GENERAL ORDERS, ADJT. AND INSP. GENERALâS OFFICE, January 14, 1864
No. 6. Richmond, January 14, 1864.
I. Whenever ordnance stores are lost or damaged in any brigade it will be the duty of each brigade or district commander, at the request of his ordnance officer, or of any officer accountable for ordnance stores, to appoint as often as necessary a board of survey, to consist of three officers, to assess the value of or damage to such stores.
II. The decision of this board, with the approval of the brigade or district commander, will be final; and it will be the duty of the brigade or district ordnance officer to notify the company commander to stop the amount on the muster-rolls when privates are found chargeable; and when officers are found chargeable, instead of reporting to the Secretary of War as required by paragraph 921, General Regulations, he will notify the brigade quartermaster or the chief quartermaster of the district to have the amount stopped at the next payment. Duplicate of such notification in the case of officers and privates to be sent to the Chief of Ordnance at Richmond, to be by him transmitted to the Second Auditor of the Treasury.
III. The brigade or district ordnance officer will furnish the brigade inspector or other officer having charge of that duty with a statement of all stoppages made by the board of survey against officers and men, and the inspector will see that these stoppages are actually made.
IV. The same instructions will be adhered to in the artillery, where the officers in charge of the artillery of a corps or of a department will call the board of survey.
V. Ordnance sergeants of regiments will remain habitually with their regiments and keep themselves constantly informed as to the positions of the brigade ordnance train.
VI. The use of the sword-bayonet having been generally disapproved by boards of officers in the field, to whom the question of its usefulness was referred, its manufacture has been ordered to be discontinued. The triangular bayonet will be substituted.
VII. Hospital funds within $5,000, accrued at general hospitals, may be transferred to other general hospitals on the order of the medical (director or the Surgeon-General.
S. COOPER, Adjutant and Inspector General.