Circular. Treasury Department  2nd Comptrollers Office   Washington Sept 1st 1863 Rules for the Computation of time in making payments to Employes of the government having been so construed as in many cases to operate unjustly against the government. the following have been adopted and will be observed when aplicable in all payments made after the first day of Oct 1863. 1st the law providing Compensation having ignored unequal durations of months by alloting the same pay to each and the pay tables having for convenience subdivided each month pay into thirty equal parts. thus paying in twelve months of thirty days each the ful salery provided by law for the entire year. the months should be assumed in Computing pay as they are by the law to be equal length, any other during these thirty days being ignored. 2 to Conform with the forgoing and in order to save the trouble and delay of four distinct calculations of monthly pay in hereafter computing the time of service of government officers and Employes 30 days will be assumed as the length of each and every month in the year.  
        3 For any full months Service performed by persons Employed by the Government at a Stipulated salery monthly rate of Compensation or yearly salery if paid in installments, payments will be made at Such Stipulated  monthly rates without regard to the number  of days the months paid for may contain  4 In Cases where the Services Commenced on an intermediate day of the month and thus embraces only a fractional part thereof, thirty days will be assumed to  constitute the entire duration of such  month, whether the Calender length thereof be 28, 29, 30 or 31 days and pay will be  Computed accordingly. 5 When the Service terminates at any intermediate day of the month and hence embraces but a fractional part thereof, the whole number of days during which service was rendered in such fractional part of a month will be allowed in making  payments. 6 The convenience in calculating Services Embracing two or more months or parts of months but one fractional part will be made Thus from the 21st of Sept to the 25th of Nov inclusive will be calculated.  
        from 21st Sept. to 20th Oct inclusive as one month, from Oct 21 to Nov 20th inclusive another month and from 21st to 25th Nov inclusive 5 days making two months and five days. 7 When two fractions of months occur in any account for service both together being less than a whole month as from the 21st of Aug to the 10th of Sept the Calculation of time will be from Aug 21st to 30th inclusive ignoring the 31st tend days and from the first to the 10th of Sept inclusive 10 days making the time to be paid for 20 days 8 When accounts are hereafter rendered for Service stated to have been performed  from one given date to an other. One of the days named will be excluded unless it is specified that the Service  was inclusive of both. 9 Service Commencing in Feb. will be Calculated as though that month Contained 30 days. thus from Feb. 21 to End of month inclusive 10 days will be allowed though the actual time be but 8 or 9 days.  
        10 The foregoing note does not apply to Commutation of rations. In computing them, the actual number of days are to be record ascertained and allowed.   Signed J.M. Broadhead   Comptroller  Voucher No 2 Thomas Johnson  Fernage?  14.23 In the Examination of the accounts of the  Oregon Steam Nav Co. for transportation of freight from Portland to Dalles and the vouchers of William Connell and Thomas Johnson for  fernage?  on freight from Dalles to Rockland. You ask    what goods were these       What the freight consisted of?  In most cases the Abstract of articles purchased and the Annuity Goods received will Show the articles for which transportation has been paid. In Some instances purchases made late in the Quarter and the bills not being received in Season have been brought into the following Quarter while the account for transportation of the Same goods was brought in. And again, the purchase may have been Shown proper time, and the account for transportation brought into an other  Quarter