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Chief will not approve the account for the current month--that is for the month immediately preceding the expected termination of the contract--until the required "certificate of non-indebtedness" is furnished to him.
The Surgeon-in-Chief of each District will present quarterly to the Chief Disbursing Officer of the District, a schedule of the amount of funds probably required for the payment of these accounts during the current quarter, upon which schedule the Quartermaster will base his estimate of funds for the Medical Department, to be presented to the Assistant Commissioner for his approval. 

ARTICLE V.
Paragraph 3. Strike out the paragraph, and in lieu there of insert the following:
III. The ration for refugees and freedmen sick in Bureau hospitals will be that established by G. O. No. 226, War Department, A. G. O., July 8, 1864.
The ration is twelve ounces of pork or bacon, or one pound and four ounces of salt or fresh beef; eighteen ounces of soft bread or flour, or twelve ounces of hard bread, or one pound and four ounces of corn meal; and, to every one hundred rations, fifteen pounds of beans or peas, or ten pounds of rice or hominy; ten pounds of green coffee, or eight pounds of roasted (or roasted or ground) coffee, or one pound and eight ounces of tea; fifteen pounds of sugar; four quarts of vinegar; one pound and four ounces of adamantine or star candles; four pounds of soap; three pounds and twelve ounces of salt, and four ounces of pepper. The Subsistence Department, as may be most convenient or least expensive to it, and according to the condition and amount of its supplies, shall determine whether soft bread or flour, and what other component parts of the ration as equivalents, shall be issued.
Dessicated compressed potatoes, or dessicated compressed mixed vegetables, at the rate of one ounce and a half of the former and one ounce of the latter to the ration, may be substituted for beans, peas, rice, or hominy.
Beans, peas, salt, and potatoes (fresh), shall be purchased, issued, and sold by weight, and the bushel of each shall be estimated at sixty pounds.
When deemed necessary, fresh vegetables, dried fruit,