Partial memorandum index : for the information of officers of the Pay Department of the United States Army, to June 30, 1863 / compiled in the Office of the Paymaster General U.S. Army, by J.H. Eaton.

  • Eaton, J. H. (Paymaster)
Date:
1863
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Credit: Partial memorandum index : for the information of officers of the Pay Department of the United States Army, to June 30, 1863 / compiled in the Office of the Paymaster General U.S. Army, by J.H. Eaton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Privates in excess of the legal organization have been ordered ?''vatps ' ex- paid by the Secretary of War. General Order No. 126, of 1862, cesS l° P was not intended to discharge privates of volunteers who are in excess.—Secretary of War on inquiry of Major Oakley, Novem- ber 5, 1S62 ; War Department to Paymaster General, December 6, 1862. After January 6, 1863, each regiment of volunteer cavalry to Two assistant have two assistant surgeons.—G. O. No. 7, 1863. surgeons aiiowert. Each company of cavalry to have from sixty to seventy-eight Number of pri privates.—G. O. No. 7, 1863. vales ^i^- The grade of supernumerary second lieutenant, the two team- Supernumerary sters for each company, and one chief farrier and blacksmith for tloiST'** ' each regiment of cavalry, abolished. Each company of cavalry to have two trumpeters, with pay of Tw0 trumpeters buglers. allowed. Each regiment of cavalry to have one veterinary surgeon, with One veterinary rank of sergeant major, and with compensation at $75 per 6Ur°'eon allowed' month.—Section 37, act March 3, 1863 ; G. O. No. 73, 1863. A veterinary surgeon cannot be considered as an enlisted veterinary sur- man. He may have been such when he became a veterinary s1elJojr'edh0w co' surgeon, with the rank of regimental sergeant major, for all pur- poses of drawing his pay. The word compensation is synony- mous with pay or salary; it cannot be considered as equivalent to pay, emoluments, and allowance of 40 cents per day for his horse.—Second Comptroller, June 15, 1863. A chief farrier, mustered out of service as not belonging to ciiief farrier, legal organization of cavalry, but supernumerary, by decision of Secretary of War, to be paid $21 per month.—Adjutant General to Paymaster General, May, 1863. All claims by supernumerary second lieutenants of cavalry Supernumerary, volunteers for pay, to be refused by paymasters, and to be refer- red to War Department for adjustment.—Adjutant General to Paymaster General, March 18, 1863. CERTIFICATES OF DISCHARGE. When certificates of discharge are lost, application for payment Lost certificates. is to be made to Second Auditor of the Treasury.— G. O. No. 30, 1863. (See Discharges.) chaplains. After being appointed by the regimental commander, as pro- chaplain, how vided for in section 9, act July 22, 1861, the chaplain must be mustered i... mustered into the service by an officer of the regular army.—G.O. No. 44, 1861. One chaplain allowed to each regiment of the army.—Act 38, Number. August 3, 1861; G. O. No. 54, 1861. Chaplains of permanent hospitals, authorized to be appointed chaplains or by the President, (one for each hospital,) whose pay to be the ^ho'^ap^int- same as regimental chaplains, and subject to same rules as to ed and paid. leaves of absence.—Act May 20, 1862; G. O. No. 55, 1862. No person to be appointed a chaplain who is not a regularly Qualifications, ordained minister of some religious denomination, and who does not present testimonials of good standing, with a recommendation