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Transportation Accounts, as agreed upon at the Offices of the
Quarter Master General, the Comptroller, and the Second Auditor. |
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1. The presumption, as a general rule, is in favor of
the voucher.
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2. All persons entitled to transportation under the
Quarter Master General's published rules, and really transported,
should be paid for, whether the voucher presented consists of a
Quarter Master's order, the order of some other officer, or the
certificate of the person transported.
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3. Such orders or certificates as express, or fairly
admit of the inference that the service is to a soldier on sick
furlough, under orders, or on public business, are to be deemed
good.
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4. An informal order, or certificate of
transportation, whether informal in the body or as to the
signature, if it show the right to pass, and that the person has
passed, is sufficient.
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5. An order for, or certificate of the passage of
troops, carries with it all necessary baggage, horses, &c.,
whether expressed or not.
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6. Nurses and laundresses to be passed, when it is
expressed, or can be reasonably supposed that they are such.
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7. Negro laborers on military works, messengers and
negroes in charge of public property, such as horses, wagons,
&c., and as attendants of sick officers or soldiers, or the
corpses of such, are entitled to pass, under orders of authorized
officers, or other satisfactory evidence of transportation.
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8. Any paper, however informal, and whether an order
for or a certificate of transportation, that satisfactorily
evidences the transportation of persons or of freight, entitled to
pass under the Quarter Master General's published rules, to be
regarded as a good voucher.
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9. Where the service rendered is manifestly for the
Confederate States, even though the voucher express that it is for
a State, or to be charged to a State, such service should
be paid for by the Confederate States.
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10. When imperfect vouchers can be perfected by
affidavit, such affidavit to be made and filed with the account.
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11. An account which is unsupported by vouchers, or
the vouchers for which have been lost, or otherwise destroyed, may
be made good by an affidavit to the facts, and to the rendition of
the service charged for.
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12. The receipts of Government officers for freight,
and the receipts of the agents of connecting roads, shall be
sufficient vouchers.
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13. All persons authorized to ask transportation of a
Quarter Master, either for themselves, or for freights, may give
certificates of service when such orders cannot be procured
without injurious delay -- and such certificates shall be good
vouchers.
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14. The original order on which coupons are issued
should accompany the first coupon.
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15. The presentation of an order for transportation
by a rail road company is prima facie evidence of the
service; but the endorsement of the person passing completes and
perfects the voucher.
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16. Inasmuch as in the beginning of the war there
were but few rules and no settled system as to transportation, a
liberal discretion should be exercised in regard to vouchers for
such transportation. Restrictive rules adopted now or hereafter,
should not be applied to such settlements.
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I approve of the above Rules and Regulations.
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Respectfully, &c.
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Lewis Cruger
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Comptroller
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A copy of the original paper as approved and signed by the
comptroller.
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Larkin Smith, Lt. Col. and A. Q. M. Gen'l
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{Unfortunately, there is no date on this
document. I would guess that it is early 1862.}
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