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2-pound account current advertising amount Baking powder beef cattle beeves Best quality blank form board of survey cerned certificate Chief Commissaries circulars commercial packages Commissaries are authorized Commissaries at posts commissary books commutation of rations contractor Contractor's bond contracts Cooked rations copy cost crates Cubic capacity enlisted estimated exceed exceptional articles fresh vegetables furnished gals gross weight half-bbl inches indorse inspec invoice and receipt Kinds or sizes laid or wove meals missary Molasses month monthly report monthly requisitions necessary needed net weight ordnance sergeants pack Paper paragraph pay roll period person pounds printed proper Purchasing Commissaries purchasing officer purchasing stations quantities ream Receipt roll received request Requisition for stores return of subsistence sacks salt saries Secretary of War sizes of packages stores or property Subsistence Department subsistence property subsistence stores subsistence supplies travel rations wagon WAR DEPARTMENT wastage
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Page 1 - Army, is published for the information and guidance of all concerned ; it will not be modified except by specific authority given In each case.
Page 15 - ... in calculating for long periods, with the intention of rectifying inadvertencies in the monthly requisitions.
Page 24 - Upon the written guaranty of the officer or enlisted man requesting them that they will be accepted and paid for on arrival at the post regardless of their condition, any of the following articles may be called for by chief commissaries, purchased without advertisement, and invoiced to the commissaries at posts, for delivery to those requesting them, when the money value of the articles requested is greater than the cost of transporting them...
Page 13 - ... called for by requisition on the first day of each month, for a period of three months, or it may be for a period of two months, when nearness to the points of supply will permit, viz : Apples, evaporated. Ham, sugar-cured. Racon, breakfast. Hominy, fine aud coarse. Rutter. Lard. Cheese, American. Maccaroui. Cheese, Edam. Oatmeal. Cigars. Peaches, evaporated. Corn meal. Pigs
Page 38 - Contractors' Bond — (Supplies, etc.) when principal is an individual or a partnership and surety is a corporation. 'E" Contractors' Bond — (Supplies, etc.) when principal is a corporation and sureties are individuals.
Page 24 - ... delivery to those requesting them, when the money value of the articles requested is greater than the cost of transporting them to their destination, viz: 1. Articles included in the authorized lists which differ in quality or size, or in size of package, from those that have been furnished the post for sales. 2. Articles of food, properly classifiable as groceries, which are not mentioned in the authorized lists. 3. Articles of cleaning materials, of stationery, ice, and other articles which...
Page 23 - Last rationed to include .-, 189-; left station at , 189-; the rations overdrawn will be deducted from the ration return of Co.
Page 8 - General and only for such posts as are designated by him. If called upon to send articles not so authorized he will inform the Chief Commissary. Purchasing Commissaries pay all proper vouchers referred to them by Chief Commissaries for payment.