COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS. [General Order, No. 4.] Provost-Marshal's Office State House, 1. Bounty Pay-Rolls will be made in duplicate; one copy will be transmitted to the Paymaster-General of the Commonwealth, and the other retained by the paymaster. 2. Paymasters will be careful that the signature or mark of each recruit is witnessed, and that the name of the witness is written against the recruit's signature or mark. 3. Neglect of the provisions of section 2, of this Order, the absence of the signature or mark or the recruit or other serious informality will render Pay-Rolls useless as vouchers in the settlement by paymasters of their accounts with the treasurer of the Commonwealth. 4. On the reception of this Order by the several Assistant ProvostMarshals for Massachusetts they will forthwith promulgate the same in their departments. 1. The Act of Congress authorizing recruiting in the rebel States for loyal States having been repealed, the service of recruiting in said rebel States by Massachusetts State agents is hereby discontinued. 2. Assistant Provost-Marshals, Paymasters and Assistant-Adjutants of the Departments named in General Orders of War Department, No. 227, series of 1864, will at once complete the business of their several Departments, and excepting Lieutenant-Colonel J. A. Spooner report immediately thereafter to these Head-quarters. 3. Assistant Provost-Marshals will be prepared to settle their accounts of expenditures of Recruitment Fund on their arrival at these Head-quarters.. 4. All books and papers relating to the service of recruiting in rebel States, will be returned to this office. 5, Should any question arise on the part of the United States military authorities of the Departments above named, as. to mustering in recruits obtained between the aforesaid repeal, and the official notice thereof, the Assistant Provost-Marshal for such Department will remain at his post until such question shall be settled, or he receive other orders. J. M. DAY, Provost-Marshal of Commonwealth of Massachusetts. COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS. Provost-Marshal's Office, State House, To His Excellency JOHN A. ANDREW, Governor of Commonwealth: SIR, I have the honor to report that in accordance with Orders from the Provost-Marshal of the Commonwealth, based upon General Order of Commonwealth, No. 11, series of 1865, I have turned over into the hands of Colonel J. F. B. Marshall, Paymaster-General of Commonwealth, all money, together with the books and papers belonging to the Recruitment Fund. Enclosed I have the honor to report the final statement of affairs, with the exception of the interest account, of the Fund in the hands of General H. K. Oliver, Treasurer of the Recruitment Fund. Amount of Cash turned over into the hands of the Pay master-General of the Commonwealth $1,242 15 Amount of balance, as per opposite page, $917 15 325 00 $1,242 15 BOSTON, August 11, 1865. Final Statement of Recruitment Fund. Colonel J. M. Day, Provost-Marshal of the Commonwealth, at his own request, is relieved from duty, and will pay over all moneys in his hands belonging to the Recruitment Fund to Colonel J. F. B. Marshall, Paymaster-General of the Commonwealth, who will, by virtue of this Order, receive and hold the same subject to further orders. Colonel Day will present, as soon as convenient, his Report, and Colonel Marshall will report a schedule of property and money received by him under this Order. By order of His Excellency JOHN A. ANDREW, Governor and Commander-in-Chief, WILLIAM SCHOULER, Adjutant-General. |