WASHINGTON, May 3, 1905. No. 67. I--Contract surgeons and dental surgeons will render to The Military Secretary of the Army the personal reports required of regular medical officers by paragraphs 834 and 835, and by paragraph 836, Army Regulations, as amended by General Orders, No. 25, War Department, February 15, 1905. Whenever a contract is entered into with a civilian physician or a dentist as contract surgeon or dental surgeon, or whenever such contract is annulled, notification of the fact will be forwarded at once directly to The Military Secretary of the Army by the officer taking the action. [998896, M. S. o.] II. The following is published to the Army for the information and guidance of all concerned: The United States of America having acquired by expro. priation proceedings in the United States district court for the District of Minnesota, under decree of March 22, 1905, filed March 23, 1905, and recorded in Volume 9 of Term Minutes of said court, at pages 134 to 166, certain lands situated south of the military reservation of Fort Snelling, in Hennepin County, Minnesota, for purposes of a target range, the same is announced as an addition to said reservation. Said addition contains about 850 acres, exclusive of the “Bloomington road to St. Paul," and comprises the following described lands, viz: The east half, and the east half of west half, of section thirty-one: the south half of northwest quarter, and those portions of the south half of northeast quarter, the northwest quarter of southeast quarter, and the southwest quarter, of section thirty-two, lying west of the Minnesota River all in township twenty-eight north, range twenty-three west; and all that part of the northwest quarter of section five, township twentyseven north, range twenty-three west, lying west of the Minnesota River. [1006446, M. S. O.] BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF WAR: GEORGE L. GILLESPIE, OFFICIAL: F. C. AINSWORTH, The Military Secretary. JUN 25 Recd No. 68. WASHINGTON, May 6, 1905. The following provisions relating to the subsistence of recruits and recruiting parties are published for the guidance of all concerned: 1. Upon the arrival of a recruiting officer at a city or town where he is to establish a recruiting station, he will at once make inquiries at the available places in the neighborhood of the station as to the prices at which meals for his party can be obtained and will procure them, of proper quality, by openmarket purchase at the most reasonable rates until he can advertise for proposals by means of Form No. 28, Subsistence Department. 2. This advertisement (Form No. 28) will be distributed to a number of probable bidders and be posted in public places (a copy in the post-office and one in front of the recruiting station) for ten days before the opening of bids. A copy with a list of persons to whom distributed entered on the first fold will be at once mailed to the Commissary General. If the notice was for a period of less than ten days the reason why a longer period was not allowed will be stated on that fold. 3. When the recruiting officer has made award he will sign the acceptance and furnish the successful bidder with a copy of the same. 4. As better prices can undoubtedly be obtained by making contracts for meals for recruiting parties and recruits at recruiting stations for comparatively long periods of time, the officers on duty at such stations will make such contracts on Form No. 19, Subsistence Department, to embrace a period of six months if practicable, being careful, however, not to make a contract extending beyond June 30, which would embrace a portion of two fiscal years. 5. The commanding officer of a garrisoned post at which an officer has been designated as a recruiting officer will assign all recruits to companies for rations, and all proper subsistence expenses incurred in connection with their enlistment or the forwarding of them to destination will be paid by the post commissary on the order of the commanding officer. 6. When railroads equipped with eating houses or when public eating houses established along railroads not so equipped have agreed to furnish meals to enlisted men traveling unaccompanied by a commissioned officer on meal tickets issued for the purpose, the commanding officer ordering transportation for enlisted men so traveling over such roads may direct the Subsistence Department to issue meal tickets for use en route. A noncommissioned officer or private traveling in charge of a detachment will be furnished the meal tickets (Form No. 76, Subsistence Department) for the detachment and will duly execute the receipt upon a ticket for the number of meals furnished at any authorized point and leave the receipted ticket with the representative of the eating house there present. A soldier traveling alone will receipt the ticket and leave it in the same way. These receipted tickets will be returned by the railroads or public eating houses accompanied by bills to the commissary who issued them, who will prepare vouchers and pay the same. Recruiting officers not at permanent stations may request those to whom meal tickets are addressed to forward them for payment to the chief commissary of the department (giving name and address) in which they are recruiting. At the end of a journey all unused meal tickets will be turned over by soldiers to the commanding officer of the post, who will promptly return such tickets to the issuing officer. 7. The chief commissary of a department will ascertain what, if any, arrangements can be made with the various railroads and public eating houses established along lines of travel over which enlisted men are usually routed in and from his department, and if satisfactory arrangements are made he will cause the necessary information to be communicated to the various commissaries and recruiting officers who may be doing duty in the department and will also cause them to be notified from time to time as changes occur. 8. Commanding and other officers ordering transportation to the Pacific Coast via Chicago for noncommissioned officers, privates, and recruits will provide subsistence for the men by meal tickets or otherwise to Chicago only, and will call upon the chief commissary, Department of the Lakes, in their orders directing the travel for five days' meal requests for the portion of the journey from Chicago to the points on the Pacific Coast to which the men are ordered. Where through transportation to the Pacific Coast is furnished at the initial point of the journey a copy of the order for the journey will be mailed by the commanding or other officer at least twentyfour hours in advance of the departure of the men to the chief commissary, Department of the Lakes, Chicago, Illinois, who will send the necessary meal requests to meet the men on arrival at the railroad station in Chicago, thus avoiding delay of the men in that city. A copy of the order will also be furnished the party in charge of the detachment, which will be |