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WAR DEPARTMENT,
ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE,
Washington, August 17, 1865.

GENERAL ORDERS, No. 132. } 


I. Authority is herby given, under section 5 of the act of March 3, 1865, to commissioned officers of the army serving in the field, to purchase subsistence stores from the Subsistence Department on credit, for their own use, on "lists" certified by themselves, (see accompanying form No. 1.)

II. At the close of each month the Commissaries making such sale will make triplicate "Abstracts of Sales to Officers on Credit," (see accompanying form No. 2,) of which one copy will be filed with each set of his monthly papers, and the third copy will be sent by him direct to the Paymaster General, who will cause the amount due from each officer to be deducted from his pay at the payment next following the purchase. 

BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF WAR:
E.D. TOWNSEND
Assistant Adjutant General
Official:

Assistant Adjutant General.
[[Stamp]]
BUREAU R.F. & A.L. 
REC'D AUG 30 1865
WASHINGTON [[/stamp]]

Transcription Notes:
REC'D is abbreviation for RECEIVED