Congress has recently passed an act providing for the appointment and defining the duties of sutlers. They are to be chosen by the commissioned officers of the regiments respectively. They are allowed a lien on the pay of an officer or soldier indebted to them not exceeding one-sixth the monthly pay of such persons. The Inspector Generals are to make out a schedule of articles which sutlers may sell taken from a list of articles designated by the act. The acting brigadier general, surgeon, commissary, and quartermaster of each brigade are a board of officers to fix the maximum price on each article, for their brigade. No person can be sutler for more than one regiment; nor can any sutler [underlet] his business, nor sell to any enlisted man on credit more than one-fourth the amount of his monthly pay. The act vacates all regimental sutlerships now filled in the volunteer service.
– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Friday Morning, April 11, 1862, p. 2
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