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The Adjutant General of the Army all matters relating to the general welfare of the command, including such changes of stations of troops as he may deem desirable, but will obtain the approval of the War Department before ordering the movement. If it is necessary to move troops to meet emergencies such movements and all the circumstances will be reported at the earliest possible moment. He will have immediate charge of the inspections necessary to carry ont, for all the organized militia belonging within the limits of his department, the provisions of section 14 of the Militia Act, approved January 21, 1903; and to assist in this duty all officers of the Army, active and retired, on duty with the organized militia within the limits of his department will report to him and will send through him their reports of inspections under said section 14. Reports and returns of the organized militia which may be required under the provisions of section 12 of the act of January 21, 1903, will be referred by the War Department to the department commanders for their information, to be returned to the War Department for file. He will designate the time for target practice, examine and consolidate reports of the same, and issue the necessary orders for holding target competitions within his department.

194. The staff of the commander of the Philippines Division will consist of his authorized personal aids and one officer from each of the following staff corps and departments: General Staff Corps, Adjutant General's Department, Inspector General's Department, Judge Advocate General's Department, Quartermaster's Department, Subsistence Department, Medical Department, Pay Department, Corps of Engineers, Ordnance Department, and Signal Corps, and such additional staff officers as may be assigned by the War Department. The division commander will control matters of supply and administration within his command; and, in this division, correspondence with the War Department will be through the division commander. The division commander will devolve upon one of his personal aids the duties of inspector of smallarms practice.

195. A department commander's staff will consist of the authorized personal aids and one officer from each of the following corps and departments: General Staff Corps, Adjutant Gen

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eral's Department, Inspector General's Department, Judge Advocate General's Department, Quartermaster's Department, Subsistence Department, Medical Department, and Pay Department; and when necessary an engineer officer, an ordnance officer, and a signal officer will be assigned. The chief surgeon will, when practicable, perform the duty of attending surgeon. The chief paymaster will make a portion of the payments in the command. The duties prescribed in Firing Regulations for Small Arms for the inspector of small-arms practice will be performed by an aid or other officer of the department commander's staff. The commanding general of a department in which coast artillery troops are stationed is authorized, in his discretion, to detail for duty at his headquarters an officer of coast artillery, to be designated the department artillery officer, who will act in an advisory capacity to the department commander with respect to matters pertaining to the efficiency of coast artillery materiel and to the drill, instruction, and employment of coast artillery troops in connection with the service of seacoast cannon and submarine defenses.

200. The commander of a post is responsible for its safety and defense, and for the discipline, drill, and instruction of his command, to which ends all other garrison duties will be made subservient. He will be responsible for the preservation and proper application of public property, for the strict enforcement of laws and regulations, and for the proper condition of quarters and defenses. He will make an inspection of his command on the last day of every month, will satisfy himself by frequent personal examination that the disbursements of all officers in charge of funds are in accordance with law and regulations and their accounts correctly stated, and will make such reports of these inspections and examinations as the department commander may direct.

General officers commanding posts will leave the details of administration to subordinate commanders as far as practicable. Thus the visits prescribed in paragraph 201, Army Regulations, to be made by the post commander, and the action prescribed for the commanding officer in case of deserters in Article XIX, Army Regulations, may be delegated to regimental or detached battalion commanders; regimental commanders should appoint summary courts for the trial of