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panied by recommendations bearing upon every phase of clothing, equipment, discipline, and training involved in the season's work.

The travel directed for individual officers in this order is necessary in the military service.

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BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF WAR:

OFFICIAL:

THOMAS H. BARRY,

Brigadier General, Acting Chief of Staff.

HENRY P. MCCAIN,

Military Secretary.

GENERAL ORDERS.

WAR DEPARTMENT,

WASHINGTON, June 18, 1906.

No. 111. I..The following description of the military reservation of Fort McPherson, Georgia, has been compiled from the deeds conveying the premises to the United States, and is published to the Army for the information and guidance of all concerned:

All that tract of land lying and being in Land Lots 121 and 136, fourteenth district, Fulton County, Georgia. bounded as follows: Beginning at a rock at the intersection of the south line of Land Lot 136 with the west edge of the East Point wagon road: thence northerly, along the west edge of said wagon road, to the point where the same crosses the east line of said Land Lot 136: thence south, along the east line of said Land Lot 136, to the point where the west line of the right of way of the Central Railroad crosses the same: thence northeasterly, along the west line of said right of way, to the north line of said Land Lot 121; thence west, along the north line of Land Lots 121 and 136, a distance of 2,376 feet, more or less, to the Campbellton Road: thence S. 69° 15′ W., with said road, a distance of 1.289 feet, more or less, to the property of J. J. Richards, the west line of Land Lot 136; thence south, along the west line of said Land Lot 136. a distance of 2,843 feet, more or less, to the southwest corner of the same: thence east, along the south line of said Land Lot 136, a distance of 2,951 feet. more or less, to the point of beginning: containing 236.64 acres, more or less.

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II. The following is published to the Army for the information and guidance of all concerned:

The metes and bounds of the military reservation at Fort Thomas. Kentucky, compiled from deeds conveying the premises to the United States, are hereby announced as follows:

All that tract of land, situated in the county of Campbell and State of Kentucky, comprising lots 5. 6. 7, 8, 9, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, and 27 in "Kinney's Highland Home" subdivision of lots as platted and recorded in Deed Book No. 22. pages 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6, Newport Office: said lots together being bounded as follows:

Beginning at a stake in the center of Highland avenue at the corner common to lot 5 of said subdivision and land of L. L. Ross, being the northwest corner of the said military reservation; thence with Ross' line, N. 60° 30′ E., 60.64 poles. to the corner common to Ross. Walker and lot 22: thence S. 28° 30′ E.. 3.96 poles, to corner common to lots 22 and 23 and Walker: thence, with Walker's line, N. 77° 30′ E.. 21.96 poles: N. 68° 30′ E.. 16 poles: N. 49° 45′ E.. 4.50 poles, to corner common to Walker and lots 26 and 27 (from which a black walnut bears S. 36° 45′ E.. 7 links); thence N. 49° 45′ E.. 12.50 poles; thence N. 14° 45′ E., 9.44 poles; thence N. 17° E., 10 poles, to corner of Morin; thence, with the line of Morin, N. 60° 30′ E., 31 poles, to the corner of lot 45; thence S. 9° 30′ E., with the rear line of lots 45 to 38, inclusive, 71 poles, to the corner of lots 37, 38, 28 and 27; thence,

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with the line of lot 28. S. 53° W.. 15.28 poles: thence, with the line of same lot. S. 43° 30′ W., 14.76 poles: S. 34° 45′ W., 11 poles, to the corner of lot 18: thence, on the line separating lots 18 and 28, S. 15° 45′ W., 16 poles. to corner of lot 17: thence, on line separating lots 17 and 28, S. 18° W., 22.24 poles: S. 15° W., 25.52 poles, to the corner of lot 14; thence, with the line separating lots 14 and 28, S. 13° 15' E., 28.56 poles, to a white oak in Hawthorne's line: thence. with Hawthorne's line. S. 61° W., 83.08 poles, to corner of lot 12 and original corner to lands of Morin; thence, with Morin's line. N. 299 W.. 23 25 poles. to the center of Twelve-Mile Turnpike; thence, with the center of said turnpike, N. 11° 45′ W., 16.80 poles: N. 18° 30′ E.. 14.76 poles: N. 7° 15′ W., 6 poles; N. 22° 15′ W., 6 poles: N. 61° 30′ W., 7 poles, and N. 76° 30′ W., 15.48 poles, to the intersection of Twelve-Mile Turnpike and Highland avenue, corner common to lots 3, 4, 9, 10, and 11; thence, with the center of Highland avenue, N. 44° 30′ E.. 15 poles: N. 17° 15′ E., 21.92 poles: thence N. 3° 45′ W.. 5 poles: N. 8° W., 4 poles; N. 19° W., 6 poles: N. 61° 30′ W., 13.28 poles; and N. 23° W.. 27.68 poles, to the point of beginning, containing 111 acres. 2 roods, and 39 poles. more or less, reserving to the Twelve-Mile Turnpike Company the tollhouse and all the vested rights of the company in the said turnpike. The deed conveying lot 27 reserves to the grantor (A. H. Bloom) a roadway 30 feet wide "along a line of lot No. 28. and the right of the grantor in and to said roadway, and the use thereof being the same which extends from and connects the Ohio River with the Highland Pike at its junction with the Twelve-Mile road and separates lots Nos. 38. 27. 25, 18, 17, 16, and 9 on the north from lots Nos. 37, 28, 14. 15. and 11 on the south and which roadway is laid down upon the plat of Eli Kinney's Highland Home subdivision as the same is recorded in Deed Book No. 22, pages 2 and 3 of the Records of Campbell County, Kentucky, at Newport." The conveyances were also made subject to "a right of the City of Covington to lay and keep in repair a line of water pipe over the northerly part of said reservation. By deed from William H. Truesdell and wife, dated March 5, 1889, and recorded in Deed Book No. 49, page 406, Newport office, the United States acquired a right of way to the station on the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad, as described in said deed and as shown on the plat attached thereto. The title to right of way for sewer purposes was acquired by deeds from Samuel W. Hills and wife, dated February 4, 1889, Charles Birkly and wife, dated March 6, 1889, and Martha Stewart et al., dated March 7, 1889: recorded in the clerk's office at Newport in Deed Book No. 49, at pages 446, 409, and 411, respectively.

Rifle range: The description of the rifle range of Fort Thomas. Kentucky, as given in the deed from William N. Taliaferro, dated May 1, 1891. recorded in the clerk's office of the county court of Campbell County, in Deed Book 51. page 475, Alexandria office. is as follows:

All of that certain tract of land situated in the said county of Campbel and State of Kentucky on Licking River below the mouth of Pond Creek containing one hundred and sixty-nine acres and including what has been known as "the Scotchman's Bottom" and described and bounded as follows:

Beginning at a large walnut tree near a drain, a tributary of Licking River and corner to a tract of land conveyed to George Herbst; thence with a lin of said Herbst N. 32° W., 29 poles to an elm stump on the bank of Licking River; thence up the river as it meanders N. 86° 45′ W.. 35.75 poles: S. 807