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(7) The Route commandant mates requisitions on the commandant of the 
nearest garrison for all clerks, non-commissioned officers, and orderlies he may 
want: The number of this staff depends on the duties to be performed on each 
occasion. The staff of railway servants required by the railway official on the 
commission is obtained by that official from the railway authorities. 
30. While on the one hand the Route commandants are empowered 
to give instructions to the officers in command of troops, even of higher 
rank, as regards the maintenance of the troops before and during the 
embarkation, on the other hand it is incumbent on them to adhere to the 
dispositions for the transport laid down by the military staff officers of 
the Line or Executive commissions. 
31. In all matters of a pressing nature, referring to the troop-transport, 
correspondence is carried on by means of the state and railway telegraphs. 
The portion of the general regulations which is contained in these pages 
bears date , Berlin , May 1,1861, and is signed by the Minister of Commerce , 
the Minister of the Interior , and the Minister of War and Marine . 
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