Military Laws And Rules And Regulations For The Armies Of The United States.

Adjutant and Inspector General’s Office Washington, May 1st , 1813

PURCHASING DEPARTMENT.

1st. The Commissary General of this Department and his deputies will purchase, upon the orders and estimates of the War Department, all ordnance, ordnance stores, laboratory utensils, artificer's tools, artillery carriages, ammunition wagons, timber, and other materials for making and repairing these; artillery harness, ammunition, small arms, accoutrements, and equipments; clothing, dragoon saddles and bridles; tents, tent poles, camp kettles, mess pans, bed sacks, medicines, surgical instruments, hospital stores, and all other articles required for the public service of the army of the United States, excepting only such as are directed to be purchased by the Quartermaster General's Department.

2d. The articles, so purchased as aforesaid, shall (such as may require it) be carefully packed, and all be delivered over, by the Commissary General, or by his deputies, to an officer of the Quartermaster General's Department, for transportation to the places of their destination and use; and all parcels so packed shall be legibly marked with the name of the place or places whither they are to be sent, and that of the detachment or corps or which they are intended, accompanied by an invoice of the articles contained in the said parcels.

3d. The Commissary General of Purchases, and his deputies, shall severally make and transmit monthly summary statements to the Secretary of War, and quarterly accounts of the purchases and deliveries made by them, respectively, to the Accountant of the War Department, with the necessary vouchers, and agreeably to the forms which shall be prescribed by the Treasury Department.

Returns of Clothing, &c.

To enable the War Department to furnish the orders and estimates as provided by the foregoing regulation, each regimental Quartermaster shall make and transmit, on or before the first day of December in each year, an estimate, countersigned by the commanding officer of the regiment, of all such clothing, arms, accoutrements, equipments, and camp equipage, as may be necessary for the supply of the regiment, for the ensuing year; with a return of the articles on hand, and a report of the condition in which they are.

                                                                                                            JULY 9, 1813.
In the returns for clothing, one column shall represent what is due to the detachment or regiment, one what is actually wanted, and a third, the articles, if any, on hand, and in the custody of some officer of the detachment or regiment.

These returns shall be signed by the regimental Quartermaster, or officer doing that duty, and countersigned by the officer commanding regiments or corps.  

Upon returns thus made, the Commissary of Issues will furnish such articles, and in such proportions, as the state of the public stores will permit.

No return will be made but for the clothing of men actually present.

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