No 38.

ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE,

Washington, April 17, 1902.

I. By direction of the Secretary of War, the post of Fort Constitution, New Hampshire, is designated as a saluting station to return the salutes of foreign vessels of war in addition to the posts so designated for the Department of the East by paragraph II. General Orders, No. 80, December 1, 1892, from this office.

II. The following has been received from the War Department and is published for the information and guidance of all concerned:

WAR DEPARTMENT, Washington, April 16, 1902.

The President of the United States, by order dated April 11, 1902, having reserved for military purposes all public lands within the following-described limits, the same are announced and declared military reservations, viz:

1. On the north side of the entrance to Manila Bay in the province of Bataan, Luzon-Mariveles Reservation-all public lands on the point lying south of the line starting at the ocean in the town of Bagak at the end of the north and south line of the naval reservation, declared by order of the President, dated November 9, 1901 (General Orders, No. 67, Navy Department, November 14, 1901), and running thence due east, true bearing, to the waters of Manila Bay, together with all islands contiguous to the land thus described.

2. On the south side of the entrance to Manila Bay in the provinces of Cavite and Batangas, Luzon-Kalumpan Point Reservation--all public lands between the waters of the ocean and Manila Bay and two lines, one starting at the mouth of the Ternate River, near the village of Ternate, and running due south, true meridian, until it intersects the other line, which is a line running due east and west, true bearing, through the highest point of Piquito Peak, from the ocean to the said line running due south, together with all the islands contiguous to the land so inclosed.

3. The islands of Corregidor, Caballo, La Monja, and El Fraile and all other islands and detached rocks lying between the Mariveles Reservation, on the north side of the entrance to Manila Bay, and Kalumpan Point Reservation, on the south side of said entrance.

ELIHU ROOT,
Secretary of War.

BY COMMAND OF LIEUTENANT GENERAL MILES:

H. C. CORBIN,

Adjutant General,

Major General, U. S. Army

No 39.

ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE,

Washington, April 24, 1902.

I. By direction of the Acting Secretary of War, paragraphs 9 (amended by General Orders, No. 140, November 2, 1901), 1110, clause 13 (amended by General Orders, No. 140, November 2, 1901), 1114, 1117, 1130, 1232, 1242 (amended by General Orders, No. 121, September 12, 1901), 1328 (amended by General Orders, No. 8, January 27, 1902), 1401, and 1492 of the Regulations are amended to read as follows:

9. The following are the grades of rank of officers and noncommissioned officers:

1. Lieutenant general.

2. Major general.

3. Brigadier general.

4. Colonel.

5. Lieutenant colonel.

6. Major.

7. Captain.

8. First lieutenant.

9. Second lieutenant.

10. Veterinarian, cavalry and artillery.

11. Cadet.

12. Sergeant major, regimental; sergeant major, senior grade, artillery.

13. Ordnance sergeant; post commissary sergeant; post quartermaster sergeant; electrician sergeant; hospital steward; first-class signal sergeant.

14. Quartermaster sergeant and commissary sergeant, regimental; chief musician.

15. Sergeant major, squadron and battalion; sergeant major, junior grade, artillery; color sergeant; chief trumpeter, principal musician; battalion quartermaster sergeant, engineers.

16. First sergeant; drum major.

17. Sergeant; quartermaster sergeant, company; stable sergeant, battery; acting hospital steward.

18. Corporal.

In each grade date of commission, appointment, or warrant determines the order of precedence.

1110. Clause 13.

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sergeant major. regimental; sergeant major, senior grade, artillery: ordnance sergeant; post commissary sergeant: post quartermaster sergeant; electrician sergeant; hospital steward: quartermaster sergeant and commissary sergeant, regimental; chief musician; signal sergeant and an enlisted man employed as signal sergeant, except when serv- | ing in a detachment.

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1114. Noncommissioned officers entitled to and occupying quarters may each be allowed one cooking stove in lieu of one heating stove.

1117. Lamps having one or two burners, with circular wicks of about 1 inches inside diameter, will be issued as follows: To troops in barracks at the rate of one burner for every ten men and every fraction thereof, when the fraction is five or more, of the maximum strength allowed the organization, and such number of lamps or lanterns for lighting interior passageways as may be necessary, not to exceed three in each barrack. To companies messing separately three additional burners. To each noncommissioned staff officer, post, regimental, squadron, battalion, and Artillery Corps; to each hospital steward, chief musician, first sergeant, and drum major; to each signal sergeant and enlisted man employed as signal sergeant, except when serving in a detachment, a lamp with a single burner. For hospitals, such number of burners, not to exceed one for each ward or room, as may be deemed necessary by the post surgeon and post commander.

1130. Each noncommissioned officer entitled to and occupying separate quarters at posts where gas or electricity is installed will be allowed for the period between September 1 and April 30, 1,500 cubic feet of gas or 20,000 watts electric current per month, and from May 1 to August 31 900 cubic feet of gas or 12,000 watts electric current per month. Gas or electricity in excess of these allowances will be paid for at the end of each month to the quartermaster by the responsible noncommissioned officer.

At posts where the electric current is furnished from Government plant the charge for the excess will be at the rate of 10 cents per 1,000 watts. At posts where gas or electric cur.

rent is obtained from local company the charge for the excess will be at contract price.

1232. The following persons are entitled at public expense to a double berth in a sleeping car or to the customary stateroom accommodations on steamers where extra charge is made for the same: Officers of the army when traveling on duty with troops; army nurses; civilian clerks and agents in the military service when traveling under orders on public business, and also the following when traveling under orders without troops: Sergeants major, regimental, squadron, and battalion; sergeants major, senior and junior grades, artillery; ordnance sergeants; commissary sergeants, post and regimental; quartermaster sergeants, post, regimental, and battalion of engineers; electrician sergeants, hospital stewards, color sergeants, chief musicians, chief trumpeters, principal musicians, signal sergeants, first sergeants, drum majors; also invalid soldiers when so traveling on the certificate of a medical officer showing the necessity therefor.

When the number of officers traveling with troops is too small to justify the hire by the Quartermaster's Department of a standard sleeping car for their accommodation they shall be furnished with such part of a tourist sleeping car or other suitable sleeping car, properly curtained off for their accommodation, as the Quartermaster's Department may provide for their use during the journey.

1242. The baggage to be transported at public expense, including mess chests and personal baggage, upon change of station will not exceed the following weights:

Captain

200

First lieutenant, contract surgeon, and contract dental surgeon.

2,000

Second lieutenant and veterinarian

Sergeants major, regimental; sergeants major, senior grade, artillery; ordnance sergeants; post commissary sergeants: post quartermaster sergeants; electrician sergeants: hospital stewards; quartermaster sergeants and commissary sergeants, regimental; chief musicians; signal sergeants.

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