No. 87. WASHINGTON, June 8, 1905. The following transfers of regiments to and from the Philippine Islands are announced: The 4th Cavalry to relieve the 14th Cavalry. Headquarters, band, and six troops (A, B, C, E, F, and G), 4th Cavalry, will be reported to the commanding general, Department of California, in time to sail for Manila, Philippine Islands, August 31, 1905, and relieve the 14th Cavalry, which will sail for the United States October 15, 1905. Troops I, K, and L, 4th Cavalry, will be reported in time to sail October 31, 1905. In like manner The 3d Cavalry, except Troops B and M, will sail from the United States November 30, 1905, and relieve the 2d Cavalry, which will sail for the United States January 15, 1906. The 13th Infantry will sail from the United States September 30, 1905, and relieve the 7th Infantry, which will sail for the United States November 15, 1905. The 15th Infantry will sail from the United States October 31, 1905, and relieve the 22d Infantry, which will sail for the United States December 15, 1905. The 1st Infantry will sail from the United States December 31, 1905, and relieve the 20th Infantry, which will sail for the United States February 15, 1906. The 8th Infantry will sail from the United States January 31, 1906, and relieve the 12th Infantry, which will sail for the United States March 15, 1906. Until the arrival of their reliefs from the Philippine Islands, Troops D, H, and M, 4th Cavalry, will remain in charge of the horses of the band, 1st, 2d, and 3d Squadrons, 4th Cavalry, and Troops B and M, 3d Cavalry, will remain in charge of the horses at Fort Assinniboine, Montana; Troops D, H, and M, 4th Cav alry, will sail from the United States on November 30, 1905, and Troops B and M, 3d Cavalry, on February 28, 1906. AUG 15 Rec'd Upon reaching San Francisco, California, the troops arriv ing from Manila, Philippine Islands, will proceed to stations as follows: Fourteenth Cavalry. Headquarters, band, and one squadron at Fort Walla Walla, Washington. One troop at Boise Barracks, Idaho. The lieutenant colonel and one squadron at the Presidio of Monterey, California. Three troops at the Presidio of San Francisco, California. Second Cavalry. Headquarters, band, one squadron, and two troops at Fort Assinniboine, Montana. Two troops at Fort Keogh, Montana. One squadron at Fort Snelling, Minnesota. The regimental commanders will designate squadrons and troops for assignment to stations as indicated. The horses and horse equipments of the cavalry regiments transferred by this order will not be taken with the regiments, but will be turned over upon proper invoices and receipts to officers designated by department commanders. Seventh Infantry. Headquarters, band, and one battalion at Fort Wayne, Michigan. One battalion at Fort Brady, Michigan. One battalion at Fort Sheridan, Illinois. Twenty-second Infantry. Headquarters, band, one battalion, and two companies at Fort McDowell, California. One battalion at Alcatraz Island, California. Twentieth Infantry. At the Presidio of Monterey, California. Twelfth Infantry. Headquarters, band, and one battalion at Fort Jay, New York. One battalion at Fort Niagara, New York. Ono battalion at Fort Porter, New York. The regimental commanders will designate battalions and companies for assignment to stations as indicated. With a view of filling the ranks of the outgoing regiments with men who, on the dates of sailing, will have at least two years and three months to serve, discharges, reenlistments, and transfers will be carried out under the direction of division and department commanders, as provided in General Orders, No. 144, War Department, September 2, 1904, for the 21st Infantry. The baggage to be transported by the outgoing regiments will be reduced to the lowest practicable limit; tableware, post exchange fixtures and similar bulky property (library and billiard table excepted), full dress uniform of enlisted men and tentage, excepting shelter tents, will not be taken. Overcoats and dress uniforms may be taken if deemed necessary by the regimental commanders; if taken only to ports of sailing, they may be packed and stored there or shipped back to former stations, as may be deemed most advisable. Enlisted men will not be allowed to have trunks or boxes for baggage. They will be allowed to take the usual locker (one to each man), their marching kits, and the telescopic cases of the pattern in the office of the Quartermaster General, the latter to be supplied by the Quartermaster's Department, one to each man, and their personal effects will be limited to what they can carry in these. Baggage accompanying troops by rail will be limited to 150 pounds per man, and any excess of this weight will be shipped by freight in advance unless satisfactory and economical arrangements can be made for shipping such excess with the troops. Property left at stations will be carefully packed, marked, listed in duplicate, and turned over to the Quartermaster's Department for storage. Company commanders will make every proper effort to induce their men to make allotments of pay in favor of their dependent relatives, as provided in paragraph 1374 of the Army Regulations of 1904. Attention is invited to paragraph 2, General Orders, No. 46, May 29, 1902, Headquarters of the Army, Adjutant General's Office, directing that organizations designated for service in the Philippine Islands prior to departure from their respective stations be furnished with certificates that they have been inspected and are protected against smallpox, in order to assist the medical authorities at ports of sailing in determining the necessity for detention and observation. Division and department commanders will by concert of action arrange the details of these movements and will promptly report hours of departure and arrival, and strength of commands, by telegraph to The Military Secretary 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. [1022347, M. S. O.] BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF WAR: OFFICIAL: ADNA R. CHAFFEE, Lieutenant General, Chief of Staff. F. C. AINSWORTH, The Military Secretary. GENERAL ORDERS, No. 88. } WAR DEPARTMENT, I--Paragraph I, General Orders, No. 11, War Department, January 16, 1904, is hereby amended so as to direct that no requisitions will be submitted from coast artillery stations for the different instruments issued by the Ordnance Department for the fire control and direction system for coast artillery for original installations. [1022358, M. S. O.] II.1. Surgeons of posts will keep on hand horse equipments for the use of members of the Hospital Corps under their command who are authorized by paragraph 1463, Army Regulations, 1904, to be mounted on the march or in the field. 2. At all posts where there are cavalry troops the men of the Hospital Corps referred to in section 1, paragraph II, of this order will be reported to a troop commander on one day of each week, as may be determined by the post commander, for one hour's instruction in equitation as a member of the troop; the soldier to use his own equipment and the troop commander to provide the horse, which will be thoroughly groomed after the drill by the rider. [1003920, M. S. O.] BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF WAR: OFFICIAL: GEORGE L. GILLESPIE, Major General, Acting Chief of Staff. F. C. AINSWORTH, AUG 15 Rect |