Servants, private, to carry certificates of employment
Service chevrons, when dropped from returns
not charged on clothing account.
Shells, empty metallic (see Ordnance stores).
Shoe, infantry; not termed bootee
Shoulder-knots. (See Uniform.)
Shoulder-straps. (See Uniform)

Sick and wounded, ambulances for transportation of..
or wounded, who authorized to take such to the rear
Sieges. (See Fortified places.)

action of general commanding to prevent pillage
and violence

besieging force; of what composed

camps not to be without police guards..

captured stores and funds reserved for use of Army.

commander of engineers to make drawings, &c

detail of fatigue parties...

duties of commandants of engineers and artillery..
employment of general and field officers of cavalry
during

encampment of troops

general and field officers in command of escorts to
convoys

journal of, kept by commanders of engineers and
artillery

journals and drawings with report of commanding
general sent to War Department..

guards detailed for duty in trenches; limitation of
exemption from work.

Sieges, reports of commanders of corps in trenches
reports of engineer and artillery officers of trenches.
reports of field officer of trenches.
reports of general of trenches

soldiers sent to trenches with cartridge-boxes filled.
tools and materials carried by workmen to trenches
trenches guarded and worked by infantry

troops first for guard or work in trenches, furnish no
other details

communications, confidential

2583

297

Corps, issues of clothing; when not required to be
witnessed.

duty, officers detached from regiments for, to report to
Chief Signal Officer of the Army

duty, officers detailed on, to be relieved only by orders
from the Adjutant General's Office..

duty, in the field, temporary assignments of officers
by orders of department commanders

equipment or supply, forms of receipt and accounta
bility

manual, equipments, and stores, when and by whom
furnished

2584

297

Signal Officer (Chief), duties and powers

2574

296

officer, senior of any command, duties and responsi-
bilities...

officer, senior of any command, to be chief of the
signal parties serving in that command.

officers (acting), especial duties not to be interfered
with

officers temporarily assigned to duty in the field not
a part of the depart ment staff..

2577

296

parties, supplies furnished to..

2582

297

service, returns of equipments and stores; examina-
tion and settlement of..

service, returns of equipments and stores to be in du-
plicate.

Sleeping and parlor car accommodations (see Transportation)
Soldiers' Home, applications for admission..

descriptive list of soldiers sent to

Soldiers, deceased, disposition of remains unclaimed..
and citizens, kindly relations to exist between..

Sortie. (See Sieges.)

Spurs. (See Uniform.)

Squatters and trespassers in military reservations, removal.
Stable-guards, duties of corporal in charge of..

in charge of corporals

Stables, care of

Staff officers. (See Officers.)

administration (see Army)

appointments and details; how regulated.

Department, duty of officers relieved from duty in
Department, promotions in

of division and department commanders; how limited
officers; regimental appointments..

officers; regimental, when considered as vacating po-
sition

Standard, regimental.

Stoppage of officer's pay, monthly circular to be submitted
to Secretary of War prior to publication..

Stoppage of officer's pay to take the form of monthly circu-
lars to paymasters

Stoppages of pay where an officer has been overpaid...

Storehouses, provided by Quartermaster's Department
Stores. (See Public property.)

on transports. (See Transports.)

1822

211

Stoves not issued to officers receiving commutation of quar-
ters...

unserviceable, inspection and disposition of..
unserviceable, sales ordered by Secretary of War
only

Stoves and ranges, when allowed barracks and quarters
Straw, monthly allowance for horses and mules

1868

218

1898

221

hats. (See Uniform.)

transfers not made gratuitously to an-
other staff department..

call, duty of surgeon.

Superiors, forbidden to injure inferiors by tyrannical or ca-

pricious conduct or abusive language..
inferiors to obey lawful orders of

respect to be extended on all occasions.

Supplies, veterinary. (See Veterinary supplies.)

military, deficiencies in, or destroyed, how ac-
counted for

1750

205

not authorized by regulations or War Department
general orders; order directing issues to be re-
ferred to and accompany voucher.

Supply trains, organization of

responsibility for.

Surgeon General, duties and powers

Surgeons and assistant surgeons. (See Medical officers.)

and acting assistant, quarters for

acting assistant, sales of fuel to

acting assistant, transportation of baggage

Surgical instruments, medical officers forbidden to transfer.

medicine chests, panniers, and mess-
chests, repairs of

when lost or damaged to be immedi-

ately replaced

Survey, boards of. (See Boards of survey.)

Suspension from rank.

(See Rank.)

Sword and scabbard.

(See Uniform.)

Sword belt. (See Uniform.)

Sword-belt plate. (See Uniform.)

Sword-knot. (See Uniform.)

Table of allowance of rooms, fuel, &c., for officers and men.
Target practice, ordnance property used in

Telegrams, on public business of a confidential nature, pay-