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MANUAL FOR THE QUARTERMASTER CORPS, UNITED STATES ARMY, 1916.

ARTICLE I.

ADMINISTRATION.

ORGANIZATION.

1. Under the provisions of an act of Congress approved August 24, 1912 (37 Stat., 591), the office establishments of the Quartermaster General, the Commissary General, and the Paymaster General were consolidated into a single bureau of the War Department to be known as the Quartermaster Corps, and the Quartermaster's, Subsistence, and Pay Departments consolidated into a single corps to be known as the Quartermaster Corps. The officers of said departments are to be known as officers of said corps, and by the titles of the rank held by them therein.

2. The organization of units of the Quartermaster Corps is prescribed in Tables of Organization, United States Army.

These units are autotruck companies, bakery companies, pack companies, and wagon companies.

GENERAL DUTIES.

3. Under the provisions of the Revised Statutes, Statutes at Large, current appropriation acts, and Army Regulations, the following is a brief summary of the duties of the Quartermaster Corps:

(a) Pay of officers and enlisted men of the Army, including Staff Corps and staff departments, Porto Rico Regiment of Infantry, and Philippine Scouts; additional pay for length of service and foreign service; pay of retired officers and retired enlisted men; mileage; commutation of quarters for commissioned officers, dental surgeons, and veterinarians; pay of nurses, hospital matrons, veterinarians of Cavalry and Field Artillery; pay of dental surgeons, acting dental surgeons, contract surgeons, retired pay clerks; expenses of courts-martial, courts of inquiry, military commissions, and compensation of reporters and witnesses attending same; travel allowance to enlisted men on discharge; interest on soldiers' deposits; and other items relating to pay of the Army.

(b) Purchase of subsistence supplies for issue as rations to troops, civil employees, hospital matrons, and others entitled thereto; subsistence of masters, officers, and crews of vessels of Army Transport Service; hot coffee for troops traveling when supplied with cooked or travel rations; meals for recruiting parties and applicants for enlistment while held under observation; authorized issues of soap, candles, toilet paper, matches, vinegar and rock salt for public animals, flour for paste in target practice, huck towels for office use, ice, and housewives; supply of articles for authorized sales; supply of coffee roasters and cooking apparatus in the field; bake ovens and apparatus pertaining thereto; and other items relating to subsistence of the Army.

(c) Other supplies and services; providing means of transportation of every character, either under contract or in kind, which may be needed in the movement of troops and materials of war; transportation of supplies for troops; furnishes all public animals employed in the service of the Army; the forage consumed by same; wagons and all articles for their use; horse equipments for the Quartermaster Corps; clothing; camp and garrison equipage; barracks, storehouses, and other buildings; constructs and repairs roads, walks, wharves, railways, bridges; builds and operates and charters ships, boats, docks, and wharves needed for military purposes; care and protection of regular supplies; furnishes stoves and heating appliances required for heating offices, barracks, etc.; ranges and stoves and appliances for cooking and serving food at posts; repair and maintenance of such heating and cooking appliances; furnishes heat and light for the authorized allowance of quarters for officers and enlisted men, contract surgeons, and contract dental surgeons, recruiting depots, barracks, hospitals, storehouses, offices; fuel and engine supplies in the operation of modern batteries; constructs and repairs post bakeries; installation, maintenance, and operation of ice machines; cold storage; construction, operation, and maintenance of laundries at military posts; furniture, textbooks, paper, and equipment for post schools and libraries; tableware and mess furniture for kitchens and mess halls; stationery, typewriters, and blank books; blank forms and printing; postage, and cost of telegrams on official business; authorized office furniture; hire of clerks, laborers, interpreters, spies, and guides; incidental expenses of recruiting, apprehension and delivery of deserters; blacksmiths' tools and materials; shoeing of horses and mules; constructs, maintains, and operates water and sewer systems; attends to all matters connected with the military service which are not expressly assigned to some other bureau of the War Department.

PERSONNEL.

GENERAL PROVISIONS.

4. No officer, clerk, or other person in the service of the United States shall, directly or indirectly, give or hand over to any other officer, clerk, or person in the service of the United States, or to any Senator or Member of or Delegate to Congress, or Resident Commissioner, any money or other valuable thing on account of or to be applied to the promotion of any political object whatever. (Sec. 121, act of Mar. 4, 1909, Criminal Code-35 Stat., 1110.)

5. No person shall, in any room or building occupied in the discharge of official duties by any officer or employee of the United States mentioned in the preceding section (sec. 118, act of Mar. 4, 1909), or in any navy yard, fort, or arsenal, solicit in any manner whatever or receive any contribution of money or other thing of value for any political purpose whatever. (Sec. 119, act of Mar. 4, 1909, Criminal Code-35 Stat., 1110.)

6. No Senator or Representative in or Delegate or Resident Commissioner to Congress, or Senator, Representative, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner elect, or officer or employee of either House of Congress, and no executive, judicial, military, or naval officer of the United States, and no clerk or employee of any department, branch, or bureau of the executive, judicial, or military or naval service of the United States, shall, directly or indirectly, solicit or receive, or be in any manner concerned in soliciting or receiving, any assessment, subscription, or contribution for any political purpose whatever, from any officer, clerk, or employee of the United States, or any department, branch, or bureau thereof, or from any person receiving any salary or compensation from moneys derived from the Treasury of the United States. (Sec. 118, act of Mar. 4, 1909, Criminal Code-35 Stat., 1110.)

7. No officer or employee of the United States mentioned in section one hundred and eighteen shall discharge, or promote, or degrade, or in any manner change the official rank or compensation of any other officer or employee, or promise or threaten so to do, for giving or withholding or neglecting to make any contribution of money or other valuable thing for any political purpose. (Sec. 120, act of Mar. 4, 1909, Criminal Code-35 Stat., 1110.)

8. Whoever shall violate any provision of the four preceding sections (par. 4, 5, 6, 7, hereof) shall be fined not more than five thousand dollars, or imprisoned not more than three years, or both. (Sec. 122, act of Mar. 4, 1909, Criminal Code-35 Stat., 1110.)

9. Every officer of the United States and every person acting for or on behalf of the United States in any official capacity under or by virtue of the authority of any department or office of the Government thereof who asks, accepts, or receives any money or any contract, promise, undertaking, obligation, gratuity, or security for the payment of money or for the delivery or conveyance of anything of value with the intent to have his decision or action on any question, matter, cause, or proceeding which may at any time be pending, or which may be by law brought before him in his official capacity or in his place of trust or profit, influenced thereby, shall be punished by a fine of not more than three times the amount asked, accepted, or received and by imprisonment not more than three years; and if he hold any place of profit or trust shall forfeit his office or place and shall thereafter be forever disqualified from holding any office of honor, trust, or profit under the United States. (R. S., 5500, 5501, and 5502.)

10. Every officer, clerk, agent, or employee of the United States, and every person representing himself to be or assuming to act as such officer, clerk, agent, or employee, who, under color of his office, clerkship, agency, or employment, or under color of his pretended or assumed office, clerkship, agency, or employment, is guilty of extortion, and every person who shall attempt any act which if performed would make him guilty of extortion, shall be fined not more than five hundred dollars, or imprisoned not more than one year, or both. (Sec. 85, act of Mar. 4, 1909; 35 Stat., 1104.)

11. Whoever shall embezzle, steal, or purloin any money, property, record, voucher, or valuable thing whatever, of the moneys, goods, chattels, records, or property of the United States, shall be fined not more than five thousand dollars, or imprisoned not more than five years, or both. (Sec. 47, act of Mar. 4, 1909; 35 Stat., 1105.)

12. In view of the fact that the practice by dealers of selling articles of merchandise to erlisted men on credit burdens the War Department with unnecessary correspondence in the cases of nonpayment of the indebtedness, and that such transactions, which are rapidly increasing in number, often involve enlisted men in debts which they can not pay, and frequently lead up to desertion, the following statement of the policy of the department with respect to this matter is published for the information and guidance of all concerned:

The department will no longer concern itself with the business of persons, firms, or corporations selling merchandise to enlisted men on credit, and all communications with respect to such sales, and all arrangements looking to the establishment of such business relations, must be had with the commanding officers of the organizations to which the enlisted men belong. The War Department will decline to assist, by answering inquiries or otherwise, in securing the payment of obligations of this character that are incurred without the previous knowledge and consent of the commanding officers of the organizations to which the debtors belong. (Cir. 47, W. D., 1909.)

13. Warning against political activity and political assessments or contributions by Federal officers and employees is required to be posted by the officers in charge in prominent places in all bureaus and offices in and under the War Department, and at all arsenals, depots, and stations in the service at large where civilians are employed. (Cir. 65, W. D., 1910; see Appendix No. 11.)

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