Brigadier-General Preston to C. B. Duffield, September 16, 1864

WaR DEPARTMENT, BUREAU OF CONSCRIPTION, No. 32. Richmond, Va., September 16, 1864.

The following rules are adopted for the payment of the extra compensation to detailed non-commissioned officers and privates of the Army and of conscripts in the service of this Bureau at all points out of Richmond:

J. All such detailed men will receive their regular pay, rations, and other allowances as if actually on field duty.

II. In addition to their pay, &c., each detailed man shall receive $1 per day as extra-duty pay proper, to be paid for each day of such extra-duty labor.

industry on the part of any detailed man, there shall be paid for each day on which service is actually rendered as follows: For first-class clerks, $2 per day; for second-class clerks, $1 per day. Provided, that when any detailed clerk receives his allowances in kind (as at hospitals), he shall be paid only 25 cents per day and no more, either as extra-duty pay proper or otherwise.

IV. In case of a detailed man being employed as a mechanic, he shall be paid such extra compensation for extraordinary skill, labor, and industry as may be allowed to detailed men similarly employed in the quartermaster’s department at the same place, or the nearest post thereto, and which may be fixed under General Orders, No. 66, Adjutant and Inspector General’s Office, current series.

V. Commutation to detailed men or conscripts before assignment will be allowed at the rate of $20 per month in lieu of all allowances for fuel, quarters, and straw.

VI. These rates are to take effect from and after the Ist day of August, 1864.

By order of Brigadier-General Preston, superintendent: