GENERAL ORDERS, 
No. 39. 
WAR DEPARTMENT, 
Adjutant General’s Office, 
Washington, February 1, 1864 
Paragraph 1068, Revised Army Regulations, is hereby so amended 
as to authorize the issue of fuel, by the Quartermaster’s Department, to 
the civil employes of that and the Subsistence Department, upon the 
requisition of the officers under whose direction the men are employed, 
when said employes are allowed to draw in kind from the Subsistence 
Department not less than one ration each of subsistence per day, and when 
the agreement with them stipulates that fuel shall be furnished by the 
United States in addition to other compensation. The allowance will be 
the same as in the case of non-commissioned officers and privates in 
the military service of the United States. The fuel issued will be con- 
sidered as public property, and will not be sold or given away by the 
employes; but, if not consumed, shall be returned to the Quarter- 
master, and taken up on his property return. 
By ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF WAR: 
E. D. TOWNSEND, 
Assistant Adjutant General. 
Official: 
Assistant Adjutant General.