E. Kirby Smith to Ss. S. Anderson, July 4, 1863
No. 24. i Shreveport, La., July 4, 1863. I. In obedience to General Orders, No. 70, Paragraph II, Section 1, Adjutant and Inspector General’s Office, Richmond, Va. (current Series), regimental commissaries within the Department-of Trans-Mississippi will, without delay, transfer all money, effects, and property in their possession, appertaining to the subsistence department, to the regimental quartermaster of their respective regiments, who will hereafter
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discharge the duties of the former, in accordance with the provisions of the act of Congress entitled “An act to abolish supernumerary officers in the Commissary and Quartermaster’s Departments,” approved May 1, 1863. Until such transfer is perfected, regimental commissaries will continue in the performance of their usual duties.
Commanders of regiments will be held responsible for the prompt execution of this order, and will report to department headquarters, through the proper channel, the date on which the commissary is relieved, his name, and the name of the quartermaster by whom he is relieved.
By command of Lieut. Gen. E. Kirby Smith:
Assistant Adjutant-General.
Port Hupson, La.,
July 5, 1863.
Assistant Adjutant-General:
Magsor: The following-named commands have applied to me for the
respectively named amounts of either mule or horse meat, to wit: