WAR DEPARTMENT, ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE, Washington, April 8, 1867. [CIRCULAR.] The attention of officers disbursing moneys pertaining to the fund for recruiting the Regular Army, and on account of the contingent fund of the. Adjutant General's Department, is directed to General Orders No. 23, March 19, 1867, from this office, publishing resolution of Congress, entitled "A resolution to facilitate the settlement of accounts of disbursing officers.' The accounts, &c., which have heretofore been rendered to the Second Auditor of the Treasury will hereafter be forwarded direct to the Adjutant General of the Army, and those relating to the disbursement of quartermasters' or subsistence funds, which have been rendered to the Third Auditor of the Treasury, will be forwarded direct to the Quartermaster General or Commissary General of Subsistence, as the case may be. All accounts, returns, &c., which have been forwarded direct to the Adjutant General, Quartermaster General or Commissary General of Subsistence will be continued in the same manner as heretofore. The accounts, returns, &c., required of officers disbursing moneys on account of the contingent fund of the Adjutant General's Department, are: a duly certified monthly statement of such moneys on hand from last returns; receipts within the month; balances unexpended and where deposited, within ten days after the expiration of each successive month; also accounts, quarterly, with the vouchers necessary to a correct settlement thereof, within at least one month after the expiration of each successive quarter. Accounts and vouchers will be rendered forthwith, whenever officers cease to disburse, from change of duty or otherwise. Accounts, &c., to be rendered for the period up to April 1, 1867, will be rendered as heretofore, and thereafter, in accordance with these instructions. BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF WAR: E. D. TOWNSEND, OFFICIAL: Assistant Adjutant General. Assistant Adjutant General. GENERAL ORDERS, WAR DEPARTMENT, ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE, No. 1. Washington, January 5, 1867. The office of the Assistant Judge Advocate General, established at Louisville, Ky., by General Orders, No. 230, of July 16, 1864, is hereby discontinued. Brevet Brigadier General William M. Dunn, Assistant Judge Advocate General, is assigned to duty in the city of Washington. The records heretofore sent to Louisville, under General Orders, No. 230, aforesaid, will be hereafter transmitted direct to the Judge Advocate General at Washington. BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF WAR: E. D. TOWNSEND, Assistant Adjutant General. OFFICIAL: Assistant Adjutant General. GENERAL ORDERS, WAR DEPARTMENT, ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE, No. 2. Washington, January 7, 1867. The post of Jeffersonville, in the State of Indiana, is hereby annexed to the Department of the Tennessee. BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF WAR: E. D. TOWNSEND, Assistant Adjutant General. OFFICIAL: Assistant Adjutant General. |