GENERAL ORders,

No. 163.

WAR DEPARTMENT,

WASHINGTON, December 8, 1911.

I..Until the present supply of stable frocks and overalls is exhausted they will be issued instead of the fatigue uniform to mounted troops for stable duty.

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II. The following Executive Order is published to the Army for the information and guidance of all concerned:

EXECUTIVE ORDER.

Under authority of the Act of Congress approved July 5, 1884, entitled "An Act To provide for the disposal of abandoned and useless military reservations" (23 Stat. L., 103), that portion of the right of way for military telegraph lines in Alaska, reserved by Executive Order dated May 24, 1905 (General Orders, No. 83, War Department, June 5, 1905), which is located between Hot Springs and Fort Gibbon, Alaska, is hereby placed under the control of the Secretary of the Interior for disposition under said Act of Congress, or as may be otherwise provided by law.

THE WHITE HOUSE,

November 23, 1911.

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WM. H. TAFT.

III. The following Executive Order is published to the Army for the information and guidance of all concerned:

EXECUTIVE ORDER.

Pursuant to Section Twelve of the Act of Congress, approved July 1, 1902, entitled “An Act temporarily to provide for the administration of the affairs of civil government in the Philippine Islands, and for other purposes" (32 Stat. L., 691), the following lands, situated on the southern slope of Mayon Volcano, near Regan Barracks, Albay Province, Luzon, Philippine Islands, are hereby reserved for a target range for the said Regan Barracks, and for other military purposes, subject to private rights, if any there be, viz, all lands included within metes and bounds described as follows:

Beginning at a point marked with a stone monument and indicated as Station 1, Bureau of Lands, Philippine Islands, survey II-4204, approved March 28. 1911, said monument being N. 14° 54′ W., 7208.0 meters, from Daraga church tower; thence N. 10° 52′ W., 313.1 meters, to point 2; thence N. 31° 36′ E., 295.4 meters to a point marked 3; thence S. 30° 41′ E., 2653.7

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meters, to a point marked 4; thence S. 47° 44′ W., 793.6 meters, to a point marked 5; thence N. 20° 54′ W., 2417.5 meters, to point 1, point of beginning; containing 141.2152 hectares, more or less. All points are marked by P. L. S. B. L. concrete monuments. Bearing true. Variation 0° 41' E.

THE WHITE HOUSE,

November 23, 1911.

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BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF WAR:

WM. H. TAFT.

LEONARD WOOD,

Major General, Chief of Staff.

OFFICIAL:

HENRY P. McCAIN,

Adjutant General.

GENERAL ORDERS,

No. 164.

WAR DEPARTMENT,

WASHINGTON, December 11, 1911.

I..Hereafter in all specifications, purchase orders, contracts, requisitions, and other communications concerning the purchase, inspection, and issue of all types of wires by the War Department, reference will be made to the sizes of wires by stating the diameter in thousandths of an inch (mils) in accordance with the table of mils shown below.

The table shows the diameter of various wires in mils and also the nearest commercial Brown & Sharpe or American wire gauge and Birmingham wire gauge number for approximately the same size wire.

The standard sizes in mils indicated are the sizes in the American wire gauge (B. & S.) rounded off to about the usual limits of commercial accuracy. The difference between successive sizes is approximately a constant per centum of the size.

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II.1. Until the publication of a revised Manual of Guard Duty the ceremony of guard mounting for Infantry will be conducted as prescribed in the Infantry Drill Regulations, 1904, modifying the commands only to conform to the commands prescribed for similar movements in the Infantry Drill Regu lations, 1911.

2. Until the Infantry equipment, model 1910, is issued, first sergeants of Infantry, and of troops armed as Infantry, will be armed with the revolver only.

3. Nine whistles will be issued to each Infantry company of the Regular Army, without requisition, by the Quartermas ter's Department. The Organized Militia will be supplied upon requisition.

4. The signal flags referred to in Paragraph I, General Orders, No. 16, War Department, 1910, shall, as far as concerns Infantry companies, conform to paragraph 45, Infantry Drill Regulations, 1911. Two such flags will be issued to each Infantry company of the Regular Army, without requisition, by the Signal Corps. The Organized Militia will be supplied upon requisition. On receipt of new flags, the old 2-foot signal flags will be invoiced and mailed to the property officer, Signal Corps Supply Depot, Fort Wood, New York; Fort Omaha, Nebraska; Fort Mason, California, or Manila, Philippine Islands, depending upon distance and locality.

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III.The following is published to the Army for the information and guidance of all concerned:

The metes and bounds of the military reservation of Fort Townsend, Washington, according to the survey of the sameJuly, 1910, to January, 1911-by 1st Lieutenant K. S. Perkins, 2d Field Artillery, by lines connecting monuments found in place, are announced as follows:

Beginning at the northeast corner, which is situated in Section No. 22, Township 30 North, Range 1 West, Willamette Meridian, on Port Townsend Bay, at half tide from which point a cedar 2 feet in diameter and marked "U. S. M. R. B. T.," bears S. 6° 10' E., 216.0 feet; thence N. 88° 50′ W., 155.0 feet to a stone monument 14 inches square with pyramidal top and marked "U. S." on four sides; thence on same bearing 4,418.1 feet to brick monument at base of cedar stump marked “U. S. M. R.,” which is 18 inches in diameter, from which a fir 10 inches in diameter marked "U. S. M. R.," bears S. 35° 30′ E., 22.2 feet, and a fir 10 inches in diameter marked "U. S. M. R.," bears

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N. 4° 31' E., 36.6 feet; thence S. 2° 16' 30" W., 7,298.5 feet to a brick monument from which a fir stump 24 inches in diameter, marked "U. S. M. R.," bears S. 47° 35′ E., 34.0 feet; thence N. 87° 36′ W., 2,113.5 feet to a brick monument from which a blazed fir 23 feet in diameter bears N.52° 11' E., 32.0 feet, and a cedar 24 feet in diameter, marked "U. S. M. R. B. T.," bears S. 7° 33′ W., 25.0 feet; thence S. 2° 8' 30'' W., 1,862.5 feet to a stone monument 14 inches square with pyramidal top, marked "U. S." on four sides, from which a blazed fir 4 feet in diameter bears S. 3° 19′ W., 5.0 feet; thence S. 88° 03′ E., 3,351.9 feet, to a stone monument 14 inches square with pyramidal top, marked "U. S." on four sides, from which a fir 4 feet in diameter, marked "U. S. M. R. B. T.," bears S. 80° 58' E., 10.0 feet; thence N. 0° 27' 30'' E., 5,927.0 feet, to a stone monument 14 inches square with pyramidal top, marked "U.S." on four sides; thence S. 89° 45′ E., 4,091.2 feet to a stone monument 14 inches square with pyramidal top, marked "U. S." on four sides, on edge of bluff; thence on same bearing 251.6 feet to a point on Port Townsend Bay at half tide; thence northerly following the meanders of the shore line to the initial point. All bearings are true. Area, about 614