No. 49. WASHINGTON, March 25, 1905. By direction of the President, General Orders, No. 113, October 29, 1902, Headquarters of the Army, Adjutant General's Office, prescribing the organization of the Porto Rico Provisional Regiment of Infantry, is revoked and the following substituted therefor: The regiment will be designated the "Porto Rico Provisional Regiment of Infantry" and will be constituted as follows: 1 lieutenant colonel. 2 majors. 9 captains, one of whom shall be available for detail as regimental staff officer. 1 assistant surgeon with the rank of captain (so long only as that office is held by the present incumbent). 10 first lieutenants, two of whom shall be available for detail as battalion adjutants. 10 second lieutenants, two of whom shall be available for detail as battalion quartermasters and commissaries. 8 companies of 65 enlisted men each 520 Regimental sergeant major...... 1 Hospital steward (so long only as that position is held by the present incumbent).. 1 Battalion sergeants major...... Color sergeants. ..... 2 2 Regimental band (organized as provided for infantry). 28 Total number of enlisted men in regiment......... 554 Each company will consist of The following acts of the Congress are published to the Army for the information and guidance of all concerned: I--An Act making appropriations for fortifications and .... Page. 1 6 I..An Act Making appropriations for fortifications and other works of defense, for the armament thereof, for the procurement of heavy ordnance for trial and service, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the sums of money herein provided for be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be available until expended, namely: FORTIFICATIONS AND OTHER WORKS OF DEFENSE. For modernizing older emplacements, four hundred and fifty thousand dollars. For construction of fire control stations and accessories, including purchase of lands and rights of way, and for the purchase, installation, operation, and maintenance of necessary lines and means of electrical communication, including telephones, dial and other telegraphs, wiring and all special instruments, apparatus, and materials, coast signal apparatus, and salaries of electrical experts, engineers, and other necessary employees, connected with the use of coast artillery; for the purchase, manufacture, and test of range finders and other instruments for fire control at the fortifications, and the machinery necessary for their manufacture at the arsenals, one million dollars. For purchase and installation of searchlights for the defenses of our most important harbors, two hundred thousand dollars. For the protection, preservation, and repair of fortifications for which there may be no special appropriation available, three hundred thousand dollars. For preparation of plans for fortifications, five thousand dollars. For tools, electrical and engine supplies and appliances, to be furnished by the Engineer Department, for the use of the troops for maintaining and operating electric light and power plants in gun and mortar batteries, forty thousand dollars. For construction of sea walls and embankments, nineteen thousand four hundred dollars. For the construction of mining casemates, cable galleries, torpedo storehouses, cable tanks, and other structures necessary for the operation, preservation, and care of submarine mines and their accessories, four hundred thousand dollars, to be expended by the Engineer Department. It shall be the duty of the Secretary of War to apply the money herein appropriated for fortifications and other works of defense, in carrying on the various works, by contract or otherwise, as may be most economical and advantageous to the Government. Where said works are done by contract, such contract shall be made after sufficient public advertisement for proposals, in such manner and form as the Secretary of War shall prescribe; and such contracts shall be made with the lowest responsible bidders, accompanied by such securities as the Secretary of War shall require, conditioned for the faithful prosecution and completion of the work according to such contract. ARMAMENT OF FORTIFICATIONS. For the purchase, manufacture, test, and issue of machine and automatic guns, including their carriages, sights, implements, equipments, and the machinery necessary for their manufacture at the arsenals, seventy thousand dollars. For the purchase, manufacture, and test of mountain, field, and siege cannon, including their carriages, sights, implements, equipments, and the machinery necessary for their manufacture at the arsenals, six hundred thousand dollars. Balances remaining unexpended from amounts appropriated by Act of May seventh, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, for siege breech-loading mortars, steel, of seven-inch caliber; by Act of May twenty-fifth, nineteen hundred, for carriages and platforms for steel field mortars of three and six-tenths inch caliber, including implements and equipments; and by Act of March first, nineteen hundred and one, for five-inch breech loading rifles, siege, and for carriages for steel breechloading rifles, siege, of five-inch caliber, including equipments, platform, and ammunition wagons, are hereby made available |