surrendered by him to the person in Chicago from whom he receives meal requests. Noncommissioned officers, privates, and recruits not furnished with through transportation at initial points of journeys will be instructed to report at the headquarters, Department of the Lakes, if they arrive in Chicago before 3.30 p. m., and at the recruiting station, No. 82 West Madison street, if they arrive after that hour. Those reporting at the latter place will be furnished by the recruiting officer with supper and lodging for the night and breakfast the next morning, and will then be sent to department headquarters for the necessary orders for transportation and meal requests to the end of their journey.

9. Recruits furnished with meal tickets (Form No. 76, Subsistence Department) will be thoroughly instructed regarding the use of them. It should be stated to the recruits by recruiting officers that the meal tickets are for the sole purpose of obtaining meals in the manner indicated thereon, and that any violation of the printed instructions on the meal tickets regarding the use to be made thereof, or any improper use of such tickets, will render the recruits liable to punishment.

10. Recruiting officers will endeavor to keep themselves in touch with the companies honoring meal tickets issued by them, in order that recruits provided with them may experience no difficulty in obtaining meals thereon.

11. Disbursing officers will not pay accounts for meal tickets which have been improperly used, except when specially authorized by the War Department.

12. If the money value of the articles sold to a recruit under paragraph 1268 of the Regulations be not collected before he leaves the recruiting station, post, or depot, it will be noted on his descriptive and assignment card in order that it may be withheld by the paymaster at the first payment after the recruit joins his company.

13. Recruiting officers not stationed at garrisoned posts will obtain subsistence funds for advancing commutation of rations, paying coffee money to recruits, and paying vouchers for meals furnished, etc., by written requests upon the chief commissaries of departments in which they are respectively recruiting. If they are furnished with funds they will make payment of all subsistence accounts. If not so furnished, they will send the vouchers, prepared on Form No. 7, Subsistence Department, the certificate thereon being properly modified, to the chief commissary of the department in which their stations are located, or to such other officer as may be directed to make the payments.

14. In drawing checks against subsistence funds placed to their credit in subtreasuries or depositories recruiting officers will add after their names their rank and the designation "commissary," simply, thus: "Henry Bell, lieut., commissary."

15. Each voucher paid by recruiting officers from subsistence funds held in their personal possession under paragraph 587 of the Regulations will have noted thereon their check (by number and date and the name of the depository on which drawn) from the proceeds of which the money in personal possession arose. The number and amount of each of the vouchers so paid will be noted on the stub of the check or on a schedule attached thereto.

16. Recruiting officers will pay in person to each recruit the commutation of rations or coffee money to which he may be entitled, or will cause it to be conveyed to him only by the hand of a commissioned officer.

17. Referring to the provisions of paragraphs 1250 and 1251 of the Regulations, attention is called to that provision of the contract for meals (Form No. 19, Subsistence Department) which stipulates that lunches shall be furnished when required. These lunches (cooked rations) are intended for the use of recruits traveling.

18. Whenever a soldier, a member of a recruiting party granted the privilege of living out of quarters, desires to be subsisted independently, he will submit in writing an application to The Military Secretary of the Army to be paid the contract price of subsistence. This application will be forwarded by the recruiting officer, with his recommendation and with such information in regard thereto as may be deemed pertinent. See in this connection General Orders, No. 190, War Department, December 20, 1904.

19. The following paragraphs of the Army Regulations of 1904 are the principal ones relating to the duties of recruiting officers in the matter of the subsistence of recruits: 586, 587, 1229, 1244, 1250, 1251, 1252, 1253, 1255, 1268, and 1275.

All provisions of General Orders and Circulars inconsistent with the foregoing are hereby revoked. [1009072, M. S. O.]

BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF WAR:

OFFICIAL:

GEORGE L. GILLESPIE, Major General, Acting Chief of Staff.

F. C. AINSWORTH,

The Military Secretary.

No. 69.

WASHINGTON, May 6, 1905.

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

The United States of America having acquired certain lands situated on Nantasket and Cushing Hills, in the Town of Hull, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, for fortification purposes, the same are hereby announced as the Military Reservation of Fort Revere, Massachusetts.

The metes and bounds of said reservation, as shown on a map of survey of the same made under the direction of Lieu. tenant Colonel W. S. Stanton, Corps of Engineers, United States Army, in June, 1904, by 1st Lieutenant G. R. Lukesh, Corps of Engineers, United States Army, are as follows:

Beginning at a point at the junction of lands acquired from the Battery Heights Land Company, land acquired from Eliza J. H. Andrew, and land of Anna Cushing (or as near thereto as could be determined by retracing the survey made in 1897 by Lieutenant J. S. Sewell, Corps of Engineers, United States Army, of the land acquired by the United States Government), and now marked by a concrete monument; thence running north 43° 03′ 10′′ west. 455.75 feet, and north 43° 04′ 00′′ west, 107.81 feet to the top of the bluff: thence, proceeding along the last-mentioned course, 257.5 feet, more or less, to low-water line; thence easterly, along low-water line, to a point opposite a granite monument located at the intersection of the western side of Duck Lane and the southern side of Nantasket Avenue (which granite monument is mentioned in "Returns and Locations of Highways in the Town of Hull." Book 2, page 55, as such point of intersection), and from which point of the low-water line to the southern corner of said granite monument the bearing is south 08° 29′ 00′′ west, and the distance is 349.5 feet; thence along such course to the southern corner of said granite monument, crossing the right of way of the N. Y., N. H. & H. R. R., and Nantasket Avenue; thence along Duck Lane by the following courses: south 18° 35' 40" east, for 101.66 feet: south 24° 11' 40" east, for 138.01 feet: south 33° 57' 10" east, for 147.04 feet; south 52° 55′ 00′′ east. for 98.99 feet; south 46° 44′ 20′′ east. for 134.76 feet: south 53° 28′ 20′′ east. for 108.52 feet; south 48° 14' 00" east, for 77.50 feet; south 39° 28′ 30′′ east, for 96.99 feet; south 41° 52' 40" east, for 108.98 feet; and south 16° 53′ 30′′ east, for 57.21 feet, to the corner of the town cemetery; thence along the cemetery south 58° 32′ 20' west, for 244.46 feet, and south 58° 34′ 50′′ west, for 241.54 feet to the west corner of the cemetery; thence south 58° 29′ 40′′ west, for 87.05 feet; thence north 33° 58′ 50′′ west. for 175.37 feet; thence south 58° 01′ 40′′ west, for 159.36 feet: thence north 34° 39′ 20′′ west, for 124.15 feet; thence south 57° 48′ 30′′ west, for 79.38 feet: thence south 52° 58′ 20′′ west, for 215.30 feet; thence north 40° 40′ 10′′ west, for 114.53 feet; thence south 52° 17′ 20′′ west, for 100.18 feet; thence north 39° 04′ 20′′ west, for 132.21 feet; thence south 49° 34' 10" west, for 175.13 feet; thence north 47° 56′ 00′′ west, for 149.26 feet: thence south 49° 31′ 40′′ west. for 74.62 feet; thence north 46° 59′ 10′′ west,

for 435.91 feet. to a point on the southerly side of Nantasket Avenue: thence north 46° 49′ 20′′ west, for 48.99 feet, crossing Nantasket Avenue: thence north 81° 04′ 20′′ west, for 365.95 feet: thence north 59° 07′ 30′′ west. for 149.41 feet; thence north 48° 39′ 50′′ west. for 123.14 feet, to the point of beginning, embracing an area of 77.505 acres, more or less. All bearings are referred to the true meridian.

All corners of the reservation are now marked by copper bolts in concrete monuments, except where courses intersect low-water line, which points are unmarked, and the first and sixth stations on Duck Lane (be ginning at the north), which points are marked by granite monuments. [1009586, M. S. O.]

BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF WAR:

OFFICIAL:

GEORGE L. GILLESPIE, Major General, Acting Chief of Staff.

F. C. AINSWORTH,

The Military Secretary.

WASHINGTON, May 8, 1905.

No. 70. General Orders, No. 102, June 14, 1904, War Department, is amended to read as follows:

In order that the Quartermaster General's Department may be more fully advised as to the correct proportion of the various sizes of the following articles of clothing and shoes which it should carry in stock, post commanders will cause each of the enlisted men at their respective posts to be carefully measured, after which each measurement will be compared with the various established sizes, which are as follows: OVERCOATS (OLIVE DRAB).

DRESS COATS AND OLIVE DRAB AND KHAKI SERVICE COATS.