CIRCULAR   )       OFFICE CHIEF COMMISSARY SUBSISTENCE,
             I                Department of the Ohio,
   No. 2     j                      Cincinnati, Ohio, Sept. 6, 1862.

    Officers  drawing Subsistence  Stores from the United States, in
this Department, will be governed by the following:
    1st.  The meat rations can  be of either Pork, Bacon, ('sides or
shoulders,) Salt or Fresh Beef,  or one-half of either two of the above
items, or one-third of either three, or one-fourth of the four, or any
such division that the  added  total number of rations  shall equal
the total number of rations drawn.
    2d.  A  similar rule should  be  followed in regard to the two
items of Breadstuffs ; thus, one-fourth flour can be drawn and three-
fourths of Hard Bread,  or the  reverse, or half of each.
    3d   The law allows any  two of the four items of Beans, Peas,
Rice or Hominy, or two-thirds of any three.  Dessicated Potatoes,
or Dessicated Mixed Vegetables, can be substituted for either Beans,
Peas, Rice or Hominy.
    4th.  Tea or Coffee can be drawn on same  principle as in para-
graph two.
    5th.  Sugar, Vinegar, Candles,  Soap  and  Salt,  are all  drawn
separately, and for the full amount of rations if desired.
    6th.  For Potatoes  (fresh) take three-sevenths of  the total num-
ber of rations drawn, which will  be  the number  of pounds allowed
on any  return.   For Molasses take two-sevenths of the total number
of rations drawn, which  will  give the number of rations allowed,
which divided by one hundred gives the number of gallons.
    7th.  Each Company of  one hundred men  should obtain for
cooking,  from  the  Quartermaster's Department, two camp kettles,
five mess  pans, two axes  and  two hatchets for every fifteen men.
Also, if possible, tin cup, spoon and knife for every man.

                                        C.  L. KILBURN,
                     Major and  Chief Commissary of  Subsistence,
                                         Department of the  Ohio.