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companies, all according to patterns in the office of the Quartermaster General; to be worn in the field, at target practice, and in garrison only at drills, on fatigue and stable duty, and in inclement weather, at the discretion of the commanding officer.

The wearing of campaign hats in any other than their origi. nal shape, as indicated below, is prohibited.

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During the warm season department commanders may authorize an inexpensive straw hat, of such pattern as they may prescribe, to be worn by officers and enlisted men of their commands on fatigue and stable duty, at target practice, and when not on duty.

BY COMMAND OF LIEUTENANT GENERAL MILES:

THOMAS WARD, Acting Adjutant General.

No. 99.

ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE,

Washington, July 26, 1901.

By direction of the Secretary of War, paragraph 54, page 45, Manual for the Medical Department, is amended by adding thereto the following:

(a) The washing of linen for the Medical Department which can not be done by the matrons or employees at the post or station may be let to private laundries, laundrymen, or laundresses. In urgent cases this may be done without further authority, the vouchers in payment for the work to be accompanied by proper explanations. As a rule authority will be applied for beforehand and may be granted by chief surgeons of departments where the amount involved is small or in any case where immediate action is required. Applications from independent posts or where the amount involved is large (there being no immediate urgency), except in the Division of the Philippines, will be forwarded to the Surgeon General; in the Division of the Philippines they will be acted upon by the chief surgeon of the division.

(b) Individual laundrymen and laundresses may be employed under the preceding paragraph without advertising for proposals, provided they do the work in person, the same being regarded as "personal services" within the meaning of section 3709, R. S., and paragraph 596, A. R., 1901.

(c) Laundry work by steam laundries, or corporations, firms, or individuals who do a general laundry business, the actual work being done by the employees of such laundries, is not, however, considered personal service and can, under paragraph 645, A. R., 1901, be engaged in open market only as follows: First. When there is a public exigency which requires the immediate performance of the work. The vouchers will bear the notation, "Under emergency, in open market, and at the lowest market rate, time not allowing notice to invite proposals." An emergency can not rightfully be held to continue for a longer period than may be necessary to enter into a contract for the continuing service required. The emergency having been met steps should be taken to obtain proposals and let contracts for future service in compliance with the general rule below (par. 54, d).

Second. When it is impracticable to secure competition, as for example when there is but one laundry within accessible distance of the post or station. The vouchers should note, "In open market at the lowest market rate, it being impracticable

to secure competition," with a brief statement of the facts upon which the notation is based.

Third. When proposals have been invited and none have been received, or the proposals are above the market rate, or are otherwise unreasonable. The vouchers will note, "In open market at the lowest market rate,” with a brief statement of the facts showing that bids have been invited and none received, or that the bids were too high, etc., as the case may be.

(d) Except as above, laundry work which is to be let to steam laundries must be advertised in compliance with law, and formal contracts therefor be entered into. Blanks for the purpose will be furnished on application. The regulations respecting the time and mode of advertising, the opening and abstracting of bids, and the forwarding of papers, will be observed as in the purchase of supplies. Bids will ordinarily be invited by the dozen, the hundred, or the pound, as may be preferred, without regard to the different classes of goods to be laundered. If bidders will not submit bids in this form separate bids may be invited and separate awards made on each kind of article.

(e) Contracts entered into on awards made in these cases will as a rule be made for a fixed period of time, as e. g., for the six months ending December 31, or the six months ending June 30, of any fiscal year. If deemed advisable, contracts for a less or a greater period may be entered into, but in no case should a single contract cover service to be rendered in two fiscal years. Contracts at posts within a military department will be made subject to the approval of the chief surgeon thereof; contracts at independent posts and stations in the Division of the Philippines subject to the approval of the chief surgeon of the division, and contracts at other independent posts and stations subject to the approval of the Surgeon General. No laundry work should be let under the contract until the approval indicated has been given. The contract will be made in quintuplicate and disposed of as in the case of contracts for supplies. Vouchers will bear the notation, "Under contract dated

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(f) Bonds for the faithful performance of contracts for laundry work will not be required except when specially directed by the Surgeon General, or in the Divison of the Philippines by the chief surgeon of the division.

BY COMMAND OF LIEUTENANT GENERAL MILES:

THOMAS WARD, Acting Adjutant General.

GENERAL ORDERS,

No. 100.

HEADQUARTERS OF THE ARMY,

ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE,

Washington, August 1, 1901.

By direction of the Secretary of War, paragraph 138 of the Regulations for the Army Transport Service, approved May 5, 1900, is amended to read as follows:

138. Whenever a vessel of the Army transport service is undergoing repairs at a home port and it becomes necessary to close the steward's department thereon, no board wages will be furnished the members of the crew by the Subsistence Department. In all such cases the Quartermaster's Department is authorized to retain in service, pending repairs, only such members of the crew as the public interests and responsibilities of that department may require and to temporarily increase the monthly compensation of those retained in such service to cover their expenses for subsistence, which increase in pay for this purpose must not exceed one dollar per day for those entitled to meals in “saloon mess," seventy-five cents to those entitled to meals in "ship's officers' mess," and fifty cents per day for all others.

When the transport is again put in commission and the steward's department resumes operation the increase in pay provided for in this paragraph for the members of the crew retained by the Quartermaster's Department, pending repairs, will be discontinued and the Subsistence Department will thereafter provide the subsistence.

BY COMMAND OF LIEUTENANT GENERAL MILES:

THOMAS WARD, Acting Adjutant General.

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