The following order from the War Department is respectfully furnished for your information and guidance

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The following Order from tlie \\ ur jArp.u'uueni is respectfully furnished for your
information and, guidance,

E.Y OJtPE# OF THE ACTING SURGEON GENERAL,:

O. If . CHAN E,

Surgeon. J . S. Army.

WAR DEPARTMENT,
d cjw-f.-i i Orctcrs, F Adjutant General's Office,

No. 1 -"'. • Washington, March 20, 186#,

I. Medical Directors of Departments will establish a General Hospital, at sonic convenient point within their respccirv<><
Departments, for the reception and treatment of sick and wounded officers, but no expenditures for the construction of new hospitals
for this purpose will be incurred without special authority. They will detail a Surgeon-in-Charge, who will make requisitions upon
the Medical Purveyor for medicines, hospital stores, furniture, &c, according to the standard Supply Table of the -Medical Department,
and will hire the nurses, cooks, and laundresses required. Hospital Stewards assigned to Officers; General Hospitals will be paid on
the regular muster and pay rolls.

II. On the recommendation of the Medical Director of the Department, a commissioned medical officer will be detailed to act
permanently as Treasurer for each Officers-' General Hospital, who shall not be removed without sufficient cause. The Treasurer shall
have the custody of the funds of the Hospital, and shall perform such duties in relation to collecting, disbursing, and accounting for
the same, and such other duties as may be prescribed by the Surgeon General.

III. On the last day of each calendar month, and immediately on leaving the Hospital, by return fco duty, furlough or otherwise,
each officer -hall pay to the Treasurer the sum of one dollar for each and every day he has been in the Hospital, and for which he has
not already paid as herein provided. When an officer has employed a special attendant, he .-.hall pay thirty cents a day additional for
each day such attendant was subsisted in"the Hospital. Company officers of volunteers, while in such Officers's General Hospital.
shall be considered as "on detached service without troops." for the purpose of drawing their pay and settling their indebtedness t >
the Hospital, and may be paid on separate pay accounts, instead of on the muster and pay rolls.

IV. When an officer is not provided with money, and is unable to obtain it. be will give a certificate of indebtedness, in
triplicate, to the Treasurer of the Hospital, in such form as shall be prescribed by the Surgeon General.* for the amount due from
him to the Hospital. The Treasurer shall immediately forward, for stoppage, two copies of the certificate Xo the Chief Paymaster
of the Pay District in which the Hospital may be located, retaining the remaining copy for his own reference and security. ' When
an officer is discharged from the Hospital to return to a regiment serving beyond the limits of the Pay District in which such Hospital
is located, the Treasurer shall forward the certificates of indebtedness which the officer may have given to the proper Chief Paymaster,
if known to him; otherwise, to the Paymaster General, for such reference.

V. The Chief Paj master of the Pay District will immediately cause the certificates of indebtedness to be placed in the hands
of the Paymaster of the Hospital, (or of the regiment, should the officer have left the Hospital.! with instructions t* stop the amount-.
on the first payment of the officers by whom the certificates were given. The Paymaster will take the receipt of each officer for the
full amount of his pay account, and transmit the deducted sums to the Treasurer of the Hospital to which they arc due, who will
endorse receipt therefor upon the duplicate certificates in the Paymaster's bands, or furnish duplicate abstracts of receipts signed by
him, and embracing in one receipt the names of all the officers on whose accounts the sums have been remitted. The Paymaster will
also forward monthly an abstract of certificates thus paid to the Surgeon General.

V I. Officers of the Subsistence Department will make separate abstracts of the sales to each Officers' General Hospital during
each calendar month, and will re-port the same to the Commissary General of Subsistence in the manner provided by regulations in
relation to sales to officers. Payment for stores thus purchased of the Subsistence Department shall be made by the Treasurer
monthly, and in cash, when practicable; but when the Treasurer has not money on hand sufficient to liquidate the entirer indebtedness of
the Hospital f>> the Subsistence Department, he shall give to the Commissary accountable for the stores sold a certificate of indebtedness,
in duplicate, for the amount remaining unpaid, which certificate shall be a valid claim against the Hospital, and be paid from the!
first money- received thereafter by the Treasurer, and until pa,id shall be considered as » sufficient cash voucher to Lhc Commissar
for the amount stated therein. When the Treasurer pay.- this certificate of indebtedness be shall take the receipt of the Conimi
for the amount thus paid him, and shall report hi1- action in this matter to rhe Commissary General of Subsistence, slatipg tin
and amount of each cerlilica.te thu« canceled, the name of the ( (he iiyney th<Tefor. Ac.

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VII. Medical Directors of Armies in the field, when nectary, will establish temporary Hospitals in th£ mar of such armies,
jo be governed by the above regulations. Medical Directors of Armies and of Departments ami Medical Inspectors will frequently
inspect Officers' General Hospitals, and in addition to the usual course of hospital inspection, they will investigate the manner in
which the Treasurer performs his duties, and promptly report any neglect on his part to the Surgeon General.

VIII. No officer whose certificate of indebtedness to a Hospital remains unpaid by him shall receive pay without deducting
therefrom the amount of this indebtedness and leaving it in the hands of the Paymaster, who shall give him duplicate receipts
therefor, one of which the officer shall immediately forward to the Treasurer of the Hospital for which the stoppage is made. A
violation of this paragraph will subject the officer so offending to court martial for disobedience of orders.

IX. When an officer dies in Hospital, the Treasurer shall immediately ascertain the amount of his indebtedness to the Hospital.
and prepare an account thereof in triplicate, which shall ha certified to be correct by both the Treasurer and the Surgeon-in-Charge ,
One copy of this account shall be retained by the Treasurer, and the remaining two copies be forwarded to the Second Auditor 6f
the Treasury, in order that, upon the final settlement of the officer'-: accounts, the amount of his indebtedness may be deducted from
tmv pay due him, and remitted to the Treasurer of the Hospital.

}">? Oilier of th<v Seopetary ni' Wa

K. D. TOWNSEND,

Assistant Adjutant G'enrnil,

FORM or A TRIP LIC ' AT K R1XEIPT.

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(Officers' gugjutal,

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I hereby Certify that there is dut from me to the Tfospital,

For days" hoard from ., to inclusive, ----.$.

/■'"/■ days1 subsistcnci of servant, S.

' TRIPLICATE.*

/ CERTIFY that the sum of stated above h the total amount due tfm Hospital

from remaining to be accmintcd for.

Officer?' Hospital, Ttxamrcn Hospital.