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ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE,

Washington, October 11, 1901.

No. 133. By direction of the Secretary of War, the provisions of all general orders and circulars heretofore issued from this office relating to the subsistence of recruits and recruiting parties which are not embodied in the Army Regulations of 1901, or in General Orders, No. 130, October 3, 1901, are hereby revoked, and the following instructions, supplemental to the provisions of the Regulations on the subject, are published for the guidance of all concerned:

1. Upon the arrival of a recruiting officer at a city or town where he is to establish a recruiting station, he will at once make inquiries at the available places in the neighborhood of the station as to the prices at which meals for his party can be obtained and will procure them, of proper quality, by open purchase at the most reasonable rates until he can advertise for proposals by means of Form No. 28, Subsistence Department.

2. This advertisement (Form No. 28) will be distributed to probable bidders and be posted in public places for ten days before the opening of bids. A copy, with a list of persons to whom distributed entered on the first fold, will be at once mailed to the Commissary General. If the notice was for a period of less than ten days the reason why a longer period was not allowed will be stated on that fold.

3. When the recruiting officer has made award he will sign the acceptance and furnish the successful bidder with a copy of the same.

4. The commanding officer of a garrisoned post at which an officer has been designated as a recruiting officer will assign all recruits to companies for rations, and all proper subsistence expenses incurred in connection with their enlistment or the forwarding of them to destination will be paid by the post commissary on the order of the commanding officer.

5. If the money value of the articles sold to a recruit under paragraph 1431 of the Regulations be not collected before he leaves the recruiting station, post, or rendezvous, it will be noted on his descriptive and assignment card in order that it may be withheld by the paymaster at the first payment after the recruit joins his company.

6. Recruiting officers not stationed at garrisoned posts will obtain subsistence funds for advancing commutation of rations, paying coffee money to recruits, and paying vouchers for meals furnished, etc., by written requests upon the chief

commissaries of departments in which they are respectively recruiting.

7. In drawing checks against subsistence funds placed to their credit in subtreasuries or depositories recruiting officers will add after their names their rank and the designation "Commissary," simply, thus: "Henry Bell, Lieut., Commis

sary."

8. Each voucher paid by recruiting officers from subsistence funds held in their personal possession under paragraph 665 of the Regulations will have noted thereon their check (by number and date and the name of the depository on which drawn) from the proceeds of which the money in personal possession arose. The number and amount of each of the vouchers so paid will be noted on the stub of the check or on a schedule attached thereto.

9. Recruiting officers will pay in person to each recruit the commutation of rations or coffee money to which he may be entitled, or will cause it to be conveyed to him only by the hand of a commissioned officer.

10. Referring to the provisions of paragraphs 1411 and 1412 of the Regulations attention is called to that provision of the contract for meals (Form No. 28, Subsistence Department) which stipulates that lunches shall be furnished when required. These lunches (cooked rations) are intended for the use of recruits traveling.

11. A recruiting officer not stationed at a garrisoned post will if he is furnished with funds make payment of all subsistence accounts. If not so furnished, he will send the vouchers, prepared on Form No. 8 when for subsistence stores, and on Form No. 11 when for meals-the certificates thereon being properly modified-to the chief commissary of the department in which his station is located, or to such other officer as may be directed to make the payments.

12. The following paragraphs of the Army Regulations of 1901 are the principal ones relating to the duties of recruiting officers in the matter of the subsistence of recruits: 665, 1388, 1411, 1412, 1413, 1414, 1415, and 1431; also 1404 and 14134 published in General Orders, No. 130, October 3, 1901, from this office. Paragraph IV of General Orders, No. 130, October 3, 1901, from this office, also relates to the subject.

BY COMMAND OF LIEUTENANT GENERAL MILES:

H. C. CORBIN,

Adjutant General,

Major General, U. S. Army.

GENERAL ORDERS,

No. 134.

HEADQUARTERS OF THE ARMY,
ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE,

Washington, October 12, 1901.

I. By direction of the Acting Secretary of War, so much of General Orders, No. 94, July 6, 1901, from this office, as directs the transfer of one squadron, 13th U. S. Cavalry, from the Department of Dakota to the Department of the Missouri is modified to direct that only Troops B and D, 13th U. S. Cavalry, proceed to that department for station at Fort Robinson, Nebraska, and so much of paragraph II, General Orders, No. 91, July 1, 1901, from this office, as directs the transfer of Troops A and C of this regiment from the Department of Dakota to the Department of the Missouri is revoked.

II. By direction of the Acting Secretary of War, the following-named enlisted men of a battery of field artillery will be armed with sabers:

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