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Freight Classification.

FIRST CLASS. - Drums, (twice first class;) haversacks; camp kettles and mess pans; wagon covers; furniture and camp stools; cots and mattresses; hard bread; buckets; clothing; blankets; boots, shoes, hats, caps, &c.; dry goods, in boxes, bales, and trunks; glass; liquors, in glass; printed matter, in sheets; trunks; tin ware, boxed; powder, in barrels or secure packages, marked "Powder."

SECOND CLASS.--Bagging; burlaps; coffee, ground, in boxes or casks; candles; drugs and medicines; guns, rifles, and other firearms; lead, in bars; paper, writing and printing; tea; saddlery and harness; tents and tent poles; sabres, in boxes; wheelbarrows. The following to be reckoned at 12,000 lbs. a load for a car 28 feet in length, other sizes of cars in proportion, viz: army wagons on wheels, and four-wheel hospital wagons and ambulances, two to a car; two-wheel ambulances, guns with carriages and limbers complete, caissons with limbers, and traveling forges, four to a car; army wagons taken apart, five to a car; proportionally, for a less number.

Horses, Cattle, and Mules.

Fourteen horses or cattle, eighteen mules, to be estimated at 18,000 pounds, and accounted a car load; a less number of either to be estimated proportionally, according to the following schedule:

1 horse.... 2,000 lbs.
2 " [[ditto for horse]] .... 3,500 " [[ditto for lbs.]]
3 " [[ditto for horse]] .... 5,000 " [[ditto for lbs.]]
4 " [[ditto for horse]] .... 6,400 " [[ditto for lbs.]]
5 " [[ditto for horse]] .... 7,800 " [[ditto for lbs.]]

6 horses.... 9,100 lbs.
7 " [[ditto for horses]] .... 10,300 " [[ditto for lbs.]]
8 " [[ditto for horses]] .... 11,400 " [[ditto for lbs.]]
9 " [[ditto for horses]] .... 12,500 " [[ditto for lbs.]]
10 " [[ditto for horses]] .... 13,600 " [[ditto for lbs.]]
11 horses.... 14,700 lbs.
12 " [[ditto for horses]] .... 15,800 " [[ditto for lbs.]]
13 " [[ditto for horses]] .... 16,900 " [[ditto for lbs.]]
14 " [[ditto for horses]] .... 18,000 " [[ditto for lbs.]]

The number of horses, cattle, or mules, and pounds of freight, to be stated in the Certificate of transportation.

THIRD CLASS.-Fixed ammunition; small arms' ammunition; Sibley tent stoves; axes, hoes, and picks; hardware; lead in pigs; shovels and spades; liquor in barrels.

FOURTH CLASS.-Cannon and mortars, not mounted; cannon balls and shells; lumber and timber; flour; beef; pork; hay, (reckoned at 18,000 pounds to a car load;) salt; coffee, in sacks; rice; horse-shoes, in packages; iron, bar, pig, band, and boiler; iron nuts and rivets; iron bolts and washers, in boxes or casks; nails and spikes; rope; leather in rolls and boxes; common soap; portable forges; grain; salted and smoked meats; white lead and zinc paints; oil; sugar; beans; molasses; potatoes; telegraph wire.

Bills for transportation of recruits, and of volunteers previous to company organization and muster, and for recruiting service, to be settled by the Adjutant General's Department.

This Department has no appropriation from which transportation can be paid for rejected recruits; for soldiers on furlough; on leave of absence; deceased; or discharged, except when discharged under General Order, No. 51, Adjutant General's Office, of August 3, 1861, which is as follows, to wit:

"Hereafter, when volunteers are to be mustered into the service of the United States, they will, at the same time, be minutely examined by the Surgeon and Assistant Surgeon of the regiment, to ascertain whether they have the physical qualifications necessary for the military service. And in case any individual shall be discharged within three months after entering the

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changed "charged" to "discharged" in paragraph beginning "This Department has no appropriation...."