to each man), their marching kits, and the telescopic cases of the pattern in the office of the Quartermaster General, the latter to be supplied by the Quartermaster's Department, one to each man, and their personal effects will be limited to what they can carry in these. Baggage accompanying troops by rail will be limited to 150 pounds per man, and any excess of this weight will be shipped by freight in advance. Property left at stations will be carefully packed, marked, listed in duplicate, and turned over to the Quartermaster's Department for storage. Battery commanders will make every proper effort to induce their men to make allotments of pay in favor of their dependent relatives, as provided in paragraph 1374 of the Army Regulations of 1904. Attention is invited to paragraph II, General Orders, No. 46, May 29, 1902, Headquarters of the Army, Adjutant General's Office, directing that organizations designated for service in the Philippine Islands prior to departure from their respective stations be furnished with certificates that they have been inspected and are protected against smallpox, in order to assist the medical authorities at ports of sailing in determining the necessity for detention and observation. III. So much of paragraph 5, General Orders, No. 152, War Department, September 14, 1904, as assigns the 28th Battery, Field Artillery, to station at Vancouver Barracks, Washington, is hereby modified so as to direct this battery to proceed from Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, to San Francisco, California, direct, in time to accompany the other organizations herein ordered to proceed to the Philippine Islands. The guns, horses, mules, and equipments of this battery will be left at the Presidio of San Francisco, California, until the arrival in the United States of the 18th Battery, Field Artillery, which will take them to Vancouver Barracks, Washing ton, the permanent station of that organization. IV. The 9th Battery, Field Artillery, is hereby transferred to the 1st Battalion, Field Artillery, and the 5th Battery, Field Artillery, is provisionally attached to the 13th Battalion, Field Artillery, General Orders, No. 152, War Department, September 14, 1904, being modified accordingly. Division and department commanders will by concert of action arrange the details of the foregoing movements, and will promptly report hours of departure and arrival and strength of commands by telegraph to The Military Secretary of the Army. The Quartermaster's Department will furnish the necessary transportation, the Subsistence Department suitable subsist-, ence, and the Medical Department proper medical attendance and supplies. BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF WAR: OFFICIAL: ADNA R. CHAFFEE, Lieutenant General, Chief of Staff. F. C. AINSWORTH, The Military Secretary. No. 165. The appointment, under date of October 4, 1904, of Major Louis J. Magill, assistant adjutant and inspector, United States Marine Corps, as a member of the National Board for the Promotion of Rifle Practice, under the provisions of the act of Congress approved March 2, 1903, authorizing the Secretary of War to prescribe regulations for the tests for a national trophy and medals and other prizes (for marksmanship) to be provided and contested for annually, is announced, he having been designated for that duty by the brigadier general commandant, United States Marine Corps, vice Major Rufus H. Lane, assistant adjutant and inspector, United States Marine Corps, relieved at his own request, having been detailed for duty in the Philippine Islands; and Captain Grote Hutcheson, General Staff, United States Army, is detailed as a member of the said board, vice Major John F. Guilfoyle, assistant adjutant general, United States Army, hereby relieved. Captain Hutcheson will report immediately to the president of the board, the Assistant Secretary of War, for instructions. BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF WAR: OFFICIAL: WASHINGTON, October 22, 1904. ADNA R. CHAFFEE, Lieutenant General, Chief of Staff. F. C. AINSWORTH, The Military Secretary. No. 166. The following Executive Order, dated June 30, 1904, modifying the military reservation set apart as a site for a signal station and base of supply for the Fort Liscum-Fort Egbert military telegraph line by Executive Order, dated March 10, 1903 (General Orders, No. 37, Headquarters of the Army, March 25, 1903), is published for the information and guidance of all concerned: WASHINGTON, October 26, 1904. WHITE HOUSE, June 30, 1904. It is hereby ordered that all that tract of land situate near the easterly shore of Valdez Bay, District of Alaska, at the northwest corner of McKinley street extended and Reservation avenue extended. in the town of Valdez, being a rectangular tract of land fronting 182 feet on Reservation avenue extended and 75 feet on McKinley street extended, as shown on a plat hereto attached, marked Plat 2 and also designated as Map B, said plat having upon its face a recommendation for the making of this and other reservations signed by District Judge James W. Wickersham. District Attorney Nathan V. Harlan, and United States Marshal George G. Perry, and bearing date at Valdez, of December 3, 1903; and also all that tract of land at the northeast corner of McKinley street extended and Reservation avenue extended, being a rectangular tract fronting 140 feet on Reservation avenue extended, 69 feet on McKinley street extended, and 69 feet on a 20-foot alley extending between Court street and Reservation avenue extended, as shown on the plat above mentioned, be and the same are hereby reserved and set apart for military purposes. It is hereby further ordered that all that tract of land described as the east half of the square bounded by McKinley street extended, Reservation avenue extended. Hobart street extended, and Court street, fronting 140 feet on Reservation avenue extended, 204 feet on Hobart street extended. 140 feet on Court street and 204 feet on the aforementioned alley, as shown on the plat above mentioned, be and the same is hereby reserved and set apart for a site for a court house and jail and placed under the control of the Department of Justice. It is hereby further ordered that there be withdrawn from any reservation of land heretofore existing all lands within the limits of the aforementioned streets and alleys and all lands within the claims of J. Shepard and W. S. Amy and F. M. Brown, lying west of the aforementioned alley and north of lands heretofore reserved for the War Department, as shown in the plat above mentioned and another plat marked Plat I and also designated as Map A, hereto attached. OFFICIAL: BY ORDER OF THE ACTING SECRETARY OF WAR: ADNA R. CHAFFEE, Lieutenant General, Chief of Staff F. C. AINSWORTH, THEODORE ROOSEVELT. The Military Secretary. |