CvvcaxNavy   jiietoev,
      The  following  Order  from,  the  Wuv  pcpartnienr  is  respectfully  furnished  for  your
information  and guidance,
D.Y OUDEJt OF THE ACTING STJB,GE;0,N. GENERAL,:
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               Snrejron.  I'. S. Annif.
                                                             WAR   DEPARTMENT,
f-enoral  Orders, t                                                   Adjutant General's Office,
      No. L:J7'.      I                                                             Man/iing-ton, .natch IU, 1*40*^

    I.  Medical Directors of Departments will establish a General  Hospital,  at some convenient point within their n-r-pecin >■
Departments, for the reception and treatment of sick and wounded officers, but no expenditures for the construction of new hospitals
for this purpose will be incurred without special authority.  They will detail a Snrgeon-in-Charge. who will make requisitions upon
the Medical Purveyor for medicines, hospital stores, furniture, &c, according to the standard Supply Table of the .Medical Department,
and will hii-e the nurses, cooks, and laundresses required.  Hospital Stewards assigned to Officers; General Hospitals will be paid on
the regular muster and pay rolls.

    II.  On the recommendation of  the Medical Director of the Department, a  commissioned medical officer will be detailed to act
permanently as Treasurer for each Officers' General Hospital, who shall not be removed without sufficient cause.   The Treasurer shall
have the custody of the funds of the  Hospital, and shall perform such duties ill relation to collecting, disbursing, and accounting ft>r
the same, and such other  duties as may be prescribed by the Surgeon, <j;ii ral.

    III.  On the last day of each calendar month, and immediately on leaving the Hospital, by return to duty, furlough or otherwise.
each officer shall pay to the Treasurer the sum of one dollar for each and every day he has been in the Hospital, and for which he has
not already paid as herein provided.   When an officer has employed a special attendant,, he shall pay thirty cents a day additional for
each day such attendant was subsisted in the Hospital.   Company officars of volunteers, while  in such  Officers's General Hospital,
shall be considered as  "on detached service without troops.*' for the purpose of drawing their  pay and settling their indebtedness t «
the Hospital, and may bo paid on separate pay accounts,  instead of on the muster and pay rolls.

    IV.   When an officer is  not provided  with money, and  is  unable  to obtain it, he will  give a  certificate of indebtedness, in
triplicate,  to the Treasurer of the Hospital,  in such form as shall be  prescribed  by the  Surgeon General,* for the amount due from
him to the Hospital.  The Treasurer shall immediately forward,  for  stoppage, two copies of  the certificate to the Chief Paymaster
of the Pay District in which the Hospital may he located, retaining the  remaining copy for his own reference and security. " "When
an officer  is discharged from the Hospital to return to a regiment  serving beyond the limits of the Pay District in which such Hospital
is located, the Treasurer shall forward the certificates of  indebtedness which the officer may have given to the proper Chief Pavmaster,
if known to him; otherwise, to  the Paymaster General,  for such  reference.

    V. The Chief Paymaster of the Pay District will immediately  cause the certificates of indebtedness to be placed in the hands
of the Paymaster of the Hospital, (or of the regiment, should the  officer have left the  Hospital,) with instructions t* stap the amounts
on the first payment of th© officers by whom the certificates were  given.   The Paymaster will take the receipt of each officer for the
full amount of his pay account, and transmit the deducted sums  to  the  Treasurer of the Hospital to which they arc due, who  will
endorse receipt therefor upon the duplicate certificates in the Paymaster's hands,  or furnish duplicate  abstracts of receipts signed bv
him, and embracing in one receipt the names of all the officers on whose accounts the sums have been remitted.   The Pavmaster will
al-o forward monthly an  abstract of certificates thus paid to the Surgeon  General.

    VI.   Officers of the  Subsistence Department will make separate abstracts of the sales to each Officers' General Hospital during
each calendar month, and will report the same to the  Commissary General of Subsistence in the manner provided by regulations in
relation to sales  to officers.  Payment for stores thus purchased of  the  Subsistence Department  shall be made bv the Treasurer
monthly, and in cash, when practicable; but when the Treasurer has not money on hand sufficient to liquidate the entire" indebted nets of
the Hospital to the Subsistence Department, he shall give to the Commissary accountable for the stores sold a certificate of indebtedness.
in duplicate, for  the amount remaining unpaid, which certificate shall  be a valid; claim  against  the Hospital, and be paid from the
first moneys received thereafter by the Treasurer, and until paid shall he considered  as  a sufficient cash voucher to iho Commi.->an
for the amount stated therein.  When the Treasurer pays this certificate of indebtedness, he shall take the receipt of the Commb-arV
for the amount thus paid  him. and shall report his action in this matter to  the Commis-ary (>>-in-nil of Suh-is),.),,-,^ vtntiipir the d
and amount  of each, eerlillortte thu- canceled, the name <>f the <;,.nuni—a,ry r. reiving  the lryney tie-ret'>r. tV.o>
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    VII.   Me tical  Directors of Armie- in the field, when nec-e-sary, will establish  temporary Hospitals in th# rear of such armies,'
to be governed by the above regulations.   Medical Directors of Armies and of Departments and Medical Iir-peet.irs v, ill frequently
inspect Officers' ("cneral Hospitals, and in addition to the usual course of hospital inspection, they will  investigate the mannar i:.
which the Treasurer performs his duties,  and promptly report any neglect on his part to the Surgeon General.

    VIII.   No officer whose certificate of indebtedness  to a Hospital remains unpaid by him shall receive pay without deducting
therefrom the amount of this indebtedness and leaving it in the hands of the  Paymaster, who  shall give  him duplicate receipts
therefor, one of which the officer shall immediately forward to the  Treasurer of the Hospital for which the stoppage is made.  -\
violation of this paragraph will subject the officer so offending to court martial for disobedience of orders.

    IX.   When an officer dies in Hospital, the Treasurer shall immediately ascertain the amount of his indebtedness to the Hospital.
and prepare an account thereof in triplicate,  which shall  be certified to be correct by both the Treasurer and the Surgeon-in-Charge,
One copy of this account shall be retained by the Treasurer, and thr> remaining two copies  be forwarded  to the Second Auditor of
the Treasury, in order that, upon the final settlement of  tha officer's aoeounts, the amount of his indebtedness maybe deducted from
tmy pay due him, and remitted to the Treasurer of the Hospital.
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             Assistant Ai/'/iitant  d'eiirriil.
FORM   OI'  A   TniPLIOATK   UKOluiPT.


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I hereby Certify that there is  due from nu- to the ........................... .Hospital^


    Fta' .....................  days' hoard from..........,........... to ...................... inclusive.

    For .....................  days' sithsisfrwe of servant.............
( TRIPLICATE.)
    /  CERTIFY that  the  s»m  of.,..................................stated above is the total amount dur this  l/o*pit>d

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