neglect be the subject of military investigation; unless he explain the cause of such failure, to the satisfaction of the quartermaster general. The quartermaster gene al may, whenever he shall deem it necessary, cause a thorough inspection to be made of the books and accounts of the quartermasters, and of all officers and agents making disbursements on account of the department. This inspection shall embrace property as ell as money; and extend to contracts-to prices paid for articles purhased-prices paid for transportation-and, generally, to every article supply, and to all effects connected with the department. The books and accounts of the quartermaster general, will be subject to a similar inspection. Whenever private buildings shall be occupied as quarters, or lands for encampments, by the troops of the United States, a reasonable compensa tion shall be paid to the proprietor by the quartermaster of the department, post, or detachment. When the rate of compensation cannot be satisfactorily agreed upon, disinterested persons shall be appointed by the quartermaster and proprietor, to appraise and determine the rent. Every officer of the quartermaster's department must, before entering upon the duties of his office, give bond to the United States, with two or more sufficient sureties, conditioned for the faithful performance of his duty. The quartermaster general, in the sum of fifty thousand dollars, quartermasters twenty, thousand, assistant quartermasters ten thousand, and store keepers, five thousand dollars. The sufficiency of the sureties to be certified by the district attorney, or United States' judge, of the State or Territory in which they reside, or of which they are citizens. PURCHASING DEPARTMENT. C. Irvine, Commissary General of Purchases.... 3000 00 ....... 1550 00 William C. Irvine, Clerk........ ....................................................................... 1000 00 James Irvine, Clerk.............................................................................................................. Samuel Wilmar, messenger........................................................................ William Banger, military store keeper..... 950 00 700 00 900 00 The Commissary general of this department purchases on the orders and estimates of the War Department, all clothing, dragoon saddles and bridles, tents, tent poles, camp kettles, mess pans, bed sacks, and all other articles required for the public service for the Army of the United States, excepting only such as are ordered to be purchased by the Ordnance, Quartermaster's, Subsistence, and Medical departments. All articles provided by the commissary general of purchases, and in a state fit for immediate issue to the troops must be deposited in the military store near the Schuylkill, and held subject to the orders of the War Department. The purchasing department is subject only to the orders of the Secretary of War. The office of the Commissary General of this department s in Philadelphia. PAY DEPARTMENT. Nathan Towson, Pay Master General...... William D. Beall, Clerk.. ................ 2500 00 1700 00 1100 00 1100 00 700 00 Jacob Brodbeck, messenger................................................ The Paymaster General is stationed at the seat of government: he is charged with the military responsibilities of this department, in all its details. The subordinate officers, being confined exclusively to the dis bursement of public money, are subject only to the orders of the Secre tary of War and the Paymaster general, except that they are liable to arrest by the senior officer of the department or command to which they may be arranged for the regular payment of the troops. It being provided by law that "the troops be paid in such manner, that the arrears shall, at no time, exceed two months, unless the circumstances of the case shall render it unavoidable," regular payments become due on the last days of February, April, June, August, October, and December, in each year. Payments are made on those days or as soon after as the situation of the troops and other unavoidable circumstances will permit, and in the same rotation; in order that the payments at al posts may be at regular periods. SUBSISTENCE DEPARTMENT. Brevet Brig. Gen. George Gibson, Commissary General of Subsistence Wm. C. Easton, Clerk.................. .... .......... 1350 00 ........ 1300 00 800 00 800 00 The present mode of supplying the army with subsistence was established by the 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, and 10th sections of an act of Congress passed April 14th, 1818, entitled "An act regulating the Staff of the Army of the United States;" and by the 8th section "of an act to reduce and fix the military peace establishment," passed 2d March, 1821. By the former, it was to continue for five years; and it was renewed for five more by, "an act to continue the present mode of supplying the army," passed 23d January, 1823; and again for five years, by act of same title passed 2d March, 1829. The first named act provides for a Commissary General of Subsistence, whose duties are to make estimates of expenditure for his department; contract and purchase subsistence for the army; regulate the transmission of funds to his assistants; make payments to contractors; adjust accounts for settlement; locate his assistants at their several stations; and, in general, provide for the proper administration of his department in all its ramifications. This act provides, also, for as many assistant commissaries as might be required, to be taken from the subalterns of the line. The 8th section of the act of 2d March, 1821, limits these assist ants to fifty, and subjects them to the performance of duty in the quartermaster's department. By the act of 2d March, 1829, "the better to enable the Commissary General of Subsistence to carry into effect the provisions of the above specified acts," two Commissaries are provided for. In addition to his duties proper, those of the removal and subsistence of the Choctaw Indians, under the "act to provide for an exchange of lands with the Indians, and their further removal west of the Mississip pi," approved 28th May, 1830; and the furnishing of transportation and subsistence to those Cherokees within the chartered limits of Georgia, who may embrace the provisions of the treaty between the United States and the Cherokees west of the Missi-sippi, made on the 6th May, 1828, have been confided to the Commissary General of Subsistence. MEDICAL DEPARTMENT. Joseph Lovell, Surgeon General...................... John A. Brereton, Assistant Surgeon, U. S. A. ....... 2500 00 ...... 1150 00 The Surgeon General is stationed at the City of Washington; he is the director and immediate accounting officer of the medical department. He issues all orders and instructions relating to the professional duties of the officers of the medical staff; and calls for and receives, such reports and returns from them, as may be requisite for the performance of his several duties. He receives from the medical directors of armies, districts, and depart ments, confidential reports relative to the condition of hospitals and infirmaries-the character and conduct of the surgeons and assistant surgeons -the state of their books and accounts-the medical topography of the several posts and stations—the nature of the prevailing complaints, their probable causes, and the treatment adopted. He receives from every surgeon, and assistant, performing the duties of surgeon, quarterly reports of sick, with such remarks as may be necessary to explain the nature of the diseases of the troops, the practice adopted, and the kinds of medicines and stores required, together with a copy of the entries made, for the quarter, in the book kept for the diary of the weather, accompanied with suitable observations. He receives from every surgeon and assistant surgeon, having charge of public property of any description for the use of the sick, duplicate semiannual returus of the same, in the form and manner prescribed, and also annual requisitions for the supplies required for each hospital, regiment, post, or garrison, for the ensuing year, and transmits them, with his instructions, to, the officers of the apothecary's department. He receives from the officers of the apothecary's department, duplicates of all invoices and supplies, put up for, and delivered or forwarded to, the several surgeons and assistant surgeons, and also a return of the several articles purchased, received, and issued by them, It is his duty to examine the returns and accounts of the surgeons and assistant surgeons, see that proper vouchers are sent for articles issued, and that the quantities expended with the sick are according to the number on the sick reports, and the nature of their complaints, if so, he shall certify it, and at the end of each year, and oftener if necessary, send the returns and accounts thus certified, to the office of the proper accounting officer of the treasury, (2nd auditor) for final settlement. It is his further duty to make to the Secretary of War such reports and returns as may be necessary to explain all the concerns of the department under his charge, with such remarks relative to the improvements in praçtice and police, and to the clothing, subsistence, &c. of the army, as may seem to be required for the preservation of health, the comfort and recovery of the sick, and the good of the public service. Army surgeons have precedence in their several grades, according to dates of commissions. They may, when necessary, he employed as Judge Advocates, but are not to be detailed as members of either general, regimental, or garrison courts martial. They are not permitted to be engaged in private practice. NAVY DEPARTMENT. LEVI WOODBURY, of New Hampshire, Secretary, $6,000 per annum. A The office of Secretary of the Navy, was created by act of the 30th of April, 1798. He issues all orders to the Navy of the United States, and superintends the concerns of the Naval Establishment generally. Board of Navy Commissioners was instituted by act of 7th February, 1815, to aid him in the discharge of his duties. The Secretary of the Navy is, by usage, a member of the Cabinet, and holds his office at the will of the President. CLERKS IN THE NAVY DEPARTMENT. JOHN BOYLE, Chief Clerk........ ... $2000 00 1600 00 R. H. Bradford, Corresponding Clerk........ ... .......... 1000 00 800 00 Nathan Eaton, messenger....................... Lindsay Muse, assistant messenger. 700 00 350 00 BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS FOR THE NAVY. This Board was established by act of 7th February, 1815. It consists of three officers of the Navy, in rank not below that of a Post Captain. The Board is, by law, attached to the office of the Secretary, of the Navy, and, under his superintendence, discharges all the ministerial duties of that office relative to the procurement of naval stores and materials, and the construction, armament, equipment, and employment, of vessels of war, as well as other matters connected with the Naval Establishment of the United States. They appoint their own Secretary; and their records are at all times subject to the inspection of the Presi dent of the United States and the Secretary of the Navy. COMMISSIONERS OF THE NAVY. JOHN RODGERS, President of the Navy Board.... .................................. 3500 00 CHARLES STEWART, Commissioner........................................................... 3500 00 DANIEL T. PATTERSON, Commissioner.......................................... 3500 00 Charles W. Goldsborough, Secretary... ......... ..................................... 2000 00 CLERKS IN THE NAVY COMMISSIONERS' OFFICE. WILLIAM G RIDGELY, Chief Clerk...... 1600 00 John Green, Clerk................................................................................................... 1150 00 Joseph P McCorkle, Clerk.... .................................................................. 1000 00 James Hullon, Clerk..... ......................................... Robert A. Slye, Clerk.. 1000 00 1000 00 |