At Fort Lowell, the adjutant's office was a 56-by-56-foot adobe building that served as the post's nerve center, housing the offices of the post commander and post adjutant, quarters for the regimental commander and staff when they were present, a room for court-martials, and a library with books, newspapers, and magazines for soldiers. The guardhouse was a 50-by-50-foot adobe and stone building with rooms for the officer and sergeant of the guard, a general prisoner's room, a tool room, seven cells only 4 by 7 feet wide, and, in the rear, a 30-by-50-foot exercise yard and two privies. Fort Lowell enforced strict military discipline, and soldiers were commonly punished for theft, desertion, absence without leave, insubordination, swearing, and drunkenness, with court-martials deciding guilt and punishment; during the hottest months, the post commander sometimes tried to send prisoners to Alcatraz off the California coast because the guardhouse was too crowded. The quartermaster and commissary office, in a 40-foot-by-60-foot building now gone and buried under present-day Fort Lowell Road, was the administrative center where officers, sergeants, and clerks directed the supplying and feeding of troops at Fort Lowell and across southern Arizona. Every soldier at Fort Lowell received 22 ounces of bread in his daily ration, and the post bakery, a 32-by-30-foot building with one oven, produced the loaves; the baker was an enlisted man paid an extra 40 cents per day in addition to his regular pay of $13 a month and was excused from all other military duties.