[Cover/wrapper page. Administrative endorsement notation at lower right:] [Mr [undecipherable] qualifications / the [undecipherable] to / the [undecipherable] department — / ([undecipherable]) 1793] [circular stamp] [201] Regulations for the receiving distributing and accounting for all Public property designed for the Army of the United States All Public Stores destined for the Army of the United States on the Ohio Shall in the first instance be addressed by the Commissary of Military Stores or Store keeper in Philadelphia to the Quarter Master General or his deputy at Pittsburg who Shall transport them to the departments to which they belong or to the Garrisons or detachments for which they are designed, and take duplicate receipts for the Same one of which Shall be transmitted to the Commissary of Military Stores in Philadelphia. The packages or articles Shall be marked or indicated for the departments to which they belong — The Stores which Shall be So forwarded Shall be charged to the respective departments The Ordnance department. — Comprehends Ordnance and Arms and ordnance and Military Stores of all Sorts belonging to the arming and accoutring of a Soldier, and all armourers and artillery artificers. — The Quarter Masters department — Comprehends all things relative to the transportation of the troops and Stores, barracs & Utensils and Quarter masters artificers camp equipage Cavalry horses and equipments. Forage & Such other duties as Shall be directed by the Commanding Officer. The Hospital department — Comprehends medicines instruments, hospital Stores and furniture and all things relative to the Sick or wounded of the Army. — The Clothing department — comprehends the Clothing for the troops — The two Legionary Paymasters to be the agents by which the Clothing Shall be received distributed and accounted for — The Indian department; Comprehends all Articles provided by the United States for the use of Said department. — The Quarter Master General or his deputies will receive and distribute every thing in his own department and be accountable for the Same, He will also receive all Indian goods and issue them to the orders of the superintendant or his deputy or the commanding General as the case may be — keeping accurate accounts of all receipts and deliveries. — The Conductor of Military Stores at Head Quarters will receive all articles in the ordnance department designed for the main body of the troops — But articles designed for any detachment or Garrison on the upper parts of the Ohio will be transported from Pittsburg directly for Such detachments — or Garrison and receipted for the Commanding Officer thereof — The Conductor of Military Stores Shall Issue Ordnance Arms Ammunition and Stores upon the orders of the Commanding Officer of Artillery and the armourers and artillery artificers Shall be under the direction of the Commanding Officer of Artillery — The Medicines Instruments and all things belonging to the Hospital department to be receipted for by an hospital Store keeper to be appointed — and his pay fixed by the Commanding General — The Quarter Master General and his deputies, the Conductor of Military Stores, and the hospital Storekeeper Shall open an account with each Sub Legion, battalion Company troop detachment and Garrison to whom they Shall be ordered to deliver Stores, always taking triplicate receipts for the articles delivered — The Commanding Officers of Companies troops and detachments Shall account in the Inspection Returns for all Public property delivered to the Troops under their orders. And the Sub Legionary and Battalion Quarter Masters where there are no Staff Officers & Commanding Officers of Separate Garrisons Shall account Monthly for all Public property in their possession. — The Surgeons and Surgeons Mates to whom medicines instruments or hospital Stores Shall have been delivered Shall account Monthly for the Same to the Chief Surgeon of the Army. It is always to be understood that the orders of the Commanding General are to pervade every department excepting the Indian department when the Governor of the Western territory or his deputy Shall be present: but for the sake of regularity. it would be proper that his orders in all practicable cases be addressed to the heads of the departments. — And whereas the public Service may from time to time require separate posts and Garrisons which may not be Such magnitude as to justify the appointment of Subordinate branches of the Several Staff departments, in all Such cases the Commanders of the Said garrisons are to make returns and issue orders on the Several departments for Such articles as Shall be allowed by the public and the Said Commanders Shall be responsible as well for the propriety of their returns and orders as for rendering a just account monthly to the Commanding General of all Stores received delivered and on hand, and an Estimate of articles required for public Service — The QuarterMaster General the Commanding Officer of Artillery and The Senior Surgeon Shall on the first day of January, the first day of April, the first day of July and the first day of October or Oftner if thereunto required, make out exact duplicate returns and deliver them to the Commanding General of all Articles in their respective departments received, delivered and on hand, Since the last return, noting the Serviceable from the unserviceable articles and also Estimates of the Articles wanted for Public Service One of these returns to be transmitted by the Commanding General to the War Office [undecipherable] [undecipherable] August 1793. 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