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259. Each noncommissioned officer will be furnished with a certificate or warrant of his rank, signed by the officer making the appointment, and countersigned by the adjutant, but a separate warrant as first sergeant will not be given. A warrant issued to a noncommissioned officer is his personal property. Warrants need not be renewed in cases of reenlistment in the same company, if reenlistment is made the day following the day of discharge, but upon request may remain in force until vacated by promotion or reduction; each reenlistment and continuance may be noted on the warrant by the company commander.

260. Appointments of company noncommissioned officers will take effect on the day of appointment by the authorized commander, and of first sergeants, cooks, musicians, trumpeters, artificers, farriers and blacksmiths, saddlers, and wagoners on the day of appointment by the company commander; but in case of vacancy in a company in the field and absent from regimental headquarters a company commander may make a temporary appointment of a noncommissioned officer, which if approved by the authorized commander will carry rank and pay from the date of such appointment.

261. A noncommissioned officer may be reduced to the ranks by sentence of a court martial or on the recommendation of the company commander by the order of the commander having authority to appoint such noncommissioned officer, but a noncommissioned officer will not be reduced because of absence on account of sickness or injury contracted in the line of duty. If reduced to the ranks at a post not the headquarters of his regiment the company commander will forward a transcript of the order to the regimental commander. The desertion of a noncommissioned officer vacates his position on the date of desertion.

BY COMMAND OF LIEUTENANT GENERAL MILES:

H. C. CORBIN,

Adjutant General,

Major General, U. S. Army.

No. 52.

ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE.

Washington, April 17, 1901.

I. By direction of the Secretary of War, the following para graphs are added to the Regulations:

TRAVEL ALLOWANCES.

18214. Actual expenses only will be paid to officers for sea travel when traveling to, from. or between our island possessions. An itemized statement of such expenses will be filed with each voucher for payment as follows:

1. Fares upon commercial steamers, steamship lines, or other usual modes of conveyance by sea.

2. Cost of customary stateroom accommodations on com. mercial steamers when the same is not included in the travel fare.

3. Hire of special water transportation when there are no regular means of conveyance

4. Actual cost of meals, not to exceed $4.50 per day, for the time actually and unavoidably consumed in the voyage when the same is not included in the travel fare. Actual cost of meals on Government transports. A reasonable fee to cabin and stateroom stewards will be allowed on commercial lines of steamers; the payment of such fees on Government transports is not authorized. Subvouchers, properly receipted, will be required for the above items when the total cost exceeds $1. When not practicable to obtain such subvouchers the officer will so certify.

CONTRACT DENTAL SURGEONS.

1395). Candidates for appointment as dental surgeons must be not less than twenty-four nor more than forty years of age. They must be graduates of standard medical colleges, trained in the several branches of dentistry, of good moral and professional character, and prior to appointment will be required to pass a satisfactory professional examination before a board of dental surgeons convened for that purpose by the Secretary of War.

Contracts with dental surgeons will be made for three years, but may be annulled at any time by the commanding general of a military department, after official investigation, .for con

duct to the prejudice of good order and military discipline, or by the Surgeon General when in his opinion a termination of the contract would be in the interests of the service.

Dental surgeons are attached to the medical department and will be assigned to duty in accordance with the recommenda. tions of the Surgeon General of the Army or the chief surgeon of a military department.

A dental surgeon when assigned to a station will apply to the post commander for a suitable operating room. If no other room is available the surgeon of the post may assign him a room in the hospital.

Each dental surgeon will ordinarily be allowed one enlisted man as an assistant, who will be detailed from the acting hospital stewards or privates of the Hospital Corps, and whose duty it will be to assist the dentist in his operations, in caring for the instruments and other public property, in keeping the records, and in the performance of such other official work pertaining to this position as he may be directed by the proper authority to do. When a member of the Hospital Corps is detailed as dentist's assistant he will receive commutation of rations at the rate of $1 daily, and will be provided with a suitable room as quarters by the Quartermaster's Department, except while on duty at a post, when he will be attached to the Hospital Corps or other organization for rations and quarters.

Necessary dental instruments and supplies will be purchased by medical supply officers under instructions from the Surgeon General and in accordance with a supply table to be approved by the Secretary of War.

Dental surgeons will be held strictly responsible for all instruments and supplies issued to them and will be governed by Army Regulations and orders now in force, or hereafter to be issued, with reference to accountability for Government property.

In accordance with the act of Congress authorizing their employment, dental surgeons will "serve the officers and enlisted men of the Regular and Volunteer Army." The families of officers and civilian employees attached to the Army are not entitled to their services. In this connection acting assistant surgeons are to be regarded as commissioned officers.

Dental surgeons will operate between the hours of 9 a. m. and 4 p. m. only upon those officers and enlisted men who are

entitled to their services. They may operate upon others not entitled to free service before and after these hours when their services are not required by those entitled to them, but material issued to them by the Government will only be used in operations upon officers and enlisted men of the Army.

Dental surgeons will not perform any operation upon officers or enlisted men of the Army or prescribe medicines for them other than those necessary for the treatment of the teeth and gums. This prohibition does not apply to cases of emergency where no medical officer is within reach, and where a dental surgeon is able to render the necessary surgical assistance to meet the immediate emergency.

Emergency work whether for officers or enlisted men should always have precedence. Plate work or restoration of teeth by any method will only be done for those who have lost teeth in the service and in the line of duty. For plate work or filling teeth only the cheaper materials will be supplied, but gold may be used, if the operating dentist sees fit to use it, at the expense of the individual operated upon.

Enlisted men requiring the services of the dental surgeon will, at an hour prescribed by the commanding officer, be conducted to the designated place under a noncommissioned officer, who will take with him and hand to the dentist a list of those reporting for treatment. This list will be entered in a daybook ruled in column for surname, given name, rank, company, regiment, etc.; all headings to be the same as those borne on his monthly report.

All cases requiring treatment involving future appointment will be so noted, and the others will be marked according to the circumstances, as "treatment unnecessary," "further treatment unnecessary,' "should be sent to the surgeon," etc. When future treatment is necessary the dentist will forward a card as follows:

The Adjutant,

SIR: I have the honor to ask that

be directed to report to me from M. to... instant for treatment.

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Very respectfully,

Dental Surgeon.

Dental surgeons will submit a monthly report in duplicate (on prescribed blanks) of all official work done by them, giving all required data in every case in which professional services have been rendered. This report will be an exact copy of the register kept for the period. One copy will be sent on the last day of the month to the Surgeon General and one to the chief surgeon of the department in which the dental surgeon is serving.

II. By direction of the Secretary of War, paragraph 511 of the Regulations is amended to read as follows:

511. Vouchers covering bills for printing for department headquarters will prior to payment be submitted to the Secretary of War, except for printing done in the Philippine Islands or in foreign countries near thereto, where they will be subject to the approval of the commanding general of the division, or of the department in case there be no division. They will be made out on prescribed forms, the printing to be so described as to enable computations to be readily reviewed according to the customary methods in use among book and job printers. A sample of the printing will accompany each bill and on vouchers for work classed as “special” in the circular of instructions the number of copies and rate per hundred will be stated, and on vouchers for other jobs the date of printing, number of copies, name and amount of type (number of thousand ems), number of tokens of press work, and rates per thousand ems and per token will be stated. The voucher will show grade and quantity of paper furnished by the printer and price charged. The vouchers thus prepared with the certificate of the officer ordering the work as to its necessity and propriety will be forwarded direct to the chief clerk of the War Department, with a letter of transmittal describing the inclosures, except for printing done in the Philippine Islands or in foreign countries near thereto, in which case the vouchers will be transmitted to the division commander.

BY COMMAND OF LIEUTENANT GENERAL MILES:

H. C. CORBIN,

Adjutant General,

Major General, U. S. Army.

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