GENERAL ORDERS,

No. 39.

WAR DEPARTMENT, WASHINGTON, March 14, 1905.

1. Companies A and B, 1st Battalion of Engineers, will be relieved from duty at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, and will proceed to San Francisco, California, in time to embark under the direction of the commanding general, Department of California, on the extra transport sailing for the Philippine Islands on July 1, 1905, relieving Headquarters and Companies L and M, 3d Battalion of Engineers, which upon being thus relieved, will be placed en route to San Francisco, California, where upon arrival they will proceed to Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, for station.

2. Upon the departure of Headquarters and Companies L and M, 3d Battalion of Engineers, from the Philippine Islands, Headquarters and Companies C and D, 1st Battalion of Engineers, will be relieved from duty at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, and proceed to San Francisco, California, for station.

3. Companies I and K, 3d Battalion of Engineers, will be relieved from duty in the Philippine Islands in time to embark, if practicable, on the transport leaving July 15, 1905, for San Francisco, California, where upon arrival they will proceed to Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, for station.

The discharges, reenlistments, and transfers directed in General Orders, No. 144, War Department, September 2, 1904, for the 21st Infantry, will, as far as practicable, be carried out with respect to the organizations referred to in this order.

Commanding officers of outgoing organizations 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, Army Regulations.

Attention is invited to paragraph II, General Orders, No. 46, Headquarters of the Army, Adjutant General's Office, May 23, 1902, 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 in San Francisco, California, in determining the necessity for detention and observation.

The baggage to be transported by the outgoing organizations will be reduced to the lowest practicable limit; tableware, post exchange fixtures and similar bulky property (li brary and billiard table excepted), full dress uniform of enlisted men and tentage, excepting shelter tents, will not be taken. Enlisted men will not be allowed to have trunks or boxes for baggage. They will be permitted to take the usual locker (one to each man), their marching kits, and the telescopic cases of the pattern in the office of the Quartermaster General of the Army, 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.

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 subsistence, and the Medical Department proper medical attendance and supplies.

GENERAL ORDERS,

No. 40.

WAR DEPARTMENT, WASHINGTON, March 15, 1995.

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

An Act Making appropriation for the support of the Army for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and six.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums be, and they are hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the support of the Army for the year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and six:

CONTINGENCIES OF THE ARMY: For all contingent expenses of the Army not otherwise provided for, and embracing all branches of the military service, including the office of the Chief of Staff, to be expended under the immediate orders. of the Secretary of War, fteen thousand dollars.

ARMY WAR COLLEGE: For expenses of the Army War College, being for the temporary hire of office rooms, purchase of the necessary stationery, office, toilet, and desk furniture, text-books, books of reference, scientific and professional papers and periodicals, binding, maps, police utensils, and for all other absolutely necessary expenses, fifteen thousand dollars.

OFFICE OF THE CHIEF OF STAFF.

For contingent expenses of the military information division, General Staff Corps, including the purchase of law books, professional books of reference, professional and technical periodicals and newspapers, and of the military attachés at the United States embassies and legations abroad, and of the branch office of the military information division at Manila, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War, ten thousand dollars: Provided, That section thirty-six hundred and forty-eight, Revised Statutes, shall not apply to subscriptions for foreign and

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professional newspapers and periodicals to be paid for from this appropriation.

UNITED STATES SERVICE SCHOOLS: To provide means for the theoretical and practical instruction at the Artillery School, at Fort Monroe, Virginia; the School of Submarine Defense, at Fort Totten, New York; the General Service and Staff College, at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, and the School of application for Cavalry and Field Artillery, at Fort Riley, Kansas, by the purchase of text-books, books of reference, scientific and professional papers, the purchase of modern instruments and material for theoretical and practical instruction, and for all other absolutely necessary expenses, to be allotted in such proportions as may, in the opinion of the Secretary of War, be for the best interest of the, military service, twenty-five thousand dollars.

THE MILITARY SECRETARY'S DEPARTMENT.

CONTINGENCIES, HEADQUARTERS OF MILITARY DEPARTMENTS: For contingent expenses at the headquarters of the several military divisions and departments, including the staff corps serving thereat, being for the purchase of the necessary articles of office, toilet, and desk furniture, binding, maps, technical books of reference, professional and technical newspapers and periodicals, and police utensils, to be allotted by the Secretary of War, and to be expended in the discretion of the several military divisions and department commanders, seven thousand five hundred dollars.

UNDER THE CHIEF OF ARTILLERY.

SCHOOL OF SUBMARINE DEFENSE, FORT TOTTEN, NEW YORK: For incidental expenses of school and depot, including chemicals, stationery, hardware, extra-duty pay to soldiers necessarily employed for periods not less than ten days as artificers on work in addition to and not strictly in line with their military duties, such as carpenters, blacksmiths, draftsmen, printers, lithographers, photographers, engine drivers, telegraph operators, teamsters, wheelwrights, masons, machinists, painters, overseers, laborers, office furniture and fixtures, machinery, and unforeseen expenses, five thousand five hundred dollars.