Ordnance Property Regulations

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Page 7 - That said rifles and carbines and other property shall be receipted for and shall remain the property of the United States and be annually accounted for by the governors of the States and Territories as now required by law, and that each State, Territory, and District shall, on receipt of the new arms, turn in to the Ordnance Department of the United States...
Page 9 - The Secretary of War is authorized to issue, at his discretion and under proper regulations to be prescribed by him, out of ordnance and ordnance stores belonging to the government, and which can be spared for that purpose, such number of the same as may appear to be...
Page 12 - Department for the purpose of administering the oaths required by law in the settlement of officers' accounts for clothing, camp and garrison equipage, quartermaster's stores and ordnance, which oath" shall be adminstered without expense to the parties taking them. (In settling the accounts of the commanding officer of a company for clothing and other military supplies the affidavit of any such officer may be received to show the loss of vouchers or company books, or any matter or circumstance tending...
Page 9 - That the Secretary of War is authorized to issue at his discretion, and under proper regulations to be prescribed by him, out of ordnance and ordnance stores belonging to the Government, and which can be spared for that purpose...
Page 12 - Every captain of a troop or company is charged with the arms, accoutrements, ammunition, clothing, or other...
Page 9 - ... and the Secretary shall require a bond in each case, in double the value of the property, for the care and safe-keeping thereof and for the return of the same when required...
Page 16 - That the secretary of war and the secretary of the navy are each hereby authorized in their discretion to loan or give to soldiers' monument associations, posts of the Grand Army of the Republic and municipal corporations condemned ordnance, guns and cannon balls which may not be needed in the service of either of said departments.
Page 13 - Said certificate shall set forth the condition of such officer's or agent's property returns, that it includes all charges made up to its date and not previously certified, that he has had a reasonable opportunity to be heard and has not been relieved of responsibility...
Page 8 - Columbia shall have been lost, damaged, or destroyed, or become unserviceable or unsuitable by use in service or from any other cause, it shall be examined by a disinterested surveying officer of the...
Page 32 - War is hereby authorized, under such regulations as he may prescribe, on the requisitions of the governors of the several States and Territories, or the commanding general of the militia of the District of Columbia, to issue the said armament and equipment to the organized militia...

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