Battery B. 6th Artillery to be 61st Company. Coast Artillery. Battery C, 6th Artillery, to be 62d Company, Coast Artillery. Light Battery D 6th Artillery, to be lith Battery, Field Artillery. Battery E. 6th Artillery, to be 63d Company, Coast Artillery. Battery F. 6th Artillery, to be 64th Company, Coast Artillery. Light Battery G, 6th Artillery, to be 13th Battery, Field Artillery. Battery H. 6th Artillery, to be 65th Company, Coast Artillery. Battery L. 6th Artillery, to be 66th Company, Coast Artillery. Battery K. 6th Artillery, to be 67th Company, Coast Artillery. Battery L. 6th Artillery, to be 68th Company, Coast Artillery. Battery M. 6th Artillery, to be 69th Company. Coast Artillery. Battery N, 6th Artillery, to be 70th Company, Coast Artillery. Battery O. 6th Artillery, to be 71st Company, Coast Artillery. Battery A. 7th Artillery, to be 72d Company, Coast Artillery. Battery B, 7th Artillery, to be 73d Company, Coast Artillery. Light Battery C, 7th Artillery, to be 14th Battery, Field Artillery. Battery D, 7th Artillery, to be 74th Company, Coast Artillery. Battery E, 7th Artillery, to be 75th Company, Coast Artillery. Battery F, 7th Artillery, to be 76th Company, Coast Artillery. Battery G, 7th Artillery, to be 77th Company, Coast Artillery. Battery H, 7th Artillery, to be 78th Company, Coast Artillery. Battery I, 7th Artillery, to be 79th Company, Coast Artillery. Battery K, 7th Artillery, to be 80th Company, Coast Artillery. Battery L, 7th Artillery, to be 81st Company, Coast Artillery. Light Battery M, 7th Artillery, to be 15th Battery, Field Artillery. Battery N, 7th Artillery, to be 82d Company, Coast Artillery. Siege Battery O, 7th Artillery, to be 16th Battery, Field Artillery. The artillery bands now in service will be designated as follows: First Artillery Band to be 1st Band, Artillery Corps. No. 16. ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE, Washington, February 14, 1901. The following act of Congress is published for the information and government of all concerned: An Act for the payment of travel allowances on discharge from the Volunteer Army to certain officers and enlisted men who reentered the military service of the United States in the Philippine Islands. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That any officer of volunteers, and any enlisted man of either regulars or volunteers, who was discharged in the Philippine Islands and there reentered the service, through commission or enlistment, in the Thirty-sixth or Thirty-seventh regiments, United States Volunteer Infantry, or in the Eleventh Regiment, United States Volunteer Cavalry, shall, when discharged, except by way of punishment for an offense, receive for travel allowances, from the place of his discharge to the place in the United States of his last preceding appointment or enlistment, four cents per mile: Provided, That for sea travel, on discharge, from or between our island possessions actual expenses only shall be paid to officers, and transportation and subsistence only shall be furnished enlisted men: Provided further, That officers and enlisted men discharged in the United States under the provisions of this act shall not be entitled to transportation or travel allowance back to the Philippine Islands. Approved February 8, 1901. BY COMMAND OF LIEUTENANT GENERAL MILES: H. C. CORBIN, Adjutant General. No. 17. ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE, Washington, February 15, 1901. I. By direction of the Secretary of War and under the provisions of the act of Congress approved March 2, 1899 (published in General Orders, No. 36, from this office, March 4, 1899), "for increasing the efficiency of the Army of the United States and for other purposes," the Volunteer force, officers and enlisted men, organized under said act, will be mustered out of the United States service on or before June 30, 1901, as provided for in the following instructions published for the information and guidance of all concerned: 1. To facilitate the muster out of regiments in the United States the commanding officers of regiments will, prior to the departure of their commands from Manila, select an officer specially qualified for duty as assistant mustering officer, under whose supervision and that of the regimental commander company commanders will be required while en route to have the first copy of the muster out roll accurately prepared, and officers who have been or are then responsible or accountable for public property, as company commanders or otherwise, will be required to make out the papers necessary for promptly rendering property returns accounting for losses, transfers, money charges against men, etc., etc. Upon arrival at the muster-out rendezvous and when the date for the muster out of the regiment has been fixed, the four fair copies required will be made without delay. 2. Prior to the departure of a regiment from the Philippine Islands the assistant mustering officer will be required to make a careful inspection of the records of the regiment and cause them to be completed in every respect, and will by personal inspection see that correct descriptive lists and accounts of pay and clothing are furnished to the officers under whose immediate command they may be for all enlisted men absent sick and unable to join their commands before sailing, and that descriptive lists of such enlisted men as may be in captivity are furnished to the chief mustering officer of the division. The assistant mustering officer will also be required to make an alphabetical list by companies of all absentees and their addresses so far as known, cause of absence and authority therefor, and deliver the same to the mustering officer charged with the muster out of the regiment, to whom he will report on arrival as assistant. In all matters pertaining to their duties as mustering officers, officers and men of organizations to be mustered out will be guided by the instructions of these officers, who are acting under the authority conferred by the Secretary of War. 3. The names of all officers and enlisted men who belonged to the organization prior and subsequent to the preparation of the organization roll must be accounted for on the muster-out roll, which is required to be a complete record of all the officers and enlisted men who ever belonged to the organization. Attention is especially invited in this respect to the printed instructions on the muster out roll. 4. When the muster-out rolls have been prepared they will be carefully examined by a board of officers, to be appointed by the regimental commander, which will be furnished with the retained copy of the organization roll, with copies of all the muster rolls of the organization and other necessary data. Under the supervision of the mustering, officer the board will compare rolls and other data with the muster-out rolls to insure their absolute correctness in all respects. 5. Discharge certificates will be prepared for every officer and enlisted man present, and for such officers and enlisted men absent from the command (sick, on leave or on furlough) whose discharge from the service is not ordered herein to be executed by officers under whose immediate control such absentees may be at date of muster out. Under the head of "Remarks" on the discharge certificate and the muster-out rolls record will be made as to whether or not the service of the soldier was honest and faithful. In this particular attention is invited to paragraph 148 of the Regulations as amended by General Orders, No. 10, of 1897, from this office. 6. Discharge certificates will be signed by the regimental commander for the noncommissioned staff and band and for all officers of the regiment, by company commanders for the enlisted men of their companies, and all will be countersigned by the mustering officer, who will deliver them to the paymaster for the purpose required in paragraph 1383 of the Regulations. The chief mustering officer will sign the discharge certificates of regimental commanders. 7. The discharge from the United States Volunteer service in the cases of all absentees will take effect upon the muster out of the organizations to which they belong, except only in |