Unknown, May 7, 1862

No. 8. Opposite Fredericksbury, May 7, 1862. The following is announced as the only recognized method of taking supplies of al descriptions, such as forage, provisions, animals, tools, &c., from citizens. The authority of the division commander, or brigade commander of troops not belonging to division, must first be obtained ; nothing will be taken without this authority. Receipts for the property taken must be made out in duplicate, beet to prescribed sform, and signed; one copy to be given to the person from whom the articles are ‘taken, and one to be forwarded at the end of the month, with an abstract of all receipts given during the month, to the chief of the staff department for which the supplies are taken, at these headquarters. The only persons authorized to sign the above receipts are the division and brigade quartermastera and commissaries and ersons specially authorized to do so from these headquarters. Blank forms will be ished on application to the ch ee ane emuearee of this department. of Major-General McDowell:

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