up on the receipt roll for the month in which he completes the ten days' labor. Paragraph 118 applies to extra-duty men employed as laborers and mechanics, and does not apply to school-teachers, clerks, watchmen, superintendents, engineers, firemen, teamsters, and others whose services may be required at any and all hours, and those who are not engaged in physical labor.—Q. M. Manual, 1896, par. 54.

112. Enlisted men detailed by name on extra duty under competent authority at constant labor for not less than ten days are entitled to receive extra-duty pay at the following rates: For services as mechanics, artisans, and school-teachers, 50 cents per day; as bakers, according to paragraph 306; as overseers, clerks, teamsters, laborers, and for all other extra-duty services, 35 cents per day.—-A. R., 165. 113. The detail of a noncommissioned officer on extra duty other than that of overseer will not be made without the approval of the Secretary of War. A noncommissioned officer will not be detailed on any duty inconsistent with his rank and position in the military service.-A. R., 166.

114. Noncommissioned staff officers and enlisted men of the several staff departments will not be detailed on extra duty without authority from the Secretary of War. They are not entitled to extra-duty pay for services rendered in their respective departments. —A. R., 167.

115. Company artificers, farriers, blacksmiths, saddlers, and wagoners will not receive extra-duty pay unless detailed on extra duty in the Quartermaster's Department, wholly disconnected from their companies.—A. R., 168.

116. Soldiers on extra duty will be paid the extra rates of pay allowed by law for the duty performed, and for the exact number of days employed; and no greater number of men will be employed on extra duty at any time than can be paid the full legal rates for the time employed from the funds provided. Payments made in violation of the above rules will be charged against the officers who ordered the details.-A. R., 169.

117. Extra-duty men will attend the weekly and monthly inspections of their companies, and as many daily drills as practicable. Special-duty men, except noncommissioned officers in charge of barracks or stables, the cooks, and such clerks as are necessarily excused by commanding officers, will attend all drills and inspections.-A. R., 170.

118. Extra-duty men will be held to such hours of labor as may be expedient and necessary; but, except in case of urgent public necessity, as in military operations, eight hours will be considered a day's work. For all hours employed beyond that number the soldier will receive additional compensation, the extra hours being computed as fractions of a day of eight hours' duration.-A. R., 171.

119. Details of enlisted men for extra and special duty will be limited to actual necessities, which will be determined by post commanders in accordance with limits published in orders from the War Department. Allotments to posts of funds for extra-duty pay are made by department commanders from allotments made to departments for the purpose, and must not be exceeded without special authority from department commanders.-A. R., 172.

NOTE. The act of April 26, 1898, provides that in war times no compensation shall be allowed to soldiers for extra duty.

RULES FOR THE COMPUTATION OF TIME.

120. When applicable, the following rules for the computation of time, in payment for services, will be observed:

1. For any full calendar month's service, at a stipulated monthly rate of compensation, payment will be made at such stipulated rate, without regard to the number of days in that month.

2. When service commences on an intermediate day of the month, thirty days will be assumed as the length of the month, whatever be the number of days therein. 3. When the service terminates on an intermediate day of the month, the actual number of days during which service was rendered in that calendar month, will be allowed.

4. When the service embraces two or more months or parts of months, but one fraction will be made. Thus: from September 21 to November 25, inclusive, will be calculated September 21 to October 20, inclusive, one month; from October 21 to November 20, inclusive, one month; from November 21 to 25, inclusive, five daysmaking the time allowed two months and five days.

5. When two fractions of a month occur and both are less than a whole month, as from August 21 to September 10, the time will be determined thus: August 21 to 30, inclusive (ignoring the 31st), ten days; from September 1 to 10, inclusive, ten days— making the time allowed twenty days.

6. Service commencing in February will be calculated as though the month contained thirty days, thus: from February 21 to 28 (or 29), inclusive, ten days. When the service commences on the 28th day of that month, three days will be allowed; and if on the 29th, two days.

7. If service commences on the 31st day of any month, payment will not be made for that day.

8. For commutation of subsistence and for services of persons employed at a per diem rate, payment will be made for the actual number of days.

9. When services are rendered from one given date to another, the account will state clearly whether both dates are included.

10. In computing the wages of laborers employed at a per diem allowance, the day on which service begins and the day on which it ends will be allowed in the computation.-A. R., 651.

TRANSPORTATION.

GENERAL PROVISIONS.

121. For wagon and pack transportation mules will generally be employed, and horses may be used for saddle purposes by wagon masters, messengers, expressmen, and employees or enlisted men pursuing kindred occupations which require them to be mounted. For draft purposes, except at depots or posts in or near large cities where little transportation is needed, horses will not be used unless specially authorized by the War Department.-A. R., 1070.

122. The allotment of draft and pack animals to each military department will be made by the Quartermaster-General under the direction of the Secretary of War.A. R., 1071.

123. The transportation of supplies from place of purchase or from supply depots to military posts, or from one post to another, will be provided under contract made by the Quartermaster's Department, except when the means of transportation authorized in paragraph 122 is available.—A. R., 1072.

124. In providing transportation for persons and property, the shortest practicable route will, as a rule, be adopted, although a longer one may be used to secure lower rates when time will permit. When competing routes furnish equal facilities, advantages, and rates, each will be given a share of employment.-A. R., 1073.

125. Under A. R., 1073, section 22 of the interstate commerce act provides that "nothing in the act shall prevent the carriage, storage, or handling of property free, or at reduced rates, for the United States."-Q. M. Manual, p. 29.

126. The allowance of spring wagons, exclusive of the prescribed ambulance for the sick, is fixed at one to each post, except when otherwise authorized by the War Department. All four-wheeled passenger wagons (except ambulances) having springs under the body shall be considered spring wagons.-A. R., 1074.

127. Spring wagons will be used only by direction of commanding officers and for the purpose for which they are supplied, viz, for the transportation of officers and enlisted men traveling on duty when other means are not available.-A. R., 1075. 128 The Quartermaster's Department will provide the necessary ambulances for transporting the sick and wounded upon the requisition of the proper medical officer.-A. R., 1076.

129. All means of public transportation at a post will be accounted for by the quartermaster, and will be under his charge except as provided in paragraph 1415. Post commanders will cause cavalry troops and light batteries to be provided daily with the proper facilities for policing stables and hauling forage.-A. R., 1077.

130. Commanding officers will give timely notice to the proper officers of the Quartermaster's Department of all contemplated movements of troops and supplies, that proper and sufficient transportation may be in readiness.—A. R., 1078.

131. The duty of furnishing transportation at any post, station, or depot will be intrusted to one officer of the Quartermaster's Department, on whom requisitions will be made therefor-A. R., 1079.

TRANSPORTATION TO OFFICERS TRAVELING WITHOUT TROOPS.

132. In view of the opinion of the Comptroller of the Treasury of March 31, 1897, as to the effect of the provisions of the act making appropriations for the support of the Army for the year ending June 30, 1898, respecting mileage and transportation, the Quartermaster's Department will hereafter furnish transportation in kind to officers of the Army traveling on public duty without troops, over all transportation lines, and the cost thereof, prior to July 1, 1897, but not thereafter, will be a charge against the appropriation for mileage.-Decision Sec. War, Apr. 20, 1897–53775 A. G. O., 1897; Cir. 8, A. G. O., 1897.

On and after July 1, 1898, officers of the Quartermaster's Department will furnish transportation to officers traveling without troops over free land-grant roads, 50 per cent roads, and bond-aided roads only.

The cost of this transportation to be deducted from the mileage account of the officers by the paymaster who pays the account, at rates paid by the general public for travel over such roads.-See G. O., No. 9, A. G. O., Mar. 19, 1898, p. 5.

TRANSPORTATION OF PERSONS.

133. When troops are moved, suitable transportation will be provided; proper orders and exact return of the command will be furnished to the quartermaster who is to provide the same.-A. R., 1080.

On transports, cabin passage will be furnished officers and reasonable and proper accommodations for troops. When practicable, a separate apartment will be provided for the sick.-A. R., 1081.

A person requiring transportation will exhibit an order from competent authority, and the quartermaster who furnishes it will make and file a certified copy of the same. The quartermaster will indorse on the original order, over his signature, the fact that transportation has been provided, its kind, the places from and to which it has been furnished, and the number of pounds of extra baggage transported, if any. The original order will be retained by the person who receives the transportation, and in case of a soldier entitled to commutation of rations while traveling, will be disposed of as directed in paragraph 1275. When a quartermaster furnishes transportation, under the provisions of paragraph 110, to a soldier on furlough, he will report the actual or probable cost thereof to the company commander and will enter on the furlough a statement that the transportation has been furnished. The officer paying the account will notify the company commander of the actual amount paid and the date of payment.-A. R., 1082.

When transportation is furnished for the entire journey, the route, if not designated in the order, will be determined by the Quartermaster's Department, in accordance with existing rules.-A. R., 1083.

134. A quartermaster who provides the transportation for troops will notify, by mail or telegraph, the quartermasters at places where changes of route are to be made or means of transportation are to be changed of the day on which the troops will start, their route, destination, the number of officers, enlisted men, and animals, and the quantity of public property and baggage for which transportation will be required.—A. R., 1084.

TRANSPORTATION REQUESTS.

135. A request for transportation issued by a quartermaster should set forth date and place of issue, time for which it will be valid, name of company required to furnish transportation, name of the person or of the one in charge of the party to be transported, with number thereof, pounds of extra baggage if any, organization to which the person belongs if an officer or enlisted man, the places of original departure and ultimate destination, with the initial letters of each road or line to be used on the journey.-A. R., 1085.

136. In issuing requests for transportation over railroads, quartermasters will stamp or write upon the face of each request covering a continuous journey beyond initial road the following: "Furnish through limited ticket."--Q. M. Manual, par. 32, 1896.

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137. The officer furnishing the request will indorse thereon the authority for its issue, the number, date, and place of issue of the order for transportation, and the nature of the journey or purpose for which it is to be performed, as follows: 'Changing station;""Deserters" (giving name, rank, company, and regiment); "Returning from furlough, proper officer notified;" "On detached service" (the nature of the service to be stated); "Discharged soldiers en route home (or en route to paymaster), indorsed on final statement;" "Insane soldier with escort to insane asylum; ""Guard and prisoners;" "En route to or returning from civil court under orders without summons;" "Clerk (or agent) of the Quartermaster's Department;" and cause for travel, etc.; and if the request is issued by virtue of any contract that fact will be stated and the contract designated.—d. R. 1086.

138. The space on the request reserved for "Remarks" is intended for any extraordinary notice, as, for example, when special rates shall govern, or when limited or unlimited tickets shall issue in cases where two or more classes of tickets are on sale, differing in cost or in time during which they can be used. Where through rates exist notation should be made upon each of a series of separate requests involving continuous travel over two or more roads to the effect that settlement will be made on the basis of the division, among the roads interested, of the through limited rate for the entire journey. All officers charged with the duty of providing transportation will inform themselves upon these points, and will avail themselves of all opportunities of securing acceptable transportation at the lowest prevailing prices. The accommodations afforded by tourist sleeping cars, colonist or emigrant sleepers (a seat by day and a berth by night for each soldier), will be furnished whenever practicable, provided the cost of such accommodations, in addition to the travel fare imposed, does not exceed the cost of through limited first-class tickets between the points involved. As a rule, such accommodations should be procured at the cost of second-class fare with the price of seat or berth, or both, added; and in forwarding detachments even lower rates may be secured. Disbursing quartermasters will report to the Quartermaster-General all cases of neglect or error on the part of officers issuing transportation requests which result in a waste of public money.-A. R., 1087.

139. Requests should be properly receipted by the party named therein, and tickets procured before commencing the journey, as conductors are not authorized to accept transportation requests. If more than one person is to be transported the officer or person in charge of the party, in filling the receipt, will state the number of the persons and pounds of extra baggage carried and the class and description of transportation furnished. In no case will a receipt be given for transportation of more persons or extra baggage than the request calls for.-A. R., 1088.

140. The blank receipt at the bottom of the request will be filled in ink, and if the person receipting can not write his name he will make his mark, which will be witnessed. Names and places will be written in full. If the transportation is furnished by other than passenger train or other than passenger cars the fact will be stated in the receipt.-A. R., 1089.

141. Officers will take advantage of any existing through rates, either for the whole or part of the journey. When transportation is required over several roads by which arrangements have been made for through transportation upon single

tickets a single request, addressed to the initial road, will be issued (except as provided in paragraph 144), upon which tickets should be procured by the officer issuing it or by the party to be transported.—A. R., 1090.

142. If transportation is required over a line of roads one or more of which are land grant and subject to deduction of rates, and a single request is issued therefor, the name of the road, the fact that it is land grant and subject to deduction, also the per centum of deduction, will be stated in the request, and in settlement for the service the deduction on account of land grant will be made.—A. R., 1091.

143. If arrangements have been made for transportation for a part of the distance at less than the regular through rate the rate for that part will be stated in the request.-A. R., 1092.

144. When transportation is required over a land-grant road a separate request may be issued therefor if the road desires it, provided the railroad company agrees that such action does not commit the United States to the payment of local rates for through transportation. Separate requests must be issued in all cases where transportation is required over a bond-aided road.—A. R., 1093.

145. Duplicate requests for transportation will not be issued, nor will a request be issued after the transportation service has been performed.—A. R., 1094.

146. No portion of a request above the signature of the issuing officer will be changed in any particular. If explanations are required they will be made on the back of the request.-A. R., 1095.

147. All unused tickets or parts of tickets procured on a transportation request will be returned to the officer who issued it, and by him forwarded to the officer who pays the account for the service. The value of such ticket or parts of tickets will be deducted from any money due or to become due the company for transportation over whose line they were obtained. On the collection of the value of such unused tickets they will be returned to the company by which they were issued —A. R., 1096. 148. When transportation to any given point and return is required the request for return transportation should be obtained at the destination, provided it can be there procured, except in cases where round-trip tickets can be obtained at reduced rates and made available for the journey; otherwise the quartermaster will issue two sets of requests, one to the place of destination, the other for return transportation.-A. R., 1097.

149. All facts necessary to enable the paying officer to decide as to the regularity or propriety of the proceedings will be stated upon the request. Should it appear to the paying officer that transportation has been improperly furnished by the issuing officer, he will make payment to the carrier for the service actually rendered, and will send to the Quartermaster-General a statement of all the facts, with a certified copy of the request.-A. R., 1098.

150. Officers drawing mileage are authorized to carry with them, at public expense, such quantity of baggage as they may require, not exceeding 150 pounds. This will include the portion carried free by the transportation lines.—4. R., 1099. 151. Officers traveling under orders with transportation furnished them in kind by the Quartermaster's Department, and who desire to retain in their possession a quantity of baggage greater than that passed free for passengers by the carrier, will be furnished with transportation requests, on which will be stated that portion of the 150 pounds of baggage allowed in excess of the quantity which, by the tariff of the respective carriers, is transported free. The officer receiving the request will certify, in the receipt appended thereto, whether transportation for excess of baggage has been furnished, and settlement will be made by the Quartermaster's Department with the respective carriers accordingly.—4. R., 1100.

152. The Quartermaster's Department may provide transportation of baggage for enlisted men traveling under orders without troops, not to exceed the following weights:

Noncommissioned officers...

Privates of the Hospital Corps

Other privates...

Pounds.

100

100

50