GENERAL ORDERS,

No. 88.

WAR DEPARTMENT,

WASHINGTON, June 29, 1911.

I..Paragraph 127, Army Regulations, is amended to read as

follows:

127. Rewards or expenses paid for apprehending a deserter, and the expenses incurred in transporting him from point of apprehension, delivery, or surrender to the station of his company or detachment, or to the place of his trial, including the cost of transportation of the guard, will be set against his pay upon conviction of desertion by a court-martial, or upon his restoration to duty without trial. A soldier convicted by a court-martial of absence without leave will be charged with the expenses incurred in transporting him to the station of his company or detachment, or to the place of his trial, including the cost of transportation of the guard. The transportation and subsistence of witnesses will not be charged against a deserter.

[1790879, A. G. O.]

II. Paragraph 1234, Army Regulations, is amended to read as follows:

1234. While sick in hospital, the ration of enlisted men, of applicants for enlistment, and of military convicts will be commuted at the rate of 30 cents a ration, except that at the General Hospital at Fort Bayard, New Mexico, commutation at the rate of 50 cents a ration, and at other general hospitals 40 cents a ration, is authorized for enlisted patients therein; the ration of members of the Nurse Corps while on duty in hospital will be commuted at the rate of 40 cents a ration. The commutation herein referred to will be paid to the surgeon in charge by the post commissary or such officer of the Subsistence Department as may be designated.

[1798562, A. G. O.]

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III. Section 9, paragraph 1237, Army Regulations, is amended to read as follows:

For use in the offices of regimental headquarters when adjuncts of post headquarters and in the offices of post and artillery district staff officers, when the necessity for the issue is certified to by the commanding officer

For each person whose employment therein is authorized, not to exceed two towels a year. [1793627, A. G. O.]

BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF WAR:

LEONARD WOOD,

Major General, Chief of Staff.

OFFICIAL:

HENRY P. MCCAIN,

Adjutant Generul.

GENERAL ORDERS,

No. 89.

WAR DEPARTMENT,

WASHINGTON, June 29, 1911.

I..Officers detached from their regiments or corps under the provisions of section 27 of the act of Congress approved February 2, 1901, as extended by the act of Congress approved March 3, 1911 (extra officers and unassigned officers) will continue during the period of their service away from their regiments to wear the insignia of their arms or corps without the regimental numbers. Their saddle cloths will also be used without the regimental numbers.

Exceptions to the foregoing are as follows:

a. Officers of the General Staff Corps, majors of the Philippine Scouts, field officers of the Porto Rico Regiment of Infantry, and other officers serving on classes of detached duty for which insignia are prescribed in existing orders or regulations are not subject to the provisions of the rule above set forth.

b. Acting inspectors general detailed under the provisions of the act of Congress approved June 23, 1874, will wear the insignia of the Inspector General's Department.

2. The Secretary of War has approved certain modifications in design of spurs, also of caps and service uniforms for officers and enlisted men and of dress and full dress uniforms for officers of the Quartermaster's Department. These changes will not be described in orders. The modified design of spurs will be set forth in detail in specifications to be furnished by the Ordnance Department, and the changes in the uniform will be set forth in detail in specifications to be furnished by the Quartermaster General to all quartermasters and to military tailors upon application. The changes for officers will go into effect on July 1, 1912, prior to which date articles of the present pattern may be worn.

3. Such articles of uniform for enlisted men as may become obsolete by these changes will be issued until the supply on hand is exhausted. The Quartermaster's Department, in purchasing articles to balance stock of sizes, will limit such purchases to such quantities only as will provide for the Army until July 1, 1912.

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