Download or read book Aide-Mémoire to the Military Sciences written by Great Britain. Army. Engineers and published by Rarebooksclub.com. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1862 edition. Excerpt: ...and of advances to tho several departments, --the supply of money, the transport of the troops, and the establishment of dcp5ts and magazines for furnishing the several wants. In the Colonics, the Commissariat has the charge of the military chests, the negociatiun of bills to keep np the supply of money, and it makes advances to Paymasters for the troops, and to the Heads of Departments for their disbursements: it contracts for provisions for the troops, and issues the same in detail, as likewise it purchases all articles obtained in the colony or foreign possession. This Department is under the orders of and is responsible to the General or Officer commanding for the execution of its duties at the various stations abroad. But the Commissariat is also responsible to the Treasury for all its acts, to whom it reports on all points of service, and the Officers of the department are dependent on the Treasury for promotion and appointment, and the organisation proceeds and emanates from the Treasury. At Home, the services of the Commissariat are little required, beyond giving assistance in the administration of the Treasury branch of that department, and auditing the accounts. The duties of the Officers commanding the Artillery and Engineers at head-quarters forming part of the Staff of the Army, are to convey instructions of a departmental nature to the several detachments of those corps, and to afford information to the General commanding upon all points connected with their duties. These duties are erplained under the articles 'Engineer' and 'Equipment.' The Senior Medical Ojfieer in a similar manner affords information to the General commanding of the sick and wants of his department, establishes depots for the sick and wounded, and...