Chapter CCXXIV. *to provide for the better Care and Protection of Subsistence Supplies*
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CHAP. CCXXIV.— An Act *to provide for the better Care and Protection of Subsistence Supplies*. March 3, 1873. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled*, Secretary of War to select certain commissary-sergeants; That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, authorized and empowered to select from the sergeants of the line of the army who shall have faithfully served therein five years, three years of winch in the grade of non-commissioned officer, as many commissary-sergeants as the service may require, not to exceed one for each military post or place of deposit of subsistence supplies, whose duty it shall be to receive and preserve the subsistence supplies at thetheir duties and pay. posts, under the direction of the proper officers of the subsistence department, and under such regulations as shall be prescribed by the Secretary of War.
The commissary-sergeants hereby authorized shall be subject to the rules and articles of war, and shall receive for their services the same pay and allowances as ordnance-sergeants. Approved, March 3, 1873.