GENERAL ORDERS,

No. 2.

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WAR DEPARTMENT,

WASHINGTON, January 6, 1915.

I... The following articles, issued by the Engineer Department, are authorized in lieu of those specified in sections 2 and 3, Paragraph III, General Orders, No. 20, War Department, 1913:

For each post garrisoned by Cavalry, Field Artillery, or Infantry, to be accounted for by the post engineer officer:

For each garrisoned Coast Artillery fort, to be accounted

for by the Coast Defense artillery engineer:

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2. The following semiannual allowances of supplies will be issued by the Engineer Department, if required, under the provisions of section 5, Paragraph III, General Orders, No. 20, War Department, 1913:

For each post garrisoned by Cavalry, Field Artillery, or Infantry:

For each set of reconnaissance equipment, old model:

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For each set of reconnaissance equipment, new model:

3. The foregoing allowances are for future issues; instruments and supplies now on hand will be used as far as practicable, even though they differ from those now prescribed. All instruments pertaining to the Engineer Department, on hand in excess of the allowances stated herein, except reconnaissance instruments required for issue under the provisions of paragraph 9, General Orders, No. 43, War Department, 1913, will be turned in to the Engineer Depot, Washington Barracks, D. C., except in the Hawaiian and Philippine Departments, where they will be turned in to the Engineer Depots at Honolulu and Manila, respectively.

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II. Paragraph 19, General Orders, No. 41, War Department, 1913, relating to service practice of Field Artillery, is amended to read as follows:

19. The service practice of Field Artillery should be considered as the culmination of the previous training, and the final results obtained should be regarded as showing to what extent the organization concerned is prepared to perform its anties under battle conditions. Regimental, battalion, and attery commanders should keep this end in view during the period of preparatory training and also during the practice, and should make every effort to derive the greatest possible advantage from the ammunition allowance allotted to their respective organizations.

However, on application of the regimental commander, approved by the department commander, auxiliary service practice of field artillery organizations may be held at any time throughout the year; but such auxiliary practice shall

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not aggregate more than 50 per cent of the total annual ammunition allowance, and all required conditions as to preparation, training, reports, and presence of officers will be complied with. The application will set forth the particular advantage to be gained by holding such auxiliary practice over waiting for the regular practice season.

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III__Paragraph I, General Orders, No. 107, War Department, 1909, amendatory of paragraph 2, General Orders, No. 156, War Department, 1905, providing for the organization of the Coast Artillery Board and prescribing the channels of correspondence, is amended so as to provide that communications from the Chief of Coast Artillery to the president of the Coast Artillery Board may be sent through the commandant, Coast Artillery School, instead of through the commanding officer of the Coast Defenses of Chesapeake Bay.

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BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF WAR:

A. L. MILLS,

Brigadier General, General Staff Corps,

Acting Chief of Staff.

OFFICIAL:

H. P. MCCAIN,

The Adjutant General.