GENERAL ORDERS, No. 56. WAR DEPARTMENT, Washington, October 8, 1897. I--Paragraphs 1349, 1351, 1352, 1353, and 1354 of the Regulations are amended to read as follows: 1349. Payments will be made as soon after the close of each month as practicable: 1. By paymasters in person; or 2. By check to be sent by registered mail or express, or by currency shipped by express. The troops at posts where paymasters are stationed and others in their immediate vicinity, to be designated in instructions issued from the Adjutant General's Office, will be paid by paymasters in person. For posts at which payments are not required to be made in person, the paymaster will transmit the pay due in one or more of the following ways: 1. By individual check, payable to the order of each man, for the exact amount due. 2. By inclosing in a separate sealed envelope the exact amount in currency due each soldier, with his name and the amount inclosed marked thereon. 1351. When forwarding the rolls the post commander will furnish the paymaster with the name, rank, etc., of the officer designated to see that the men of the command are paid, and at the same time will state what part of the pay can conveniently be received by the men in individual checks and cashed at or near the post without discount, designating the location of depository on which it is desired that the checks should be drawn, and whether it is desired that the checks be sent by mail or by express. The remainder of the pay will be sent in envelopes. 1352. The paymaster will, as far as practicable, draw the checks on the depository designated; the checks, when not sent by mail, and the money for each organization will be inclosed in separate packages properly marked, and the whole will be consolidated into one package and forwarded by ex press to the post commander. One of each of the company or detachment rolls extended to show the amounts to be paid will be returned to the commanding officer and by him sent to the proper company commanders. 1353. At places beyond express delivery, the post commander, when notified by the paymaster that funds sent by express are to be expected, will send an officer with a suitable escort to receipt for the express package and convey the funds to the post. The name of the officer authorized to receipt for the package will previously have been reported to the paymaster. 1354. When a package of funds is received at the post, it will be delivered to the officer who has been designated by the commanding officer to distribute the pay. As soon as possible the individual checks or the currency will be handed to the men by the officer designated, and when the payment is in currency from envelopes, a second officer, who may be the company commander, will be required to verify the amounts in the envelopes, so that, in case of error, certificates may be prepared at once by both officers. Should there be a deficiency it will be so certified on the roll by the paying and the verifying officers, and should there be an excess the surplus will be returned to the paymaster. In each case a statement of the facts, with appropriate certificates, will be sent to the paymaster by the post commander. II__So much of General Orders, No. 31, from Headquarters of the Army, Adjutant General's Office, July 31, 1896, as conflicts with the provisions of this order, is modified accordingly. BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF WAR: H. C. CORBIN, Acting Adjutant General. GENERAL ORDERS, WAR DEPARTMENT, Washington, October 8, 1897. No. 57. Before a general court-martial which convened at Fort Snelling, Minnesota, pursuant to Special Orders, No. 106 and No. 109, Department of Dakota, August 19 and August 24, 1897, and of which Colonel ANDREW S. BURT, 25th Infantry, was president, and Lieutenant-Colonel EDWARD HUNTER, Deputy Judge-Advocate General, was judge advocate, was arraigned and tried 2d Lieutenant William H. Morford, 3d United States Infantry. CHARGE. Conduct unbecoming an officer and a gentleman, in violation of the 61st Article of War." Specification 1st-"In that 2d Lieutenant William H. Morford, 3d United States Infantry, did on or about the 8th day of April, 1896, while dressed in the uniform of an officer of the Army of the United States, represent to one Anton Miesen, agent for the Pabst Brewing Company in the city of St. Paul. Minnesota, that he was in need of money for the purpose of taking his wife out of the State of Minnesota at once, and did falsely pretend to the said Miesen that for that purpose he had written to his mother-in-law and expected to receive from her a check in a few days, but could not wait for it, as the life of his wife depended upon her immediate removal; whereas, in truth and fact, he had not written to his mother-inlaw, did not expect to receive a check, and the life of his wife did not depend upon her immediate removal, as the said Morford then and there well knew; and by means of the said false pretenses he, the said Morford, did then and there fraudulently, knowingly, and designedly obtain from the said Anton Miesen the sum of three hundred ($300.00) dollars, the property of the said Miesen. This at St. Paul, Minnesota, on or about the date above specified." |