GENERAL ORDERS, Į

No. 43.

WAR DEPARTMENT, WASHINGTON, March 27, 1911.

I..By direction of the President, Brigadier General George S. Anderson, United States Army, upon arrival at Manila, Philippine Islands, in accordance with orders heretofore issued, will report in person to the commanding general, Philippines Division, for assignment to the command of the Department of the Visayas.

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II. Paragraph I, Circular No. 38, War Department, June 14, 1910, is amended to read as follows:

1. Hereafter U. S. magazine rifles, caliber .30, model 1903, may be used in swimming or wall-scaling exercises, but company commanders will be held responsible therefor.

2. The rifles will be carefully prepared for swimming exercises by the use of plenty of oil, cosmoline, or other suitable substance, and after each swimming exercise will be carefully cleaned and dried.

3. In the wall-scaling exercise the rifle will not be thrown from the wall, but will be taken from the top of the wall to the ground on the person of the soldier to whom it belongs in such a manner as to be ready for immediate use on reaching the ground.

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BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF WAR:

LEONARD WOOD,

Major General, Chief of Staff.

OFFICIAL:

HENRY P. MCCAIN,
Adjutant General.

1. Paragraphs 133, 145, 146, 147, 171, 187, 188, 190, 201, 207, 304, 313, 322, 323, 325, and 326, Manual for the Subsistence Department, are amended to read as follows:

EXCEPTIONAL ARTICLES.

133. Upon the written guaranty of the officer or enlisted man requesting them that they will be accepted and paid for on arrival at the post regardless of their condition, any of the following articles may be called for by chief commissaries, purchased without advertisement, and invoiced to the commissaries at posts, for delivery to those requesting them, when the money value of the articles requested is greater than the cost of transporting them to their destination, viz:

1. Articles included in the authorized lists which differ in quality or size, or in size of package, from those that have been furnished the post for sales.

2. Articles of food, properly classifiable as groceries, which are not mentioned in the authorized lists.

3. Articles of cleaning materials, of stationery, ice, and other articles which are of the same general character as those mentioned in the authorized lists.

Exceptional articles will only be furnished from the point which regularly supplies the sales articles for the post at which the exceptional articles are desired.

ARTICLE V.

RATIONS.

NOTE. For definitions of the various rations established and the articles and amounts thereof which comprise these rations, see the Army Regulations in the Appendix and paragraph 322 of this Manual.

145. A ration is the allowance for the subsistence of one person for one day. The garrison ration is intended for troops, whenever practicable, in time of peace, also in time of war, except for those beyond the advance depots; the haversack ration is intended for troops beyond the advance depots; the travel ration is for troops traveling otherwise than by

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marching, and separated from cooking facilities; the Filipino ration for use of the Philippine Scouts, and the emergency ration for troops in active campaign for use on occasions of emergency. In time of war when Philippine Scouts are serving beyond the advance depots they will be subsisted the same as are regular troops. When impracticable for Philippine Scouts to use the Filipino ration while traveling otherwise than by marching, on account of the lack of cooking facilities or for other reasons, the travel ration may be prescribed.

The commanding officer will determine which of the several prescribed rations is appropriate for the particular service to be performed and will direct the use of the same.

When in the exigencies of the service troops are subsisted on the haversack ration, and it is found to be practicable to supplement these stores by local purchases or by shipments, the commanding general may direct in written orders the issue in kind, in addition to the haversack ration, of such available articles of food not in excess of the amounts allowed of corresponding articles in the garrison ration.

FRESH BREAD.

146. Fresh bread is supplied to troops in garrison from post bakeries operated in accordance with Army Regulations. In the field, when troops are not beyond the advance depots, bakeries will be established whenever practicable and operated as are bakeries at posts.

147. When in active campaign troops are beyond the advance depots, bakeries will be established when practicable. The commissary will furnish the necessary flour, yeast, and other stores required in baking bread.

171. The payment of commutation in lieu of rations to enlisted patients in hospital and members of the Nurse Corps on duty therein, as provided by Army Regulations, is not mandatory, the Secretary of War having discretion to direct the use of rations in cases where he deems it advisable.

187. When rations obtained from the commissary are found by a surveying officer to have been lost, or destroyed, through unavoidable circumstances, so that those for whom they were procured were insufficiently subsisted and money is expended from the company fund for necessary subsistence, the com

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pany fund may be reimbursed by the Subsistence Department for the amount so expended upon a full statement of the circumstances of the case and the approval of the Secretary of War.

188. After rations leave the commissary they are in the keeping of the troops, and any loss sustained by subsequent deterioration or avoidable circumstances is theirs.

190. Corned beef, roast beef, and corned-beef hash will ordinarily be purchased in 2-pound net-weight cans. When emergencies require the purchase of trade packages (No. 2 cans) of these articles, such cans will be estimated as 24 ounces. Trade packages of other ration articles being of varying weights, their contents will be estimated as follows:

In computing the cost of the ration for November and December, the allowance of undrawn turkey will be 19 ounces.

PRICES, CIVILIAN EMPLOYEES AND SEPARATE MESSING. 201. When a component or substitutive article of the ration is on hand in different kinds of packages, the price of the article varying with the package, the lowest price of the article on hand per gill, gallon, ounce, or pound, as the case may be, will be used in computing the cost of the ration, except when the use of a particular article is ordered by the commanding