No. 154.

WASHINGTON, September 16, 1904.

✓ I..The President of the United States, by order dated August 18, 1904, having reserved for the purpose of a target range for the troops at Whipple Barracks, Arizona Territory, the following subdivisions of public lands situated in Yavapai County, Arizona Territory, containing approximately 1,640 acres, the same are hereby announced as a military reservation, viz:

The S. of SW. of section 2: S. of section 3; S. of section 4; N. 1, N. of SW. 4, N. of SE. 4, and SW. 4 of SW. 4 of section 9; N. of section 10; and the N. of NW. of section 11-all in township 14 north, range 2 west, Gila and Salt River meridian.

II. Under the provisions of paragraph 1344, Army Regulations of 1904, troops at the stations named in the following schedule of pay trips will be paid by paymasters in person:

SCHEDULE OF PAY TRIPS THROUGHOUT THE UNITED STATES,
ARRANGED BY DEPARTMENTS.

DEPARTMENT OF THE EAST.

From New York:

1. Forts Porter, Niagara, Madison Barracks, and return. 2. West Point, Plattsburg Barracks, Fort Ethan Allen, and return.

3. Forts Trumbull, Terry, Michie, H. G. Wright, Mansfield, and return.

(Payment of these posts may be made by express in winter season when island posts can not be reached by boats owing to stormy weather.)

4. Defenses of New York Harbor.

From Boston:

1. Forts Constitution, McKinley, Preble, Williams, and

return.

2. Forts Rodman, Adams, Greble, Wetherill, and return. 3. Defenses of Boston, and Watertown Arsenal, and return. From Washington:

OCT 3 Rec'd

1. Forts Hunt and Washington, Washington Barracks, Fort Myer, and return.

2. Fort Monroe and return.
3. Defenses of Baltimore, Forts Du Pont, Mott, Delaware,
and return.

DEPARTMENT OF THE LAKES.
From Chicago:

1. Fort Sheridan and return.
2. Fort Wayne, Columbus Barracks, Fort Thomas, and
return.

DEPARTMENT OF DAKOTA.
From St. Paul:

1. Fort Snelling and return.
2. Forts Lincolo, Keogh, Yellowstone, Harrison, Missonla,
Assinniboine, and return.

DEPARTMENT OF THE MISSOURI.
From Omaha:

1. Fort Crook and return.
2. Fort Des Moines and return.

3. Forts Niobrara, Robinson, Meade, and return. From St. Louis:

1. Jefferson Barracks and return. From Kansas City:

1. Fort Leavenworth and return.
2. Fort Riley and return.

DEPARTMENT OF THE COLORADO.
From Denver:
- 1. Forts D. A. Russell (Department of the Missouri),

Douglas, Duchesne, and return. 2. Fort Logan and return.

DEPARTMENT OF TEXAS.
From San Antonio:

1. Fort Sam Houston and return.
2. Fort Clark and return.
3. Forts Reno and Sill and return.

DEPARTMENT OF THE COLUMBIA.
From Portland:

1. Vancouver Barracks and return.
2. Forts Stevens, Canby, Columbia, and return.

3. Forts Walla Walla, Wright, Lawton, Ward, Casey,

Worden, Flagler, and return.

DEPARTMENT OF THE GULF.

From Atlanta:

1. Fort McPherson and return.
2. Camp G. H. Thomas and return.
3. Forts Barrancas and Morgan and return.

DEPARTMENT OF CALIFORNIA.
From San Francisco:

1. Benicia Barracks, Benicia Arsenal, and return.
2. Presidio of Monterey and return.

3. Defenses of San Francisco. Personal payment of posts by paymasters includes payment of subposts.

Forts Davis, Egbert, Gibbon, and St. Michael, Alaska, and Pekin, China, will be paid in person by the respective post commanders, who have been designated by the War Department as acting paymasters for the purpose of making such payments.

The troops at all other stations will be paid by check or by express as directed in paragraph 1344, Army Regulations of 1904. BY ORDER OF THE ACTING SECRETARY OF WAR:

ADNA R. CHAFFEE,

Lieutenant General, Chief of Staff. OFFICIAL: F. C. AINSWORTH,

The Military Secretary.

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ORDERS

, September 26, 1904. I.-Paragraph 1086, Army Regulations of 1904, is amended to read as follows:

1086. Forage is furnished to the authorized allowance of horses of mounted officers, actually owned and kept by them in the performance of their official duties, either when on duty at stations, at posts, or in the field. When on leave of absence or on duty the nature of which necessitates the temporary separation of the officer and his mounts, forage may be furnished for four months or such additional period as may be approved by the Secretary of War. Forage is furnished to the following number of horses: Of a lieutenant general, 4; of a major general or a brigadier general, 3; of all other mounted officers, each, 2.

II.-The 90th Company, Coast Artillery, is relieved from duty at Fort McHenry, Maryland, and will proceed to and take station at Fort McKinley, Maine.

The commanding general, Atlantic Division, is charged with the execution of this movement and will promptly report hours of departure and arrival and strength of command by telegraph to The Military Secretary of the Army.

The Quartermaster's Department will furnish the necessary transportation, the Subsistence Department suitable subsistence, and the Medical Department proper medical attendance and supplies.

III--Ashereafter all ball cartridges, caliber.30, will be packed in bandoleers instead of in pasteboard boxes, all bandoleers when emptied will in time of peace be saved and turned in to post ordnance officers to be shipped by them to the command. ing officer of Frankford Arsenal, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, as soon as a sufficient number has been accumulated to war. rant their shipment. BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF WAR:

ADNA R. CHAFFEE,

Lieutenant General, Chief of Staff. OFFICIAL: F. C. AINSWORTH,

The Military Secretary.