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BLANK CHARGES.*

3. For instruction, salutes, and for morning and evening

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* In order to avoid accidents smokeless powder will not be used in blank charges, except when specially authorized as being safe for this purpose. 4. Each battery equipped with 3.2-inch B. L. rifles will be allowed annually for instruction other than target practice 80 blank cartridges and 200 friction primers per gun; also the charges and primers necessary for firing authorized salutes, but these will be made a separate item of expenditure. Batteries at the Light Artillery School will be allowed 60 blank cartridges per gun per year for 3.2 inch guns in addition to the above. Each battery equipped with 5-inch B. L. siege rifles or 7 inch B. L. siege howitzers will be allowed for instruction other than target practice 25 rounds per gun per year blank ammunition. Batteries at the Light Artillery School will be allowed 10 blank cartridges per gun per year for 5 inch siege rifle and 7-inch howitzer in addition to the above

5. Under the direction of department commanders there is allowed for annual target practice with each machine gun of small arm caliber, including 6 mm. automatic guns, 1,000 rounds.

6. Batteries not stationed at the Cavalry and Light Artillery School, practicing with 5-inch B. L. siege rifles or 7-inch B. L. howitzers, may when it can be done with safety use as part of the allowance of 20 rounds per gun 3 rounds of shrapnel.

By COMMAND OF LIEUTENANT GENERAL MILES:

H. C. CORBIN,
Adjutant General.

No. 25.

ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE,
Washington, February 28, 1901.

The following orders of the Secretary of War are published for the information and guidance of all concerned:

I--Under the provisions of section 9 of the act approved February 2, 1901, which requires that not less than twenty per cent of the increase authorized by the act for the artillery arm shall be made before July 1, 1901, twelve companies of coast artillery, in addition to those now in service, will be organized with the commissioned officers and at the stations hereinafter designated:

Fort Hamilton, New York, two companies:

The 83d

Captain, Warren P. Newcomb, now at Fort Hamilton,
New York.

First lieutenant,

Second lieutenant, Gordon Robinson, now at New

York City.

The 84th

Captain, Oscar I. Straub, now at Fort Hamilton, New
York.

First lieutenant,

Second lieutenant, Richard Furnival, now at Jersey
City, New Jersey.

Fort Wadsworth, New York, two companies:

The 85th

Captain, George W. Gatchell, now at Fort Wadsworth,
New York.

First lieutenant, Malcolm Young, now at Key West
Barracks, Florida.

Second lieutenant, John A. Berry, now at Hackensack,
New Jersey.

The 86th

Captain, Alfred M. Hunter, now at Fort Mott, New
Jersey.

First lieutenant,

Second lieutenant, Henry M. Dougherty, now at Engle

wood, New Jersey.

Fort Slocum, New York, one company, the 87th

Captain, Edward F. McGlachlin, jr., now at Fort Sheridan,
Illinois.

First lieutenant, Laurence C. Brown, now at Fort Monroe,
Virginia.

Second lieutenant, William Tidball, now at Montclair,
New Jersey.

Fort Trumbull, Connecticut, one company, the 88th

Captain, Peyton C. March.

First Lieutenant, Albert G. Jenkins, now at Fort Trumbull,
Connecticut.

Second lieutenant, Arthur H. Bryant, now at East Hart-
ford, Connecticut.

Fort Banks, Massachusetts, one company, the 89th

Captain, Sidney S. Jordan, now at Washington Barracks,
District of Columbia.

First lieutenant,

Second lieutenant, William S. Browning, now at Brooklyn,
New York.

Fort McHenry, Maryland, one company, the 90th

Captain, Wilmot E Ellis, now at Fort Howard, Maryland.
First lieutenant, Marcellus G. Spinks, now at Fort Monroe,
Virginia.

Second lieutenant, Dennis H. Currie, now at Washington,
District of Columbia.

Jackson Barracks, Louisiana, one company, the 91st

Captain, John T. Martin, now at Jackson Barracks, Loui-
siana.

First lieutenant, Robert E. Wyllie, now at Fort Morgan,
Alabama.

Second lieutenant, Wildurr Willing, now at Hazelhurst.
Mississippi.

The Presidio, San Francisco, California, one company, the 92d-
Captain, Edward Davis, now at the Presidio, California.
First lieutenant,

Second lieutenant, Guy E. Carleton, now at Neosho, Missouri.

Fort Stevens, Oregon, one company, the 93d—

Captain, John P. Hains, now at the Presidio, California.
First lieutenant,

Second lieutenant, Alden F. Brewster, now at Delafield,
Wisconsin.

Fort Flagler, Washington, one company, the 94th

Captain, Eugene T. Wilson, aid-de camp to General Shafter.
First lieutenant,

Second lieutenant, Raymond S. Pratt, now at Stillwater,
Minnesota.

The additional companies will be organized as prescribed by the act of Congress approved March 2, 1899, and established by General Orders, No. 37, March 9, 1899, from this office, and will be filled by transfers and by recruitment to 109 enlisted men (81 privates) per company. One half, as nearly as practicable, of the enlisted men of the present companies of coast artillery hereinafter designated will be transferred to the new companies by the respective post commanders, to take effect not later than April 15, 1901, and in carrying this order into effect each alternate sergeant, corporal, and private, as their names now appear on the muster rolls of the respective companies, will be selected for such transfer, together with one cook, one musician, and one mechanic.

Transfers to be made under the foregoing order:

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The officers assigned to the companies to be organized will be at once relieved from their present duties and will join their new stations and enter upon the duties devolving upon them without delay. The travel enjoined is necessary for the

public service.

II..The officer commanding an artillery district has authority to appoint and reduce the noncommissioned staff officers

and on the recommendation of their respective commanders the noncommissioned officers of bands, batteries, and companies. Where artillery organizations are detached or not serving in an artillery district, the foregoing authority is vested in the commanding artillery officer.

The original records and books of the batteries and companies now in service will be continued, the change of designation being noted thereon. New record books will be supplied to additional batteries and companies when organized.

III..An additional artillery band will be organized, composed as heretofore authorized by law for artillery regiments, by the commanding officer, Fort Columbus, New York Harbor, to be designated the 8th Band, Artillery Corps, and will be stationed for the present at that post.

BY COMMAND OF LIEUTENANT GENERAL MILES:

H. C. CORBIN,

Adjutant General.

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