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No. 67.

ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE,

Washington, May 13, 1901.

By direction of the Secretary of War, the following troops are relieved from duty in the Division of the Philippines and will proceed to San Francisco, California, where upon arrival they will be reported by telegraph to the Adjutant General of the Army for assignment to stations:

Fourth U. S. Cavalry: Headquarters, field, staff, band, and three squadrons.

Coast Artillery: 29th, 30th, 32d, and 33d Companies. Field Artillery: 1st, 8th, 10th, 12th, and 13th Batteries. Fourteenth U. S. Infantry: Headquarters, field, staff, band, and 2d and 3d Battalions.

Eighteenth U. S. Infantry: Headquarters, field, staff, band, and 2d and 3d Battalions.

Twenty-third U. S. Infantry: Headquarters, field, staff, band, and 1st and 2d Battalions.

Enlisted men of the organizations named serving in their first enlistments and having one year or more to serve will be transferred by the commanding general, Division of the Philippines, to other commands serving in that division and enlisted men of other organizations than those herein named serving in the Division of the Philippines having three months or less to serve and having signified their intention not to reenlist will be transferred to the returning organizations. The horses and horse equipments of the cavalry and the horses, field guns, and equipment of the batteries above named will be retained in the Division of the Philippines.

The Quartermaster's Department will furnish the necessary transportation, the Subsistence Department suitable subsistence, and the Medical Department proper medical attendance and supplies.

BY COMMAND OF LIEUTENANT GENERAL MILES:

H. C. CORBIN,

Adjutant General,

Major General, U. S. Army.

No. 68.

ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE,

Washington, May 14, 1901.

I--By direction of the Secretary of War, the following paragraph is added to the Regulations and Decisions pertaining to the Uniform of the Army of the United States, Fourth Edition, 1900:

UNIFORM OF OFFICERS OF THE LINE DETAILED FOR DUTY IN STAFF DEPARTMENTS AND OF ACTING JUDGE ADVOCATES.

2. Officers of the line of the Army detailed to fill vacancies in the Adjutant General's Department, the Inspector Gen. eral's Department, the Quartermaster's Department, the Subsistence Department, the Pay Department, the Ordnance Department, and the Signal Corps, and officers of the line of the Army detailed as acting judge advocates, under the provisions of the act of Congress approved February 2, 1901, will wear the mounted uniform of their respective arms of service, omitting the numbers on the full-dress helmet and shoulder knots and the line insignia on the coat collar and substituting therefor the insignia of the staff departments in which serving; the staff insignia for the full-dress helmet to be of metal corresponding in color to the staff insignia prescribed for the shoulder knot. Officers detailed in the Adjutant General's and Inspector General's Departments will wear the aiguillette; those detailed in the Signal Corps will wear the shoulder belt.

Staff department insignia will also be substituted for the regimental number or other line insignia on the saddlecloth. II. The following order from the War Department is published to the Army for the information and guidance of all concerned:

WAR DEPARTMENT, Washington, May 13, 1901. By direction of the President, the island of Samar, Philippine Archipelago, transferred to the Department of Southern Luzon from the Department of the Visayas by War Department order of July 11, 1900, is restored to the Department of the Visayas.

ELIHU ROOT,
Secretary of War.

III. Owing to a misapprehension of the technical meaning of the words "disinfection" and "sanitation," and to the fact

that quicklime is more frequently used to prevent infection than to destroy it, the Secretary of War directs that in future quicklime shall as a rule be furnished by the Quartermaster's Department for all purposes and only in exceptionally urgent circumstances by the Medical Department, when it will be used solely for disinfection under the immediate supervision of medical officers.

BY COMMAND OF LIEUTENANT GENERAL MILES:

H. C. CORBIN,

Adjutant General,

Major General, U. S. Army.

GENERAL ORDERS,

No. 69.

HEADQUARTERS OF THE ARMY,

ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE.

Washington, May 15, 1901.

1. To enable him to comply with paragraph 4, Special Orders, No. 104, May 4, 1901, from this office, detailing him under the provisions of section 26 of the act of Congress approved February 2, 1901, for service and to fill a vacancy in the Inspector General's Department, Major Hobart K. Bailey, 5th U. S. Infantry, is hereby relieved from duty as aid de camp on the staff of the Lieutenant General, to take effect May 31, 1901.

2. With the approval of the Secretary of War, Captain Samuel Reber, Signal Corps, U. S. Army, is hereby announced as aid-de camp on the staff of the Lieutenant General, to date June 1, 1901, and he will be relieved from his present duties at such time as will enable him to report at the Headquarters of the Army on the date specified.

BY COMMAND OF LIEUTENANT GENERAL MILES:

H. C. CORBIN,

Adjutant General,

Major General, U. S. Army.

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