Service and Staff College at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, for further instruction. 10. When an officer is transferred to a new station his record as to the portion of the prescribed course completed and of proficiency or deficiency therein shall be furnished through his regimental or artillery district commander to his new post commander. 11. This order is issued with a view to systematizing the instruction of officers of the line of the Army during a limited period of the year in accordance with the general scheme of progressive instruction and is in nowise intended to limit the authority of department commanders to require additional work during the portion of the year herein only partially occupied. The remaining portion of the year will be further utilized by such commanders to the fullest advantage in the practical instruction of their commands. BY COMMAND OF LIEUTENANT GENERAL MILES: WM. H. CARTER, Brigadier General, U. S. Army, Acting Adjutant General. No. 103. ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE, Washington, September 24, 1902. By direction of the Secretary of War, the following changes of and assignments to stations are announced: The headquarters, band, and six companies, 8th Infantry, from the Department of the Columbia to the Department of the East: the headquarters, band, and 2d Battalion to Fort Columbus, New York; one of the remaining companies (K) to Fort Niagara, New York, and the other (L) to Fort Wood, New York. The coast artillery organizations now at Fort Columbus, New York, are assigned to stations as follows: Major William P. Duvall, Artillery Corps, and the 49th Com. pany to Fort Williams, Maine; the 52d Company to Fort Rodman, Massachusetts; the 83d Company to Fort Revere, Massachusetts; the 122d Company to Key West Barracks, Florida, and the 8th Band, Artillery Corps, to headquarters, Artillery District of Pensacola, Fort Barrancas, Florida. Upon completion of duty in the national parks the two troops of the 3d Cavalry (E and F) now in the Department of California will be relieved from duty in that department. The major and one troop, to be selected by the department com. mander, will be sent to Boise Barracks, Idaho; the remaining troop will be sent to Fort Yates, North Dakota, relieving Troop L, 13th Cavalry, which is assigned to station at Fort Meade, South Dakota. As soon as additional quarters can be provided in the Department of Dakota Troops G and H, 3d Cavalry, will be relieved from duty at Fort Apache, Arizona Territory, by two troops of the 14th Cavalry, to be designated by the commanding general, Department of the Colorado, and when so relieved will be assigned to station in the Department of Dakota. The 10th Battery, Field Artillery, is relieved from duty in the Department of the Columbia and assigned to station at Fort Snelling, Minnesota. Upon arrival in the United States the 9th Cavalry will be assigned to stations as follows: Headquarters, band, and four troops to Fort Walla Walla, Washington; four troops to the Presidio of San Francisco, California, and four troops to Monterey, California. Should it be necessary to remove any organizations from the Presidio to make room for the four troops of the 9th Cavalry assigned to permanent station at that post the commanding general, Department of California, is authorized to send the two batteries of field artillery now temporarily at the Presidio to Monterey, California. Department commanders concerned will by concert of action arrange details of movements and will report hours of departure and arrival and strength of commands by telegraph to the Adjutant General of the Army. The Quartermaster's Department will furnish the necessary transportation, the Subsistence Department suitable subsistence, and the Medical Department proper medical attendance and supplies. BY COMMAND OF LIEUTENANT GENERAL MILES: WM. H. CARTER, Brigadier General, U. S. Army, Acting Adjutant General. No. 104 ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE, Washington, October 3, 1902. I. By direction of the Acting Secretary of War, the following is substituted for section 2, paragraph I, General Orders, No. 15, February 12, 1902, from this office: 2. On account of the danger of transporting and storing naptha its issue by the Ordnance Departinent for cleaning cartridge belts is discontinued. In lieu thereof a cleaning material called "H. & H" made up into cakes will be supplied. The allowance of one-half cake per belt is sufficient for a six months' supply. II. The following has been received from the War Department and is published for the information and guidance of all concerned: WAR DEPARTMENT, Washington, October 1, 1902. The United States having acquired for military purposes the following described land, situated near Manila, Philippine Islands, the same is hereby announced as a military reservation: Beginning at a stone monument situated on the southeast approach to the stone bridge over the San José Creek thirty (30) feet from its junction with the Pasig River in the Barrio of Guadalupe, Province of Rizal, Luzon; thence following along the bed of said creek in a southeasterly direction one thousand one hundred and seventy (1,170) feet to a stone monument situated on the east bank of said creek; thence following along the bed of said creek in a southeasterly direction one thousand (1,000) feet to a stone monument situated on the east bank of said creek; thence following along the bed of said creek and its western branch in a southwesterly direction two thousand two hundred and thirty (2,230) feet to a stone monument situated at the head of said branch; thence north 68° 45′ west (true meridian), three hundred and seven and six-tenths (307.6) feet to a stone monument; thence north 68° 45′ west, one thousand six hundred and nineteen and four-tenths (1,619.4) feet to a stone monument; thence south 18° 34' east, five hundred and sixty-two and seven-tenths (562.7) feet to a stake: thence south 21° 24' west, eight hundred and nineteen and three-tenths (819.3) feet to a stake: thence south 30° 50′ east, seven hundred and sixty-nine and three-tenths (769.3) feet to a stake: thence south 17° 02′ east, six hundred and thirteen and seven-tenths (613.7) feet to a stake; thence south 13° 49′ east, three hundred and eighty-five and onetenth (385.1) feet to a stone monument; thence south 6° 52′ east, five hundred and ninety-four and two-tenths (594.2) feet to a stake; thence south 17° 36′ east, four hundred and eighty-four and five-tenths (484.5) feet to a stone monument; thence south 17° 36′ east, two thousand one hundred and ninety-three and five-tenths (2,193.5) feet to a stone monument; thence south 0° 54' west, four thousand one hundred and ninety-four and one-tenth (4,194.1) feet to a stake; thence south 89° 06′ east, four thousand six hundred and fifty-four and six-tenths (4,654.6) feet to a stake situated on the west bank of the Maysapang Creek seventy (70) feet more or less from its junction with the Taguig River (also called Pateros River), said stake bearing north 76° 16' west from the spire of the Taguig Church; thence following along said creek in a northerly direction to its junction with the Taguig River; thence following along the Taguig River in a northerly direction to its junction with the Pasig River; thence following along the Pasig River in a westerly direction to the point of beginning. Said area being part of the Hacienda de Maricaban and comprising one thousand eight hundred and one and seven one-hundredths (1.801.07) acres more or less, or seven hundred and twenty-nine and fifteenth hundredths (729.15) hectares more or less. Be all of said measurements, distances, metes and bounds, more or less. ELIHU ROOT, Secretary of War. BY COMMAND OF LIEUTENANT GENERAL MILES: WILLIAM P. HALL, Acting Adjutant General. |