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UNION AUTHORITIES.
996. If any disbursing officer shall bet at cards or any game of haz-
ard, his commanding officer shall suspend his functions and require
him to turn over all the public funds in his keeping, and shall imme-
diately report the case to the proper bureau of the War Department.
997. All officers are forbid to give or take any receipt in blank for
public money or property; but in all cases the voucher shall be made
out in full, and the true date, place, and exact amount of money, in
words, shall be written out in the receipt before it is signed.
1000. No officer disbursing or directing the disbursement of money
for the military service shall be concerned, directly or indirectly, in
the purchase or sale, for commercial purposes, of any article intended
for, making a part of, or appertaining to, the department of the public
service in which he is engaged, nor shall take, receive, or apply to his
own use any gain or emolument, under the guise of presents or other-
wise, for negotiating or transacting any public business, other than
what is or may be allowed by law.
1002. No officer or agent in the military service shall purchase from
any other person in the military service, or make any contract with
any such person to furnish supplies or services, or make any purchase
or contract in which such person shall be admitted to any share or
part, or to any benefit to arise therefrom.
1003. No person in the military service whose salary, pay, or emol-
uments is or are fixed by law or regulations, shall receive any addi-
tional pay, extra allowance, or compensation in any form whatever,
for the disbursement of public money, or any other service or duty
whatsoever, unless the same shall be authorized by law and explicitly
set out in the appropriation.
1004. All accounts of expenditures shall set out a sufficient explana-
tion of the object, necessity, and propriety of the expenditure.
1005. The facts on which an account depends must be stated and
vouched by the certificate of an officer or other sufficient evidence.
1006. If any account paid on the certificate of an officer to the facts
is afterward disallowed for error of fact in the certificate, it shall
pass to the credit of the disbursing officer and be charged to the
officer who gave the certificate.
1007. An officer shall have credit for an expenditure of money or
property made in obedience to the order of his commanding officer.
If the expenditure is disallowed it shall be charged to the officer who
ordered it.
1009. When a disbursing officer is relieved he shall certify the out-
standing debts to his successor, and transmit an account of the same
to the head of the bureau, and turn over his public money and prop-
erty appertaining to the service from which he is relieved to his
successor, unless otherwise ordered.
1014. No officer has authority to insure public property or money.
1015. Disbursing officers are not authorized to settle with heirs,
executors, or administrators, except by instructions from the proper
bureau of the War Department upon accounts duly audited and
certified by the proper accounting officers of the Treasury.
1017. No public property shall be used, nor labor hired for the
public be employed, for any private use whatsoever not authorized
by the regulations of the service.
1027. If any,article of public property be lost or damaged by neglect
or fault of any officer or soldier, he shall pay the value of such arti-
cle, or amount of damage, or cost of repairs, at such rates as a board
of survey, with the approval of the commanding officer, may assess,927
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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/m1/936/?rotate=90: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.