portation for enlisted men so traveling over such roads may direct the Subsistence Department to issue meal tickets for use en route. A noncommissioned officer or private traveling in charge of a detachment will be furnished the meal tickets (Form No. 76, Subsistence Department) for the detachment, and will duly execute the receipt upon a ticket for the number of meals furnished at any authorized point and leave the receipted ticket with the representative of the eating house there present. A soldier traveling alone will receipt the ticket and leave it in the same way. These receipted tickets will be returned by the railroads or public eating houses accompanied by bills to the commissary who issued them, who will prepare vouchers and pay the same. Recruiting officers not at permanent stations may request those to whom meal tickets are addressed to forward them for payment to the chief commissary of the department-giving name and address-in which they are recruiting. At the end of a journey all unused meal tickets will be turned over by soldiers to the commanding officer of the post, who will promptly return such tickets to the issuing officer. The chief commissary of a department will ascertain what, if any, arrangements can be made with the various railroads and public eating houses established along lines of travel over which enlisted men are usually routed in and from his department, and if satisfactory arrangements are made he will cause the necessary information to be communicated to the various commissaries and recruiting officers who may be doing duty in the department and will also cause them to be notified from time to time as changes occur. IV. By direction of the Acting Secretary of War, the following instructions are published for the guidance of all concerned: Commanding and other officers ordering transportation to the Pacific Coast via Chicago for noncommissioned officers, privates, and recruits, under paragraph 14134, as published in this order, will provide subsistence for the men by meal tickets or otherwise to Chicago only, and will call upon the chief commissary, Department of the Lakes, in their orders directing the travel, for five days' meal requests for the portion of the journey from Chicago to the points on the Pacific Coast to which the men are ordered. Where through transportation to the Pacific Coast is furnished at the initial point of the journey, a copy of the order for the journey will be mailed by the commanding or other officer at least twenty-four hours in advance of the departure of the men to the chief commissary, Department of the Lakes, Chicago, Illinois, who will send the necessary meal requests to meet the men on arrival at the railroad station in Chicago, thus avoiding delay of the men in that city. A copy of the order will also be furnished the party in charge of the detachment, which will be surrendered by him to the person in Chicg from whom he receives meal requests. Noncommissioned oflicers, privates, and recruits not furnished with through transportation at initial points of journeys will be instructed to report at the headquarters, Department of the Lakes, if they arrive in Chicago before 3 30 p. m, and at the recruiting station, No. 82 West Madison street, if they ar rive after that hour Those reporting at the latter place will be furnished by the recruiting officer with supper and lodging for the night and breakfast the next morning, and will then be sent to department headquarters for the necessary orders for transportation and meal requests to the end of their journey. BY COMMAND OF LIEUTENANT GENERAL MILES: H. C. CORBIN, Adjutant General, Major General. U. S. Army. No. 131. ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE, Washington, October 7, 1901. The following orders of the Secretary of War are published for the information of all concerned: 1. Ten companies of coast artillery required to complete the organization of the Artillery Corps, as provided in section 9 of the act of Congress approved February 2, 1901, will be organized as directed in General Orders, No. 66, May 13, 1901, from this office, at the stations named and by the transfers from existing organizations as follows: The organization of the new companies will be commenced without delay by the transfer of enlisted men herein directed; the recruitment to the authorized strength of all the companies named will proceed as rapidly as recruits become available. Post commanders will detail available officers to organize the new companies until the arrival of the officers assigned to them. Company funds, including stock in post exchanges, will be divided as directed in Circular, No. 13, April 15, 1901, from this office. 2. The 54th Company, Coast Artillery, now at Fort Hamilton, New York, will proceed to Fort Totten, New York, for station when the latter post shall have been vacated by the engineer troops. The 126th Company, Coast Artillery, will take station at Fort Worden, Washington, when the barracks and quarters at that post are in readiness. The Quartermaster's Department will furnish the transportation. 3. The permanent stations of the 12th, 52d, 122d, and 125th Coast Companies will be announced in future orders from this office. BY COMMAND OF LIEUTENANT GENERAL MILES: H. C. CORBIN, Adjutant General, Major General, U. S. Army. No. 132. ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE, Washington, October 7, 1901. I. By direction of the Secretary of War, the following instructions relative to the rendition to the Ordnance Department of Form 41-0 from seacoast fortifications are published for the information and guidance of all concerned: Ordnance officers of seacoast fortifications will hereafter forward Form 41-0, "Statement of Principal Ordnance and Ordnance Stores on Hand," to the ordnance officers at the headquarters of the departments, by whom they will be transmitted to the Chief of Ordnance. II. By direction of the Secretary of War, paragraph II, General Orders, No. 125, September 21, 1901, from this office, is amended so as to include among the fuzes to be turned in to Frankford Arsenal, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in addition to those specified in that order, all "AA" and "A" fuzes of models 1893, 1894, and 1899; all fuzes turned in to be replaced by the High A" or "Low A" fuzes, model of 1899, as required. 44 III--The following from the War Department has been received and is published for the information and guidance of all concerned: WAR DEPARTMENT, Washington, October 3, 1901. By authority of an act of Congress approved July 5, 1884, entitled "An act to provide for the disposal of abandoned and useless military reservations (23 Stats., 103), the President by an Executive order dated September 20, 1901, placed under the control of the Secretary of the Interior all of the lands included within the limits of the military reservation in the town of Nome, Alaska, declared by Executive order dated December 8, 1900, together with the buildings thereon, viz, barracks, hospital, storehouse, officers' quarters, guardhouse, and coal house, for disposition under that act or as may be otherwise provided by law. WM. CARY SANGER. Acting Secretary of War. BY COMMAND OF LIEUTENANT GENERAL MILES: H. C. CORBIN, Adjutant General, Major General, U. S. Army. |