The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union And Confederate Armies. Series 3, Volume 2. Page: 926
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CORRESPONDENCE, ETC.
988. The regimental recruiting officer will, with the approbation of
the commanding officer of the station, enlist all suitable men. He
will be governed, in rendering his accounts and returns, by the rules
prescribed for the general service, and when leaving a post will turn
over the funds in his hands to the senior company officer of his regi-
ment present, unless some other be appointed to receive them.
(Extracts from General Regulations of the Army.)
ARTICLE XLI.
PUBLIC PROPERTY, MONEY, ACCOUNTS, AND CONTRACTS.
992. The Treasury Department having provided, by arrangement
with the assistant treasurers at various points, secure depositories
for funds in the hands of disbursing officers, all disbursing officers
are required to avail themselves, as far as possible, of this arrange-
ment by depositing with the assistant treasurers such funds as are
not wanted for immediate use and drawing the same in convenient
sums as wanted.
993. No public funds shall be exchanged except for gold or silver.a
When the funds furnished are gold and silver, all payments shall be
in gold and silver. When the funds furnished are drafts, they shall
be presented at the place of payment, and paid according to law; and
payments shall be made in the funds so received for the drafts,
unless said funds or said drafts can be exchanged for gold and silver
at par. If any disbursing officer shall violate any of these provisions
he shall be suspended by the Secretary of War and reported to the
President, and promptly removed from office or restored to his trust
and duties, as to the President may seem just and proper. (Act
August 6, 1846.)
994. No disbursing officer shall accept or receive, or transmit to the
Treasury to be allowed in his favor, any receipt or voucher from a
creditor of the United States without having paid to such creditor, in
such funds as he received for disbursement, or such other funds as
he is authorized by the preceding article to take in exchange, the full
amount specified in such receipt or voucher; and every such act shall
be deemed to be a conversion to his own use of the amount specified
in such receipt or voucher. And no officer in the military service
charged with the safe-keeping, transfer, or disbursement of public
money shall convert to his own use, or invest in any kind of mer-
chandise or property, or loan with or without interest, or deposit in
any bank, or exchange for other funds, except as allowed in the pre-
ceding article, any public money intrusted to him; and every such
act shall be deemed to be a felony and an embezzlement of so much
money as may be so taken, converted, invested, used, loaned, deposi-
ted, or exchanged. (Act August 6, 1846.)
995. Any officer who shall directly or indirectly sell or dispose of,
for a premium, any Treasury note, draft, warrant, or other public
security in his hands for disbursement, or sell or dispose of the pro-
ceeds or avails thereof without making returns of such premium and
accounting therefor by charging it in his accounts to the credit of the
United States, will forthwith be dismissed by the President. (Act
August 6, 1846.)
aNoTE.-United States Treasury notes are also to be used by disbursing officers, according to acts
approved February 25 and July 11, 1862.926
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United States. War Department. The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union And Confederate Armies. Series 3, Volume 2., book, 1899; Washington D.C.. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth139264/m1/935/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.