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GENERAL ORDERS,

No. 59.

WAR DEPARTMENT,
WASHINGTON, April 12, 1905.

For administrative purposes in the transaction of current business pertaining to ordinary routine, the following telephonic communication is authorized to be established at each military post:

To the office of commanding officer......

To the office of each company, troop, or battery.
To the office of quartermaster.

To the office of commissary..
To the hospital.....

To the guard house..

To the post exchange..

To the residence of commanding officer..

To the residence of quartermaster

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To the residence of adjutant

To the residence of surgeon

Telephonic installation for rifle ranges, fire-control purposes, War College, and service schools are not included in the above allotment, they being provided for separately, according to the necessities of the occasion.

No post telephonic system will be connected directly with any commercial system of telephones, save under approval by the War Department, and under written terms which shall conserve the interests of the United States.

Post telephonic systems are to be maintained and operated by the members of the garrison as a rule, such systems to be inspected by a competent noncommissioned officer of the Signal Corps, or other available expert, at least twice each year. [999382, M. S. O.]

BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF WAR:

OFFICIAL:

ADNA R. CHAFFEE,
Lieutenant General, Chief of Staff.

F. C. AINSWORTH,

The Military Secretary.

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No. 60.

WASHINGTON, April 15, 1905.

By direction of the President, the following changes in the stations and duties of general officers are ordered:

Major General Samuel S. Sumner, United States Army, is relieved temporarily from the command of the Southwestern Division, and will proceed to San Francisco, California, and assume command of the Pacific Division during the temporary absence of Major General Arthur MacArthur, United States Army.

Brigadier General Frank D. Baldwin, United States Army, is relieved from the command of the Department of the Colorado, and will proceed to Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Territory, and assume command of the Southwestern Division during the temporary absence of Major General Sumner.

Brigadier General William S. McCaskey, United States Army, is relieved from duty in the Philippines Division, and will proceed to Denver, Colorado, and upon arrival report by telegraph to The Military Secretary of the Army for further orders.

Brigadier General James A. Buchanan, United States Army, will proceed to Manila, Philippine Islands, and report. in person to the commanding general, Philippines Division, for assignment to duty.

Brigadier General Tasker H. Bliss, United States Army, is relieved from his present duties, to take effect at such time as will enable him to comply with this order, and will proceed to San Francisco, California, and take transport to sail from that place on or about June 30, 1905, for Manila, Philippine Islands, where upon arrival he will report in person to the commanding general, Philippines Division, for duty, pending his assignment to the command of a department.

The travel enjoined is necessary for the public service. [992910, M. S. O.]

BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF WAR:

ADNA R. CHAFFEE, Lieutenant General, Chief of Staff.

OFFICIAL:

F. C. AINSWORTH,

The Military Secretary.

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GENERAL ORDERS,

No. 61.

WAR DEPARTMENT, WASHINGTON, April 17, 1905.

The following orders of the Secretary of War are published to the Army for the information and guidance of all concerned: WAR DEPARTMENT, WASHINGTON, January 3, 1905.

ORDERS:

By direction of the President, the following order is issued for the information and guidance of all concerned:

It is hereby ordered that hereafter no officer, clerk, or employee in the executive service of the Government, who is also a notary public, shall charge or receive any compensation whatever for performing any notarial act for an officer. clerk, or employee of the Government in his official capacity, or in any matter in which the Government is interested, or for any person when, in the case of such person, the act is performed during the hours of such notary's service to the Government. Disobedience of this order shall be ground for immediate dismissal from the service.

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WM. H. TAFT,
Secretary of War.

ORDERS:

WAR DEPARTMENT, WASHINGTON, April 3, 1905.

War Department orders of January 3, 1905, issued by direction of the President, prohibiting notarial charges by notaries public who are Government employees, is, by direction of the President, hereby amended by adding at the end thereof the following paragraph:

"This order shall not apply to oaths of disinterestedness, or other oaths required to be made by law, provided that the work in connection therewith is not performed during office hours."

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