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service, for a disability which existed at that time, he shall receive neither pay nor allowances, except subsistence and transportation to his home. The certificate given by the Surgeon will, in all cases, state whether the disability existed prior to the date of muster, or was contracted after it.  

"Minors, also, who may be discharged either by the civil authority or upon the personal application of parents or friends, will be discharged without pay or allowances."

Soldiers on sick-leave may be furnished transportation under General Order, No. 41, dated Adjutant General's Office, April 16, 1862, which is as follow:

"Transportation to soldiers on sick-leave may be furnished, and the cost stopped from their pay in the same manner as other stoppages are made. Necessary transportation furnished to soldiers on sick-leave by the authorities of any State to which such soldiers belong, will be deducted from their pay and refunded to the State by the Paymaster, whose warrant for making the stoppage will be the certificate of the proper agent of the State, accompanied by the receipt of the soldier for the transportation. Where several soldiers of different companies are concerned, separate accounts will be made for each company."

On all claims for transportation previous to March 3, 1862, the rates are not to exceed two cents per man per mile; nor should any charge on freight exceeding the rates of the printed local or through tariff of the roads to the public, at the time of the service, be allowed.

M. C. MEIGS,
Quartermaster General.
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