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ment to which the property pertains may deem best suited to the public interest. (A. R., 683.) See par. 804, post.

804. A. R., 683, is construed as permitting the sale of empty barrels, boxes, crates, and other packages, together with metal turnings, scrap metals, ground bone, and other waste products which accumulate at arsenals, depots, and military posts, which are unsuitable for the public service, without the action of an inspector. (Cir. 17, W. D., 1908.)

805. Packages, crates, sacks, etc., in which subsistence stores are furnished to the United States, while in a sense public property, belong in a different class from similar packages in which supplies or stores are packed for transportation and delivery to other branches of the staff.

The packages containing stores and supplies procured by the Subsistence Department are paid for in the contract price for stores, which are issued or sold to officers and enlisted men. As those to whom the stores are issued or sold are entitled to them as articles of the ration, or as supplies which they have purchased for cash, the ownership in the package passes with the title to its contents.

The case of quartermaster's stores and supplies is quite different. Grain is issued, not to officers or enlisted men, but to public animals, or to private horses that are entitled to forage by law or regulations; it is never issued to a person as are rations; and, unless there is an authorized sale, as in the case of forage sold to an officer, no title to either the package or its contents passes from the United States to the owner of the animal or to the officer accountable for him.

It is, therefore, the opinion of this office that the question herein presented (Can grain sacks in which grain for public animals is issued be sold for the benefit of a troop fund?) must be answered in the negative. (Op. J. A. G., Apr. 30, 1908; 12370, I. G. O.)

806. Military stores and public property condemned and ordered sold will be disposed of for cash at auction, or to the highest bidder on sealed proposals, on due public notice, and in such market as the public interests may require. (A. R., 684.)

807. The auctioneer's certified account of the sale of condemned property, and the vouchers for the expenses attending it, will be reported on the proper forms to the chief of bureau to which the property pertained, and a copy of the auctioneer's detailed account of the sale will be furnished the InspectorGeneral of the Army. (A. R., 684.)

808. Public property which has been condemned, or the issue price of which has been reduced as the result of a survey or inspection, will not be purchased by an officer who was responsible therefor at the time of condemnation or reduction of price, nor by an officer who bore any part in such condemnation or reduction. (A. R., 685.)

809. There is no regulation forbidding the bidding by enlisted men, in competition with civilians, at the auction sales of government property. (Scy. War, Dec. 10, 1897; 3165, I. G. O.)

810. Procedure in case defect or shortage is discovered upon receipt of public property, or when property is found damaged or missing while in store, or when packages are opened for the first time. (A. R., 672, 673, 724, 1149.)

811. Property damaged, lost, or destroyed through unavoidable causes and without fault or neglect of responsible officer. (A. R., 687.)

812. Property lost or damaged by the neglect or fault of an officer. (A. R., 689, 1020.)

813. Property lost or damaged by neglect or fault of an enlisted man. (A. R., 689, 690, 703, 1020.)

814. Property carried away by a deserter, or lost through his desertion. (A. R., 691.)

815. Property embezzled, lost, or damaged through neglect by a civilian employee. (A. R., 692.)

816. Property expended, lost, or destroyed in the military service. (A. R., 702.)

817. Animals or other property belonging to the military service of the United States, stolen. (A. R., 693–696.)

818. Lost or damaged in hands of common carrier. (A. R., 724.)

819. Memorandum receipts. (A. R., 276, 661, 1029, 1084, 1097-1100, 1270, 1541; Cir. 50, W. D., 1907; G. O. 62, W. D., 1908, par. IV, secs. 17, 21, 31, 32, 40; E. R.; 401; S. C. M. No. 7, pars. 312, 368.)

820. Loans of public property. (A. R., 676, 681, 1540; E. R., 361.)

821. The commanding officer will see that a complete, detailed, and accurate inventory of quartermaster's supplies, except property held on memorandum receipts, is taken by the accountable officer in person at least once each year, and as much oftener as he may deem necessary for the interests of the Government. (A. R., 1102.)

822. Quarterly verification of fuel, forage, and straw. (Q. M. M., 489.)

823. Quartermasters will take up and account for, on their returns, wall lockers and refrigerators; these articles to be branded with the post number of the building in which they are installed and will not be removed therefrom without the authority of the department commander. (G. O. 81, W. D., 1905.) 824. Musical instruments, accountability for, etc. (A. R., 257, 1188.)

825. Instructions relative to expediting receipts covering transfers of quartermaster's supplies. (Cir. 48, W. D., 1907.) 826. Quartermaster's property which should be taken by troops on change of station. (A. R., 1032.)

827. Except at remote telegraph stations in Alaska, telescope cases will not be left in the possession of enlisted men after arrival at permanent stations. (G. O. 120, W. D., 1908.)

828. In the preparation of regimental and company property for shipment, no explosive substance, oiled or greased cloths, matches, or other material liable to ignite by friction or by spontaneous combustion, will be packed in any chest, case, box, or other receptacle. (Cir. 52, W. D., 1907.)

829. Exchange of old typewriting machines for new ones. (Cir. 1, W. D., 1906.)

830. Cuspidors, with mats, will be supplied in all barracks and other buildings occupied or used by enlisted men. (A. R., 1031.)

831. Care of garden and fire hose. (Cir. 2, A. G. O., 1897.) 832. Quartermaster's supplies required for strictly post or police purposes, or for use by the post or camp guard, will be supplied by the quartermaster on request from the officer of the day, approved by the commanding officer, and will be continued on the returns of the quartermaster. (A. R., 446.) They will be carried on the list of "articles in charge" and verified daily under the direction of the officer of the day. When no longer fit for use they will be submitted by the quartermaster for inspection and, if condemned, disposed of as ordered. (A. R., 447.) The list of "articles in charge" will be kept in convenient form in the guardhouse for ready daily reference; the guard report will not be used for this purpose. (M. G. D., 435, G. O. 66, W. D., 1908.)

833. Standard color for lockers adopted; no other color to be used. (Cir. 21, W. D., 1905.)

834. The commanding officer of a post will require an inventory of subsistence stores on hand to be made by the commissary in person during the last week of each month. If it is not practicable for the commissary to take the inventory within the time mentioned, he will apply to the commanding officer for the detail of an officer to take it. (M. S. D., 40.)

A transport commissary will take monthly and at the end of each voyage an accurate inventory and make a careful inspection of all subsistence stores on his transport. (T. R., 27.)

835. Corn brooms worn out in the service in the Subsistence Department may be dropped from the returns of subsistence property without the action of a board of survey or an inspecting officer. (Cir. 52, A. G. O., 1899.)

836. Prior to departure from their stations, commanding officers of organizations that are ordered to proceed from the United States to the Philippine Islands for duty will turn in to post commissaries all subsistence property not required for use en route to the islands. (G. O. 107, W. D., 1908.)

837. The savings of fat, slush, etc., and all empty vinegar, pickle, beef, butter, and other barrels, boxes, etc. (of the Subsistence Department on transports), which may be salable, will be stored and turned over at the home port to the authorized commissary representative at the dock. (T. R., 27.)

838. Annual examination and verification of medical property. (M. M. D., 391.)

839. Medical instruments to be examined by a commissioned medical officer at least once each month. (M. M. D., 391.)

840. Expendable medical supplies are printed in roman type and nonexpendable in italics in the supply tables given in the Manual for the Medical Department. (M. M. D., 447, 581.)

841. Expendable engineer property. (E. R., 380, G. O. 2, Office of Chief of Engineers, 1908.)

842. When a number of empty zinc powder cases or tin-lined cartridge storage cases, sufficient to justify shipment, have accumulated at a post they will be shipped to the commanding officer of the Picatinny Arsenal, Dover, N. J., and the Chief of Ordnance notified of the shipment. (G. O. 9, A. G. O., 1900.) Owing to the small supply of zinc and hermetically sealed storage cases, these cases when empty should be promptly returned to the place of issue without waiting for the accumulation of a number of them. (G. O. 50, W. D., 1903.)

843. Empty metallic powder barrels of 25 pounds capacity or over to be stored in a dry place and returned to the depot or arsenal from which shipped. (G. O. 9, W. D., 1908.)

844. Empty metallic cases and fired primers, care and disposition of. (Par. VIII, G. O. 9, W. D., 1908.)

845. Cartridge storage cases and protector caps, care and disposition of. (Pars. X, XII, G. O. 9, W. D., 1908; G. O. 36, W. D., 1908.)

846. Empty cartridge cases (small arms), care and disposition of. (Par. 9, G. O. 81, W. D., 1908.)

847. Bandoliers in which ball cartridges, caliber .30, are packed will, in time of peace, be saved and turned in to post ordnance officers, to be shipped by them to the Frankford Arsenal as soon as a sufficient number has been accumulated to warrant their shipment. (G. O. 156, W. D., 1904.) See G. O. 81,

W. D., 1908, p. 6.

848. Badges, medals, and other insignia pertaining to the Ordnance Department issued to officers and enlisted men entitled thereto, how dropped from return of accountable officer. (Cir. 8, W. D., 1908.)

849. Instructions relative to furnishing ordnance stores and supplies to Coast Artillery. (W. D. G. O. 100, 1906; 5, 1907.) To other troops. (W. D. G. O. 62, 1906; 28, 1907.)

850. Instructions relative to requisitions for ordnance stores, surplus stores, etc. (Cir. 87, W. D., 1907.)

851. Classification of, and accountability for, ordnance and ordnance stores. (Cir. 14, 15, W. D., 1908.)

852. Cleaning rod and bayonet no longer considered parts of the magazine rifle, in accounting for these articles. (Cir. 40, W. D., 1905.)

853. Expendable ordnance material. (W. D. Cirs. 48, 1902; 31, 1906, par. 4; 8, 15, 1908, and ordnance price lists.)

854. The Ordnance Department will issue arm racks and arm chests provided with locks and hinges for the safe-keeping of small arms. Separate arm chests provided with locks and hinges for the safe-keeping of rifles and revolvers will be issued to mounted organizations only; for other organizations arm chests for rifles only will be issued for the safe-keeping of both rifles and revolvers. (Cir. 78, W. D., 1907.)

855. Arm chests not required for the storage of supplies will be returned to the nearest arsenal or ordnance depot when the cost of transportation is not greater than the value of the property. Officers to whom such chests have been issued will be charged with their value if they are destroyed. (A. R., 1559.)

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