GENERAL ORDERS, 
No. 132. 
WAR DEPARTMENT, 
Adjutant General's Office, 
Washington, August 17, 1865. 
I. Authority is hereby given, under section 5 of the act of March 3, 
1865, to commissioned officers of the army serving in the field, to pur- 
chase subsistence stores from the Subsistence Department on credit, 
for their own use, on "lists" certified by themselves, (see accompany- 
ing form No. 1.) 
II. At the close of each month the Commissaries making such sales 
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. 2 
Form No. 1. 
, 186 . 
To 
Captain 
Commissary of Subsistence. 
Sir : 
Please furnish me, for my own use, the following subsistence stores: 
pounds of 
pounds of 
I certify that the above-mentioned stores are required for my own 
use; that, not being in funds, it is necessary that I purchase them on 
credit, and that I am now actually " serving in the field."' 
Lieut.Reg. 3 
Form No. 2. 
Abstract of Provisions sold to Officers serving in the field on credit, 
at , in the month of , 186 , by Captain , 
C. S. V. 
ARTICLES AND QUANTITIES. 
Dolls. 
Cts. 
Pounds of Pork, at cents per pound, 
" " Beans, at " " " 
" " Sugar, white, at " " " 
&c., &c., &c. 
Total credit sales in month, 
Name. 
Rank. 
Co. 
Regiment. 
Dolls. 
Cts. 
Total credit sales iu month, 
- 
NAMES OF OFFICERS AND AMOUNT DUE FROM EACH. 
I certify that the above "Abstract" is a correct statement of all sales 
on credit of subsistence stores made by me to officers at this post in the 
month of , 186 . , 
Capt., and C. S. Pols. 
I certify that I have carefully compared the above "Abstract" with 
the officers' certified lists of purchases made on credit ror their own use, 
and find the Abstract correct; also, that the officers above named are 
actually " serving in the field." 
I!fg- of 
Commanding Post.