/9/7 (^orttKll IniOBraitg Slihtarg atliara, ^tva $nrfe Jr. L.. Vr.O.j/.l.l \ < ?-et.ne Vo,/.,..l\rs " U. S." on equipments and the soldier's number in characters one-half inch high below the letters " U. S." (C. A. B., No. 1.) 258. The following-named books of record, reports, and papers will be kept in each regiment : A correspondence book and a morning report of the field, staff, and band, furnished by the Adjutant General's Department ; a regimental fund book (ordinary blank book without special ruling), furnished by the Quarter- master Corps ; a document file, a file of the regimental orders, all orders, cir- culars, and instructions from higher authority, copies of the monthly returns, mxister rolls of the field, staff, and band, and other regimen<-al /eturns and reports. Of the books, reports, and papers herein referred to, the corraspondence book, the document file, the muster rolls, the regimental monthly returns and all other returns of the personnel of the regiment, the general orders and cir- culars of the War Department, and regimental general orders will be perma- nently preserved. Division and departnisnt orders, except extracts of special orders, will, when the regiment is relieve .1 from duty in the division or de- partment, be disposed of under instructions of the division or department com- mander. All other books, reports, and papers will be kept five years, reckoned from the close of the period of their use in case of books and reports and fi-oiii their dates in case of papers, when they will be destroyed under the direction ot the regimental commander. 259. All orders and circulars from the War Department, or from the head- quarters of an army, field army, division, brigade, or territorial department in which the regiment may be serving, will be filed in book form, and general orders and circulars Indexed as soon as received. 70 TBOOPS, BATTEBIES, AND COMPANIES. BANDS. 260. The noncommissioned officers of regimental bands will be appointed by the regimental commanders, upon the recommendation of regimental adjutants, under the same conditions prescribed in paragraph 256 for the noncommissioned staff of the regiment. The noncommissioned officers of the Engineer band will be appointed by the commanding officer of the battalion with which the band is serving. The noncommissioned officers of the Coast Artillery Corps bands will be appointed by coast defense commanders. 261. When a regiment occupies several stations the band will be kept at headquarters, provided one or more companies be serving there. The field mu- sicians of companies will not be separated therefrom. The Coast Artillery Corps and Engineer bands will be assigned to stations by the War Department upon the recommendation of the chiefs of Coast Artillery and Engineers, re- spectively. Army bands, or members thereof, are prohibited by law from re- ceiving remuneration for furnishing music outside the limits of military posts when the furnishing of such music places them in competition with local civilian musicians. 262. Musical instruments mentioned in paragraph 1179, extra parts there- for, and equipments for bands, including the issue quarterly of one-half ream of music writing paper, upright, 14 staves, size of paper lOJ by 13^ inches, and one-half ream of music writing paper, oblong, 16 staves, size of paper 13J by lOi inches, will be furnished by the Quartermaster Corps. Musical instruments other than those above referred to may be purchased from available regimental funds. The commanding officer of the band will be responsible for band instruments furnished by the Quartermaster Corps and both responsible and accountable for those purchased from the regimental funds. (C. A. R., No. 30.) 263. Regimental commanders will notify The Adjutant General of the Army direct when field or band musicians are required. 264. 1. The composition consisting of the words and music known as " The Star-Spangled Banner " is designated the national anthem of the United States of America. 2. Provisions in these regulations or in orders issued under the authority of the War Department requiring the playing of the national anthem at any time or place shall be taken to mean " The Star-Spangled Banner " to the exclusion of other tunes or musical compositions popularly known as national airs. 3. Commanding officers will require bands to play national and patriotic airs on appropriate occasions. The playing of the national anthem of any country as part of a medley is prohibited. (O. A. B., No. 50.) ARTICLE XXX. Troops, Batteries, and Companies. 265. The details of captains on detached service away from their arm of the service will be limited, as far as practicable, to those required by law 266. The commanding officer of a company is responsible for the instruction tactical efficiency, and preparedness for war service of his company for its appearance and discipline; for the care and preservation of its equipment- and tor the proper performance of duties connected with its subsistence, ' pay, clothmg, accounts, reports, and returns. - i- *» 267. in the absence of its captain, the command of a company devolves upon mrecTed '^'^ ^^'' '' '""^'"'^ ^''^ "' """^^'^ otherwise specially TBOOPS, BATTERIES, AND COMPANIES. 71 268. In the absence of all the officers of a company, the post commander will assign an jfficer, preferably of the same regiment, to its command. If there be no officer available, the fact will be reported to the department com- mander. ' 269. Captains will require their lieutenants to assist in the performance of all company duties, including the keeping of records and the preparation of the necessary reports and returns. 270. Noncommissioned officers will be carefully selected and instructed, and always supported by company commanders In the proper performance of their duties. They will not be detailed for any duty nor permitted to engage in any occupation inconsistent with their rank and position. Officers will be cautious in reproving them in the presence or hearing of private soldiers. 271. Company noncommissioned officers are appointed by regimental com- manders, or temporarily appointed by battalion commanders, under the con- ditions stated in paragraph 256, on the recommendation of their company, com- manders ; but in no case will any company organization have an excess of non- commissioned officers above that allowed by law. The noncommissioned officers of Coast Artillery Corps companies, upon the recommendation of the company commanders, will be appointed by coast defense commanders. When a company is serving in a different department from its regimental headquarters and at such a distance therefrom that more than 15 days are re- quired for an exchange of correspondence by mail, company noncommissioned officers and wagoners for the transportation pertaining to the company may be appointed, on recommendation of the company commander, by the order of the battalion commander, if such commander be in the same department as the com- pany. When a company is serving in a different department from its regimental and battalion headquarters and at such a distance from its regimental head- quarters that more than 15 days are required for an exchange of correspondence by mall, company noncommissioned officers and wagoners for the transportation pertaining to the company may be appointed, on recommendation of the company commander, by the order of the senior officer of the regiment on duty in the de- partment in which the company is serving. Coast Artillery noncommissioned officers of a mine planter or cable ship detachment, upon the recommendation of the commanding officer of the mine planter or cable ship, will be appointed and reduced by the coast defense com- mander if the vessel is serving in a coast defense command ; otherwise by the department commander. (C. A. R., Nos. 46 and 5 J/..) 272. To test the capacity of privates for the duties of noncommissioned officers company commanders may appoint lance corporals, who will be obeyed and respected as corporals, but no company shall have more than one lance cor- poral at a time, unless there are noncommissioned officers absent by authority, during which absences there may be one for each absentee. 273. The captain will select the first sergeant, quartermaster sergeant, and stable sergeant from the sergeants of his company, and may return them to the grade of sergeant without reference to higher authority. 274. Each noncommissioned officer will be furnished with a certificate or warrant of his rank, signed by the regimental commander ; but a separate war- rant as first sergeant, quartermaster sergeant, or stable sergeant will not be given. A warrant issued to a noncommissioned officer is his personal property. Warrants need not be renewed in cases of reenlistment in the same company, if reenlistment is made the day following the day of discharge, but, unless other- wise ordered by the regimental or coast defense commander, on the recommenda- tion of the company commander, will remain in force until vacated by promption or reduction, each reenlistment and continuance to be noted on the warrant by 72 TROOPS^ BATTERIES, AND COMPANIES. the company commander. The warrants for noncommissioned officers of the Ooast Artillery Corps companies will be signed by the coast defense commander. (0. A. R., Nos. 36 and 55.) 275. Appointments of company noncommissioned officers and cooks of the Medical Department will take effect on the day of appointment by the author- ized commander, and of first sergeants, quartermaster sergeants, stable sergeants, chief mechanics, cooks, artificers, farriers, horseshoers, mechanics, saddlers, wagoners, musicians, trumpeters, and first-class privates on the day of appoint- ment by the company commander ; but in case of vacancy in a company absent from regimental and battalion headquarters a company commander may make a temporary appointment of a noncommissioned officer, which will carry rank and pay from the date of such appointment. Information of the appointment will be promptly sent to the regimefltal commander, and if he disapproves it the increased rank and pay will cease upon receipt by the company commander of such disapproval. (G. A. R., No. 55.) 276. A noncommissioned officer may be reduced to the ranks by sentence of u court-martial, or, on the recommendation of the company commander, by the order of the commander having final authority to appoint such noncommissioned officer, but a noncommissioned officer will not be reduced because of absence on account of sickness or injury contracted in the line of duty. If reduced to the ranks by sentence of court-martial at a post not the headquarters of his regi- ment, the company commander wiU forward a transcript of the order to the regimental commander. The transfer of a noncommissioned officer fi-om one organization to another carries with it reduction to the ranks, unless otherwise specified in the order by autliprity competent to issue a new warrant. When a company is serving in a different department from its regimental iieadquarters and at such a distance therefrom that more than 15 days are re- quired for exchange of correspondence by mail, a noncommissioned officer may be reduced to the ranks, on recommendation of the company commander, by the order of the battalion commander, if such commander be in the same depart- ment as the company. When a company is serving in a different department from its regimental and battalion headquarters, and at such a distance from its regimental headquarters that more than 15 days are required for exchange of correspondence by mail, a noncommissioned officer may be reduced to the ranks, on the recommendation of the company commander, by the order of the senior officer of the regiment on duty in the department in which the company is f^erving. (C. A. R., No. J,5.) 277. When a noncommissioned officer, while in arrest or confinement, is reduced by sentence of a court-martial, the date of the order publishing the sentence is the date of reduction. In all other cases reduction takes effect on the date of receipt of the order at the soldier's station. (C. A. R., No. 15.) 278. Chief mechanics, cooks, buglers, horseshoers, mechanics, saddlers, wagoners, and privates, first class, are enlisted as privates, and after joining their organizations are appointed by their respective organization commanders. For inefficiency or misconduct they are subject to reduction by the same author- ity, and in case of desertion their appointments are vacated from the date of their unautliorized absence. (C A. R., Nos. 9 and 55.) 279. A soldier may, when necessary, be relieved from ordinary military duty to make, repair, or alter uniforms. The post exchange council will fix the rates to be charged, which will not exceed the cost of doing such work at the clothing depot, and company commanders will cause to be deducted from the pay of enlisted men and turned over to the proper person the amount properly due thereto.-. The provisions of this paragraph will be construed to apply to civilian TROOPS, BATTEEIBS, AND COMPANIES. 73 tailors, who conform to prices fixed by post exchange council, as well us to enlisted men detailed for that duty by proper authority. 280. The following-named books of record, reports, and papers will be kept in each company : A correspondence book, a sick report, a morning report, and, in companies supplied with public animals, a file of descriptive cards of public animals, all to be furnished by the Adjutant General's Department ; also a com- pany council book, a record of individual property responsibility of enlisted men, and a record of punishments awarded by the company commander under the provisions of paragraph 953, to be fiirnished by the Quartermaster Corps. There will also be kept, on blanks supplied by the Adjutant General's Depart- ment, a complete record, description, and accounts of all men who belong to or who have belong'ed to the company. A record of vaccinations will be kept on these blanks. There v^ill also be kept a document file, orders and instructions received from higher authority, and retained copies of the various rolls, rejports, and returns required by regulations and orders. Where copies of orders affecting the company are not supplied, the orders will be copied, if practicable, attested by the adjutant, and placed on the order file. 281. There will also be kept in each company or detachment retained copies of all returns of property pertaining to the company and full information respecting all quartermaster and all other supplies held on memorandum receipt, showing list of articles, date of receipt, from whom received, and the name of the officer who signed the memorandum receipt therefor ; also an account of all articles turned in, expended, stolen, lost, or destroyed ; and the company or detachment commander will have a settlement with the staff officers concerned quarterly and when relinquishing his command. Of the books, reports, and papers referred to in this and in the preceding paragraph, the correspondence book, the document file, the records of enlisted men as kept in descriptive and deposit books or on loose leaves, the muster rolls, the monthly returns, and all other returns of the personnel, and the general orders and circulars of the War Department will be permanently pre- served. Division and department orders, except extracts of special orders, will be disposed of under instructions of the division or department commander when the company is relieved from duty in the division or department. The other books, reports, and papers will be kept five years, reckoned from the close of the period of their use In case of books and reports and from their dates in case of papers, when they will' be destroyed under direction of the commanding officer. The disposition of retained papers relating to an officer's accountability for public property is vested in the accountable officer. 282. A duty roster will be kept in each company on blank forms furnished by the Adjutant General's Department ; used blank forms will be held one year and will then be destroyed. INTERIOR ECONOMY OF COMPANIES. 283. Company and detachment commanders will inspect their organizations every Saturday as provided in drill regulations. No one will be excused from Saturday inspection except the guard and the sick in hospital. Company and detachment commanders will be held responsible that — (a) The barracks, stables, gun sheds, storerooms, etc., occupied by their organization or detachment are properl;, ventilated, heated, lighted, kept clean,, and in sanitary conditio;^ at all times. ( 6 ) The men's food is properly prepared, cooked and served, and that articles of food kept on hand are stored and cared for in a sanitary manner. 74 TEOOPS, BATTEBIES, AND COMPANrBS. (c) The grounds surrounding the barracks, gun sheds, stables, etc., occu- pied by their company or detachment are properly policed and cared for. (C. A. R., No. 55.) 284. The company commander will cause the enlisted men of the company to be numbered and divided into squads, each under the charge of a noncom- missioned ofBcer. As far as practicable the men of each squad will be quar- tered together. 285. In quarters the name of each soldier will be attached to his bunk, arms will be kept in racks, and accouterments and sabers will be hung up by the belts. 286. Strict attention will be paid by company commanders to the cleanliness of the men and to the police of barracks or tents. The men will be required to bathe frequently. In garrison, and whenever practicable In the field, they will be required to wash their hands thoroughly after going to the latrines and before each meal, in order to prevent the transmission of typhoid fever and other diseases by germs taken into the mouth with food from unclean hands. The hair will be kept short and the beard neatly trimmed. Soiled clothing will be kept in the barrack bag. 287. A thorough police of barracks will precede the Saturday inspection. The chiefs of squads will see that bunks and bedding are overhauled, floors, tables, and benches scoured, arms and accouterments cleaned, and all leather articles polished. 288. Chiefs of squads will be held responsible for the cleanliness of their men. They will see that those who are to go on duty put their arms, accou- terments, and clothing in the best order, and that such as have passes leave the post in proper dress. 289. Soldiers will wear uniform in camp and garrison. When on fatigue they will wear suitable fatigue dress. 290. Company commanders will see that all public property In the possession of enlisted men is kept in good order, and that missing or damaged articles are duly accounted for. 291. Company commanders are responsible for textbooks and other official publications issued for the use of their companies. 292. Enlisted men will not take their arms apart except by permission of a commissioned oflicer under proper supervision, and only in the manner pre- scribed in the descriptive pamphlet of the arm issued by the Ordnance De- partment. The polishing of blued or browned parts of small arms, rebluing or rebrowning, putting any portion of an arm in a fire, or removing a receiver from a barrel, is prohibited. The mutilation of any part by filing or other- wise, and attempts to beautify or change the finish, are prohibited. Pieces will be unloaded before being taken to quarters or tents, and as soon as the men using them, are relieved from duty, unless otherwise ordered. The use of tompions in small arms is forbidden. The prohibition in this paragraph of attempts to beautify or change the finish of arms in the hands of enlisted men is not construed as forbidding the application of raw linseed oil to the wood parts of the arms. This oil is considered necessary for the preservation of the wood, and it may be used for such polishing as can be given by rubbing in one or more coats when necessary. The use of raw linseed oil only will be allowed for redressing, and the application for such purpose of any kind of wax or varnish, including heelball, is strictly prohibited. , 293. It is forbidden to use any dressing or polishing material on the leather accouterments or equipments of the soldier, the horse equipments for Cavalry, or the Artillery harness, except the preparations supplied by the Ordnance Department for that purpose. TEOOPS, BATTERIES, AND COMPANIES. 75 294. Equipments will be fitted to the men under the direction of an officer ; aU other changes are prohibited. 295. Articles of public property issued to a company for its exclusive use wjll be marked, when practicable, with the number or letter of the company and number and arm of the regiment. Such articles issued to an enlisted man (arms and clothing excepted) will be marked, when practicable, with the num- ber of the man, letter or number of the company, and number of the regi- ment. Haversacks, canteens, and similar articles of equipment will be uniformly marked on the outside as follows : Cavalry equipments, crossed sabers, with the number of the regiment above and the letter of the troop below the intersection ; Field Artillery equipments, crossed field guns, with the number of the regiment above and the letter of the battery below the intersection ; Infantry equipments, crossed rifles, with the number of the regiment above and the letter of the company below the intersection ; Coast Artillery Corps equipments, crossed can- nons, with the number of the company below the intersection, of the cannons ; and equipments of the special corps of the Army, according to their respective devices. The design will be stenciled in black, the letters and numbers in full- faced characters. The design will be placed above the letters " 17. S." on equip- ments, and the soldier's number in characters one-half inch high below the let- ters " U. S." Articles will not be marked with the number of the man in the Medical Department and Signal Corps except the articles issued to men as- signed to field companies of the Signal Corps and to men assigned to field hospitals and ambulance companies of the Medical Department. ( C. A. R., Nos. 1 and 55.) MESSING AND COOKING. 296. In camp or barracks where companies are not joined in a general mess the company commander will supervise tne cooking and messing of his men He will see that his company is provided with at least two copies of the Manual for Army Cooks, and that suitable men in suflicient numbers are fully instructed in managing and cooking the ration in the field ; also that necessary utensils and implements in serviceable condition, for cooking both in garrison and field, are always on hand, together with the field mess furniture for each man. At a post where all the companies are joined in a general mess the post commander will see that the Instruction above mentioned is given. At such a post a company commander will confine his supervision of the mess of his com- pany to observation and to notifying the officer in charge in writing of anything requiring remedy. Should this officer fail to apply proper remedy report may then be made to the post commander. A department commander will see that each company of his command has the necessary field practice each year. The use in garrison of field ranges or utensils pertaining thereto is forbidden. 297. Kitchens will be placed under the immediate charge of noncommis- sioned officers, who will be held responsible for their condition and for the proper use of rations. No one will be allowed to visit or remain in the kitchen except those who go there on duty or are employed therein. The greatest care will be observed in cleaning and scouring cooking utensils. 298. Special regulations for soldiers' fare can not be made to suit each locality and circumstance. Personal care and judgment on the part of com- pany officers are relied on to prevent waste or misuse. By due economy the ration allowance will provide sufficient variety of diet. 299. The Manual for Army Cooks contains comprehensive instructions in cooking, which will be observed as far as practicable. 76 THE OOAST ARTILLEBY OOBPS. 300. The food of prisoners will be sent to their places of confinement when practicable, but post commanders may arrange to send prisoners, under propter guard, to their messes. 301. Kitchen and table ware and mess furniture will be supplied by the Quartermaster Corps. "Allowances will be announced in orders. Post com- manders will enforce rigid economy in regard to such property. Articles broken, lost^ or damaged will be charged to individuals at fault. Such pro- portions of company allowances of brooms and scrubbing brushes as may be necessary for the service of a general mess will be allotted by the post com- mander. (0. A. R., No. J, J.) 302. In the field the mess furniture of a soldier will be limited to one tin cup, knife, fork, and spoon, and such device for individual cooking as may be furnished by the Ordnance Department. AKTICLE XXXI. The Coast ABTiiiE&T Cobps. THE CHIEF or OOAST ARTUXEBY. 303. 1. It shall be the duty of the Chief of Coast Artillery to keep the Cliief (if Staff advised and informed with respect to the business under his charge, including the efficiency of the i)ersonnel and materiel of the Coast Artillery, and he shall, as circumstances require, make such recommendations in refer- ence thereto as shall in his judgment tend to promote efficiency. 2. He shall from time to time, and as frequently as conditions require, con- fer directly with the chiefs of bureaus of the War Department and advise tliem of all matters relating to Coast Artillery materiel or personnel that pertain to their respective branches of the service, which the ejjperience and observation of the Coast Artillery arm of the service show to be of practical importance. In like manner he may correspond directly with the commandant of the Coast Artillery School, and with the president of the Coast Artillery Board, on Coast Artillery questions of a purely technical character which do not involve matters of command, discipline, or administration, and do not relate to the status nr interests of individuals. 3. He shall make recommendations as to the Instruction of Coust Artillery ofllcers and men, and as to examinations for appointment and transfer of offi- oers to the Coast Artillery arm and for promotion therein, and shall recommend ,suci examinations and such courses and methods of inscruction in the Coast Artillery School and elsewhere as he shall deem requisite to secure a thor- oughly trained and educated force. To this end he is authorized to issue directly to Coast Artilery officers bulletins and circulars of information on current Coast Artillery matters of a purely technical character which do not involve matters of command, discipline, or administration, and do not relate to the status or interests of iufUviduals. 4. He is charged with the recommending of officers of Coast Artillery for special duty and assignment to Coast Artillery organizations and stations 5. He shall be a member of the Board of Ordnance and Fortification and is by law a member of the General Staff Corps. 6. The office of the Chief of Coast Artillery will not be an office of record except of correspondence authorized by section 2 of this paragi-aph. All other records pertaining to the performance of the duties of the Chief of Const Artillery will be kept In the office of The Adjutant General of the Army ' to whom all communications from the Coast Artillery Corps intended for' the "wnr THE COAST AETIUjEKY OOEJPS. 77 Department, except such communications as may be addressed directly to the Chief of Coast Artillery under section 2 of this paragraph, shall be addressed as required by paragraph 782. 7. Nothing in these regulations shall be deemed to relieve the department and Coast Artillery district commanders of the duties of inspection and commauU, or of the responsibility for tlie condition and efficiency of the materiel and personnel of the Coast Artillery in the several departments and districts. (O .A. R., No. iS.) THE COAST AJJTILLEBY DISTKICT. 303i. Routine papers connected with a Coast Artillery district will not he forwarded to the War Department except in cases of questions of a technical nature involving a modification of technical requirements that have been es- tablished by War Department orders, such as questions involving policy, modi- fications of Instruction, systems and methods of fire control, and decisions rela- tive to equipment and to methods of instructioiL Questions of a routine character that pertain sti'lctly to a single Coast Artillery district should, subject to the general control of the department commander, be decided by the Coast Artillery district commander ; questions involving more than one district of a department, by the department commander. All questions Involving administration in the expenditure of funds, aU matters pertaining to barracks and quarters, the providing and issuing of supplies, and all questions of discipline involving commissioned officers will be handled by department commanders. The assignment of officers for duty on the stafCs of Coast Artillery district com- manders will be made by the Secretary of War. (C. A. R., No. 1.) THE COAST DEFENSE COMMAND. 304. The coast defense command, as an administrative unit, consists of one or more forts with their accompanying mine fields and land defenses. Coast defense commands are established, their limits defined, and their headquarters designated in orders from the War Department. The command of coast defenses devolves upon the senior Coast Artillery Corps officer therein, who is responsible for its efficiency to department and district commanders and subject to their authority, and has control within the limits of the command of all matters relating to Coast Artillery instruction, drill, practice, and the procurement of Coast Artillery supplies and accessories. He will prescribe the hours of drill and instruction throughout the command. The commanding officer of coast defenses may, with the sanction of the department commander, continue to exercise the more important functions of his command when temporarily absent therefrom on artillery duty within the department. (C A. R., No. J.) 305. All correspondence and reports relating to the Coast Artillery Coi-ps personnel or materiel will pass through coast defense command headquarters. 306. The commander of coast defenses should continually labor for thi- instruction and efficiency of his command. He should encourage among his officers harmonious relations and a friendly spirit of emulation in the perform- ance of duty. His timely interference to prevent disputes, his advice to the inexperienced, and immediate censure of any conduct liable to produce dissen- sion in his command, or to reflect discredit upon it, are of great importance in securing and maintaining its efficiency. In such efforts i.e will receive the loyal support of his subordinates. 78 THE OOAST AJRTILLBKY COEPS. 307. The coast defense command staff consists of the coast defense adju- tant, coast defense quartermaster, coast defense ordnance officer, and the coast defense artillery engineer. They are appointed from the officers serving in the command by the coast defense commander, who will confine his selection to Uie allowance published from time to time in orders from the War Department. Should the officers selected be assigned to companies, application will be made for their transfer to the unassigned list. The names of the officers selected and any change in the officers on these duties will be promptly reported to The Adjutant General of the Army. 308. The coast defense adjutant is, under the coast defense commander, responsible for the discipline and efficiency of the Coast Artillery Corps non- commissioned staff and band assigned to coast defense headquarters. Master electricians, engineers, electrician sergeants, first class, electrician sergeants, second class, master gunners, and firemen are under the supervision of the artillery engineer of the coast defense command or post to which they are assigned. A coast defense command staff officer may be attached to a company for duty or assigned to any staff duty by the coast defense commander. 309. The coast defense command records consist of an order file, a corre- spondence booli and document file, all orders, circulars, and instructions from higher authority, and all returns and reports concerning the command or affecting its personnel. NONCOMMISSIONED STAIT OFFICERS. 310. The Coast Artillery Corps noncommissioned staff officers consist of sergeants major, senior grade ; master electricians ; engineers ; sergeants major, junior grade ; electrician sergeants, first class ; assistant engineers ; master gunners ; electrician sergeants, second class ; radio sergeants ; and firemen. They are appointed upon the recommendation of the Chief of Coast Artillery after due examination under rules announced from time to time by the War Department. They will be furnished with warrants signed by the Chief of Coast Artillery. The appointment takes effect on the day upon which it is made and the warrant may be continued in force upon discharge and reenlistment if reenlistment be made on the day following that of discharge. Any noncommissioned officer enlisted on or after the first day of November, nineteen hundred and sixteen, furloughed to the reserve upon the completion of three years in the active service with an excellent character, shall be per- mitted to reenlist in the organization from which furloughed with the rank and grade held by him at the time of his furlough if he reenlists within 20 days after the date of such furlough. In each case the soldier will reenlist at the place where his organization is stationed. Each reenlistment and con- tinuance will be noted on the warrant by the coast defense commander and The Adjutant General of the Army will be informed of the fact. The noncom- missioned staff officers, though liable to discharge for inefficiency or misconduct, will not be reduced except by sentelice of a court-martial. Each noncommissioned staff officer of the Coast Artillery Corps, changing station under proper orders, upon arrival at his new station will report to The Adjutant General of the Army the date on which he left his former station and the date on which he reported for duty at his new station, such report to be forwarded directly by the coast defense commander. Similar report will be made both upon departure for and return from any detached duty, furlough, or other absence, except that when detached duty or other absence of a temporary character is directed by a coast defense commander, and Involves duty within his command, the report will not be made. The COUNCILS OP ADMINISTRATION. 79 report of departure on furlough will state the length thereof and the authority under which it is granted. When a noncommissioned stafC officer of the Coast Artillery Corps Is dis- charged or reduced the officer under whose command he is serving will notify The Adjutant General of the Army as early as practicable of the date, place, and cause of discharge or reduction; in case of discharge the report will state whether or not the soldier reenlisted on the day following that of dis- charge. (C. A. R., Nos. 51 and 54.) 311. The appropriate duties of Coast Artillery Corps noncommissioned staff officers are announced from time to time in orders. (C. A. R., No. 51.) 812. A Coast Artillery Corps noncommissioned staff officer may be reenlisted provided he shall have conducted himself properly and performed his duties in a satisfactory manner. If, however, his commanding officer should not deem the reenlistment to be for the best Interests of the service, he will communicate his reasons to The Adjutant General of the Army in time to receive the decision of the War Department before the soldier is discharged. COAST ABTILLEKY PBAOTICE. 313. The details of the methods of conducting technical Instruction, target practice, and competitions of the Coast Artillery Corps will be prescribed in orders and instructions from the War Department. 814. The allowance of ammunition for the instruction and practice of the Coast Artillery will be determined each year and announced In general orders from the War Department. 815. Targets and target material for Coast Artillery practice will be provided by the Ordnance Department. The Quartermaster Corps wUl furnish all neces- sary assistance in placing, removing, and storing targets. ABTICLE XXXII. Councils or Administbation. 316. Post exchange, aero squadron, company, and mess councils of adminis- tration are assembled to audit the exchange, aero squadron, company, and mess funds, respectively, to ascertain and examine the sources from which and methods by which they have accrued, and to recommend expenditures there- from. The post exchange officer, aero squadron, and company commanders are, respectively, the custodians of the exchange and company funds. (C. A. B., No. 33.) 317. On the last day of each quarter, and when necessary, the general mess council will be convened by the post commander. The post exchange, aero squadron, and company councils will meet at the end of each month and when necessary. The mess, exchange, aero squadron, and company councils will also meet at the call of their presidents. The post exchange council will consist of the officer In charge of the exchange and the commanding officer of each organi- zation participating in the exchange. It may delegate to an executive committee of its own members the performance of such portion of the duties prescribed for the council as the council may decide. The aero squadron council will consist of the squadron comm'ander, the second ranking officer in the squadron, and the squadron mess officer. The company council will consist of all officers present for duty with the company, and the mess council of the commanders of the several companies participating in the general mess. The council to audit the hospital fund will consist of the three senior officers on duty at the hospital. 80 REGIMENTAL, COMPANY, AND MESS FUNDS. or as many as are available If less than three. A formal order convening the areo squadron, company, or post exchange council is not necessary. (O. A. R., No. 33.) 318. The junior member of each council will record its proceedings in an appropriate book, to include a vs^ritten certificate of the responsible officer that the funds are on deposit in a reputable banking institution named in the certifi- cate, or a statement that they have been exhibited to the council, which pro- ceedings win be signed by the president and recorder. The post or other com- mander will require the proceedings to be kept as this regulation prescribes and will decide disagreements in those of company councils. Those of the exchange and mess councils will be submitted to the post or other commander, who will sign his approval or objection in the council book. Should the post or other commander disapprove the proceedings, and the council, after reconsideration, adhere to its conclusions, a copy of the proceedings will be sent by the com- manding officer to the department commander, whose decision thereon will be final. The final orders in each case will be entered in the council book. 319. The post exchange council will fix laundry charges and prices charged by tradesmen for making and repairing uniforms of enlisted men. 320. The commanding officer who approves the appropriations of a council, and in the matter of the company fund the company commander, will be held responsible for all expenditures not made in accordance with regulations. 321. In ease of loss of regimental, exchange, company, or mess funds, the circumstances will be carefully investigated and reported by a board of three officers, with recommendation as to responsibility, for the 'decision of the de- partment commander. AB.TICLE xxxrri. Begimental, Company, and Mess Funds. genekax peovisions. 322. The purchase from regimental, company, or mess funds of any article wliich can be obtained on requisition from a supply department is forbidden, except that, with the approval of the post commander, such articles may be pur- chased if necessity exists for their immediate use and they are not on hand for issue at the post. 323. No projects by which money will accrue will be entered upon under color of military control without specific authority from the War Department. 324. Under no circumstances wiU regimental, company, mess, hospital, post exchange, or band funds be taken away from the post where the organization to which they pertain is stationed, except as may be necessary to pay Indebtedness or for deposit in a bank. Should the officer who is custodian of any of these funds be absent from the post, on leave or otherwise, for any period beyond three and less than 10 days he will leave the funds with the officer acting in his place, taking memorandum receipt therefor. If an officer is to be absent for more than 10 days he will regularly transfer the funds of which he is custodian to his successor In transferring funds to the successor, the accountable officer will make the following certificate, including list of outstanding debts and obligations in the fund or council book and on the statement of the hospital fund : I certify that, to the best of my knowledge and belief, the following is a complete and accurate statement of all outstanding debts and obligations to datef payable from this EEGIMENTAL, COMPANY, AND MESS FUNDS. 81 In case there are no outstanding debts or obligations he will certify accord- 'ingly. Company, post exchange, and other funds referred to in paragraph 316 will, if deposited in a bank, be placed under their ofHcial designation, as, for example, " Company Fund, Company B, Twenty-first Infantry," and not to the credit of the officer who is custodian. (C. A. B., No. 6.) REGIMENTAL FUND. 325. This fund consists of the gross amounts received on account of the band, from post exchange profits, voluntary contributions, amounts retained for regimental use from proceeds of private engagements of the band, from sale of articles purchased, or from any other source. The adjutant will be the treas- urer of the fund, and will disburse it under the direction of the regimental commander for the promotion of the efflceincy of the band and for such objects as facilitate the transaction of regimental business. A record of all receipts and expenditures and a complete list of property purchased will be kept in the regimental fund book. 326. In the case of the Engineer band and in Coast Artillery Corps com- mands to which bands are assigned the corresponding fund will be designated " The band fund," and will in all particulars be governed by the same rules as regimental funds, except that all funds, property, and records pertaining to this fund are transferred with the bands. The senior Engineer or Coast Artillery Corps officer of the command and his adjutant perform the duties prescribed for regimental commander and adjutant, respectively, in case of regimental funds. This fund will be kept distinct from the company fund of the band, authorized by paragraph 327. (C. A. R., No. Jf7.) 326^. At recruit depots, where one of the recruit companies is organized as a band, the corresponding fund will be designated " The recruit depot head- quarters fund," and will in all particulars be governed by the same rules as regimental funds. The commanding officer of the recruit depot and his adjutant perform the duties prescribed for regimental commander and adjutant, respec- tively, in the case of the recruit depot headquarters fund. This fund will be kept distinct from any company fund of the recruit-depot band. (C. A. R., No. 18.) COMPANY AND MESS FUNDS. 327. The company fund, which will consist of the gross amounts of money received from all sources, is received by the company commander and, with the concurrence of the company council, is disbursed by him solely for the benefit of the company. The fund of the hospital, or of a detachment or band having a separate mess, is regarded as a company fund. Moneys accruing to the fund of a detachment of the Medical Department, together with the proceeds from the ration and savings account of the sick in hospital, and the commutation of rations paid to the surgeon conformably to paragraph 1212, belong to the hospital fund. The establishment of company* tailor shops, barber shops, and of company billiard and pool tables, and, subject to the approval of the post exchange coun- cil, of company shoe repair shops and company laundries from which revenues may be derived, is authorized. The post exchange council will fix the rates of salaries to be allowed attendants for company-owned equipment of these func- tions, and the rates of percentages to accrue to the company fund for the col- lection of soldiers' accounts due to individuals for privately-owned equipment 79733°— 18 6 82 BEGIMENTAL, COMPANY, AND MESS FUNDS. of these functions. All funds accruing therefrom will be accounted for as part of the company fund. (O. A. R., No. 55.) 828. The company commander will keep an account of the company fund and also a complete list of property, with cost thereof, purchased from said fund. The company fund account will be inspected by the post, regimental, battalion, or squadron commander at least once each quarter. 3284. The chaplain's fund will consist of the gross amount of money re- ceived from all sources for such fund. The chaplain will keep an account of this fund and also a complete list of all property purchased from this fund or donated for the use of the command or station. The chaplain's fund account will be inspected by the post, regimental, battalion, or squadron commander at least once each quarter. The chaplain's fund will pertain to that particular post or organization for which it was originally intended and remain with such post or organization when a chaplain is transferred. At a station where there are two or more chaplains on duty the commanding officer will designate the chaplain to account for the fund and property pertain- ing to the station separate from the fund and property pertaining to any organization at that station. (C. A. R., No. 23.) 329. Extra compensation may be paid to enlisted men from company or general mess funds as follows: From a company fund, 25 cents a day to one private detailed on special duty as assistant cook for a company whose author- ized strength Is fixed at 100 or more enlisted men and only two cooks authorized by law, and 25 cents a day to one private detailed as cook for a headquarters company or troop (provisional) or a machine-gun company or troops (provisional) whose authorized strength does not exceed 50 men, and to one additional private for each additional 50 men or major fraction thereof, from a general mess fund, not exceeding $2 a day, or from the general mess fund of a recruit depot, not exceeding $3 a day, to be apportioned by the mess council among the necessary regular attendants ; but no extra compensation from company or general mess funds shall be paid to any soldier holding the statutory grade of cook or mess sergeant. Of this $2 (or $3 at recruit depots) the mess council may allot to the mess steward (who may be a noncommissioned officer) a per diem of 50 cents, and in addition thereto a share of the remaining $1.50 (or $2.50 at recruit depots). One cook of a company and such of the regular attendants of a general mess as the commanding officer may designate will be inspected and mustered in the kitchen or mess hall. Cooks may be excused from the ordinary post duties and from target practice, but the attendants may be excused from the ordinary post duties only. In case the mess stewards and cooks at recruit depots are graduates of the schools for bakers and cooks, extra-duty pay will be paid to them by the Quartermaster Corps at the following rates, approved by the Secretary of War : To mess stewards, $1 a day, and to cooks, 50 cents a day, and they will receive no further extra commensation. (0. A. R., Nos. 32 and li9.) 330. An officer appointed by the post commander will, under his direction, conduct the general mess alfairs, make necessary purchases, and have charge of the mess fund. Quarterly and when relieved he will submit to the mess council a statement of all business dealings and money transactions, with proper vouchers. Upon the call of the mess council he will furnish information re- garding the condition and management of the mess. A company on taking the field or withdrawing from a general mess will be entitled to a just share of the fund thereof, to be determined by the mess council, approved by the post commander. LIBEAEIES, READING ROOMS, POST LAUNDRIES. 83 ARTICLE XXXIV. LiBEAEiEs, Readikg Rooms, Post Laundkies. 331. At each permanent post suitable rooms will be set apart for use as library, reading room, chapel, and school. The Quartermaster General will procure and forward to post libraries such newspapers and periodicals, and to post schools such schoolbooks, stationery, and school material for the use of enlisted men as are authorized by the Secretary of War. Newspapers and periodicals will not be taken from the library; schoolbooks will not be taken from the schoolroom except for the proper use of those attending the post school. These books and periodicals are intended especially for the use of enlisted men. Books for post chapel services are not furnished by the Govern- ment. The library and reading rooms may be used by officers in such manner as not to interfere with their use by enlisted men. The post commander wiTl detail an officer as post librarian, who will have charge of the post library. (O. A. R., No. 10.) 332. On December 31 of every year each officer in charge of a post or regi- mental library will render to The Adjutant General of the Army a return of all books on hand in or pertaining thereto, the return to be forwarded directly by the post or regimental commander. Such books as are required by regulations to be accounted for on property returns shall not be included in the library returns. Post and regimental commanders will examine the returns and certify thereon that the books in the library are accounted for as required by orders and regulations. 333. Department adjutants will, on December 31 of each year, render to The Adjutant General of the Army returns of all library books on hand in their charge. These returns will be in addition to the property returns required to be made by them under paragraph 200. The necessary blank forms for returns of books will be furnished by The Adjutant General of the Army, and the returns will be made in accordance with the directions printed upon the blanks. 334. When library books are damaged or lost, the fact will be reported to the commanding officer by the librarian, and the person responsible for the loss or damage will be required to replace the book by a new copy, or to pay its value in money to the librarian to enable him to procure one. 335. Valuable books pertaining to a post library which have become un- serviceable by fair wear and tear will, when practicable, be repaired, and the cost of repair will be a proper charge against the funds of the post exchange. 336. Books received from the War Department will be promptly acknowl- edged and, together with all library books received from other sources, will be taken up on the return. 337. Inspectors general will, at the annual inspection of posts, examine the "aethods adopted for the care and preservation of the library, condemn and (destroy such books as may be unserviceable and worthless, and note action in their reports of the inspections of the posts. 388. The necessary orders for the disposition of the books on hand when a post is abandoned or discontinued will be given by the War Department. 339. At any post where building material can be obtained without expense to the Government, and it is desired to erect buildings by labor of the troops for use as post exchanges, gymnasiums, bowling alleys, and other places of amusement, the post commander is authorized to use the necessary teams and such tools, window sash, doors, and other material as may be on hand and can be spared. 34 POST EXCHANGES. 340. The Quartermaster Corps Is authorized to transport gymnastic and athletic appliances, purchased with regimental or company funds, for the use of troops, from the nearest market to the post or station of the troops. In all cases of necessary removal the articles supplied for use in bakeries, libraries, reading rooms, schools, and gymnasiums will also be transported by the Quartermaster Corps. 341. Post laundries are established and maintained under special regula- tions by the War Department. The amount of indebtedness of a soldier to a post laundry contracted in accordance with such regulations will be noted on the pay rolls for the current month and will be deducted, if practicable, from his pay by the quartermaster making the payment and turned over to the officer in charge of the laundry, who will duly receipt to the quartermaster and the soldier for the amount so received. Where the soldier is detached the amount due the laundry will be noted on the detachment pay roll or descriptive list, and will be deducted by the quarter- master at the next payment and forwarded to the officer in charge of the laundry in which the indebtedness was incurred. In case of the discharge of a soldier the amount of any such indebtedness will be noted on the final state- ment and will be similarly deducted from payment made thereon and trans- mitted to the officer in charge of the laundry. ARTICLE XXXV. Post Gabdens. 342. Commanding officers of posts at or near which suitable public lands are available will set aside for post gardens such ground as may be necessary for the production of vegetables for the command, and will cause it to be culti- vated by the garrison ; or if the commanding officer so elects, he ma^ apportion it among the organizations for cultivation by them. 343. Seeds for post gardens may be procured from post exchange funds, or from company funds. 344. Department commanders will give such instructions as may be neces- sary for carrying these regulations into effect and for the proper distribution of products of gardens among those entitled to them. Surplus products may be sold and the proceeds divided among the company funds of the garrison accord- ing to strength of companies. ARTICLE XXXVI. Post Exchanges. 345. Post exchanges are^ established and maintained under special regula- tions issued by the War Department. The amount of indebtedness of a soldier to a post exchange contracted in accordance with such regulations will be noted on the pay roll for the next succeeding month and be deducted, if practicable, from his pay by the quarter- master making the payment and turned over to the post exchange officer, who will duly receipt to the quartermaster and the soldier for the amount so received. In case of discharge of a soldier the amount of any such indebtedness will be noted on the final statement, and in like manner be deducted from payment made thereon. 346. The sale of, or dealing in, beer, wine, or any intoxicating liquors by any person in any post exchange or canteen or Army transport, or upon any FIELD ABTILLERY, MACHINE GUN, AND SMALL-AEMS PBACTIGH. 85 premises used for military purposes by the United States, is proliiblted. Com- manding officers will carry the provisions of this paragraph into full force and effect, and will be held strictly responsible that no exceptions or evasions are permitted within their respective jurisdictions. AKTICLE XXXVII. Visits to Lake and Seacoast Defenses. 847. Commanding officers of posts at which are located lake or coast de- fenses are charged with the responsibility of preventing, as far as practicable, visitors from obtaining information relative to such defenses which would prob- ably be communicated to a foreign power, and to this end may prescribe and enforce appropriate regulations governing visitors to their posts. American citizens whose loyalty to their Government is unquestioned may be permitted to visit such portions of the defenses as the commanding officer deems proper. 3480 The taking of photographic or other views of permanent works of de- fense will not be permitted. Neither written nor pictorial descriptions of these works will be made for publication without the authority of the Secretary of War, nor will any information be given concerning them which is not con- tained in the printed reports and documents of the War Department. ARTICLE XXXVIII. Field Abtilleky, Machine Gun, and Small-Abms Pbactice. 349. Small-arms practice will be conducted and reports thereof made in accordance witli the authorized firing manual and orders from the War De- partment. 360. The aggregate allowance of small-arms ammunition for any company will be expended at such times during the year as the department commander may direct; or, in the absence of specific directions, as the post and company commanders may determine. When not used in target practice, small-arms ammunition may, in the discretion of the post and company commanders, be expended in hunting. 351. In ail classes of authorized target practice the Ordnance Department will provide the requisite targets, streamers, and flags. The quartermaster will set up the targets, prepare the range, and construct shelters for the markers. Flour for making paste for use in target practice will be issued by the quarter- master. 362. The details of the methods of conducting the technical instruction and target practice of Field Artillery troops and the target practice of troops charged with the service of machine guns will be announced in orders and instructions from the War Department. 353. The allowance of ammunition for small-arms practice, for the instruc- tion of the Field Artillery, and for target practice with machine guns will be fixed in orders from the War Department. 354. Where hunting for game is practicable the men will be encouraged to hunt, and for this purpose company commanders may permit their men to pur- chase cartridges, if the supply warrants it, such sales to be accounted for on the returns of ordnance. ( C. A. R., No. 38. ) 86 KOSTER, DETACHMENTS, AND DAILY SERVICE. ARTICLE XXXIX. RosTBE, Detachments, and Daely Sbbtice. THE EOSTEB. 356. A roster is a list of officers or men for duty, with a record of the duty performed by each. Generally details for duty are so made that the one longest off is the first for detail. Details so made are said to be made by roster. 356. 'AH details for service in garrison and in the field, except the author- ized special and extra duty details, will be by roster ; but officers or enlisted men when detailed must serve whether a roster be kept or not. 357. The duties performed by roster are of two classes. The first comprises (1) outposts; (2) interior guards, including stable guards; (3) detachments to protect laborers on military works ; (4) armed working parties on such works. Soldiers march armed and, if necessary, fully equipped on all duties of^this class. The second class comprises all other duties and fatigue, in or out of the garrison or camp. The rosters are distinct for each class. 358. Lieutenant colonels and majors are on one hoster, and may be detailed when the importance of the duty requires it. In the field their roster is kept at division and brigade headquarters. Captains form one roster, and are exempt from ordinary fatigue duties. Lieutenants form one rSster, but when conditions make it advisable captains and lieutenants may be placed on one roster, or one or more of the senior lieutenants may be placed on the captains' roster. Ser- geants, corporals, musicians, and privates form distinct rosters. 859. Unless otherwise ordered by the commanding officer, officers, noncom- missioned officers, and privates take duties of the first class in the order stated in paragraph 357, viz, the first for detail takes the outposts, the next the inte- rior guards, and so on. In those of the second class the senior officer takes the largest party. The party first for detail takes the service out of camp. 360. In making details by roster, an officer or enlisted man Is each day charged with the number of days that he has remained present and available since the beginning of his last tour. Departures from this rule may be au- thorized by the commanding officer whenever a strict application would allow improper advantage or work hardship. 361. When an officer has been detailed and is not present or available at the hour of marching, the next after him takes the duty. When an outpost has passed the chain of sentinels, or an interior guard has reached Its post, the officer whose tour it was can not take it unless so ordered by the commanding officer. 362. Duties of the first class are credited on the roster when the guards or detachments have passed the chain of sentinels or an interior guard has reached its post ; other duties, when the parties have entered upon their performance. 363. An officer or enlisted man on duty of the first class, or who is next for detail for such duty, is available, when relieved, for duty of the second class that has fallen to him during that time. Except in emergencies, no duty will be required of the old officer of the day or the old guard until four hours after they have been relieved. 364. Detachments of the Signal Corps shall be exempt from detail for any other duty, except when in the judgment of the commanding officer the impor- tance of the duty will not permit exemption. DETACHMENTS. 365. As far as the exigencies of the service will permit, detachments for all service will be formed by taking battalions, companies, platoons, or other sub- divisions in turn, according to the roster. EOSTEB, DETACHMENTS, AND DAILY SERVICE. 87 366. Officers or enlisted men detailed for detached serice while on other duty will be relieved from that duty, if practicable, in time to march with the detachment. 367. When a detachment is to be formed from the different organizations of a command, the adjutant or adjutant general forms its contingent, verifies the details, and sends it to the place of assembly, or turns it over to the detachment commander. 368. When detachments meet, the command is regulated while they serve together as if they formed one command, but the senior officer can not prevent the commander of any detachment from moving when he thinks proper to exe- cute the orders he has received. 369. On the return of a detachment its commander reports to the head- quarters from which he received his orders. DAILY SEKVICE. 370. There will be daily, Sundays and holidays excepted, at least two roll calls, viz, at reveille and retreat. Commanding officers may also order roll calls in special cases at such times as they deem necessary. The roll will be called on the company parade by the first sergeant, superintended by a commissioned officer. If companies are quartered together or in contiguous barracks, one officer may superintend the roll call of two or more of them, provided he can do so efficiently, commanding officers regulating the practice in this regard. Ordinarily there will not be any formation for roll call at tattoo, but the pre- scribed signal will be sounded, and 15 minutes thereafter lights in squad rooms will be extinguished and all noises and loud talking will cease. Call to quarters will be sounded at 10.45 p. m. and taps at 11. At taps all lights not authorized by the commanding officer will be extinguished. Reveille roll call in garrison will not ordinarily take place earlier than 5.30 a. m. in summer, or 6.30 a. m. in winter. On Sundays and holidays reveille roU call may be dis- pensed with in the discretion of the commanding officer. (C A.'R., No. 25.) 371. Mess call In garrison will be sounded daily as follows : For breakfast, 30 minutes after reveille roll call ; for dinner, not earlier than 12 m. nor later than 12.15 p. m. ; for supper, not earlier than 5 nor later than 6.30 p. m. Meals for enlisted men will be served promptly at the hours appointed, and the duties of the post, as far as compatible with the requirements of the service, will be so arranged that all the men may be present. The men will be allowed at least 20 minutes for breakfast and supper and 30 minutes for dinner. 372. Except at the ceremony of parade, the result of a roll call will be reported after the companies have been dismissed to the officer superintending the call, who will report the result to the commanding officer. 373. In camp and garrison the commanding officer fixes the hours for re- ports, issues, and roll calls, and for the performance of stated duties and fatigues. In garrison, retreat will be not later than sunset. The signals wiU be sounded by the field musicians in accordance with authorized drill regula- tions. 374. After breakfast, and after stable duty hi the mounted service, the tents or quarters and adjacent ground will be policed by the men of the companies and the guardhouse or guard tent by the prisoners, or by members of the guard if there be no prisoners. g8 HONORS, COURTESIES, AND CEREMONIES. ARTICLE XL. Honors, Couktesies, and Cebemonies. 375. 1. The President of the United States will be received with regimental standards or colors, officers and troops saluting, the drums giving four ruffles and the bugles sounding four flourisljes. The ruffles and flourishes will be followed by the national anthem, or, in the absence of a band, the field music or bugles will sound " To the Color." 2. An ex-President and the Vice President of the United States will be received with the same honors as prescribed for the Preident, except that the flourishes will be followed by a march in lieu of the national anthem. 3. The President of a foreign republic, a foreign sovereign, or a member of a royal family will be received with the same honors as prescribed in sub- paragraph 1, except that the national anthem of his country will be played. 4. Officers of the following grades of rank will be received with regimental standards or colors, officers and troops saluting, and field music playing as follows: General, four ruffles and flourishes; lieutenant general, three ruffles and flourishes; major general, two ruffles and flourishes; brigadier general, one ruffle and flourish. In tendering honors to a general officer or official of like rank, the Gen- erals' March will be played immediately after the flourishes. ( G. A. R., No. 50. ) 376. To the members of the Cabinet, the Chief Justice, the President pro tempore of the Senate, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, American or foreign ambassadors, and governors within their respective States and Ter- ritories the same honors are paid as to the general, except that a foreign am- bassador will be received with the national anthem of his country, and that the number of guns fired as personal salute will be as prescribed in paragraph 400 ; to the Assistant Secretary of War and to American or foreign envoys or ministers the same honors as to the lieutenant general; to officers of the Navy the honors due to their relative rank ; to officers of marines and volunteers, and militia when in the service of the United States, the honors due to like grades in the regular service ; to officers of a foreign service the honors due to their rank. In rendering personal honors, when the command presents arms, officers and men in uniform who are not in formation and are in view and within saluting distance shall salute and shall remain in the position of salute until the end of ruffles and flourishes, or, if none, until " order arms." (C A. R., No. 50.) 377. The national or regimental color or standard, uncased, passing a guard or other armed body will be saluted, the field music sounding " To the Color " or " To the Standard." Officers or enlisted men passing the uncased color will ren- der the prescribed salute ; with no arms in hand, the salute will be the hand salute, using the right hand, the headdress not to be removed. 378. Whenever the national anthem is played at any place when persons be- longing to the military service are present, all officers and enlisted men not in formation shall stand at attention facing toward the music (except at retreat, when they shall face toward the flag). If in uniform, covered or uncovered, or in civilian clothes, uncovered, they shall salute at the first note of the anthem, retaining the position of salute until the last note of the anthem. If not In uniform and covered, they shall uncover at the first note of the anthem, holding HONORS, COURTESIES, AND CEREMONIES. 89 the headdress opposite the left shoulder and so remain until its close, except that in inclement weather the headdress may be held slightly raised. The same rules apply when "To the Color" or "To the Standard" is. sounded as when the national anthem is -played. When played by an Army band, the national anthem shall be played through without repetition of any part not required to be repeated to make it complete. The same marks of respect prescribed for observance during the playing of the national anthem of the United States shall be shown toward the national anthem of any other country when played upon official occasions. (C. A. R., Nos. 5 and 50.) 879. No honors are paid by troops when on the march or in trenches, except that they may be called to attention, and no salute is rendered when marching in double time or at the trot or gallop. 380. The commanding officer Is saluted by all commissioned officers in com- mand of troops or detachments. Troops under arms will salute as prescribed in drill regulations. 381. When making or receiving official reports or on meeting out of doors all officers will salute. Military courtesy requires the junior to salute first, but when the salute is introductory to a report made at a military ceremony or formation to the representative of a common superior — as, for example, to the adjutant, officer of the day, etc. — the officer making the report, whatever his rank, will salute first ; the officer to whgm the report is made will acknowl- edge, by saluting, that he has received- and understood, the report. {C. A. R., No. 50.) 382. 1. Salutes shall be exchanged between officers and enlisted men not in a military formation, nor at drill, work, games, or mess, on every occasion of their meeting, passing near, or being addressed, the officer junior in rank or the enlisted man saluting first. 2. When an officer enters a room where there are several enlisted men, the word " attention " is given by some one who perceives him. when all rise, un- cover, and remain standing at attention until the officer leaves the room or di- rects otherwise. Enlisted men at meals stop eating and remain seated at attention. 3. An enlisted man, if seated, rises on the approach of an officer, faces toward him, stands at attention, and salutes. Standing, he faces an officer for the same purpose. If the parties remain in the same place or on the same ground, such compliments need not be repeated. Soldiers actually at work do not cease work to salute an officer unless addressed by him. 4. Before addressing an officer, an enlisted man makes the prescribed salute with the weapon with which he Is armed, or, if unarmed, with the right hand. He also makes the same salute after receiving a reply. (0. A. R., No. 50.) 383. 1. In uniform covered or uncovered, but not in formation, officers and enlisted men salute military persons as follows : With arms in hand, the salute prescribed for that arm (sentinels on interior guard duty excepted) ; without arms, the right-hand salute. 2. In civilian dress covered or uncovered, officers and enlisted men salute military persons with the right-hand salute. 3. Officers and enlisted men will render the prescribed salutes in a military manner, the officer junior in rank or the enlisted man saluting first. When several officers in company are saluted, all entitled to the salute shall return it. 4. Except in the field under campaign or simulated campaign conditions, a mounted officer (or soldier) dismounts before addressing a superior officer not mounted. 90 HONOES, COURTESIES, AND CEEEMONIES. 5. A man in formation shall not salute when directly addressed, but shall come to attention if at rest or at ease. (0. A. R., No. 50.) 384. 1. Saluting distance is that within which recognition is easy. In general, it does not exceed 30 paces. 2. When an officer entitled to the salute passes in rear of a body of troops it is brought to attention while he is opposite the post of the commander. 3. In public conveyances, such as railway trains and street cars, and in public places, such as theaters, honors and personal salutes may be omitted when palpably inappropriate or apt to disturb or annoy civilians present. (0. A. B., Nos. 33 and 50.) 385. 1. Salutes to the national anthem or when " To the Color " (or " Stand- ard") is sounded during ceremonies will be as prescribed in regulations, as herein amended. 2. Officers and enlisted men passing the uncased color will render honors as follows : If in uniform they will salute as required in subparagraph 1 of para- graph 383 ; if in civilian dress and covered they will uncover, holding the headdress opposite the left shoulder with the right hand; if uncovered they will salute with the right-hand salute. (O. A. R., No. 50.) 386. Sentinels on post doing interior guard duty conform to the foregoing principles, but salute by presenting arms when armed with the rifle. They will not salute if it interferes with the proper performance of their duties. Troops under arms will salute as prescribed in drill regulations. (0. A. R., No. 50.) 387. 1. Commanders ^f detachments • or other commands will salute oflicers of grades higher than the person commanding the unit by first bringing the unit to attention and then saluting as required in subparagraph 1 of paragraph 383. If the person saluted is of a junior or equal grade the unit need not be at attention in the exchange of salutes. 2. If two detachments or other commands meet, their commanders will ex- change salutes, both commands being at attention. (O. A. R., No. 50.) 388. Salutes and honors as a rule are not paid by troops actually engaged in drill, on the march, or in the field under campaign or simulated campaign conditions. Troops on the service of security pay no compliments whatever (C. A. R., No. 50.) 389. If the command is in line at a halt (not in the field) and armed with the rifle, or with sabers drawn, it shall be brought to " present arms " or " pre- sent sabers" before its commander salutes in the following cases: When the national anthem is played, or when "To the Color" or "To the Standard" is sounded during ceremonies, or when a person is saluted who is its immediate or higher commander or a general officer, or when the national or regimental color is saluted. (C A. R., No. 50.) 390. At parades and other ceremonies, under arms, the command shall render the prescribed salute and shall remain in the position of salute while the national anthem is being played ; also at retreat and during ceremonies when "To the Color" is played if no band is present. If not under arms the organizations shall be brought to attention at the first note of the national anthem, "To the Color," or "To the Standard," and the salute rendered by the officer or noncommissioned officer in command as prescribed in regulations as amended herein. (C. A. R., No. 50.) o , 391. No officer in civilian clothes or present informally in uniform shall be saluted with guns or have a guard paraded in his honor. (C. A R No -iO ^ 392. Guards shall not turn out on Sundays as a matter of compUment for officers of the United States Army, Navy, or Marine Corps. {O. A. R No 50 ) HONORS, COTJETESIES, AND CEREMONIES. 91 392i, Soldiers at all times and in uU situations pay tlie same compliments to officers of the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and Volunteers, and to officers of the National Guard in uniform as to officers of their own regiment, corps, or arm of service. ( G. A. R., No. 50. ) SALUTES WITH CANNON. 393. Salutes with cannon will be fired under charge of commissioned officers, who shall be present at the firing and direct it. Guns using metallic-case ammunition will be used whenever practicable ; in their absence other breech-loading guns should preferably be used. Muzzle- loaders -will be used only when breechloaders are not available. When using muzzle-loading guns a sufficient number should be employed, if practicable, to avoid the necessity of firing the same gun a second time. For muzzle-loading guns, or breechloaders using cartridge bags, the bags will be made of silk, measuring in length at least one and one-half times their diam- eter, and care will be taken that the sponges are not worn and that they thoroughly fill the chamber or bore of the gun, and when the. same gun is fired more than once, that the intervals between the discharges are sufficient to allow the chamber or bore to be thoroughly sponged and chamber of breech- loaders examined. Unless all of these conditions be fulfilled salutes will not be fired with these classes of guns. The minimum number of pieces with which saUites may be fired is 1 for rapid-fire and field guns using metallic-case ammunition, 2 for breechloaders using cartridge bags, 4 for siege, and 6 for seacoast guns. When practicable, rapid-fire guns will be used for saluting purposes. 394. The rapidity with which pieces are discharged during a salute depends upon their caliber. Subject to the restrictions of the preceding paragraph, guns of 4-inch caliber or less should have intervals of 5 seconds between dis- charges ; guns of over 4-inch caliber, 10 seconds. When a single field gun is used to fire a salute the interval between dis- charges should be 10 seconds. 396. When muzzle-loading guns are used, the pieces for a salute should, if possible, be of the same or equivalent caliber. If the number of guns in the saluting battery admits of it, the entire number required and two or three over should be loaded and made ready previous to commencing the salute ; the de- tachments are then dispensed- with, and a single cannoneer at-each piece dis- charges it at the proper time. When the number of pieces is insufficient for the entire salute, as many as possible should be used so as to avoid frequent reloadings. The pieces are numbered from right to left — 1, 2, 3, and so on — and each de- tachment or the cannoneer, as the case may be, is made clearly to understand the number of the piece. At the proper moment the officer In charge commands : " Number 1, fire ! " and observing the proper interval, "Number 2, fire!" and so on to the left piece, when he returns to the first and repeats the same commands until the entire number required for the salute is discharged. In order to preserve regu- larity in the fires he will not concern himself with the running number, but will have a capable person to keep count and notify him when the required number of discharges is made. In giving the command " Fire ! " he looks toward the piece to be fired, and gives it in such a pronounced manner, accompanied by a signal with his sword, as to be unmistakable. The cannoneer discharging a piece when its number Is called casts his eye to the officer and, observing the signal as well as the command, fires the piece promptly. Should a piece mis- 92 HONORS, COURTESIES, AND CEREMONIES. fire, the officer immediately commands the next to fire and allows the piece that has missed to remain undischarged until its proper turn comes again. Immedi- ately after each piece is discharged it is reloaded and made ready if there is probability of its being fired again. When troops are drawn up for the reception of a dignitary, and it is prac- ticable to have a battery of field guns on the ground, a salute from it should form part of the ceremony ; otherwise guns in position are used. When field guns are used, it is most appropriate to fire the salute at the place of review, and at the time just previous to the review when the personage arrives on the ground. 396. Salvos are simultaneous discharges from several cannon ; they corre- spond to volleys of musketry and are fired by way of salute only over the graves of officers at the time of burial. The order designating a funeral escort prescribes whether the fire shall be three volleys of musketry or three salvos of artillery. 397. Salutes will not be fired between sunset and sunrise, and not on Sunday unless required by international courtesy. As a general rule, salutes will be fired between 8 a. m. and sunset. The national flag will always be displayed at the time of firing a salute. NATIONAL SALUTES. 398. The national salute is 21 guns. It is also the salute to a national flag. The salute to the Union, commemorative of the Declaration of Independence and consisting of 1 gun for each State, is fired at noon on July 4 at every post provided with suitable artillery. 399. It is the custom of foreign ships of war, on entering a harbor or pass- ing near a fortification, to display at the main the flag of the country in whose waters they are, and to salute it. It is the rule, however, in our own and for- eign navies to fire salutes only between 8 a. m. and sunset. On the completion of the sa.lute to the flag, a salute of the same number of guns will be promptly returned by the designated saluting station. United States vessels return salutes to thf> flag in United States waters only when there is no fort or bat- tery designated to do so. United States vessels do not salute United States forts or posts, and the converse. Saluting stations for the purpose of returning, the salutes of foreign men-of- war in the ports and territorial waters of the United States will be designated in orders from time to time by the War Department. The salute to the flag is the only salute that is returned, and this is invariably done as soon as possible. The time intervening should never "exceed 24 hours. The failure to return such salutes is regarded as a discourtesy or lack of friend- ship justifying the other party in asking an explanation. Notice of an intention to salute the flag is sometimes given by the vessel direct to the fort, but as giving notice involves delay, vessels generally salute without it. Surveying vessels, storeships, and transports do not salute. If notice of intention to salute the flag be received by a fort not the saluting station, such fort Immediately notifies the saluting station and informs the vessel of the fact. PERSONAL SALUTES. 400. The President, both on his arrival at and departure from a military post, or when in its vicinity, receives a salute of 21 guns. No other personal salute is fired In his presence. HONOES, COURTESIES, AND CEKEMONIES. 93 The sovereign or chief magistrate of a foreign country receives the salute pre- scribed for the President ; and members of a royal family receive the salute due their sovereign. No salute to a personage of lesser degree shall be fired in their official presence. An ex-President of the United States receives a salute of 21 guns. The Vice President receives a salute of 19 guns. When officials other than those named visit military posts, they receive salutes as follows: Guns. Ambassadors, members of the Cabinet, and the president pro tempore of the Senate r_ 19 The Chief Justice, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, a com- mittee of Congress officially visiting a military post, governors within their respective States or Territories, or a governor general, and the civil governor of the Philippine Islands 17 The Assistant Secretary of War or the Assistant Secretary of the Navy, when officially visiting a military post ; the vice governor of the Philip- pine Islands, and American or foreign envoys or ministers 15 Ministers resident accredited to the United States 13 Charggs d'affaires 11 Consuls general accredited to the United States 11 The General 17 The Lieutenant General 15 Major general 13 Brigadier general 11 The term " governor general " shall be taken to mean an administrative officer under whom officers with the title of governor are acting. 401. As a rule, a personal salute is to be fired when the personage entitled to it enters a post. When several persons, each of whom is entitled to a salute, arrive together at a post, the highest in rank or position is alone saluted. If they arrive suc- cessively, each is saluted in turn. An officer assigned to duty according to his brevet rank is entitled to the salute prescribed for the grade to which he is assigned. A retired general officer making an official visit is saluted according to his rank. An officer, whether civil, military, or naval, holding two or more positions, either of which entitles him to a salute, receives only the salute due to the highest grade. In no event is the same person to be saluted in more than one capacity. Personal salutes at the same place and in compliment to the same person, whether civil, diplomatic, military, or naval, are never to be fired oftener than once a year, unless such person shall have been in the meantime advanced in rank. 402. Officers of the Navy are saluted according to their relative rank; officers of marines and of the volunteer forces or militia in the service of the United States, and officers of foreign services, are saluted according to rank. 403. When a civil functionary entitled to a salute arrives at a military post, the commanding officer meets or calls upon him as soon as practicable, and will tender him a review if the garrison consists of not less than four companies. When a general officer visits a post within his command, the troops will be paraded for review, unless he directs otherwise. When a salute is to be given an officer junior to another present at a post, the senior will be notified to that effect by the commanding officer. 94 HONORS^ COURTESIES^ AND CEKEMONIES. 404. In addition to the foregoing, occasions of a public nature frequently arise when salutes are both desirable and proper. Orders will be given in such cases. 405. The flag of a military post will not be dipped by way of salute or com- pliment. VISITS AND COUBTESIES. 406. 1. An officer arriving at the headquarters of a military command, sta- tion, or post, will call upon the commander thereof as soon as practicable and register his name, address, and the probable time of his stay. If the visiting officer be senior to the commander, the former may send his card and his address for registration, in which case it becomes the duty of the commander to make the first call. 2. When any officer arrives at Washington, D. 0., or at the headquarters of a territorial department, he will report as prescribed in paragraph 825. 3. An officer arriving for duty with an organization, a staff department, at the Military Academy, or any of the service schools, will make both an official and a call of courtesy upon the head or commander thereof as soon as prac- ticable. If the arriving officer is the senior, the first call will be made by the junior. 4. In case of large commands or posts, an arriving officer will pay such additional visits as his post, station, or regimental commander may prescribe. Under normal conditions it is considered desirable that at least the arriving field officers should call at the various organization headquarters. 5. Official calls are made at the office of the commanding officer. If made after office hours and the commanding officer is not present, the visiting officer will register, leave his card, and repeat the call informally the follovnng morning during office hours. Social calls will be made at some convenient time at the quarters of the commanding officer. 6. As a rule, juniors will give way to seniors, and at all times juniors vrill show deference to their seniors and will not ignore their presence. These rules will apply whether in vehicles, on horseback, or on foot. In accompany- ing officers, juniors will walk or ride on the left of their seniors, unless there be special reason to the contrary. 7. In case of an organization reporting at a post or station for duty, the commanding officer thereof, accompanied by his staff (if there be one), will immediately make an official call upon the commander of the post or station, as prescribed in subparagraph 1. The commanding officer of the arriving troops may, at his discretion, be accompanied by the other officers of his command. If not accompanied by them at this first visit, he will arrange to present them officially at some convenient time to the post or station commander, unless other- wise directed. A similar procedure will be observed on the departure of an or- ganization from a post or station. 8. A subordinate officer, after reporting officially to the commanding officer of the post, headquarters, or station, will report as soon as practicable to his intermediate commanding officers, presenting to them copies of his assignment or other duty order. An officer returning from leave or detached service makes an official call, without delay, on the post or station commander and upon his intermediate commanders. An officer about to leave the post or station for any length of time will make an official call upon the commander thereof and also upon his intermediate commanding officers. 9. Newly arrived officers will be called upon promptly by the other officers of the post or station. In case of large commands, where the conditions are such as to make this usual custom burdensome or impracticable, the commanding officer HONORS, COURTESIES, AND CEEEMONIES. 95 may prescribe that visits sliall only be exchanged between senior officers, or he may designate officers to make the visits, who shall extend the usual civilities on behalf of all the others, or he may prescribe that no visits of courtesy shall be required. A general officer is not required to return the official visits of officers of his command, except in the case of general officers or colonels ; but when he considers it advisable, return calls on officers of grades junior to colonel shall be made at his direction by aids or other staff officers. 10. The interchange of compliments and visits between officers of the service is of great importance. Failure to pay the civilities customary in official and polite society is to the prejudice of the best interests of the service. The well-estab- lished customs of the Army in this regard will be carried out. (O. A. B., No. 50.) 407. 1. The interchange of official compliments and visits between military and naval officers is international in character and opens the way to official and social courtesies. In cases of vessels of war and transports carrying troops, for- eign or otherwisev recently arrived, it is the duty of the post or station com- mander to send a suitable officer to offer civilities and assistance. This is called the " boarding visit," and it is expected that this civility will be returned. Within 24 hours thereafter, weather permitting, the officer in chief command of the ship or ships or the senior general officer on board the transport or, in case a general officer is not present, then the commanding officer of the troops should visit the commanding officer of the post or station should the latter be his equal or superior in grade. This visit will be returned within 24 hours. Should the naval officer in command or the general officer on board the transport, or in case a general officer is not present, the commanding officer of the troops, be superior in grade to the officer commanding the post or station, the first visit will be paid by the latter. 2. In ports of the United States, whether within the continental limits, out- lying Territories, or in the insular possessions, visits of ceremony between officers of the United States Army and Navy will be governed by the rules laid down In subparagraph 1 of this paragraph. 3. In the interchange of visits between officers in command of Army posts. Territorial or other departments and the naval officers in command of naval sta- tions on shore, whether within the continental limits, outlying Territories, or insular possessions of the United States, the officer already established will send an aid to offer the customary courtesies on the arrivel for duty of a newcomer of the other service. The latter will then make the first visit if of equal or Inferior grade to the former. The officer junior in grade will make the first visit, whether he is the last comer or not. (O. A. B., No. 50.) 408. The following rules prescribed by Navy Regulations shall be observed in regard to the interchange of visits between officers of the United States Navy, United States Army, arid the governors of the United States insular possessions, and outlying territories. 1. When a naval vessel or group of vessels arrives at a port of an island or group of islands or outlying possession of the United States where there is a governor general or governor, holding a commission or appointment as such from the President of the United States, the commander in chief or senior command- ing officer of such vessel or group of vessels will within 24 hours of arrival make the first visit upon such governor general or governor. 2. In case of the temporary absence of such governor general or governor from his post the official duly acting in his stead will receive the same courtesies. 3. Should such governor general or governor find that from indisposition or pressure of important business he is unable to make or return the prescribed visits in person, he will depute his aid or some other official to do so. In like manner should naval commander in chief or senior commanding officer find that from indisposition or pressing occupation he is unable to make the prescribed 96 HONOES, COURTESIES, AND CEREMONIES. visits, he will depute an officer of his staff to do so. In each case the officer failing to make the prescribed visit in person will report the circumstances and state the reasons which led to the omission of the visit to the department under which he is acting. (C. A. R., No. 50.) 409. For the purpose of developing efficiency in intercommunication between signal stations of the Army and the Navy, both on ship and ashore, command- ing officers of seacoast fortifications will at all times encourage the interchange of messages and signals between signal stations at their posts and ships of the Navy or naval stations making use of radio telegraphy and visual signaling. AVhenever, upon entering a harbor of the United States, vessels of the Navy come within signal distance of fortifications and open communication with them, suitable acknowledgment will be made by the Army stations. As far as prac- ticable, the name of the fort, the name and rank of the commanding officer, and such other information as may be of Interest will be communicated. A similar appropriate exchange of signals will be made when a naval vessel leaves a harbor, the initiative being taken by the Navy. Commanding officers of forts provided with radio equipment will issue the necessary orders requir- ing their stations to cooperate with and communicate with all naval radio stations in their vicinity, both on shipboard and ashore, but Army coast radio stations will not be used in the transmittal of official messages in any case where commercial or military telegraph lines are available and where the serv- ice is not between ship and shore. (O. A. R., No. 55.) 410. When a military commander officially visits a vessel of war he will give notice in advance of his intention to do so. He is received at the gangway by the commander of the vessel and is accompanied there by the same officer when leaving. The officer who is sent with the customary offer of civilities is met at the gangway of a vessel of war by the officer of the deck, and is presented by the latter to the commander of the vessel. 411. A vessel of war is approached and boarded by commissioned officers by the starboard side and gangway. In entering a boat, the junior goes first and other officers follow in order of rank ; in leaving a boat, the senior goes first. The latter acknowledges the salutes which are given at the gangway of a naval vessel. 411J. The following regulations of the United States Navy are published for the information of the Army. So far as applicable they will govern Army officers and enlisted men visiting war vessels. 1142. When a chief of staff or any commanding officer of a ship or of a flotilla visits officially another ship of the Navy, he shall be attended at his reception and departure by the commanding officer and, if of or above the grade of lieutenant commander, the guard of the day shall be paraded in his honor. When the chief of staff leaves or returns to the flagship officially, the guard of the day shall be paraded in his honor. 1143. When an officer of the Army or Marine Corps commanding a military post or station, of or above the grade of major and not above the grade of colonel, visits officially any ship of the Navy, he shall receive the same honors as prescribed in Article R 1142. 1165. The officer of the deck shall attend at the gangway on the arrival or departure of any commissioned officer or distinguished visitor. 1166. (1) On the occasion of the official reception or departure of a civil, diplomatic, or consular official or of any commissioned officer of the Navy, Army, Marine Corps, Naval Militia, or Coast Guard, the side shall be piped. HONORS, COURTESIES, AND CEREMONIES. 97 The side shall not be piped for shore boats, but officers in them, if in uniform, shall be so saluted on reaching or leaving the deck. (2) Piping the side for officers not wearing side arms may, by order of the commanding officer, be dispensed with, without distinction of ranlc or grade, on board the ships to which they are attached. -- 1167. Side boys shall attend at the side when the side is piped, as follows, except as noted in (e) below: (a) For officials saluted with 15 or more guns, eight. ( 6 ) For officials saluted with 11 or 13 guns, six. (c) For other officers of and above the rank of commander and for officials entitled to corresponding honors, four. (d) For other commissioned officers of the Navy or Marine Corps and officials entitled to corresponding honors, two. 1168. (1) All honors, except as prescribed in Article R 1165 and such aa social courtesy may demand, shall be dispensed with at the reception or de- parture of all officers under the following circumstances : (a) V/hen they are in plain clothes. (6) When the departure or reception takes place after sunset and before 8 a. m. (except that for foreign officers the side shall be piped). (e) During the meal hours of the crew, for officers of the United States Navy or Marine Corps. • (d) When coaling ship, for officers of the United States Navy or Marine Corps. (e) On board ships having a complement, exclusive of the engineer force, of 125 men or less the attendance of side boys for officers of the United States Navy shall be required on occasions of ceremony, but shall not be required on ordinary occasions. When the side is piped for officers of the United States Army or of foreign services, side boys shall be in attendance between 8 a. m. and sunset. (2) The guard and band shall not be paraded on Sundays for ships or officers of the United States Navy and Marine Corps. 1169. Sentries at the gangways shall salute all officers in uniform when going or coming over the side. All sentries on the upper decks, or in view frmo out- side, shall salute all commissioned officers passing them close aboard, in boats or otherwise. 1170. The starboard gangway shall be used by all commissioned officers and their visitors; the port gangway shall be used by all other persons. If the construction of the ship or other circumstances make a change in this rule ex- pedient, the change may be made at the discretion of the commanding officer. 1171. (1) All officers and men, whenever reaching the quarter-deck, either from a boat, from a gangway, from the shore, or from another part of the ship, shall salute the national ensign. In making this salute, which shall be entirely distinct from the salute to the officer of the deck, the person making It shall stop at the top of the gangway or upon arriving upon the quarter-deck, face the colors, and render the salute, after which the officer of the deck shaU be saluted. In leaving the quarter-deck, the same salute shall be rendered in inverse order. The officer of the deck shall return both salutes in each case, and shall require that they be properly made. (2) The commanding officer shall clearly define the limits of the quarter-deck; it shall embrace so much of the main or other appropriate deck as may be necessary for the proper conduct of official and ceremonial functions. When the quarter-deck so designated is forward and at a considerable distance from the colors, the salute to the colors prescribed in the preceding paragraph will not be rendered by officers and men except when leaving or coming aboard the ship. (3) The salute to the national colors to be made by officers and enlisted men with no arms in hand shall be the " hand salute," the headdress not to be removed. (O. A. R., No. 50.) 412. Naval vessels fire personal salutes to officers entitled to them when the boats containing them have cleared the ship. It is an acknowledgment of the salute by the officer saluted for his boat to lie on her oars from the first until the last gun and for him to uncover ; at the conclusion, to give way. Personal salutes are not returned by military posts. 79733°— 18 7 98 HOFOBS, COUETESIES, AND CEREMONIES. 413. In case of vessels of war of foreign powers at peace with tlie United States lying in our ports or harbors and celebrating their naftional festivities, the commander of each fort, battery, or military post may participate in the celebration by firing salutes, parading commands, etc. In such a case the flag of the United States will be hoisted and lowered simultaneously with that of the ship on board of which the celebration occurs. Hi. When boats are rowing in the same direction, an inferior is not to pass a superior in grade unless he is on urgent duty, or authorized by the superior.. When boats are pursuing opposite directions, the rule of the road to prevent fouling is that both shall " put their helms to port," L e., to pass to the right, circumstances permitting. When boats are approaching the same landing or vessel, an inferior is always to give way to a superior in rank. Boats about leaving a ship's side or landing are to give way in ample time to others approaching. It is not proper to land over another boat without permission, and only when it can not be avoided Is permission to be asked. 41 &. A vessel of war on which the President of the United States is travel- ing displays the President's flag at the main. In case of foreign sovereigns, ves- sels display the royal standard of the sovereign in like manner. ESCORTS OF PONOB. 416. Escorts of honor may be composed of any or of all arms, according to the circumtances. They are detailed for the purpose of receiving and escorting personages of high rank, civil or military, when they arrive and depart. The troops for this purpose will be selected for their soldierly appearance and superior discipline, and are formed and maneuvered ^s prescribed in the author- ized drill regulations. The post commander in each case will detail an ofBcer to attend the personage escorted, and to bear communications from him to the commander of the escort. FUNEEAL HONOBS. 417. On the receipt at any post or camp of official notice of the death of the President of the United States, the commanding officer will, on the following day, cause a gun to be fired every half hour, beginning at sunrise and ending at sunset. When posts are in sight or within 6 miles of each other the firing will take place only at the post commanded by the senior officer. 418. The orders announcing the death of a Secretary of War, Assistant Sec- retary of War, or a general officer on the active or retired list, or other person entitled to a salute of cannon, will specify the number of guns to he fired at half-hour intervals, commencing at 8 o'clock a. m. on the day after the receipt of the order, and the posts at which they shall be fired. During the firing the flag will be displayed at halfstaff. 419. When the funeral of an officer who was entitled to a salute takes place at or near a military post, minute guns will be fired while the remains are being borne to the place of Interment, but the number of guns will not exceed that to which the officer was entitled as a salute. After the remains are deposited ia the grave a salute corresponding to the rank of the deceased will be fired, in addition to three salvos of artillery or three volleys of musketry. 420. If the remains of a flag officer of the Navy or a general officer are brought ashore in the vicinity of a military post, the flag wiU be displayed at HONORS, COURTESIES, AND CEEEMOHTIES, 99 halfstaff and minute guns will be fired as the procession moves. The number of guns will be that to which the oflScer was entitled as a salute. 421. During the funeral at or near a military post of a civil functionary who was entitled to a salute, the flag is displayed at halfstaff and minute guns are fired. The number of guns will be that to which the functionary was entitled as a salute. 422. On the death of an officer at a military iDost the flag is displayed at halfstaft and so remains, between reveille and retreat, until the last salvo or volley is fired over the grave ; or if the remains are not interred at the post, until they are removed therefrom. 423. During the funeral of an enlisted man at a military post the flag is displayed at halfstaff. It is hoisted to the top after the final volley or gun is fired, or' after the remains are taken from the post. The same honors are paid on the occasion of the funeral of a retired enlisted man. 424. All military posts in sight of each other display their flags at halfstaff upon the occasion of one doing so. The same rule is observed toward all vessels of war. 426. When the flag is displayed at halfstaff it is lowered to that position from the top of the staff. It is afterwards hoisted to the top before it is finally lowered. 426. The funeral escort of the Secretary of War or General of the Army wiU consist of a regiment of Infantry, a squadron of Cavalry, and a battalion of Field Artillery ; of the Assistant Secretary of War or the Lieutenant General, a regiment of Infantry, a squadron of Cavalry, and a battery of Field Artillery ; of a major general, a regiment of Infantry, two troops of Cavalry, and a battery of Field Artillery ; of a brigadier general, a regiment of Infantry, a troop of Cavalry, and a platoon of Field Artillery ; of a colonel, a regiment ; a lieutenant colonel or major, a battalion or squadron ; a captain, one company ; a subaltern, a platoon. The funeral escort of a general oflicer, or of any other officer either on the active or retired list, when the funeral occurs at any other place than a military post or camp, will be ordered by the War Department, and will be composed of such bodies of troops, not exceeding the number prescribed in this paragraph, as the interests of the service will permit. But in all cases where the funeral ceremonies tate place at or in the immediate vicinity of a military post, or where the remains are conveyed through a military post en route to the place of burial, the above regulation relative to escort will be complied with so far as the strength of the garrison will allow. The flag will be at lialfstaff while the remains are at or in the immediate vicinity of the post, and the department or post commander will give the necessary orders. 427. The funeral escort of an oflicer will be commanded by an officer of the same grade ; if none such be present, by one of the next lower grade available. The ceremony is prescribed in the drill regulations. 428. The funeral escort of a noncommissioned staff officer will consist of 16 men, commanded by a sergeant ; of a sergeant, of 14 men, commanded by a ser- geant ; of a corporal, of 12 men, commanded "by a corporal ; of a private, of 8 men, commanded by a corporal ; of an enlisted man of Field Artillery, one section. 429. Six pallbearers will be selected, as far as practicable, from the grade of the deceased. 430. Ofncers and enlisted men attending military funerals wear uniform and side arms and in the funeral procession follow the mourners in order of rank, seniors in front. The funeral of an oflicer is attended by such officers of the 100 HONOES, COURTESIES, AND CEREMONIES. post or organization in the field as other duties will permit. The funeral of a noncommissioned officer is attended by the noncommissioned officers and privates of the regiment, or such part of it as may be present and can be spared from other duties ; that of a private by the noncommissioned officers and privates of his company. 431. The badge of military mourning shall consist of a straight band of black crape or plain black cloth, 5 inches wide, worn around the left arm above the elbow; also, when the sword is worn, a knot of black crape on the hilt; but no badge of military mourning shall be worn with the uniform except at funerals or for occasions prescribed by the War Department. 432. As family mourning, officers may wear the arm band prescribed in paragraph 431. 433. The drums of a funeral escort will be covered with black crape or thin black serge, furnished by the quartermaster. ' 434. The colors of a regiment will not be placed in mourning or draped, except when ordered from the War Department. Two streamers of crape 7 feet long and about 12 inches wide attached to the ferrule below the spearhead will be used for the purpose. CEEEMONIES. 485. All ceremonies will be conducted as prescribed in the authorized drill regulations. 436. The number and kind of parades will be determined by the post com- mander with the approval of the next higher tactical commander and of the department commander. After the schedule has been approved parades will not be dispensed with except on urgent occasions. All officers and men will be present unless specially excused or on duty incompatible with such attendance. (C. A. R., No. 1.) 437. At every military post or station the flag will be hoisted at the sound- ing of the first note of the reveille, or of the first note of the march, if a march be played before the reveille. The flag will be lov/ered at the sounding of the last note of the retreat, and while the flag is being lowered the band will play the national anthem, or, if there be no band present, the field music will sound "To the Color." When "To the Color" is sounded by the field music while the flag is being lowered the same respect will be observed as when the national anthem is played by the band, and in either ease officers and enlisted men out of ranks will face toward the flag, stand at attention, and render the prescribed salute. The national flag will be displayed at one seacoast or lake fort of a group of forts within sight of each other at the beginning of and during an action in which the forts may be engaged, whether by day or by night. (0. A. B., No. 50.) 438. Troops will be mustered for pay on the last day of each month unless otherwise ordered by the War Department. When the commanding officer can not muster all the troops he will designate other officers to assist. 439. Each stated muster will, when practicable, be preceded by a minute and careful inspection. If the command consists of more than one company, the inspection will be preceded by a review. If the day for muster falls on Sunday, such i-eview and inspection will be omitted. 440. On Memorial Day, May 30, at all Army posts and stations, the national flag will be displayed at halfstafe from sunrise till midday, and immediately before noon the band, or field music, will play some appropriate air, and the national salute of 21 guns will be fired at 12 m. at all posts and stations pro- vided with artillery. At the conclusion of this memorial tribute, at noon, the ROUTE MAPS AND JOUENALS OP MARCH. 101 flag will be hoisted to the top of the staff and will remain there until sunset. .When hoisted to the top of the staff, the flag will be saluted by playing one or more appropriate patriotic airs. In this way fitting testimonial of respect for the heroic dead and honor to their patriotic devotion will be appropriately rendered. AETICLE XLI. Gtjaeds. 441. The authorized Manual of Guard Duty is the guide in all matters relat- ing to duties of guards not contained in these regulations. 442. Quartermaster's supplies and ordnance and ordnance stores required for strictly post or police purposes, or for use by the post or camp guard, will be supplied by the quartermaster and ordnance officer, respectively, on request from the officer of the day, approved by the commanding officer, and will be con- tinued on the returns of the quartermaster or ordnance officer, as the case may require. ' 443. Articles so obtained will be duly entered under the direction of the officer who receives them on a list of " articles in charge.'' They will be carried on the list and verified dally under the direction of the officer of the day. i When no longer fit for use they will be submitted, as the case may require, by the quartermaster or ordnance officer for inspection and, if condemned, disposed , of as ordered. AEICLE XLII. ■ KoTJTE Maps and Jotjbnals of Mabch. 444. The commanding officer of every body of troops ordered to march will detail a competent person, preferably a mounted commissioned officer, as topog- rapher, whose special duty will be to prepare and preserve the field notes, sketches, and maps necessary for a complete record of the route traversed and adjacent points of military interest. The topographer will be relieved of such of his routine duties as interfere with this work. He will be furnished with such official maps and descriptive notes of the proposed route as may be avail- able. Should these be adequate, the fieldwork will be confined to marking thereon the route followed and adding such notes as may be required to com- plete the record. Where no maps are available or those furnished are inade- quate, field maps to standard scales will be prepared. When necessary, selected enlisted men, preferably mounted, will be detailed to assist the topographer. The work will be done under the supervision of the commanding officer. For facility in reading, military maps are made according to a uniform system of scales and contour intervals, as follows : 1. One inch to 1 mile, vertical interval, 60 feet. 2. Three inches to 1 mile, vertical interval, 20 feet. 3. Six inches to 1 mile, vertical interval, 10 feet. 4. Twelve inches to 1 mile, vertical interval, 5 feet. In general these scales and contour intervals are used as follows : 1. For route maps of extended marches, or of marches of large commands using several roads. 2. For ordinary route sketches and extended positions. 3. For position and outpost sketches. 4. For maps used in the war game, discussion of operations at maneuvers and In siege operations. 102 MHJTAfiY EDUCATION. 445. Field notes and maps of the route traversed each day will be com- pleted the same day. In time of peace the original field notes and maps eoverii^ the entire march will ultimately be transmitted to the department engineer of the department in which it terminates for file and for use in the compilation of new or the correction of existing military maps. In campaign these records will be disposed of as prescribed in Field Service Regulations. 446. Journals of march will be kept by the adjutant of the command or by an officer detailed for that purpose. The journal will contain an historical record of the march, facts as to equipment, clothing, supply, shelter, roads, weather, health of troops, and incidents of any kind that may have value. Journals of march pertaining to pi-ovisional commands will be forwarded to the headquarters of the department in which the march terminates for file; those of permanent organizations will be retained at the headquarters of the organizations to which they pertain. In campaign, journals of march are incor- porated in or replaced by war diaries, as provided in Field Service Regulations. 447. Commanding oflicers Tvill see that the organizations under their com- mand are at all times fully supplied with the engineer reconnaissance equipment prescribed in orders of the War Department, that the equipment is in good order and repair, and that selected officers and enlisted men are instructed in its iise, 448. Noteboolts, blanks, and reconnaissance instruments are supplied by the Engineer Department as a part of the authorized equipment of companies, Fo- ments, and other organizations. When such books or blanks can not be obtained, substitutes will be prepared conforming to the standard forms. General instruc- tions for the use and preservation of instruments, the character of the observa- tions to be made, and the methods of recording them will be found in the Engineer Field Manual or as notes printed in the record books or on the blanks supplied. ARTICLE XXnx. Mtt.ttaby Edtjcation. 440. The military educational system of the United States comprises : 1. The Military Academy at "West Point for the education of cadets. 2. Post schools for the instruction of enlisted men. S. At each military post a garrison school for the instruction of ofiicers in subjects pertaining to the performance of their ordinary duties. 4. Service schools — a. The Army ^ar College, Washington, D. C. 6. The Army Staff College, Fort Leavenworth, Kans. c. The Coast Ai-tillery School, Fort Monroe, Va, d. The Engineer School, Washington, Barracks, D. C e. The Mounted Service School, Fort Riley, Kans. /. The Army Medical School, Washington, D. C. g. The Army Signal School, Fort Leavenworth, Kans. h. The Army School of the Line, Fort Leavenworth, Kans. i. The School for Bakers and Cooks, Washington Barracks, D. G, j. The School for Bakers and Cooks, Presidio of Monterey, Cal. k. The School for Bakers and Cooks, Fort Sam Houston, Tex. I. The School for Bakers and Cooks, Fort Shaf ter, Hawaii, m. The School for Bakers and Cooks, Fort Riley, Kans. n. The School for Bakers and Cooks, Fort William McKinley, P. L o. The Army Field Engineer School, Foi-t Leavenworth, Kans' p. The Army Field Service and Correspondence School for Medical Officers, Fort Leavenworth, Kans. THE GOVEENMENT HOSPITAL FOE THE INSANE. 103 q. The School of Fire for Field Artillery, Fort Sill, Okla. r. The School of Musketry, Fort Sill, Okla. s. The Signal Corps Aviation School, San Diego, Cal. t. The Signal Corps Aviation School, near New York City. u. The Signal Corps Aviation School, near Chicago, 111. V. The U. S. Army Balloon School, Fort Omaha, Nebr. w. The Ordnance School of Application, Sandy Hook Proving Ground, N. J. 5. The military department of civil institutions at which ofEcers of the Army are detailed under the provisions of law. The detail of officers at these Institutions is announced and the regulations governing the courses of Instruction therein are issued in orders from the War Department. (O. A. B., Nos. 38 and ^9.) ARTICLE XLIV. The OtGANizED Militia. 45 fa Eevised Statutes of the United States. CIVIL eights. Sec. 1984. The commissioners authorized to be appointed by the preceding section [section 1983] are empowered, within their respective counties, to appoLt In writing! EMPL0YME2SrT OF TROOPS. 107 mider their hands, one or more suitable persons, trom time to time, who sliall execute all such warrants or other process as the commissioners may issue in the lawful per- formance of their duties, and the persons so appointed shali have authority to summon and call to their aid the bystanders or posse comitatus of the proper county, or sucla portion of the land or naval forces of the United States, or of the militia, as may be necessary to the performance of the duty with which they are charged ; and such war- rants shall run and be executed anywhere in the State or Territory within which they are issued. Sec. 1089. It shall be lawful for the President of the United States, or such person as he may empower for that purpose, to employ such part of the land or naval forces of the United States, or of the militia, as may be necessary to aid In the execution of judicial process issued under any of the preceding provisions, or as shall be necessary to prevent the violation and enforce the due execution of the provisions of this title. Sec. 1991. Every person in the military or civil service in the Territory of New Mexico shall aid in the enforcement of the preceding section [abolishing peonage.] INDIANS. Sec. 2118. Every person who makes a settlement on any lands belonging, secured, or granted by treaty with the United States to any Indian tribe, or surveys or attempts to survey such lands, or to designate any of the boundaries by marking trees, or otherwise, Is liable to a penalty of one thousand dollars. The President may, moreover, take such measures and employ such military force as [he] may judge necessary to remove any such person from the lands. Sec. 2147. The superintendent of Indian affairs, and the Indian agents and subagents shall have authority to remove from the Indian country all persons found therein contrary to law ; and the President is authorized to direct the military force to be employed in such removal. Sec. 2150. The military forces of the United States may be employed In such manner and under such regulations as the President may direct — First. In the apprehension of every person who may be in the Indian country In viola- tion of law ; and in conveying him immediately from the Indian country, by the nearest convenient and safe route, to the civil authority of the Territory or judicial district in ' which such person shall be found, to be proceeded against in due course of law ; Second. In the examination and seizure of stores, packages, and boats, authorized by law ; Third. In preventing the introduction of persons and property into the Indian country conti'ary to law ; which persons and nroperty shall be proceeded against according to law ; Fourth. And also in destroying and breaking up any distillery for manufacturing ardent spirits set up or continued within the Indian country. Sbc. 2151. No person apprehended by military force under the preceding section shall be detained longer than Sve days after arrest and before removal. All officers and soldiers who may have any such person in custody shall treat him with all the humanity which the circumstances will permit. Sec. 2152. The superintendents, agents, and subagents shall endeavor to procure the arrest and trial of all Indians accused of committing any crime, offense, or misdemeanor, and of all other persons who may have committed crimes or offenses within any State or Territory, and have fled into the Indian country, either by demanding the same of the chiefs of the proper tribe, or by such other means as the President may authorize. The President may direct the military force of the United States to be employed in the appre- hension of such Indians, and also in preventing or terminating hostilities between any of the Indian tribes. THE PUBLIC LANDS. Sec. 24fi0. The President is aathorized to employ so much of the land and naval forces of the United States as may be necessary effectually to prevent the felling, cutting down, or other destruction of the timber of the United States in Florida, and to prevent the transportation or carrying away any such timber as may be already felled or cut down ; and to take such other and further measures as may be deemed advisable for the preser- vation of the timber of the United States in Florida. Be it unacted l>y the Senate and Bouse of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress asscrribled, That if any person or persons shall, after the passing of this act, take possession of, or make a settlement on any lands ceded or secured to the United States, by any treaty made with a foreign nation, or by a cession from any State to the United States, which lands shall not have been previously sold, ceded, or leased by the United States, or the claim to which lands, by such person or persons, shall not have been previously recognized and confirmed by the United States: or if any person or persons shall cause such lauds to he thus occupied, taken possession of, or settled} 108 EMPLOYMENT OP TEOOPS. or shall survey, or attempt to survey, or cause to be surveyed, any such lands ; or desig- nate any boundaries thereon, by marldng trees, or otherwise, until thereto duly author- ized by law ; such offender or offenders shall forfeit all his or their right, title, and claim, if any he hath, or they have, of whatsoever nature or kind the same shall or may be, to the lands aforesaid, which he or they shall have taken possession of, or settled, or caused to be occupied, taken possession of, or settled, or which he or they shall have surveyed, or attempt to survej', or cause to be surveyed, or the boundaries thereof he or they shall have designated, or cause to be designated, by marking trees or otherwise. And it shall moreover be lawful for the President of the United States to direct the marshal, or officer acting as marshal, in the manner hereinafter directed, and also to take such other measures and td employ such military force as he may judge necessary and proper, to remove from lands ceded, or secured to the United States, by treaty, or cession as aforesaid, any person or persona who shall hereafter take possession of the eame, or make or attempt to make a settlement thereon, until thereunto authorized by law. And every right, title, or claim forfeited under this act, shall be taken and deemed to be vested in the United States, without any other or further proceedings : Provided, That nothing herein contained shall be construed to affect the right, title, or claim of any person to lands in the territories of Orleans or Louisiana, before the boards of com- missioners established by the act, entitled "An act for ascertaining and adjusting the titles and claims to land within the territory of Orleans and the district of Louisiana," shall have made their reports and the decision of Congress been had thereon. [Section 1 of an act approved March 3, 1807, perpetuated by section 5596, Revised Statutes. ] The Secretary of War, upon the request of the Secretary of the Interior, is hereafter authorized and directed to make the necessary detail of troops to prevent trespassers or intruders from entering the Sequoia National Park, the Tosemite National Park, and the General Grant National Park, respectively, in California, for the purpose of destroying the game or objects of curiosity therein, or for any other purpose prohibited by law or regulation for the government of said reservations, and to remove such persons from said parks if found therein. Act of June 6, 1900 (31 Stat. L., 618). The President is hereby authorized to take such measures as shall be necessary to re- move and destroy any unlawful Inclosure of any of said [public] lands, and to employ civil or military force as may be necessary for that purpose. Act of February 25, IS^ (2S Stat. L.,sa). THE PUBLIC HEALTH. Sec. 4792. The quarantines and other restraints established by the health laws of any State, respecting any vessels arriving in, or hound to, any port or district thereof, shall be duly observed by the officers of the customs revenue of the United States, by the masters and crews of the several revenue cutters, and by the military officers commanding In any fort or station upon the seacoast ; and all such officers of the United States shall faithfully aid in the execution of such quarantines and health laws, according to their respective powers and within their respective precincts, and as they shall be directed, from time to time, by the Secretary of the Treasury. * * * EXTRADITION. Sec. 5275. Whenever any person is delivered by any foreign government to an agent of the United States, for the purpose of being brought within the United States and tried for any crime of which he is duly accused, the President shall have power to take all necessary measures for the transportation and safe-keeping of such accused person, and for his security against lawless violence, until the final conclusion of his trial for the crimes or offenses specified in the warrant of extradition, and until his final discharge from custody or imprisonment for or on account of such crimes or offenses, and for a reasonable time thereafter, and may employ such portion of the land or naval forces of the United States, or of the militia thereof, as may be necessary for the safe-keeping and protection of the accused. OFFENSES AGAINST NEUTKALITT. Sec. 13. Whoever, within the territory or jurisdiction of the United States, Ibe^na, op sets on foot, or provides or prepares the means for, any military expedition or enterprise to be carried on from thence against the territory or dominions of any foreign prince or state, or of any colony, district, or people, with whom the United States are at peace shall be fined not more than three thousand dollars, and imprisoned not more than three years. Act of March i, 1909 (35 Stat. L., 1090). Sec. 14. ♦ * • In every case in which a vessel Is fitted out and armed, or attempted to be fitted out and armed, or in which the force of any vessel of war, cruiser or other armed vessel is increased or augmented, or in which any military expedition or enterprise EMPLOYMENT OF TROOPS. 109 Is begun or set on foot, contrary to the provisions and prohibitions of this chapter ; and In every case of the capture of a vessel within the jurisdiction or protection of the tTnlted States as before defined ; and in every case In which any process issuing out of any court of the United States Is disobeyed or resisted by any person having the custody of any vessel of war, cruiser, or other armed vessel of any foreign prince or state, or of any colony, district, or people, or of any subjects or citizens of any foreign prince or state, or of any colony, district, or people, It shall be lawful for the President, or such other person as he shall have empowered for that purpose, to employ such part of the land or naval forces of the United States, or of the militia thereof, for the purpose of taking possession of and detaining any such vessel, with her prizes, if any, in order to enfo^rce the execution of the prohibitions and penalties of this chapter, and the restoring of such prizes In the cases in which restoration shall be adjudged ; and also for the purpose of preventing the carrying on of any such expodi'Eion or enterprise from the territory or jurisdiction of the United States against the territory or dominion of any foreign prince or state, or of any colony, district, or people with whom the United States are at peace. Act of March J,, 1909 (S5 Stat. L., 1090, 1091) . Sec. 15. It shall be lawful for the President, or such person as he shall empower for that purpose, to employ such part of the land or naval forces of the United States, or of the militia thereof, as shall be necessary to compel any foreign vessel to depart the United States in all cases in which, by the laws of nations or the treaties of the United States, she ought not to remain within the United States. Act of March 1,., 1909 (SS Stat. L., 1091). INSDEEECTION. Sec. 5297. In case of an insurrection in any State against the government thereof, it shall be lawful for the President, on application of the legislature of such State, or of the executive, when the legislature can not be convened, to call forth such number of the militia of any other State or States, which may be applied for, as he deems sufficient to suppress such Insurrection ; or, ou lilje application, to employ, for the same purposes, such part of the land or naval forces of the United States as he deems necessary. Sec. 5298. Whenever, by reason of unlawful obstructions, combinations, or assemblages of persons, or rebellion against the authority of the Government of the United States, it shall become impracticable, in the judgment of the President, to enforce, by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings, the laws of the United States within any State or Terri- tory, it shall be lawful for the President to call forth the militia of any or all the States, and to employ such parts of the land and naval forces of the United States as he may deem necessa.ry to enforce the faithful execxition of the laws of the United States, or to sup- press such rebellion, in whatever State or Territory thereof the laws of the United States may be forcibly opposed, or the execution thereof forcibly obstructed. Sec. 5299. Whenever Insurrection, domestic violence, unlawful combinations, or con- spiracles in any State so obstructs or hinders the execution of the laws thereof, and of the United States, as to deprive any portion or class of the people of such State of any of the rights, privileges, or immunities, or protection named in the Constitution and secured by the laws for the protection of such rights, privileges, or immunities, and the constituted authorities of such State are unable to protect, or, from any cause, fail in or refuse protection of the people in such rights, such facts shall be deemed a denial by such State of the equal protection of the laws to which they are entitled under the Con- stitution of the United States ; and in all such cases, or whenever any such insurrection, violence, unlawful combination, or conspiracy, opposes or obstructs the laws of the United States, or the due execution thereof, or Impedes or obstructs the due course of justice under the same. It shall be lawful for the President, and it shall be his duty, to talce such measures, by the employment of" the militia or the land and naval forces of the United States, or of either, or by other means, as he may deem necessary, for the sup- pression of such insurrection, domestic violence, or combinations. Among the laws to be enforced under sections 5298 and 5289 are the following : (1) Section 201, act of March 4, 1909 (35 Stat. L., 1127), which prohibits the obstructing or retarding the passage of the mail, and all other laws relating to the carrying of the mails. (2) The following sections of an act approved July 2, 1890, entitled : AN ACT to protect trade and commerce against unlawful restraints and monopolies. Sec. 1. Every contract, combination in the form of trust or otherwise, or conspiracy. In restraint of trade or commerce among the several States, or with foreign nations, is hereby declared to be illegal. Every person who shall make any such contract or engage in anj''such combination or conspiracy shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and, on 110 EMPLOYMENT OF TBOOPSi coBvicaon thereof, shall *e punished by fin* not exceeains five thonsaDd doUars^or by imprisonmeat not exceeding one year, or by both said punishments, in the discreoon of the court. Sec. 3. Bytxy contract, combination in form of trust or otherwise, or conspiraey, in restraint of trade or commerce in any Territory of the United States or of the District of Columbia, or in restraint of trade or commerce betiveen any such Territory and another, or between any such Territory or Territories and any State or States or the District of Columbia, or with foreign nations, or between the District of Columbia and any State or States or foreign nations, is hereby declared iUegaL Every person who shall malie any such contract or engage in any such combination or conspiracy shaU be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and, on conviction thereof, shall be punished by fine not exceeding five thousand dollars or by imprisonment not exceeding one year, or by botb. said punish- ments, in the discretion of the court. f3) The following section of an act approved July 2, 1864, entitled : AN ACT granting lands to aid in the construction of a railroad and telegraph line from Lake Superior to Puget Sound, on the Pacific coast, by the northern route. Sec. 11. And Se it further enacted. That said Nortbem Pacific Railroad, or any part thereof, shall be a post route and a military road, subject to the use of the United States, for postal, military, naval, and all other Government service, and also subject to such regulations as Congress may Impose restricting tbe charges for such Government trans- portation. (4) The following section of an act approved July 1, 1862, entitled : AN ACT to aid In the construction of a railroad and telegraph line from the Missouri Kiver to the Pacific Ocean, and to secure to the Government the use of the same for postal, military, and other purposes. [The Union and Central Pacific Railway Companies.] Sec. 6. And t-e it fwtlier enacted. That the grants aforesaid are made upon condition that said company shall pay said bonds at maturity, and shall keep said railroad and telegraph line in repair and use, and shall at all times transmit despatches over said tete- graph line, and transport mails, troops, and munitions of war, supplies, and public stores upon said railroad for the Government, whenever reqoired to do so by any department thereof, and that the Government shall at all times have the preference in the use of the same for all the purposes aforesaid. • » * (5) The following sections of an act approved July 27, 1866, entitled: AN ACT granting lands to aid in the construction of a railroad and telegraph line from the States of Missouri and Arkansas to the Pacific coast. Sec, 11. An4 6e U further enacted. That said Atlantic and Pacific Eailioad, or any part thereof, shall be a post route and miJitary road, subject to the use of the United States for postal, military, naval, and all other Government service, and also subject to such regulations as Congress may impose restricting the charges for such Government transportation. Sec, 18, Be it fwtlier enacted,. That the Southern Pacific Railroad, a company incor- porated under the laws of the State of Californm, is hereby authorized to connect with the said Atlantic and Pacific Railroad, formed under this act, at such point, near th« boundary line of the State of California, as they shall deem most suitable for a railroad line to San Francisco, and shall have a uniform gauge and rate of freight or fare with said road; and in consideration thereof, to aid in its construction, shall have similar grants of land, subject to all the conditions and limitations herein provided, and shall be required to construct its road on the like regulations, as to time and manner, with the Atlantic and Pacific Bailroad herein provided for. Sec. 5316. It shall be unlawful to ta&e any vessel or cargo detained under the pre- ceding section [section 5315] from the custody of the proper officers of the customs, unless by process of some court of the United States ; and in case of any attempt other- wise to take such vessel or cargo by any force, or combination, or assemblage of persons, too great to be overcome by the officers of the customs, the Premdent, or such person as he shall have empowered for that purpose, may employ such part of the Army or Navy Of militia of the United States, or such force of citizen volunteers as m.ay be necessary, to prevent the removal of such vessel or cargo, and to protect the officers of the customs In retaining the custody thereof. EMPLOYMENT OF TKOOPS. Ill «UANO ISLANDS. Sbc. 5577. The President is authorlzefl, at his discretion, to employ the land and naval forces «f tlie United States to protect the rights of the discoverer lof a guano island] or of his widow, heir, executor, administrator, or assigns. HAWAII. Sec. 67. That the governor shall be responsible lor the faithful execution of the laws of the United States and of the Teri-ltory of Hawaii within the said Territory, and when- ever It becomes necessary he may call upon the commanders of the military and naval forces of the United States In the Territory of Hawaii, or summon the posse comitatus, or call out the militia of the Territory to prevent or suppress lawless violence, invasion, insurrection, or rebellion in said Territory, and he may, in case of rebellion or Invasion, or Imminent danger thereof, when the public safety requires it, suspend the privilege of the writ of habeas corpus, or place the Territory, or any part thereof, under martial law until communi<;atiou can be had with the President and his decision thereon made known. Act of April SO, 1900 (31 Stat. L., 153). Sue. 20. An suet entitled "An act to define and punish crimes in the District of Alaska, and to provide a code of criminal procedure for the District," approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, be, and is, amended, by adding to section tliree hundred and sixty-three thereof the following : " Provided, [That] section fifteen of an act entitled 'An act making appropriations for the support of the Army for the fiscal yesr ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, and for other purposes,' approved June eighteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, shall not be construed to apply to the District of Alaska." Act of June 6, 1900 (31 Stat. L., SSO) . Section 15 of tbe act of June 18, 1878 (20 Stat. L., 152), above referred to, reads as follows : From and after the passage of this act it shall not be lawful to employ any part of the Army of the United States, as a posse comitatus, or otherwise, for the purpose of executing the laws, except in such cases and under such circumstances as such employment of said force may be expressly authorized by the Constitution or by act of Congress ; and no' money appropriated by this act shall he used to pay any of the expenses incurred in the employ- ment of any troops In vloJation of this section. 486. Officers of 'tlie Army will not permit troops under their command to be used to aid the civU authorities as a posse comitatus, or in execution of the laws, except as provided in the foregoing paragraph. 487. If time wUl admit, applications for the use of troops for such purposes must be forwarded, with statements of all material facts, for the consideration and action of the President; but in case of sudden and unexpected invasion, insurrection, or riot, endangering the public property of the United States, or in case of attempted or threatenc-d robbery or interruption of the TJnited. States mails, or other equivalent emergency so imminent as to render it danger- ous to await instructions requested through the speediest means of communica- tion, an officer of the Army may take such action before the receipt of instruc- tions as the circumstances of the case and the law under whi«h he is acting may justify, and will promptly report bis action and the circumstances requir- ing it to The Adjutant General of the Army, by telegi-aph, if possible, for the in- formation of the President. 488. In the enforcement of the laws troops are employed as a part of the military power of the United States and act under the orders of the President as Commander in Chief. They can not be direeted to act under the orders of any civil officer. The commanding officers of troops so employed are directly responsible to their military superiors. Any unlawful or unauthorized act on their part would not l>e excusable on the ground of an order or request received by them from a marshal or any other civil officer. 112 CBMETEKIES. 4S9. Troops called into action against a mob forcibly resisting or obstruct- ing the execution of the laws of the United States or attempting to destroy- property belonging to or under the protection of the United States are governed by the general regulations of the Army and apply military tactics in respect to the manner in which they shall act to accomplish the desired end. It is purely a tactical question in what manner they shall use the weapons with which they are armed — whether by fire of musketry and artillery or by the use of the bayonet and sabei-, or by both, and at what stage of the operations each or either mode of attack shall be employed. This tactical question will be decided by the immediate commander of the troops, according to his judgment of the situation. The fire of troops should be withheld until timely warning has been given to the innocent who may be mingled with the mob. Troops must never fire into a crowd unless ordered by their commanding officer, except that single selected sharpshooters may shoot down individual rioters who have fired upon or thrown missiles at the troops. As a general rule the bayonet alone should be used against mixed crowds in the first stages of a revolt. But as soon as sufficient warning has been given to enable the innocent to separate themselves from the guilty, the action of the troops should be governed solely by the tactical considerations involved in the duty they are ordered to perform. They should make their blows so effective as to promptly suppress all resistance to lawful authority, and should stop the destruction of life the moment lawless resistance has ceased. Punisliment belongs, not to the troops, but to the courts of justice. AKTICLE XLVIII. Cemexeeies. national cemeteries. 490. National cemeteries, and the records pertaining thereto, are under the charge of the Quartermaster General. All correspondence between his office and the officers of his department in charge thereof, and the civil engineers and agents especially employed in connection therewith will be direct, and the . monthly reports of superintendents wUl be forwarded directly to him. (O. A. B, No. 10.) BATTLE-GROUND CEMETEKtES. 491. In order to secure, as far as possible, the decent interment of those who fall in battle and to establish beyond doubt their identity should it become de- sirable subsequently to disinter the remains for removal to a national or post cemetery, or for shipment home, it is the duty of commanding generals to set apart a suitable spot near every battlefield, and to cause the remains of the killed to be interred therein and, when practicable, to cause to be placed in the coffin or gi-ave a glass bottle, corked and sealed, containing a slip of paper on which shall be written the name of the decedent, giving the cause and date of death and burial, and in the case of an officer or enlisted man, his rank, com- pany, regiment, or corps, and bearing the signature of the surgeon or officer In charge of the interment. It is the duty of the commanding officer to cause to be made a sketch as accurate as the means at hand wiU permit of the burying places of those falling in battle. 492. Where conditions make it possible, the company commander will be held responsible that every grave of the men of his company who die or are killed on the field is carefully marked with a headboard, or with such other marker as may be authorized for use on the field or in the insular possessions. ADVERTISING AND PRINTING. 113 giving tlie name, rank, and organization of the decedent. He will report, through the proper military channels, the date and cause of death, which re- l)orts will include a sketch showing the location of the grave, and how marked, in such manner as will enable the same to be readily found by a disihterring corps. When a soldier or civilian employee dies in hospital, the surgeon will be held responsible for similar action and report. POST CEMETERIES. 493. The commanding officer of every post situated on public lands of the United States will see that a suitable portion of such land is, when practicable, set apart aiKl properly maintained for the burial of deceased officers and soldiers and their families, and of Government employees. 494. Post cemeteries will be suitably inclosed with a wall or fence of the best material available, and will be maintained by the labor of the garrison. Matei'ials for the construction and repair of fences and headboards will be furnished by the Qv^artermaster Corps. 495. At each grave will be placed a headboard, plainly marked with a num- ber and with the name, company, regiment, and date of death of the decedent, the number to correspond to the number in the record of interments. Head- boards will be of weIl-seasone in whose favor, on what office or bank, and for what purpose drawn ; the number of the voucher in payment of which it was drawn, and, if known, the address of the payee, and he will inclose in the return all checks described therein that may be in his possession. 606. At the close of each fiscal year all amounts remaining to the credit of a disbursing officer, represented by checks or drafts drawn upon the Treasurer, an assistant treasurer, or any designated depositary, three or more years prior thereto, will be covered into the Treasury and there stand to the credit of the payees in an appropriation account denominated "outstanding liabilities." 607. A check which has been issued for a period longer than three full fiscal years will be paid only by the settlement of an account in the Treasury De- partment. For this purpose an officer who receives such a check will transmit it, through the proper channels, to the Secretary of the Treasury. If a check is lost, proof of ownership and loss and a bond of indemnity will be furnished. OTTICIAL CHECK BOOKS. 608. Official check books are issued by the Treasurer of the United States directly to disbursing officers who have public money on deposit with him. Rules for issue, transfer, etc., of these check books accompany each book. In making payments only official checks will be used. MONEY ACCOUNTABILITY. 131 609. Every disbursing officer or agent shall retain with Ills official records the stubs or register of checks issued by him. Should a disbursing officer or agent make an erasure or alteration on any of his checks, however slight, he shall cer- tify to the correctness of such erasure or alteration on the npper margin of such check. The greatest care will be exercised in the custody of blank checks. They will be kept under lock and key when not in use. No disbursing officer will issue a check on the Treasurer of the United States until after he shall have ascer- tained from said Treasurer his individual numerical symbol, which shall be printed, stamped, or written in the lower right-hand corner of each check. 610. Spoiled or canceled official checks shall be sent quarterly by each dis- bursing officer directly to the Auditor for the War Department. A record of the dates of both cancellation and transmission will be entered on the stub. CEKTIFICATES OF DEPOSIT. 611. Public moneys ar« transferred to the General Treasury by being depos- ited to the " credit of the Treasurer of the United States," either at the Treas- urer's office, or at the office of one of the assistant treasurers, or at one of the designated depositaries. All " miscellaneous receipts on account of proceeds of Government property" (par. 618) must be deposited; also, when required by chiefs of bureaus to which the funds pertain, the public moneys in the posses- sion of or to the credit of disbursing officers or others. For each deposit made a " certificate of deposit " in duplicate will be given, showing the full name, rank, regiment, or corps of the depositor, and to what appropriation or fund the amount belongs, the depositor giving the necessary Information when mak- ing the deposit. 612. The " originals " of all certificates of deposit are required by law to be forwarded by the depositaries directly to the Secretary of the Treasury ; the " duplicates " will be filed by the depositing officers with their retained papers. Immediately upon making a deposit to the credit of the Treasurer of the United States the depositing officer wUl notify the proper chief of bureau of the fact, stating the name of the depositary, the amount, the appropriation to which the money pertains, when known, and whether the amount arose from proceeds of sales, or is a repayment of an unexpended balance, or a refund- ment on account of an error in the accounts or returns. The number of the certificate of deposit will also be stated if known, but the report will not be delayed for the purpose of obtaining such number. If the deposit Is on ac- count of the indebtedness of any person other than the depositing officer, the source from which the money was derived and the object of the payment will be distinctly stated and reference made to the vouchers, if any, to which the deposit pertains. 613. A disbursing officer of one staff department making stoppages on account of the funds or property of another staff department will, in the absence of special instructions to the contrary, deposit the funds so received, and not leave them to be transferred upon the settlement of his accounts at the Treasury. 614. Nothing in paragraphs 612, 613, and 615 will be construed to affect the existing system of depositing collections by quartermasters of the Army. When- ever an officer refunds money to the Government by payment to an Army (luartermaster, duplicate descriptive receipts will be Issued by the latter for the amount refunded. The quartermaster, with the least practicable delay, will forward, without .letter of transmittal, the original receipt directly to the Quartermaster General and furnish the officer with the duplicate. (0. A. R., No. 10.) 132 MONEY ACCOUNTABILITY. 615. When a disbursing officer of tlie Army receives any moneys of the United States as the proceeds of sales, as miscellaneous receipts, or funds of like character, not available for disbursement, he wUl deposit, v^ithout delay, such funds to his official credit with ai} authorized depositary or, if more con- venient, to the credit of the Treasurer of the United States, at the nearest authorized depositary. In the former case, at the close of the month in which such funds are received the total will be made the subject of one check issued by him in favor of the depositary, and marked " for deposit to the credit of the Treasurer of the United States." The disbursing officer will indorse on the back of the check issued for this purpose the title of the appropriations and the amount that pertains to each into which the several sums embraced in the deposit should be covered into the Treasury. The number, date, name, location of the depositary, and amount of the certificate of deposit will be noted on the account current upon which the depositor desires to be credited with the money deposited. 616. Certificates of deposit must be recorded in the proper bureaus of the War Department. The " originals," upon tlieir receipt at the Treasury, are immediately forwarded to the Secretary of War, v/ho refers them to the proper bureaus to which the deposits pertain for verification and designation of the appropriation. PROCEEDS OF SALES. 617. Moneys received from authorized sales of property (except property, other than river and harbor, mentioned in pars. 679 and 680) will be de- posited to the credit of the Treasurer of the United States, and respectively revert to the appropriations out of which originally expended. But the moneys arising from the authorized disposition of serviceable ordnance and medical and hospital property and the sales of useless ordnance material are expended under conditions prescribed by law. All moneys arising from sales of sub- sistence supplies or stores, authorized by law and regulations, shall be covered into the Treasury to the credit of the proper appropriation and shall remain available throughout the fiscal year following that in which the sales were effected, for the purposes of that appropriation from which such supplies or stores were authorized to be supplied at the time of the sales. (0. A. R, No. 10.) 618. The proceeds of sales of all public property the disposition of which is not provided for by paragraph 617, after the expenses of sale have been de- ducted will be deposited to the credit of the Treasury of the United States as " Miscellaneous receipts on account of proceeds of Government property," for which certificates of deposit will issue, showing the name, rank, regiment, or corps of the depositor, the nature of the deposit, the kind of property, and the bureau to which it pertained. 619. The transfer of public property other than subsistence stores is not r-egarded as a sale. Vouchers for property so transferred will be sent through the chief of the bureau concerned to the proper accounting officer of the Teasury Department for settlement, as prescribed in paragraph 671. If credit is received therefor the money may be used to replace the property transferred. APPBOPEIATIONS. 620. The fiscal year ends on June 30. The quarters of the fiscal year are as follows : First quarter, July 1 to September 30 ; second, October 1 to December 31 ; third, January 1 to March 31 ; fourth, April 1 to June 30. MONEY ACCOUNTABILITY. 133 621. Chiefs of bureaus, in notifying officers of remittances, will inform tliem of the amount remitted under each head of appropriation, giving the designation by fiscal years when necessary. 622. All accounts of a disbursing oflicer shal be rendered and stated in one consolidated account for each bureau under which he is disbursing, without regard to the number of appropriations or headings involved. 628. Money received and disbursed under the appropriation for contingent expenses of the Army will be accounted for by officers authorized to disbtirse it, on special accounts current, in which funds belonging to other appropriations will not be entered. 624. When an article purchased is not named In the appropriation act, the purpose for which it is intended determines the appropriation from which pay- ment is made. 625. All public funds on hand at the close of a fiscal year, except those required to pay outstanding liabilities incurred during such year (a schedule of which will, if possible, accompany the last account current for the year), and except balances in casn in the hands of disbursing officers of the Quartermaster Corps in the Philippine Islands, Alaska, and in other places outside of the conti- nental limits of the United States, who are located at points remote from deposi- taries, and appropriations not limited to any fiscal year or years, will be de- posited to the credit of the Treasurer of the United States and the disbuririug officers account closed by a credit for such deposit. In case of funds in cash in the hands of disbursing officers of said corps who come within the foregoing exception, said officers will, at the close of business on the 30th day of .June each year, or as soon thereafter as possible, inform the department quarter- master of the department in which they are serving, or, if not under the juris- diction of a department quartermaster, inform the Quartermaster General di- rectly of the amount of cash in their hands in excess of what is needed to pay outstanding liabilities, and that they will credit and charge themselves on their accounts current for June and July, respectively, with such amount as trans- ferred from the old to the new fiscal year appropriations. Upon receipt of this information in each case the department quartermaster will make a debit entry on his account current for the amount under the former fiscal year and a cor- responding credit entry under the latter fiscal year for the purpose of adjusting the disbursing officer's fiscal year appropriation account, thus accomplishing tlie same result as if an actual transfer of funds had taken place. The Quarter- master General will arrange to have similar action taken in each case reported to him directly. V/here an account is closed in the manner above described, the balance in cash in the officer's hands should be counted, wherever practi- cable, by three disinterested persons and their certificates as to its correctness should accompany the account current. (C A. R., No. 10.) 626. An account current, accompanied by abstracts and vouchers, will be forwarded to the chief of the bureau to which it pertains, and a memorandum copy thereof retained by the officer. A disbursing officer who for any reason (e. g., separate bonds, etc.) is required to render separate accounts will keep separate and distinct accounts of his funds in the Government depositaries and will unmistakably designate such several depositary accounts on his vouchers, requisitions, deposits, and accounts current. The balances acknowledged by a disbursing officer and his analyses thereof must actually represent the state of his business at the close of the last day for which the account is rendered. He will so arrange his business that he may, when called upon to do so, close his accounts and analyze his acknowledged balances. All transactions coming within the time covered by the account will be reported therein. No payments or collections not actually made, and not in the hands of the officer during the 134 MONEY ACCOUNTABILITY. period of the account, will be iucluded therein. An officer disbursing in part by cash and drawing official checks to obtain cash to make payments will render With his account current a subsidiary cash account, the balance of which will agree or be reconciled with his cash as shown by his analysis of balance with his account current. 627. Disbursing officers who render accounts which eventually pass to the Treasury Department for settlement are required to prepare their accounts, with abstracts and vouchers complete, and deposit them in the' post office, ad- dressed to the chief of the bureau of the War Department to which they pertain, on or before the 10th day of each month. Irregularities in the mail service or want of blank forms will not excuse a failure to comply with this paragraph. When vouchers are not sent with the account to which they belong, but are sub- sequently rendered, suitable explanations will be made. 628. Original vouchers will, if possible, accompany the accounts ; copies will not be accepted unless duly certified and accompanied by satisfactory evidence of the loss or destruction of the originals, or that their retention is indispensable to the performance of duty by an officer. • 629. With the accounts will be forwarded all orders of commanding officers and all other papers upon which the officer accountable relies to relieve himself from responsibility. 630. When an officer is relieved from duty in a staif department at any station he will certify outstanding debts, if any, to his successor, and transmit a list of the same to the head of the proper bureau. Unless otherwise ordered, he will turn over to his successor the public money, property, books, and papers pertaining to the service from which he is relieved. He will also comply with the requirements of paragraphs 588 and 902. MONEY VOUCHERS. 631. A voucher will not be made in duplicate or in triplicate unless the instructions on the proper blank require it, in which case the original only will be certified. 632. The correctness of the facts stated on a voucher and the justness of the account must be certified by an officer, except when some other mode of authenticating the same is authorized in these regulations. 633. Every voucher in support of a payment for supplies or for services, except as provided in paragraph 634, will be made out in favor of the creditor, giving his address, and will show (if for supplies furnished) the date of the purchase (or the order number), the quantity and price of each article, and the amount, or (if for services) the character of the services, the date or 'dates on which they were rendered, and the amount. When a purchase is made as a result of a written proposal and a written acceptance, the voucher (if there be only one) will be accompanied by a copy of the public notice, the accepted bid, and a copy of the letter accepting the bid, and will contain a certificate showing that the procurement of the articles or service was made in the manner indicated thereon ; if two or more vouchers are made, the papers required will be filed with the first voucher paid and reference thereto made on the other vouchers A voucher for service rendered by the day or month will show the character of the service, the inclusive dates thereof, the time for which payment is made the rate of pay, and the amount. The certificate of a creditor to a voucher for supplies furnished or for services rendered will contain the words " I certify that the above bill is correct and just and that payment therefor has not been received." MONEY ACCOUNTABILITY. 135 634. Vouchers for supplies or for services other than by the day or month submitted in support of payments for all work carried on under the War Depart- ment or any bureau thereof may, if desired, be accompanied by the original bills submitted by the creditor and dated and signed by him or by his authorized representative, and vouchers with such bills attached will be made out in favor of the creditor, giving his address, and stating the account in general terms, with the aggregate amount only extended, and the words " as per bill hereto attached," or words of like import added, except that such original bills need not be attached to vouchers in the following cases, viz : Where under a contract quantities delivered or amounts due are determined by a duly authorized inspector, and his certificate as to the facts is filed with the voucher to which it pertains ; where a bill of lading or transportation request accompanies a voucher for transportation services performed under public tariffs ; where a voucher is for telegraphic services at rates fixed by the Postmaster General ; when the account is small and the creditor does not submit a bill. The certifi- cate of a creditor to a voucher for supplies furnished or services rendered will contain the words " I certify that the foregoing account is correct and just and that payment therefor has not been received." When desirable, the creditor may place the foregoing certificate upon the original bill and, when so placed, the certificate upon the voucher need not be signed, provided that the bill be attached to and made a part of the voucher before the same is signed by the disbursing officer. 635. Money amounts will be expressed in terms of dollars and cents. When a fraction of a cent less than one-half occurs in the footing of a voucher it will be disregarded. If the fraction be one-half or greater it will be reckoned as a cent. If the agreement calls for foreign currency, the account shall be stated in that currency. The total amount will be reduced to its equivalent in United States currency at the current rate of exchange at the date of payment. The amount in United States currency having been determined, checks may be drawn there- for by disbursing officers to their own orders in United States currency and by them exchanged at local fiscal agencies, of the United States where possible, or at local banks, for the necessary amount in the currency or exchange required to pay the creditor in the money originally agreed upon where the creditor de- clines to accept check payable in currency of the United States. The vouchers for accounts will be made to show the debt as actually incurred in the coin in whlchpayment is made and the reduction from this coin to United States currency, the rate of exchange being stated on the voucher and the amounts stated on abstracts and account current in United States currency. 636. A voucher for purchases and services not personal will show thereon the mode of purchase or engagement, using the form of notations on the stand- ard prescribed forms. 637. The giving or taking of a receipt for public money in blank or in advance of actual payment, or the signing of a check for public money in blank, is prohibited. 638. A voucher for funds disbursed will be made out in full before being certified by a public creditor. If paid with check no receipt will be required, bat if paid with cash one receipt will be obtained. 639. An invoice of funds transferred will show the place and date of transfer, the name and title of the officer to whom transferred, the character of funds, and the amount transferred under each head of appropriation. If the transfer is of cash, a receipt will be obtained and filed with the account current. If the transfer is for the correction of errors, whether arising upon 136 MONEY ACCOUNTABILITY-. the settlement of accounts or otherwise, the facts will be noted in detail on the- invoic-e. 640. A voucher for a payment made -or an invoice for money transferred will have noted thereon the number, date, and amount of checks given and the depositary on which drawn. If payment or transfer is made with currency, wholly or in part, the facts will be stated and a receipt given for the currency. 641. Vouchers must be stated in the name of the corporation, company, firm, or person rendering the service or furnishing the articles for which payment is made. 642. Payment with currency will not be made to the holder of a power of ."ittorney or to a holder of an instrument operating as a transfer or an assign- ment. If payment with currency is made to an incorporated or to an unincorporated' company, the money will be delivered to and the voucher certified and receipted by a duly authorized officer or agent of the company ; the certificate and receipt to be signed with the company name, followed by the autograph signature of the officer, with his title, or of the agent, to whom the money was delivered, and the receipted voucher will be accompanied by evidence showing his authority. This evidence will consist of extracts from, the articles of incorporation or association, the by-laws, or the minutes of the board of directors duly certified by the custodian of such records (under the company seal, if there be one), showing that the signer is properly vested with authority to receive and receipt for money due to the company. If payment of currency is made to an individual or to a copartnership doing business under a company title, the certificate and receipt will be signed with the company name, followed by the autograph signature of the individual pro- prietor or of one of the members of the firm with the words "proprietor" or " one of the proprietors " affixed thereto. If payment with currency is made to a copartnership doing business as such, the certificate and receipt will be signed with the firm's usual signature by one of the members of the firm, who will be required to affix his own signature as " one of the firm." If payment with currency is made to an individual creditor, the certificate and receipt will be signed by him in person. 643. If payment is made with check to the order of any company (incor- porated or unincorporated), or firm or individual by name, and the fact that the check has been so drawn is stated on the voucher, giving its number, date, amount, and United States depositary on which drawn, the certificate to the voucher may be signed by an officer, attorney, or agent of the company, or by an attorney or agent of the firm or Individual, stating the capacity in which he signs, without filing with the voucher evidence of his authority to sign. The disbursing officer in all such cases will deliver the check to such person only as he is satisfied is authorized by the principal to certify to the voucher and receive the check. 644. Receipts for small sums paid with currency to a corporation, such as a railroad, telegraph, turnpike, transfer, express, steamboat, hotel, newspaper, or ice company, for an occasional service rendered may be signed and the vouchers certified by the local agent in charge of the business of the company at the- place where the service is rendered or where it begins or terminates, and the crtificate of the officer who made the payment that the person to whom pay- ment was thus made was then the local agent of the company in charge of its business at the place designated will be sufficient evidence of the agent's, authority to certifiy to the vouchers and to receipt for the money paid. MONEY ACCOUNTABILITY. 137 645. When an account is presented by an individual who is not known to the disbursing officer, tlie latter will require him to be identified. 646. The form of the signature to the certificate, and to the receipt when requited, and the name of the person or business firm as entered at the head of an account must be literally alike, 647. When a signature is not written by the hand of the party it must be ■witnessed by a disinterested party, a commissioned officer when ijracticable. 648. In final statements, receipts for money, and papers of like character, money amounts will, in all cases, be written out in full and also expressed by figures in parentheses. This requirement does not apply to pay rolls of military organizations, pay rolls of other descriptions, nor to lists of deposits on final statements. 649. Fees of civil officers for administering oaths in matters of military administration (where the services of department judge advocates, or judge advocates of courts-martial, or trial officers of summary courts were not ob- tainable) will be paid from the appropriation applicable to the subject matter of the oaths, and in case there be no appropriation applicable thereto the fees will be paid by the Quartermaster Corps. 660. Disbursing officers will not issue vouchers for unpaid accounts as due- bills against the United States, but a certified statement of personal services and of wages due may be given to a discharged employee who for want of funds was not paid at time of discharge. 651. When applicable, the following rules for the computation of time in payment for services will be observed : 1. For any full calendar month's service, at a stipulated monthly rate of compensation, payment will be made at such stipulated rate without regard to the number of days in that month. 2. When service commences on an intermediate day of the month, 30 days will be assumed as the length of the month, whatever be the number of days therein. 3. When the service terminates on an intermediate day of the month, the actual number of days during which service was rendered in that calendar month will be allowed. 4. AVhen the service embraces two or more months or parts of months but one fraction will be made, thus : From September 21 to November 25, inclusive, will be calculated — September 21 to October 20, inclusive, one month; from October 21 to November 20, inclusive, one month ; from November 21 to 25, inclusive, five days, making the time allowed two months and five days. 5. When two fractions of months occur and both are less than a whole month, as from August 21 to September 10, the time will be determined thus : August 21 to 30, inclusive (ignoring the 31st), 10 days; from September 1 to 10, inclusive, 10 days ; making the time allowed 20 days. 6. Service commencing in February will be calculated as though the month contained 30 days, thus: From February 21 to 28 (or 29), inclusive, 10 days. When the service commences on the 28th day of that month, 3 days will be allowed, and if on the 29th, 2 days. 7. If service commences on the 31st day of any month, payment will not be made for that day. 8. For commutation of subsistence and for services of persons employed at a per diem rate, payment will be made for the actual number of days. 9. When services are rendered from one given date to another, the account will state clearly whether both dates are included. 10. In computing the wages of persons employed at a per diem allowance the day on which service begins and the day on which it ends will be allowed in the computation. 138 PUBLIC PROPERTY ACCOUNTABILITT AND BESPONSIBILITT. 11. Unautborized absence on the 31st day of a month results in the loss of one day's pay. 652. Disbursing officers, except those serving in the Philippine Islands, will not settle with ieirs, executors, or administrators except by authority of the proper bureau of the War Department, and upon accounts that have been duly audited and certified by the proper accounting officers of the Trea&urj. In the Philippine Islands disbursing officers may settle directly with .executors or administrators upon accounts accruing in those islands, which are accom- panied by the duly attested copies of the decrees appointing said executors or administrators in conformity with the civil laws of the archipelago govei-ning such matters. The settlement thus made by any disbursing officer is, liowever, subject to review by the accounting officei-s of the Treasury when his accounts shall come before them for adjustment. PECUNIABT EESPOHSIBILITY 01" OFFICERS. 653. An officer will have credit for an expenditure of money made in obedi- ence to the order of lais commanding officer. Every order issued by any military authority which may cause an expenditure of money in a staff depart- ment will be given in writing. One copy thereof will be forwarded by the officer receiving it to the head of his department, and the other will be filed hy the disbursing ofRcer with his voucher for the disbursement If the expenditure be disallowed, it will be charged to the officer who ordered it. 654. If a payment made on the certificate of an officer as to the facts is afterwards disallowed for error of fact in the certificate, it will pass to the credit of the disbursing officer and be charged to the officer who gave the cer- tificate; but the disbursing officer can not protect himself in an erroneous pay- ment made without due care by charging lack of care against the officer who gave the certificate. ADMINISTEATIVE EXAMINATION OF MONEY ACCOUNTS. 655. The chief of a bureau to which accounts pertain will cause each account current, with its accompanying papers, to be examined and transmitted to the Treasury Department, witli his decision indorsed thereon, within 60 days from the date on which such account was received at his office. He will bring to the notice of the Secretary of War all matters of account that require or merit it. When a suspension or disallowance is made, the' bureau will notify the officer that he may have an opportunity to submit explanations or take an appeal to the Secretary of War. 656. In case of discovered error or disallowance in an account upon its ex- amination by the proper authority, the officer responsible will, upon notification thereof, unless able to furnish evidence to correct or remove the same, make the proper correction in his next account current, and refer therein to the particular voucher in whicii the error occurred or the disallowance was made. ARTICLE lilll. Public Pkopeety Accountability^ and Responsibility. genebal provisions, «5.7. Acconntability and responsibility devolve upon any person to whom pubUc property is intrusted and who is required to make returns thereta-. PUBLIC PROPERTY ACCOUNTABILITY AND RESPONSIBILITY. 139 I Responsibility without accountability devolves upon one to whom such property is intrusted, but who is not required to make returns therefor. An accountable ofBcer is relieved from responsibility for property for which he holds a proper memorandum receipt. A responsible officer is not relieved from responsibility for public property for which he has given memorandum receipt until he has )-eturned the property to the accountable officer or has secured memorandum receipt from a successor, or until' he has otherwise been relieved by the opera- tion of regulations or orders. 668. The officer in permanent or temporary command of a post or station is responsible for the security of all public property of the command, whether in use or in store, and, although for purposes of periodical accountability to the War Department it may all have been officially receipted for by subordinate officers, the commanding officer is nevertheless responsible and pecuniarily liable with them for the strict observance of the regulations in regard to its preserva- tion, use, and issue. He will take care that all storehouses are properly guarded, that only i-eliable agents are employed, and only trustworthy enlisted men are detailed for duty In them or in connection with property. 659. If an officer in charge of the public property of a command (not prop- erly pertaining to a company or detachment) Is, hy order, leave of absenci^, or any other cause separated from it, the commanding officer, or an officer desig- nated by him, will receipt and account for it. 660. If it becomes necessary to remove all officers from the charge of public property, the commanding officer will take measures to secure it and report the circumstances to the proper authority. 661. A company or detachment commander is responsible for all public prop- erty pertaining to his company or detachment, and will not transfer his account- ability therefor to a successor during periods of absence of less than a month unless so ordered by competent authority ; when such absence exceeds a month, the question of responsibility is settled by the proper, authority. 668. The officer in temporary or permanent command of a company or de- tachment is responsible for all public property used by or in possession of the command, whether he receipts for it or not. 663. The property responsibility of a company commander can not be trans- ferred to enlisted men. It is his duty to attend personally to its security, and to superintend issues himself or cause them to be superintended by a commis- sioned officer. 664. An officer will not when it can be avoided be detailed for duty which will separate him from public property for which he is accountable. 665. A transfer of public property involves a change of possession and accountability. In ordinary cases of transfer the transferring officer will fur- nish the receiving officer with invoices in duplicate, accurately enumerating the property, and the latter will return duplicate receipts. In cases in which com- plete transfer of property occurs, instead of exchanging separate invoices and receipts, as above provided, the receiving officer may make direct entry on the final return (both original and duplicate) of his predecessor that all the prop- erty thereon enumerated as on hand and transferred to successor was received by him. The transferring officer may make similar entry on his final return, stating that all the property therein enumerated as on hand and transferred to successor was actually turned over by him. 666. When an officer to whom stores have been forwarded believes them to have miscarried he will promptly inform the issuing and forwarding officers. 667. If an officer to whom public property has been transferred fails to receipt for it within a reasonable time, the invoicing officer will report the facts 140 PUBLIC PROPERTY ACCOUlirTABILITY AND RESPONSIBILITY. to the commanding officer of the former for action. Copies of all papers relating to the transaction will be filed with his returns. 668. Upon the receipt of public property by an ofBcer he will make careful examination to ascertain its quality and condition, but will not break original packages until issues are to be made, unless he has reason to believe the con- tents defective. Should he discover defect or shortage, he will apply for a sur- vey to determine it and fix the responsibility. Should he consider the property unfit for use, he will submit inventories in duplicate and request the action of an inspector. The same rule will be-observed in regard to packages when first opened for issue, and for property damaged or missing while in store. 669. When packages of supplies are opened for the first time, whether because of apparent defect or for issue, the officer responsible or some other commissioned olRcer will be present and verify the contents by actual weight, count, or measurement, as circumstances may require, and in case of deficiency or damage will make written report of the facts to the post commander. If only the officer responsible be present and make the report, he will secure the sworn statements in writing of one or more civilians or enlisted men regarding the condition of the property when examined. Should a survey be ordered, the post commander will refer to the surveying officer the report made by the examining officer, together with the sworn statements. At arsenals and depots, where there are persons vhose special duty it is to receive and issue public stores, the reports herein required may be made by them instead of officers of the Army. 670. The giving or taking of receipts in blank for public property is pro- hibited. ~671. Supplies procured by one bureau will not be furnished to another bureau except on special authority of the Secretary of War, except in the Philippine and Hawaiian Departments, where the authority of the department commanders is sufficient. When restored in kind, the supplies will be de- livered at the post from which they were received or at such other post as department commanders or chiefs of bureaus concerned may determine. If the transaction is between two bureaus of the War Department or between a bureau of the War Department and a bureau of another executive depart- ment (except in case of subsistence stores, payment for which shall be made in cash by the proper disbursing officer of the bureau, office, or department concerned, or by the employee to whom the sale is made, and in the case of transactions to which either the Engineer Department or the Signal Cprps is a party, in which case payment shall be made by the proper disbursing officer of the bureau, office, or department concerned), the transferring officer will prepare itemized bills or invoices, in triplicate, accurately enumerating the supplies transferred, and will present them to the receiving officer who will acknowledge receipt of the supplies thereon, designate the appropria- tion and allotment chargeable, and return the original and duplicate to the transferring officer. The transferring officer will indicate thereon the appro- priation to be credited, and will forward the papers to the chief of his bureau in Washington, by whom they will be transmitted, through the chief of the bureau chargeable with the bill, to the proper accounting officer of the Treasury Department for settlement, except that in the case of ordnance and ordnance stores when transferred or sold to another bureau of the War Department or to another executive department, the chief of the bureau chargeable with the bill will forward it to the proper disbursing officer for direct payment the check being drawn payable to the Chief of Ordnance, U. S A The difterent copies of the bills will be plainly marked " Origin'al," " Duplicate " or " Triplicate," and the statement " Settlement to be made on the original PUBLIC PKOPERTY ACCOXJNTABILITY AND EESPONSIBILITY. 141 only " will appear on the original copy issued. The original copy must always be the ribbon copy. When the trasaction is between two bureaus of the War Department, the prices to be charged will be regulated by the contract or invoice price of the stores. When the transaction is between a bureau of the War Department and a bureau of another executive department, the price to be charged will include the contract or invoice price and the cost of transportation, and in case of subsistence stores for another executive department of the Government or em- ployee thereof 10 per cent additional to cover wastage in transit. For regula- tions, governing sales of subsistence supplies to officers and enlisted men of the Navy and the Marine Corps, see paragraph 1241J. When the trasaction covering the transfer or sale of ordnance and ordnance stores is between two bureaus of the War Department, the price to be charged shall be the cost price of the stores, including the cost of inspection. When the transaction is between the Ordnance Department and another executive depart- ment of the Government, the price to be charged shall include the cost price of the stores and the costs of inspection and transportation. In requests for transfers of appropriations under the provisions of this paragraph, the original invoice and the duplicate copy will be forwarded with the request for transfer. The original invoice will be signed by the invoicing officer and .will be supported by an acknowledgment on the part of the proper official of the receipt of the supplies or of the services rendered as shown by the invoice. The invoice will also show units and unit prices where practicable. (G. A. R., Nos. 2, 10, 22, and 46.) 672. In no case will means of transportation or other property of any branch of the military service be taken as a part of the outfit of surveying or explor- ing expeditions for which Congress has made appropriations without the express authority of the Secretary of War. 673. When it is impracticable for an officer to personally superintend his issues — as may be the case with one charged with disbursements or the care of depots — he should choose with great caution the agent to whom he Intrusts the duty. 674. The keys of storerooms or chests will not be intrusted to enlisted men or civilians without great vigilance on the part of the accountable officer and a resort to every reasonable precaution, including frequent personal inspections, to prevent loss or damage. 675. An officer in charge of public property in use or in store will endeavor by timely repairs to keep it in serviceable condition. For this purpose the necessary means will be allowed on requisition, and property in store so repaired, will be issued. 676. All movable public property will, if practicable, be conspicuously branded "U. S." before being used. 677. Public property will not be used nor will labor hired for the Govern- ment be employed for any private purpose whatsoever, except as authorized in these regulations. 678. Unserviceable property is, with reference to its disposition, divided into classes as folows: 1. Property worn out by fair wear and tear in the service, which has no salable value. 2. Property worn out by fair wear and tear in the service which presumably has some salable value. 3. Property which has been rendered unserviceable from causes other than fair wear and tear in the service. 142 PUBLIC PEOPEETY ACCOUNTABILITY AND KBSPONSIBILITY. Property of the first class may be submitted to a surveying officer and dis- posed of as indicated in paragrapli 717, or it may be submitted to an inspector without prior action of a surveying officer. Property of the second class will be submitted to an inspector without prior action of a surveying officer. Property of the third class will be submitted to a surveying officer, except as provided in paraa graph 1073 in case of public animals, and unless destroyed imder the provisions of paragraph 717 will subsequently be submitted to an inspector. The inventory and inspection reports will be accompanied by the report of the surveying officer. In the application of this paragraph to articles of the unit accountability equipment furnished by the Engineer or Ordnance Departi^ent, articles per- taining to the reconnnaissance and surveying equipment of posts and forts, and miscellaneous stores covered by Class X, Ordnance property classifica- tion, the following will be considered property of the first class : 1. Articles, not under the supervision of an armament officer, rendered un- serviceable, due to fair wear and tear in the service, which have no salable value after parts useful in repair have been removed. 2. Unserviceable articles not under the supervision of an armament officer, which can not be economically repaired with the facilities available and for the disposition of which specific instructions have been given by the Engineer or Ordnance Department. 3. Unserviceable articles pertaining to artillery and machine-gun materiel, under the supervision of the armament officer when specifically given in War Department publications or orders as falling within the provisions of this para- graph. All other unserviceable articles and parts of artillery and machine-gun materiel under charge of armament officers, including guns, mounts, vehicles, sights, and fire-control instruments, will, when replaced, be shipped to an arsenal or submitted to a surveying or inspecting officer with a view to con- demnation, as directed by the armament officer under the instructions of the Chief of Ordnance. Arms for which a test for determining unserviceability is definitely pre- scribed, and which have not been subjected to the same, are excepted from the tipplication of the above. Property falling under the classificatioiis indicated in paragraphs 913 and 1566 will not be considered subject to the provisions of this paragraph until the nec- essary permission for its submission to a surveying officer or inspector has been obtained. (C. A. R., No. 30.) . 679. Empty barrels, boxes, crates, and other packages, together with metal turnings, scrap metals, ground bone, and other waste products which accumu- late at arsenals, depots, and military posts, which are unsuitable for the public service, will be disposed of in the manner prescribed for property condemned and ordered sold in paragraph 680. At arsenals and depots where such accu- mulations have consideriible money value proposals will be invited for specific lots and quantities, or for the accumulations of definite periods, as the head of the department to which the property pertains may deem best suited to the public interest. 680. Military stores and public property condemned and ordered sold will be disposed of for cash at auction, or to the highest bidder on sealed proposals, on due public notice, and in such market as the public interests may require! The officer making the sale will suspend it when in his opinion better prices can be obtained, except in the case of condemned animals, the disposition of which is provided for in paragraph 1073. The auctioneer's certified detailed account of ttie salej, and the vouchers for the expenses attending It, will be PUBIilC PEOPEBTY ACCOUNTABILITY AND RESPONSIBILITY. 143 reported on tbe proper forms to the chief of the .bureau to which the property pertained. 681. Public property which has been condemned, or the Issue price of which has been reduced as the result of a survey or inspection, will not be purchased by an officer who was responsible therefor at the time of condemnation or reduc- tion of price, nor by an officer wlio bore any part in such condemnation or reduction. PKOPEE.TY DAMAGED, LOST, DESTBOYED KBWAEDS. 682. Causes of damage to, and of loss and destruction of, military property are classified as follows : 1. Unavoidable causes, being those over which the responsible officers have no control, occurring (a) in the ordinary course of service, or (B) as incident to an active campaign. 2. Avoidable causes, being those due to carelessness, willfulness, or neglect. 683. Officers responsible for public property will be charged for any damage to or loss or destruction of the same, and the money value will be deducted from their monthly pay, unless they show, to the satisfaction of the Secretary of War, by their own affidavits, or by their certificates, supported by one or more affidavits, that the damage, loss,- or destruction was occasioned by un- avoidable causes and without fault or neglect on their, part. 684. Oaths, where required in the administration of the afEairs of the Army, will be taken (except when otherwise specially provided) before an officer of the Army authorized by the provisions of the one hundred and fourteenth article of war to administer oaths ; or before an officer authorized by the laws of the United States or by the local municipal law to administer -oaths. (C. A. B., No. 55.) 685. If an article of public property be lost or damaged by the neglect or fault of any officer or soldier, he shall pay the value thereof, or the cost of repairs, at such rates as may be determined by a survey of the property. 686. The amount charged against an enlisted man on the pay rolls on account of loss or damage of, or repairs to, Government property shall not ex- ceed the value of the article or cost of repairs ; and such charge will only be made on conclusive proof, and never witliout a survey, if the soldier demand it. He \^'ill be informed at the time of signing the pay rolls that his signature will be regarded as an acknowledgment of the justice of the charge. 687^ When a deserter carries away public property, or when such property iy lost through his desertion, its value will be determined by a survey and charged against him on the next pay rolls, as prescribed in paragraph 116. 688. If articles of public property are embezzled, or lost or damaged through neglect,. by a civilian employee, the value or damage as ascertained (and by a survey if necessary) shall be charged to him and set against any pay or money due him. 68J^. Whenever information is received that animals or other property belonging to the military service of the United States are unlawfully in the possession of any person not in the military service, the quartermaster or other proper officer will promptly cause proceedings to be instituted and diligently prosecuted before the civil authorities for the recovery of the property ; and, if the same has been stolen, for the arrest, trial, conviction, and due punishment of the offender and his accomplices. 690. Upon satisfactory information that such United States property, unlaw- fully in the possession of any parties, is likely to be taken away, concealed, or otherwise disposed of before the necessary proceedings can be had in the civil tribunals for its recovery, the post or detachment commander will at once cause the same to be seized, and will hold it subject to any legal proceedings that may 144 PUBLIC PEOPEETY ACCOUNTABILITY AND KESPONSIBILITY. be instituted by other parties. Persons caught in the act of stealing public property will be summarily arrested by the troops and turned over to the civil authorities for trial. G91. When public property has been lost or stolen and the officer responsible therefor has failed to get possession of it by the ordinary means, the post com- mander may authorize the quartermaster to offer a revs'ard for its recovery, such reward not to exceed one-fifth of the value of the property lost or stolen, and in no case shall it exceed $50. If the property has been stolen, the reward shall Include payment for such information as the claimant possesses in regard to the larceny and recovery of the property as may lead to a conviction of the guilty party. ■ 692. The expenses necessarily incurred by any action under the three preced- ing paragraphs, with the exception of attorney's fees, will be paid by the Quartermaster Corps, upon proper vouchers approved by the department com- mander. OfBcers will promptly report their action to department headquarters. PROPERTY ACCOUNTABILITY. 693. All public property, whether paid for or not, must be accounted for on the proper returns. All public property unaccounted for when discovered by an accountable officer v/ill be taken up and the usual returns rendered therefor. When discovered by officers not accountable for that class of property, or by enlisted men or civilian employees, they shall report the same as soon as prac- ticable to an officer so accountable, who will take it up and account for it. In the absence of such an accountable officer the senior officer, enlisted man, or civilian employee present will take charge of such property and report it to the commander of the department wherein it may be located with a view to its proper disposition. 694. An officer accountable for the public property of two or more companies will account for that pertaining to each, except quartermaster supplies, on a separate return. 695. Accountability for public property will not be transferred to enlisted men, except to ordnance sergeants and quartermaster sergeants, senior grade, and quartermaster sergeants. Quartermaster Corps, at ungarrisoned posts and sergeants of the Signal Corps or enlisted men acting as such. (C. A. R., No. 52.) 696. Vouchers for issues or expenditures of property not authorized by regu- lations will be accompanied by copies of the orders directing the issues or ex- penditures. 697. An officer will have credit for an expenditure of property made in obe- dience to the order of his commanding officer. If the- expenditure is disallowed, it will be charged to the officer who ordered it. 698. Public property expended in the military service will be accounted for by the certificate of the accountable officer, and property lost or destroyed will be accounted for by the affidavit of the responsible officer, or by his certificate supported by one or more affidavits. These certificates and affidavits will ac- company the return covering the period during which the expenditure occurred or the loss or destruction was discovered ; but in exceptional cases, when it is impracticable to submit such certificate, and affidavits with the return, these delayed vouchers, together with the reasons for not transmitting the same, will be specified upon the return, and they will be forwarded, as soon as practicable, properly numbered and indorsed, to the proper bureau of the War Depart- ment. 699. When an enlisted man has, by a court-martial, been convicted of losing or damaging public property, the officer accountable for the property will send LANDS, BUILDINGS, AND IMPROVEMENTS. 145 witla his property return a certified copy of so much of the court-martial order as refers to the case, giving number, date, and place of issue of the order, and stating on the face of said copy the rolls on which the charges are made. 700. Should an officer or agent of the Government charged with public prop- erty fail to render the prescribed returns thereof within a reasonable time, a settlement of his accounts will be made by the proper bureau of the War De- partment, and the money value of the property with which he is charged will be reported against him for stoppage. 701. All returns of stores or supplies will be rendered as required by regula- tions or orders. Those of subsistence stores will be forwarded within 10 days after the expiration of the accounting periods and those of other classes of stores and property within 20 days to the chiefs of bureaus to which they per- tain. In cases in which complete transfer of property from one officer to an- other occurs within an accounting period, a return will be forwarded by the officer maliing the transfer within 20 days after the date of such transfer ; but when ordnance property is transferred by a commanding officer of an ordnance establishment, by a coast defense ordnance officer, or by a post ordnance officer, and when submarine mine property is transferred by a coast defense artillery engineer, within an accounting period, the transfer of accountability will be made on the current return, which will be completed and rendered by the officer accountable at the close of the accounting period. ADMINISTKATIVE EXAMINATION OF PEOPEETY KETUENS. 702. As soon as possible after the receipt of a return by the proper chief of bureau, it will be examined in his office, and the officer making the return will be notified of all errors and. irregularities found therein and granted three months to correct them. Suspensions or disallowances will not be made on account of slight informalities which do not affect the validity of a voucher, but the officer's attention may be called to them. Whenever the errors have been corrected or compensation has been made for deficient articles, and the action of the bureau chief is sustained or modified by the Secretary of War, the return will be regarded as settled, and the officer who rendered it will be notified accordingly. 703. If the necessary corrections In the return be not made within the pre- scribed time, the facts will be reported to the Secretary of War. When it shall have been determined that the money value of the property for which an officer has failed to account shall be refunded to the United States, the proper chief of bureau will forward to the Auditor for the War Department a certificate setting forth the condition of the officer's property return, with the statement that it includes all charges made up to its date and not previously certified, and that he has had a reasonable opportunity to be heard and has not been relieved of responsibility. Such certificate, when received, will raise a charge on the books of the Treasury Department against the officer until refundment shall have been made. ARTICLE LIV. Lands, Buildings, and Impeovbments. 704. Land shall not be purchased for the United States except under an act of Congress authorizing the purchase, nor shall public money be expended for the erection of armories, arsenals, forts, fortifications, or permanent buildings of any description thereon, until the written opinion of the Attorney General 79733°— 18 10 146 LANDS, BUILDINGS, AND IMPROVEMENTS. Shall have been obtained announcing the validity of the title thereof in the Gov- ernment, nor, if the land be within any State, until jurisdiction over it slmll have been ceded to the United States by the legislature of the State, or such cession of jurisdiction shall have been expressly waived by Congress. 705. All papers relating to the Washington Aqueduct and public buildings and grounds in the District of Columbia will be filed in the office of the Chief of Engineers. All other deeds and papers pertaining to the title or sale of, and any lease, grant, license, or easement of, upon, or over any military reservation or other lands under the jurisdiction of the War Department will be filed in the office of the Judge Advocate General. When any such papers come into the possession of any bureau they shall within five days thereafter be transferred to the office of the Judge Advocate General. 706. Permanent military buildings will be constructed only under special authority granted by an act of Congress, unless the work or labor connected therewith is performed by troops, and in such case the authority of Congress must first be obtained if the estimated cost of the building or structure exceeds $20,000. 707. Permanent barracks, quarters, or other buildings, or piers or wharves, will not be erected or constructed except by the order of the Secretary of War, and in accordance with plans approved by him; nor will any material altera- tions be made in public buildings unless Uke authority is first obtained ; nor will any expenditures exceeding $500 be made upon any building or grounds at any post, fort, arsenal, or depot without the approval of the Secretary of War and upon detailed estimates submitted to him. 708. A copy of the plat of the lands at each post, fort, arsenal, and depot, furnished from the proper bureau, will be carefully preserved in the office of the commanding officer. 708i. The route and location of duct lines and trenched cables on posts and other military reservations will be carefully recorded and copies of these records, obtained from the department concerned, will be furnished by the com- manding officer to the respective post quartermasters. Coast defense and post commanders will exercise care in issuing instructions or granting permits for digging in the vicinity of any military underground electrical cable in order to diminish the possibility of damage thereto. Officers in charge of construc- tion will in all cases see that no excavating or trenching is done on any post or other military reservation without previously ascertaining the location of the cables and ducts installed thereat and determining that these will not be Injured by the contemplated work. ( G. A. R., No. 55. ) 709. Whenever a public building at a military post or station in the United States is destroyed or seriously damaged by fire, storm, or other natural cause, the post or station commander will make immediate seport of that fact by telegraph directly to The Adjutant General of the Army, stating the numerical or other designation of the building involved and the date and cause of the destruction or damage, and will make a like report to the department com- mander if the post or station is under his command. When the destruction or damage occurs at a general depot of supply, a general hospital, or an arsenal or armory, or involves a building owned or leased by the Government and used for military purposes, but not located on a military reservation, the officer in charge, in addition to making the telegraph report hereinbefore prescribed to the head of the stafC bureau of the War Department to which any such building may pertain, will make a like report by telegraph directly to The Adjutant General of the Army. In the Philippine and Hawaiian Departments telegraphic report of the dam- age or destruction of such buildings will be made to the department com- SURVEYS OF PBOPEBTY. 147 maiiders, who will cable the report to The Adjutaat General of t-he Ai-ajy if the case is of more than minor importance. In addition to tlje foregoing, the estimated damage and the cost of repairs or recoHstruction will be reported upon by a board of officers, to be appointed for the ,p.urpose by the post commander when the building is located at a mili- tary post, and to be appointed in orders from the office of The Adjutant General of the Army in all other cases, except in the Philippine and Hawaiian Departments, where the board wUl be appointed by tlie department commanders. In the event that the destruction or damage is not due to natural causes, the board will make a thorough Inv-estlgatlon with a view to fixing the respon- sibility for such destruction or damage, and will make such recommendation with respect thereto as the case may demand. The report of the board will be forwarded through military channels to The Adjutant General of the Army. The action contemplated by this paragraph will apply, as far as practicable, in the case of loss or destruction of or damage to an Army transport. Army mine planter, cable ship, or other vessel owned or operated by tlie War Department. ASTICLE LV. SuKVETs or Pbofbktt. 710. Public property which has been damaged, except by fair wear and tear, or is unsuitable for the service, before being submitted to an inspector for con^ demnation, will be surveyed by a disinterested officer, preferably the summary court officer. 711. The surveying officer will be designated by the commanding officer of the regiment, separate battalion, post, or station, from the field officers of his com- mand whenever practicable. Such officer may, however, be appointed by the commanding officer of a department, field army, division, brigade, or district. If none but the commanding officer and interested officers be present for duty, then the commanding officer will survey the property. When only the respon- sible or interested officer is present, he vidU not appoint himself surveying officer, but will furnish the next higher administrative commander his certificate of facts and circumstances, supported by the sworn testimony of witnesses, or by the affidavits of enlisted men or others who are cognizant thereof. Should the case thus presented not be considered satisfactory, or in a case in which only interested officers with opposing interests are present for duty at the post or station, the next higher administrative comnaander may make the necessaiT investigation. In cases where the property in question has been previously acted upon, the officer making the investigation wUl be so Informed and the previous reports will be considered. ( G. A. R. No. SO. ) 712. The surveying officer must fully investigate matters submitted to him. He otM call for all evidence attainable, and will not limit his inquiries to proofs or statements presented by parties in interest. He will rigidly scrutinize the evidence, especially in cases of alleged theft or embezzlement, and will not recommend the relief of officers or soldiers from responsibility unless fully sat- isfied that those charged with the care of property have performed their whole duty in regard to it. He should hear in person or by deposition all persons con- cerned in the subject matter before him. In no case, however, vrtll his report take the place of the evidence required in .paragraph 683. 713. The person responsible for public property to be surveyed will, in all cases, fujnish the original certificates and affidavits upon which he relies to be relieved from responsibility, together with the duly attested copies of such 148 SURVEYS OP PEOPEB.TT. certificates and affidavits that are to accompany the report of survey. When- ever loss or destruction of, or damage to, public property, requiring the action of a surveying officer, occurs, such action will be requested by the responsible officer as soon as practicable and in every case v?ithin 30 days after discovery of the loss, destruction, or damage, unless exceptional circumstances, which will be explained by the officer's certificates, prevent such action within that period. 714. Any officer of the Army detailed to conduct an investigation, and the recorder, and, if there be none, the presiding officer of any military board appointed for such purpose, shall have authority to administer an oath to any witness attending to testify or depose in the course of such_ investigation. 715. The surveying officer can not condemn public property. His action Is purely advisory. He will ascertain and report facts, submitting opinions and making recommendations upon questions of responsibility which may arise through accident, mistake, or neglect. For example, he investigates and deter- mines questions involving the character, amount, and cause of damage or deficiency which public property may have sustained in transit, store, or use, and which is not the result of ordinary wear and tear of the service, and reports the investigation made, his opinions thereon, and fixes responsibility for such damage or deficiency upon the proper party. He makes inventories of property ordered to be abandoned when the articles have not been enumerated in the orders for abandonment. He recommends the prices at which damaged clothing may be issued and the proportion in which supplies shall be issued in con- sequence of damage or deterioration that renders them, at the usual rate, unequal to the regulation allowance, fixing in each instance responsibility for actual condition. He verifies the discrepancy between invoices and the actual quantity or description of property transferred from one officer to. another, fixes definitely amounts received for which the receiving officer must receipt, and ascertains, as far as possible, where and how the discrepancy has occurred. 716. The report will be prepared in triplicate and will then be submitted to the convening authority for approval or disapproval. Separate reports will be made for each staff department concerned. 717. On the approved recommendation of a surveying ofiicer the following classes of property may be destroyed: (1) Clothing infected with contagious disease; (2) stores that have become so deteriorated as to endanger health or injure other stores; and (3) unserviceable property of no salable value sub- mitted to a surveying officer under the provisions of paragraph 678. The deci- sion of the commanding officer will be final as to whether- such property has salable value. When in the application of this paragraph under (3), to ordnance stores, the value of the stores to be destroyed on any survey shall bring the total for the quarter for any organization in excess of the amounts hereinafter given, the approval of the next higher administrative commander shall first be obtained. Cavalry troops and Engineer and Signal Corps companies, $300. Batteries of Field Artillery, $500. Infantry and Coast Artillery companies and all other cases, $1.50. When the disposition of unserviceable articles is covered by specific in- structions of any of the supply departments, they will be disposed of In accordance with such instructions in lieu of being destroyed under the pro- visions Of this paragraph, but requests for specific instructions will not be submitted in individual cases instead of placing the property before a sur- veying officer or inspector. SURVEYS OP. PROPERTY. 149 Before ordexing the destruction of property or stores under tlie provisions of this paragrapli tlie commanding officer will personally inspect the same and v/ill be held responsible that the conditions justify the action. In case the invoice value of the stores involved exceeds $500, the approval of the next higher administrative commander will be obtained before destruction of the property, as provided in paragraph 719. A certificate of the witnessing officer that the property has been destroyed as authorized will be appended to the report. (C. A. B., No. 30.) 718. When the value of the property submitted for survey or the loss or damage to be inquired into does not exceed $500 the report will be considered complete, for submission as a property voucher, upon the approval of the ap- ■ pointing authority, if the interested officer does not request the action of the next higher administrative commander. One copy will then be forwarded to the commanding officer of the post, if a general officer, otherwise to department headquarters, and the others delivered to the officer accountable. 719. Should the appointing authority be the responsible or interested officer, or should the report be disapproved by the appointing authority, or should the report hold the accountable officer responsible, or should the value of the prop- erty submitted for survey or the loss or damage to be inquired into exceed $500, or should the officer pecuniarily interested request it, the report in triplicate vi'ill be forwarded to the next higher administrative commander for review, and with his action is complete. But all reports of surveys of property, whatever their nature or the amounts involved, are subject on call to such review of the next higher administrative commander as the merits of the case or the interests of the Government may require. When a next higher administrative commander acts on a report of survey as herein contemplated he will cause such action to be noted on all three copies of the report. One copy will then be filed at depart- ment headquarters and the others sent to the accountable officer, except when the latter is held responsible, when one copy only will be sent to him and the remaining copy forwarded directly to the chief of bureavi to which the property pertains. 720. The reports of a survey which recommend the relief of officers and enlisted men from responsibility should not be approved unless full and careful investigation and convincing proof to sustain the findings appear. 721. When the approved report of a surveying officer holds a common car- rier, or a person not in the military service of the United States, responsible for the loss of or damage to public property or stores, steps will at once be taten to make collection from the party so held responsible. Public property that has been in transit will be carefully checked upon arrival at its destination by the receiving quartermaster with the bill of lading or manifest in order to ascertain whether the carrier has fully carried out all obligations imposed upon him. Should any discrepancy, loss, or damage be found, the receiving quartermaster will at once make application for a surveying officer by whom the facts vv-ill be fully investigated (unless the carrier voluntarily assumes liability for the loss) and the money value of the damage or deficiency will be charged to the party responsible therefor, whether it be the invoicing officer or the carrier. The property will be delivered by the receiving quartermaster to the offi.cer to whom it is invoiced or to other proper consignee with a state- ment of the deficiency or damage and that action by a surveying officer has been requested. Upon approval, the authority that approves the reports of the surveying officer will transmit 1 copy to the receiving quartermaster, 1 copy to the officer to whom the property is invoiced, and 1 copy to department head- quarters. 15Q SURVEYS OF PEOPEETY. In case the report of the surveying officer finds the invoiciag officer respon- sible, 1 copy of the report will be sent to th-e' invoicing officer instead of to the receiving quartermaster. In case the responsihility is fixed upon the carrier the receiving quartermaster will note on the bill of lading the deductions which shall be made for such loss or damage by the quartermaster who pays the ac- count, and wiU attach to the' bill of lading 2 copies of the approved report of the surveying officer. The quartermaster who pays the account will make the de- duction and refund the amount stopped to the proper department in the follow- ing manner, for example : If from an account of $100 for transportation services there is a deduction of $25 for ordnance stores lost, the quartermaster wHl take credit under the proper item number of " Supplies, services, and transporta- tion," for $75 paid to the carrier, and also for $25 deposited to the credit of the Treasurer of the United States on account of " Replacing ordnance and ordnance stores " ; but if the' deduction is on account of supplies lost by the carrier, per- taining to the appropriation " Barracks and quarters," he will take credit on his account current, under the proper item number of " Supplies, services, and transportation," for $25 as carried to " Barracks and quarters," under which head he will charge himself with that amount. If, in any instance, collection can not be made, that fact, together, with reasons therefor, will be reported to Ihe proper chief of bureau. (C. A. R., No. 4^.) Should the officer to whom the property is invoiced on receipt of the same discover loss, damage, or discrepancy not noted by the rece'iving quartermaster, he will at once make application for a surveying officer, notifying the receiving quartermaster of the action. In the case of shipments to the Philippine Islands via commercial lines, the receiving quartermaster is authorized to accomplish bills of lading on the receipt of stores, noting thereon the value of the stores lost or damaged, as shown by the invoices, plus the cost of transportation, settlement to he made with the carriers with proper deduction to cover the value of the stores and the cost of transportation, final settlement to await the action of a surveying officer, to be called for immediately by the receiving officer. 722. Properly approved reports of surveys of property may be submitted as vouchers to property returns. They are not to be considered as conclusive until accepted by the' Secretary of War. Until then they are to be regarded simply as the opinions and recommendations of disinterested officers, to aid in the settle- ment of questions of accountability between the Government and the individuals concerned. If, on examination in the proper bureau, they exhibit serious errors, or defects either of investigation or of finding, they will not be accepted as suffi- cient vouchers, and the officer submitting them will be duly notified, that he may have opportunity to make explanations or appeal to the Secretary of War. 723. At posts or stations not under the control of department commanders commanding officers will be governed by these regulations in appointing sur- veying officers and acting upon their reports, but in cases referred to in para- graph 719 will forward the papers to the chiefs of bureaus to which the prop- erty pertains. 724. MTienever a report of a survey recommends a stoppage against an enlisted man and the recommendation is approved, the appointing authority will cause a copy of the report to be furnished to the company commander, who will charge the amount on the next pay rolls of the company. 725. If an inspection of property follows the report "of a survey thereon, one copy of the proceedings will accompany the inventory and inspection report which is transmitted for approval, and will afterwards be returned to be used as a voucher to the officer's returns, and another, with the inventory and inspec- tion report, will be filed by the officer with his retained papers. CIVILIAN EMPLOYEES. 151 726. Compensation may be made under tlie provisions of the act of Congress approved March 3, 1885, as extended by the act of Congress approved March 4, 1915, for private property of officers or enlisted men lost or destroyed in the jnilitai-y service under any of the following circumstances : 1. Without fault or negligence on the part of the claimant, and on account of some exigency or necessity of the military service. 2. Where the private property so lost or destroyed veas shipped on board an unseaworthy vessel by order of an officer authorized to give such order or direct such shipment. 3. Where it appears tha.t the loss or destruction of th« private property of the claimant was in consequence of his having given his attention to the saving of the property belonging to the United States which was in danger at the same time and under similar circumstances. 4. For the loss of or damage to liie regulation allowance of baggage of officers and enlisted men sustained in shipment under orders, to the extent of such loss or damage over and above the amount recoverable from the carrier furnishing the transportation, provided such loss or damage occurred on or after March 4, 1915. Compensation will not be made for losses sustained in time of war or hos- tilities with Indians, and claim for compensation must be presented within two years from the occurrence of the loss or destruction. Bach claim for compensa- tion will be forwarded, through military channels, to the Auditor for the War Department and will, if possible, be accompanied by the proceedings of a board of officers showing fully the circumstances of the loss. All personal property for the loss or destruction of which payment is claimed must be enumerated and described in the proceedings of the board of officers, but the board will recom- mend payment for only such articles as in the opinion of the board were rea- sonable, useful, necessary, and proper for the claimant to have in the public service in the line of duty. As in most cases the property for which compensation is claimed has been more or less worn, the board will determine the value of each particular article and recommend the amounts to which claimants may be entitled. (C A. R., No. 2S.) ARTICLE LVI. Civilian Employees. geneeal pbovisions. 727. In the staff corps and departments the employment of civilians will be regulated by the respective chiefs of bureaus under the direction of the Secre- tary of War. Those whose services are engaged with the intention or proba- bility of retaining them in the service are considered permanent employees. Their appointment, dismissal, promotion, or reduction will be made, imder the supervision of the respective chiefs of bureaus, by the officers employing them, except as controlled by statute or the civil service rules ; but in selections for such employment preference will be given, as far as practicable, to applicants who have served meritoriously as enlisted men in the Army, and the appoint- ments and promotions of all permanent employees, except laborers, teamsters, and others of similar or kindred occupations, will be submitted for the ap- proval or confirmation of the Secretary of War. 728. The clerks and messengers authorized by the act of Congress of August 6, 1894, will be employed and apportioned to the several headquarters and Stations by the Secretary of War, and will not be transferred without his 152 CIVILIAN EMPLOYEES. authority. All messenger service at the several department headquarters, ex- cept for staff officers not assigned to the headquarters staff, and, as far as prac- ticable, all clerical services thereat, will be performed by this class of employees. 729. Department commanders will confine expenditures for civilian em- ployees within the allotments for the purpose made under the direction of the Secretary of War. 730. Civil engineers, clerks, inspectors, storekeepers, packers, watchmen, messengers, teamsters, mechanics, and laborers will, as a rule, be engaged by the month, day, or piece, and paid at the end of each calendar month. They will be designated upon the rolls in the capacity in which employed and at the rates established. When discharged and not paid, certified statements will be given them. 731. Eight hours shall constitute a day's work for all mechanics, laborers, and workmen employed by the several staff departments. The service of me- chanics and laborers employed by contractors in the execution of public works, including the construction of barracks, quarters, or other buildings on military reservations, is also limited and restricted to eight hours in each calendar day, and no officer or contractor shall require or permit any such laborer or mechanic to work more than eight hours in any calendar day except in cases of extraor- dinary emergency. There are excepted from the operation of this rule: (1) The officers and crews of vessels; (2) teamsters, packers, and other employees belonging to wagon and pack trains when engaged in field service or in the pros- ecution of military operations ; (3) persons employed as cooks and cooks' helpers, overseers of labor of prisoners, and others who, owing to the nature of their employment being peculiar, may be decided by the Secretary of War, upon the iacts being reported to him, to be neither laborers nor mechanics within the meaning of the eight-hour law. All exceptions on the ground of extraordinary emergency will be promptly reported to the Secretary of War. All contracts for the execution of public works, including the erection of build- ings for the use of the Military Establishment, will contain a stipulation restrict- ing the service of mechanics and laborers to eight hours per day, and officers charged with the supervision and execution of such contracts will report all violations of such stipulation to the head of the bureau charged vs-ith the prose- cution of the work. TRAVELING EXPENSES. 732. For authorized journeys of civilian employees of any branch of the military service tran.^iportation requests will be obtained when practicable, but will be obtained in every case for travel over bond-aided railroads. 733. Reimbursement of actual expenses when traveling under competent orders will be allowed, under the following heads, to civilians in the employ of any branch of the military service, excepting the expert accountant of the In- spector General's Department and those mentioned in paragraph 734, viz : 1. Cost of transportation over the shortest usually traveled route, when it was impracticable to furnish transportation in kind on transportation requests. 2. Cost of transfers to and from railroad stations, not to exceed 50 cents for each transfer. 3. Cost of one lower berth in a sleeping car, seat in a parlor car, or customary stateroom accommodations on boats and steamers when extra charge is made therefor. 4. Fees to expressmen and porters on arrival at and departure from hotels and stations not to exceed 10 cents in each case when the service is rendered in connection with the transportation of baggage ; fees for checking baggage at stations and hotels not to exceed 10 cents for each piece checked; and" fees CIVILIAN EMPLOYEES. 153 to sleeping-car and parlor-car porters not to exceed 25 cents per day, or 10 cents when the car is used in daytime only. 5. Cost of meals, including tips, not to exceed $4.50 a day while en route when meals are not included in the transportation fare paid, and not to exceed $4.50 a day for meals, tips, and lodgings during necessary delay en route, and when meals are Included in the- transportation fare paid tips for meals not to exceed 15 cents each. 6. Cost of meals and lodgings, including baths, tips, and laundry work, not to exceed $4.50 a day for the first 30 days while on duty at places designated in the orders for the performance of temporary duty and a flat per diem allow- ance of $1 a day after the first 30 days of temioorary duty at any one place. In time of actual war no such reimbursement of expenses or per diem allowance will be allowed to the civilian employees specified who accompany troops in the field, but in lieu thereof the allowance of tents prescribed by the War Depart- ment and a ration will be furnished such employees. 7. In lieu of reimbursement for the actual expenses provided in sections 5 and 6, civilian employees, when their orders so prescribe, may be allo\\'ed a flat per diem allowance not exceeding $4 when traveling and when on duty for the first 30 days at places designated in their orders for the performance of temporary duty, but no per diem allowance will be allowed for temporary duty to civilian employees who in time of actual war accompany troops in the field, nor for travel on Army transports. Where a period of travel or temporary duty includes fractional parts of a calendar day the allowance for fractional parts will be as follows : 1. If in travel status, the day will be divided into three fractional partt, and allowance of $1.33 J being made for each meal. 2. If not in travel status, the day will be divided into four fractional partr^ an allowance of $1 being made for each of 3 meals and $1 for lodging. A statement will accompany each voucher showing the following data : Time of departure from permanent station. Time of arrival at temporary station. Time of departure from temporary station. Time of arrival at permanent station. The provisions of paragraph 735, in so far as they require the keeping of a memorandum of the actual expenses incurred and tiaklng of receipts, have no application to civilians operating under conditions which entitle them to a per diem allowance, except for the period while actually traveling and then only for such items of expenses as are not embraced within the per diem allowance. {G. A. R., Nos. 13, IS, So, 21, and .}5.) 784. Mechanics, laborers, teamsters, and employees of similar character, traveling under competent orders, will be entitled to such actual and necessary expenses of transportation and subsistence or per diem allowance in lieu of subsistence, not exceeding $4, as may be authorized by the chief of bureau which pays the accounts. Those entitled to rations under paragraph 1203 will not be allowed commutation therefor, and if it be impracticable for them to carry food, a ration and savings account will not be opened for them for the period during which they are traveling. Commanding officers of troops in the field may order civilian employees to nearest Army hospital for treatment when adequate medical service is noc available at their stations. On recovery such employees should be returned to their stations for duty by the proper commanding officer. In all cases, where practicable, orders should be issued based on a medical certificate. (0. A. R., No. 18.) 154 STArF ADMINISTBATIOBr. 7S5. None but the authorized Items of traveling expenses of civilians will be allowed. A true memorandum of tlie actual expenses paid from day to day- will be kept and tlie expenses will be fully itemized upon tbe voucher, which will be pi'operly sworn to by the person rendering it. Receipts for lodging (European plan) or for board and lodging (American plan) must be furnished when practicable to obtain them, showing the dates for which the charge is made and the first and last meal or lodging. Charge for lodging pertains to the day in which the night for which the lodging was procured began. Keceipts will not be required for meals except where included with lodging on the American plan, nor for railroad or steamboat fares, hack fares, baggage trans- fers, car fare, tips, or fees, or similar expenses. For all other expenses receipts will be taken, unless it is impracticable to obtain them, when the reason for not obtaining receipts must be explained on the voucher. The usual Pullman berth check or seat check will be a sufficient receipt for sleeping-car or parlor- car accommodations. 73(5. The allowances hereinbefore provided for the subsistence of civilian employees cease upon the arrival of the employees at the destination mentioned in their orders for travel ; they must then subsist on their rations, if entitled to them, or provide for th«lr subsistence out of their regular pay. 737. Pay clerks. Quartermaster Corps, and the expert accountant. Inspector General's Department, will be entitled to mileage at the same rates and under the same conditions as is provided by law for ofBcers of the Army. 738. Actual traveling expenses, as contemplated in the preceding paragraphs, are paid by the following departments, viz : Okdnancb Depaetment. — To employees at arsenals and armories (cost of transportation included), from appropriations for the service of the Ordnance Department. Engineee Department. — To employees on public works and fortifications (cost of transportation included) from appropriations made specifically for the work. QuAETEEMASTEK CoKPs. — To Civilians summoned as witnesses before, and authorized civilian reporters of, military courts ; to employees of the Quarter- master Corps, and to other employees of the Army not above provided for. 739. When ofBcers of the staff departments change station the transfer of clerks or other employees- to the new stations at the expense of the United States is prohibited, except in cases of urgent necessity, for which the sanction of the Secretary of War will be first obtained. ARTICLE IiVII. Staff Administeation. 740. The supply, payment, and recruitment of the Army, and the direction of the expenditures of the appropriations for its support, are by law intrusted to the Secretary of War. He exercises control through the Chief of Staff and the bureaus of the War Department. He determines where and how particular supplies shall be purchased, delivered, inspected, stored, and distributed. 741. The exercise by the President of his power to call the Organized Militia into the service of the United States, or to raise volunteers, authorizes the chiefs of the supply departments of the Army to equip and supply said forces in the manner authorized by the Army and Field Service Regulations, limited only by available appropriations. 742. When a chief of bureau of the War Department desires to change the Station of an officer or enlisted man of his department, or to send him on duty 1 STAFF ADMIK'ISTEATIOK. 155 peculiar tiiereto (except as hereinafter aiithorized), he will apply to The' Adjutant General of the Army for the necessary orders, setting forth the rea- sons for the change or the purpose of the journeys. Journeys, not involving change of station, to be performed by officers of the -Corps of Engineers on duty peculiar to fortification work or to river and harbor or other civil work, may be ordered by the Chief et Engineers when such officers are subject to his imme- diate orders, and siiuilarly may be approved by him under paragraph 73. Dis- trict engineer officers may issue orders to their military assistants for journeys to be performed by them on duty peculiar to fortification work or to river and harbor or other civil work within the geographical limits of their respective districts and may approve such travel under paragraph 73. . 748. The assignment to stations of officers or enlisted men of the staff departments, except a's provided in the Field Service Regulations, will be made by the War Department or by commanders of territorial departments under the special authority of tlie AVar Department. The commander of a depart- ment who, in consequence of the "movement of troops or other necessity of service, removes an officer from the station to which he lias been assigned by the War Department will promptly report the case to The Adjutant Gen- . eral of the Ai-my. ( C. A. R., No. 52. ) i 744. When business upon wliich a board of officers is to be assembler and the Chief of Staff. The Secretary of War is charged with carrying out the policies of the President in military affairs. He directly represents the President and is bound always to act in conformity to the President's instructions. Under the law and the decisions of the Supreme Court his acts are the President's acts and his directions and orders are the President's directions and orders. The Chief of Staff reports to the Secretary of War, acts as his military adviser, receives from him the directions and orders given in behalf of the President, and gives effect thereto in the manner hereinafter provided. For 158 GENEKAL STAFF OOKPS. purposes of administration tlie office of the Oliief of Staff will constitute a supervising military bureau of tlie War Department. EKCfiptions to this ordinary course of administration may, however, be made at any time if the President sees fit to call upon tlie Chief of Staff to .give information or advice, or receive instructions, directly. Wherever in these regulations action by the President is .referred to, the action of the President through the Secretary of War is included ; and wherever the action of the Secretary of War is referred to, the Secretary of War is deemed to act as the representative of the President and under his direction. The Chief of Staif is detailed by the President from officers of the Army at large not below the grade of brigadier general. The successful performance of the duties of the position requires what the title denotes — a relation of absolute confidence and personal accord and sympathy between the Chief of Staff and the President, and necessarily also between the Chief of Staff and the Secre- tary of War. For this reason, without any reflection whatever upon the officer detailed, the detail will in every case cease, unless sooner terminated, on the day following the expiration of the term of office of the President by whom the detail is made ; and if at any time the Chief of Staff considers that he can no longer sustain toward the President and the Secretary of War the relations above described, it will be his duty to apply to be relieved. The provisions of paragraph 752 regarding the redetaU of an officer who has not completed a total of four years' service apply to the Chief of Staff. 762. Tlie Chief of Staff is charged as limited and provided by law with the duty of supervising, under the direction of the Secretary of War, all troops of the line, the Adjutant General's, Inspector General's, -Judge Advocate General's, Medical, and Ordnance Departments, the Quartermaster Corps, the Corps of Engineers, and the Signal Corps. He performs such other military duties not otherwise assigned by law as may be assigned to him by the President. 763. The supervisory power vested by statute in the Chief of Staff covers primarily duties pertaining to the command, discipline, training, and recrriit- ment of the Army, military operations, distribution of troops, inspections, arma- ment, fortifications, military education and instruction, and kindred matters, . but includes also, in an advisory capacity, such duties connected with fiscal ad- ministration and supply as are committed to him by the Secretary of War. In respect to all duties within the scope of bis supervisory power, and more particularly those duties enumerated in this and the following paragraph, he makes and causes to be made inspections to determine defects which may exist in any matter affecting the efficiency of. the Army and its state of preparation for war. He keeps the Secretary of War constantly informed of defects dis- covered," and Tinder his direction issues the necessary instructions for their correction. 764. Supervisory power is eonfen-ed upon the Chief of Staff over all matters arising in the eifecution of acts of Congress and executive regulations made in pursuance thereof relating to the militia. This supervision is especially directed to matters of organization, armament, equipment, discipline, training, and in- spections. ' Proposed legal enactments and regulations affecting the militia and estimates for appropriations for its support are considered by him, and his recommendations submitted to the Secretary of War. 765. The Chief of Staff is charged with the duty of informing the Secretary of War as to the qualifications of officers as determined by their records, with a view to proper selection for special details, assignments, and promotions in- cluding detail to and relief from the General Staff Corps ; also of presenting recommendations for the recognition of special or distinguished services. ADJUTANT general's DEPARTMENT. 159 766. All orders and instructions emanating from the War Department, and all regulations affecting the Army or the status of officers or enlisted men therein, are issued by the Secretary of War through the Chief of Staff, and are communicated to troops and individuals in the military ser\ice through The Adjutant General of the Army. 767. The assignment of officers of the General Staff Corps to stations and duties is made upon the recommendation of the Chief of Staff. 768. In case of absence or disability of the Chief of StafC the senior officer of the General StafC present for duty in Washington shall act as such chief unless otherwise specially directed by the Secretary of War. 769. In the performance of the duties hereinbefore enumerated and in repre- sentation of superior authority, the Chief of StafC calls for information, makes investigations, issues instructions, and exercises all other functions necessary to secure proper harmony and efficiency of action upon the part of those placed' under his supervision. The General Statf Serving with Troops. 770. The general stafC of a command consists of general staff officers of such number and grades as may be assigned to it on the recommendation of the Chief of StafC. ; 771. The senior general staff officer on duty with a command shall, unless otherwise directed by the War Department, be the chief of staff of the com- mand. Ordinarily he will be so assigned by the War Department. » 772. The duties of the chief of staff of a command are as prescribed for officers of the General Staff Corps in paragraphs Y54 to 757, and in addition he will, under direction of the commander of the troops, perform all duties analo- gous to those devolved by paragraphs 762 to 769 upon the Chief of Staff of the Army. The other general staff officers serving with troops are employed under the direction of the commanders thereof upon the duties prescribed for officers of the General Staff Corps, and they shall perform such other duties within the scope of general staff employment as may be directed by such com- manders. General staff officers will not be assigned to other than general staff duties except by special authority of the War Department. 773. The two general officers authorized for the General Staff Corps are detailed by the President from officers of the Army at large not below the grade of brigadier general. All vacancies that may occur in the General Staff Corps in grades below that of brigadier general will be filled on the recommendation of a board of five general officers of the line, not more than two of whom shall be members of the General Staff Corps, convened by the War Department at such times as may be necessary. The board will be sworn to recommend offi- cers solely on their professional efficiency, and on their probable aptitude and fitness for general staff service, and will select such number of officers of the proper grades to fill existing or expected vacancies as the War Department may direct. AKTICLE LIX. Adjutant General's Department. 774. The Adjutant General's Department is the department of records, orders, and correspondence of the Army and the militia. The Adjutant General is charged, under the direction of the Secretary of War, and subject to the supervision of the Chief of Staff in all matters pertaining to 160 MILITARY COBEESPONDBNCE, the command, discipline, or administration of tlie existing Military Establish- ment,, witti the duty of recording, authenticating, and communication to troops and individuals in the military service all orders, instructions, and regulations issued by the Secretary of War through the Chief of Stafe ; of preparing and distributing commissions ; of compiling and issuing the Army Register and the Army List and Directory ; of consolidating the general returns of the Army ; of arranging and preserving the reports of officers detailed to visit encampments of militia ; of preparing the annual returns of the militia required by lavs' to be submitted to Congress ; of managing the recruiting service, and of recording and issuing orders from the War Department remitting or mitigating sentences of general prisoners who have been discharged from the military service. The Adjutant General is vested by law with the charge, under the Secretary of War, " of the military and hospital records of the volunteer armies and the pension and other business of the War Department connected therewith " ; and of the publication and distribution of the Official Records of the War of the Rebellion. He also has charge of the historical records and business of the permanent Military Establishment, including all pension, pay, bounty, and other business pertaining to or based upon the military or medical histories of former officers or enlisted men. The archives of The Adjutant General's Office include: All military records of the Revolutionary War ; the records of all organizations, officers, and enlisted men that have been in the military service of the United States since the Revo- lutionary War; the records of the movements and operations of troops; the medical and hospital records of the Army ; all reports of physical examination of recruits and all identification cards ; the records of the Provost Ivlarshal Gen- eral's Bureau; the records of the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Aban- doned Lands ; the Confederate records, including those pertaining to the legis- lative, executive, and judicial branches of the Confederate government. Upon the muster out or discharge of volunteers or militia from the service of the United States all the records that pertain to them, and that have not already been filed in The Adjutant General's Office, will be transferred to and filed in that office. The Adjutant General- takes such steps as are necessary to complete or correct the records in his custody, and answers all calls or inquiries that are answer-, able from those records and that do not require administrative action by other bureaus of the War Department. ABTICLE LX. MHITABT COEKESPONDENCE. 775. An official letter should refer to one subject only. Letters of trans- mittal will be used only when necessary, and when used must refer only to the' matter transmitted; none are required with rolls, returns, estimates, requisi- tions, or periodical reports. Telegrams will be followed by official copies sent by first mail in cases of financial transactions of more than trifling importance and in cases in which chiefs of bureaus of the War Department may deem it necessary themselves to send, or to require officers serving under their imme- diate control to send to them, such copies. 776. Letters will be vrti-itten, folded, numbered, briefed, marked, and signed; indorsements will be written, numbered, and signed; and inclosures will be numbered and marked as prescribed in orders from the War Department. Models illustrating the system are furnished from The Adjutant General's Office. MILITARY CORRESPONDENCE. 161 777. The post-ofl5ce address of an officer's station will be given in his official letters. Indefinite expressions of locality, which do not indicate where the letter was written, will not be used. 778. In order to reduce the possibility of confidential communications falling into the hands of persons other than those for whom they are intended, the sender will inclose them in an inner and an outer cover ; the inner cover to be a sealed envelope or wrapper addressed in the usual way but marked plainly " Confidential " in such manner that the notation may be most readily seen when the outer cover is removed. The package thus prepared will then be inclosed in another sealed envelope or wrapper addressed in the ordinary man- ner with no notation to indicate the confidential nature of the contents. The foregoing applies not only to confidential communications entrusted to the mails or to telegraph companies but also to such communications entrusted to messengers passing between different offices of the same headquarters, including the bureaus and offices of the War Department. Government telegraph operators will be held responsible that all telegrams are carefully guarded. No received telegram will ever leave an office except in a sealed envelope, properly addressed. AH files will be carefully guarded, and access thereto will be denied to all parties except those authorized by law to see the same. 779. Official communications will be signed or authenticated with the pen and not by facsimiles, and if written by order, it will be stated by whose order. Signatures will be plainly and legibly written. By virture of the commission and assignment to duty, the adjutant general or adjutant of any command transacts the business or correspondence of that command over his own signa- ture ; but when orders or instructions of any kind are given, the authority by which he gives the order must be stated. In the absence of a commanding general, his chief of staff, or, If there be none, his adjutant general, in signing the communications to be forwarded to higher authority, will add to his signa- ture the words, " In the absence of the commander." 780. An officer will not be designated in orders nor addressed in official communications by any other title than that of his actual rank. 781. Private correspondence from persons in the military ser\ice which they may desire to have forwarded through the dispatch agents of the United States will be addressed, under cover, to the War Department. 782. Except as otherwise specially authorized or required by Army Regu- lations, all official communications from officers and enlisted men of the Army outside of the War Department intended for the Secretary of War or for any bureau or office of the War Department will be in writing and addressed to The Adjutant General of the Army, who will submit all business, coming to him from the Army, which requires action in the War Department or by the President and which does not come within the jurisdiction of chiefs of bureaus, to the Chief of Staff, to be acted upon by him in conformity to the rules duly prescribed for that purpose by the President or the Secretary of War. Correspondence of the War Department with the Army will be through or by The Adjutant General of the Army. 783. Communications, whether from a subordinate to a superior, or vice versa, will pass through intermediate commanders. This rule will not be inter- preted as including matters in relation to which intermediate commanders can have no knowledge, and over which they are not expected to exercise control. Chiefs of War Department bureaus are intermediate commanders between higher authority and the officers and enlisted men of their respective corps or departments, who are serving under the exclusive control of themselves and 79733°— 18 11 162 MILITARY COKEESPONDENCE. their subordinates. Verbal communications will be governed by the same rules as to channels as written communications. When necessity requires commu- nications to be sent through other than the prescribed channel, the necessity therefor will be stated. Communications from superiors to subordinates will be answered through the same channel as received. fSi. Correspondence between an officer of a stafE corps or department and the chief of the War Department bureau in which he is serving, which does not involve questions of administrative responsibility within the supervision of commanding officers outside that stafE corps or department nor relate to indi- vidual interests or status of a military nature requiring the action of author- ity outside that staff corps or department, and which is concerned exclusively with the business of that staff corps or department, will pass directly. All business emanating from the bureaus of the War Department requiring the action of higher authority will be submitted to the Chief of Staff for his con- sideration, either orally in person, or in writing through The Adjutant General of the Army. In all cases the action of higher authority thereon will be com- municated in writing by The Adjutant General of the Army to those concerned. Matters, however, of a purely civil nature will be submitted by chiefs of bureaus directly to the Secretary of War unless otherwise required by their subject matter. 785. Except as provided in paragraph 783, all communications, reports, and estimates from officers serving at a military post, and communications of every nature addressed to them relating to affairs of the post, will pass through the post commander. 786. Officers who forward communications will indorse thereon their ap- proval or disapproval, with remarks. No communication will be forwarded to the War Department by a department commander or other superior officer for the action of the Secretary of War without some recommendation or expression of opinion. 787. A commander or chief of bureau may communicate with those under his command or direction through a staff or other suitable officer. With all others he will himself make the communication. 788. Unless otherwise expressly authorized by statute, an application for the official opinion of the Judge Advocate General or of an officer of any Executive Department of the Government other than the War Department will be ad- dressed to The Adjutant General of the Army. Abstract questions will not be presented. 789. Unimportant and trivial communications need not be forwarded to The Adjutant General of the Army simply because addressed to him. Department, brigade, and district commanders should decide whether a communication is of sufficient importance to be forwarded. 790. In official correspondence between officers or between officers and offi- cials of other branches of the public service, and especially in matters involving questions of jurisdiction, conflict of authority, or dispute, officers of the Army are reminded that their correspondence should be courteous in tone and free from any expression partaking of a personal nature or calculated to give offense. Whenever questions of such character shall arise between officers and officials of other branches of the public service, and it is found that they can not be reconciled by an interchange of courteous correspondence, the officer of the Army, as the representative of the interests of the War Depart- ment in the matter involved, will make a full presentation of the case to the Secretary of War through the proper military channels, in order that the same may be properly considered. OKDEBS, 163 ARTICLE LXI. Oedees. 791. The routine orders of commanders of armies, divisions, brigades, regi- ments, battalions not organized into regiments, posts, departments, and dis- tricts are denominated "general (general court-martial or special) orders" of sucli army, division, etc., according to cliaracter, and are numbered in separate series, eacli beginning witli tlie calendar year or at the time of the establish- ment of the headquai'ters. Orders issued by commanders of battalions forming parts of regiments, companies, or small detachments are simply denominated " orders," and are numbered in a single series, beginning with the year. Cir- culars issued from any headquarters are numbered in a separate series. The orders of commanders of armies, divisions, brigades, regiments, separate battalions, and companies in the field, relating entirely to tactical or strategical operations incident to a state of war, are denominated " field orders " and are numbered in series. 792. General orders publish matters of importance to the whole command which are of permanent interest or are to Ije constantly observed, such as hours for roll calls and duties, police regulations and prohibitions, laws and regulations for tlie Army, and eulogies or censures. 793. Special orders are such as concern individuals or relate to matters that need not be made known to the whole command. 794. General orders and all important special orders must be read and approved, before issue, by the oflicer whose orders they are. 795. An order will state the source from which it emanates, its number, date, place of issue, and the authority under which issued. It may be put in the form of a letter addressed to the individual concei-ned through the proper channel. j. 796. Orders for any body of troops will ordinarily be addressed to its commanding ofBcer, the address naming the office and not the individual. They will be executed by the commander present, who will publish them and dis- tribute copies when necessary. 797. Orders eulogizing the conduct of living officers will not be issued except in cases of gallantry in action or performance of especially hazardous service. Obituaries of commissioned officers will be limited to statements of service as shown by the records. (0. A. B. No. 1.) 798. In the field, verbal and important written orders are carried by oflQcers. Dispatches for distant corps should be intrusted only to officers to whom their contents may be confided. 799. Mounted enlisted men will be employed to carry important disjiatches only in special and urgent cases. The precise hours of departure and the rates at which they are to be conveyed will be written clearly on the covers of all dispatches transmitted by mounted orderlies. 800. Orders to an officer involving travel on duty, as for the inspection or payment of troops, etc., will designate the troops and posts to be visited and the order in which he will visit them. 801. Orders and instructions will be transmitted through intermediate com- manders, in order of rank, except when they are of such character that the commanders have no power to modify or suspend them. In such cases the orders or instructions will b.e sent directly to the officer by whom they are to be executed, copies being furnished to the intermediate commanders. 802. Printed orders are generally distributed directly to posts by the head- quarters from which issued. Files of such orders will be kept by each regiment 164 ORDEES. and company and at each military post, and will be turned over by a com- mander, when relieved, to his successor. If general orders in regular succes- sion are not received within a reasonable time, commanding officers will report missing numbers to the proper headquarters. 803. General orders of the War Department issued from the Office of The Adjutant General of the Army will be distributed by The Adjutant General's Department. The distribution will be made, first, by The Adjutant General of the Army directly, and, second, under the immediate direction of The Adjutant General of the Army, by the department adjutants of the several territorial departments, each department adjutant to make the distribution within his own department. 1. BY THE ADJUTANT GENERAL OF THE AEMT. (a) To the department adjutants of the several territorial departments, such number of copies as will enable them to make the distribution hereinafter pre- scribed, (ft) To the Chief of Staff and to the chiefs of bureaus and offices of the War Department, for use in the official files and for the personal flies of such officers as are on duty in Washington in the War Department General Staff, the bureaus and offices of the department, and the Army War College, (c) To each military attachg, one copy for his personal file. 2. BY THE DEPAHTJIENT ADJUTANTS OF THE SEVEKAI TEKKITOKIAL DEPAETMENTS. (a) To the several offices at department, brigade, and district headquarters for the official files thereat. ( & ) To each regimental, coast defense, and post headquarters for the official flies thereat ; to each troop, battery, or company organization for its official file ; and to each officer, whatever his duty or sta- tion, who is under assignment to or is serving within the geographical limits of any territorial department and who is not supplied directly by The Adjutant General of the Army as hereinbefore provided, including every officer absent sick, on leave of absence, or otherwise temporarily absent, for his personal file, (c) To each civil educational institution to which an officer of the Army is detailed, two copies, one of which is for the file of the institution and the other for the personal file of the officer, both copies to be sent directly to the officer, who will deliver one of them to the head of the institution, (d) To the follow- ing institutions, depots, stations, and other establishments that may be located v^'ithin the geographical limits of any territorial department, for official and per- sonal files, to wit, the United States Military Academy, the service schools (except the Army War College), the United States Military Prison or any branch thereof, general recruit depots, general recruiting stations, general hospitals, arsenals, armories, general depots of supply, and Signal Corps sta- tions, (e) To the Army transports, mine planters, and cable ships serving ^vithin the geographical limits of any territorial department, or having home ports therein. In making the distribution hereinbefore provided for the following rules will govern: An official file or a personal file consists of one copy of each general order of the series. Only one personal file will be allowed in any individual case and the number of official files will be as follows: (1) To department and military district headquarters, such number as may be neces- sary. (2) To a coast defense or a regimental headquarters, five; to a post, one for the post, one each for the adjutant, quartermaster, surgeon, and ordnance officer, and one for the post artillery engineer at each coast artillery OBDEES. 165 post that is not coast defense commancl headquarters. (3) To each troop, battery, or company organization, one. (4) To an Army transport, mine planter, or cable ship, one. The requisite number of copies of orders to supply all authorized official and personal files at a post will be sent to the post commander, who will distribute them in accordance with the provisions of this paragraph. When a regiment is serving in the field it will be furnished with three copies of each general order, in addition to the number for the official and personal files hereinbefore authorized. In all cases in which the number of orders to be supplied for official flies is not definitely fixed by this paragraph, the number of such files to be maintained and supplied will be determined by special instructions from The Adjutant General's Office. Chiefs of bureaus and offices of the War Department will not supply copies of War Department orders for the official or personal files of any of their subordinates, except such as are on duty in their respective bureaus and offices in Washington. The official files of general orders will not be removed from the stations or organizations to which they belong. Individual officers serving, or under assignment to duty, within the geo- graphical limits of any territorial department, but not reporting to the head- quarters thereof, will make application to the department adjutant of such de- partment for their supply of War Department general orders, and will there- after keep him informed of any change in their respective addresses, such application to show in each case the number of the last general order of the officers' files, in order that his files may be brought to date and kept complete. Officers failing to receive copies of general orders of the War Department, or desiring to replace copies that have been lost or destroyed, will make applica- tion for the desired copies to the officer by whom such orders are ordinarily furnished to them. SPECIAL OKDEES. Full copies of special orders will be furnished directly from The Adjutant General's Office to the chiefs of bureaus and officers of the War Department and, for use in the official files, to the headquarters of each department, brigade, and district. Extracts of special orders will be furnished from the Office of The Adjutant General of the Army directly, or through intermediate commanders, only to those concerned. When a special order involves travel, the office issuing it will furnish the person concerned with a copy for his personal file and an additional number of copies sufficient to enable him to meet the requirements of regulations. 804. In camp or garrison, orders that affect a command will, as a rule, be read to the troops at the first regular parade after they are received. In the field, v/hen orderly hours can not be observed, they will be sent directly to the troops, or commanders of regiments or corps will be informed when to send to headquarters for them, or during a halt orders will be read to troops, without waiting fo the regular parades. 805. Commanding generals of territorial departments will forward to The Adjutant General of the Army, as soon as issued from their headquarters, such number of copies of general orders and circulars and special orders, with indexes thereto, and rosters of troops as may be directed from time to time by the War Department. 166 MUSTEE ROLLS. Commanding officers of separate brigades will forward to The Adjutant Gen- eral of the Army two copies of all orders and circulars as soon as issued from their headquarters. 806. The date of any appointment, detail, or removal affecting the pay of staff officers or acting staff officers wiU be immediately reported by the officer making the same to The Adjutant General of the Army and to the quarter- master of the department or command to which such officers belong. ABTICLE LXII. MusTEE Rolls. 807. At every monthly muster of troops pay rolls will be prepared, signed, and disposed of in accordance with instructions published in orders from time to time by the War Department, and at each bimonthly muster on the last day of February, April, June, August, October, and December muster roUs wiU be prepared, signed, and disposed of in accordance with the instructions on the blank forms furnished by The Adjutant General of tlie Army. There will be reported on the coast defense muster rolls, the noncommis- sioned staff of the Coast Artillery Corps ; on band muster rolls, the mem- bers of the Coast Artillery Corps and Engineer bands; on the noncommis- sioned staff and headquarters detachment muster rolls of each regiment of engineers, the noncommissioned staff officers and other enlisted men of the regiment not borne on company rolls ; and on company muster rolls, the officers and enlisted men belonging to the company. Enlisted mem of the Medical De- partment, Quartermaster Corps, Ordnance Department, and Signal Corps, not belonging to companies will be borne on detachment muster roUs, separate rolls being prepared for each corps or department. When detachments of enlisted men are serving at a post or station and are not under the immediate command of an officer of their respective arm, corps, or department, the muster rolls for such detachments will, unless otherwise authorized by instructions from the War Department, be prepared and signed by the adjutant, who will also keep the accounts and prepare the final statements of the men borne thereon. The names of officers will not be borne on pay rolls of BegTilar Army or- ganizations or detachments, nor on muster rolls, except as provided herein for officers belonging to companies. (C. A. R., Nos. 10 and ^S.) 808. A soldier on duty or in a hospital at a post or station where his com- pany is not mustered will be mustered on a detachment roU, a separate muster roll being prepared for each regiment or corps. Where two or more of such sol- diers are at a post or station their names will be borne on one consolidated pay roll, which will show in a column ruled for that purpose the organization to which each soldier belongs. 809. Companies will be designated on the roUs by letters or numbers, and regiments or corps. 810. Corrections on muster and pay rolls, after muster and before they have been forwarded, will not be made except with the approval of the mustering officer. Retained rolls will not be changed without authority from the War Department. Calculations on the pay roll are made by the quartermaster and copied on the retained roll by the company or detachment commander, who will certify that he witnessed the payment, and will enter thereon the name of the quartermaster. BETTJENS OF TEOOPS — RECOEDS. 167 ARTICLE LXIII. Eetuens of Troops, Recoeds. 811. Commanders of territorial departments, posts, subposts, field armies, tactical divisions, separate brigades, regiments, companies, detachments, gen- eral hospitals, field hospitals, and mine planters will make monthly returns of their respective commands on forms furnished by The Adjutant General of the Army and in accordance with directions printed thereon. Chiefs of staff corps and departments will make similar monthly returns of their corps and depart- ments, and transport quartermasters will make similar monthly returns of officers and enlisted men serving on transports under regular detail in the trans- port service. In the case of a subpost the returns will be prepared by the commanding officer of the main post, unless the detachment at the subpost is in command of a commissioned officer, in which event such officer will prepare the returns and forward them through the commanding officer of the main post. Commanders of brigades and districts will forward each month to depart- ment headquarters a statement of any changes occurring during the month in the status of the brigade or district commander and his staff. 812. In addition to the monthly returns required by paragraph 811, com- manding officers of regiments, companies, and detachments will make similar returns of their commands to The Adjutant General of the Army and to their immediate commanding officer whenever they leave or join a station, or when they sail from a port of embarkation or arrive at a port of destination. When leaving station the return to the immediate commanding officer will be accompanied by a report from each organization on the monthly return blank showing alterations since last return only, with record of events to date. The commanding officer of troops on a transport will, before sailing and on reaching port of destination, make a special return to the department com- mander and to The Adjutant General of the Army of all casuals and unattached officers and enlisted men passengers on the ship. 813. When a field officer is serving with detached companies of his regiment Or corps the commanders thereof will forward their returns through him. 814. Whenever the strength of a separate command is temporarily or perma- nently increased by the arrival or decreased by the departure of any organi- zation, the commanding officer will immediately report by telegraph to the next higher commander the designation of Such organization moved and the names, with arm of the service, of officers accompanying it who do not belong thereto. BATTLE EEPOETS, EETUENS OS" EFFECTIVES, CASUALTIES. 815. In campaign two columns will be added to the monthly return in the space reserved for remarks, in which shall be entered the effective strength of the organization. In determining such strength only those who are available for service in the line of battle will be included. Officers or enlisted men who are sick or disabled, on duty in any of the staff or supply departments, or for any cause not available in line of battle, will be excluded. 816. After every battle or engagement with the enemy, written reports thereof will be made by commanders of regiments, separate battalions or squadrons, companies or detachments, and by all commanders of a higher grade, each in what concerns his own command, which reports will be for- warded, through the proper channel, to The Adjutant General of the Army. It Shall be the especial duty of all general staff officers attached to commands in 168 KETUENS OP TEOOPS KECOBDS. the field to keep careful journals of the operations, from which they will com- pile reports of said operations for their immediate commanders. 817. Whenever upon marches, guards, or in quarters different corps of the Army happen to join or do duty together, and an officer of the Marine Corps or the militia shall command the whole, such officer shall report liis action and the operations of the force, under his command, through military channels, to the Secretary of War, as well as to his superiors in his own branch of the service. 818. Immediately after any engagement in which casualties have occurred, the commanding officer of each organization that participated therein will submit, by telegraph, if possible, to his immediate superior commander a report showing by name each person killed, wounded or otherwise injured, or missing, officers and enlisted men to be reported separately, and wounds and other injuries to be classified, if practicable, as slight or severe. If telegraphic com- munication can not be had, the report will be sent by the most expeditious means available. The report will be consolidated, if necessary, at the proper headquarters and telegraphed ,to The Adjutant General of the Army. In addi- tion to the foregoing report, commanding officers of posts, regiments, or sepa- rate organizations will prepare and forward by mail a return in triplicate, showing the name, rank, and organization of each person killed, wounded or otherwise injured, or missing, the date and place of the engagement, and, in the case of wound or other injury, the location of the wound or the nature of the injury, and whether slight or severe. Whenever necessary, commanding officers will call on their senior medical officers for all information that can be sup- plied in this connection. One copy of the return will be forwarded by the officer making it to his immediate superior commander, 1 copy will be retained for file with the records of the post or organization, and 1 copy will be sent by mail directly to The Adjutant General of the Army. 819. A return of all captured property will be rendered to The Adjutant Gen- eral of the Army, through intermediate channels, by the immediate commander of the troops making the capture. EECOEDS. 820. All military records must be carefully preserved. 821. All public records, reports, and papers, such as document files, files of general and special orders and circulars, correspondence books, guard reports, morning reports, the records of enlisted men as kept in descriptive and deposit books or on loose leaves, and sick reports, are the property of the United States and will be required by the War Department in the settlement of claims against the Government and for other official purposes. Whenever posts, dis- tricts, territorial divisions, departments, corps, divisions, brigades, regiments, and companies are discontinued, all such records will be carefully labeled, packed, and marked, showing the command to Vv'hich they pertain, and will be forwarded to The Adjutant General of the Ai-my, who will be promptly advised of the date of shipment and furnished with a schedule of records shipped. Eecords of discontinued depots of the stafC departments will be forwarded directly to the chief of the stafe department to which they pertain. 822. The use of colored inks, except as carmine or red ink is used in anno- tation, ruling, or compliance with specific instructions issued by the War Department on blank forms or otherwise, is prohibited in the records and correspondence of the Army. 823. Sections 128 and 129 of the Federal Penal Code of March 4, 1909, pre- scribe penalties for the willful and unlawful concealment, removal, mutilation. PERSONAL AND EFFICIENCY REPORTS. 169 obliteration, falsification, or destruction of any record, proceeding, map, book, document, paper, or other thing, filled or deposited in any public oflfice. 824. No information -will be furnished by any person in the military service which "can be made the basis of a claim against the Government, except it be given as the regulations prescribe to the proper officers of the War, Treasury, or Interior Departments, or the Department of Justice. Information con- cerning sick and wounded officers and enlisted men may be freely conveyed to allay the anxiety of friends ; and, in time of peace, when, in the opinion of the surgeon, the condition of an officer or enlisted man, by reason of injury or disease, is such as to indicate the probability of fatal termination, the surgeon will report the circumstances to the immediate commander, who will promptly communicate the fact to the nearest relative. The fact of death may be communicated to relatives, but not circumstances connected therev/ith which could be made use of in prosecuting claims against the Government. If any person in the military service has knowledge of facts pertaining to the service of an individual who is an applicant for a pension, he may, upon request, if not pecuniarily interested, furnish a certificate or affidavit setting forth his knowledge, bvit such certificate or affidavit will be furnished only to The Adjutant General of the Army to be forwarded to the proper oflicer of the Interior Department. Record evidence will be furnished by the War Department only. The surgeon of a post, through the commanding officer thereof, is authorized to furnish to the health authorities of the State or locality in which the post is situated, in accordance with existing State laws or local ordinances, informa- tion concerning all births and deaths occurring in the post, such information to be given on the proper blanks furnished for the purpose by the State or local authorities. (O. A. B., Nos. 13 and JfO.) ARTICLE LXIV. Pebsonai and Efficiency Repobts. 825. When any officer arrives at Washington, D. C, or at the headquarters of a territorial department, he will report at the office of The Adjutant General of the Army, or of the department adjutant, and will register his name and address, and the authority for his presence there. 826. 1. An officer detached from his regiment or corps for duty will report immediately upon arrival at his new station to The Adjutant General of the Army and to the chief of his corps or to his regimental commander the date of departure from former station and of arrival at new station, the date of departure from or arrival at a foreign station, and date of departure from or arrival in the continental limits of the United States, when going to or returning from a foreign station, citing the authority for the change and giving his post-office address. As soon as practicable thereafter he will report the nature of his duties. Thereafter any such officer not carried on any regular return as present for duty will report to The Adjutant General of the Army and to the chief of his corps or to his regimental commander any material change in his duties and any change of address immediately after such change in his official status ; and any such officer who may incur any sickness or injury will make report of that fact as soon as practicable, giving the nature and cause of such sickness or injury. 2 Any general officer not carried on any regular return as present for duty win make to The Adjutant General of the Army the reports required by section 1 of this paragraph. (O. A. B., No. 24.) 170 PERSONAL AND EFFIOIENOY REPORTS, 827. 1. An officer of a staff corps or department, or an officer serving therein by detail, will make report to the head of the corps or department on the last day of every month, giving his address, a statement of the duties on which he has been employed during the month, the date of his assignment thereto, and the authority by which so assigned. He will report to The Adjutant General of the Army, at the time of change, any change of station during the month, giving dates of departure and joining; also the dates of departure from and arrival at foreign stations and of departure from and arriTal in the conti- nental limits of the United States when going to or returning from a foreign station. 2. An officer on the retired list assigned to duty by War Department orders will make a like report to The Adjutant General of the Army as soon as prac- ticable after such assignment ; thereafter any such officer, if not carried on any regular return as present for duty, will report to The Adjutant General of the Army any material change in his duties and any change of address immedi- ately after such change in his official status. An officer on the retired list not assigned to duty by War Department orders, unless specially exempted, will report his address to The Adjutant General of the Army on the last day of every month and will also report promptly any change of address. (C. A. R., No. 2^.) 828. Regimental field officers not serving at the headquarters of their regi- ments will make monthly reports to their regimental commanders. These reports will embrace everything essential to a correct record of their services and of the services of the battalion staff and noncommissioned staff officers serving under them. 828i. A Personal Report and Statement of Preferences will be made on De- cember 31 of each year by each officer of the Army except general officers. This report will be forwarded directly to The Adjutant General of the Army. In the event that an officer, after the rendition of this report, wishes to change any of the preferences that he has expressed therein, he should promptly notify The Adjutant General of the Army directly of the change desired, in order that proper notation thereof may be made on the Personal Report and Statement of Preferences in The Adjutant General's Office. (C. A. R., No. 20.) 829. 1. Efficiency reports are intended to cover, as far as practicable, the whole of the calendar year to which they refer, and will be prepared by report- ing officers as named below and forwarded, subject to the exception stated in section 5 of this paragraph, on December 31 of each year to The Adjutant Gen- eral of the Army through intermediate commanders, who will indorse thereon such remarks as may be proper in each case: (a) By the commanding officer of each territorial department or mobilized division respecting each general officer serving under his command and each officer of the department or division staff; by each department commander respecting each post commander not reported on by a subordinate commander ; and by each brigade or district commander respecting each regimental or coast- defense commander under his command and each officer of the brigade or dis- trict staff. (6) By the chief of each staff department or corps and each staff bureau respecting each officer of his department, corps, or bureau not otherwise re- ported on. (c) By the department surgeon of a territorial department respecting each officer of the Medical Department serving in the department and by the head of each other staff department or corps at the headquarters of a territorial depart- ment respecting each officer attached to his office or serving under his immediate direction. PERSONAL AND EFFICIENCY EEPOETS. 171 The report of the department surgeou concerning officers of the Medical De- partment not attached to Ms ofiice or serving under his immediate direction •will be made in the form of an Indorsement on the efficiency reports of such officers. (d) By each officer of the Corps of Engineers serving as division engineer respecting^ each officer in charge of an* engineering district within his division, and by each district officer respecting each officer on duty under his orders. (e) By each coast defense commander respecting each fort commander in his command, each coast defense stafE officer, and the commanding officer of any mine planter on duty in his coast defenses. (/) By each post or fort commander re.speetlng each officer of his command not otherwise reported on at the post or fort. (g) By each surgeon of a post respecting any officer of the Medical Depart- ment serving under his direction. (7i) By each company commander respecting eacli subaltern officer on duty with the company. (i) By each field officer commanding a battalion respecting each company commander and battalion staff officer serving with the battalion. By each regimental commander respecting each officer serving with the regiment at regimental headquarters not otherwise reported upon. (/) By the Superintendent of the Military Academy, the commandant of each service school, the commandant of the disciplinary barraclra and of any branch thereof, the commanding officer of a general recruit depot, and the commanding officer of a mine planter, respecting each officer serving under them, respec- tively, not otherwise reported on. {k) By the commanding officer of each arsenal, armory, and general depot of supi)ly respecting each officer on duty thereat. (I) By the recruiting officer on duty at each general recruiting station re- specting each officer serving under his supervision. (m) By the commanding general, Philippine Department, respecting officers on duty with the various branches of tlie civil government in the Philippine Islands. (w) By the professor of military science and tactics at each civil educational institution respecting each officer serving under his supervision. i 2. Whenever an officer is permanently relieved from duty at a post or station, or Is detailed on temporary duty elsewhere, the probable period of which duty may exceed 30 days, the reporting officer will make the required entries on the efficiency report blank and, after signing the certificate attached thereto, will forward the report through intermediate commanders to the officer upon whom the duty devolves of continuing or completing the report. 3. Whenever a reporting officer is permanently relieved from duty, or is tem- porarily relieved for a period that will probably exceed 30 days, he will make the required entries on the efficiency report blank and turn it over to the officer upon whom the duty devolves of continuing or completing the report. 4. The continuation of an efficiency report may be made in the form of a statement under "Remarks," in the following cases: (a) Where the period to be covered is less than 30 days; (b) where a reporting officer is required to report a second time on an officer during the same year. ! 5. On December 31 of each year the report of each officer of Cavalry, Field Artillery, and Infantry, assigned to a regiment but not serving at the same station with the regimental commander, will be referred directly to the regi- mental commander by the officer making the final entries on the efficiency report, for the information of the regimental commander and for such remark as he 172 PENALTY ENVELOPES. may desire to make. The report will thfti be returned directly to the officer from whom it was received, to be forwarded through military channels. 6. Whenever the brigade and division commanders at maneuvers in time of peace are not the same officers as are regularly assigned to those units during other periods of the year, special reports as to the efficiency of regimental com- manders and the brigade staff officers, as judged by the performance of their duties at such maneuvers, will be made by the temporary brigade commanders on the blank forms used for the preparation of efficiency reports of officers. Similar reports will be made upon the brigade commanders and division staff officers by the temporary division commanders. These reports will be for- warded at the conclusion of the maneuvers to The Adjutant General of the Army. (C. A. R., Nas. 1, 4, 23, 33, and 53.) 829i, In order that suitable data may be available in making details for detached service and for duty in the several staff corps and departments in , which vacancies are filled by details from the line, particular care will be taken in preparing efficiency reports to enter thereon a statement as to the peculiar fitness of the officer reported on for detail in any of the staff corps or depart- ments, or other detached service to which officers may be assigned, notation being made of the corps or department, or other duty, in the order of apparent fitness. Intermediate commanders through whom these reports are forwarded will indorse thereon their opinions as to the qualifications of the officer re- ported on. (0. A. B., No. 20.) 880. Each officer who makes the annual inspection of the military depart- ment of any civil institution of learning will, immediately after the inspection, forward to The Adjutant General of the Army, through the department com- mander, an efficiency report respecting the senior Army officer on duty at the institution. Officers who Inspect the Natioanl Guard under the provisions of paragraph 892-J will make similar reports respecting inspector-instructors on duty with the National Guard Inspected by them. (0. A. R., Nos. 48 and 53.) 831. The Inspector General will forward to The Adjutant General of the Army extracts of all Inspection reports that relate in any way to the efficiency of an officer. Extracts respecting officers of the staff corps or departments will be sent through the respective chiefs of bureaus. (C A. R., No. 4.) 832. In preparing efficiency reports, reporting officers will exercise the greatest care to set forth all facts concerning each officer and his record which may aid the department In forming a true estimate of standing, ability, and special fitness for any military duties. 833. Chiefs of staff corps and departments will note the correctness of the reports received and will add any data known to them which will contribute to the completeness of the record In each case. All efficiency reports will be trans- mitted to The Adjutant General of the Army as soon as practicable after their receipt, verification, and completion. (C A. R., No. 4.) AKTICLE LXV. Penalty Envelopes. 834. Official communications and other mailable matter relating exclusively to the public business will be transmitted through the mails free of postage, if covered by the " Penalty envelope." Where an officer writes to a private party on official business he may inclose with his letter an official penalty envelope, properly addressed to himself, to cover the reply. 835. Information which is intended to be used in the performance of official duty only is official information, while that which is intended to be used for the THE BECKUITING SERVICE. 173 furtherance of private interest, ends, or business in any way whatever, though called for by a public officer. Is private information. The official envelope may be used to give or obtain the former, but not the latter. 836. Envelopes for official mail matter for the War Department will have " War Department," the designation of bureau or office, and "Official Business," printed in three or four lines, as may be required, in the upper left corner, and in the upper right corner the following : " Penalty for private use, $300." En- velopes for the use of the headquarters of a territorial department, for a post, station, armory, arsenal, depot, or school of Instruction, will be of the same form, with the proper substitution for the designation of the bureau or office, and with the address when necessary. Envelopes required for the transmis- sion of printed matter may also have printed thereon " Printed matter." Other printing or ruling on such envelopes at public expense is prohibited unless printed at the Government Printing Office. For the official business of officers not embraced in the foregoing classes, and officers on the retired list, the head- ing " War Department," " Official Business," will be placed across the left end of the envelope, with the officer's official signature written immediately below it, and with the penalty clause in the upper right corner. 837. Packages of public property partaking of the characteristics of fourth- class mail matter, weighing not more than 4 pounds and not greater in size than 84 inches in length and girth combined, may be sent through the mails^ under cover of the penalty envelope. Packages weighing more than 4 pounds which conform to the limit of size indicated and which do not exceed 50 pounds' in weight when sent to the first or second zone or 20 pounds in the other zones, are transmissible in the mails provided postage is paid thereon at the appropriate rate. Penalty envelopes with return address may be furnished to any person from whom official information is desired, but will not be furnished to merchants or other dealers to cover the transmission of public property, or tlae return of official vouchers. (C A. R., No. 54-) 838. The use of freight or express lines for transmitting letters or packages that- can be sent under penalty privilege in accordance with section 11, act of May 18, 1916, is forbidden ; packages that can not be so sent may be shipped by express when that method is more economical than shipment by mail. ( C. A. R., No. S4.) 839. The penalty envelope will not be used for foreign correspondence. ARTICLE LXVI. The Reckuitinq Service. 840. Recruiting for the Army will be conducted by — 1. An officer for each regiment, post, or detachment, detailed by the proper commanding officer to enlist for the regiment, post, or detachment, or, when authorized by the department commander, for any troops in the department, or, when authorized by the War Department, for any organization in the Army. 2. An officer detached from any organization by its commander, with the ap- proval of the War Department, to make enlistments for that organization and, when authorized by the War Department, for any organization in the Army. 3. Officers detailed on recruiting service by the War Department. The regu- lar details will be ordinarily for four years. (C. A. R., No. 38.) 841. General recruiting stations are places at which applicants for enlist- ment are examined and from which, if found to be qualified for service, they are forwarded to recruiting depots for final examination and enlistment. Recruiting depots are of two classes, viz, general recruit depots and recruit depot posts. General recruit depots are depots at which applicants for enlist- 174 THE BEOBUIXING SEEVICB. ment are finally examined, ealisted, and retained for instruction, and from which recruits are distributed to tlie Army. Recruit depot posts are the desig- nated military posts to which are sent, from general recruiting stations, for iinal examinaion, enlistment, and distribution to the Army, such applicants for enlistment as are not sent to general recruit depots. In all matters of police and discipline recruits at recruit depot posts are under the command of the post and department commanders, but in all oth€r matters, including discharges for disability, they ar« directly under the orders of the War Department. All records pertaining to recruit administration at recruit depots and depot posts will be so kept that a change may, without interference, be made at any time in the post personneL 842. Recruits at general depots w'ill be organized for instruction into recruit companies as may be directed by the War Department, the instruction being given by officers detailed and noncommissioned officers appointed for that pur- pose. Commanding officers of all recruit depots and depot posts will forward directly to The Adjutant General of the Army trlmonthly reports of recruits. 843. All enlisted men prior to their assignment to general recruiting duty will be transferred to the general service. Infantry. The recruiting officer in charge of each general recruiting station, having first satisfied himself of the soldiers' fitness for the positions, will announce in orders from his station, and muster from the date of such announcement, one member of his recruiting party as sergeant and one as corporal. Such orders will be entered in the records of the recruiting station and a copy of each order will be fcwwarded to The Adjutant General of the Army; a copy will also be furnished to each soldier concerned. 844. Members of recruiting parties announced and mustered as sergeants or corporals will not be reduced while performing such duty without the ap- proval of The Adjutant General of the Army. Their appointments as sergeants or corporals will, however, terminate whenever they are relieved from recruit- ing duty, or when the stations at which they are serving are discontinued, unless they shall be assigned to other recruiting stations at which there are vacancies in their resi)ective grades. The recruiting officer will in every case announce in orders the date of the termination of an appointment as sergeant or corporal and furnish copies of each order, as indicated in paragraph 843. 845. All assignments of enlisted men to the general recruiting service will be as privates, first class, the question of their promotion as sergeants or cor- porals being for determination after their fitness and capacity shall have been demonstrated. Individual applications for transfers to the general recruiting service will be forwarded, whenever practicable, through the proper command- ing officers, who mil indorse thereon their recommendations, based upon service and merit, and also a statement of the soldier's fitness for recruiting duty, especially as regards clerical ability and knowledge of Army papers. The transfers will be made from time to time, as the interests of the service re- quire, in orders from the AVar Department. (C A. R., No. 55.) 846. Any male citizen of J;he United States or person who has legally de- clared his intention to become a citizen, if under the age of 35 years, able- bodied, free from disease, of good character and temperate habits, may be en- listed or accepted for enlistment under the restrictions contained in this article. In regard to age or citizenship this regulation shall not apply to soldiers who have served honestly and faithfully a previous enlistment in the Army. {C.A. l;.. No. 55.) 847. With the exceptions indicated in paragraph 859, the date on which the enlistment or reenlistment of any man is actually completed, by administering the oath, is the date of that enlistment and must invariably be shown on the THE KECE.UITING SEKVICE. 1Y5 enlistment paper, above the signature of the officer who administers the oath, and thereby enlists the man. (0. A. R., Nos. 51 and 55.) 848. Applicants for original enlistment and men who apply to reenter the Army after an interval of more than three months from date of discharge will be required to furnish evidence of good character. To determine an applicant's fitness and aptitude for the service and to give him an opportunity to secure testimonials of character he may, after having signified his intention to enlist and passed the required examination, be retained and provided for not to exceed six days before being accepted or rejected. At recruiting stations at which no medical oflicer or recruiting officer Is on duty an examination by the senior noncommissioned officer on duty at the station will be sufficient to deter- mine whether the applicant may be retained for the period named, but such examination will not take the place of that to be made by the recruiting officer under paragraph 847. 849. The enlistment or acceptance with a view to enlistment of persons of any of the following classes is prohibited : Insane or intoxicated persons ; deserters from tlie naval service of the United States ; persons who have been convicted of felony or who have been imprisoned under sentence of a court in a reformatory, jail, or penitentiary, but the fact that an applicant for enlist- ment has been confined in an institution for the education and control of minors will not debar him from enlistment, provided that he was not confined therein because of the commission of any crime or misdemeanor ; for original enlistment, persons over 35 years of age; for first enlistment in time of peace, any person (except an Indian) who is not a citizen of the United States or Porto Rico, or who has not made legal declaration of his intention to become a citizen of the United States, or who can not speak, read, and write the English language ; and, except as provided in paragraph 861, a former soldier whose service during the last preceding term of enlistment has not been honest and faithful, or whose discharge certificate from the last preceding enlistment bears the notation " is not recommended for reenlistment," and deserters from the military service of the United States. (0. A. R., Nos. llf and 55.) 850. Recruiting officers will be very particular to ascertain the true age of every applicant for enlistment. If any doubt exists as to the applicant's state- ment regarding his age, his oath will not be taken as conclusive evidence of the fact, and if he can not furnish competent proof to support his statement, he will be rejected. A minor under 18 years of age may be enlisted or accepted with a view to enlistment with the written consent of the father, only sur- viving parent, or legally appointed guardian to the minor's enlistment, but no person under 16 years of age will be enlisted or accepted without special authority from The Adjutant General of the Army. When a minor under 18 years of age presents himself for enlistment or acceptance under the pro- visions of this paragraph, his parents or guardian, should he have any, will be found and informed of the application; should he be without parents or guardian, the recruiting officer must reject him unless the applicant shall procure the legal appointment of a guardian and obtain his written consent. (C. A. R., No. 55.) 851. Recruiting officers will be held to a rigid accountability for accepting and forwarding men who may be found unfitted for the service, and officers who enlist such applicants will be held to a like accountability. If a man after having been enlisted at a military post, or accepted at a general recruiting station and forwarded to a depot or depot post for enlistment, be discharged or rejected, and It api>ear that the enlistment or acceptance was carelessly made or in violation of these regulations, the expenses incurred in consequence 176 THE KECEUITING SERVICE. of the enlistment or acceptance of the man may be stopped against the pay of the officer responsible. 852. The enlistment or reenlistment of married men for the line of the Army is to be discouraged, and will be permitted only for some good reason in the public interest, the efficiency of the service to be the first consideration. Appli- cations for such enlistments or reenlistments will be finally determined by the regimental commander, or other proper commanding officer if there be no regi- mental organization. 853. Rescinded. (C. A. R., No. 55.) 854. Recruiting officers will not allow any man to be enticed into the service by false representations, but will, in person, explain to every man before he signs the enlistment paper the nature of the service, the length of the term, the amount of pay, clothing, rations, and other allowances to which a soldier is entitled by law. 855. Rescinded. {G. A. B., No. 55.,) 856. The Articles of War enumerated in the one hundred and tenth article of war will be read and explained to each applicant just before administering to him the oath of enlistment. (C. A. R., No. 55.) 857. Enlistment papers and recruiting returns will be made on printed forms furnished by The Adjutant General of the Army, and will be executed and disposed of in accordance with directions thereon. 858. Rescinded. (C. A. R., No. 55.) 859. An enlistment will not be antedated so as to allow a soldier additional pay for reenlistment who applies after the period of three months from date of discharge has expired, nor does an application for reenlistment, made within three months, entitle the soldier to such increase. The benefit granted by law to soldiers who reenlist within three months from date of discharge can be obtained only by actual reenlistment before the expiration of the three months' limit. Where, however, the reenlistment of a soldier, who has applied in per- son within the period of three months to a proper recruiting officer for reen- listment, is delayed beyond the period of three months, through no fault of the soldier, but for the convenience of the Government, the date of the soldier's reenlistment as shown on the enlistment paper will be that of his application for enlistment. 860. An officer who enlists or reenlists a man who has been discharged from the Army will immediately give notice of the fact to the commanding officer of the company from which the man was last discharged, stating, if practicable, designation of the organization to which he has been assigned. On receiving this notice the commander of the company from which the man was discharged will enter the fact of enlistment or reenlistment on the soldier's record. Should it appear that deception has been practiced he will report the case to The Adju- tant General of the Army. The recruiting officer will enter the fact of enlist- ment or reenlistment, with date and place, upon the certificate of discharge from former enlistment, which the soldier should have in his possession. 861. Application to reenter the Army from persons of any of the following classes will not be granted without special authority from the Secretary of AVar: 1. Former soldiers who have been discharged before expiration of term of service, excepting those discharged by purchase or for the convenience of the Government. 2. Former soldiers who have been discharged with character other than good, or its full equivalent, or whose discharge certificates from their last preceding enlistments bear the notation " is not recommended for reenlistment." THE RECRUITING SERVICE. 177 3. Former soldiers over 40 years of age who were last discharged as privates and have failed to reenlist within three months thereafter. In such cases the applications must show that the enlistments will be for the interests of the service. 4. Former soldiers who can not pass the required examination in all respects. Applications of this nature should show that any existing defects will not pre- vent the performance by the applicant of full military duty. 5. Former soldiers who deserted the military service of the United States in time of peace and former soldiers whose service during the last preceding term of enlistment was not honest and faithful. Authority to enlist persons of either of these two classes will be granted only in view of the good conduct of the applicant subsequent to his desertion or last preceding service, as provided for in section 1998, Revised Statutes, as amended by the act of Congress approved August 22, 1912. (C. A. B., No. U.) 862. An applicant will be subjected to the required examination before ap- plication is made for special authority for his enlistment or reenllstment. The result of the examination will be stated in the application. Commanding offi- cers forwarding applications from men of their commands for permission to reenlist for some other organization will report in each case whether the appli- cant is married or single, what character will be given him on discharge, and whether or not he can pass the required examination. 863. Enlisted men of good character and faithful service who, at the expira- tion of their terms, are undergoing treatment for injuries incurred or disease contracted in the line of duty, may be reenlisted if they so elect, and if the dis- ability prove to be permanent, they will subsequently be discharged on certifi- cates of disability. An enlisted man not under treatment, but who has con- tracted in the linQ of duty infirmities that may raise a question of physical eligibility to reenllstment, but not such as to prevent his performing the duties of a soldier, may be reenlisted by authority of the War Department on applica- tion made through the surgeon and proper military channel in time to receive a decision before the date of discharge. MEDICAL EXAMINATION. 864. The physical examination of applicants for enlistment will be con- ducted in accordance with the authorized rules for the examination of recruits. 866. An applicant for enlistment at a garrisoned post, camp, or arsenal, where there is no medical officer or contract surgeon, will be physically exam- ined before enlistment by the civilian physician employed by the Medical Depart- ment, who will immediately vaccinate the man if he is accepted. 866. As soon as a recruit joins any organization, depot, post, or station he will be examined by the surgeon to ascertain whether vaccination is required. In all cases where there is not unmistakable evidence of successful vaccination within a reasonable period the operation will be performed immediately. Vac- cine virus is supplied by the Surgeon General. 867. Upon the arrival at a recruiting depot of an accepted applicant for enlistment he will be examined and enlisted or rejected with the least practi- cable delay. If in the opinion of the surgeon or the commanding officer the disqualification in the case of any rejected applicant is of such a character that it should have been discovered by the recruiting officer who accepted and forwarded the appli- cant to the depot, the commanding officer, will convene a board of three officers, one of whom shall be a medical officer if such officer is available, to examine 79733°— 18 12 178 THE EEOKUITiNG SEBVICE. into the case and report whether the disqualification existed prior to acceptance, Avhen, where, and by whom the applicant was accepted, and whether in the opin- ion of the board the disqualification should have been discovered^ by the recruit- ing oflScer.' If the board is of the opinion that the recruiting officer was at fault in accepting and fonvarding the applicant, it will, before making its re- port, communicate with him and give him an opportunity to be heard in the case, but if he fails to respond with reasonable promptness, the board vnll pro- ceed with the case and render its report without further delay. In those cases in which the board finds that the recruiting officer was at fault the record of the proceedings of the board, together with the report of the surgeon and the original form for examining a recz-uit, will be forwarded directly to The Adju- tant General of the Army with the recommendation of the commanding officer ; but if the board finds that the recruiting officer was not at fault, it will so advise him, and no further action will be taken. If in the opinion of both the surgeon and the commanding officer the disqualification is not of such a char- acter that it should have been discovered by the recruiting officer at the time of acceptance of the applicant, the case will not be referred to a board of offi- cers. All military posts to which applicants for enlistment may be sent from general recruiting stations without previous medical examination will be regarded as depots within the meaning of this regulation. Accepted applicants for enlistment who are found unfit for service on final examination at recruiting depots will be regarded as remaining under military observation until they have been returned to the recruiting stations at which they were accepted, or until they should have arrived at those stations after having been forwarded for them. 868. Every detachment of recruits ordered from a recruiting depot to any organization or post will, immediately preceding its departure, be critically inspected by the post commander and the senior medical officer present, and any sick or otherwise disabled will be held at depot. A recruit deemed unfit for continuance in the service wiU not be sent to an organization, but the nec- essary action will be taken by the commanding officer of the depot or depot post with a view to the discharge of the recruit on a surgeon's certificate of dis- ability, or otherwise, as the case may require. 869. Before recruits are forwarded from a depot to organizations the post commander will cause the character of each recruit to be entered upon the service record ; also the date and result of last vaccination. Officers in charge of detachments, if called upon, will exhibit the entries relative to vaccination to authorized inspectors of State boards of health. (0. A. R., No. 55.) 870. Upon arrival at a post each recruit who has not undergone examination by a medical officer, contract surgeon, or civUian physician wlU be examined, and defects will be recorded by the medical officer, with his opinion as to whether they existed prior to enlistment. A certificate of disability will be submitted if the recruit is disqualified for the service. 871. A monthly report of the medical examination of applicants for enlist- . ment in the Regular Army will be made by the medical examiner for each garrisoned post or recruiting depot, and forwarded, not later than the sixth day of the month following that in which the examinations are made, directly to the Surgeon General of the Army, who will furnish blank forms for the purpose. (C A. R., No. 55.) KECRUITS SENT TO OEGANIZATIONS. 872. Recruits will be assigned to regiments and other organizations by The Adjutant General of the Army, under the direction of the Secretary of War, from recruit depots and depot posts. Recruits designated for assignment will IBF&PEeTOE GEl!ir;?lffiAL's BEPABTMBJS:T. 179 be borne oa the ro-lls aad returus of tlie depots and depot posts until the date of departure therefrom, when the assignment will take efEect. Prior to that date they wiU no.t be taken up on the rolls of companies, regiments, or other organiziatiOHs. Correspondence between officers or enlisted men of the general recruiting service and other officers ©r enlisted men of the Army with a view to furnish- ing or obtaining reci-uits for particular organizations, either by the acceptance of applicants at general recruiting stations or by the assignment of recruits from recruit depots or depot posts, is prohibited. 878. Rescinded. (C, A. jffi., No. 55.) 8.74. Rescinded. (C. A. R., No. 55.) 875. An offl-cer intrusted with the command of recruits ordered to regiments or other organizations will, on arriving at destination, forward the following papers : 1. To The Adjutant General of the Army, a report of date of arrival at the post, the strength and condition of the party when turned over to the com- manding officer, and all circumstances worthy of remark which occurred on the journey. 2. To th« commanding officer of tlie post or organization, the service records furnished him with the recruits, properly completed by noting in the column for remarks tmie and place of death, desertion, or otlier casualty that may have occurred. (C. A. R., No. 55.) 876. Rescinded. (O. A. R., No. 55.,} 877. Soldiers enlisted by special authority for particular organizations will be sent to their proper stations without delay. An applicant will be subjected to the required examination before application is made for special authority for Ms enlistment. ARTICLE LXVTI. Inspectoe Gtdntseax's Depabtment. general provisions. 878. The sphere of inquiry of the Inspector General's Department inclttdes every branch of military affairs except when specially limited in these regula- tions or In orders. Inspector's general and acting inspectors general will exer- cise a comprehensive and general observation within the command to which they may be respectively assigned over all that pertains to the efficiency of the Army, the condition and state of supplies of all kinds, of arms and equipments, of the expenditure of public property and moneys, and the condition of accounts of all disbursing officers of every branch of the service, of the conduct, disci- pline, and efficiency of officers and troops, and report with strict impartiality in regard to all Irregularities that may be discovered. From time to time they win make such suggestions as may appear to them practicable for the correc- tion of any defect that may come under their observation. 879. Inspectors general or acting inspectors general assigned to a military command are under the Immediate direction of its commanding general ; when not so assigned, they are under the orders of the War Department. They will make the garrison and such special Inspections as the commanding general may direct within the limits of his command, and will each be allowed the necessary clerks and one messenger, who will be assigned by the Secretary, of War. (0. A. B„ No. 9,) 180 INSPECTOB GENEEAIi's DEPABXMENT. 880. Inspectors general and acting Inspectors general will report by letter on arriving at their stations to the Inspector General of the Army. Thereafter they will furnish to him copies of all orders and written instructions received for tours of inspection or for investigations, giving the nature of the duty they are going to perform, the probable time they will be at each place to be visited during their tour, and the probable date they will return to their stations. At the close of each fiscal year the inspector general assigned to a military command will submit to its commanding general a report covering the opera- tions of the Inspector General's Department within the command during the preceding year, together with such recommendations for the improvement of the service as he may deem fit, and will forward a copy thereof, through mili- tary chanels, to The Adjutant General of the Army, who will transmit it to the Inspector General of the Army. 881. Inspectors general or acting inspectors general will make l^nown their orders or instructions to commanding and other officers whose troops and affairs they are directed to inspect, and these ofiicers will see that every facility and assistance, including clerical aid, if requested, is afforded. When making inspections within the territorial limits of the command of an ofiicer subordi- nate to the officer ordering the inspections, they will, prior to the inspections, furnish to the subordinate commander a copy of their orders and an itinerary of their route in so far as they relate to the inspection of parts of his command. 882. An inspector general or acting inspector general will not give orders unless specially authorized to do so, and then only in the name of the superior giving such authority. He will report with strict impartiality all irregularities. He should refrain from informal conversation or comment upon subjects under investigation. 883. An inspector general or acting inspector general will exercise the great- est care that he does no injustice to organizations or individuals. When investi- gating accusations prejudicial to the character of an officer, he will make known to the officer their nature, and give him an opportunity to make his own state- ment in writing, which will be appended to the report. Copies or extracts from an inspection report reflecting upon or commending the character or efficiency of an officer may be furnished him by the commander to whom the report is submitted. 884. An inspector general or acting inspector general detailed to investigate alleged attempts to defraud the Government, or any irregularity or misconduct of any officer or agent of the United States, has authority to administer oaths to witnesses. SPECIAL DUTIES. 885. Inspectors general will, from time to time, designate the articles which, in their opinion, should be procured and kept for sale by the Quartermaster Corps to officers and enlisted men while in garrison or permanent camps and while in temporary camps or on active campaign. These recommendations will be submitted to the Secretary of War for his action. CLASSIFICATION 01" IKSPECTIONS. 886. Inspections are classified as follows: 1. Annual tactical inspections of troops of the mobile army by department and brigade commanders. 2. Annual garrison inspections. 3. Inspection of the National Guard. 4. Special and miscellaneous inspections. annual; tNsPECTiojsrs. 181 Inspections of the Coast Artillery troops will include the annual garrison in- spection, the inspection to be made by the Coast Artillery district commander as prescribed in the Regulations for the Instruction and Target Practice of Coast Artillery Troops, and such other inspections as may be directed. (G. A. R., Nos. 9 and //S.) ANNUAL TACTICAL INSPECTIONS. 887. The responsibility for the annual tactical inspections is imposed upon the department and. brigade commander by paragraphs 193 and 194. As far i^.s practicable, the assistants of these commanders will be inspectors general or acting inspectors general of the arm to be inspected. (0. A. R., No. 9.) ANNUAL GAEEISON INSPECTION. 888. The annual garrison inspection will be conducted by officers of the In- spector General's Department during the period of garrison training. When practicable the inspector will belong to the arm to be inspected. The object of these inspections is to determine the state of discipline and efficiency attained in garrison training and the degree of efficiency and economy exercised in gar- rison administration. 889. All garrisons and posts shall be inspected at least once in each fiscal year by the inspector of the department or by his assistants. Ungarrisoned posts will be inspected at such times as the department commander may direct, ordinarily once in two years. Inspections of garrisons and posts will embrace the following subjects : 1. Officers present, those absent on detached duty or otherwise, and those permanently incapacitated for any duty from any cause ; whether the number of enlisted men in ranks at inspection corresponds to returns, how absentees are accounted for, and how many appear under arms at inspection ; the number of men in the band, and if any are not musicians. 2. Whether the post is adequately armed and supplied, and maps of the post and of the country in its vicinity are kept. 3. Whether the commanding officer observes the system of instruction and treatnaent of subordinates enjoined by the regulations and properly executes the laws relating to neutrality, quarantine, and the regulations concerning international courtesy, so far as applicable to his post ; whether jvistice is promptly and legally administered ; the zeal of the commanding officer and his ability to perform his duties ; whether due attention has been given by the commanding officer to the tactical training of the command, and whether field efficiency is made subordinate to routine administration; amount of corre- spondence and whether matters of routine are disposed of by personal interview or by official correspondence. 4. Whether officers are efficient, including a report as to any intemperance or immorality, and mentioning any officer or soldier who has distinguished himself or shown special efficiency in any department of study or duty. 5. The manner in which chaplains perform their duties. 6. The efficiency of administrative and staff officers, the correctness of their accounts ; whether payments and issues are made in accordance with law and regulations ; whether surplus supplies are taken up on returns and deficiencies accounted for. 7. Proficiency of troops in drill in the use of the bayonet as a fighting weapon, and the use of the saber in mounted and dismounted exercises and in mounted and dismounted fencing; proficiency in riding of officers of the stafC corps and mounted officers of infantry ; proficiency of officers and men of mounted organi- 182 INSPECTOE geneeae's bepaetment. zations in jninping hnircHes, ditches, fences, and other obstacles, simulating those ordinarily found in cross-country riding ; discipline and appearance of troops ; state of arms, equipments, and acconterments of all kinds, and their fitness for field service ; economy exercised by organization commanders in care and preser- j vation of arms and equipment of all kinds ; the character of recruits received, sources from which obtained, dates of arrival, and number received for each consignment ; sufficiency, uniformity, and fit of clothing ; the sufficiency of shoes I for fitting and equipping enlisted men and the suitability of the place provided by the quartermaster for fitting purposes ; failures of organization commanders , to secure proper shoes for their commands or proper facilities for fitting and the causes for same ; whether the schools for enlisted men are held as prescribed and properly conducted ; nature and amount of drills, target practice, and gym- nastic exercises ; the amount of guard duty required and whether it is deemed excessive ; efiiciency in signaling ; regularity of payment of troops, their health, j and Tvhether.the sick are properly cared for; the number and percentage of desertions from each organization during the 12 months preceding the inspection and, if abnormal, special inquiry as to the cause therefor will be made and the result hriefly reported. 74. Whether the annual obstacle ride far Cavalry and Field Artillery officers is held as prescribed, reporting all officers who fail to take it and giving reasons therefor. 7J. The extent and tharoughness of the instruction of the troops wiU be tested by tactical problems or exercises appropriate to the size of the command and to the available terrain. 8. Police and sanitation of the post ; cleanliness, state of repair, and sanitary condition of all buildings; the number, character, and cost of buildings con- structed since last annual inspedaaa; economy exercised in care and preserva- tion of public property. 9. Whether there are suitable roams for use, respectively, as a library, reading room, chapel, and school; sufficient quantities of newspapers and periodicals, schoolbooks, stationeiy, and school material for the use of enlisted men; whether the newspapers, periodicals, and schoolboaks are solely used by enlisted men ; whether the library rooms are used at aU by officers, and, if so, whether it interferes with their use by enlisted men ; the attendance and progress of pupils and the system of instruction. See also paragraph 337. 10. System of messing ; sufficiency, variety, and preparation of food. 11. Whether labor of the supply departments is performed by troops or civilians; If by the latter, their number, cost attending and reasons for their employment, and kind of labor performed hy them. 12. Means of transportation, its condition and fitness for field service ; train- ing, grooming, shoeing, suitability, veterinary treatment and condition of public animals, and number unserviceable; also the suitability for military purposes of horses owned by officers. 13. Condition of all public property, and whether used for private purposes ; whether buildings and property are properly secured against fire, theft, and damage.; 14. Whether sales of subsistence stores are made to enlisted men according to regulations ; whether there are damaged stores, and, if so, in what quantities and how damage was caused. 15. Water supply, facilities for laundry work, bathing, and swimming; system and condition of sewerage and drainage, and means of extinguishing fire. 16. Management and success of post exchange, and whether properly supplied and conducted according to regulations ; extent, necessity for, and kind of gar- dens, success atteadtog, and nuntber of men employed tlierein. iisrsPECTioKr of.' the national guaed. 183 17. Managemeat and application of the regimental, company, mess, and post exchauge funds, and whether the provisions of Article XXXIII are complied with. 18. Whether regimental, post, and company books, papers, and files, and those of the- post stafe departments, mcluding chaplain's records, are properly kept, and the prescribed rolls and returns are properly prepared and promptly forwarded. 19. Condition of post cemetery and its records. 20. Efficiency of enUsted men. Medical Department, in ambulance and litter- bearer's drill, and methods of rendering first aid to the woimded. (0. A. R., Nos. 9 and 65.) 890. Inspectors while inspecting a command will call upon post, coast de- fense, regimental, battalion, and company commanders and the surgeon for a report by name of any officer under their Immediate command who is in- capacitated for service, either mentally, morally, or physically. When any officer is so reported the inspector will thoroughly investigate the case and submit his conclusions thereon to the officer ordering the inspection, 890J. Inspectors wiU especially inquire into and report by name, affirma- tively or negatively as the case may be, whether the field officers of the com- mands they inspect are believed to be physically fit to perform all their duties in the field. The words "field officers" include all officers of the line and stafE below the grade of brigadier general and above the grade of captain. (C. A. R., No. SS.) 891. The written reports of inspectors will set forth a correct return of the troops, the number present at and absent from the station and the absentees from inspection, and whether irregularities, etc., reported at last inspection have been remedied, after which will follow a statement of the results of the inspection, dealing only with defects, deficiencies, irregularities, recommenda- tions, and commendations whereof the various items will be paragraphed and stated sepa.rately. These items will be grouped under the department within whose sphere the responsibility for the conditions stated falls, viz : Commanding officer. Quartermaster Corps, Corps of Engineers, etc. Brief statement will be made of the various drills and exercises held for the inspector and the report concluded with an exposition of the conclusions arrived at as to the state of discipline and efficiency attained in garrison training and the degree of efficiency and economy exercised in garrison administration. 892. On completion of an inspection of a garrison, post, or other command of troops, the inspector wUl furnish its commanding officer a written statement of all irregularities and deflcieneies observed, which will be kept on file for the information of commanding officers and inspectors. The commanding officer, as soon as practicable, will submit to the next higher commander a copy of this statement, with a report showing what remedies he has applied or will apply to correct each of the irregularities or defects found, and will recommend the proper action with regard to those that he has not power or authority to remedy. These reports and statements will be promptly forwarded, through military channels, to The Adjutant General of the Army, by whom they will be transmitted to the Inspector General. At arsenals, depots, and stations not under the supervision of department commanders inspectors will furnish like statements, and commanding officers will forward copies thereof, with their replies, to The Adjutant General for file with the inspection reports to which they pertain. IWSPECTION OF THE NATIONAL GUAED. 8921. (a) Inspections of the National Guard will be made at least once each year by inspectors general and, if necessary, by other officers of the Kegular 184 INSPECTOR GENERAL^-! DEPAETMENT. Army detailed by the Secretary of War, or department commanders acting under instructions from the Secretary of War, to determine whether the amount and condition of the property in the hands of the National Guard are satis- factory ; whether the National Guard is organized as prescribed by the act of Congress approved June 3, 1916 ; whether the officers and enlisted men possess the physical and other qualifications prescribed ; whether the organization and the officers and enlisted men thereof are sufficiently armed, uniformed, equipped, and being trained and instructed for active duty in the field or coast defense, and whether the records are being kept in accordance with said act. The re- ports of such inspections shall serve as the basis for deciding as to the issue to and retention by the National Guard of the military property provided for by said act, and for determining what organizations and individuals shall be considered as constituting parts of the National Guard within the meaning of said act. Blanks and memoranda for use in making these inspections will be furnished by the Inspector General of the Army. (6) Inspectors will inquire into and report upon the character and amount of work done by officers and enlisted men of the Regular Army on duty with the National Guard ; the manner in which they perform their duties ; their fit- ness for their positions ; and whether the inspector-instructors comply with the War Department regulations and instructions relating to their duties. (c) Inspectors general will inquire into and report upon the necessity, econ- omy, and propriety of all disbursements of the National Guard property and disbursing officers for the United States, their strict conformity to the law appropriating the money, whether these officers comply with the law in keeping their accounts and making their deposits, and whether their property records are complete and properly kept, and the required reports and returns rendered. (d) The inspector will verbally inform the organization commander of all irregularities and deficiencies noted in connection with the subject of organiza- tion, armament, and equipment, and will at the same time offer such assistance, advice, or suggestions as may be practicable looking to their correction. (e) Reports of these Inspections will be forwarded to the department com- mander, who will examine them with a view to the detection of errors and in- completeness, and correction of the same by the responsible inspectors, and then forward them to The Adjutant General of the Army. (C. A. R., No. JfS.) SPECIAl AND MISCELLANEOUS INSPECTIONS. 893. Special inspections and investigations within the limits of a command (territorial or tactical) may be made under orders of the commander thereof; but in all cases involving travel his selection of officers to perform such duty shall be restricted to inspectors general, acting inspectors general, or officers of the General Staff Corps on duty as such, at his headquarters under War De- partment assignment. 894. The annual inspection of the Soldiers' Home in the District of Colum- bia will be made by the Inspector General of the Army, in person, as required by law; and that of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, its records, disbursements, management, discipline, and condition, ^^'ill be made by an officer of the Inspector General's Department under the provisions of the act of Congress approved August 18, 1894, who will report in writing, through the Inspector General of the Army, to the Secretary of War, the results of such inspection. 895. All armories, arsenals, depots, general hospitals, general recruiting stations, the proving ground at Sandy Hook, N. J.,>and the military prisoners in the United States penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kans., will be inspected annually and all national cemeteries once in two years. These inspections and the in- KEPORTS, 185 spections of accounts of officers disbursing funds under the Secretary of War, and such special inspections of posts and commands as may be deemed ad- visable, will be directed by the Secretary of War to be made by officers recom- mended by the Inspector General of the Army, with a view to their special fitness for the work enjoined. 896. Inspections of the military departments and business methods of the Military Academy and of the service schools will be made annually by the Inspector General or officers recommended by him under specific instructions of the AVar Department. 896J. Inspections of the United States Disciplinary Barracks or any branch thereof will be made annually by an officer on duty in the Office of the Inspector General of of the Army. (G. A. R., No. 24.) 897. The inspection of disbursements and money accounts of disbursing officers required by act of April 20, 1874, will be made by officers of the Inspec- tor General's Department or by others detailed for that purpose, and, as far as practicable, at irregular intervals, but no officer so detailed shall be in any way connected with the corps or staff deportment making the disbursement. The inspection of the accounts and records of the National Guard property and disbursing officers of the United States, required by section 67 of the act of June 3, 1916, will be made at least once each year by officers of the Inspector General's Department. The frequency of these inspections will be regulated by the Secretary of War. (C A. R., No. J18.) 898. Just prior to the departure of an Army transport from a terminal port, and immediately upon its arrival at such port, it will be minutely inspected by an officer of the Inspector General's Department, or, if no officer of that de- partment is available, by an officer previously designated for the performance of this duty. In making this inspection all Irregularities and deficiencies found by the inspector or mentioned in the report of the commanding officer of the troops, required by paragraph 234, Army Transport Service Regulations, will be investigated. 899. The Inspector General of the Army will keep the inspectors of the several military departments informed, through the proper channels, of such inspections of accounts of disbursing officers and of places not under the imme- diate command of the department commander as the Secretary of War desires shall be made by them. Department commanders in issuing orders for inspec- tions involving travel will consider the most advantageous and economical plan. 900. Reports of prescribed inspections of troops, stations, and accounts of disbursing officers under the authority of the department commanders will be forwarded, through military channels, to The Adjutant General of the Army and transmitted to the Inspector General of the Army. In case irregularities, deficiencies, or misconduct are reported, a commander in forwarding a report will state what remedies he has applied or will apply to correct them, adding any recommendations that he may desire to make. Unusual delays in forward- ing a report will be explained. When a report contains any item requiring prompt administrative or disciplinary action beyond the power or authority of the department commander, an extract thereof will be forwarded at once by him. All other reports of inspectors will be forwarded directly to the In- spector General of the Army, except when otherwise specially directed, and all inspection reports not confidential will be filed in his office. The Inspector General will submit to the Chief of Staff all reports that contain matters re- quiring correction. (G, A, R., No. 55.) 186 INSPECTOB GENEBALr's DBPAETMENT. MSBUESEMENTS AND ACCOUNTS. 901. Inspectors general and acting inspectors general will inquire as to the necessity, economy, and propriety of all disbursements, their strict conformity to the law appropriating the money, and whether the disbursing officers comply with the law in keeping their accounts and making their deposits. A statement of receipts and expenditures and of the distribution of funds, with lists of outstanding checks, on forms furnished by the Inspector General of the Army, will be submitted by the disbursing officer to the inspector, who should imme- diately transmit the lists of outstanding checks to the several depositai-ies. Upon return from a depositary balances will be verified and noted on the inspection report, which will then be forwarded to the Inspector General, with a copy of each list of outstanding checks and the indorsements thereon. The original lists will be retained by the inspector to be used at the next inspection of the officer's accounts and then sent to the Inspector General. 902. When au officer ceases to act as a disbursing officer, or for any reason closes his accounts, he will prepare a closing statement of his money accounts from date of last inspection to and including the closing of his accounts, with a separate list of outstanding checks. If he is under the command of a depart- ment commander, or his accounts are assigned for inspection to the department inspector, he will forward the statement and list of checks to department head- quarters, through military channels, for the usual action. If disbursing under the direction of the Secretary of War without such assignment, he will forward his papers directly to The Adjutant General of the Army, who will transmit them to the Inspector General of the Army. He will also comply with the requirements of paragraphs 5S8 and 630. PROPERTY EOE CONDEMNATION. 903. Except as provided in paragraph 717, inspections having in view the condemnation of property will be made by inspectors general or acting in- spectors general; but in eases of emergency, such as when a station is aban- doned or when troops change station, such inspections may be made Isy officers specially designated by the commander of a department, or the commander of a division, or army in the field, or higher authority. 904. Officers will prepare and sign in duplicate, on blank forms furnished by the Inspector General of the Army, inventories of public property requiring inspection, and present them, with the property, to the Inspector General or Acting Inspector General at the time of his visit. In the case of rapidly de- teriorating subsistence stores or of unserviceable public animals, or of pressing emergency, such inventories will be prepared whenever necessary, and one copy will be forwarded to the commander having authority to appoint an inspector. Public animals will be inventoried singly, with a brief description of color, sex, age, and distinguishing marks. ' Public buildings which have become un- serviceable and can not be kept in repair at reasonable cost, or which occopy ground required for new buildings or other Improvements, will be entered upon a separate inventory and brought before an inspector for his action. 905. For inspection the property will be arranged in the order of enumera- tion in the inventory, every article will be examined by the inspector, and the officer responsible will accompany him and be prepared to give all necessary information in regard to it. 906. Inspectors will examine all property presented for condemnation. When all property presented has been destroyed, the two copies of the inventory and inspection report will be delivered by the inspecting officer to the account- able officer. In eases in which the inspector recommends the sale of any prop- erty, or its transfer to depots, he will forward both copies of the inventory. PROPEETY FOR'CONDEMNAXION.. 187 and inspection report to deparLment ar division laeadqunrters, and if tlie in- spector's action is approved by tlie department or division commander, botli copies vi^ill be returned to tlie accountable officer ; and, in similar cases, when the accountable officer is not serving under the department or division commander and all the property has been destroyed, both copies of the inventory and inspec- tion report will be fo-rwarde;riNEMENT. 922. Only commanding officers have power to place officers in arrest, except as provided in the sixty-eighth article of war. An officer is placed in arrest by his commanding officer in person or through another officer, by a verbal or written order or communication, advising him that he is placed in arrest, or will consider himself in arrest, or words to that efCect. (C. A. B., No. 55.) 923. An officer arrested will repair at once to his tent or quarters, and there remain until more extended limits have been granted by his commanding officer. Close confinement will not be enforced except in cases of a serious nature. (0. A. R., No. 55.) 924. Officers will not be placed in arrest for light offenses. For these the censure of the commanding officer will generally answer the purpose of disci- pline. Whenever a commanding officer places an officer in arrest without pre- ferring charges, he will make a written report of his action to the brigade or Coast Artillery district commander, stating the cause. The brigade or Coast Artillery district commander, if he thinks the occasion requires, will call on the 190 AEKEST AND COISMBrBMBNT. officer arre&ted for any explanation he may desire to make, and take such other action within his authority as he may think necessary, forwarding the papers, with his recommendation, to the officer exercising general court-martial juris- diction, who will, in case a trial Is not deemed advisable, forward the papers to The Adjutant General of the Army for file with the officer's record, or for further action, stating the reasons why he deems trial inadvisable. In the case of officers belonging to organizations not attached or belonging to a brigade or Coast Artillery district, the report will be sent directly to the officer exercising general court-martial jurisdiction. (0. A. R., No. 5-5.) 925. In ordinary cases where inconvenience to the service would result from it, a medical officer wUl not be placed in arrest untU the court-martial for his trial convenes. 926. An officer in arrest can not exercise command of any kind. He will not wear a sword nor visit officially his commanding or other superior officer, unless directed to do so. His applications and rectuests of every nature will be made in writing. (C. A. R., No. 53.) 92.7. On the march, field officers and noncommissioned staff officers in arrest wUl follow in the rear of their respective regiments, and company officers and noncommissioned officers in arrest in rear of their respective companies, unless otherwise specially directed. 928. Enlisted men against whom charges have been preferred will be desig- nated as " awaiting trial ;" enlisted men who have been tried will, prior to the promulgation of the result, be designated as " awaiting result of trial;" enlisted men serving, sentences of confinement, not involving dishonorable discharge, will be designated as " garrison prisoners." Persons sentenced to dismissal or dis- honorable discharge and to terms of confinement at military posts or elsewhere will be designated as " general prisoners." 929. Noncommissioned officers will not be confined in company with privates if it can be avoided. When placed in arrest they will not be required to perform any duty in which they may be called upon to exercise authority or control over others, and when placed in confinement they wiU not be sent out to work. (C A. R., No. 55.) . 930. Except as provided in the sixty-eighth article of war, or when restraint is necessary, no soldier will be confined without the order of an officer, who shall previously Inquire into his offense. It is proper, however, for a company commander to delegate to noncommis.sioned officers of his company the power to place enlisted men in arrest as a means of restraint at the Instant when restraint is necessary, but such action must be reported to the company com- mander at once. (C A. R., No. 55.) 9S1. The arrest or confinement of an enlisted man will be reported, as soon as practicable, to his company or detachment commander by the officer authoriz- ing the arrest or confinement. 932. Prisoners awaiting trial by, or undergoing sentence of, general court- martial and those confined for serious offenses, wUl be kept apart, when pra-c- ticable, from those confixied by sentence of an inferior court, or for minor offenses. General prisoners will not be confined with other prisoners except in cases of necessity. Enlisted men in confinement for minor offenses, or await- ing trial, or the result of trial for the same, will ordinarily be sent to work under charge of unarmed over.seers instead of armed sentinels, and will be required to attend drills unless the commanding officer shall direct otherwise. {C. A. R., No. 55.) 933. An officer charged with crime or with a serious offense under the Articles of War shall be placed in arrest by the commanding officer, and in exceptional cases an officer so charged may be placed in confinement by the AiKREST AHBi'TCOlSrFINEMENT. 191 same authority. A soldier charged with crime or with a serious offense under the Articles of War shall be plaeed la confinement, and when charged with a; minor offense he may be placed m arrest. Any other person subject to military law charged with crime or with a serious offense under the Articles of. War shall be placed In confinement or in arrest, as circumstances may re- quire; and when diarged with a minor offense such person may be placed in arrest. Any person placed in arrest as hereinbefore speeifled shaU thereby be restricted to his barracks, quarters, or tent, unless such limits shall be enlarged by proper authority. (O. A. B., No. 55.) 934. In the absence of special instructions,, the oM. officer of the day will, at guard mounting, release all garrison prisoners whose sentences expire that day. If there are any prisoners with no record of chaarges against them, the old officer of the day wlH report that fact to the commanding officer, who will give the necessary instructions. (0. A. R., No. 55.) 935. Prisoners will not lie placed in irons except in the extraordimiry case- of a prisoner who, in the judgment of the commanding officer, is a desperate or dangerous character, in which case report of action and the circumstances will be immediately made to the department or tactical division; commander. When a prisoner is removed from irons a report of that action wUl be made to the department or tactical division commander. A prisoner may be shackled or handcuffed' while being transported from one post to another, or from a post to a penitentiary when. In the judgment of the officer In charge, the escape of the prisoner can not otherwise be prevented. (C. A. R., No. 31.)i 936. Special rules and regulations will be promulgated by the Secretary of War to govern the enforcement of discipline, the methods oC guarding, and the treatment of general prisoners confined at posts ;. also the measure of labor to be imposed and the character of clothing and diet to be furnished them. 937. The commanding officer at posts where general prisoners are confined will forward, on the last day of every month, directly to The Adjutant General of the Army amd to the department commander, a return of general prisoners. Blank forms for this return will be furnished by The Adjutant General's De- partment. General prisoners will be reported under the following headings: (a) General prisoners under sentence for purely military offenses alone. (6) General prisoners under sentence for statutory or common-law crimes or misde- meanors either alone or in connection with purely mllitai-y offenses. 938. Prisoners will not be transferred from places of trial to places at which they are sentenced to confinement except on orders of department commanders or higher authority. The strength of guards to accompany them will be limited to the necessities of safe delivery. Orders detailing guards in charge of pris- oners will provide for the return journey of the guard and for commutation of rations when such comiputation is necessary. The commanding officer of a place from which a prisoner is transferred will send, under seal, to the com- manding officer of the place to which the prisoner is transferred the following papers in his case, namely: Service record (in case of a garrison prisoner) ; orders promulgating and modifying sentences; statement of conduct while under sentence to date of transfer; complete inventory of personal property, with. signatuTe of prisoner acknowledging Its correctness, and Ust of clothing in possession of the prisoner when forwarded. Personal property not accompany- ing the prisoner will be assembled, carefully identified, and securely packed before shipment. In case of a general prisoner (who is not under suspended sentence of dishonorable discharge) transferred from a place in the United States the commanding officer will send the discharge papers of the pris- oner together with all the other papers hereinbefore described except the 192 AKBEST AND CONFINEMENT, service record. In lieu of the service record the commanding officer -will send a certified copy of the prisoner's record as recorded on the form furnished by the Adjutant General's Department for keeping such records. In case a pris- oner convicted of purely military offenses is transferred to the United States from the Philippine or Hawaiian Department, China, the Canal Zone, Alaska, or from any other place outside the continental limits of the United States, his service record, completed to date of transfer if the prisoner is under a sus- pended sentence of dishonorable discharge, or to date of dishonorable discharge if he has been dishonorably discharged, will be sent, under seal, in addition to the other papers hereinbefore described. (C. A. R., No. 55.) 939. All serviceable clothing vrhich belongs to a prisoner, and his blankets, will accompany him to the place designated for his confinement, and will be fully itemized on the clothing list. The guard in charge of the prisoner during transfer will be furnished with a duplicate of this list and will be held re- sponsible for the delivery, with the prisoner, of all articles iternized therein. At least one serviceable woolen blanket will be sent with every such prisoner so transfei-red. (O. A. R., No. 55.) 940. The personal effects of military prisoners who have escaped from con- finement, except such as possess some special value as keepsakes, may be dis- posed of by sale as in the case of effects of deceased soldiers, and the proceeds thereof, together with any money left by the prisoner in the hands of the com- pany commander, be turned over to a quartermaster, who should account for the same in the manner provided for quartermasters' collections. The officer will take the quartermaster's receipt for the amount paid him and forward the same to the Auditor for the War Department. 941. No general prisoner will be released from confinement except on an order communicated by the commanding officer, who, before giving such order, will verify the date of expiration of the prisoner's sentence by examining all orders fixing or modifying his term of confinement. 9411. All orders from the War Department remitting or mitigating the sentences of general prisoners, except in eases where remission is granted in connection with honorable restoration to duty, will be signed by an officer of The Adjutant General's Department, will bear the seal of the War Department, and will be recorded in and issued from The Adjutant General's Office. When- ever the custodian of a general prisoner is in doubt as to the authenticity of an order for the remission or mitigation of the sentence of such prisoner, he will, before carrying the order into effect, make telegraphic inquiry of The Adjutant General's Office as to the authenticity of the order. In cases where the remission is granted in connection with honorable restoration to duty, the action of the Secretary of War will be published in a special order of the War Department bearing the seal of The Adjutant General's Office. (O. A. R., No. 55.) 942. General prisoners, other than those confined in penitentiaries, will be allowed in abatement of their terms of confinement when serving sentences of over three mouths, and not over 12 months, five days for each complete period of 25 days during the whole of which their conduct has been good ; but the abate- ment of five days so authorized shall not have the effect in any case of reduc- ing the confinement below three months. On sentences exceeding one year they will be allowed the foregoing abatement for the first year of the sentence in- cluding abatement, and thereafter 10 days for each complete period of 20 days during the whole of which their conduct has been good. Abatements thus au- thorized may be forfeited, wholly or in part, by subsequent misconduct, such forfeiture to be determined by the commanding officer of the post where the AREESr AND CONFINEMENT. 193 prisoner is confined. A general prisoner serving sentence In a penitentiary will be allowed the abatement authorized for convicts in that penitentiary. Garrison prisoners will be allowed in abatement of their terms of confinement when serving sentences of one month five days for good conduct. On sentences exceeding one month they will be allowed the foregoing abatement for the first month of the sentence, and thereafter 10 days for each complete period of 20 days during the whole of which their conduct has been good. Abatements thus authorized may be forfeited, wholly or in part, by subsequent misconduct, such forfeiture to be determined by the commanding ofiicer of the post where the prisoner Is confined. In order to secure uniformity in computing abatement of terms of confine- ment the following method of computation will be used : A general prisoner or garrison prisoner will be credited at the beginning of his confinement with all the good-conduct time that can be earned in his case during the entire period of his sentence. All months will be assumed to con- sist of 30 days. When forfeitures of good-conduct time are imposed, they will be deducted from the amount of the prisoner's credit, but care will be taken not to impose or deduct a forfeiture in excess of the amount of good-conduct time that has actually been earned at date of forfeiture. Where a prisoner is serving two or more sentences the whole of all the sen- tences will be added together and treated as one sentence for the purpose of the computation of good-conduct time. (C. A. R., Nos. 3 and 5S.) 943. After a garrison prisoner has served one-half of his sentence he may, if his enlistment- has not expired, submit to the commander of the post where the sentence is being executed a request to be put on probation for the remainder of the term of confinement adjudged. If the conduct of the garrison prisoner has been good in all respects, this request will be granted by the commander of the post ; and, if it be granted, the soldier will be restored to duty upon con- dition that if his conduct is not good while on probation he will be required to serve such part of his sentence as remained unexecuted at the time that he was put on probation. After a general prisoner who is serving sentence at a post has served one-half- of his sentence, he may submit to the commanding officer of the post an applica- tion to be placed upon parole during working hours for the remainder of the term of confinement. Such application will contain a pledge on the part of the applicant to comply with all general conditions under which general prisoners may be paroled, and also with any special requirements that may from time to time be made of him. Upon receipt of such an application the post commander may, in the exercise of his discretion, parole the prisoner during working hours for work upon condition that if the prisoner's conduct is not good the parole status will be forfeited. The granting of the qualified parole here authorized does not constitute a release of the prisoner from military custody or control, but merely authorizes a relaxation of the strict rule which would otherwise require the presence of a guard whenever the prisoner is outside of the guard- house. In determining what constitutes one-half of a sentence the calculation will be based upon the prisoner's term without deduction for good conduct. The abatement for good conduct authorized in paragraph 942 will continue to accrue during the good conduct of a garrison prisoner on probation or of a general prisoner on parole. The parole of garrison prisoners is aiathorized in the discretion of the post commander, and he may also authorize certain garrison prisoners to leave the 79733°— 18 13 194 COUKTS-MARTIAl.. guardhouse, not under charge of a sentinel, for the purpose of working outside under such surveillance and restrictions as he may impose. (G. A. B., Nos. 12 and 39.) 944. Rescinded; see M. O. M., pars. 381, 382, and 402. (C A. R., No. 55.) AE.TICLE LXX. Cotjets-Mabtiai,. 945. Rescinded; see M. C. M., pars. 7 and 12. (C. A. B., No. 55). 946. Rescinded; see M. C. M., par. 81. (C. A. R., No. 55.) 947. Rescinded; see M. O. M., par. 89. (C A. R., No. 55.) 948. Rescinded; see M. C. M., par. 86. (C A. R., No. 55.) 949. Rescinded; see M. 0. M., pars. 91 and 99. (C A. R., No. 55.) SUUPCENAS TO WITNESSES. 950. Rescinded 951. Rescinded 952. Rescinded 953. Rescinded' 954. Rescinded 955. Rescinded Rescinded Rescinded Rescinded Rescinded 956. 957. 958. 959. 960. Rescinded see pars. 95, 160, and 161. (C. A. B., No. 55.) see A. R., 996i (C. A. B., No. 55.) see M. C. M., par. 168. (C. A. R., No. 55.) see M. 0. M., pars. 333 and 336. (C. A. i?.-. No. 55.) see M. C. M., par. 75. (O. A. R., No. 55.) see M. C. M., pars. 35 and 76. (C. A. R., No. 55.) see M. O. M., par. 75. (C A. R., No. 55.) see M. 0. M., pars. 43, 44, and 351. (C. A. R., No. 55.) see M. C. M., pars. 43 and 349. (C. A. R., No. 55.) see M. 0. M., par. 351. (O. A. R., No. 55.) see M. 0. M., pars. 350 and 358. (C. A. B., No. 55.) 961. Rescinded; see M. O. M., pars. 108 and 109; (C. A. R., No. 55.) 962. Rescinded; see M. C. M., par. 306. (C. A. R., No. 55.) SENTENCES. 963. 964. 966. 966. 967. 968. 969. 970. (C. A. 971. 972. 973. 974. 975. 976. 977. 978. Rescinded Rescinded Rescinded Rescinded Rescinded Rescinded Rescinded Rescinded R., No. 55.) Rescinded Rescinded Rescinded Rescinded Rescinded. Rescinded Rescinded Rescinded see M. O. M., par. 348. see M. C. M., par. 345. see M. C. M., par. 394. see M. O. M., pars. 396, see M. C. M., par. 389. see M. 0. M., par. 386. see M. O. M., par. 401. (C. A. B., No. 55.) (C. A. R., No. 55.) (C A. R., No. 55.) 397, and 398. (0. A. R., No. 55.) {C. A. R., No. 55.) (0. A. R., No. 55.) (C. A. R., No. 55.) see M. C. M., par. 401, and A. R. 1371, as amended. see M. O. M., par. 389. see M. C. M., par. 401. see M. C. M., par. -401. see M. C. M., par. 320. (C. A. B., No. 12.) see A. R. 1370i (C. A. B., No. 55.) see A. W: 50. (C. A. R., No. 55.) see A. R. 1370. (C. A. R., No. 55.) (G. A. B., No. 55.) (G. A. R., No. 55.) (C. A, R., No. 55.) (C. A. R., No. 55.) EMPLOYMENT OF CIVIL COUNSEL; SUMMONS BY CIVIL COURT. 195 I THE EEOOBD. 979. Rescinded; see M. C. M., pars. 354, 358, and 363. (C. A. R., No. 50.) 980. Rescinded ; see M. 0. M., par. 117. (C. A. R.,- No. 55.) 981. Rescinded ; see M. 0. M., pars. 366 and 370. (C. A. R., No. 55.) 982. Rescinded ; see M. C. M., par. 367. (C. A. R., No. 55.) 98S. Rescinded ; see M. C. M., pars. 352 and 364. (0. A. R., No. 55.) 984. Rescinded; see M. C. M., par. 400. (0. A. R., No. 55.) EEPOKTEES, CLEKKS, INTERPEETEES. 985. Rescinded; see M. O. M., par. 105. (C. A. R., No. 55.) 986. Rescinded ; see M. 0. M., pars. 112, 113, 115, and 116. (0. A. R., No. 55.) 987. Rescinded; see M. C. M., par. 118. (C A. R., No. 55.) 988. Rescinded; see M. C. M., par. 119. (C. A. R., No. 55.) ARTICLE LXXI. Civilian Witnesses. 989. Rescinded; see M. C. M., par. 184. (0. A. R., No. 55.) 990. Rescinded; see M. C. M., par. 185. (0. A. R., No. 55.) 991. Rescinded; see M. C. M., pars. 172 and 193. (0. A. R., No. 55.) 992. Rescinded; see M. C. M., par. 186. (0. A. R., No. 55.) 993. Rescinded; see M. O. M., par. 187. (0. A. R., No. 55.) 994. Rescinded ; see A. R. 996J. ( C. A. R., No. 55. ) ARTICLE LXXII. Employment of Civil Counsel ; Summons by Civil Coubt. 995. The employment of counsel at the expense of the United States is under the direction of the Department of Justice. 996. When a necessity arises for an attorney or counselor to defend or advise officers and others connected vcith the military service in cases connected with their public duties, request, with report of the facts, will be made to The Adjutant General of the Army through the regular military channels, but in cases which will not admit of delay the request may be sent direct. The Adju- tant General will promptly submit all such requests to the Secretary of War for reference to the Department of Justice. Officers and others in the military service employing an attorney or counselor without being specially authorized to do so will be required to pay the expenses attendant upon such employment. 996i. An officer or enlisted man who receives a summons to attend as a wit- ness before any civil court, or other civil tribunal competent to issue subpcenas, will, before starting to obey the summons, request authority from his com- manding officer to obey the same. ( 0. A. R., No. 55. ) 996:f. Compensation to civilians in or out of Government employ for attend- ance upon civil courts is payable by the civil authorities. (C. A. R., No. 55.) 997. Rescinded, see M. C. M., par. 478. {G. A. R., No. 55.) 998. Rescinded; see M. C. M., par. 478. (C. A. R., No. 55.) 999. Rescinded; see M. C. M., par. 479. (0. A. R., No. 55.) 196 QUABTERM ASTER COBPS. ABTICLE LXXIII. Qtjaetebmastee Cokps. Note. — Regulations for the government of the Quartermaster Corps, prepared and published under the authority of the Secretary of War, are distributed to its officers by the Quartermaster General. Only such regulations are herein given as are general in their nature or affect other branches of the service. (O. A. R.^ No. 10.) GENEEAl DUTIES. 1000. The Quartermaster Corps is charged with the duty of providing means of transportation of every character, either under contract or in kind, which may be needed in the movement of troops and material of war. It furnishes all public animals employed in the service of the Army, the forage consumed by them, wagons and all articles necessary for their use, and the horse equipments for the Quartermaster Corps. It furnishes clothing, camp and garrison equi- page, barracks, storehouses, and other buildings ; constructs and repairs roads, railways, bridges ; builds and charters ships, boats, docks, and wharves needed for military purposes ; supplies subsistence for enlisted men and others entitled thereto ; supplies articles for authorized sales and issues ; furnishes lists of arti- cles authorized to be kept for sale ; gives instructions for procuring, distributing, issuing, selling, and accounting for all quartermaster and subsistence supplies ; has charge of the supply and distribution of and accounting for funds for the payment of the Army, and such other financial duties as are specially assigned to it ; and attends to all matters connected with military operations which are not expressly assigned to some other bureau of the War Department. (See par. 1493.) (0. A. R., No. 46.) 1001. The Quartermaster Corps transports to the place of issue and pro- vides storehouses and other means of protection for the preservation of stores supplied for the Army by other departments. 1002. General depots for the collection, manufacture, and preservation of Quartermaster stores, until required for distribution, are under the immediate control of the Quartermaster General. (O. A. R., No. 10.) 1003. The Quartermaster General will announce from time to time the depots from which requisitions for quartermaster supplies — issuable under Army Regulations — will be filled. The commanding ofiicers of the depots so designated wiU fill, as soon as pos- sible after their receipt, all requisitions approved by competent authority. (C. A. R., No. 10.) 1004. Department commanders will take final action on all requisitions for supplies furnished by the Quartermaster Corps issuable under Army Regula- tions or general orders and send them for supply to the depots designated by the Quartermaster General. (C. A. R., No. 10.) 1005.' Requisitions for quartermaster supplies not covered by Army Regula- tions or general orders will be forwarded to the Quartermaster General for his action. (C. A. R., No. 10.) 1006. Rescinded. (C. A. R., No. 7.) 1007. Emergency purchases of quartermaster stores payable from appropri- ations for incidental expenses, Army transportation, and regular supplies, not exceeding $200 in any one case, may be made under the authority of the depart- ment commander, but purchases under this authority should be avoided as much as possible by timely requisitions. 1008. Estimates for funds required to discharge accrued liabilities, or lia- bilities to become due within thp month for which the funds are to be supplied. GENERAL DUTIES. 197 Will be submitted by quartermasters at posts under the jurisdiction ot depart- ment commanders to their respective department quartermasters ; by recruiting officers (for funds pertaining to appropriation Subsistence of the Army) to the disbursing officers designated to settle their accounts, and by depot quarter- masters and quartermasters of independent stations directly to the Quarter- master General, sufficient time in advance of the period for which required to insure the funds being available when payments become due. (O. A. B., No. 10.) 1009. 1. The enlisted members of the Quartermaster Corps will consist of such number and grades as the President may from time to time authorize under the provision of law. 2. Quartermaster sergeants, senior grade, quartermaster sergeants, and ser- geants, first class, will be appointed by the Secretary of War on the recom- mendation of the Quartermaster General. Sergeants will be appointed by the Quartermaster General, and corporals, cooks, and privates, first class, will be appointed by the commander of a territorial department, division, or separate brigade in the field, on the recommendation of the department, division, or brigade quartermaster. Before appointment quartermaster sergeants, senior grade, quartermaster sergeants, sergeants, first class, and sergeants must pass, under the direction of the Quartermaster General, a satisfactory examination, to be conducted by the quartermaster of the station at which the applicant may be serving, or elsewhere, as the Quartermaster General may direct. Quartermaster sergeants, senior grade, quartermaster sergeants, and ser- geants, first class, though liable to discharge for inefficiency or misconduct, will not be reduced, except by sentence of a court-martial. Sergeants may be reduced by sentence of a court-martial or by the Quartermaster General, and corporals, cooks, and privates, first class, may be reduced b/ sentence of a court- martial, by the Quartermaster General, or by the commander of a territorial department, division, or separate brigade in the field, on the recommendation of the department, division, or brigade quartermaster. Cooks may not be reduced by sentence of summary or special courts. 3. Within his command the commander of a territorial department, or of a field army, division, or separate brigade in the field, on the recommendation of the department quartermaster, chief quartermaster, division or brigade quar- termaster, may transfer enlisted men of the linq of the Army as privates to the Quartermaster Corps, and he may transfer enlisted men of the Quartermaster Corps, except quartermaster sergeants, senior grade, and quartermaster ser- geants, from duty at one post or with one organization to another where their services are required, reporting such transfer to the Quartermaster General. The assignment to station of quarterrnaster sergeants, senior grade, and quartermaster sergeants, except as may be provided in Field Service Regu- lations, will be made by the War Department or by commanders of territorial departments, under the special authority, in each case, of the War Department. Applications for transfer from the line of the Army to the Quartermaster Corps will state the age, character, special qualifications, physical condition, date of expiration of current enlistment, previous service, and whether made for an existing or prospective vacancy, and will originate with the quarter- master of the post or organization and be forwarded through military channels. 4. All enlistments for the Quartermaster, Corps will be made in the grade of private. Quartermaster sergeants, senior grade, quartermaster sergeants, sergeants, first class, sergeants, corporals, cooks, and privates, first class, who have completed an authorized enlistment period, none of which has been passed in the reserve, may be reenlisted in their respective grades and their warrants or appointments continued in force provided they reenlist on the day following 198 QUAJBTEKMASTEK CORPS. that of discharge. Any noncommissioned officer enlisted on or after the first day of November, nineteen hundred and sixteen, furloughed to the reserve upon the completion of three years in the active service with an excellent charac- ter, shall be permitted to reenlist in the organization from which furloughed with the rank and grade held by him at the time of his furlough if he reenlists within 20 days after the date of such furlough. In each case the soldier will reenlist at the place where his organization is stationed. If, howev.er, the quar- termaster under whom the soldier may be serving should not deem the continu- ing in force of the warrant or appointment to be for the best interest of the serv- ice, he will communicate through military channels his reasons in detail to the authority competent to appoint or promote to the grade for which reenlistment is desired, in order that a decision may be had before the date of the soldier's discharge. Each reenlistment and continuance will be noted on the warrant or appointment by the quartermaster. Commanding officers of posts or stations, upon the recommendation of tlie quartermaster, may authorize enlistments, including the enlistment or reenlist- ment of married men, to fill vacancies within the allotment of enlisted men. Quartermaster Corps, made to such posts or stations. 5. When a man is enlisted for, reenlisted in, or transferred to the Quarter- master Corps, the quartermaster who first receives the soldier will forward a copy of his service record directly to the Quartermaster General, except in the case of a man stationed in the Philippine or Hawaiian Department, when the copy will be sent through the department quartermaster. Quartermasters will make monthly returns of their detachments on a form to be furnished by the Quartermaster General. The returns will be forwarded to the Quartermaster General through department quartermasters, and will show the date and nature 'of any change affecting the status of the soldier. 6. Accounts of pay and clothing and all records pertaining to enlisted men of the Quartermaster Corps will be kept by the quartermaster under whose immediate direction they are serving. All members casually at a post, camp, or other station are under the immediate orders of the quartermaster, except prisoners and those sick in hospital, who will, however, be borne on the muster rolls, morning report, and returns of the Quartermaster Corps detachment. If discharged, their final statements will be prepared by the quartermaster. 7. A quartermaster sergeant, at any ungarrisoned post or station will be responsible for the property of his own corps, and for such other property as may be intrusted to him for safe-keeping. For all public property committed to his charge he will account to the heads of the staff departments or corps concerned, and if the means at his disposal are insufficient for its preservation he will report the facts. 8. The military control of quartermaster sergeants serving at posts not oc- cupied by troops is vested in the commander of the territorial department in which they are serving. All matters relating to them as soldiers subject to military command, as distinguished from the administrative duties Imposed upon them by regulations and orders, will, except in cases of reenlistment, be determined at department headquarters, where their service records will be kept. When they are discharged a copy of the service record, upon which will be noted the fact of discharge, with the date, place, and cause, and the character given on the discharge certificate, will be forwarded to the Quarter- master General of the Army. A copy will also be forwarded to The Adjutant General of the Army. 9. The number of noncommissioned officers, except quartermaster sergeants, senior grade, and quartermaster sergeants, and privates of the Quartermaster GENERAL DUTIES. 199 Corps to be apportioned among departments and independent posts and stations will be determined by the Quartermaster General. Department commanders, on the recommendation of the department quartermaster, will make suitable allot- ments of enlisted men of the Quartermaster Corps, except quartermaster ser- geants, senior grade, and quartermaster sergeants, to the several posts and stations of their command, but the aggregate thus allotted must not exceed the total number apportioned to the department. 10. Quartermaster Corps enlisted personnel, except quartermaster sergeants, .senior grade, and quartermaster sergeants, is classified as follows: (a) That portion attached to mobile organizations, except those organizations pertaining to the Quartermaster Corps. (?)) That portion assigned to organizations pertaining to the Quartermaster Corps. (c) That portion assigned to the service of the interior. Civilian personnel of the Quartermaster Corps will, as far as practicable, be assigned to classes (b) and (c). All men of the Quartermaster Corps will be carried on muster rolls of the Quartermaster Corps, under "Remarks," as attached to a definite mobile or- ganization, or as belonging to a unit of class (6) or to class (o). Similar nota- tion will be made on returns of the Quartermaster Corps. Department com- manders will determine, on recommendation of the department quartermaster, the number of men at each post or station to be assigned to each class, within the limits prescribed in Tables of Organization, and the individual men will be assigned to their respective classes and those of class (a) attached to organiza- tions of mobile troops by the post commander on recommendation of the quar- termaster. Service records of men of the Quartermaster Corps of classed (a) and (6) will be kept in duplicate at posts, and all other papers required when Quartermaster Corps personnel accompanies troops to which attached will be prepared in advance so far as practicable. Mobile organizations will carry attached Quartermaster Corps troops in red ink on their muster rolls and returns. 11. On receipt of orders directing a movement of mobile organizations with attached Quartermaster Corps troops, the personnel of class (a) attached to those troops will be directed to report for duty to the organization commander, and, while absent, will be carried as on detached service, unless another status Is specified in orders. When the troops again come tinder the jurisdiction of a post commander, the attached Quartermaster Corps personnel vrill be directed to report to the quartermaster of the post for garrison duty. 12. Property pertaining to the individual equipment of the Quartermaster Corps personnel, class (a), including mounts and mounted equipment, will be transferred to the regimental supply officer or commander of the organization to which attached on memorandum receipt if the organization is only tem- porarily detached from its station, otherwise by regular invoices and receipts. These transfer papers will be kept prepared in advance, except as to quantities. 13. All men of the Quartermaster Corps of class (a) who are authorized in Tables of Organization to be mounted will be furnished with mounts and appro- priate mounted equipment by the Quartermaster Corps. (O. A. B., Nos. S, 10, 18. SO, 31,, 31, and 5S.) 10091. Commissioned officers of the Quartermaster Corps will be designated by the War Department, upon the recommendation of the Quartermaster Gen- eral, for duty with the technical and administrative staff of divisions and higher units, and of the line of communications ; and by the Quartermaster General for duty with division supply trains, with supply columns of the line of communications, and with depots thereof. {C. A. R.. No. 3/,.) 200 QUARTEEMASTEB, COBPS. 1009J. Whenever troops are ordered to field duty or to maneuver camps, department commanders will designate the proper pro rata number of bakers to accompany such troops from the detachments of bakery companies stationed at the posts from which the troops are ordered, or from such other bakery personnel as may be available for the purpose, together with the necessary bakery equipment. The procedure outlined for class (a) personnel in section 11, paragraph 1009, will be followed on the receipt of orders directing the movement of mobile organizations with attached bakery personnel of the Quartermaster Corps. (O. A. R., No. 47.) BABEACKS AND QUAKTERS. 1010. When buildings are about to be occupied, allotted, or vacated, an inspection of them will be made by the quartermaster, who will make and file a statement of their condition, reporting to the commanding ofiicer any damage apparently due to carelessness or neglect. Damages will be promptly repaired if possible. 1011. Neglect by any officer or soldier to take proper care of rooms or furni- ture used by him is a military offense. In case of damage, such ofiicer or soldier may be allowed to pay cost of necessary repairs if the commanding officer deem such payment sufficient. Commanding officers will report, through prescribed channels, to the War Department their proceedings in all cases under this regulation. 1013. The annual inspection of all public buUdings, structures, and systems at every post and station will be made prior to March 1 each year by the com- manding officer and the quartermaster, after which the latter will prepare annual estimates on the prescribed forms, showing the nature and cost of the repairs to be paid for out of the appropriations for the ensuing fiscal year. He will omit from the estimates for repairs all work for which funds have been allotted or supplied for the current year. All estimates for new construction and betterments will be prepared separately and forwarded to the department commander, who will carefully consider and revise them as may be necessary and forward them, with an express statement of his approval or disapproval, through military channels for the consideration of the Secretary of War in con- nection with the preparation of the next estimates to be submitted to Congress. He will also state the condition of each building, structure, or system, and will properly enter under the indicated headings the amounts expended during the preceding fiscal year. (C. A. R., No. 44.) 1013. Estimates for repairs to public buildings wiU include repairs to the buildings, and to all fixtures, systems, and. apparatus pertaining to the buildings and permanently installed therein. Annual estimates for repairs will also be prepared for all structures and systems exterior to buildings, including target ranges, drainage, dredging, and improvement to grounds. Estimates for necessary new construction, extensions, alterations, additions, or new installations will be prepared annually and forwarded at the same time and in the same manner as the estimates for annual repairs, stating fully the necessity for each item of work called for. Where blanks are furnished especially for the purpose these estimates will be submitted thereon; in cases where no special blank is furnished estimates win be submitted on Form No. 160, Q. M. C. In submitting requests for new buildings or additions to existing buildings, the following information should accompany the estimates therefor : BARRACKS AND QUARTERS. 201 1. Size of proposed building or addition. 2. The material of which It is proposed to construct it. 3. The purpose for which the building is to be devoted described in detail. If a barrack building, the number of men to be accommodated. If a stable, the number of animals to be provided for, etc. 4. The particular necessity for the building or addition requested, stating fully the existing accommodations at the post of the character asked for, and how accommodations are now being provided for the purposes for which building is desired. 5. The size of the garrison, including the number of officers, men, and civilian employees authorized at the post, also the post allowance of animals and means of transportation. (O. ,4. R., No. 55.) 1014. Post commanders will carefully examine these estimates and will forward them not later than April 1 with their recommendations to the depart- ment commander.t The commanding generals of departments and commanding officers of places excepted from the control of department commanders will carefully examine these estimates and will forward them with their recommendations to The Adjutant General of the Army not later than April 15 of each year. Estimates in the Philippine Department will be forwarded in like manner to the department commander for his action. 1015. (Changed by C. A. R., No. 10, W. D., 1914.) Based upon the estimates and recommendations received, the Quartermaster General, with the approval of the Secretary of War, will make apportionments from which department and other commanders will make allotments for repairs. The department commander in making allotments for repairs for the various posts in his department will specify a total amount approved under each appro- priation involved for all the work at that post. All commanding officers will comply with the provisions of paragraph 707. After allotments for repairs shall have been made by the department com- mander the annual estimate will be sent to the post to which it pertains. All three copies will be retained at the post until June 30 of the fiscal year con- cerned. The commanding officer will then indicate in red ink figures on the three copies of the estimate, opposite the amount estimated for, the amount actu- ally expended for each item of work on each building or each set of quarters, also for all other items of work, etc., so that the Quartermaster General's Office will have knowledge of the actual cost of repairs, etc., of each item when the estimates are returned to that office. When this shall have been accomplished one copy of the estimate will be retained at the post; the other two copies will be for- warded to department headquarters, one copy to be retained there for record and the other to be forwarded to The Adjutant General of the Army. After all repairs, etc., shall have been completed, commanding officers of depots and independent stations will forward one copy of the annual estimate to The Adjutant General of the Army, one copy being retained at the depot or station for record there. The same regulations will govern, so far as applicable, for depots and independent stations with reference to retaining and completing the estimates as stated in section three above, as apply to posts under the jurisdiction of department commanders. (C. A. R., Nos. 10 and 44-) 1016. Post and department commanders will carefully examine into the methods that are being pursued in making repairs with a view to iitilizing to the fullest extent all facilities that are available at the post for such a purposa. In the preparation of estimates for repairs available post labor will ba fully considered with a view to its use wherever practicable. 202 QUAETERMASTEK CORPS. Post transportation and prison labor, when available, will be used in making repairs to roads, walks, and wharves, and in improving grounds, and all posts should be supplied with the machinery necessary for making such repairs. 1017. No extensions, alterations, or additions to buildings, structures, or systems will be made at military posts or stations without proper authority from the War Department, nor will funds apportioned for repairs to these build- ings, structures, or systems be used in making extensions, alterations, or addi- tions thereto. When extensions, alterations, or additions to any buildings, structures, or systems at a post or a station are required, a statement showing the necessity therefor accompanied by detailed information relative thereto and estimates of cost on the prescribed form, with map or drawings to illustrate, will be submitted to the War Department, through military channels. 1018. When private buildings occupied as barracks or quarters or lands occupied as encampments are vacated, the commanding officer tod quartermaster will make an inspection of them, and the latter will report, through the pre- scribed channel, to the Quartermaster General, their condition and any injury which has resulted to them by reason of such occupancy. (C. A. R., No. 10.) 1019. At each post there will be kept a book (Record Barracks and Quar- ters — supplied by the Quartermaster Corps) in which will be entered a record of every permanent building, under its proper numerical designation. The number originally given a building will be retained as a pei^manent record and will not be altered to conform to the post directory nor to any changes therein. On the record of each building all expenditures of any kind will be entered, whether annual or special. This book will be totalled annually on June 30th, and the total amount expended on that building for annual repairs only during the preceding 12 months will be reported on the annual estimate for the ensuing fiscal year. At the close of each fiscal year unexpended balances not held by post quarter- masters for authorized payments under contract will be returned to the depart- ment quartermaster. This book will be so kept as to show at all times an accurate record of expenditures for all repairs, additions, alterations, etc., that the total cost of the building to date may at any time be determined. The entries should be made so as to show the cost of the annual repairs separately. (O. A. R., No. 44.) 1020. Permanent heavy furniture will be assigned to officers' quarters by the Quartermaster General under the direction of the Secretary of War. All arti- cles of such furniture will be marked with .the number of the quarters to which they may be assigned, will be considered a part of such quarters, and will not be removed therefrom (except for repair or storage, or when the quarters are abandoned for use as officers' quarters) without authority of the Secretary of War. A memorandum receipt will be given by an officer to whom quarters have been assigned for the furniture therein supplied by the Quartermaster Corps, and he will be responsible for its proper care and will be' charged with the amount of any damage thereto other than that incident to fair wear and tear. The quartermaster will include In the report called for by paragraph 1010 a statement of the condition of furniture placed in officers' quarters. (O. A. B., No. 10.) 1021. The Quartermaster Corps will provide In all permanent barracks a trunk lockeSp for each enlisted man for his uniform and extra clothing. 1022. Barracks will be supplied with chairs, at a rate not exceeding one for each noncommissioned officer and one for every two of the other enlisted men quartered there. Cuspidors, with suitable mats on which to place them, will be supplied in all barracks and other buildings occupied or used by enlisted men. ALLOWANCE AND ASSIGNMENT OF QUARTERS. 203 1023. China and glass ware belonging to mess outfits and bunks, mattresses, pillows, benches, chairs, tables, and other articles of furniture provided for soldiers' barracks will not be removed therefrom without the order of the post commandel-, nor will they be removed from a post or station except by order of the War Department. In emergencies post commanders may authorize the quartermaster to Issue to officers, on memorandum receipt, such quartermaster supplies as may be abso- lutely necessary during the emergency. The regular issue of tableware will not be sold to officers. In all changes of station of organizations, trunk lockers, mattress covers, pillowcases, bed sheets, blankets, overcoats, ponchos, slickers, sweaters, and barrack bags will be transferred with them. In all changes of station of all individual enlisted men, trunk lockers, blankets, overcoats, ponchos, slickers, and sweaters will be transferred with them, the fact being noted on the soldier's service record. None of those articles, except blankets, overcoats, ponchos, slickers, and sweaters will be taken into the field. Previously to the execution of an order for change of station of an organi- zation the commanding officer of the post or station will appoint a surveying officer, if possible an officer belonging to an organization other than that chang- ing station, who will survey aU china and glassware of the' outgoing organiza- tion. He will render a report as to the serviceability or unserviceability of the articles surveyed, and that report, when approved by the commanding officer, will be final. All china and glassware found to be serviceable will be turned in to the quartermaster for reissue. All china and glassware' found to be un- serviceable after the authorized allowance of 5 per cent a quarter on account of breakage shall have been deducted will be destroyed and the' money value thereof charged against the officer Who is responsible for the property. (0. A. B., Nos. 6 and 55.) ALLOWANCE AND ASSIGNMENT OP QTJAETERS. 1024. At each post and station where there are public quarters in buildings belonging to the United States, the quartermaster, under direction of the com- manding officer, will allot to each officer the quarters to which his rank entitles him. 1025. At all posts, where, in the opinion of the department commander, the barracks and quarters are sufficient for the purjjose, the following regulations will govern their' assignment and occupation : 1. Permanent quarters will be assigned to the field and staff officers of the garrison. 2. Quarters for the captain and lieutenants of each company will be desig- nated as appertaining to each set of barracks, having reference to convenience of location. Where bachelor quarters are provided at a military post it is proper, when necessary, that they be assigned to officers without families. The post commander's decision with respect to the necessity for such assignment will govern in each case. 3. On arrival of troops each company will be assigned by the commanding officer to appropriate vacant barracks and quarters. Quarters thus regularly assigned will not be subject to choice, but any not occupied may be chosen for temporary occupancy by an officer, in accordance with existing regulations, subject, however, to removal whenever an officer entitled to them arrives. The original assignment of quarters at any post or station will be made by a board of officers consisting of the commanding officer, the two senior line officers present, the surgeon, and the quartermaster. Upon the department com- 204 QUABTEBMASTEB COBPS. mauder's approval of the board's action, its recommendations will be carried into effect as soon as practicable, the department commander causing the assigmnents to take effect as changes occur in the stations of officers and troops, without removing any officer from quarters occupied by him under other exist- ing regulations. 1026. At posts or stations where the provisions of paragraph 1025 can not be applied officers may make selection of quarters in accordance with their rank, but the commanding officer may direct that they confine their selection to build- ings located near their troops. An officer may select quarters occupied by a junior, but will not displace a junior if there be quarters suitable to the rank of the senior available, with equal conveniences and accommodations. When an officer has made his choice he must abide by it, and shall not again displace a junior unless he himself is displaced by a senior. The particular rooms which constitute a set of quarters will be designated by the quartermaster, under the direction of the commanding officer. Attics are not counted as i-ooms. Officers will not choose rooms belonging to different sets. 1027. An officer reiwrtiog for duty at a post will, immediately upon his arrival, make written application to the commanding officer for quarters. If in command of troops, he will apply for quarters for himself, for his subordinate officers, and the enlisted men of his command. The application will be accom- panied by a copy of the order directing him to report at the station, and will be referred to the quartermaster for proper action under such instructions as the commanding officer may indorse thereon. ^ 1028. An officer will not occupy more than his proper allowance of quarters, except by permission of the commanding officer when there is an excess of quar- ters at the station. The allowance will be reduced pro rata by the commanding officer when the number of officers and troops present makes it necessary. The commanding officer will exercise such personal supervision over the matter of assignment of quarters as will conserve the interests of the United States, within the meaning of preventing, so far as possible, claims for commuta- tion of quarters arising in the cases of officers who are on duty at places where there are public quarters. (C. A. R., No. 28.) 1029. Officers on duty with ti'oops at stations where there are public quarters will be furnished them in kind. (C. A. R., No. 28.) 1030. At a military post where the headquarters of a department are or may be established the department commander may set aside quarters for the staff, but will not disturb assignments made under paragraph 1025 if it can be avoided. Quarters thus reserved will not be open to selection, but will be sub- ject to assignment independent of choice. 1031. An officer's right to quarters is solely one of occupancy. When he and his family cease to occupy them, except in case of temporary absence, they are open to selection by, and reassignment to, some other officer on duty at the post. 1032. When assigned to duty without troops or awaiting orders for the convenience of the Government, officers will be entitled to quarters, but in no case will they be furnished with quarters at two stations at the same time. 1033. The allowance of quarters to which an officer Is entitled when on duty may be continued in kind, at his proper station, during the period for which the law permits him to be absent, without reduction of pay and allowances. An officer under suspension has the same right to quarters as when on duty status. If present at the post. 1034. At a post a sufficient number of rooms may be set aside for a mess when a majority of its officers unite in a mess, but never when the officers to be accommodated are less than three in number. FUEL AND STOVES. 205 1035. An officer on sick leave is entitled to public quarters at his station during the period of sick leave, not exceeding six months, provided he or his family occupy them. (O. A. R., No. 28.) FUEL AND STOVES. 1036. Each officer or enlisted man entitled to and occupying public quarters will be furnished at the expense of the United States with the quantity of fuel required to do the necessary heating, cooking, and heat the necessary water in the building to which assigned at a military post, in accordance with allow- ances published from time to time. The allowances are cumulative for the entire fiscal year, or such portion thereof as an officer or organization may serve at the same post or station. At the end of the fiscal year, or when officers or organizations change station, fuel accounts shall be closed and excess issues paid for. Savings on allowances are not transferable to another post or station. Where an officer or enlisted man is occupying quarters other than public, the Quartermaster Corps will pay commutation to such officer or enlisted man for the heat actually necessary for the number of rooms actually occupied, but not exceeding the number to which the rank of the officer or enlisted man entitles him as specified In paragraph 1044, and in no case exceeding the maximum allowances set forth in the following table for the zones of equal temperature in which serving, charts showing zones of equal temperature to be published in orders from time to time. Commutation rates for officers and enlisted men not occupying public quar- ters will be as follows : Hates per month for the actual number of rooms occupied within the allow- ances given for each grade in paragraph lOJjJi. [Values per month for number of rooms actually occupied.] Months of- Num- ber of rooms. December, Januai'y, and February. March and November. April, May, and October. June, July, August, and September. Zone 1,0° to 20°. Zone 2,20° to 30°. Zone 3,30° to 40°. Zone 4,40° to 60°. Zone 5,10° to 25°. Zone 6,25° to 35°. Zone 7,35° to 45°. Zone 8,45° to 65°. Zone 9,35° to 40°. Zone 10, 40° to 60°. Zone 11,50° to 70°. Zone 12,46° to 65°. Zone 13,65° to 75°. 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 $26.50 24.30 22.40 20.65 18.60 16.60 14.40 12.00 8.90 5.60 $24.50 22.95 21.20 19.25 17.40 15.50 13.40 11.10 8.30 5.20 $22.50 20.70 19.20 17.85 15.90 14.25 12.40 10.20 7.80 5.00 $20.50 18.90 17.60 16.45 14.70 13.00 11.60 9.60 7.30 4.80 $25.60 24.30 22.00 19.95 IS.OO 16.00 14.00 11.56 8.70 5.30 $23.50 21.60 20.40 18.55 16.80 16.00 13.00 10.65 8.10 5.10 $21.60 19.80 18.40 16.80 15.30 13.50 11.60 9.60 7.30 4.70 $18.00 17.10 15.60 14.35 12.90 11.50 10.00 8.25 6.40 4.25 $21.00 19.35 18.00 16.45 14.70 13.00 11.20 9.SD 7.10 4.60 $20.00 18.45 •17.20 15.75 14.40 12.60 10.80 9.00 6.90 4.45 $6.00 6.00 6.00 5.53 6.52 5.00 5.00 5.00 5.00 4.00 S19.00 17.55 16.40 15.05 13.50 12.00 10.40 8.56 6.70 4.50 $6.00 6.00 6.00 6.55 6.50 5.00 5.00 5.00 6.00 4.00 (,C.A.R., Nos. 7, SI, and IS.) 1037. The Quartermaster Corps may issue or sell fuel in accordance with paragraph 1036 to contract surgeons, acting dental surgeons, and veterinarians. Fuel may be sold to retired officers at cost to the Government, delivered when they reside at places where it can be done conveniently. Fuel purchased upon its B. t. u. value will be sold at contract base price. 103S. The commanding officer of a post at or near which the immediate farhily of a Regular or Volunteer soldier resides may, if the residence and other conditions of such family make it proper, grant to the head thereof permits to purchase for cash at cost prices such quantities of fuel and mineral oil as in his 206 QTJAETEB.MASTEK CORPS. opinion may be reasonably needed for the sole use of the soldier's immediate family. 1039. Fuel will only be issued or sold to an officer upon his certificate that it is for his personal or family use ; any sale, exchange, or transfer whatever of fuel issued or sold to an officer under this paragraph Is forbidden. 1040. Anthracite coal having not more than 10 per cent of ash nor more than 10 per cent of volatile matter is the standard. The scale of equivalents to govern in the issue and sale of fuel will be published from time to time in general orders. (0. A. R., No. Jfl.) 1041. Rescinded. (0. A. R., No. 28.) 1042. Fuel issued to officers or troops is public property. ABy portion not consumed by them when the quarterly inventory of fuel is made will be im- mediately taken up by the accountable officer on the prescribed form and posted to the property account as a debit. (O. A. R., No. 4^.) 1043. As far as practicable issues of fuel will be made to all buildings at the beginning of each month. The cheapest fuel at the place of issue will, all things considered, be furnished. (C. A. B., No. 42.) 1044. (Changed by C. A. R., No. 28, W. D., 1915.) The foUowlng table shows the authorized number of rooms for which commutation of quarters is payable, the maximum mmiber of rooms for which commutation of heat and light may be paid, and the allowances of cooking stoves and ranges for public quarters : Rooms. For quarters. As quar- ters. As office. Cooking sto\es or ranges. Lieutenant general . Major general Brigadier general . . - Colonel . Lieutenant colonel.. Major Captain- First lieutenant Second lieutenant Army field clerks having service which entitles them to allowances hereto- fore prescribed by law for pay clerks. Quartermaster Corps Field clerks, Quartermaster Corps Aviator, Signal Corps The Chief of Staff of the Army The commanding general of a department, brigade, or district An assistant to the Chief of Staff of the Armj^, the aids to the commanding genera] ol a department, brigade, or district, and the general staff offi- cers, serving thereat ; .• A colonel or lieutenant colonel. Quartermaster Corps; a colonel. Medical Department; and- the department quartermaster at the headquarters of a territorial department, each , The commanding officer ol a re^ment, post, or separate battalion, quar- termaster and adjutant, each An adjutant general, an inspector general, an acting inspector general, an engineer,! and ordnance officer,' a signal officer, a i udge advocate or an acting j udge advocate, and the senior medical officer, when stationed on duty at any place not in the field i each Noncommissioned officers above grade No. 16, paragraph 9; color ser- geants and firemen. Coast Artillery Corps, eacn ^ Noncommissioned officers and privates, when on detached service or assigned to special duty of such a nature as to necessitate the hlrrog or leasing of quarters, each Superintendent, national cemetery For a company: Cooking stoves or ranges sufficient to cook its food Each hospital kitchen For mess of civiUau employees 1 Except at Military Academy. . , 2BattaUon sergeants major, Philippine Scouts, battalion supply sergeants, Philippine Scouts, band leaders, Philippine Scouts, first sergeants, sergeants, first class. Corps of Engineers, band sergeant and assistant leader United States Military Academy Band, assistant band leaders, sergeant buglers, and color sergeants are entitled to separate quarters only when same are available.- ILLUMINATING SUPPLIES. 207 Enlisted men below grade 15, paragraph 9, may be assigned to separate public quarters whenever the same are available after those noncommissioned officers of higher grades have been accommodated and when the conditions of service appear to the commanding officer to warrant such assignment. In camp, the allowance of fuel is as follows : For cooking, one-twelfth cord per day for each authorized mess, as shown in camp diagrams. Field Service Regulations. When conditions require the issue of amounts in excess of this allowance authority will be obtained from the department commander or com- manding general in the field. For heating (winter use only), such necessary amount as may be prescribed by the camp commander. For kitchen pits, one- twelfth cord per day per pit when garbage is destroyed in kitchen pits. Heating and the issue of suitable apparatus therefor is authorized whenever necessary for any room, rooms, or building used by proper authority as quar- ters, storehouse, salesroom, office, shop, guardhouse, mess, board, school or instruction rooms, hospital (including veterinary hospitals) dispensary, dormi- tory, power or pumping plant, chapel, library, reading room, gymnasium, fire- control station, signal station, waiting rooms, dog kennels (in Alaska), switch board rooms, bathhouse, fire-apparatus house, or any other regular purpose. For each employee of the Quartermaster Corps or Medical Department occu- pying public quarters, to whom subsistence in kind is issued by the Govern- ment, issue of fuel is authorized as follows: May 1 to August 31 (Tropics, year round), one-twelfth cord per month; September 1 to April 30, one-sixth cord per month ; increased allowance, September 1 to April 30 — between 36° and 43° north latitude, one twenty-fourth cord per month; north of 43° north latitude, one-eighteenth cord per month. The allowance of fuel for heating, cooking, and heating water in barracks and quarters at military posts will be determined in accordance with allowances published from time to time. (C. A. R., Nos. 28, 53, and 5k-) 1045. When on detached service or assigned to special duty in places where there are no public quarters available the allowance of quarters for each member of the Nurse Corps is fixed at two rooms, on which basis commuta- tion of quarters will be paid. Commutation of heat and light will be paid for the number of rooms actually occupied, not exceeding two. When en- titled to commutation of quarters or commutation of heat and light a member of the Nurse Corps will not be paid on pay rolls, but will be paid on War Department Form No. 369. (C. A. R., No. 28.) 1046. In addition to the number prescribed in the table, paragraph 1044, the headquarters of a department, brigade, or district will be allowed such number of office rooms (not more than eight) as may be necessary for clerks on duty thereat (the Quartermaster Corps excepted), which will be assigned by the commanding general. A heating stove for each room not otherwise heated will also be allowed. Office rooms will not be hired without the written author- ity of the Secretary of War, and no lease of such rooms will take effect until ap- proved by him. 1047. The officers of the Quartermaster Corps may, when necessary, be allowed additional rooms, with a heating stove for each. The number of addi- tional rooms so allowed will be regulated by the Quartermaster General. (0. A. R.,Np. 10.) 1048. Stoves will not be Issued to officers who receive commutation of quarters. 1049. Rescinded. (C A. R., No. 17.) ILLUMINATING SUPPLIES. 1050. The Quartermaster Corps will provide supplies for interior and ex- terior ilumination. The necessary lights will be supplied for all buildings for 208 QUAETEBM ASTER COEPS. which illumination is required In order to make proper use of the buildings. (G. A. R., No. 41.) 1051. The number of oil lamps and gas lights in use, both in public build- ings and for exterior lighting, and the hours during which they may be used at a post commanded by a general officer will be fixed and announced by the post commander ; at other posts, by the commanding officer, with the approval of the department commander. The number of such lights and the hours of use of each light must be limited to the smallest number consistent with proper lighting. The number and sizes of electric lights, interior and exterior, and the allowances of electric current shall be in accordance with instructions published in orders of the War Department. (C A. R., No. Jfl.) 1052. If candle lanterns are used in stables, the candles will be issued by the Quartermaster Corps in such quantity as the commanding officer shall order as necessary. If oil lanterns are used, the issue of oil, wicks, and chimneys therefor will be made by the Quartermaster Corps. 1053. Mineral oil will be supplied for lamps and oil lanterns and issued in quantities as follows : For lamps used for exterior and interior illumination at the rate, for each burner, of 4 ounces avoirdupois for each hour of authorized illumination for lamps using wicks of about 14 inches in diameter, 3 ounces an hour for lamps using wicks of about 1 inch in diameter, and 2 ounces an hour for lamps with smaller wicks ; for all oil lanterns, such quantities as the com- manding officer may order and certify as necessary. No volatile oils, except those authorized and suppUed by the supply departments, will be used at mili- tary posts without the authority of the commanding general of the department in which the post is located. Three gallons of mineral oil per month will be allowed to each company, troop, battery, and band for use in hand lanterns and for cleaning purposes in garrison. This allowance will he increased by 2 gallons per month for com- panies of the Coast Artillery Corps during the season for night drills. (C. A. R., No. 29.) 1054. Where quarters are lighted by mineral oil, the Quartermaster Corps will allow to each officer and to each noncommissioned officer entitled to and occupying separate quartei:s one lamp for each authorized room. For each lamp one wick and one chimney a quarter will be allowed. From September 1 to April 30, 4 gallons of mineral oil a month will be allowed for each author- ized room. From May 1 to August 31, 3 gallons of mineral oil a month for each authorized room will be allowed. The oil allowance may be considered accumulative within the fiscal year, and any excess of allowance appearing as overdrawn by an officer at the end of a fiscal year will be paid for at contract price. An officer occupying as quarters a number of rooms less than his au- thorized allowance will be entitled to mineral oil for such number of rooms only as he actually occupies. Officers of the Army, contract surgeons, acting dental surgeons, and veterinarians may buy from the Quartermaster Corps, at contract prices, such moderate quantity of mineral oil, lamps, wicks, and chimneys as they may need in the rooms occupied by themselves and families as quarters, in excess of the allowances set forth herein. 1 1055. Civilians employed with the Army at remote posts or stations, where it is impossible to procure at reasonable rates such articles of clothing and other quartermaster, supplies (except uniforms and subsistence stores), as they may need for their health and comfort, may be allowed to purchase same from the Quartermaster Corps in limited quantities for their own use, for cash at cost prices, with 10 per cent added to cover transportation. Such sales will, however, be made only upon the written approval of the commanding officer ILLUMINATING SUPPLIES. 209 setting forth the necessity for such action, this authority to be filed with the return of the officer making such sales. Subsistence stores may be sold as prescribed in paragraph 1245. (0. A. B., No. 41.) 1056. Mineral oil issued ':o officers or troops is public property and will be treated as provided in paragraph 1042 for fuel. 1067. 1. Each officer or enlisted man entitled to and occupying public quar- ters at a military post or station where gas, acetylene, or electricity is installed will be allowed annually at the expense of the United States the amounts of llluminant shown in the following table : Rank. Electric Gas. current. K. W. H. CuMcfeet. 300 20,600 400 35,300 500 44,100 600 63,000 700 61,800 800 7o,eoo 900 79,400 1,000 88,200 1,100 97,000 1,200 105,900 Acety- lene. Enlisted man Second lieutenant . First lieutenant . . . Captain Major Lieutenant colonel. Colonel Brigadier general . . Major general Lieutenant general Cubic feet. 2,050 3,530 4,410 6,300 6,180 7,060 7,940 8,820 9,700 10,690 For posts located in Alaslia, above allowances will be increased 50 per cent. For posts located on the Isthmus of Panama or in the defenses connected therewith the above allowances will be increased 100 per cent. If it is desired to ascertain the allowances for any month, the following per cents of the total annual allowances will be used : January, February, March, October, November, and December, each lOJ per cent of the annual allowance; the remaining months of the year, 6J per cent of the annual allowance. For posts located in the Tropics, take 8J per cent for all months. For posts located in Alaska, take 12J per cent for January, February, March, October, November, and December and 4J per cent for the remaining months. 2. At the end of the fiscal year, or when officers or organizations change sta- tion, light accounts shall be closed and excess consumption paid for at the cost or contract price at the station where such excess occurred. Charges for elec- tricity and gas furnished by Government plants at which cost accounts are not available will be 6 cents per K. W. H. for electricity, 80 cents per M cubic feet for gas, and $7 per M cubic feet for acetylene. Savings on allowances are not transferable to another post or station. 3, Where an officer or enlisted man occupies .quarters other than public, the Quartermaster Ck)rps will pay commutation of light to such officer or enlisted man for the number of rooms actually occupied, but not exceedtng the number to which the rank of the officer or enlisted man entitles him as specified in paragraph 1044, at the following rates: Rooms. April to September, inclusive, per month. October to March, inclusive, per month. Rooms. April to September, inclusive, per month. October to March, inclusive, per month. 1 $0.72 .90 1.26 1.44 1.62 SI. 08 1.44 2.04 2.28 2.68 6 $1.98 2.40 2.70 2.88 3.24 ?3. IS 2 7 3.84 3 8 4.32 4 9 •. 4.62 10 5.16 79733°- 210 QUAKTEEMASTEK CORPS. For stations located in tlie Tropics rates for eacli montli of the year will be the amounts given in the preceding table for the months April-September, inclusive. Increased by 30 per cent. For posts located in Alaska above amounts will be decreased 30 per cent for months Apr'l-September, inclusive, and increased 90 per cent for months October-March, inclusive. For stations in the South Temperate Zone the allowances shown in the preceding table will be reversed with respect to seasons. 4. In camp, allowances of light are as follows, except when candles are issued as authorized in paragraph 1215 : Apra to September, inclusive. October to March, inclusive. Electric- ity. Mineral oU Candles. Electric- ity. Mineral oa Candles. Each tent (except shelter tents) per day. . . Watt hra. 100 OaUs. 0.08 Oz. 1 WaU hrt. 160 OaU). 0.096 Oz. 1.6 For camps located In the Tropics or Alaska, the foregoing aUowanees will be modified by the percentages shown in section 3 of this paragraph. For headquarters of organizations larger than a company, bakeries, depots of supply, guards, telegraph stations, assembly tents, and temporary buildings, such quantities as the camp commander may order as necessary. { C. A. R., Nos. 19 and 28.) 1058. Rescinded. (C. A. B., No. 41.) 1059. Bach officer's quarters and each noncommissioned officer's quarters will be provided with a suitable meter to measure the amount of gas or elec- tric current consumed. All meters shall be kept sealed with a lead seal to prevent tampering by unauthorized persons and these seals shall not be broken without the authority of the post quartermaster. The cost of instal- lation and maintenance of electric lights, gas flxtures, or mineral oil lamps in all public buildings at posts will be borne by the department to which the construction and maintenance of the building pertain. (C. A. R., No. 41.) 1060. At each post supplied with a fortification electric plant sufficiently large for supplying necessary current for Ughting buildings and grounds the plant may be used for that purpose by the Quartermaster Corps when author- ized by the Chief of Engineers, provided that the needs of defense shall have precedence over post lighting or power supply in any case in which both uses are simultaneously desired. For this purpose, when funds that are applicable can be spared, the Engineer Department wiU construct necessary conduits, service wires, etc., to deUver the current to the^arious buildings and to exterior lights, and the Quartermaster Corps will wire the buildings, furnish meters for officers' and noncommissioned officers' quarters, exterior lamps, etc., and wiU, in addition to the fuel, ma- terial, etc., required to be furnished by it to all fortification electric plants, supply for such plants as may be used for post lighting all material and funds necessary for their repair and preservation. 1061. The allowances of lamps and mineral oil are prohibited for buildings and grounds where gas or electric lights are instaUed, except that mineral oil may be issued for use in hand lanterns and for cleaning purposes as stated in paragraph 1053. (O. A. B., No. 41.) STATIONEET. 1062. The issue of stationery for all military purposes shall be made on requisition approved by the commanding officer and receipted by the officer to STATIONERY. 211 whom the issue is made. The material to be Issued shall consist of typewriter supplies, writing and blotting paper, pads, pens, penholders, ink, mucilage, seal- ing wax, office tape, envelopes, and lead pencils. Officers approving requisitions will enforce economy in the use of stationery. But one issue a quarter will be made to officers not drawing for an office. (C. A. R., No. 10.) 1063. To each office desk or table is allowed 1 inkstand, 1 paper folder, 1 ruler, 1 steel eraser, and 1 piece of India rubber. A company commander is entitled to this allowance. Officers when relieved will transfer office stationery to their successors. 1064. The Quartermaster Corps is authorized to issue yearly to retired officers, upon proper requisition, 6 quires of writing paper, 100 official envelopes, and 50 letter envelopes. 1065. The yearly allowance of stationery to an ordnance sergeant, quarter- master sergeant, senior grade, or quartermaster sergeant, Quartermaster Corps, on duty at a post not garrisoned by troops is 2 quires of writing paper, letter size ; 4 sheets of blotting paper ; 100 envelopes, official size ; 1 dozen steel pens ; 2 penholders ; 1 pint bottle of black ink ; 1 small bottle of mucilage with brush ; 1 inkstand ; and 1 piece of office tape. (O. A. R., No. 52.) 1066. The purchase of public animals will be made by the Quartermaster Corps after their inspection by that corps, and, unless otherwise directed by the Secretary of War, by contract after due competition. 1067. Public animals shall, upon the day received, be branded with the let- ters " U. S." on the left fore shoulder. Horses assigned to organizations will also be branded on the hoof of one forefoot, IJ inches' below the coronet, with the designation of the company. Branding irons of uniform size and design will be supplied by the Quartermaster Corps. Letters " U. S. N." to be 2 Inches in height. Letters and numbers of hoof brands on the same line, to be three-fourths of an inch high, the letter to precede the number, and blocked so as to penetrate the hoof one-sixteenth of an inch. For example, the hoof brands on horses as- signed to Band, Ninth Cavalry, would be CB9 ; to Troop A, Fifth Cavalry, would be A5 ; to the Band, Second Regiment, Field Artillery, AB2 ; to Battery B, Fourth Regiment, Field Artillery, would be BA4 ; to Company A, Battalion of Engineers, would be BEA. 1068. Manes and forelocks of public horses will be clipped only under orders of a regimental commander, or the commander of a separate squadron or bat- talion not forming a part of a regiment, prescribing a uniform method therefor. Docking and banging of tails are prohibited ; they may be trimmed immediately below the hock, but will otherwise only be plucked to prevent shagginess of ap- pearance. ( C. A. R., No. 55. ) 1069. A complete descriptive list of each animal will be made at the time of purchase, and will accompany him wherever he may be transferred. 1070. A file of descriptive cards of public animals will be kept with the records of every officer accountable for public animals. It will contain a de- scription of every animal received, showing the kind, name, age, size, color, marks, brands, or other peculiarities of the animal, how and when acquired, the use to which applied, and what disposition, if any, was made of the animal. 1071. When public animals are issued or transferred, the person in charge of them will be provided with full and accurate descriptive cards, which he will deliver to the receiving officer. 1072. Public animals will be assigned to their riders or drivers, who will not 'exchange or surrender them to the use of any other person without the permission of the company commander, quartermaster, or other officer respon- sible. Public animals that are assigned to organizations of the Army for mounted purposes will not, while so assigned, be used in harness or for draft .212 QUAETEKMASTER OOBPS. purposes, except in the Field Artillery, where such animals may be used tem- porarily to take the place of disabled animals In authorized teams. (0. A. R., No. 6.) 1073. Public animals inspected and found unsuited for one branch of the service may be transferred to another for which they are fitted. When of no further use for any branch of the service they will be submitted to an inspector, and If condemned, sold at public auction or destroyed under the foUovsang cir- cumstances: (1) To terminate suffering (from disease or other cause) ; (2) to prevent contagion; (3) on account of incurable disease or injury; (4) on account of old age, when to sell them for work in the hands of irresponsible persons would be cruel and cause suffering to the animals. Horses assigned to troops of Cavalry, batteries of Field Artillery, companies of the Signal Corps, and mules assigned to the combat transportation of the Signal Corps will not be sold or turned In to the Quartermaster Corps unless previously acted upon by an inspector, except in the Philippine and Hawaiian Departments, where the sale of such horses may be made to mounted officers, as provided in paragraph 1095. Public animals that die of sickness, or that it is necessary to kill because of contagious disease, or when incurably wounded, will be dropped by the account- able officer upon the certificate of the responsible officer and affidavit of the veterinarian, or, in the absence of the latter, the certificate of a disinterested officer and the affidavit of a disinterested person, approved by the commanding officer. In such case the action of a surveying officer is not required, unless it appears that .the conditi'on of the animal resulted from fault or neglect ; and in such case the investigation by the surveying officer may follow the killing of the animal when its immediate destruction is made necessary to prevent contagion or to terminate suffering. VBTEEINAKY MEDICINES. 1074. Veterinary instruments, books, medicines, and supplies for the treat- ment of public animals and authorized private horses of mounted officers are furnished by the Quartermaster Corps. The supply table furnished by the Quartermaster Corps gives a list of the articles supplied. Requisitions will be limited to actual necessities. A special estimate for articles not in the table, with an explanation of the nature of the emergency or case rendering it neces- sary, will be forwarded, through the regular channel, for the action of the Quartermaster General. (C. A. R., No. 10.) 1075. The quartermaster will have charge of veterinary instruments, books, medicines, and supplies, and under the direction of the commanding officer will issue and expend such medicines and supplies in such quantities as may be necessary. 1076. At posts where there is a veterinary surgeon the quartermaster may, under the direction of the commanding officer, transfer to the veterinary sur- geon upon memorandum receipts such veterinary instruments, books, medicines, and supplies as may be necessary; otherwise they will remain in the custody of the quartermaster, and will be loaned as heeded in the public service. FORAGE AND STRAW. 1077. (Changed by C. A. R., No. 15, W. D., 1914.) The forage ration for a horse Is 14 pounds of hay and 12 pounds of oats, corn, or barley, and 3J poifnds of straw (or hay) for bedding; for a Field Artillery horse of the heavy draft type weighing 1,300 pounds or over, 17 pounds of hay and .14 pounds of oats, FOE AGE AND STKAW. 213 corn, or barley, and 34 pounds of straw (or hay) for bedding; for a mule, 14 pounds of hay and 9 pounds of oats, corn, or barley, and SJ pounds of straw (or hay) for bedding. To each animal 3 pounds of bran may be issued in lieu of that quantity of grain. The commanding officer may in his discretion vary the proportions of the components of the ration (1 pound of grain, 11 pounds of hay, and 2 pounds of straw being taken as equivalents), and in the field may substitute other recognized articles of forage oljtained locally, the variation or the substitu- tion not to exceed the money value of the components of the ration at the contract rates in effect at the time of change. (C. A. R., No. 21.) 1078. Where grazing is practicable, or when little work is required of the animals, commanding officers will reduce the forage ration. When, on the other hand, conditions demand it, they are authorized to increase the ration, not in excess, however, of savings made. (C. A. B. No. 21.) 1079. Forage will be issued monthly or at more frequent intervals If required. Quartermasters will show on their issue vouchers and monthly reports of issues only the forage actually issued, which will include extra issues from sav- ings. The difference between the authorized quantities for a given period and the quantities actually drawn, representing savings, is to be accounted for as part of the regular stock on hand until issued as extra rations. No credit of forage savings will be carried from one fiscal year to the next. (G. A. R., No. 21.) 1080. A lieutenant general is allowed 4 mounts; a major general or a brigadier general, 3 mounts ; other mounted officers, 2 mounts. If any mounted officer should not own the full number of suitable serviceable mounts allowed, the number of forage rations furnished to him will be reduced accordingly. Full forage rations ai'e furnished to mounted officers up to the authorized number of their mounts, but this allowance is to be used only for the purpose of keeping the officer properly mounted. This allowance continues at the officer's regular post of duty, when he is on leave of absence, or when he is on duty the nature of which necessitates tem- porary separation from his mounts. (O. A. R., No. 21.) 1081. Mounted officers will not use public horses and at the same time draw forage for those they own, except while on foreign service in countries from which horses are not allowed to enter the United States ; nor will they use public animals except as authorized by regulations. Should circumstances render it necessary, an officer may be temporarily furnished with public horses. 1082. An officer may purchase forage for two horses kept for his own use, for which he will be charged cost, including transportation. This privilege may be extended to retired officers, provided such sales are limited to quarter- master depots or stations at which contracts for supply of forage are made and the deliveries under said contracts are in sufficient quantities to warrant the sale without detriment to the service, but no contracts shall be made for the sole purpose of procuring forage for sale to retired officers. 1083. An officer shall not sell, nor allow to be sold, the forage issued for his own horses or the public animals under his charge; nor shall he use or dispose of, or permit to be used or disposed of, such forage, or any portion thereof, ex- cept for the purpose for which it was issued. (C. A. R., No. 21.) 1084. Except for troops serving in the Tropics, when mattresses are not supplied, a bed sack and 30 pounds of straw a month for bedding will be fur- nished to each enlisted man in barracks or in a permanent or a maneuver camp, and to each prisoner in a guardhouse, and a bed sack and such quantity of straw 214 QXTAETEEMASTEK OOM'S. as the chief medical officer may certify to be necessary to each enlisted man in a field hospital. In the field, in cases not covered above, such quantity of stravir or hay for the bedding of troops is authorized as the commanding officer, after advising with the medical officer of the command, may deem necessary to pre- serve the health of the troops. So far as practicable, an iron bunk will be fur- nished to each prisoner in a post guardhouse and prison room. {C. A. R., No. 45.) 1085. At posts where straw is not furnished hay will be Issued and used for bedding. {C. A. R., No. 21.) CAKE AND ACCOUNTABILITY FOE PROPERTY. 1086. Unless otherwise specially directed by the Secretary of War, there will be at each military post or station but one accountable officer in the Quar- termaster Corps, and he will account for all quartermaster supplies there in use or in store. 1087. When troops are assembled for field service, there will be but one accountable officer in the Quartermaster Corps for each regiment, separate bat- talion, or squadron, and he will account for all quartermaster supplies In the possession of the command of which he is quartermaster. , 1088. At places requiring the services of more than one quartermaster, each one charged with the care and disposition of quartermaster supplies will account for the same. 1089. Officers commanding companies or detachments will be furnished by the quartermaster, on approved requisition, with the necessary authorized quartermaster supplies; and for all such, except those that may be properly dropped as expended, said commanding officers will give memorandum receipts to the accountable officer, who will continue to bear said supplies on his return until they have been transferred, expended, or otherwise disposed of and duly' accounted for as required by regulations. 1090. Officers commanding companies or detachments temporarily absent from posts will continue responsible to quartermasters from wliom supplies have been procured on memorandum receipts. Should the services of a quar- termaster become necessary, one will be appointed for the command. 1091. When troops change station, only such quartermaster supplies as are authorized, or as may be directed to be transferred, will be removed from the station. Company and detachment commanders, prior to departure from a station, will have a settlement with the quartermaster for supplies held on memorandum receipt. For such supplies as must accompany troops, company and detachment commanders will give certificates to the quartermaster. Mem- orandum receipts that have been thus satisfied will be returned to the respec- tive company and detachment commanders. The quartermaster will forward the certificates, accompanied by the requisite papers for transferring the accountability, to the quartermaster at the destination of the troops. The commanders of incoming organizations upon arrival will report the supplies in their custody and give memorandum receipts therefor to the quartermaster, who will then return to the respective commanders their certificates. 1091J. Whenever troops are detached from posts for duty in the field for an indefinite period, or when their absence on such duty is prolonged for an extended period and they have taken with them quartermaster property held on memorandum receipt, the commander of the territorial department from which the troops are detached may direct that such property be invoiced to the regimental, battalion, squadron, or other quartermaster of the troops con- cerned. Upon return from detached service to the post from which detached, HORSES OF MOUNTED OPFIOEBS. 215 or upon joining another post for duty, the property will be invoiced to the quartermaster of the post. Whenever an officer, noncommissioned officer, or other person In the military service is detached from a post for duty in the field and has left quartermaster property for which he has signed a memorandum receipt, the quartermaster will take possession of such property upon request of the person concerned, carefully check same, and Issue a credit slip (Q. M. O. Form 243) in duplicate, on which will be listed the article or articles taken in, the original of which wiU be sent to the person concerned and the duplicate retained by the quarter- master. Should damage not the result of fair wear and tear in the service or a shortage be found to exist, the quartermaster will communicate with the person concerned with a view to securing an adjustment before taking steps toward collecting the value of the article or articles short or damaged {O. A. R., Wo. 30.) 1092. Certificates given for supplies accompanying troops and memoran- dum receipts given by officers for supplies issued or loaned for their individual use, or for use of the organizations under their command, will be made in the prescribed form, and should any officer, when called upon by proper authority to produce any of the supplies enumerated therein, fail to do so, or to furnish proper evidence that deficient or damaged supplies have been accounted for as required by regulations, the name of the officer delinquent will be reported to the Secretary of War by the Quartermaster General, and said officer's pay to the extent of the deficiency or damage will be stopped. In conformity with paragraphs 702 and 703. The accountable officer may drop from his return the articles deficient, forwarding the memorandum receipt or certificate as a voucher therefor. (C A. R., No. 10.) 1093. A forage master or wagon master shall not be concerned, directly or indirectly, in any means of transport employed by the United States, or in the purchase or sale of any property procured for or belonging to the United States, except as agent for the Government. 1094. Every officer accountable for quartermaster supplies will keep him- self accurately Informed, by personal examination, of the quantities and condi- tion of the property on hand, and will be held strictly responsible that they are correctly reported on his returns. The commanding officer will see that a complete, detailed, and accurate inventory of such property, except that held on memorandum receipts, is taken by the accountable officer In person at least" once each year, and as much oftener as he may deem necessary for the inter- ests of the Government. At each transfer of such property both the invoicing and receipting officer will attend in person, and each will satisfy himself, by personal count and examination, that all property invoiced is on hand and In condition as stated in the invoices. When loss, damage, or deficiency is dis- covered upon taking any of these inventories, a surveying officer will at once investigate and ascertain the cause thereof, which he will report with his con- clusions as to the responsibility for the same. HOESES OF MOUNTED OFFICEES. 1095. In the field, at posts, or in active service, horses held in the Quarter- master Corps unassigned, other than those at remount depots, may be sold to mounted officers on the authority of the department or division commander, except that no disposition will be made of any public animals pertaining to the Mounted Service School without the express authority of the War Depart- ment. An application to purchase a horse at a remount depot will be for- 216 QXTAETEEOVrASTER CORPS. warded to the Quartermaster General by the officer desiring to make the pur- chase. An application to purchase a horse at a post will be forwarded through military channels for the action of the department commander. In his appli- cation the officer will state what horses he has purchased from the Government during the past 10 years and what disposition has been made of them ; also what number of mounts he owns. The price to be paid for a horse purchased by an officer will be the price paid by the Government for the horse, but will not be less than the average price paid by the Government for horses for the mounted service during the preceding fiscal year. Purchase and payment will be completed within 30 days from the date of receipt of the authority for the sale and the purchase money at once deposited to the credit of the current appropriation. Horses thus sold will not be exchanged or returned. When an officer of Infantry or of the Coast Artillery Corps is relieved from mounted duty, or when a mounted officer is ordered to duty beyond the seas or to make a change of station in the United States, in which the cost of trans- portation for the private horses which he is required to keep exceeds $100 for each horse, including the cost of attendant, if any, the Quartermaster Corps may, upon the request of such officer, purchase such private horse or horses as he may not desire to take with him upon the following conditions : An officer desiring to dispose of his horse will request the necessary authority from the department commander, who will convene a board to be composed of not less than three commissioned officers to examine the animal with a view to deter- mining its fitness for service or for sale to an officer, and if it be found service- able to appraise its value. Horses that are unsound in any respect or that exceed the age of ten years will not be purchased. The laroceedings of the board should indicate the condition and age of each animal examined. The price found by the board shall not exceed the average price paid by the Govern- ment for horses for the mounted service during the preceding fiscal year, except that in ease of horses purchased from the Government the price shall not exceed that for which the animal was purchased. The proceedings of the board, when approved by the department commander, will be returned to the applicant and will authorize the payment of the appraised price upon the delivery of the animal to an officer of the Quartermaster Corps, who will be designated by the department commander to receive it. The purchase of a horse made under the authority conferred herein will be reported to the Quartermaster General by the "department quartermaster of the department in which the purchase has been made. When a mounted officer stationed at a post, which is not under the jurisdiction of a department commander desires to dispose of his mount in view of the cir- cumstances stated in the preceding section of this paragraph, the commanding officer of the post is authorized to convene a board in accordance with the pro- visions stated in the foregoing section. ;ind the proceedings of the board, when approved by the post commander, will be returned to the applicant and will authorize the payment of the appraised price upon the delivery of the animal to an officer of the Quartermaster Corps, who will be designated by the post com- mander to receive it. The quartermaster at the post where the horse is bought will report the purchase to the Quartermaster General. Horses assigned to organizations in the Philippine Islands, Hawaii, and the Canal Zone may be sold to mounted officers on authority of the commanding generals of the territorial departments concerned, provided th.it the horses can be spared. The price to be paid for a horse purchased by an officer will be the price paid by the Government for the horse, but will not be less than the average price paid by the Government for horses for the mounted service during the preceding fiscal year. HOESES OF MOUNTED OFFICEBS. 217 When a mounted officer purchases a liorse under the provisions of this para- graph he shall not be permitted to seU him to private parties, but may sell him to another officer at a price agreed upon between seller and buyer, or back to the Government, at a price to be determined in the manner indicated above; this rule to govern subsequent owners. If, however, the board should find that a horse purchased from the Govern- ment by a mounted officer, and offered for sale by him, exceeds the age of ten years, or is no longer fit for an officer's mount nor for the military service by reason of unsoundness or defects, the owner may dispose of the horse at private sale. (C. A. R. Nos. J^S and ^9.) 1096. For their own headquarters and otherwise, except as provided in this paragraph, the use of public horses by officers will be regulated by department commanders in conformity with the necessities of the public service. Officers below the rank of major who are required to be mounted will be furnished with one mount by the Quartermaster Corps in case they do not elect to provide themselves with suitable private mounts. Such public mounts will ordinarily be assigned one to the exclusive use of each officer and will be foraged, stabled, shod, groomed, fed, watered, and furnished with veterinary treatment and medicine at Government expense. Authorized private mounts of officers will similarly at Government expense be stabled, shod, foraged, and supplied vsdth veterinary treatment and medicine. Should the circumstances of service at a particular station cau.se the number of Government mounts available for use under this paragraph to fall below the number of officers entitled to such mounts under the law, the post commander will regulate the use of the public mounts actually on hand with due consideration for the service and the rights and duties of the Individual officers concerned. 1097. The Quartermaster Corps will provide and issue horse and mule shoes, nails, smith's tools, and materials required for the service, except the forges and tools for field service of Cavalry, Field Artillery, and machine-gun platoons. The animals of a troop of Cavalry or battery of Keld Artillery will be shod by the organization. 1098. The Quartermaster Corps will transport for officers changing station, and for graduates of the United States Military Academy assigned to mounted organizations upon first assignment to station, the numler of horses for which they are legally entitled to forage, and an attendant to accompany the horses when necessary, subject to the following restrictions : 1. That the expense to the United States shall not exceed $100 for each horse transported. The entire cost of such shipment may be paid by the Quarter- master Corps, but if the entire cost exceeds $100 for each horse, Including trans- portation of attendant, if any, the excess must be refunded to the Quartermaster Corps by the owner. The expenses of the attendant other than his transporta- tion vinlll not be paid by the Quartermaster Corps, except that when an enlisted man is ordered to be such attendant there may be paid also commutation of rations when necessary. 2. That the shipment shall be made at a valuation of not to exceetl $100 per animal, unless the owner pays, under the regulations of the Quartermaster Corps, the cost incident to increased valuation. 3. That the horses are owned by the officer and are intended to be used by him at his new station in the public service. 4. The horses of deceased or retired officers or officers ordered to their homes to await retirement, or of officers efEec'tlng a voluntary transfer, will not be transported at public expense. 5. When horses are purchased by officers at points other than their station the Quartermaster Corps will transport them from points of purchase to the 218- QUAETEEMASTER CORPS. station of the officer, provided the officer is entitled to have and has not had his authorized private mounts shipped from his old to his new station, and. provided, when the cost of shipment from point of purchase to new station exceeds the cost from old to new station on last change of station, the officer win deposit the excess cost with the shipping officer when shipment Is made by the Quartermaster Corps. 6. Officers detailed on service In a foreign country and required to be mounted should furnish their own mounts, such mounts to be transported to and from their foreign stations at the expense of the United States, the limitation In the cost of transportation, as prescribed in section 1 of this paragraph, being waived in such cases. However, If an officer below the ranli of major so desires, a public mount tnay be assigned to him and transported as hereinbefore provided, or. If it be to the Interest of the United States, a mount may be purchased for him In the vicinity of his foreign station. Such officers should advise the War Department by which method they desire to be furnished with mounts. (Under present regulations of the Treasury Department, animals are not allowed to be returned from the Philippine Islands to the United States.) 7. Private mounts of officers In excess of the authorized number of mounts may be shipped on the same Government bill of lading with authorized mounts, upon deposit with the shipping officer, prior to shipment, of a sum equal to the commercial freight charges on the excess mount or mounts, to be ascertained from or through the agent of the carrier at point of shipment, and cost of exchange for remittance to the officer who will settle the transportation charges. The excess mounts will not be shipped on Government bill of lading unless such deposit be first made. 8. Officers making application for shipment of mounts will in all cases specify the last change of station, referring to orders under which It was made, and also the number of private mounts previously transported. If any, on last change of station. (C. A. R., Nos. 9 and 55.) 1099. Rescinded. (C. A. R., No. 55.) MILITAEY ATTACHES. 1100. An officer of the Army serving as military attache abroad vclll be en- titled to the following allowances : A suitably furnished office when needed, or an unfurnished room with one desk or table, six chairs, one book or file case, the articles allowed for an office desk by regulations, and the stationery required in the performance of public duty, to be furnished by the Quartermaster Corps, and in either case the regulation allowance of fuel for one office fire. Mounted officers will be allowed forage If horses are actually kept, and officers not mounted, or mounted officers not drawing forage, the hire of a horse when necessary for mounted duty. Necessary funds for these allowances and blank forms for reports and returns will be procured by requisition on the Quarter master General. Money accounts will be rendered quarterly. Items for necessary cost, of exchange will be entered on accounts current, tUe entries of each being supported by the certificate of the officer that current rates of ex- change were paid and that other vouchers are not obtainable. (C. A. R No. 10.) TKANSPOKTATION, GENERAL PROVISIONS. 1101. For wagon and pack transportation mules will generally be employed, but horses may be used for saddle purposes by wagon masters, messengers, ex- pressmen, and employees or enlisted men having similar occupation which re- quire them to be mounted. For draft purposes, except at depots or posts in or TEANSPOETATION OP PERSONS. 219 near large cities where little transportation is needed, horses will not be used, unless specially authorized by the War Department. 1102. The allotment of draft and pack animals to each military department will be made by the Quartermaster General under the direction of the Secre- tary of War. (C. A. R., No. 10.) 1108. The allowance of spring wagons, exclusive of the prescribed ambu- lance for the sick, is fixed at one to each post, except when otherwise authorized by the War Department. All four-wheeled passenger wagons (except ambu- lances) having springs under the body shall be considered spring wagons. 1104. Spring wagons will be used only by direction of commanding officers and for the purpose for which they are supplied, viz, for the transportation of officers and enlisted men traveling on duty when other means are not available. 1106. The Quartermaster Corps will provide the necessary ambulances for transporting the sick and wounded upon the requisition of the proper medical officer. It will purchase, hire, operate, maintain, and repair such harness, wagons, carts, drays, and other vehicles as are required for the transportation of troops and supplies, and for official, military, and garrison purposes. 1106. All means of public transportation at a post will be accounted for by the quartermaster, and will be under his charge except as provided in para- graph 1427. Commanding officers will cause mounted organizations to be pro- vided daily with the proper facilities for policing stables and hauling forage. 1107. Commanding officers will give timely notice to the proper officers of the Quartermaster Corps of all contemplated movements of troops and supplies that proper and sufficient transportation may be in readiness. 1108. The duty of furnishing transportation "at any post, station, or depot will be intrusted to one officer of tlie Quartermaster Corps, on whom requisitions will be made therefor. In the performance of their official and military duties officers of the Army are authorized to use the means of transportation provided by the Quartermaster Corps in accordance with law. 1109. The Quartermaster Corps is charged with the transportation of troops and supplies between the United States and such over-sea garrisons and military commands as shall be authorized. Those officers and employees who are de- tailed to carry out the work constitute the Army Transport Service. All neces- sary expenses incident to that service will be paid from the appropriations made -for the support of the Army. The Army Transport Service is governed by special regulations promulgated by the Secretary of War. TEANSPOKTATION OF PERSONS. 1110. When troops are moved, suitable transportation will be provided; proper orders and an exact return of the command will be furnished to the quartermaster who is to provide the same. 1111. A person requiring transportation will exhibit an order from com- petent authority. The quartermaster will indorse on the original order, over his signature, the fact that transportation has been provided, its kind, the place from and to which it has been furnished, and the number of pounds of extra baggage transported, if any. The original order will be retained by the person who receives the transportation, and, in case of a soldier entitled to commutation of rations while traveling, will be disposed of as directed in para- graph 1232. (O. A. R., No. ^3.) 1111^. When transportation is issued to a soldier under conditions which require that, the whole or any part of the cost of such transportation is to be charged against the soldier, the officer issuing the transportation will report by letter, in duplicate, to the soldier's immediate commander, through the dis- 220 QUAETEBMASTEK CORPS. bvirsing officer designated to pay the iiocount for rail or steamer transportation, giving the name, rank, and organization of the soldier, the serial numbers of transportation requests issued, together with any expenditures for subsistence or other purposes that may have been incurred which should be charged against the soldier. The disbursing officers will forward these letters to the soldier's immediate commander, indorsing thereon the actual amount that will be paid for rail, sleeping car, or steamer transportation. On receipt of this information the commanding officer will enter the charge against the soldier and return one copy of the letter immediately to the disbursing officer from whom received, stating thereon, by indorsement, the month and year of the pay rolls on which the charge has been or will be made. When transportation is issued under the provisions of paragraphs 110 or 127, the officer issuing the request will take the action outlined above and in the case of a soldier on furlough will, in addition, enter on the furlough a statement showing the transportation that has been furnished. (G. A. R., No. 42.) 1112. When transiwrtation is furnished for the entire journey, the route, if not designated in the order, will be determined by the Quartermaster Corps, in accordance with existing rules. 1113. A quartermaster who provides the transportation for troops will notify, by mail or telegraph, the quartermasters at places where changes of route are to be made, or means of transportation are to be changed, of the day on which the troops will start, their route, destination, the number of officers, enlisted men, and animals, and the quantity of public property and baggage for which transportation will be required. 1114. The quartermaster who provides the transportation, or a duly author- ized representative, will be present at the embarkation of the troops, and will see that the accommodations contracted for have been provided. A similar course -will be pursued, where practicable, at places where changes of route or important connections are to be made. If delay is necessary in either case in order to complete the arrangements for transportation, the commanding officer of the troops will be duly notified. 1115. The Quartermaster Corps will furnish transportation to accepted applicants for enlistment from general recruiting stations to designated re- cruiting depots (including recruit depot posts) and return transportation to such of the applicants as are rejected on final examination. TEANSPOETATION REQUESTS. 1116. Transportation for persons over the lines of any common carrier will be obtained by the issuance of a transportation request, a separate request being issued for the rail transportation involved, another for the sleeping or parlor car accommodations to be furnished, another for the travel on commercial steamer, and still another for the transportation of excess baggage, where authorized. A request for transportation issued by a quarterma.^ter, or by an officer to whom transportation requests are supplied on memorandum receipt, should set forth the following information, the-entries pertaining thereto being made by the officer issuing the request : On the face thereof, date and place of issue ; time for which it will be valid ; name of company required to furnish transportation ; name of the person, or, if a party, of the person in charge and the number of others In the party; organization to which the person belongs, if an officer or enlisted man ; the points between which transportation is to be furnished : the initial letters of each road or line to be used on the journey ; class or character of the trans- TEANSPOETATION REQUESTS. 221 portation to be furnished ; authority ; nature of journey ; officer designated to settle the account ; and the appropriation. The transportation requested should be specifically and fully described in the spaces provided therefor In the block at the right of the request, and, if the travel is by commercial steamer, the request should further show vs^hether meals or meals and berth are included. On the back thereof the name, rank, and organization of the soldier, if any, to whom the cost of transportation should be charged ; the number of officers, enlisted men, and civilians, when two or more travel on the same request ; and the organization, if any. (C A. R., No. 41.) 1117. Requests should be properly receipted by the party named therein, presented to the agent of the Initial carrier, and tickets procured before com- mencing the journey, as conductors are not, in all cases, authorized to accept transportation requests. In those instances where it becomes necessary, owing to unforeseen conditions, to obtain transportation varying from that called for on the face of the request, a notation should be made by the traveler, in the space provided for this purpose on the back of the request, showing the actual transportation furnished and explaining the variation, and should be signed by him; in such cases the receipt on the face of the request will have added thereto the words " except as stated on back hereof." The transportation fur- nished must not, in any case, be in excess of that called for on the face of the request, unless the difference is collected from the traveler. In no case will a receipt be given for transportation of more persons or extra baggage than the request calls for. A receipt for transportation furnished, including signature of the traveler, vrlll be filled in with ink, and names and places will be written in full. If the pei'son receipting can not write his name he will make his mark, which will be witnessed, (O. A. R., No. il.) 1118. Bescinded. (O. A. R., No. 4I.) 1119. No portion of a request above the signature of the issuing officer will be changed in any particvilar. If explanations are required, they will be made on the back of the request. 1120. All unused transportation requests will be returned without delay to the officer issuing same for cancellation. All nnused tickets or parts of tickets procured on a transportation request will be returned to the officer who issued them, and by him forwarded to the officer who pays the account for the service. The value of such ticket or parts of tickets will be deducted from any money due or to become due the company for transportation over whose line they were obtained. On the collection of the value of such unused tickets they will be returned to the company by which they were issued. 1121. When transportation to any given point and return is required, the request for return transportation should be obtained at the destination, pro- A Ided it can be there procured, except in cases where round-trip tickets can be obtained at reduced rates and made available for the journey ; otherwise the quartermaster will issue two sets of requests, one to the place of destination, the other for return transportation. 1122. An officer traveling on a mileage status is not entitled to transporta- tion at public expense of any baggage which may accompany him on the journey. 1123.. When an officer nnder orders for temporary duty or permanent change of station certifies that it is necessary for his field allowance of baggage to be transported to his temporary or permanent station, the Quartermaster Corps win furnish transportation for the same by freight, unless in cases of emergency transportation by express is authorized by the Secretary of War. The total amount of baggage transported at public expense will in no instance exceed the allowance provided by paragraph 1136. Transportation for 250 pounds of baggage, including 150 pounds usually carried free by railroads, is 222 QUAETEEMASTEB CORPS. authorized for Army nurses when they join for duty under the first order, upon permanent change of station, and on return to their homes upon annulment of contract. Receipts covering an excess of baggage will contain certificates as to whether transportation for such excess has been furnished. 1124. For enlisted men and applicants for enlistment traveling under orders without troops, each ticket furnished by the Quartermaster Corps will usually cover 150 pounds of baggage free. Where this is not the case, as on stage lines, the Quartermaster Corps will provide for the transportation of sufficient . excess baggage to make a total of free and excess as follows : Pounds. Noncommissiond officers 100 Privates of the Medical Department 100 Other privates 50 (0. A. R., No. 55.) 1125. Quartermasters, in issuing requests for transportation of officers and others traveling under orders, will not include therein public property of any description, nor the allowance of personal baggage carried free by the various transportation lines. FEEEIES, TUENPIKES, AND BKIDGES. 1126. Whenever it shall be necessary for troops, teams, or employees in the military service to pass on public duty over a legally constituted toll bridge, ferry, or turnpike, the officer or person In charge of the party will apply to the nearest quartermaster for a request for such passage. If he can not obtain it he will give to the keeper of the bridge, ferry, or turnpike a certificate stating the number of persons and whether mounted or on foot, number of loose animals, teams and animals to each team for which toll or ferriage is due, and showing that the travel is on public duty. Accounts for such service, accompanied by the request, or certificates duly receipted, will be presented to the nearest disbursing quartermaster for settlement, who, before payment, will satisfy himself that the rates charged do not exceed those authorized, or paid by private individuals, and that the indebtedness was necessarily incurred for the public service. Payment may be made at the authorized or usual rates, unless more favorable terms can be obtained. STEEET CAR AND FEREY TICKETS. 1127. For the transportation of oflacers, enlisted men, applicants or rejected applicants for enlistment, and employees of the United States in the transac- tion of public business, street car, electric railway or ferry tickets will be sup- plied by the Quartermaster Corps, when this form of transportation is preferable in convenience and cost to other forms of transportation. This will not apply to an officer traveling under orders covering mileage. Travel between place of residence and office or place of employment is not travel In the transaction of public business within the meaning of this paragraph. The tickets when pur- chased will be taken up on the property account and expended soleljT in the performance of public duty. (C. A. R., No. 5.) PARLOR AND SLEEPING CAR ACCOMMODATIONS. 1128. The following-named persons, when traveling under orders, are en- titled at public expense to a lower berth in a standard sleeping car, seat in a parlor car, or to the customary stateroom accommodations on steamers where PAELOE AND SLEEPING CAB ACCOMMODATIONS. 223 extra charge is made for the same: (1) Officers of the Army when traveling on duty with troops. (2) Noncommissioned officers above grade 17, paragraph 9, when traveling on duty without troops. (3) Army nurses. (4) Civilian em- ployees in the military service, viz, architects, marine engineers, assistant engi- neers, chief packer, chief cutter, clerks, civil engineers, draftsmen, electricians, electrical engineers, examiners. Inspectors, stationary engineers, stenographers, superintendents of construction, typewriters, veterinarians, and employees of similar character. (5) Licensed officers of the transport service and of the harbor boat service of the Quartermaster Corps, viz, masters, mates, engineers, assistant engineers, and pilots. (6) Invalid soldiers when traveling under orders without troops, on the certificate of a medical officer showing the neces- sity therefor. (7) The enlisted attendants accompanying invalid soldiers are entitled to accommodations equal to those herein allowed to invalid soldiers. Noncommissioned officers below grade 16, paragraph 9, when traveling under orders without troops, when the journey exceeds 12 hours and is scheduled to terminate after midnight, are entitled to a berth in a tourist sleeping car, upper if available, or to the customary stateroom accommodations on steamers where extra charge is made for the same. When tourist sleeping car accom- modations are not available and the journey exceeds 12 hours, and is scheduled to terminate after midnight, an upper berth in a standard sleeping car may be furnished for that portion of the journey for which tourist sleeping cars are not available. Enlisted men, other than noncommissioned officers, and civilian employees iu the military service, not specified above, when traveling under orders without troops, when the journey exceeds 12 hours, and is scheduled to terminate after midnight, are entitled to a berth in a tourist sleeping car, upper if available, but, when the number is three or more, tourist car accommodations will be fur- nished on the basis of three men to a section. Standard sleeping car accommo- dations will not be furnished in any instance. Tourist sleeping cars will be provided for troops on the basis of three men to a section when the journey in- volves spending a night on the train; but when the number of troops is too small to justify the hiring of tourist sleepers, tourist sleeping car accommoda- tions on the same basis, if available, may be furnished. When the number of officers traveling with troops is too small to justify the hire by the Quartermaster Corps of a standard sleeping car for their accom- modation, they will be furnished with such part of a tourist sleeping car, or' other suitable sleeping car, properly curtained ofe for their accommodation, as the Quartermaster Corps may provide for their use during the journey, one lower berth to be furnished to each officer if practicable. 1129. Quartermasters providing parlor and sleeping car accommodations will issue requests therefor, and state therein the number of berths or seats required. 1130. When a journey is to be performed covering a route requiring change of sleeping or parlor car, through requests will be issued. 1131. Persons holding requests for sleeping or parlor car accommodations will, whenever practicable, present them to the proper agent and obtain tickets for the number of berths or seats required before commencing the journey. When not practicable to do so, berths or seats will be secured from the con- ductor of the car. They will receipt for the number of berths or seats furnished, naming the points between which they were furnished. 1132. Special sleeping or parlor cars will not be chartered when the expense exceeds the cost of the berths or seats authorized to be furnished. 1133. When it is impracticable for agents or conductors to furnish berths or seats in sleeping or parlor cars, the holder of the request will, on the termi- 224 QTJAETEBMASTER CORPS. nation of his journey, return it to the issuing officer, with a statement of the reasons why it has not been used, and that officer will account for it on his return. 1134. An officer, traveling with troops, who incurs expense for authorized sleeping or parlor car accommodations when it is impracticable to obtain a request therefor, will be reimbursed by the Quartermaster Corps, upon applica- tion supported by a receipt for the amount paid by him and a copy of the orders under which the journey was performed. TBANSPOBTATION OF BAGGAGE. 1135. In changing station authorized allowances of baggage will be turned over to the quartermaster to be packed, crated, weighed, and marked for transportation as freight by ordinary freight lines. When necessary the pack- ing, crating, weighing, and marking may be done by the Ordnance Department at arsenals, armories, or ordnance depots, or it may be done by the Engineer Department at places where labor and supplies are available, in which cases settlement will be made as provided in paragraph 619. 1 136. The baggage to be transported at public expense, including mess chests and personal baggage, upon change of station will not exceed when packed and crated the following gross weights : Rank. In the field or temporary change of station. Permanent change ol station. Lieutenant general. Major general Brigadier general . . . Field officer Captain. First lieutenant, contract surgeon, and acting dental surgeon Second lieutenant and veterinarian Noncommissioned officers above grade 17, paragraph 9 Noncommissioned officers, grade 17, paragraph 9, npon change of station with- out troops Pay clerk. Quartermaster Corps Civilian employees of the classified service transferred for the good of the service . Pounds. 1,500 1,000 700 400 200 150 ISO Paurtds. 15,000 10,500 8,400 7,200 0,000 6,100 4,500 3,000 1,500 3,000 3,000 These allowances are in excess of the weights transporteitio ration. Per cent. Beef, fresh 70 Bacon, issue 20 Fish 10 Or— Canned meat TO Bacon, Issue 20 Fish --- 10 Flour, or hard brisid, or soft bread 100 Baking powder, when ovens are not available 100 Rice, unpolished^ 100 Potatoes ^^ Onions "0 Coffee, roasted and ground 100 Sugar 100 Vinegar ^^^ Salt 1*3« Pepper, black 1^*^ When reserve rations or surplus ration articles are ordered used under para- graph 1220, any excess cost of such articles over that of the articles ordinarily used in computing the cost of the ration will be credited to the organization on the ration and savings account. Should any article so ordered be cheaper than that ordinarily used, a corresponding deduction will be made from the organi- zation's credit. The manner of ascertaining the amount of the credit or deduc- tion V7ill be shown on the back of the ration and savings account, to which the order of the commanding officer directing the issue will be attached. 1222 If ration and savings accounts are not paid by a quartermaster In the month during which they accumulated, the proper organization will be fur- ni.shed with an extract of the account showing the amount due, which voucher, duly certified by the quartermaster and approved by the commanding officer, will be presented for payment to any quartermaster having funds for the pur- pose. COMMUTATION OF EATIONS. 1223. Commutation of rations may be allowed at the following rates, under the conditions mentioned, viz: ^ ■" ~ 7 ff„„ ,„„„«, i« Tiairt the coffee, sugar, and milk components will not 1 When 21 cents coffee money >s paia, ine cunee, . us^ > be Included whei! computing the travel ration. 250 QUAKTERMASTEB COBPS. Commutation of rations. CJonditiona. 1. To enlisted men, Philippine Scouts, male or female nurses on the expiration of their furloughs or leaves, provided that on or hefore the last day thereof they have reported at their proper stations or have been discharged 2. To ordnance sergeants, quartermaster sergeants, senior grade, and quartermas- ter sergeants, Quartermaster Corps (andenlisted men acting as sucn) on duty at forts and stations where there are no other troops 3. To an enlisted man, a Phihppine Scout , or a male or female nurse on detached duty, stationed in a city or town where subsistence is not furnished by the Government; to sergeants detailed for duty with the National Guard, and for duty with disciplmary organizations; to enlisted men detailedf or duty at institutions where one or more units of the Reserve Officers' Training Corps are maintained, or at schools or colleges pursuant to section 56, act of Con- gress approved June 3, 1916, stationed in a city or town where subsistence is not furnished by the Government 4. To an enlisted man or a Philippine Scout traveling under orders bom a place or station at which his rations have been regularly commuted 5. To an enlisted man or a Philippine Scout traveling under orders alone, when the journey can not be performed in 24 hours and it is Impracticable to carry rations oj any kind (which fact must be stated in the order directing the journey); to members of the Eegular Army Reserve upon being sum- moned for field training and when mobilized by the President and reporting for duty, while traveling from their homes tc ihe places where ordered to report for duty; to members of the Reserve Officers' Training Corps while traveling, except by orgamzation, to and from camps of instruction; and to members of the Enhsted Reserve Corps when ordered into active service, while traveUng, except by organization, to and from the place to which ordered 6. To two enlisted me^ or Philippine Scoutstraveling under orders as a detach- ment, or traveling under ordTers as a guard to an insane patient or military prisoner, when the journey can not be performed in 24 hours and it is im- practicable to carry rations of any kma (which fact must be stated in the order directing the journey), each 7. To an insane patient or military prisoner traveling mider orders under guard of one or two enlisted men or Philippine Scouts, when the journey can not be performed in 24 hours and it is impracticable to carry rations of any kind (which fact must be stated in the order directing the journey), to be paid on the order of the commanding officer in advance to, and to be receipted for by, the person to whose charge the patient or military prisoner is com- mitted by the order 8. To enhsted men or Philippine Scouts selected to contest for places or prizes in department or Army rifle competitions, while traveling under orders to and from places of contest, when the journey can not be performed in 24 hours and it is impracticable to carry rations of any kind (which fact must be stated in the order), each Rate per day each. Enlisted men and nurses. $0.30 1.00 1.00 1.60 1.50 1.50 1.50 1.50 Philippine Scouts. 50.30 .60 .75 .75 .75 .75 (C.A.B., Nos.ig,61,aiidSB.) 1224. Applicants for enlistment and recruits forvcarded from recruiting sta- tions, recruiting depots, or other military posts will be furnished the following allowances for subsistence while traveling, viz : When 1 or 2 men are forwarded. When more than 2 men ai-e forwarded. For ajournet/ of 24 hours or less. Travel rations, or cooked rations, to be obtained from the contractor for meals or from the company or general mess. For a journey of more than S4 hours. Commutation of rations at not exceeding 50 cents a meal ($1.50 a day) for each man. For a journey ofS4 hours or less. For a detachment of 3 or more men: Travel rations (or, if not available, cooked rations, to be obtained from the contractor for meals or from the company or general mess). For a journey of more than m hours. For a detachment of 3 or more men: Travel rations if available, or, if not available, commutation of rations at not exceeding 50 cents a meal (SI .60 a day) for each man. COMMUTATION OF RATIONS. 251 1225. Enlisted men, applicants for enlistment, and recruits ordered upon journeys which can be performed within 24 hours from the hour of start- ing must be subsisted during the journey upon cooked or travel rations pro- cured for the purpose from the company kitchen, the contractor for meals, or from the quartermaster. 1226. Enlisted men absent under orders from their stations upon recruiting duty for not exceeding seven days will be deemed to be traveling under orders during the entire period, notwithstanding that some portion of the period may be occupied by detentions In the various towns which they visit in the per- formance of their duty, and their commutation of rations will be at the rate of $1.50 a day. 1227. Rescinded. (0. A. R., No. 18.) 1328. An enlisted man not a recruit ordered, under subhead 5, paragraph 1223, will be allowed commutation of rations at the rate of 50 cents a meal ($1.50 a day) for the time actually consumed in travel. The provisions of this paragraph do not apply to travel on Army transports. 1229. Commutation of rations will not be allowed to, enlisted men serving where subsistence is furnished by the Government; or traveling under orders when they can carry and cook their rations, or can carry cooked or travel rations; or traveling under orders on Army transports or by steamboat or steamship where the passage rates include meals ; or failing to report at their proper stations on or before the last day of furlough unless discharged; or recruiting parties at their stations; nor to civil employees. Commutation of rations will not be allowed to members of the Regular Army Reserve while in field training or after reporting when mobilized for active service in the event of actual or threatened hostilities, nor to members of the Reserve Officers' Training Corps while in camps of instruction, nor to citizens while at camps of instruction authorized by section 54 of the act of Congress approved June 3, 1916, nor to members of the Enlisted Reserve Corps while in active service for purnoses of instruction or training or after reporting ^^•hen ordered to active service in the event of actual or threatened hostilities. {C. A. B., No,s. IS and 51.) ,. . ^ 1230. An order directing the travel of an enlisted man or an applicant tor enlistment will state that the journey is necessary for the public service. If it be impracticable for him to carry rations of any kind, the order will so state and will direct commutation of rations to be paid; if required to be paid in advance the number of days will be stated. 1231 An enlisted man traveling on duty under orders on a vessel of the United States Army Transport Service will not be allowed commutation of rations for the time he is aboard. He will be quartered with the enlisted men aboard and will mess with them, and the proper transport officer will indorse upon the travel order in the possession of the soldier the dates between which Sstence was so furnished. The travel order so indorsed will be turned over bv the enl-ted man at the end of the journey to the quartermaster by whom commutation of rations for any portion of the journey is paid, who wil file it wTh the voucher on which payment is made. If commutation of rations .s Trdered plid in advance, the probable time on shipboard must be taken into Account fn determining -the number of days' commutation to be allowed, and the mving officer wilUndorse the original order and make payment on a certi- S copy Ihefeof ilthe manner directed in paragraph 1232 for paying commu- "'^^ S^tl:!T^n. allowed to an enlisted man or an applicant for Su^tSent wi^e traveling, when not directed to be paid in advance, wiU be 252 QUAETEEMASTEB COBPS. paid to liiiii at the end of his journey, upon presentation of the order for the journey, with the certificate of his commanding officer thereon in the following form : " Last rationed to include • , 19 — ; will leave station at r— , , 19 — ; the rations overdrawn will be deducted from the ration return of Company — , Regiment of , for the period from , 19 — , to . 19 — ," and a certificate signed by a commissioned officer in the fol- lowing form : " Joined station at • , : . 19 — ." The period allowed by the paying officer will be tlie time required over the shortest usually traveled route. If ordered paid in advance, It will be paid upon presentation of a certi- fied copy of the order directing the payment, having thereon the certificate in tlie above form of his commanding officer. In this case the paying officer will indorse the date, mode, and amount of payment, over his signature, on the order which is retained by the soldier or applicant for enlistment, and certify on the copy that he has made such indorsement. The soldier or applicant for enlistment will deliver his retained order to the commanding officer at the station where rations are next furnished. The order, or copy thereof, on which commutation has been paid will be filed as a subvoucher to the receipt roll, and the paying officer will indorse on the order, or copy thereof, the date, mode, and amount of payment. 1233. The furlough of an enlisted man will show by memorandum of his company commander to what day he was last rationed and the number of lations, if any, drawn for him previous to his going on furlough, for the time covered by the furlough, and the certificate of his company commander on the back of the furlough will show the date on which he rejoined his proper station or v/as discharged and that the rations overdrawn for him were duly deducted from a ration return of his company. If entitled to commutation he will be paid by any quartermaster upon the presentation of the furlough containing the ;tbove memorandum and certificate. The paying officer will file the furlough as a subvoucher to his receipt roll, and indorse on the furlough the date, mode, and amount of payment. The authority under which a furlough is granted (whether under Army Regulations or in pursuance of the orders of a superior) should be cited on the face of the furlough by the officer granting it. If the period for which the furlough is given is within the competency of the author- ity cited, no copy of the order is needed to accompany the furlough v.hen pre- sented to a disbursing officer for payment of commutation of rations ; but if the period is manifestly beyond the competency of the authority cited, the furlough should, when presented for payment of commutation of rations, be accompanied by copies of all orders in pursuance of which it was given. 1234. An enlisted man granted a furlough with permission to travel on a vessel of the United States Army Transport Service will be quartered with the enlisted men aboard and will mess with them. The transport officer will certify upon the enlisted man's furlough the dates between which subsistence was so furnished. In paying commutation of rations on the furlough these days will be deducted. 1235. Enlisted men discharged while serving in places outside of the States composing the Union will be provided free transportation to the said States on Government transports upon direction of the commanding officers in the several localities, and will be subsisted by the Quartermaster .Corps to the port of des- tination. They will not be entitled to travel pay from port of embarkation to the United States, nor to commutation of rations for the time so subsisted on the transports. The fact that such transportation and subsistence have been furnished must be noted on the final statements. In view of the provisions of paragraph 1378, the foregoing is not to be construed as precluding the furnish- ing of transportation at Government expense, via commercial vessels in cases SALES. 253 where the Government maintains no regular transport service between the localities of discharge and the United States. (C. A. R., No. 20.) 1236. When an officer orders commutation of rations to be paid, or rations furnished to a soldier on furlough to enable him to reach his proper station, the officer paying the commutation or furnishing the rations will report the full amount paid, or the money value of the food supplied, to the soldier's company commander. Should the soldier reach his station on or before the last day of his furlough the company commander will charge the full amount of the pay- ment, or valug of the rations, against his pay on the next pay roll. Should ho reach his post after the expiration of his furlough, and the delay be not excused, the full amount will be similarly charged. Should the overstaying of his fur- lough be excused, the full amount, diminished by the value of the ration, at 25 cents a day, for the number of days dui'ing which he was absent after the fur- lough had expired, Vvill be charged. 1237. When a furlough is lost, a certified copy prepared by his company commander, with the soldier's affidavit stating when, where, and the circum- stances under which the loss occurred, that he reported at his station on or before the last day of his furlough or was discharged, and that no- rations have been furnished nor commutation paid him for any portion of the time during; which he was on furlough, may be presented within six months after the loss, through his company and post commanders, to the department (j.uartermaster for payment or other disposition. 12S8. An enlisted man having a claim for commutation of rations wiiile traveling or on furlough, and who is at a distance from a paying quartermaster, will be paid upon forwarding to a paying quartermaster his travel orders or furlough properly made out. An enlisted man on detached duty who is entitled to commutation of rations may be similarly paid upon the certificate of the officer under whom he may be serving, or if not serving under an officer, iipon his own certificate, setting forth the period for which commutation is due, accompanied by a copy of the authority for its allowance, or by a reference to .■-uch authority if previously furnished. SALES. 1239. Sales of subsistence stores will be made at cost prices for cash to an officer on his certificate that the stores are for his personal or family use or for the use of an officers' mess of which he is the caterer, and will be similarly made on a certificate that they are for his or her personal use to a contract surgeon, a dental surgeon, a veterinarian, a female nurse, or a hospital matron when stationed within a military post or serving with troops in the field. Sales will also be made at cost prices for cash to a member of the immediate family of an officer during his absence, upon a written request by him to the quartermaster. 12iO Sales to officers paid for within the calendar month in which made will be regarded as cash sales; if not paid for within that month, the quarter- master making the sale will fonvard an itemized statement of each account to the General Quartermaster for the action prescribed by paragraph 1308. Thereafter until evidence is furnished by the delinquent, showing payment of the amount so reported for stoppage, further sales will not be made to him except for cash upon receipt of stores. (0. A. R., No. 10.) 1241 Sales of reasonable quantities of stores will be made to an enlisted .man on the active or retired list, for cash, upon his declaration in writing, that tZ are intended for his own use. A post exchange may px.rchase stores upon 'the certificate of the officer in charge, and such purchases, when paid for within [the calendar month in which made, are regarded as cash sales. 254 QUAETERMASTER CORPS. 12411. Officers and enlisted men of the Navy and the Marine Corps are per- mitted to purcliase subsistence supplies at the same price as is charged the officers and the enlisted men of the Army, and the officers and the enlisted men of the Army are permitted to purchase subsistence supplies from the Navy and Marine Corps at the same price as is charged the officers and the enlisted men of the Navy and Marine Corps. Th^se supplies will be sold at cost prices for cash to an officer of the Navy or Marine Corps on his certificate that the supplies are for his personal use or for family use or for the use of an officer's mess, of which he is the caterer, and to an enlisted man of the Navy or Marine Corps on the active or retired list at cost prices for cash upon his declaration in writing that such supplies are in- tended for his own use. When an enlisted man of the Navy or Marine Corps desires to make a purchase and is not serving with the Army he should make application in writing, stating that the supplies are intended for his own use, and his application must be indorsed by the officer under whom he is serving, who will state that the enlisted man concerned is entitled to purchase sub- sistence supplies. {G. A. R., Nos. 10 and 12.) 1242. Sales may be made on credit to officers and enlisted men who have not been regularly paid or who are in the field. Officers will certify that the stores are for their own use and will receipt for them. Enlisted men will obtain per- mits from their company commanders, approved by the commanding officer. Permits will not be given to a soldier in excess of the unencumbered pay due to him nor in any month in excess of his monthly pay. Such of the following- named articles as may be needed by him may be furnished to a recruit on credit, viz : A hand basin, a pipe, a box or bottle of tooth powder, and not to exceed 1 pound of tobacco. 1243. An officer purchasing subsistence stores on credit will furnish to the quartermaster making the sale a receipt in duplicate setting forth the place and date of purchase, the name of the quartermaster who made the sale, and the money value of the stores so purchased. One copy of the receipt will be forwarded by the quartermaster to the quartermaster who pays the officer, or to the department quartermaster, and will be filed with the pay voucher on which collection is made. The duplicate receipt will be filed by the quartermaster with his retained abstract of subsistence stores sold. The names of the officers purchasing subsistence stores on credit, the organizations to which they belong, and the money value of the stores so purchased will be entered on the abstract of subsistence stores sold. 1244. Kxceptional articles of subsistence stores called for by officers and enlisted men, to be paid for by them regardless of condition upon arrival at posts, may be purchased under such instructions as to purchase and accoimta- bility as may from time to time be given by the Quartermaster General. (O. A. R., No. 10.) 1246. Civilians employed with the Army, including those expressly em- ployed for their services as tailors, shoemakers, and laundrymen, may be allowed, at remote places or in the field where food can not otherwise be pro- cured, to purchase from the Quartermaster Corps, in limited quantities for their own use, for cash, at cost prices, such articles of the ration or of stores kept for sales to officers and enlisted men as can be spared from the supplies on hand. 1246. Articles purchased by the Quartermaster Corps by net weight will Ite sold at net weight at the time of sale. Where the weight of a wrapper or cover at the time of purchase was included in the weight of an article it will be included in the weight when the article is sold. Articles in cartons, packets, or sealed cans will be sold as purchased. SALES. 255 1247. Post commanders will regulate sales and delivery of supplies. Selling (except by the post exchange) or bartering of supplies purchased or drawn from the quartermaster is forbidden. 1248. The commanding ofHcer of a post at or near which the immediate family of an enlistetl man who Is absent abroad resides may, if the residence and other conditions of such family make it proper, grant to the head thereof permits to purchase from the Quartermaster Corps at the post, for cash, at cost prices, such quantities of subsistence stores as in his opinion may De rea- sonably needed for the sole use of the soldier's Immediate family. The total amount of subsistence stores so sold to soldiers' families will be entered by the quartermaster in a separate item on the abstract of sales each month. 1249. The quartermaster who extends credit to enlisted men will forward to the proper company or organization commander the permit on which the sup- plies were sold, signed bj'- the purchasers, which then becomes a statement of credit sales and of amounts due. The company or other commander will charge the amounts due on the next pay roll (and on svibsequent rolls until the amounts shall have been collected) and return the permit-statement to the quartermaster, with notation thereon of any additional subsistence and other authorized quartermaster charges appearing on the pay rolls, showing in each case whether the charge is for credit sales, refundment of commutation of rations, or other authorized quartermaster account, and the place where and the month and year in which the indebtedness was contracted. The quarter- master will file the original with his retained papers for the month to which the credit sales pertain, and forward the carbon copy to the Quartermaster General with his monthly accounts. If a member of an organization or a recruit leaves his organization or a recruit depot before the money value of the articles furnished to him on credit shall have been collected, the amount due in each case, the place where, and the month and year in which the indebtedness was contracted will be noted on the service record. (0. A. R., Nos. 10, 15, and 55.) 1250. Sales will be consolidated monthly on an abstract. The commanding officer will satisfy himself that the purchases have been properly authorized and duly made and will so certify on the abstract. The abstract accompanying the quartermaster's account current will serve as a voucher to the account cur- rent as well as to the officer's return..^ 1251. The price at which subsistence stores may be transferred, or sold to officers and enlisted men, is the invoice or purchase price of the last lot of the same variety of subsistence stores received by the officer making the sale - or transfer prior to the first day of the month In which the sale or transfer is made ; but (1) the prices at a post or depot or at the office of a quartermaster will not 'be affected by transfers thereto from military posts, except where the articles are purchased at one post for shipment to another, the former having been regularly designated as the point of supply for the particular articles for the latter in which case the rule laid down in the first five hues of this paragraph will obtain; (2) if two or more lots of the same variety of article are received on one invoice, or on the same date at different prices, the unit nrice to govern will be determined by dividing the total value of such lots by the total quantity of the same; (3) the equalization of prices among several varieties of the same article is not authorized, as in the case of several kinds r racking tobacco, cigars, crackers, etc.; (4) if a quartermaster who has Sceived an invoice of stores during the current month is relieved before the end of that month he will invoice to his successor the stores so received a their TetuaJ nvoice price, although the current selling price of such stores will con- tinue unm the beginning of the next month. On the first day of each month ; price Ust will b^ prepared at each station where sales are made, one copy 256 QUARTEKMASTEE OOBPS. to be furnished to the commanding officer and one copy to be posted in the salesroom. 1252. The quartermaster will be accountable for and will carry on his property accounts all cooking apparatus supplied by the Quartermaster Corps, and will furnish to commanding officers of organizations and detachments the necessary authorized articles of the same on approved requisitions, the issues to be made on memorandum receipts. Bake ovens will be dropped from his prop- erty accounts when permanently installed at posts. BLANK FOBMS. 1253. Blank forms will be furnished to quartermasters on periodical requisi- tions sent directly to the Quartermaster General. Officers at posts will obtain them from the post quartermasters. (C. A. R., No.JJ)). PAYMENTS, GENERAL PROVISIONS. 1254. The senior quartermaster of a command, under the direction of its commander, will be responsible for the payment of the troops of the command. 1255. In payments to officers and enlisted men, the days of commencement and expiration of service will be included. When service begins on the 31st day of a month, pay will not be allowed for that day. PAYMENTS TO OFFI0EE8. 12§@. Officers on the active list, and retired officers assigned to active duty under laws entitling them to active pay or allowances, will be paid monthly on accounts certified by themselves according to prescribed forms. (O. A. R., Nt>. 3.) 1267. An officer of the Army will be paid within the limits of his depart- ment and, as far as practicable, by the same quartermaster, unless he is on leave of absence or detached duty beyond the limits of his department, or shall have transferred or disposed of his accounts as provided in paragraphs 1258 and 1259, or has the authority of the Quartermaster General for payment else- where. A retired officer, except when assigned to active duty under laws en- titling him to active pay or allowances, will be paid by the depot quartermaster, Washington, D. C, unless residing in the Philippine Islands or Hawaii, in which event he may, if he so desires, be paid by the department quartermaster of the Philippine or Hawaiian Department. (G. A. R., Nos. 2 and 10.) 1258. An officer may forward his pay account to a quartermaster before maturity, the amount to be remitted to the officer when due, or placed to his credit with a bank if the account is so indorsed, but an officer will not hypothe- cate or transfer an account not actually due. When due it may be transferred, when the following form of indorsement will be strictly observed : Transferred this day of , 191 , to and the department quartermaster at has been go notified. (Signature) , When an account is so transferred, the officer will notify the department quar- termaster of the department in which he is stationed, or the quartermaster who has been authorized by the Quartermaster General to pay his accounts, and will instruct the person or persons to whom the account may be transferred to for- ward it to such quartermaster for payment. A transferred account will not be paid outside of the department in which the officer is regularly paid except when it is transferred for the benefit of his family residing in another depart- PAYMENTS TO OPFICEBS. 257 ment in which case the officer will send the notification through the office of the depar ment quartermaster of the department in which he is usually paid to he IZZ-v, JT '^'"' "'^ notification any information he may have affecting the validity of the account. (C. A. R., No. 10.) 1259. An officer about to embark for service beyond the sea and desiring to make provision for himself or his family in the United States, may send to the Depot Quartermaster, Washington, D. C, such full monthly accounts as he may elect, indorsing them as follows : " When due pay to " or " When due placeto the credit of with ," or " When due place to my credit . .■ ~. ■ ^'"'°* Quartermaster, Washington, D. C, will immediately notlf.^ the department quartermaster of the department where the officer is to serve of the months for which accounts have been so received, and will then pay them as they become due If the casualty list and stoppage circular show no bar to payment. If the officer be under orders to proceed to Alaska or the Canal Zone, or for service with an independent brigade or division, the notifi- cation will be sent directly to the quartermaster where the officer is to serve. Should an officer already in service beyond the sea desire to have his accounts paid as described, he will forward them, through the department quartermaster of the department where he is serving, to the Depot Quartermaster, Washing- ton, D. C, except when stationed in Alaska or the Canal Zone, or serving with an independent brigade or division, in which event the accounts will be for- warded through the local quartermaster. Department and other quartermas- ters, through whom accounts are sent to the Depot Quartermaster, Washington, D. C, will make a record of the accounts so forwarded. (0. A. R., No. 9.) 1260. A person appointed to the Army, or receiving an appointment to a new office therein, is entitled to pay from date of acceptance only. If the ap- pointment creates vacancies to be filled by promotion, the promoted officers are entitled to pay of the new grade from the date of acceptance of the ap- pointee. In all other cases of promotion the officer is entitled to pay from date of the occurrence of the vacancy. 1261. An officer of the Army appointed to a grade in the volunteers or mili- tia in the service of the United States superior to that held by him in the Ai-my will be entitled to the pay and emoluments of the gi-ade to which appointed from date of acceptance of such appointment or from date of muster in thereunder. 1262. An officer who resigns, is dismissed, honorably discharged, or wholly retired, will forward his pay account (War Department Form 336) to the Depot Quartermaster, Washington, D. C, who will cause a certificate of non- indebtedness to be obtained from the Treasury Department and the chief of each bureau of the War Department and will inquire, thi'ough military chan- nels, of the last commanding officer under whom the ex-officer served, whether lie is properly chargeable with responsibility or accountability for Government funds or property, or is indebted to the United States or to a company fund or post exchange. The account will not be settled until this information has been received. An officer who has served in the Philippine Islands will procure a certificate of nonlndebtedness from the Insular Auditor prior to departure from the islands, this certificate being an indispensable prerequisite to the settlement of an officers' final accounts with the Government. (0. A. R., Nos. 10 and 51.) 1263. An officer whose resignation is accepted while he is on leave of absence will receive pay to include the date of acceptance; if accepted while he is on duty, he will receive pay to include the date he receives notice of its acceptance, or if sooner relieved from duty, to include the date of relief. An officer whose resignation takes effect at a future date is entitled to pay to include that date. 79733°— 18 17 258 QUAETEBMASTER CORPS. 1264. An officer placed upon the retired list will receive active pay to include the date of retirement, and the pay of a retired officer thereafter. If on duty, he will receive active pay to include the date of receipt by him of notice of his retirement. 1265. An officer dismissed by sentence of court-martial will be paid to in- clude the date of termination of service as specified in the order promulgating the sentence. 1266. Contract surgeons must present their contracts to quartermasters when applying for payment of salaries, and quartermasters will indorse thereon date and period for which paid. If a contract surgeon on foreign service desires to have his accounts paid in the United States, the months for which such accounts have been transferred will be indorsed on the contract by a quartermaster or the commanding officer, who will also indorse on each voucher "Transfer noted on contract (signature)," and such accounts will not be paid unless so indorsed. (0. A. R., No. 51.) ADDITIONAL PAT. 1267. To entitle an officer to additional pay under the acts of April 26, 1898, and May 26, 1900, for exercising a command above that pertaining to his grade, he must have exercised such command of troops operating against an enemy for a period of three months or more continuously, in obedience to orders issued by superior authority which he was bound to obey, and no pay or allowances as of a higher grade than that actually held by an officer will be paid him under this regulation unless a certified copy, in duplicate, of such order, accompanied by a statement of service thereunder, is filed with the quartermaster. 1268. The 10 per cent allowed by law to officers serving beyond the limits of the United States and territories contiguous thereto, except the Canal Zone, Panama, or Hawaii, or Porto Rico, will be paid on their regular monthly pay vouchers, which will be made up to include the entire compensation, of what- ever character, which may be due the officer for the calendar month, or months, included in the accounts. There vsdll be noted on the pay accounts the numbers and dates of orders or any other facts which affect the officer's pay status for the period covered by the accounts presented for payment. 1269. From time to time there will be announced in special orders of the War Department the names of military aviators, junior military aviators, and aviation officers who are on duty, requiring them to participate regularly and frequently in aerial flights. An officer announced in such orders as aviation officer, junior military aviator, or military aviator, under the terms of the act of Congress approved July 18, 1914, and the national defense act approved June 3, 1916, is entitled to pay and allowances authorized by the act named in his order, under the following conditions : The order will specify the date on which such duty was commenced, and a subsequent order will specify the date on which such duty was terminated. A copy of the order announcing the date on which such duty was commenced will be filed with the first voucher upon which pay and allowances of the higher grade or additional pay is charged, and the order will be cited on all subse- quent vouchers as long as pay and allowances or higher pay is charged. Bach officer entitled to pay and allowances of a higher grade or additional pay will certify on each voucher, during the time pay and allowances of a higher grade or additional pay is charged, that he has been throughout the period covered by the voucher on duty for which pay and allowances of a higher grade or additional pay is authorized under the act of July 18, 1914, or under the act of June 3, 1916 (citing the proper act). A copy of the order announcing the MOUNTED PAY. 259 date when such duty was terminated will be filed with the voucher for the period including such date. zaJLn l^l^""^! ?I l^"" commander of an aviation station or aeronautical organi- zation in the field to recommend the issue of orders announcing the commence- ment and termination of periods of higher grades or additional pay of officers of his command, certifying, where the right to additional pay depends on such duty, that the officer's duty from or to the date named required him to partici- pate regularly and frequently in aerial flights. When the commander of an aviation station or aeronautical organization in the field is entitled to pay and allowances of a higher grade or to additional pay and allowances of his grade under either of the acts named, it is the duty of the officer in charge of the Aviation Section, Signal Corps, to make recom- mendations and certificates prescribed in the foregoing for such commanders concerning the officers under, their command. No officer will be continued on such duty except as authorized by the act of July 18, 1914, or the act of June 3, 1916. (O. A. R., No. 51.) 1270. No officer shall receive pay for two staff appointments for the same time. 1271. In computing longevity pay, service performed as enlisted men of the Army or Navy, or as cadets at the United States Military or Naval Academy, by those appointed prior to August 24, 1912, will be counted. Service performed as such cadets by those appointed on or after said date will not be counted. MOUNTED PAT. 1272. The officers on the active list hereinafter designated are required to be mounted : All officers of the General Staff Corps ; officers of the staff corps and departments, whether permanent or detailed; officers of Cavalry; officers of Field Artillery; authorized aids duly appointed; regimental and battalion staff officers; acting judge advocates detailed under the act of Congress ap- proved February 2, 1901; all officers above the grade of captain, whatever their arm or corps; chaplains of all grades; officers temporarily attached to staff corps or to organizations of Cavalry, Field Artillery, and mounted In- fantry ; regularly detailed assistants to the Chief of Coast Artillery ; the author- ized staff officers of Coast Artillery districts and of coast defense commands; officer serving as military attaches to the embassies and legations of the United States at foreign capitals ; instructors and student officers at the Army School of the Line, the Army Signal School, the Army Staff College, and the Army War College; officers on duty In the department of tactics and in the department of practical military engineering, military signaling and telegraphy at the United States Military Academy. All field officers of the mobile army serving with troops are required to own and provide their mounts. The private mounts, owned and provided by 'officers of all grades In the Army, for which the Government expends public funds in the matter of maintenance and oare, shall be of a standard fixed by the Secretary of War from time to time. (O. A. R., No. 6.) In addition to the foregoing, officers not ordinarily required to be mounted may be temporarily placed upon duty that shall require them to be mounted. This may be done by the Secretary of War, the commander of an army, field army, or of a division or department ; the order in each case will state that 'the duty therein assigned to the officer requires him to be mounted. 127S. Officers below the grade of major, required to be mounted, whether permanently or temporarily, will be furnished with a proper mount by the Quar- 260 QUABTEKMASTER COHPS. tei-master Corps. Such officers may, however, provide themselves with suit- able mounts at their own expense and of their exclusive ownership, and any officer of the grades indicated who so provides himself shall receive an addition to his pay of $150 per annum if he provides one mount and $200 per annum if he provides two mounts. An officer claiming additional pay for providing his own mount must personally certify on each atcount that he was suitably mounted at his own expense, and is the actual and exclusive owner of the mount or mounts in question, specifying the place at which maintained. In case an officer is only temporarily upon duty requiring him to be mouhted, the authority by which he was placed upon such duty must accompany his first voucher and be cited upon subsequent vouchers upon which additional pay is claimed accompanied by a certificate that he has continued under the authority cited upon the mounted duty in question. The officer's certificate upon his pay accounts will»be the evidence upon which quartermasters will base their payments of additional pay for mounts, until information is received by them from proper authority that such additional pay is to be stopped. 1274. Officers below the grade of major providing their own mounts do not forfeit the right to additional pay by reason of absence on account of sickness or on ordinary leave, nor will the mere fact that such officers are detached for a purely temporary period from the stations where their mounts are kept deprive them of their right to the additional pay so long as the horses are actually and exclusively owned and kept for their use In the military service at their regular stations. In all other cases the right to the additional pay accrues only where the mounts are actually available for use at the station where the officer is serving. PAY DUBIN6 ABSENCE. 1276. In determining the period for which an officer is entitled to full pay on leave, time w-itlrin four successive leave years, terminating with the one In which absence is takpn, will be considered. If the absence does not cover the entire period for which full pay is allowed, the balance thereof vrill be placed to the officer's credit as belonging to the last year or years of the four considered and may be made available for future leave. 1276. The leave year is reckoned from July 1 to the following June 30, both inclusive. In computing leave of absence expressed in days during any leave year, every day -of such absence will be counted; but in aggregating such absence 30 days, whether consecutive or otherwise, will be regarded as a month's absence. Leave expressed in months will be counted in months. 1277. Leave of absence may be granted by the Superintendent of the United States Military Academy, under regulations prescribed by the Secretary of War, to the professors, assistant professors, instructors, and other officers of the academy for the entire period of the suspension of the ordinary academic studies, without deduction from pay or allowances. Similarly officers in charge of service schools may grant leaves of absence to officers on duty exclusively as instructors at such schools. 1278. An officer ordered to temporary duty while on leave will be regarded as on duty from the day on which he receives the order. When the duty is to be performed at a future date he will be on duty from the date on which he starts to obey the order. The date of the receipt of the order in the first case, and the date of departure in the second, will be promptly reported to The Adju- tant General of the Army. When relieved from such duty, or on the completion thereof, he reverts to the status of leave and will be credited ^vith the time on duty under such order. MILEAGE. 261 MILEAGE. liumJ'lrthf So^XT"' '''■'""^' ''"'''' ^^'"'^'^ "- geographical uj. uie ieintory of Alaska, or m the Philippine Ai-chinelao-o in th,» Tv:Zt^':::'A^ the ho„.e .ater. of the Znea States r^etwe nVl 1 ? "^''^' *'^' '"'1^''S« "t the rate of 7 cents a mile and na ^^utuTer With' T7T '''^'' "i'^^^^ ^^ ^^ ^^^^ -- ^^-^ ^'^-^-t ;su' 1 - tiaveled routes, with deductions as hereinafter provided tory ri^alr1n''tvr"'°"* ''"'^^ "'""° ''^^ geographical limits of the Terri- tory ot Alaska, in the amount of actual expenses only, not to exceed M50 ; Tbentr "' ^^•«'^^^™'- -^- -t furnished by the Q^Se^r'^C^^^^^^^^^^ to be paid upon proper vouchers duly itemized and supported by receipts where It ,s practicable at the time to obtain the same. 3. When traveling with or without troops, by sea, in the amount of actual expenses. 4 Officers who so desire may upon application to the Quartermaster Corps be furnished under their orders transportation requests for the entire journey by land, exclusive of sleeping and parlor car accommodations, or by water- and the transportation so furnished shall, if travel was performed under a mileage status, be charged against the officer's mileage account, to be deducted at the rate of 3 cents a mile by the quartermaster paying the account, and of the amount so deducted there shall be turned over to an authorized officer of the Quartermaster Corps 3 cents a mile for transportation furnished, except over any railroad which is a free or 50 per cent land-grant railroad, for the ci-edit of the appropriation for the transportation of the Army and its supplies. 5. When the established route of travel shall, in whole or in part, be over the line of any raih-oad on which the troops and supplies of the United States are entitled to be transported free of charge, or over any 50 per cent land-gram; railroad, officers traveling as herein provided for shall, for the travel over such roads, be furnished with transportation requests exclusive of sleeping or parlor car accommodations by the Quartermaster Corps. When transportation is fur- nished by the Quartermaster Corps, or when the established route of travel is over any of the railroads above specified, there shall be deducted from the officer's mileage account fey the quartermaster paying the same 3 cents a mile for the distance for which transportation has been or should have been fur- nished. Travel in the Philippine Archipelago, the Hawaiian Archipelago, and the home waters of the United States is confined to travel in which both termini of the journey are in one of the above places. 1280. Actual expenses only will be paid to officers for sea travel when travel- ing under competent orders, with or without troops, and the amount so paid shall not include any shore expenses at port of embarkation or debarkation. Travel in the Philippine Archipelago, the Hawaiian Archipelago, in the home waters of the United States, and between the United States and Alaska is not regarded as sea travel. An itemized statement of such expenses will be filed with each voucher for payment, using the following as a basis of what is allowable : 1. Fares upon commercial steamers or other usual modes of conveyance by sea, and the cost of transportation for self and baggage, by boat or lighter, to and from vessels when voyages are not begun or ended at docks and a charge in addition to the cost of passage is made therefor. 2. Cost of customary stateroom accommodations on commercial steamers when the same is not included in the charge for passage. 262 QUARTERMASTER CORPS. 3. Hire of special water transportation when there are no regular means of conveyance. 4. Actual cost of meals for the time actually and unavoidably consumed in the voyage when the same is not included in the charge for passage, provided that under such conditions the total charge for meals, including fees to dining- room stewards, does not exceed ?5 per day. Amount of rent of steamer chair, not exceeding $1 for trips of two days or longer on each commercial steamer, and fees to cabin and other stewards not exceeding the following: Six days or less on the Atlantic Ocean, $1.50 a day; 7 to 10 days, not exceeding $10; 11 to 15 days or longer, $1 a day; total, not exceeding $15. On the Pacific Ocean, 15 days or less, $1 a day ; total fees for 15 days or longer, not exceeding $15. To the West Indies, Cuba, Porto Rico, Panama, and to South American ports, $1 a day ; total fees for 15 days or longer, not exceeding $15. From the Orient to the United States, via Suez, not exceeding $25. 5. When transshipping at an intermediate port, as a necessary incident to a continuous voyage, the actual cost at hotels of meals, lodgings, baths, and fees not exceeding 50 cents i)er day to waiters and bellboys, provided the total charge for these items does not exceed $5 per day ; transfer of self and baggage from dock to hotel and from hotel to dock, and fees to porters for handling baggage, not exceeding $2 for each transfer. The officer wiU certify on the itemized state- ment that the account is correct and just, and that the amounts charged therein were actually paid by him. Subvouchers, properly receipted, vsdll be required for items of board and lodging at hotels. When not practicable to obtain such sub- vouchers, the officer will so certify. Charges for baths, where baths are not in- cluded in the charge for lodging, will In every Instance be supported by sub- vouchers. The payment of fees to cabin or other stewards or the rent of steamer chairs when traveling on Government transports is not authorized. Accounts for reimbursement for items not authorized herein will be forwarded to the Quartermaster General of the Army, to be submitted to the Secretary of War for his consideration and approval before payment, but in no case can the total of such expenses as are reasonably included under the heads board and lodg- ing be lawfully reimbursed in excess of $5 per day. (O. A. R., Wo. 12.) 1281. " Traveling with troops " will be regarded as covering all cases of officers included (a) in orders for movement, in whatever manner, of their ap- propriate commands; (&) in orders for movement of detachments, escorts, or stores, which proceed by marches or by transportation belonging to or especially hired for the purpose by the United States, the idea being that in marches the officers should move as do the troops and that where transportation is specially devoted to the movement it is sufficient for all included therafn ; or (c) in orders directing officers to accompany troops. But the term will not be regarded as covering cases of officers included in the movement by railroad, stage, or like established lines of conveyances, of detachments of less than 10 armed or unarmed men^ such as guards and nurses for disabled or insane officers or soldiers, or recruiting parties and escorts for inspectors, quartermasters, and others, or the public funds or property in their charge. (G. A. B., No. 53.) 1282. In the settlement of the mileage account of an officer, distances will be determined and deductions computed over established routes and from mileage tables prepared under the direction of the Secretary of War by the Quarter- master General ; and all payments made by quartermasters on accotint of mile- age will be determined in accordance with distance tables officially promulgated and in use at the date of beginning of the journey. Exception to this rule will be made only when the terms of the order or the impracticability of the short- est usually traveled route compel the officer to take a longer route, in which MILEAGE. ORQ inandLs m vSnAJltVn /' ^''' '""''" *'^ ^^^ ^'^'^ department com- rritory. be issued duty prevents the obtaining of previous"7rd;rsTir;i;;crcartheTave"t 1285. To entitle an officer to mileage, the order for travel must be issued previously to commencement of the journey, except when the ^""TTf '''^"^^'^^- B°tl^ di'^^'^to'-y and confirmatory orders will state the specific duty enjomed. recite that the travel is necessary In the military service and direct the officer to return to his station upon completion of the duty as- signed, If such return is contemplated. Confirmatory orders should recite the authority, oral or otherwise, under which the travel was performed, or state that the urgency was such as to prevent the obtaining of orders in advance. 1286. Coast defense commanders have no authority to issue orders to officers carrying mileage to and from posts within the coast defenses under their command. 1287. Orders will not prescribe lines of travel, except when necessary, and then the reasons will be set forth in the order. 1288. The original order, or certified copy, including Indorsements, wUl accompany each voucher for mileage, and when transportation in kind has been furnished for the whole or for any part of the distance actually traveled, the order must be indorsed by the quartermaster issuing the transportation, show- ing between what points and over what route such transportation was furnished. 1289. When an officer on leave of absence Is ordered to rejoin his station, he will not be entitled to mileage unless the public service requires the perform- ance of duty en route, in which case the order will specify the duty, the necessity therefor, and the points at which the duty will begin and end. 1290. When an officer is ordered, while on leave of absence, to accompany a detachment of recruits and on the completion of this duty to join his station, he returns to a status of leave as soon as relieved from duty with the recruits, and will proceed to join his station without expense to the Government, unless the distance he may have to travel vsrithout troops should be in excess of what it would have been had he not received the order. For such excess distance he is entitled to mileage. 1291. An officer on leave of absence, ordered to temporary duly, involving travel without troops, vnll receive mileage from place of receipt of order to place of performance of duty, and also for the return journey to place of re- ceipt of order, provided he makes such return journey under proper orders. 1292. When the station of an officer is changed while he is on leave of absence, he will on joining the new station be entitled to mileage for the dis- tance to the new station from the place where he received the order directing the change, provided the distance be no greater than from the old to the new 264 QUARTERMASTER CORPS. Station ; if the distance be greater, he will be entitled to mileage for a dlstariec equal to that from the old, to the new station only. 1293. An officer under orders to change station without trooi)s who takes advantage of a leave of absence before he joins his new station is not deprived of the mileage to which he would be entitled had he not availed himself of the leave. The leave of absence merely suspends the execution of the order for change of station, and at the expiration of the leave the officer comes under operation of the order, and in obeying it is entitled to full pay for the time necessary to perform the journey from his old to his new station. 1294. An officer relieved from duty at a station and granted leave of absence before assignment to another, who receives an order of assignment before expiration of leave, is entitled to mileage from the place where he receives the order to his new station. 1295. An officer traveling on duty in connection with public works (not arsenals, military surveys, or explorations) will receive travel allowances from the appropriation for the work, but if there be no appropriation he will receive mileage from the Quartermaster Corps. An officer traveling on duty in connec- tion with the National Guard will receive his travel allowances from the appro- priation for the National Guard. (C A. R., Xo. 51.) 1296. The following are entitled to mileage to their first stations: Officei-s of the Medical Corps, officers of the Medical Beserve Corps, contract surgeons, and acting dental surgeons, from place of appointment ; graduates of the United States Military Academy, from their homes ; officers appointed from the ranks, from place of discharge as enlisted men. 1297. In the following cases mileage is not allowed : In joining for duty upon first appointment to the military service from civil life ; or under the first order after a reinstatment or reappointment ; or under an order to effect a transfer from one company or regiment to anothei', made at the request of the officers transferred ; or insane officers sent under escort to the Government Hospital for the Insane ; or sick officers transfei-red from one hospital to another. 1298. Allowances for travel of officers or enlisted men summoned to appear and testify before committees of Congress, or before the courts of a State or Territory, are not proper charges against the appropriations for the support of the Army. Military persons so summoned must seek reimbursement for their expenses of travel from the committee or court which summoned them. COMMUTATIONS OF QUABTERS. 1299. A commissioned officer on duty at a place where there are no public quarters available is entitled to commutation of quarters. (C. A. E., Nos. S8 and 51.) 1300. Public quarters at a post or station will be considered ;is not being available only when all of the quarters at the post or station are assigned to officers, noncommissioned officers, or others authorized to occupy the same. (C A. R., No. 28.) 1301. An rfficer on duty nt a station where he is properly iu receipt of com- mutation of quarters is entitled to the allowance during ordinary leave on full pay, but not during sick leave. If he is relieved from duty at the station and then avails himself of a leave, his commutation ceases. 1302. An officer does not lose his right to quarters or commutation at his permanent station by a temporary absence on duty. While he continues to STOPPAGES. 265 claim and exercise that right, he can not legally demand quarters or commu- tation thereof at any other station. (O. A. R., No. 4.) 1303. When the command to which an oflScer belongs changes stations during his temporary absence on duty he loses his right to quarters from the time his command leaves its old station and does not acquire a right at the new station until he has reported for duty theteat. He is entitled in the meantime to quar- ters or commutation therefor at the station where he is temporarily serving. 1304. An officer upon being relieved from duty at one station where he was entitled to commutation of quarters, and assigned to another station, is not entitled to such allowance from the date of departure from the old station, in accordance with his relief orders, to the date on which he re'ports in x)erson at the new station. 1305. Officers who, for the convenience of the Government, are directed to await orders for a limited period at a point where there are no public quarters are entitled to commutation ; but an officer ordered to his home to await orders is not entitled to this allowance. An officer ordered to report by letter to a superior does not become entitled to commutation of quarters until he receives a specific order of assignment and reports in person at the station to which assigned. 1306. Officers on duty at colleges where no public quarters are furnished by the United States are entitled to commutation, subject, in respect to retired officers, to such limitations and restrictions "as are prescribed by law. - 1307. The first voucher for commutation of quarters, heat, and light at any station must be accompanied by a copy of the order assigning the officer to duty thereat. In subsequent vouchers the quartermaster will refer by number, etc., to the voucher with which the order is filed, and the final voucher must be ac- companied by the authority for, and must show the date of relief from, such duty. 13071. An enlisted man on duty at a place where there are no public quarters available may, when specifically authorized by the Secretary of War, be paid commutation of quarters at the rate of $15 per month, in lieu of hiring quarters for him at Government expense. (0. A. R., No. 2S.) STOPPAGES. 1308. When an officer has been overpaid, or is indebted to the United States for money or property, or has failed properly to account for the same he hef of L bureau concerned will promptly notify him of the amount of his indebtedness or his failure to account. If after such notice he does not refund, "r mSe Tatisfactory explanation, or take proper action withm a reasonable time the matter will be reported to the Secretary of War. ^ ^ 1309 On the order of the Secretary of War, stoppages may be made agams the p!; of officers for overpayments, illegal disbursement, or loss through fraud the pay ot omcers deficiencies in, loss of, or damage to milStup" n^: piTo^be furnished that the deficiency, loss, or damage T3lTrSe o^^iroroS^pS Will be prepared in the form of ,» date. ™» '™'" " „ When an offlccr-s name Is lorne thereon ao S7„lrS^l;;«?rie .. h,» .h,ch „ no. .n ae«t..nce „th the Stoppage entry made against his name. 266 QUAETEEMASTEB COBPS. 1311. Oyerpayments to an officer will be deducted on the first payment after a notice of stoppage against him is received, even if the pay accounts have been assigned ; the assignee takes the account subject to all risks of stoppage. PAYMENT OF CADETS. 1312. Payment on pay rolls and final accounts vrill be made to the cadets at the United States Military Academy by a quartermaster, who will turn over the net amount of the rolls and accounts to the treasurer of the academy. 1313. Cadets upon being discharged from the service are not entitled to mileage, but to actual expenses to their homes, paid by the quartermaster of the United States Military Academy. 1314. Graduates of the United States Military Academy are entitled to full pay from the date of graduation to the date of their acceptance of and qualifica- tion under their commissions, and during their graduation leave. Should a graduated cadet be discharged after graduation but before being commissioned, he will be entitled to the pay of a cadet after graduation until date of discharge. PAYMENT or ENLISTED MEN. 1315. Troops will be paid every month unless circumstances prevent, in which case the quartermaster charged with the payment will Immediately report the facts, through his department quartermaster, to the Quartermaster General. (C. A. R., No. 10.) 1316. Payments will be made as soon after the close of each month as practicable. The troops at posts where quartermasters are stationed and others in their im- mediate vicinity, to be designated in Instructions issued from the War Depart- ment, will be paid by quartermasters in person. For posts at which payments are not required to be made in person, the quartermaster will transmit by registered mail or express the pay due In one or more of the following ways : 1. By individual check, payable to the order of each man, for the exact amount due. 2. By Inclosing in a separate sealed envelope the exact amount in currency due each soldier, with his name and the amount inclosed marked thereon. Troops in the field will be paid by quartermasters in person, unless Instruc- tions to the contrary are given by proper authority. 1317. So far as relates to disbursements in the Philippine Islands and other places, including Alaska, beyond the boundary of the States composing the Union, and for the convenience of the quartermaster in obtaining ready money, as well as for the accommodation of both oflicers and men at such distant places, a check may be drawn for a portion of the pay due the soldier (or officer), in which case it will be drawn in favor of the soldier (or officer), and the object or purpose will be stated as " part pay for month of ;" if for any sum which the soldier (or officer) may desire in exchange for money after he has been paid, the check will be drawn by the quartermaster in favor of himself and in(^rsed by him payable to the order of the soldier (or officer), and the object or purpose will be stated as " to obtain cash to make payments at a distance from a de- positary." In this case the data on the check stub will be the same as on the check to which it relates, including the name of the soldier (or officer) to whom the check is indorsed by the quartermaster. PAYMEIJ-T OF ENLISTED MEN. 267 1318. Calculations on the pay rolls are made by the quartermaster and copied on the retained roll by the company or detachment commander, who will certify that he witnessed the payment, and will enter thereon the name of the quarter- master and date of payment. 1319. All enlisted men present will receipt one of the triplicate rolls for the amount due to them, except when it is known that payment will be made by check, in which, case signatures will not be required. Witnessing officers will see that the soldiers' signatures correspond with their names as borne on the roll, and when a soldier can not write he will receipt by his mark, which will be witnessed by a commissioned officer, or, in the absence of a commissioned officer, by a contract surgeon. Duplicate copies of the rolls will then be for- warded by the commanding officer to the quartermaster designated to pay the command. 1320. If the payment is not to be made by the quartermaster in person, the commanding officer, when forwarding the rolls, will furnish the quarter- master with the name, rank, etc., of the officer designated to see that the men of the command are paid, and at the same time will state what part of the pay can conveniently be received by the men in individual checks and cashed at or near the post without discount, and whether it is desired that the checks be sent by mail or by express. The remainder of the pay will be sent in envelopes. 1321. The checks, when not sent by mail, and the money for each organiza- tion will be inclosed in separate packages properly marked, and the whole will be consolidated into one package and forwarded by express to the post com- mander. One of each of the company or detachment rolls, extended to show the amounts to be paid, will be returned to the commanding officer and by him sent to the proper company commanders. 1322. The quartermaster, in the presence of at least one witness, will per- sonally place in each envelope the exact amount of money due the soldier, seal the same, see that the name of the soldier and amount inclosed are marked on the envelope, and that the individual checks and the sealed envelopes are in- closed in one sealed package, upon the outside of which will be indorsed— 1. Name of the organization. 2. Number of checks inclosed. 3. Number of sealed envelopes inclosed. 4. Total amount of pay due and remitted, less deposits, $ . a. By check ^ • 6. By currency * ■ 5. Signature of the quartermaster. All the packages containing checks and sealed envelopes for the several or- ganizations, completed and indorsed as above, will be made up into one parcel and sealed by the quartermaster. Upon the outside will be marked the name and address of the post or other command and the names of the subordmate organizations for which pay is therein remitted, and the quartermaster will ^TariirconLTdTtrpackage thus marked and addressed to the com- manding officer will be forwarded by express to its destination. 268 QUARTERMASTER CORPS. The I'oUouing are specimen indorsements : FOK THE C'O^rNf.VXDIXG Officbb, Foet Leavenworth, Kans. Conlents o) this packaoc. The pay, less deposits, due for month of September, 1896, for — N. C. O. and band, 20th Infantry. Co. A, " B, " C, " D, " E, " " " r, " G, " " " H, Troop A, 6th Cavalry. B, " C, " I), Hospital Corps Detachment. Post N. C. Staff. In making up the contents of this pack- age the provisions of paragraph 1322 of the Army Regulations have been compllecl with. John Smith, Major, QKorterma-iter Voiiis. Pay for Troop F, 8th Cavalry, September, 1«96. Contents. 43 sealed envelops .$1, 000. 00 17 checks 563.18 60 remittances 1, 563. 18 ,ToHX Smith, Major, Quartermaster Corps. Private Joseph Thompson, Co. A, 20th Infantry. Contents. $14.75 in currency. 1324. At places beyond express delivery the post commander, when notified by the quartermaster that funds sent by express are to be expected, will send an officer with a suitable escort to receipt for the express package and convey the funds to the post. The name of the officer authorized to receipt for the package will previously have been reported to the quartermaster. 1325. When the express package is received at the post it will be opened in the presence of witnesses by the commanding officer, who will observe the con- dition of the seals, verify the number of company and detachment packages, and see that the marking upon them conforms to these instructions. The sepa- rate sealed packages containing the pay for the several companies and detach- ments will then be delivered to the officer designated to pay the command, for distribution, which will be made as soon as practicable thereafter ; but in no case will sucli distribution be deferred more than 24 hours. The commanding officer will be responsible for the safe-keeping of the packages of funds from the time of their receipt at the post until they have been thus turned over for distribution. 1326. When a company or detachment is paraded for pay, the officer desig- nated to pay the coumiaud ^vill open the package containing the pay for that PAYMENT OP ENLISTED MEN. 269 company or detachment in the presence of at least one witness, who shall be a commissioned officer; or, in the absence of a commissioned officer, the verifica- tion and delivery may be witnessed by a contract surgeon. The number of checks in the package and the number of sealed envelopes purporting to con- tain the pay of individual soldiers will be counted, and the agreement of this number with the record made by the quartermaster upon the wrapper will be verified by both officers, and the amount marked on the sealed envelope as the pay due each man will be verified by comparison with the pay roll before the distribution begins. As each man's name is called the cheek drawn to his order will be given to him, or the envelope bearing the man's name will be opened Its contents verified by comparison with the marks on the envelope or with the pay roll, and the money handed to the soldier by said officer, all in presence und under the personal observation of the officer designated to witness the payment. 1327. Should there be a deficiency it will be so certified on the roll by the paying and verifying officers, and the envelope will be resealed without taking anything from it, and returned to the quartermaster unless the amount should be offset by finding a surplus in another envelope. Should there be an excess the surplus will be returned to the quartermaster. In each case a statement of the facts, with appropriate certificates, will be sent to the quartermaster by the commanding officer. 1328. In case of error or informality a statement of the facts as found to exist will be immediately indorsed upon the envelope or wrapper, as the case may be, and the officers present will certify to the correctness of the statement and lay the same before the commanding officer. 1329. The copy of the pay roll of each organization, which the quartermaster is required by paragraph 1321 to return to the post, will be reforwarded to the quartermaster by the commanding officer without delay after the payment is completed. 1330. Should any error or informality be discovered in a check it will be returned to the quartermaster, who will correct the same and return it with the least practicable delay. The roll will be returned to the quartermaster after payment of the company with a note thereon, verified by the witnessing officer, stating the facts as to the erroneous check. The receipt of the corrected check will be certified by the company commander to the quartermaster, who will file such certificate with the pay rolls. 1331. Should the bank or person who cashes the individual check so desire, the company commander will certify to the correctness of the indorsements made by his men upon their respective checks. 1332. An officer commanding a company or detachment at the time of pay- ment will sign the prescribed certificate as to witnessing the payment, printed on the pay roll, and, when requested to do so by the quartermaster, will certify that the quartermaster's retained roll is a true copy of the roll upon which payment was made. 1333. Should a soldier die or desert in the interval between the signing of the pay roll and the receipt of the money at the post from the quartermaster, the check or cash will be returned immediately to the quartermaster by the com- pany or detachment commander, the cash by express, through the Quartermaster Corps, the check by registered mail ; and a note of explanation stating the fact of nonpayment and return of the check or money will be made on the roll, and verified by the signature of the witnessing officer. The same course will be pursued should a soldier decline to receive his pay, or if for any reason it should be impracticable to deliver it to him in person. When a quartermaster ,270 QUAETEKMASTER COEPS, j has had money returned to him in such cases he will not cancel the signature of the soldier on the roll, but will mark " Not paid " opposite the signature. Should it appear from the pay rolls submitted to the quartermaster that the term of any soldier thereon will expire and he be discharged before the pay rolls and money can be received back at the post, the quartermaster will ignore the man's account and mark " Not paid " to the " Total paid " column, and the company commander in preparing such soldier's final statement will note thereon the date of the last actual payment and not the date of expiration of the muster period for which he has signed the roll. 1334. When companies or detachments of troops are absent from their sta- tions for an indefinite period, and funds for their payment can not be sent by express, the rolls wUl be held and not sent to the quartermaster until the troops reach some point to which it is practicable to send funds. When a com- mand can be mustered and the rolls completed and duly signed by the men, they' can be sent to the quartermaster to be made out and held by him until notified where and when the command can be i:aid. In cases where the rolls have been sent to the quartermaster and the troops are sent away from their station before the receipt of funds for their payment, post commanders will not hold the money at their discretion, but will return the rolls and the money to the quarter- master unless payment can be made within a reasonable time not exceeding three days. 1335. Deposits may be made in the usual manner, the amount to be depos- ited being reported to the quartermaster by letter forwarded with the rolls, the soldier's deposit book being also forwarded therewith. When it is known that the payment will be made by check and the rolls are forwarded without signa- tures, an order directing deposit of the desired amount of pay, signed by the soldier and witnessed by the company or detachment commander, will ac- company the rolls. Should a man desire to deposit a sum greater than his pay his company commander will see that a proper check, postal order, or express order accompanies his deposit book ; if neither check nor order can be obtained the company commander will send the money by registered mail at public ex- pense, verifying the amount and reporting it in a separate communication to the quartermaster. Deposit books will be returned to the company commander properly filled in for attestation. 1336. When a quartermaster has made an Incorrect payment to an enlisted man, he will report the fact to the commander of the company in which the man is mustered, who will note the same on the next pay roll, that it may be cor- rected. 1337. Payments to enlisted men will be made on pay rolls except in those cases where entitled to commutation of quarters or commutation of heat and light when payment will be made on service records. This method of payment may also be used in the cases of enlisted men on detached duty away from their commands at places where there is no commissioned officer available to make the muster for pay, irrespective of whether they are entitled to commutation of quarters, or of heat and light. War Department Form No. 369 will be used In making payment to those enlisted men who are authorized to be paid on their service records. Payments to discharged soldiers will be made by quartermasters under the provisions of paragraphs 1375-1383. (0. A. R., Nos. 28 amd 55.) BEENLISTED AND CONTINUOUS-SEKVICE PAT. 1338. Any enlisted man honorably discharged at the termination of his first or any succeeding enlistment period who reenlists after the expiration of three months shall be regarded as in his second enlistment; and an enlistment shall CEKTIFICATB OF MERIT ADDITIONAL PAY TO ENLISTED MEN. 271 not be regarded as complete until the soldier shall have made good any time lost during an enlistment period by desertion or, in the case of enlistments made on or since May 11, 1908, by unauthorized absences exceeding one day, but any soldier who receives an honorable discharge for the convenience of the Government after having served more than half of his enlistment shall be con- sidered as having served an enlistment period within the meaning of the act of May 11, 1908. Any enlisted man of the Army in active service on May 11, 1908, who had a prior service entitling him to reenlisted pay is entitled to credit for one enlistment period on account of such service regardless of whether on that date he was on a status of " entitled to reenlisted pay " or on a status of a certain year of continuous service. 1339. Any enlisted man honorably discharged at the termination of an enlistment period who reenlists within three months thereafter shall be entitled to continuous-service pay in addition to the initial pay provided by the act of May 11, 1908, as follows : Where the initial pay is $36 or more a month, an in- crease of $4 monthly pay for and during the second enlistment, and a further monthly increase of $4 for and during each subsequent enlistment up to and in- cluding the seventh enlistment. Where the initial pay is $18, $21, $24, or $30, an increase of $3 monthly pay for and during the second enlistment, and a fur- ther monthly increase of $3 for and during each subsequent enlistment up to and including the seventh. Where the initial pay is $15 and $16, an increase of $3 monthly pay for and during the second and third enlistments each, and a fur- ther monthly increase of $1 for and during each subsequent enlistment up to and including the seventh. After the seventh enlistment the pay shall remain as in the seventh enlistment. 1340. Any private, first class, of engineers, ordnance, Quartermaster Corps, Signal Corps, and Medical Department, trumpeters, musicians of Infantry, Artil- lery and engineers, or private of the Quartermaster Corps, Medical Department, Cavalry Artillery, Infantry, and Signal Corps, or private, second class, engineers and ordnance, honorably discharged at the termination of his first enlistment period who reenlists within three months of the date of such discharge, shall, upon reenlistment, receive an amount equal to three months' pay at the rate he was receiving at the time of his discharge. (0. A. R., No. 55.) CERTIFICATE OF MEBIT. 1341. A certificate of merit granted to an enlisted man for distinguished service entitles him, from the date of such service, to additional pay at the rate TfTa a mlh during military service, whether as ^^/^^f;;^ J^^ ^ .^ J^ officer, although such service may not be continuous, and is payable in full to a retired enlisted man. ADDITIONAL PAY TO ENLISTED MEN. 1142 The 20 per cent allowed by law to enlisted men serving bey-ond the >^«>«'"--'-\'';^'l2TZ°l^^^'S>0. o< a.e S,.... Corp. ^ 272 QUABTEEMASTEK. COEPS. additional pay authorized by such act. For troops, serving in the Hawaiian and Philippine Departments, such special orders will be issued by department commanders; for those serving in the Panama Canal Zone, by the commanding general of the troops there; for all others, by the War Department. The fol- lowing conditions will govern : The order will specify the date on which the rating became effective or the duty to participate regularly and frequently in aerial flights commenced, and a subsequent order the date on which such rating or duty terminated. The following notations will be made on the first pay rolls on which the names of such men appear : " Due soldier 50 per cent increase from , 191- ; rated as aviation mechanician , 191-, per paragraph — , S. 0. No. — , W. D., 191- " ; or, " Due soldier 50 per cent increase from , 191- ; on duty requiring him to participate regularly and frequently in aerial flights per paragraph — , S. O. No. — , W. D., 191-." The following notations will be made on subsequent pay rolls as long as such rating and additional pay are authorized : " Due soldier 50 per cent increase, aviation mechanician " ; or " Due soldier 50 per cent increase, aerial flyer." When an enlisted man ceases to be entitled to rating or additional pay, nota- tion of the date when such rating or additional pay terminated and of the num- ber, source, and date of the order announcing such termination will be made on the proper pay roll. When an enlisted man reenlists on the day following the day of his discharge his rating or additional pay will be continued in force as long as his duty war- rants such rating, or additional pay under the terms of the act of July 18, 1914. It is the duty of the commander of an aviation station or aeronautical or- ganization in the field to recommend the issue of orders announcing the com- mencement and termination of rating or additional pay of enlisted men of his command. No enlisted man will be continued on such duty except as authorized by the act of July 18, 1914. (C. A. R., No, 51.) 1343. An enlisted man who qualifies hereafter as gunner in the Coast Artil- lery Corps is entitled to $3 a month if he be a first-class gunner, and $2 a month if he be a second-class gunner, in addition to his pay, from the date of qualification until the next opportunity to requalify, or for one year if no opportwnity for requalification is presented within that year, provided that during that time he does not attain a higher qualification and that he con- tinues to be a member of the Coast Artillery Corps, or reenlists In that branch of the service within three months from date of discharge therefrom. The fact of qualification will be published in coast defense command orders, which will give the date of actual qualification from which the soldier is entitled to the additional pay. The fact of the qualification of Coast Artillery enlisted men not assigned to coast defense commands will be published in department orders. Notation will be made on the pay rolls as follows : The first roll on which the soldier is mustered for and paid the additional pay will give the date of actual qualification, and the number, date, and source of the order in which such qualification Is announced. Subsequent rolls will set forth the date of original qualification, thus : " First-class giinner, May 15, 1915." . In case of failure to requalify during the next regular annual gunners' examination, or within one year, the last roll on which an enlisted man is entitled to additional pay should show the date on which qualification ceases. In case the soldier Is discharged before his qualification has been published in orders, notation will be made on the final statement of the fact and date of qualification and that orders announcing such qualification have not been received. Such notation will authorize the payment of the amount due the ADDITIONAL PAT TO ENLISTED MEN. 273' soldier as additional pay ; and if such additional pay is due for a period prior to the date to which last paid that fact must be shown. Except in case of urgent necessity, a furlough will not be gi-anted to a soldier when his absence would prevent him from being examined at the regular gunners' examination. An enlisted man of the Coast Artillery qualified and rated as a plotter, an observer, first class, a casemate electrician, or a coxswain is entitled to $9 a month, and as a gun pointer, gun commander, observer, second class, chief planter or chief loader, to $7 a month, in addition to his pay. The first pay roll on which a soldier is mustered for additional pay by reason of having been appointed to a rated position will set forth the date of such appointment, and the nvimber, date, and source of the order announcing the same. Subsequent rolls will simply show the rated position held, as " planter," " chief loader," and when disrated the date thereof will be given. If disrated before his appointment expires by limitation, he reverts to a status of being entitled to pay as first-class gunner, and remarks should be entered on the pay roll as herein provided for first-class gunners. No enlisted man shall receive at the same time additional pay for more than one of the classifications named in this paragraph and in paragraphs 1344 and 1345. (C. A. R., Nos. 1, JiS, and 54.) 1341. An enlisted man who qualifies hereafter as gunner in the Field Artil- lery is entitled to $3 a month if he be a first-class gunner, and $2 a month if he be a second-class gunner, in addition to his pay, from the date of qualification until the next opportunity to requalify, or for one year if no opportunity for requalification is presented within that year, provided that during that time he does not attain a higher qualification and that he continues to be a member of the Field Artillery or reenlists in that branch of the service within three months from date of discharge therefrom. The fact of qualification will be published in orders issued by commanders empowered by regulations to issue orders for the appointment and pro- motion of noncommissioned ofiicers. Such orders will give the date of actual qualification from which the soldier is entitled to the additional pay. Notation will be made on the pay rolls as follows : The first roll on which the soldier is mustered for and paid the additional pay will give the date of actual qualification and the number, date, and source of the order in which such qualification is announced. Subsequent rolls will set forth the date of original qualification, thus: "First-class gunner, May 15, 1915." In case of failure to requalify during the next regular annual gunners' exammation, or within one year, the last roll on which an enlisted man is entitled to additional pay should show the date on which qualification ceases. In case the soldier is discharged before his qualification has been published m orders notation will be made on the final statement of the fact and date of qualification, and that orders announcing such qualification have not been re- ceived Such notation will authorize the payment of the amount due the soldier as additional pay; and if such additional pay is due for a period prior to the date to which last paid that fact must be shown. Except in case of urgent necessity, a furlough will not be granted to a soldier -hen his absence would prevent him from being examined at the regular gunners' examination. (O. A. R., Nos. ^3 and 53.) 1S45. An enlisted man who qualifies hereafter as an expert rifleinan is entitled to $5 a month, as a sharpshooter to $3 a month, and as a marksman to Sa month, in addition to his pay, from the date of qualification unti^ the next opportunity to requalify, or for one year if no opportunity for r^ qualification is presented within that year, provided that. during that time 79733°— 18 18 274 QUARTERMASTER CORPS. he does not attain a higher qualification and that he continues to be a member of an organization armed with the rifle, in which qualification is. authorized, or reenlists in such organization within three months from date of discharge therefrom. This provision applies also to a soldier who reenlists within three months after receiving an honorable discharge from the Marine Corps while holding a qualification as expert rifleman, sharpshooter, or marksman therein. All enlisted men of a regiment of Infantry, Cavalry, or Engineers and of a mounted batallion of Engineers, who are required or authorized to fire the known-distance practice under the provisions of paragraph 89, Small Arms Firing Manual, 1913, are members of an organization armed with the rifle within the meaning of this paragraph. The fact of qualification will be published In orders issued by commanders emxwwered by regulations to issue orders for the appointment and promotion of noncommissioned officers, or in exceptional cases by higher commanders, upon receipt of properly authenticated evidence as to qualification ; such orders will give the date of actual qualification from which the soldier is entitled to the additional pay. Notation will be made on the pay rolls as follows : The first roll on which the soldier is mustered for and paid the additional pay will give the date of actual qualification and the number, date, and source of the order in which such qualification is announced. Subsequent rolls will set forth the date of original qualification, thus : " Expert rifleman, May 15, 1915." In case of failure to requalify during the next regular season or within one year, the last roll on which an enlisted man is entitled to additional pay should show the date on which qualification ceases. Qualification can not be made in the Coast Artillery Corps nor in bands of any arm. In case the soldier is discharged before his qualification has been published In orders, notation will be made on the final statement of the fact and date of qualification and that orders announcing such qualification have not been re- ceived. Such notation will authorize the payment of the amount due the soldier as additional pay ; and if such additional pay is due for a period prior to the date to which last paid, that fact must be shown. ^ Except in case of urgent necessity, a furlough will not be granted to a soldier during the regular season of target practice. (0. A. R., Nos. 20, JfS, and .^7.) 1345^. Enlisted men, Philippine Scouts, qualifying as expert riflemen, are entitled to $1.50 a month, those qualifying as sharpshooters to $1 a month, and those qualifying as marksmen to $0.50 a month, in addition to their pay, for the same periods and subject to the same conditions prescribed In para- graph 1345 for additional pay of enlisted members of other organizations armed with the rifle in which qualification Is authorized. (C A. R., No. 37.) 1346. In organizations in which the grade of mess sergeant is created by the act of Congress approved June 3, 1916, the men holding the grade of mess sergeant are entitled only to pay established for that grade. The arms of the service for which the act cited makes provision for mess sergeants are not entitled to have additional mess sergeants assigned or detailed thereto. In the arms of the service for which the grade of mess sergeant is not pro- vided men detailed as mess sergeants are entitled to the pay of the grades actually held and $6 per month additional pay under the act of Congress ap- proved May 11, 1908. Detail of a mess sergeant is authorized. In addition, for each regularly established separate detachment mess of enlisted men, whether ALLOTMENTS. 275 Of the line or stafC corps, but no mess sergeant will be detailed for a detach- ment when the number of men habitually messed is less than 25, except upon special authority of the Secretary of War in each case. When the pay roll on which a soldier is mustered for additional pay as mess sergeant for a separate detachment mess does not on its face show that the n-jmber messed is 25 or more, no payment will be made of additional pay as mess sergeant unless the roll contains notation that the number of men habitually messed is not less than 25 or that the mess sergeant has been specially authorized by the Secre- tary of War. Mess sergeants in organizations not having the grade of mess sergeant will be detailed by the officer in immediate command of the company or detachment. Mess sergeants may be detailed from the grade of sergeant, first class, Medical Department, but only by special authority of the Surgeon General in each Individual case, granted after consideration of evidence show- ing that such detail is necessary and for the best interests of the service. When organizations not having the grade of mess sergeant or detachments are merged Into a general mess, mess sergeants will not be detailed. (C. A. R., No. SI.) ALLOTMENTS. 1347. Every enlisted man absent on distant duty shall be allowed to allot such portion of his pay as he may desire for the support of his family or rela- tives, for his own savings, or for any other purpose, excepting that of obtain- ing an advance on his pay ; but the allotment privileges to soldiers serving within the boundaries of the United States will be limited to the support of their families and relatives. 134S. As soon as possible after the receipt of an order for distant duty the commanding officers of troops, batteries, companies, bands, noncommissioned staff. Signal Corps, or Medical Department, or any other detachments affected by such order will prepare allotments on the prescribed blanks for all men of their organizations who desire to make the same. When executed these allotments will be forwarded by registered mail to the Quartermaster General, who will make acknowledgment thereof to the respective commanding officers, stating the names of the grantors and the amounts and periods of the allot- ments. (0. A. R., No. 55.) 1349. All allotments shall be executed in duplicate and witnessed by the respective commanding officers specified in paragraph 1348, one copy to be re- tained by said commanding officers and the other to be forwarded immediately to the Quartermaster General. Before witnessing an allotment such com- manding officer shall, however, satisfy himself that the allotment is not made for the purpose of obtaining an advance on the soldlfer's pay. When a bank is designated as allottee, the immediate commanding officer of the grantor shall furnish the bank, at the same time that he furnishes the allotment roll to the Quartermaster General, with the signature of the grantor, and also inform the bank of the amount and period of allotment. Such commanding ofiicer shall also, if possible, satisfy himself that the bank named has an existence. An allotment shall be made payable on the last day of each month and foK a stated period. (0. A. R., No. 10.) 1350. On the death, discharge, or desertion of a soldier who has an allot- ment running, the allotment ceases. In such cases the Immediate commanding officer will report as expeditiously as possible to the Quartermaster General, or in the Philippine and Hawaiian Departments to the department adjutants of those departments, the names of grantors whose allotments thus cease. In the Philippine and Hawaiian Departments, except in the case of deaths 276 QUARTEBMASTEE COBPS. which are otherwise reported, the department commanders will send by cable notification to Tlie Adjutant General of the Army, who will at once notify the Quartermaster General. In case of forfeiture by sentence of a court-martial the stoppage of pay to meet the allotment, being a reimbursement to the United States of the iimount paid the allottee, will take precedence of the forfeiture ; when, however, the forfeiture is such that possibly it can not be stopped in full prior to the discharge of the soldier if the allotment is con- tinued, the immediate commanding officer will report at once by mail to the Quartermaster General requesting a discontinuance of the allotment. Similar action will be taken when, due to reduction, to stoppages for clothing over- drawn, to continued misconduct, or to any reason, the soldier's available pay will not warrant the continuance of the allotment. The Quartermaster €teneral wiU notify a soldier's immediate commanding officer of the fact of discontinu- ance of payment to the allottee and the last month's allotment paid. The stoppage of pay to meet the allotment will be continued until this notice is received, and the soldier will be credited on the next roll with any amount withheld in excess of amount paid the allottee. (C A. R., No. 10.) 1351. When the grantor of an allotment desires it discontinued prior to the expiration of the period for which it was granted, the commanding officers specified' in paragraph 1348 will prepare and transmit to the Quartermaster General, on the prescribed blank, the soldier's request for such discontinuance. This request must specify the month for which the last payment is to be made, but the stoppage of pay to meet the allotment should be continued until receipt from the office of the Quartermaster General of acknowledgment of request for discontinuance. If on receipt of the request for discontinuance of an allotment payment thereon has been made beyond the month specified, the Quartermaster General, in making acknowledgment, will state the date to which the allotment has been paid and direct the repayment to the soldier of any pay deducted in excess of the payments on the allotment. When an allotment is to run for the full period for which granted, no request for discontinuance or notice of the expiration is necessary. (C. A. R., No. 10.) 1362. Payment to allottees shall be made by one or more quartermasters, to be designated by the Quartermaster General. Said disbursing officer shall, before making payment of such allotment, use due diligence in obtaining and making use of aU information that may have been received in the War Department relative to the grantors of the allotments. (C A. R., No. 10.) 1353. If an erroneous payment is made because of the failure of an officer responsible for such report to report, in the manner prescribed by the Secre- tary of War, the death of the grantor, or any fact which renders the allotment not payable, then the amount of such erroneous payment shall be collected by the Quartermaster General from the officer who fails to make such report, if such collection is practicable. (C. A. R., No. 10.) 1354. All allotments of pay of enlisted men that have been or shall be paid to the designated allottees, after the expiration of one month subsequent to the month in which said allotments accrued, shall pass to the credit of the disburs- ing officer who has made or shall make such payment. 1355. In case of the capture by the enemy of soldiers who have made allot- ments which may expire after their capture, the monthly payments of the same shall be continued until otherwise ordered by the Secretary of War. 1356. In case of the transfer of a soldier whose period of allotment still continues, all the data respecting said allotments shall be entered on his serv- ice record, and the commanding officer of the troop, battery, or company from which he is transferred shall at once report such transfer to the Quartermas- ter General. (C A. B., Nos. 10 and 55.) DEPOSITS. 277 /l^^' Ti"^ '^^*^' ^^'■^°'^' ^""^ ''™^"'^' o^ allotment shall be entered as a part of the soldiers record and also noted on each pay roll during the period of allotment. The discontinuance of an allotment shall be similarly entered and noted. 1358. When the grantor of an allotment is soon entitled to discharge and is so much in debt to the United States that it wUl require the whole or a part of his allotted pay to cancel his obligation, this allotment shall be terminated in the prescribed manner. 1359. Upon receiving information of the death of any person to whom an allotment is payable by him, the quartermaster properly designated to pay this allotment shall at once report this fact to the Quartermaster General, who shall forthwith inform the grantor's immediate commanding officer (O A 7? No. 10.) ■ \ . ^. a., 1360. When an allotment is discontinued, at the request of the person mak- ing it, before the expiration of the term for which it is granted, it shall not be renewed within that term except by permission of the regimental or post com- mander, on satisfactory reasons being given for such discontinuance and re- newal. DEPOSITS. 1861. An enlisted man, not on the retired list, may deposit his savings with any quartermaster in sums of not less than $5 ; the same to remain so deposited until final payment on discharge or until furloughed to the reserve. The quar- termaster will furnish to each depositor a book in which each deposit, with the name of the depositor, date, place, and amount, in words and figures, will be entered in the form of a certificate, signed by the quartermaster and company commander. The transfer, pledge, or sale of a deposit book is prohibited. Each company or detachment commander will keep in the soldier's service record an account of every deposit made by the soldier, and after each regular payment he will forward directly to the Quartermaster General a list of the names of the depositors, showing in each case the date, place, and amount of deposit and the name of the quartermaster who received it. Each report will be restricted to and will include only deposits with one quartermaster on a given date. These lists before transmittal will be examined and compared with the service record and the deposit book of the soldier, and attesting officers will see that the names are identical with the names as borne on the rolls. Should a soldier who has made a deposit be transferred or desert, the fact will be promptly reported directly to the Quartermaster General by the officer in command of the company or detachment to which he belongs. There is no objec- tion to deposits being made by Indian and Philippine scouts and by enlisted men of the Porto Kico Regiment of Infantry. (O. A. R., Nos. 10 and 55.) 1362. On the discharge of a soldier or on his being furloughed to the reserve, the date and amount, in words and fig-ures, of each of his deposits will be entered upon his final statement, and his deposit book will be taken up by the quarter- master who pays him and filed with the voucher of payment. In case deposits are forfeited by desertion, the amounts of the same will be entered on the final statements under the head " Remarks," and the facts and authority for such forfeiture given. 1363. Before delivering final statements upon which deposits are credited, the officer signing them will ascertain whether the soldier has the deposit book ; and, if so, instruct him to present it to the quartermaster. Should he claim to have lost it, the officer will cause his affidavit to that effect to be taken before he leaves the post and attached to the statement. The affidavit will clearly 278 QUABTERMASTEK CORPS. state the circumstances attending loss of the book and show that the soldier haa not sold or assigned it. Upon this evidence the quartermaster may pay and the responsibility for the correctness of amounts credited on the statement will rest with the officer certifying them. 1364. Quartermasters will not pay deposits except on final statements. When they are not paid the soldier should forward his deposit book or the evidence referred to in the preceding paragraph to the Quartermaster General. Enlisted men should be informed of the importance of preserving deposit books as the only certain means of insuring prompt repayment. {C. A. R., No. 10.) 1365. A soldier must draw his deposit when he is discharged or furloughed to the reserve. He can then renew it after reenlistment, and will be entitled to interest thereon from the date of such renewal. Failure to present the final statements leaves the money without interest until it is drawn and again deposited. A discharged soldier who desires, after reenlistment, to have all or a part of the money due to him on discharge deposited under the provisions of paragraph 1361, must furnish to the quartermaster who makes payment on his final statement a written order requesting that such part of the amount due thereon, as he may desire so deposited, be transferred to his new account. The quartermaster will file this order with the paid final statement as authority for this disposition of the money due to the soldier. 1366. For any sum of not less than $5 deposited for the period of six months or longer the soldier, when discharged or furloughed to the reserve, will be paid interest at the rate of 4 per cent per annum to date of discharge. 1367. On the death of a soldier each deposit, with amount, date, place, and quartermaster with whom deposited, will be noted in the inventory of his effects and on the accompanying final statement with which his deposit book will be filed. 1368. Both deposits and interest will be forfeited by desertion, but for- feiture of them can not be imposed by sentence of a court-martial. They are exempt from liability (a) for debts due to individuals within the meaning of section 2, paragraph 1370, (&) to meet a sentence of a court- martial imposing forfeiture of pay or allowances, and (c) for the soldier's private debts. Deposits and interest are not exempt from liability for debts due to the United States. (0. A. B., No. 4I.) 1369. If an enlisted man deposits money with the company or post com- mander, the same to be applied for purchase of his discharge, the ofiicer will immediately upon receipt of order for discharge of the man forward the money to a quartermaster for deposit and send to the Quartermaster General the usual notification of deposit. On the return of the deposit book by the quartermaster the soldier will be discharged and a final statement furnished to him, with notation of the deposit thereon, thus showing on its face the total credit of the soldier, which must in every case be sufficient to cover all indebtedness to the United States. (0. A. B., No. 10.) rOKFEITURES AND DEDUCTIONS. 1370. Authorized stoppages will be entered on the pay rolls and deducted at times of payment in the following order : 1. Reimbursements to the United States. 2. Reimbursements to individuals, as the quartermaster or post exchange, for instance. 3. Forfeitures for desertion and fines. PAY OF DESERTEES. 279 Articles of camp and garrison equipage must be cliarged on the pay rolls as such, and other articles of quartermaster stores or property must be enumer- ated and the price stated in the column of " Remarks " in order that the proper appropriation may be credited therewith. Notwithstanding a sentence contemplates payment of a stated sum to a soldier upon his release from confinement, it can not be made unless there is a sufficient balance to his credit after all authorized stoppages are deducted. (0. A. R., No. 55.) 18704. A. sentence imposing forfeiture of a part of pay for a month or number of months means the forfeiture of the part of the pay, as specified, for each month. If the sentence does not indicate any particular date when the forfeiture shall commence, it will begin with the date from which pay has accrued since last payment ; except that when stoppages of the nature specified in sections 1 and 2 of paragraph 1370 stand against the soldier, the forfeiture will not begin until such stoppages have been satisfied. The rate of soldier's pay during the period over which the forfeiture is actually applied will govern the rate of the forfeiture. (C A. B., No. 55.) 1371. Officers and enlisted men in arrest and confinement by the civil au- thorities will receive no pay for the time of such absence ; if released without trial, or after trial and acquittal, their right to pay for the time of such absence is restored. A soldier awaiting result of trial will not be paid before the result is known. (O. A. R., No. 55.) PAT OF DESEETEES. (See Article XIX.) 1872. An 'enlisted man charged with desertion will not receive pay until his offense has been investigated by a court-martial, or he has been restored tn duty without trial, or the charge has been set aside as having been erroneously made. 1378. Every deserter forfeits all pay and allowances due at the date of desertion. Such forfeited pay and aUowances will be used to satisfy authorized stoppages due the United States at the date of desertion, and only the amount of such stoppages in excess of such forfeited pay and allowances will be col- lected from pay accruing after date of return to military control. The organ- ization commander will enter the following data on the first pay roll after the return of a soldier to military control : A statement of his account at date of desertion a statement of his new account opened after return to military con- trol (the account at date of desertion and the account since return to military control being stated separately), the place and date of return to military con- trol and whether he surrendered or was apprehended. On subsequent rolls, until the result of the trial has been published or the case otherwise disposed of, will appear the remark, "Awaiting trial (or result of trial) for desertion ; L; statement of account see pay roll for , 191-." On the next roll f o - lowing the final disposition of the case, and on subsequent rolls until paid, will appear a complete statement of the soldier's account, as indicated above includ- ing the number, date, and source of the order announcing his return to duty or the eLuTf th; trial If, while absent in desertion, he fraudulently en isted in another organization, the date to which last paid in such fraudulent enlistment and an stages due the United States at date of surrender or apprehension will be stated. 280 QUAETEBMASTEB COEPS. 1371. No settlement of the pay account of any enlisted man will be made on the pay rolls until sufficient pay shall have accrued to satisfy all authorized stoppages and pay a balance to the soldier. PAYMENT OF DISCHARGED SOLDIEES. (See Article XXI.) 1375. Discharged soldiers and those furloughed to the reserve will be paid on final statements prepared in duplicate and furnished to them by their com- pany or detachment commanders. Payment will be made only on presentation of both copies. Except when notified as prescribed in paragraph 155 quarter- masters will not pay discharged soldiers and those furloughed to the reserve unless otherwise satisfied of the genuineness of the discharge papers and the identity of the claimants. 1376. Upon payment of the final statement of a soldier discharged or fur- loughed to the reserve, the quartermaster over his signature will indorse on the discharge or on the certificate of furlough to the reserve the amount paid, and wiU specify in the indorsement any item for which payment has not been made in full. This action will not be required when the final statement has been transferred in conformity with the provisions of paragraph 1383. The day of enlistment and the day of discharge or of furlough to the reserve will both be included in reckoning pay. (C. A. R., Nos. J^O and 55.) 1377. QuartCiTnasters or other officers to whom a soldier who has been discharged or furloughed to the reserve reports the loss or nonreceipt by him of final statement to which he is entitled will report the fact to the Quarter- master General, with any evidence the soldier furnishes them in the matter. The Quartermaster General will transmit the evidence to the Auditor for the War Department. «7. A. R., No. 10.) 1378. When an enlisted man is discharged from the service, except by way of punishment for an offense, or is furloughed to the reserve, he shall receive 3J cents a mile from the place of his discharge or furlough to the place of his acceptance for enlistment: Provided, That for sea travel on discharge or fur- lough, transportation and subsistence only shall be furnished to enlisted men : And provided further, That for the purpose of determining allowances for all travel of enlisted men on discharge or furlough, travel in the Philippine Archi- pelago, the Hawaiian Archipelago, the home waters of the United States, and between the United States and Alaska shall not be regarded as sea travel, but shall be paid for at the rates established by law for land travel within the boundaries of the United States. When an enlisted man who was enrolled or mustered into the service of the United States is discharged, except by way of punishment for an offense, he shall receive the travel allowances stated above from the place of his dis- charge to the place of his enrollment or original muster into the service, at his option. (C. A. R., Nos. 39 and 51.) 1379. Quartermasters when paying final statements of soldiers discharged or furloughed to the reserve under foregoing conditions will include in such payments travel allowances from station to port of embarkation and from port of arrival in the United States to place of acceptance for enlistment or enroll- ment. (O. A. R., No. 39.) 1380. An enlisted man discharged for minority concealed at enlistment, or for other cause involving fraud on his part in the enlistment, is not entitled to pay and allowances, including those for travel, and will not receive a final MISCELLANEOUS. 281 Statement unless deposits are due him, in which case a final statement, con- taining a full statement of the soldier's accounts at date of discharge will be furnished. 1381. A soldier held in military custody under sentence of court-martial beyond his term of enlistment (except where dishonorable discharge is im- posed ) will be furnished with a final statement showing the actual date of dis- charge and the cause of detention. A soldier in the hands of civil authorities awaiting trial should, at the expiration of his term of sei:vice, be furnished with his discharge certificate and a final statement containing all necessary data for the quartermaster, giving date and cause of arrest and remarks "Not en- titled to pay or clothing since date of arrest nor to travel pay unless acquitted or released without trial." 1382. Recruits are entitled to pay and allowances when discharged on cer- tificates of disability. When discharged for any cause involving fraud on their part at enlistment, paragraph 1380 will govern. 1383. The transfer by an enlisted man of a claim for pay due on his final statement will be recognized only when made after discharge, or on being fur- loughed to the reserve, in writing, indorsed on the final statement, signed by the soldier, and witnessed by a commissioned officer or by some other reputable person known to the quartermaster. The person witnessing the transfer must indorse on the discharge, or on the certificate of furlough to the reserve the fact of transfer of the final statement, and on the final statement the fact that such indorsement has been made on the dischai;ge or on the certificate of furlough to the reserve. (O. A. B., Nos. J/O and 55.) MISCELLANEOUS. 1384. An officer of the Quartermaster Corps will not give a receipt, except in the following cases: 1. For the transfer of money when the transfer is of cash. 2. For the money of a deceased soldier, deserter, or an escaped military prisoner. 3. For a stoppage authorized by the Secretary of War, for which the Quar- termaster General may direct a receipt to be given. 4. For a refundment made by an officer on account of an overpayment made by a quartermaster. A separate receipt will be given in each individual case. In all other cases the person turning over or refunding money will deposit it in some authorized public depositary or transfer it to a disbursing officer of the department to which the money belongs. {C. A. R., No. 10.) 1385 When any officer or enlisted man on the active list of the Army dies from wounds or disease not the result of his own misconduct, his widow, or some other person duly designate^ by him, is entitled to receive, through the Quartermaster Corps, an amount equal to six months' pay at the rate such officer or enlisted man was receiving pay at the date of his death, less $75 m the case of each officer and $35 in the case of each enlisted man. Any residue of the sums thus reserved, after the expenses of interment have been met there- from will be paid subsequently to the same beneficiary. Each officer and e™Sed man in service on the active list will file on the form furnished for that purpose by The Adjutant General of the Army the full name and address ofthnerson^ whom he wishes the half year's salary paid in the event o death, and he may also file on the said form the full name and address of the person to whom he wishes the half year's salary paid in the event of the death 282 MEDICAL DEPAKTMENT. of the first named beneficiary prior to tlie date of payment of the gratuity. The signature in every case will be witnessed and attested as required by the printed notes on the form. Should an officer or enlisted man desire to change a beneficiary previously designated by him and to make a new designation, he may do this by filling up and forwarding to The Adjutant General of the Army another blank of the prescribed form, properly signed, witnessed, and attested. All officers when first appointed and all recruits, at the time of their enlist- ment, will make the prescribed designation which, for an officer, will be for- warded to The Adjutant General of the Army with the officer's letter accepting his commission, and for a recruit will be forwarded together with the recruit's enlistment paper to The Adjutant General of the Army, who will transmit all designations thus received to the Quartermaster General, in whose office all designations of beneficiaries under this regulation will be filed permanently. Designations duly made and filed will continue to be valid and sufficient, unless revoked as herein provided, as long as the officers or enlisted men making the designations continue upon the active list of the Army. (O. A. B., No. 10.) ARTICLE LXXIV. Medical Depabtment. Note. — Regulations for the government of the Medical Department, prepared and pub- lished under the authority of the Secretary of War, are distributed to its officers by the Surgeon General. Only such regulations are herein given as are general in their nature or afCect other branches of the service. GENEEAL PEOVISIONS. 1386. The Medical Department is charged with the duty of investigating the sanitary condition of the Army and making recommendations in reference thereto, of advising with reference to the location of permanent camps and posts, the adoption of systems of water supply and purification, and the dis- posal of wastes, with the duty of caring for the sick and wounded, making physical examinations of officers and enlisted men, the management and control of military hospitals, the recruitment, instruction, and control of the enlisted force of the Medical Department and of the Nurse Corps, and furnishing all medical and hospital supplies except for public animals. (C. A. R., No. 55.) 1387. The surgeon of every post or command, under the direction of the commanding officer, will supervise its hygiene and recommend such measures as he may deem necessary to prevent or diminish disease. He will examine, at least once a month, the sanitary condition of the public buildings and grounds, the drainage, the sewerage, the condition of all sanitary appliances, including incinerators, sterilizers, filters, and odorless excavators, the amount and pota- bility of the water supply, the character and cooking of the food, including the quality of the milk and the condition of the dairies from which it is obtained, and the character and causes of prevailing diseases and measures taken to pre- vent them. Immediately after such examination he will report thereon in writing to the commanding officer, noting also in the report the dates on which the prescribed physical inspections of the various organizations of the command were made, the number of new cases of venereal disease which appeared in the command, the ratio of the same per 1,000 of strength, and the number of venereal phophylactic treatments given, with such recommendations as he may deem proper. The commanding officer will forward the report, through military chan- nels, to The Adjutant General of the Army, noting thereon his views and -the action taken by him ; and should he have deemed the action recommended by the surgeon impracticable or undesirable, he will state fully his objections. The APPOINTMENTS. 283 commanding officer will furnish the surgeon with a copy of his indorsement for- warding the report. Special sanitary reports will take the same course as the regular monthly sanitary reports. As far as practicable, intermediate com- manders will correct sanitary defects, noting their action by indorsement. Sanitary inspections of a general hospital or other establishment or organiza- tion of the Medical Department will be made under the direction of the medical officer in command, by a junior medical officer assigned to that duty, who will report in writing to the commanding officer. The latter will forward the reports through military channels to the Surgeon General, indicating his action by indorsement thereon. The commanding officer will keep an appropriate record of the reports and his indorsements. (0. A. R., No. 25.) APPOINTMENTS. 1388. No person shall receive an appointment as first lieutenant in the Medical Corps unless he shall have been examined and approved by an Army medical board consisting of not less than three officers of the Medical Corps designated by the Secretary of War; and no officer of the Medical Corps below the rank of lieutenant colonel shall be promoted therein until he shall have passed an examination before an Army medical board consisting of not less than three officers of the Medical Corps designated as aforesaid, unless in ease of an officer below the rank of major a board of review shall have pro- nounced him qualified for promotion after an adverse finding by an examining board. Any major of the Medical Corps on the active list of the Army who, at his first examination for promotion to the grade of lieutenant colonel in said corps, is found disqualified for such promotion for any reason other than physical disability incurred in the line of duty, will be suspended from pro- motion, and his right thereto will pass successively to such officers next below him in rank in said corps as may become eligible to promotion under existing law during the period of his suspension; and any major of the Medical Corps suspended from promotion, as hereinbefore provided, will be reexamined as soon as practicable after the expiration of one year from the date of the com- pletion of the examination that resulted in his suspension ; and if on such reex- amination he is found qualified for promotion, he will again become eligible thereto ; but if he is found disqualified by reason of physical disability incurred in the line of duty, he will be retired with the rank to which his seniority entitles him to be promoted ; and if he is not found disqualified by reason of such physical disability, but is found disqualified for promotion for any other reason, he will be retired without promotioa 1389. Officers of the Medical Reserve Corps who apply for appointment in the Medical Corps of the Army may, upon the recommendation of the Surgeon General, be placed on active duty by the Secretary of War and ordered to the Army Medical School for instruction and further examination to determine their fitness for commission in the Medical Corps, but this will apply only to officers who have passed the preliminary examination for the Medical Corps. An officer of the Medical Reserve Corps ordered to active duty in the service of the United States for purposes other than that of attending the Army Medical School with a view to appointment in the Medical Corps of the Army will be subjected to a critical physical examination at the beginning of such active duty and again at the termination thereof. A complete record of both examinations will be filed in the Surgeon General's office as a part of the active service record of the officer These examinations may be waived by the Surgeon General in the case of officers of the Medical Reserve Corps called into active service for temporary duty, (0, A. R„ Nq, 31<) 284 MEDICAL DEPAKTMENT. CONTRACT SIIEGEONS, ACTING DENTAL STIEGEONS. 1390. In emergencies civilian physicians may be employed as contract sur- geons luider contracts entered into by the Surgeon General of the Army with the approval of the Secretary of War. They are entitled to mileage, and when on duty at a post or station where quarters in kind are provided by the United States they will be entitled to the quarters allowed by regulation to a first lieutenant, including heat and light in kind. They are not entitled to the 10 per cent increase of pay for foreign service, nor to commutation of quarters, heat, or light. (C. A. R., Nos. 12 and 51.) 1391. Contract surgeons and acting dental surgeons are entitled to the same protection in their positions and the same respect and obedience from enlisted men as commissioned officers. 1392. Whenever the contract of a physician or dentist is annulled, the fact and date of annulment will be noted in writing on his contract, and when ordered to his home for annulment of contract, such fact will also be noted thereon by the officer under whose orders he may at the time be serving. 1393. Contract surgeons, on availing themselves of leaves of absence, must submit their contracts to the commanding officer of the post or station where serving, who will indorse thereon the date of commencement and duration of leave. The actual date of their rejoining from leave should also be noted on contract on return to post or station. 1394. The services rendered by a contract surgeon are not restricted to those of a purely professional character ; on the contrary, his eligibility for duty is, the same as that of a first lieutenant of the Medical Corps, except in so far as it is limited by the fact that he is not a commissioned officer. A contract surgeon, though not eligible for detail on courts-martial, may prefer charges Against enlisted men and may be detailed on councils of administration, and as post treasurer, etc. ; he may also witness payments to enlisted men under the provisions of paragraphs 1315 to 1337. THE DENTAL COSPS. 1395. Contracts with acting dental surgeons will be made for three years, but may be annulled at any time by the commanding general of a department, or of a mobilized division after official investigation, for conduct to the preju- dice of good order and military discipline, or by the Surgeon General when in his opinion a termination of the contract would be in the interests of the service. 1396. Dental surgeons and acting dental surgeons are a part of the Medical Department, and will be assigned to duty in accordance with the recommenda- tions of the Surgeon General or the department or division surgeon. A dental surgeon or an acting dental surgeon on duty with a military com- mand is subordinate to the senior medical officer of the command and under his immediate control. 1397. When a dental surgeon or an acting dental surgeon reports for duty at a post the surgeon will assign a room in the hospital to him for use as an operating room, if one is available. If no room in the hospital Is available, the post commander will provide a suitable operating room in one of the other post buildings. Each dental surgeon or acting dental surgeon will ordinarily be allowed one enlisted man as an assistant, who will be detailed from the Medical Department, and whose duty it will be to assist the dentist in his operations, in caring for THE ENLISTED FOECE OP MEDICAL DEPARTMENT. 285 the instruments and other public property, in keeping the records, and in the performance of such other official work pertaining to this position as he may be directed by the proper authority to do. An enlisted man of the Medical Department detailed as dentist's assistant and stationed in a city or town will be provided with a suitable room as quarters by the Quartermaster Corps, but when stationed at a post, in camp, or in the field he will be attached to the detachment of the Medical Department. (0. A. R., No. 55.) 1398. Members of the Dental Corps will serve free of charge all those enti- tled to free medical treatment by medical officers. 1399. Members of the Dental Corps will operate upon those entitled to their services. Materials issued by the Crovernment will be expended only in opera- tions upon those entitled to free services. Emergency work for officers and en- listed men will have precedence at all times over other work. 1400. Members of the Dental Corps will not perform any operation upon officers or enlisted men of the Army or prescribe medicines for them, other than those necessary for the treatment of the teeth and gums. This prohibition does not apply to cases of emergency, where no medical officer is within reach, and where a dental surgeon or an acting dental surgeon is able to render necessary surgical assistance to meet the immediate emergency. 14:01. For plate work or for the filling of teeth of enlisted men the materials supplied by the Government will be used and no other, and members of the Dental Corps are forbidden to enter into any financial agreement with enlisted men involving an obligation for payment for silver, platinum, or gold used for filling cavities in teeth, for the construction of bridge work, for the fitting of crowns, the making of artificial dentures, or other dental work. Beyond the territorial limits of the United States, post commanders, upon receipt of written application by enlisted men, may authorize such enlisted men to receive from members of the Dental Corps any class of dental treatment which the best in- terests of the service may require. In such cases a deposit sufficient to cover the proper expenses involved will be made with the post commander by an enlisted man concerned when the application is made. ' 1402. Enlisted men requiring the services of the dentist at an hour pre- scribed by the commanding officer will be conducted to the designated place under a noncommissioned officer, who will take with him and hand to the dentist a list of those reporting for treatment. 1*1:03. All cases requiring treatment involving future appointment will be so noted, and the others will be marked according to the circumstances, as " Treat- ment unnecessary," "Further treatment unnecessary," "Should be sent to sur°-eon " etc. When future treatment is necessary, the dentist will, in writing, using the form provided therefor, request the adjutant to direct the soldier to report for treatment at a time designated. THE ENLISTED FOEOE OF THE MEDICAL DEPABTMENT. 1404 The enlisted men of the Medical Department will perform all necessary hospital services in garrison, camp, or field (including ambulance service) under such officers of the Medical Department and assistants as may be de- tailed for that duty. (O. A. B., No. ^6.) 1405 Master hospital sergeants are appointed by the Secretary of War on the recommendation of the Surgeon General, and hospital sergeants sergeants first class, and sergeants are appointed by the Surgeon General, all after having passed a satisfactory examination as hereinafter prescribed. Corporals lance corporals and privates first class are appointed on the recommendation of 286 MEDICAL DEPABTMENT. their detachment or organization commanders — (1) by the Surgeon General, if serving with troops under the immediate supervision of the War Departr ment; (2) by the department surgeon, or by the division surgeon of a mobilized division, if serving with departmental or divisional troops. Cooks are ap^ pointed by the commanding officer of a company or detachment of the Medical Department in such numbers as are allotted to the company or detachment by the Surgeon General or by the department or division surgeon by authority of the Surgeon General. Master hospital sergeants, hospital sergeants, sergeants, first class, and ser- geants are given warrants signed by the Surgeon General. Corporals are given warrants signed by the officer who appoints them. Ordinarily a warrant issued to a noncommissioned officer of the Medical Department confers grade under all assignments ; but a limited warrant as sergeant, first class, sergeant, or corporal may be issued conferring grade for service only with a field hospital company, ambulance company, or company of instruction designated therein. Upon relief from assignment to such company a limited warrant ceases and determines, and the noncommissioned officer holding the same reverts to his previous grade in the Medical Department. No person shall be designated for examination for appointment as master hospital sergeant, hospital sergeant, or sergeant, first "class, except by written authority of the Surgeon General ; nor for examination for appointment as ser- geant except by written authority of the Surgeon General, if serving with troops under the immediate supervision of the War Department, or of the department surgeon or the division surgeon of a mobilized division, if serving with departmental or divisional troops. A candidate for appointment as mas- ter hospital sergeant must have served not less than 12 months as hospital sergeant or sergeant, first class, Medical Department, or as sergeant, first class, in the Hospital Corps. A candidate for appointment as hospital ser- geant must have served not less than 12 months as sergeant, first class, Medical Department, or sergeant, first class. Hospital Corps. A candidate for appoint- ment as sergeant, first class, must have served not less than 12 months as ser- geant, Medical Department, or sergeant. Hospital Corps. The examination of a candidate for appointment as master hospital sergeant, hospital sergeant, sergeant, first class, or sergeant will be conducted by a board of one or more medical officers at the station where the candidate is serving. If the number of medical officers deemed proper for the board is not available at the station of the candidate he will be sent to the nearest station where a board can be convened. When the examination is for a limited warrant, the commanding officer of the organization in which the candidate is to serve will constitute the board. In all cases the report of the board vrtll be forwarded directly to the officer authorizing the examination. (C. A. R., Nos. 29 and Jf6.) 1406. Master hospital sergeants, hospital sergeants, and sergeants, first class, stationed at places where no post returns are made wiU mate such per- sonal reports as the Surgeon General may direct. (G. A. R., No. 46.) 1407. Master hospital sergeants, hospital sergeants, and sergeants, first class, except those of the latter grade holding limited warrants, though liable to discharge, will not be reduced, except by sentence of a court-martial. Ser- geants, first class, holding limited warrants, sergeants, corporals, lance cor- porals cooks, and privates, first class, may be reduced by sentence of a court- martial, by the Surgeon General, by a department surgeon, or by the division sur- geon of a mobilized division. (C. A. R., Nos. 46 and 49.) 1408. To test the capacity of privates, first class, and privates of the Medical Department for the duties of noncommissioned officers, the Surgeon General, THE ENLISTED POECB OF MEDICAL DEPARTMENT. 287 the department surgeons, and the division surgeons of mobilized divisions may appoint lance corporals, who will be obeyed and respected as corporals ; but no. detachment shall have more lance corporals at a time than enough to make "the proportion of all noncommissioned officers present for duty one to four soldiers of the Medical Department in the grades of cook, private, first class, and private. Ijanee corporals are on the same footing regarding reduction as corporals. (C A. R., No. 46.) 1409. The commander of an Army corps, or of a division or brigade acting independently, is charged with the full control of the transfer from the line, the enlistment, reenlistment, and discharge of enlisted men of the Medical Department of his command. (0. A. R., No. 46.) 1410. Original enlistments for the Medical Department are made in the grade of private. Master hospital sergeants, hospital sergeants, sergeants first class, sergeants, corporals, lance corporals, cooks, horseshoers, saddlers, farriers, mechanics, and privates first class, may be reenlisted in their respective grades and their warrants and appointments continued in force, provided they reen- list on the day following that of discharge. Any noncommissioned officer en- listed on or after the first day of November, nineteen hundred and sixteen, fur- loughed to the reserve upon the completion of three years in the active service with an excellent character, shall be permitted to reenllst in the organization from which furloughed with the rank and grade held by him at the time of" his furlough if he reerilists within 20 days after the date of such furlough. In each ease the soldier will reenlist at the place where his organization is sta- tioned. Each enlistment and continuance will be noted on the warrant or appointment by the surgeon. Recruiting officers at general recruiting stations may accept applicants for enlistment or reenlistment in the Medical Department upon the authority of the Surgeon General and will be guided by his instruc- tions in making the physical examination of such applicants. Applicants may be accepted with a vision of 20/70 in each eye correctible to 20/40 with glasses, provided that no organic disease exists in either eye. After enlistment recruits will be forwarded to such stations as may have been designated for them by the Surgeon General. (0. A. R., Nos. 46 and 51.) 1411. Enlisted men of the line, buglars excepted, may be transferred to the Medical Department as privates by the commander of a department or a mobil- ized division or separate brigade on the application of the surgeon of the post or command, forwarded through military channels. The application will be made on the form provided therefor. (0. A. R., Nos. 46 and 51.) 1412. Married men will not be enlisted as privates in or transferred to the Medical Department, and no enlisted man below the grade of sergeant, first class, who is married will be reenlisted therein without special authority. (C. A. R., No. 46.) ^ , . , ^ 1413 Enlisted men of the Medical Department will not be required to attend ceremonies, except when directed by the commanding officer, and will ordinarily be inspected and mustered at the hospital. The forms of inspection will be in accordance with the prescribed drill regulations for the Medical Department. (C A. R., No. 46.) . ^ ^ «„ 1414 To meet the requirements of epidemics or other emergencies and to fill vacancies enlisted men of the Medical Department may be transferred by a department commander between posts in his department, the quota of each post, as prescribed by paragraphs 1416 and 1417, not being permanently ex- ceeded. (C. A. R., No. 46.) ,.-,., T^ 1416 Accounts of pay and clothing of enlisted men of the Medical Depart- ment will be kept by the medical officer under whose immediate direction they 288 MEDICAL DEPARTMENT. are serving. All such, enlisted men casually at a post, camp, or other station .are under the immediate orders of the surgeon, except prisoners, who will, how- evA-, be borne on the muster rolls, morning reports, and returns of the Medical Department detachment. If furloughed to the reserve or discharged their final statements will be prepared by the surgeon. Upon the transfer of an enlisted man of the Medical Department from one sanitary formation to another his descriptive list will be closed by his imme- diate commander and a new list furnished to his new immediate commander. If there is no change in the soldier's military record or in his accounts of pay and clothing while under the new commanding officer, the latter may forward the list by wrapper, stating that there has been no such change, to the nest suc- cessive commander, who may in turn do likewise, the conditions remaining the same, taking care, however, to use the original wrapper of transmittal. This procedure may be continued for successive transfers until there is a charge In the soldier's status requiring entry in his military record or in his pay and clothing account, when a new list will be opened by the medical officer under whose command the soldier is when the change occurs. The medical officer preparing the new list will retain the old list for his protection. In case of subsequent transfer, the new list will be closed and filed and another list pre- pared and forwarded in the usual manner. (C A. R., No. 46.) 1416. At every permanent military post there will be at least one noncom- missioned officer of the Medical Department and an additional noncommis- sioned officer for every four enlisted men of the Medical Department of the grades of cook, private, first class, and private in excess of four. (O. A. B., No. 46.) 1417. At every permanent military post there will be at least four enlisted men of the Medical Department of the grades of cook, private, first class, and private ; six when the strength of the garrison is 200 ; and two additional for every additional 100 of strength. They will be assigned by the surgeon to appropriate duties connected with the hospital service. (O. A. B., No. ^6.) 1418. The number of enlisted men of the several grades of the Medical Department to be stationed at general hospitals, arsenals, engineer stations, and independent posts will be determined by the Surgeon General under the direction of the Secretary of "War. (C A. B., No. 46.) 1419. Special instruction In the methods of rendering first aid to the sick and wounded will be given to all enlisted men of the Signal Corps and of the line of the Army by their company officers for at least twelve hours in each calendar year. 1420. All enlisted men of the Medical Department will be instructed under the supervision of the surgeon in the duties of litter bearers, the methods of rendering first aid to the sick and wounded, and the various subjects pertaining to the sanitary soldier. (C. A. B., No. 46.) 1420i. Privates, first class, are eligible for ratings for additional pay as fol- lows : As dispensary assistant, $2 a month ; as nurse, $3 a month ; as surgical assistant, $5 a month : Provided, That no enlisted man may receive more than one rating for additional pay under this regulation, nor may he receive any additional pay under such rating unless he shall have actually performed the duties for which he shall be rated. These ratings will be made, upon the recommendation of the detachment or organization commander, (1) by the Surgeon General, if the men are serving with troops under the immediate supervision of the War Department; (2) by the department surgeon, or by the division surgeon of a mobilized division, if serving with departmental or divisional troops. ((7. A. B., No. 46.) NUKSE COEPS — GAEBISON AND FIELD SERVICE. 289 NUltSE COKPS (FEMALE). 1421. Army nurses will be appointed and discharged by the Surgeon General withthe approval of the Secretary of War. They will be assigned to duty at hospitals under the direction of the Surgeon General. 1422. The superintendent of the Nurse Corps, under the direction of the Surgeon General, will have general supervision of the corps, and her duties and the duties of chief nurses and nurses shall be as prescribed by tho Sur- geon General. 1423. The services of army nurses will be afforded sick and wounded officers enlisted men, and other patients in military hospitals. When traveling under orders on transports they will assist In the care of sick officers and enlisted men, under the direction of the transport surgeon. 1424. Members of officers' and enlisted men's families are not entitled to the services of army nurses, but in great emergencies and for the manifest interest of the service, nurses will care for such patients when so directed by the officer in charge of the hospital, a report of the fact being made in each Instance to the Surgeon General through military channels. 1425. At places where the services of trained nurses are not otherwise obtainable, a nurse may, if she so desires, and with the approval of the officer in charge of the hospital, be granted a special leave, without pay and allowances. In order to take a private case, such leaves not to exceed sixty days. 1426. The pay, allowances, and privileges of nurses are specified by law, and they are forbidden to receive presents from patients, or from the relatives or friends of patients, for services rendered when on duty. 6AERIS0N AND FIELD SERVICE. 1427. Ambulances are vehicles provided for the service of the Medical Department. They will be furnished and repaired by the Quartermaster Corph. They will be used only for the following purposes : The transportation of the sick and wounded and the absolutely necessary nurses or attendants on duty therewith ; the recreation of convalescent patients ; the instruction of en- listed men of the Medical Department in the duties of the ambulance service; and in the field, in urgent cases, for the transportation of medical supplies. All persons are prohibited from using them, or requiring or permitting them to be used for any other purpose. Ambulances will always be subject to tne call of the surgeon, in garrison, and of the medical officer on whom responsi- bility for the transportation of the -sick devolves, in the field, whose duty it shall be to report to the commander of troops any violation of the above- mentioned provisions governing their use. When practicable, in garrison, they will be housed near the hospital. (G. A. R., Nos. 8 and 55.) ^ 1428. Ambulances complete will be issued and classed as follows : 1. For mobile army troops, to accompany troops in the field. 2. For post purposes exclusively, e. g., for Coast Artillery stations, recruit depots, certain mobile army stations which would require ambulance service after withdrawal of mobile army troops therefrom, military prisons, supply depots, etc. Department commanders will see that such of these posts as re- quire ambulance service are provided with ambulances which do not belong to the divisional or other sanitary train of the mobile army. 3. For general hospitals and for reserve supply. Ambulances under class 1 will be furnished in numbers prescribed for war basis in Tables of Organization ; under classes 2 and 3 the number of ambu- 79733°— IS -19 290 MEDICAL DEPAHTMENT. lances to be supplied will be determined by the War Department on recom- mendation of the department commander as regards class 2, and of the Sur- geon General as regards class 3. (0. A. R., No. 8.) 1429. At each post one or more privates of the detachment Medical Depart- ment will be designated by the surgeon as ambulance driver only for ambu- lances not belonging to organized ambulance companies. In addition to his other duties he will care for the ambulance, its equipment, and harness, and see giat they are ready for immediate use; and in the field he will care for the animals also. In garrison, when it is necessary to use the ambulance for any transportation purposes, the commanding officer, on the application of the surgeon, will see that the requisite animals are provided by the quartermaster and placed at the disposal of the surgeon. At stations of organized ambulance companies, class 2 ambulances may be used for garrison ambulance service or the ambulance company may furnish the garrison ambulance service, at the discretion of the post commander. (O. A. R., Nos. 8 and 55.) 1430. Bach company will be furnished with one hand litter, which will be kept ready for use at all times. It will be supplied by the Medical Department. 1431. Kescinded. (C. A. R., No. 8.) 1431i. Transportation assigned to mobile army troops for sanitary purposes is classed as follows : 1. The sanitary combat train. (A pack mule to carry equipment for the regi- mental aid station.) These pack mules are provided in time of peace and are assigned to the organizations indicated in the Tables of Organization. They will be placed at the disposition of the surgeon when needed for drill of en- listed men of the Medical Department in packing, and will habitually accom- pany the combat train of the organizations to which they are assigned, both in peace and war. 2. Ambulances of class 1, paragraph 1428. These are marked with the words " Sanitary Train — Division," and with the number of the ambulance com- pany to which assigned. Ambulance companies operated in peace are equipped with their quota of ambulances, and the remaining ambulances of the divisional sanitary train are attached in time of peace to combatant organizations of the division by the' department commander. Ambulances so attached are available for garrison service in peace when required, as well as ambulances of class 2, and will be cared for by ambulance drivers designated by the surgeon. When the division is assembled, these ambulances accompany the organizations to which attached, join the companies to which they are assigned, and complete the ambulance equipment of the sanitary companies not operated in time of peace. 3. Wagons pertaining to the divisional sanitary train. These will be marked with the words " Sanitary Train Division " and the number of the com- pany to which assigned. Companies belonging to the sanitary train which are operated in peace are equipped with their quota of wagons. In addition, wagons of the divisional sanitary train are attached to combatant organizations, as prescribed in Tables of Organization, for the transportation of the camp in- firmary. When the ^division is assembled these wagons accompany the organiza- tions to which attached and join the sanitary companies to which assigned. (O. A. R., Nos. 8 and 55.) 1432. Commanding officers will inspect ambulances, litters, and other field sanitary materiel at each monthly inspection and see that the equipment is com- plete and in serviceable condition. When practicable, the ambulance fully equipped for service, with the animals attached, and the pack mule carrying the sanitary equipment pertaining to the sanitary combat train, will be presented for inspection. (G. A. R. No. 8.) GAEEISON AND FIELD SERVICE. 291 1433. Medical Department enlisted personnel is classified as follows: 1. That portion attached to combatant organizations. 2. That portion assigned to units of the divisional sanitary train and to administrative offices in the field. 3. That portion assigned to the service of the interior for service in war which should include only the minimum of trained men. All men of the Medical Department will be carried on muster rolls and returns of the Medical Department, under " Remarks," as attached to a definite com- batant organization, or as belonging to a unit of class 2, or to class 3. Depart- ment commanders will determine, on recommendation of the department sur- geon, the number of men at each post or station to be assigned to each class within the limits prescribed in Tables of Organizations, and the individual men will be assigned to their respective classes and those of class 1 attached to or- ganizations of mobile troops by the post commander on recommendation of the surgeon. All papers of enlisted men of the Medical Department of classes 1 and 2, required when sanitary personnel accompanies troops to which attached, will be prepared in advance so far as practicable. Medical officers assigned to stations of mobile army troops, except those on duty with ambulance or field hospital companies, will be similarly attached to organizations by the post commander on recommendation of the surgeon. Combatant organizations will carry attpched sanitary troops In red ink on their muster rolls and returns (O. A. B., Nos. 8 and S5.) 1434. Rescinded. (C. A. B., No. 30.) 1434i. Surgeons of posts will keep on hand horse equipments furnished by the Ordnance Department for the use of enlisted men of the Medical Depart- ment under their command who are authorized in Tables of Organization to be mounted in war. At aU posts where there are Cavalry troops, or a Field Artillery headquarters detachment, or Infantry mounted orJerUes, or a field hospital company or an ambulance company, these men of the Medical Depart- ment who are authorized to be mounted in peace wiU be reported to a troop or mounted detachment commander for instruction in equitation, under instruc- tions published from time to time by the War Department. (O. A. B., Nos. 8 and 55.) 1436. Rescinded. {O. A. B., No. 8.) 1435J. On receipt of orders directing a movement of troops of the mobile Army with attached sanitary personnel, the Medical Department personnel of class 1 attached to those troops, together with the drivers of ambulances and wagons attached, will report for duty to the organization commander, and, while absent; will be carried as on detached service, unless another status is specified in orders. When the troops again come under the jurisdiction of a post commander, the attached sanitary personnel will report to the surgeon of the post for garrison duty. Property pertaining to the sanitary service, re- quired by an organization temporarily detached from its station, will be issued by the surgeon to the senior medical officer accompanying the organization, on memorandum receipt. (O. A. B., No. 8.) 1436. Field hospitals and ambulance companies will be considered organiza- tions of the mobile Army and, except as to medical supplies, will be supplied, instructed, and disciplined and the affairs thereof administered as is provided by the Army Regulations for other organizations of the mobile Army. ( G. A. B., No. 8.) 1437. No person, except the proper medical officers or the officers, noncom- missioned officers, and privates of the ambulance service, or such persons as may be specially assigned by competent military authority to duty therewith, 292 MEDICAL DEPABTMENT. will be permitted to talie or accompany sick Or injured men to the rear, either on the march or elsewhere. 1438. For service in campaign against uncivilized tribes, or under other circumstances which justify the expectation that their rights under the Geneva Convention will not be respected, commanding officers will issue to the com- missioned and enlisted personnel of the Medical Department pistols or other ■ available firearms for their own defense and for that of the sick and wounded under their charge. To ambulance companies and field hospital companies there will be issued such number of pistol equipments as may be prescribed in equipment orders or manuals for equipping the enlisted personnel when required, as authorized by the Geneva Convention, and for the performance of their own interior guard duty. (C. A. R., No. 36.) GENERAL HOSPITAIS. 1439. General hospitals will be un^er the exclusive control of the Surgeon General and will be governed by such regulations as the Secretary of War may prescribe. The senior medical officer on duty therein will command the same and will not be subject to the orders of local commanders other than those of territorial departments to whom specific delegation of authority may have been made. The commanding officer of a territorial department may order to any general hospital located within the limits of his department and to the General Hospital at Fort Bayard, N. Mex., any cases of sickness and injury among officers and enlisted men under his command that are appropriate for treat- ment at such hospital. Officers and enlisted men on the active list of the Army who shall have been transferred to a general hospital for treatment only wiU, when fit for duty, be returned to their proper posts or commands by the com- manding officer of the hospital, unless he shall have been otherwise instructed. Upon request of the commanding officer of the Letterman General Hospital, Presidio of San Francisco, Cal., the commanding general, Western Department, will issue the necessary travel orders for patients from that hospital recom- mended for treatment at the General Hospital at Fort Bayard. (0. A. R., No. 39.) 1440. Hospital transports, boats, and railway trains, after being properly assigned as such, will be exclusively under the control of the Medical Depart- ment, and will not be diverted from their special purposes by orders of local or department commanders or officers of other staff corps. 1441. The Army and Navy General Hospital, Hot Springs, Ark., is. under the direction of the Secretary of War, and is devoted to the treatment of the officers and enlisted men of the military and naval service of the United States, cadets at the United States Military and Naval Academies, officers of the Eevenue-Cutter Service, officers of the Public Health Service, and honorably discharged soldiers and sailors of the Regular and Volunteer Army and Navy of the United States for such diseases as the waters of the Hot Springs of Arkansas have an established reputation in benefiting. 1442. Admission to this hospital is restricted to those of the above-named classes who require medical treatment in the following order of preference: (1) Officers and enlisted men of the Army, the Navy, and the Marine Corps on the active lists and cadets at the United States Military and Naval Acade- mies ; (2) officers and enlisted men of the Army, the Navy, and the Marine Corps on the retired lists; (3) officers of the Bevenue-Cutter Service and of the Public Health Service; (4) honorably discharged soldiers and sailors of the Regular and Volunteer Army and Navy of the United States may also be ad- mitted by authority of the Surgeon General when there are vacant beds in the hospital. GENEEAL HOSPITALS. 293 ' 1443. The ration of enlisted men of the Army on the active list while under treatment and the ration of members of the Nurse Corps while on duty in this hospital will be commuted at the rate of 40 cents a ration, to be paid to the surgeon in charge by the post quartermaster or by such officer of the Quarter- master Corps as may be designated, conformably to the regulations governing the subsistence of patients and nurses at other Army hospitals. The ration of the enlisted men of the Army on duty at this hospital will be commuted at the rate of 40 cents a ration, to be paid to the men by the quartermaster upon their individual receipts, conformably to the regulations governing such pay- ments in other Army cases. The subsistence of enlisted men of the Navy and of the Marine Corps on the active list under treatment in this hospital in pur- suance of orders will be paid for to the surgeon in charge at the rate of 40 cents a day by the proper officer of the Navy Department, upon monthly state- ments of amounts due certified by the Surgeon General of the Army to the Surgeon General of the Navy through the prescribed channels (CAB No. 45.) ■ ■' 1444. Enlisted men of the Army, the Navy, and the Marine Corps on the retired list and honorably discharged soldiers and sailors of the Resular and Volunteer Army and Navy of the United States will pay for subsistence at the rate of 40 cents a day. 1446. The General Hospital at Fort Bayard, N. Mex., is under the direction of the Secretary of War and is set apart as a sanitarium for the treatment of officers and enlisted men of the Army sufeering from pulmonary tuberculosis. 1446. Officers and enlisted men on the active list of the Army in suitable cases, as determined by the commanding officer of the territorial department under whose command they are serving, or by the War Department if serving at posts or stations that are exempted from the control of department com- manders, upon the recommendation of the proper medical officers, may be ordered to the General Hospital at Port Bayard, N. Mex., for treatment. No enlisted man will be recommended for transfer to Fort Bayard unless he is willing if discharged to remain at that hospital for treatment as a beneficiary of the Soldiers' Home for a period of three months from admission thereto. Soldiers suffering from pulmonary tuberculosis who do not desire treatment at that hospital will be recommended for discharge on certificates of disability. An enlisted man who is sent to Fort Bayard for treatment, or his attendant if he has one, will be furnished by the commanding officer of his post or station with an official telegram blank, and will be instructed to telegraph from Doming, N. Mex., to the commanding officer of the hospital, reporting the train upon which the patient may be expected to arrive. Authority for the transfer to the Army and Navy General Hospital at Hot Springs, Ark., of officers and enlisted men on the active list of the Army, except those serving under the command of the commanding officer of the territorial department in which the hospital is situated, will be applied for in each case to the War Department. Department commanders, however, need not forward to the War Department applications for such transfer which do not meet their approval. No enlisted man who is unfitted for military service by reason of a disability that is not curable within a reasonable time so as to enable him to return to full duty, will be recommended for treatment at the Army and Navy General Hospital. In such cases discharge on certificates of disability will be recom- mended. The recommendation of the medical officer for transfer to either of these hospitals for treatment, together with a full medical report of the case and a certificate by the medical officer stating the disability for which he recommends 294 MEDICAL DEPi&TMENT, the transfer of the case to the hospital selected and his opinion that treatment in that hospital will conduce to the more rapid recovery of the patient, will be forwarded through military channels to the authority competent to order the patient to the hospital selected. In case of necessity such authority may order an attendant to accompany the patient and return to such attendant's proper station on completing the duty, but care should be taken not to send any patient to either of these hospitals when travel would be dangerous or injurious to him. The medical officer who certifies a case for transfer for treatment to either of these hospitals will be held responsible for the proper selection of the case, for the correctness of the diagnosis made therein, and for recommending at the proper time the transfer of the patient to the hospital selected. Retired officers of the Army may apply directly to The Adjutant General of the Army for permission to enter these hospitals, the application in each case to be accompanied by the medical report and certificate hereinbefore prescribed for officers on the active list. SEKVICB IN HOSPITALS. -« 1447. The surgeon is charged with the management and Is responsible for the condition of the hospital, which will be at all times subject to inspection by the commanding officer. The surgeon will inspect the hospital every morning, and on Saturday will also inspect the detachment of the Medical Department. (O. A. R., No. 55.) 1448. The surgeon will assign his assistants and the enlisted men of the Medical Department to duty and report them on the muster rolls in the capacity in which they are serving. With the approval of the commanding officer, he will also appoint the matrons. ( G. A. R., No. 55. ) 1449. Hospital matrons will be allowed at hospitals at posts and arsenals in numbers to be fixed by the Surgeon General. 145©. Patients will, if possible, leave their arms and accouterments with their companies. 1451. Whenever a soldier is detached from his company or other organiza- tion or station for treatment or observation by and under control of officers of the Medical Department, his company or other Immediate commander will send the soldier's service record directly to the medical officer in charge of the hospital or other place to which the soldier is or has been sent. If the service record is not received by such medical officer in due time, he will make a direct call upon the proper officer to furnish it. The service record of the soldier will be transmitted by indorsement to the several officers under whose charge he comes in the course of subsequent transfers, should such ensue, from hospital to hospital, by hospital ships, hospital trains, or otherwise, or when he is sent to an organization or station for duty. In case the soldier is returned or sent to, or receives a furlough at the expiration of which he is to return to or join, a particular company or other organization or station, the service record will be sent directly to the immediate commander of such company or other organization or station. Whenever a soldier detached from his company or other organization or sta- tion and under control of the Medical Department passes out of that control, his service record will be forwarded at once by the responsible officer as follows: (a) In case of discharge, death, retirement, capture, desertion, return to duty, or upon receiving a furlough at the expiration of which the soldier is to re- turn to his company or other organization or station, or upon being dropped, to the soldier's company or other immediate commander; (&) in case of transfer SERVICE IN HOSPITALS. 295 IntTn/tr""*^'''' °' °''''' ""^^"^'^^^"^^ or station, to the immediate com- TZTjJf T"'''''' *"■ '''''^' organization or station to which the soldier is transferred ; (c) in case of transfer to the Government Hospital for the Insane, to a he Adjutant General of the Army. In the cases of soldiers detached from their companies or other organizations or stations and under the control of the Medical Department action will be taken by the proper medical officers as follows: If a soldier is discovered to be a deserter from the Navy or Marine Corps, paragraph 133 will be complied with- If a soldier is discharged, a final statement will be furnished to him ; if a soldier dies, paragraph 162 will be complied with. (G. A. R., No. 55.) 1462. Sick or wounded soldiers, discharged while in hospital, will be entitled to medical treatment in hospital, and to the usual ration during disability or for the period considered proper for them to remain under treatment, but a discharged soldier who has left the hospital will not be readmitted except upon the written order of the commanding officer. 1453. Recently discharged soldiers, needing hospital treatment, who arrive m New York City, San Francisco, or other port on Government transports, may be sent to one of the military hospitals in the vicinity, and rations in' kind drawn for them while undergoing treatment. 1454. Tents, clothing, hospital furniture, and other stores used in the treat- ment of contagious diseases will be disinfected or burned upon the recommen- dation and under the supervision of a medical officer. 1455. The Secretary of War may, on the recommendation of the Surgeon General, order gratuitous issues of clothing to soldiers who have had contagious diseases, and to hospital attendants who have nursed them, to replace articles destroyed by order of the proper medical officer to prevent contagion. 1456. Medical officers in charge of hospital property will not permit it to be used for other than hospital purposes. 1457. Civilian employees at military posts, including the employees of post exchanges, may be furnished the medical supplies prescribed for them by a medical officer under such regulations as the Surgeon General may establish in accordance with law. 1458. A civilian employee on duty at a station where other than Army med- ical attendance can not be procured is entitled, when necessary, to admission to hospital. 1459. A civilian seaman or river boatman will be admitted to an Army hospital only on permit issued by a medical officer of the Public Health Service or by a customs officer, unless his condition demands immediate relief, when in the discretion of the post commander he may be admitted in advance of the receipt of the permit. Officers and enlisted men of the Organized Militia while attending national rifle contests or joint camps of instruction will be admitted to field hospitals of the Army on the approval, respectively, of the executive officer of the national matches or the commanding officer of the joint camps of instruction. Members of the families of officers and en- listed men requiring hospital treatment or isolation will be admitted to Army hospitals when suitable accommodations for their care are available. Other civilians not in the public service will be admitted to hospital only in cases of extreme necessity, and by permission of the commanding officer on the written application of the surgeon. Their food will be purchased from the hospital fund when they have the means to reimburse that fund for such pur- chases. In cases of destitution rations may be issued to them under the condi- tions laid down in paragraph 1219. 296 V''! MEDICAL 0EPAETMENT. 1460. Hospital charges at the Army and Navy General Hospital, Hot Springs, Ark., and at the General Hospital at Fort Bayard, N. Mex., are gov- erned by special regulations made from time to time. Subsistence charges for patients in other Army hospitals, except field hospitals, will be as follows: For retired enlisted men of the Army, Navy, and Marine Corps, for enlisted men of the Navy and Marine Corps, and for civilians on the footing of enlisted men, 40 cents a day; for officers of the Army, $1 a day; for officers of the Navy, including warrant officers, and of the Marine Corps, and for civilians on the footing of officers, $1.25 a day. In field hospitals the subsistence charges for the above classes will be 30 cents a day, 50 cents a day, and 60 cents a day, respec- tively. When necessary to protect the hospital fund at posts in Alaska against actual loss the post commanders may prescribe an additional charge for each such patient not to exceed 25 cents a day. The money received for subsistence charges will be accounted for with the hospital fund. A medicine charge of 25 cents a day will be made for all patients in Army hospitals who are not entitled to medical care and treatment at the cost of Army appropriations, including officers and enlisted men of the Navy and Marine Corps, civilian employees and civilians, the money received therefor to be deposited in the Treasury of the United States to the credit of the proper appropriations and to be accounted for in due form accordingly. The surgeon will determine in each case, subject to instructions from higher authority, whether civilian patients shall be on the footing of enlisted men or of officers. Subsistence charges will be made for officers and enlisted men of the Organ- ized Militia admitted to field hospitals of the Army under paragraph 1459, at the rate of 50 cents a day and 30 cents a day, respectively, to be accounted for with the hospital fund, and medicine charges at the rate of 25 cents a day to be deposited to the credit of the proper appropriations. The subsistence charges for enlisted men and the medicine charges for officers and enlisted men will constitute charges against the allotments, under section 1661, Revised Statutes, to the State, Territory, or District of Columbia, to the militia of which the patients respectively belong. 1461. Officers and civilian employees of the Army should pay their indebted- ness for hospital charges before leaving the hospital, or promptly at the end of every month if they then continue in the hospital. If the hospital charges against an officer are not paid by the fifth day of the month immediately following that in which they were incurred, the com- manding officer of the hospital will forward a statement of the indebtedness, through military channels, to the Surgeon General, for the action required by paragraph 1308. A civilian employee who is unable to pay his hospital charges at the pre- scribed time will give a certificate of his indebtedness, in triplicate, on Form 49 A, Medical Department (marking one number "original," one "duplicate," and the third " triplicate " ) , to the commanding officer of the hospital, who will designate by indorsement thereon the officer to whom the amount of the indebtedness should be remitted, and will forward the original and duplicate at once through proper channels to the officer under whom the employee is serving, retaining the triplicate for his own flies. The employing officer will refer the certificate to the quartermaster or disbursing officer who is to pay the employee, and such quartermaster or disbursing officer will deduct the amount of the indebtedness from the pay due, and will remit the amount so deducted to the officer designated to receive it. When an employee who is indebted for hospital charges dies before the indebtedness is settled, the commanding officer HOSPITAL BUILDINGS. 297 of the hospital win prepare an account thereof in duplicate certifying the same to be correct, and will forward one number to the employing officer for his information and guidance, and the second number, through the Surgeon General, to the Auditor for the War Department, retaining a copy for his own flies. Should a certificate of the indebtedness have been given previously all the numbers thereof will be assembled and forwarded with the account for the auditor. Ordinarily the commanding officer of the hospital where the employee was cared for will be designated as the officer who is to receive the amount of the indebtedness. But when the hospital is about to be or has been closed the department surgeon having jurisdiction over It should be designated to receive the remittance ; or if the field army or independent division, or the territorial department, under which the charges were incurred, is about to be or has been disbanded or discontinued, then the Surgeon General should be so designated. The Surgeon General should also be designated to receive remittances for hospital service rendered in general hospitals which have been or are about to be closed. 1462. The surgeon of a post or command, or the commanding officer of a general hospital or other sanitary formation, will Ijeep, account for, and expend the hospital fund, according to the instructions of the Surgeon General, ex- clusively for the benefit of the siclr in hospital and of the enlisted men of the Medical Department and members of the Nurse Corps on duty therein. (0. A. R., No. 55.) 1463. Medical and official publications furnished from the Surgeon General's Office to surgeons in charge of hospitals will be properly filed and preserved in the hospital library. The expense of binding these publications and those issued to department or division surgeons will be defrayed by the Medical Department, and they will be transported to and from the medical supply depots by the Quartermaster Corps. HOSPITAL BUILDINGS. 1464. A building will not be erected for or occupied as a hospital until the opinion of a medical officer has been obtained in writing upon the suitableness of site and proposed arrangement. If the commanding officer dissent from this opinion he will return It to the surgeon with his reasons Indorsed thereon, who will forward it, through military channels, to the Surgeon General. 1465. Hospitals will be erected at permanent posts in accordance with plans and specifications furnished by the Surgeon General, approved by the Secretary of War. 1466. When alterations of or additions to hospitals are necessary, the sur- geon, after obtaining from the quartermaster an estimate of cost, will transmit plans and specifications, with proposed modifications, through military channels, to the Secretary of War. Similar action will be taken upon quarters for master hospital sergeants, hospital sergeants, and sergeants first class. Medical Depart- ment. {C. A. B., No. ^.) 1467. When hospitals or quarters for master hospital sergeants, hospital sergeants, or sergeants first class. Medical Department, are erected or repaired, the officer conducting the work wiiri1E DEPARTMENT. supply officer of the organization to which attached or of the coast defense ordnance officer. (C A. R., Nos. 52 and 55). 15124. New designs of seacoast armament and ammunition and of ordnance material pertaining thereto, and of improvements therein, and the means for meeting deficiencies in such armament, ammunition, and material, and new designs of ordnance material and all essential changes in such material pertaining to the mobile Army, will be presented by the Chief of Ordnance to the Chief of Staff for reference to the War Department Board of Review, and the approval by the Secretary of War of the proceedings of the board with reference thereto will constitute his approval of the designs which is contemplated by regulations. (O. A. R., No. Z5.) ISSUES AND SALES. 1513. In time of peace, ordnance and ordnance stores are issued from the various arsenals and depots, to the extent authorized by regulations, on requisi- tions submitted in accordance with existing orders. 1514. In time of war, issues may be made to troops in service on the order of any general or field officer commanding an Army, garrison, or detachment, or of a chief ordnance officer of an Army, Army corps, or division. To authorize an issue to militia, they must have been regularly mustered into the service of the United States, and the requisition for the stores must be properly approved. 1515. The Chief of Ordnance will, on the recommendation of a department commander, approved by the Secretary of War, establish ordnance depots at such points as may be designated by the Secretary of War, where ordnance stores will be held for distribution to the troops, under such regulations as the department commander may prescribe. 1516. When practicable, these depots will be under the charge of ordnance officers, and only such limited supply of ordnance stores as may be required to meet current needs will be kept at or issued from them. All other ordnance stores will be supplied from the arsenals, as provided in paragraph 1513. 1517. Requisitions for ordnance supplies to meet current needs will be filled from a depot, under the instructions of the department commander. The officer in charge will be responsible, under the department commander, that sufficient stores, procured by timely requisitions upon the Chief of Ordnance are always on hand. Unserviceable and unsuitable ordnance and ordnance stores at such depots are under the control of the Chief of Ordnance. 1518. Requisitions for ordnance and ordnance stores not on hand within a department must be approved by the immediate commanders. The personal approval of the department commander or of the chief ordnance officer of his department is necessary, but in the absence of the department commander the approval may be made in his name by one of his staff officers. 1619. Requisitions will be made in conformity with the supply tables pre- pared by the Chief of Ordnance, unless extraordinary circumstances, to be plainly set forth in each case, should require a larger supply of one or more of the articles authorized. 1520. The service arms, ammunition, accoutrements, and horse equipments required by an officer or contract surgeon for his own use in the public service may be sold to him by the Ordnance Department at the regulation price and the money received passed to the credit of the proper appropriation. Ordnance supplies thus sold to officers or contract surgeons will not "be disposed of to persons not in the military service. Necessary repairs to the service arms and equipments of an officer or contract surgeon will be made by the Ordnance Department at the cost of these repairs. Officers or contract surgeons making ISSUES AND SALES. 309 purchases or having repairs done will furnish certificates of the fact that these sales or repairs are for their own use in the public service. Officers below the grade of major, required to be mounted, as prescribed in paragraph 1272, will be furnished with horse equipments by the Ordnance Department. The author- ized number of sets of these equipments will be kept on hand in the unit ac- countability equipment of the organizations with which officers herein author- ized to receive them are serving. Officers not serving with such organizations and entitled to receive horse equipments will submit requisitions therefor, through military channels, accompanied by a copy of the order of the depart- ment commander or higher authority designating them for mounted service where such service is temporary. To such officers serving at posts the issue of horse equipments will be made, on the approval of the post commander, by the post ordnance officer on memorandum receipt; to such officers not serv- ing at posts the equipments will be regularly issued under formal invoices and receipts, and will be accounted for by them semiannually to the Chief of Ordnance on special individual returns. Articles of such equipments which be- come unserviceable shall be subinitted to an officer of the Inspector General's Department and upon his recommendation to that effect may be turned in and new articles issued therefor. In the absence of an inspector such articles may be submitted to the action of a surveying officer and upon his recommendation may be turned in and new articles issued therefor. In each such case the sur- veying officer will recommend submission of the articles to an inspector and a copy of the report of survey will accompany the requisition for the articles to be replaced. An officer to whom horse equipments have been issued under the provisions of this paragraph, upon his promotion to field rank, the termination of mounted service, or upon joining an organization provided with equipment for his use, will promptly turn in his equipments, rendering a final return where previously accountable for such equipments. When an officer holding these equipments on memorandum receipt desires to retain them in his posses- sion on changing station such a course is authorized by exchange of proper in- voices and receipts between the post ordnance officers concerned or between the post ordnance officer and the officer holding the equipments if his new station is not at an Army post. When an officer who has been making special individual returns for horse equipments that were issued to him under this paragraph takes station at a post he will at once transfer the accountability for the horse equipments to the post ordnance officer and render a final return to the Chief of Ordnance. (C A. R., No. 1.) 1321. When the arms or equipments authorized to be purchased in the pre- ceding paragraph can not be obtained from an ordnance officer, officers may take from those for which they are accountable such articles as they require for their personal use or may furnish them to officers or contract surgeons of their com- mands for like purpose. In such cases the accountable officer will deposit the proceeds of the sales as required by paragraph 617 and make the report required by paragraph 612. At the end of each month an abstract of such sales on War Department Form No. 322 will be prepared in duplicate and forwarded to the Chief of Ordnance. One of these copies will be retained in the office of the Chief of Ordnance as a voucher to the property return of the officer. (0. A. R., No. 55.) 1522. Officers serving with troops may draw for their personal use, from stores belonging to the command with which they are serving, 1 regulation rifle and 1 revolver, with the appropriate equipments and the usual quantity of am- munition for each arm. This ordnance property may be used in action or target practice and will be accounted for on returns to the Chief of Ordnance. 1523. Ordnance stores will not be loaned to any person, and any officer violating this rule will be held responsible for the money value of the articles. 310 OKDNANCE DEPARTMENT. 1524. Issues and transfers of ordnance stores will. not be made on memo- randum invoices and receipts except as provided for by regulation or orders and in special cases authorized by and subject to instructions from the Chief of Ordnance. 1525. An officer vrho makes an issue of ordnance stores to one not In com- mand of troops, except under orders from competent authority, will be charged with the money value of the stores so issued. 1526. Civilian employees of the War Department may be armed when neces- sary for the protection of life or public property, and the same responsibility attaches to the officers accountable for the arms furnished them that attaches to those accountable for the arms In the hands of enlisted men. The sale of ammu- nition to civilians belonging to exploring or surveying expeditions authorized by law, and to civilian employees of the War Department, may be made for hunting purposes when considered necessary for their subsistence or for the interest of the United States. In the field the sale of meat cans, canteens, knives, forks, and spoons, when they can be spared, to an officer In charge of civilian employees for their use, is authorized, provided they can not be obtained in any other way. 1527. Arms lost, destroyed, or embezzled by civilian employees will be charged in the same manner as stores similarly lost by enlisted men, and the money value thereof accounted for as in case of sales made in accordance with paragraph 1521. EXPENDITUBE OF AMMUNITION. 1528. Ammunition will be expended only in target practice, preliminary Instruction of the soldier, military exercises, and hunting, all within the pre- scribed allowances ; in action ; in defense of life or public property ; in carrying out the prescribed duties of sentinels ; and for authorized salutes. 1529. The necessity for all expenditures of ammunition must be shown by the certificate of the responsible officer, which certificate must accompany the property return of the accountable officer ; and when ammunition Is dropped from a return as " expended in action by civil employees," a statement giving the place, date, and attending circumstances sufficiently in detail to insure veri- fication must be filed with the return. 15S0. Ammunition expended by a soldier without orders, or not In the line of duty, or which may be damaged or lost through his neglect, vrlll be charged to him. 1531. When ammunition is furnished to civilian employees, it is not to be dropped from the returns unless expended in action or In hunting when neces- sary to obtain subsistence. Ammunition not so expended will be returned to the responsible officer and accounted for by him or paid for at the price fixed. SUEPLUS AND DAMAGED STOEES. 1532. Serviceable surplus ordnance stores in the hands of post or other ordnance supply officers, not required for reserve, may be shipped to another post in the same department, or may be turned in to the nearest arsenal on the order of a department commander, or, if in the hands of a recruiting officer, on the order of the War Department. Such articles on hand in an organization, unless otherwise directed, will be turned in to the post or other ordnance supply officer, who will retain them for issue, or ship them, as hereinbefore provided. (O. A. R., No. SO.) 1533. Officers in charge of arsenals and ordnance depots will afford every facility to officers authorized to turn in property. They will give rec^pts for it according to condition. SURPLUS AND DAMAGED STORES. 311 1534. Whenever ordnance property in the hands of troops, except that Tinder the supervision of an armament officer not specifically listed in War De- partment publications or orders as subject to the action of a surveying officer, becomes unserviceable it v^ill not be presented for condemnation until no longer repairable with the means available within the organization, post, or district. Timely requisition will be made by the proper post or other ordnance supply officers on the Ordnance Department for such extra parts and materials as are required in making repairs of equipment with whose maintenance he is charged. {C. A. R., No. SO.) 1535. Articles of personal equipments or other ordnance property which a detached soldier carries with him, or for which he may be indebted to the United States at the time of his transfer, will be entered on duplicate invoice and receipt transfer blanks (Ordnance Department Form No. 152). The blanks will, when practicable, indicate the destination of the soldier. The two transfer blanks will be signed by the accountable officer, or the issuing officer in his name, and by the soldier acknowledging receipt of the stores, including those missing. One of these signed blanks will be forwarded with the service record of the soldier ; the second constitutes the voucher under which the accountable officer will drop from his return the articles enumerated on the voucher. In case the soldier is detached or transferred from an organization provided with unit accountability equipment the transfer blank will be made by the organi- zation commander and the retained copy of the voucher will be turned over t" him to the post ordnance officer, or if the organization is serving away from a post to the designated supply officer, who will issue to the organization com- mander like stores to replace those covered by the voucher and who will then use the voucher as his authority for dropping such articles from his return. On arrival of the soldier at his destination all articles appearing on the trans- fer blank accompanying the service record will be taken up by the proper officer, who will receipt for the same on this blank and forward it immediately to the Chief of Ordnance. All articles missing on arrival will be charged against the soldier in the usual manner. In case the soldier, upon arrival at his destination, is assigned to an organi- zation provided with unit accountability equipment, all the articles appearing on the transfer blank accompanying his service record, will be taken up by the post ordnance officer, or, if the organization is serving away from a post, by the designated supply officer, and all articles missing on arrival will be charged against the soldier on the pay rolls of the organization and dropped from the return of the accountable officer under a statement of charges (Ordnance Department Form No. 86) made by the commanding officer of the organization and turned over by him to the accountable officer for that purpose. When enlisted men are transferred in detachments, with an officer or noncom- missioned officer in charge, from a recruit depot and each man is equipped identi- cally and none of them are indebted for other articles of ordnance property, the articles of ordnance property carried by them wUl all be entered on but one invoice and receipt blank, prepared in duplicate, on Ordnance Department Form No. 152-D. Each of the two copies will be signed by the accountable officer and by the officer or noncommissioned officer in charge of the detachment acknowl- edging receipt of all the stores. A receipt roll will be made, in duplicate, on Ordnance Department Form No. 153 and duly signed by each of the enlisted men to cover his individual responsibility. One copy of the signed invoice and receipt blank and one copy of the signed receipt roll will be furnished to the officer or noncommissioned officer in charge of the detachment, and the other copies of these signed papers will constitute the voucher under which- the 312 OEDNANCE DEPABTMBNT. accountable officer will drop the property from his return. On arrival of the detachment at its destination the invoice and receipt blank and the receipt roll will be turned over to the post ordnance officer or the designated supply officer, who will take up all the articles appearing on the transfer blank and receipt for the same on this blank and forward it immediately to the Chief of Ordnance. All articles missing on arrival will be charged against the responsibe soldiers on the pay rolls of the organizations to which they are assigned and dropped from the return of the accountable officer under statements of charges made by the commanding officers of the organizations and turned over by them to the ac- countable officer. In each case where the recruit is Indebted to the United States at the time of his transfer, or the articles in his possession are not identical to those in the possession of the other men of the detachment, or where the de- tachment is not in charge of an officer or noncommissioned officer, individual transfer blanks will be used. Unless the arrangements for the journey require the use of ordnance property en route, none will be transferred with such soldiers. A copy of the transfer blank will be kept by each accountable officer for his retained return. (C A. R., Nos. 1 and, 55.) 1536. Detached soldiers going to or returning from the Philippine Islands and Alaska will be required to turn in all ordnance property in their possession before departure. 1537. Ordinary repairs can usually be made in the organization, post, or district with the means provided for that purpose by the Ordnance Department. When the repairs required can not be thus made, certain articles or classes of articles, designated by the Chief of Ordnance, may be turned over to the post ordnance officer, or other supply officer, for shipment to a designated arsenal on the approved recommendation of an inspector, or surveying officer, as pro- vided in paragraphs 678 and 717. These will be shipped as directed by the inspector, or surveying officer, or, if no specific instructions are given, in ac- cordance with the general instructions of the Ordnance Department. The voucher numbers of inspection or survey reports or copy of other authority authorizing the turning in or shipment of the stores will be given on. the in- voice transferring the same. (C. A. R., No. 30.) 153S. A department commander may, upon the request of an armament officer, order such shipments of machine guns, mobile and seacoast artillery, and articles pertaining thereto, including ammunition, as may be required, and dis- pose of surplus ordnance stores as provided in paragraph 1532. In each case a copy of the authority directing such shipment will accompany the invoice cover- ing such transfer. (C. A. R., No. SO.) 1539. For the maintenance and improvement of machine guns, mobile and seacoast artillery, and articles pertaining thereto, armament districts are es- tablished in orders from the War Department, and the assignment of arma- ment officers to the charge of these districts is made by the Chief of Ordnance. These officers will keep themselves informed of the condition of the materiel by inspections and by direct correspondence with the various district and post commanders. The former are authorized to make the necessary repairs to materiel in their districts, but no alterations can be made without the au- thority of the Chief of Ordnance. Where repairs indicate improper handling or neglect of materiel, the circumstances will be reported to the Chief of Ordnance. When mechanics employed by an armament officer are on duty at a post or in a district, they will, in the absence of the armament officer, be under the super- vision of the post or district commander. INSPECTION OF ORDNANCE — ^PACKING AND TRANSPORTATION. 313 When a part of or an accessory to an article constituting a porton of the armament of a district becomes obsolete and is replaced, the obsolete part or- accessory will be transferred by the coast defense commander to an arsenal to be designated by the armament officer, or will be submitted for the action of an inspector If the armament officer so recommends. (0. A. R., Nos. 25 and SO.) 1540. No officer will turn in any unserviceable ordnance stores except as provided in these regulations. 1541. Price lists of ordnance and ordnance stores will be published from time to time for the information and guidance of officers in making inventories, sales, and charges for the loss of or damage to ordnance property. 1542. Arm chests not required for the storage of supplies will be returned to the nearest arsenal or ordnance depot when the cost of transportation is not greater than the value of the property. Officers to whom such chests have been issued will be charged with their value if they are destroyed. INSPECTION OF OEDNANOE AND OEDNANCE STORES. 1543. When the recommendation of an inspector for sale of ordnance stores is approved, both copies of the report will be returned to the officer accountable for the stores, with detailed instructions how to make the sales. One copy of each inventory and inspection report must accompany the property return. Sales of condemned ordnance and ordnance stores will be accounted for on Form No. 272, which will be executed in duplicate and forwarded directly to the Chief of Ordnance on completion of the sale. A third copy will accompany the officer's property return. PACKING AND TEAN SPORT ATION. 1544. Officers who ship arms of any description are held responsible that they are so packed that, under ordinary handling, they can not break loose from their fastenings in the boxes, and that no loaded arm is packed for transporta- tion. When loaded arms, or arms insecurely packed, are received by an officer, he will report the facts direct to the Chief of Ordnance. 1546. After packing arms or ordnance stores for shipment, the covers and bottoms of the arm chests and packing boxes will, if possible, be sealed with wax and stamped with an official mark by the officer responsible. The lid will be secured by screws, at least two of which will be sealed. Each board on top and bottom will have at least one sealed screw. The screw heads will be countersunk to a depth sufficient to protect the wax seal from injury. The design of the seal will designate the arsenal, depot, post, or organization from which shipment is made. For over-sea shipments, all boxes and crates will be properly strapped with wire or hoop iron. Boxes containing arms and other valuable stores will be sealed prior to shipment from ordnance establishments in accordance with special instructions from the Chief of Ordnance. 1546. The Ordnance Department will prepare official stamps for sealing boxes and distribute them to each company. Company commanders will account for them in their returns of ordnance stores and use them exclusively for pur- poses intended. 1547. In preparing property for shipment, the name of the invoicing officer, or of the arsenal or depot, the date of the invoice, the number, gross weight, and general contents of each box or package, and the name or designation of the receiving officer will be distinctly marked thereon prior to delivery for ship- 314 OBDNANCE DEPARTMENT. ment. Each quartermaster who ships or receives ordnance stores will satisfy himself that the seals on the packages are unbroken. If the seals should be broken and any stores lost, he will cause the value of the lost stores to be charged to the carrier. 1648. When stores are turned over to the Quartermaster Corps for trans- portation they will be accompanied by triplicate invoices, one of which will be receipted and returned by the shipping quartermaster to the invoicing officer. Duplicate invoices with duplicate receipts to be signed by the receiving officer, and a shipping list describing the contents of each box or package, will be sent direct to the receiving officer by mail, to reach him, if practicable, before the receipts of the stores. Materials procured for current use at ordnance estab- lishments will be transported at the expense of the Ordnance Department. EETUBNS AND EEPOETS. 1549. Officers accountable for ordnance and ordnance stores will render the returns and statements required by Ordnance Property Regulations. 1550. Records of artillery firing will be kept at seaeoast forts and by organi- zations of mobile artillery, as prescribed in instructions from the War Depart- ment, and a copy forwarded directly to the Chief of Ordnance. 1551. Requisitions for blanks and blank books required for the use of the Ordnance Department will be made annually by every regiment and company, and forwarded to the Chief of Ordnance not later than April 30 of each year. Those suited to every command and arm of the service can be obtained upon application to the Chief of Ordnance. The requisitions will give the form num- ber and state the quantity of each blank and blank book desired, based on the needs for the following fiscal year. 1552. In the care and preservation of artillery material, magazines, small arms, etc., the instructions contained in the authorized Manual of Coast Artil- lery and the publications of the Ordnance Department will be observed. TESTS AND EXPEEIMENTAL TBIALS. 1553. No written or pictorial description of tests by this Government of arms or munitions of war will be made for publication without the authority of the Secretary of War, nor will any information, written or verbal, concerning them which is not contained in the printed reports and documents of the War Department be given to any unauthorized person. 1554. Except by special authority of the Secretary of War, no persons other than officers of the Army and Navy of the United States and Members of Con- gress in their official capacity, and persons in the service of the United States employed in direct connection with such tests, will be allowed to witness the same. 1556. Until further orders, inventors and manufacturers, or their properly accredited representatives, will also be permitted to be present at tests of and experiments with their own inventions. Commanding officers of ordnance establishments and other military posts are authorized to pass such persons Into them when they present the necessary credentials, but only for the purpose stated. Access to parts of commands not involved in the tests and experiments and to any war material, or to any means of obtaining knowledge of the same, is prohibited. SIGNAL COBPS. ^15 ABTICLE LXXVII. Signal Coeps. Note.— Regulations for the government of the Signal Corps, and for the operation and maintenance of United States military telegraph lines and cables, prepared and pub- lished by the Chief Signal Officer of the Army, under authority of the Secretary of War, are distributed to officers and men by the Chief Signal Officer. Only such regulations are herein given as are general in their nature or affect other branches of the service. 1556. The Chief Signal OflScer shall have charge, under the directioti of the Secretary of War, of all military signal duties and of books, papers, and de- vices connected therewith, including telegraph and telephone apparatus and the necessary meterological instruments for use on target ranges and for other military uses; of the construction, repair, and operation of military telegraph lines and the duty if transmitting messages for the Army, by telegraph or otherwise, and of aU other duties usually pertaining to military signaling and the operations of such corps as shall be confined to strictly military matters; of the direction of the Signal Corps of the Army and the control of the officers, enlisted men, and employees attached thereto; of the supply, installation, repair, and operation of military cables, telegraph and telephone lines, and radio apparatus and stations, except as provided in paragraph 15054 I of the supply, repair, and operation of field telegraph trains and balloon trains; of the preparation and revision of the War Department Telegraph Code; of the supervision of such instruction in military signaling, telephony, and telegraphy as may be prescribed in orders from the War Department, except such as is used by the Coast Artillery in fire control and fire direction and service of submarine mines ; of the procurement, preservation, and distribution of the necessary supplies for the Signal Corps and of the procurement and issue of signal equipment required in coast defense. (0. A. R., Nos. IfO and ^9.) 1557. Men may be enlisted for the Signal Corps, at the discretion of the Chief Signal Officer of the Army, in the class or grade for which they are competent and in which there is a vacancy. They will be promoted and reduced in the class or grade, as fixed by law, by the Chief Signal Officer of the Army, or by his authority. Master signal electricians, first-class sergeants, sergeants, corporals, cooks, and first-class privates may be reenlisted for the Signal Corps in their respec- tive grades, and their warrants and appointments continued in foice, if reen- listment be made on the day following that of discharge. Bach reenlistment and continuance will be noted on the warrant or appointment. If, except in the cases of men on duty in the Philippine and Hawaiian Departments, the officer under whom the soldier is serving does not deem the continuance in force of the warrant or appointment to' be for the best interests of the service, he will make a report in detail to The Adjutant General of the Army, through military channels, not less than three months prior to expiration of the soldier's term of service, in order that a decision may be made before the date of discharge and the soldier notified thereof. A similar report will be made to the command- ing generals, Philippine and Hawaiian Departments, respectively, with regard to Signal Corps men stationed in those departments. For the reenlistment of married men in the Signal Corps permission must be obtained from the Chief Signal Officer of the Army for men on duty at points other than in the Philippine and Hawaiian Departments, and from the department signal officers, Philippine and Hawaiian Departments, respectively, for men stationed in those departments. (C A. R., Nos. 8 and 12.) 1558. The senior signal officer of an army in the field commands the signal parties serving therein. Orders affecting them will be transmitted torough 316 SIGNAL COEPS. him, and he will be responsible that they are fully instructed, adequately sup- plied, and that they properly perform their duties. He will keep himself informed of the position of the army and of the enemy, and, under the instruc- tion of the general commanding, will establish his stations. He will submit reports of operations to the general commanding, and forward copies thereof to the Chief Signal Officer in Washington, to whom he will report monthly his station, the strength and condition of his parties, and all other matters pertain- ing to their duties and equipment. 1559. When telegraph lines are placed under charge of signal ofScers, they will be held responsible for their construction, maintenance, and operation. Commanding officers and others will see that the special duties of these officers are not interfered with, and upon proper application will render any assistance in their power. 1560. Communications transmitted by telegraph or sigr ;ils are always confi- dential, and will not be revealed except to those officia ly entitled to receive them, or in cases specially ordered by competent military authority. 1561. Official and military messages will have precedence. Subject to modi- fication in orders from the War Department, or by order of the commanding general of the army in the field, important dispatches will be usually sent in the following order of priority, due regard being had to the relative urgency of messages in the same class : First. Those relating to the movement or administration of the army in the field, and of the Navy. Second. Other messages relating to the Army, to the Navy, and to govern- mental departments or bureaus of the United States. Third. Messages of State, Territorial, or other civil officials, relating to pub- lic business. Fourth. Messages between diplomatic agents of neutral governments. Fifth. Press messages. Sixth. Miscellaneous business, those relating to death or serious illness having priority. Unimportant dispatches of any class must not, however, be given precedence over important dispatches of a subordinate class. 2. Dispatches containing matter deemed to be injurious to the public inter- ests must be submitted to the commanding general for his orders relative to their transmission. On detached lines such messages will be submitted to the senior officer or noncommissioned officer for his action. 3. Officers and soldiers are strictly prohibited from communicating, except to commanding officers or under special authorization from proper military authority, information by telegraph, or otherwise, relative to numbers, move- ments, or operations of troops, or details regarding fortifications, armaments, or experiments made in connection with military affairs. Neither shall they be permitted to file or send dispatches containing opinions on miltary opera- tions or other military matters relating to any part of the army or command with which they are serving, or to any auxiliary forces. 4. Personal and press messages may, under conditions not interfering with military business, be transmitted free over field military telegraph lines that are closed to the general public. 5. The use of any cipher is forbidden, except in communication to and from commanding officers and their superiors, or in cases of civil officers specially authorized. Personal and press codes, however, may be utilized for the eco- nomical transmission of dispatches upon filing a copy of the code with the central office and under such other regulations as may be formulated by the general commanding an army in the field. SIGNAL CORPS. 317 6. The chief signal officer of an army operating In the field, or of a district under military control, in carrying out his general instructions will formulate necessary regulations for the management and operation of military telegraph lines under his control. General rules should be reduced to writing, be clearly defined, and impartially enforced. 7. For signal communication between the Army and the Navy the Interna- tional Morse Code shall be adopted, transmitted by radio, visual, and sound Signals whenever applicable to the means of communication employed, with the single modification that in the use of the Ardois night system numerals shall be spelled out and punctuation marks shall be eliminated. The use of the International Morse Code, however, shall not be understood as prohibiting the employment between the Army and the Navy of such other systems of signaling as may be useful under special conditions, such as the International Code, the two-arm semaphore system, pyrotechnics of any description, including rockets, the Very pistol, or any other method of communication not adapted to the dot and dash code, but which at times may become serviceable and which may be temporarily agreed to by the senior officers present of the two services. 8. The International Morse Code is announced as the general service code of the Army, and will be used for all visual signaling, radio telegraphy, and on cables using siphon recorders. The American Morse Code will be used on tele- graph lines, on short cables, and on field lines. 15<>2. Department, division, and brigade commanders will require of all organizations of their commands such instruction in visual signaling as may be necessary for the service of information within their commands. Of at least two enlisted men of each organization to which is issued signal equip- ment there will be required ability to send and receive messages by use of the 2-foot and semaphore signal flags at the following rates of speed: (a) 2-foot flag, general service code, at a speed equal to three combinations of five mixed letters each, per minute, over a distance not less than one mile; (b) semaphore flags, two-arm semaphore code, at a speed equal to eight com- binations of five letters each, per minute, over a distance of not less than five hundred yards. (0. A. R., Nos. 5 and 2S.) 1563. Whoever shstll willfully or maliciously injure or destroy any of the works, property, or material of any telegraph, telephone, or cable line, or sys- tem, operated or controlled by the United States, whether constructed or in process of construction, or shall willfully or maliciously interfere in any way with the working or use of any such line, or system, or shall willfully or ma- liciously obstruct, hinder, or delay the transmission of any communication over any such line, or system, shall be fined not more than $1,000, or imprisoned not more than three years, or both. 1564. Officers of the Army iind cadets of the first and second classes, United States Military Academy, may purchase from the Signal Corps articles of Signal Corps equipment, provided the property is available. They will certify that the articles are for their personal use. The price to be paid by an officer or cadet for such property will be the cost price to the Government. Code cards and instructions for visual signaling will be furnished by the Chief Signal Officer of the Army upon application. Signal supplies will be furnished by the Signal Corps to posts and such organizations as require them on requisitions approved by department commanders. All officers or other persons in the military estab- lishment to whom signal supplies are issued will render accounts and returns therefor to the Chief Signal Officer of the Army on forms furnished for that purpose. (C A. B., No. 55.) 1565. Signal supplies will be issued to the Organized Militia of the several States, Territories, and the District of Columbia in accordance with the pro- 318 XTNIFOEM MANUALS THE ABMY RESEKVE. visions of " An act to promote the efficiency of the militia, and for other pur- poses," approved January 21, 1903, as amended by the act of Congress approved May 27, 1908, upon proper requisition therefor. 1566. Telescopes, telephones, and expensive electrical or aeronautical appa- ratus of the Signal Corps, vs^hen unserviceable, will not be submitted to an in- spector for condemnation without previous authority of the Chief Signal Officer of the Army. / Field glasses, when unserviceable beyond local repair, will not be sub- mitted to an inspector, but will be shipped and invoiced to the Signal Corps General Supply Depot, Fort Wood, N. Y. (C. A. R., Nos. 35 and 46.) 1567. Quartermasters will Issue to signal parties serving in their vicinity, on the requisition of the officer in charge, such supplies from their respective departments as may be necessary for their proper equipment and subsistence. 1568. Electrical engineers and other technical employees of the Signal Corps shall, while serving on tiransports or other Government vessels used as cable ships, be entitled to subsistence in the same manner as employees of the Quartermaster Corps serving thereon. ARTICLE LXXVIII. Uniform. 1569. The uniform and equipments of officers and enlisted men will be pre- scribed in special regulations published by authority of the Secretary of War. ARTICLE LXXIX. Mantjais or Stait Depabtments and Blank Fobms. 1570. Manuals issued by the staff departments and approved by the Secre- tary of War, when not in conflict with any of the provisions of these regulations or of orders or bulletins of the War Department, will have equal force therewith. 1571. The standard blank forms used in Army administration, with the notes and directions thereon, have the force and effect of Army Regulations. New forms or alterations will not be made without the authority of the Secre- tary of War, and the date on which a form or alteration was authorized will be printed on the form itself. All notes or directions on these blanks will, prior to their issue, be approved by the Secretary of War. These forms and lists of them will be furnished by the chiefs of the various bureaus and offices of the War Department. Requisitions therefor will call for them by number and name. For the service of the interior, blank forms will be procured by requisition as prescribed in these regulations, in general orders, and in the manuals of the several staff corps and departments. For the service of the theater of opera- tions, they will be procured by requisition on the staff officers at the base of operations or base of line of communications, through the division staff .officers who will keep on hand an emergency supply of the blank forms of their respective staff corps and departments, preferably carried in the supply train. (C.A. R., No. 33.) 1572. The rendition of returns, rolls, certificates, and other documents in manuscript is prohibited when the proper printed forms therefor are on hand. ARTICLE LXXX. The Akmy Reseeve. [Established by the provisions of the second paragraph of section 2 of the Army appropriation act of August 24, 1912. (37 Stat., 590, 591.)] 1573. Regulations governing the Army Reserve are published in special regu- lations from the War Department. ((7. A. R., No. 55.) NOTE. The Articles of War are omitted from this reprint for the reason that they lire contained in the 1917 Manual for Courts-Martial. 319 MEMORANDUM. statement showing new numbers of old paragraphs of Army Begulatlons. Numtier of para- graph 1910 edi- tion. Number of para- graph 1913 edi- tion. Number of para- graph 1910 edi- tion. Number of para^ graph 1913 edi- tion. Number of para- graph 1910 edi- tion. dumber of para- graph 1913 edi- tion. 1 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. 33. 34. 35. 36. 37. 38. 39. 40. 41. 42. 43. 44. 46. 46. 47. 48. 49. SO. 51. 52. , S3. 54. 55. 66. 57. 58. 59. 60. 61. 62. 63. 64. 65 65. 06. 67. 68. 69. 70. 71. 72. 73. 74. 75. 76. 77. 78. 79. 80. 81. 82. 83. 84. 85. 86. 87. 88. 89. 90. 91. 92. 93. 94. 95. 96. 97. 98. 99. 100. 101. 102. 103. 104. 105. 106. 107. 108. 109. 110. 111. 112. 113. 114. 115. 116. 117. 118. 119. 120. 121. 122. 123. 124. 125. 126. 127. 128. 129 129. 2 66. 130 . 130. 67 131 131. 4 68.. 132.. 132. 69 133 133. g 70.. 134.-. 134. 71 135 135. g 72.. 136.. 136. 73 137 137. 10 74 138 138. 75 139 139. 12 76 140 140. 77 140i 141. 14 78 14l' 142. 79 142 143. 16 80 143 144. 81 144 145. Is 82 145 146. 83 140 147. 20 84 1-17 148. 85 HS 149. 22 86 149 160. 9^ 87 . 150 151. 88 : 161 152. 89 152 153. 26 90 153 164. 91 154 155. 28 92 155 166. 93 156 157. ^n 94 157 158. 95 158 159. 96 159 160. 97 160 161. 98 161 162. 99 162 163. 100 163 164. 101 164 165. 102 165 166. 103 166 167. 104 167 168. 106 168 169. 106 169 170. 107 170 171. 108 171 172. 109 172 173. 110 173 174. Ill 17! 176. 112 175 ive 176. 113 177. 114 177 178. 115 178 179. 116 179 180. 117 180 181. 118 181 182. 119 182 183. 120 183 184. 121 184 185. 122 185 186. 123 186 187. 124 187 188. 125 187i 189. 126 188:. 190. 127 189 191. 64 128 190 192. 79733°— 18 21 321 322 MEMOEANDUM. Statemeut showing new numbers of old paragraphs of Army Bcgulations — Continued. Number of para- graph 1910 edi- tion. Number of para- graph 1913 edi- tion. Number of para- graph 1910 edi- tion. Number of para- graph 1913 edi- tion. Number of para- graph 1910 edi- tion. Number of para- graph 1913 edi- tion.^ 191 193. 193i. 194. Rescinded. 195. 196. 197. Rescinded. 198. 199. 200. 201. 202. 203. 204. 205. 206. 207. 208. 209, 210, 211, 212, 213. 214. 215, 216, 217. 218, 219. 220. 221. 222. 223. 224. 224i. 225. 226. 227. 228. 229. 230. 231. 232. 233. 234. 235. 236. 237. 238. 239, 240, 241, 242, 243, 244, 245, 246. Rescinded. 247. 248, 249. 250. 251. 252. 253. 254, 255. 256. 257. 258. 259. 260. 261, 262, 263. 264. 265, 26G, 267. 268. 269.. 269. 270. 271. 272. 273. 274. 275. 276. 277. 278. 279. 280. 281. 282. 283. 284. 285. 286. 287. 288. 289. 290. 291. 292. 293. 294. 295. 296. 297. 298. 299. 300. 301. 302. 303. 304, 305. 306. 307. 308. 309. 310. 311. 312. 313. 314. 315. 316. 317. 318. 319. 320. 321. 322. 323. 324. 325. 326. Rescindea. Do. Do. Do. 327. 328. 329. 330. Rescinded. Do. Do. Do. Do. Do. 331. 332. 333, 334. 335. 336. 337. 338. 339. 350 340. 270 361 341. jgo 271.. . 352 342. 272 353 343. 194 1 'i73.. 353 343. 274 354 344. 275 355 345. 197 276 356 Rescinded. 277 357 346. 199 278 358 359 347. 279 348. 280 360 349. 202 281 361 350. 282 362 351. 204 283 363-. - 352. 205 284 364 353. 206 285 365 354. 207 286 366 355. 208 287 367 356 209 288 368.. 357. 210 289 369 358. 211 290 370 359. 212 291 371 360. 213 292 , . 372 301. 214 293 373 362. 215 294.... 374 363. 216 295 375 364. 217 296 376 365. 218 297 377.. 366. 219 298 378 367. 220 299 379 . 368. 221 300 380 369. 222 301 381 370. 223 302 382 371. 224 303 383 372. 304 384 373. 225 305 ; 385 374. 226 306 386 375. 227 307 387 376. 228 308 388 377. 229 309 389 378. 230 310 390 379. 231 311 391 380. 232 312 392 381. 233 313 393 382. 234 314 394 393, 235 315 395 384. 236 . 316 396 385. 237 317 397 386. 238 318 398 387. 239 319 399 388. 240 820 400 389. 241 321 401 390. 242 322 402 391. 243 323 402J 392. 243J 324 403 393. 244 325.. ; 404 394. 245 326 405 395. 246 327 406 396. 247 328 407 397. 248 329 408 398. 249 330 409 399. 410 400. 251 332 411 401. 412 402. 253 334 413 403. 335 414.. 404. 254 405. 406. 407. 408. 409. 410. 255 336 ^56 337 257 , 338 258 339 259 340 419 260 341 411. 261 342 421 412. 262 343 413. 263 344 423 414. 264 345 424 415. 425 416. 347 416 417. 267 348 427 418. 268 349 428 419. MEMORANDUM. 323 statement slio'wing ne"w nnmlbeTS of old para^aphs of Army Begulations — Continued. Number of para^ graph 1910 edi- tion. Number of para- graph 1913 edi- tion. Number of para- graph 1910 edi- tion. Number of para- graph 1913 edi- tion. Number of para- graph 1910 edi- tion. Number of para- graph 1913 edi- tion. 429. 430. 431. 432. 433. 434. 435. 436. 437. 440.. 441.. 442.. 443.. 444.. 445.. 446.. 447.. 448.. 449.. 450.. 451.. 452.. 453.. 454.. 455.. 456.. 457.. 458.. 459.. 460.. 461.. 462.. 463.. 464.. 465.. 466.. 467.. 468.. 469.. 470.. 471.. 472.. 473.. 474.. 475. 476.. 477.. 478.. 479.. 480.. 481.. 482. 483. 484. 485. 486. 487. 488. 489. 490. 491. 492. 493. 494. 495. 496. 497. 498. 499. 600. 501. 502. 503. 504. 505. 506. 507. 508. 420. 421. 422. 423. 424. 425. 426. 427. 428. 429. 430. 431. 432. 433. 434. 435. 436. 437. 438. 439. 440. 441. 442. 443. 444. 445. 446. 447. 448. 449. 460. 451. 452. 463. 464. 465. 466. 467. 458. 469. 460. 461. 462. 463. 464. 465. 466. 467. 470. 471. 472. 473. 474. 476. 476. 477. 478. 479. 480. 481. 484. 485. 490. 491. 494. 495. 497. 498. 499. 609.. 510.. 511.. 512.. 513.. 514.. 515.. 616.. 517.. 518.. 519.. 520.. 621.. 522.. 523.. 524.. 525.. 526.. 527.. 528.. 529.. 530.. 531.. 532.. 533.. 534.. 535.. 636.. 637.. 538.. 539.. 540.. 541.. 542.. 543.. 544., 545.. 640.. 547.. 548.. 549.. 650.. 551.. 562.. 653.. 654.. 555.. 656.. 567.. 568.. 659.. 560.. 561.. 562.. 563.. 504.. 665.. 666.. 667.. 568.. 569.. 570.. 571.. 572.. 573.. 574. 575.. 576.. 677. 578.. 579.. 580. 581.. 582.. 583. 684. 585.. 586.. 587.. 600. 601. 502-. 503. 504. 505. 506. 507. 508. 609. 610. 511. 512. 613. 614. 515. 616. 617. 518. 619. 620. 522. 523. 624. 625. 526. 527. 528. 629. 530. 531. 532. 533. 534. 535. 536. 537. 538. 639. 640. 641. 542. 543. 544. 545. 546. 547. 548. 649. 650. 551. 552. 653. 654. 565. 556. 557. 558. 669. 660. 561. 662. 563. 564. 565. 566. 567. 568. 669. 570. 571. 572. 573. 674. 675. 676. 577. 578. 579. 589., 591... 692... 603... 594... 695... 596... 597... 598... 699... GOO... 601... C02... 603... 604... 605... 606... 607... 609... 610... 611... 612... 613... 614... 616... 616... 617... 618... 019... 619i. 620... 621... 622.. 623.. 624... 625.. 620.- 627.- 628.. 629.. 630.- 631-- 032.. 633.. 634.. 636.. 636.. 037.. 638.. 639.. 640-. 641.. 642.. 643.. 044.- 045 -. 646-. 647.. 648.. 649.. 650.. 051.. 652.. 653.. 651.. 665.. (366-- 667-. 658.. 659.. 660.. 661.. 662.. 663.. 664.. 665.. 680. 681. 582. 683. Rescinded. Do. 584. 685. 680. 687. 588. 689. 690. 591. 692. 621. 693. 694. 696. 596. 597. 598. 699. 600. 601. 602. 603. 604. C05. 606. 607. 608. 609. Rescinded. 610. 611. 612. 613. 614. 616. 616. 617. 618. 619. 620. 621. 622. 623. 624. 625. 626. 627. 628. 631. 632. 633. 634. 635. 636. 637. 638. 639. 640. 641. 642. 643. 644. 645. 646. 647. 648. 649. 660. 651. 652. 663. 654. 055. 324 MEMORANDUM. Statement showing new nnmlbers of oM paragraphs of Army Eegnlatlons — Continued. Number of para^ graph 1910 edi- tion. Number of para^ graph 1913 edi- tion. Number of para^ graph 1910 edi- tion. Number of para- graph 1913 edi- tion. Number of pai-a- graph 1910 edi- tion. Number of parar graph 1913 edi- tion. 667 655. 667. 658, 659. 660. J661. 662. 663. 664. 665. 666. 667. 668. 669. 670. 671. 672. 673. 674. 675. 676. 677. 678. 679. 680. 681. 682. 683. 684. 685. 686. 687. 688. 689. 690. 691. 692. 693. 694. 695. 696. 697. 698. 69.9. 700. 701. 702. 703. 704. 705. 706. 707. 708. 709. 710. 711. 712. 713. 714. 715. 716. 717. 718. 719. 720. 721. 722. 723. 724. 725. 726. 727. 728. 729. 730. 731. 732. 733. 734. 735. 736. 748 737. 738. 739. 740. 741. 742. 743. 744. 745. 746. 747. 748. 749. 750. 751. 752. 753. 764. 765. 756. 757. 758. 759. 760. 761. 762. 763. 764. 765. 766. 767. 768. 769. 770. 771. 772. 773. 774. 775. 776. Hescinded. Do. 777. 778. Rescinded. Do. 779. 780. 781. 782. 783. 784. 785. 786. 787. 788. 789. 790. 791. 792. 793. 794. 795. 796. 797. 798. 799. 800. 801. 802. 803. 804. 805. 806. 807. 808. 809. 810. Rescinded. 811. . 812. 827 813. 749 828 814. 669 760 829 815. 761 830 816. 671 762 831 817. 763 G32 818. 754 833 819. 674 756 834.. 820. 756 835 821. 767 836 822. 677 768 837. 823. 678 759 838 824. 760 839 826. 680 761 840.. Rescinded 681 762 841 Do. 682 763 842 826. 683 764 ... 843.. 827 684 765 844 828. 685 766 845 686 767 846.. 829 687 768 847 830. 688 769 848 831. 689 770 849.. 832. 690.' 771 850 833. 691 772 851. 834 692 773 852.. 836. 693 774 863.... , . . 836. 6SM 776 854. 837 695 776 855.. 838. 696 777 856 839. 697 778 .. 857. 840 698 779 858.. 841. 699 780 869 842 700 781 860. 843. 701 782 861 844 702 783 862 845. 703 784 863 846 704 786 .. . 864 847. 705 -.. 786 865 848. 706 786i... 866 849 707 787.. . 867 850. 708 788 868 851 709 789.. 869 852. 710 789i 870 853 711 790 871 854 712... , 791.. . 872 866. 713 792 873 856 714 793.. 874 857. 715 794 875 858 716 795.. 876 859 717 796.... . 877. 860. 718 797 878 861. 719 798.. 879 862. 720 799 880 863. 721 800.. 881 864. 722 801 882 865. 723 802. 883 . 866. 724 803 884 867. 726 804- 885 868. 726 805 886 869. 727 806 887 870. 728 807.. 888 871. 729 808 889 872 730 809 890 891 873. 731 810 874. 732 811 892 875. 733 812 893 876. 734 813 894 877 735 814.. . 895 878. 736 815 896 879 737 816 880 738 817 898 881 739 818.. 899 882 740 819 900 883 741 820.. 901 884 742 821 902 885 743 822 . 903 886 744 823 904 745 824.. . 905 888. 889. 890. 746 825 906 747 826 907 MEMOEANDTJM. 325 statement showing new numlbcrs of old paragraphs of Army Eegnlatlons — Continued. Number of para- graph 1910 edi- tion. 908... 909... 910... 911... 911S.. 912.".. 9121.. 913.'.. 914... 91.5... 916... 917... 918... 919... 920.., 921... 922... 923... 924... 925.. 926.. 927.. 92S.. 929.. 930.. 931.. 932.. 933.. 934.. 935.. 937.. 938.. 939.. 940.. 941.. 942.. 943.. 944.. 945.. 947 948 949 950 951 952 953 964 955 956 957 957J 968 959 960 961 962 963 964 965 966 967 969.. 970.. 971.. 972.. 973.. 974.. 975.. 976.. 977.. «78.. 979.. 980.. 981.. 982.. 983.. Number of para- graph 1913 edi- tion. Number ot para^ graph 1910 edi- tion. Number of para^ graph 1913 edi- tion. 893. 894. 897. 898. 899. 900. 901. 902. 903. 904. 905. 906. 907. 908. 909. 910. 911. 912. 913. 914. 915. 916. 917. 918. 919. 920. 921. 922. 923. 924. 925. 926. 927. 928. 929. 930. 931. 932. 933. 934. 935. 936. 937. 938. 939. 940. 941. 942. 943. 944. 945. 946. 947. 948. 949. 950. Rescinded. 951. 952. 953. 954. 955. 956. 967. Eesoinded. 958. 959. 960. 961. 962. 963. 964. 965. 966. 967. 985.. 986.. 987., 990.. 991.. 992.. 993.. 994.. 993.. 937.... 998.... 999.... 1000... 1001... 1002... 1003... 1004... 1005... 1006... 1007... 1008... 1009... 1010... 1011... 1012... 1013... 1014... 1015... 1016... 1017... 1018... 1019... 1020... 1021... 1022... 1023... lOM. .. 1025... 10261. . 1026... 1027... 1028... 1029... 1030. .. 1031... 1032... 1033... 1034... 1035... 1036... 1037... 1038... 1039... 1040... 1041.. 1042.., 1043.., 1044.., 1045.., 1046.., 1047.., 1048.., 1049. ., 1050. . 1051.., 1052. ., 1053. ., 1054. . 1055.. 1066. . 1057. . 1058. . 1059. . 1060.. 1061.., 988. 969. 970. 971. 972. 973. 974. 975. 976. 977. 978. 979. 980. 981. 984. Rescinded. 985. 986. 987. 988. 989. 990. 991. 992. 993. 994. 995. 996. 997. lOOO. 1001. 1002. 1003. 1004. 1005. 1006. 1007. 1008. 1009. 1010. 1011. 1012. 1013. 1014. 1015. 1016. 1017. 1018. 1019. 1020. 1021. 1022. 1023. 1024. 1025. 1026. 1027. 1028. 1029. 1030. 1031. 1032. 1033. ia34. 1035. 1036. 1037. 103?. 10E9. 1040. 1041. 1042. 1043. 1044. 1045. Number of para- graph 1910 edi- tion. Number of parar graph 1913 edi- tion. 1062. . 1063.. 1064.. 1065. . 1066. . 1087. . 1068. . 1069. . 1070. . 1071. . 1072. . 1073. . 1074. . 1075. . 1076.. 1077. . 1078. . 1079. . 1080.. 1081. , 1082. 1083. 1084. 1085. 1086. 1087. 1088. 1090. .. 1091... 1092... 1093... 1094... 1095... 1098... 1097. .. 1098... 1099... 1100... 1101... 1102... 1103... 1104... 1105. .. 1106... 1107... 1108... 1109... 1110... nil... 1112... 1113... 1114... 1114J. . 1115... 1116... 1117... 1118... 1119... 1120... 1121... 1122... 1123... 1124... 1125... 1126... 1127... 1128... 1129... 1130... 1131... 1132... 1133... 1134.. 1136.. 11.36.., 1137.., 1138.. 1139.. 1046. 1047. 1048. 1049. 1060. 1061. 1052. 1053. 1054. 1055. 1056. 1067. 1058. 1059. 1060. 1061. 1062. 1063. 1064. 1065. 1066. 1067. 1068. 1069. 1070. 1071. 1072. 1073. 1074. 1076. 1076. 1077. 1078. 1079. 1080. 1081. 1082. 1083. 1084. 1086. 1086. 1087. 1088. 1089. 1090. 1091. 1092. 1093. 1094. 1095. 1096. 1097. 1098. 1099. 1100. 1101. 1102. 1103. 1104. 1105. 1106. 1107. 1108. 1109. 1110. nil. 1112. 1113. 1114. 1115. 1116. 1117. 1118. 1119. 1120. 1121. 1122. 1123. 1124. 326 MEMOEANDUM. Statement showing new nambers of old paragraphs of Army Regulations — Continued, Number of para- graph 1910 edi- tion. 1140. 1141. 1142. 1143. 1144. 1145. 1146. 1147. 114R. 1149. 1150. 1151. 1152. 1153. 1154. 1155. 1156. 1157. 1158. 1159. 1160. 1161. 1162. 1163. 1164. 1165. 1166. 1167. 1168. 1169 1170. 1171. 1172. 1173- 1174. 1175- 1176. 1177- 1178. 1179. 1180. 1181. 1182. 118.S. 1184. 1185. 1186. 1187. 1188. 1189. 1190- 119l'- 1192. 1193. 1194. 1195. 1196. 1197. 1198. 1199. 1200- 1201. 1202. 1203. 1204. 1205. 1206. 1207. 1208. 1209. 1210. 1211. 1212. 1213. 1214. 1215. 1216. 1217. 1218. 1219. Number of para^ graph 1913 edi- tion. 1125. 1126. 1127. 1128. 1129. 1130. 1131. 1132. 1133. 1134. 1135. 1136. 1137. 1138. 1139. 1140. 1141. 1142. 1143. 1144. 1145. 1146. 1147. 1148. 1149. 1150. 1151. 1152. 1153. 1154. 1155. 1156. 1157. 1158. 1159. 1160. 1161. 1162. 1163. 1164. 1165. 1166. Rescinded. 1167. 1168. 1169. 1170. 1171. 1172. 1173. 1174. 1174^. 1175. 1176. 1177. 1178. 1179. 1180. 1181. 1182. 1183. 1184. 1185. 1186. 1187. 1188. 1189. 1190. 1191. 1192. 1193. 1194. Rescinded. Do. Do. Do. 1195. 1196. 1197. 1198. Eesoinded. Number of para- graph 1910 edi- tion. 1220.. 1221.. 1222.. 12224. 1223.'. 1224.. 1225.. 1226.. 1227.. 1228.. 1229.. 1230.. 1231.. 1232.. 1233.. 1234.. 1235- 1236.. 1237.. 1238.. 1239.. 1240.. 1241.. 1242.. 1243.. 1244.. 1245... 1246.. 1247.., 1248... 1249... 1250... 1251... 1252... 1253... 1264... 1255... 1256... 1257... 1268... 1259... 1260... 1261... 1262... 1263... 1264... 1265... 1266... 1267... 1268... 1270.. 1271.. 1272.. 1273... 1274.. 1275.. 1276.. 1277.. 1278.. 1279... 1280.. 1281.. 1282... 1283.. 1284... 1285... 1286... 1287... 1288... 1289... 1290... 1291... 1292... 1292*.. 1293.".. 1294... 1295... 1296... 1297... 1298... Number of para- graph 1913 edi- tion. Rescinded. 1199. 1200. 1201. 1202. 1203. 1204. 1205. 1206. 1207. 1208. 1209. 1210. 1211. Rescinded. 1212. 1213. 1214. 1215. 1216. 1217. 1218. 1219. 1220. 1221. 1222. 1223. 1224. 1225. 1226. 1227. 1228. 1229. 1230. 1231. 1232. 1233. 1234. 1235. 1236. 1237. 1238. 1239. 1240. 1241. 1242. 1243. 1244. 1245. 1246. 1247. 1248. 1249. 1250. 1251. 1252. 1253. Rescinded. 1254. 1255. 1256. 1257. 1258. 1259. 1260. 1261. 1262. 1263. 1264. 1265. 1266. 1267. 1268. Rescinded. 1269. 1270. 1271. 1272. 1273. 1274. 1275. Number of para^ Numberofpara- graph 1910 edi- graph 1913 edi- tion, tion. 1299.. 1300.. 1301.. 1302.. 1303.. 1304.. 1305.. 1306.. 1307.. 1308.. 1309.. 1310.. 1311.. 1312.. 1313.. 1314.. 1315.. 1316.. 1317.. 1318.. 1319.. 1320.. 1321.. 1322.. 1323.. 1324.. 1325.. 1326.. 1327.. 1328.. ,1329.. 1330.. 1331- 1332.. 1333.. 1334.. 1335- 1336.. 1337.. 1338.. 1339.. 1340.. 1341... 1342.. 1343.., 1344-, 1345.., 1346.., 1347.-, 1248.., 1349.., 1350-, 1351.., 1352... 1353... 1354... 1355... 1353... 1.367... 1358... 1359... 1360... 1361... 1362... 1363... 1364... 1365... 1366... 1.367... 1367^.. 1368:.. 1369... 1370... 1371... 1372... 1373... 1374... 1375... 1376... 1377... 1378... 1276. 1277. 1278. 1279. 1280. 1281. 1282. 1283. 1284. 1285. 1286. 1287. 1288. 1289. 1290. 1291. 1292. 1293. 1294. 1295. 1296. 1297. 1298. 1299. 1300. 1301. 1302. 1303. 1304. 1305. 1306. 1307. 1308. 1309. 1310. 1311. 1312. 1313. 1314. 1315. 1316. 1317. 1318. 1319. 1320. 1321. 1322. 1323. 1324. 1325. 1326. 1327. 1328. 1329. 1330. 1331. 1332. 1333. 1334. 1335. 1336. 1337. 1338. 1339. 1340. Rescinded, 1341. 1?42. 1343. 1344. 1345. 1346. 1347. 1348. 1349. 1350. 1351. 1352. 1353. 1354. 1355. MEMOKANDUM. 327 Statement showing new numlbcrs of old paragraphs of Army Begvlatlons — Continued. NumlrerofparEt- graph 1910 edi- tion. Number of para- graph 1913 edi- tion. 1379. . . 1366. 1357. 1358. 1359. 1360. 1361. 1362. 1363. 1364. 1365. 1366. 1367. 1308. 1369. 1370. 1371. 1372. 1373. 1374. 1375. 1376. 1377. 1378. 1379. 1380. 1381. 1382. 1383. 1384. 1385. 1386. 1387. 1388. 1389. 1390. 1391. 1392. 1393. 1394. 1395. 1.396. 1397. 1398. 1399. 1400. 1401. 1402. 1403. 1404. 1405. 1406. 1407. 1408, 1409. 1410. 1411. 1412. 1413. 1414. 1415. 1416. 1417. 1418. 1419. 1420. 1421. 1422. 1423. 1424. 1425. 1428. 1427. 1428. 1380 1381 . 1382 1383 1384 1385 1386 1387 1388 1389 1390 1391 . 1392 1393..-. 1394 - . . 1395 1396 1397 1398 1399 1400 1401 - . . 1402 1403 1404 1405 1406 1407 1408 - 1409 1410 . 1411 1412 1413 1414 1415. . . 1416 1417... 1418 1419 . 1420. . . 1421 1422. . . . 1423 1424- -. 1425 1428... 1427 1428 . 1429 1430 - 1431- - 1432 1433 - 1434 1435 . 1436 1437 1438 . 1439 '. 1440 . 1441 1442 . 1443 1444 1445 1446 1447 1448 1449 1450 . 1451 Number of para- graph 1910 edi- tion. Number of para- graph 1913 edi- tion. 1452 1429. 1463... 1430. 1454 1455. . . 1431. 1432. 1456 . 1433. 1457... 1434. 1458 . 1435. 1458J 1436. 1459 .. 1437. 1460 1438. 1461... 1439. 1462 1440. ' 1463..- 1441. 1404 1442. 1465- . . 1443. 1466 1444. 1487- - - 1445. 1468 1446. 1469- . - 1447. 1470 1448. 1471--. 1449. 1472 . 1450. 1473--. . - 1451. 1474 . 1452. 1475 1463. 1476- - - 1454. 1477 1455. 1478--. 1456. 1479 1457. 1480. . . 1458. 1481 1459. 1482... . . 1460. 1483 . 1461. 1484 1462. 1485 . 1463. 1486 1464. 1487- . - 1465. 1488 1466. 1489 1467. 1490 1468. 1491 1469. 1492 1470. 1493 1471. 1494 1472. 1495 1473. 1496 1474. 1497 1475. 1498 1476. 1499 1477. 1600 1478. 1601 1479. 1502 1480. 1503 1481. 1504 1482. 1605 1483. 1506 1484. 1507 1485. 1508 1486. 1509 . . - 1487. 1510 1488. 1511 1489. 1512 1490. 1513 1491. 1514 - - - 1492. 1515 1493. 1516 1494. 1517 1495. 1518 1496. 1519 1497. 1520 1498. 1521 1499. 1522 1500. 1523 1501. Clumber of para- graph 1910 edi- tion. Number of para- graph 1913 edi- tion. 1524 1502. 1525 1503. 1526 1504. 1527 1505. 1505i. 1506. 1528 1529 1507. 1530 1 .508. 1531 1509. 1532 1510. 1533 1511. 1534 1512. 1535 . 1513. 1536 1537 . . -. 1514. 1515. 1538 1516. 1539 . 1617. 1540 1618. 1541 1619. 1642 1520. 1543 1621. 1544 1522. 1545 1523. 1546 1524. 1547 1525. 1548 . . 1526. 1549 1627. 1650 . . -- 1528. 1551 1629. 1552 1530. 1553 1531. 1554 1532. 1655 1533. 1556 1534. 1657 1535. 1558 1536. 1559 1537. 1560 1538. 1561 1639. 1562 1640. 1563 1541. 1564 1542. 1565 1643. 1566 1644. 1667 . -- 1645. 1546. 1569 . -- 1547. 1,570 1548. 1571 1549. 1572 1550. 1573 1551. 1574 1552. 1575 1553. 1576 1554. 1577 1655. 1578 1556. 1.579 15.57. 1580 1558. 1581 1559. 1582 1560. 1583 1561. 1584 1562. 1585 1563. 1586 1564. 1587 1565. 1588 . -- 1566. 1589 1567. 1590 1668. 1591 1569. 1592 1570. 1593 1571. 1,594 1572. 1573. 328 NUMBERS OP NEW PAEAGBAPHS. NUMBERS OF NEW PARAGRAPHS. 141 409 943 1344 189 609 1009 1436 193i 776 1099 15D5i 224i 778 1174i 1573 244 895 1201 392 8a7 1269 IISTDEX. [References are to Paragraphs and Articles of War by their numbers. Eeference p. or pp. is to pages of this volume. An Article of War is Indicated by the letters A. W., followed by the number of the article.] Abandoning Post: Punishment, A. W. 42. Abiitcment : Term of confinement, 942, 943. Absence Without LeaTc: Absenting from company, A. W. 32. Clothing account, 1162. Convictions, 127, 128, 132 Forfeitures, 132. Less than one day, 132. Lying out of quarters, A. W. 31. One mile from camp, A. W. 34. Parade, etc., A. W. 33. Quarters or tent, A. W. 35. Quitting guard, etc., A. W. 40. Time lost to be made good, 130, 132, 141. Transportation .to proper station, 110. Absent from Master: Certificates, A. W. 12, 13. Abstracts of Proposals: Accepted quantity and price to be noted, 548. Disposition of copies, 543, 549, 557. Preparation, etc., 541. Proposals to accompany, as vouchers, 542. Eejeetions, 545-548. Abases : Correction, etc., by officer, A. W. 54. Abnsire Language: Use of, by superiors, 3. Accountability: Certificates, quartermaster supplies, 1091, 1092. Money. See Money Accountatility, Property. See Property AccountaWUty, etc. Acconnts, Advertising: Preparation and presentation, 506, 507. Unsettled and outstanding, 508. Accounts, Company Fund: Audit and inspection, 316, 328. Duties company commander, 328. Accounts, Deceased Soldiers: Medical attendance, etc., 1478. Settlement and distribution, 166. Accounts, Hedical Attendance, etc.: Attendance, 1478. Chronic complaints, 1476. Civil hospitals, 1481. Civilian physicians' charges, 1479, 1484, 1485. Consultations, 1476. Acconnts, Hedical Attendance, etc. — Contd. Families and servants, 1476. Hospital stores, 1476. Medicines, 1480, 1483. Officers and men not on duty, 1476. Payment, 1476, 1477. Recruiting service, 1484. Reimbursements to officers, 1483. Rendition and forwarding, 1476, 1477, 1483. Special nurses, 1482. Surgical appliances, 1476. Accounts, Mess Fund: Audit and inspection, 316, 330. Accounts, Pay, etc.: Clothing, 1157-1166, 1169, 1415. Deserters, 124. Detached enlisted men, 104. Officers, 1256, 1258, 1259, 1262. Post noncommissioned staff, 99. Accounts, Printing: Preparation and presentation, 506, 507, 511. Accounts, Regimental Fund : Record, 325. Accounts, Telegraph and Telephone: Preparation, etc., 044, 1186, 1189, 1191- 1194. Accounts, Transportation: . Applicants artificial limbs, etc., 1492. Ferries, turnpikes, and bridges, 1126, 1127. Inmates Soldiers' Home, D. C, 180. Street car, 1127. Accounts Current: See Money Accounts. Accouterments : See Arms and Accouterments. Acetylene : Allowance, 1057. Acting Denttil Surgeons: Assignment, 1396. Assistants, 1397. Baggage, 1136, 1138. Contracts, 1390, 1392, 1395. Duties, 1398-1403. Employment, 1390. ■.uel, 1087. Illuminating supplies, 1054, 1057. Medical attendance, etc., 1473, 1470, 1478, 1480, 1483. Mileage, 1296. Office rooms, 1397. 329 330 INDEX. Acting Dental Surgeons — Continued. Pay and allowances, 1390. Payments to, 1268. Privileges, IS&l. Quartermaster supplies, 1174. Returns by department surgeons, 1489. Subsistence supplies, 1239. Termination of service, 1395. Acting Inspectors General: Duties, etc. See Inspectors General. Acting Judge Advocates: Duties, etc., 916, 918. Mounted pay, 1272. Office rooms, fuel, and stoves, 1044. Additional Pay, Enlisted Men: Certiflcate of merit, 186, 1341* Classification for, 1343-1345. Continuous service, 1339, 1340. Denied for two ratings at same time, 1343. Mess sergeants, 1346. Outside continental limits United States, 1342. Pay for extra duty, 169, 170, 172, 174, 176, 177, 329. Reenlistment, 859, 1338, 1339. Additional Fay, Officers: Aviation duty, 1269. Denied for two staff appointments at same time, 1270. Exercising command in advanced grade, 1267. Longevity, 1271. Mounted service, 1272-1274. Outside continental limits United States, 1268. Adjutant General of the Army, The: Allotment grantors in Philippine Depart- ment, 1350. Answers calls, etc., from military rec- ords, 774. Applications for official opinions, 788. Appointment and promotion of officers, 21. Appointments, detail, or removal of staff ofBcers, 806. Battalion and regimental staff officers, 248. Battle reports, 816. Candidates for promotion, 31. ■ Captured property, 819. Casualties, 818. Certificates of discharge, 148. Certificates of merit, 187. Certificates of service, 151. Channels of action certain military busi- ness, note, p. 145. Chaplains' reports, 45. Civil counsel, 996. Closing statements, disbursing officers, 002. ■ Coast Artillery Corps, 303, 310. Company boolss and records, 280. Completion, etc., of records in custody, 774. Courts-martial, enlisted men, 955. Adjutant General of the Army, The — Contd. Damages by fire, storm, etc., 709. Deceased officers and soldiers, 83-85, 87, 162-165, 167; A. W. 125, 126. Deserters, 119, 123-126, 133. Designations of beneficiaries, 1385. Distribution of orders, 803. Duty roster, 282. Efficiency reports, 829, 830. Enlisted men detailed with militia, 105. Fort Bayard hospital patients, 1446. General duties and responsibilities, 774. General prisoners, 774, 937, 938, 944, 999. Hot Springs hospital patients, 1440. Insane soldiers, 465-467, 470, 1451. Inspection reports, 831, 880, 887, 892, 900. Leaves of absence, 64. Medals of honor, 182. Military information reports, 62. Militia, 105, 774. Musicians, 263. Muster rolls, 807. Navy or Marine Corps deserters, 133. Officers for retirement or promotion, 26. Officers under arrest, 924. Official correspondence, 782, 784. Orders, etc., affecting the Army, officers, or men, 766, 774. Orders of department commanders, 805. Passports, officers visiting foreign coun- tries, 63. Personal reports, 827. Post noncommissioned staff, 94, 99, 101. Post records, 211. Property loaned mail contractor, 209. Public buildings, repairs, 1014, 1015. Records discontinued commands, 821. Recruitiiig service, 774, 842-844,' 847, 857, 860, 867, 871, 872, 875, 876. Regimental records, 258. Reports of brigade commanders, 194. Reports of department commanders, 193. Reports of Judge Advocate General, 921. Retired enlisted men, 134-136, 138. Returns of captured property, 819. Returns of casualties, 818. Returns of libraries, 332, 333. Returns of property, 200. Returns of troops, 811-815. Rosters of troops, 805. Soldiers absent without leave, 110. Soldiers' Home inmates, 179. Staff officers and men, 742, 743. Temporary ^uty of officers on leave, 1278. Unimportant and trivial communications, 789. Visits and courtesies, 240. Writs of habeas corpus, 999. ^ See also Adjutant General's Office, The. Adjutant General's Department: Brigade commander's staff, 198. Department commander's staff, 197, 199. Department of records, orders, and corre- spondence, 774. INDEX. 331 idjutaut General's Department — Continued. Distribution of orders, 803. Eligibility of officers of, to command, 18. Supervision of, by Chief of Staff, 762. See also Adjutant General of the Army, The. Adjutant General's Office, The: Archives, 774. Records of Cbief of Coast Artillery, 303. Registry of officers, 825. Adjutants General: Eligibility to command, 18. Office rooms, fuel, and stoves, 1044. Promotions, 24. Adjutants General of States : Militia, mobilization of, 455, 463. Adjutants of Battalions: Appointments, etc., 248. Assignments to duty, 255. Qualiflcatlons and pay, 248—250. Tenure of office, 249. Adjutants of €oast Defense Commands: Duties and responsibilities, 306. Adjutants of Departments: Assignment, 197. Designation, 109. Detachment formation, 367. Distribution of orders, 803. Funds for contingent expenses, 200. Returns, 200, 333. Adjutants of Posts : Detachment formation, 367. Detail and duties, 206. Office rooms, fuel, and stoves, 1044. Post noncommissioned staff, 807. Recruiting service, 874. Summary-court records, 957, 962. Adjutants of Regiments : Appointment, etc., 248. Assignments to company or staff duty 255. Band instruments, 262. General duties and responsibilities, 251- 253. Noncommissioned officers, 274. Office rooms, fuel, and stoves, 1044. Qualiflcatlons and pay, 248-250. Tenure of office, 249. Treasurer of regimental fund, 325. Admiral : Relative rank with Army officers, 12. AdreTtlsements : Accounts, 506-508. Authority to publish, 499-501. Circulars, 522, 526. Claims for unauthorized, 507. Conciseness, 504. Emergency, 503. Insertions and intervals between, 502. Limitation of publication, 503, Model, 504. Periods, 503, 522, Quartermaster supplies, 504. Rates, officially designated papers, 505. Sales of property, 503. Supplies and services, 503, 522-526. Wording and matter, 504, 523. Advertising Flag: Description and use, 224. Advising to Desert: Punishment, A. W. 51. Agents, Indian: Animals of Indians, 474. Agents, Military: Irregularity or misconduct. 884. Issue of public property, 673. National cemeteries, 490. Parlor and sleeping cars, 1128. Purchases, etc., of supplies, 521. Agents of Firms, etc.: Proposals signed by, 532. Receipts for money, 642-644. Aids: Allowance to general officers, 41. Captains eligible for appointment, 265. Department and division commanders, 197. General officers. General Staff Corps, not entitled to, 41. General officers changing station, 71. General officers commanding brigades, dis- tricts, or posts, 198. Mounted pay, 1272. Office rooms, fuel, and stoves, 1044. Alaska : Civilian witnesses, 990. Deceased officers, 87. Disbursing officers, 625. Discharged soldiers, 145. Enforcement of the Jaws, 485, p. 103. Furloughs to enlisted men, 111. Horses of officers, 1098. Leaves of absence, officers, 60. Ordnance property, detached soldiers, 1536. Payment of troops, 1317. Travel allowance to officers, 1279. Aliens : Enlistment or acceptance prohibited, 849. Allotments : Barracks and quarters, repairs, 1015. Contingent expenses, 200. Draft and pack animals, 1102. Enlisted men of Quartermaster Corps, 1009. Extra-duty pay funds, 169, 177. Funds, civilian employees, 729. Quarters to officers, 1024. Allotments of Pay by Enlisted Men: Allottees, 1347. Authorized, when, 1347. Blank forms, 1348. Capture of grantor, 1355. Company commanders, 1348—1351. Credits for, 1354. Death of allottee, 1359. Death of grantor, 1350. Desertion, 1350. Designation of allottee, 1347, 1349. Detachment commanders, 1348-1351. Discharge of grantor, 1350. Discontinuance, 1350, 1351, 1357, 1360. Erroneous payment, 1353. 332 INDEX. Allotments of Pay by Enlisted Men — Contd. Execution, 1349. Forfeitures, 1350. Grantor, 1347-1360. Method of procedure, 1348, 1349. Payments, 1349-1355. Kenewal, 1360. Reports, 1348-1351, 1353, 1359. Transfer of grantor, 1356. Witnesses, 1349. AlloTvances : Aids to general officers, 41. Ambulances at posts, etc., 1428. Ammunition, target practice, 350, 353. Baggage, 1122-1125, 1135, 1136. Clothing and equipage, 1146, 1161, 1162. Engineer officers, 1504. Extra pay of cooks, etc., 329. Forage to mounted officers, 1080, 1081. Fuel and stoves, 89, 137, 301, 1036-1049, 1100, 1504. Illuminating supplies, 1051-1054, 1056- 1061. Indian scouts, 479. Military attaches, 1100. Militia while in service, 451. Nurses, 1426. Quarters, 1024-1035, 1044, 1045, 1390. Rations, subsistence stores, etc., 1205, 1215-1218. Retired enlisted men, 137. Spring wagons at posts, 1103. Stationery, 1062-1065. Straw for beddirig, 1084, 1085. Tableware, utensils, etc., 301, 1181. Veterinarians, 89. Alterations : Blanlj forms, 1571. Buildings, structures, or systems, 1017. Checks, 609. Fortifications or appurtenances, 1505. Hospitals, 1466-1469. Muster and pay roils, 810. Quarters for sergeants, first class. Hos- pital Corps, 1467, 1468. Strength of separate commands, 814. Transportation requests, 1119. Ambassadors : Funeral honors, 421. Salutes and honors, 376, 400, 403. Ambulance Companies : Instruction, discipline, and supplies, 1436. Ambulances : Allowance and issue, 1428. Control and use, 1404, 1427. Drivers, 1429. Equipments, harness, etc., 1428, 1429. Field service, 1435. Flags and guidons, 225. Furnished by Quartermaster Corps, 1105, 1427. Inspections, 1432. Issue, 1428. Ammunition ; Breech-loading, Indian country, 475. Coast Artillery practice, 314. Ammnntlon — Continued. Embezzlement, A. W. 60. Expenditures, 1528-1531. Field Artillery practice, 353. Hunting purposes, 350, 354, 1526, 1531, Issues, 1526. Lost or damaged, 1530. Machine-gun target practice, 353. Militia called into service, 455. Sales, 354, 1520, 1521, 1526. Small-arms practice, 350, 353. Storage of powder, etc., 1199. Animals : Ownership of, In possession of Indians, 474. Public. See Public Animals. Appeals : Commissioned officers, A. W. 29. Department commanders, etc., 195. Enlisted men, A. W. 30. Pecuniary responsibilities, 318. Apples : Ration, 1205. Applicants for Enlistment: Careless enlistment or acceptance, 851. Commutation of rations, 1224, 1230, 1232. Declaration, 853. Descriptive and assignment cards, 874. Enticing by false representations, 854. Evidence of good character, 848. Examination, etc., 841, 847, 848, 862, 864-867, 871, 1484. Hospital Corps, 1410. Married men, 852. Medical attendance, etc., 1473, 1476, 1478, 1480. Minors, 849, 850, 853 ; A. W. 3. Pertinent articles of war to be read, 856. Physical examination, 1484. Qualifications, 846-849, 862. Rations, 1203, 1208, 1209, 1212. Report of medical examinations, 871. Toilet articles, etc., 1218. Transportation, etc., 1115, 1124. Travel rations, 1224, 1225. Appointments : Battalion and regimental staff and non- commissioned staff, 248-250, 256. Coast Artillery Corps noncommissioned staff, 310. Commissioned officers, 21, 22, 24, 25, 27-37. Cordpany noncommissioned officers, 270, 271, 273, 275, 278, 480. Courts-martial, pp. 314, 315, act March 2, 1913; A. W. 76. Dates determine precedence, 9. General noncommissioned staff, 103, 1557. General officers, 22. Hospital Corps, 1405, 1408, 1410. Judge advocates, courts-martial, A. W. 74. Lance corporals, 272. Medical officers, 1388. Noncommissioned officers, Indian scouts, 480. INDEX. 333 Appointments — Continued. Nurses, 1421. Personal staff, general officer, 41. Post uoucommissioned staff, 93, 94, 96. Quartermaster Corps noncommissioned officers, 1009. Transfer or exchange of officers, 47. Veterinarians, 88. See also — Candidates for Appointment, etc. Examination for Appointment, etc. Appropriations : Contingent expenses, 623. Determined, 624. Expenses o£ burial, etc., deceased offi- cers, 87. Fiscal year, 620-622, 625. Intrusted to Secretary of War, 740. " No limit," 625. Outstanding liabilities, 606. Remittances of funds, 621. Reversion to, of certain moneys, 617. Transfer from one to another, 598. Transportation of the Army, 87. Use of moneys, expenditures, etc., 515, 582. Armament Districts: Establishment, etc., 1539. Mechanics, 1539. Officers, 1538, 1539. Repairs to ordnance stores, 1537, 1539. Arm Chests: Accountability, 1542. Disposition of surplus, 1542. Packing for transportation, 1544-1546. Armies, Field: Commanders. See Army (Field) Com- manders. ^ Mounted officers, 1272. Ordnance and ordnance stores, 1514. Returns, 811, 815. Armories : Annual inspection, 895. Construction and repairs, 706, 707. Efficiency reports of commanders, 829. Erection of, on new sites, 704. Arms and Accouterments : Alterations, taking apart of arms, etc., 292. Barrack regulations, 285, 292. Breech-loading arms, Indian country, 475. Care and preservation, 287, 288, 292. Casting away arms, A. W. 42. Embezzlement, etc., of arms, A. W. 60. Furloughed soldiers, 113. Issues, 1526. Leather dressing or polishing material, 293. Militia, 455, 1143. Packing for transportation, 1544. Patients In hospitals, 1450. Repairs, 1537, 1538. Sales, 1520, 1521. Shipment to mohllization camps, 455. Tomplons in small arms, 292. Transportation of loaded arms, 1544. Use of raw Unseed oil on wood parts of, 292. Arms of SerTlcc: Precedence on occasions of ceremony, 6. Transfer or exchange of officers, 47. Army and Ravy Hospital, Hot Springs, Ark.: Charges, 1460. Classes admitted, 1441, 1442, 1446. Control, 1441, 1442. Rations and subsistence, 1443, 1444. Army Corps: Ordnance and ordnance stores, 1514. Records of discontinued, 82±. Senior engineer officer, 1497, 1498. Army Dispensaries : Fuel and stoves, 1044. Supply of medicines, 1473, 1474, 1480. Army (Field) Commanders: Furloughs to enlisted men, 107, 108. Hospital Corps, 1409. Mounted officers, 1272. Returns of troops, 811, 815. Surveying officers, 711. Army Field Engineer School: Detachment of officers. 192. Inspection, 896. Leaves of absence, officers, 1277. Letter and note headings, 512. Location, Fort Leavenworth. Kans.. 449. Supervision and regulations, 191, 449. Army Field Service and Correspondence School for Medical Offtcers : Detachment of officers. 19'- Inspection, 896. Leaves of absence, officers, 1277. Letter and note headings, 512. Location, Fort Leavenworth, Kans., 449. Supervision and regulations, 191, 449. Army List and Directory: Preparation and distribution, 774. Army Dledlcal Museum: Transportation of donations, 1145. Army Medical School: Detachment of officers, 192. Inspection, 896. Leaves of absence, officers, 1277. Letter and note headings, 512. Location, Washington, D. C, 449. Supervision and regulations, 191, 449. Army Nnrse Corps: See Kitrse Corps (Female). Army of the United States: Administration and control, 761. Correspondence, 774. Enlisted men. See Enlisted Men. Historical records and business, 774. Officers. See Offlcers, Army. Orders, regulations, etc., affecting, 766, 774. Supervision of troops of the line, 762. Use of unprescribed flags, colors, etc., 243. Army Eegistcr: Preparation and distribution, 774. Aimy Reserve: Deposits of pay at time of furlough to, 1361, 1362, 1366. Enlistment contract, 855. Established Aug. 24, 1912, note, p. 299. Organizing, etc., in time of war, 193. 334 INDEX. Army Reserve — Continued. Payments to soldiers furlouglied to, 1375- 1379. Regulations governing, 1573. Army School of the tine: Detachment of officers, 192. Inspection, 896. Leaves of absence, officers, 1277. Letter and note headings, 512. Location, Fort Leavenworth, Kans., 449. Mounted officers, 1272. Supervision and regulations, 191, 449. Army Signal School: Detachment of officers, 192. Inspection, 896. Leaves of absence, officers, 1277. Letter and note headings, 512. Location, Fort Leavenworth, Kans., 449. Mounted officers, 1272. Supervision and regulations, 191, 449. Army Staff College: Detachment of officers, 192. Inspection, 896. Leaves of absence, officers, 1277. Letter and note headings, 512. Location, Fort Leavenworth, Kans., 449. Mounted officers, 1272. Supervision and regulations, 191, 449. Army Transport Service: Beer, wine, or intoxicating liquors, 346. Composition, 1109. Damage to vessels, 709. Parlor and sleeping cars, licensed officers, 1128. See also Transports. Army War College: Detachment of officers, 192. Inspection, 896. Leaves of absence, officers, 1277. Letter and note headings, 512. Location, Washington, D. C, 449. Mounted officers, 1272. Supervision and regulations, 191, 449, Arraignment : Prisoners, A. W. 89. Arrest and Conlincmcnt: Commanders of guards, A. W. 67-69. Deserters, p. 314, act June 18, 1898. Enlisted men, 929-933; A. W. 66, 70. Escape of prisoners, A. W. 69. Noncommissioned officers, 927, 929 ; A. W. 24. Officers, 922-927 ; A. W. 65, 70, 71. Release without authority, A. W. 69. See also Confinement, etc. Arrest of OtBcers: Breach of arrest, A. W. 65. By whom and how imposed, 922 ; A. W. 65. Civil authorities, 1371. Close conflnement, 923. Extension of limits, 923. Light offenses, 924. Limitation, A. W. 70, 71. Medical, 925. Place on the march, 927. Arrest of Officers — Continued. Release without charges, 924 ; A. W. 71. Requirements while under arrest, 923, 926. Arsenals : Annual Inspection, 191, 892, 895. Arm chests, 1542. Construction and repairs, 706, 707. Court-martial duty of officers, 192. Efficiency reports, commanders, 829. Erection of, on new sites, 704, 707. Establishment and maintenance, 1511. Hospital Corps, 1418. Hospital matrons, 1449. Ordnance and ordnance stores, 1513, 1514, 1516. Plats of land, 708. Supervision or control, 191. Surplus ordnance stores, 1532, 1533. Travel allowance of officers, 1295. Unserviceable ordnance stores, 1537- . 1540. Waste products, 679. Arson: Punishable by military courts, A. W. 58. Articles of War: Absence without leave, A. W. 31-35, 40. Abuses and disorders, A. W. 54. Appeals, A. W. 29, 30. Armies to be governed, p. 301, sec. 1342 E. S. Arrest and confinement, A. W. 65-71. Conduct prejudicial, A. W. 62. Courts of inquiry, A. W. 115-121. Deceased officers and soldiers, A. W. 125-127. Definition of words, p. 301, sec. 1342 E. S. Desertion, A. W. 47-51. Discharge of enlisted men, A. W. 4. Discharge or dismissal of officers, A. W. 99. Disrespect or contempt, A. W. 19, 20. Divine service, A. W. 52. Drunkenness on duty, A. W. 38. Dueling, A. W. 26-28. Evidence, courts-martial, A. W. 91, 92, 121. Frauds and embezzlement, A. W. 60. Furloughs to enlisted men, A. W. 11. General courts-martial, A. W. 76-78. Hiring of duty, A. W. 36, 37. Judge advocates, A. W. 74, 84, 85, 00, 113. Jurisdiction, military courts, A. W. 58, 60, 62-64, 79, 102, 103. Misconduct in time of war, A. W. 41, 42, 44-46, 57, 100. Musters, A. W. 5, 6, 12-14. Mutiny and sedition, A. W. 21-24, 43. Pecuniary interest In victuals, etc., A. W. 18. Proceedings of courts-martial, A. W. 86-93, 95, 113, 114. Profanity, A. W. 53. INDEX. 335 Articles of War — Continued. Property accountability, A. W. 9, 10, 15-17. Publication to Army, A. W. 128. Quarrels, frays, and disorders, A. W. 24, 25. Rank and command, A. W. 122, 124. Recruits and recruiting, A. W. 2, 3. Repealed, A. W. 72, 73, 75, 80-83, 94, 110, 123. Returns of troops and property, A. W. 7, 8. Sentences of courts-martial, A. W. 38, 61, 96-98, 100, 101, 104-109, 111, 112. Sentinels, A. W. 39. Soldiers dishonorably discharged, p. 314. net June 18, 1898. Spies, p. 313, sec. 1343 R. S. Subordination to civil authority, A. W. 59. Subscribed to by all officers, A. W. 1. Violence to traders in foreign parts, A. W. 56. Waste or spoil of private property, A. W. 55. Artificers : Appointment, 275, 278. Extra-duty details, 173. Artificial Limbs: Classes entitled, 1490. Commutation, 1490. Transportation of applicants, 1491, 1492. Artillery: See— Coast Artillery Corps. Field Artillery. Artillery Engineer, Coast Defense Commands: Supervisory powers, etc., 308. See also Engineers, Coast Artillery Corps. Artillery Instrnction: Chief of Coast Artillery, 303. Assault and Battery: Punishable by military courts, A. W. 58. Assemblages of Persons: Suppression of unlawful, 485, p. 101. Assignments : Chaplains, 43. Commanding officers, 13. Company commander, 268. Department commanders, 190. Field officers of the mobile army, 247. General Staff Corps officers, 752, 765, 767, 773. Nurses, 1421. Officers, coast artillery, 303. Public animals to riders or drivers, 1072. Recruiting service, enlisted men, 843-845. Recruits to organizations, 872-876. Regimental and battalion staff officers, 255. Staff departments, officers and men, 197, 743. Assistant and Chief Clerk, War Department: Accounts for printing, 506, 507. Advertising rates, 505. Contracts for printing, 513. Assistant Secretary of the Navy: Funeral honors, 421. Salutes and honors, 400, 403. Assistant Secretary of War: Colors, 222. Flag, 220. Funeral honors and escort, 418, 421, 426. Salutes and honors, 376, 400, 403. Assistant Treasurers : Balance.s unchanged for three years, 590. Disbursing officers' deposits, 590. Attac)j6s : See Military Attaches. Attorney General: Funeral honors, 421. Salutes and honors, 376, 400, 403. Title to military land, 704. Witnesses before civil courts, 75. Auction Sales: Auctioneer's account, etc., 680. Auditor for the War Department: Accounts, deceased officers, 85. Arrears of pay, etc., deceased soldiers, 165. Artificial limbs, etc., 1492. Certificates of merit, 187. Cheeks, spoiled or canceled, 610. Contractors' bonds, 571. Contracts, supplies and services, 561, 564, 571. Credit sales to enlisted men, 1249. Escaped prisoners' effects, 940. Payments to discharged soldiers, 1377. Personal effects, deceased officers and sol- diers, 85, 163. Private property lost in service, 726. Settlement of accounts, deceased soldiers, 166. Stoppages of pay, 703, 1092. Authorities, Civil: See Civil Authorities. Authority, Military: Exercise, 2. Subordination to civil authority, A. W. 59. Aviation: Officers, additional pay, 1269. Signal Corps School, 449. Awards of Contracts : Ability to carry proposals into effect, 547. By whom made, 544. Lowest responsible bidder, 545. Slight failure to comply with terms, 546. Suitable articles determine, 523. Bacon : Ration, 1205. Badges : Military service. Illegal possession, 189. Mourning, military, 431. Baggage : Allowance transported at public expense, 1136. Field allowance, transportation, 1123. Increase or reduction of allowance, 1136. Nurses traveling, 1123. Officers and men traveling, 1122-1125. 336 INDEX. Baggage — Continued. Officers traveling on mileage status, 1122. Outside continental limits U. S., 1136, 1138. Shipping of excess of allowance, 1136. Transportation, 1111, 1123, 1135-1139. Bakeries : Accounts and supplies, 1201. Bake ovens, 1201, 1252. Bakers and assistants, 329, 1201. Brooms, brushes, and mops, 1181. Detail of bakers, assistant bakers, and la- borers, 1201. Fuel, 1044. Operated by Quartermaster Corps, 1201. Soap, towels, etc., 1215. Transportation of property, 340. Bakers and Cooks, Schools lor: Inspection, 896. Leaves of absence, officers, 1277. Letter and note headings, 512. Location, Washington Barracks, D. C, and Presidio of San Francisco, Cal., 449. Pay of graduates, 329. Supervision and regulations, 191, 449. Baking PoT?der: Ration, 1205. Band Musicians : See Musicians. Bands : Competition with civilian musicians, 261. Designation in Army Kegulations, 15. Duties, 264, 440. Equipments, 262. Funds, 324, 326, 327. Inspection, 283. Lye and sapollo, 1182. Marking of public property, 257. Musical instruments, 262, 1179. Noncommissioned officers, 260. Saluting, 375, 376, 378. Stations, 261. " The Star Spangled Banner," 264, 375, 378, 437. Baptisms : Report of chaplains, 45. Barley : Forage ration, 1077. Barracks and Quarters: Additions, alterations, etc., 208, 1017, 1019. Allotments for repairs, 1015. Allowance and assignments, 1024-1035, 1044, 1390, 1397. Annual inspection, 1012. Arms, accoutermeuts, etc., 285, 292. Bachelor quarters, 1025.' Choice, 1025, 1026. Constructed by Quartermaster Corps, 1000. Construction of permanent, 706, 707. Construction of temporary, 208. Daily inspection, 283. Erection of, on new sites, 704. Fuel and stoyes, 1036-1049. Barraeks and Qnarters — Continued. Furniture and mess outfits, 1011, 1020- 1023. Heating systems, repairs, 1012. Hire of quarters, 1028, 1029. Illuminating supplies, 1050—1061. Inspections and reports of condition, 1010. Names of men attached to bunks, 285. Numerical designation and record, 1019. Police, 286, 287, 374. Post commanders and surgeons to visit, 204. Private buildings, 1018. Record of expenditures for repairs, etc., 1019. Removal of mess outfits and furniture, 1023. Repairs, 208, 1012-1017, 1019. Responsibility for care, etc., 1011. Squads to be quartered together, 284. Trunk lockers, 1021, 1023. Barter or Exchange: Arms and ammunition, Indian country, 475. Supplies from quartermaster, 1247. Battalion Commanders : Company fund, 328. Corps of Engineers, 248. General duties and responsibilities, 203, 245. Noncommissioned officers, 256, 271. Office rooms, fuel, and stoves, 1044. Reports, incapacitated officers, 890. Transfer or exchange, enlisted men, 114. Battalions : Command of a major, 14. Composition and command, 245, 247. Designation in Army Regulations, 15. Noncommissioned staff, 254, 256, 271. Quitting without leave, A. W. 40. Records, 245. Regulations, 245. Staff officers, 248, 249, 254, 255, 807. Standards, names of battles, 244. Transfer, etc., enlisted men, 114. Battery : Designation in Army Regulations, 15. Battlefields : Interment of remains of killed, 491, 492. Battle-Ground Cemeteries : Establishment, etc., 491, 492. Battles : Classification by War Department, 244. Colors carried in, 232. Identification of soldiers killed in 491 492. Participation, colors and standards, 244 Reports, 816, 817. Returns of captured property, 819. Returns of casualties, 818. Returns of effective strength, 815. Beans : Ration, 1205. Beard and Hair: Enlisted men, 286. INDEX. 337 Bedding : Straw allowance, 10S4, 1085. Beef: I'urchase of beef cattle, 1200. Ration, 1205. Beer : Sale in exclianges prohibited, 346. Unlawful introduction into Indian coun- try, 471. BchaTioT : See Conduct, Beiieticlarles: Allottees of pay, 1347. Designated by officers and enlisted men, 1385. Beyond the Sea: [ Permission to visit, 61, 109. ; Bidders : j Ability to carry proposals into effect, 547. Aid to, in preparation of proposals, 527. Certified checks, 524, 535. Corporations and firms, 532. Erasures or interlineations in proposals, 534. Guaranties, 524, 535, 536. Information to be furnished, 527. Names of, not to be furnished to others, 530. Opening of proposals, 541. rost-office address and residence, 531. Slight failure to comply with terms, 546. Specifications, etc., to be shown, 528, 529. Withdrawal from competition, 540. Bids: Considered by items, 523. Billiard aud Pool Tables: Companies, 327. Bills of Creditors: Attached to vouchers for payment, 634. Births: Report of chaplains, 45. Blacksmiths : See Farriers and, Eorseshoers. Blankets : Prisoners, 939. Transportation, etc., 1023. Blank Forms: Advertising, 500, 509. Allotments of pay, 1348. Alterations or new forms, 1571. Contractors' bonds, 570. Correspondence model, 776. Discharge certificates, 150. Estimates, repairs or construction of buildings, etc., 1013. Final statements, 150. Force and efEect, 1571. Inspector General's Department, 901, 904. Manuscript, prohibited, 1572. Medical Department, 1477. Militia, movements, muster, etc., 455, 456, 458, 461. Muster and pay rolls, 807. Notes and directions, 1571. Notification of discharge, 155. Blank Forms — Continued. Official telegrams, 1190. Ordnance Department, 1543, 1551. Printing, 514. Quartermaster Corps, 1253. Reconnaissance, 448. Requisitions for, and general instruc- tions, 1571. Returns, general prisoners, 937. Supplied by — Adjutant General's Department, as fol- lows : Advertising for recruits, report of results of (No. 259). Age, nativity, etc., of enlisted men, report of (No. 222). Artillery engineer, report of per- sonnel employed under (No. 206). Artillery inspection, engineer depart- ment supplies, report of (No. 181-4). Artillery inspection, ordnance sup- plies, report of (No. 181-3). Artillery inspection, quartermaster supplies, report of (No. 181-1). Artillery Inspection, signal office sup- plies, report of (No. 181-2). Books; annual report of (No. 144), 333. Calibration firing (No. 335). Casualties in action, return of (No. 149), 818. Chaplain, monthly report of (No. 64), 45. Clothing issued to recruit, account of (No. 140). College inspection, inspector's re- port (No. 358). College inspection, instructor's re- port (No. 357). Commissioned officers, Coast Ar- tillery Corps, report of gains and losses of (No. 422). Consolidated morning report (No. 336), 211. Correspondence book, 211, 258, 280. Death and disposal of remains, re- port of (No. 415). Descriptive and assignment card (No. 25), 847. , Descriptive list (,No. 29), 280. Deserters, descriptive list of (No. 95), 118. Designation of beneficiary, officer or enlisted man (No. 380). Discharge, certificate of disability for (No. 17), 159. Discharge, notification of (No. 3), 155. Discharge certificate, dishonorable (No. 20), 150. Discharge certificate, honorable (No. 203), 150. Discharge certificate, without honor (No. 19), 150. 79733°— 18- -22 338 INDEX. Blank Porms — Continued. Supplied by — Continued. Adjutant General's Department — Con. Discliarge of enlisted men, report of action taken on application for (No. 121). Duty roster, with model (No. 342), 282. Educational Institutions, return of books in (No. 182). Educational institutions, return of Corps of Cadets (No. 358). EflBciency report (No. 429), 829. Efficiency report, officers Ordnance Department (No. 429-a). EfHeiency report of professor of military science and tactics (No. 176). Enlisted men, request for retire- ment (No. 468). Enlistment, application for (No. 141), 857. Enlistment, trimonthly report of ap- plicants for (No. 262), 857. Enlistment paper (No. 22), 857. Enlistments, trimonthly report of (No. 18), 857. Expenditures, abstract of, contin- gent fund (No. 179). Field practice, record of (No. 366). Field practice, report of (No. 364). Field return (No. 26), 812. Furlough (No. 66), 106. Furlough and transfer to .Vrmy Ee- serye (No. 437). General prisoners, record of (No. 387). General prisoners, return of (No. 23), 937. Guard reports (No. 338), 211, 258. Guard reports, extra sheets (No. 338-1). Identification record card (No. 260), 774. Interrogatories and deposition (No. 60). Inventory of effects of a deceased soldier (No. 34), 162. Medical certificate, insane persons (No. 1-107, Interior Depart- ment), 4^66. Medical certificate for leave of ab- sence (No. 143), 57. Medical examination of applicants for enlistment, monthly report of (No. 265), 871. Morning report, field, staff, and band (No. 333), 258. Morning report, troop, battery, com- pany, or detachment (No. 332), 280. Muster roll, detachment (No. 21), 807. Muster roll, troop, battery, and com- pany (No. 61), 807. Muster roll, troop, battery, and com- pany, extra sheet (No. 61-1). Blank Forms — Continued. Supplied by — Continued. Adjutant General's Department — Con. Muster rolls, model remarks for (No. 489). National Individual match, duplicate score card (No. 477-1). National Individual match, official entry blank (No. 299). National individual match, official score card (No. 477). National match, eligibility certificate (No. 295). National match, skirmish fire, pit slip card (No. 480). National revolver match, official score card (No. 481). National revolver match, score card, duplicate ( No. 481—1 ) . National team match, consolidated duplicate Kcore card (No. 478-1). National team match, consolidated official score card (No. 478). National team match, elimination blank (No. 471). National team match, follower's card (No. 482). National team msftch, list of mem- bers of (No. 365). National team match, skirmish fire, combined pit slip (No. 479 1. National team match, skirmish fire, official score card (No. 476). National team match, skirmish fire, unofficial score card (No. 476—1). National team match, surprise fire, official score card (No. 473). National team match, surprise fire, unofficial score card (No. 473-1). National team match, 600 yards, slow fire, official score card (No. 474). National team match, 600 yards, slow fire, unofficial score card (No. 474-1). National team match, 1,000 yards, slow fire, official score card (No. 475). National team match, 1,000 yards, slow Are, unofficial score card (No. 475-1). Noncommissioned officers detailed with Organized Militia, personal report of (No. 399). Officers' garrison school, certificate of proficiency (No. 230). Photograph and negative jacket (No. 261). Physical examination and test (cap- tains and lieutenants only), re- port of (No. 378). Physical examination and test (field officers), report of (No. 377). Post return, extra sheet (No. 27-a). Post return, with model (No. 27), 811. Preference card (No. 423). INDEX. 339 Blauk Forms — Continued. Supplied by — Continued. Adjutant General's Department — Con. Property, return of, conting-ent fund (No. 180;. Public animals, descriptive card of (No. 277), 280, 456. Recruit, record of (No. 421). Recruit, report of physical examina- tion of (No. 135), 857. Recruiting handbill (No. 162). Recruiting officer, letter of inquiry (No. 78). Recruiting poster, letter to postmas- ter to accompany (No. 8.3). ReeiT-iiting poster, single sheet, 21 hy 3 J feet (Nos. 401, 402, 403, 404). Recruiting poster, wrapper for. Recruits, depot trimo-nthly report of (No. 151), 857. Regimental return, extra sheet (No. 41-a). Regimental return, with model (No. 41), 811. Report of board on disability of en- listed men (No, 484). Requisition for boolcs and blank forms (No. 383). Reservist's descriptive card (No. 443). Reservist's enlistment paper (No. 442). Reservist's quarterly report card (No. 444). Reservist's report card upon return to United State's (No. 445). Return of districts, brigades, divis- ions, departments, extra sheets (No. 24-a, b. and c). Eetiirn of districts, brigades, divi- sions, departments, with model (No. 24), 811. Return of officers, bureau (No. 101), 811. Return of troop, battery company, or detachment, with model (No. 30). 811. Revolver competition, report and bulletin, inside sheets (No. 315^1). Revolver competition, report and bulletin, outside sheet (No. 315). Revolver competition, score card, rapid fire, 15 yards (No. 354). Revolver competition, score card, rapid Arc, 2.5 yards (No. 355). Revolver competition, score card, slow flTe, 50 yards (No, 350). Revolver competition, score card, slow fire, 75 yards (No. 351). Revolver competition, score card, timed fire,. 25 yards (No. 352). Revolver competition, score card, timed Are, .50 yards (No. 353). Revolver firing, individual record (No. .305). Eevohpr firing- and classiflca-tion, re- port of (No. 308). Blank Forms — Continued'. Supplied by — Continued. Adjutant General's Department — Con. RiSe competition, report and bulle- tin, inside sheet (No. 314-1). Rifle competition, report and bulle- tin, outside sheet (No. 314). Rifle competition, score card, pit record, skirmish fire (No. 349). Rifle competition, score card, rapid flre, 200 yards (No; 347). Rifle competitlxsn, score card, rapid flre, 300 yards (No. 348). Rifle competition, score card, rapid flre, 500 yards (No. 367). Rifle competition, score card, slow flre, 200 yards (No. 343). Rifle competition, score card, slow flre, 300 yards (No. 344). Rifle competition, score card, slow flre, 500 yards (No. 345). Rifle competition, score card, slow flre, 600 yards (No. 346). Rifle firing, individual record (No. 304 T. Rifle firing and classification, re- port of known distance (No. 307). Sergeant ma.iur, report of adjutant on (No. 329). Sick reports, daily (No. 839), 280. Small-arms firing, departmental, re- port of (No. 303). Small-arms target firing (Special Course A), record of (No. 410). Small-arms target firing (Special Course A), report of (No. 409). Statement of service (No. 15). Subpcena duces tecum (No. 132), 991. Subpcena for civilian witness (No. 76), 991. Subpcena for civilian witness (for deposition) (No: 77), 991. Summary court, record of (No. 99), 957. Summary court, report of cases tried by (No. 50) 982. Survey, report" of (No. 1081, 710. Unit accountability equipment man- ual, cavalry (No. 459). XTnit accountability equipment manu- al, coast artillery (No. 457). Unit accountability equipment manu- al, engineer (No. 452). Unit accountability equipment manu- al, heavy field artillery (No. 455). Unit accountability equipment manu- al, horse artillery (No. 454). Unit aecountability equipment manu- al, infantry (No, 458). Unit aecountability equipment manu- al, light artillery (No. 456>. Unit accountability equipment manu- al, mountain artillery (No, 453). Undt eqnipnu^nt, memorandum re- ceipt (No. 448). 340 INDEX. Blank Forms — Continued. Supplied by — Continued. Adjutant General's Department — Con. Unit equipment, record of cost of maintenance of (No. 450). Unit equipment, report of cost of maintenance of (No. 449). Unit equipment, return of (No. 451). A'oucher for purchases and services other than personal (No. 33). Warrant, noncommissioned officers, artillery (No, 154), 256. Warrant, noncommissioned officers, cavalry or infantry (No. 152), 256. Warrant, noncommissioned officers, engineers (No. 153), 256. Warrant of attachment (No. 272), 952. Engineer Department. (See Manual.) Inspector General's Department, as follows : Inspector Cfeneral's Memoranda of Coast Artillery Inspection (No. 5A). Inspector General's Memoranda of Inspection of Post (No. 5). Lists of checks outstanding (No. 3A). Report, inspection of a division (No. 16). Report, inspection of national ceme- teries (No. 4), 904, 906. Report, inventory and inspection (No. 1), 904, 906. Report, inventory and inspection. In- side sheets (No. lA), 904, 906. Report, inventory and inspection, public animals (No. 2), 904, 906. Report, inventory and inspection, public animals, inside sheets (No. 2A), 904, 906. Statement of money accountability (No. 3). Testing Inspection of money ao- counts (No. 28). Judge Advocate General's Department. (See Manual.) Medical Department. (See Manual.) Ordnance Department. (See Manual.) Quartermaster Coi'ps. (See Manual.) Signal Corps. (See Manual.) Boarding Tcsscls of War: Visits and courtesies, 407, 411. Board of Cominissionors, Soldiers' Home, Dis- trict of Columbia: See Soldiers' Home, D. O. Board of Ordnance and Fortification; Chief of Coast Artillery, 303. Boards of Examination: Appointees, grade of second lieutenant, 30, 31. Hospital Corps, 1405. Medical officers, 1388. Rsjected applicants for enlistment, 867. Boards of Officers; Annual reports, preparation, etc., 193J. Appointment, etc.. Staff, 744. Barracks and quarters, 1025. Character, discharge certificates, 148. Damages by fire, storm, etc., 709. Deceased officers, 86. Fuel and stoves, 1044. Insane officers, 86. Private property lost in service, 726. Purchase of horses from mounted officers, 1095. Retirement of officers, 26, 77, 78. Vacancies, General State Corps, 773. Boats : Flags and pennants for official visits, 240. Rules for passing, 414. Bond-Aided Eallroa'ds: Civilian employees, 732. Telegraph lines, 1186. Transportation requests, 732. Bonds : Contractors, 569-581. Disbursing officers, 567, 568, 574-577, 580, 581, 589. Duplicate checks, 602. Indemnity, 602, 607. Renewal, 581. Boxes : Ordnance and ordnance stores, 1544— 1546. Bran : Forage ration, 1077. Branding : Condemned animals, 907. Officers' mounts at remount depot, 1099. Public animals, 1067. Public property, 676. Sentence of a court-martial, A. W. 38, 93, Breach of Arrest: Punishment, A. W. 65. Bread : Baking and sale, 1201. Cost price determined, 1201. Ration, 1205. Breret Bank Assignments: Aids to general officers, 41. Salutes and honors, 401. Bribery : Mustering officer, A. W. 6. Bridges : Construction and repair, 1000. Passage of troops, teams, etc., 1126. Brigade Commanders : Appeals referred to, for decision, 195. Changes, personal or staff, 811. Controversies arising within command, 195. District commanders, 194. Efficiency reports, 829. Furloughs to enlisted men, 106, 111. General duties and responsibilities, 194. Inspections, 194, 887. Office rooms, fuel, and stoves, 1044, 1046. Officers under arrest, 924. INDEX, 341 Brigade CommandeTs — Continued. Orders, personal journeys for inspection, 194. Organized Militia, 194. Personal leave of absence, 50. Staff, 49, 198. Surveying officers, 711. Unimportant communications, 789, Visits to posts, 194. nrigiides : Coast artillery districts correspond wltb, in ranir, 194. Command of a brigadier general, 14. Districts in Philippine Islands correspond with, in rank, 194. Letter and note heads, 512. Printing, 510-512. Records of discontinued, 821. Returns of strength, 811, 815, Senior engineer officer, 1498. Staff officers, 198. Brigades, Separate: Commanders. See Brigade (Sepcarate) Commanders. Orders and circulars, 805. Records of discontinued, 821. Returns, 811. Brigade (Separate) Commanders: Furloughs to enlisted men, 107, Hospital Corps, 1409. Leaves of absence, officers, 51, Returns of troops, 811. Transfers to Hospital Corps, 1411. Brigadier Generals: Aids, 41. Appointment to grade, 22. Appropriate command, 14. Baggage, 113G. Changing station, 71. Forage, 1080. Funeral honors and escort, 418, 426. Quarters, fuel, and stoves, 1044. Rank and precedence, 9. Relative ranlr vfith naval officers, 12. Salutes and honors, 375, 400, 401, 403. Staff officers, change of station, etc., 71. Travel beyond limits of command, 71. Visits and courtesies, 240. Brooms, Brnshes, and Mops: Allowance, 301, 1181. Messes, 301. Buildings : Amusement, etc., 339. Erection near fortifications, 1493, 1505. Permanent, 704, 706, 707, 709. Bnnics and Bedding: Names of men to be attached to buniss, 285. Overhauling and airing, in barracks, 287. Post guardhouses, 1084. Straw for bedding, 1084. Bureau of Kefugees, Freedmen, and ATian- doiied Lands: Care and custody of records, 774. Burglary : Punishable by military courts, A. W. 58. Burials : Battle-ground cemeteries, 491, 492. Deceased officers and soldiers, 87, 167, 1173. Post cemeteries, 493, 497, 498. Butler : Ration, 1205. Cablegrams : See Telegraphing and Telephoning. Cadets, Military: Admission to general hospitals, 1441. Appointment, grade of second lieutenant, 27. Discharged, 1313, 1314. Education at Military Academy, 449. Eligibility of ex-cadets for commissions, 37. Graduation leave, 53. Longevity pay, 1271. Payments, 1312-131-1. Rank and precedence, 9. Travel allowances, 1313. Cadets, ^aval : Admission to general hospitals, 1441. Longevity pay, 1271. Camps : Absence without leave, A. W. 31, 34. Colors, 241. Followers, etc., A. W. 63. Guards, 441-443. Laying out, 1493. Temporary posts styled, 202. Uniform and clothing, enlisted men, 289. Violence to traders in foreign parts, A. W. 56. Canal Zone, Panama: Pay of enlisted men, 1342. Candidates for Appointment and Promotion: Graduates of civil institutions, 35. Members of Organized Militia, 35. Moral character, etc., 36. Physical examination, 36. Selection, etc., of enlisted men, 30. Status pending appointment, 31-33. Candles : Issue, 1215. Stable lanterns, 1052. C.inncd Goods: Ration, 1205. Canteens : Repairs, 1534. Capital Punishment: See Death Penalty. Capricious Conduct: Superiors toward inferiors, 3. Captains : Appropriate command, 14. Baggage, 1136. Detached service, 265. Exemptions from detail, 358. Forage, 1080. Funeral honors and escort, 422, 426. Promotion to grade, 25. Quarters, fuel, and stoves, 1044. Rank and precedence, 9. Relative rank with naval officers, 12. Roster duty, 358. 842. INDEX, Captains, Navy: Relative i-an'u witli Army officers, 12. Captured Property: Accountability, A. W. 9. Returns, 819. Carpenter Shops: Stoves, 1044. Carriers : Responsibility of, supplies in tran^t, 721, 1141. Cartridges: Sales to enlisted men, 354. Cash Sales: Subsistence supplies, 1239-1241, 1244, 1245. Casting Away Arms: Punisliment, A. W. 42. Casualties In Action : Preparation, etc., it returns, 818, Cavalry : Administrative unit, 245. Animals, 1097. Inspections, 283. Mounted pay, officers, 1272, 1274. Precedence, 6. Squadron, designation in Army Regula- tions, 15. Standards and guidons, 230, 235. Troop, designation in Army Regulations, 15. Cemeteries : Battle-ground, 491,. 492. National, 167, 223, 490, 895. Post, tfir. 493-498. 889. Censure ; Discussions, etc., conveying, forbidden, 5. Ceremonies : Chaplains, 46. Colors carried on occasions of, 232. Conformity to drill' regulations, 435. ricspitai Corps, 1413. Memorial Day, 440. Precedence of regiments and corps, 6. Reveille and retreat, 437. See also ITonors, Courtesies, tnid Cere- monies. Certifloates : Absentees, respecting, A. W. 12, 13. Disability. See Certiflcales of Disability. Discharge. See Discharije Certificates. Expenditures of ammunition, 1529. Fuel for officers, 1039. Manuscript, prohibited, 1572. Medical, 57, 160, 466. Medical attendance, medicines, 1478, 1480, 1483. Money vouchers, 6.S2-6"4, 642-644, 646. Professional boolss, etc., 1139. Property expended, lost, or destroyed, 60S. Ration accounts; 1213. Service, 151. Shipments of baggage, 1138. Transportation of excess baggage, 1123. CrrUilcales of Accountability: Quavtermaster supplies, 1091, 1092. Certificates of Saitosit: Explanatory statements, 612. Is.sue and disposition, 611, 612, 615. Notations on accounts current, 615. Proceeds of salesy 818, 1521. Record and action, War Depai'tment, 616. Ccrtliicates of Dlsahilit-y: Admiaslou ta Soldiers' Home, D. C, 1T9. Degree of disability to be noted. 161. Discharge of enlisted men, 140, Insane soldiers, 466. Notation of soldiers' refusal to be treated, 161., Permanent disability, 159. Recruits, 870. Report of discharge to medical officer, 160. Ccrtliicates of Eligibility: Promotion, enlisted men, 31 ; p. 31.5, act March 2, 1913. Certificates of Merit: Additional pay, 186, 1341. Conditions of award, 184, 185, 188-. Discharged and deceased soldiers, 187. Enlisted men, 184-188, 1341. Certificates of ?foniiniebt.edne8s : Pinal payments to officers, 1262. Certificates of Pay :. False, A. W. 13. Purchase of pay dae^ 592. Certificates of KatioBs: Civilian employees,- 1213. Detached troops, 1213. Certificates of Service: Issued In lieu of lost discharges, 151. Cession of State Jurisdiction: Lands used for military purposes, 704. Chairs : Allowance for barracks,. 1022. Challenges: Members of courts-martial, .\. W. 88. Challentye to Duel : Carriers of, deemed principals,. A. W. 27. Punishment for sending, A. W, 26i Upbraiding for refusing. A, W. 28. Change of Staff: Personal staff, general officers. 71 . Articles to be transferred, 1023, Changes of Station: Baggage transportation, 1123, 1135-1137, 1139. Barrack furniture, 1023. Civilian employees, 730. Coast Artillery Corps noncommissioned staff, 310. Commutation' of quarters, 1301, 1303, 1304. Enlisted men, 742, 1023. Purloughed soldiers, 112. General officers and personal staff, 71. Nurses, 1123. Officers, staff corps a.Bd departments, 742. Officers on leave, 1292-1294. Officers without troops, 68. Personal staff, general officers, 71. INDEX. 343 ChiHigcB of Sl;at!«ii — Continnecl, Professional books, papers, etc., 1139. Quartermaster supplies, 1091, 1092. Transfer of enlisted meu, 114. Transportation of horses, 1098. Troops In departments, 19S. See also Movemeft of Troops. Changing Parole or Watchword: Punishment, A. W. 44. Chapels : Boolss and musical instniments, 331, 1144. Fuel and stoves, 1044. Rooms to be provided, 331. Chaplains : Aid afforded by commanding officers, 44. Assignments and transfers, 43. Ceremonies and Inspections, 46. Duties, 44. Flags, 224|. Inspection reports concerning, 831, 889, Mounted pay, 1272. Reports, 45. Character : Discharged soldiers, 148. Recruits, 869. Charges Aiguinst Enlisted Men: Erroneous, 131. Evidence of previous convictions, 954, 956. Investigation by commandtag officer, 955. Offenses cognizable by summary courts, 957. Preparation ajid transmission, 120, 124, 126, 954. Vi'rltten, committing officer, A. W. 67. Charges Ag.itiist Officers: Release from arrest, 924 ; A. W. 71. Service upon accused, A. W. 71. Charges d'Alfalves: Funeral honors, 421. Salutes and honors, 400, 403. Checlc Books, Official: Issue, transfer, etc., 608-610. Check or Carrcncy Payments to Troops: Absence of soldier, 1333. Clvecks drawn for portion of pay, 1317. Checks drawn to order of individual, 1316. Currency In separate envelopes, 1316. Death or desertion of soldier, 1333. Deficiencies or surplus in currency, 1327. Deposits of enlisted men, 1335. Distribution of, at posts, 1320, 1325, 1326. Errors or informalities, 1328, 1330. Escort, 1324. Express, 1321-1324. Indorsement of check by payee, 1331. Notification, with roll, 1.320. Pay rolls, 1320, 1321, 1329, 1330, 1332- 13.34, 1337. Places beyond express delivery, 1324, Posts at which made, 1316. Reieipts not required in cliecb payments, i:!19. Troops absent from stations, 1334. Check or Cnrreno.y Payments to Troops — Con. Undelivered checks or currency, 1333. Verification of sealed packages contain- ing, 1325, 1326. Checks: AlteratloBS or erasures, 609. Bidders' certified. 524, 535. Blank, care and custody, 609. Death or resignation of drawer, 603. Designation of rank and department, 601. Drawing, 599-601, 635, 638, 643. Duplicate, 602. Lost, stolen, or destroyed, 602, 607. Miscellaneous receipts, etc., 615. Mutilated or spoiled, 610. Notation on vouchers, etc., 640. 01)fiect of expenditures, 600. Outstanding, 588, 60.3-607, 901, 902. Paymrat on presentation, 603, 604. Payments by, how made, 587, 590. Payments to enlisted men, 1318-1.335. Signing In blank prohibited, 637. Transferring funds, 597. Use of rubber stamps in preparing, 600, Use of typewriter in preparing, 600-. Chi«f CJerft, War Department: See Assistant and Chief Olerlt, War De- partment. Chief Engineer Officers of Departments: See Departtnent Enl.aints : Payment of accounts for treatment, 1476. Circulars : Advertising for proposals, 522, 526. Clothing and equipage, 1146. Issue and numbering, 791. Regimental files, 259. Stoppages of officers' pay, 1310. Civil Authorities : Application for troops, 487. Arrest by, of officers and men, 1371, 1381. Subordination of military, A. W. 69. Civil Courts : Discbarge of enlisted men, 146. Witnesses, 75, 951, 994, 1298. Civil Engiueers : Employment, payment, etc., 730. National cemeteries, 490. Transportation and expenses, 732, 733. Civil Functionaries : Courtesies and honors, 403. Funeral honors, 421. Civlliau Employees: Admission to hospitals, 464, 734, 1458, 1480. Aid to contractors, 516. Allotment of funds for pay, 177. Ammunition for hunting purposes, 1526. Artificial limbs and appliances, 1490, 1491. Attendance upon civil courts, 994. Baggage transportation, 1136, 1138. Burial, 492, 493. Certificates, pay due discharged, 730. Change of station, 739. Commutation of rations, 1229. Civilian Employees — Continued. Computation of time, G51. Employment, etc., 727-730. Expenditures, 729. Hospital charges, 1460, 1461. Hours of labor, 731. Insane, 464. Inspeotion reports, 889. Laundrymeu, 1245. Medical and hospital supplies, 1457. Medical attendance and medicines, 1473. Ordnance and ordnance stores, 102G, 1527, 1531. Parlor and sleeping cars, 733, 1128. Payments, 730. Property damaged, lost, or destroyed, 088. Purchase of quartermaster supplies, 1055. Purchase of subsistence supplies, 1245 Qtmrters, fuel, and stoves, 1044. Rations, 733, 1203, 1209, 1211, 1213. Shoemakers, 1245. Street-car and ferry tickets, 1127. Subject to Articles of War, A. W. 63. Tailors, 279, 1245. Transportation and expenses, 732-739. Vouchers for payment, 633. Wages due discharged, 650. Witnesses, military courts, 980, 992, 993. Wrongfully selling arms, etc., A. W. 60. Civilian Physicians : Compensation, 1479. Employment and payment, 1476-1478, 1484, 1486. Examination of recruits, etc., 865, 870. 1484, 1485. Rates 01 charges, 1479, 1484, 1485. Vaccination, 865. Civilians : Admission to hospital, 1450. Appointment as second lieutenants, 27, 34-37, 1297. Attendance upon civil courts, 994. Burial In post cemeteries, 493. Exploring or surveying expeditions, 1526. Hospital charges, 1459-1461. Medical and hospital supplies, 1457. Residence on reservations, 212. Waste or spoil of private property, etc., of, A. W. 55. Witnesses before military courts, 738, 952, 990-993 ; p. 314, act March 2, 1901. Civilian Witnesses: Attendance, court-martial, 952 ; p. 313, see. 1202 R. S. Incriminating or degrading evidence, p. 314, act March 2, 1901. Pay and allowances, 738, 989-994. Refusal to obey summons, etc., 991 ; p. 314, act March 2, 1901. Civil Offtce: Officers on active list, 82. Civil Officers: Administration of oaths, 23, 684. Apprehension of deserters, 118, 121 ; p. 314, act .Tune 18. 1898. Fees for administering oath, 649. 346 INIffiX. Clvil-ElghtB lam: Enforcement by Army, 485, pp. 98, 99. Civil Service : Civilian employees, 727. Claims : Fictitious or fraudulent, A. W. 60. Information from records, 824. Interest In, disbursing officers^- clerlis, 592. Private property lost in service, 726. Purchase of, against tlie United States, 592. Dnautborlzed advertisements, 507. Clerks : Baggage, 1136. Employment, payment, etc., 728, 730. Extra-duty pay, 170. Inspectors, 879. Interest or concern in purchases, etc., 592. Parlor and sleeping ears, 1128. Transportation and expenses, 732, T33. Clothinff iind Eqitipage: Accounts, 1157-1166, 1169, 1415. Articles used for police, etc., 442, 443. Burial of deceased soldiers, 1173. Care of^ by enlisted men, 286-288. Clothing allowance, 1161, 1162. Company, 266. Contract for, or purchase, 515. Damaged, 911. Deserters, 117, 129, 1164-1166, 1373. Embezzlement, etc., A. W. 60. -Estimates, 1147-1156, 1177. Furnished by Quartermaster Corps, 1000. Indian pilsoners of war, 477. Infected, 717, 1454. Inmates, Soldiers' Home, D. C, 181. Inspection, annual, 889. Inspection by medical officers, 1387. Interior Department Indians, 477. Issues, 1157, 1158, 1167-1173, 1455. Issues in case of necessity, 1156, 1159, 1168. Laundry charges, recruits, 1169. Measurements for clothing, condttion, etc., 1155. Military prisoners, 939. Militia called into service, 456. Officers' servants, 1175. Price list, 11-16. Purchase of, by officers, 1174. Recruiting service, 1152. Kequisitlo-ns for, 203. Retired enlisted men, 137. Sliipment to mobilization camps, 455. Sizes of clothing, 115.3-1155. Tentage, 1183. , Winter garments, special, 1168, 1171. Worn and in possession of men, 288, 289. See also Uniforms. Coast Artillery Corps: Bands. See Ooast Artillery Corps Bands. Chaplains, 43-46. Chief of Coast Artillery, 303. Coast Artillery Board, 303, Coast Artillery Corps — Continued. Coast defense commands, 304. Colors and guidons, 228. Company noncommissioned officers, 271, 274. Correspondence and reports, 303, 305. District commanders, 194, 198, 303. Efficiency reports, officers, 829. Electrical equipment in fortifications, 913, 1505ii. Electrician sergeants, first and second cla«s, 9, 310, 1044, 113ft. Engineers, 9, 310, 1044, 1136. Firemen, 9, 310, 1044, 1136. Gunners, additional pay, 1343. Inspection of public property, 91^. Inspections, 886. Manual, 1552. Master electricians, 9, 310, 1044, 1136. Master gunners, 9, 310, 1044, 1136. Noncommissioned staff, 9, 308, 310^312. Practice, ai3-315. Rated positions, additional pay, 1343. Sergeants major, junior and senior, 9, 310, 1044, 1136. Submarine mine and fire control cables, 91.3, 1505J. Transfer or exdiange of officers, 48. Coast Artillery Corps Bands: Appointment of noncommissioned officers^ 260. Assignment, 261. E(iuiii,menl.s, 257, 262. Fund, 324, 326. Lye and sapolio, 118-2. Memorial Day, 440. Musical instruments, etc., 262, 1179. National and patriotie airs, 264. Salutina 375, 376. " The Star Spangled Banner," 264, 375, .378, 437. Const Artillerj IMstrlets: Commanders, 194, 198, 303. Correspond in rank with brigades, 194. Inspection, command, etc., 194, 303, 886. Mounted officers, 1272. Officers under arrest, 924. Staff officers, 198. Coast Artillery Reserves : Called into United States service, 457. Coast Artillery gcliool: Commandant, 303. Course and method of iustfuctlon, 303. Detachment of officers, 192. InspectiBn, 896. Leaves of absence, officers, 1277. Letter and note beads, 512. Location, Fort Monroe, Va.. 449. Supervision and reguJations, 191, 449. Coast Defease ConimaudeEK : Baud fund, 326. Bfflciettcy reports, 829. General duties and responsibilitiesv 246, 306. lusippGtion of command,. 203. Mileage orders, 1286. rSTDEX. 347 Coast Defense Commuutlers — Cofftlnued. Noncommissioned officers, 94, 271, 274, 310. Post noncommissioned staff, 04. Reports, incapacitated officers, 890. Senior Coast Artillery Corps officer, 304. Transfer or exchange, enlisted men, 114. Visits and courtesies, 240. Coast Defense Commnnds : Colors, 228, 232, 233. Command, 304. Commanders. See Coast Defense Cam- manilers. Correspondence, etc., 305. Est.ibllshment, limits, etc., 304, Moiuited officers, 1272. Rpcords, 309^. Ee.c;arded as military posts, 203, Staff officers, 249-, 307, 308. Tenure of office of staff,. 249. Transfer, etc., enlisted men, 114. Trjinsfer or exchange of officers, 48. Coffee : Purchase and Issue of liquid, 1208. Rntlon, 1205. Collection of Duties : Enforcement of, by the Army, 485, p, 102. Colles'es and Schools : St'e Educational InstiiiitionSj Civil, Colonels : Appropriate command, 14. Baggage, 1136. Forage, 1080. Funeral honors and- escort, 422,. 426-, Promotion to grade, 2.'>, <-,>Uitrters, fuel, and stoyes, 1044. Hank and precedence, 9. Relative rank with naval officers, 12. Colors and Stsudnrds: Assistant Secretary of War, 222. Pattallon, 23.5. Battles, participation, 244. Camp, 241. Care of, 232. Carried into battle, etc., 232. Coast Artillery Corps, 228. Coast defense commands, 228, 232, 233. Engineer troops, 226, 227, 232. Hospital and ambuhiuce, 225. Infantry regiments, 220. ^Mourning, 434, National, 226-234, 377. Philippine Scouts, 234. President of tlie United States, 218. Regimental, 227, 229-233, 377, 434. Replaced, disposition of, 239. Salutes, 37.5-377. Secretary of War, 221. Service, 233. Sillcen, 2')2. Unserviceable, 230. T'se of unpreseribeit, 243, Color Serjeants : Appointment, etc., 256. Baggage, 1136.' Color Scrgieants — Continued. Quarters, fuel, and stoves, 1044. Ranl< and precedence, 9. CamUnatloBs : Suppression of unlawful, 485, p. 101. Commarcd: Appropriate to each grade. 14. ComninndlQ® officers, 1."., 16-20. Funeral escort, 427, 428. Mixed' corps, 10; A. W. 122. Rrconnaissances and expeditions, 20. Staff officer, eligibility. 3 8, 19. Succession in event of death or disa- bility of department commanders. 196. Suspension from, by sentence, A. w. 101. Commiuiders, Navy : Relative rank with Army officers, 12. Comnian^iers of Escorts: Reconnaissances and expeditions, 20. Commanding OfUcers : Absentees at muster, A. W. 12r 13. Aid to chaplains, 44. AM' to contractors, 516. Appliances for transportin:; wounded, 1432. Appointment of courts-martial, pp. 314, 315, act March 2, 1913. Arrest of officers, 022-924 ; A. W. 63. Asslgaiments and assumption, 13. Attendance, drills, etc., 175. Authority as to discipline. 95". Battle-ground cemeteries, 401. 402. Battle reports, 816. Captui'ed property, 8'J9. Care, etc., of po.sts and reservations, 213. Casualty returns, 818. Certificates of merit, 184, 1S5. Charges an'.ainst enlisted men, 955. Civilian rraplo.yees, hospitals, 7:^4. Clothing and equipage, 717, 1148, 1137, 1170. Clothing- for priaoneis. 1170. Coast defense commands, ?.04. 306. Colors, standards, and guidons, 230, Confinement of enlisted men, 932, o:!4. Confinement of prisoners, 935. Construction of works by troops, 1499. Contempt and disrespect, A. W. 20. Correspondence with subordinates, 783. Courts-martial proceedings, 910, 957, 982. Courts- martial sentences, p. 313, act June 18, 1898; A. W. 112. Deceased officers, 83. 86. Destitute persons, 1219. Detail of topographer, 444. Discharge certificates, 15.3. Dueling, A. W. 27. Enforcement of laws by troops, 486-489. Engineer officers on- duty in command, 1503. Escort commantlers, 20. Estimates for funds. QLia-rtermastcr Corps, 1008.. Execution of orders, 706. Exercise of command, 13. Extra and sijecial duty men, 175. •348 INDEX. CommQiidtn^ Olflccrs — Continued. Field service, Hospital Corps, 1433. Forage ration, 1078. Furlouglis, enlisted men, 106, 111 ; A. W. 11. General duties and responsibilities, 306, 746, 751. General prisoners, 937, 941.. Ilospital service, 1447, Inmates Soldiers' Home, D. C, 181. Insane officers, 86. Inspections, 46, 892. Inspectors, 881. Intruders, Indian country, 473. Leaves of absence, 56, 57. Liquid coffee, 1208. Military telegraph lines, 1559. Mixed corps, 10, 817 ; A. W. 122. Movements of troops, 193, 1107. Musters, 438, 439. Navy or Marine Corps deserters, 133. Noncommissioned oiBcers, 274. Officers of General Staff Corps, 772. Official correspondence, 787. Ordnance and ordnance stores, 1514. Parades, 436. Payments to enlisted men, 1320, 1325- 1329. Pecuniary interest ia victuals, etc., A. W. 18. Policing stables, etc., 1106. Posting troops, 6. Post noncommissioned staff, 94, 100. Property responsibility, S58-660 ; A. W. 10. Eation returns, 1209-1211, 1214, 1215, 1220, 1222. Eations, 1202, 1215. Reconnaissance equipment, 447. Ecdress of abuses, A. W. 54. Eegimental bands, 264. Eetirement of enlisted men, 135. Retirement of officers, 76. Returns, requisitions, and estimates, 748. Returns of troops, 811-815, 818, 819. Route maps, 444. Salutes and honors, 380. Staff officers, 18, 19, 746. Stationery, 1062. Stores deteoriated, 717. Substance supplies and funds, 1215. Summary court records, 962. Surveying officers, 711. Surveying officers' reports, 723. Surveys and reconnaissances, 1500. Tableware and kitchen utensils, 1178. Temporary or acting, 16. Transfer or succession, 17. Trespassers, Indian country, 473. Veterinary supplies, 1075, 1076. Visitors at posts, 347, 403. Visits and courtesies, 406^14. Witnesses, military courts, 952. See also — Army (Field) Commanders. Brigade (Separate) Commanders. Commanding Officers — Continued. See also — Coast Defence Commanders. Company Goinmanders. Department Commanders. Detachment Commanders. Distrust Commanders. Division (Tactical) Commanders. Post Commanders. Regimental Commanders. Commands : Alteration in strength, 814. Annual Inspection, 887-889, 892. Discontinued, records of, 821. Quarrels, frays, and disorders, A. W. 24. Commerce : . Interstate and foreign, 485, pp. 101, 102. Commissaries : Battalion, 248, 250, 254, 255. Regimental, 248, 250, 253-255. Squadron, 248, 254. Commissary Sergeants, Battalion: Duties, 254. Commissary Sergeants, Eegimental: Appointment, etc., 256. Baggage, 1136. Quarters, fuel, and stoves, 1044. Bank and precedence, 9. Commissioned Offlcers : See Officers, Army. Commissions, Military: See Military Commissions. Commissions of Offlcers : Precedence, etc., 9, 11. Preparation and distribution, 774. Transfer or exchange of officers, 47, 48. Committees of Coneresfi : Officers and men as witnesses before, 1298. Salutes and honors, 400, 403. Commodores : Relative rank with Army offlcers, 12. Commnnications, ODicial : See— Correspondence. Letters, official. Orders. Comnmtation for Artificial LImlbs: Money value, 1490. Commutation of Quarters: Offlcers, 1299-1307. Retired enlisted men, 137. Stoves, 1048. Commutation of Rations : AUovrance and conditions, 1212, 1223, 1224, 1226, 1228, 1443. Army and Navy Hospital, 1443. Attendants, transportation of horses, 1098. Classes prohibited, 1229, 1231. Discharged soldiers on United States transports, 1235. Enlisted men on United States trans- ports, 1231, 1234. Furloughs, 1229, 1233, 1234, 1236-1238. Guards in charge of prisoners, 038. INDEX. 349 Commutation of Batioiis — Continued. Insane soldiers, 468. Meal ticltets, 12:J7. Orders, 1230-1232. Payments, 1212, 1231-1238. Rates, 1212, 1223, 1224, 1226, 1228 1443. Retired enlisted men, 137. Travel on dnty, 1111, 1232. Commntation of Sntoslstciice : Computation of time, 651. Companies : Absence from, or quitting, without leave, A. W, 32, 40. Accounts, 266. Application- of company designation in Army Regulations, 15. Arms, etc., in quarters, 285, 288, 292. Artificers, wagoners, etc., 173, 275, 278. Baking bread, 1201. Books and records, 280-282, 1361, 1471, 1472. Brooms, brushes, and mops, 301, 1181. Captains, 265, 266, 269. Care of arms, etc., 285, 287, 288, 292, 293. Chiefs of squads, 287, 288. Cleanliness of men, 286, 288. Clothing, 266. Commanders. See Company Commanders. Command of a captain, 14. Council, 280, 316-318, 320, 321, 327. Designation on muster rolls and pay rolls, 809. Desks, 1139. Discipline and instruction, 266. Division into squads, 284. Equipments, 266, 285, 287, 288, 293, 294. Establishment of tailor, barber, and shoe- repair shops, 327. Field musicians, 261, 263. First-aid treatment, 1419. Fuel and stoves, 1044. Fund. 316, 320-322, 324, 327-329, 343, 344, 1201. Inspections, 283. Kitchen, 297. Leather dressing or polishing material, 293. Libraries, 1144. Litters, hand, 1430. Lye and Sapolio, 1182. Marking property, 295. Messing and cooking, 296-302. Names of men on bunks, 285. Noncommissioned officers. See Company i\^ oncomTnissioned Officers. Numbering of men, 284. Pay, 266. Police of barracks, tents, etc., 286, 287. Public property, 266, 281, 290, 295, 694. Quitting, or absence from, without leave, A. W. 32, 40. Records, 280, 281, 1471, 1472. Records of discontinued, 821. Repairs to ordnance stores, 1537. Companlcs^ — Continued. Reports, 266. Returns, 203, 811, 812, 815. Savings of rations, 1220. Subsistence, 266. Tableware, etc., 301. Tailors, 279. Textbooks, etc., 291. Transfers, officers and men, 48, 114. Uniform and fatigue dress, 279, 289. Withdrawing from general mess, 330. Company Comnianilc-rs : Absentees at muster, A. W. 12, 13. Acting, in absence of company officers, 267, 26S. Admissions Soldiers' Home, D. C, 179. Allotments of pay, enlisted men, 1348- 1351. Appointees, second lieutenants, 29. Artiflcers, 275, 278. Authority as to discipline, 953. Cartridges, hunting purposes, 354. Chief mechanics, 275, 278. Clothing accounts, 1157-1160. Clothing and equipage, 1153, 1156, 1157. Commutation of rations, 1233, 1236, 1237. Company fund, 316, 324, 327, 328, 1208. Confinement of enlisted, men, 931. Cooks, 275, 278. Councils of administration, 317, 320. Custody of discharge certificates, 150. Daily and weekly inspections, 283. Deceased soldiers' effects, 162-164. Deposits by enlisted men, 1335, 1361, 1362, 1369. Deserters, 117, 120, 121, 124. Detached enlisted men, 104. Discharge of enlisted men, 140, 142, 146, 148, 149, 154, 155. Disposition of old records, reports, etc., 281. Efficiency reports, 829. Emergency rations, 1205. Enlisted men in hospital, 1472. Enlistment of discharged soldiers, 860. Escaped prisoners" money, 940. Farriers and horseshoers, 275, 278. Pinal statements, 1362-1364, 1369. First sergeants, 273, 275. Furloughs, 109, 110, 1111 ; A. W. 11. General duties and responsibilities, 266, 269, 284, 286, 290, 291. Incorrect payments, 1336. Inspection after taps, 370. Instructions in signaling, 1562. Lance corporals, 272. Marking of graves, 492. Mechanics, 275, 278. Messing and cooking, 296, 298. Musicians, 275, 278. Muster rolls, 810. Noncommissioned officers, 94, 95, 270- 278. Patients in hospital, 1451. Payment of deserters, 1373, 1374. aso INDEX, Company Commenders — Continued. Payments to enlisted men, 1320, 1X21, 1330-1334. Pay rolls, 110, 810, 1318, 1320, 1321, 1330. Privates, first class, 275, 278. Property responsibility, 266, 290, 291, 661-663, 1089-1092 ; A. W. 10. Public animals, 1072. Punisbments awarded by, 280. Quartermaster sergeants,. 273, 275. Xiatlon returns, 1209. Reports, incapacitated officers, 890. Returns of troops, 811, 812. Saddlers, 275, 278. Serving witb detaobed companies, 813. Settlements witb staff officers, 281. Small-arms practice, 350. Stable sergeants, 273, 275. Stamps for sealing ordnance packages, 1546. Stationery, 1063. Transfer of enlisted men, 115. Trumpeters, 275, 278. Uniforms, enlisted men, 279, 289. Wagoners, 275, 278. Company Noncommissioned Officers: Appointments, etc., 270, 271, 273-278. Capacity of privates, test, 272. Care of rations,' 297. Desertion vacates position, 277. First sergeants, 9, 270, 273-277, 370, 480, 1044, 1136. Fuel, 1044. Funeral bonors and escort, 428. Indian scouts, 480. Management of kitchens, 297. Quartermaster sergeants, 9, 273-276, 1044.. Rank and precedence, 9, Reduction to the ranks, 276, 277. Reproving, 270. Roster duties, 358. Stable sergeants, 273-276. Travel accommodations, 1128. Warrants, 274. Whistles,. IISO. Company (Juiirtermaster Sergeants : See Quartermaster Sergeants, ComptUiy, Company Eendezi'Mis : Defined, Organized Militia, 452. CompotitioBK, Sma>ll Arms: Departmental, 193. Computation of Distances: Payment of mileage, 1279, 1282. Computation of Service: Longevity pay, 1271. Retirement of enlisted men, 132, 134. Computation of Time : Extra-duty pay,. 176. Leaves of absence, 1276. One-half of court-martial sentence, 943. Personal services, 651. Concentration Camps : Defined, Organized Militia, 452. Subsistence of militia, 455, Condemnation of Property: Articles In charge of guards, 443. Coast Artillery Corps supplies, 913. Duties of inspectors, 903, 906-908. ■ Inventories,. 904-906, 909. Medical supplies,, 1488. Ordnance and ordnance stores, 913, 1543. Property once condemned, 909. Signal Corps supplies, 1566. Surveying officer's dnty, 715. Unserviceable, 678, 679. Worn or shabby in appearance, 908. CoBdemned Property: Destruction, 906, 907, 910, 912-914, 1073. Marking or branding, 907. OBdnance mm ordnance stores, 1543. Sale, 680, 681, 908, 907, 912-914, 1073. Small arms, 907,. 910. Condinct : Divine worship, A. W. 52. In the military servl<;e, 1—5. Members of courts-martial, A. W. 87. Officers in arrest, 926, 927. Prejudicial to good order, A. W. 62. Unbeeoming an officer. A. W. 61. See also MisconduQt, etc. Confederate Becords : Care and custody, 774. Confinement of Enlisted Men: Awaiting trial by summary courts, 933. Charged with crime, A. W. 66. Inquiry info offense, 930. Limitation, A. W. 66, 70. Noncommissioned officers, 929. Prisoners, 932, 936-942, 944. Report of, to commander, 931 ; A. W. 68. Without charges, 934. ConfFnement of Prisoners: AiTested, 9^3 ; A. W. 65, 70. Confinement of Prisoners; Beginning and e^xpfration of term, 969. General prisoners. 989, 971, 972. Places, 971. Prior to confirmatloii of sentence, 9T2. Congress, United States: Annual returns of militia, 774. Corps of Engineers, 1493. Disrespect or contempt, A. W. 19. Employment of militia, 450. Medals of honor, 182, Congressional Committees: See Committees af Congress. Conspiracies : Suppression by the Army, 485, p. 101. Constitution of tlie United States : Employment of militia, 450. Construction : Alterations of plans or estimates, 1468. Hospitals, ] 464-1469. Post cemetery walls or fences, 494. Quarters for sergeants, first class, Hospi- tal Corps, I4C7. 1468. Consuls General : Funeral honors, 421, Salutes and honors, 400, 403. IWD-EX. 351 Contagious Blseasee; Gratuitous Issue of clotlilag, H72, 1455. Infpcted clothing, 717. Medical and hospital property, 1-loi. Patients and hospital attendants, 1455. Contempt of Court; Courts-martial, A. W. 86. Contempt er contemptuous Words t Commanding officer, A. W. 20. Pi-esident of the United States, A, W, 19. Ccntiiigent ExpoBses: Department headquarters, 200. Special accounts current, 623. Continuous-Service Pay : Immediate reenlistment, 143. Rates and payment, 1340. Contractors : Aid to fulfill contracts, 516. Bonds, 569-581. Construction and repair worlj, 572. Entitled to copy of contract, 561. Hours of labor, mechanics and laborers, 731. Marking supplies, 566. Payments for labor and material, 572. Contracts : Aid to contractors, 516. Awards, 523, 544-648. Blanks, 555. Commanding officers, 751. Competition to be invited, 520. Conditions necessary before mailing, 515. Construction and repair work, 572. Definition of contract, 550. Delay In forwarding to Returns Office, Interior Department, 563. Disposition of copies, 561, 563, 565. Examination and approyai, 562. Execution, 556-561. Forms, 555. Fresh meats for troops, 1200. Hawaiian Department, 557. Involving future payment of money, 582. Nonpersonal services, 557. Oath, Returns Office, Interior Depart- ment, 563. OfHeers malilngv responsibility, 520. Papers relating to, 565, Persons in military service, 521. Philippine Department, 557, 559. Printing, 510, 513. Purchase of public animals, 1066. Purchases, Quartermaster Corps, 564. Quartermaster Corps, 557. Repairs, means of transportation, 557. Subsistence supplies, territorial depart- ments, 557. Unauthorized, prohibited, 515. Undertakers, 87, 167. Contract Surgeons: Baggage, 1136, 1138. Contracts, 1390, 1392, 1393. Details-, 1394. Duties, 1394. Employment, 1390. Examination of recruits, etc., 870. Fuel, 1037. Contract Surgeons — Continued. Illuminating supplies, 1054, 1057. Insane, 464. Leaves of absence, 1393. Medical attendance, etc., 1473, 1474, 1476, 1478, 1480, 1483. Mileage, 1296. Ordnance supplies, 1520, 1521. Pay and allowances, 1390. Payments to, 1266. Privileges,- 1391. Quartermaster supplies, 1174. Returns by department surgeons, 1489. Subsistence supplies, 1239. Conviction : Definition, p. 301, sec. 1342, R. S. Previous, 954, 956, 962. Convicts : Enlistment or acceptance prohibited, 849 ; A. W. 3. See also Prisoners, General. Cooking : See Messing and Cooking. Cooldng Stoves and Utensils: Allowance, 1044. Company, 296. Cooks : Appointment, etc., 275, 278. Excused from, ordinary post duties, 329. Estra pay, 329. Hours of labor, 731. Inspection and muster, 329. Management and cooking In the field, 296. Manual for Army, 296, 299. Quartermaster Corps, 1009. Reduction, 1009. Schools for. 449. Target practice, 329. Com: Forage ration, 1077. Cornmeal : Ration, 1205. Corporals : Appointments, 260, 271, 275, 480, 1405. Band, 260. Funeral honors and escort, 428. Hospital Corps, 1405, 1407, 1410. Indian scouts, 480. Lance, 272, 1405, 1407, 1408, 1410. Ordnance Corps, 103. Quarters, fuel, stoves, 1044. Rank and precedence, 9. Recruiting parties, 843-845. Reduction, 276, 277, 1009, 1407. Reproving, 270. Roster duties, 308. Selection and instruction, 270. Signal Corps, 103. Temporary appointments, 275. Travel accommodations, 112S. Warrants, 274, 1405, 1410. Whistles, 1180. Corporations : Acceptance of, as sureties, 575-577, 581. Bonds, 574, 580. Contracts, supplies, and srrvlces, 560. Money vouchers, 641-644. 352 INDEX. Corporatious — Continued. Proposals, supplies, and services, 532. Stockholders as sureties, 573. Surety companies, 573, 575-577, 580, 581. Corps of Engineers: Baud. See Engineer Sand. Battalion staff officers, 248. Chief of Engineers, 1493, 1494, 1406, 1501, 1502, 1505, 1506. Colors, 226, 227, 232. Department commander's staff, 197, 199. Electric plants and equipments, 1493, 1505J. Eligibility of officers of, to command, 18. Extra-duty details, enlisted men, 172. General duties, 1493. Guidons, 237. Officers, 742, 1493-1504, 1507-1509. Organized Militia, 1510. Precedence on occasions of ceremony, 6. Quartermaster sergeants, 9, 256, 1044, 1136. Special regulations, note, p. 287. Supervision of, by Chief of Staff, 762. Troops detached, 1495, 1496. Correspondence : Army and militia, 774. Channels of communication, 193. Chief of Coast Artillery, 303. Chiefs of bureaus, disbursing officers, 745. ' Coast defense commands, 305. Confidential communications, 778. Courtesy required, 790. Foreign, 781, 83S. Judge advocates, 920. National cemeteries, 490. Post staff, official address, 206. Private, officers and enlisted men, 781. Recruiting service, 872. Eeslgnation of officers, 79, 80. Use of colored inks, 822. See also — Letters, Official, Orders. Correspondence Books; Company, 280. Post, 211. Regimental, 258. Correspondence Vilth Enemy; Punishment, A. W. 46. Councils of Administration: Company, 280, 316-318, 320, 321, 327. Hospital, 317. Mess, 316-318, 321, 329, 330. Post, 117, 163, 164. Post exchange, 211, 27D, 316-321, 327. Proceedings, record of, 818. Counsel: • Employment of civil, 995, 996. Counsel for Accused: Detail, qualifications, and duties, 961. Judge Advocate to act, A. W. 90. Courtesy : Enjoined on military men, 4, 391, 790. See also Honors, Courtesies, and Cere- monies. Courts-Martial : Acquittal of charge of desertion, 128. Annual reports of trials, etc., 916. Appointment, pp. 314, 315, act March 2, 1913. Available officers for duty, 192. Candidates for promotion, 32. Charges against enlisted men, 954, 955 ; A. W. 67. Classification, p. 314, act March 2, 1913. Closed sessions, 949 ; p. 313, act July 27, 1892. Compensation for clerical duties, 987. Definition of conviction, p. 301, sec. 1342, E. S. Error in record or conclusions, 983. Fuel and stoves, 1044. Garrison, A. W. 62, 84, 112. General. See Coii/rts-Martial, General. Interpreters, 988. Judge advocates. See Judge Advocates of Courts-Martial. Jurisdiction, 32 ; A. W. 58, 60, 62-64, 79, 102, 103. Manual, 963. Members, 946, 948; A. W. 76-78, 84, 87, 88, 95. Mixed corps, A. W. 77, 78. Noncommissioned officers, 958. Offenses against civil communities, 955. Places where held, 946. Powers, 948. Power to punish contempt, A. W. 86. President, 947, 979 ; A. W. 85. Previous convictions, 954. Proceedings, 979 ; A. W. 86-93, 95, 113, 114, 121. Records, 920. Regimental, A. W. 30, 62, 84, 112. Reporters, 738, 986, 987. Sentences. See Courts-Martial Sentences. Sessions, 946. Special. See Courts-Martial, Special. Summary. See Courts-Martial, Sum- mary. Witnesses, 127, 951, 952 ; p. 313, sec. 1202 R. S. ; p. 314, act, March 2, 1901 ; A. W. 91, 92. Courts-Martial, General: Announcement of findings, etc., 984. Appointment, pp. 314, 315, act March 2, 1913; A. W. 76. Contumacious witnesses, 991 ; p. 314, act March 2, 1901. Copy of proceedings to be furnished, 919, 980 ; A. W. 114. Counsel for prisoners, 961. Custodian of records, 915. Evidence of previous convictions, 954, 962. Jurisdiction, p. 313, sec. 1343 R. S. ; p. 315, act March 2, 1913 ; A. W. 79. Matter in charges unfit for publication, 984. Members, 945; pp. 314, 315, act March 2, 1913. INDEX. 353 Conrts-Martlal, General — Continued. Orders, 791, 917, 984, Proceedings, 917, 921. Records, 915, 9S0. Refusal of civilian witnesses to appear, etc., 991. Stenographic reporter, 985-987. Trial of enlisted men, 954. Typewriter, use of, 980. Courts-BS.'irtial, Special : Appointment, p. 315, act March 2, 1913. Counsel for prisoners, 961. Evidence of previous convictions, 954, 962. Jurisdiction, p. 315, act March 2, 1913. Members, 945 ; pp. 314, 315, act March 2, 1913. Orders convening, proceedings, etc., 945, 960. Records, 960, 982. Trial of candidates for promotion, 32. Courts-Martial, Snmmarf : Appointment, p. 315, act March 2, 1913. Charges against enlisted men, 956, 957. Consist of one offlcer, p. 314, act March 2, 191.3. Delays in trials, 959. Evidence of previous convictions, 956, 962. Jurisdiction, p. 315, act March 2, 1913. Only officer present sitting as court, 957. Proceedings, findings, etc., 957. Records, 957. Reports, 982 ; pp. 313, 314, act June 18, 1898. Sessions, 959. Trial of candidates for promotion, 32. Trial officers, administration of oaths, p. 313, act July 27, 1892. Trial of noncommissioned officers, 958 ; p. 315, act March 2, 1913. Courts-IHartlal Sentences : Absence without leave, 127, 128. Beginning and expiration, 969, 970. Branding, marking, or tattooing, A. W. 38, 98. Candidates for promotion, 32. Certificates of eligibility, enlisted men, 32. Computation of one-half, 943. Conduct unbecoming an officer, A. W. 61. Confirmation, 981 ; A. W. 10.5-109. Cowardice or fraud, A. W. 42, SO, 100. Death penalty, A. W. 96. Deposits of enlisted men, 1368. Designation of persons convicted, 928. Discharge of enlisted men, 139 ; A. W. 4. Discharge or dismissal of officers, A. W. 99. Dishonorable discharge, 974, 975. Execution, A. W. 104-109. Flogging, A. W. 98. Forfeiture of pay, 970, 976-978. Form, 965. General officers, A. W. 108. Imprisonment in penitentiaries, A. W. 97. Increase of sentence of confinement, 967. i 79733°— 18 23 Coiirts-Martlal Sentences — Continued. Legal limit, 968. Limitation of punishment, 963, 964 ; p. 313, act September 27, 1890 ; p. 315, act March 2, 1913 ; A. W. 38, 98. Marking, A. W. 38, 98. Noncommissioned officers, 256, 276, 277, 310. Operative when confirmed, 972. Order of serving, 973. Order publishing, 970. Pardon or mitigation, p. 313, act Jane 18, 1898; A. W. 112. Payments to officers dismissed, 1262, 1265. Places of confinement, 965, 966, 971. Soldiers serving or awaiting, when term expires, 157. Special courts-martial, p. 315, act March 2, 1913. Summary courts-martial, 957 ; p. 315, act March 2, 1913. Suspension, A. W. 111. Suspension from command, A. W. 101. Tattooing, A. W. 38, 98. Tours of guard duty, 964. CooTts of Inqnlry: Appointment, etc.,. A. W. 115. Composition, A, W. 116. Fuel and stoves, 1044. Members, A. W. 116, 117. Oaths of members, A. W. 117, 118. Opinion of court, A. W. 119. President, A. W. 117, 120. Proceedings, 719; A. W. 116, 118, 120, 121. Recorders, A. W. 116-118, 120. Records, 915. Witnesses, A. W. 118. Cowardice : Punishment, A. W. 42, 100. Sentences of courts-martial, A. W. 100. Crating : See Packing and Crating. Credit Sales: Subsistence supplies, 1242, 1243, 1249. Crimes or Offenses: Against laws of the land, A. W. 55, 59. Convictions, enlisted men, civil courts, 146. Enlisted men charged with, A. W. 66. Fraud or embezzlement, A. W. 60. Fraudulent enlistment, p. 313, act July 27, 1892. Officers charged with, A. W. 65. Trial, second time for same, A. W. 102. Currency Payments to Troops: See Check or Currency Payments to Troops. Cuspidors : Allowance for barracks, 1022. Custody of Public Funds: Separate accounts and deposits, 584. Treasurer of the United States, 586. Customs Duties : Army to protect collection, 485, p. 102. 354 INDEX. Customs Officers: Seamen and river boatmen, 1459. Damages to Property: Accountability, A. W. 10. Barrack furniture, 1011. Barracks and quarters, 1010, 1011. Civilian employees, 688.. Classification, 682. Deserters, 687. Enlisted men, 685, 686, 699, 724, 1178! A. W. 16, 17. Examination, etc., surveying officer, 710, 713, 715. Examination of original packages, 668. Fire, storm, etc., 709. In transit, 721, 1141. Loaned mall contractors, 209. Medical supplies, 1488. Mess property and utensils, 301. Officers, 683, 685; A. W. 15. Ordnance and ordnance stores, 1530, 1541. Prevention, 674. Stoppages against pay of officers, 1309. Surveys on, 710, 713, 715. Tableware and kitchen utensils, 1178. Vessels owned or operated by the War Department, 709. Death Penalty: Concurrence of two-thirds of the mem- bers of a general court-martial, A. W. 96. Confirmation by the President, A. W. 105. Incurred by enlisted men, A. W. 21-23, 39, 42-47, 51, 56, 57. Incurred by officers, A. W. 21-23, 41-47, 51, 56, 57. Spies, p. 313, see. 1343 R. S. Deaths : Report of chaplain, 45. Report of commanding officers, 83, 162. See also — Deceased Officers. Deceased Soldiers. Deceased Officers: Accounts, medical attendance, etc., 1478. Accounts for advertisements, 508. Baggage, professional books, etc., 1137. Burial in post cemeteries, 493. Cause of death, 83. Checks outstanding, 603. Disposition of remains, 87. Effects, 84, 85 ; A. W. 125, 127. Expenses of burial, 87. Funeral honors and escort, 396, 418- 420, 422, 426, 427. Half year's pay to beneficiary, 1385. Information from records, 824. Notification of nearest relative, 87. Outside continental limits D. S., 87. Public property or funds, 86. Reports of death and burial, 45, 83, 87. Settlement of accounts, 85. Transportation of horses. 1098. Deceased Soldiers: Accounts, medical attendance, etc., 1478. Allotment pay, 1350. Arrears of pay, etc., 165. Baggage, professional books, etc., 1137. Burial in post cemeteries, 49.U. Cause of death, 162. Certificates of merit, 187. Clothing for use in burial, 1173. Deposits of pay, 1367. Disposition of remains, 167. Effects, 162-165, 1451 ; A. W. 126, 127. Expenses of burial, 167. Funeral honors and escort, 423, 428. Half year's pay to beneficiary, 1385. Information from records, 824. Legal administration of estate, 166. Notification of nearest relative, 162, 167. Patients dying in hospitals, 1451. Payment of debts of, 163. Payments, 1333. Reports of death and burial, 45, 167. Settlement of accounts, 166. Deduetious : Loss or damage to supplies in transit, 721. Deeds : Military lands, 705, 915, 1493. Deficieiicles in Public Property: Stoppages against pay of officers, 1309. Defimtions : Battalion, 15. Company, 15. Contract, 550. Conviction, p. 301, sec. 1342 E. S. Desertion, 132. Directions and orders of the Secretary of War, 761. Extra and special duty, enlisted men, 169. Fiscal year and quarters of, 620. Garrison prisoners, 928. General and special orders, 792, 793. General prisoners, 928. General recruiting stations and recruit- ing depots, 841. Governors general, 400. Indian country, 472. Officer, p. 301, sec. 1342 R. S. Officers on duty without troops, 1300. Ordnance and ordnance stores, 1512. Personal service, 519. Prisoners awaiting trial, etc., 928. Rank, 7. Ration, 1202. Roster. 355. Sea travel, 1280. Soldier, p. 301, sec. 1342 R. S. Spring wagons, 1103. Traveling with troops, 1281. Delays : Applications, 67. Granted enlisted men, 107. Officers changing stations, 68. Proceedings, courts-martial, A. W. 93. Regarded as leaves of absence, 70. Deliberations : ConTeyins praise or censure forbidden, 5. lETDEX. $55 Dental Corps; Acting: dental surgeons. See Acting Dental Surgeons. Assignments, 1396. Assistants, 1397. Dental surgeons, 1239, 1396-1401, 1489. Duties, 1398-1408. Emergency work, 1399. Materials, 1399, 1401. Office rooms, 1397. Operations, limitation of, 1400. Returns by department and divlBloit sur- geons, 1489. Department Adjutnuts: Assignment, 197. Designation, 199. ' Detachments, 367. Distribution of orders, 803. Funds for contingent expenses, 200. Returns, 200, 333. Department Commanders : Absence from headquarters, 196. Acting dental surgeons, 1395. Administration of military affairs, 193. Advertising rates, 505-507. Annual reports, preparation, etc., 198i. Appeals of officers, A. W. 29. Appeals referred to, for decision, 195. Assignments to command, 100. Authority to command, 101, 192. Awards and contracts, 543, 544. Barracks and quarters, 1012, 1014-1016, 1025, 1030. Blanis forms, B09. Candidates for promotion, 33. Care, etc., of posts and reserratlons, 213. Change of station ot troops, 193. Civilian employees, 729. Clothing and equipage, 1149-1151. Commutation of quarters, 1302. Company commanders, 268. Condemned property, 906, 912, 913. Confinement of prisoners, 935, 938. Contingent expenses, 200. Contracts, 557. Controversies arising within command, 195. Councils of administration, 318. Courts-martial orders, 984. Courts-martial proceedings, 920. Damages by flr&, storm, etc., 709. Deceased olEcers, 83. Decisions, pecuniary responsibility, 318, 321. Deserters.. 126. Disbursing officers on stafT, 745. Discharge of enlisted men, 139, 161 ; A. W. 4. Efficiency reports, 829. Enlisted men detailed with militia, 106. Estimates, 760, 1008. Examinations for promotion,. 29, 30. Extra and special duty details, 171. Extra-duty pay, 177. Field officers of the mobile army, 247.. Forage rations, 1077. Department Commanders — ^Contlnued. Funeral escorts, etc., 426, Furloughs to enlisted men, 107. Gambling, 593. Garrison schools, 193. General courta-martlal, A. W. 76. General duties and responsibilities, 193. General hospitals, 1439-, 1446. Hire of quarters, 1028, tD2.9. Horses of mounted officers, 1095. Hospital Corps, 1414. Hospital transports, etc., 1440. Illuminating supplies, 1051, 1053. Indian country, 472. Indian scouts, 480, 482. Insane soldiers, 467, 468. Inspection, command, etc., coast artil- lery, 303. Inspection reports, 966. Inspections, 193, 887. Inspectors general, 879-883. Instruction and practice in signaling, 1562. Jurisdiction over prisoners, 944. Leaves of absence, officers, 51. Loss of special funds, 321. Maps and reconnaissances, 446. Messing and cooliing, field practice, 296. Mounted service, 1095, 1096, 1272. Movements of troops, 193, 750. Office rooms, fuel, and stoves, 1044, 1046, Officers under arrest, 924. Ordnance and ordnance stores, 1517, 1518, 1532, 1538. Ordnance depots, 1515, 1517. Organized MUltia, 193, 454, 457, 463. Permission to hunt granted by, 86. Personal leave beyond command, 51. Post gardens, 344. Post noncommissioned staff, 99, 101. Printing, contracts for, 513, 514. Public moneys by express, 1142. Quartermaster supplies, 1003-1007. Recruit depot posts, 841. Recruiting service, 840. Reports, special and annual, 1-93, 193J, 196. Reports from officers, 747. Returns of troops, 811. Sales of horses to mounted officers, 1095. Signal supplies, 1564. Small-arms practice, 350. Special inspections and investigations, 893. Special inspectors, 903. Staff, 199, 200. Staff officers and enlisted men, 743. Subsistence, furloughed men or soldiers absent without leave, 110. Succession in event of death or disability of, 196. Supervision of reservations. 212. Supervision or control, 191, 192, 304. Surveying officers, 711. Target practice, 193. Telegraph accounts, 1189. 356 INDEX. Department Commanders — Continued. Telegrapkic code, 1185. Transfer, etc., enlisted men, 114, 1411. Transfer of supplies, 671. Transportation, furloughed men or sol- diers absent without leave, 110. Travel of enlisted men, 191. Unimportant communications, 789. Witnesses, 951, 952. Writs of habeas corpus, 999. Bcpnrtment Engineers: Assignment, 197. Designation, 199. Department Inspectors: Assignment, 197. Designation, 199. Inspections of accounts of disbursing ofiScers, etc., 899. Supervision or control, 879. Department Jndge Advocates ; Administration of oaths, 23, 684 ; p. 313, act July 27, 1892. Annual reports, 916. Assignment, 197. Courts-martial records, 982 ; p. 314, act June 18, 1898. Designation, 199. Law books, 918. OfEce rooms, fuel, and stoves, 1044. Department Ordnance Officers: Assignment, 197. Designation, 199. Ordnance and ordnance stores In time of war, 1514. Eequisitions for ordnance supplies, 1518. Department Quartermasters : Assignment, 197. Clothing and equipage, 1148-1151. Commutation payments, lost furloughs, 1237. Contracts, subsistence supplies and non- personal services, 557. Designation, 199. Estimates for funds, 1008. Office rooms, fuel, and stoves, 1044. Pay accounts of officers, 1253, 1259. Payment of troops, 1315. Repairs, barracks and quarters, 1017, 1019. Sale of subsistence supplies, 1243. Departments : Change of station of troops, 193. Civilian employees, headquarters, 728. Commanders. See Department Command- ers. Contingent expenses, 200. Draft and pack animals, 1102. Engineer officers on duty, 1503. Establishment, 190. Inspections, 879-883, 899, 903, 906. Letter and note heads, 512. Movements of troops, 193. Orders, 805. Printing, 510-514. - Records of, discontinued, 821. Departments — Continued. Registry of officers arriving at head- quarters, 406, 825. Returns, 333, 811, 815. Rosters of troops, 805. State officers, 197, 199. Department Signal Officers: Assignment, 197. Designation, 199. Department Surgeons : Assignment, 197. Certificates of disability, 161. Condemnation of medical supplies, 1488. Dental surgeons, 1396. Designation, 199. • Hospital Corps, 1407, 1408. Returns, 1489. Travois, mule litters, etc., 1431. Depositaries, Designated : Balances unchanged for three years, 590. Depositaries, 594, 595. Deposits of moneys refunded, etc., 1384. Disbursing officers' deposits, 590. Deposit Books: Deceased soldiers, 1367. Importance of preserving, 1364. Loss, 1363. Record of deposits, 1361. Soldiers discharged by purchase, 1369. Transfer, sale, or pledge prohibited, 1361. Depositions : Witnesses, courts-martial, A. W. 91. Deposits by Enlisted Men: Check or currency payments, 1335. Deceased soldiers, 1367. Deposit ))0oks, 1361-1364, 1367, 1369. Discliarged for fraud, 1380. Exempt from certain liabilities, 1368. Final statements, 140, 1362-1365, 1369. Forfeitures, 1362, 1368, 1370. Purloughed to the reserve, 1361, 1362, 1366. Interest, 1366. Making and recording, 1335, 1361. Payments, 1362, 1364, 1365. Purchase of discharge, 1369. Renewal on reenlistment. 1365. Transfer or desertion, 1361, 1362, 1368. Unpaid at discharge, 1364. Deposits of Moneys and Collections; Balances and collections, 611-619. Certificates, 611, 612, 615, 616, 1521. Company, post exchange, etc., funds, 324. Deserters' effects, 117. Funds of other staff departments, 613. Funds refunded, etc., 1384. Proceeds of sale, 617-619. Quartermasters, 614. Received for disbursement, 584, 586. Depots of Supply: Annual inspections, -191, 892, 895. Candles, 1215. Commanding officers, 49, 106. Court-martial duty of officers, 192. Efficiency reports, 829. Plats of land, 708. INDEX. 357 Depots of Snpplyi — Continued. Quartermaster Corps, 1002-1004. Records of discontinued, 821, Snpei-Tision or control, 191, 1002. DcscrlptiTC unci Assignment Cards: (Now In Service Records.) Applicants for enlistment, 874. Dotached enlisted men, 1535. Enlistment period noted, 153. Lanndry charges, 1169. ProTious service notation upon reenlist- ment, 153. Recruiting parties, reenlisting, 847. Recruits, f-'Cn, 873-876, 1217, 1249. Descriptive Curds: Officers' mounts at remount depot, 1099. Public animals, 280, 1070, 1071. Descriptive Lists : (Now Service Records.) Absent enlisted men discharged, 154. Clothing balances, 1157, 1163. Deposits of pay, 1361. Deserters, 118, 124. Detached enlisted men, 104, 105, 1535. Insane soldiers, 466. Navy or Marine Corps deserters, 133. Patients in hospitals, 1451. Post noncommissioned staff, 99. Prisoners, 938. Public animals, 1069. Retired enlisted men, 138, 1337. Retirement of enlisted men, 135. Transfer of enlisted men, 115, 1356. Deserters : Allotment pay, 1350. Application for release, etc., 125. Apprehended or surrendered, 123-126, 1165, 1166. Arrest, delivery, etc., 118 ; p. 314, act June 18, 1898. Awaiting trial, 129. Clothing allowance and accounts, 1164- 1166, 1373, 1374. Clothing and personal effects, 117, 129. Definition, 132. Delivery, 121, 122, 125. Deposits of pay, 1361, 1362, 1368. Descriptive lists, etc., 118, 124. Disposition without trial, 126, 131. Enlistment or acceptance prohibited, 849; A. W. 3. Evidence against, 124. Forfeitures, 130-132, 1373. Identification, 119. Inquiry, liability to trial, 125. Military prisoners, escaped, 121. Navy or Marine Corps, 133, 1451. Pay and allowances, 129, 131, 132, 1372- 1374. Physically disqualified, 123, 126. Preparation of charges against, 120, 124, 126, Property carried avv-ay or lost, 116, 687. Reenllstment, restrictions, 849, 861. Reports, etc., 120, 124. Return to service, 130. Rewards and expenses, 121, 122, 127, 128, 131. Deserters — Continued. Statute of limitations, 121, 125 ; A. W. 103. Time lost to be made good, 130-132 ; A. W. 48." Trial, 125, 126, 128, 129. Witnesses against, 127. Desertion : Advising or persuading, A. W. 51. Charge not sustained, 1165. Commencement, definition, etc., 132. Enlistment in other organizations, A.'W. 50. Patients In hospitals, 1451. Payments to enlisted men, 1333. Punishment, A. W. 47-51. Quitting service, resignation, A. W. 49. Reports of inspectors, 889. Statute of limitations, A. W. 103. Time lost made good, A. W. 48. Trial after expiration of service, A. W. 48. Destitute Persons : Subsistence, 1219. Destruction of Public Property: Accountability, destroyed In service, 698. Civilian employees, 688. Classification, 682, 717. Deserters, 116, 687. Deteriorated stores. Infected clothing, etc., 717. Enlisted men, 685, 686, 699 ; A. W. 16, 17. In transit, 721, 1141. Military records, 823. Military telegraph lines, 1563. OtUcers, 683, 685 ; A. W. 15. Ordnance and ordnanae stores, 1527, 1541, 1542. Prevention, 674. Public animals, 1073. Public buildings or vessels, 709. Tableware and kitchen utensils, 1178. Detached Service: Commutation of rations, 1238. Descriptive lists, 104. Details of officers, 39, 40, 265. Engineer officers and troops, 1494—1496. Enlisted men with Organized Militia, 105. Foreign, fuel and light, 1036, 1057. Leaves of absence, 51. Muster and pay rolls, 808. Officers, service schools, etc., 192. Orders directing travel, 69. Personal reports, officers, 826-828. Transfer of ordnance stores, 1535, 1536. Detachment Commanders: Absentees at muster, A. W. 12, 13. Allotments of pay, enlisted men, 1.348- 1351. Clothing accounts, 1157-1160. Clothing and equipage, 1153, 1156, 1157. Confinement of enlisted men, 931. Pally and weekly Inspections, 283. Deposits by enlisted men, 1361, 1362. Deserters, 117, 120. 358 INDEX. Detachment Commanders- — Continaed, %■ Discharge of enlisted men, 148. Duties, etc., 368, 369. Emergency rations, 1203. Final statements, 1363, 1364. Muster rolls, 810. Payments to enlisted men, 1320, 1321, ■ 1332-1334. Pay rolls, 810, 1318, 1320, 1321. Property responsibility, 661-663, 1089- 1092; A. W. 10. Eation certificates, 1213". Ration returns, 1209. Recruiting service, 840. Returns of troops, 811, 812. Settlement with staff officers, 281. Detachments : --* Commanders. See DetacJ^ment Com- manders. Formation, 365-367. Fund, 327. Muster and' pay rolls, 808. Officers and enlisted men on other duty, 366. Protecting laborers, rosters, 357. Ration certificates, 1213. Return frpm duty, 369. Returns, 811, 812, 815, 1009. Serving together, 368. Details, Enlisted Men: Clerical assistant, judge advocate, 985. Limitations, extra and special duty, 169, 171-173. Noncommissioned oflicers, 270, 311. Post noncommissioned staff, 97. Roster duty, 355-357, 364. Details, Officers; Accountable for property 658, 659, 664. Acting inspectors, 807. Aids, 41. Detached service, staff duty, etc., 39, 40. Educational institutions^, 42, 449, 1306. Escorts of honor, 416. General Staff Corps, 197, 199, 752, 761, 765, 773. Line to staff, 38-40. Recruiting service, 840. Roster duties, 355-364. Service in a foreign country, horses, 1098. Special inspectors, 897, 903. Deteriorated Stores: Destruction, 717. Diagnosis : Enlisted men on sick report, 1472. Diaries : War, in campaigns, 446. Directions and Orders; Secretary of War, defined, 761. Disability: Certificates. See Certlfteates of Disability. Discharge of enlisted men, 140, 159-161. Entry on muster roll, 1472. Line of duty, 161, 1472. Permanent, 159. Disabled Soldiers: Reeiilistmeut, etc., 863. ' Disbursements of Honey: Disallowances, how charged, 653, 654, Inspections, 203, 897, 901, 902. Disbursing; Olfioors : Accounts current, 626-629. Acting in different capacities, 586. Advances to, of public moneys, 583. Allotments of pay, enlisted men,. 1352, 1354, 1359. Balances at close of fiscal year, 625. Balances unchanged for thi'ee years, 590. Bonds, 567, 568, 574-577, 580, 581, 589. Ceasing to act, instructions, 588, 630, 902. Certificates of deposit, 611-61 3, 615, 616. Check books, 608, 609. Checks, 599-607, 610, 635, 638, 643. Closing statement of accounts, 902. Correspondence, 745. Deposit hy, of funds, 584, 586. Duplicate cheeks, 602. Errors or disallowances, 655, 656. Funds kept in personal possession, 586, 587. Gamili-ng, 593. Identification of payees, 645. Inspection of accounts, 895, 897, 899-901. Insurance on public money or property, 596. Interest in purchases, etc., 591, 592. Opening account, 594. Organized Militia, 452, 455, 456. Outstanding and unpaid checks, 588. Payments, accounts, contract service, 585. Pecuniary responsibility, 653, 654. Kates of exchange, 596. Receipts, 595. Recruiting officers, 587. Refundments, stoppages, etc., 614, 1384. Separate depositary accounts, 626. Settlement with legal representatives, 652. Signature to be furnished depositaries, 594. Surety companies, lists, 573. Transfer of funds, 589, 597, 598, 639, 640, 1384. Discharge Certificates : Blank forms, 150. By whom signed, 147. Contents and preparation, 148, 149, 152. Custody, 150. Date, for soldier under sentence, 157. Forwarding, In correspondence, 151. Furnished on discharge, A. W. 4. Indorsements concerning date, 152, 157. Issue of duplicate, prohibited, 151. Loss, 151. Manuscript, prohibited, 1572. Notations of final payments, 1376. Post noncommissioned staff, 99. Previous service notation, 153. Retirement of enlisted men, 135. Service certificates issued in lieu of lost, 151.. Soldiers confined by civil authorities. 1381. Use of, 150. INREX. S59 Discharged Soldiers: Certificates of merit, 18T. Enlistment of certain, prohibited, 8.49. Hospital treatment, 1452, 145S. Indebtedness to laundTy, 341. Indebtedness ta .post exchange, 345. Outside eaatlneutal limits. U. S., 145, 1235. Payments, 1375-1383. Reentering sendee, 848, 849, 860-863. Special authority for emlistment, S61. Subsistence on transports, 1235. Transportation, 145, 1235. TraYel allowances, 146, 15S, iai8. Disc)i:irge of Enlisted Men: Absent from organization, 154. Admission to Soldiers' Home» D. C, 179. Allotment pay, 1350, 1358. Autborit}', in whom vested, 139 ; A. W. 4. Awaiting trial or sentence, 157. Before eiqairatlon of seririce-, 139, 142, 3 59. By reason of dependent parent, 144. Certificates. See Discharge Certificates. Conviction- by civil courts, 146. Date when dlseharge takes effect, 152- Deposits, of pay, 140, 1362. Disability, 140, 159-161. Dishonorable, 150, 1.56, 944, 974, 975; p. 314, aiCt Jvme 18; 1898^ Disqualified: through own misconduct, 3 50. Expiration term of service, 143. Final statements, 140K142, 155, 1379,. 1381, 1415. Fraudulent enlistment. 150. General noncommissioned staff, 103, Honorable, 150. Imprisonment, 150, Indian scomts, 479. Insane soldiers, 466. Patients in hospital, 14.51. Personal notice to prisoners, 157. Philippine Department, 126, 139. Post noncommissioned staff, 99, 102, 958. Purchase of, 139, 144, 1369. Qualifications for commission. In volun- teers, 149. Recruits, for disability, 841. Beenllsted, 148. Sergeants, flrst-class. Hospital Cor.ps, 958. Serving sentence, 150, 157. Specially ordered, 150. Transportation and allowance, 158. WtthoQt honor, 126, 150. Discharge of Oiftcers: By sentenee, or order of the President, A. W. 99. Discipline : Authority of officers, 24, 54. Company, 266. Conduct prejudicial to good order, A. W. 62. Courtesy enjoined, 4. Dlsc!i)llue — CoJittianed. Deliberations or diseiissioas, 5. Exercise of authority, 2. Methods, 953. Obedience toy and oxeeutioa of orders, 1. Post commanders, 203k Praise or censure, 5. Publications, 5. Punishments, 2. Beapeet to superiors, 4-. Superiors and. inferiors, S. Use of influence, 5. Disclosing Parol* or Watcliwoidt Punishment, A. W. 44. Discontinued Commauds: Records, 821. Discussions : Conveying praise or censure forbidden, 5. Orders etc., by aidjutants, 252- Diseases : Chronie, 1476. Contagious, 717, 1172, 14B4, 1455, Prevailing, reports concerning, 1387. Venereal, 1387. See also. Vacdnaiious. Dishonorable Discharge : Date fixed by court-martial sentence, 974, 975. Effect and meaning, 156, Pardon, or mitigation of puniishmeat, 944. Preparation of certificate, ISO. Subject to Articles of War, etc., p. 314, act June 18, 1898. Disinfectants ; Routine issue prohibited, 1487, Dismissal of Ofllcets: Authority required, A. W. 99. Causes for, A. W. 3, 5. 6, 13-15, 18, 19, 26-28, 38, 54, 59, 61, 65. Confirmation of sentence, A. W. 106^109. Cowardice or fraud. A. W. 100. Pay regulations, 1262, 1265. Disohcdieuce of Oixders: Punishment, A. W. 21, 24. Disorders : Correction, etc., by officers, A^ W. 54. Disturbing eourts.-niartial, A. W. 86. Quelling, A. W. 24. Dispatch Agents, United Stales: Correspondence, officers and men, 781. Disrespect or Disresuectliil Words i Commanding officer, A. W. 20. President of the United States, A. W. 19. Distiiigiiished Service : Certificates of merit, 184-188. Medals of honor, 182, 183. District Attoraay : Contumacious witnesses, p. 314, act Mar. 2, 1901. District Commanders : Chauges> personal or staff, 811, Efficiency reports, 829. Furloughs to enlisted men, 106, 111. Office rooms, fuel, and stoves, 1044, 104G. Personal leave of absen-ce, 50. 360 INDEX. District Commanders — Continued. Relation toward hlglier autliority, 194. Sta£E officers, 49, 198. Surveying- officers, 711. Unimportant communications, 789. District Courts, United States: Contumacious witnesses, p. 314, act Mar. 2, 1901. District of ColniuMa: Public buildings and grounds, title pa- pers, etc., 705, 915, 1493. Districts : Letter and note heads, 512. Philippine Islands, 194. Printing, 510-512. Staff officers, 49, 198. See also Coast Artillery Districts. Divine Service: Attendance and behavior, A. W. 52. Division (Tactical) Commanders : Appeals referred to, for decision, 195. Condemned property, 906. Controversies arising within command, 195. Discharge of enlisted men, 139. Efficiency reports, 829. Furloughs to enlisted men, 107. Horses of mounted officers, 1095. Hospital Corps, 1409, 1411. Inspection reports, 906. Leaves of absence, officers, 51. Heturns of troops, 811. Surveying officers, 711. Transfer, etc., enlisted men, 114. Divisions (MoMlized) : Discharge of enlisted men, 139. Furloughs to enlisted men, 106. Transfer of enlisted men, 1411. Division (Tactical) : Command of a major general, 14. Ordnance and ordnance stores, 1514. Records of discontinued, 821. Returns, 811, 815. Senior engineer officer, 1498. Staff officers, 197. Troops, field training, etc., 193. Divisions (Territorial) : Records of discontinued, 821. Docking, Ban^in^, or Clipping: Public animals, 1068. Domestic Articles: Preference over foreign articles, 518. Domestic Tlolencc; Protection of States against, 485, pp. 98, 101. Suppression by the Army, 485, p. 101. Donations : , Libraries and museums, 1144, 1145. Post chapels, 1144. Reading matter, 1144. Drills: Enlisted men awaiting trial, etc., 932. -Extra and special duty men, 175. Dmm Major: Baggage, 1136. Quarters, fuel, and stoves, 10<4. Rank and precedence, 9. Drunkenness on Dntyr Punishment, A. W. 38. Dueling: Challenges, A. W. 26, 27. Principals, A. W. 26. Seconds or promoters, A. W. 27. Upbraiding for refusing challenge, A. W. 28. Easements : Military lands, 705, 915. Educational Institutions, Army: See— Garrison Schools. Military Academy, United States. Post Schools. Service Schools. Educational Institutions, Civil: Detail of officers at, 42, 449, 1306. Gradua-tes, candidates for commission, 35. Effects of Deceased Officers; Delivery to legal representatives, 84, 85. Inventories, 84 ; A. W. 125. Officer charged with, A. W. 127. Sales, 85. Swords, watches, trinkets, etc., 85. Eifects of Deceased Soldiers: Applications for proceeds of sale, 165. Delivery to legal representatives, 163, 165. Inventories, 162 ; A. W. 126. Officer charged with, A. W. 127. Sale of unclaimed, 163, 164. Watches, trinkets, etc., 163. Effects of Deserters; Disposition, 117. Effects of Escaped Prisoners: Inventories, 940. Efficiency Boports: See Reports, Efficiency. Electrician Sergeants, Coast Artillery Corps: Appointments, 310. Baggage, 1136. Quarters, fuel, and stoves, 1044. Rank and precedence, 9. Warrants, 310. Electricity : Allowance, 1057, 1058, 1061. Electric Power Plants: Inspection of installations and ap- pliances, 913. Installation and equipment, 1493, 1505*. Lighting buildings and grounds, 1060. Embezzlement : Ordnance and ordnance stores, 1527. Public moneys or property, A. W. 60. Emergencies : Control during, of troops, 191, 192, 1496. Employment of militia, 450. Express transportation, 1142. Mobs or riots, 487-489. Movements of troops, 193. Officers outside continental limits U. S., 71. Open-market purchases, 551-554. Quartermaster supplies, 1007. Transfers of Hospital Corps, 1414. Use of tents, 1183. INDEX. 361 Emergency Ration: Composition, issue, etc., 1205. Definition, use, etc., 1202. Encampments: Private lands occupied, 1018. Enemy : Correspondence with, etc., A. W. 45, 46. Enforcement of the Laws: Aljska, 485, p. 103. Civil rights, 485, pp. 98, 99. Collection of customs duties, 485, p. 102. Commanding officers, 484, 486-489. Distilleries, Indian country, 485, p. 99. Domestic violence, 485, pp. 98, 101. Extradition treaties, 486, p. 100. Guano islands, 485, p. 102. Hawaii Territory, 485, pp. 102, 103. Indian country, 485, p. 99. Insurrection, 485, p. 101. Interstate and foreign commerce, 485, pp. 101, 102. Intruders on public lauds, 485, pp. 99, 100. Invasion, 485, p. 98. Land-grant railroads, etc., 485, p. 102. Mobs or riots, 487-489. National parks, 485, p. 100. Neutrality laws, 485, pp. 100, 101. Peonage, 485, p. 99. Public lauds, 485, pp. 99, 100. Quarantine regulations, 485, p. 100. Timber depredations in Florida, 485, p. 99. Trespassers on public lands, 485, pp. 99, 100. United States mails, 485, p. 101. Engineer Band : Appointment of noncommissioned ofE- cers, 260. Assignment, 261. Fund, 324. Lye and Sapolio, 1182. Memorial Day, 440. Musical instruments, etc., 262, 1179. National and patriotic airs to be played, 264. Saluting, 375, 376. " The Star Spangled Banner," 264, 375, 378, 437. Engineer Corps: See Corps of Engineers. Engineer Department: Civilian employees, expenses, 738. Illuminating supplies, 1060. Management, 1494. Maps and reeonnoissances, 445, 447, 448. Open-market purchases, etc., 554. Packing, crating, etc., of baggage, 1135. Permanent works of defense, 214. Reconnoissance equipment, 448. See also-— Chief of Engineers. Corps of Engineers. Engineer Officers: Commander in the field, 1497, 1501. Construction of works by troops, 1499. Engineer Offlceis — Continued. Department duties, 1503. Detached from corps, 1495, 1496. Directors of communications, 1508. Efliciency reports, 829. Eligibility to command, 18. General duties, 1493, 1494. Journals of daily events, 1502. Journeys not Involving change of sta- tion, 742. Office rooms, fuel, and stoves, 1044, 1504. Plans of military works, 1502. Post, 206, 1503. Promotions, 24. Reports of engineering operations, 1500, 1501. Senior, with field army, etc., 1498, 1501. Surveys and reconnaissances, 1500. Transfer of public moneys and property, 1509. Travel allowance and mileage, 1507. Engineers, Coast Artillery Corps: Appointments, 310. Baggage, 1136. Quarters, fuel, and stoves, 1044. Rank and precedence, 9. Warrants, 310. Engineer School: Detachment of officers, 192. Inspection, 896. Leaves of absence, officers, 1277. Letter and note heads, 512. Location, Washington Barracks, D. C, 449. Supervision and regulations, 191, 449. Enlisted Men: Absence without leave, 110, 127, 128, 132, 141; A. W. 31-35, 40. Absent at muster, A. W. 1 2, 13. Additional pay, 186, 859, 1338-1346. Allotments of pay, 1347-1360. Altering or taking apart arms, 292. Ammunition, 1530. Appeals, A. W. 30. Arms, etc., in barracks, 285. Arrested by civil authorities, 1371, 1381, Articles for sale to, 885, 1174J. Artificial limbs and appliances, 1490-, 1491'. Artillery instruction, 303. Attendance at funerals, 430. Awaiting trial or result of trial, 157, 928, 970, 973. Barrack bag, 286. Beard and hair, 286. Buildings erected, places of amusement, 339. Care, etc., of clothing, 286-2S8. Care, etc., of rooms and furniture, 1011. Certificates of merit, 184-188, 1341. Charges against. See Charges against Enlisted Men. Classification and rating 1343-1345. Cleanliness, dress, etc., 286, 288, 289, 1387. 362 INBBX. Enl.islcd Men — Coattoued. Clothing accaimts, 1157-1168, 1169. ClotMng and equipage. See Clothinff. and EquA/page. Commutation of rations. See Cammwta- tion of Bations, Conflnement. 92.9-933 ; A. W. 66, 70. Contempt or diareBpect, A. W. 20. Correspondence witb. War Depaxtment, 782. Damaged clothing, 911. Deceased. See Deceased Boldiera, Definition oi soldier, p. 301, sec. 1342, R. S. Dental work, 1398-1403„ Deposits of pay, 140, 1335, 1361-1369, 1380. Deserters. See Deserters, Desertion. See Desertion. Designation of beneficiary in event of death, 1385. Detached seryice, 104, 105, 808. Details. See Details, Enlisted Men. Discharges. See Discharge of Etildsted Men. Dispatches in the tield, 799. Disrespectful or contemptuous words, A. W. 19. Divine'service, A. W. 52. Drunkenness on duty, A. W. 38. Dueling, A. W. 26-28. Expert riflemen, 1345. Extra and special duty, 97, 168-177, 279. Families of. See Families, etc. First-class privates, 275, 278, 1009, 1340 ; p. 315, act March 2, 1913. Fuel and stoves, 1044. Funeral honors and escort, 428. Furlonghed to the Army Reserve, 1361, 1362, 13(i6, 1S75-1379. Furloughs. See Furloughs. Hair and beard, 286. ' Hospital Corps, 1405-1412, 1415=1418, 1420. Hospital stores, 1473, 1476. Individual cooking, 302, 1205. Insane, 464-466. Instruction by chaplains, 44. Instruction in signaling, 1562. Labor, 494; Leaving post on pass, 288. Marlfsmen, 1345. Meal tickets, 1227. BIcdals of honor, 182, 183, 188. Medical attendance, etc., 1473, 1474, 1476, 1478, 1480. Mess furniture in the field, 302. Messing and cooking, 296—302, 371. Messing separately from company, 1209. Military history, 774. Misconduct In time of war, A. W. 42. Mutiny and sedition, A. W. 21-24, 43. Navy and Marine Corps, hospital charges, 1460. Noncommissioned officers. See Ifoncam- missioned Officers. Enlisted Men — Continued. Orders, regulations, etc., affecting, T66, 774. Payments. See Payments to Enlisted Men. Physical examination or vacclnatiani 1485. Post schools, 449. Presence at parades; 436. Private property lost in service, 72fe. Brofanity, A. W. 53. Promotion from ranks, 27-33, 1138, 1139, 1296. Property damaged, 685, 686, 699 ; A. W. 16, 17. Purchase of articles of uniform clothing from post exchange, 1174|. Purchase of discharge, 1369. Pursuit of deserters, 122. Quarrels, frays, and disorders, A. W. 24, 25. Quartermaster Corps, 1009. Rations. See Ration of the Army, Reading matter, 1144. Records, 280, 281, 821. Recruiting service, assignments, 8'13— 845. Respect to national airs when played, 378. Retired. See Retired Enlisted Men. Retirement, 132, 134, 135. Returning to United States from for^n parts. 111. Right to trial by court-martial, 953. Roster details and duty, 355-364. Sales to, of subsistence supplies, 1241, 1242, 1244, 12.49. Salutes to officers, 383-392. Sanitary measures, 286. Second-class privates, 1340. Selling arms, etc., A. W. 60. Service, computation of time, 134. Sharpshooters, 1345. Sick call, 1471. Stale corps and departments, 742, 743, 1009, 155T. Stoppages, 724. Straw for bedding, 1084. Tableware and kitchen utensils, 1178, Term of enlistment, 855. Transfers. See Transfers of Enlistei Men. Transmission by, of dispatches, 799. Travel on duty. See Travel on Duty, Enlisted Men. Trunk lockers, 1021, 1023. Unauthorized sale of property, A. W. 16, 17. Uniform, etc., 289, 1569. Tlolence to traders in foreign parts, A. W. 56. Waste of private property, A. W. 55, 59. Witnesses, military or civil courts, 75, 951. Enlistment Papers: Forms, 857. Indian scouts, 483. INDEX, 363 Enlistment Papers — Continued. Minors, 853. Name o{ recruit, 858. Oath, 855. Preparation, etc., 847, 857. Enlistments and Seenllstmcnts : Additional pay, 1338-1340. Antedating, 859. Applicants. See Applicants for Enlist- ment, Army Reserye, 855, 1573. Articles of War to be read, 856. Coast Artillery Corps noncommissioned staff, 310, 312. Continuous-service pay, 143, 1340. Date, 847, 859. Deserters, 849, 861. Enlistment papers, 483, 853, 855, 857, 858. Enticing by false representations, 854. Fraudulent, 1380, 1382 ; p. 313, act July 27, 1892. General noncommissioned staff, 103. Hospital Corps, 1404, 1409, 1410. Indian scouts, 479, 482. Married men, 852, 1009, 1412. Minors, 849, 850, 853 ; A. W. 3. Oath of enlistment, 855. Original, 848. Prohibited classes, 849; A. W. 3. Quartermaster Corps, 1009. Rocruiting offleers, 850, 851, 853, 854, 860. Reenlisted pay, 1838, 1339. Reenlistments, 101, 153, 859-863, 1340, I.S60, 1412. Reentering service, 848, 860, 861. Signal Corps, 1557. Special authority required, 861, 862, 877. Unlawful enlistments, A. W. 3. Without discharge, A. W. 50. Eusig'ns, Kavy : Relative rank with Army officers, 12. Envelopes : Confidential communications, 7T8. Penalty, 834-837, 839. Envoys, American or Foreign: Funeral honors, 421. Salutes and honors, 376* 400, 403. Epidemics : Transfers of Hospital Corps, 1414. Equipage : See Clothing and EqvApage. Equipments : Ambulances, 1429. Bands, 257, 262. Barrack regulations, 285. Care and perservation, 287, 288. Coast Artillery Corps bands, 257. Company, 266. Embezzlement, A. W. 60. ITleld cooking device, 302. Pitting and changing, 294. Horse, 1520, 1521, 1537, 1538. Leather dressing material, 298. Marking, 257, 295. Militia, 1143. Erasures : Checks, 609. Proposals, supplies and services, 534. Escaped Prisoners: See Prisoners. Escorts : Commanders, 20. Honor, composition, etc., 416. Insane soldiers, 467, 468. Estimates : Alterations of approved, 1468. Barracks and quarters, 1012, 1014, 1016. Blanks forms, 1013. Channels, 785. Clothing and equipage, 1147-1152, 1154-^ 1156. Examination, revision, and approval, 749, 750. Extensions, alterations, etc., to buildings,, 1017. Forwarding, 1013-1015. Heating, plumbing, and water supply, 1012. Hospitals, 1466, 1468. Preparation, etc., 748. 1012, 1013, 1016, 1017. I Quartermaster Corps, 1008. Quarters for sergeants, first class. Hos- pital Corps, 1466, 1468. Repairs to public buildings, etc., 1012, 1013. Tableware and kitchen utensils, 1177. Veterinary supplies, 1074. Evidence : Against deserters, 124. Previous convictions, 954, 956, 962. Proceedings, surveying officers. 712, 713. Relief of officers from responsibility, 712, 713. Examination, Boards of: See Boards of Examination. Examination for Appointment and Promotion fr Candidates, second lieutenants, 28-31. Character or efficiency records, officers, 26. Gunners, 1343, 1344. Hospital Corps, 1405. tdno of Army, 25. Medical officers, 1388, 1389. Officers, coast artillery, 303. Post noncommissioned staff, 98. StafE corps and departments, 24. Veterinarians, 88. Examination of Accounts and Returns: Chiefs of bureaus, 055, 702, 703. Errors or disallowances, 656, 702, 703. Refundment for deficient articles, 702, 703. Examinations, Physical: - See Physical Examination. Exchange, Post: Beer, wine, or intoxicating liquors, 346. Civilian employees, 14.5T. Council, 318-318. Council book, 211. Custodian of funds, 316, 324. 864 INDEX. Exchange, Post — Continued. Erection of building by labor of troops, 339. Establishment and maintenance, 345. Fuel, 1044. Fund, 316, 320, 321, 324, 335. Indebtedness of soldiers, 345, 1370. Inspection, 889. Profits paid to regimental fund, 325. Sale of certain articles of uniform cloth- ing, 11741. Sales to, of subsistence supplies, 1241. Seeds for post gardens, 343. Exchange or Barter: Supplies from quartermaster, 1247. Exchange 07 Surrender: Public animals, 1072. Exchange or Transfer: See Transfers, etc. Execution of the Tjaws: Obstructing or hindering, 485, p. 101. ExpcditionB : Escort commanders' duties, 20. Expeiiiliturcs : Ammunition, 350, 1528-1531. Appropriations for support of Army, 740. Commanding officers, 751. Disallowances, how charged, 653. Exceeding appropriations, 582. Obedience to orders, 653. Posts and reservations, 207. Special funds, 316, 320, 325, 326. Veterinary medicines and supplies, 1075. Expenses : Arrest, etc., of deserters, 121, 122, 127, 131. Attendants, horses, mounted officers, 1098. Burial of officers and soldiers, 87, 167. Contingent, 200, 623. Escaped military prisoners, 121. Recovery of public property, 692. Sea travel, 1280. Experimental Trials : Tests of arms or munitions of war, 1553- 1555. Expert Accountant, Inspector General's De- partment : Transportation and expenses, 733, 737. Expert Blflcmon; Additional pay, 1345. Expiration of Leave: Defined, 58, 60. Expiration of Term of Service; Discharge of enlisted men, 143 ; A. W. 4. Payments to officers, 1255. Trial of deserters, A. W. 48,. Explorations : Ordnance and ordnance stores, 1526. Outfits, 672. - Travel alowauce, officers, 1295. Ex-Presidents of the United States; Salutes and honors, 400, 403. Express Transportation : Letters or packages, 838. Limited to emergencies, 1142. Express Transportation— Continued. Pay of troops, 1316, 1320-1324, 1333. Public moneys, 1142. Extensions : Furloughs, 107. Leaves of absence, 51, 52, 67. Limits, officers under arrest, 923. Extra and Special Duty: Artificers, wagoners, etc., 173. Attendance, drills, and inspections, 175. Classes excepted from detail, 171—173. Defined, 169. Employment of troops in labors, 168. Hours of labor, 176. Labor In camp or garrison, 169. Mode of detail, 169. Noncommissioned officers, 171, 172. Pay, 169, 170, 172, 174, 176, 177, 329. Post noncommissioned staff officers, 97. Bates of pay, 170, 329. Restrictions in employment, 169, 177. Tailors, 279. Extradition Treaties: Protection of persons extradited, 485, p. 100. Extra-Dnty Pay: Allotment of funds, 169, 177. Computation of time, 176. Debarred by additional pay 'for foreign service, 170, 1842. Enlisted men of staff departments, 172. Payment, 169, 174, 177. Rates, 170, 329. False Alarms: Punishment for occasioning, A. W. 41. False Certificates: Absentees at muster, A. W. 13. Frauds upon the Government, A. W. 60. Pay of the Army, A. W. 13. False Musters: Man or horse, A. W. 14. Persons not soldiers, A. W. 5. False Papers: Frauds upon the Government, A. W. 60. False Representations : Enticing into service, 854. False Eetarns: Troops and property, A. W. 8. Families of OfBccrs, Soldiers, etc.: Burial in post cemeteries, 493. Enlisted men absent abroad, 1248. Fuel, 1038. Hospitals, medicines, etc., 1459. Jllumluating supplies, 1038, 1054. Medical attendance, etc., 1473, 1476. Sales to, of subsistence supplies, 1239, 1248. Services of Army nurses, 1424. Farriers and Horseshoerg: Appointment, etc., 275, 278. Extra-duty detail, 173. Indian scouts, 482. Instruction by veterinarians, 91. Stoves for shops, 1044. Fatigne Dress: Worn by enlisted men, when, 289. INDEX. 865 Fatigue Dnty: Performed by roster, 357. Fees: Administering oatla, 649. Passports, 63. Tipping, 1280. Ferries : Passage of troops, teams, etc., 1126. Piirctiase, use, etc., of tickets, 1127. Field Armies : See Armies^ Field, Field Artillery: Administrative unit, 245. Animals, 1097. Battery, designation In Army Regula- tions, 15. Gunners, additional pay, 1343, 1344. Inspections, 283. Mounted pay, officers, 1272. Practice, 351-353. Precedence, 6. Quartermaster sergeants, 9, 256, 1044, 1136. Rated positions, additional pay, 1344. Standards and guidons, 231, 236. Field Music: Instruments, 1180. Memorial Day, 440. Saluting, 375-377, 437. Field Notes and Sketches: Maps and reconnaissances, 444-446. Field Officers: Assignments to posts and stations, 247. Personal reports, 828. Returns of detached companies, 813. Field Service and Duties: Barrack furniture and equipage, 1023. Cooking, 296, 302, 1205. Details by roster, 356. Emergency ration, 1202. Engineer officers and troops, 1497-1502, 1508, 1509. Field training, divisions and brigades, 193, 194. Hospital Corps, 1433-1438. Post commanders, 203. Quartermaster supplies, 1087. Route maps and journals of march, 444-446. Signal Corps, 1558, 1561. Fleldworks, etc. : Engineer officer's duties, 1493, 1499. Journals of dally events, 1502. Plans, etc., 1502. Working parties, 1499. Fillplna Batlon: Composition, issue, etc., 1205. Computation of cost, 1221. Definition, use, etc., 1202. Savings, 1220. Value, 1207. Filipinos : n Admitted to United States Military Academy, graduating leave, 53. Final Payment, Enlisted Men: Notifleation to quartermaster, 155. Final Statements: Absence without leave, 141. Blank forms, 150. Clothing balance, 1163. Date of discharge, 152. Deposits of pay, 140, 13C2-1367, 1369. Discharge of enlisted men, 140, 142, 155, 1235, 1379, 1415. Erroneous, 155. Forfeitures and deductions, 141, 341, 345. Fraudulent enlistments, 1380. Lost or mislaid, 1377. Money amounts, method of stating, 648, Patients discharged from hospital, 1451, Payments to discharged soldiers, 341, 345, 1375-1377, 1381. Post noncommissioned staff, 807. Retirement of enlisted men, 135. Transportation, 1235, 1378, 1379. Firemen, Coast Artillery Corps: Appointment, 310. Baggage, 1136. Quarters, fuel, and stoves, 1044. Rank and precedence, 9. Travel accommodations, 1128. Warrants, 310. Firms : Acceptance of, as sureties, 573. Contracts, 559. Money vouchers, 641, 643. Proposals, 532. First-Aid Treatment : Instruction, 1419, 1420. First Lieutenants : Baggage, 1136. Forage, 1080. Funeral honors and escort, 422, 426. Promotion to grade, 25. Quarters, fuel, and stoves, 1044. Rank and precedence, 9. Relative rank with naval officers, 12. First Sergeants: Baggage, 1136. Indian scouts, 480. Instruction, 270. Quarters, fuel, and stoves, 1044. Rank and precedence, 9. Reduction to the ranks, 276, 277. Reproving, 270. Return to grade of sergeant, 273. Roll calls and inspections, 370. Selection and appointment, 270, 273, 275. Warrants, 274. Fiscal Year: Abstracts, 622, 626. Accounts current, 622, 623. Balances, 625, 626. Contingent expenses, 623. Defined, 620. Divisions, 620. Remittances of funds, 621. Fish : Ration, 1205. Flag Ofllcer of the Nary: Funeral honors, 420. 866 IN0EX. Flags : Advertising and recruiting, 224. Assistant Secretary of War, 220. Boat flags and pennants,, 2.40. Ceremonies on lowering, at retreat, 437. CiaplalnB,. 224*. Dipping of, at military posts, 405. Garrison, post, and storm, 223. Geneva Convention, 225. Halfstaff, 418,, 420-426. Hospital and ambulance, 225. Memorial Day, 440. Names of battles, 244. National cemeteries, 223. National festivities, foreign vessels, 413. Post, 223. President of the United States, 217. Provlalonal organization, 242. Recruiting, 224. ] Regimental, names of battles, 244. Secretary of War, 219. Storm, 223. Target practice, 351. United States or national, 215, 216, 397, I 398, 43T, 440. Use of umprescrlbed, 243. Vessels of war flying President's, 415. Flavoring Extracts: Ration, 1205, Flogging : Sentences of a court-martial. A, W. 98. Florida : Timber depredations, 485,, p. 99. Flonr : Ration, 1205. Target practice, 351, 1215, Food and Cooltlng: Daily inspections, 283. Examination by medical officers, 1387. Prisoners' food, 300. Forage : Allowajjcfi to mounted oSQ^ers, 1080, 1081. Contracts for, or purchase, 515, 557. Furnished by Quartermaster Corps,, 1000. Issue, 1079. Military attach^, 1100. Mounted officers, 1082, 1083, 1096. Organized Militia, mobilizatloa camps, 456. Ration, 1077, 107S. Straw for bedding, 1084, 1085. Transportation at posts, 1106. Unconsumed, 1083. Forage Masters: Interest or concern in purctases,,' etc., 1093. Forcing Safeguards : Punishment, A. W. 57. Foreign Articles: Preference to be given donuestlc artlelea, 518. Purchase abroad for importation, 517. Foreign-Commerce laws : Enforcement of, by the Army, 485, pp. 101, 102. Foreign Correspondence: Officers and men, 7^1. Penalty envelopes, 839. Foreign Conutries: Accounts for printing, 511. Correspondence, 781, 839. National airs respected, 378. Officers and enlisted men visiting, 61—63, 109. Sureties, contractors' bonds, 570, 57S.. Porelgn-ScrTlce Officers : See Officers, Foreign Service. Foreign Tessels of War: Celebration of national festivities, 413. Flying sovereign's standard, 415. Salutes and honors, 399. Vl^tff and courtesies,. 407, 410-413. Forfeitures :' Absence witliout leave, 132, 141. Beginning of sentence, 970. Deposits of pay, 1368, 1370. Deserters, 129-132, 1373. Good-conduct time of prisoners,. 942. SejrtenceB of courts-martial, 976-978. Forgery : Frauds upon the Government, A. W. 60; Forms : See Blank" Forms. ; Fort Bayard, N. Hex.: General hospital, 1212,. 1439,, 14^, 1446, 1460. Fortifications : AlterationB, etc., 1505. Buildings near, 1493, 1505. Chaage of station of constructing offi- cers, 742. Communieatten with naval radio stations, 409. Construction and repairs, 706, 707, 1493, 1505, 15051. Court&^nartial duty of officers,, 192. Descriptions, written or pictorial, 348. Electrical equipment, installation and re- pair, 1493, 1505J. Engineer officer on dnty, 1503. Erection of, on new sites, 704. Fire control, 1556. Information concerning* 348.. Notification of completion, 1506. Occupation by troops, 1506. Permanent works of defense, 191, 214, 3:4#. Photographic views, 348. Salutes with cannon, 393-397. Supervision, 191. Visits to lake and seacoast defenses, 347. Fort Leavenworth, Eans..: Service schools- Army Field BngliLeer School, 449. Army Field Service and Correspond- ence School for Medical Officers, 449. .4rmy School of the Line, 449. Army Signal School, 449-. Army Staff College, 449. Fort Monroe, Ta,: Service- scliOGl, coast artillery, 449. INDEX. S6i Fort BUey, Kans.; Service school, mounted serylce, 449. Forts: Construction and repairs, 706, 707. Erection of, on new sites, 704. Permanent posts, styled, 202. Plats of land, 708. Records of artillery firing, 1550. Fort Sill, Okla.: Service schools — School of Fire for Field Artillery, 449. School of Musketry, 449. Fiands: Crimes against the United States, A. W. 60. Investigation of alleged, 884. Sentences of courts-martial, A. W. 100. Fraudulent Fnlifitment: Declared a military offense, p. 313, act July 27, 1892. Deposits of pay, 1380, 1382. Frays : Quelling, A. W. 24. Freight Transportation : Letters or packages, 838. Fresh Moats: Contracts for, or purchase, 557, 1200. Ration, 1205. Fuel: Allowance, monthly, 1044. Contract for, or purchase, 515, 557. Engineer ofllcers, 1504. Extra issues, 1006. Families of regular or volunteer soldiers, 1088. Increased allowance, 1044, 1049. Issued to officers or troops, 1042, 1043. Kindling wood, 1041. Messes, 301. Military attaches, 1100. Nurse Corps, 1045. Officers and families, 1036, 1039-1041. Organized Militia, mobilization camps, 456. Outside continental limits U. S., 1036, 1037. Retired officers and men, 137, 1037. Sales, 1037. Standard and equivalents, 1040. Uneonsumed, 1042." Veterinarians, 89. Fund Book: Coast Artillery Corps bands, 326. Regimental, 258, 325. Funds, Spocial: Band, 324, 326, 327. Company, 316, 320-322, 324 327-329, 343, 344, 1208. Custodians, 316, 324. Detachment, 327. Hospital, 317, 324, 327, 1459, 1462. Inspection, 889. Mess, 316, 320-322, 324, 329, 330. Post exchange, .324. Projects requiring specific authority from War Department, 323. Funds, Special — Continued. Regimental, 262, 321, 322, 324, 325. Transfers, 324. Faneral Expenses: Settlement from decedent's estate, 166. Faneral Honors: Assistant Secretary of War, 418, 426. Civil functionaries, 421. Enlisted men at posts, 423, Escorts, 426-428, 433. Flag officer of the Navy, 420. Flags at halfstaflf, 418, 420-426. General officers, 418-420. Minute guns, 419-421. Mourning, 431-434. Officers at posts, 422. President of the United States, 417. Retired officers, 418. Salutes with cannon, 396, 417-419. Secretary of War, 418, 426. Furlougls: Arms and aecouterments, 113. Commutation of rations, 1229, 1233, 1234, 1236-1238. Delays, 107. Exceeding limits, 109, 1229. Granted by whom, 106, 107 ; A. W. 11. Gunners, 1343, 1344. Lost, 1237. Number limited to 5 per cent of any command, 106. Order.s, 1233. Outside continental limits U. S.. Ill, 134. Payments while absent, 113. Period and extensions, 106, 107 1 A. W. 11. Previous, 109. Reenlistments, conditions, 107. Subsistence, returning, 110. Suspension, 108. To Army Reserve, 1361, 1362, 1366, 1375-1379. Transportation, 110, 112, 1111. Visiting foreign countries, 109. When not granted, 106. Furniture : Barrack, 1011, 1022, 1023. Mess and table, 301, 1023. Office military attach^, 1100. Officers' quarters, 1020. Policing in barracks, 287. (^milling : Disbursing officers, 593. Gardens : Distribution and sale of products, 344. Grounds set aside, 342. Regulations, 344. Seeds, 343. Supply of vegetables for posts, 1206. Garrison Flag: Description and when used, 223. Salutes and honors, 398. Saluting, 397. Garrison Prisoners: See Prisoner,s, Cfoirrison, 368 INDEX. Garrison Bation: Composition, issue, etc., 1205. Computation of cost, 1221. Dofluitiou, use, etc., 1202. S.ivings, 1220. Value, 1207. Garrisons : Absence without leave, A. W. 31. Engineer ofllcers on duty, 1503. Inspections, 8S8, 889. Roster duty details, 356. Uniform, enlisted men, 289. Violence to traders in foreign parts, A. W. 56. Garrison Schools: Officers of the Army, 449. Regulations governing, 449. Superintendence, etc., 193, 194. Gas: Allowance, 1057, 1058, 1061. General Conrts-Martlal : See Courts-Martial, Oeneral. General Grant National Park: Trespassers or intruders, 485, p. 100. Gent ral Hospitals : _ Annual inspections, 191. Commanding officers, 49, 106. Commutation of rations, 1212. Fort Bayard, N. Mex., 1439, 1445, 1446, 1460. Hot Springs, Ark., 1441-1444, 1446, 1460. Regulations and control, 1439. Sanitary inspections, 1387. Walter Reed, D. C, 1436. General Mess: Accounts, audit and inspection, 316, 330. Companies withdrawing, etc., 330. Cooks and attendants, 329. Council, 316-318, 329, 330. Eztra compensation to attendants, 329. Fuel and lights, 301. Fund, 316, 320-322, 324, 329, 330. Furniture, brooms, brushes, etc., 296, 301. Instruction and supervision, 296. Management, 330. Recruit depots, 329. Time, In garrison, 371. Visits to hall, 204. General Noncommissioned Staff: Appointment, promotion, reduction, 103, 1557. Composition, etc., 103. Discharge and reenlistment, 103, 1557. Funeral honors and escort, 428. Warrants, 103, 1405, 1410. General of the Army: Funeral honors and escort, 418, 426. Relative rank with naval officers, 12. Salutes and honors, 375, 400, 401, 403. General Orders ; See Ordern. General Prisoners : See Prisoners, Oeneral. General Eecriilting SerTlce: See Recruiting Service. General Staff Corps; Aim of establishment, 753, 769 ; note, p. 145. Chief of Staff of the Ai-my, 753, 761-769. Composition, etc., 303, 752. Current business, special staff corps, 758. Department commander's staff, 197, 199. Details for, 40, 752, 761, 773. General officers not entitled to aids, 41. Mounted officers, 1272. Serving with troops, 197, 199, 757, 770- 772, 1044, Supervisory powers and duties, 753-756. Vacancies, 773. War Department General Staff, 757, 759, 760. General Staff Serving with Troops: Assignment to duties, 767. Chief of staff of a command, 197, 199, 771, 772. Composition, etc., 757, 770. Office rooms, fuel, and stoves, 1044. Senior officer, chief of staff, 771. Geneva Convention: Flag, 225. Recognition of rights, 1438. Gestures : Reproachful or provoking, A. W. 25. Good-Condact Time: Prisoners, 942, 943, Government Hospital for tbc Insane: Admission, etc., of insane patients, 464— 468, 1451. Classes of persons admitted, 464. Release of patients, 470. Government of the United States: Enforcement of laws by the Army, 484- 489. Governor of Philippine Islands: Funeral honors, 421. Salutes and honors, 400, 403. Visits and courtesies, 408. Governors General; Definition, 400. Funeral honors, 421. Salutes and honors, 400, 403. Visits and courtesies, 408. Governors of States and Territories; Disrespect or contempt, A. W. 19. Funeral honors, 421. Public property in use by militia, 460. Salutes and honors, 376, 400, 403. Cradnates of the Military Academy: Baggage transportation, 1138, 1139. Graduating leave, 53. Mileage to first station, 1296. Pay, 1314. Grants : Military lands, 705. Gratnitous Issues: Accounts, 1159. Articles of band uniforms, etc., 1167. Clothing, special ca,ses, 1167, 1168, 1172, 1173, 1455. Toilet articles, etc., 1216-1218. INDEX. 369 Graves : Battle-ground cemeteries, 491, 402. Headboards, 492, 494, 495. Post cemeteries, 494, 495. Enlisted men returning to United States, in. Guano Islands: Protection of rights of discoverers, 485, p. 102. Guaranties : AdTcrtisements, 524-536. Blanks, 536. Evidence of bidders' ability in lieu, 547. Execution, 536. When required, 535. Gitarantors : Acceptance of, as sureties, 579. Corporate, 573, 575-577, 580, 581, Noncorporate, 578. Gu.ird Duty: Exemptions, 363. Manual, 441. Old, exemptions, 363. Rosters, interior and stable, 357. Sentences, courts-martial, 964. Guardhouses : Confinement of noncommissioned offi- cers, 929. Fuel and stoves, 1044. Iron buniss, 1084. Men awaiting trial, summary courts, 933. Police, dally, 374. Visits, post commander and surgeon, 204. Guards : Caudles, 1215. Deserters, 127. Duties, etc., 441. Excused from Saturday inspections, 283, Guard report, 211. Interior, 357. List of articles in charge, 4-13. Military prisoners, 938. Military prisons, 170. Officer commanding, A. W. 67—69. Prisoners en route, 938, 939. Property used for police, etc., 442, 443. Quitting without leave, A. W. 40. Guidons : Cavalry, 235. Engineers, 237. Field artillery, 236. Signal Corps, 238. Gunners : Coast artillery, 1343. Field artillery, 1344. Guns : Funeral honors, 417-421. Morning and evening, 210. Saluting, 393-400, 440. Gymnaslnias : Erection of building by labor of troops, 339. Fuel and stoves, 1044. Transportation of property, 340, 1144. 79733°— 18 24 Habeas Corpus: Discharge of enlisted men, 139. Hawaii Territory, 485, pp. 102, 103. Returns, 997-099. State courts or judges, 907, 908. United States courts or judges, 009. Hair and Beard: Enlisted men, 286. Harboring the Enemy : Punishment, A. W. 45. Harbors and Elvers: Change of station of officers, 742. Harbor boat officers, travel accommoda- tions. 1128. Improvements, 1493. Harness : Ambulance, 1428. Dressing, 293. Purchase and repair, 1105. Hash: Ration, 1205. Haversack Eaiion: Composition, issue, etc., 1205. Definition, use, etc., 1202. Supplemented, 1202. Hawaiian Department: Allotments of pay, enlisted men, 1350. Commanding oflicor. See Hawaiian De- partmentj Comma-ndinrj Officer. Disbursing officers, 625. Furloughs to enlisted men, 111. Horses of mounted officers, 1073, 1095. Inspections, 1284. Leaves of absence, officers, 60. Payments to troops in, 1317. Retired enlisted men, 138. Hawaiian Department, Commanding Officer: Condemned property, 007. Contracts, 557. Damages by fire, storm, etc., 709. Supervisory powers and duties, 193. Transfer of supplies, 671. Transfer of troops, 103. Travel on duty, officers, emergency cases, 71. Travel orders, 1284. Hawaii Territory: Contracts for supplies .ind services, 557. Enforcement of the lav/s, 485, pp. 102, 103. Enlisted men returning to the United States, 111. Militia, 485, pp. 102, 103. Payments to troops, 1317. Pay of enlisted men, 1342. Retired enlisted men, 138. Hay: Bedding, 1085. Forage ration, 1077. Hazing: Commissions for cadets expelled for, 37. Hindering : Execution of the laws, 483, p. 101. Hiring of Duty : Punishment, A. TV. 36, 37. 370 INDEX. Hominy : Ration, 1205. Honorable Discharge: Preparation of certificate, 150. Honors, Conrtesles, and CeremonlcK Boarding visits, 407, 411. Ceremonleg, 435—440. Escorts of honor, 416. Funeral honors, 417—434. Salutes, 375-405, 411-413. Visits ana courtesies, 406-414, See also OeremotUes. Horse Equipments ; Indian scouts, 479. Eepalrs, 1520, 1537, 1538. Sales, 1520, 1521. Horses : Field service. Hospital Corps, 1434. Indian scouts, 479. Military attach^, 1100. Militia officers, 456. Mounted oflBcers. See Horses of Mounted Offcens. Philippine Islands, 1095, 1098. Public. See Public Animals. Return from Philippine Islands not al- lowed, 1098. Transportation of the Army, 1101. Horseshoeing : Animals pertaining to militia, 456. Instructions by veterinarians, 91. Shoes and nails, 1097. Horseshoers : See Farriers and Horseshoers. Horses of Sfoanted Officers : Care at remount depot, 1099. Field officers of the mobile Army, 1272. Forage, 1080-1083. Inspection, 889, 1099. Officers oh service In foreign country, 1098. Purchase and sale, 1073, 1095. Shoeing, etc., 1096, 1097. Stallions, 1099. Transportation, 1098. Veterinary attention, 90, 1096, 1099. Hospital Corps: Appliances for transporting slcl£ and wounded, 1427-1432, 1435. Assignment to duty, 1416-1418, 1448. Assistant to dental surgeon, 1397. Attendance at ceremonies, 1413. Corporals, 1405, 1407, 1410. Enlistments and reenlistments, 1404, 1409, 1410, 1412. Extra-duty details, enlisted men, 172. Field service, 1433-1438. First-aid treatment, 1420. Fund of a detachment, 327. Hospital and ambulance flags or gui- dons, 225. Inspection and musters, 889, 1413, 1447. Issue of firearms to, 1438. Lance corporals, 1405, 1407, 1408, 1410. Litter bearers, 1420. Military duties, 1413. Hospital CorpB — Continued. Pay and clothing accounts, 1415. Precedence of, on occasions of ceremony, 6. Privates, 1405, 1410, 1417, 1418. Privates, first class, 1405, 1407, 1410. Quota for posts, etc., 1416-1418. Ration, 1210. Recruits, 1410. Sergeants, 1405, 1407, 1410. 1412. Sergeants, first class, 9, 958, 1044, 1136, 1405-1407, 1410, 1467, 1468. Service, 1404. Transfer of members, 1414. Transfer to, of enlisted men, 114, 1409, 1411, 1412. Warrants, noncommissioned officers, 103, 1405, 1410. Hospitals : Army and Navy, Hot Springs, Ark., 1441- 1444, 1446, 1460. Attendants, 1455. Buildings, construction, etc., 1464-1470. Candles, 1215. Charges, 1460, 1461. Civilians, 734, 1457-1461. Deaths, 87, 167. Field, instruction, supplies, etc., 1436. Flags, 225. Port Bayard, N. Mex., 1445, 1446, 1460. Fuel and stoves, 1044. Fund, 317, 324, 327, 1459, 1460, 1462. General, 1212, 1436, 1439-1446, 1460. Hospital Corps, 1418, 1447, 1448. Indebtedness to, 1461. Inspections, 895, 1387, 1447. Library, 1463. Management, 1447. Matrons, 1044, 1203, 1210, 1448, 1449, 1473. Mess rooms, 1044. Muster and pay rolls, 808. Nurses, 1045, 1421, 1423. Post commander and surgeon to visit, 204. Property and stores, 1454, 1456, 1473, 1476. Sick, 283, 327, 1450-1453, 1455, 1471, 1472. Supervision or control, 191, 1439. Surgeon, post and assistants, 204, 1447, 1448. Transports, boats, and railway trains, 1440. Hostilities Between Indian Tribes: Preventing or terminating, 485, p. 99. Hot Springs, Ark.: General hospital, 1441-1444, 1446, 1460. Hours of Labor: Civilian employees, 731. Extra.-duty men, 176. Housewife : Issue to squad, 1215. Hunting : Absence while, not deemed leave, 65. Ammunition, 350, 354, 1526, 1531. Large game, 354. INI>EX. 371 Hunting — Continued. Periods, 66. Permission to hunt, 66. Report and certificate, 65. Hygiene : Duties of surgeons, 1387. Hypothecation : Pay accounts of officers, 1258. Ice: Allowance and issue, 1215. Contracts for, or purchase, 557, 1215, Identification : Cards, 774. Deserters, 119. Discharged soldiers' merit certificates, 187. Payments to discharged soldiers, 1375. Soldjors killed In battle, 491, 492. Unknown payees, 645. Illuminnting Supplies : Acetylene, 1057. Candles, 1052, 1215. Chimneys, 1052, 1054. Cost and maintenance, 1050, 1059, 1060. Dally inspections, 283. Electricity, 1057-1061. Families of officers, 1054. Families of soldiers, 1038. Gas, 1057, 1058, 1061. Lamps, 283, 1054. Lanterns, 1052. Matches, 1215. Messes, 301. Mineral oil, 1006, 1052-1054, 1056, 1061, 1199. Noncommissioned officers, 1054, 1057- 1059. Officers, 1054, 1056, 1057, 1059. Regulations governing use of, 1051. Veterinarians, 89. Wicks, 1052, 1054. Imprisonment : Sentences of courts-martial, 965-969. Independence Day : Salute to the Union, 398. Indian Reservations: Embraced In Indian country, 472. Indians : Agents, 474. Hostilities between tribes, 485, p. 99. Indian country, 471-473, 475, 485, p. 99 ; 553. Ownership of animals, 474. Prisoners of war, 477. Purchases from, 478, 553. Scouts, 479-483, 1361. Subsistence, etc., 477. Supplies, stores, and property, 476. Indian Wars: Field service of Hospital Corps, 1438. Indorsements : Official correspondence, 776, Inf antiy ; Administrative unit, 245, Colors, 229. Precedence, 6. Information : Concerning sick and wounded, 824. Forbidden, in regard to permanent works of defense, 348. Furnishing, from military records, 824. Military, foreign countries, G2. Tests of arms or munitions of war, 1553, Inks: Colored, in records and correspondence, 822. Inmates Soldiers' Home, D. C: Clothing and subsistence, 181. Insane, 464. Qualifications, 178, 179. Transportation to the home, 180. Insane Ofiieers. Public property or funds, 86. Insane Persons: Enlistment or acceptance prohibited, 849; A. W. 3. Insane Soldiers: Government Hospital for the Insane, 464, 466-468, 470, 1451. Philippine Department, 469. Porto Rico, 469. Inspection Reports: Barracks and quarters, 1010, 1012. Copies, 883, 892. Dama.ijed clothing. 911. Efficiency or inefficiency of officers, 831, 88.% 889, 890. Final disposition, 900, 912-914. Inspector General, 831, 894, 901, 906, 914. Libraries, 337. National Home Disabled Volunteer Sol- diers, 894. Ordnance and ordnance stores, 1537, 154.3. Organized militia, 193. Preparation and scope, 887. 890, 891. Private buildings and lands, 1018. Proceedings, surveying officers, 725. Surgeons of posts, 1387. Troops, stations and accounts, 900. Inspections : Animals pertaining to militia, 45G. Annual, 887-889, 892, 894, 895, 1012. ' Appliances for transporting wounded, 1432. Army transports, 898. Arsenals, 191. Articles in charge of guards, 443. Authority of the Secretary of War, 913. Bakers, cooks, etc., 329. Barracks and quarters, 1010, 1012. 1467. Biennial, 889, 895. Brigade commanders, 194. Cavalry and field artillery, 283. Chaplains, 46. Classiflcatlou, 886. Clerical aid to inspectors, 881. Coast artillery troops, 2(f3, 886. Colors, standards, and guidons, 239. Company fund accounts, 328. Dally and Saturday, 283. 372 INDEX, Inspections — Continued. Damaged clothing, 911. Department commanders, 193. Depots ot supply departments, 191. Detachments of recruits, 868. Disbursements and accounts, 897, 901, 902. Electrical and mechanical Installations and applicances, 913. Extra and special duty men, attendanee- 175. Garrisons, 888, 889. General hospitals, 191. General recruiting depots, 191. Hawaiian Department, 1284. Horse equipments, 1520. Hospital Corps, 1413, 1447, 1467. Libraries, 337. Medical, of posts, 1387. Methods of conducting, 887-892, 901. Military Academy, 896. Military commands, 879, Musters, 439. National cemeteries, 895. National Home Disabled Volunteer Sol- diers, 894. Ordnance and ordnance stores, 913, 1537, 1543. Organized Militia, 193, 45G. Philippine Department, 1284, Post commanders, 203. Posts and places exempted from con- trol of territorial commander, 191, Private buildings and lands, 1018. Public property for condemnation, 678, 679, 903-914, 1073. Quarters for sergeants, first class. Hos- pital Corps, 1467. Recruits sent to organizations, 868. Reports. See Inspection Reports, Service schools, 896. Soldiers' Home, D. C, 894, Special, 893, 895. Subjects embraced, 887. Tactical, regulations, 887. Tours of inspectors, 880, 881, Transports, 898. Troops, stations, etc., 889, Ungarrisoned posts, 889. United States Military Prison, or branches, 191. United States penitentiary, 895. Weekly, 283, 287, 1447. Inspector General of the Array: Information to department inspectors, 899. Inspection reports, 831, 887, 894, 900, 901, 906, 914. Reports to, of inspectors, 880, Soldiers' Home, D. C, 894. Visits and courtesies, 240. Inspector General's Department : Annual Inspections, 887-889, 894, Blank forms, 901, 904. Department commander's staff, 197, 199. Disbursements and accounts, 901. Inspector General's Department — Continued, Eligibility of officers to command, 18, Expert accountant, 733, 737. General provisions, 878-884. Property for condemnation, 903—914. Special duties, 885, 893. Sphere of inquiry, 878. Supervision of, by Chief of Staff, 762, See also — Inspector General of the Army, Inspectors General. Inspectors, ClTlUan: Employment, payment, etc., 730. Transportation and expenses, 732, 733, Inspectors, Small-Arms Practice: Duties, etc., 197. Inspectors General : Accusations against officers, 883, Acting, 897, 903. Annual reports and recommendationa, 880. Clerks and messengers, 879. Comments or conversations, 882. Condemnation of property, 337, 903, 906-908. Eligibility to command, 18. General duties, 878-884. Injustice, organizations or individuals, 883. Irregularities and deficiencies, 882. Joining station, 880. Medical supplies, 1488. Mileage, 1284. Notice of Inspections, 881. Office rooms, fuel, and stoves, 1044. Orders, 880, 882. Personal reports, 880. Power to administer oaths, 884. Promotion, 24. Reports concerning officers, 883. Signal supplies, 1566. Special, 897, 903. Special duties, 885. Subsistence supplies for sale, 885. Supervision or control, 879. Tours of Inspection, 880. Inspectors General of Departments: See Department Inspectors. Instruction ; Coast artillery practice, 313. Cooking, 296. Enlisted men, signaling, 1562. Field practice, messing and cooking, 298, 1205. First aid to sick and wounded, 1419, 1420. Signal Corps, 1556, 1558. Use and preservation of recoupaissance instruments, 447, 448. lustrnmcnts : Meteorological, etc., 1556. Musical, 262, 1144, 1151, 1179, 1180. Surveying, 447, 448. Transportation by express, 1142. Veterinary, 1074-1076. INDEX. 373 Insnrance : Public money or property, 596. Insarrect'ons : Suppression by the Army, 485, p. 101. Intelligence to the Enemy: Punlsbment, A. W. 46. Interior, Department of the: Contracts, 542, 561, 563. Inrlians, 477. Insane soldiers, 466. Interlineations : Proposals, supplies, and services, 534. Interments : Battle-ground cemeteries, 491, 492. Deceased officers and soldiers, 87, 167, 1173. Post cemeteries, 493, 497, 498. Interpreters, Military Courts : Pay and allowances, 988. Interstate Commerce Laws : Enforcement by Army, 485, pp. 101, 102. Intoxicated Persons : Enlistment or acceptance prohibited, 849 ; A. W. 3. Intoxicating Liqnor: Sale of, in exchanges forbidden, 346. Unlawful introduction into Indian coun- try, 471. Intruders : Indian country, 473, 485, p. 99. National parks, 485, p. 100. Public lands, 485, pp. 99, 100. Invalid Soldiers : Parlor and sleeping cars, 1128. luTasion : Protection of States against, 485, p. 98. Inventories : Condemnation of property, 904-906, 909. Deceased officers' and soldiers' effects, 84, 162, 1367, 1451 ; A. W.125, 126. Defects or shortage, 668. Escaped military prisoners' effects, 940. Ordnance and ordnance stores, 1543. Public property, deceased officers, 86. Public property, insane officers, 86. Public property in use by militia, 460. Quartermaster stores, 1094. Unserviceable property, 678, 679, 725. Inventors : Presence at tests, 1555. Investigations : Alleged attempts to defraud the Govern- ment, 884. Irregularity or misconduct of officers or agents, 883, 884. Loss of special funds, 321. Invoices of Money and Property: Funds transferred, 639. Notation of checks, 640. Public property in use by militia, 460. Transfers, 665. Irons: Placing in, of prisoners, 935. Isolated Stations: Issues of clothing, 1158. Issues : Ambulances, 1428. Clothing and equipage, 1157, 1158, 1167- 1173, 1455. Disinfectants, 1487. Extra, quartermaster supplies, 1215-1218. Firearms to Hospital Corps, 1438. Forage, 1079. ITuei, 1042, 1043. Gratuitous. See Gratuitous Issues. Hay for bedding, 1085. Hospital stores, 1473. Litters, hand and mule, 1430, 1431. Ordnance and ordnance stores, 1513- 1519, 1522, 1524-1526. Public animals, 1071. Public property, 673. Shoeing material, 1097. Subsistence supplies, 1219-1222. Transportation requests, 1116, 1119, 1121, 1125, 1126, 1279. Veterinary medicines and supplies, 1075. JEX. 375 licnvcs of Absence — Continued, Grnuuates of Military Academy, 53. Granted, by whom, 49, 51, 52. Granted in months and days, 58. Instructors, service schools, 1277. In the field, 59. Leave year, how reclsoned, 1276. Notations on rolls and returns, 64. Nurses, 1425. Officers In charge of public property, 659. Officers returning to United States, 60. On special duty, 59. Orders to rejoin station, 1289, 1290. Payments to officers, 1275-1277. Payments to olHcers resigning, 1263. Periods and extensions, 49-53, 55, 57, 67. Periods defined, 58, 60. Permission to hunt, 65, 66. Personal, restrictions, 50, 51. Professors, etc.. Military Academy, 1277. Quarters, 1033, 1085. Reports, etc., by officers, 59, 64. Sick, 57, 1035, 1301. Take effect, 59. Telegraphic application, 1187. Temporary duty, 1278, 1289-1291. , Tender of resignation, 81. Travel allowances, 1289-1294. Verbal permits, 64. Visiting foreign countries, 61-63. When not granted, 54, 55. Leave Teair: Beckoned, 1276. Lcgiil KepresentatlTes : Deceased officers and soldiers, 84, 85, 87, 163, 165, 187 ; A. W. 127. Settlements with, by disbursing officers, 652. IiOgIsIntlo>n : Efforts to influence, 5.- Length of Service: Eules for computing longevity pay, 1271. Letter Heads: Wording and matter, 512. Letters, Official: Applications for official opinions, 788. Briefing, 776. Channels, 782-785, 787, 788. Chiefs of bureaus, 787, Colored Inks, 822. Commanding officers, 787. Confidential communications, 778. Courtesy required, 790. Courts-martial proceedings, 919-921, Employment of civil counsel, 996. Inclosures, 776. Indorsements, 776, 786. Letterheads, form, 512. Messages by telegraph, 1561. Models furnished from A. G. 0., 776. Penalty envelopes, 834-837, 839. Post-office address, 777. Preparation, folding, etc., 775. Signatures, 779. Title, officer addressed, 780. Letters, Ofttclal — Continued. Transmission by freight or express, 838. Unimportant and trivial, 789. See also Correspondence. Libraries : Abandoned or discontinued posts, 338. Acknowledgment of books received, 336. Books damaged or lost, 334. Company, 1144. Hospital, 1463. Inspections, 337, 889. Librarians, 331, 334. Military Academy, 1145. Military Service Institution, 1145. Newspapers and periodicals, 331. Post, 331, 332, 334^338, 340, 1044, 1144. Repair of books, 335. Returns, 332, 333. Rooms provided, 331. Transportation, 340, 1144, 1145. Use of, by officers, 331. License : Civilians on reservations, 212. Military lands, 705. Lieutenant €eIonels : Assignment to command, 247. Baggage, 1136. Forage, 1080. Funeral honors and escort, 422, 426. Promotion to grade, 25. Quarters, fuel, and stoves, 1044. Rank and precedence, 9. Relative rank with naval officers, 12. Roster duty, 358. Lieutenant Commanders, Navy: Relative rank with Army officers, 12. Lieutenant General of the Army: Aids, 41. Appointment to grade, 22. Baggage, 1136. Forage, 1080. Funeral honors and escort, 418, 426. Military secretary, 41. Quarters, fuel, and stoves, 1044. Rank and precedence, 9. Relative rank with naval officers, 12. Salutes and honors, 375, 400, 401, 403. Staff officers, change of station, etc., 71. Visits and courtesies, 240. Lieutenants : First, 9, 25, 422, 426, 1136. General duties, 267, 269. Rosters, 358. Second, 9, 422, 426, 1138. Lieutenants, Navy: Relative rank with Army officers, 12. Lienteiutnts, Navy, Junior: Relative rank with Army officers, 12. Lighting : Contracts for, 557. Lights : Extinguished at taps, 370. Limitation : Age, recruits, 849. Appointees to second lieutenancies, 28, 31, 34. 376 INDEX. Limitations — Continued. Court-martial sentences, 968. Detached service, 39, 40, 265. Emergency purcliases, 1007. Expenditures, posts, etc., 207, 707. Express transportation, 1142. Mess furniture in the field, 302. Personal staff duty, 41. Publication of advertisements, 503. Punishments, 063, 964, 968 ; A. W. 38, 98. Ecentering Army, 861. Repairs to buildings at posts, 707. Special funds, 322. Statute of, concerning deserters, 121, 125; A. W. 103. Transportation of officers' horses, 1098. Limits : Absence from camp without leave, A. W. 34. Arrested officers, 923. Furloughed enlisted men, 109. Litters : Hand and mule, 1430-1432. Lookers : Permanent barracljs, 1021, 1023. Longevity Pay: Computing service, 1271. Loss of Fnnds: Fraud or neglect, 1309. Special funds, 321. Stoppages, 1309. Transported by express, 1142. Loss of Property! Accountability for, if lost in service, 698. Civilian employees, 688. Classification, 682. Deserters, 687. Enlisted men, 685, 686, 699 ; A. W. 16, 17. In transit, 721, 1141. Loaned to mail contractors, 209. Mess property and utensils, 301. Officers, 683, 685 ; A. W. 15. Ordnance and ordnance stores, 1527, 1530, 1541. Prevention, 674. Stoppages, 1309. Tableware and kitchen utensils, 1178. Lye and Sapollo: Allowance, 1182. Lying Out of Quarters! , Punishment, A. W. 31. DIachino Guns : Target practice, 351-353. Mail Contractors ! Aid by post commanders, 209. Hails, United States: Obstructing or retarding, 485, p. 101. II;i3or Generals: Aids, 41. Appointment to grade, 22. Appropriate command, 14. Bag.gage, 1136. Changing station, 71. Forage, 1080. Funeral honors and escort, 418, 426. Quarters, fuel, and stoves, 1044. Major Gonerals-^Continued. Rank and precedence, 9. Relative rank with naval officers, 12. Salutes and honors, 375, 400, 401, 403. Staff officers, change of station, etc., 71. Travel beyond limits of command, 71. Visits and courtesies, 240. Majors ! Appropriate command, 14. Baggage, 1136. Forage, 1080. Funeral honors and escort, 422, 426. Promotion to grade, 25. Quarters, fuel, and stoves, 1044. Rank and precedence, 9. Relative rank with naval officers, 12. Roster duty, 358. Manslanghter : Punishable by military courts, A. W. 58. Manuals : Army cooks, 296, 299. Coast Artillery, 1552. Courts-martial, 963. Firing regulations, 349. Guard duty, 441. Staff departments, 1570. Maps and Reconnaissances: Duties, Engineer Corps, 1493, 1500, 1502. Journals of march, 445, 446. Purchase of maps, 521. Route maps, 444, 445. Surveying instruments, 447, 448. System of scales, 444. Marches ; Journals, 446. War diaries, 446. ^ Marine Corps: Deserters from, enlisted in the Army, 133. Precedence of, on occasions of cere- mony, 6. Rations, 1204. Relative rank with other corps, 10 ; A. W. 122. Marine Corps OlScers: See Officers, Marines. Marking : Boxes for transportation, 1547. Company property, 295. Condemned property, 907. Donations, 1144, 1145. Forbidden, as court-martial sentence, A. W. 38, 98. Graves, 491, 492, 495. Packages for shipment, 1140. Public property, 676. Regimental property and equipments, 257. Marksmen : Additional pay, 1345. Marriages : Report of chaplains, 45. Married Men: Enlistment or reenlistment, 852, 1009, 1412. Transfer to Hospital Corps, 1412. M.irshals : Apprehension of deserters, 118, 121. INDEX, 377 Blartlal Law: Hawaii Territory, 485, pp. ie2, 103. Master Electrieiam; Coast Artillery Corps, 9, 310, 1044, 1136. Quartermaster Corps, 9, 1009, 1044 1136. Signal Corps, 9, 1044, 1136. Hiister Gunners, Coast Artillery Corps: Appointments, 310. Baggage, 1136. Quarters, fuel, and stoves, 1044. Ranli: and precedence, 9. Warrants, 310. Matrons, Hospital : Allowance to post hospitals and arsenals 1449. Appointment, 1448. Fuel, 1044. Hospital stores, 1473. Rations, 1203, 1210. Subsistence supplies, 1239. Mayhem : Punisua'cle by military courts, A. W. 58. Meals 'and Lodgings: Civilian employees, 733. Enlisted men, 371, 1227. Meat, Canned : Ration, 1205. ffieclianies : Appointment, etc., 275, 278. Extra-duty details, 173. Meciiaiiics, Civilian : Armament districts, 1539. Employment, payment, etc., 727, 730. Hours of labor, 731. Transportation and expenses, 732, 734. Medals of Honor: Announcement of award, 183. Applications, 182. Conditions of award, 182, 188. Ofiicers and enlisted men, 182, 188. Unauthorized possession, report, 189. Medical Attendance: -Accounts, 1476-1485. Civilian physicians, 1476-1479, 1484, 1485. Indians, 477. Medical officers, 1473, 1474. Military prisoners, 1473, 1476, 1478, 1480. Prisoners of war, 1473. Recruiting service, 1475. Medical Certificates: Disability, 159-161. Insane soldiers, 466. Sick leave, officers, 57. Medical Department: Acting dental surgeons, 1390-1392, 1395. 1398. Ambulances and litters, 225, 1105, 1404, 1427-1432, 1435. Artificial limbs, 1490-1492. Blank forms, 1477. Civil hospital accounts, 1481. Contract surgeons, 1390-1304. Medical Department — Continued. Dental Corps, 1395-1403. Department commander's staff, 197, 199. Eligibility of officers of, to command, 19. Geneial duties and responsibilities, 1386. Hospital Corps. See Hospital Corps. Hospitals. See Hospitals. Hospital transports, etc., 1440. Medical attendance, etc., 477, 1473-1485. Medical officers. See Medical Offlcers. Medical Reserve Corps, 1138, 1296, 1389. Medical supplies, 515, 1486-1488. Medicines. See Medicines. Nurse Corps, 1421-1426. Publications for hospital libraries, 1463. Returns, 1489. Service of hospitals, 1447-1463. Sick call, 1471, 1472. Special nurses, 1482. Special regulations, note, p. 269. Supervision of, by Chief of Staff, 762. Surgeon General. See Btirgeon General. Medical Inspections and Examinations: Accounts, 1484, 1485. Applicants for enlistment, 871. Enlisted men, 1485. Hospital Corps, 1410. Posts and reservations, 1387. Recruits, 865-871, 1484. Medical Museum: Transportation of donations, 1145. Medical Offlcers: Ambulances, 1105, 1427, 1429. Appointments, qualiflcations, etc., 1388. Arrests, etc., 925. Assignment of quarters, 1025. Barracks and quarters, 1025. Boards of examination, 30. Certificates of disability, 160, 161. Clothing accounts, Hospital Corps, 1415. Department surgeons, 161, 197, 199, 1396, 1407, 1408, 1431, 1488, 1489. Deserters, 126. Detail, duties, etc., 204, 206, 1387, 1447, 1448. Diagnosis furnished, etc., 1472. Division surgeons, 161, 1396, 1405, 1408, 1477, 1488, 1489. Efficiency reports, 829. Eligibility to command, 19. Field service, 1433, 1434. First-aid treatment, 1420. General hospitals, 1439. Hospital buildings, 1464, 1466-1468. Hospital Corps detachment, 1415, 1420. Hospital duties, 1447, 1448, 1451, 1462. Hospital fund, 1462. Hospitals at Hot Springs and Fort Bay- ard, 1446. Hospital transports, etc., 1440. Hygiene and sanitation, 204, 1387, Insane soldiers, 465, 466. Instruction to Hospital Corps, 1420. Invalid soldiers, 1128. Medical and hospital supplies, 1456, 1457. 378 INDEX. Medical Officers — Continued. Medical attendance. 1473, 1474. Medical chests, 1139. Mileage to first station, 1296. Office rooms, fuel, and stoves, 1044. Official address at posts, 206. Patients in hospital, 1451, 1472. Pay, etc.. Hospital Corps, 1415. Physical examination, militia, 455, 457. Post surgeons, 204, 206, 829, 1025, 1387, 1415, 1462. Promotion, 24, 1388. Quarters for sergeants, first class, Hos- pital Corps, 1466-1468. Eation returns, 1210. Recruits, 867, 868, 870, 871. Reports, incapacitated or deceased of- ficers, 83, 890. Reports to, of discharges for disability, 160. Responsibility for remains of officers and soldiers, 87, 167. Retirement, 1388. Returns of, by department surgeons, 1489. Service schools, 449. Sick call, 1471, 1472. Sick leave, officers, 57. Surgeons, 24, 491, 492, 1489. Transfers to Hospital Corps, 1411. Medical Reserve Corps: Appointments in Medical Corps, 1389. Assignment of officers, 1389. Baggage transportation for officers, 1138. Mileage, 1296. Medical Snpplles: Books and publications, 1463, 1488. Chests, 1139. Contracts for, or purchase, 515. Disinfectants, 1487. Hospital property and supplies, 617, 1452, 1453, 1456, 1457, 1459. Medicines. See Medicines. Proceeds of sales, 617. Purchases, 1486. See also Surgical Appliances. Medicines : Accounts, 1477, 1480, 1483. Charges, Organized Militia, 1460. Dispensed, to whom, 1473. Families and servants, 1476. Indians, 477. Officers and men not on duty, 1476. Purchased from druggists, 1478, 1480, 1483. Retired officers and enlisted men, 1474. ■\'eterinary, 1074-1076. 1096. MemlUers of a Royal Family : Salutes and honors, 400, 403. Members of Coiuts-Martlal: Appointment, 945. Bi-havior, A. W. 87. Cliallenge by accused, A. W. 88. Disorderly conduct, 948. Duty with command, 946. Oatli. A. W, 84. Members of Conrts-ffiartial — Continued. Officei-s, Marine Corps, A. W. 78. Officers, Regular Army, A. W. 77. Requisite number not at posts, etc., A, W. 76. Sit according to rank, 945. Voting, A. W. 95. Members oi Courts at Inquiry: Appointment, etc., A. W. 116. Oaths, A. W. 117. Members of the Cabinet: Funel'al honors, 421. Salutes and honors, 376, 400, 403. Memorandum Receipts: Company records, 281. Cooking apparatus, 1252. Ordnance stores, 1524. Quartermaster supplies, 1020, 1076, 1089-1092. Relief from responsibility, 657. Memorial Day: Observance, 440. Mess, General: See General Mess. Messengers': Employment, payment, etc., 728, 730. Extra-duty pay, 170. Inspectors general, 879. Street-car and ferry tickets, 1127. Transportation and expenses, 732. Messing and Cooking: Broken, lost, or damaged articles, 301. Brooms, brushes, fuel, and lights, 301. Cooking apparatus, 1252. EnUsted men, 296-302. Field ranges, etc., 296. General mess, 204, 296, 301, 317. 318, 320, 321, 329, 330, 371. Inspections, 889. Kitchen tableware and furniture, 301. Management of kitchens, 297, 301. Manual for Army cooks, 296, 299. Meals for enlisted men, 371. Mess furniture in the field, 302. Mess sergeants, 1346. Mess stewards, 329. Prisoners' food, 300. Rations, care, savings, etc., 298. Removal 6f outfits from barracks, 1023. Rooms for officers, 1034. Supervision, company and general mess. 296. Use of hospitals, 1470. Yearly field practice, 296, 1205. Mess Rooms: Hospitals, 1044. Mess Sergeants: Authorized, 1346. Meteorological Instruments : Supervision, control, etc., 1556. Metei-s : Barracks and quarters, 1058-1060. Mileage : Approval of journey, 1285, Arsenals, 1295. Authority, 1284, 1285. INDEX. 379 Mileage — Continued. Baggage transportation, 1122. Clviliau employees, 737. Coast defense commands, 1286. Delays en route, 1283. Discharged soldiers, 1378. Engineer ofllcers, 1507. Explorations, military, 1295. Inspectors, 1284. Joining first station, 1296, 1297* Leaves of absence, 1289-1294. Lines of travel, 1287. Orders, 71, 1284-1288. Payments, 1279, 1283, 1507. Philippine Department, 1284. Public works, 1295. Kates and computation, 1279, 1282* Return journeys, 1285. Route of travel, 1282, 1287. Sea travel, 1280. Surveys, military, 1295. Traveling with troops, 1281. Travel without troops, 1279. Unauthorized, 1297. Urgent duty, 1285. Witnesses, 75, 990-993, 1298; p. 314, act Mar. 2, 1901. Military Academy, ITnltcd States: Annual report of superintendent, 1935,. Cadets, 9, 27, 449, 1271, 1312-1314. Court-martial duty of officers, 192. Donations to library and museum, 1145. Eligibility of ex-cadets for commissions, Graduates, 53, 1138, 1139, 1296, 1314. Graduating leave, 53. Inspection, 896. Leaves to officers, 1277. Letter and note heads, 512. Mounted officers, 1272. Pay of graduates, 1314. Quartermaster, 1313. Supervision and regulations, 191, 449. Treasurer, 1312. Military and Medical Becordii : Volunteer armies and permanent estab- lishment, 774. Military Attaches: Allowances, etc., 596, 1100. Baggage, 1136, 1138. Mounted pay, 1272. Military Authority: Exercise, 2. Subordination to civil authority, A. W. 59. Military Cable Lines: Construction, maintenance, etc., 1556. Military Commands: See Oommands. Milit.ary Commissions: Discharge of enlisted men, 139. Jurisdiction, p. 313, sec. 1343 R. S. Proceedings, 917. Records, 915. Reports, 193J. Military Control: Emergencies, 191, 192. Military Correspondence : See Correspondence. Military Dofeusos: Sites, plans, and estimates, 1493. Military Discipline: See Discipline. Military Education: Graduates of civil institutions, 35. List of Institutions, 449. Regulations governing institutions, 449. Military Information: See Information. Military Justice: Administration of oath, p, 313, act July 27, 1892. Military Prison: See United States Military Pris-on. Military Itecord: Deserters, 124. Indorsed on discharge certiflcate, 148, 149. Officers for retirement or promotion, 26. Military Kescryatlous : See Poits and Reservations. Military Eoads> Railroads, and Bridges : Construction and repair, 1493, 1508. Military Secretary: Lieutenant general, 41. Military Serylco Institution: Transportation of donations, 1145. Military Signaling and Signal Duties: Code cards and instructions, 1564. Communication between the Army and Navy,. 409, 1561. General service code, 1561. Instruction, enlisted men, 1562. In the field, 1558, 1561. Precedence of messages, 1501. Supervision, control, etc., 1558, 1558. Visual signaling, use between Army and Navy, 409, 1561. Military Telegraph and Telephone Lines: Commanding officers, 1559. Confidential communication, 1560. Construction, maintenance, etc., 1556, 1559. Destruction or obstruction, 1563. In the field, 1561. Personal and press messages, 1561. Signal officers, 1559. Use of cipher, 1561. Military Works: Laborers and armed working parties, 357. Militia, Organized: Adjutant General of the Army, The, 105, 774. Admission to hospitals, 1459, 1460. Annual returns of, for Congress, 774. Arming and equipping, 455, 463, 1143. Arms, etc., shipment by supply depart- ments, 455. Authority of the President, 450. Called into service, transportation and subsistence, 4.')5. Clilei of Staff, supervisory powers, 764. Coast Artillery Reserves, 457. 380 INDEX. Militia, Organized — Continued. Company rendezvous defined, 452. Concentration camps defined, 452. Correspondence, 105, 774. Custody of records after muster out, 774. Disbursing oflScers, 452. Encampments, reports of, 774. Engineer supplies, 1510. Enlisted men, Army, detailed with, 105. En route to concentration camps, 455. En route to mobilization camps, 455, 456. Equipment, etc., 741. Equipping, forwarding, etc., in time of war, 193, 194. Examination of members, for appoint- ment in Army, 35. Governors of States, etc., 452, 455, 460. Hawaii Territory, 485, pp. 102, 103. Horses, sales to United States, 456. Inquiries on requests from subordinates, 463. Inspection, 193. Mobilization camps defined, 432. Mobilization of troops, 454-457, 462, 463. Muster into United States service, 455, 457, 459. Muster out, 461. Officers, See Oncers, MiliUa. Officers, Army, serving with, 454, 1261. Ordnance and ordnance stores, 1511, 1514. Pay and allowances while in, United States service, 451. Pensions, 458. Physical examinations, 455, 457, 461. Property and equipments, inventories, 460. Public property In use by, 460. Purchases, fuel and forage at mobiliza- tion camps, 456. Relative rank with Regulars, Marine Corps and Volunteers, 6, 10 ; A. W. 122, 124. Reports and returns, 105, 103, 774. Secretary of War, 450. Signal supplies, 1565. Strength of organizations, 453. Subject to Articles of War, A. W. 64. Subsistence charges, field hospitals, 1460. Transportation for, 456. Militia Affairs, Division of; Blank forms, 455. Reports, quarterly, 105. Milk: Ration, 1205. Mine Planters: Commanding officers, 49, 106. Mineral Oil: Allowance, 1053, 1061. Extra Issues, 1006. Purchased by soldiers' families, 1038. Requisitions for, and issue, 1052. Sales, 1054. Storage in or near storehouses, 1199. Unconsumed, 1056. Ministers, American or Foreign: Funeral honors, 421. Salutes and honors, 376, 400, 403. Minors : Consent of parent or guardian to enlist- ment, 850, 853 ; A. W. 3. Discharged for fraud, 1380. Enlistment of, under 18 years of age, prohibited, 849. Penalty for officers enlisting, A. W. 3. Mlnnte Guns: Funerals, 419—421. Misappropriation : Public moneys or property, A. W. 60. Misbehavior Before the Enemy: Punishment, A. W. 42. MIscellaneoas Kecelpts : Proceeds of sale, 611, 618. Mlscondact : Cause of death, 83, 162. Officers or agents, 884,-900. Mlscondact in Time of War: Abandoning post, A. W. 42. Casting away arms, A. W. 42. Changing parole or watchword, A. W. 44. Correspondence with or Intelligence to the enemy, A. W. 46. Cowardice, A. W. 42, 100. Disclosing parole or watchword, A. W. 44. False alarms, A. W. 41. Forcing safeguard, A. W. 57. Misbehavior before the enemy, A. W. 42. Plunder or pillage, A. W. 42. Quitting colors, A. W. 42. • Eelieving, harboring, or protecting the enemy, A. W. 45. Mitigation: Punishment, 944, 972; A. W. 112. Mixed Coirps: Commanders, 10, 817; A. W. 122. Mol)ilizat!cn Camps: Arms, etc., shipment to militia, 455. At a garrison post of the Regular Army, 455. Defined, Organized Militia, 452. Location of, 457, 462. Militia en route to, 455. Mobs: Employment of troops against, 489. Money Accountability: Appropriations, 620-625. Certificates of deposit, 611-616. Checks, 587, 599-607. Disbursing officers, 583-596. Division staff officers, 197. Funds by espress, 1142. Ijiquid coffee purchases, 1208. Money accounts. See Money Accounts. Money vouchers. See Moneu Vouchers. Official check books, 608, 610. Pecuniary responsibility of officers, 14], 155, 653, 654. Fost noncommissioned staCE, 254. Proceeds of sale, 611, 617-619. Transfer on succession, 17, 630. Transfers, 589, 597, 508. See also Public Moneys. INDEX. 381 Money Aceoants: Abstracts, 626, 1250. Accounts current, 615, 623, 626-629, 635 1492. Administrative examination, 655, 656. Amounts to be in dollars and cents, -635. Certifleates of deposit, 615. Closing statements, disposition, 902. Contingent expenses, 623. Deceased officers, 86. Disbursing officers, 589. Disposition, 626. Foreign currency, 635. Fractions of cents, 635. Insane officers, 86. Inspection, 895, 897, 899-901. Military attaches, 1100. Orders and papers supporting, 627-629. Ordnance Department, 1511. Original vouchers required, 628. Preparation and rendition, 626, 627, Bates of exchange, 1100. Subsistence sales, 1250. Vouchers to accompany, 627, 628. See also — Public Moneys. Receipts for Money and Property. Money Vouchers : Artificial limbs, 1492. Certificate of correctness, 832-634, 642- 644. Coin or currency, 635. Commanding officers, 751. Completion before certified by creditor, 638. Corporations, 641-644. Currency payments to be noted, 640. " Fees of civil ofl3cers, 649. Firms and individuals, 641, 644. Fractions of cents, 635. Identification, when required, 645. Invoices and receipts for funds, 639, 640. Mode of purchase, 636. Money amounts, 635, 638, 648. Number, date, and amount of check, 640. Number of copies to be made, 631. Original, to accompany account, 628. Original bills, 634. Payment with check, 643. Payment with currency, 642. Quartermaster and subsistence supplies, 633. Receipts in blank prohibited, 637. Services, not personal, 633, 636. Services, personal, 633, 651. Signature and heading, 646. Signing of checks in blank prohibited, 637. Small sums for occasional services, 644. Supplies, 633, 636. Telegraphic service, 644, 1186. Unpaid accounts, 650. Witnesses to signature by mark, 647. Monthly Payments! Enlisted men, 1315. Officers, 1256. Monthly Reports: Chaplains, 45. Superintendents, national cemeteries, 490. Monthly Kctnrns: Effective strength in campaigns, 815. Enlisted strength of the Army. 811, 813, 815. General prisoners, 937. Medical officers, 1489. Mops: Allowance, 1181. Morning Eeports: ^ Company, 280. Post, 211. Regimental, 258. Mounted Officers : Accouterments, horse equipments, etc., 1520. Forage, 1080-1082. Horses, 90, 88'9, 1095-1098. Militia, 456. Mounted pay, 1272-1274. Public animals, 1081. Rank or conditions requiring, 1272. Mounted Service : Additional pay, 1272-1274. Authority for mounting, 1272. Policing stables, etc., 1106. Sale of public horses to officers, 1095. Mounted SerTicc School: Detachment of officers', 192. Inspection, 896. Leaves of absence, officers, 1277. Letter and note headings, 512. Location, Fort Riley, Kans., 449. Supervision and regulations, 191, 449. Monrniug : Badge, 431. Colors, 434. Drums, 433. Family, 432. Wearing, restrictions, 431. Movement of Troops: Accommodations, 1114. Hawaiian Department, 193. Notice sent by quartermaster, 1113. Orders and returns of command, 1110, 1111. Philippine Department, 193. Reported by department commander, 193. Routes, 1112. Staff officers, 750. Timely notice to be given, 750, 1107. Mules ; Mule shoes and nails, 1097. Transportation of the Army, 1101. Murder : Punishable by military courts, A. W. 58. Museums : Transportation of donations, 1145. Musical Instruments : Bands and field music, 262, 1179, 1180. Post chapels, 1144. Requisitions, 1151. Musicians : Appointment, etc., 260, 263, 275, 278. Competition with civilian, 261. 382 INDEX. Mnsicians — Continued. Fuel, 1044. Music pouclies, 1167. Eoster duties, 358. Separation from companies, 261. Signals for roll calls, etc., 373. Transfer to Hospital Corps prohibited, 1411. Whistles, 1180. See also — Chief Musicians. Principal Musicians. nastcrliig Offlcers: Correction and changes, muster lOllB, 810, Muster in of militia, 457, 458. Muster out of militia, 461. Muster Into Service: Militia, when called forth, 457-459. Muster Out: Regulations for, of militia, 461. Muster Bolls: Absentees, 808 ; A. W. 12, 13. Absent without leave notations, 132,^ Calculations, 810. Character notations, 148. Corrections or changes, 810. Dates of service, 134. Designation on, of companies, 809. Detached enlisted men, 808. ' Disability originating in line of duty, 1472. Discharge notations, 152. DutieSj post surgeons, 1448. Hospital Corps, 1448. Manuscript, prohibited, 1572. Militia, at muster in, 458. Notations, discharged soldiers, 152, rreparation, disposition, etc., 807, Retained, 810. Sick in hospital, 808. See also Pay Bolls. Musters : Accepting presents, etc., A. W. 6. Bakers, cooks, etc., 329. Certificates of absentees, A. W. 12, 13. Designation of officers to assist, 438. False, A. W. 5, 14. Hospital Corps, 1413. Inspection and review, 439. Monthly, for pay, 438, 439. Muster and pay rolls, 807-810. Sunday, 439. Mutiny .and Sedition: Beginning, exciting, joining, etc., A. W. 22. Compelling surrender of troops, A. W. 43. Disobedience of orders, A. W. 21, 24. Failure to give information, A. W. 23. Quelling quarrels, frays, disorders, etc., A. W. 24. Striking superior officer, A. W. 21, 24. Suppression, A. W. 23. Muttou: Ration, 1205. National Airs: Foreign, 378. United States, 264, 378, 437. National Cemeteries: Biennial inspection, 895. Burial of deceased officers and soldiers, 167. Flag, 223. Supervision, records, reports, etc., 490. National' Colors: Salute, 377. National FestlTities: Foreign war vessels in port or harbor, 413. National Flag: Description, 215, 216. Displayed at time of firing salute, 397. Displayed in action, 437. Memorial Day, 440. Salute to, 398. Stars in union, 216. National Home for Disabled Yolnnteer Soldiers : Annual inspection, 894, Insane Inmates, 464, National Parks: Trespassers or intruders, 485, p. 100. National Salutes: Fourth of July, 398. Memorial Day, 440. Number of guns, 398. Ships of war, 399. Navy; Deserters from, enlisted in the Army, 133. Signal communication with the Army, 409, 1561. Nary Officers: See Offleers, Navv. Neutrality Laws: Enforcement by the Army, 485, pp. 100, 101. Post commanders, 889. Newspapers : Advertisements, 499, 500, 502-509 ; note, p. 105. Dismissals, cowardice or fraud, A. W. 100. Post libraries, 331. Readvertisements, 501. Nomenclature : Posts and reservations, 201, 202. Nominations : Transfer or exchange of officers, 47. Nonconimissioncr Officers : Arrest, etc., 927, 929; A. W. 24. Baggage transportation, 1136-1138. Bands, 260. Battalion staff, 254, 256. Coast Artillery Corps, 271, 274, 308, 310- 312. Company, 9, 270-278, 297, 358, 370, 480, 1044, 1180. Extra-duty details, 171, 172. Funeral honors and escort, 428. General noncommissioned staff, 103, 1009, 1557. INDEX, 383 Noncommissioned Offlcerg— Continued. Hiring of duty, A. W. 37. Hospital Corps, 1405-1408, 1410 1416 1418. Illuminating supplies, 1054, 1057-1059. Insane soldiers, 467. Ordnance Department, 103. Tarlor and sleeping cars, 1128. Post noncommissioned stafE. See Past Noncommissioned Staff. Quarrels, frays, and disorders, A. W. 24. Quartermaster Corps, 103, 1009. Quarters, fuel, and stoves, 1036, 1044. Rank and precedence, 9. Reduction to the ranks, 276, 277, 1009. Regimental, 9, 253, 256, 257, 1044, 1181. Salutes, commanding detachments, 385. Signal Corps, 108, 1557. Transfers, 276. Travel under orders, 1124, 1125. Trial by courts-martial, 958; p. 315, act March 2, 1913. Ungarrisoned posts, 1065. ■Warrants, 101, 103, 256, 274, 310, 1405, 1410. Notary PuT)llc: Administration of oaths, 684. Note Hends: Wording and matter, 512. Nurse Corps (rcmale) : Appointments a.nd assignments, 1421. Baggage, 1123. Commutation of rations, 1223, 1443. Duties, 1422-1425. Fuel and quarters, 1045. Medical attendance, etc., 1473, 1476, 1478, 1480. Parlor and sleeping cars, 1128. Pay and allowances, 1426. Presents for services prohibited, 1426. Private cases, 1425. Rations, 1203, 1212. Services in families of officers and men, 1424. Subsistence supplies, 1239. Superintendent, 1045, 1422, 1476, 1478, 1480, 1483. Nurses, Special: Employment and pay, 1476, 1482. Oaths: > Administration by elvll officers, 684. Administration by judge advocates, 684. Administration by recorders of boards, 684, 714. Administration by surveying officers, 714. Enlistment, 855 ; A. W. 2. Fee for administering, 649. Judge advocates, courts-martial, A. W. 85. Members of courts-martial, A. W. 84. Members of courts of inquiry, A. W. 117. Of olBce, Army officers, 25. Power of Inspectors to administer, 884. Purchasing or contracting officers, 563. Recorders, courts of inquiry, A. W. 117. Witnesses, military courts, p. 313, act July 27, 1892 ; A. W. 92, 118. Oaths of Offlce; Administration by civU officers, 23. Officers of the Army, 23. Oats: Forage ration, 1077. Obstt;ncting or Hindering: Execution of the laws, 485, p. 101. Offenses : See Climes and Offenses. Oaicer: Definition, p. 301, sec. 1342 R. S. Officer of the Day : Exemptions from duty, 363. Old, exemptions from duty, 363. Property used for police, etc., 442, 443. Officer of the Guard: Duties of, as to prisoners. A, W. 67-69. Officers, Army : Absence without leave, A. W. 31, 33, 40. Absent at muster, A. W. 12, 13. Abuses and disorders, A. W. 54. Acceptance, etc., of civil office, 82. Accepting presents, A. W. 6. Accompanying troops changing station, 193. Accountability, 1549 ; A. W. 10. Additional pay, 1267-1274. Administration of oaths, 23, 684, 714. Appeals, A. W. 29. Appointment and promotion, 21-37. Arrest, etc., 922-927, 1371 ; A. W. 65, 70, 71. Articles for sale to, 885. Articles of War to be subscribed, A W. 1. Artificial limbs and appliances, 1490, 1491. Attendance at funerals, 430. Baggage transportation, 1135-1139. Barrack furniture and rooms, 1011. Boards. See Boards of Officers. Boat flags and pennants, 240. Change of station, 1098. Charges against, A. W. 71. Civil institutions of learning, 42, 449, 1306. Coast artillery, 303. Command of mixed corps, 10 ; A. W. 122. Commissions, 774. Commutation of quarters, 1299-1307. Contempt or disrespect toward com- manding officer, A. W. 20. Correspondence with War Department, 782, 786. Courteous correspondence, 790. Court-martial service with mixed corps, A. W. 77, 78, 124. Deceased. See Deceased Officers. Deflnitlou of officer, p. 301, sec. 1.342 R. S. Dental work, 1398-1401. Desertion, A. W. 47, 49-51. Designation of beneficiary in event of death, 1385. Detached service, temporary duty, 192. Detailed with militia, 454. 384- INDEX. Officers, Armj — Continued. Details. See Details, Officers. Discharge, A. W. 99. Dismissal, See Dismissal of Officers, Dispatches In the field, 798. Disrespect or contempt, A. W. 19. Divine service, A. W. 52. Drunkenness on duty, A. W. 38. Dueling, A. W. 26-28. Duties of Chief of Staff in matters af- fecting, 765-767. Effects of deceased ofHcers or soldiers, A. W. 127. Efficiency reports, 829-833. Equipage allowance, 1146. Equipments of enlisted men, 294. False musters, A. W. 5, 14. Families. See Families, etc. Forage, 1080, 1081. Fuel and stoves, 1036, 1037, 1039-1044, 1048. Garrison schools, 449. General Staff Corps. See Officers, Gen- eral Staff Corps. Grades of rank, 9. Hiring of duty, A. W. 37. Horses. See Horses of Mounted Officers. Hospital charges, 1460, 1461. Hospital stores, 1473. Illuminating supplies, 1054, 1056, 1057, 1059. Incapacitated, 193, 194, 890. Insane, 86, 464-466, 1297. Inspection reports concerning, 831, 883, 889, 890. Investigation of accusations against, 883, 884. Issue of clothing, 1157, 1158. Leaves of absence. See Leaves of Ab- sence. Longevity pay, 1271. Medals of honor, 182, 183, 188. Medical attendance, etc., 1473, 1474, 1476, 1478, 1480, 1483. Messing and cooking, 296-302. Military attaches, 1100. Military history, 774. Militia "encampments, 774. Misconduct or Irregularity, 83, 884, 900 ; A. W. 42. Mounted, 1272-1274. Mounted, addressing superior, 381. Mourning^ 431, 432. Mutiny and sedition, A. W. 21-24, 43. Oath of office, 23. Oaths of enlistment, A. W. 2. Offenders against civil authority, A. W. 55, 59. On duty without troops defined, 1300. Orders, regulations, etc., affecting, 766, 774. Orders eulogizing living, 797. Ordnance and ordnance stores, 1520- 1522, 1542. Outside continental limits U. S., 60, 71, 1098. Officers, Army — Continued. Parlor and sleeping cars, 1128-1134. Payments. See Payments to Officers. Pecuniary Interest in victuals, etc., A. W. 18. Pecuniary responsibility, 653, 654. Personal reports, 59, 62, 64, 826-828. Presence at parades, 436. Private property lost in service, 726. Profanity, A. W. 53. Promotion, 21-26. Property damaged, lost, or destroyed, 683-685; A. W. 15. Public animals, 1081. Purchase of clothing, etc., 1174. Quarrels, frays, and disorders, A. W. 24, 25. Quartermaster supplies, 1174. Quarters, 1024-1035, 1044. Rank and precedence, 9, 11. Registry on arlval at Vi'ashington, D. C, or at headquarters of a territorial de- partment, 406, 825. Relative rank with Marine Corps, militia, and volunteers, 10 ; A. W. 122, 124. Relative rank with naval officers, 12. Reproving noncommissioned officers, 270, Resignation. See Resignation of Ofi- cers. Respect to national airs when played, 378. Retired. See Retired Officers. Retirement, causes for, 76—78. Returns of public property, A. W. 8. Returns of troops, A. W. 7, 8. Roll calls, 370. Roster details and duty, -355— 364. Salutes by enlisted men, 383-392. Salutes with cannon, 393-397. Saluting, 380-382, 392. Scandalous conduct, A. W. 42, 60, 100. Sea travel expenses, 1280. Special duty under Secretary of War, 191, 192. Special or distinguished services, 765. Staff corps and departments, 197-199, 742, 743, 746, 750, 806. Staff duty details, 38. Status, returning to United States on leave, 60. Stoppages against pay, 1308-1311. Subsistence supplies, 1239, 1240, 1242- 1244, 1246. Suspended from duty cr command, 1033, A. W. 101. Telegi-aphic service, 1186. Transfer or exchange, 47, 48, 303, 1297. Travel on duty, 68-75, 800, 1122, 1123, 1125-1134. Trials, A. W. 79. Uniform and equipment, 1569. Unlawful enlistments, A. W. 3. Use of post libraries and reading rooms, 331. Use of transportation facilities, 1108. INDEX. 385 Officers, Army — Continued. Violence to traders in foreign parts, A. W. 56. Visiting foreign countries, 62, 63. Visits and courtesies, 240, 403, 406-414. Volunteer or militia service, 1261. Waste of private property, A. W. 55, 59. Witnesses, military or civil courts, 75, 951. Wrongfully selling arms, etc., A. W. 60. Wrongs, redress of, A. W. 54. Officers, Foreign Service: Official salutes and honors, 376, 402, 403. Visits and courtesies, 407. Officers, General Staff Corps: Aids, 41. Assignments to duty, 752, 761, 765, 767, 773. Chief of Coast Artillery, 303. Chief of State of the Army, 752, 756, 759-769 ;' note, p. 145. Current business, 758. Detail, eligibility, etc., 752, 761, 765, 767, 773. Limitation of service, 752. Selection and detail of general officers, 773. Serving with troops, 197, 199, 757, 770- 772. Special powers and duties, 753-756, 758. War Department General Staff, 757, 759, 760. Officers, Marines : Command of mixed corps, 10, 817 ; A. W. 122. Courts-martial, Army, A. W. 78. Hospital charges, 1460. Eations, 1204. Relative rank with regulars, militia, and volunteers, 10, A. W. 122, 124. Eeports, 817. Salutes and honors, 376, 390, 402, 403. Officers, Militia: Command of mixed corps, 10, 817 ; A. W. 122. Private mounts, 456. Relative rant with regulars. Marine Corps, and volunteers, 10 ; A. W. 122, 124. Reports, 817. Salutes and honors, 376, 390, 402, 403. Services as, of regular officers, 1261. Officers, Navy: Funeral honors, 420. Hospital charges, 1460. Rations, 1204. Relative rank with Army officers, 12. Salutes and honors, 376, 390, 402, 403. Visits and courtesies, 407-414. Officers, Volunteers: Command of mixed corps, 10 ; A. W. 122. Qualifications of enlisted men as, 149. ' Relative rank with regulars. Marine Corps, and militia, 10 ; A. W. 122. Salutes and honors, 376, 390, 402, 403. Services as, of regular officers, 1261. 79733°— 18 25 Officers' Mess ; Quarters, 1034. Brooms and mops, 1181. Lye and sapolio, 1182. Military attaches, 1100. Rented, 1046. Rooms, fuel and stoves, 1044, 1046, 1047. Official letters: See Letters Offloial. Official Records Union and Confederate Ajrmles: Publication and distribution, 774. Oleomargarine : Ration, 1205. One-Mile Limit: Absence from camp without leave, A. W. 34. Onions : Ration, 1205. Open-Market Purchases : Emergencies, etc., 551—554. Opinions : Applications for official, 788. Courts of inquiry, A. W. 119. Judge Advocate General's Department, 915. Orders ; Acting commanding officers, 16. Addressed to commander, 796. Appointing courts-martial, 945. Approval before issue, 794. Authbriaing payment of mileage, 71. Change of station of officers, 68. Channels of communication, 801. Circulars, 791. Classiflcation, Issue, etc., 791. Commutation of quarters, 1305, 1307. Commutation of rations, 1230, 1231. Condemned property, 912, 914. Copies furnished, 796, 801, 805. Councils of administration, 318. Court-martial duty, emergencies, 192. Courts-martial proceedings, 917, 970, 981, 984. Delays In obeying, 70. Detaching officers, service schools, etc., 192, 449. Disobedience, A. W. 21, 24. Distribution and file, 802, 803. Emanating from War Department, 766, 774. Engineers, diverted service, 1496. Eulogizing living officers, 797. Executed by whom, 796. Expenditures and Issues, 653, 696, 697. Field orders defined, 791. Furlough, 1233. General, defined, 792. General court-martial, 791, 984. Inspections, 893, 899, 1284. Inspectors, 880-882. Library books, abandoned posts, 338. Liquid coffee, 1208. Mounted service, 1272. Obedience to, and prompt execution, 1. 386 IHTDES. Orders — Continued. Personal journeys, brigade commanders, 194. Preparation, etc., 795. Publication In field, camp, or garrison, 804. Pursuit of deserters, 122. Qualifications of enlisted men, 1343-1345. Eatlons to destitute persons, 1219. Eegimental files, 259. Retirement of enlisted men, 134, 135. Eeturn journeys, 71, 1285. Salutes and saluting stations, 399, 404. Secretary of War, defined, 761. Sentences of general prisoners, 774. Settlement of accounts, 74. Signaling and telegraphy instruction, 1556. Signal parties in tlie field, 1558. Source and authority, 795. Special, defined, 793. Staff ofSeers, trarel, 72. Summary court trials, 957. Target practice, 349, 352, 353. Title, officer designated, 780. Transfer of enlisted men, 115. Transmission in the field, 798, 799. Transportation of the Army, 1110, 1111. Travel allowances, 1284-1288. Travel on duty, 68-74, 800, 803. Witnesses, military or civil courts, 951. Ordnance and Ordnance Stores: Accountability, etc., 1511. Arm chests for storage, 1542. Care and preservation, 1552. Cartridges for hunting purposes, 354. Condemned, 918, 1543. Deflnltitra, 1512, Embezzlement, etc., A. W. 60. Expenditure nt ammunition, 1528-1531. Horse equipments, 1520. Inspections, 1537, 1543. Issues, 1513-1519, 1522, 1524-1526. Loans, 1523. Loss, etc., by civilian employees, 1527. Materials, ordnance establishments, 1548. Militia, 1143. Paclting, 1544-1546. Price lists, 1541. Proceeds of sale, 617. Requisitions, 1517-1519. Sales, 1520, 1521, 1526, 1543. Serviceable surplus, 1532, 1533. Stamps for sealing packages, 1546, 1547. Sufficiency of supplies at depots, 1517. Supply table, 1519. Surplus or damaged, 1532-1542. Transfer, 671, 701, 1524, 1535, 15.36. Transportation, 1547, 1548. Unserviceable, 1517, 1534, 1537-1540. See also Arms and Acoouterments. Ordnance Corps: Eligibility of officers of, to command, 18. Extra-duty details, enlisted men, 172. Officers, 18, 24, 206, 1044, 1516. Ordnance Department: Blanks and blank books, 1551. Civilian employees, traveling expenses, 738. Cooking devices, 302. Department commander's staff, 197, 199. Field service. Hospital Corps, 1434. General provisions, 1511, 1512. Leather dressing, etc., 293. Materials, ordnance establishments, 1548. Packing, crating, etc., of baggage, 1135. Returns and reports, 1549-1551. Special regulations, note, p. 290. Stamps, official, for sealing boxes, 1546. Supervision of, by Chief of Staff, 762. Target practice, 315, 351. Tests and experimental trials, 1553-1555. See also — Chief of Ordnance. Ordnance and Ordnance Stores. Ordnance Depots: Arm chests, 1542. Establishment and maintenance, 1511, 1515. Issues, 1516, 1517. Ordnance and ordnance stores, 1513, 1514. Requisitions for stores not on hand, 1518. Sufficiency of supplies, 1517. Supervision and control, 1516. Surplus ordnance stores, 1532, 1533. Unserviceable and unsuitable supplies, 1517. Ordnance Funds: Accountability, etc., 1511. Ordnance Officers: Eligibility to command, 18. Office rooms, fuel, and stoves, 1044. Ordnance depots, 1516. Police supplies, 442, 443. Post, 206, 701, 1537, 1538. Promotion, 24, Ordnance Sergeants: Appointments, duties, etc., 93-98, 100. Baggage, 1136. 'Discharge and reenllstment, 99, 101, 102, 958. Military control, 99. Personal reports, 100. Qualifications, 93, 95. Quarters, fuel, and stoves, 1044. Rank and precedence, 9. Reduction to the ranks, 102, 958. Special-duty details, 97. Stationary, 1065. Trial by courts-martial, 958. Organized Militia: See Militia, Organized. Original Packages : Examination, verification, etc., 668, 669. Outpost Duty: Kostor, 357. Ontstandlng I,labllltles : • Accounts for advertisments, 508. Checks, 588, 603, 605-607, 901, 902. Debts, 625, 630. INDEX. 387 ©Terpayments ! Failure to refund, 1309. On etroneous final statements, 155. Stoppages, 1309. OTorsccrs : Hours of labor, 731. Packages : Original, examination, yeriflcation, etc., 068,669. Public property, transmission by mall, 837. Pack Animals: Allotment for departments, 1102. Packers : Employment, payment, etc., 730. Hours of labor, 731. Transportation and expenses, 732. Packing and Crating: Officers' baggage, 1135-1138. Ordnance and ordnance stores, 1544- 1546. Over-sea shipments, 1136, 1138, 1545. Professional books, etc., 1136, 1139. Regimental and company desks, etc., 1139. Pallbearers : Funerals, military, 429. Panama Canal Zone: Pay of enlisted men, 1342. Parade : Absent without leave, A. W. 33. Daily, 436. Pardon : Punishment imposed by a court-martial, 944; A. W., 112. Parlor and Sleeping Cars: Accommodation in, to whom allowed, 1128. Applicants, artificial limbs, etc., 1491. Charter, 1132. .Civilian employees, 733, 735. Pare excluded from travel allowances, 1279. Reimbursements to officers, 1134. Requests, 1129-1131, 1133. Unused requests, 1133. Witnesses before military courts, 989. Parole : Disclosing or changing, A. W. 44. General prisoners, 943. Partnerships : Acceptance of partners as sureties, 573. Contracts, 559. Passports : Officers visiting foreign countries, 63. Piitlents In Hospitals: Admission, etc., 1441-1446, 1471. Arms and accouterments, 1450. Captured, 1451. Contagious diseases, 1455. Diseased, 1451. Descriptive lists, 1451. Desertion, 1451. Discharged for disability, 1451. Discharged soldiers, 1452, 1453. Excused from Saturday Inspection, 283. Patients in Hospitals — Continued. Information to company commander, 1472. Muster and pay rolls, 808. Return to duty, 1451. Savings of rations, 327. Services of Army nurses, 1423. Transferred, 1451. Pay Accounts, Ofllcers: Hypothecation or transfer, 1258. Leaving service, 1262. Pay and Clothing Accoants : Clothing, 1157-1166, 1169. Deserters, 124, 1164-1166, 1373, 1.^74. Detached enlisted men, 104. Enlisted men of Quartermaster Corps, 1009. Hospital Corps, 1415. Post noncommissioned staff, 99. Pay Clerks, Quartermaster Corps : Baggage, 1136. Quarters, fuel, and stoves, 1044. Rank and precedence, 9. Subject to rules and Articles of War, p. 314, act March 3, mil. Transportation and expenses, 737. Payments: Accounts and under contract, 585. Acting dental surgeons, 1266, Cadets, 1312, 1313. Checks on presentation, 603, 604, Civilian witnesses, military courts, 989, 991, 993 ; p. 314, act March 2, 1901. Commutation of rations, 1212, 1231. Computation ol time ot service, 651. Contract surgeons, 1266. Ferry and bridge transportation, 1126. General provisions, 1254, 1255. Graduates, Military Academy, 1314. Horses sold to mounted officers, 1095. Interpreters, courts-martial, 988. Medical attendance and medicines, 1476, 1477. Mileage. 1283. Outstanding- checks, 607. Prisoners on release, 978. Reporters, courts-martial, 738, 986. Savings of rations, 1222. Seeds for post gardens, 343. Signing receipts or checks in blank, 637. Soldiers flirloughed to the reserve, 137.5- 1379. Telegraph and telephone service, 1180, 1187, 1189, 1191-1194. Transportation to Soldier's Home, D. C, 180, Traveling expenses, civilian employees. 738. Turnpike transportation, 1126. Unauthorized advertisements, 507. Payments to Discharged Soldiers : By whom made. 155. 1337. Dates included, l'i76. Deduction for ahsenco wit'iout leave, 141. Fraud in enlistment, 11180. Identification before payment, 1375. 388 INDEX. Payments to Discharged Soldiers — Continued. Loss or nonreceipt of final statements, 1377. Made on final statements, 155, 1375, 1381. ■ ' Notations on discharge, 1376. Recruits, 1382. Transferred claims, 1383. Travel allowances, 1378-1380. Payments to Enlisted Men: Additional, 186, 1338-1346. Arrested by civil authorities, 1371. Awaiting result of trial, 970. Certificates of merit, 186, 1341. Checl£ or currency, 1316, 1319-1335, 1337. Commutation of rations, 1232-1238. Continuous-service pay, 132, 1340. Dates included, 1255. Deposits of pay, 1364-1366. Deserters, 1372-1374. Expert riflemen, 1345. Extra-duty pay, 174, 329. Final. See Payments to Discharged Soldiers. Forfeitures and deductions, 132, 341, 345, 976-978, 1249, 1370. Furloughed soldiers, 113. Furloughed to the reserve, 1375-1379. Gunners, 1343, 1344. Incorrect, 1336. Mode of forwarding, 1322, 1323. Monthly, 1315. Outside continental limits U. S., 1317, 1342. Pay rolls, 1318-1321, 1326, 1329, 1332- 1334, 1337. Personal, by quartermasters, 1316. Posts and places exempted from control of territorial commander, 191. Quartermaster designated, 1337. Reenlistment, 1338, 1339. Retired, 137, 138, 1337, 1341. Witnessed by oflScers, 810, 1318, 1319, 1326, 1332, 1394. Witnesses before civil courts, 1298. Payments to OfBccrs: Absent from station, 1257. Additional, 1267-1270, 1272, 1273. Arrested by civil authorities, 1371. Collection for cre<^it sales, 1243. Commutation of quarters, 1299-1307. Dates included, 1255. Dismissed by sentence, 1262, 1265. Entering or leaving service, 1260, 1262, 1263. Leaves of absence, 1275-1277. Longevity pay, 1271. Mileage. See Mileage. Monthly, 1256. Mounted service, 1272-1274. Outside continental limits U. S., 1317. Pay accounts, 1256, 1258, 1262. Promotions, 1260. Resigning, 1262, 1263. Retired, 1257. Payments to Officers — Continued. Retiring from active service, 1264. Serving beyond sea, 1259. Serving with volunteers or militia, 1261. Stoppages against pay, 1308-1311. Travel allowances. See Tra.vel allow- ances. Pay of the Army: Additional to enlisted men, 186, 1338- 1346. Additional to officers, 1267-1274. Allotments, enlisted men, 1S47-1360. Certificates of merit, 186, 1341. Chief of Staff of the Army, 740. Companies, 266. Continuous service, 1339, 1340. Deposits by enlisted men, 1361-1369. Deserters, 129, 131, 1372-1374. Extra duty, 169, 170, 172, 174, 176, 177. False certificates, A. W. 13. Forfeitures and deductions, 976, 1370. General provisions, 1254, 1255. Indian scouts, 479. Longevity, 1271. Militia while in service, 451. Miscellaneous, 1884. Nurses, 1426. Rates, 1338-1345. Reenlisted, 1338, 1339. Retired enlisted men, 137, 138. Secretary of War, 740. Stoppages against ofBcers, 1308-1311. Suspension from command, A. W. 101. Veterinarians, 89. Volunteers or millta, 1261. Pay Rolls: Additional pay notations, 1343-1346.. Allotments of pay notations, 1357. Cadets, Military Academy, 1312. Calculations, 810, 1318. Charges, 110, 116, 127, 341, 345, 686, 687, 699, 724, 1166, 1178, 1236. Check or currency payments, 1320, 1321, ' 1326, 1329-1335, 1337. Clothing balances, 1160, 1164. Corrections or changes, 810. Credit sales to enlisted men, 1249. Damages to property, 686, 699, 724, 1178. Deserters' pay, 127, 687, 1164, 1166, 1373, 1374. Designation on, of companies, 809. Detached enlisted men, 808. Forfeitures and deductions, 1370. Forwarded to quartermaster, 1319. Incorrect payments, 1336. Laundry charges, 3'41. Manuscript, prohibited, 1572. Money amounts, 648. Payments to enlisted men, 1337. Post exchange dues, 345. Preparation, disposition, etc., 807, 1329. Property lost or destroyed, 686, 687, 699, 1178. Retained, 810, 1318, 1332. Sicte in hospital, 808. Signatures of enlisted men, 1319, INDEX. 389 Pay Rolls — Continued. Stoppages, 1370. Witness to payment, 1318, 1319, 1326, 1332, 1333. See also Muster Rolls. Peaches : Ration, 1205. Penalties : Contractors' bonds, 569, 578. Destroying or obstructing military tele- graph lines, 1563. Disbursing officer's bond, 568. Penalty Envelopes : Use for official business, 834-839. Penitentiaries : Abatement term of confinement, 942. Psercise of clemency, 944. Imprisonment, 966, 967 ; A. W. 97. Inspection, 895. Pennants : Boat flags and pennants, 240. Pensions : Evidence, etc., from records, 824. Militia, disabled, etc., 458. Notation of degree of disability, 161. Peonage Laws: ^ Enforcement of, by the Army, 485, p. 99. Pepper : Ration, 1205. Periodicals : Post libraries, 331. Perjury : Frauds upon the Government, A. W. 60. Permanent Buildings: Construction and repairs, 706, 707. Erection of, on new sites, 704. Permanent Posts: Kstablishment, 201. Styled forts, 202. Permanent Works of Defense: Court-martial duty of oflicers, 192. Erection of, on new sites, 704. Supervision or control, 191, 214. Personal Reports : See Reports, Personal. Personal Services: Bills to contain no charge for material, 519. Definition, 519. Rules for computation of time, 651. A'ouchers for payment, 633. Wages discharged employees, 650. Persuading to Desert: Punishment, A. W. 51. Philippine Department: Allotments of pay, enlisted men, 1350. Commanding oflicer. See Philippine De- partment, Commanding Oflicer. Disbursing officers, 625, 652. District commanders, relation toward higher authority, 194. Fuel, 1044. Furloughs to enlisted men. 111. Horses of mounted officers, 1073, 1095. Inspections, 1284. Leaves of absence, officers, 60. Phlllpplue Department— Continued. Ordnance property, detached soldiers 1536. Public buildings, repairs, 1014. Retired enlisted men, 138. Shipments to, via commercial lines, 721. Philippine Department Commanding Ofttcer: Condemned property, 907. Contracts, 557. ' Damages by fire, storm, etc., 709. Efficiency reports, 829. Insane soldiers, 469. Office rooms, fuel, and stoves, 1044. Printing, 511. Supervisory powers and duties, 193. Transfer of supplies, 071. Transfer of troops, 193. Travel on duty, officers, emergency cases, 71. Travel orders, 1284. Philippine Islands: Civil governor, 400, 403, 408. Contracts with firms, 559. Enlisted men returning to United States, 111. Payments to troops in, 1317. Return of animals to United States not allowed, 1098. Vice governor, 400, 403, 408. Philippine Scouts: Colors, 234. Commutation of rations, 1223. Deposits of pay, 1361. Deserters, apprehension and delivery, 121. Subsistence, 1202, 1205. Photographs : Permanent works of defense, 348. Physical Examination : Applicants for enlistment, 841, 847, 848, 862, 864-867, 871, 148^. Enlisted men, 1485. Hospital Corps, 1410. Members recruiting parties reenlisting, 847. Militia at muster out, 461. Militia called into U. S. service, 455, 457. Recruits, 774, 864, 865, 870, 1484. Physicians ; See— Civilian Physicians. Medical Officers, Pickles : Ration, 1205. Pillaging : Punishment, A. W. 42. Flans and Specifications: Alterations, 1468. Hospitals, 1464-1466, 1468. Quarters for sergeants, first class, Hospi- tal Corps, 1466, 1468. Platoon: Quitting without leave, A. W. 40. Plats : Military lauds, 708. 390 IN1>EX. Plundering : Punishment, A. W. 42. Police : Bai-racks, 286, 287. Daily duties of parties, 374. Guards and property, 441-443; Kitchens of enlisted men, 297. Police Officers: Apprehension of deserters, 118, 121. Porto Elco: Civilian witnesses, 990. Deposits of pay, enlisted men, 1361. Furlough, enlisted men, 111. Insane soldiers, 469. ' Pay of enlisted men, 1342. Fosse Comitiitus: Employment of national forces, 484- 489. Post Cemeteries: Care and maintenance, 494, 496. Headboards for graves, 494, 495. Inclosed with wall or fence, 494. Inspection, 889. Interments, 167, 497, 498. Suitable ground to be set apart, 493. Walks, 496. Post Commanders: Aid to chaplains, 44. Allotments of pay, enlisted men, 1360. Animals in possession of Indians, 474. Appointees, second lieutenants, 29. Articles used for police purposes, etc., 442. Authority as to discipline, 953. Authority as to prisoners, 300, 942, 943. Barrack furniture, 1011, 1023. Barracks and quarters, 1010-1012, 1024- 1028. Boarding visits, 407. Buildings for amusement, etc., 339. Care, etc., of posts and reservations, 213. Chaplains' reports, 45. Clothing and equipage, 1147, 1148, 1157, 1158, 1168. Clothing for general prisoners, 1171. Company commanders, 268. Company fund, 328. Councils of administration, 317, 318, 320. Counsel for prisoners, 961. Courts-martial proceedings, 919. Damages by fire, storm, etc., 709. Deceased soldiers' effects, 163, 164. Delegation of duties, 203. Dental surgeon, operating room, 1397. Deposits by enlisted men, 1369. Deserters, 118-120, 125. Deserters' effects, 117. Discharge of enlisted men, 148, 160. Discipline, Instruction, etc., 203, 953. Efficiency reports, 829. Escaped prisoners, 121. Escorts of honor, 416. Estimates, 749, 1014. Extra and special duty details, 171. Final statements, 1369. Furl, 301, 1038. Post Commanders — Continued. Funeral escorts, etc., 426. Furloughs, enlisted men,, 106, 111. General duties and responsibilities, 203, 204. General mess, 330. General officers, 106, 114, 198, 203. Horses of mounted officers, 1095, 1096. Hospital buildings, 1464. Hospital charges, 1460. Hospital matrons, 1448. Hospital service, 1448, 1452. Hospital transports, etc., 1440. lUumtnating supplies, 301, 1038, 1051, 1052. Indians, Indian reservations, 471, 473, 474. Insane soldiers, 466, 468. Irregularities, etc., 8'91, 892. Kitchen and tableware, 301. Leaves of absence, officers, 49. Mail contractors, 209. Mess furniture, 301, 1023. Messing and cooking, 296. Military personnel and employees, 203. Monthly inspections, 203. Neutrality laws, 889. Office rooms, fuel, and stoves, 1044. Payments to enlisted men, 1321, 1324- 1330, 1334. Pecuniary interest forbidden, A. W. 18. Permission to hunt granted by, 66. Personal leave of absence, 50. Policing stables, etc., 1106. Post cemeteries, 493. Post exchanges, 346. Post gardens, 342, 1206. Post libraries, 331, 322, 334. Post noncommissioned staff, 97. Private buildings, 1018. Property responsibility, 658. Proposals, supplies and services, 543. Rations, 1209-1211, 1213, 1214. Records of post, 211. Recruit depot posts, 841. Recruiting service, 840, 868, 869, 875, 876. Reports, incapacitated officers, 890. Reports, issues, and roll calls, 373. Requisitions, 749. Retirement of enlisted men, 134. Returns of general prisoners, 937. Returns of troops, 811. Roll calls, 370. Sales of suhsistence supplies, 322, 1247, 1248. Small-arms practice, 350. State, 198, 206. Summary courts-martial, pp. 313, 314, acf June 18, 1898. Surgeons of posts, 1387. Surveying officers, 711, 1028. Tableware and kitchen utensils, 1178. Telegraphic code, 1185. Transfer, etc., enlisted men, 114. Transfer of prisoners, 938. INDEX. 391 Post Commanders — Continued. Verification of original packages, 669. Visitors to posts, 403. Visits and courtesies, 2i0, 407, 408. Post Engineer Officer: See Engineer OfUcers. Post Exchange : See Exchange, Post. Postmaster General: Funeral honors, 421. Salutes and honors, 376, 400, 403. Post Koiicomraissloued Stall: Accountability, etc., for property, 98, 695. Appointment, duties, etc., 93-97, 100. Assignment to stations, 743. Baggage, 1136. Brooms, hrushee, and mops, 1181. Discharge and reenllstment, 99, 101, 102, 058. Extra and special duty, 97, 172. Funeral honors and escort, 428, Military control, 99. Muster and pay roils, 807. Bayments, 1337. Bersonal reports, 100. Qualifications, 93, 95. Quarters, fuel, and stoTes, 1044, Ranli and precedence, 9. Reduction to the ranks, 102, 958. Stationery, 1065. Trial by courts-martial, 958. Warrants, 101. Post Office Department: Broperty loaned to mail contractors, 200. Post Orduance Officers: See Ordnance Officers. Post Quartermasters: See Quartermasters. Post Quartermaster Sergeants: See Quartermaster Sergeants. Posts and BeserTations : Address, official, of staff officers, 208. Ambulances and harness, 1428. Beer, wine, or intoxicating liquors, 346. 471. Boarding visits, 411. Bowling alleys, 339. Brooms and mops, 1181. Buildings, construction or repair, 706, 707, 1015-1017. Buildings for amusements, etc., 339. Care and preservation, 213. Cemeteries, 167, 493-498. Chapels, 831, 1044, 1144. Civilians residing, on reservation, 212. Coast defense commands, 203. Commanders. See Post Cpmmandera. Council, 117, 163, 164. Deeds, title, and other papers, 705, 915. Designation, 202. Discontinued, 821. Duty and labor on Sunday, 205. Engineer officer on duty, 1503. Establishment, 201. Exchanges. See Exchange, Post. Posts and BeserTations — Continued. Extra-duty pay, 177. Flags, 223, 397, 398. Foreign vessels, national festivities, 413. Funeral honors, 420-434. Gardens, 342-344, 1206. Garrison schools, 193, 194, 449. General officers commanding, 106, 114, 198, 203. General prisoners, 932, 936, 937, 943. Guards, 441-443. Gymnasiums, 339, 340, 1144. Hauling forage, 1106. Hospital buildings, 1464-1470. Hospital Corps, 1416, 1418. Illuminating supplies, 1051-1061. Improvement of grounds, 213, 707. Inspection, 889, 892, 895, 1387. Jurisdiction of States, 704. Laundries, 341. Letter and note heads, 512. Libraries, 331, 334-338, 340, 1044, 1144. Limitation of expenditures, 207. Lye and sapolio, 1182. Means of transportation, 1105, 1106. Memorial Day, 440. Morning and evening guns, 210. Navy or Marine Corps deserters, 133. New, purchase of sites, 704. Nomenclature,- 201, 202. Official correspondence, 783, 785. Orderly observance of the Sabbath, 205. Payments to enlisted men, 1316-1319. Plats of land, 708. Policing stables, 1106. Post schools, 331, 340, 449, 1044. Quartermaster supplies, 1086. Beading rooms, 331, 340, 1044. Records, 211, 495, 497, 821. Removal of trespassers, 212. Repairs to ordnance stores, 1537. Repairs to roads, walks, etc., 1016. Returns, 477, 811, 815, 1185. Salutes and honors, 37.3-377, 380-405. Sanitary condition, 1387. Spring wagons, 1103. StafE of commanding officer, 198, 206. Supervision, 212, 214. Unauthorized use of volatile oils, 1053, Ungarrisoned, 214, 889, 1065, 1158. Veterinary hospitals, 92. Visits and courtesies, 403, 406-414. Water supply, 1387. Wharves and piers, 707. Post Schools: Enlisted men, 449. Fuel and stoves, 1044. Quarters, 331. Regulations governing, 449. Teachers, extra-duty pay, 170. Transportation of articles, etc., 340. Post Signal Officers: See Signal Corps Officers. Post Surgeons: See MeiUcal Officers. 392 INDEX. Potatoes : Ration, 1205. Poivder : Storage in or near storehouse, 1199. Practice marches. Field Maneuyers, et<;. : Field practice, messing and cooking, 296, 302, 1205. Praise : Discussions, etc., conveying, forljidden, 5. Precedence : Arms of service, 6. Commissioned officers, 9, 11, Different corps of the Army, 10 ; A. W. 122, 124. Noncommissioned officers, 9. Presents : Mustering officers, A. W. 6. Nurses, 1426. President of the United States: Administration and control of Army, 761. Appointment of courts-martial, p. 314, act Mar. 2, 1913. Assignments tiy, to command, 190 ; A. W. 122. Certificates of merit, 184. Colors, 218. Contempt or disrespect, A. W. 19. Corps of Engineers, 1493. Courts-martial, appointment, proceedings, etc., 917, 921. Courts-martial sentences, A. W. 105, 106, 108, 111. Death of, honors paid at posts, 417. Departments and commanders, 190. Detail of line to staff, 38. Directions and orders to Chief of Staff, 761, 762. Directions and orders to Secretary of War, 761. Discharge of enlisted men, 139 ; A. W. 4. Discharge or dismissal of officers, A. W. 99. Enforcement of the laws with troops, 485, p. 101. Exercise of command of the Army, 761. i'lag, 217. General officers. General Staff Corps, 773. Information or advice. Chief of Staff, 761. Limitation of punishments, 963 ; p. 313, act Sept. 27, 1890. Officers of staff departments, 18. Organized Militia in service, 450, 453, 741. Pardon, or mitigation of punishment, 944. Relations to and with the Chief of Staff, 761. Salutes and honors, 375, 400, 403. Traveling on vessels of war, 415. Vessels of war flying flag, 415. Volunteers in service, equipment, etc., 741. President pro tempore of the Senate: Funeral honors, 421. Salutes and honors, 376, 400, 403. Presidio of San Francisco, Cal. : Service school, hakers and cooks, 449. PrcTlons Convictions: Consideration and evidence, 954, 956, 962. Price Lists: Clothing and eguipage, 1146. Ordnance and ordnance stores lost or damaged, 1541. Subsistence supplies, 1251. Prices : Tailors, company and civilian, 279. Principal Dlnslcians : Baggage, 1136. Quarters, fuel, and stoves, 1044. Rank and precedence, 9. See also Musicians. Printing : See — Advertisements. Job Printing. Prisoners : Arraignment, A. W. 89. Awaiting trial or result of trial, 928, 932. Bedding and bunks, 1084. Beginning and expiration of term, 969. Classes to be confined separately, 932. Classification and designation, 928. Clothing, 911, 938, 939. Copy of proceedings, etc., courts-martial, A. W. 114. Counsel, 961 ; A. W. 90. Discharge from the Army, personal no- tice, 157. Escaped, 121, 940 ; A. W. 69. Food supplies, rations, etc., 300, 1203, 1212. Garrison. See Prisoners^ Garrison. General. See Prisoners General. General courts-martial proceedings, 919. Good-conduct time, 942. Irons, 935. Keepsaltes, 940. Medical attendance, etc., 1473, 1476, 1478, 1480. Pardon, or mitigation of punishment, 944, 972. Payments on release from confinement, 978. Personal effects of escaped, 940. Place of confinement, 971. Punishment for allowing escape, A. W. 69. Rations, 1203, 1212. Reward for escaped, 121. Right of challenge, A. W. 88. Standing mute, etc., -V. W. 89. Transfer to place of confinement, 938, 939. Trials, 961, 962. Undergoing more than one sentence, 973. With no record of charges, 934. Writ of habeas corpus, 998, 999. Prisoners, Garrison: Abatement of term of confinement, 942, 943. Defined, 928. INDEX. 393 Prisoners, Garrison — Continued. Kept apart from general prisoners, 932. Probation, 943. Prisoners, General: Abatement of term of confinement, 942, 943. Application for clemency, 944. Clotliing, 939, 1170, 1171. Conflned at posts, 932, 936, 942. Defined, 928. Discharge papers, 938. Insane, 464. Jurisdiction in case of, 998, 999, Kept apart from oflier prisoners, 932. Parole, 943. Place of confinement, 936, 965-967. Release from confinement, 941, 1170. Remitting of sentence, 774, 944. Reports and returns, 937. Sewing machines, 1216. Sicli in hospital, 1212. Special rules and regulations, 936. Toilet articles, etc., 1216. Transfer to place of confinement, 938, 939. Prisoners of War: Medical attendance, etc., 1473, Rations, 1203. PrWatc Correspondence : Officers and men beyond the seas, 781. Private Property: Claims under act of Mar. 3, 1885, 726. Waste or spoil, A. W. 55, 59. Privates : See Enlisted Men. Probation : Garrison prisoners, 943. Proceedings : See— Councils of Administration, i Courts-Martial. Courts of Inquiry. Proceeds of Sale : Deserters' effects, 117. Disposition, etc., 611, 617-619. Escaped prisoners' effects, 940. Horses sold to mounted officers, 1095. Ordnance and ordnance stores, 1520, 1521, 1543. Surplus garden products, 344. Transfers of public property, 619. Profanity : Punishment, A. W. 53. Professional Bqoks and Papers: Transportation, 1136, 1137, 1139. Promotion : Enlisted men from the ranks, 27-33, 35, 36, 1138, 1139, 1296. Medical officers, 1388. Officers, 21-26. Payments to officers, 1260. Signal Corps men, 1557. Travel allowances joining station, 1296. Property Accountability and Eesponsiblllty : Articles In charge of guards, 442, 443. Articles issued to general prisoners or to recruits, 1216, X217, Property Accountability and Eesponsiblllty — Continued. Bake ovens, 1252. Branding before Issue, 076. Breakage of china and glass ware, 1178. Captured property, 819 ; A. W. 9. Company commanders, 281, 661-663; A. W. 10. Condemned, 680, 681. Cooking apparatus, 1252. Damaged, lost, destroyed, or stolen, 682- 692, 1178 ; A. W. 15-17. Defined, 657. Detachment commanders, 281, 661-663 ; A. W. 10. Details separating from property, 664. Division staff officers, 197. Enlisted men, 280, 663, 695. Expenditures under orders, 696-698. Failure to sign receipt, 667. Insurance of public money or property, 596. Issues, 663, 673. Keys of storerooms, etc., 674. Means of transportation at posts, 1106. Military telegraph lines, 1559. Miscarried or missing stores, 666. Musical instruments, 1179, 1180. Officers separated from commands, 659. > Ordnance and ordnance stores, 701, 1511, 1520-1529, 1535, 1549. Original packages, 668, 669. Post commanders, 203, 658. Post noncommissioned staff, 98, 254, 695. Preservation and repairs, 075. Prevention of loss or damage, 674. Public property In use by militia, 460. Quartermaster supplies, 1086-1094, 1167. Receipts in blank prohibited, 670. Recruiting officers, 1218. Relief by surveying officers, 712, 713. Removal of all officers, 660. Returns, 693-703, 1167, 1520-1522, 1527, 1549. Signal Corps sergeants, 695. Signal supplies, 1564. Street car and ferry tickets, 1127. Subsistence supplies, 1198. Supplies In transit, 721, 1141. Surveying or exploring expeditions, 672. Tent pins, helves, etc., 1176. Transfer on succession, 17, 630. Transfers, bureaus and departments, 671. Transfers involving accountability, 665, 701. Transfers to Indians, 476. Unauthorized sales, A, W. 16, 17. Unserviceable property, 678, 679. Veterinary supplies, 1075, 1076. Proposals : Abstracts, 541-543, 548, 549. Advertisements, 503, 522-526. Bidders, 524, 527-541, 545-547. Delivery, 537. Disposition of copies, 542, 543. Erasures or interlineations, 534. Firm or corporation, 532, 394 INDEX. Proposals — Continued. Folding and numbering, 542. Guaranties. 535, 536. Opening, 537, 539, 541. Posts and department headquarters, 543, 544. Preparation, etc., 531, 533. Safe-Ijeeping, 539. Separate for labor, etc., each place, 638. Withdrawal, 540. Protecting the Enemy; Punishment, A. W. 45. Protection : Laborers, etc., on military works, 357. Proving Ground, Sandy Hooli, N, J.; Annual Inspection, 895. Provisional Commands: Flags for opposing forces, 242. Journals of march, 446. Provisions lor Soldiers; Sales In garrison, forts, etc., A. W. 18. Yiolence to traders in foreign parts, A. W. 56. Provoking Speeches or Gestures : Punishment for using, A. W. 25, Provost Marshal Cieneral's Bureau : ^. Care and custody of records, 774. Provost' Marshals: Duties of, as to prisoners, A. W. 67, 69. Prunes : Ration, 1205, Public Animals: Ambulance, 1429. Assignment to riders or drivers, 1072." Branding, 907, 1067. Care and treatment, 90, 91. Condemned, 680, 907, 1073. Descriptive cards, 280, 1070, 1071. . Descriptive lists, 1069. ^ I Docking, banging, or clipping, 1068. Draft and pack, 1102. Exchange or surrender, 1072. Forage ration, 1077, 1078. Furnished by Quartermaster Corps, 1000. Inspection, 889. Inspection of unserviceable, 904, 907, -1073. Issue or transfer, 1071. Purchased under contract, 1066. Recovery of lo.st or stolen, 689-692. Return from Philippine Islands not al- lowed, 1098. Sales of horses to moimted officers, 1073, 1095. Salt, 1215. Shoeing and materials, 1097. Sick, injured, or infected, 1073. Straw for bedding, 1085. Transportation of the Army, 1102. Use of, by mounted officers, 1081, 1096. Vinegar, 1215. See also — Horses. Mules. Publication ; Articles of War to the Army, A. W. 128. Dismissal for cowardice or fraud, A. W. 100. Medical and official, 1463. Private transactions, 5. Public Buildings: Bonds and contracts, 572. Construction or repair, 706, 707, 1017. Bstimatesfor repairs, 1012, 1013. Inspection and condemnation, 904, 912. Public Buildings and Grounds, D. C. : Title and othei- papers, 705, 915, 1493. Public Health: ; Enforcement of quarantine, 485, p. 100. Public Lands: Intruders or trespassers, 485, pp. 99, 100. Title papers, military, 915. Unlawful inclosures, 485, p. 100. Public Moneys: Balances at close of fiscal year, 625. Balances on deposit unchanged, 590. Collections, 611-619. Contracts involving future payments, 515, 582. Covering into Treasury, 590. Custody of, 584, 586. Deceased officers, 86. Disbursing officers ceasing to act, 588, 630, 902. Failure to account, 1308. Illegal disbursements, 1309. Insane officers,. 86. Insurance, 596. Miscellaneous receipts, etc., 611. Outstanding checks or drafts, 588, 606. Overpayments, 1309. Personal possession, 586, 587. Receipt for amounts not paid, A. W. 60. Receipt for transfer, etc., 1384. Received for disbursements, 58;'., 584, 586, 587, 595. Stealing, embezzling, etc., A. W. 60. Transfer, 589, 595, 597, 598, 1509. Transfer to the Treasury, 611. Transportation by express, 1142. Use and e'xpenditures, 582. See also — ; Deposits of Moneys and OoUeotions. Money Accountabilitp. Public Property: Branding and marking, 257, 295, 676. Care and preservation, 193, 203. Commanding officers, 751. Company commanders, 290, 291. Condemnation. See Condemnation of Property. Condemned. See Condemned Property. Damaged. See Damages to Property. Deceased otBcers, 86. Defect or shortage, 668. Deficiencies, etc., 1309. Destruction, etc. See Destruction of PuWc Property. Deteriorated or deteriorating stores, 717, 904. index:. 395 Public Property — Continued. Expended in tlie military service, 698. Expenditures under orders, 696, 697. Failure to account, 1308. Fuel and oil unconsumed, 1042, 1056. Insane officers, 86. Inspection, 903-914. Insurance, 596. Intrusted, 667. Issues, care reciuired, 673. Lost or stolen, 689-692, 721, 1141; A. W. 10. Mail contractors, 209. Mess and tableware and furniture, 301. Militia, 460. Packages by mail, penalty envelope, 837. Preservation and repair, 675. Private uses, 677. Proceeds o£ sale, 617-619. Purchase by officers, 681. Eeceipts, amounts not delivered, A. W. 60. Recovery of lost or stolen, 689-692. Regimental headquarters, 257. Returns. See Returns of Public Property. Sales. See Sales of Public Property. Stealing, wrongfully selling, etc., A. W. 60. Tents for protection, 1183. Transfers to another department, 619, 671. Unserviceable, 337, 680, 681, 717, 903- 908. Verification of contents of packages, 669. Waste products, 679. See also Property Accountability and Responsibility. Pnhllc Works: Bonds and contracts, 572. Travel allowances of officers, 1295. Punishments : Abandoning post, A. W. 42. Absence without leave, A. W. 31-35, 40. Abuses and disorders, A. W. 54. Accepting presents, etc., A. W. 6. Ammunition, sale or waste, A. W. 16. Breach of arrest, A. W. 65. Contempt or disrespect, A. W. 20. Contemptuous words, A. W. 19. Contumacious witnesses, p. 314, act Mar. 2, 1901. Damages, loss, etc., of property, A. W. 15-17. Desertion, A. W. 47-51. Destroying, etc., military records, 823. Disrespectful words, A. W. 19. Drunkenness on duty, A. W. 38. Dueling, A. W. 26-28. Escape of prisoners, A. W. 69. Failure to m.ikc returns, A. W. 7. Failure to report confinement of enlisted men, A. W. 68. Failure to surrender offenders against civil statutes, A. W. 59. False certificates of absence or pay, A. W. 13. Punishments — Continued. False musters, A. W. 5, 14. False returns, A. W. 8, Frauds and embezzlement, A. W. 60, Hiring of duty, A. W. 36, 37. Horses, sale or loss, A. W. 17. Increase of sentences of confinement, 967. Legality and promptness, 2. Limitations, 963, 964, 968 ; p. 313, act Sept. 27, l.'^gO: p. 315. act Mar. 2, 1913; A. W. 38, 98. Misbehavior at divine worship, A. W. 52. Misconduct in time of war, A. W. 41—46, 57, 100. Mutiny and sedition, A. W. 21-24, 43. Offenses against civil laws, A. W. 55, 58, 59. Officers pecuniarily Interested in vict- uals, etc., A. W. 18. Pardon, or mitigation of sentence, 944, 972 ; p. 313, act June 18, 1898 ; A. W. 112. Profanity, A. W. 53. Provoking or reproachful speeches or gestures, A. W. 25. Records, 280. Release, unauthorized, of prisoners, A. W. 69. Sleeping on or leaving post, A. W.^ 39. Spies, p. 313, sec. 1343 R. S. Unlawful enlistments, A. W. :i. Use of Army as posse comitatus, 484. Violence to traders in foreign parts, A, W. 56. Waste or spoil of private property, A. W. 55, 59. Purchases : Articles of uniform clothing from post exchange, 1174J. Discharge, by enlisted men, 144. Forage, 1082. Fuel and mineral oil by soldiers' fam- ilies, 1038. Fuel by officers and families, 1036, 1037, 1039, 1040. Horses by mounted officers, 1095. Lands for military purposes, 704. Mineral oil, by officers, etc., 1054. Public animals, 1066-1069. See also Purchases of Supplies. Purchases of Supplies: Appropriation from which paid, 624. Company fund, 322, 328. Contractors, 561, 566. Contracts, 515, 516, 520, 521, 544-550, 555-566. Emergency, 551, 1007. Exceptional articles. 551, 1244. Forage masters, 1093. Foreign articles, 517, 51S. Forms of agreement, 550. Fresh meats and beef cattle. 1200. General provisions, 515-526. Interest in, by disbursing officers, 591. Liquid coffee, 1208. Manner and methods, 519. 396 INDEX. Purchases of Sapplios^ — Continued. Medical supplies, 1486. Mess fund, 322, 330. Military publications and maps, 521. Open market, 551-554. Ordnance and ordnance stores, 1511. Organized Militia, 455. Personal service, 519. Persons in military service, 521. Philippine Islands, 557. Produce from Indians, 478, 553. Proposals. See Proposals. Rations, 1220-1222. Regimental fund, 322. Seeds for post gardens, 343. Signal Corps supplies, 1556. Subsistence supplies, 1198. Toilet articles, 1218. Vouchers for payment, 633, 636. Wagon masters, 1093. riirchasing anfl Contracting Officers: i Ability of bidders to carry out bids, 547. Advertisements, 522-526. Award, etc., of contracts, 543, 544, 556- 558. Collections, 721. Contractor's bonds, 569. Entitled to copy of contract, 561. Guaranties, bidders, 535. Oath appended to contract, 563. Opening proposals prematurely, 537. Open-m'arket purchases, 551-554. Proposals, 537, 539. Quartermaster Corps, 564. Responsibilities, 520. Supplies, persons In military service, 521. Qualifications : Admission to Soldiers' Home, D. C, 178. Applicants for enlistment, 846-849, 862. Appointees, second lieutenants, 28, 29, 34. Battalion and regimental staff officers,' 250. Chief of Staff of Army, 761. ' Classification for additional pay, 1343- 1345. Commission in Volunteers, 149. Counsel for prisoners, 961. Expert riflemen, sharpshooters, and marksmen, 1345. General Staff Corps officers, 752. Gunners, Artillery, 1343, 1344. Hospital Corps, 3 405, 1410. Medical officers, 1388. Noncommissioned officers, recruiting serv- ice, 843, 845. Post noncommissioned staff, 93, 95. Retirement of enlisted men, 134. Staff, personal, 41. Staff duty and detached service, 39, Transfer to Hospital Corps, 1411, Veterinarians, 88. Quarantine Regulations : Enforcement of, by the Army, 485, p. 100. Reports of inspectors, 889. Quarrels: Provoking speeches or gestures, A. W. 25. Quelling, A. W. 24. Quartermaster and Conimlssarr : Battalion and squadron, 248, 254. Quartermaster Corps: Ambulances, 1105, 1427. Baking bread, building or tentage, 1201. Band instruments, 262, 1179. Barracks and quarters. See Barracks and Quarters. Blank forms, 1253. Bonds of officers, 567, 568, 574-577, 580, 581. Civilian employees, traveling expenses, 738. Clothing and equipage. See Clothing and Equipage. Collections, 721. Company books and records, 280. Cooking apparatus, 1252. Cooks, pay, 329. Deceased officers and soldiers, 87, 167. Department commander's staff, 197, 199. Eligibility of officers of, to command, 18. Enlisted men, 1009, 1340. Pees for administering oaths, 649. Field service. Hospital Corps, 1434. Forage. See Forage. Fuel. See Fuel. Fund^, 1008. General depots, 1002-1004. General duties, 1000-1008. Horses of mounted officers, 90, 1080, 1095-1098. Ice plants and ice, 1215. Illuminating supplies, 89, 283, 301, 1050-1061. Inmates Soldiers' Home, transportation, 180. Insane civilian employees, 464. Installation and maintenance of electric lights, etc., 1059, 1060. Kitchen and table ware, 301. Laundry charges, recruits, 1169. Libraries and schools, 331. Mess furniture, 301. Mess stewards, pay, 329. Military attaches, 1100. Musical instruments, 262, 1179, 1180. Post cemeteries, 494. Public animals. See PuMic Animals. Purchasing and contracting officers, 564, 721. Record books, 258. Recovery of public property, 689-692. Retired enlisted men, 135, 137. Rewards, etc., 121. Shoeing materials, 1097. Special regulations, note, p. 191. Stationery, 331, 1062-1065, 1100. Storehouses, etc., 1000, 1001, 1199. Straw, 1084, 1085. Supervision of, by Chief of Staff, 762. Supplies. See Quartermaster Supplies. INDEX, 397 Quartermaster Corps — Continued. Target practice, 315, 351. Telegraphing, 1044, 1184-1193. Teleplioniug', 1194. Transportation. See Transportation of the Army. Ungarrisoned posts, 214. Veterinary supplies, 1074^1076. See also — ■ CMei of the Quartermaster Corps. Quartermasters. Qiiartermasters : Accountability, 1086-1092, 1094, 1141. Allotments of pay, enlisted men, 1352, 1354, 1359. Band instruments, 262, 1179. Barracks and quarters, 1010, 1012, 1019, 1024-1027. Battalion, 248, 249, 254, 255. Blank forms, 1253. Bonds, 567, 568, 574-677, 580, 581. Clothing and equipage, 1148, 1149, 1153, 1156, 1157. Commutation of rations, 1232, 1233, 1236-1238. Cooking apparatus, 1252. Court-martial duty, temporary, 192. Peceased soldiers' effects, 163, 164. Deduction of indebtedness to post ex- change, 845. Deduction of laundry charges, 341. Deposits of collections, 614. Deposits of enlisted men, 1335. Deserters' effects, 117. Designated to pay discharged men, 155. Detachment returns, 1009. Eligibility to command, 18. Escaped prisoners' effects, 940. Estimates for funds, 1008. Funds by express, 1142. Funds kept in personal possession, 587. Hospital buildings, 1466. Incorrect payment to enlisted men, 1336. Means of transportation, 1106. Military Academy, 1313. Militia, mobilization camps, 456. Movements of troops, 1110-1114. Notification discharged enlisted men, 155. Office rooms, fuel, and stoves, 1044, 1046, 1047. Orders for transportation, 1110, 1111. Ordnance and ordnance stores, 1547. Payments, discharged soldiers, 1375-1377, 1381. Pay-roll calculations, 8iO. Police supplies, 442, 443. Post, 206, 497, 498, 1010, 1012, 1018, 1019, 1024-1027, 1075, 1076, 1148, 1149, 1153, 1156-1158, 1206, 1253, 1466. Post cemeteries, 497, 498. Private buildings and lands, 1018. Promotion, 24. Public animals, 1072. Ration certificates, 1213. Receipts for refundments, etc., 614, 1384. Qnartermastcrs — Continued. Regimental, 248-250, 253-255, 262, 1179. Requisitions for transportation, 1108. Sale of subsistence supplies, 1239-1251. Savings of rations, 1220-1222. Senior, payment of troops, 1254. Signal parties' supplies, 1567. Squadron, 248, 254. Stoppages of officers' pay, 1310, 1311. Street-car and ferry tickets, 1127. Target practice, 351. Telegraph accounts, 1189, 1192. Transportation requests, 1116, 1121, 1125, 1126, 1129-1131, 1133. Veterinary medicines and supplies, 1075, 1076. Quartermaster Sergeants, Battalion: Appointment, etc., 256. Baggage, 1136. Duties, 254. Quarters, fuel, and stoves, 1044. Rank and precedence, 9. Quartermaster Sergeants, Company : Appointments, 273, 275. Baggage, 1136. Quarters, fuel, and stoves, 1044. Rank and precedence, 9. Reduction to the ranks, 276. Return to grade of sergeant, 273. Selection and appointment, 273, 275. Temporary appointments, 275. Travel accommodations, 1128. Warrants, 274. Quartermaster Sergeants, Quartermaster Corps : Appointment, duties, etc., 93-98, 100. Assignment as assistant chief baker, 1201. Baggage, 1136. Discharge and reenlistment, 99, 101, 102, , 958. Military control, 99. Personal reports, 100. Qualifications, 93, 95. Quarters, fuel, and stoves, 1044. Rank and precedence, 9. Reduction to the ranks, 102, 958. Stationery, 1065. Trial by courts-martial, 958. Quartermaster Sergeants, Regimental : Appointment, etc., 256. Baggage, 1136. Quarters, fuel, and stoves, 1044. Rank and precedence, 9. Quartermaster Supplies : Applicants for enlistment, 1218. Care and accountability, 1086-1094. Electrical engineers, etc., 1568. Embezzlement, etc., A. W. 60. Emergency purchases, 1007. Extra issues, 1006, 1215-1218. General depots, 1002-1004. Militia, 1143. Recruits, 1217. Sales to officers, etc., 1174. Sales to officers' servants, 1175. Signal parties, 1567. 398 INDEX. Qnai-termastor Supplies — Continued. Special requisitions, 1005. Transfer for use of Indians, 476. Transfers to successors, 1094. Verification of quantities, 1094. Vouchers for payment, 633. See also Subsistence Supplies and Stores. Quarters : Absent from, without authority, A. W. 31. Allowance, etc., 1024-1034, 1044, 1390, 1397. Commutation, 1299-130T. Contracts, 515. Engineer ofllcers, 1504, Failure to retire at retreat, A. W. 35. Hire, 1028, 1029. Leaves of absence, 1033, 1035, Office rooms, 1046. Sergeants, first class, Hospital Corps, 1467, 1468. Use of hospitals, 1470. Veterinarian^, 89. Violence to traders Ih foreign parts, A. W. 56. Badio Telegraphs': Use between Army and Navy, 409, 1561. Bailroads : Bond-aided, 732, 1186. Construction and repair, 1000. Hospital trains, 1440. Land-grant, 485, p. 102; 1279. Bank: Commissioned officers, 9, 11. Definition, 7. Grades, 9. How held and conferred, 8. Members of courts-martial, 945 ; A. W. 124. Noncommissioned officers, 9. Relative, of Army and Navy officers, 12. Eelative, of different corps of the Army, 6, 10; A. W. 122, 124. Transfer or exchange of officers, 47, 48. Bape: Punishable by military courts, A. W. 58. Bates of Exchangre : Credit allowed, 596, 635, 1100. Batton and Savings Accounts: Certificates, 1205, 1213. Detachments leaving post, 1213. Duties of commanding officer, 1220. Duties of the quartermaster, 1220-1222. Individual, 1209. Money accruing from, 1220. Ration returns, 1205, 1209-1211, 1214, 1220. Sick in hospital, 327. Ration of the Army: Care and use, 297, 298. Civilian employees, 733, 1211, 1213. Commutation. See Commutation of Ra- tions. Components and substitutes, 1205. Computation of cost, 1221. Batlon of the Army — Continued. Defined, 1202. Emergency, 1202, 1205. Filipino, 1202, 1205, 1207, 1220, 1221. Garrison, 1202, 1205, 1207, 1220, 1221. Haversack, 1202, 1205. Holiday, 1205, 1221. Meal tickets, 1227. Militia called into service, 455. Stores purchased from quartermaster, 1220. Temporary supplies, 1220. To whom furnished, 1202-1204, 1224, 1225, 1452, 1453. Travel, 1202, 120S, 1207, 1208, 1220, 1221, 1224, 1225. See also Subsistence SuppUes and Stores. Beading Booms : Fuel and stoves, 1044. Quarters to be provided, 331. Transportation of property, 340. Use of, by officers, 331. Bear Admirals: Eelative rank with Army officers, 12. Bear Admirals, Jonior: Eelative rank with Army officers, 12. Bebelllon : Suppression by the Army, 485, p. 101. Beccipts : Clothing, 1157, 1158. Ordnance and ordnance stores, 1533. Quartermaster Corps, 1384. Transfers of money, refundments, etc., 1384. Transportation requests, 1117, 1118. Beccipts tor Money and Property; Amounts not paid or delivered, A. W. 60. Blank, prohibited, 637. Corporations, 642-644. Failure to sign for property, 667. Firms and Individuals, 642, 643. Funds transferred, 639. Money amounts, 638, 648. Notation of cheeks, 640. Payments by check or cash, 638. Public property in use by militia, 460. Eefundments, stoppages, transfers, etc., 1384. Signatures and headings, 646. Small sums for occasional services, 644. Transfers of property, 665. Witness to signature by mark, 647. Beconnaissances ; Engineer officers' duties, 1493, 1500, 1502. Escort commanders' duties, 20. Field notes, sketches, etc., 444—446. Becord of OfBccrs: Details for detaclied service, etc., 39. Becords : Army corps, 821. Battalion, 245. Battle-ground cemeteries, 491, 492. Brigades, 821. IKDEX. 399 Eccprds — Continued. Calls or inquiries for information from military, 774. Care and preservation, 820. Civil courts, conviction of enlisted men, 146. Coast defense commands, 309. Colored Ink, 822. Company, 280, 281, 821. Company fund account, 328. Completion, etc., of military, in The Ad- jutant General's Office, 774. Concealment, mutilation, etc., 823. Confederate, 774. Councils of administration, 318. Courts-martial, 915, 917, 919-921, 960, 962, 979-984 ; A. W. 86-93, 95, 113, 114, 121. Departments, 821. Deposits by enlisted men, 1361. Depots of supply, 821. Destroying or carrying away, etc., 823. Discontinued commands, 821. Disposition of old, 258, 281. Divisions (tactical), 821. Divisions (territorial), 821. Enlistment of discharged soldiers, 860. Information from, how furnished, etc., 824. Medical, 774. Military, 774, 820-824. Militia and volunteers after muster out, 774. National cemeteries, 490. Office Chief of Coast Artillery, 303. Post, 211, 821. Post cemeteries, 495, 497. Punishments, 280. lieenlistments, 860. Regimental, 251, 258, 821. Regimental fund book, 325, Separate brigades, 821. Service of officers, 39. Volunteer armies, 774. Eecovery of Public Property: Animals lost or stolen, 691. Expenses, how paid, 692. Forcible seizure, 690. Proceedings, 689. Rewards, 691. Eccreatlon and Amusement: Buildings, erection by labor o( troops, 339. Kecniitins Depots: Classification, 841. Court-martial duty of officers, 192. Detachment of officers, 192. General recruit depots, 191, 192, 841, 842. Mess stewards and cooks, 170, 329. Police and discipline, recruit depot posts, 841. Recruit companies, 842. Recruit depot posts, 841, 842. Reports, 842. Supervision or control, 191. Eccrulting Officers: Appointment, noncommissioned officers, 843-845. Apprehension of deserters, 118, 123. Clothing and equipage, 1152. Details, 840. Disbursements, 587. Efficiency reports, 829. Enlistment period noted on card, 153. Enlistments, etc., Hospital Corps, 1410. Enlistments and reenlistments, 847. General duties and responsibilities, 850. 851, 853-856, 859, 860, 864, 8G5, 872, 874, 876, 1167, 1484. Medical attendance, etc., 1475. Ordnance and ordnance stores, 1532. Recruiting Parties : Noncommissioned officers, 843-845. Reenlistments of members, 847. Summer clothing, 1167. Recruiting Scrrlce: Applicants for enlistment. See Appli- cants for EivUstmcnt. Assignments, enlisted men, 843-845. Classiiications and details, 840. Clothing and equipage, 1152, 1167. Commutation of rations, 1226, 1229. Correspondence, 872. Enlistments. See Enlistments and Re- enlistments. Flag, 224. General recruiting depots, 191. General recruiting stations, 841, 895. Hospital Corps, 1410. Indian scouts, 482. Management, etc., 740, 774. Medical attendance, 1475. Periods of detail, 840. Recruiting depots, 841, 842. Recruiting officers. See Recruiting Offl- cei's. Recruits. See Recruits. Returns, 857. Surplus property, 1152. Eccrulting Stations : Brooms, brushes, and mops, 1181. Court-martial duty of officers. 192. Deserters, 123. Flags, 224. Inspections, 895. Laundry work, 1169, 1218. Medical attendance, etc., 1475. Supervision or control, 191. Recruits : Age limitation, 849. Articles of War to be read, 856 ; A, W. 2. Assignment to organizations, 872. Certificate of disability. 870. Character, 869. Commutation of rations, 1224. Descriptive and assignment cards, 869, 87.3-876, 1169, 1217, 1249. Deserters, A. W. 30. Discharges for disability, 841, 1382. Distribution, 841. Hospital Corps, 1410. 400 INDEX. Bccrults — Continued. Instruction, etc., 841, 842. Laundry ctiarges, 1169. Oath to be taken, A. W. 2. Officer conducting to organizations, 873, 875. Fayments to discliarged, 1382. Physical examination, 864, 865, 868-870, 1484. Physical examination reports, 774. Sales to, of subsistence supplies, 1242, 1249. Sent to organizations, 872-877. Toilet articles, etc., 1217. Travel rations, 1224, 1225. Vaccination, 865, 866, 869, 1484. Bedress : Abuses and disorders, A. W. 54. Appeals of officers and men, A. W. 29, 30. Seduction to the Banks: General noncommissioned stafE, 103. Hospital Corps, 958, 1407, 1408. Noncommissioned officers, company, 276- 278. Noncommissioned staff, Coast Artillery Corps, 310. Post noncommissioned staff, 102, 958. Quartermaster Corps noncommissioned officers, 1009. Regimental noncommissioned officers, 256. Regimental noncommissioned staff, 256. Signal Corps, 1557. Bccnlisted Fay: Rates and payment, 1338, 1339. BecnlUtments : Additional pay, 859, 1338-1340. Antedating, 859. Date, 859. Deposits may be renewed, 1365. Disability contracted in line of duty, 863. Disabled soldiers, 863. Disqualifications, 849, 861. Enlistment period noted on card, 153. Furloughs to enlisted men, 107. General noncommissioned stafC, 103. Hospital Corps, 1410, 1412. Married men, 852, 1009. Noncommissioned officers, company, 274. Notations on discharge certificates, 148, 153, 860. Other organizations, 862. Post noncommissioned staff, 101. Prohibited classes, 849. Recruiting officers, 860. Soldier under sentence of court-martial, 157. Special authority required, 861, 862. Bclugecs: Bureau of, etc., records, 774. Bcsimentiil Bands: Appointment of noncommissioned officers, 260. Discipline and efficiency, 253. Equipments, 257, 262. Fund, 262, 324, 325, 327. Lye and sapolio, 1182. Beglmental Bands — Continued. Memorial Day, 440. Musical instruments, etc., 262, 1179. National and patriotic airs to be played, 264, 437. Procedure when musicians are needed, 2C3. Saluting, 375, 376. Station, 261. "The Star Spangled Banner" 264, 378, 437. Beglmental Books and Records: Disposition of old, 258. Duties of adjutant, 251. Enumerated and instructions, 258, 259 Fund book, 325. Beglmental Colors and Standards: Care and use, 232, 233. Cavalry, 230. Dropping during salute, 375. , Engineers, 227. Field Artillery, 231. Infantry, 229. Mourning, 434. Saluted, 377. Service, 233. Beglmental Commanders: Absentees at muster, A. W. 12, 13. Aid to chaplains, 44. Allotments of pay, enlisted men, 1360, Appeals of enlisted men, A. W. 30. Bands and field musicians, 260, 263. Battalion staff officers, 248, 250. Certificates of merit, 184. Company fund, 328. Discharge of enlisted men, 160. Disposition of old records, reports, etc., 258. Efficiency reports, 829. Enlistment or reenlistment of married men, 852. Furloughs, 106 ; A. W. 11. General duties and responsibilities, 203, 246. Muster and pay rolls, 810. Noncommissioned officers, 94, 95, 256, 271, 275, 276. Office rooms, fuel, and stoves, 1044. Post noncommissioned staff, 94, 95. Recruiting service, 840. Regimental fund, 324, 325. Regimental staff officers, 248, 250, 251, 253, 255. Reports, incapacitated officers, 890. Reports, issues, and roll calls, 373. Returns, regimental libraries, 332. Returns of troops, 811, 812. Senior officer on duty, 245. Surveying officers, 711. Transfer or exchange of enlisted men, 114. Veterinarians, 91. Beglmental Commissary Sergeants; See Commissary Sergeants, Regimental, Beglmental Noncommissioned Staff: Appointments, etc., 256. Baggage, 1136. INDEX. 401 Begimental I^oncommlssioned Staff — Contd. Brooms, brushes, and mops, 1181. Discharge and reenlistment, 256. Discipline and efficiency, 253. Equipments, 257. Funeral honors and escort, 428. Quarters, fuel, and stoves, 1044. Eank and precedence, 9. Reduction to the ranks, 256. Warrants, 256. Beglmental Officers: Assignments, field officers, 247. Bcglmental Quartermaster Sergeants: See Quartermaster Sergeants, Regimental. Bcglmental Sergeants Major: See Sergeants Major. Begiments : Administrative unit, 245. Appropriate command of a colonel, 14. Bands. See Regimental Bands. Chaplains, 43-46. Colors, names of battles, 244. Commanders. See Regimental Com- manders. Composition and command, 245. Desks, 1139. Detached companies, 813. Fund, 262, 321, 322, 324, 325. Letter and note heads, 512. Noncommissioned staff, 253, 256, 257. Precedence of, on occasions of ceremony, 6. Public property, 257. Records, 251, 258, 259, 326. Records of, discontinued, 821. Regulations, 245. Returns, 811-813, 815. Staff officers, 248-255, 807. Transfer, etc., enlisted men, 114. Transfer or exchange of officers, 48. Registry of Officers: Arriving at Washington or at division or department headquarters, 406, 825. Regulars : Precedence, 6, 10; A. W. 122, 124. Rejoining Station: Furloughed soldiers, 110. Soldiers absent without leave, 110. Travel allowances, 1289-1294. Relative Bank: Army and Navy officers, 12. Grades of rank, 9. Officers, same grade, 11. Regulars, Marine Corps, militia, and volunteers, 6, 10; A. W. 122, 124. Belease : General prisoners, 941. Insane soldiers from hospital, 470. Officers without charges, 924; A. W. 71. Prisoners, without authority, A. W. 69. Belief to the Enemy; Punishment, A. W. 45. Remittances of Funds: Fiscal year to be designated, 621. Remount Depots: Care of officers' mounts, 1099. Purchase of horses by officers, 1095. 79733°— 18 26 Rentals : Contracts for, 557. Repairs : Ambulances, 1427. Barracks and quarters, 208, 1012-1017, 1019. Electric power plants, 1060. Hand litters, 1430. Hospitals, 1466-1469. Musical instruments, 1179. Ordnance stores, 1520, 1534, 1537-1540. Quarters for sergeants, first class, Hos- pital Corps, 1467, 1468. Roads, walks, etc., 1016. Shoos, 327. Transportation, means of, 557. Reporters, Conrts-Martlal : Assistant, 986. Employment, compensation, etc., 985-987. Traveling expenses, 738, 986. Reports : Allotments of pay, enlisted men, 1348- 1351, 1353, 1359. Annual, of territorial commanders and independent commands, preparation, etc., 193J. Apprehended deserters, 123. Arrest uf officers, 924. Battle, 816. Boards and commissioners, 193J. Brigade commanders, 194. Burials, post cemeteries, 498. Channels, 785. Chaplains, 45. Chiefs of bureaus. War Department, 193i. Coast artillery, 305. Coast defense commands, 305. Company, 266. Company records, 280, 281. Deaths and burials, 45, 83, 87, 167. Departmental affairs, 193. Department commanders, absent, 196. Deserters, 118, 120, 124, 126. Detachment commanders, 369. Disposition of old, 258, 281. Efficiency. See Reports, Efficiency. Engineering operation's in the field, 1501. Enlisted vn^a confined, A. W. 68. Hunting, 6?j. Incapacitated officers, 76. Indian scouts, names inserted, 483. Medals or badges, illegal possession, 189. Medical examination of applicants for enlistment, 871. Military Academy, TJnited States, 193?;. Militia encampments, 105, 193, 774. Mixed corps operations, 817. Movements of troops, emergencies, 193, 487. Officers traveling on duty without troops, 68. Officers visiting foreign countries, 62. Outstanding liabilities, 605. Personal. See Reports, Personal. Post cemeteries, 498. Post commanders, inspection, 203. Post records, 211. 402 INDEX. Eeports — Continued. Recruits, 842. Regimental records, 258. Roll call, 372. Sanitary, 1387. Sick and wounded, 1471. Signal operations, 1558. Small-arms practice, 349. Special, for recommendations affecting the service as a whole, etc., 193 J. Summary courts-martial, pp. 313, 314, act June 18, 1898. Superintendents national cemeteries, 490. Surveying officers, 116, 713, 715-725. Transfer or exchange of officers, 48. Beports, Efllciency : Care enjoined In preparation, 39, 832. Channels through which forwarded, 829, 831. Final disposition, 833. Inspection reports, 830, 831, 889, 890. Officers for retirement or promotion, 26. Officers on duty at civil educational in- stitutions, 830. Reporting officers, 829, 830, 832. . Reports, Personal : Detached service, 105, 826-828. Enlisted men on detached service with militia, 105. Field officers, regimental, 828. General officers, 826. Inspectors, 880. Leaves of absence, 50, 59, 64. Observations, foreign countries, 62. Officers arriving at Washington, D. C, or at division or department headquar- ters, 406, 825. Post noncommissioned staff, 97, 100. Retired enlisted men, 136. Retired officers, 827. Senior signal officer of an army, 1558. Sergeants, first class. Hospital Corps, 1406. Staff corps or departments, 826, 827. Reproachful Speeches or Gestures : Punishment for using, A. W. 25. Requests : Transportation. See Transportation Be- quests. Requisitions : Band instruments, 1151. Blank forms, blank books, etc., 1253, 1551, 1571. Canteen covers, corks, etc., 1534. Clothing, 1152, 1157, 1158. Examination, revision, etc., 749, 750. Illuminating supplies, 1052. Ordnance and ordnance stores, 1517— 1519. Preparation, etc., 748. Quartermaster supplies, 1089. Signal supplies, 1564, 1567. Special, 1151, 1152. Stationery, 1062. Toilet articles, etc., 1216, 1217. Transportation of the Army, 1108. Beqnlsitlons — Continued. Veterinary supplies, 1074. Working parties, fleldworks, 1499. Bescrvatlons : Indian. See Indian Reservations. Military. See Posts and Reservations. Reserrists : See Army Reserve. Resignation of Officers: Acceptance, etc., of civil office, 82. Checks, outstanding, 603. Correspondence, 79, 80. Leaves of absence on tender, 81. Payments, 1262, 1263. Quitting service before acceptance, A. W. 49. Tender and acceptance, 79. Under charges, 80. Responsibility for Property: See Property AccouniahiUty and Re- sponsibiUty. Retainers to the Camp: Subject to Articles of War, A. W. 63. Retired Dnilsted Men: Admission, etc.. Army and Navy Hos- pital, 1442, 1444. Allowances, 137. Baggage, etc., 1137. Certificate of merit, 1341. Effects of deceased, 163. Funeral honors, 423. Hospital charges, 1460. Medical attendance and medicines, 1474. Order for retirement, 135. Payments, 137, 138, 1337, 1341. Personal reports, 136. Qualifications for retirement, 132, 134. Rates of pay, 137. Sales to, of subsistence supplies, 1241. Retired Ofacers: Admission, etc., hospitals. Hot Springs and Fort Bayard, 1446. Baggage, etc., 1137. Causes for retirement, 76-78, 1388. Details, educational Institutions, 42, 1306. Forage, 1082. Fuel and light, 1037, 1057. Funeral honors and escort, 418, 426. Medical attendance and medicines, 1474. Payments to, after retirement, 1257. Payments to, on retirement, 1264. Personal reports, 827. Professional books, etc., 1139. Retiring boards, 26. Salutes and honors, 401. Stationery, 1064. Transportation of horses, 1098. Retiring Boards: Character or efficiency records, officers, 26. Subjects for consideration and report, 77, 78. Retreat : Ceremonies, 437. Gun, 210. INDEX. 403 Betreat — Continued. Retiring to tent or quarters, A. W. 35. Roll calls and signals, 370, 373. Beturn Jonrneys: Orders, 1285. Transportation requests, 1121. Witnesses before military courts, 992. Beturns : , Captured property, 819. General prisoners, 937. Killed and wounded In action, 818. Organized Militia, 193, 774. Rations, Organized Militia, 455. Recruiting service, 857. See also — Betiirns of Piihlic Property. Beturns of Troops. Beturns Office, Interior Department: Contracts, 542, 561, 563. Beturns of Public Property: Administrative examination, 702, 703. Articles In charge of guards, 442. Charges of loss, etc., 699. Company property, 694. Contingency purchases, 200. Deceased officers, 86. Destroyed or lost in service, 698. Expended In the military service, 698. Expenditures under orders, 696, 697. Failure to render, 700. False, A. W. 8. Insane officers, 86. Libraries, 332, 333. Made for all public property, 693. Manuscript, prohibited, 1572. Orders directing Issues, etc., 696. Ordnance and ordnance stores, 701, 1520- 1522, 1527, 1543, 1549. Post noncommissioned staff, 695. Preparation and rendition, 701. Quartermaster supplies, 1086-1094, 1167, 1176. Signal Corps, sergeants, 695. Subsistence supplies, 701, 1215. See also Property Accountability and BesponsibiUty. Beturns of Troops: Annual, of militia, 774. Casualties, 818. Consolidation of general returns of the Army, 774. Contract surgeons, 1489. Dental Corps, 1489. Failure to make, A. W. 7. False, A. W. 8. Indian scouts, names inserted, 483. Leaving or joining a station, 812, 814. Manuscript, prohibited, 1572. Medical officers, 1489. Notations of officers' absences, 64. On transports, 812. Preparation, disposition, etc., 748, 811- 815, 818, 819, 857. Recruiting, 857. Rendition, A. W. 7. Sailing from or arriving at a port, 812. Betnrns of Troops — Continued. Special, 812, 814. Strength, 811-815. Hevellle : Ceremonies, 437. Gun, 210. Hours for sounding, 370, 373. Eeviewlng Authority: Courts-martial records, 965, 970, 975, 981, 983, 984. Proceedings of medical examining boards, 1388. Reconvening courts-martial, 983. BevleTTS : Musters, 439. Precedence of regiments and corps, 6. Tendered to visitors to posts, 403. Bevolutlonary War: Care and custody of records, 774. Rewards : Deserters, 121, 123, 127, 128, 131. Escaped military prisoners, 121. Recovery of lost or stolen animals, 691. Bice: Ration, 1205. Blots : Disturbing courts-martial, A. W. 86. Use of troops, 487-489. Blvers and Harbors: Change of station of ofQcers, 742. Improvements, 1493. Beads: Construction and repair, 1000, 1016. Bobbery : Punishable by military cours, A. W. 58. Boll Calls and Signals: Daily and special, 370-373. Boster of Duties: Classification, 357. Company, 282. Definition of a roster, 355. Detachments, 365-369. Details and duties, 355-364. Disposition of old, 282. Duties, etc., adjutant, 251. Signal Corps, 364. Tours, 360-362. Boster of Troops: Copies furnished, etc., 805. Boute Maps : Preparation, 444, 445. Preservation and use, 445. Bubber Stamps: Use in preparing checlis, 600. Sabbath : Duty and labor, 205. Orderly observance enjoined, 205. Sabers : Barraclt regulations, 285. Saddlers : Appointment, etc., 275, 278. Extra-duty detail, 173. Saddler Shops: Stoves, 1044. Safeguards: Punishment for forcing, A. W. 57. 404 INDEX. Sales of Fnbllc Piopcrty: Abstract of sales of subsistence supplies, 1250. Aavertisements, 503. Auctioneer's account of sale, 680. Cartridges to enlisted men, 354. Cash, 1239-1241, 1244, 1245. Clothing, for servants, 1175. Condemned ordnance and ordnance stores 1543. Condemned or reduced in price, 681. Condemned public animals, 1073. Credit, 1242, 1248, 1249. Exceptional articles, 1244. Forage, by officers, 1083. Horses, to mounted officers, lOO.'J. Illuminating supplies, 1038, 1054. Obtained from quartermaster, 1247. Ordnance and ordnance stores, 1520, 1521, 1526. Price of subsistence supplies, 1251. Quartermaster supplies, 1055, 1174. Regulated by post commanders, 1247. Rules, 1196. Signal Corps equipment, 1564. Sold as purchased, 1246. Subsistence supplies, 885, 1196, 1239- 1251. Surplus, and in urgent cases, 1197. Surplus garden products, 344. Transfers not regarded, 619. Unauthorized, 1198; A. W. 60. Waste products, 679. Salt: Public animals, 1215. Ration, 1205. Salutes : Brevet rank assignments, 401. Cannon, 393-400, 440. Colors and standards, 375. Commanding officers, 380. Compliments to visitors, 403. Dipping of flag of military post, 405. Enlisted men, to officers, 383-392. Field music, 375-377, 437. Foreign ships of war, 399. Funeral honors, 396, 417-421. Memorial Day, 440. National, 398. National flag, 398. National flag displayed, 397. National or regimental colors, etc., 377. Occasions of public nature, 404. Occasions outdoors, etc., 392. Official duty and official occasions, 381, 382. Personal, 375-377, 400-403, 412. Saluting stations, 399. Standards and colors, 375. Time of firing, 397. To the Union on July 4, 398. Troops saluting, 379, 380. Visits and courtesies, 411-413. Salntiug Stations: Designated by War Department, 399. Sau Diego, Cal. : Service school, Signal Corps, Aviation, 449. Sandy Hook, N. J.: Inspection of proving ground, 895. Sanitation : Reports and inspections, 1387. Satnrday Inspection; By company, band, and detachment com- manders, 283. Guard and sick in hospital excused, 283. Hospital Corps, 1447. Police of barraclts, 287. Savings of Rations : See Ration and Savings Accounts. School of Fire lor Field Artillery: Detachment of officers, 192. Inspection, 896. Leaves of absence, officers, 1277. Letter and note heads, 512. Location, Fort Sill, Okla., 449. Supervision and regulations, 191, 449. School of Musketry: Inspection, S96. Leaves of absence, officers, 1277. Letter and note heads, 512. Location, Fort Sill, Okla., 449. Supervision and regulations, 191, 449. Schools : See— Oarriaon Schools. Post Schools. Service Schools. Seamen : Admission to hospital, and charges, 1459. Hours of labor, 731. Rations, 1204. Sea Travel: Statement of expenses, 1280. Travel not so regarded, 1280. Second Lieutenants: Appointment, 27-37. Baggage, 1136. Eligibility of ex-cadets for commissions, 37. Forage, 1080. Funeral honors and escort, 4?i2, 426. Joining station after appointment, 1098, 1296, 1297. Quarters, fuel, and stoves, 1044. Rank and precedence, 9. Relative rank with naval officers, 12. Vacancies in grade, how filled, 27-37. Secretary of Agrlcnltnre: Funeral honors, 421. Salutes and honors, 376, 400, 403. Secretary of Commerce: Funeral honors, 421. Salutes and honors, 376, 400, 403. Secretary of Labor: Funeral honors, 421. Salutes and honors, 376, 400, 403. Secretary of State: Funeral honors, 421. Salutes and honors, 376, 400, 403. INDEX. 405 Secretary of the Interior: Funeral honors, 421. Salutes and honors, 376, 400, 403. Secretary of the Navy: Funeral honors, 421. Rules governing visits and courtesies, 408. Salutes and honors, 376, 400, 403. Secretary of the Treasury: Ccrtiflcates of deposit, 612, 616. Duplicate checks, 602. Funeral honors, 421. Outstanding and unpaid cheeks, 588, 605- 607. Salutes and honors, 376, 400, 403. Surety companies, 575, 577. Secretary of War: Administration and control of Army, 761. Allotment of funds, 200. Annual report, 193J. Army Transport Service, 1109. Articles for sale, 885. Authority for Special enlistments, 861. Barracks and quarters, 707, 912. Boards of staff officers, 744. Ccrtiflcates of deposit, 616. Channels of action, certain military husi- ness, note, p. 145. Chaplains, 43. Chief of Staff of the Army, military ad- viser, 761. Civil counsel, 996. Civilian employees, 727-729, 781, 739. Civilians on reservations, 212. Colors, 221. Colors, standards, and guidons, 239. Command of Army exercised by the Presi- dent through, 761. Communications to, 782, 786. Commutation of quarters, 1302. Contingent expenses, 200. Contracts, supplies, and services, 562. Courts-martial, 917. Courts-martial proceedings, 921. Deceased officers and soldiers, 87, 167. Department inspectoi'S, 899. Directions and orders of the President, 761, 762. I>isbursements and accounts, 897. Disbursing officers, 586, 589, 895. Discharge of enlisted men, 139 ; A. W. 4, Draft and pack animals, 1102. Efficiencj' reports, 833. Establishment of posts, etc., 201. Expenditures, public buildings, 707. Extra-duty details, 169, 171. Flag, 219. Forage for mounted officers, 1080. Foreign productions or manufacturers, 517. Fortifications, 348, 1505. Funeral honors and escort, 418, 421, 426. General prisoners, confinement and treat- ment, etc., 936, 966, 1216. Secretary of War — Continued. Gratuitous Issues of clothing, 1455. Heavy furniture for officers' quarter"; 1020. Hire of quarters, 1028, 1029, 1046. Hospital Corps, 1405, 1418. Hospitals, 1439, 1441, 1442, 1445, 146E, 1466, 1468, 1482. Indian country, 472. In.sane soldiers, 465, 466. Inspectors general, 879, 895. Leaves of absence, 1277. Manuals and blank forms of staff de- partments, 1570, 1571. Mileage appropriations, 1284. Military Academy, 1277. Military commissions, 917. Militia called into service, 450, 459. Mixed corps operations, 817. Money accounts, 655. Mounted service, 1272. National Home Disabled Volunteer Sol- diers, 894. National parks, 485, p. 100. Nurses, 1421. Open-market purchases, 554. Orders, etc., affecting the Army and ofB- cers and men, 766, 774. Ordnance and ordnance stores, 913. Ordnance depots. 1515. Pardon, or mitigation of punishment, 944. Post libraries, 331. Post noncommissioned staff, 93. Post schools, 331. Printing, 499, 507, 512. Property lost, etc., by officers, 683. Public animals, 1066. Public building.?, 912. Purchases from Indians, 478. Quartermaster Corps noncommissioned officers, 1009. Quartermaster supplies, 1086, 1092. Quarters for sergeants, first class. Hos- pital Corps, 1468. Keadvertisements, 501. Recruiting service, 872. Relations to and with the Chief of Staff, 761. Retirement of officers, 76. Returns of public property, 702, 703. Rules governing visits and courtesies, 408. Salutes and honors, 376, 400, 403. Schools of instruction, 191. Sentences of military courts, 774. Stoppages of officers' pay, 1308-1310. Supplies for Indians, 476. Supply, payment, etc., of Army, 740. Sureties, 568, 577, 581. Surveying officers' reports, 722. Surveying or exploring expeditions, 672. Tests and experimental trials of arms or munitions of war, 1553, 1554. Transfer of supplies, 671. 406 INDEX. Secretary of War — Continued. Uniform and equipments of the Army, 1569. Veterinarians, 88. See also War Department. geaitlon: Punishments, A. W. 21-24, 43. Sentences, Coarts-Qlartlal : See Courts-Martial Sentences. Sentences, Military Commissions: Discharge of enlisted men, 139. Sentinels ; Sleeping on or leaving post, A. W. 39. Separate Brigades: See Brigades, Separate. Separate Command: Alterations in strength, '814. Sequoia National Park: Trespassers or intruders, 485, p. 100. Sergeants : Appointment, 271, 275, 1009. Baggage, 1136. Funeral honors and escort, 428. Indian scouts, 480. Quarters, fuel, and stoves, 1044. Eanl£ and precedence, 9. Eecruiting parties, 843-845. Reduction to the ranks, 276, 277, 1009. Reproving, 270. Roster duties, 358. Selection and instruction, 270. Temporary appointments, 275. Travel accommodations, 1128. Warrants, 274, 1009. Whistles, 1180. Sergeants, Color: See Color Sergeants. Sergeants, First Class, Hospital Corps: Appointment, 1405. Baggage, 1136. Discharge and reenllstment, 958. Examination, 1405. Personal reports, 1406. Qualifications, 1405. Quarters, fuel, etc., 1044, 1467, 1468. Ranli and precedence, 9. Reduction, 958, 1407. Reenllstment, 1410. Trial by courts-martial, 958. Warrants, 1405, 1410. Sergeants, First Class, Quartermaster Corps: Appointment, etc., 1009. Baggage, 1136. Quarters, fuel, and stoves, 1044. Rank and precedence, 9. Sergeants, Hospital Corps: Examination and appointment, 1405. Reduction, 1407. Reenllstment, 1410, 1412. Warrants, 1405, 1410. Sergeants Ha}or: Battalion, 9, 256, 1044, 1136. Coast Artillery Corps, 9, 310, 1044, 1186. Regimental, 9, 256, 1044, 1136. Squadron, 9, 1044, 1136. Servants : Clothing, 1175. Servants— Continued. Medical attendance, etc., 1476. Officers', 1175. Service Calls and Signals: Daily and special, 370-373. Service Colors and Standards: Description and use, 233. Service Becords— See Descriptive and Assignment Cards and Descriptive Lists. Services : Acceptance of voluntary, 515. Computation of time, 651. Distinguished gallantry in action, 182- 188. Employment of unauthorized, 515. Nonpersonal, contracts for, 557. Payment for, by contractor, 572. Personal, 519, 633, 650, 651. Service Schools: Designated, 449. Regulations for, 191, 192, 449, 512, 896, 1272, 1277. Student officers, 40. See also — Army Field Engineer School. Army Field Service and Correspond- ence School for Medical Officers. Army Medical School. Army School of the Lime. Army Signal School. Army Staff College. Army War College. Bakers and Cooks, Schools for. Coast Artillery School. Engineer School. Mounted Service School. School of Fire for Field Artillery. School of Musketry. Signal Corps Aviation School. Sewing Machines: General prisoners, 1216. Sharpshooters : Additional pay, 1345. Sheriffs : Apprehension of deserters, 118, 121. Shoeing and Materials : Animals pertaining to mlUtla, 456. Contracts for, 557. Supply and Issue, 1097. Shoemakers : Purchase of subsistence stores, 1245. Sick and Wounded: Attention by Army nurses, 1423. Care of, on the march or elsewhere, 1437, 1438. Daily report, 1471. First-aid treatment, 1419, 1420. Information concerning, from records, 824. Leaves of absence, 57, 1035, 1301. Parlor and sleeping cars, 1128. Transportation, 1105. Sick Call: Surgeons, 1471. Sick In Hospital: See Patients in Hospitals. INDEX. 407 Blck BepoTt Book: Company, 280, 1471, 1472. Signal Codes: Army and Navy, 15&1. Cards, 1564. Signal Corps: Aviation school, 449. Chief Signal Officer, 103. Communication between tte Army and Navy, 409, 1561. Confidential communications, 1560, 1561. Department commander's staff, 197, 199. Electrical engineers, etc., 1568. Eligibility of officers of, to command, 18. Enlistments, etc., 1557. Exemptions from detail, officers and men, 364. Extra-duty details, enlisted men, 172. Guidons, 238. Management and direction, 1556. Master electricians, 9, 1044, 1136. Military telegraph and telephone lines, 1556, 1559-1561, 1563. Officers. See Signal Corps Officers. Payments to enlisted men, 1337. Presedence of, on occasions of ceremony, 6. Promotion and reduction, enlisted men, 1557. Special regulations, note, p. 296. Supervision of, by Chief of Staff, 762. Supplies for Organized Militia, 1566. See also Chief Signal Officer. Signal Corps Aylation School: Detachment of officers, 192. Inspection, 896. Leaves of absence, officers, 1277. Letter and note heads, 512. Location, San Diego, Cal., 449. Supervision and regulations, 191, 449^ Signal Corps Offlcers: Eligibility to command, 18. Military telegraph lines, 1559. Office rooms, fuel, and stoves, 1044. Post, 206. Promotion, 24. Senior, with Army in the field, 1558, 1561. Signaling operations in the field, 1558. Signal supplies, 1564. Staff service, 197, 199. Signal Corps Sergeants: Accountability, etc., for property, 695. Baggage, 1136. Quarters, fuel, and stoves, 1044. Rank and precedence, 9. Reduction, 1557. Warrants, 103. Signal Corps Supplies: Accountability, etc., 1564. Condemnation, 1566. Purchase, preservation, and care, 1556. Signaling : See Military Signaling and Signal Duties. Signal Parties: Eeports, duties, strength, etc., 1558. Signal Parties — Continued. Supplies, quartermaster and subsistence, 1567. Signal Stations: Establishment In the field, 1558. Signatures : Bidders, 532. By mark, witnessed, 647. Certificate to voucher, 634. Contracts, 559. Disbursing officers, 594. Discharged enlisted men, 155. Official communications, 779. Proposals, 532. Retired enlisted men, 135. Signing checks in blank prohibited, 637. Vouchers and receipts, 642, 643, 646. Simp: Ration, 1205. Sleeping Cars: See Parlor and Sleeping Oars. Sleeping on or Leaving Post: Punishment, A. W. 39. Small- Arms Practice : Ammunition, 350, 353. Brigade commanders, 194. Company cooks, 329. Department commanders, 193. Expert rlfiemen, 1345. Flour for paste, 351. General mess attendants, 329. Inspectors' duties, 197. Marksmen, 1345, Mode of conducting, 349. Ranges, shelters, targets, flags, etc., 351. Reports, 349. Sharpshooters, 1345. Soap and Sapollo: Allowance, 1182, 1215. Soldier : Definition, p. 301, sec. 1342 B. S. See also Enlisted Men. Soldiers' Home, D. C: Annual inspection, 894. Applications, etc., for admission, 178, 179. Board of Commissioners, 179, 180. Insane inmates, 464. Transportation to, 180. Sovereigns, Foreign Countries: Salutes and honors, 400, 403. Traveling on vessels of war, 415. Speaker of the House of Bepresentatives : Funeral honors, 421. Salutes and honors, 376, 400, 403. Special Courts-Martial : See Courts-Martial, Special. Special Duty: Enlisted men. See Extra and Special Duty. Officers, Coast ArtlUery, 303. Officers and enlisted men, staff, 742. Personal reports, 826. Supervision or control of officers, 191. Special Inspectors: Detail, duties, etc., 897, 903. 408 INDEX. Special Orders: See Orders. Special Be^latiom : Confinement of general prisoners, 936. Corps of Engineers, note, p. 287. Educational institutions, 449. Medical Department, note, p. 269. Ordnance Department, note, p. 290. Post exchanges, 345. Quartermaster Corps, note, p. 191. Signal Corps, note, p. 296. Uniforms, 1569. Specifications : Bidders furnished with, 528. Hospitals, 1465, 1466, 1468. Quarters for sergeants, first-class. Hos- pital Corps, 1466, 1468. Reference in proposals, 533. Supplies and services, 523, 526, 528, Specific Duty: Orders directing travel, 69. Spices : Ration, 1205. Spies : Punishment, p. 313, sec. 1343 R. S. Spring Wagons: Allowance to posts, 1103. Definition, 1103. Purposes for which used, 1104. Squadrons : Designation in Army Regulations, 15. Staff officers, 248, 254. Squads : Chiefs of, duties, etc., 287, 288. Division into, of companies, 284. Housewife, 1215. Noncommissioned officer in charge, 284, Sqnatters : Public lands, 485, pp. 99, 100. Stables : Candles and lanterns, 1052. Guard duty roster, 357. Policing, 1106. Stable Sergeants : Appointments, 273, 275. Baggage, 1136. Quarters, fuel, and stoves, 1044. Rank and precedence, 9. Reduction to the ranl^s, 276. Return to grade of sergeant, 273. Selection and appointment, 273, 275. Temporary appointments, 275. Travel accommodations, 1128. Warrants, 274. StalT, Administration: Adjutant General of the Army, The, 742, 743. Chief of Staff of the Army, 740. Chiefs of bureaus, 742, 744, 74.";. Chiefs of staff departments of any com- mand, 750. Commanding officers, 746, 748, 751. Department commanders, 743, 745, 747. Extra-duty detail, enlisted men, 172. Post commanders, 749. Secretary of War, 740, 744. Staff, Administration — Continued. Volunteers and Organized Militia, in service, 741. Staff, Personal: Allowance to general officers, 41. Appointments and details, 41. General officers changing station, 71. Limitation of service, 41. Qualifications. 41. Travel on duty, 71. StstS Corps and Departments: Additional pay, two appointments for the same time, 1270. Appointments, detail, or removal, 806. Assignments to stations, 743. Changes of station, etc., 742. Chief of staff departments of commands, 750. Civilian employees, 727, 730-739. Detail of line officers, 38-^0. Efficiency reports, 829, 833. Enumeration and designation, 197, 199. Extra-duty details, enlisted men, 172. Furloughs to enlisted men, 107. General Staff Corps and current busi- ness, 758. Leaves of officers, 51, 62. Manuals, 1570. Mounted officers, 1272. Official correspondence, 783, 784. Promotion, 24. Returns, 811. Supervision or control of officers, 746. Transfer of enlisted men, 114. Staff Officers: Arrest of officers, 922. Battalion, 248, 249, 254, 255, 807. Boolss, papers, and instruments, 1139. Brigades, 198. Coast defense commands, 249, 307, 308. Departments, 197, 199, 200. Districts, 198. Divisions, 197. Efficiency reports, 829, 833. Eligibilty to command, 18, 19. General officers on duty beyond limits of command, 71. Hospital transports, etc., 1440. Inspection reports concerning, 831. Journals of field operations, 816. Leaves of absence, 51, 52. Mounted pay, 1272. Official address at posts, 206. Personal reports, 826, 827. Post, 198, 206. Regimental, 248-254, 281, 807. Settlement with commanders, 281. Squadron, 248, 254. Travel on duty, 72. Stamps, Official: Boxes of ordnance stores, 1546. Standards : Foreign, 415. National and regimental, 230, 231. See also Colors and Standards. INDEX. 409 standing Mute: Prisoners, A. W. 89. Star Spangled Banner, TUe: See " The Star Spangled Banner." Starvation ; Relief for destitute persons, 1219. State Conrts: Writs of habeas corpus, 997, 998. State Department: Passports, 63. State Legislatures : Disrespect or contempt, A. W. 19. Staterooms : To whom allowed, 733, 989, 1128, 1280. States : Domestic violence, etc., 485, pp. 98, 101. Turisdictlon over military lands, 704. St.itlonery : • Allowance and issue, 1062-1065. Militai-y attaches, 1100. Posts, requisitions, 203. Post schools, 331. Stations : Quartermaster supplies, 1086, 1558. Signal, 1558. See also Changes of Station. Stsitnte of I/!in!tat!ons : Release of deserters, 125 ; A. W. 103. Rewards, etc., deserters, 121. Stealing : Public moneys or property, A. W. 60. Stewards : General messes, 329. Stockholders of Corporations: Acceptance of, as sureties, 573. Stolen Property : Means authorized for recovery, 689—692. Stoppages of Pay : Circular notice, 1310. Deserters, 1372-1374. Enlisted men, 127, 128, 724, 1368, 1370. Enlistments or acceptances carelessly maje, 851. Entry on rolls, and collections, 1370. Failure to account, 700, 703. Loss or damage to public property, etc., 1370. Notice to fjuartermasters, 1310. Officers, 1308-1311. Receipt when ordered, 1384. Storehouses : Fuel and stoves, 1044. Preservation of Army supplies, 1000, 1001. Provided by Quartermaster Corps, 1000, 1001. Storage In or near, of coal oil, etc., 1199. Storekeepers, Ciyilian : Employment, payment, etc., 730. Transportation and expenses, 732. Storeships : Salutes, 399. Storm Flag : Description and when used, 223. Storms: Damage or destruction of property, 709. Stoves : Allowance, 1044-1048. Straw : Allowance for bedding, 1084, 1085. Strcet-Car Tickets : Purchase, use, etc., 1127. Strength of Army : Monthly returns, 811, 813, 815. Recruiting returns, 857. Special returns, 812, 814. Striking Superior Offlcer: Punishment, A. W. 21, 24. Subp(enas : Witnesses, courts-martial, 950, 951. Suhposts : Returns of troops, 811. Suljsistence : Enlisted men returning from furlough or absence without leave, 110. Inmates Soldiers' Home, D. C, 181. Insane soldiers and escorts, 468. Militia called into service, 455. Witnesses against deserters, 127. Subsistence Supplies and Stores : Articles kept for sale, 885. Care and protection, 1199. Civilians in hospital, 1459. Contract for, or purchase, 515, 557. Destitute persons, 1219. Deteriorated or deteriorating, 717, 904. Electrical engineers, etc., 1568. Embezzlement, etc., A. W. 60. Enumerated, 1195. Exceptional articles, 551, 1244. General prisoners, 1216. Indian prisoners of war, 477. Indians, Interior Department, 477. Organized Militia, 455. Proceeds of sale, 617. Purchase and distribution, 478, 553, 557, 1198, 1251. Rations, 1202-1214, 1220-1238. Reserve rations, 1220, 1221. Returns, 701. Rules for issue, etc., of stores, 1196. Sales, 1197, 1198, 1239-1251. Signal parties, 1567. Stores in bulk, 1195-1198. Surplus articles, 1220, 1221. Transfer, for use of Indians, 476. Transfers, 619, 671, 1198, 1251. Vouchers for payment, 633. Sugar; Ration, 1205. Summary Courts-Martial : See Courts-Martial, Summary. Sunday ; Duty and labor, 205. Musters, 439. Observance, 205. Salutes, 397. Summary courts, 959. 410 INDEX. Superintendent BlUtaTy Academy : Annual report, preparation, etc., 193^. Efficiency reports, 829. Leaves to officers, 1277. Saperintendents National Cemeteries : Fuel and stoves, 1044. Montlily reports, 490. Supply Depots : See Depots oj Supply. Supreme Court Decision : Plabeas corpus, jurisdiction, 998, 999. Sureties : Contractors' bonds, 570, 573-581. Corporate guarantors, 573, 575-577, 580, 581. Disbursing officers' bonds, 574-577, 580, 581. Noncorporate guarantors, 578. Surety Companies : Bonds accepted as sureties, 573, 575-577, 580, 581. Lists of, published, 573. Surgeon General ; Acting dental surgeons, 1390, 1395, 1396. Artificial limbs, etc., 1490. Chronic complaints, 1476. Civil hospital accounts, 1481. Contract surgeons, 1390. Dental surgeons, 1396. Discharges for disability, 160. Hospital Corps, 1405-1408, 1410, 1414, 1418. Hospital fund, 1462. Hospital matrons, 1449. Hospitals, 1439, 1442, 1461, 1464, 1465, 1467-1469. Medical 'attendance, etc., 1476, 1477, 1479, 1483. Medical Reserve Corps, 1389. Medical supplies, 1457, 1486. Nurses, 1421, 1422, 1424. Quarters for sergeants, first class, Hos- pital Corps, 1467, 1468. Sanitary reports, post surgeons, 1387. Special nurses, 1482. Vaccine virus, 866. Visits and courtesies, 240. Warrants, noncommissioned officers. Hos- pital Corps, 103. See also Medical Department. Surgeons : See Medical Officers, Surgical Appliances ; Damaged or unserviceable, 1488. Purchase, 1476. Surrender : Compelling commanding officer, A. W. 43. Deserters, 124, 125. Public animals, 1072. Surveying: Engineer officers' duties, 1493, 1500. Expeditions, 672, 1526. Instruments, 447, 448. Maps, 1502. Military, 1295, 1493. Surveying Officers : Administration of oaths, 714. Appointment, 203, 711, 723. Colors, standards, and guidons, 239. Condemnation of property not authorized, 715. Damaged or stolen property, 685-688, 1178. Defects or shortages, 668, 669. Effects of deserters, 116. Evidence considered, 712, 713. General powers and duties, 710, 712, 715, 717, 1073. Mess outfits, 1023. Musical instruments, 1179. Posts, etc., not under department com- mander, 723. Property lost, etc., in transit, 721. Quartermaster supplies, 1094. Reports, 713, 715-725, 1023. Unserviceable property, 678. Surveying Vessels : Salutes, 399. Suspension from Command or Duty : Forfeitures under sentence, A. W. 101. Quarters for officers, 1033. Suspension of Sentences : Death or dismissal of officer, A. W. 111. Switchboard Operators : Extra-duty pay, 170. Tableware : Allowance and how supplied, 301. Care and prese^'vatlon, 1178. Estimates, 1177. Tactical Exercises and Instruction: Battalion commanders, 245. Brigade commanders, 194. Coast defense commanders, 246. Company commanders, 266. Department commanders, 193. Inspection, .887, 889. Post commanders, 203. Regimental commanders, 246. Tailors : Company tailor shops, 327. Details, 279. Employment of civilian, 279. Prices and payments, 279. Purchase of subsistence stores, 1245. Target Practice : Coast Artillery, 313-315, 1550. Cooks and attendants, general mess, 329. Field Artillery, 851-353, 1550. Flour for paste, 351, 1215. Machine guns, 351—353. Methods of conducting, 313, 349, 352. Small arms, 193, 194, 197, 349-351, 1345. Superintendence, etc., 193, 194. Telephones and instruments, 1556. Tattoo and Taps : Hours for sounding, etc., 370. Tattooing: Sentence of a court-martial, A. W. 38, 98. Tea: Ration, 1205. INDEX. 411 Teamsters, ClTlUan ; Employment, payment, etc., 727, 730. Hours of labor, 731. Transportation and expenses, 732, 734. Telegraphing and Telephoning : Accounts, 644, 1186, 1189, 1191-1194. Addresses and signatures, 1188. Apparatus, 1556, 1566. Authority to advertise, 500. Blank forms, 1190. Cable dispatches, 1184. Candles for stations, 1215. Casualties in action, 818. Code, 1185, 1556, 1561. Confidential communications, 778 1186 1560. Copies by mail, 775. Damage by fire, storm, etc., 709. Deaths of officers and enlisted men, 83 167. Delivery by mall, 1193. Framing of messages, 1188. Insane soldiers, 467. Land-grant railroad lines, 485, p. 102. Leaves of absence, 1187. Messages sent by private individuals, 1192. Movements of troops, 814. Order of priority of important dispatches, 1561. Patients, hospitals at Hot Springs and Fort Bayard, 1446. Precedence of messages, 1561. Special delivery, 193. Stoves for offices, 1044. Supplies urgently needed, 1151. Surrender or delivery of deserters, 123. Telegrams " collect," 1186, 1187, 1192. Troops changing station, 193. Unimportant words, 1184, 1188. Use, limitation of, 1184. Wireless installations, 1556. Writs of habeas corpus, 999. See also Military Telegraph and Tele- phone Lines. Telegraphy : Instruction, 1556. Eadio, use between Army and Navy, 4b9, 1561. Telephones : Contracts for, 557. Temporary Duty : Baggage, 1138. Officers on leave, 1278, 1289-1291. Temporary Posts : Styled camps, 202. Tents : Authorized use, 1183. Failure to retire to, at retreat, A. W. 35. Infected, 1454. Pins dropped from returns, 1176. Use of, in emergencies, 1183. Term of Service : Deserters to make good time lost, 130, 131 ; A. W. 48. Discharge on expiration, 143; A. W. 4. Term of SerTlce — Continued. Enlisted men, 855. Expiration, date, payments, etc., 1255. Return to service of deserters, 130. Trial of deserters after expiration, A W 48. Tests : Arms or munitions of war, 1553-1555. Witnesses, 1554, 1555. Textbooks : Post schools, 331. Responsibility for safe-keeping, 291. The Adjutant General of the Army: See Adjutant General of the Armji, The Theft: Public moneys or property, A. W. 60. " The Star-spangled Banner : " Honors to the President and Vice Presi- dent, 375. Played on lowering flag, 437. Playing as part of medley prohibited, 264. Respect to be observed when played, 378 Tickets : Round trips, 1121. Street-car and ferry, 1127. Transportation requests, 1117. Unused, 1120. Tlmher : Depredations in Florida, 485, p. 99. Time Lost by Desertion : Deserters to make good, 130, 131 ; A. W 48. Title: Lands for military purposes, 704. Title or Address : Official letters, 780. Title Papers : Military lands, 705, 915. Public buildings and grounds, D. C, 1493. Washington Aqueduct, 1493. Toilet Articles : Purchase and issue, 1215-1218. Tomatoes : Ration, 1205. Tomplons : Use of, in small arms. 292. Topographers : Detail and duties, 444. Towels : AlWwance and Issue, 1215-1218. Traders : Arms, etc., Indian country, 475. Violence to, in foreign parts, A. W. 56. Tradesmen:'"' Prices for repairing, etc., uniform, 279, 319. Transfers : Chaplains, 43. Discharged soldiers' claims for pay due, 1383. Hospital Corps, 1409, 1414. Noncommissioned officers, 276. Ordnance stores, 671, 701, 1524, 1535, 1536. Pay accounts of officers, 1258. Public animals, 1071. 412 INDEX. Transfers — Continued. Public money and property, 589, 597, 598, 619, 665, 671, 701, 1509. Special funds, 324. Submarine mine property, 701. Subsistence stores, 619, 671, 1198, 1251. Troops, 193. Veterinary medicines and supplies, 1076. Transfers of Enlisted Men : Date when effective, 115. Descriptive lists, 115, 1163, 1356, 1361, 1451. Gunners, expert riflemen, etc., for con- venience of the Government, 1343, 1.345. One arm of service to another, 114. StaCE corps or departments, 114. To Hospital Corps, 1409, 1411, 1412. To Quartermaster Corps, 1009. Transfers of Oflftccrs : Coast Artillery Corps, 48, 303. Mileage to new station, 1297. One arm of service to another, . 47. One regiment to another, 48. Transportation of the Anns' : Accepted applicants for enlistment, 1115. Accommodations, 1114, 1128, 1134. Accounts, 180, 1126, 1127, 1492. Aid to contractors, 516. -Vllotment, draft and pack animals, 1102. Ambulances, 1105. Applicants for artificial limbs, etc., 1491, 1492. Arms and equipment for militia, 1143. Baggage, 1135-1139. Bakery utensils, etc., 340. Barrack furniture, 1023. Books, etc., post chapels, 1144. Civilian employees, 732, 737, 738, 1128, Contracts, 515. Deceased officers and soldiers, 87, 167. Discharged soldiers, 145, 158, 1235. Donations to libraries and museums, 1145. Enlisted men traveling on duty, 1111. Exceptional articles for sale, 1244. Furloughed soldiers, 110, 112, 1111. Gymnasium appliances, 340. Horses for saddle purposes, etc., 1101. Horses of mounted officers, 1098, 1099. Inmates Soldiers' Home, D. C, 180. Insane soldiers and escorts, 468. Inspection at posts, 889. Land-grant railroads, 1279. 4i» Library property, etc., 340. Loss or damage to supplies, 721, 1141. Mail contractors, 209. Means of, at posts, 1105, 1106. Means provided by Quartermaster Corps, 1000, 1001. Movement of troops, 1107, 1109-1114, 1281. Mules generally employed, 1101. Orders, 1110, 1111. Ordnance and ordnance stores, 1547, 1548. Transportation of the Army — Continued. Outside continental limits D. S., 1109. Post school materials, etc., 340. Publications for hospital libraries, 1463. Pursuit of deserters, 122. Reading-room articles, 340. Repairs, contracts for, 557. Requests. See Transportation Requests. Requisitions at posts, 1108. Routes, 1112, 1288. Sea travel, 1280. Soldiers returning from absence without leave, 110. Spring wagons, 1103, 1104. Supplies, 721, 1109, 1140-1142. Use by officers, 1108. Wagon and pack, 1101, 1105. Witnesses, 75, 127, 989. Transportation Requests : Accommodations, 1128-1134. Alterations and explanations, 1119. Baggage, 1117, 1122-1125. Bond-aided railroads, 732. Bridges and turnpikes, 1126. Ferries and ferry tickets, 1126, 1127. Issue, 1116, 1119, 1121, 1125,.1126, 1279. Parlor and sleeping cars, 1128—1134. Preparation, 1116, 1119, 1121. Pursuit of deserters, 122. Receipts, 1117, 1118. Bound or return trips, 1121. Street car tickets, 1127. Tickets, 1117, 1120, 1121. Unused, 1120. Transports : Damage or destruction, 709. Enlisted men on furlough, 1234, Hospital boats, etc., 1440. Inspection, 898. Mess sergeants, 1346. Officers of, parlor and sleeping cars, 1128. Salutes, 399. Subsistence for discharged soldiers, 1235. Travel allowances, 1280. Travel on duty, enlisted men, 1231. See also Army Transport Service. Travel AlloTfances : Actual expenses, 1279, 1280. Approval of journey, 1285. , Arsenals, 1295. Authority, 1284, 1285. Baggage, 1122-1125. By sea, 1280. Cadets, 1313. Civilian employees, 733-739, 1128. Coast defense commands, 1286. Computation, 1279, 1282. Discharged soldiers, 145, 158, 1235, 1378, 1379. Engineer officers, 1507. Explorations, military, 1295. Inspections, 1284. "Interpreters, courts-martial, 988. Joining first station, 1296, 1297. Leaves of absence, 1289-1294. INDEX. 413 Travel Allowances — Continued. Lines of travel, 1287. Orders, 71, 1284-1288. Outside continental limits, U S 1279 1280. Parlor and sleeping cars, 1128-1134. Payments, 1283. Public works, 1295. Return joui-neys, 1285. Eoute of travel, 1282, 1287. Surveys, military, 1295. Tipping fees, 1280. Transportation in kind, 1279, 1281 1288. Travel with or without troops, 1279- 1281. Unauthorized, 1297. Urgent duty, 1285. Witnesses, 75, 989-993, 1298; p. 314, act March 2, 1901. Travel on Dnty, Enlisted Men : Baggage, 1124, 1125. Commercial vessels, 134. Commutation of rations, 1111, 1226 1229, 1231, 1232. Delays, 107. Meal tickets, 1227. Orders, 180. Sleeping cars, 1128. Travel on Dnty, Officers : Change of station, 68. Delays, 70. Engineer duty, 742, 1507. General officers, 71. Orders, 68-74, 800. Outside continental limits V. S., 71. Settlement of accounts, 74. Specific duty, 69. State officers, 71, 72. Urgent public duty, 73. Witnesses, civil courts, 75. Travel Ration : Composition, issue, etc., 1205. Computation of cost, 1221. Definition, use, etc., 1202, Liquid coffee, 1208. Savings, 1220. Value, 1207. When furnished, 1224, 1225. Travois : Inspections, 1432. Issues, 1431. Treasurer Military Academy ; Payments to cadets, 1312. Trcasnrer of Soldiers' Home, D. C. : Accounts, transportation of inmates, 180. Trcasnrer of the TTnlted States : Balances to credit of deceased or in- sane officers deposited to credit of, 86. Balances unchanged for three years, 590. Disbursing officers' deposits, 586, 589, 590. Treasurer Begimental Fund : Duties and responsibilities, 325. Treasury Department : Certificates of deposit, 611, 612, 616. Money accounts, 655, 671. Stoppages of pay, 703. Surety companies, 575. Treasury Draft : Transfer of funds, 595. Trespassers : Indian country, 473, 485, p. 99. National parks, 485, p. 100. Public lands, 485, pp. 99, 100. Reservations, 212. Trial : Deserters, 125, 126, 128, 120; .\ W 48 103. Officers released without charges A W 71. Second time, same offense, A. W. 102. Soldiers awaiting, when term expires, 157. Statute of limitations, A. W, 103. Trial Officers, Summary Courts : Administration of oaths, p. 313. act .Tuly 27, 1892. Trinkets, etc. : Deceased officers and soldiers, 85, 163. Troop : Designation in Army Regulations, 15. Troops : Action against mobs, 489. Compelling surrender, A. W. 43. Employment in labors, 168. Funeral escort, 426, 428. Historical records, 774. Inspections, 103, 194, 887-889, 892. Payment, 191, 12.>4, 1255. Precedence, 6. Quarters in garrison, 1025, 1027. Returns of strength in campaign, 815. Rosters forwarded to War Department, 805. Saluting, 379, 380. Transportation, 1105. See also — Labor of Troops. Movement of Troops, Returns of Troops. Troops, Batteries, and Companies : Company books and records, 280, 281. Interior economy, 283-295. Messing and cooking, 296-302. Officers, noncommissioned officers, etc., 265-279. Trumpeters : Appointment, etc., 275, 278. Trunk Lockers : Permanent barracks, 1021, 1023. Tuberculosis, Pulmonary : Responsibility for proper diagnosis, 1446. Treatment, general hospital. Fort Bay- ard, N. Mex., 1445. Turkey : Ration, 1205. Turnpikes : Passage of troops, teams, etc., 1126. 414 INDEX. Typewriters : Use, 600. Tj-phoid Prophylactic: Administration, 104. Undertakers : Contracts, 87, 167. Unllorm of the Army i Medals or badges. Illegal possession, 189. Oflicers saluted whether in, or not, 383. Worn by men in camp or garrison, 289. Uniforms : Band, 1167. Fatigue dress, 289. Making, repairing, and altering, 279. Prices for repairs, etc., 319. Purchase of articles by officers, 1174. Purchase of certain articles from post exchange, 1174J. Eecruiting parties, 1167. Special regulations, 1569. See also Clothing and Equipage. Union, Salute : Number of guns and when fired, 398. United States : Enforcement of laws by the Army, 484- 489. Officers outside continental limits, 60, 71. United States Courts : Discharge of enlisted men, 139. Writs of habeas corpus, 999. United States Mails : Obstructing or retarding, 485, p. 101. United States marshals : Witnesses before civil courts, 75. United States Military Prison : Exercise of clemency by President, 944. Inspection, 191. Reading matter, 1144. Supervision or control, 191. United States Penitentiary : Annual inspection, 895. Imprisonment of general prisoners, 966. See also Penitentiaries. United States Vessels of War : Flying President's flag, 415. Saluting, etc., 399. Visits and courtesies, 407-412, 414. Unlawful Inclosurcs : Public lands, 485, p. 100. Uplbraidlng lianguage : Punishment for using, A. W. 28. Vacancies : General Staff Corps, 773. Grade of second lieutenant, 27-37. Noncommissioned officers, company, 275. Payments to officers promoted, 1260. Signal Corps, 1557. Transfer of members Hospital Corps, 1414. Vaccinations : Enlisted men, 1485. Notation upon descriptive lists, 104. Record of, 280. Recruits, 865, 866, 869, 1484. Typhoid, 104. Virus supplied by Surgeon General, 866. Vegetables : Contracts for, or purchase, 557. Raised in post "ardens, 344, 1206. Ration, 1205. Vessels : Built and chartered by Q. M. Corps, 1000. Damage or loss, 709. Hospital transports, 1440. Hours of labor, officers and crews, 731. Vessels of War : Boarding visits, 407, 411. Flags at halfstafC, 424. Foreign, 399, 407, 410-413, 415. United States, 399, 407-412, 414, 415. Veterinarians : Allowances, 89. Appointment, 88. Baggage, 1136. Duties, 90, 91, 1096, 1099. Fuel, 1037. Illuminating supplies, 1054, 1057. Pay, 89. Qualifications, 88. Quartermaster supplies, 1174. Rank and precedence, 9. Subsistence supplies, 1239, Veterinary Hospitals : Provision for establishment, 92. Veterinary Supplies : Accountability and custody, 1075, 1076. Estimates and requisitions, 1074. Vice Admirals : Relative rank -with Army officers, 12. Vice GoTernor of Philippine Islands : Funeral honors, 421. Salutes and honors, 400, 403. Visits and courtesies, 408. Vice President of the United States ! Disrespect or contempt, A. W. 19. Funeral honors, 421. Salutes and honors, 375, 400, 403. Vinegar ; Public animals, 1215. Ration, 1205. Violence : Suppression of domestic, 485, pp. 98, 101. Traders In foreign ports, A. W. 56. Visiting Foreign Countries : Enlisted men, 109. Officers, 61-63. Visitors : Lake and seacoast defenses, 347. Military posts, 403. Visits and Courtesies : Headquarters, 403, 406. Military and naval, 240, 407-414. Officers under arrest, 926. Rules for rowing of boats, 414. Volunteer Oflicers ; See Officers, Volunteers. Volunteers : Charge of records of armies, 774. Hospital records, 774. Organizing, equipping, etc., in time of war, 193, 741. INDEX, 415 Volunteers — Continued. Relative rank with regulars, mlUtia, etc., 6, 10 ; A. W. 122, 124. Subject to Articles of War, A. W. 64. Vonchers : Civilian witnesses, courts-martial, 993. Commutation of quarters, 1307. Mileage, 1288. Ration and savings accounts, 1222. Transportation of applicants for arti- ficial limbs, 1492. Transportation of funds, 1142. Travel allowances, 1288. See also Money Touchers. Wagoners : Appointment, etc., 275, 278. Extra-duty details, 173. Wagon Masters : Interest or concern In purchases, etc., 1093. Wagons : Purchase and repair, 1105. Quartermaster Corps, 1000. Walter Beed General Hospital, D. €. : Field hospital, supplies, etc., 1436. War Department : Aids to general officers, 41. Appeals of officers, A. W. 29. Appointment and promotion of officers, 21. Barracks, quarters, and furniture, 912, 1011. Battles, names and dates, 244. Candidates for appointment and promo- tion, 32, 33, 36. Certificates of deposit, 616. Certificates of eligibility, enlisted men, 32. Certificates of service, 151. Change of station of troops, 193. Chief of staff serving with troops, 771. Colors, standards, and guidons, 434. Communications to, 782, 786. Contracts, supplies and services, 565. Corrections and changes, muster rolls, 810. Correspondence with the Army, 782. Court-martial orders, 984. Delays, 70. Detail of line to staff, 38. Discharge of enlisted men, 144. Discharge of recruits, 841. Engineer officers and troops, 1494, 1496. Examination boards, promotion, 30. Extra and special duty, 172, 177. Fortifications, 1506, 1528. Furloughs, 107. Furniture and mess outfits, 1028. Indian country, 471. Indian scouts, 481. Inmates Soldiers' Home, transportation, 180. Inspectors general, 879. Land titles, deeds, etc., 915. Leaves of absence, 51. Medals of honor, 183. War Department — Continued. Military Academy, 896. Military education, 449. Musters for pay, 438. Office Chief of Staff a supervising bureau, 761. Ordnance and ordnance stores, 1532. Passports for officers traveling abroad, 63. Payments to furloughed men, 113. Post exchanges, 345. Post laundries, 341. Post libraries, 338. Post noncommissioned staff, 96, 101. Publication of laws, etc., governing de- tails of officers at educational institu- tions, 42. Public buildings and works, 572, 1017. Recruiting service, 840-842, 845, 863. Reports of deserters, 120. Resignation of officers, 79. Saluting stations, 399. Schools of instruction, 192. Service schools, 896. Settlement of officers' accounts, 74. Signaling and telegraphy instruction, 1556. Staff department assignments, 743. Staff officers' travel, 72. Sureties, 576. Target practice, 313, 314, 349, 352, 353. Telegraph code, 1185. Transfer, etc., of enlisted men, 114. Transfer or exchange of officers, 48. Transportation of the Army, 1101, 1103. Witnesses, civil courts, 75. See also Secretary of War. War Department General Staff: Advisory relation to Chief of Staff of the Army, 760. Arranged in sections, 759. Committees designated, 759. Composition, etc., 757. Duties regulated by Chief of Staff of the Army, 760. Warehonses : See Storehouses. Warrjints : Battalion and regimental noncommis- sioned staff, 256. Coast Artillery Corps noncommissioned staff, 310. Company noncommissioned officers, 274. Dates determine precedence, 9. General noncomissioned staff, 103, 1405, 1410, 1557. Hospital ' Corps noncommissioned staff, 1405, 1410. Post noncommissioned staff, 101. Quartermaster Corps noncommissioneu staff, 1009. Signal Corps noncommissioned staff, 1557. War Service: See Field Service and Duties. 416 INDEX. Washlugton, D. C. : Aqueduct, title and other papers, 705, 915, 1493. Officers visiting, 74, 825. Registry of officers arriving at, 825. Service schools — Army Medical School, 449. Army War College, 449. Bakers and Cooka, 449. Engineer School, 449. Waste or Spoil : Committed by troops, A. W. 55, 59. Watchmen : Employment, payment, etc., 730. Transportation and expenses, 732. Watchword : Disclosing or changing, A. W. 44. Water: Contracts for, 557. Weapon : Drawing on superior oflScer, A. W. 21, 24. West Point, N. T. : See Military Academy, United Btates, AVhistlf s : Issue, 1180. Wicks : Requisitions for, and issue, 1052. Sales to officers, etc., 1054. Wine: Sale in exchanges prohibited, 346. Unlawful Introduction into Indian coun- try, 471. Without Honor Discharge : Preparation of certificate, 150. Witnesses! Allotments of pay, enlisted men, 1349. Certificates of merit, 185. Contractors' bonds, 570. Medals of honor, 182. Payments to soldiers, 1318, 1319, 1325, 1326, 1332, 1333. Witnesses — Continued. Tests and experimental trials, arms or munitions of war, 1554, 1555. Witnesses, Civil Courts : Enlisted men, 75, 951. Indians competent, etc., 471. Officers, 75, 951. Pay and allowances, 994, 1298. Witnesses, Courts-Martial : Against deserters, 124, 127. Civilian, 952, 989-993; p. 313, sec. 1202 R. S. Deposition of absent, A. W. 91. Enlisted men, 951. Oaths or affirmations, p. 313, act July 27, 1892 ; A. W. 92. Officers, 951. Pay and allowances, 989-993 ; p. 314, act March 2, 1901. Payment of traveling expenses, 738. Refusal to obey summons, etc., 991 ; p. 314, act March 2, 1901. Summons and service, 950—952 ; p. 313, sec. 1202 R. S. Witnesses, Courts of Inquiry : Examination and oath, A. W. 118. Working Parties : Armed, military works, 357. Construction of fleldworks, 1499. Workmen : Hours of labor, 731. Wounded Officers and Men : See Sick and Wounded. Writ of Habeas Corpus : See Haheas Corpus. Writs of Attachment : Witnesses, courts-martial, 952 ; p. 313, sec. 1202 R. S. Wrongs : Appeals for redress, A. W. 29, 80. Yosemlte Kational Park : Trespassers or intruders, 485, p. 100. [C, A. "R. 56.1 ARMY REGULATIONS. Changes,! WAR DEPARTMENT, No. 56. J Washington, May 10, 1917. Paragraphs 281, 661, 678, 694, 717, 1086, 1106, and 1535, Army Regulations, are changed, and paragraphs 681-A to 681-N, inclusive, with heading "Account- ability for equipment O," are added to the Army Regulations, as hereinafter shown. For existing organizations of the Regular Army and for organizations of the National Guard, now in the military service of the United States, the changes will become effective June 30, 1917. For organizations of the Regular Army hereafter created, for organizations of the National Guard hereafter called or drafted Into the military service of the United States, and for other organizations of the Army of the United States that may be organized pursuant to lav/, the changes will become effective on the date of creation, organization, muster, call, or draft of any such forces. 381. There will also be kept in each company or detachment full informa- tion respecting all equipment and other property held on memorandum re- ceipt, showing list of articles, date of receipt, from whom received, and the name of the officer who signed the memorandum receipt therefor; also an account of all articles turned in, expended, stolen, lost, or destroyed; and the company or detachment commander will have a settlement with the staff officers concerned quarterly and when relinquishing his command. Of the books, reports, and papers referred to in this and in the preceding paragraph, the correspondence book, the document file, the service records of enlisted men, the muster rolls, the monthly returns and all other returns of the personnel, will be permanently preserved. Division and department orders, except extracts of special orders, will be disposed of under instructions of the division or department commander when the company is relieved from duty in the division or department. The other books, reports, and papers will be kept five years, reckoned from the close of the period of their use in ease of books and reports and from their dates in case of papers, when they will be destroyed under direction of the commanding officer. The disposition of retained papers relating to an officer's accountability for public property is vested in the accountable officer. {C. A. B. No. 56, May 10, 1917.) [2474891 B— A. G. O.] 661. A company or detachment commander is responsible for all public property pertaining to his company or detachment, and will not transfer hia responsibility therefor to a successor during periods of absence of less than a month unless so ordered by competent authority ; when such absence exceeds a month, the question of responsibility is settled by the proper authority. (C. A. B. No. 56, May 10, 1917.) [2474891 B— A. G. O.] 79733°— 18 27 [O. A. R. 56.1 678. (Changed by 0. A. B. No. 30, W. D., 1915.) Unserviceable property Is, with reference to its disposition, divided into classes as follows : 1. Property worn out by fair wear and tear in the service which has no salable value. 2. Property worn out by fair wear and tear in the service which has some salable value. 3. Property which has been rendered unserviceable from causes other than fair wear and tear in the service. Property of the first class may be submitted to a surveying officer and dis- posed of as indicated in paragraph 717, or it may be submitted to an inspector without prior action of a surveying officer. Property of the second class will be submitted to an inspector without prior action of a surveying officer. Property of the third class will be submitted to a surveying officer, except as provided in paragraph 1073 in case of public animals, and unless destroyed under the provisions of paragraph 717 will subsequently be submitted to an inspector. The inventory and inspection reports will be accompanied by the report of the surveying officer. In the application of this paragraph to articles of the unit equipment fur- nished by the Engineer or Ordnance Department, articles pertaining to the reconnaissance and surveying equipment of posts and forts, and miscellaneous stores covered by Class X, Ordnance property classification, the following will be considered property of the first class : (o) Articles not under the supervision of an armament officer, rendered un- serviceable, due to fair wear and tear in the service, which have no salable value after parts useful in repair have been removed. (6) Unserviceable articles not under the supervision of an armament officer which can not be economically repaired with the facilities available and for the disposition of which specific instructions have been given by the Engineer or Ordnance Department. (c) Unserviceable articles pertaining to artillery and machine-gun materiel, under the supervision of the armament officer when specifically given in War Department publications or orders as falling within the provisions of this para- graph. All other unserviceable articles and parts of artillery and machine-gun matgriel under charge of armament officers, including guns, mounts, vehicles, sights, and fire-control instruments, will, when replaced, be shipped to an arsenal or submitted to a surveying or inspecting officer with a view to condemnation, as directed by the armament officer under the instructions of the Chief of Ordnance. Arms for which a test for determining unserviceability Is definitely pre- scribed, and which have not been subjected to the same, are excepted from the application of the above. Property falling under the classifications indicated in paragraphs 913 and 1566 will not be considered subject to the provisions of this paragraph until the neces- sary permission for its submission to a surveying officer or inspector has been obtained. (O. A. B. No. 56, May 10, 1917.) [2474891 B— A. G. 0.3 [C. A. E. 56.] 694. Rescinded. (0. A. R., No. 56, May 10, 1917.) [2474891 B— A. G. O.] 717. (Changed by O. A. R. No. 80, W. D., 1915.) On the approved recom- mendation of a surveying officer the following classes of property will be de- stroyed: (1) Clothing infected with contagious disease; (2) stores that have become so deteriorated as to endanger health or injure other stores; and (3) unserviceable property of no salable value submitted to a surveying officer under the provisions of paragraph 678. The decision of the commanding officer will be final as to whether such property has salable value. When the disposition of unserviceable articles is covered by specific instruc- tions of any of the supply departments, they will be disposed of in accordance with such instructions in lieu of being destroyed under the provisions of this paragraph, but requests for specific instructions will not be submitted in in- dividual cases instead of placing the property before a surveying officer or inspector. Before ordering the destruction of property or stores under the provisions of this paragraph the commanding officer will personally inspect the same and wiU be held responsible that the conditions justify the action. In ca-se the invoice value of the stores involved exceeds $500, the approval of the next higher ad- ministrative commander will be obtained before destruction of the property, as provided in paragraph 719. A certificate of the witnessing officer that the property has been destroyed as authorized wUl be appended to the report. (O. A. R. No. 56, May 10, 1917.) [2474891 B— A. G. O.] 1086. Unless otherwise specially directed by the Secretary of War, there will be at each military post or station but one accountable officer in the Quarter- master Corps, and he will account for all quartermaster supplies there in use or in store, except the equipment " C " as prescribed for an organization, and this will be accounted for by the unit supply officer of that organi- zation. (0. A. R. No. 56, May 10, 1917.) [2474891 B— A. G. O.] 1106. All njieans of public transportation at a post, except that provided as a part of the equipment " C " of a tactical unit, will be accounted for by the quartermaster, and will be under his charge except as provided in paragraph 1427. Means of transportation provided as a part of the equipment " C " of a unit will be accounted for by the unit supply officer, if there be one, otherwise, by the supply officer, but in g'arrison will be used under the in- struction of the commanding officer by the quartermaster of the post. Commanding officers vwU cause mounted organizations to be provided daily with the proper facilities for policing stables and hauling forage. (C A. R. No. 66, May 10, 1917.) [2474891 B— A. 6. 0.] 1535. (Changed by C. A. R. No. 1, W. D., 1914.) Articles of personal equip- ments or other ordnance property which a detached soldier carries with him, or for which he may be indebted to the United States at the time of his trans- fer, will be entered on quadruplicate invoice and receipt transfer blanks (Ordnance Department Form No. 152). The blanks will, when practicable, in- dicate the destination of the soldier. Each of the four copies will be signed by the accountable officer, or the issuing officer in his name, and by the soldier acknowledging receipt of the stores, including those missing. Two of these Signed blanks will be forwarded with the service record of the soldier; the [C. A. R. 56.] other two constitute the voucher (original and retained copies) under which the accountable officer will drop from his return the articles enumerated on the voucher, or secure replacement of the articles by turning them over to the post or other supply officer. On arrival of the soldier at his destination, all articles appearing on the transfer blank accompanying the service record will be taken up by the officer accountable for the property of the organization, to which he reports who will receipt for the same on this blank and forward one of the two signed copies of it immediately to the Chief of Ordnance, and keep the other copy for file with the retained copy of his return. All articles missing on arrival will be charged against the soldier in the usual manner. When enlisted men are transferred in detachments, with an officer or non- commissioned officer in charge, from a recruit depot, and each man is equipped identically and none of them are indebted for other articles of ordnance prop- erty, the articles of ordnance property can-ied by them will all be entered on but one Invoice and receipt blank prepared in quadruplicate, ou Ordnance De- partment Form No. 1-52-D. Each of the four copies will be signed by the accountable officer and by the officer or noncommissioned officer in charge of the detachment acknowledging receipt of all the stores. A receipt roll will be made, in duplicate, on Ordnance Department Form No. 153, and duly signed by each of the enlisted men to cover his individual responsibility. Two copies of the signed invoice and receipt blank and one copy of the signed receipt roll will be furnished to the officer or noncommissioned officer in charge of the detach- ment, and the other copies of these signed papers will constitute the voucher under which the accountable officer will drop the ijroperty from his return. One copy of the signed Form No. 15S-D, together with the signed copy of the receipt roll will be filed as the voucher with his return forwarded to the Chief of Ordnance, and the other copy of the signed Form No. 152^D filed with his retained copy of the return. On arrival of the detachment at its destination the two copies of the invoice and receipt blank and the receipt roll will be turned over to the post ordnance officer or the designated supply officer, who will take up aU the articles appearing on the transfer blank and re- ceipt for the same on this blank and forward one copy of it immediately to the Chief of Ordnance, and keep the other copy of the Invoice and receipt blank, together with the copy of the receipt roll (Form No. 153) for file with the retained copy of his property return. All articles missing on arrival will be invoiced by the post ordnance officer, or other supply officer, to the officer accountable for the property of the organization to which the particular soldiers report, and charged against these men on the pay rolls of the organizations to which they are assigned and dropped from the return of the accountable officer under statements of charges made b^ the command- ing officers of the organizations and turned over by them in duplicate to the accountable officer. In each case where the recruit is indebted to the United States at the time of his transfer, or the articles in his possession are not identical with those in the possession of the other mea of the detachment, or where the detachment is not in charge of an officer or noncommissioned officer, individual transfer blanks will be used. Unless the arrangements for the journey require the use of ordnance property en route, none will be transferred with such soldiers. A copy of the transfer blank will be kept by each accountable officer for his retained return. (C. A. R. No. 56, May 10, 1917.) [2474891 B— A. G. C] [C.A. R.56.] ACCOUNTABILITT FOR EQUIPMENT " C." 681-A. There shall normally be but one accountable officer for equipment "0," of each bureau for a regiment, separate battalion, field hospital, ambulance company, or other tactical organization for which equipment "O" is prescribed, and such officer will account on a separate return for all articles listed In the various equipment manuals as equipment "C," and he will be referred to in the following paragraphs as the " Unit supply officer." When one officer serves as supply officer for all bureaus, he will be designated as " Regimental, field hospi- tal, etc., unit supply officer," but when several officers serve as supply officers of tlie several bureaus, each, except tlie Quartermaster Corps, will be designated as " Regimental, etc.. Ordnance, J!ngineer, or Signal officers," as the case may be. The supply officer of the Quartermaster Corps will be designated as the regi- mental, etc., supply oflicer. Should local conditions make it desirable or neces- sary to have an accounting officer for any detachment serving separately from its parent organization, one may be designated for that purpose and the articles of equipment "C" that pertain to such detachment will be transferred to the designated accountable officer of the detachment, but as soon as the conditions making this separate accoiuitability necessary cease, the iu-count will be closed by transferring back to tlie unit supply officer of the i):ueiit organization the iiccountability for the property whicl; had been carried separately. Batteries, troops, companies, or detachments will hold on memorandum receipt from the unit supply officer of the unit of which they fcum a part articles of equipment "O" prescribed in the equipment manuals as pertaining to them. (0. A. R. No. 56, May 10, 1917.) 681-E. All property received by such unit supply officer will be accounted for on authorized blanks of a loose-leaf character, with a separate sheet for each article and columns for date, voucher numbers, debit entries, credit entries, and balances. Vouchers to the account will be numbered serially, beginning with No. 1, through the six months' accounting period, regard- less of transfers from one officer to another and will be posted to the account currently. The account will be kept in duplicate, an original and a carbon copy. On June 30 and December 31 of each year the account will be examined as provided in paragraph 681-D, and the original record, together with all vouchers pertaining thereto not previously forwarded, mailed direct to the chief of the bureau to which the property pertains. Before being mailed the correctness of the account, together with a notation of the serial numbers of the voucliers pertaining thereto, will be certified to by the unit supply officer. (0. A. R. No. 56, May 10, 1917.) 681-C. When an officer is relieved as unit supply officer, his account will be closed by drawing a line below the last entry on e.ich sheet, immediately below which will be entered the balance of the article, with the notation opposite thereto " Received from predecessor." When a transfer has been made the officer making the transfer will certify to the correctness of the account and will, after the account has been audited, mail direct to the chief of the bureau to which the property pertains the original vouchers to the account up to the date of transfer. These will be accompanied by a letter of transmittal, which will enumerate the vouchers, giving date of the transfer and name of the officer to whom the transfer was made. The receiving officer will acknowl- edge receipt of the balances shown on the return account by signing the receipt attached thereto, and will furnish a signed copy of such receipt to the trans- ferring officer. iC. A. R. 56, May 10, 1917.) [0. A. R. 56.] 681-D. All returns will be examined In the regiment or other similar or- ganization by a suitable oflacer (preferably by a field officer) designated for that purpose by the commanding officer thereof. This examination will be made at the end of each accounting period, also in case of a transfer of account- ability from a unit supply officer to his successor. The examining officer wiU see that all balances have been correctly brought forward, that all property on debit vouchers has been taken up on the account, and that aU property dropped is covered by authorized credit vouchers which comply with regulations. In so far as these features of the account are concerned, and to the extent of the vouchers actually examined, this officer's examination will be final, and action in the War Department bureaus will be limited to seeing that all property invoiced to unit supply officers is actually taken up by them, and that accounta- bility is properly placed in accordance with the final action taken on survey reports. He will certify on the account the fact of examination and the result of same. He will also see that the authorized allowances are entered on each sheet of the return, and on the completion of the examination report in writing to his commanding officer whether or not the balances on hand are in agree- ment with those prescribed in the unit equipment manuals, mentioning in detail, if not in agreement, the more important that are surplus or that are short, and stating in general terms the minor discrepancies. These reports will be kept on file until the next regular inspection of the command by an officer of the Inspector, General's Department, whose duty it will be to investigate and make report on the causes of the discrepancies and the steps taken by the command- ing officer to remedy them. (C. A. R. No. 56, May 10, 1917.) 681— E. Under normal peace conditions, all organizations will keep their equipment " C," as prescribed for their actual strength, complete and in serv- iceable condition. The remaining equipment required for the unit for its full authorized strength will be held by the unit supply officer. If ordered for field duty, this full equipment will be taken to the mobilization and concentration points. If ordered on active field duty, where equipment " B " and equipment " A " not required for the actual strength can not be taken, it will be disposed of by the unit supply officer as conditions require, by turning it in to a camp supply officer or depot, or by disposing of it as otherwise ordered. The same course will be followed at any time during active field service, should equip- ment become surplus. (0. A. R. No. 56, May 10, 1917.) 681— F. Unit supply officers will obtain replenishment of equipment " C " by furnishing the post, camp, division, depot, or other proper supply officer In ex- change for the articles, either — 1. The unserviceable articles to be replaced, if not repairable at the post. No receipt is given in this case, but should the condition of the articles not be manifestly due to fair wear and tear in the service the issuing officer vsrill re- quire (a) a survey report, or (6) the necessary evidence for a survey report, or (c) if that can not be furnished a certificate as provided in subparagraph 3; or 2. A voucher on which a supply officer may take credit for the articles. This covers cases where no unserviceable article is to be turned in. The voucher to be turned in to the supply officer may be (a) certificates of authorized expendi- tures; (&) certificates of destruction for articles authorized to be so dropped by the bureau to which the property pertains ; (c) statements of charges against enlisted men; (d) abstract of sales when authorized; (e) survey reports; (/) "I & I" reports; (ij) due certificates completed by a receipt for the articles to be replaced, or (ft) other authorized voucher; cr [0. A. R. 56.] 3. A certificate that replenishment is immediately necessary and that the necessary voucher or the corresponding unserviceable articles (with survey report, if required) will later be furnished. This certificate will be filed with the receipt for the supplies so issued or may be written on the receipt itself. If the voucl^.er or corresponding unserviceable article is supplied before the end of the accounting period the accountable officer will return the receipt and certificate. If not furnished before the end of the accounting period the certifi- cate and receipt may be used as a credit voucher and the bureau to which the property pertains will hold the signer of the certificate and receipt accountable. (0. A. R. No. 56, May 10, 1911.) 681-G. Each voucher used for replacement under paragraph 681-F-2 will contain a certificate signed by the responsible oflicer that he has received all the articles or due certificates therefor, but such a certificate is not required on a survey report when the unserviceable article is turned in in accordance with paragraph 681-F-l, as in that case the survey report is not to be used as a credit voucher. (O. A. R. No. 56, May 10, 1911.) 681-H. When, in compliance with competent orders, equipment " O " has been reduced by any part of it being invoiced by the unit supply officer to another accountability, it will be replaced by the unit supply officer certifying the facts on his requisition, or, if the replacement is to be made by verbal or other informal method, a lilse certificate will be placed on the receipt for the property. If equipment "C" has been increased in any way above that pre- scribed, the surplus, when no longer necessary, will be invoiced to some account- able officer at the first opportunity. (C. A. R. No. 56, May 10, 1917.) 681—1. Replenishment of equipment " C " will habitually be obtained through the unit supply officer, but no entry of the transaction will be made in his ac- count unless necessary. In emergencies an organization commander may obtain replenishment by any of the methods prescribed for the unit supply officer, but when such action is talien he will promptly report the transaction to the unit supply officer. (C. A. R. No. 56, May 10, 1917.) 681-J. All garrison equipment and other Government property (including ammunition for target practice), except equipment "0," will be held by or- ganization commanders on memorandum receipt from the post or other supply officers. If ordered to field duty, all articles of the garrison equipment held on memorandum receipt by organizations will be turned over to the post supply officer, and none of it will be taken with the organization, except as may be specially ordered by the next higher commander. Replenishment of garrison equipment will habitually be obtained by organization commanders according to the methods prescribed In paragraph 681-F for unit supply officers in replen- ishing equipment " C." (0. A. R. No. 56, May 10, 1917.) 681-K. When a regiment or other organization having an equipment "O" accountability is separated from a supply depot and the situation demands a reserve stock on hand, such reserve stock will be accounted for on the same return and in the same way as equipment " C," but so soon as the necessity for carrying this reserve stock ceases the surplus will be Invoiced to the proper accountable officer. The fact of having on hand a reserve will not be authority to issue on memorandum receipt to a company or other smaller organizations any property in excess of its prescribed equipment " C." If articles not listed as part of equipment " G " are necessary, they will likewise be carried on the same return, but as soon as a post, depot, or camp supply officer is designated such property will be invoiced to him, (C A, B, No, 56, May 10, 191t.) [C. A. K. 56.] 8 681-L. No unit supply officer sliall ordinarily be appointed post or camp supply officer except when no other officer for this duty is available. (0. A. R. No. 56, May 10, 1917.) 681-M. There shall habitually be but one accountable officer for the property of each bureau In each coast-defense command, and this accountable officer will render semiannual returns on the forms now prescribed for suci property. Coast Artillery organizations will hold on memorandum receipt from the coast- defense supply officers the prescribed equipment "0" for their actual strength, and such memorandum receipts will be separate from tliose for other property issued to these organizations. Coast-defense supply officers will keep on hand at all times sufficient equipment "C" to complete the equipment of the organiza- tions for their authorized strength, and property will be replenished generally as indicated in paragraph 681-F, there being in this case no unit supply officer. In case Coast Artillery troops are organized into tactical units for field service of an indefinite duration, the articles of equipment "C" pertaining to such troops wiU be invoiced to the unit supply officers of such units. {C. A. R. No. 56, May 10, 1917.) 681— N". All expendable articles, spare parts, cleaning materials, and pre- servatives pertaining to equipment "C" will be issued to unit supply officers (or, in coast defenses, to organization commanders). These officers will fur- nish receipts to the accountable officer, but will not further account for the material. The receipts will serve as vouchers on which the material will be dropped by the accountable officer. In cases where allowances are fixed by orders or regulations the receipts will contain a certificate signed by the unit supply officer (or, in coast defenses, by the organization commander) that the articles receipted for, considering those previously drawn for the period, do not exceed the prescribed allowances. In such cases approval by the commanding officer is not required. If, however, articles or material in excess of the allow- ance are required, they will be supplied on requisition, which must show the necessity for the excess issue, and be approved by the division or department commander. (0. A. R. No. 56, May 10, 1917.) [2474891 B— A. G. O.] Bt oedeb of the Secbetabt of Wab: H. n. SCOTT, Major General, Chief of Staff. Officiai, : H. P. MoCAIN, The Adjutant General. [G. A. E. 57.] ARMY REGULATIONS. Ohangest war department, No 57. J ■ Washington, May 25, 1917. Paragx-aphs 147J, 191, 261, 449, 721, 1067, 1069, 1071, 1123, 1186, 1415, and 1489, Army Regulations, are changed, and paragraphs 246^ and 11615 are added to the Army Regulations as follows : 1475. (Added by 0. A. R., No. 24, W. D., 1915.) When the dates on a dis- charge certificate show that a soldier has been retained in service beyond the term of his enlistment an explanatory notation will be made on the certificate as follows: » In cases where the soldier was retained in service to make good any time lost through, desertion, unauthorized absence, confinement under sentence or while awaiting trial and disposition of his case, if the trial results in conviction, or through, inability to perform duty on account of intemperate use of drugs or alcoholic liquor, or on account of disease or injury the result of his own mis- conduct, the notations will read " Retained in service days after expira- tion of term of enlistment under A. W. 107." In cases where the soldier was retained in service for the convenience of the Government the notations will read : " Retained in service — — days after expiration of term of enlistment for the convenience of the Government." {0. A. B., No. 57, May 25, 1917.) [2580433 A— A. G. 0.] 191. (Changed by C. A. R., No. 49, W. D., 1916.) Add to the places exempted from the control of department commanders the following: United States War Prison Barracks. (C. A. R., No. 57, May Z5, 1917.) [2572581 A— A. G. 0.] 261. Substitute the following: Hereafter no enlisted man In the active service of the United States in the Army, Navy, and Marine Corps, respectively, whether a noncommissioned officer, musician, or private, shall be detailed, ordered, or permitted to leave his post to engage in any pursuit, business, or performance in civil life, for emolument, hire, or otherwise, when the same shall interfere with the customary employ- ment and regular engagement of local civilians in the respective arts, trades, or professions. (Sec. 35, act of Congress approved June 3, 1916.) Insuring compliance with the spirit of this prohibition in so far as it applies to Army bands, neither the mere assertion that it is not intended to employ other musi- cians, nor the fact that the Army bands are to furnish music without emolu- ment,' should be accepted. (C. A. B., No. 57, May 25, 1917.) [2525159, A. G. O.] 449. (Changed by C. A. R., No. 49, W. D., 1916.) Change subparagraph 4 by adding the following to the list of service schools : X. The School for Saddlers and for Battei-y Mechanics of Field Artillery at Rock Island Arsenal, Rock Island, HI. (C A. B., No. 57, May 25, 1917.) [2559914, A. G. O.] [C, A. R. 57.3 721. (Changed by 0. A. R., No. 42, "W. D., 1916.) Change second sentence of second subparagraph to read as follows : In ease the responsibility is fixed upon the carrier the receiving quartermaster will note on the bill of lading the deductions which shall be made for such loss or damage by the quartermaster who pays the account and wiU attach to the bill of lading one copy of the approved report of the surveying officer and will send one copy to the quartermaster who pays the account. In case survey action is had after the bill of ladings has been accomplished both copies of the survey report will be sent to the quartermaster who pays the account. (C. A. R., No. 57, May S5, 1917.) [2558025, A. G. O.] 1067. Public animals shall, upon the day they are purchased and received, be branded on the left shoulder with one branding iron consisting of three letters, as follows: Cavalry and riding horses U S C Artillery and draft horses U S A, Draft mules, wheel U S W Draft mules, lead V S Pack and riding n3.ules IT S P Young horses for training at permanent rem.ount depots U S R Each letter of this brand shall be two inches in height. The letters shall be fixed in place on the iron so that there shall be an open space of three- quarters (J) of an inch between their nearest points. On the date when received by organizations of the Army, animals will be branded on the hoof of the right forefoot, 1^ inches below the coronet, with the designation of the organization. These letters and numbers shall be on the same line, three-fourths of an inch high, and blocked so as to penetrate the hoof one-sixteenth of an inch. For example, the hoof brands on animals issued and assigned to the Headquarters Troop, Fifth Cavalry, would be C H Q 5; to the Machine-Gun Company, Sixty-second Infantry, I M G 68; to Troop B, Twenty-fifth Cavalry, C B 25; to the Fourth Ambulance Company, A C 4; to Battery B, Seventeenth Field Artillery, B 17 (in this case "A" on the shoulder indicates Artillery). The responsible o£B.cer of each organi- zation of the Army will assign an oi^anization number to each animal for which he is responsible, and this number will be branded on the hoof of the left forefoot in the manner described above. Animals with organizations of the National Guard which are in the Federal service will be branded on the left fore hoof with the shortest abbreviation of the name of the State, followed by the organization number assigned to the animal by the responsible ofiicer, and they will also be branded on the right fore hoof with the designation of the organization to which they belong in the same manner as animals with the Regular Army. For example, animals issued to Company B, Fourth Texas Infantry, will be branded on the right hoof I B 4, and on the left hoof TEX 29. Branding irons of uniform size and design will be supplied by the Quarter- master Corps. (0. A. R., No. 57, May 25, 1917,), [0. A. R. 57.] 1069. Immediately after an animal is received by an organization of the Army, a descriptive card thereof will be made by the responsible officer on prescribed form. (0. A. R., No. 57, May S5, 1911.) 12589060, A. G. O.] 1070. After public animals have been issued to organizations of the Army, a file of descriptive cards of such animals will be kept by the responsible officer. This file will contain a description of every animal received, showing the kind, name, age, size, color, marks, brands, how and when acquired, the use to which applied, and what disposition, if any, was made of the animal. When a public animal is transferred from one organization of the Army to another, the descriptive card will be sent with the animal. (0. A. R., No. 57, May 25, 1917.) [2589060, A. G. C] 1071. After purchase the cost value of a public animal for all authorized fiscal transactions (including the sale of public horses to mounted officers) shall be the average price paid for that class of animal during the pre- ceding fiscal year. (O. A. B., No. 57, May 25, 1917.) [2589060, A. G. O.] 1123. When an officer under orders for temporary duty or permanent change of station certifies that it is necessary for his field allowance of baggage to be transported to his temporary or permanent station, the Quartermaster Corps will furnish transportation for the same by freight, unless in cases of emer- gency transportation by express is authorized by the department commander or by the commanding officer of a post or station excepted by regulations from the control of a department commander. The total amount of baggage transported at public expense will in no instance exceed the allowance provided by paragraph 1136. Transportation for 250 pounds of baggage, including 150 pounds usually carried free by railroads, is authorized for' Army nurses when they join for duty under the first order, upon permanent change of station, and on return to their homes upon annulment of contract. Receipts covering an excess of baggage will contain certificates as to whether ti-ansportation for such excess has been furnished. (O. A. R., No. 57, May B5, 1917.) [2585551 A. G. 0.] 1186. (Changed by O. A. R., No. 3, W. D., 1914.) Change the first subpara- graph to read as follows: Government blanks will be used when practicable in sending official tele- grams by those in the service of the War Department authorized to send such telegrams, except in the Engineer Department, on river and harbor or other civil business, and will be marked " Government paid," in no case " Govern- ment collect," and the certificate " I certify that the following telegram is on Official Business and necessary for the public service," printed on the form, should in all cases be signed by a commissioned officer, with his rank and organization. Commercial blanks, if used officially, should also be marked " Government paid," and the same certificate should be made on the margin of the blank and signed as directed above. Accounts for telegrams on mili- tary business prepared on the prescribed form in the name of the telegraph company rendering the service, and accompanied by the original telegrams, will be paid by the Quartermaster Corps, with the following exceptions: (0. A. R., No. 57, May 25, 1917.) [2570226, A. G. O.] [C. A. R. 57.] 1415. (Changed by C. A. R., No. 46, W. D., 1916.) Accounts of pay and clothing of enlisted men of the Medical Department will be kept by the medical officer under whose Immediate direction they are serving. All such enlisted men casually at a post, camp, or other station are under the immediate orders of the surgeon, except prisoners, who will, however, be borne on the muster rolls, morning reports, and returns of the Medical Department detachment. If furloughed to the reserve or discharged, their final statements vdll be pre- pared by the surgeon. (O. A. B., No. 57, May 25, 1917.) [2437545 A— A. G. OJ 1489. (Changed by C. A. R., No. 46, W. D., 1916.) Each department surgeon will transmit, not later than the 5th day of every month, to the Surgeon General p. return of the officers of the Medical Corps and the Medical Reserve Corps, the contract surgeons, the officers of the Dental Corps and the Dental Reserve Corps, the officers of the Veterinary Corps, the reserve veterinarians and the officers of the Veterinary' Reserve Corps under assignment to or serving in the department during the preceding month. The chief surgeon of an Army corps will, in like manner, render a similar return of those who are not reported on the divisional and other returns made through him. The division surgeons of mobilized divisions and the surgeons of other units not divisional, forming parts of an Army corps, will in like manner render similar returns through the chief surgeon of the Army corps. The senior medical officer of a separate brigade or detachment of an Army corps, temporarily detached, will render a similar return through the same channel. The surgeon in charge of the medical base group of a line of communications will render a similar return through the chief surgeon of the Army corps or senior medical officer of troops at the front, of those under assignment to or serving on the line of communications who are not included in other I'etums. The senior medical officer of a post, station, or separate command under the immediate direction of the War Department will, unless otherwise instructed, render a similar return directly to the Surgeon General. Separate returns will be made in like manner of the medical, dental, and veterinary officers of the National Guard in the service of tlie United States and of such other troops as may be authorized. When consolidated field returns of sanitary personnel are required by division or other commanders, medical officers are authorized to substitute an extract copy thereof for the returns called for in this paragraph. (C. A. B., No. 57, May 25, 1917.) [2576474, A. G. O.] 3464. Whenever Coast Artillery troops are ordered to perform Infantry duty outside a coast defense command, they will be organized as Infantry according to Tables of Organization, United States Army. The designation of companies vrithin a regiment will correspond to the designations employed by Infantry troops of the mobile army. The designation of each unit to be organized will be announced to coast defense commanders in orders from higher authority. Skilled artillerists will be transferred from Coast Artillery organizations ordered into the field to those remaining within the fortifications, their places being taken by men of lesser artillery experience or aptitude. These instruc- tions will not apply to Infantry field exercises prescribed in the Coast Artil- lery Instruction Ovder. (O. A. B., No. 57, May 25, 1917.) [2566201, A. G. O.] [C. A. R. 57.] II6I4. (a) When an enlisted man is honorably discharged for the purpose of reenllsting in the service, uniform clothing in his possession, while retained by the Government for military use, will be left in possession of the soldier if he reenlist on the date following his discharge, and will not be charged against his clothing allowance during the following enlistment period. (6) When an enlisted man is honorably discharged otherwise than as de- scribed in (a), all uniform outer clothing, excepting one suit, then in his posses- sion will be delivered to the nearest quartermaster. This one suit he will be instructed to forward within three months after his discharge under franked label, which vrtll be furnished him for the purpose, to the nearest quartermaster (Sec. 125, act of Congress approved June 3, 1916); (e) Upon being furloughed to the Regular Army Reserve, an enlisted man will deliver to the nearest quartermaster all articles of uniform outer clothing excepting those enumerated in paragraph 51, Regulations for the Regular Army Reserve, and will be permitted to wear or take with him to his home all other articles of uniform clothing in his possession and retain them for use during the remainder of his enlistment period. (d) When an enlisted man is discharged otherwise than honorably, all uni- form outer clothing in his possession will be retained for military use and delivered to the nearest quartermaster. (e) Upon the release from Federal service of an enlisted man of the National Guard called as such into the service of the United States, all uniform outer clothing then in his possession will be taken up and accounted for as property ■Issued to the National Guard of the State to which the enlisted man belongs in the manner prescribed by section 67 of the act of Congress approved June 3, 1916. (f) If the soldier be released from Federal service at a station other than his home, he will he permitted to wear one suit of uniform outer clothing to his home and will be furnished instructions to forward such uniform outer clothing by mail under a franked label, which will be furnished him for the purpose, to the nearest officer accountable for property issued to the National Guard of the State to which the soldier belongs. (g) Upon the muster out of Federal service of an organization of the National Guard called as such into the service of the United States, all uniform outer clothing then in the possession of enlisted men of such organizations will be taken up and accounted for as property issued to the National Guard of the State to which the organization belongs in the manner prescribed by section 67 of the act of Congress approved June 3, 1916. (h) Clothing received under any of the methods described in (a), (6), (c), and (d) of this paragraph will be renovated, repaired, and held for issue to pi-i.soners, or for shipment to disciplinary barracks if so ordered. Articles which can not be made sen'lceable will be submitted to an inspector. (0. A. B., No. 57, May 25, 1917.) [2511330, A. G. O.l Bt order of the Secretaey of War : TASKBR H. BLISS, Major Oeiicral, Acting Chief of Staff. Official : H. P. McOAIN, The Adjutant General. [0. A. R. 58.] ARMY REGULATIONS. Changes'! WAR DEPARTMENT, No. 58. J Washington, Julp 6, 1917. Paragraphs 13, 117, 119, 120, 124, 125, 126J, 127, 303J, 304, 329, 491, 569, 1073, 1174, 1212, 1217, and 1344, Army Regulations, are changed, and paragraphs 193i, 222J, 1167J, and 1421J are added to the Army Regulations, as follows : 13. Change the reference to the articles of war to read " sixty-eighth and one hundred and twentieth articles of war " instead of " twenty-fourth and one hundred and twenty-second articles of war." (0. A. R., No. 58, July 6, 1917.) [2636361, A. G. 0.] 117. (Changed by C. A. E., No. 23, W. D., 1915.) Change last sentence of first subparagraph to read as follows : All other personal effects of a deserter will be disposed of as in the case of unclaimed effects of deceased soldiers — i. e., they will be sold by a summary court and the proceeds of the sale deposited with a quartermaster (par. 163). (0. A. R., No. 58, July 6, 1917.) [2592558. A G. O.] 119. (Changed by C. A. B., No. 55, W. D., 1917.) Whenever a desertion occurs from any post or station, or command in the field, the commanding officer ■will cause a report of the desertion to be made, in triplicate, on the prescribed form, and will forward same together with a descriptive list of the deserter directly to The Adjutant General of the Army. This report will he accompanied by properly authenticated copies of previous convictions of offenses committed by the soldier in his current enlistment and within one year of the desertion, an estimate of the soldier by his organization commander, in triplicate, on the prescribed form, and affi- davits of witnesses, in triplicate, on the prescribed form, covering his char- acter and the circumstances of his desertion. tTpon the receipt of a report of apprehension or surrender of a deserter as provided for in paragraph 135, The Adjutant General of the Army, in case the man is to be brought to trial, will forward the descriptive list of the deserter, the evidence of previous convictions and two copies, each, of the report, the estimate of the soldier by his organization commander, and affidavits of witnesses to the commanding officer of the 4)ost or station where the trial will be held, who will prefer or cause to be preferred the necessary charges for the trial of the deserter. (C A. R., No. 58, July 6, 1917.) [2543956 — A. G. 0.] 120. Rescinded. (0. A. B., No. 58, July G, 1017.) [2543950, A. G. O.] 124. Rescinded. (O. A. B., No. 58, July 6. 1917.) [2543956, A. G. O.] f C. A. R. 58.] 125. When a deserter surrenders or is delivered at a military post, the com- manding officer will cause immediate Inquiry to be made of him in regard to the date of his desertion, and if this indicates that trial is barred by law, and the deserter claims to have been within the limits of the United States during the three years subsequent to the commission of Ms offense, the commanding officer will telegraph The Adjutant General of the Army for verification of the service claimed by the deserter. When it is determined that trial is barred by law the commanding officer will require the deserter to file an affidavit asserting his claim, then set him at liberty with instructions to apply to The Adjutant General of the Army for a "deserter's release," and will then rei)ort his action directly to The Adjutant General of the Army, forwarding the affidavit of the deserter with his report. When the date of desertion indicates that trial is not barred by law, the commanding officer will cause the deserter to be examined by a medical officer, and if the examination shows the deserter fit for service, the commanding' officer will telegraph The Adjutant General of the Army, giving name, date, and place of apprehension or surrender, and names of witnesses, and request instructions relative to disposition of man. The commanding officer will cause to be taken, in triplicate, on the prescribed form, affidavits of witnesses to the fact of apprehension or surrender, and will forward one copy to The Adjutant General of the Army, holding the remaining two copies to be forwarded to the commanding officer of the post or station designated for trial. When the medical examination indicates that the man is physically unfit for seirvice and desertion is admitted, the department commander may discharge him without trial by reason of desertion and physical un- fitness for service; if he refuses to admit desertion and it is deemed in- advisable to try him, application will be made for authority from the Secretary of War to discharge him without trial. (0. A. R., No. 58, July 6, 1911.) [2543956, A. G. O.] 126J. (Changed by C. A. R., No. 34, W. D., 1915, and No. 55, W. D., 1917.) When an escaped general prisoner surrenders or is delivered at a military post or station, or to a command in the field, the commanding officer thereof will immediately send to The Adjutant General of the Army a report, in the form of a letter, stating whether the general prisoner surrendered or was appre- hended, the date and place of surrender or delivery, and, if the man was appre- hended, the name, and official status, if any, of the person who delivered him to the military authorities. If the man escaped from the United States Disciplinary Barracks or one of its branches, or from a United States peni- tentiary, instructions as to his disposition will be given from the office of The Adjutant General of the Army. If^he was sentenced to confine- ment at the United States Disciplinary Barracks or one of its branches, or at a United States penitentiary and escaped before reaching there, instruc- tions as to his disposition will also be given from the office of The Ad- jutant General of the Army, except when the man is returned to military control in the same department in which he escaped, in which event his disposition will be left with the department commander. In all other cases the action necessary will be taken by the proper post or department commander. (0. A. B., No. 68, July 6, 1917.) [2543956, A. G. O.] [O. A. R. 58.] 127. (Changed by 0. A. R., No. 37, W. D., 1915, and No. B5, W. D., 1917.) Rewards or expenses paid for apprehending a deserter, and the expenses in- curred in transporting him from point of apprehension, delivery, or surrender to the station of his company or detachment, or to the place of hia trial, in- cluding the cost of transportation of the guard, wiU be set against his pay , upon conviction of desertion by a court-martial, upon discharge by reason of desertion admitted and physical unfitness for service, or upon his restoration to duty without trial. A soldier convicted by a court-martial of absence with- out leave wiU be charged with the expenses incurred in transporting him to the station of his company or detachment, or to the place of his trial, includ- ing the cost of transportation of the guard; but In either case of conviction, if the soldier was sent to the tlnited States Disciplinary Barracks for trial there will be charged against him for transportation expenses no more than it would have cost to return him from the place of apprehension, delivery, or surrender to the station of his company or detachment. Except in the case of a soldier restored to duty at the United States Disciplinary Barracks or any branch thereof by the remission of his suspended sentence of dishonorable discharge or pursuant to section 1352, Ee-s-ised Statutes, a soldier convicted by a court-martial of desertion or absence without leave or a deserter restored to duty without trial for desertion, who is sent from the point of apprehension, delivery, or surrender, to a place of confinement or trial other than the station . of his company or detachment, and is later sent to the station of his company or detachment, will be charged with an amount equal to the cost of his own trans- portation and that of hia guard. If any, from the point of apprehension, de- livery, or surrender, to the station of his company or detachment. The cost of transportation to a station of a soldier restored to duty from suspended or executed dishonorable discharge at the United States Disciplinary Barracks or any branch thereof will be borne by the Government. The transportation and subsistence of witnesses will not be charged against a deserter. The cost of transportation and subsistence furnished under this paragraph will be re- ported in accordance with paragraphs 1111^ and 1236. (C A. R., No. 58, July 6, 1917.) [2585350, A. G. O.] 1934. Administration and supply will be decentralized to the greatest extent practicable. Commanders of divisions are charged with making all necessary arrangements not inconsistent with instructions from higher authority for supplying, organizing, equipping, training, and paying the troops of their divisions and troops attached thereto, and are authorized to issue orders for transportation of officers, enlisted men, civil en}ployeos, and supplies of the Army pertaining to their divisions, necessary for this purpose within the depart- ments in which their respective divisions are located. Equipment will be in accordance with regulations, approved types and equipment tables, and not In excess of allowances. Commanders of Coast Artillery districts are authorized to issue orders for transportation of officers, enlisted men, civil employees, and supplies of the Army pertaining to their commands within their respective districts. Routine technical questions pertaining to the drill and the instruction of Coast Artillery troops as prescribed by the regiilations and orders of the War Department, and routine questions pertaining to the maintenance of the armament and accessories in an efficient condition, including repairs and minor changes in the installation of Coast Artillery materiel, which require the action of higher authority, will be forwarded directly by Coast Artillery district commanders to The Adjutant General of the Army. 79733°— 18 28 to. A. R. 58.] Commanders of divisions, Coast Artillery districts, and separate brigades will act upon requisitions for supplies and send the requisitions directly to the depots designated for their supply. Requisitions for ammunition for the Coast Artillery armament in the continental United States and the Canal Zone will be forwarded by the commanding officers of the disignated depots to the Chief of Ordnance. Department and division signal officers are authorized to call upon designated supply depots for the initial issues of authorized equipment to new organizations and for replacing issues of authorized equipment. Supply bureaus of the War Department will assign for purposes of supply certain depots to which requisitions will be sent direct by department, division, separate brigade, and Coast Artillery district commanders for such articles as are not procured under department contracts, and it shall be the duty of bureau chiefs to require such supplies to be promptly shipped. There must not be any unnecessary delay in furnishing or shipping supplies. If the supplies can not be furnished by a depot without delay, the depot commander will immediately inform the department commander and the officer who approved the requi- sition, stating the status of the supplies which are short and the action which has been taken to remedy the shortage. In case of unusual delay in obtaining supplies, the department commander is authorized, if he thinks the public interests require such action, to cause the supplies to be purchased in open, market at lowest obtainable rates, cost of transportation considered. Con- tracts for annual supplies, such as fuel, forage, etc., shall be made at department headquarters. Funds needed by department, division, and Coast Artillery district com- manders will be requisitioned for direct to War Department bureaus in ample time for the prompt payment of services, supplies, and troops. Funds supplied will not be used for procurement of equipment or payment for service not author- ized by regulations or equipment tables. Department, division, and Coast Artillery district commanders may corre- spond directly with one another. Department, division, and Coast Artillery district commanders are directed to take necessary steps to enforce economy in their commands, whether in the engagement of services, utilization of public property, purchase of supplies, authorization of travel, shipment of supplies, or the use and purchase of trans- portation. Supplies purchased in open market will conform as closely as prac- ticable to War Department specifications. (C A. R., No. 58, July 6, 1911.) [2616542, A. G. 0.] 222J. The colors of the Chief of Staff shall be of scarlet and white silks, joined with a diagonal seam from lower left-hand corner to upper right-hand corner, 5 feet 6 inches fly and 4 feet 4 inches on the pike, which shall be 9 feet long, including ferrule and spearhead. In the center of the color shall be a large five-pointed star embroidered in white, with one point upward, the points of the star to lie in the circumference of an imaginary circle 34 inches in diame- ter. In the center of this star, to be embroidered in colors, shall be the official coat of arms of the United States. In the upper left-hand corner, on the scarlet silk, shall be a five-pointed star embroidered in white ; also on the lower right- hand corner, on the white silk, embroidered in scarlet, a similar star. Points of star to be upward and to lie in the circumference of an imaginary circle 4J inches in diameter. The center of these stars to be 8i inches from the long sides and 12J inches from the short sides of the color ; the edges to be trimmed with knotted fringe of yellow silk 2i inches wide ; the cord 8 feet 6 inches long, having two tassels and composed of red, white, and blue strands. (0. A. R., 2fo. 58, July 6, 1917.) [2610i25, A. G. O.] [0. A. R. 58.] 303 J. (Added by O. A. R., No. 1, W. D., 1914.) Routine papers connected With a Coast Artillery district will not be forwarded to the War Department except in cases of questions of a technical nature involving a modification of technical requirements that have been established by War Department orders, such as questions involving policy, modifications of instructions, systems and methods of fire control, and decisions relative to equipment and to methods of instruction. The assignment of officers for duty on the staffs of Coast Artillery district commanders will be made by the Secretary of War. (C A. U., 'No. 58, July 6, 1917.) [2615883, A. G. O.] 304. (Changed by C. A. R., No. 1, W. D., 1914.) The coast-defense command, as an administrative unit, consists of one or more forts with their accompany- ing mine fields and land defenses. Coast-defense commands are established, their limits defined, and their headquarters designated in orders from the AVar Department. The command of coast defenses devolves upon the senior Coast Artillery Corps officer therein, who is responsible for its eflaclency to department and district commanders and subject to their authority, and has control within the limits of the command of all matters relating to Coast Artillery instruction, driU, practice, and the procurement of Coast Artillery supplies and accessories. He will prescribe the hours of drill and instruction throughout the command. (C A. R., No. 58, July 6, 1917.) [2615883, A. G. C] 329. (Changed by C. A. E., No. 49, W. D., 1916.) Extra compensation may be paid to enlisted men from company or general mess funds as follows : From a company fund, 25 cents a day to one private detailed on special duty as assistant cook for a company whose authorized strength is fixed at 100 or more enlisted men and only two cooks authorized by law, from a general mess fund, not exceeding $2 a day, or from the general mess fund of a recruit depot, not exceeding $3 a day, to be apportioned by the mess council among the necessary regular attendants ; but no extra compensation from company or general mess funds shall be paid to any soldier holding the statutory grade of cook, or mess sergeant. Of this $2 (or $3 at recruit depots) the mess council may allot to the mess steward (who may be a noncommissioned officer) a per diem of 50 cents, and in addition thereto a share of the remaining $1.50 (or $2.50 at recruit depots). One cook of a company and such of the regular attendants of a general mess as the commanding officer may designate will be inspected and mustered in the kitchen or mess haU. Cooks may be excused from the ordinary post duties and from target practice, but the attendants may be excused from the ordinary post duties only. In case the mess stewards and cooks at recruit depots are graduates of the schools for bakers and cooks, extra-duty pay wiU. be paid to them by the Quartermaster Corps at the follovfing rates, approved by the Secretary of War: To mess stewards, $1 a day, and to cooks, 50 cents a day, and they will receive no further extra compensation. (0. A. R., No. 58, July 6, 1917.) [2514112, A. G. 0.1 IC. A. R. 58.] 491. («) Two aluminum identification tags, each the size of a silver half dollar and of suitable thickness, stamped with the name, rank, com- pany, regiment, or corps of the wearer, will be worn by each officer and enlisted man of the Army whenever the field kit is worn; one tag to be suspended from the neck underneath the clothing by a cord or thong passed through a small hole in the tag, the second tag to be suspended from the first one by a short piece of string or tape. These tags are pre- scribed as a part of the uniform, and when not worn as directed herein will be habitually kept in the possession of the owner. (6) In order to secure, as far as possible, the decent interment of those who fall in battle and to establish beyond doubt their identity should it become desirable subsequently to disinter the remains for removal to a national or post cemetery or for shipment home, it is the duty of commanding generals to set apart a suitable spot near every battle field, and to cause the remains of the killed to be interred therein. The identification tag worn around the neck of the officer or enlisted man stamped with the name, rank, company, and regiment or corps of the wearer will in all cases be interred with the body. The duplicate tag attached thereto will be removed at time of burial and turned over to the surgeon or person in charge of the burial, from which a record of the same, together with the cause and date of death, shall be made and reported to the commanding officer. It is the duty of the commanding officer to cause to be made a sketch as accurate as the means at hand will permit of the burying places of those falling in battle and when practicable to have each grave marked with a temporary headboard. (O. A. R., No. 58, July 6, 1917.) [2616543, A. G. O.] 569. Bonds for the faithful performance of contracts for supplies or service may be exacted or, in the discretion of the chiefs of bureaus concerned, may be waived in special cases or by general instructions issued to their contracting officers, but bonds required imder paragraph 572 will not be waived. The amount of penalty in a contractor's bond will be fixed by the contracting officer and will not be less than one-tenth nor more than the full amount of the consideration of the contract ; except that the penalty of bonds required under the provisions of paragraph 572 vnH not be less than fifty per cent of the consideration of the contract. (C. A. U., No. 68, July 6, 1917.) [062.12, A. G. O.] 1073. Ohatige last subparagraph to read as follows : Public animals that die of sickness, or that it is necessary to kill because of contagious disease, or when iacurably wounded, will be dropped by the account- able officer upon (a) the certificate of a commissioned officer preferably a veterinarian if one is available, (6) the affidavit of a civilian veterinarian if available, or otherwise the affidavit of a disinterested person, said affi- davits to be approved by the commanding officer. In such case the action of a gur\'eying officer is not required, unless it appears that the condition of -the animal resulted from fault or neglect; and in such ease the investigation by the surveying officer may follow the killing of the animal when its imme- diate destruction is made necessary to prevent contagion or to terminate suffering. (0. A. R., No. 58, July 6, 1917.) [2586861, A, G. O.] [C. A. R. 58.] 7 H67i. The Quartermaster Corps is authorized to issue on memorandum receipt to officers of the Aviation Section, Signal Corps, the following equip- ment for use while actively engaged on aviation duty, viz : 1 leather helmet, winter; 1 leather helmet, summer; 1 leather coat, kersey lined, with fur collar; 1 pair leather trousers, kersey lined; 1 pair gauntlets, summer; 1 pair gauntlets, winter; 1 face mask, chamois; 2 goggles, with lining; and such other articles of aviation clothing as may be prescribed from time to time by the Secretary of War on recommendation of Chief Signal OfHcer. The articles will remain the property of the United States, and the necessity for their issue must be certified by the commanding officer. (0. A. R., No. da, Jtihj 6, 1917.) [2528846, A. G. O.] 1174 (Changed by C. A. R., No. 49, W. D., 1916). Officers of the Army, mem- bers of the Officers' Reserve Corps, contract surgeons. Army field clerks, and field clerks. Quartermaster Corps, may purchase from the Quartermaster Corps such articles of uniform clothing, clothing materials, and equipage as they need, provided the property is available. They will certify that the articles are for their personal use. (C A. R., No. 58, June 6, 1917.) [2514026—2604423, A. G. O.] 1212. While sick in hospital, the ration of enlisted men, of applicants for enlistment, and of general prisoners will be commuted at the rate of 40 cents a ration, except that at the general hospital at Fort Bayard, N. Mex., commuta- tion at the rate of 50 cents a ration, and at other general hospitals 40 cents a ration, is authorized for enlisted patients therein ; the ration of members of the Nurse Corps while on duty in hospital will be commuted at the rate of 40 cents a ration. The commutation herein referred to will be paid to the surgeon in charge by the post quartermaster or such officer of the Quartermaster Corps as may be designated. (C. A. R., No. 58, July 6, 1917.) [2619238, A. G. O.] 1217. (Changed by C. A. R., No. 55, W. D., 1917.) The following named articles will be issued gratuitously to each recruit upon his first enlistment: One brush, hair. Two towels. One comb. One cake of soap, toilet. One brush, tooth. These articles will be issued by the quartermaster on requisitions submitted by the company commander, and when the issue has been made that fact will be entered upon the service record. The receipt of the company commander will be the quartermaster's voucher for dropping the articles from his property account. (C A. R., No. 58, July 6, 1917.), [2626559, A. G, O.} [C. A. R. 58.] 8 1344. (Changed by C. A. E., No. 43, W. D., 1916, and No. 53, W. D., 1917.) Change the first subparagraph to read as follows : An enlisted man who qualifies hereafter as gunner in the Field Artillery Is entitled to $5 a month, if he be an expert first-class gunner, to $3 a month If he be a first-class gunner, and $2 a month if he be a second-class gunner, in addition to his pay, from the date of qualification until the next opportunity to requalify, or for one year if no opportunity for requalification is presented within that year, provided that during that time he does not attain a higher qualification and that he continues to be a member of the Field Artillery or reenlists in that branch of the service within three months from date of dis- charge therefrom. (G. A. R., No. 58, July 6, 1917.) [2616103, A. G. 0.3 1431J. As regards medical and sanitary matters and work in connection with the sick, members of the Army Nurse Corps and Army Nurse Corps Beserve are to be regarded as having authority in matters pertaining to their profes- sional duties (the care of sick and wounded) in and about military hospitals next after the officers of the Medical Department, and are at all times to be obeyed accordingly and to receive the respect due to their position. (0. A. R., No. 58, July 6, 1917.) [300.3, A. G. O.] By oedeb of the Secbetary of War : TASKER H. BLISS, -^-^Major General, Acting Chief of Staff. Official : H. P. McCAIN, ■The Adjutant General. [0,A.K.59J ARMY REGULATIONS. Changes \ WAR DEPAETMBNT. No. 59. J Washington, August 10, 1917. Paragraphs 377, 378, 885, 521, 733, 1009, 1512J, and the heading under Article XLII, Army Regiilations, are changed and paragraphs 208J and 448J are added to the Army Regulations as follows : 877. The national or regimental color or standard, uncased, passing a guard or other armed body will be saluted, the field music sounding " To the Color " or " To the Standard." Officers and enlisted men passing the uncased colors ■will render honors as follows: If in uniform they will salute as required in subparagraph 1 of paragraph 383; if in civilian dress and covered they will uncover, holding the headdress opposite the left shoulder with the right hand; if uncovered they 'will salute with, the right-hand salute. (C. A. R. No. 59, Aug. 10, 1917.) [300.31, A. G. O.] 378. (Changed by C. A. B. No. 5, W. D., 1914, and No. 50, W. D., 191T.) Whenever the national anthem ia played at any place when persons belonging to the military service are present, all officers and enlisted men not in formation shall stand at attention facing toward the music (except at retreat, when they shall face toward the flag). If in uniform, covered, they shall salute at the first note of the anthem, retaining the position of salute until the last note of the anthem. If not in uniform and covered, they shall uncover at the first note of the anthem, holding the headdress opposite the left shoulder and so remain until its close, except that in Inclement weather the headdress may be held slightly raised. The same rules apply when "To the Color" or "To the Standard" is Bounded as when the national anthem is played. When played by an Army band, the national anthem shall be played through without repetition of any part not required to be repeated to make it complete. The same marks of respect prescribed for observance during the playing of the national anthem of the United States shall be shown toward the national anthem of any other country when played upon official occasions. (0. A. R. No. 59, Aug. 10, 1917.) [300.31, A. G. 0.] 385. (Changed by C. A. B. No. 50, W. D., 1917.) Salutes to the national anthem or when " To the Color " (or " Standard ") is sounded during ceremonies Will be as hereinafter prescribed. (C. A. R. No. 59, Aug. 10, 1917.) [300.31, A. G. 0.] 521. (Changed by O. A. B., No. 51, W. D., 1917.) No person in the military or civil service under the War Department will act as an agent of the United States in advising, recommending, making, or approving the purchase of sup- plies or other property, or the procurement of services for the military estab- lishment, or in contracting with respect thereto, under which purchase, procure- ment, or contract he would be admitted to share or receive, directly or indi- rectly, any pecuniary profit or benefit. If such person finds that his duties re- quire him to act as agent of the United States in a matter from which he may derive financial profit, he will report the facts immediately to proper authority and will be relieved from such duties, (.0. A. R., No. 59, Aug. 10, 1917.) [300.31,A. G. O.] [C. A. R. 59.] 733. (Changed by C. A. R., No. 45, W. D., 1916.) 1. Reimbursement of actual expenses when traveling under competent orders will be allowed, under the fol- lowing heads, to civilians in the employ of any branch of the military service, excepting the expert accountant of the Inspector General's Department and those mentioned in paragraph 734, viz : a. Cost of transportation over the shortest usually traveled route, when it was impracticable to furnish transportation in kind on transportation requests. 6. Cost of transfers to and from railroad stations, not to exceed 50 cents for each transfer. c. Cost of one lower berth in a sleeping car, seat in a parlor car, or customary stateroom accommodations on boats and steamers, when extra charge is made therefor. d. Fees to expressmen and porters on arrival at and departure from hotels and stations, not to exceed 10 cents in each case when the service is rendered in connection with the transportation of baggage ; fees for checking baggage at stations and hotels, not to exceed 10 cents for each piece checked ; and fees to sleeping-car and parlor-car porters not to exceed 25 cents per day, or 10 cents when the car is used in daytime only. e. Cost of meals, including tips, not to exceed $4.50 a day while en route, when meals are not included in the transportation fare paid, and not to exceed $4.50 a day for meals, tips, and lodgings during necessary delay en route, and when meals are included in the transportation fare paid, tips for meals not to exceed 15 cents each. f. Cost of meals and lodgings, Including baths, tips, and laundry wo»:k, not to exceed $4.50 a day for the first 30 days while on duty at places designated in the orders for the performance of temporary duty, and a flat per diem allow- ance of $1 a day after the first 30 days of temporary duty at any one place. lu time of actual war no such reimbursement of expenses or per diem allowance will be allowed to the civilian employees specified who accompany troops in the field, but in lieu thereof the allowance of tents prescribed by the War Depart- ment and a ration will be furnished such employees. 2. In lieu of reimbursement for the actual expenses provided In e and f of subparagraph 1, civilian employees, when their orders so prescribe, may be allowed a flat per diem allowance not exceeding $4 when traveling, and when on duty for the first 30 days at places designated in their orders for the perform- ance of temporary duty, but no per diem allowance will be allowed for tem- porary duty to civilian employees who in time of actual war accompany troops in the field, nor for travel on Army transports. The day, or 24-hour period, shall be reckoned from the hour of departure on the journey, and when a period of travel or temporary duty involves a fractional part of a day the employee will be entitled to one-fourth of the authorized per diem, allow- ance for each six hours or part of sis hours. A statement will accompany each voucher showing the following data : Time of departure from permanent station. Time of arrival at temporary station. Time of departure from temporary station. Time of arrival at permanent station. 3. The provisions of paragraph 735, in so far as they require the keeping of a memorandum of tht5 actual expenses incurred and taking of receipts, have no application to civilians operating under conditions which entitle them to a per diem allowance, except for the period while actually traveling, and then only for such items of expenses as are not embraced within the per diem allowance. (O. A. R., No. 59, Aug. 10, 1917.) [248.7, A. G. O.] [O.A. R. 59.] 1009. (Changed by C. A. R. Nos. 51 and 55, W. D., 1917.) Change subpara- graph 5 to read as follows : 5. When a man Is enlisted for, reenlisted in, or transferred to the Quarter- master Corps, the quartermaster who first receives him will prepare and for- ward a record card of the soldier directly to the Quartermaster General, except in the case of a man stationed in the Philippine, Hawaiian or Panama Canal Department, when the card will be sent through the department quarter- master. Quartermasters will make monthly returns of their detachments on a form to be furnished by the Quartermaster General. The returns will be forwarded to the Quartermaster General through department quartermasters, and will show the date and nature of any change affecting the status of the soldier. (C. A. R., No. 59, Aug. 10, 1917.) [315.02, A. G. O.] 1512^. (Changed by 0. A. K. Nos. 52 and 55, W. D., 1917.) Change subpara- graph 6 to read as follows : 6. When a man is enlisted for, reenlisted in, or transferred to the Ordnance Department, the supply officer who first receives him will prepare and for- ward a record card of the soldier directly to the Chief of Ordnance, except in the case of a man stationed in the Philippine, Hawaiian or Panama Canal Department, when the card will be sent through the department ordnance ofiicer. Each unit supply officer will make monthly returns of the ordnance detach- ment attached to his organization on a form to be furnished by the Chief of Ordnance. The returns will be forwarded in all cases by the unit supply officers to the Chief of Ordnance through department ordnance officers, and will show the date and nature of any change afeecting the status of the soldier. {0. A. R. No. 59, Aug. 10, 1917.) [315.02, A. G. O.] 208J. Commanding officers may, In their discretion, appoint some trustworthy persons to perform the duties of mail orderlies, to whom shall be given au- thority to receive the mail from the post office, and to sign receipts for all registered, insured, and C. O. D. mail, except such as may be restricted in de- livery by the addressee and that which the sender may have marked "Deliver to addressee only." Mail orderlies will obtain from the postmasters a copy of a bill or substitute therefor describing registered, insured, and C. O. D. mail de- livered to them, on which they will obtain the receipts of the addressees or indicate other disposition made of the mail. A copy of the bill, or substitute therefor, upon which final disposition of the mail is shown, will be filed by the mail orderly as a part of the records of the military organization. (C. .4. R., No. 59, Aug. 10, 19J-7.) 1300.31, A. G. 0.] [C.A. R.59.] The heading under Article XLII, Army Begulatlons, Is changed, and para- graph 448 J is added to the Army Regulations, as follows : Aeticle XLII. Eoute Maps, Journals of March, and Photograpliic Records. 448J. The Corps of Engineers is charged with photographic work and rec- ords pertaining to terrestrial reconnaissance, surveying, map making, map reproduction, and such special photographic work as may be assigned thereto. The Signal Corps is charged with photographic work and records pertaining to aerial reconnaissance, and such special photographic work as may be assigned thereto. The General Staff Corps is charged with photographic work and rec- ords pertaining to the military history of campaigns and of field operations in general, and for this purpose will make use of any available agency existing within the respective tactical commands, such as Engineer or Signal Corps pho- tographers, or will employ official civilian photographers therefor, as circum- stances may warrant. (C. A. R., No. 59, Aug, 10, 1917.) [004.5, A. G. O.] By oedek or the Seceetaet or Wae : TASKER H. BLISS, Major General, Acting Chief of Staff, Official : H. P. McCAIN, y/ie Adjutant General. [O. A. B. 60.] [Corrected copy with reference to par. 271, A. E.] ARMY REGULATIONS. Chakges] war department, No. 60. J AVashington, September 21, 1917. Paragraphs 193, 238, 271, 327, 630, and 733, .Vnu^ Regulations, are changed as follows: 271. (OUiiu.^^ed 1j,\- C. A. K„ No. 46, W. D., 191.«J, and No. 54, W. D., 1917.) Change the first subparagraph to read as follows : Company noncommissioned officers are appointed by regimental commanders, or in the division trains by the commander of trains, or temporarily ap- pointed by battalion commanders, under the conditions stated in paragraph 256, on the recommendation of their company commanders ; but in no case will any company organization have an excess of noncommissioned officers above that allowed by law. The noncommissioned officers of Coast Artillery Corps com- panies, upon the recommendation of the company commanders, will be appointed by coast-defense commanders. (P. .1. R., No. 80, Sept. 21, 1917.) [.322.03, A. G. O.] By okdee or the Seoretahy of War: Official ; H. P. McCAIN, The AcLjuta/nt General. H. Lr SCOTT, Major General, Chief o/ Staf}. 10. A. R. GO.] ARMY REGULATIONS. Changes 1 WAR DEPARTMENT, No. 60. J Washington, Septemher, 21, 1911. Paragraphs 19.S, 2.38, 271, 327, 630, and 733, Army Regulations, are changed as follows : 193. (Changed by C. A. R., Nos. 9, W. D.. 1914, and 44, W. D., 1916.) Sub- paragraphs 14, 15, 16, and 17 are changed r,s follows: 14. He will have charge of all matters pertaining to the instruction, in- spection, equipment, payment, qualification for appointment or promotion of officers, maneuvers, mobilization, and concentration of the National Guard of the United States In divisions assigned to his command. He will be responsible that organizations of the National Guard assigned to his com- mand, are composed of officers and men properly qualified, physically and otherwise, and that they are sufficiently armed, uniformed, equipped, and being trained and instructed for active duty in the field or coast defenses and whether records are properly kept. The adjutant general of each State, Territory, and the District of Co- lumbia, included in the territorial limits of the department, and the com- manding general of each tactical division, and the commanding officer of each unit not in division, assigned to the department, will report to the department commander under the provisions of section 66, act of Con- gress approved June 3, 1916, for the purpose of receiving instructions con- cerning the inspection, instruction, equipment, pay, qualification of officers and men, and the mobilization or concentration of the National Guard. All officers of the Regular Army on duty with the National Guard in any deparT;ment are under orders of the department commander at all times. 15. When reports of inspection of the National Guard reach a depart- ment commander tinder paragraph 892J (e), these regulations, such remedial action as is prescribed in the case of a command of the Regular Army w^ill be taken by the department commander, in so far as his control is not limited by the functions conferred by law upon the Militia Bureau and by the provisions of the national defense act, and report of remedial action taken will accompany the inspection report. The department commander will annually inspect mobilization sites, target ranges, and depots containing reserve supplies required for mobilization. In addition to the annual inspection prescribed by paragraph 8924, these regulations, the department commander will cause at least one other in- spection to bfi made during the year by the commander or the officer acting as chief of stafE or senior instructor of each division of the National Guard, or by the commander of any separate unit thereof, for all the purposes expressed in section 93 of the act of Congress approved June 3, 1916. Department commanders will order the discharge on account of physical disability of those found physically disqualified for field service. In the case of an officer, the order will state that the officer is discharged, by order of the President, on account of physical disability. IC A. R. 60.] 16. In each State, Territory, or the District of Columbia, either at a State. arsenal or storehouse or at any Army station where a storehouse is available, the amount of arms, equipment, clothing, etc., necessary to supply the difference between maximum and actual strength of each unit organized ■within the State (i. e., mobilization allowance), will be stored, being accounted for by the property and disbursing officer of the State if the State guarantees to provide adequate care and protection for such sup- plies. Whenever the inspections prescribed in section 15 develop lack of arms, clothing, equipment, etc., for the authorized strength of any organi- zation, the inspector will cause requisition to be forwarded to the proper department headquarters. The department commander is authorized to direct supply of the articles required by requesting the property and dis- bursing officer of the State to fill the requisition from the mobilization allowance referred to above. The Chief of the Militia Bureau will be in- formed by the property and disbursing officer of each such application of this mobilization allowance and will recommend steps necessary to have amounts withdrawn replaced from arsenals or supply depots. If the State have not supplies for full mobilization allow^ance, the department com- mander will forward such requisitions to the arsenals or supply depots designated by the War Department, through the Chief of the Militia Bureau. The Chief of the Militia Bureau will inform department commanders of the apportionment of funds to the States the troops of which are included within their commands and of action taken on inspections for recognition of new units. 17. He will keep himself informed, either through personal visits and inspections, or through inspections prescribed in subparagraph 15, of the progress and adequacy of armory and field instruction; he will cause officers detailed as instructors to attend all drills and exercises held by National Guard units; he will cause instruction to be given all officers of the National Guard in the methods of administration prescribed for the Army, either through correspondence schools conducted by the senior instructor in each State, or by frequent tests of all National Guard officers in discharge of such administrative duties. He will have charge of examination of candi- dates for appointment and promotion; he will, by orders to division and other commanders of the National Guard, cause boards to be convened under section 77 of the act of Congress approved June 3, 1916, the pro- ceedings, if findings be unfavorable, being forwarded to the officials author- ized to appoint the officers whose elimination is recommended; he will cause examination and authentication of pay rolls for armory service and refer- ence of such rolls, when correct, to designated disbursing officers of the Quartermaster Corps for payment, (0. A. R., No. 60, Sept. 2i, ISll.X [323.341, A. O. 0.] to. A. li. 60.] 238. Guidons for Signal Corps.— (Changed by C. A. E., No. 39, W. D., 1916.) Eacli company of the Signal Corps will have a guidon of orange silk, dimen- sions and shape same as described for Cavalry guidons; in the center on both sides of the guidon two crossed flags 6 inches square of white silk, with centers 2 inches square of scarlet silk, having staffs 15 inches in length of yeUow silk, the number of the battalion of white silk, block shaped 4i inches high, to be placed above the crossed flags, and the letter of the company, of white silk, block shaped, 4J inches high, to be placed below the crossed flags; lance same as for Cavalry guidon. Each aero squadron of the Signal Corps will have a guidon of orange silk, dimensions and shape same as described for Cavalry guidon ; in the center on both sides of the guidon the device of the Signal Corps ; the flags to be 6 inches square, made of white silk, having in the center of each a 2-inch square of scarlet silk; the crossed staffs to be 17 inches long by seven-eighths inch VFide, made of yellow silk ; the squadron number, block shaped, 4i inches high, to be placed in center above flags, 3J inches from the top, and an eagle, 16 inches spread, to be placed In center below flags, 3i inches from the bottom ; the number and eagle to be of white silk ; lance same as for Cavalry guidon. The silken guidons prescribed for mounted and telegraph companies and aero squadrons will be used only in battle, campaign, or on occasions of ceremony. Each of these organizations will also have a service guidon made of bunting or other suitable material, in shape and design the same as the silken guidon. (C. A. R., No. 60, Sept. 21, 1917.)^ [424.5, A. G. O.] 271. (Changed by C. A. R., No. 46, W. D., 1916, and No. 54, W. D., 1917.) Change the first subparagraph to read as follows: Company noncommissioned officers are appointed by regimental commanders, or in the division trains by the commander of trains, or temporarily appointed by battalion commanders, under the conditions stated in paragraph 256, on the recommendation of their company commanders ; but in no case will any company organization have an excess of noncommissioned officers above that allowed by law. The non- commissioned officers of Coast Artillery Corps companies, upon the recom- mendation of the company commanders, will be appointed by coast-defense commanders. (C. A. B., No. 60, Sept. 21, 1917.) [322.03, A. G. O.] 337. (Changed by C. A. R., No. 55, W. D., 1917.) Insert the following after the first sentence : The indebtedness of the soldier to a company fund, contracted in accordance with Post Exchange Regulations, may be collected as authorized in paragraph 345 for the collection of his indebtedness to a post exchange. (0. A. R., No. 60, Sept. 21, 1917.) [300.21, A. G. O.] 630. When an officer is. relieved from duty in a staff department at any station he will certify outstanding debts, if any, to his successor and, unless otherwise ordered, he will turn over to his successor the public money, property, books, and papers pertaining to the service from which he is relieved. He will also comply with the requirements of paragraphs 5S8 anad 902. (0. A. B., No. 60, Sept. 21, 1917.) [121.84, A. G. O.J [C. A. R. 60.] ■rSS. (Changed by C. A. R., No. 59, W. D., 1917.) (1) Change subparagraph 2 to read as follows: 2. In lieu of reimbursement for the actual expenses provided in e and / of subparagraph 1, civilian employees, when their orders so prescribe, may be allowed a flat per diem allowance not exceeding $4 when traveling, and when on duty for the first 30 days at places designated in their orders for tiie performance of temporary duty, but no per diem allowance will be allowed for temporary dvity to civilian employees who in time of actual war accompany troops in the field, nor for travel on Army transports. Such civilian, em- ployees, when their orders so prescribe, may be allowed, for days in which a status entitling them to subsistence at Government expense exists for not more than 6, 12, or 18 hours, a flat per diem allowance in lieu of subsistence of not exceeding $1, $2, or $3, respectively, each such day to be reg'arded as beginning at midnight. A statement will accompany each voucher showing the following data : Time of departure from permanent station. Time of arrival at temporary station. Time of departure from temporary station. Time of arrival at permanent station. -■■ (2) Add the following to subparagraph S: The rates of reimbursement herein authoi-ized for civilian employees while in an actual travel status, as distinguished from the allowances authorized while on temporary duty, will have application to members of the Nurse Corps when traveling under orders, except that for sea travel nurses shall be entitled to transportation and reimbursement of actual expenses as prescribed for officers in subparagraphs 4 and 5 of paragraph 1280. (C. A. B., No. 60, Sept. 21, 1911.) [300.3—155, A. G. O.] By oedek of the Secbbtabt of Wab: H. L. SCOTT, Major General, Chief of Staff. Officiai, : H. P. McCain, The Adjutant General. [C. A. E. 61.] ARMY REGULATIONS. Changes 1 ^^^ DEPARTMENT, ■ "■'■• J Washington, September 24, 191't. Paragraphs 87, 167, 878, 879, 880, 881, 882, 883, 884, 887, 888, 890, 891 892 892i, 898, 900, 901, 902, 903, 904, 906, 907, 912, and 913, and the headings above paragraphs 887 and 900, Army Regulations, are changed, and headings above paragraphs 891 and 892 are added, as follows : 87. (Changed by C. A. R. No. 10, W. D., 1914.) Change the first clause of the second sentence to read as follows : When death occurs in the United States, Alaska, or in the Panama Canal Zone. (0. A. R., No. 61, Sept 2i 1917 ) [300.31, A. G. O.] r t, ■, 167. (Changed by C. A. R. No. 10, W. D., 1917.) Change the first clause of the second sentence to read as follows : When death occurs in the United States, Alaska, or in the Panama Canal Zone. (G. A. R., No. 61, Sept 24 1917 ) [300.31, A. G. O.] • ■' 878. In the third line omit the words " general and acting inspectors gen- eral." (C. A. R., No. 61, Sept. 24, 1917.) [300.31, A. G. O.] 879. (Changed by C. A R., No. 9, W. D., 1914.) Inspectors assigned to a military command are under the immediate direction of its commanding gen- eral ; when not so assigned they are under the orders of the War Department. They will each be allowed the necessary clerks and one messenger, who will be assigned by the Secretary of War. (C. A. R., No. 61, Sept. 24, 1917.) [300.31, A. G. O.] 880. Inspectors will send direct to the Inspector General of the Army copies of all orders received by them for tours of duty, giving the probable time they will be at each place to be visited and the probable date they will return to their stations. At the close of each fiscal year the inspector assigned to a military command will submit to its commanding general a report, in duplicate, covering the operations of the Inspector General's Department within the command during the preceding year, together with such recommendations for the improvement of the service as he may deem fit. The commanding' general will forward one copy, with such remarks as he may desire to make, direct to the Inspector General of the Army, in time to reach the latter's office not later than August 10. (C. A. R., No. 61, Sept. 24, 1917.) [300.31, A. G. O.] 881. In the first line omit the words " general or acting inspector general." (C. A. R., No. 61, Sept. 24, 1917.) [300.31, A. G. O.J 883. An inspector will give orders only when specially authorized to do so. Such orders will be g'iven in the name of the commander authorizing same. (C A. R., No. 61, Sept. 24, 1917.) [300.31, A. G. C] 79733°— 18 2d [C. A. R. 61.] 883. When investigating accusations prejudicial to the character of an offi- cer, an inspector will make known to the officer their nature, and give him an opportunity to make his own statement in writing, which will be appended to to the report. Copies or extracts from an inspection report reflecting upon or commending the character or efficiency of an officer may be furnished him by the commander to whom the report is submitted. (C. A. R., No, 61, Sept. 24, 1917.) [300.31, A. G. 0.] 884. In conducting an investigation which, he has been ordered to make, an inspector is authorized to administer oaths to witnesses. (G. A. R., No. 61, Sept. 24, 1917.) [300.31, A. G. O.] 887. (Changed by C. A. R., No. 9, W. D., 1914.) Paragraph and the heading "Annual Tactical Inspections " above is rescinded. ( C. A. R., No. 61, Sept. 24, 1917.) [300.31, A. G. O.] 888. In the first and second lines omit the words " by officers of the Inspector General's Department." (O. A. R., No. 61, Sept. 24, 1917.) [300.31, A. 6. O.] 890. In the last line change the words " officer ordering " to " commander who ordered." (C. A. R., No. 61, Sept. 24, 1917.) [300.31, A. G. O.] Page 183. Add the following center heading above paragraph 891: Reports and Memorandums of Inspections. (C. A. R., No. 61, Sept. 24, 1917.) [300.31, A. G. O.] 891. The written report or memorandum of an inspection will show the place and date of the inspection, the name of the commanding officer, the organizatons inspected, and whether the irregularities and deficiencies re- ported at last inspection have been remedied; after which wUl follow a state- ment of the results of the inspection, dealing only with irregularities, defects, deficiencies, recommendations, and commendations, whereof the various items will be paragraphed and stated separately. These items will be grouped under the corps or department within whose sphere the responsibility for the condi- tions stated falls, viz : Commanding officer, Quartermaster Corps, Medical Department, etc. Special subjects which are required to be included in the report or memorandum will follow; a brief statement will be made of the various drills and exercises observed by the inspector, and the report con- cluded with an exposition of the conclusions arrived at as to the state of disci- pline and efficiency attained in garrison training and the degree of efficiency and economy exercised in garrison administration. Commanding generals should authorize inspectors to give instructions necessary to insure the correction of deficiencies and irregularities in so far as remedial action rests within the command inspected, and matters so remedied should not be included in written, reports. (C A. R., No. 61, Sept. 24, 1917.) [300.31, A. G. O.] Page 183. Add the following center heading above paragraph 892: Reports of Remedial Action. (0. A. R., No. 61, Sept. 24, 1917.) [300.31, A. G. O.] [C. A. R. 61.] 892. On completion of an inspection tlie Inspector will furnish tlie com- manding officer a written statement In duplicate, of all uncorrected irregulari- ties and deficiencies observed, one copy of which will be kept on file for the information of commanding officers and inspectors. The commanding officer, as soon as practicable, will submit, through military channels, to the com- mander who ordered the inspection^ the other copy of this statement, with a report (or indorsement) showing what remedies he has applied or will apply to correct each of the irregularities and defects, and will recommend action with regard to those that he has not the power or authority to remedy. These reports of remedial action will be considered in connection with the inspec- tion reports or raemoranduins to which they pertain and will be disposed of as indicated for the latter in paragraph 900. At an arsenal, depot, or station not under the supervision of the commander of a department, division, Army corps, or Army in the fi.eld, the inspector will furnish a like statement, and the commanding officer will forward a copy thereof, with his report of remedial action, through the chief of bureau, to The Adjutant General of the Army. (See paragraph 900 (f).) Reports of remedial action pertaining to Army transports will be for- warded to the department commander. (C. A. R., No. 61, Sept. 24, 1917.) [300.31, A. G. O.] 8921/2. (Added by C. A. R., No. 48, W. D., 1916.) Change subparagraph (e) to read as follows: (e) Reports of these inspections will be forwarded to the department com- mander, who will examine them with a view to the detection of errors and Incompleteness, and correction of the same by the responsible inspectors, and then forward them direct to the Chief of the Militia Bureau. See paragraph 193, subparagraph 15.' (C. A. R., No. 61, Sept. 24, 1917.) [300.31, A. G. O.] 898. In the fourth line omit the word "previously." (C. A. B., No. 61, Sept. 24, 1917.) [300.31, A. G. C] Page 185. Change the center heading "Reports" over paragraph 900 to "Action on Reports and Memorandums of Inspections." (C. A. R., No. 61, Sept. 24, 1917.) [300.31, A. G. C] [C. A. E. 61.] 900. (Changed by C. A. R., No. 55, W. D., 1917.) (a) The results of in- spections will be cotninunicated by inspectors to the commanders who or- dered them, orally or in writing, as the latter may direct; and all written, reports and memorandums of inspections, except of mine planters, cable- ships. Army transports, and money accounts of disbursing ofia.cers, after remedial action has been taken by the commander who ordered the inspec- tion, will be filed in the office of his inspector. When a report or memo- randum of an inspection to be so filed contains any specially favorable or unfavorable mention of an officer, any special subjects required by higher authority to be included therein, or any matter beyond the power or au- thority of the commander who ordered the inspection to remedy, he will forward a memorandum or report containing an extract or extracts thereof and of the inspector's " conclusions " (par. 891) to the next higher com- mander. Extracts of matters requiring action of the "War Department, of special subjects required by War Department instructions to be included in inspection reports or memorandums, of inspector's " conclusions," and of all favorable and unfavorable mention of officers will be forwarded by the highest commander in the chain to The Adjutant General of the Army. (B) In the case of mine planters and cable ships, the complete report of inspection and report of remedial action, together with recommendations, will be forwarded to The Adjutant General of the Army by the commander who ordered the inspection. (c) Reports of inspections of -Army transports, together with reports of remedial action (par. 892), will be forwarded by the department com- mander to The Adjutant General of the Army. (d) Reports of inspections of money accounts of disbursing officers, without the lists of checks outstanding, will, after the necessary action has been taken thereon, be forwarded by commanders to The Adjutant General of the Army. If the disbursing officer is serving at an arsenal, depot, or station not under supervision of the commander of a department, division. Army corps, or Army in the field, the report will be sent by the inspector direct to the Inspector General of the Army. (e) Reports of - inspections of arsenals, depots, stations, etc., not under the supervision of commanders of departments, divisions Army corps, or armies in the field will be forwarded by the inspectors direct to the In- spector General of the Army. (/) The Adjutant General of the Army will send all reports and memo- randums of inspections and all reports of remedial action pertaining to same, received in his office under the provisions of this paragraph, to the Inspector General of the Army, who will take up with a view to necessary action all matters therein which require correction. All reports and memo- randums of inspections referred to in this paragraph, except as indicated in subparagraph (a), all reports of tactical inspections under paragraph 193, subparagraph 7, and paragraph 194, subparagraph 5 and all reports of remedial action pertaining to same, will be filed in the Office of the Inspector General. (C. A. B., No. 61, Sept. 24, 1917.) [300.31, A, G. 0,] [C. A. K. 61.] 901. Inspectors will inquire as to the necessity, economy, and propriety of all disbursements, their strict conformity to the law appropriating the money, and whether the disbursing officers comply with the law in keeping their accounts and making their deposits. A statement of receipts and expenditures and of the distribution of funds, with lists of outstanding checks, on forms furnished by the Inspector General of the Army, will be submitted by the dis- bursing officer to the inspector, who should immediately transmit the lists of outstanding checks to the several depositaries. Upon return from a depositary balances will be verified and noted on the inspection report, which will then be forwarded, without the lists of outstanding checks, to the Inspector General of the Army (paragraph 900 (d)"). The lists of outstanding checks will be filed in the inspector's oflace. (0. A. R., No. 61, Sept. U, 1917.) [300.31, A. G. O.] 902. When an officer ceases to act as a disbursing officer, or for any reason closes his accounts, he will prepare a closing statement of his money accounts from date of last inspection to and including the closing of his accounts, with a list of outstanding checks, which, will be forwarded by his commanding' officer or by himself if there is no commanding officer at his station, direct to the office to which the inspection of his accounts has been assigned. He will also comply with the requirements of paragraphs 588 and 630. (G. A. R., No. 61, Sept. 24, 1917.) [300.31, A. G. C] 903. Except as provided in paragraph 717, inspections having In view the condemnation of property will be made by inspectors general or acting inspec- tors general, or by officers designated by the commander of a department, an independent brigade, a division, or higher administrative unit. (C. A. B., No. 61, Sept. 24, 1917.) [300.31, A. G. 0.] 904. In the third and fourth lines change the words " Inspector General or Acting Inspector General " to " inspector," and in the fifth line omit the word " pressing." (C. A. R., No. 61, Sept. 24, 1917.) [300.31, A. G. 0.] 906. Inspectors will examine all property presented for condemnation. When all property presented has been destroyed, the two copies of the inven- tory and inspection report will be delivered by the inspecting officer to the accountable officer. In cases in which the inspector recommends the sale of property, or its transfer to depots, he will send both copies of the inventory and inspection report direct to the stafE officer concerned (department quarter- master, division surgeon, etc.) at the headquarters of the department, inde- pendent brigade, division, or higher administrative unit, and if the in- spector's action is approved by the commander of same, both copies will be returned to the accountable officer ; and in similar cases when the accountable officer is not serving under the commander of a department, an independent brigade, a division, or higher administrative unit, the inspecting officer will forward' both copies of the inventory and inspection report direct to the chief of bureau or corps to which the property pertains for the action of the War Department, and both copies will be returned to the accountable officer. (C. A: R., No. 61, Sept. 24, 1917.) [SOO-.S-l, A. G, 0.] [C. A. R. 61.] 907. (Changed by C. A. R., Nos. 30 and 37, W. D., 1915.) Change the part beginning in the twenty-fourth line and ending in the thirty-second line to read as follows: Chiefs of bureaus and the Chief of Coast Artillery will keep commandiiig generals informed, by War Department orders, special regu- lations, or approved memoranda, of the most advantageous method — in- cluding designation of the depots and arsenals to which the several classes of articles " to be turned in to depot " are to be shipped — of disposing of the various classes of unserviceable property pertaining to their respective corps or department, and particularly with reference to guns and their carriages or mounts, ammunition for cannon, electrical and mechanical installations and appliances forming part of the permanent seacoast defenses, surgical and scientific instruments, medicines, typewriters, i,ele- scopes, telephones, expensive electrical or aeronautical apparatus, sub- marine-mine cable, etc. These orders and memoranda will serve as guides to inspectors, surveying officers, staff officers, and commanders concerned. (0. A. R., No. 61, Sept. 2^, 1917.) [300.31, A. G. O.] 913. The commander of a department, an independent brigade, a division^ or higher administrative unit, may give orders, on the reports of authorized inspectors, to make such disposition of condemned property as the case may require, except public buildings, for which the order of the Secretary of War is required. If the property be of considerable value and there be good reason to suppose that it can be more advantageously applied or disposed of elsewhere than within the command, the report will be forwarded by the commander direct to the chief of the bureau or corps to which the property pertains for the action of the War Department. (C. A. B., No. 61, Sept. 24, 1917.) [300.31, A. G. O.] 913. (Changed by C. A. R., No. 55, W. D., 1917.) Rescinded. (C. A. R., No. 61, Sept. 24, 1917.) [300.31, A. G. O.] Bt oedee of the Secretabt op Wab: TASKER H. BLISS, Major General, Chief of Staff. Ofpiciai, : H. P. McCain, The Adjutant General, [0. A. E. 62.] ARMY REGULATIONS. Changes 1 ^^j^ DEPARTMENT, °- ^^- J Washington, November 5, 1917. Paragraphs 119, 120, 124, 125, 126i, 238i, 707, 1077, 1296, and 1562, Army Regulations, are changed and paragraph 1259^ is added to the Army Regula- tions, as follows : 119. This paragraph, as published In C. A. R., No. 58, W. D., 1917, is re- scinded, and is reestablished as published in Army Regulations, 1913, corrected to April 15, 1917. (0. A. R., No. 62, Nov. 5, 1917.) [251,A. G. O.] 120. (Rescinded by C. A. R., No. 58, W. D., 1917.) Reestablished as pub- lished in Army Regulations, 1913, corrected to April 15, 1917. (G. A. B , No. 62 Nov. 5, 1917.) [251, A. G. O.] 134. (Rescinded by O. A. R., No. 58, W. D., 1917.) Reestablished as pub- lished in Army Regulations, 1913, corrected to April 15, 1917. (O. A. B., No. 62, Nov. 5, 1917.) [251, A. G. O.] 125. (Changed by C. A. R., No. 58, W. D., 1917.) The third and fourth sub- paragraphs are rescinded. (0. A. B., No. 62, Nov. 5, 1917.) [251, A. G. O.] 136J. (Changed by C. A. R., No. 58, W. D., 1917.) When a deserter or escaped general prisoner surrenders or is delivered at a military post or sta- tion, or to a command in the field, the commanding officer thereof wlU Imme- diately send to The Adjutant General of.the Army a report, on the form pro- vided for that purpose, stating whether the deserter or general prisoner sur- rendered or was apprehended, the date and place of surrender or apprehension, and the date and place of his return to military control. If the man escaped from the United States Disciplinary Barracks or one of its branches, or from a United States penitentiary, instructions as to his disposition will be given from the office of The Adjutant General of the Army. If he was sentenced to confinement at the United States Disciplinary Barracks or one of its branches, or at a United States penitentiary and escaped before reaching there, instruc- tions as to his disjMJsition will also be given from the office of The Adjutant General of the Army, except when the man is returned to military control in the same department in which he escaped, in which event his disposition will be left with the department commander. In all other cases- the action necessary will be taken by the proper post or department commander. (C. A. B., No. 62, Hov. 5, 1917.) [251, A. G. 0.] [C. A. R. 62.] 338^. (Added by C. A. R. No. 39, W. D., 1916.) Guidons foe Field Hos- pitals, Ambttlancb Companies, and Aemt Ambulance Service Companies. — Eaoh field hospital, eacli ambulance company, and each. Army ambulance service company of the Medical Department will have a guidon of maroon silk, dimensions and shape same as described for Cavalry guidons; In the center, on both sides of the guidon, the device of the Medical Department, a caduceus made of vfhite silk, 12:i inches high; the field hospital, ambulance company or Army ambulance service company number to be placed above the caduceus, IJ inches from the top, and the letters " F. H." for field hospital, "A. C." for ambulance company, and "A. A. S." for Army ambulance serv- ice company to be placed below the caduceus, IJ inches from the bottom ; figures and letters to be of white silk, block shaped, 41 inches high ; lance same as for Cavalry guidon. The silken guidons will be used only in. battle, cam- paign, -or on occasions of ceremony. Bach field hospital, ambulance company and Army ambulance service company will also have a service guidon, made of bunting or other suitable material, in shape and design the same as the silken guidon. (0. A. B., No. 62, Nov. 5, 1917.) [424.5, A. G. O.] 707. Permanent barracks, quarters, or other buildings, or piers or wharves, will not be erected or constructed except by the order of the Secretary of War, and in accordance with plans approved by him ; nor vsdll any material altera- tions be made in public buildings unless -like authority is first obtained; nor will any expenditure exceeding $5,000 be made upon any building or military post or grounds about the same without the approval of the Secretary of War, upon detailed estimates submitted to him. {G. A. R., No. 62, Nov. 5, 1917.) [600.1, A. G. O.] 1077. (Changed by C. A. R. No. 15, W. D., 1914, and No. 21, W. D., 1915.) Change the last subparagraph to read as follows : The commanding officer may in his discretion vary the proportions of the com- ponents of the ration (1 pound of grain, 2 pounds of hay, and 2 pounds of straw being taken as equivalents), and in the field may substitute other recognized articles of forage obtained locally, the variation or the substitution not to exceed the money value of the components of the ration at the contract rates in effect at the time of change. (G. A. R., No. 62, Nov. 5, 1917.) [464, A. G. O.] 12591. An officer about to embark for service beyond the sea or already on over-sea service who does not desire to dispose of his pay accounts as pre- scribed in paragraph 1259, may make an allotment of pay for the support of his family or dependent relatives, the difference between the amount so allotted and the total pay due to be drawn by the officer at the place where he is serv- ing. This allotment must be in an amount less than the sum of the officer's monthly base and longevity pay, and the difference between the total pay due him and the amount allotted will be drawn at the station where he is serving on a pay account prepared to cover the total pay due with the notation: "Deduct for allotment $ " All allotments of pay will be paid by the depot quartermaster; Washington, D. C, as they accrue if the casualty list, stoppage circular, or other report shows no bar to payment. An officer desiring to make an allotment of pay as herein provided will state his allotment on Quartermaster Corps Form No. 38a, which will be forwarded directly to the depot quartermaster, Washington, D. C, if the officer is under [C. A. R. 62.] orders for over-sea duty. The depot quartermaster will immediately notify the chief quartermaster or department quartermaster where the officer is to serve of the amount of the allotment and the period thereof. In cases of officers under orders to proceed to Alaska or for service with an independent brigade or division, the notification will be sent directly to the quartermaster where the officer is to serve. If the officer is at an over-sea station when the allotment is made, he will forward the allotment form to the depot quartermaster, Washington, D. C, through the chief quartermaster or department quarter- master where he is serving, who will make record of the same. Should the allotment form not be available, the officer may make his allotment in the form of a letter reading: I hereby allot $ of my pay per month for months, commencing the 1st day of to , who is my , and whose address is Should the officer desire to have the amount of the allotment placed to the credit of his allottee with a bank, he will amplify his letter accordingly, giv- ing the name and location of the bank. This letter should be forwarded in the same manner as is herein provided for the regular allotment form. An officer who has disposed of his pay accounts as prescribed in paragraph 1259 and who desires to substitute an allotment of pay therefor, should, in forwarding his allotment, request the return of said pay accounts. The pay accounts will be returned by the depot quartermaster through the proper quartermaster where the officer is serving. Allotments of pay for purposes other than the support of families or de- pendent relatives, or by officers stationed within the continental limits of the United States, will not be permitted except when specially authorized by the Secretary of War, but this will not be construed as requiring discontinuance of allotment of an officer who is temporarily on duty in the United States or there on leave of absence from an over-sea station. Should an officer desire to discontinue an allotment prior to the expiration of the period for which originally made, he will notify the depot quartermaster, Washington, D. C, specifying the date, which will be the last day of a month, on which he desires the discontinuance to take effect. This notification will be sent through the channels herein prescribed for forwarding allotments, and when practicable will be mailed sufficiently in advance of the date of discon- tinuance to insure receipt by the depot quartermaster before said date. In case there is any doubt as to the discontinuance being received through the mails prior to the date specified therein, the officer, at the time of mailing the discontinuance, will notify the depot quartermaster by telegraph of the date of diseontiuuance, such telegrams to be paid for by the officer. The depot quartermaster will acknowledge the receipt of all requests for discontinuance of allotments. It shall be the duty of the immediate commanding officer of any officer who assumes a status which deprives him of pay to ascertain whether the officer has an allotment; and if so, to report the matter to the commanding general of the department or forces with which the officer is serving, who will notify The Adiutant General of the Army by telegraph to discontinue allotment, or to suspend further payments if the facts do not caU for total discontinuance. (C. A. R., No. 62, Nov. 5, 1917.) [243, A. G. 0.] [C. A. R. 62.] 1296. The following are entitled to mileage to their first stations: Officers of the Medical Department, members of the Officers' Reserve Corps, and contract surgeons ordered to active service, from place of residence; gradu- ates ojc the United States Military Academy, from their homes; officers ap- pointed from the ranks, from place of discharge as enlisted men. (C. A. B., Ho. 62, Nov. 5, 1917.) [300.31, A. G. O.] 1562. (Changed by C. A. R. No. 23, W. D., 1915.) Department, division, and brigade commanders will require of all organizations of their commands such instruction in visual signaling as may be necessary for the service of informa- tion within their commands. Ten per cent of the enlisted men of each organi- zation to which signal equipm.ent is issued will be required to send and receive messages at the following rates of speed: (a) with 2-foot flag, general service code, three combinations of five mixed letters each, per minute, over a distance of at least a mile ; ( 6 ) with semaphore flags, two-arm semaphore code, eight combinations of flve mixed letters each, per minute, over a distance of at least five hundred yards. (C. A. R. No. 62, Nov. 5, 1917.) [413.77, A. G. O.] By obdee or the Seceetaby op Wae : OrnciAii : H. P. McCain, The Adjutant Qeneral. JOHN BIDDLE, Major Qeneral, Acting Chief of Staff. [C. A. R. 63.] ARMY REGULATIONS. Changes 1 WAR DEPARTMENT, No. 63. j Washington, November 21, 1917. Paragraphs 329, 561, 1545, and 1557, Army Regulations, are changed as follows : 329. (Changed by C. A. R. No. 58, W. D., 1917.) Extra compensation may be paid to enlisted men from company or general mess funds as follows: From a company fund, 25 cents a day to one private detailed on special duty as assist- ant cook for a company whose authorized strength is fixed at 100 or more enlisted men and only two cooks authorized by law ; from a general mess fund, not exceeding $2 a day, or from the general mess fund of a recruit depot, not exceeding $3 a day, to be apportioned by the mess council among the necessary regular attendants, or where statutory cooks are not provided at the ratio of one cook for 50 men or major fraction thereof, or in the absence from their duty of cooks so provided, the deficiency may be supplied by the detail of privates, or privates, first class, to duty as assistant cooks and extra compensation at the rate of 25 cents a day may be paid from, a com- pany fund, or from a general mess fund to the enlisted men so detailed; but no extra compensation from company or general mess funds shall be paid to any soldier holding the statutory grade of cook, or mess sergeant. Of this $2 (or $3 at recruit depots) the mess council may aUot to the mess steward (who may be a noncommissioned officer) a per diem of 50 cents, and in addition thereto a share of the remaining $1.50 (or $2.50 at recruit depots). One cook of a company and such of the regular attendants of a general mess as the commanding officer may designate will be inspected and mustered in the kitchen or mess hall. Cooks may be excused from the ordinary post duties and from target practice, but the attendants may be excused from the ordinary post duties only. In case the mess stewards and cooks at recruit depots are graduates of the schools for bakers and cooks, extra-duty pay will be paid to them by the Quartermaster Corps at the following rates, approved by the Secretary of War : To mess stewards, $1 a day, and to cooks, 50 cents a day, and they will receive no further extra compensation. (C. A. B. No. 63, Nov. 27, 1917.) [242.13, A. G. O.] 561. All contracts will be executed in triplicate. One number is for the Auditor for the War Department, one for the head of the bureau to which the contract pertains, and one for the contractor. Two copies will be made, one for the contracting officer, and the other for the Returns Office of the De- partment of the Interior. When the contracting officer is not the disbursing officer, an additional copy will be made and sent to the disbursing officer. (C. A. R. No. 63, Nov. 27, 1917.) [300.31, A. G. O.] [0. A. R. 63.] 1545. After packing arms or ordnance stores for sUpment, the covers and bottoms of the arm chests and packing boxes will, if possible, be sealed with wax and stamped with an official mark by the officer responsible. The lid will be secured by sci-'ews, at least two of which will be sealed. Each board on top and bottom will have at least one sealed screw. The screw heads will be coun- tersunk to a depth sufficient to protect the wax seal from injury. For over- sea shipments, all boxes and crates will be properly strapped with wire or hoop iron. Boxes containing arms and other valuable stores will be sealed prior to shipment from ordnance establishments in accordance with special instruc- tions from the Chief of Ordnance. (C. A. R. No. 63, Nov. 27, 1917.) [457.8, A. G. O.] 1557. (Changed by C. A. E. Nos. 8 and 12, W. D., 1914.) Men may be en- listed for the Signal Corps, at the discretion of the Chief Signal Officer of the Army, in the class or grade for which they are competent and in which there is a vacancy. They will be promoted and reduced in the class or grade, as fixed by law, by the Chief Signal Officer of the Army, or by his authority. Master signal electricians, sergeants, first class, sergeants, corporals, cooks, and privates, first class, may be reenlisted for the Signal Corps in their respective grades, and their warrants and appointments continued in force, if reenlistment be made on the day following that of discharge. Each reenlistment and con- tinuance will be noted on the warrant or appointment. If, except in the cases of men on duty in the Philippine and Hawaiian Departments, the officer imder whom the soldier is serving does not deem the continuance in force of the warrant or appointment to be for the best interests of the service, he will make a report in detail to The Adjutant General of the Army, through military channels, not less than three months prior to expiration of the soldier's term of service, in order that a decision may be made before the date of discharge and the soldier notified thereof. A similar report vrtll be made to the com- manding generals, Philippine and Hawaiian Departments, respectively, with regard to Signal Corps men stationed in those departments. Married men may be reenlisted in the Signal Corps upon permission for such reenlistment being granted by the Chief Signal Officer of the Army, or a signal officer to whom the Chief Signal Officer of the Army has dele- gated authority for granting such permission. (0. A. R. No. 63, Nov. 27, 1917.) [300.31, A. G. O.] By okdek of the Secketaey or Wae : JOHN BIDDLB, Major General, Acting Chief of Staff. Official : H. P. McCain, The Adjutant General, [O. A. K. 64.] ARMY REGULATIONS. Changes 1 WAR DEPARTMENT, No. 64. J Washington, December 13, 1917. Paragraphs 159, 160, 161, 464, 465, 466, 467, 468, 469, and 470, and the title of Article XLV, Army Regulations, are changed, and paragraph 4644 is added, as follows : 159. (Changed by C. A. R., No. 13, W. D., 1914.) When an enUsted man becomes unfitted for military service because of wounds or disease, a cer- tificate of disability for discharge will be prepared by the soldier's imme- diate commanding officer and forwarded to a board of at least two medical officers convened by the post or reg'imental commander, which will criti- cally examine the soldier and enter on the certificate the data, required in. paragraph 161. If the board recommends the discharge of the soldier, the post or regimental commander will forward the certificate of disability with his recommendations thereon to the department or division com- mander for his action. Commands that are ordinarily exempted from the control of department or division commanders will forward such papers to the commander of the department within the territorial limits of which the command is located for his action. If the enlisted man is found to be permanently unfitted for military service he should, if practicable, be discharged on certificate of disability before the expiration of the term of service in which the disability was incurred. (0. A. R., No. 64, Dec. 13, 1917.) [046.3, A. 8. O.] 160. When the certificate of disability for discharge has been approved and the discharge ordered the post or regimental commander will sign the soldier's discharge certificate; see that the soldier is furnished with the proper fijial statements in duplicate, and forward the certificate of disability directly to The Adjutant General of the Army. He will furnish to the surgeon of the command to which the soldier was attached at the time of his discharge a letter setting forth the full name and rank of the soldier, the company and regiment to which he belonged, the date of discharge, and the cause thereof as stated in the certificate. The surgeon, having made a true copy of the letter for the completion of his own records, will forward the original directly to the Surgeon General. (C. A .R., No. 64, Dec. IS, 1917.) [046.3, A. G. O.] 161. Omit the last sentence. (G. A. R., No. 64, Dec. 13, 1917.) [046.3, A. G. O.] ARTICLE XLV. Cake, Treatment, and Disposal of the Insane. 464. The following classes of persons are entitled by law to admission to St. Elizabeths Hospital, Washington, D. C: (1) Officers, contract surgeons, and enlisted men of the Army who have become insane while in the military service, or within three years after their discharge therefrom, from causes which arose during and were incident to such service; (2) inmates of the Soldiers' Home and of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers; (3) civilian employees of the Quartermaster Corps who may become insane during such employment; (4) general prisoners; (5) interned persons and [0. A. R. 64.] prisoners of war, under the jurisdiction of the War Department, who are or may become insane. The Secretary of War is authorized by law to transfer from any military hospital to the nearest available public hospital for the care of the insane any insane patient who is in need of treatment, preference being given to the hospital nearest to the place of the patient's enlistment. The super- intendent of such public hospital has the right to retain the aforementioned cla^s of patients in his hospital in the same manner and to the same extent as now possessed by the superintendent of St. Elizabeths Hospital. The Secretary of War is also authorized by law, during the existing emergency, to transfer to the various public hospitals for the care of the insane, patients of every class entitled to treatment in St. Elizabeths Hospital and that are admitted on order of the Secretary of War. The War Depart- ment will from time to time advise department coinmanders and others concerned of the public hospitals designated by the Secretary of War to receive insane patients transferred under this authority. (0. A. R., No. 64. Dec. 13, 1917.) [046.3, A. G. O.] 464J. Applicants for enlistment and drafted men who are found to be insane after arrival at depot, post, or camp, and before the completion of their enlistment by oath, muster in, or otherwise, will be disposed of as follows: (1) Those whose liberation will be unattended by danger to them.- selves or others will be rejected and disposed of under the regulations governing the disposal of other rejected recruits; (2) those whose insanity is of a type that w^ould probably make their liberation a source of danger to themselves or others will be delivered to the civil authorities authorized by law to apply for the commitment of insane persons, of the place where they applied for enlistment or whence they were drafted. The depot, post, or camp commander will provide the necessary escort for such delivery, and issue the necessary travel orders, transportation, and subsistence (in kind or by commutation as may be most suitable). A similar procedure will be followed in the case of civilian employees of the Quartermaster Corps who are found to have been insane before the beginning of their employment. (0. A. B., No. 64, Dec. 13, 1917.) 1046.3, A. G. O.] 465. (Changed by C. A. R., No. 46, W. D., 1916.) Except as provided in paragraph 467 of theje regulations the insane of the military service enumerated in paragraph 464 w^ho require treatment in institutions for the insane will be promptly transferred to the institutions designated to receive them respectively. * No person will be transferred under the provisions of this paragraph except after a critical examination by a board of at least two medical officers, of whom one shall, if practicable, be a specialist in nervous and mental diseases. The examination will preferably be made in hospital, and in the special ward for nervous and mental diseases, should there be one; and the board will not make its report until after the person being examined shall have been observed for a reasonable period of time. The report will give the diagnosis, a detailed account of the medical history of the case, and a statement as to whether the disability was or was not incurred in line of duty ; also a statement as to whether the patient, if discharged from the service, can be released from military control without danger to himself or others, and the board's recommendation for or against the patient's transfer for treatment to such designated institution; all papers to be executed in duplicate. [0. A. R. 64.] Shonld the board recommeiid the patient's transfer for treatment to a designated institution, its report and all papers therewith and the medical certificate required by the Department of the Interior (blank form for which is furnished by The Adjutant General of the Army) properly filled in will be forwarded for the action of the department or division com- mander, who will, if he approves the transfer, issue the necessary orders therefor and for such escort, transportation, and subsistence as may be required. Commands that are ordinarily exempted from the control of department and division commanders will forward such papers to the commander of the department within the territorial limits of which the command is located, for his action. The department or division commander will send one copy of the board's report and the medical certificate to the institution to which the patient is transferred, and will forward the second copy of the board's report, etc., with a note thereon of his action, to The Adjutant General of the Army. If the patient so recommended is an enlisted man, the record, and the report of the board of examining medical officers, will be prepared on the certificate of disability blank form in duplicate, accompanied by the neces- sary attached papers, and, in the event that his transfer is ordered, he will be discharged from the service on account of disability. (0. A. R., No. 64, Dec. 13, 1917.) [046.3, A. G. O.] 466. (Changed by C. A. R., No. 13, W. D., 1914; No. 22, W. D., 1915; and No. 55, W. D., 1917.) Upon the departure of the insane patient his immediate commanding officer will make and sign an inventory, in duplicate, of his effects, and will send one copy of the inventory, together with his money and other valu- ables by registered mail, to the superintendent of the institution to which he is transferred, retaining the other copy for the records of the command. The other effects of the patient, such as clothing, will accompany him as baggage. ITpon the patient's departure the commanding officer will by telegraph advise the institution thereof and of the time when the patient will be due to arrive. (G. A. R., No. 64, Deo. 13, 1917.) [046.3, A. G. O.] 467. The insane of the military service in the Philippine and Hawaiian Islands, who appear to require treatment in institutions for the insane, except natives, will be sent by the department commanders to Letterman General Hospital, San Francisco, Cal., for observation in that hospital, before action is taken in their cases in accordance with the provisions of paragraphs 465 and 470. The insane in the Canal Zone and among other forces overseas will in like mahner be sent to an Army hospital in home country near the suitable home port of the Army Transport Service for observation preliminary to similar action. Insane natives of the Philippine Islands and Porto Rico serving in the Army of the United States may, under authority of the Secretary of War, be sent to asylums in the Philippine Islands and Porto Rico, respectively. (C. A. R., No. 64, Dec. IS, 1917.) [046.3, A. G. O.] 468. Army patients committed to institutions for the insane under these paragraphs will, when cured, be released from custody under the laws and regulations governing the release of other cured patients. To obtain the release of an Army patient who is not cured, or his delivery to the care of friends, application must be made therefor to The Adjutant General of the [C. A. E. 64.] 4: Army, accompanied by the recommendation, of the superintendent of the institution. (G. A. B., No. 64, Dec. IS, 1917.) [046.3, A. G. O.] 469. The insane who do not require treatment in institutions for the insane will, unless permanently incapacitated for military service, be re- tained under military control. If they are permanently incapacitated for service and can be liberated without danger to themselves or others they will be discharged on certificate of disability. In case it is necessary to send a soldier to his home with an attendant he should not be discliarged until he reaches his destination. (C. A. R., No. 64, Dec. 13, 1917.) [046.3, A. G. O.] 470. An enlisted man who requires treatment in an institution for the insane by reason of insanity existing before his enlistment is not entitled under paragraph 464 to be cared for at the expense of the United States. Each such case will nevertheless be examined and reported on in the same manner as the cases referred to in paragraph 464, The conclusions of the board being approved by the authority who is to take final action thereon, the soldier will be discharged for disability, and the following procedure had: His immediate commanding officer will communicate with his family or friends, with the civil authorities authorized by law to apply for the commitment of insane persons of the State where he was enlisted or whence he was drafted, and with the like civil authorities of the State which he claims as his home, to ascertain whether they will receive and care for the man at their own expense. Should they agree to do so, the man will be sent under proper escort to the family or friends, or to the local authorities mentioned, as may be appropriate. Should they refuse to take charge of him the soldier will be sent to a designated public hospital for the insane pending the determination of what civil authorities are legally required to assume his care and treatment. Upon the soldier's departure his com- manding officer will by telegraph advise the hospital thereof and of the time the soldier will be due to arrive. Whichever action is taken, the effects of the soldier will be inventoried as under paragraph 467; his money and valuables will be secured for dis- position as indicated below; and his other effects, such as clothing, sent with him as baggage to his destination. In case his family or friends or the local committing authorities agree to receive him, they will be advised that his money and valuables are subject to the orders of the person legally authorized to receive the same in the insane man's behalf upon presenta- tion of proof of such authority. In case he is sent to a designated public hospital for the insane pending the determination of what civil authorities are ultimately chargeable with his care, his money and valuables will be sent by registered mail to the superintendent of such hospital, accompanied by one copy of the inventory. Full report of the action taken in each such case will be made to The Adjutant General of the Army. (0. A. R., No. 64, Dec. IS, 1917.) [046.3, A. G. 0.] By ORpBK OF THE SeCBETABY OF Wab : JOHN BIDDLE, Major General, Acting Chief of Staff. Official : H. P. McCAIN, The Adjutant General. [C. A. R. 65.] ARMY REGULATIONS. Changes 1 • WAU DEPARTMENT, ^°- ^-^^ J Washington, December 20, 1917. Paragraphs 1146, 1161^, and 1168^, Army Regulations, are rescinded, para- graphs 104, 115, 117, 129, 681-A, 693, 911, 938, 939, 1023, 1157, 1158, 1159, 1160, 1161, 1162, 1163, 1164, 1165, 1166, 1167, 1168, 1170, 1535, and 1536 are changed, and paragraphs 681-0 and 681-P are added, as follows : 104.- (Changed by C. A. R. No. 55, W. D., 1917.) When an enlisted man is detached from his company his service record with individual equipment record will be forwarded by indorsement to his new commanding officer. When it can be avoided, the service record will not be intrusted to the soldier, but to an officer or noncommissioned officer under whose Charge he may be, or 1^ may be forwarded by mail. (0. A. R. No. 65, Dec. 20, 1917.) [400.3501, A. G. O.] 115. (Changed by C. A. R. No. 55, W. D., 1917.) A transfer will take effect on the date of the receipt of the order at the post where the soldier is serving, and the soldier's service record showing that date, and the individual equi- ment record, will be forwarded to the commanding officer of the company or detachment to which he is transferred. (0. A. R. No. 65, Dec. 20, 1917.) [400.3501, A. G. O.] 117. (Changed by C. A. R. No. 23, W. D., 1915, and No. 58, W. D,, 1917.) Clothing and individual mess equipment of a deserter will be collected and turned in to the unit or other supply officers, who will take up the arti- cles on property returns as required by paragraph 681— P. All other per- sonal effects of a deserter will be disposed of as in the case of unclaimed effects of deceased soldiers — i. e., they will be sold by a summary court and the pro- ceeds of the sale deposited with a quartermaster (par. 163). In no case will the money or proceeds of the sale of effects of a deserter be turned over to his relatives, nor any payment made therefrom by an officer on any account whatsoever. The quartermaster's receipt for the money deposited as above should clearly specify the nature of the deposit — i. e., whether for the proceeds of sale of effects or whether for the undrawn pay of a soldier who has deserted — and the officer responsible should furnish the quartermaster with the necessary infor- mation. Money or valuables found upon an apprehended deserter are his per- sonal property and will not be turned over to a quartermaster. (C A. R. No. 65, Dec. 20, 1917.) [400.3501, A. G. O.] 139. Deserters will be brought to trial with the least practicable delay. While awaiting trial they will receive no pay, nor will they be permitted to sign pay rolls, and will be required to wear the clothes worn at the time of arrest, unless it should be imperative to issue other clothing, when, as far as practicable, unserviceable clothing will be issued. (C. A. R. No. 65, Dec. 20, 1917.) [400.3501, A. G. O.] 79733°— 18 30 [C. A. K. 65.] 681-A. (Added by C. A. R. No. 56, W. D., 1917.) Add the following: An accurate account of all equipment, including clothing, issued to the enlisted man, will be kept by the battery, troop, company, or detachment commander on Form No. 637, A. G. O., individual equipment record. • (O. A. R. No. 65, Dec. 20, 1917.) [400.3501, A. G. O.] 681—0. When an enlisted man is transferred or detached from his company or detacliment, receipts for the articles of personal equipment or other public property, except clothing and individual mess equipment, ' which he carries with him or for which he is indebted to the United States at the time, will be prepared in duplicate on Form No. 600, A. G. O., and signed by the company or detachment commander as receiving officer, a separate set being prepared fot each supply department concerned. The articles entered on receipt, in- cluding missing articles, will correspond to the articles shown on individual equipment record. The name of the accountable officer and the name and destination of the soldier will be shown on the receipts. The duplicate receipts will constitute the vouchers on which the accountable officer will drop from his, return the articles enumerated. The accountable officer will forward, im- mediately in the case of ordnance equipment and with the return in other cases, one copy of the duplicate receipt to the chief of the bureau to which the prop- erty pertains, keeping the other for file with the retained copy of his return. He will furnish the company or detachment commander vrith a memorandum receipt credit slip listing the articles dropped and showing the name of the enlisted man. On arrival of the enlisted man at his destination the new company or de- tachment commander will prepare and sign invoices in duplicate on Form No. 600, A. G. O., of the articles, except clothing and individual mess equipment, appearing on the man's individual equipment record, a separate set being pre- pared for each supply department concerned. The Invoices will give the en- listed man's nnme, his company or detachment, and the station from which he was transferred or detached. The duplicate invoices will constitute the vouchers on which the new accountable officer will take up on his return the articles enumerated. The accountable officer will forward, immediately in the case of ordnance equipment and with the return in other cases, one copy to the chief of the bureau to which the property pertains, keeping the other for file with the retained copy of his return. He will furnish the company commander with a memorandum receipt debit slip listing the articles taken up and showing the name of the enlisted man. All articles missing on arrival will be charged against the enlisted man in the usual manner. When enlisted men are transferred in detachments, company or detachment commanders will prepare duplicate receipts on Form No. 600, A. G. O., which will be completed and disposed of as prescribed in the case of an individual enlisted man, but all articles, including those for which the men are indi- vidually indebted to the United States, may be entered on a single set of forms, one set for each supply department concerned. The memorandum receipt credit slips may be similarly consolidated. Upon arrival of a detachment of enlisted men at their destination the new commanders of the companies or detachments to which the men are assigned will prepare duplicate invoices on Form No. 600, A. G. O., which will be completed and disposed of as prescribed in the case of an individual enlisted man. Both vouchers and memorandum receipt debit slips may be consolidated as above. (0. A. B., No. 65, Dec. 20, 1911.) [400.3501, A. G. O.] [C. A. R. 65.] of ,!irf ■ *^''*^'''^ ^°^ "** *^^ individual mess equipment, consisting In^ -r^' ?^' "^' ^''''''' ^""^ "P*'^'^ furnished by the Ordnance Depart- ment will be dropped from property returns by the accountable officers upon issue to enlisted men and will not be taken up again until the men are sepa- rated from the service (par. 1165), except such articles as the company or detachment commander may from time to time turn in to the accountable officer as surplus or unserviceable and not exchanged for other articles When such articles are to be turned in the company or detachment com- mander will prepare invoices, in duplicate, on Form No. 600, A. G O and de- liver them with the articles to the unit, post, camp, or other supply officer, who will take up the articles on his property return furnishing the company or detachment commander with a receipt on Form No. 448, A G O stating that the articles have been taken up on returns. This receipt will show the name of the enlisted man and will be filed with his individual equipment record until the next succeeding visit of an inspector after which it may be destroyed by the company or detachment commander' {C. A. R. No. 65, Deo. SO, 1917.) [400.3501, A. G. O.] 693. Change the first sentence to read as follows: All public property whether paid for or not, must be accounted for on the proper returns or as prescribed in regulations. (0. A. R. No. 65, Dec. SO, 1917 ) [400.3501, A. G. O.] 911. An inspection report on damaged clothing will set forth the amount of damage to each article, and to what use the damag^ed clothing should be applied. (C. A. R. No. 65, Dec. 20, 1917.) [400.8501, A. G. O.] 938. Change the fourth sentence to read as follows : The commanding officer of a place from which a prisoner is transferred will send, under seal, to the commanding officer of the place to which the prisoner is transferred the follow- ing papers in his case, namely : Orders promulgating and modifying sentences ; statement of conduct while under sentence to date of transfer; complete in- ventory of personal property, with signature of prisoner acknowledging its correctness ; list of clothing in possession of the prisoner when forwarded, and (in case of a garrison prisoner) service record, individual equipment record and papers relating to allotments and insurance. (C. A. R. No. 65, Dec. 20 1917.) [400.3501, A. 6. 0.] 939. (Changed by C. A. R. No. 55, W. D., 1917.) One serviceable woolen blanket, one outer suit of clotliing including shoes, leggins and hat or cap, two suits of underclothes including stockings, and an overcoat if climatic conditions make it necessary, will accompany each prisoner to the place designated for his confinement, and will be fully itemized on the clothing list. The guard in charge of the prisoner during transfer will be furnished with a duplicate of this list or, in case of a garrison prisoner, with a list copied from the clothing account of the individual equipment record, and will be held responsible tor the delivery, with the prisoner, of all articles item- ized therein. (C. A. R. No. 65, Dec. 20, 1917.) [400.3501, A. 6. O.] 1023. (Changed by C. A. E. No. 6, W. D., 1914, and No. 55, W. D., 1917.) Change the third subparagraph to read as follows: In all changes of station of organizations, trunk lockers, mattress covers, pillowcases and bed sheets win be transferred with them. (C A. R. No. 65, Dec. 20, 1917.) [400.3501, A. G. O.j [C. A. R. 65.] 1146. (Changed by 0. A. R. No. 6, W. D., 1914.) Rescinded, the matter being covered by Special Regulations No. 40, Price List of Clothing and Equipage. (C. A. R. No. 65, Dec. SO, 1917.) [400.3501, A. G. O.] 1157. (Changed by C. A. R. No. 26, W. D., 1915, and No. 55, W. D., 1917.) When clothing is required, issue wlU be made by the unit or other supply officer either to the individual enlisted man or in bulk to the company or detachment commander, or an officer representing him, for issue to the en- listed men of his command. In either case the enlisted man will make request (single copy) on indi- vidual clothing slip to his company or detachment commander. For this pur- pose the original and duplicate slips will be detached and used indiscriminatery. (0. A. R. No. 65, Dec. 20, 1917.) [400.3501, A. G. O.] 1158. Rescinded, and the following, formerly a part of paragraph 1157, substituted therefor : When the issue of clothing to the individual enlisted man is desired individual clothing slips in duplicate, numbered serially for the month or period and enumerating the articles needed, will be prepared by the company or detachment commander by carbon process. The quantities and sizes desired will be entered by the company or detachment commander, ex- cept that for men not yet fitted sizes may be filled in at the time of issue after proper size has been determined by try on. Clothing issued to the individual enlisted man and removed from the supply officer's storehouse wiU not be received back by the supply officer. If a large number of men of an organization are to draw clothing, indi- vidual clothing slips will be sent to the supply officer in advance to permit the clothing to be prepared for issue. (C. A. R. No. 65, Dec. 20, 1917.) [400.3501, A. G. O.] 1159. Rescinded, and the following, formerly a part of paragraph 1157, sub- stituted therefor : At the time of issue to individual enlisted men the supply officer or his representative will enter by carbon process the quantities and sizes of the articles issued, Initial the slip in space " Issued by," and obtain the man's receipt on both copies. A line will be drawn through each blank space in column " Quantities issued " on original and duplicate by the supply officer or his representative before the man signs the receipt. The " original " will be retained by the supply officer and the " duplicate " returned to the company or detachment commander or his representative at the time of issue or re- turned at the close of the business day in a sealed envelope to the company or detachment commander. The original will be abstracted daily by the supply officer on abstract of clothing issued. The duplicate, after having been returned by the supply officer, will be retained by the company or detachment com- mander, -who will immediately enter the articles on abstract of clothing drawn and clothing account of individual equipment record. The man's request will then be destroyed. The duplicate individual clothing slip will be fi.led with the abstract of clothing drawn until the next succeeding visit of the inspector, after which the clothing slip may be destroyed. (0. A. R. No. 65, Deo. 20, 1917.) [400.3501, A. G. O.]. [C. A. R. 65.] 1160. Rescinded, and the following, formerly a part of paragraph 1157, substituted therefor: At the end of the month or whenever a company or detachment leaves the vicinity of the issuing supply oflacer for an extended period, the com.pany or detachment commander will compare his abstract of clothing drawn by individual enlisted m.en with the supply oflS.cer's abstract of clothing issued. After satisfactory settlement of all differences an addi- tional copy of the abstract will be prepared by the company or detachment commander and delivered to the supply officer not later than the fifth of the succeeding month. The supply officer will note fact of signature on his re- tained copy. The company or detachment commander will file his retained copy of the abstract with the corresponding duplicate individual clothing slips, as provided in paragraph 1159. The supply officer will forward the copy of abstract signed by the company or detachment commander to the Quartermaster General of the Army as a voucher to his property account and wiU retain the other copy. (0. A. R. No. 65, Dec. 20, 1917.) [400.3501, A. G. O.] 1161. Rescinded, and the following, formerly a part of paragraph 1157, sub- stituted therefor : When clothing is desired in bulk, the company or detach- ment commander will prepare a requisition in triplicate on the prescribed form enumerating the articles and sizes needed and showing the total required. The three copies of the requisition will be sent to the unit or other supply officer, who will prepare the items for issue, and enter in columns " Issued " on all copies the quantities that can be actually supplied. The supply officer will send due notice to the company or detachment commander when the clothing is ready for issue. After verifying the quantities of clothing entered in columns " Issued," the company or detachment commander or an officer designated by him will sign on all copies a receipt to the effect that he has received the articles enumerated in columns " Issued." The supply officer or his representative issuing the clothing will sign a statement on all copies to that effect. The articles will then be removed from the supply officer's store- house. One copy of the requisition will be turned over to the company or de- tachment commander or his representative at the time of issue of clothing. The company or detachment commander or an officer designated by him will at once issue the clothing to the enlisted men. The issuing officer will enter on the request submitted by the enlisted man the quantities issued, initial the slip, and obtain the man's receipt at the time of issue. He vrill also enter the articles on the clothing account of the individual equipment record. (0. A. R. No. 65, Pec. %0, 1917.) [400.3501, A. G. O.] [C, A. R. 65.] lieij. (Added by C. A. R. No. 57, W. D., 1917.) Rescinded. See para- graphs 1165, 1166, and 1167. (O. A. R. No. 65, Dec. 20, 1917.) [400.3501, A. G. O.] 1162. Rescinded, and the following, formerly a part of paragraph 1157, sub- stituted therefor: All clothing turned over to the company or detachment commander and not actually issued to enlisted men will be returned by the former or an officer designated by him to the" supply officer within 24 hours after the clothing was drawn and the quantities so returned entered in col- umns " Returned to supply officer " on the three copies of requisition. The officer will sign a statement on all copies that the articles enumerated in col- umns " Returned to supply officer " were so returned, and the supply officer or his representative will sign the receipt on all copies to the effect that the articles have been received. A line will be drawn through each blank space on all copies in columns " Returned to supply officer " before signing. The difference between the quantities received and the quantities returned to the supply officer will be entered in column " Net issued." The com.pany or de- tachment commander or his representative will sign certificate on the copy of the requisition retained by the organization,, to the effect that the articles enumerated in columns " Net issued " have been duly issued. (C A. R. No. 65, Dec. 20, ISll.) [400.3501, A. G. O.] 1163. Rescinded, and the following, formerly a part of paragraph 1157, sub- stituted therefor : When clothing is drawn in bulk by the company or de- tachment commander and then issued to the enlisted men, the men's re- quests will be filed with the copy of the requisition in the company or detachment until the next succeeding visit of the inspector, after vsrhich. the requests may be destroyed. The supply officer will forward one copy of requisition to the Quartermaster General of the Army as a voucher to his property account and will retain the other copy. (C. A. B. No. 65, Dec. 20, 1917.) [400.3501, A. G. O.] 1164. Rescinded, and the following, formerly paragraph 1158, substituted therefor : In the case of an enlisted man serving at an ungarrisoned or isolated station the officer who keeps the man's service record will prepare the requi- sition and sign the receipt for the clothing. (C. A. B. No. 65, Dec. 20, 1917.) [400.3501, A. G. O.] [C.A.R.65.] 1165. Rescinded, and the following, formerly a part of paragraph 1161i, substituted therefor : When an enlisted man is honorably discharged for the purpose of reenlisting in the service, uniform clothing for which he is responsible will be left in liis possession if he reenlist on the date following his discharge. When an enlisted man is honorably discharged otherwise than for the pur- pose of reenlisting, all uniform outer clothing, excepting one suit, then in his possession, will be turned in to the company or detachment com.mander. This one suit he will be instructed to return within three months after his discharge under franked label, which will be furnished him for the purpose, to the company or detachm.ent commander (sec. 125, act of Congress ap- proved June 3, 1916). Upon being furloughed to the Regular Army Reserve, an enlisted man will turn in to his company or detachmient commander all articles of uniform outer clothing excepting those enumerated in paragraph 51, Regulations for the Regular Army Reserve, and will be permitted to wear or take with him to his home all other articles of uniform clothing in his possession and retain them for use during the remainder of his enlistment period. When an enlisted man is discharged otherwise than honorably, all uniform outer clothing in his possession will be turned in to his company or detach- ment commander. Clothing so turned in will be invoiced to the accountable officer and taken up by him on his property returns as provided in paragraph 681-P. (O. A. R. No. 65, Dec. 20, 19111.) [400.3501, A. G. O.] 1166. Rescinded, and the following, formerly a part of paragraph 1161*, substituted therefor : Upon the release from Federal service of an enlisted man of the National Guard called as such into the service of the United States, all uniform outer clothing then in his possession will be taken up and accounted for as property issued to the National Guard of the State to which the enlisted man belongs in the manner prescribed by section 67 of the act of Congress approved June 3, 1916. If the enlisted man be released from Federal service at a station other than his home, he will be permitted to wear .one suit of uniform outer clothing to his home and wiU be furnished instructions to forward such uniform outer clothing by mail under a franked label, which will be furnished him for the purpose, to the nearest officer accountable for property issued to the National Guard of the State to which the man belongs. (C. A. R. No. 65, Deo. 20, lOn.) [400.3501, A. G. 0.1 1167 Rescinded, and the following, formerly a part of paragraph 11614, substituted therefor : Upon the muster out of Federal service of an organization of the National Guard called as such into the service of the United States, all uniform outer clothing then in the possession of enlisted men of such organi- zations will be taken up and accounted for as property "issued to the National Guard of the State to which the organization belongs in the manner prescribed by section 67 of the act of Congress approved June 3, 1916. (G. A. R. No. 65, Dec. 20, 19iy.) [400.3501, A. G. O.] [C. A. R. 65.] 8 1168. There will be issued to troops stationed in extremely cold regions, when the necessity for such issue Is certified by the post commander, blanket- lined overcoats, winter caps, winter gauntlets, and arctic overshoes, but only to men performing guard duty or other necessary outdoor duty when exposure to weather would jeopardize life or limb by freezing. (C. A. R. No. 65, Dec. 20, 1917.) [400.3501, A. G. O.] 1168i. (Added by 0. A. K. No. 54, W. D., 1917.) Rescinded. (C. A. B. No. 65, Dec. 20, 1917.) [400.3501, A. G. O.] 1170. (Changed by C..A. R. No. 27, W. T).,- 1915.) General prisoners will not be permitted to wear as an outer garment or have in their possession any clothing which is a distinctive article of the uniform worn by enlisted men. Commanding ofiicers may order necessary issues of clothing to prisoners from clothing specially provided for the purpose. The receipt of the officer in charge of the prisoners to whom the issues are made will be the quartermaster's voucher for such issue. The issue of articles of the uniform under this paragraph will be avoided, if possible. Upon the release of a general prisoner from confinement the Quartermaster Corps will issue to him a suit of citizens' outer clothing to consist of hat, or cap, coat, pair trousers, shirt, necktie, vest, collar, and overcoat (when required), cost not to exceed $10, but any articles of outer uniform clothing (other than shoes) issued to a general prisoner while in the service or during confinement will be regarded as the property of the United States and wiU not be taken away with him upon his release. (G. A. R. No. 65, Dec. 20, 1917.) [400.3501, A. G. O.] 1535. (Changed by C. A. R. No. 56, W. D., 1917.) Rescinded, the matter contained therein being incorporated in paragraphs 681-A, 681-0, and 681-P. (C. A. R. No. 65, Dec. 20, 1917.) [400.3501, A. G.O.] 1536. When an enlisted man is transferred or detached he will be re- quired to turn in all ordnance property in his possession except individual mess equipment, unless the journey to be performed requires Mm to be armed, in which case paragraph 681—0 will be followed in transferring the articles retained in the possession of the man. The receipts filed with individual equipment records, will be kept until the next succeeding visit of an inspector, after which the receipts may be destroyed. (O. A. R. No. 65, Dec. 20, 1917.) [400.3501, A. G. O.] By oedek of the Seceetaet or Wae : JOHN BIDDLE, Major General, Acting Chief of Staff. Official : H. P. McGAIN, The Adjutant General, [C. A. R. 66.] ARMY REGULATIONS. *^N^^6fi^ 1 ^^^ DEPARTMENT, i Washington, December 31, 1917. Paragraphs 240, 240i, 271, 733, 943, 1212, 1345, and 1520, Army Regulations, are changed as follows: 240. Boat flags and pennants for use of the Secretary of War, Assistant Secretary of War, and officers of the Army when making official visits by water are authorized as follows: 1. Fob the Seceetart of Wab.— A flag of scarlet silk, rectangular in shape, 3 feet hoist and 4 feet 9 inches fly, containing in proper propor- tion in each of the four corners a flve-pointed white star with one point upward. In the center, in colors, the official coat of arms of the United States. Edges of flag to be trimmed with white knotted fringe of suitable width. 2. Foe the Assistant Seceetakt of Wae.— A flag of white silk, rectangular in shape, 3 feet hoist and 4 feet 9 inches fly, containing in proper proportions in each of the four corners a five-pointed scarlet star with one point upward. In the center, in colors, the official coat of arms of the United States. Edges of flag to be trimmed with scarlet knotted fringe of suitable width. 3. FoK General, Chief op Staff. — ^A flag of scarlet and white silks, joined with a diagonal seam from lower left-hand corner to upper right- hand corner, rectangular in shape, 3 feet hoist and 4 feet 9 inches fly. In the center of the flag shall be a large five-pointed star, in white, one point upward. In the center of this star, in colors, shall be the official coat of arms of the United States. In each of the upper left and right hand corners of the red silk will be placed a white star, and in each of the lower left and right hand corners of the white silk, a red star, points of stars upw^ard, and to be of proportionate size. Edges of flag to be trimmed with yellow^ knotted fringe of suitable width. 4. Foe Geneeal. — ^A flag of scarlet silk, rectangular in shape, 3 feet hoist and 4 feet 9 inches fly, with four white stars of suitable size placed in the center line of the length of the flag, points upward. Edges of flag to be trimmed with yellow knotted fringe of suitable width. 5. Fob Othee Geneeal Officers. — A flag of scarlet bunting, rectangular in shape, 3 feet hoist and 4 feet 9 inches fly ; rank to be designated by white stars of suitable size placed in center line of length of flag (brigadier general, one star; major general, two stars; and lieutenant general, three stars). 6. The Chief of Coast Artillery and the chiefs of bureaus of the War Depart- ment will use the general officers' flag with the appropriate number of stars. 7. Foe Coast Artilleet District Commanders (When Not Geneeal Officees). — ^A flag of scarlet bunting, rectangular in shape, 1 foot 6 inches hoist and 2 feet fly for small boats and launches and 2 feet 3 inches hoist and 3 feet fly for larger boats. In the center, on both sides, two crossed cannons in yellow, with a medallion at their intersection, in scarlet, having an oblong projectile in yellow. 8. Foe Post and Coast-Defense Commanders. — A pennant of bunting, tri- angular in shape, 1 foot hoist and 3 feet fly; the third nearest the staff to be a blue field bearing 13 white stars and the remaining two-thirds to be scarlet. No flag is prescribed for fort commanders. [O.A.R.66.] 9. The tnicfe of the staff for general officers, artillery district commanders, and post and coast-defense commanders above the rank of captain to be a gilt baU, and for post and coast-defense commanders of lower grade to be flat. (G. A. R., No. 66, Dec. 31, 1917.) [300.31, A. G. 0.] 2401. There will be issued by the Quartermaster Corps, upon proper author- ity, the following flags for automobiles, to be used when engaged in official business, viz : 1. Fob the Seceetabt of Wae. — ^A flag of scarlet silk, containing in proper proportions in each of the four corners a five-pointed white star with one point upw^ard. In the center, in colors, the coat of arms of the TTnited States. Edges to be trimmed with white knotted fringe of suitable width. 2. Foe the Assistant Seceetabt op War. — A flag of white silk, containing in proper proportions in each of the four comers a five-pointed scarlet star with one point upward. In the center, in colors, the coat of arms of the United States. Edges to be trimmed with scarlet knotted fringe of suitalile width. 3. Fob Geneeal, Chief or Staff. — A fiag of scarlet and white silks, joined with a diagonal seam from lower left-hand corner to upper right- hand corner. In the center of the flag shall be a large five-pointed star in white, one point upward. In the center of this star, in colors, shall be the official coat of arms of the XTnitsd States. In each of the upper left- hand and right-hand corners of the red silk shall be placed a w^hite star, and in each of the left-hand and right-hand comers of the white silk, a red star, points of stars upward, and to be of proportionate size. Edges to be trimmed with yellow knotted fringe of suitable width. 4. Foe Geneeal. — A. fiag of scarlet silk, with four ■white stars of suitable size placed on the center line of the length of the flag, points of stars upward. Edges of the fiag to be trimmed with yellow knotted fringe of stiitable width. 5. Fob Othee Genebal Officees, Incltiding Chiefs of Buebaus of the Wab Depabtment. — A flag of scarlet bunting, the rank to be designated by white stars of suitable size, placed in the center line of the length of the flag; for lieutenant general, three stars; for major general, two stars; and for brigadier general, one star, placed in center of the flag. 6. Coast Abtillekt Disteict Commandebs (When Not Geneeal Offioees). — Of red bunting, bearing two crossed cannon in yellow, with a medallion at their intersection, in scarlet, contaiiuag a projectile in yellow, 165 inches long, placed in center of flag. 7. Chief Umpiee at Maneuvers. — Of white bunting with two scarlet stripes 3 inches wide crossed diagonally from corner to corner. 8. These flags will be rectangular in shape, measuring 2 feet 2 inches fly and 1 foot 6 inches hoist, to be attached to suitable staffs. (O. A. R., No. 66, Deo. 31, 1917.) [300.31, A. G. 0.] 371. (Changed by C. A. R. No. 60, W. D., 1917.) Battalion noncommis- sioned staff and company noncommissioned officers are appointed by regimental or separate battalion commanders, the former upon the recommendation of the battalion commander, the latter upon the recommendation of the com- pany commander; in units not organized into regiments or separate bat- talions, by the unit commander with the approval of the next higher to. A. R. 66.1 tactical commander, or of the chief of the service to which the particular unit belongs; and in division supply, ammunition, engineer, and sanitary trains, by the respective chief of service. On the recommendation of com- pany commanders, company noncommissioned officers may be temporarily appointed by battalion commanders, under the conditions stated in paragraph 256 ; but in no case will any company organization have an excess of noncom- missioned officers above the number authorized by law. The noncommissioned officers of Coast Artillery Corps companies, upon the recommendation of the company commanders, wUl be appointed by coast-defense commanders. (C. A. R., No. 66, Dec. 31, 1917.) [300.31, A. G. 0.] 733. (Changed by C. A. B. Nos. 59 and 60, W. D., 1917.) Change subpara- graph 2 to read as follows : 2. In lieu of reimbursement for the actual expenses provided in e and f of subparagraph 1, civilian employees, not accompanying troops in time of actual ■war, nor traveling on Army transports, may, when their orders so prescribe, be allowed flat per diem allowances not exceeding the following rates when traveling and when on duty for the first 30 days at places designated in their orders for the performance of temporary duty: $4, when in such status more than 18 hours in the day. $3, when in such status more than 12 hours and not exceeding 18 hours in the day. $2, when in such status more than 6 hours and not exceeding 13 hoiirs in the day. $1, when in such status not exceeding 6 hours in the day. These are maximum rates and will govern unless lower rates are speci- fied in the orders. It will be a sufficient designation of maximum rates if the orders read: "In lieu of subsistence you (or name of employee) will be allowed flat per diems in accordance with the provisions of exist- ing Army Begulations." When lower rates are to be specified the same wiU be fully set forth in the orders, distinguishing as may be appropriate or necessary for days in which such duty status may exist for less than full time, with divisions and reduced allowances after the manner indi- cated above. In all cases the per diems are to be based upon the day as the unit of time, and for the purpose of computing per diem allowances the day shall be regarded as beginning at midnight. A statement will accompany each voucher showing the foUowiag data: Time of departure from permanent station. Time of arrival at tem'porary station. Time of departure from temporary station. Time of arrival at permanent station. (C. A. R., No. 66, Dec. 31, 1917.y\ [300.31, A. G. 0.] 943. (Changed by C. A. B. No. 39, W. D., 1916.) Add the following : When troops are serving in camp or in the field, any officer having authority to appoint a special or a summary court-martial may place on probation any prisoner serving within his command a sentence of confinement imposed by a special or a summary court-martial, in the same manner and under like con- ditions as may be done under the preceding provisions of this paragraph by a post commander. (C. A. R., No. 66, Dec. 31, 1917.) [253.2, A. G. O.] [C. A. R. 66.] 1212. (Changed by C. A. R. No. 58, W. D., 1917.) While sick in hospital the ration of enlisted men, of applicants for enlistment, of civilian employees who are entitled to subsistence at public expense, and of prisoners will be com- muted at the rate of 60 cents a ration, except that at stations, posts, or com- mands where the Quartermaster Corps carries no stock of sales articles the rate shall be 75 cents a ration. The ration of members of the Nurse Corps while on duty in hospital will be commuted at the same rate. The commutation herein referred to will be paid to the surgeon by the post quartermaster, or such officer of the Quartermaster Corps as may be designated. (0. A. R., No. 68, Dec. SI, wn.) [300.31, A. G. 0.] 1345. (Changed by C. A. R., Nos. 43 and 47, W. D., 1916.) Change the second subparagraph to read as follows : All enlisted men of a regiment of Infantry, Cavalry, or Engineers, and of a mounted battalion of Engineers, and of trains the enlisted personnel of w^hich are armed with the rifle, who are required or authorized to fire the known- distance practice under the provisions of paragraph 89, Small Arms Firing Manual, 1913, are members of an organization armed with the rifle within the meaning of this paragraph. (0. A. R., No. 66, Dec. 31, 1917.) [242.142, A. G. 0.] Paragraph 1520, Army Regulations, is changed as follows : 1520. (Changed by C. A. R. No. 1, W. D., 1914.) Add the foUowing: Ordnance officers holding memorandum receipts from an officer for ordnance equipment as authorized in this paragraph will, when such officer does not immediately turn in the equipment or provide for the transfer of its account- ability as provided for in this paragraph, on changing post or station, certify to the Chief of Ordnance the list of equipment so held in order that the cost of the articles may be stopped against the pay of the officer. (C, A. R., No. 66, Dec. SI, 1917.) [140.1, A. G. C] Bt oedee of the Seobetabt of Wab: TASKBR H. BLISS, Qenerali Chief of Staff. Ofi'icial : H. P. McCain, The A djutant General. f C. A. R. 67] ARMY REGULATIONS. *^N ^ 6^^ I ^^^ DEPARTMENT, "■ ' J Washington, January SI, 1918. Paragrapli 1385, Army Regulations, is rescinded and paragraphs 121, 782, 784 1205, and 1370J are changed, and paragraph 126i is added as follows • 121. (Changed by C. A. R. No. 55, W. D., 1917.) A reward of $50 will be paid to any civil officer or civilian, except United States marshals, United States deputy marshals, and special agents of the Department of Justice, for the apprehension and delivery, to the proper military authorities at a military post, of a deserter from the military service, except a deserter from the Philippine Scouts, for whose apprehension and delivery a reward of $20 will be paid. A reward of $50 will also be paid, with exception as above, for the apprehension and delivery, to the proper military authorities at a military post, of an escaped military prisoner. No reward will be paid in the case of a deserter or of an escaped military prisoner who is serving in the Army, Navy, or Marine Corps, or in the case of a deserter who, subsequently to his desertion, has been dishonorably discharged from any other enlistment in the Army, or who can claim exemption from punishment under the thirty-ninth article of war. The reward will be paid by the Quartermaster Corps and will be in full satisfaction of all expenses for arresting, keeping, and delivering the deserter or escaped military prisoner. Actual expenses only where the same do not exceed $50 will be reimbursed to the Department of Justice upon presenta- tion of proper expense account in cases where deserters or escaped military prisoners have been delivered to the military authorities by officials of that department. The quartermaster making the payment of reward or expenses will report that fact to the commanding officer of the organization to which the deserter belongs or to the commanding officer of the military post or prison from which the prisoner escaped. (C. A. R. No. 67, Jan. SI, 1918.) [251.211, A. G. 0.] * 126i. 1. When an enlisted man, absent in desertion, is returned to military control, the commanding officer of the command to which he is returned wiU. cause the examination prescribed by paragraph 126 to be made for the purpose of determining if such man is physically fit for duty. Upon report to him that an enlisted man so returned to military control is physically fit for duty the officer exercising general court-martial jurisdiction over the command to which the enlisted man has been returned may take action as follows : (a) Bring the man to trial at the place where he is held. (&) Send him for trial to any other place where his trial may be conducted more economically on the part of the Government. (c) Restore him to duty without trial, if he admits desertion, under the conditions prescribed by paragraph 131. 2. If restored to duty without trial, the enlisted man may be, by the same officer, returned to his own command or assigned to some other organization of the arm or branch of the service to which he belongs, as the interest of the service and economy of administration may dictate. This officer may also make like disposition of any soldier released from confinement, whether under sen- tence of a civil or military court, at any point within his command. (0. A. B. No. 67, Jan. 31, 1918.) [300.31, A. G. O.] [O. A. R. 67] 783. Except as otherwise specially authorized or required by Army Regula- tions, all official communications from officers and enlisted men of the Army outside of the War Department intended for the Secretary of War or for any bureau or office of the War Department will be in writing and addressed, through military channels, to The Adjutant General of the Army, if intended for the Secretary of War, or to the chief of the bureau if the cominunica- tion pertains solely to the business of a bureau. Communications thus arriving in any bureau will be handled by the head of this bureau, in connection with any other official whose intervention may be necessary, up to the point of completed action; when he will send it to The Adjutant General of the Army for record and transmission, except as provided in paragraph 783. The Adjutant General of the Army will submit all busi- ]iess coming to him from the Army, which requires action in the War Depart- ment or by the President and which does not come within the jurisdiction of chiefs of bureaus, to the Chief of Staff, to be acted upon by him in conformity to the rules duly prescribed for that purpose "by the President or the Secretary of War. Correspondence of the War Department with the Army will be through or by The Adjutant General of the Army. (0. A. B. No. 67, Jan. SI, 1918.) [312.13, A. G. O.] 784. In the tenth and eleventh lines, strike out the words " through The Adjutant General of the Army." (C. A. R. No. 67, Jan. SI, 1918.) [312.13, A. G. O.] 1205. (Changed by C. A. R. No. 8, W. D., 1914.) Change subparagraph 1, Garrison Ration, as follows: 1. In the third and fourth columns, opposite the item " Flour," under the item " Corn meal, 20 ounces," insert the item " Hominy, fine, 1.6 ounces." 2. In the third and fourth columns under the item " Potatoes, canned, 15 ounces," insert the item " Potatoes, sweet, 20 ounces." (G. A. B. No. 67, Jan. SI, 1918.) [300.31, A. G. O.] 1370J. (Added by 0. A. R. Nc 55, W. D., 1917.) Change the first sentence to read as follows : A sentence imposing forfeiture of a part of pay for a month or number of months means the forfeiture each month for the specified number of months of the specified part of that portion of pay which is not required to be allotted to dependent relatives of class A under the provisions of Article II of the act approved October 6, 1917, commonly known as the war risk insurance act. (C. A. B. No. 67, Jan. SI, 1918.) [242.42, A. G. O.] 1385. (Changed by C. A. R. No. 10, W. D., 1914.) Rescinded. (C. A. B. No. 67, Jan. 31, 1918.) [247, A. G. O.] Bt oedee of the Seobetaet of Wab : JOHN BIDDLE, Major General, Acting Chief of Staff. Official : H. P.,McCAIN, Tlie Adjutant General. [C. A. R. 68.] ARMY REGULATIONS. Changes 1 WAR DEPARTMENT, No. 68. I Washington, February H, 1918. Paragraphs 2224, 678, 679, 680, 717, 906, 907, 910, and 1566, Army Regulations, are changed as follows : 222i. (Added by C. A. R. No. 58, W. D., 1917.) The colors of the General, Chief of Staff, shall be of scarlet and white silks, joined with a diagonal seam from lower left-hand corner to upper right-hand corner, 5 feet 6 inches fly and 4 feet 4 inches on the pike, which shall be 9 feet long, including ferrule and spearhead. In the center of the color shall be a large five-pointed star embroid- ered in white, with one point upward, the points of the star to lie in the circum- ference of an imaginary circle 34 inches in diameter. In the center of this star, to be embroidered in colors, shall be the official coat of arms of the United States. In each of the upper left and tight-hand comers of the red silk shall be placed a white star and in each of the lower left and right-hand corners of the white silk a red star, points of star to be upward and to lie in the circum- ference of an imaginary circle 4J inches in diameter. The center of these stars to be 7 inches from the long sides and 14 inches from the short sides of the color ; the edges to be trimmed with knotted fringe of yellow silk 2i inches wide ; the cord 8 feet 6 inches long, having two tassels and composed of red, white, and blue strands. {C. A. B. No. 68, Feb. U, 1918.) [424.5, A. G. O.] 678. (Changed by C. A. R. No. 56, W. D., 1917.) Unserviceable property is. With reference to its disposition, divided into classes as follows : 1. Property worn out by fair wear and tear in the service. 2. Proi)erty which has been rendered unserviceable from causes other than fair wear and tear in the service. Property of the first class may be submitted to a surveying officer and disposed of as indicated in paragraph 717, or it may be submitted to an inspector without prior action of a surveying officer. Property of the second class will be submitted to a surveying officer, except as provided in paragraph 1073 in case of public animals, and unless destroyed under the provisions of paragraph 717 will subsequently be submitted to an inspector. The inventory and inspection reports will be accompanied by the report of the surveying officer. Arms for which a test for determining unserviceability Is definitely prescribed, and which have not been subjected to the same, are excepted from the applica- tion of the above. Property falling nnder the classifications indicated in paragraphs 1488 and 1566 will not be considered subject to the provisions of this paragraph until the necessary permission for its subrnission to a surveying officer or inspector has been obtained. (C. A. B. No. 68,' Feb. U, 1918.) [400.74, A. G. O.] 679. Empty barrels, boxes, crates, and other packages, together with metal turnings, scrap metals, ground bone, and other waste products which accumu- late at military posts, camps or cantonments, which are unsuitable for the public service, will be disposed of in the manner prescribed for property to be salvaged under paragraph 680. At arsenals and depots such accumulations will be disposed of in such manner as the head of the department to which the prop- erty pertains may deem best suited to tlie public interest. (0. A. B. No. 68, Feb. U, 1918.) [400.74, A. G. O.] , [C. A. E. 68] 680. Military stores and public property turned over to reclamation oflB.cers on inspection reports and on approved reports of surveying officers will be cared for and used for repair work in shops or disponed of for cash at auction, or to the highest bidder on sealed proposals, on due public notice, and in such market as the public interests may require. The officer making the sale will suspend it when in his opinion better prices can be obtained, except in the case of condemned animals, the disposition of which is provided for in paragraph 1073. The auctioneer's certified detailed account of the sale, and the vouchers for the expense attending it, will be reported on the proper forms to the Quartermaster General (G. A. R. No. 68, Feb. H, 1918.) [400.74, A. G. O.] 717. (Changed by C. A. R. No. 56, W. D., 1917.) On the approved recom- mendation of a surveying officer the following classes of property may be destroyed: (1) Clothing infected with contagious disease; and (2) stores that have become so deteriorated as to endanger health or Injure other stores ; the surveying officer's report will show all other unserviceable property " to be salvaged " and upon approval by the commanding officer this property will be turned over to the reclamation officer of the Quartermaster Coirps. When the disposition of unserviceable articles Is covered by specific instruc- tions of any of the supply departments they will be disposed of In accordance with such instructions in lieu of being salvaged under the provisions of this paragraph, but requests for specific instructions will not be submitted in indi- vidual cases instead of placing the property before a surveying officer or Inspector. Before ordering the destruction or salvage of property or stores under the provisions of this paragraph the commanding officer will personally inspect the same and will be held responsible that the conditions justify the action. In case the Invoice value of the stores involved exceeds $500, the approval of the next higher administrative commander will be obtained before destruction or salvage of the property, as provided in paragraph 719. (0. A. R. No. 68, Feb. U, 1918.) [400.74, A. G. O.] 906. (Changed by C. A, R. No. 61, W. D., 1917.) Inspectors will examine all property presented for condemnation and if all property presented is to be salvaged the two copies of the inventory and inspection report will be delivered by the Inspecting officer to the accountable officer. In eases in which the in- spector recommends the transfer of any property to depots he wiU send both copies of the inventory and inspection report directly to the staff officer con- cerned (department quartermaster, division surgeon, etc.) at the headquarters of the department, independent brigade, division, or higher administrative unit, and if the inspector's action is approved by the commander of same, both copies will be returned to the accountable officer; and in similar cases when the accountable officer is not serving under the commander of a department, an independent brigade, a division, or higher administrative unit the inspecting officer will forward both copies of the inventory and inspection report directly to the chief of the corps or department to which the property pertains for the action of the War Department, and both copies will be returned to the account- able officer. (0. A. R. No. 68, Feb, U, 1918.) [400.74, A, G. O.] [C. A. R. 68] o -.of?!" [^^^""^^^ ^y ^- ^- R- Nos. 30 and 37, W. D., 1915, and No. 61, W. D., 1917.) Inspectors will exercise great care in examining property submitted to Uiem for condemnation and in making recommendations regarding its disposition. Articles to be continued in service " are such as are still serviceable. Those to be salvaged and dropped from the returns are such as are unserviceable, can not be repaired locally, and are not worth cost of transportation to an arsenal or depot for repair. Condemned animals will be branded " I. O." on the neck under the mane. Articles " to be turned in to depot " are such as can not be repaired at the post and are worth cost of transportation. Small arms found to be unfit for service and hand arms and personal and horse equipments ordered turned m to depot will first be turned in to the post ordnance officer, who will when sufficient stores have accumulated to make an economical shipment, send them to an arsenal designated by the Chief of Ordnance. As unserviceable sur- veying, reconnaissance, or drafting instruments have generally some salable value and can usually be repaired or utilized in part, such property will be sub- mitted to an inspector with a view to being turned in to an engineer depot for repair or for final disposition under the provisions of this paragraph. Chiefs of bureaus and the Chief of Coast Artillery will keep commanding generals informed by War Department orders, special regulations, or approved memoranda of the most advantageous method— including designation of the depots and arsenals to which the several classes of articles " to be turned in to depot " are to be shipped — of disposing of unserviceable guns and their carriages or mounts, ammunition for cannon, electrical and mechanical installations and appliances forming part of the permanent seacoast defense, surgical and scientific instruments, medicines, typewriters, telescopes, telephones, expensive electrical or aeronautical apparatus, submarine-mine cable, etc. These orders and memo- randa will serve as guides to inspectors, surveying officers, stafE officers, and commanders concerned. When property ordered " to be turned in to depot " on the recommendation of an inspector or surveying officer is found, upon receipt at the depot, to be in such condition that it can not be made suitable for issue, it may be salvaged under such instructions as may be given by the head of the department con- cerned, or, if outside the continental limits of the United States, by the commanding generals, so far as pertains to property turned in to depots under their jurisdiction. When property is turned in to an arsenal or depot suitable reference will be given on the invoice to the authority for turning it in. (C. A, R. No. 68, Feb. 14, 1918.) [400.74, A.G.0.1 910. All property shown on inventory and inspection reports " to be salvag'ed " will be turned over to the reclamation officer of the Quarter- master Corps by the accountable officer, the reclamation offi^cer acknowledg- ing receipt on the inspection report. The action of an inspector on property of this character will be final, and his report will be a valid voucher for the accountable officer. Inspectors will be held responsible for their action in this particular. The reclamation officer will render no return for this property. (C. A. R. No. 68, Feb. 14, 1918.) [400.74, A.G.O.] 79733°— 18 31 [C. A. R. 68] 1566. (Changed by C. A. R. No. 46, W. D., 1916.) Damaged or unservice- able telescopes, telephones, and expensive electrical or aeronautical apparatus of the Signal Corps, will not be submitted to an Inspector for condemnation until authority for so doing has been obtained from the department signal officer, or, if with a mobilized division, from the division signal officer. If within the continental limits of the United States, field glasses when unserviceable beyond local repair -will not be submitted to an inspector for condemnation, but will be shipped and invoiced to the Signal Corps General Supply Depot, Fort Wood, N. Y. Otherwise unserviceable field glasses will be disposed of as may be directed by department or division commanders. (O. A. R. No. 68, Feb. Ui, 1918.) [400.74, A.G.O.] By obdek of the Sbceetakt or Wae: JOHN BIDDLB, Major General, Acting Chief of Staff. OrriciAL : H. P. McCAIN, The Adjutant General. [0. A. E. 69.] ARMY REGULATIONS. Chances 1 WAR DEPAETMBNT, No. 69. J Washington, March 1, 1918. • Paragrapli 148J, Army Regulations, is rescinded and paragraphs 169, 1006, 1223, 1236, 1242, 1248, 1443, 1444, and 1460 are changed as follows : 148i. (Changed by C. A. R. No. 47, W. D., 1916.) Rescinded. (0. A. B. No. 69. Mar. 1, 1918.) [220.8, A. G. O.] 169. In the sixth and seventh lines, omit the words " in time of war, nor in time of peace." (O. A. R. No. 69, Mar. 1, 1918.) [242.13, A. G. O.] 1006. (Rescinded by C. A. R. No. 7, W. D., 1914.) Restored and changed to read as follows: Quartermaster supplies issuable under paragraphs 1181 and 1182 to troops in garrison may be furnished to troops in permanent camp or cantonment when required. When conditions arise making such action neces- sary, the allowances of supplies authorized in paragraphs 1052, 1057, 1062, 1084, 1181, 1182, and 1215 for the use of troops in the field, and other " additional camp supplies " listed in the Table of Fundamental Allowances as " expendable," may be temporarily increased, without reference to the War Department, when specially prescribed by the department commander or commanding general in the field, having due regard in each instance to the interests of the service and existing law; and, in the same manner, the allowances should be decreased when advisable. The authority to increase allowances on approval of a com- manding general in the field will, however, be limited to " expendable " supplies not obtained on contract by the department quartermaster, the approval of the department commander being necessary for temporary increases in allowances of those thus obtained on contract. Whenever action, as above authorized, is taken, the department quartermaster or senior quartermaster on the staff of the commanding general in the field will be informed thereof and will submit a copy of the authority directly to the Quartermaster General. (0. A. B. No. 69, Mar. 1, 1918.) [414.41, A. G. 0.] 1223. (Changed by C. A. R. No. 42, W. D., 1916, and Nos. 51 and 52, W. D., 1917. ) In connection with condition 3 of the table, change the rates per day in the second and third columns from "$1.00" and "$0.50" to "$1.25" and "$0.60," respectively. (C. A. B. No. 69, Mar. 1, 1918.) [246.81, A. G. O.] 1236. In the last sentence, change "25 cents" to "30 cents." (0. A. B. No. 69, Mar. 1, 1918.) [246.84, A. G. O.] 1242. Sales may be made on credit to officers and enlisted men who have not been regularly paid or who are in the field and to dependent members of the immediate families of same when ofacers or men are in the field. Officers will certify that the stores are for their own use or for the use of dependent members of their immediate families, and the authorized pur- chaser will receipt for them. Enlisted men will obtain permits from their [C. A. R. 69.] company commanders, approved by the commanding ofllcer. Permits will not . be given to a soldier in excess of the unencumbered pay due to him nor in any month in excess of his monthly pay ; enlisted men or dependent members of their immediate families will receipt for stores purchased. Whenever necessary to relieve distress, credit may be extended under the conditions cited above, to an enlisted man whose immediate faraily resides at or near a post and whose family allowance from the Bureau of War Kisk Insur- ance for compulsory allotment has not been received. This credit will "cease when such allotment is paid, and in no case will the amount of credit exceed the amount of the allotment, nor will it be- extended for a longei period than three months at any one time. Such of the following named articles as may be needed by him may be furnished to a recruit on credit, viz : a hand basin, a pipe, a box or bottle of tooth powder, and not to exceed 1 pound of tobacco. (C A. B. No. 69, Mar. 1, 1918.) [243, A. G. O.] 1248. Add the following: This privilege may also be extended to imme- diate families of enlisted men when the latter are absent, sick, or are stationed at camps, cantonments, or elsewhere imder competent orders which separate them from their families. (C A. R. No. 69, Mar. 1, 1918.) [201, A. G. O.] 1443. (Changed by O. A. R. No. 45, W. D., 1916.) In the third, eighth, twelfth, and thirteenth lines, change " 40 cents " to " 60 cents." ( C. A. R. No. 69, Mar. 1, 1918.) [246.4, A. G. O.] 1444. In the fourth line, change " 40 cents " to " 60 cents." (0. A. B. No. 69, Mar. 1, 1918.) [246.4, A. G. O.] 1460. Hospital charges at the Army and Navy General Hospital, Hot Springs, Ark., and at the General Hospital, Fort Bayard, N. Mex., are governed by special regulations made from time to time. Subsistence charges for patients in other Army hospitals, except field hos- pitals, will be as follows: For retired enlisted men of the Army, Navy, and Marine Corps, for enlisted men of the Navy and Marine Corps, and for civil- ians on the footing of enlisted men, an amount equal to the commutation rate prescribed for enlisted patients by paragraph 1212, plus 10 cents a day; for officers of the Army, $1 a day ; for ofiicers of the Navy, including warrant officers, and of the Marine Corps, and' for civilians on the footing of officers, $1.25 a day. In field hospitals the subsistence charges for oflacers of the Army will be the same as the commutation rate prescribed for enlisted patients by paragraph 1212; for the other two classes, that rate plus 10 cents a day. The surgeon wiU determine in each case, subject to instructions from higher authority, whether civilian patients shall be on the footing of enlisted men or of officers. When necessary to protect the hospital fund at posts in Alaska against actual loss the post commanders may prescribe an additional charge for each such patient not to exceed 25 cents a day. The money received for subsistence charges will be accounted for with the hospital fund. A medicine charge of 25 cents a day will be made for all patients in Army hospitals who are not entitled to medical care and treatment at the cost of Army appropriations, including officers and enlisted men of the Navy, and Marine Corps, civilian employees and civilians, the money received therefor to be de- posited in the Treasury of the United States to the credit of the proper ap- propriations and to be accounted for in due form accordingly. [C. A. E. 69.] Subsistence charges will be made for officers and enlisted men of the National Guard not in the Federal service admitted to field hospitals of the Army under paragraph 1459, at the rates hereinabove prescribed for civilians on the footing of offilcers and enlisted men, respectively, in such hospitals, to be ac- counted for with the hospital fund, and medicine charges at the rate of 25 cents a day to be deposited to the credit of the proper appropriations. The subsistence charges for enlisted men and the medicine charges for officers and enlisted men will constitute charges against the allotments, under section 1661, Revised Statutes, and the laws supplementary thereto, to the State, Terri- tory, or District of Columbia, to the militia of which the patients respectively belong. (C. A. R. No. 69, Mar. 1, 1918.) [241.311, A. G.O.] By order of the Secretary of Wak : JOHN BIDDLB, Major General, Acting Chief of Staff. Official : H. P. McCain, The Adjutant General. [0. A. R. 70.] ARMY REGULATIONS. Changes I -WAR DEPARTMENT, ^°- '^'^- J Washington, MarcJi 16, 1918. Paragraphs 491, 778, 824, 1128, 1203, 1223, 1441, 1442, and 1461, Army Regula- tions, are changed, and paragraphs 1444 J and 1459 J are added, as follows: 491. (Changed by C. A. R. No. .58, .W. D., 1917.) (1) Change subparagraph (a) as follows: {a) Two aluminum identification tags, each the size of a silver half dollar and of suitable thickness, stamped \vith .the name, rank, regiment, corps W: department of the wearer in the case of officers, and witH the name and Army serial number in the case of enlisted men, will be worn by each officer and enlisted man- of the Army whenever the field kit is worn; one tag to be suspended from the neck underneath the clothing by a cord or thong passed through a small hole iu the tag, the second, tag to be suspended from the first one by a short piece of string or tape. These tags are prescribed as a part of the uniform, and when not worn as directed herein will be habitually kept in the possession of the owner. The tags stamped as herein provided will be issued to enlisted men as soon as practicable after enlistment or reenlist- m.ent, or after entry into active service in the case of reservists. (2) In the sixteenth and seventeenth lines, omit the words "stamped with the name, rank, company, and regiment or corps of the wearer." (0. A. B. No.. 70, Mar. 16, 1918.) [344.2, A. G. O.] 778. In order to reduce the possibility of secret and confidential communica- tions falling into the hands of persons other than those for whom they are intended, the sender will inclose them in an inner and an outer cover ; the inner cover to be a sealed envelope or wrapper addressed in the usual way but marked plainly " Secret " or " Confidential," as the case may be, in such a manner that the notation may be most readily seen when the outer cover is removed. The package thus prepared will then be inclosed in another sealed envelope or wrapper addressed in the ordinary manner with no notation to indicate the secret or confidential nature of the contents. The foregoing applies not only to secret and confidential communications entrusted to the mails or to telegraph companies, but also to such communica- tions entrusted to messengers passing between different offices of the same head- quarters, including the bureaus and offices of the War Department. In every case where a communication of a secret nature is transmitted by mail, such communication shall be registered; in every case where a communication of a secret nature is transmitted between different offices of the same headquarters, including bureaus and offices of the War Depart- ment, such communication shall be carried by a trustworthy messenger and delivered in person to the officer to whom addressed or to some responsible person designated by the addressee to receive such communications. In case a communication of a secret nature is carried by a commissioned officer, compliance with the first subparagraph hereof, as to containers, will not be required. Government telegraph operators will be held responsible that all telegrams are carefully guarded. No received telegram will ever leave an office except In a sealed envelope properly addressed. All files will be carefully guarded and access thereto will be denied to all parties except those authorized by law to see the same (C. A. B. No. 70, Mar. 16, 1918.) [312.11, A. G. O,] [0. A. R. 70.] 2 834. (Changed by 0. A. B. No. 40, W. T>., 1916.) No information will be furnislied by any person in the military service which can be made the basis of a claim against the Government, except it be given as the regulations prescribe to the proper officers of the War, Treasury, or Interior Departments, or the Department of Justice. Information concerning sick and wounded officers and enlisted men will be freely conveyed to allay the anxiety of friends ; and when, in the opinion of the surgeon,- the condition of an officer or enlisted man, by reason of injury or disease, is serious or is such as to indicate the probability of fatal termination, the surgeon will promptly communicate the fact, by tele- ^aph or by m.ail as circumstances warrant, to the person designated by the officer or soldier to be notified in case of emergency. If the surgeon has no record of the name and address of such, person he will obtain the information from, the officer or soldier or from his organization or station commander in the most expeditious manner practicable. The fact of death may be communicated to relatives, but not circumstances connected therewith which could be made use of in prosecuting claims against the Government. If any person in the military service has knowledge of facts pertaining to the service of an individual who is an applicant for a pension, he may, upon request, if not pecuniarily interested, furnish a certificate or affidavit setting forth his knowledge, but such certificate or afBdavit will be furnished only to The Adju- tant General of the Army to be forwarded to the proper officer of the Interior Department. Record evidence will be furnished by the War Department only. The surgeon of a post, through the commanding officer thereof, is authorized to furnish to the health authorities of the State or locality in which the post is situated, in accordance with existing State laws or local ordinances, infor- mation concerning all births and deaths occurring in the post, such information to be given on the proper blanks furnished for the purpose by the State or local authorities. (O. A. B., No. 70, Mar. 16, 1918.) [300.31, A. G. O.] 1128. Change the third subparagraph to read as follows: Enlisted men, other than noncommissioned officers, and civilian employees in the military service, not specified above, when traveling under orders without troops, when the journey exceeds 12 hours, and is scheduled to terminate after midnight, are entitled to a berth in a sleeping car, upper if available, but, when the number is three or more accommodations will be furnished on the basis of three men to a section. Standard sleeping car accommodations will not be furnished except over such transportation lines, or parts thereof involved in the journey, as are not equipped with tourist car accommodations. Tour- ist sleeping cars will be provided for troops on the basis of three men to a section when the journey involves spending a night on the train ; but when the number of troops is too small to justify the hiring of tourist sleepers, tourist sleeping car accommodations on the same basis, if available, may be furnished. (C. A. R., No. 70, Mar. 16, 1918.) [300.31, A. G. O.] 3 [G.A.R.70.] 1303. (Changed by G. A. R. No. 51, W. D., 1917.) Enlisted men, applicants for enlistment while held under observation, prisoners of war, military prison- ers at posts, hospital matrons, nurses in the Nurse Corps and female telephone operators authorized for service with expeditionary forces are each entitled to one ration a day, according to the station or the nature of the service ; and when the rate of pay of a civilian employed with the Army does not exceed $75 a month, if the circumstances of his service make it necessary and the terms of his engagement provide for it, there may be allowed him one ration a day, according to the exigencies of the case. Civilian employees traveling with organizations of troops will be rationed as are the organizations. Members of the Regular Army Reserve, while at place of annual field training and when mobilized in the event of actual or threatened hostilities, shall be allowed one ration a day, based on the allowances as fixed by orders and regu- lations for troops of the Army. (O. A. R., No. 70, Mar. 16, 1918.) [246.84, A. G. O.] 1223. (Changed by C. A. R. No. 42, W. D., 1916, Nos. 51 and 52, W. D., 1917, and No. 69, W. D., 1918.) Change condition 3 to read as follows : 8. To an enlisted man, a Philippine scout, or a male or female nurse on detached duty, stationed in a city or town where subsistence is not iurnislied by the Government; to sergeants detailed for duty with the National Guard, and for duty with disciplinary organizations; to enlisted men of the Medical Department on permanent duty on laboratory cars; to enlisted men detailed for duty at institutions where one or more units of the Reserve Officers' Tratulng Corps are maintained, or at schools or colleges pursuant to section 56, act of Congress approved June 3, 1916, stationed in a city or town where subsistence is not furnished by the Govenmient. (C.A.B. No. 70, Mar. 16, 1918.) [246.84, A. G. 0.] 1441. The Army and Navy General Hospital, Hot Springs, Ark., is under the direction of the Secretary of War, and is devoted to the treatment of the ofiicers and enlisted men of the military and naval service of the United States, cadets at the United States Military and Naval Academies, officers of the Coast Guard, officers of the Public Health Service, and honorably discharged soldiers and sailors of the Army and Navy of the United States, including National Guard forces, Naval Militia, volunteers and drafted or selected men in the service of the United States, for such diseases as the waters of the Hot Springs of Arkansas have an established reputation in benefiting. (0. A. jB., No. 70, Mar. 16, 1918.) [705.14, A. G. 0.] 1443. Admission to this hospital is restricted to those of the above-named classes who require medical treatment in the following order of preference: (1) Officers and enlisted men of the Army, the Navy, and the Marine Corps on the active lists, and cadets at the United States Military and Naval Acade- mies; (2) officers and enlisted men of the Army, the Navy, and the Marine Corps on the retired lists ; (3) officers of the Coast Guard and of the Public Health Service; (4) honorably discharged soldiers and sailors of the Army and Navy of the United States, including National Guard forces, Naval Mili- tia, volunteers and drafted or selected men in the service of the United States, by authority of the Surgeon General, when there are vacant beds in the hospital. In addition to the foregoing, civilians employed by the United States in Hot Springs and its vicinity who sustain personal injuries while in the performance of duty, will, when beds are available, be admitted to this hospital upon the written request of the officers under whom they are employed. This written request will be addressed to the commanding officer of the hospital and will recite the facts of employment and personal injury while in the performance of duty. Injured civilian employees so admitted to this hospital will be furnished medical and surgical care therein for a reasonable time. (C. A. R., No. 70, Mar. 16, 1918.) [705.14, A. G. O.] [C. A. R. 70.] 4 1444J. Subsistence and medicine charges will not be collected from injured civilian employees who are admitted to the Army and Navy General Hospital under the provisions of paragraph 1442 and vfho are not entitled to medical care and treatment at the cost of Army appropriations, but will be billed by the commanding officer direct to the United States Employees' Compensation Commission,. Washington, D. C. The amounts so collected will be accounted for in the regular way, as follows : Subsistence charges, at the rates currently. applicable for the subsistence therein of officer patients or of enlisted patients, according as the employee is subsisted on the status of an officer or of an enlisted man ; medicine charges at the rate of 25 cents a day. (C. A. R., No. 70, Mar. 16, 1918.) [705.14, A. G. 0.] 1459J. Civilians employed by the United States in the vicinity of a permanent or fixed Army hospital, who sustain personal injuries while in the performance of duty, will be admitted thereto, when beds are available, upon the written request of the officers under whom they are employed. Such request vnll be addressed to the commanding officer of the hospital and will recite the facts of employment and of personal injury while in the performance of duty. In- jured civilian employees thus admitted to hospital will be furnished medical and surgical care therein for a reasonable time, provided that this authority is not applicable to cases to which other United States hospitals are more convenient of access. (0. A. R., No. 70, Mar. 16, 1918.) [705.14, A. G.O.] 1461. Add the following: Subsistence and medicine charges will not be collected from injured civilian employees who are admitted to Army hospitals under the provisions of para- graph 14591 and who are not entitled to medical care and treatment at the cost of Army appropriations, but will be billed by the commanding officers of the hospitals direct to the United States Employees' Compensation Commission, Washington, D. C. The amounts so collected will be accounted for in the regu- lar way. No other charges will be billed. (C. A. R., No. 70, Mar. 16, 1918.) [705.14, A. G. O.] By' oedeb of the Secbetabt op Wae ; JOHN BIDDLE, Major General, Acting Chief of Staff. OFFlCIAi : H. P. McCain, The Adjutant General. [C. A. R. 71.] ARMY REGULATIONS. Changes I -^^^j. DEPARTMENT, ^°- ''^- J Washington, April 2, J91S. Paragraphs 114, 191, 208J, 470, 633, 634, and QS-i, Army Regulations, are changed as follows : 114. (Changed by C. A. R. No. 49, W. D., 1916, and No. 55, W. D., 1917.) Change subparagraphs 1 and 2 as follows : 1. When not involving change of station — (o) Within a brigade, by the brigade commander; within a regiment, by the regimental commander. (6) Within a detached battalion serving at such a distance from regimental headquarters that more than 15 days are required for exchange of correspond- ence by mail, by the battalion commander. (c) Within a coast defense command, by the coast defense commander. 2. In cases involving change of station, transfers will be made by the brigade commander, the regimental commander, the battalion commander, under the circumstances stated in the preceding section, or the coast defense commander, with the approval of the authority competent to direct the neces- sary travel. (C. A. R. No. 71, Apr. 2, 1918.) [220.33, A. G. O.] 191. (Changed by C. A. R. No. 49, W. D., 1916, and No. 57, W. D., 1917.) In the eighteenth line, between the word " commanders " and the semicolon, insert the following : " , except the supervisory control, as prescribed in para- graphs 193, 749, and 1004, over the issue of all supplies, except medical, for general hospitals." (C A. R. No. 71, Apr. 2, 1918.) [300.31, A. G. O.] 2081. (Changed by C. A. R. No. 59, W. D., 1917.) Commanding officers shall appoint trustworthy persons to perform the duties of mail orderlies, to whom shall be given authority to receive the mail from the post office, and to sign receipts for all registered and C. O. D. mail, except such as may be restricted in delivery by the addressee and that which the sender may have marlsed " Deliver to addressee only." Mail orderlies will obtain from the post- masters a copy of a bill or substitute therefor describing registered and C. O. D. mall delivered to them, on which they will obtain the receipts of the addressees or indicate other disposition made of the mail. A copy of the bill, or substi- tute therfefor, upon which final disposition of the mail is shown, will be filed by the mail orderly as a part of the records of the military organization. In all cases where commanding ofllcers, for the good of the service or for some other good and sufficient reason, order the destruction of insured packages addressed to enlisted men and containing such articles as eat- ables, liquors, etc., such packages shall be destroyed under t^e supervi- sion of a commissioned officer in the presence of the addressee from whom a receipt for the package" should be required at the time of destruction. (C A. R. No. 71, Apr. 2, 1918.) [311.11, A. G. O.] [C. A. R. 71.] 470. (Changed by C. A. K. No. 64, W. D., 1917.) Change the reference in the second line of the second subparagraph from " paragraph 467 " to " para- graph 466." (C. A. R. No. 71, Apr. 2, 1918.) [300.31, A. G. O.] 633. In the seventeenth line omit the words "and just." (C. A. R. No. 71, Apr. 2, 1918.) [141.3, A. G. O.] 634. In the seventeenth line omit the words " and just." ( C. A. R. No. 71, Apr. 2, 1918.) [141.3, A. G. 0.] 937. The commanding officer at posts where general prisoners are confined will forward, on the last day of every month, directly to The Adjutant General of the Army and to the department commander a return of general prisoners. Blank forms for this return will be furnished by The Adjutant General's De- partment. General prisoners will be reported under the following headings : ^ Class (a) : Those convicted of purely military ofEenses. Class (6) : Misdemeanants, except those convicted of petit larceny. Class (c) : Statutory or common law felons, and misdemeanants con- victed of petit larceny. (0. A. R. No. 71, Apr. 2, 1918.) [253, A. G. 0.1 By ordeb of the Secbetaey of Wae : PEYTON 0. MARCH, Major General, Acting Chief of Staff. Official : H. P. McCAIN, The Adjutant Oeneral. , [0. A. R. 72.] ARMY REGULATIONS. Changes 1 WAR DEPARTMENT, ^o- '^'2- J Washington, May 20, 191S. Paragraphs 131, 193J, 256, 271, 491, 678, 717, 1009, 1138, 1205, 1223, 1405, and 1407, Army Regulations, are changed as follows: 131. A deserter will not be restored to duty without trial except by authority competent to order his trial by a general court-martial ; such restoration, being ordered only in case the desertion is admitted, does not remove the charge of desertion or relieve the soldier from any of the forfeitures attached to that ofEense ; he must make good the time lost by desertion, refund the reward and expenses paid for apprehension and delivery, and forfeit pay while absent. The same authority is competent to set aside a charge of desertion as having been erroneously made, and his order to this effect operates to remove the charge of desertion and all stoppages and forfeitures arising therefrom. (G. A. R. No. 72, May 20, 1918.) [251.241, A. G. O.] 193 J. (Added by O. A. R. No. 58, W. D., 1917.) Administration and supply will be decentralized to the greatest extent practicable. Commanders of divi- sions are charged with making all necessary arrangements not inconsistent with instructions from higher authority for supplying, organizing, equipping, train- ing, and paying the troops of their divisions and troops attached thereto, and are authorized to issue orders for transportation of officers, enlisted men, civil employees, and supplies of the Army pertaining tc their divisions, necessary for this purpose, within the departments in which their respective divisions are located. Equipment will be in accordance with regulations, approved types and equipment tables, and not in excess of allowances. Commanders of Coast Artillery districts are authorized to issue orders for transportation of officers, enlisted men, civil employees, and supplies of the Army pertaining to their commands within their respective districts. Routine technical questions pertaining to the drill and the instruction of Coast Artillery troops as prescribed by the regulations and orders of the War Department, and routine questions pertaining to the maintenance of the armament and acces- sories in an efficient condition, including repairs and minor changes in the installation of Coast Artillery matgriel, which require the action of higher authority, will be forwarded directly by Coast Artillery district commanders to the Chief of Coast Artillery for recommendation and transmittal to The Adjutant General of the Army or to the proper bureau, except that ques- tions relating to material under charge of armament officers as provided in paragraph 1539 will be forwarded to the armament officer for action. Commanders of divisions. Coast Artillery districts, and separate brigades will act upon requisitions for supplies, other than Engineer supplies for seacoast fortifications, and will send the requisitions' directly to the depots designated for their supply. Requisitions for certain ordnance and ordnance stores designated in War Department orders for the equipment of seacoast ar- mament in the continental United States will be foi-warded by Coast Ar- tillery district commanders, through the ordnance officer of the department [C. A. R. 72.] concerned and the CMef of Coast Artillery, to the Chief of Ordnance. De- partment and division signal officers are authorized to call upon designated supply depots for the initial issues of authorized equipment to new organiza- tions and for replacing Issues of authorized *equipment. The commanding ofia.cer of a Coast Artillery district is authorized to call on department head- quarters for such technical assistance as he may require. The provisions of paragraph 2861, 1916 Supplement to the Compilation of Orders, relating to the issue and repair by the Engineer Department of equipm.ent, materials and supplies required by Coast Artillery troops under existing regulations for the maintenance of defensive -wrorks and for the maintenance and opera- tion of equipment installed therein, shall be regarded as still in force. Supply bureaus of the War Department will assign for purposes of supply certain depots to wliich requisitions will be sent direct by department, division, separate brigade, and Coast Artillery district commanders for such articles as are not procured under department contracts, and it shall be the duty of bureau chiefs to require such supplies to be promptly shipped. There must not be any unnecessary delay in furnishing or shipping supphes. If the supplies can not be furnished by a depot without delay, the depot commander will im- mediately inform the department commander and the officer who approved the requisition, stating the status of the supplies which are short and the action which has been taken to remedy the shortage. In case of unusual delay in obtaining supplies, the department commander is authorized, if he thinks the public interests require such action, to cause the supplies to be purchased in open market at lowest obtainable rates, cost of transportation considered. Contracts for annual supplies, such as fuel, forage, etc., shall be made at de- partment headquarters. Funds needed by department, division, and Coast Artillery district com- manders will be requisitioned for direct to War Department bureaus in ample time for the prompt payment of services, supplies, and troops. Funds supplied will not be used for procurement of equipment or payment for service not authorized by regulations or equipment tables. Department, division, and Coast Artillery district commanders may corre- spond directly with one another. Department, division, and Coast Artillery district commanders are directed to take necessary steps to enforce economy in their commands, whether in the engagement of services, utilization of public property, purchase of supplies, authorization of travel, shipment of supplies, or the use and purchase of trans- portation. Supplies purchased in open market will conform as closely as prac- ticable to War Department specifications. {C. A. R. No. 12, May 20, 1918.) L400.311, A. G. O.] [C. A. R. 72.] 3 ^ 256. (Changed by C. A. R. No. 55, W. D., 1917.) The regi mental noncommis- sioned staff officers consist of the regimental sergeants major, the regimental supply sergeants, the color sergeants, and sergeants (personnel clerks), and in regiments of Engineers, the master engineers, senior and junior grades ; they are appointed by the regimental commander, except the master engineers, senior and junior grades, who are appointed by the Chief of Engineers. The Ijattalion Jioncommissioned staff officers are the battalion sergeants major, and sergeants (personnel clerks), and in battalions of mounted engineers the mas- ter engineers, senior and junior grades, and the battalion supply sergeants; they are appointed by the regimental commander after consultation with the liot- talion commander, or by the battalion commander In case of separate bat- talions, except the master engineers, senior and junior grades, who are appointed by the Chief of Engineers. When a battalion is detached from regimental headquarters the battalion noncommissioned staff officers are ap- pointed temporarily by the battalion commander, who will immediately notify. the regimental commander, and such temporary appointment will be in full force and effect from the date it is made and will continue in full force and effect from that date if it be approved by the regimental commander. If the regimental commander disapproves the appointment, then the increased rank and pay will cease upon receipt by the battalion commander of notice of such disapproval. Each noncommissioned staff officer will fee furnished with a war- rant signed by the regimental commander. The appointment takes effect on the day upon which it is made and the warrant may be continued in force upon discharge and reenlistment, if reenlistment be made on the day following tliat of discharge ; each reenlistment and continuance will be noted on the warrant. Any noncommissioned staff officer may be reduced to the ranks by the sentence of a court-martial, or by order of the commander having final authority to appoint such noncommissioned officer. Noncommissioned staff officers will pref- erably be selected from "the noncommissioned officers of the regiment who are most distinguished for efficiency, gallantry, and soldierly bearing. In the division trains the commander of trains and the commander of the ammuni- tion train exercise the functions of regimental commanders for the train headquarters and military police and the division ammunition train re- spectively. (C. A. R. No. 72, May 20, 1918.) [322.03, A. G. O.] 271. (Changed by C. A. R. No. 66, W. D., 1917.) Company noncommissioned officers in grades pertaining to the line of the Army are nppointed by rc;;i- mental or separate battalion commanders upon the recommendation of the company commander; in units not organized into regiments or separate )i;it- talions, by the unit commander with the approval of the next higher tactical commander; in division ammunition trains, by the ammunition train com- mander; in division engineer trains by the division engineer officer; and in train headquarters and military police by the commander of trains. On the recommendation of company commanders, company noncommissioned officers may be temporarily appointed by battalion commanders, under the conditions stated in paragraph 256; but in no case will any company organization have an excess of noncommissioned officers above the number authorized by law. The noncommissioned officers of Coast Artillery Corps companies, upon rec- ommendation of the company commanders, \/ill be appointed by coast-defense commanders. (C A. B. No. TZ, May 20, 1918.) 1322.03, A. G. O.] re. A. K. 72.] 491, (Changed by C. A. R. No. 58, W. D., 1917, and No. 70, W. D., 1918.) Change subparagraph (o) as follows: (a) Two aluminum identification tags, each the size of a silver half dollar and of suitable thickness, will be worn by each officer and enlisted man of the Army when in the field, when traveling' on transports, and when field tit is worn in garrison; one tag to be suspended from the neck underneath the clothing by a cord or thong passed through a small hole in the tag, the second tag to be suspended from the first one by a short piece of string or tape. In the case of officers, the tags will be stamped with the name, rank, regiment, corps or department of the wearer, and the letters " US," either in such form as " US Infantry," or the letters " USA " detached from the organization. In the case of enlisted men, the tags will be stamped with the man's name and the letters " USA " on one side, and the Army serial number on the other side. These tags are prescribed as a part of the uniform, and when not worn as directed herein will be habitually kept in the possession of the owner. The ta:gs stamped as herein provided will be issued to enlisted men as soon as practicable after enlistment or reenlistment, or after entry into active service in the case of reservists. (O. A. B. No. 73, May 20, 1918.) [344.2, A. G. O.] 678. (Changed by C» A. R. No. 56, W. D., 1917, and No. 68, W. D., 1918.) Unserviceable property is, with reference to its disposition, divided into classes as follows : 1. Property worn out by fair wear and tear in the service. 2. Property which has been rendered unserviceable from causes other than fair wear and tear in the service. Property of the first class may be submitted to a surveying officer and dis- posed of as indicated in paragraph 717, or it may be submitted to an inspector without prior action of a surveying officer. Property of the second class will be submitted to a surveying officer, except as provided in paragraph 1073 in case of public animals, and will be disposed of under the provisions of paragraph 717. The inventory and inspection reports on this class of property will be accompanied by the report of the surveying officer. Arms for which a test for determining unserviceability is definitely prescribed, and which have not been subjected to the same, are excepted from the applica- tion of the above. Property falling under the classifications indicated in paragraphs 1488 and 1566 will not be considered subject to the provisions of this paragraph until the necessary permission for its submission to a surveying officer or inspector has been obtained. (O. A. R. No. 72, May 20, 1918.) [140, A. G. O.] [C. A. R. 72.1 5 717. (Changed by C. A. R. No. 56, W. D., 1917, find No. 68, W. D., 1918.) On the approved recommendation of a surveying officer the following property may be destroyed: (a) Clothing infected with contagious disease; and (b) stores that have become so deteriorated as to endanger health or injure other Stores ; the surveying officer's report will show all other unserviceable property belonging to class 1 (par. 678) " to be salvaged," and upon approval by the commanding officer this property will be turned over to the reclamation officer of the Quartermaster Corps. Property of class 2 (par. 678) not destroyed under (a) or (6) above will be submitted to an inspector after action by a surveying officer. When the disposition of unserviceable articles is covered by specific instjuc- tions of any of the supply departments they will be disposed of in accordance with such instructions in lieu of being salvaged under the provisions of this r.aragraph, but requests for specific instructions will not be submitted in in- dividual cases instead of placing the property before a surveying officer or in- spector. Before ordering the destruction or salvage of property or stores under the provisions of this paragraph the commanding officer will personally inspect the same and will be held responsible that the conditions justify the action. In case the invoice value of the stores involved exceeds $500, the approval of the next higher administrative commander will be obtained before desti-uction or salvage of the property, as provided in paragraph 719. (0. A. R. No. 72, May 20, 1918.) [140, A. G. O.] 1009. (Changed by C. A. R. Nos. 51, 55, and 59, W. D., 1917.) Change sub- paragraphs 3 and 9 as follows : 3. Within his command the commander of a territorial department, or of a division. Coast Artillery district or separate brigade in the field, on the recommendation of the department quartermaster, division, Coast Artillery district or brigade quartermaster, may transfer enlisted men of the line of the Army as privates to the Quartermaster Corps, and he may transfer enlisted men of the Quartermaster Corps from duty at one post or with one organization to another where their services are required, reporting such transfer to the Quartermaster General. Applications for transfer from the line of the Army to the Quartermaster Corps will state the age, character, special qualifications, physical condition, date of expiration of current enlistment, previous service, and whether made for an existing or prospective vacancy, and will originate with the quarter- master of the post or organization and be forwarded through military channels. 9. The number of noncommissioned officers and privates of the Quarter, master Corps to be apportioned among departments. Coast Artillery districts and independent posts and stations will be determined by the Quartermaster General. Department commanders and Coast Artillery district commanders, on the recommendation of the department or Coast Artillery district quarter- master, will make suitable allotments of enlisted men of the Quartermaster Corps to the several posts and stations of their command, but the aggregate thus allotted must not exceed the total number apportioned to the department or Coast Artillery district. (C A. R. No. 72, May 20, 1918.) [220.31, A. G. O.] 79733°— 18 32 [C. A. R. 72.] 1138., (Changed by C. A. R. No. 16, W. T>., 1914.) Ohnnge the first sentence to read as follows: Packing, crating, and transportation of the authorized allowance of baggage for permanent change of station is authorized for officers of the Medical Reserve Corps when joining for duty under the order placing them upon active duty in the service of the United States, for officers of the Medical Corps appointed from officers of the Medical Reserve Corps on active duty in the service of the United States and for officers of the Sanitary Corps, from the place of their appointment to their first stations on joining for duty, and for such contract surgeons and acting dental surgeons as may be employed when they join for duty under the first order, and also on return to their homes on «the termination of their contracts, if provided for in the contracts ; also for m.einbers of the Officers' Reserve Corps, when ordered to active duty and also on return to their homes on the termination of such duty. {C. A. B. No. 72, May 20, 1918.) [524.21, A. G.O.] 1205. (Changed by C. A. R. No. 8, W. D., 1914, and No. 67, W. D., 1918.) In subparagraph 1, Garrison Ration, change the item, " Hominy, fine, 1.6 ounces," added by C. A. R. No. 67, to read, " Hominy, fine, 16 ounces." (C. A. R. No. 72, May 20, 1918.) [300.31, A- G. C] 1223. (Changed by C. A. R. No. '42, W. D., 1916, Nos. 51 and 52, W. D., 1917, and Nos. 69 and 70, W. D., 1918.) In connection with condition 2 of the table, change the rate per day in the second column from " $1.00 " to " $1.25." (0. A. R. No. 72, May 20, 1918.) [246.84, A. G. O.] 1405. (Changed by C. A. R. No. 46, W. D., 1916.) Add the following sentence to the first subparagraph : Horseshoers, mechanics, saddlers, wagoners, and farriers are appointed by the commanding officer of a company of the Medical Departndent in such numbers as are authorized by existing regulations. (C. A. R. No. 72, May 20, 1918.) [220.2, A. G. O.] 1407. (Changed by C. A. R. No. 49, W. D., 1916.) Master hospital sergeants, hospital sergeants, and sergeants, first class, except those of the latter grade holding limited warrants, though liable to discharge, will not be reduced, except by sentence of a court-martial. Sergeants, first class, holding limited warrants, sergeants and corporals may be reduced by sentence of a court-martial, by the Surgeon General, by a department surgeon, or by the division surgeon of a mobilized division. Lance corporals, cooks, horseshoers, mechanics, saddlers, wagoners, farriers, and privates, first class, may be reduced by sentence of a Qourt-martial, by the Surgeon General, by a department surgeon, by the division sugeon of a mobilized division, or by the orgr.nization commander who has authority to appoint them, except that lance corporals, cooks, horse- shoers, mechanics, saddlers, wagoners, and farriers who were promoted from the grade of private, first class, will not he reduced to the grade of private except by order of the Surgeon General, a department surgeon, the division surgeon of a mobilized division, or by sentence of a court-martial. (C. A. R No. 72, May 20, 1918.) [220.2, A. G. O.] By obdeb or the Secbetaey of Wab: PEYTON C. MARCH, Major General, Acting Chief of Staff. Offioiai, : H. P. McCAIN, The Adjutant Oeneral. [C. A. K. 73.] ARMY REGULATIONS. ^^ll/'^'^'-S 1 yif^-^ DEPARTMENT, ^'°- "^- J Washington, June 10, 1918. Paragraphs 6, 9, 18, 191, 197, 199, 238, 364, 449, 695, 762, 1044, 11674, 1269, 1342 J, and 1556, Army Regulations, are changed, and paragraphs 1269i, 1342J, and Article LXXXI (paragraphs 1574 to 1587), with heading "The Air Serv- ice," are added, as follows : 6. (Changed by O. A. R. No. 55, W. D., 1917.) After the word "Engineer," In fourth line, insert "Air Service " followed by a comma. (C. A. R. No. 73, June 10, 1918.) 9. (Changed by C. A. R. No. 46, W. D., 1917.) In grade " 10 " after the word "Aviator " omit the comma and the words " Signal Corps " and insert a period after •" Aviator." In grade "12" after the semicolon following the words "Coast Artillery Corps," in fourth line, insert "master' electrician. Air Service," followed by a semicolon. In grade " 15 " after the semicolon following the words " Corps of Engineers," In second and third lines, insert " sergeant, first class. Air Service," followed by a semicolon. (C. A. R. No. 73, June 10, 1918.) 18. After the comma following the word " troops " in first line insert the words " an officer of the Air Service not on duty with Air Service troops " fol- lowed by a comma. (C. A. R. No. 73, June 10, 1918.) 191. (Changed by C. A. R. No. 49, W. D., 1916, No. 57, W. D., 1917, and No. 71, W. D., 1918.) In eighth and ninth lines omit the words " Signal Corps 'Aviation Schools and the United States Army Balloon School " and insert in liea>'thereof the words " Air Service Training or Experimental Stations and Air Service Repair Depots." (C. A. R. No. 73, June 10, 1918.) 197. After the comma following the words " Corps of Engineers," in sixth line, insert the words "Air Service" followed by a comma. (C A. R. No. 73, June 10, 1918.) 199. After the semicolon following the words " department engineer," in seventh and eighth lines, insert the words " of the Air Service, department air service officer," followed by a semicolon. (C. A. R. No. 73, June 10, 1918.) 338. (Changed by C. A. R. No. 39, W. D., 1916, and No. 60, W. D., 1917.) Omit the second subparagraph and the words " and aero squadrons " in the third subparagraph. (O. A. R. No. 73, June 10, 1918.) 364. After the word " the " in first line insert the words "Air Service and of the." (C. A. B. No. 73, June 10, 1918.) 449. (Changed by C. A. R. No. 49, W. D., 1916, and No. 57, W. D., 1917.) Omit from the service schools in subparagraph 4 those mentioned under " s," " t," " u," and " V," with the letters designating them ; designate " w " as " s " and " w " as " t," and add the following : u. The Air Service Training Stations at the several stations in the United States. (C. A. R. No. 73, June 10, 1918.) 695. (Changed by C. A. R. No. 52, W. D., 1917.) After the word "posts" in third line insert the words " and master electricians and sergeants, first class, of the Air Service." (C. A. R. No. 73, June 10, 1918.) [C. A. R. 73.] 763. After the comma following the word " Engineers " in fifth line Insert the words "the Air Service" followed by a comma. (G . A. R.No.lS, June 10,1918.) 1044. (Changed by O. A. R. Nos. 53 and 54, W. D., 1917.) In the thirteenth line of the table omit the comma and the words " Signal Corps " following the word "Aviator." (C A. R. No. 73, June 10, 1918.) 1167i. (Added by C. A. R. No. 58^ W. D., 1917.) In second line omit the words "Aviation Section, Signal Corps " and insert in lieu thereof the words "Air Serv- ice " ; in thirteenth line omit the words " Chief Signal Officer " and insert in lieu thereof the words " the Chief of Air Service." (C. A. R. No. 73, June 10, 1918.) 1269. (Changed by O. A. R. No. 51, W. D., 1917.) In accordanee with general regulations prescribed by the Secretary of War and published to the Army by the War Department, the Chief of Air Service will from time to time rate aviation ofla.cers, qualified therefor, as military aviators, junior military aviators, military aeronauts, and junior military aeronauts, such rating's to be announced in special orders of the War Department, which orders shall cite the date of, the rating in the case of each officer so rated. An officer, while so rated, is entitled to the rank, pay, and allowances author- ized by the acts of Congress approved July 18, 1914, June 3, 1916, and July 24, 1917. (C. A. R. No. 73, June 10,1918.) 1269J. Aviation officers and officers detailed or attached to the Air Service for flight duty, junior military aviators, military aviators, junior military aero- nauts, and military aeronauts may be assigned to duty requiring them to par- ticipate in regular and frequent aerial flights by the commanding officer of the aviation station, camp, school, field, post, or aeronautical organization in the field to which the officer may be assigned. No officer will be continued on such duty except as authorized by the acts of Congress of July 18, 1914, June 3, 1916, and July 24, 1917. Officers assigned to such duty are entitled to the extra pay and allowances authorfeed by the above cited acts of Congress, provided that the extra pay and allowances shall not be paid to any 5ueh officer for any period during which he has not participated in regular and frequent flights. When failure to partici- pate in flights is due to physical disability resulting from participation in flights, the extra pay and allowance for participation in flights shall be continued dur- ing the period of such physical disability. An officer claiming extra pay for participation in flights will submit with his pay voucher, upon which such extra pay is claimed, a certificate in the following form: Station Date To War Department, Quartermaster Corps: I certify that during the period for which flying pay is claimed on the at- tached voucher I was on duty requiring regular and frequent participation in aerial flights, and that during such period I participated in regular and frequent flights. (Signature) Certificate in the above form shall be authority for payment to the officer of the pay and allowances authorized by the above cited acts of Congress for the period for which submitted. (O. A. R. No. 73, June 10, 1918.) 1342i. In accordance with general regulations prescribed by the Secretary of War and published to the Army by the War Department, commanding officers of aero squadrons and balloon companies will from time to time rate or disrate enlisted men of their respective organizations above the grade of corporal, qualified therefor, as aviation or balloon mechanicians, as the case may be, [C. A. R. 73.] announcing such ratings or disratings in orders, which orders shall cite the date of the rating or disrating in the case of each enlisted man so rated or disrated. Enlisted men, while so rated, are entitled to the increase of pay authorized by the acts of Congress approved July 18, 1914, and July 24, 1917. The following notation will be made on the first pay rolls on which the names of aviation or balloon mechanicians appear: "Due soldier fifty per cent in- crease as aviation (balloon) mechanician from 19 — , per O. No. , 19 — ," and the following notation will be made on subsequent pay rolls as long as such rating and additional pay are authorized : " Due soldier fifty per cent increase as aviation (balloon) mechanician," When an enlisted man holding such rating reenlists on the day following the day of his discharge, his rating and additional pay will be continued in force so long as his duty warrants under the terms of the acts herein above cited. If an aviation or balloon mechanician is disrated as such, the date when such rating ceases will be noted on the proper pay roll together with the number and date of the order. (0. A. B. No. 73, June 10, 1918.) 1342i. (Added by 0. A. R. No. 51, W. D., 1917.) Enlisted men may be as- signed to duty requiring' them to participate in regular and frequent aerial flights by the commanding oflacer of the aviation station, camp, school, field, post, or aeronautical organization in the field to which such men may be assigned. No enlisted man will be continued on such duty except as author- ized by the act of Congress of July 18, 1914. Enlisted men assigned to such duty are entitled to the extra pay authorized by the above-cited act gf Congress, provided that the extra pay shall not be paid to any such enlisted man for any period during which he has not par- ticipated in regular and frequent flights. When failure to participate in flights is due to physical disability resulting from participation in flights, the extra pay for participation in flights shall be continued during the period of such physical disability. The following notation will be made on the pay rolls on which the names of such men appear: " Due soldier fifty per cent increase as aerial flyer. Dates of flight, ." In the case of a soldier entitled to increased pay for a month during which he did not participate in flights owing to physical disability resultant from participating in flights the appropriate remark will be entered on the pay roll. (C. A. R. No. 73, June 10, 1918.) 1556. (Changed by O. A. R. No. 49, W. D., 1916.) In thirteenth line omit the words " and balloon trains." (C. A. R. No. 73, June 10, 1918.) ARTICLE LXXXI. The Air Service. (See sec. Ill, G. O. No. 51, War Department, 1918.) 1574. The Air Service is charged, under the direction of the Secretary of War, with the duty of procuring, organizing, training, administering, and operating Its commissioned and enlisted personnel ; of procuring by manufacture or pur- chase, paying for, distributing, maintaining, and operating all aeronautical equipment, except such supplies as are regularly furnished by bureaus of the War Department; of establishing and maintaining such aircraft factories, repair and supply depots, as may be necessary for the manufacture, repair, and safe-keeping of aeronautical equipment ; of selecting, procuring, establish- ing, maintaining, and operating all flying fields, aviation stations,, and schools [C. A. R. 73.] 4 which the air service may require ; of selecting and determining the types and designs of all equipment used in the air service ; of prescribing tests to which all equipment must be submitted before acceptance, and of supervising these tests ; of keeping in constant touch with inventors and manufacturers, so that the requirements of the flyers may be met ; of collecting all necessary technical data showing the latest developments in aviation and aero station ; of secur- ing and disseminating information concerning organization, methods and equip- ment of foreign aviation services ; of examining and experimenting with all captured enemy equipment ; of assuring, by constant research experiments that the air service is provided with the very best aeronautical equipment obtainable ; of using or supervising the use of signaling apparatus of any kind when installed on military aircraft; of supplying, operating, and maintaining aerial photographic apparatus and supplying developed negatives to the Army. The Secretary of War may, however, at his discretion, and for such time as he may deem necessary and advisable, divide the activities of the Air Service into two coordinate branches, namely, a Bureau of Aircraft Production and a Division of Military Aeronautics, and place in the hands of a Director of Air- craft Production matters pertaining to the production, experimentation, manu- facture, supply, finance, and any other matters connected therewith, and the Secretary of "War may direct such Director of Aircraft Production to carry out all matters intrusted to him by such means and in such manner as the Sec- retary of War may prescribe. (O. A. R. No. 73, June 10, 1918.) 1575. The Chief of Air Service will be charged, under direction of the Secre- tary of War, with the command of the Air Service, both staff and line, and with the management of the Air Service, including the'regulation of the duties of officers, agents, and others who may be employed under his direction, ex- cepting such portions as may be specifically detached by order of the Secretary of War. (C. A. R. No. 73, June 10, 1918.) 1576. The senior officer of the Air Service commanding air-service troops serving with an army or independent unit in the field or the senior officer of each division of the Air Service will be attached to the general headquarters of that organization and will be a member of the stafC of the commanding officer, unless specifically ordered otherwise by competent authority. The senior officer of the Air Service on duty at a departmental headquarters shall be a member of the department staff and shall be officially designated the Department Air Service Officer. {G. A. R. No. 73, June 10, 1918.) 1577. The senior officer of the Air Service serving with an army or other independent organization, in the field or the senior officer of each division of the Air Service will report monthly, through military channels, to the Chief of Air Service or to the chiefs of the respective divisions of the Air Service the operations under his direction sufficiently in detail to show the nature and ex- tent of the operations in so far as executed by the Air Service engaged therein. When officers or troops of the Air Service are detached from the command of the Chief of Air Service, they will continue to conform to the regulations of the Air Service in regard to the keeping of records and rendering of reports and accounts. (0. A. R. No. 73, June 10, 1918.) 1578. Officers and troops of the Air Service will not be diverted from such service except in cases of public exigency and when so diverted the officers will report the fact to their respective chiefg,, forwarding through military channels a copy of the order they may have received. The officer issuing the order will transmit a copy directly to the War Department. (O. A. R. No. 73, June 10, 1918.) [G. A. R. T3.] 1579. All service equipment procured for Issue to the Army and required by an officer for his own use in the public service may be sold to him by the Air Service at the regulation price and the money received passed to the credit of the proper appropriation. Air Service equipment thus sold to officers will not be disposed of to persons not In the military service. (0. A. B. No. 73, June 10, 1918.) 1580. Training brigades will consist of such units as may be prescribed by the Secretary of War. Commanding officers of training brigades will be assigned upon the recommendation of the Chief of Air Service by the War Department. The training brigade staff will consist of such air service officers as may be recommended by the Chief of Air Service and designated by the War Depart- ment. The official designation of the senior officers of the training brigade stafC will be as follows: Adjutant (who will also perform the duties of per- sonnel officer), training officer, engineer officer, supply officer, disbursing officer, and balloon officer. Training brigade commanders are responsible for the efficiency of their brigades and for control, within the limits of the command, of all matters relating to air service, duty, drill, and practice. They will prescribe the hours of drill and instruction throughout their commands and make frequent inspec- tions of all parts of the brigade. (0. A. R. No. 73, June 10, 1918.) 1581. An Air Service Plying School shall consist of such personnel as may be prescribed, with landing fields and equipment, by the Secretary of War. The command of such schools devolves upon the senior Air Service officer on duty at the station, who is responsible for the efficiency of the command and has control, within the limits of the command, of all matters relating to air service duties, drill, and practice. He is a post commander within the meaning of that term, as used in Army Regulations, and charged with all duties prescribed for post commanders in so far as they relate to his command. The stafE of an Air Service Flying School will consist of the following: B3xecutive officer, quarter- master, adjutant, officer in charge of flying, engineer officer, supply officer, gunnery officer, radio officer, and photographic officer. (C. A. R. No. 73, June 10, 1918.) 1582. Air Service balloon schools will be organized and conducted generally in the manner prescribed for Air Service flying schools, as set forth in the pre- ceding paragraph. (0. A. R. No. 73, June 10, 1918.) 1583. Training brigades. Air Service flying and balloon schools and schools of military aeronautics, will be under the control of the department commander for purposes of administration, supply, and discipline, but so far as pertains to training, training brigade commanders and commanders of schools are directly responsilale to the Chief of Air Service, and direct correspondence between such officers and the Chief of the Air Service on all matters pertaining to training is authorized. (C A. R. No. 73, June 10, 1918.) 1584 Orders will be issued from time to time announcing the depots from which requisitions for Air Service supplies will be filled. Commanding officers of the depots so designated will fill as soon as possible after their receipt all requisitions approved by competent authority. Department commanders will take final action on all requisitions for supplies furnished by the Air Service, issuable under approved tables of equipment, and send them for supply to the denots designated by the Chieif ^of Air Service. All other Air Service requisi- ttnsJubT forwarded to the Chief of Air Service or the Director of Air- craft Production for action. (O. A. R. No. 73, June 10, 1918.) 1585 Men may be enlisted for the Air Service in the class or grade for which they are competent and in which there is a vacancy. Privates may be pro- [O. A. E. 73.] moted or appointed to higher grades by any field officer of the Air Service under whose direct command they may be serving. Master signal electricians vfill be appointed only on the approval of the Chief of Air Service or that of the senior officer of the Air Service present with an army or army corps, ex- cept that when the activities of the Air Service are divided under paragraph 1574, they will be appointed by the chiefs of their respective divisions. Non- commissioned officers, chauffeurs, first class, chaufCeu'rs, cooks, privates, first class, may be reenlisted for the Air Service in their respective grades and their warrants and appointments continued in force if reenlistment be made on the day following that of discharge. If the officer under whom the soldier is serving does not deem the continuance in force of the warrant or appoint- ment to be for the best interests of the service, he will report in detail to the officer authorized to make appointments not less than three paonths prior to the expiration of the soldier's term of service, in order that a decision may be made before date of discharge and the soldier notified thereof. Married men may be reenlisted in the Air Service upon approval by a field officer of the Air Service. (0. A. R. No. 73, June 10, 1018.) 1586. Flights in Air Service equipment for other than training or war pur- poses will be made only upon the express authority of the Chief of Air Service, and no person in the military service is authorized to permit other than the following tt) be carried as' passengers in such equipment : Heads of the execu- tive and judicial branches of the Government, members of the Senate and House of Representatives, officers and enlisted men in the Army, Navy, and Marine Corps, and members and employees of the Air Service. (G. A. R. No. 73, June 10, 1918.) 1587. Only persons In the military service of the United States regularly assigned by proper authority to take photographs or motion pictures of Air Service stations or equipment are authorized to take such photographs or motion pictures. (C A. R. No. 73, Juris 10, 1918.) [320, A. G. O.] By obder of the Seceetaey of Wab: WILMAM S. GRAVES, Brigadier General, Acting Chief of Staff. Official : H. P. McCAIN, The Adjutant General. [C. A. R. 74.] ARMY REGULATIONS. Changes 1 WAR DEPARTMENT, No. 74. J Washington, June 28, 1918. Paragraphs 1074, 1075, 1076, 1182, and the heading preceding paragraph 1074, Army Regulations, are rescinded, paragraphs 71, 118, 177, 464, 587, 648, 701, 737, 1009, 1012, 1015, 1017, 1042, 1044, 1045, 1087, 1088, 1089, 1090, 1091i, 1097, 1111, 1123, 1127, 1133, 1142, 1201, 1215, 1239, 1240, 1252, 1254, 1384, 1433, 1443, and 1512i are changed, and paragraphs 1391 and 1370f are added. 71. Orders contemplating the payment of mileage must state the specific duty enjoined, and that the travel directed is necessary in the military service. They will not direct travel beyond the limits of the command of the officer who issues them, except that the commander of the American Expeditionary Forces in Europe and the commanders of the Philippine and Hawaiian De- partments may order officers of their commands to return to the United States in cases of emergency, in which the travel directed is manifestly for the public interest or is necessary to save life, and except that for the purposes men- tioned in paragraph 193:^ division commanders may issue orders for travel of officers within the departments in which their respective divi- sions are located. When a general officer is ordered on duty beyond the limits of his command, he may order an officer of his staff to accompany him ; if ordered to change station, he may order the necessary change of station of his personal staff. (C A. R. No. 7 J,, June 28, 1918.) [300.31, A. G. O.] 118. Add the following sentence: In case of desertion of men inducted into the service under the selectlve-serv-' ice law, copies of the descriptive lists of deserters will also be sent to the local boards having original jurisdiction. (G. A. R. No. 74, June 28, 1918.) [251.1, A. G. O.] 139i. When authority is granted department commanders by Army Regu- lations or by general orders or instructions of the War Department to order discharges of enlisted men, such authority shall extend to all places over which they have court-martial jurisdiction, as provided by paragraph 191. (C. A. R. No. 74, June 28, 1918.) [220.816, A. G.O.] 177. The department commander will determine all matters incident to funds required for extra duty and unclassified civil labor at each post in his department. The expenditures must be limited to the absolutely necessary demands of the service. (<7. A. R. No. 74, June 28, 1918.) [300.31, A. G. O.] 464. (Changed by G. A. R. No., 64, W. D., 1917.) In the second line, after the words " contract surgeons," insert the words "Army field clerks, field clerks. Quartermaster Corps, members of the Nurse Corps." (0. A. R. No. 74, June 28, 191S.) [046.S5, A. G. 0.1 [0. A. R. 74.] 587. Recruiting officers and officers doing quartermaster duty at posts or Independent stations are authorized to keep on liand, at their own risk, moneys pertaining to the appropriation " Subsistence of the Army," under " General appropriations, Quartermaster Corps," in such restricted amounts as may be necessary for facilitating payments of small amounts to public creditors. Funds necessary for recruiting officers will be supplied to them as " agent officers," under the provisions of the act of Congress approved May 12, 1917. When it becomes necessary to draw a check for obtaining subsistence funds to be kept in personal possession, the accountable officer will draw it in his own favor and enter under the heading thereon, " Object for which drawn," or " On account of," the following : " To hold funds in personal possession under A. R. 587." Such checks will not be stated to be for " payments under $20." (C. A. R. No. 74, June 28, 1918.) [300.31, A. G. O.] 648. In final statements, receipts for money, and papers of like character, money amounts will. In all cases, be written out in full and also expressed by figures in parentheses. This requirement does not apply to pay rolls of mili- tary organizations, pay rolls of other descriptions, lists of deposits on final statements, nor to a quartermaster's indorsement on a discharge certificate or furlougb showing money paid on final statements. (C. A. R. No. 74, June 28, 1918.) [300.31, A. G. O.] 701. All returns of stores or supplies will be rendered as required by regulations or orders. Those of subsistence stores will be forwarded within 10 days after the expiration of the accounting periods and those of other classes of stores and property within 20 days to the chiefs of bureaus to which they pertain. In eases in which complete transfer of property from one officer to another occurs within an accounting period, the transfer of accountability will be made on the current return, which will be completed and rendered by the officer accountable at the close of the accounting period. (C. A. R. No. 74, June gS, 1918.) [300.31, A. G. O.] 737. The expert accountant. Inspector General's Department, will be entitled to mileage at the same rates and under the same conditions as is provided by law for officers of the Army. (0. A. R. No. 7.^, June 28, 1918.) [300.31, A. G. 0.] [C. A. R. 74.] 3 1009. (Changed by C. A. R. Nos. 51, 55, and 59, W. D., 1917, and No. 72, ■VV. D., 1918.) Change subparagraph 10 to read as follows : 10. Quartermaster Corps enlisted personnel, except quartermaster sergeants, senior grade, and quartermaster sergeants, is classified as follows : (a) That portion attached to mobile organizations, except those organiza- tions pertaining to the Quartermaster Corps. (6) That portion assigned to organizations pertaining to the Quartermaster Corps. (0) That portion assigned to the service of the Interior. Civilian personnel of the Quartermaster Corps will, as far as practicable, be assigned to classes (b) and (c). Pencil notation -will be made on briefs of service records showing class to which each man is attached or assig-ned, and the proper descriptive desig- nation, such as baker, clerk, plumber, or other specified duty of the man. Department commanders will determine, on recommendation of the department quartermaster, the number of men at each post or station to be assigned to each class, within the limits prescribed in Tables of Organization, and the individual men will be assigned to their respective classes and those of class (o) attacheil to organizations of mobile troops by the post commander on recommendation of the quartermaster. ( G. A. R. No. 74, June 28, 1918. ) [300.31, A. G. O.] 1012. (Changed by C. A. R. No. 44, W. D., 1916.) In the seventh line omit the words " allotted or." (C. A. B. No. 74, June 28, 1918.) [300.31, A. G. 0.] 1015. (Changed by C. A. R. No. 44, W. D., 1916.) All three copies of the annual estimate will be retained at the post until June 30 of the fiscal year concerned. The commanding officer will then indicate in red ink figures on the three copies of the estimate, opposite the amount estimated for, the amount actually expended for each item of work on each building or each set of quar- ters, also for all other items of work, etc., so that the Quartermaster General's Office will have knowledge of the actual cost of repairs, etc., of each item when the estimates are returned to that office. When this shall have been accom- plished one copy of the estimate will be retained at the post ; the other two copies will be forwarded to department headquarters, one copy to be retained there for record and the other to be forwarded to The Adjutant General of the Army. After all repairs, etc., shall have been completed, commanding officers of depots and independent stations will forward one copy of the annual estimate to The Adjutant General of the Army, one copy being retained at the depot or station for record there. The same regulations will govern, so far as applicable, for depots and independent stations with reference to retaining and completing the estimates as stated above, as apply to posts under the jurisdiction of department commanders. (C. A. B. No. 74, June 28, 1918.) [300.31, A. G. O.] ' 1017. In the third line omit the word " fipportioned." (G. A. B. No. —, June — , 1918.) [300.31, A. G. 0.] 1042. (Changed by C. A. R. No. 42, W. D., 1916.) Change the words " quar- terly inventory of fuel " to read " semiannual inventory of fuel." (0. A. B, No. 74. June 28, 1918.) [300.52, A. G. O.] [C. A. R. 74.] 1044. (Changed by C. A. R. Nos. 53 and 54, W. D., 1917, and No. 73, W. D., 1918.) Change the third subparagraph to read as follows: In camp, the allowance of fuel is as follows : For cooking, one-twelfth cord per day for each kitchen fire, as shown by the prescribed allowance of field rang'es. When conditions require the issue of amounts in excess of this allow- ance authority will be obtained from the department commander or command- ing general in the field. For heating (winter use only), such necessary amount as may be prescribed by the camp commander. For kitchen pits, one-twelfth cord per day per pit when garbage is destroyed in kitchen pits. (O. A. R. Ko. 7-',. June 28, 1918.) [300.31, A. G. 0.] 1045. (Changed by C. A. R. No. 28, W. D., 1915.) When on detached service or assigned to special duty in places where there are no public quarters avail- able the allowance of quarters for each female telephone operator authorized for service abroad and for each member of the Nurse Corps is fixed at two rooms, on which basis commutation of quarters will be paid. Commutation of heat and light will be paid for the number of rooms actually occupied, not exceeding two. When entitled to commutation of quarters or commutation of heat and light, it will not be paid to them on pay rolls, but will be paid on W&r Department Form No. 369. (0. A. R. No. 74, June 28, 1918.) [300.31, A. G. O.] 1074. (Changed by C. A. R. No. 10, W. D., 1914.) Paragraph and heading rescinded. (C. A. R. No. 74, June 28, 1918.) [300.31, A. G. 0.] 1075. Rescinded. (C. A. R. No. 74, June 28, 1918.) [300.31, A. G. 0.] 1076. Rescinded. (C. A. R. No. 74, June 28, 1918.) [300.31, A. G. 0.] 1087. When troops are assembled for field service, there will be but one accountable officer for quartermaster supplies in each regiment, separate bat- talion, or squadron, and he will account for all quarterrbaster supplies in the possession of the command of which he is supply officer. (0. A. R. No. 74, June 28, 1918.)- [300.31, A. G. O.] 1088. At places requiring the services of more than one quartermaster, or supply officer, each one charged with the care and disposition of quartermaster supplies will account for the same. (O. A. R. No. 7.4, June 28, 1918.) [300.31, A. G. O.] 1089. In the second line, after the word " quartermaster," add the words "or supply officer." (0. A. R. No. 7.^, June 28, 1918.) [300.31, A. G. O.] 1090. Officers commanding companies or detachments temporarily absent from posts will continue responsible to quartermasters, or supply officers, from whom supplies have been procured on memorandum receipts. Should the services of a supply officer become necessary, one will be appointed for the command. (C. A. R. No. 7.^, June 28, 1918.) [300.31, A. G. 0.] [C. A. E. 74.] 5 109U. (Added by C. A. R. No. 30, W.. D., 1915.) Whenever troops are de- tached from posts for duty in the field for an indefinite period, or when their absence on such duty is prolonged for an extended period and they have taken with them quartermaster property held on memorandum receipt from the post quartermaster, the commander of the territorial department from which the troops are detached may direct that such property be invoiced to the regi- mental, battalion, squadron, or other supply officer of the ^troops concerned. Upon return from detached service to the post from which detached, or upon joining another post for duty, the property will be invoiced to the quartermaster of the post. Whenever an officer, noncommissioned ofiicer, or other person in the military service is detached from a post for duty in the field and has left quartermaster property for which he has signed a memorandum receipt, the quartermaster will take possession of such property upon request of the person concerned, carefully check same, and issue a credit slip (Form No. 448, A. G. 0.) in duplicate, on which will be listed the article or articles taken in, the original of which will be sent to the person concerned and the duplicate retained by the quartermaster. Should damage not the result of fair wear and tear in the service or a shortage be found to exist, the quartermaster will communicate with the person concerned with a view to securing an adjustment before taking steps toward collecting the value of the article or articles short or damaged. (O. A. R. No. 74, June 28, 1918.) [300.31, A. G. O.] 1097. In the fourth line change the word "platoons" to "organizations." (C. A. B. No. Ilf, June 28, 1918.) [300.31, A. G. O.] 1111. (Changed by 0. A. R. No. 42, W. D., 1916.) A person requiring trans- portation will exhibit an order from competent authority. The quartermaster will indorse on the original order, over his signature, the fact that transporta^ tion has been provided, its kind, the place from and to which it has been fur- nished, the number of pounds of extra baggage, if any, and, if transportatiou involving mileage is furnished at the request of an officer to whom it is issued by a longer route than the shortest one usually traveled, that fact ■will be noted. The original order will be retained by the person who receives the transportation, and, in case of a soldier entitled to commutation of rations while traveling, will be disposed of as directed in paragraph 1232. (C A. R. No. 7Jf, June 28, 1918.) [300.31, A. G. O.] 1123. (Changed by C. A. R. No. 57, W. D., 1917.) Change the third sentence to read as follows : Transportation for 250 pounds of baggage, including 150 pounds usually car- ried free by railroads, is authorized for female telephone operators authorized for service abroad and Army nurses when they join for duty under the first order, upon permanent change of station, and on return to their homes upon annulment of contract. (C. A. R. No. 7i, June 28, 1918.) [300.31, A. G. O.] 1127. (Changed by C. A. R. No. 5, W. D., 1914.) In the ninth line change the words " property account " to read " property return." ( C. A. R. No. 74, June 28, 1918.) [300.31, A. G. O.] [0. A. R. 74.] 1133. When it is impracticable for agents or conductors to fumisla berths or seats in sleeping or parlor cars, the holder of the request will, on the termina- tion of his journey, return it to the issuing officer, with a statement of the reasons why it has not been used, and that officer will cancel it and, at the end of the month, will transmit it to the accountable officer with a certifi- cate showing by serial numbers the transportation requests issued during the month. {C. A. R. No. 74, June 28, 1918.) [300.31, A. G. 0.] 1143. (Changed by C. A. R. No. 49, W. D., 1916.) Transportation by express, when in excess of cost by ordinary freight, must be limited to emergencies and shipments of delicate instruments, public funds, and other public property of such small weight or dimensions as is likely to be damaged or lost when shipped by ordinary freight. Vouchers in payment must show the emergency or the char- acter of the package transported and authority for such transportation. In mak- ing shipments of funds a quatermaster will receipt only for so many sealed packages said to contain so much public money. When an absent disbursing officer sends his check to the order of the quartermaster, requesting him to ex- press the amount named therein, the latter will receipt for the actual amount to be transported. In case of loss of funds by unavoidable accident the shipping officer will not be held responsible, and the officer accountable for the funds must seek relief through application to the Court of Claims or to Congress ; but, if the funds were turned over by an " agent officer " for shipment, he, being pecuniarily responsible therefor to the United States under the provi- sions of the act of Congress approved May 12, 1917, must likewise seek relief. (C. A. R. No. 74, June Z8, 1918.) [300.31, A. G. O.] 1182. Rescinded. See subparagraph 12, paragraph 1215. (G. A. R. No. 7.J, June 28, 19 IS.) [300.21, A. G.O.] 1201. (Changed by C. A. R. No. 4, W. D., 1914.) In the last line change the words "Chief of the Quartermaster Corps" to read "Quartermaster General." (C. A. B. No. r/,, June 28, 1918.) [300.31, A. G. O.] 1215. (Changed by C. A. R. Nos. 12 and 17, W. D., 1914, No. 35, W. D., 1915, and No. 41, W. D., 1916.) (1) In the second and third lines omit the words " with the exception that the vinegar and rock salt for public animals will be included in requisitions for forage." (2) Add subparagraph 12, as follows: 12. Commanding officers may, when necessary, order the issue of four cans of concentrated lye and six cakes of scouring soap per month to each com- pany, and one-half that quantity to each band which is not a part of a head- quarters company or troop, and the necessary quantity for buildings heated by the Government and not thus provided for. The use of concentrated lye upon the floors and woodwork of all modern barracks, kitchens excepted, is forbidden. (C. A. R., No. 7.}, June 28, 1918.) [300.21, A. G.O.] 1239. In the fifth line, after the comma following the word " nurse," add the words " a female telephone operator authorized for service abroad." (O. A. R. No. 74, June 28, 1918). [300.31, A. G. O.] 1240. (Changed by C. A. R. No. 10, W. D., 1914.) In the fourth line change the words "General Quartermaster" to "Quartermaster General." (0. A. R. No. 74, June 28, 1918.) [300.31, A. G. O.] [C. A. R. 74.] • 7 1253. The quartermaster will furnish to supply officers of tactical units all cooking apparatus for field use required by them as equipment C, the issues to be by regular transfer; and will furnish to commanding officers of organizations and detachments the necessary cooking apparatus for post use, the issues to be made on memorandum receipts. Bake ovens will be dropped from his property returns when permanently installed at posts ( C. A. R. No. 74, June 28, 1918. ) [300.31, A. G. O.] 1254. The senior quartermaster of a command, under the direction of Its commander, will be responsible for the payment of the troops of the command. When it is impracticable for quartermasters to make payment to troops in person, the funds necessary to make such payment may be advanced to " agent officers " under the provisions of the act of Congress approved May 12,- 1917. (C. A. R. No. 74, June 28, 1918.) [300.31, A. G. O.] 13704, Pay detained pursuant to sentence of court-martial will be detained by the Government until the soldier is discharged from active service, fui- loughed to the reserve, or mustered out of active Federal service, at which time the total amount detained, if not forfeited, will be noted on the final statement in the space provided therefor and paid to him out of Pay of the Army (or Pay of the Military Academy, if soldier's pay is payable from that appropriation) for the fiscal year in which discharged, furloughed, or mustered out. Whenever any part of a soldier's pay is detained pursuant to sentence of court-martial, the commanding officer of the company or detachment will make proper entry on the soldier's service record of the amounts actually detained by the quartermaster from the soldier's pay in order that the necessary infor- mation may be available to enable a statement of such soldier's account to be correctly made upon final statements. Care will be taken to avoid the erroneous entry of amounts of court-martial forfeitures on the service record as detainerl pay. (C. A. R. No. 74, June 28, 1918.) [242.2, A. G. 0.] 1384. (Changed by C. A. R. No. 10, W. D., 1914.) An officer of the Quarter- master Corps, other than an " agent officer " under the provisions of the act of Congress approved May 12, 1917, will not give a receipt, except in the following cases : 1. For the transfer of money when the transfer is of cash. 2. For the money of a deceased soldier, deserter, or an escaped military prisoner. 3. For a stoppage authorized by the Secretary of War, for which the Quar- termaster General may direct a receipt to be given. 4. For a refundment made by an officer on account of an overpayment maile by quartermaster. A separate receipt will be given in each individual case. In all other cases the person turning over or refunding money will deposit it in some authorized public depositary or transfer it to a disbursing officer of the department to which the money belongs. When an accountable officer intrusts public moneys to the " agent officer " as authorized under the act of Congress approved May 12, 1917, the "agent officer" will give the accountable officer a receipt, whether the money is turned over m cash or by check for cash. (C. A. R. No. 7h June 28, 1918.) [300.31, A. G. O.] [C. A. R. 74.] 8 • 1433. (Changed by 0. A. R. No. 5.5, 'VSVD., 1917.) Medical Department en- listed personnel is classified as follows : 1. That portion attached to combatant organizations. 2. That portion assigned to units of the divisional sanitary trains, to sani- tary form.ations on the line of coinm.unications, and to administrative offices in the field. 3. That portion assigned to the service of the interior for service in war, which should include only the minimum of trained men. Pencil notation will be made on briefs of service records showing class to which each man is attached or assigned. Department commanders will determine, on recommendation of the department surgeon, the number of men at each post or station to be assigned to each class, within the limits prescribed in Tables of Organization, and the individual men will be assigned to their respec- tive classes and those of class 1 attached to organizations of mobile troops by the post commander on recommendation of the surgeon. Medical ofiicers as- signed to stations of mobile-army troops, except those on duty with ambulance or field hospital companies, will be similarly attached to organizations by the post commander on recommendation of the surgeon. (0. A. R. No. 74, June 28, WIS.) [300.31, A. G.O.] 1443. (Changed by C. A. R. No. 45, W. D., 1916, and No. 69, W. D., 1918.) In the first line, after the word " list," add the words " and of female tele- phone operators authorized for service abroad." (C. A. B. No. 74, June 28, 1918.) [300.81, A. G. O.] 1512J. (Changed by C. A. R. Nos. 52, 55, and 59, W. D., 1917.) Change subparagraph 10 to read as follows : 10. Ordnance Department enlisted personnel, except ordnance sergeants, is classified as follows — (a) That portion attached to mobile organizations and coast defenses. (&) That portion assigned to organizations pertaining to the Ordnance De- partment. Pencil notation will be made on briefs of service records showing class to which each man is attached or assigned. The number of men to be assigned to mobile organizations or coast-defense commands will be as directed In War Department orders. When not prescribed in Tables of Organization, the number of men of class (6) assigned to the various organizations pertaining to the Ordnance Department will be determined by the Chief of Ordnance. (C. A. R. No. 74, June 28, 1918.) [300.31, A. G. O.] By oedek of the Secbetaet or Wab: OlTICIAI. : H. P. McCAIN, The Adjutant Oeneral. PEYTON 0. MARCH, Oeneral, Chief of Staff. [C. A. R. 75.] ARMY REGULATIONS. Changes) WAR DEPARTMENT, No. 75. I Washington, July 13, 1918. Paragraphs 240, 1223, 1224, 1226, 1228, and 1236, Army Regulations, 1918, are changed and paragraph 840J is added as follows: 240. (Changed by C. A. R. No. 66, W. D., 1917.) Change subparagraphs 1, 2, 3, and 4 as follows : 1. Fob the Seceetakt of Wae. — A flag of scarlet bunting, rectangular in shape, 3 feet hoist and 4 feet 9 inches fly, containing in proper proportion in each of the four corners a five-pointed white star with one point upward. In the center, in colors, the oflicial coat of arms of the United States. 2. Fob the Assistant Seceetaby of Wak. — A flag of white bunting, rectangu- lar In shape, 3 feet hoist and 4 feet 9 Inches fly, containing in proper proportions in each of the four corners a five-pointed scarlet star with one point upward. In the center, in colors, the official coat of arms of the United States. 3. Fob Geneeal, Chief of Staff. — A flag of scarlet and white buntings, joined with a diagonal seam from lower left-hand corner to upper right-hand corner, rectangular in shape, 3 feet hoist and 4 feet 9 inches fly. In the center of the flag shall be a large five-pointed star, in white, one point upward. In the center of this star, in colors, shall be the official coat of arms of the United States. In each of the upper left and right hand corners of the red bunting will be placed a white star, and in each of the lower left and right hand corners of the white bunting a red star, points of stars upward, and to be of propor- tionate size. 4. Foe Geneeal. — A flag of scarlet bunting, rectangular in shape, 3 feet hoist and 4 feet 9 inches fly, with four white stars of suitable size placed in the cen- ter line of the length of the flag, points upward. (0. A. R. No. 75, July 13, 1918.) [332.1, A. G. O.] 840J. When the chief of a staff corps or department of the Army, or the com- manding officer of an organization of the line of the Army, considers it in the best interests of the service to enlist specially qualified men directly into non- commissioned grades for existing vacancies, such eHlistments may be made sub- ject to the provisions of paragraph 840, Army Regulations. Such noncommis- sioned officers will be promoted and reduced in grade by the various chiefs or commanding oflScers who have power under the law and regulations to take, such action. (O. A. R. No. 75, July IS, 1918.) [242.1, A. G. O.] 79733°— 18 33 [0. A. R. 75.] 1223. (Changed by C. S. R. No. 42, W. D., 1916, Nos. 61 and 52, W. D., 1917, and Nos. 69, 70, and 72, W. D., 1918. ) Commutation of rations may be allowed at the following rates, under the conditions mentioned, viz : Conditions. 1. To enlisted men, Philippine Scouts, male or female nurses, or female tele- phone operators authoxized for service abroad on the expiration of their furloughs or leaves, provided that on or before the last day thereof they have reported at their proper stations or have been disoharged*it [2. To ordnance sergeants, quartermaster sergeants, senior grade, and quarter- master sergeants, Quartermaster Corps (and enlisted men acting as such), on duty at forts and stations where there are no other troops 13. To an enlisted man, a Philippine Scout, a male or female nurse, or a female telephone operator authorized for service abroad on detached duty, stationed in a city or town where subsistence is not furnished by the Gov- ernment; to sergeants detailed for duty with the National Guard, and for duty with disciplinary organizations; to enlisted men of the Medical pe~ partment on permanent duty on laboratory cars; to enlisted men detailed for duty at institutions where one or more units of the Reserve Officers' Training Corps are maintained, or at schools or colleges pursuant to section 66, act of Congress approved June 3, 1916, stationed in a city or town where subsistence is not furnished by the Government [4. To an enlisted man or a Pliilippine Scout traveling vmder orders from a place I or station at which his rations have been regularly commuted [B. Toanenlistedmanora Philippine Scout traveling under orders alone, when the journey can not be performed in 24 hours and it is impracticable to carry rations of any kind (wiich fact must be stated in the order directing the journey); to members of the Regular Army Reserve upon being summoned tor field training and when mobilized by the President and reporting for duty, while traveling from their homes to the places where ordered to re- port for duty; to jnembers of the Reserve Officers' Training Corps while traveling except by organization, to and from camps of instruction; and to members of the Enlisted Reserve Corps when ordered into active service, while traveling, except by organization, and to and from the place to whion ordered [6. To two enlisted men or Philippine Scouts traveling under orders as a detach- ment, or traveling under orders as a guard to an insane patient or military prisoner, when the journey can not be performed in 24 hours and it is im- practicable to carry rations of any Irind (which fact must be stated in the order directing the journey), each ^7. To an insane patient or military prisoner traveling under orders under guard of one or two enlisted men or PhUippiue Scouts when the journey can not be performed in 24 hours, and it is impracticable to carry' rations of any ktDd (which fact must be stated in the order directing the journey), to be paid on the order of the commanding officer in advance to, and to be re- ceipted for by, the person to whose charge the patient or military prisoner is committed by the order 8. To enlisted men or Philippine Scouts selected to contest for places or prizes in department or Army rifle compe'titions, wlule traveling under orders to and fi-om places of contest, when the journey can not be performed in 24 hours, and: it is impracticable to carry rations of any Idnd (which fact must be stated in the order), each Rate per day each. Enlisted men and nurses. to. 40 1.25 1.25 2.25 2.25 2.25 2.25 Philippine Scouts. {0.40 1.11 1.11 1.11 1.11 1.11 (.C.A.B. m>. W, July IS, 1918. [246.84, A. G. 0.1 [C. A. R. 75.] 1334. Applicants for enlistment, and recruits forwarded from recruiting sta- tions, recruiting depots, or other military posts, will be furnished the following allowances for subsistence while traveling, viz : When 1 or 2 men are forwarded. For ajouTTicy of 2^ hours or less. Travel rations, or cooked rations, to be obtained from the contractor for meals or from the com- pany or general mess. For a journey of more than 24 hours. Commutation of rations at not exceeding one-third the rate prescribed in condition 5, paragraph 12S3, per meal for each man foi the necessary time involved in the journey. When more than 2 men are forwarded. For a journey of 24 hours or less. For a detachment of three or more men: Travel rations (or, if not available, cooked rations, to be obtained from the contractor for meals or from the company or general mess). For a journey of more (haik2i hours. For a detachment of three or more men: Travel rations if available, or, if not available, commuta- tion of rations at not exceeding one-third the rate prescribed in condition 6, paragraph 1223, per meal for each man. (0. A. R. No. 75, July 13, 1918.) [24G.84, A. G. 0.] 1336. Enlisted men absent under orders from their stations upon recruiting or inspection duty for not exceeding seven days will be deemed to be traveling under orders during the entire period, notwithstanding that some portion of the period may be occupied by detentions in the various towns which they visit in the performance of their duty, and their commutation of rations will be at the rate prescribed in condition 5, paragraph. 1323. (0. A. B. No. 75 July 13, 1918.) [246.84, A. G.O.] 1328. An enlisted man not a recruit ordered, under condition 5, paragraph 1223, will be allowed commutation of rations at the rate of one-third the amount shown therein per meal for the time actually consumed in travel. The provisions of this paragraph do not apply to travel on Army transports. (G. A. R. No. 75, July 13, 1918,) [246.84, A. G. O.] 1236. (Changed by C. A. R. No. 69, W. D., 1918.) When an officer orders commutation of rations to be paid, or rations furnished to a soldier on furlough to enable him to reach his proper station, the officer paying the commutation or furnishing the rations will report the full amount paid, or the money value of the food supplied, to the soldier's company commander. Should the soldier reach his station on or before the last day of his furlough, the company com- mander will charge the full amount of the payment, or value of the rations, against his pay on the next pay roll. Should he reach his post after the expiration of his furlough, and the delay be not excused, the full amount will be similarly charged. Should the overstaying of his furlough be excused, the • full amount, diminished by the value of the ration, at the amount fixed in condition 1, paragraph. 1223, per day, for the number of days during which he was absent after the furlough had expired, wUl be charged. (0. A. B. No. 75, July IS, 1918.) [246.84, A. G. O.] By Okdee of the Secbetaet of Wae: PEYTON C. MARCH, General, Chief of Staff. OFFICIAt : H. p. McCAIN, The Adjutant General. P. C. H. EC A. K. 76.] ARMY REGULATIONS. Changes 1 -^^^ DEPARTMENT, "■ I Washington, July 31, 1918. Paragraph 1169, Army Regulations, is rescinded, and paragraphs 9, 351, 861-A, 681-0, 683, 693, 698, 841, 842, 848, 844, 845, 846, 849, 850, 852, 861 1123 1136 1142, 1207, 1209, 1215,- and 1272 are changed as follows: 9. (Changed by C. A. R. No. 46, W. D., 1916, and No. 73, W. D., 1918 ) The following are the grades of rank of officers and noncommissioned officers: 1. General. 2. Lieutenant General. 3. Major general. 4. Brigadier general. 5. Colonel. 6. Lieutenant coloneL 7. Major. 8. Captain. 9. First lieutenant. 10. Second lieutenant 11. Aviator. 12. Cadet. 13. Nurse (Army Nurse Corps)'. 14. (a) Sergeant major, regimental; sergeant major, senior grade, Coast Artillery Corps; (&) quartermaster sergeant, senior grade, Quartermaster Corps; master hospital sergeant, Medical Department; master engineer, senior grade, Corps of Engineers; master electrician. Coast Artillery Corps; master electrician, Air Service; master signal electrician; band leader; (c) hospital sergeant. Medical Department; master engineer, junior grade, Corps of Engi- neers ; engineer. Coast Artillery Corps. 15. Ordnance sergeant; quartermaster sergeant, Quartermaster Corps; sup- ply sergeant, regimental. 16. Sergeant major, squadron and battalion ; sergeant major, junior grade, Coast Artillery Corps ; supply sergeant, battalion. 17. (a) First sergeant; (6) sergeant, first class. Medical Department; ser- geant, first class. Quartermaster Corps ; sergeant, first class, Corps of Engineers ; sergeant, first class, Air Service ; sergeant, first class, Signal Corps ; electrician sergeant, first class. Coast Artillery Corps ; electrician sergeant, Artillery De- tachment, United States Military Academy ; assistant engineer. Coast Artillery Corps; (c) master gunner, Coast Artillery Corps; master gunner. Artillery De- tachment, United States Military Academy ; band sergeant and assistant leader. United States Military Academy band ; assistant band leader ; sergeant bugler ; electrician sergeant, second class, Coast Artillery Corps; electrician sergeant, second class, Artillery Detachment, United States Military Academy; radio sergeant. 18. Color sergeant. 19. Sergeant; supply sergeant, company; mess sergeant; stable sergeant; fireman.. Coast Artillery Corps. [C. A. R. 76.] 20. Corporal ; corporal bugler. In each grade and subgrade date of commission, appointment, or warrant determines the order of precedence. (0. A. R. No. 76, July 31, 1918.) [211.31, A. G. O.] 351. In all classes of authorized target practice the Ordnance Department will provide the requisite targets, streamers, flags, and paste. The Quarter- master will set up the targets, prepare the range, and construct shelters for the markers. (0. A. R. No. 76, July 31, 1918.) f 433.2, A. G. O.] 681-A. (Changed by C. A. R. No. 65, W. D., 191Y.) Change the sentence added by C. A. R. No. 65 to read as follows : An accurate account of all equipment, including clothing, issued to the enlisted man will be kept by the battery, troop, company, or detachment commander on Form No. 637, A. G. O., Individual Equipment Record, except that no record will be made of a trans- action where an article is turned in and replaced by a like article at the same time. (0. A. R. No. 76, July 31, 1918.) [475, A. G. 0.] 681-0. (Added by O. A. R. No. 65, W. D., 1917.) In the thirteenth and twenty-eighth lines, after the word " ordnance," insert the words " and medi- cal." (C A. R. No. 76, July 31, 1918.) [143.5, A. G. 0.] 683. Add the following subparagraph : When articles of clothing or equipment issued to officers or enlisted men for their use are lost en route to or from an oversea station, the loss will be in- vestigated by a disinterested officer appointed by a commander empowered to appoint survey officers. If the loss is found to be through no fault of any person concerned, a certificate in duplicate vnll be furnished to the responsible party to be used to clear him for the loss ; and to be used as final voucher for dropping said property from the returns of the accountable officer, if the articles are carried on property returns. This certificate will contain a list of the articles, the name of the supply department concerned, the names of the responsible and accountable parties, and the statement that the loss was due to no fault of any person concerned. The evidence in the case need not be recorded. (C. A. R. No. 76, July 31, 1918.) [332.3, A. G. O.] 693. (Changed by C. A. E. No. 65, W. D., 1917.) Add the following sub- paragraph: Lost or misplaced articles of equipment or clothing found at ports of em- barkation or elsewhere which have apparently been issued to officers or enlisted men en route to or from an oversea station, will be turned in to the nearest supply officer as " Found at post," with certificates, in duplicate listing the property turned in and giving, where possible, the name, rank, and organiza- tion of the responsible party. The supply officer receiving this property will give receipts in duplicate for each supply department concerned (stating name, rank, and organization of the responsible party where possible), one of which shall be kept on file by the officer turning in the property and the other mailed directly to the chief of supply department at the headquarters where the returns are audited. Nonperlshable personal property found at ports of em- barkation will be turned over by the effects quartermaster to the bedrest relative of the person to whom the property belongs, if desired by such relative. (C. A. R. No. 76, July 31, 1918.) [332.3, A. G. 0.1 [C. A. R. 76.] 3 698. Add the following subparagraph : See paragraph 683 for procedure when articles of equipment or clothing, issued to officers or enlisted men for their use, are los-t en route to or from an oversea station. (C. A. R. No. 76, July 31, 1918.) [332.3, A. G. O.] 841. Change the third subparagraph to read as follows; In all matters of police and discipline, and in cases of discharge for disabil- ity and discharges contemplated by paragraph 1394, recruits at recruit depot posts are under the commajid of the post and department commanders, but in aU other matters they are directly under the orders of the War Depart- ment. All records pertaining to recruit administration at recruit depots and depot posts will be so kept that a change may, without interference, be made at any time in the post personnel. (C. A. R. No. 76, July 31, 1918.) [300.31, A. G. 0.1 842. Omit the last sentence. {G. A. R. No. 76, July 31, 1918.) [300.31, A. G. O.] 843. All enlisted men prior to their assignment to general recruiting duty will be transferred to the general service. Infantry. The recruiting officer in charge of each general recruiting station, having first satisfied himself of the soldiers' fitness ior the positions, will announce in orders from his station, one member of his recruiting party as first sergeant, one as sergeant, and one as corporal. Such orders will be entered in the records of the recruiting station and a copy of each order will be forwarded to The Adjutant General of the Army. A copy will also be furnished to each soldier concerned. (C A. R. No. 76, July 31, 1918.) [220.1, A. G. O.] 844. Members of recruiting parties announced as first sergeants, sergeants, or corporals will not be reduced while performing such duty without the ap- proval of The Adjutant General of the Army. Their appointments as first sergeants, sergeants, or corporals will, however, terminate whenever they are relieved from recruiting duty, or when the stations at which they are serving are discontinued, unless they shall be assigned to other recruiting stations at which there are vacancies in their respective grades. The recruiting officer will in every case announce in orders the date of the termination of an appointment as first sergeant, sergeant, or corporal, and furnish copies of each order, as indi- cated in paragraph 843. (C. A. R. No. 76, July 31, 1918.) [220.1, A. G. O.] 845. (Changed by c' A. R. No. 55, W. D., 1917.) < All assignments of en- listed men to the general recruiting service will be as privates, first class, the question of their promotion as first sergeants, sergeants, or corporals being for determination after their fitness and capacity shall have been demonstrated. Individual applications for transfers to the general recruiting service will be forwarded, whenever practicable, through the proper commanding officers, who will indorse thereon their recommendations, based upon service and merit, and also a statement of the soldier's fitness for recruiting duty, especially as regards clerical ability and knowledge of Army papers. The transfers will be made from time to time, as the interests of the service require, in orders from the War Department. (O. A. R. No. 76, July 31, 1918.) , [220.1, A. G. O.] 846. (Changed by 0. A. R. No. 55, W. D., 1917.) Any male citizen of the United States or person who has legally declared his Intention to become a citizen, if under the age of 41 years (for a stafE corps or department if under [C. A. E. 76.] the age of 56 years), able-bodied, free from disease, of good character and temperate habits, may be enlisted or accepted for enlistment under the restric- tions contained in this article. In regard to age or citizenship this regulation shall not apply to soldiers who have served honestly and faithfully a previous enlistment in the Army. (C. A. R. No. 76, July SI, 1918.) [300.31, A. G. O.] 849. (Changed by C. A. E. No. 55, W. D., 1917.) (1) In the ninth line, change the expression " 35 years of age " to " 41 years of age (for a staff corps or department persons over 56 years of age.)" (2) Add to the paragraph the following; In time of war the enlistment of aliens and registrants is governed by such special rules as may be duly pre- scribed. (C. A. R. No. 76, July 31, 1918.) [300.31, A. G. 0.] 850. (Changed by C. A. E. No. 55, W. D., 1917.) Eecruiting officers will be very particular to ascertain the true age of every applicant for enlistment. If any doubt exists as to the applicant's statement regarding his- age, his oath will not be taken as conclusive evidence of the fact, and if he can not furnish competent proof to support his statement, he will be rejected. A minor under 18 years of age will not he enlisted. The consent of parent or guardian is not required in the case of a minor applicant who has attained the age of 18 years. Such evidence as may be prescribed by the Secretary of War will be required to establish the fact that a minor applicant has attained the age of 18 years. (C. A. R. No. 76, July 31, 1918.) [300.31, A. G. O.] 852. In time of peace the enlistment or reenlistment of married men for the line of the Army is to be discouraged, and will be permitted only for some good reason in the public interest, the efficiency of the service to be the first consideration. In time of war the enlistment of married men w^ill be gov- erned by such special rules as may be prescribed by the Secr&tary of War. Applications for such enlistments or reenlistments will be finally determined by the regimental commander or other proper commanding officer if there be no regimental organization. (O. A. R. No. 76, July 31, 1918.) [300.31, A. G. O.] 861. Change subparagraph 3, and add subparagraph 6, as follows : 3. Except for stafE corps and departments, former soldiers over 41 years of age who were last discharged as privates and have failed to reenlist within three months thereafter. In such cases the applications must show that the enlistments will be ^g>the interests of the service. 6. Such other classes of persons as may be prescribed from time to time by the Secretary of War. {C. A. R. No. 76, July 31, 1918.) [300.31, A. G. 0.1 1123., (Changed by C. A. E. No. 57, W. D., 1917, and No. 74, W. D., 1918.) When an officer, under orders for temporary duty or permanent change of station, certifies that urgency demands that his temporary allowance of baggage accompany him to his new station or command, the Quartermaster Corps will furnish transportation for the same by express. The total amount of baggage transported by express will not exceed the allowance for temporary change of station provided by paragraph 1136, and in determining the total amount of baggage which may be transported subsequently at public expense, the amount of any express shipmentwill be deducted from the allowances provided in the same paragraph. Transportation for 250 pounds of baggage, including 150 pounds usually carried free by railroads, is authorized for female telephone operators author- [C. A. R. 76.] 5 ized for service abroad and Army nurses when they join for duty under the first order, upon permanent change of station, and on return to their homes upon annulment of contract. Receipts covering an excess of baggage will contain certificates as to whether transportation for such excess has been furnished. (0. A. R. No. 76, July 31 1918.) [486.6, A. G. O.] " 1136. (Changed by C. A. E. No. 32, W. D., 1914.) The baggage to be trans- ported at public expense, including mess chests and personal baggage, upon change of station will not exceed when packed and crated the following gross weights : BanJi. General Lieutenant general. Major general Brigadier general... Field olficer Captain. First lieutenant and contract surgeon Second lieu tenant Noncommissioned officer above grade 19, paragraph 9 Koncommissioned ofBcers, grade 19, paragraph 9, upon chaQge of station without troops .» Army field clerks, and field clerks. Quartermaster Corps Civilian employees of the classified service transferred for the good of the service. Temporary change of station. Pounds. 2,000 1,500 1,000 700 400 200 160 150 Permanent change of station. Pounds. 20, 000 15,000 10,500 8,400 7,200 6,000 5,100 4,500 3,000 1,500 3,000 3,000 These allowances are in excess of the weights transported free of charge un- der the regular fare by public carriers, and may in special cases be increased by the War Department on transports by water. Invoices of household goods or personal eifects turned over to the shipping officer will be accompanied by a certificate showing that the goods are the prop- erty of the officer, noncommissioned officer, or civilian employee requesting the shipment. Baggage in excess of the foregoing allowances will be shipped upon the same bill of lading with the regulation allowance upon deposit with the shipping officer, prior to issue of the bill of lading, of a sum equal to the commercial freight charges on the excess, to be ascertained from or through the agent of the carrier at point of shipment, and cost of exchange Jfor remittance to the officer who will settle the transportation charges. The excess will not be shipped on Government bill of lading unless such deposit be first made. Bills of lading covering shipments of baggage will in all cases carry notation, "Released valuation, $10 per 100 pounds," unless the owner files written authority with the shipping quartermaster to ship his entire baggage unre- leased. In the latter case bills of lading must carry the notation, "unlimited valuation," provided the owner deposits with the shipping quartermaster a sum equal to the additional commercial cost of shipment at "unlimited valuation." . An officer detailed for duty in a foreign country as a military attache is entitled to packing, crating, and transportation of professional books and papers and the number of pounds of personal baggage specified in the table above. The maximum money allowance for packing and crating for each grade, ex- clusive of professional books and papers, will be as follows and will not be [C.A.R.76.] exceeded. When less than the maximum allowance for each grade is trans- iwrted a proportionate decrease in the cost of packing and crating will be made. Rank. Pertnanent chan^of station. General Lieutenant general. Major general Brigadier general. . . Keld officer Captain. First lieutenant and contract surgeon Second lieutenant Noncommissioned officers above grade 19, paragraph 9 Noncommissioned officers, grade 19, paragraph 9, upon cn^nge ol station without troops. Army field clerks, and field clerks, Quartermaster Corps Civilian employees of the classified service transferred for the good of the service »260.00 195.00 136. 50 109.20 93.60 7S.00 66.30 58.50 . 39. 00 19.50 39.00 39.00 The maximum tare weight or any of the foregoing allowances will not exceed one-fifth of the gross weight. Any saving in tare weight effects an increase in net weight. With this end in view, burlap and excelsior should be used as much as possible as a substitvite for crating, and the use of lumber should be limited as much as possible. Should the ovraer desire lighter packing or crat- ing than the quartermaster deems sufficient, the lighter crating or packing will be used only upon written request of the owner. (C. A. R. No. 76, July 31, 1918.) [486.6, A. G. 0.1 1142. (Changed by C. A. R. No. 74, W. D., 1918.) Add the following sub- paragraph : Public property, except ordinary live stock, shipped by express, shall, when necessary to procure the lowest rate, be released to the valuation provided by the express companies to secure such rate. Shipping officers are -authorized to so specify on bills of lading. Claims for loss or damage shall be based upon such released or agreed valuation regardless of the actual value of the property. In special cases, however, when shipment of public property by express is au- thorized, responsible officers may ship at actual valuation, and proper charges therefor as provided by published tariffs shall be paid for the service actually performed. (C. A. R. No. 76, July 31, 1918.) [551.3, A. G. O.] 1169. (Changed.by C. A. R. No. 55, W. D., 1917.) Rescinded. (C.A.R.No. 76, July SL 1918.) [300.31, A. G. O.] 1207. (Changed by C. A. R. No. 42, W. D., 1916.) In adjusting chaises to be made against enlisted men or others (except oflBlcers, Army field clerks, and field clerks, Quartermaster Corps, wko will settle according to paragrapli 1209) on account of increased expense to the Government for their subsist- enc-e, the value of the garrison ration will be computed at the amount showTi in condition 1, paragraph 1223, and the travel ration at 40 cents. (C. A. B. No. 76, July 31, 1918.) [300.31, A. G. O.] 1209. (Changed by C. A. R. No. 34, W. D., 1915.) Ration returns for troops and applicants for enlistment while held under observation wiU be sigBtfed by the immediate commanders of the organizations and approved by the command- ing officer. After approval they will be presented at the quartermaster's office for action. Single ration returns will be submitted for organizations, including [O. A. R. 76.] persons permitted to mess separately, and will embrace all persons actually present. Individual " Ration and savings accounts " will not be opened for enlisted men or civilian employees permitted to mess separately. Company and detachment commanders will personally verify the additions and deductions of rations on the returns on account of men joining and leaving during the ration periods immediately preceding, and the proper authority before approving such returns will cause them to be verified. In the field, during active operations, company officers, upon request, will be included by name on the ration returns of the organization to which they belong ; field and staff officers who do not belong to organizations having messes, upon request, will be included by name on the ration returns of such organiza- tions as may be designated by their commanding officer; the number of the rations so obtained to be noted by the officers on their pay accounts for the month during which the rations were drawn and the cost thereof collected by the quartermaster paying the accounts. If an officer, under the provi- sions of paragraphs 1258 and 1259, has forwarded his pay account before maturity, to a quartermaster for payment when due, he will at the end of each month notify the quartermaster who holds his accounts of the num- ber of rations drawn, and the amount due the United States will be col- lected by the quartermaster in the next payment made after the receipt of such notification. When officers are issued rations on ration returns, the quartermaster issuing such rations will drop the total number of rations so issued from the return of subsistence stores as though all rations were issued to en- listed men. Rations so issued will not be treated as a sale. Quartermasters issuing such rations under the above conditions will file a report with the monthly return of subsistence stores, showing the name, rank, and organization of such officers and the number of rations issued to each, and the period for which issued. Rations may be issued to, and paid for, by Army field clerks and field clerks. Quartermaster Corps, under the same conditions that such issues are made to officers. (0. A. B. No. 76, July 31, 1918.) [300.31, A. G. 0.1 1215. (Changed by C. A. R. Nos. 12 and 17, W. D., 1914, No. 35, W. D., 1915, No. 41, W. D., 1916, and No. 74, W. D., 1918.) Subparagraph 8 Is rescinded. (C. A. R. No.'76, July 31, 1918.) [433.2, A. G. O.] 1372. (Changed by C. A. R. No. 6, "W. D., 1914.) The officers on the active list hereinafter designated are required to be mounted : All officers of the Gen- eral Staff Corps; officers of the staff corps and departments, except dental surgeons, whether permanent or detailed; officers of Cavalry; officers of Field Artillery ; authorized aides duly appointed ; regimental and battalion staff offi- cers- acting judge advocates detailed under the act of Congress approved Febru- ary 2 1901 ■ all officers above the grade of captain, whatever their arm or corps, except dental surgeons; chaplains of all grades; officers temporarily attached to stafe corps or to organizations of Cavalry, Field Artillery, and mounted In- fantry regularly detailed assistants to the Chief of Coast Artillery; the author- ized stklf officers of Coast Artillery districts and of coast, defense commands; officers serving as military attaches to the embassies and legations of the TTnited States at foreign capitals; Instructors and student officers at the Army School of the Line, the Army Signal School, the Army Staff College, and the Army War College; officers on duty in the department of tactics and m the [0. A. B. 76.] 8 department of practical military engineering, military signaling, and telegraphy at the United States Military Academy. The private mounts, owned and pro- vided by officers of all grades in the Army, for which the Government expends public funds in the matter of maintenance and care, shall be of a standard fixed by the Secretary of War from time to time. In addition to the foregoing, officers not ordinarily required to be mounted may be temporarily placed upon duty that shall require them to be mounted. This may be done by the Secretary of War, the commander of an army, field army, or a division or department ; the order In each case will state that the duty therein assigned to the officer requires him to be mounted. (O. A. R,_ No. 76, July 31, 1918.) [211.25, A. G. O.] Bt order of the Seceetaby 01' Wae : PEYTON C. MARCH, General, Chief of Staff. Official : H. P. McOAIN, The Adjutant ffeneralt ARMY REGULATIONS. [OAR. 77.] Changes,! -V^^r DEPARTMENT, •'^°- "^"^^ I Washington, August 3, 1918. Article XXII (paragraphs 162 to 167, inclusive), Army Regulations, is rescinded, the title of Article XIII, and paragraphs 83, 84, 80, and 87 are ■changed, and paragraph 83i is added, as follows: - AKTICLE XIII. i Deceased OrFiCEES, Enlisted Men, Army Field Cleeks, Field Clerks, Qtjae- TEBMASTEB COEPS, MEMBERS OV THE AEMY NTHISE COBPS, AND CIVILIAN Employees. 83. (Changed by C. A. R. No. 10, W. D., 1914.) In case of death of an officer, enlisted man, Army field clerk, field clerk. Quartermaster Corps, member of the Army Nurse Corps, or civilian employee within the conti- nental limits of the United States, including' Alaska, the commanding officer of the regiment, separate battalion or other simflar separate unit will immediately notify The Adjutant General of the Army and the nearest relative by telegraph of the fact, date, place, and cause of death. If the person is absent or detached from the headquarters of his regiment, sep- arate battalion, or other similar separate unit at the time of death, or if he is not a member of nor attached to any such unit, the notifications will be sent by the commanding officer of the post, camp, cantonment, station, or command to which he belongs or is attached or which he is under orders to join. In case of death of an officer or enlisted man the telegraphic notification to The Adjutant General of the Army will give his name. Army serial number (if an enlisted man), grade, company, and regiment or separate battalion or similar separate unit. In case the deceased was not assigned to such a unit, the arm, corps or department to which he belonged will be stated. In case of death of a permanent civilian employee the tele- graphic notification to The Adjutant General of the Army will give the corps or department by which employed. Wo report will be made to The Adjutant General of the Army in case of death of a temporary civilian employee. When the death of an officer, enlisted man. Army field clerk, field clerk, Quartermaster Corps, member of the Army Nurse Corps, or permanent civilian employee occurs outside the continental limits of the United States, Including Alaska, telegraphic report as hereinbefore described will be made to the department commander or to the Commanding General, American Expeditionary Forces, as the case may be, who will notify The Adjutant General of the Army by cable. The Adjutant General of the Army will, in such cases, notify the nearest relative of the deceased. In case of death of an officer a telegraphic report will also be made to the brigade, Coast Artillery district, division or department commander, giving fact, date, place, and cause of death. In case of death, in Europe or in the PhiUppine, Hawaiian, or Panama Canal Department, the notification will state whether or not death was in line of duty and whether it was or was not the result of the deceased's own vTiUful misconduct. If the matter is undetermined it will be so stated in the cablegram, and when determined a supplementary report will be sent by cable, or by mail where legal questions are involved. [0. A. R. 77] In case of death of a retired officer or retired enlisted man, or of an officer or enlisted man on the actlTe list who has no immediate commander, the medical officer, if one be present, or any officer having cognizance of the fact, will malse the report to The Adjutant General of the Army. In every case of death of an officer, enlisted man, Army field clerk, field clerk, Quartermaster Corps, or a member of the Army Nurse Corps, The Adjutant General of the Army will immadiately notify the Director of the Bureau of War Risk Insurance and the Quartermaster Greneral. The Adjutant General of the Army will also notify the Quartermaster General of the death of a permanent civilian employee. (C. A. B. No. 77, Aug. S, 1918.) [300.33, A. G. 0.1 831. In addition to the telegraphic and cable reports prescribed by paragraphs 83 and 87, the following are required in case of death of an officer or enlisted man on the active list of the Army, a retired officer or enlisted man on active duty, an Army fiwld clerk, a field clerk. Quartermaster Corps, or a member of the Army Nurse Corps: a. Report of death in triplicate on Form No. 415, A. G. O., showing name. Army serial number (if an enlisted man), grade and organization of the de- ceased ; date and place of death ; nature of injtiry or disease ; direct cause of death ; whether or not the death was in Une of duty ; and whether it was or was not the result of deceased's own willful misconduct. The report will be made by the surgeon, or by the immediate commanding officer of the deceased if there be no medical officer with the command, and submitted to the regimental, separate battalion, or other similar separate unit commander, or to the post, camp, can- tonment, or other station commander, as the case may be, who will forwa^-d all copies directly to Tbe Adjutant General of the Army, by indorsement, giving the conjugal condition of the deceased, amount of Government insurance in effect at time of death, name and address of the person designated to be notified in case of emergency, and the disposition mkde of the remains. Copies of the report may be made by carbon process, but all copies, as well as the original, will be signed by the surgeon and the commanding officer. It is important that this report reach The Adjutant General of the Army- at the earliest practicable date, in order that prompt payment of compensation may be made to the beneficiary of the deceased. If no copies of the blank form are available the report will be made by letter. One copy of this report showing the action of the Secretary of War will be transmitted by The Adjutant General of the Army to tlie Director of the Bureau of War Risk Insurance, and one to the Quartermaster General. In case of death of an officer or enlisted man while absent from his organiza- tion or command, a fourth copy of the report of death will be prepared and forwarded directly to the organization or station commander. 6. Report of board of officers in case of nonapproval by the commanding offi- cer of the report (subparagraph a) of the surgeon, or in case the death resulted from other than natural causes, excepting death from wounds or injury re- ceived in action. 'The testimony of all witnesses will be recorded and incor- porated in the proceedings of the board. If the witnesses are not available to appear before the board, certificates of officers iind affidavits of enlisted men and civilians having knowledge of the facts wiU be obtained and appemled ,to the proceedings. The finding of the board wUl include a statement embQdying (1) the date, place and cause of death; (2) manner in or circumstance under which it occurred; (3) whether or not death was in line of duty; and (4) whether it was or was not the result of the deceased's own willful misconduct. [0. A. E, 77] o r,^^^ orifi"^! report of the board with the action thereon of the commanding officer will be forwarded through military channels to The Adjutant General of tne Army. An extract of the report showing the findings of the board will be niea in the office of the commanding officer convening the board c. One final statement (Form No. 370, W. D.) in case of death of an enlisted man, which will be forwarded with report of death (subparagraph a) d. Inventory of efCects in triplicate on Form No. 34, A. G. O., to be prepared by the company or detachment comman