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of the squads to which the bags belong, both markings to be in center of front cover flap, as shown in the following illustration:

The kit bag for the sergeants and that for the cooks and musicians (or trumpeters) will be marked "Sergeants," "Cooks and Musicians" (or trumpeters), respectively.

The kit of each man will be packed as follows:

Socks, to be rolled tightly, one pair in the toe of each shoe; shoes placed together, heels at opposite ends, soles outward, wrapped tightly in underwear and bundle securely tied around the middle by the extra pair of shoe laces, each bundle to be tagged with the company number of the owner. These individual kits will be packed in the surplus kit bag in two layers of four kits each, the jointed cleaning rod and case, provided for each squad, being attached by the thongs on the inside of the bag.

In garrison these surplus kit bags, packed as described above, will be stored habitually in the store room of the organization, access to their contents for purposes of substitution being permitted under proper supervision at stated intervals.

In the field the squad leader will be held responsible for the condition of the squad surplus kit bag and will supervise packing and unpacking. When not on the wagon the bag will be kept habitually at the squad leader's tent.

GENERAL ORDERS,

No. 119.

WAR DEPARTMENT,

WASHINGTON, August 31, 1911.

I. Paragraphs 105 and 1039, Army Regulations, are amended to read as follows:

105. All matters relating to the pay, clothing allowance, subsistence, discharge, reenlistment, death and desertion of enlisted men detailed for duty with the organized militia under section 20 of the act of Congress approved January 21, 1903, as amended by the act of Congress approved May 27, 1908, will be administered and determined at the headquarters of the division in which such enlisted men may be serving. The descriptive lists of these men will be kept at division headquarters.

Each enlisted man on detached service with the organized militia of any State, Territory, or the District of Columbia, will render a personal report to The Adjutant General of the Army on the last day of each bimonthly muster period and will forward it through division headquarters. In addition to this bimonthly personal report made to The Adjutant General of the Army he will report quarterly, on September 30, December 31, March 31, and June 30, directly to the Chief of the Division of Militia Affairs, War Department, Washington, D. C., the details of all drills and instruction given by him during the last quarter to the organized militia of the State in which he is serving, and as to other work, if any, performed by him during that period by direction or at the request of the State authorities.

All official communications for the War Department from enlisted men on duty with the organized militia, other than the quarterly report of work done, prescribed above, will be addressed to The Adjutant General of the Army and will be forwarded through division headquarters.

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1039. China and glassware belonging to mess outfits and bunks, mattresses, pillows, benches, chairs, tables, and other articles of furniture provided for soldiers' barracks will not be removed therefrom without the order of the post commander, nor will they be removed from a post or station except by order of the War Department.

Box lockers, mattress covers, pillowcases, bed sheets, blankets, and barrack bags will be transported in all changes of station, but will not be taken into the field, except blankets. Previously to the execution of an order for change of station of an organization the commanding officer of the post or station will appoint a surveying officer, if possible an officer belonging to an organization other than that changing station, who will survey all china and glassware of the outgoing organization. He will render a report as to the serviceability or

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unserviceability of the articles surveyed, and that report, when approved by the commanding officer, will be final. All china and glassware found to be serviceable will be turned in to the quartermaster for reissue. All china and glassware found to be unserviceable after the authorized allowance of 5 per centum a quarter on account of breakage shall have been deducted will be destroyed and the money value thereof charged against the officer who is responsible for the property. [1809296, A. G. 0.]

II. Paragraph 1273, Army Regulations, as amended by paragraph I, General Orders, No. 60, War Department, May 8, 1911, is further amended to read as follows:

1273. The price at which subsistence stores may be transferred, or sold to officers and enlisted men, is the invoice or purchase price of the last lot of the same variety of subsistence stores received by the officer making the sale or transfer, prior to the first day of the month in which the sale or transfer is made; but (1) the prices at a post or depot or at the office of a purchasing commissary will not be affected by transfers thereto from military posts, except where the articles are purchased at one post for shipment to another, the former having been regularly designated as the point of supply for the particular articles for the latter, in which case the rule laid down in the first five lines of this paragraph will obtain; (2) if two or more lots of the same variety of article are received on one invoice, or on the same date at different prices, the unit price to govern will be determined by dividing the total value of such lots by the total quantity of the same; (3) the equalization of prices among several varieties of the same article is not authorized, as in the case of several kinds of smoking tobacco, cigars, crackers, etc.; (4) if a commissary who has received an invoice of stores during the current month is relieved before the end of that month, he will invoice to his successor the stores so received at their actual invoice price, although the current selling price of such stores will continue until the beginning of the next month. On the first day of each month a price list will be prepared at each station where sales are made, one copy to be furnished to the commanding officer and one copy to be posted in the salesroom.

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BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF WAR:

LEONARD WOOD, Major General, Chief of Staff.

OFFICIAL:

BENJ. ALVORD,

Adjutant General.