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[[start page]] [[Blue stationary overlays underlying journal entries]] Hd Qrs Ft Brooke Florida April 28 1849 [[short line]] [[?]] subs 64 Capt C. To relieve Lt. Garland in place of Capt atty [[Blue stationary overlays underlying journal entries]] [[end page]] [[start page]] [[margin]] Hd:Qts: A. of O. Monterey Mex Dec 22nd 1847 [[margin]] [[underlined]] Special Orders No 23.[/underlined]] I...1st Lieut [[underlined]] Joseph Stewart [/underlined]] 3rd Artillery will be relieved from duty in the Commissary Department at Monterey by M Casey agent Commissary Department, and will join his company with the army under General Scott without delay. By Command of Brig Genl Wool Irvin McDowel A.A.G. [[line]] Order No. 129 Extract 11...Under the instructions of the secretary of war, the following Regulation is announced and will be strictly adhered. "If the state of the service requires soldiers, whether Regulars or Volunteers, to be employed on extra duty, they should be detached for such duty and paid the [[underlined]] legal per diem [/underlined]] (15 cents) while so engaged, but in no case can Furloughs be granted to enlisted men or volunteers to enable them to obtain employment in any of the Army Departments as Teamsters etc, nor can the compensation allowed there exceed what is authorized by the Acts of March 2d 1819, to Soldiers when "employed on fatigue duty" By order of Major General Taylor (signed) W.W.S. Bliss Asst Adjt General Official (signed) Irwin McDowel A.A.G. [[line]] [[margin]] Hd Qrs: A of O. Monterey Mex Jany 17, 1848 [/margin]] Orders, No 44 I... until further orders all disbursing officers receiving monies from merchants and others for checks on the United States will charge six per cent on the amount of coin deposited and credit the United States with the same in their respective accounts Current. II...The Collectors for the Districts of the [[?]] lower Rio Grande in stating on the invoices of goods etc coming to the interior that the duties have been paid (as presented in orders no 40 current service), will mention the amount paid on each article. By Command of Brig. Genl Wool (signed) Irwin McDowel [[underlined]] A.A.G. [/underlined [[end page]]