cases in which the severest punishment should be awarded. In other cases the punishment should be graded down according to the extenuating circumstances. Offenses not herein provided for remain punishable as authorized by the Articles of War and the custom of the service. ARTICLE VII. Summary courts are subject to the restrictions named in the 83d Article of War. Soldiers against whom charges may be preferred for trial by summary court shall not be confined in the guardhouse, but shall be placed in arrest in quarters, before and during trial and while awaiting sentence, exceptwhen in particular cases restraint may be necessary. ARTICLE VIII. Substitutions for punishment named in Article II of this order are authorized at the discretion of the courts at the following rates: Two days' confinement at hard labor for one dollar forfeiture; or the reverse; one day's solitary confinement on bread and water diet for two days' confinement at hard labor or for one dollar forfeiture; provided that a noncommissioned officer not sentenced to reduction shall not be subject to confinement; and provided that solitary confinement shall not exceed fourteen days at one time, nor be repeated until fourteen days have elapsed, and shall not exceed eighty-four days in Noncommissioned officers above the rank of corporal shall not, if they object thereto, be brought to trial before regiimental, garrison, or summary courts-martial, without the authority of the officer competent to order their trial by general court-martial; nor shall sergeants of the post noncommissioned staff or hospital stewards be reduced, but they may be dishonorably discharged whenever reduction is included in the limit of punishment. WILLIAM MCKINLEY. BY COMMAND OF LIEUTENANT GENERAL MILES: H. C. CORBIN, Adjutant General, Major General, U. S. Army. No. 43. ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE, Washington, April 1, 1901. I--By direction of the Secretary of War, paragraph 963 of the Regulations is amended to read as follows: 963. A civilian not in Government employ duly summoned to appear as a witness before a military court will receive $1.50 per day for each day actually in attendance upon the court, and five cents a mile for going from his place of residence to the place of trial or hearing, and five cents a mile for returning; but in Wyoming, Montana, Washington, Oregon, California, Utah, New Mexico, Arizona, and Porto Rico he will be paid fifteen cents for each mile necessarily traveled over any stage line or by private conveyance and in Porto Rico ten cents for each mile over any railway in such travel. In case a witness duly subpoenaed before a general courtmartial refuses to appear or qualify as a witness or to testify or produce documentary evidence as required by law, he will at once be tendered or paid by the nearest paymaster these fees and mileage and will thereupon be again called upon to comply with the requirements of law. Civilian witnesses will be paid by the Pay Department. II__By direction of the Secretary of War, the following extract from the act of Congress approved March 2, 1901, “making appropriation for the support of the Army for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1902," published in General Orders, No. 26, March 8, 1901, from this office, and the orders of the Secretary of War based thereon, are published to the Army for the information and guidance of all concerned: "The Secretary of War may determine what shall constitute travel and duty without troops within the meaning of the laws governing the payment of mileage and commutation of quarters to officers of the Army." “Traveling with troops," in the sense here employed, will be regarded as covering all cases of officers included in orders for movement, in whatever manner, of their appropriate commands or in orders for movement of detachinents, escorts, or stores which proceed by marches or by transportation belonging to or especially hired for the purpose by the United States, the idea being that in marches the officers should move as do the troops and that where transportation is specially devoted to the movement it is sufficient for all included therein. But the term will not be regarded as covering cases of officers included in the movement by railroad, stage, or like established lines of conveyances; of detachments of less than ten armed or unarmed men, such as guards and nurses for disabled or insane officers or soldiers; recruiting parties and escorts for inspectors, paymasters, and others, or the public funds or property in their charge, or of officers traveling on troop trains or transports but not ordered to report to the commanding officer nor on duty with the troops or command on board, and such officers are not regarded as traveling with troops within the meaning of the laws and regulations. Officers on duty in the War Department, at Army and other general headquarters, attending surgeons and other officers on duty in cities and other places where public quarters are not furnished but where enlisted men are on duty only as guards, orderlies, clerks, and messengers and recruiting officers at city stations are regarded as being on duty without troops within the meaning of the laws and regulations. BY COMMAND OF LIEUTENANT GENERAL MILES: H. C. CORBIN, Adjutant General, Major General, U. S. Army. No. 44. ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE, Washington, April 2, 1901. I--By direction of the Secretary of War, the following is published to the Army for the information and guidance of all concerned: To insure economy in the use of electric current, and of gas at posts where either of these illuminants is employed, the commanding officer of each such post will issue, with the approval of the department commander, a schedule and proper orders limiting the number of lights and hours during which they may be used, both for exterior lighting and the interior lights of barracks, guardhouses, storehouses, offices, hospitals, chapels, libraries, reading rooms, stables, etc. The number of such lights must be limited to smallest number for proper lighting and the period of authorized burning of each light must be limited to the necessities in each One schedule of lighting will be prepared to cover the period from May 1 to August 31 and another for period from September 1 to April 30. case. Each noncommissioned staff officer entitled to quarters at posts where gas or electricity is installed will be allowed for period September 1 to April 30 1,500 cubic feet of gas or 20,000 watts of electric current per month, and from May 1 to August 31 900 cubic feet of gas or 12,000 watts electric current per month. Gas or electricity in excess of these allowances will be paid for at the end of each month to the quartermaster by the responsible noncommissioned staff officer. At posts where the electric current is furnished from Government plant the charge for the excess will be at the rate of 10 cents per 1,000 watts. At posts where gas or electric current is obtained from local company the charge for the excess will be at contract price. In order to measure the amount of gas or electric current. consumed, each noncommissioned staff quarters will be provided with proper meter, the key of which will be kept in possession of the quartermaster. Each officer's quarters will be likewise provided with a meter and the occupants of the same will be required to pay for all gas or electric current used at rates as indicated above. The cost of installation of lights and fixtures in officers' quarters, as in other public buildings at posts, will be borne by the Quartermaster's Department, but after said installation all expense for repairs, new lamps, etc., in officers' quarters will be borne by occupants of said quarters. Authority is granted for the purchase from the Quartermaster's Department of gas or electric current, at rates as above indicated, for use in post exchange and other buildings the expense of lighting which is not payable from Government funds. All expense for replacing burnt-out lamps, repairing fixtures, wiring, etc., in such buildings will be borne by the parties interested. II. By direction of the Secretary of War, so much of paragraphs 1013 to 1019, inclusive, of the Regulations as prescribes allowances of lamps and mineral oil is modified to prohibit such allowances for buildings and grounds where gas or electric light is installed. III. By direction of the Secretary of War, the following is published to the Army for the information and guidance of all concerned: At each post supplied with a fortification electric plant sufficiently large for supplying necessary current for lighting buildings and grounds the plant may be used for that purpose by the Quartermaster's Department when authorized by the Chief of Engineers, provided that the needs of defense shall have precedence over post lighting or power supply in any case in which both uses are simultaneously desired. For this purpose when funds that are applicable can be spared the Engineer Department will construct necessary conduits, service wires, etc., to deliver the current to the vari. ous buildings and to exterior lights, and the Quartermaster's Department will wire the buildings, furnish meters for officers' and noncommissioned officers' quarters, exterior lamps, etc., and will in addition to the fuel, material, etc., required to be furnished by it to all fortification electric plants under the provisions of General Orders, No. 66, May 14, 1900, from this office, supply for such plants as may be used for post lighting all material and funds necessary for their repair and preservation. BY COMMAND OF LIEUTENANT GENERAL MILES: H. C. CORBIN, Adjutant General, Major General, U. S. Army. |