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No. 88.

ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE,

Washington, June 25, 1901.

I--The following order from the War Department is published for the information and guidance of all concerned:

WAR DEPARTMENT, Washington, June 22, 1901. The President, by order dated June 8, 1901, having reserved and set ⚫ apart for military purposes lot 13, section 34, township 138 north, range 80 west, near Bismarck, North Dakota, the same is hereby declared as an addition to the military reservation of Fort Lincoln, North Dakota. WM. CARY SANGER, Acting Secretary of War.

II--By direction of the Secretary of War, the Ninth Band, Artillery Corps, organized under the act of Congress approved February 2, 1901, is designated as a mounted band.

III--The following order has been received from the War Department:

WAR DEPARTMENT, Washington, June 24, 1901.

1. The appropriation "for contingent expenses at the headquarters of the several military departments, including the staff corps serving thereat, except the department judge advocates, being for the purchase of the necessary articles of office, toilet, and desk furniture, binding, maps, books of reference, professional newspapers and periodicals, and police utensils, seven thousand dollars, to be allotted by the Secretary of War, and to be expended in the discretion of the several military depart ment commanders," contained in the act approved March 2, 1901, making appropriation for the support of the Army for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1902, is allotted as follows:

To the Department of Alaska.
To the Department of California..
To the Department of the Colorado.
To the Department of the Columbia.
To the Department of Cuba
To the Department of Dakota...
To the Department of the East..

To the Department of the Lakes..

To the Department of Mindanao and Jolo..

To the Department of the Missouri..
To the Department of Northern Luzon.
To the Division of the Philippines.....
To the Department of Southern Luzon.
To the Department of Texas...
To the Department of the Visayas...

$150

250

250

150

300

250

300

250

500

250

500

500

500

250

500

4,900

2. The appropriation "to provide means for the theoretical and practical instruction at the Artillery School at Fort Monroe, Virginia; the Infantry and Cavalry School at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, and the Cavalry and Light Artillery School at Fort Riley, Kansas, by the purchase of text-books, books of reference, scientific and professional papers, and for all other absolutely necessary expenses, to be allotted in such proportions as may, in the opinion of the Secretary of War, be for the best interest of the military service, fifteen thousand dollars," contained in the act making appropriation for the support of the Army for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1902, is allotted as follows:

To the Infantry and Cavalry School at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. $5,000 To the Artillery School at Fort Monroe, Virginia...... 5,000

To the Cavalry and Field Artillery School at Fort Riley, Kansas.. 5,000

WM. CARY SANGER,

15,000

Acting Secretary of War.

BY COMMAND OF LIEUTENANT GENERAL MILES:

GEO. ANDREWS,

Acting Adjutant General.

No. 89.

ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE,

Washington, June 25, 1901.

The following order from the War Department is published to the Army for the information and guidance of all concerned:

WAR DEPARTMENT, Washington, June 17, 1901.

By sections 195 and 196 of the Revised Statutes, the heads of the Executive Departments are required to submit to Congress at the commencement of each regular session a report which shall embrace the transactions of the preceding year, and with the exception of the Department of Justice to furnish to the Congressional Printer copies of the documents usually accompanying their annual report on or before the 1st of November in each year, and a copy of their annual report on or before the third Monday of November in each year.

To enable the Secretary of War to comply with the law it is essential that all reports of subordinate bureaus and military commands be in his hands at such timely date as will permit their harmonious arrangement as a basis for his review of the operations of the year and recommendations for the future. To this end the following rules will be carefully observed:

All reports will cover the fiscal year ending June 30th and as a rule will terminate with that date. Should military conditions after June 30th require later information supplemental reports will be promptly forwarded to the Secretary of War.

Division and department commanders will have their annual reports in the hands of the Adjutant General not later than September 1st. These reports will be in printed form of the same measure as the General Orders from the Headquarters of the Army, and will embrace a report of military operations during the year, fully setting forth the conditions generally in their commands and be accompanied by the reports of their various staff officers and reports of important military operations of subordinate commanders. These reports to be as brief and succinct as possible, avoiding duplications and prolixity of statement. The reports of division commanders, while reviewing the operations of departments under their command, will not include a reprint of the reports of such department commanders. Twenty printed copies will be sent to the Adjutant General of the Army.

The reports of the military governors of the Philippines and Cuba will be in printed form of the same size as above prescribed for the reports of division and department commanders and must be in the hands of the Secretary of War not later than October 1st.

The reports of the Commanding General of the Army, of the heads of bureaus, of the Board of Ordnance and Fortification, of the Commissioners of the National Military Parks, of the inspection of the National Homes for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers required by act of August 18, 1894,

of the Board of Commissioners of the Soldiers' Home of the District of Columbia and of the inspection of the Soldiers Home of the District of Columbia required by act of March 3, 1583, and of the Superintendent of the Military Academy will be rendered in manuscript, and must be in the hands of the Secretary of War not later than Otober 1st.

Illustrations to accompany reports should be limited in number and confined to those that are directly related to the text and necessary to its clear understanding. To enable the Public Printer to produce the best results they will be sent in their original form. Maps. plans, and drawings intended to be lithographed to be on tracing linen or drawing paper, photographs to be the best possible prints from the negatives. and no photo-engraving or lithographic work will be ordered without special authority of the Secretary of War.

ELIHU ROOT.

Secretary of War.

BY COMMAND OF LIEUTENANT GENERAL MILES:

GEO. ANDREWS, Acting Adjutant General.

No. 90.

ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE,

Washington, June 26, 1901.

I--By direction of the Secretary of War, the following decision of the Comptroller of the Treasury is published to the Army for the information and guidance of all concerned: Stoppage against the pay of an enlisted man justly indebted to a post exchange, not to exceed the amount of credit authorized by the exchange regulations, may be legally made and the amount collected by a paymaster and by him turned over to the exchange officer.

TREASURY DEPARTMENT,

OFFICE OF COMPTROLLER OF THE TREASURY,
Washington, June 14, 1901.

The Honorable, the SECRETARY OF WAR, Washington, D. C.
SIR: By your communication of the 15th ultimo you request my views
on the question contained in your letter, which is as follows:

I have the honor to transmit herewith, together with other papers, a letter from Lieut. Col. Thomas T. Knox, inspector general. U. S. Army, addressed to the Adjutant General of the Army under date of February 21st last, submitting an extract from a report of inspection of Fort Brown, Texas, relative to nonpayment of debts to the post exchange by certain enlisted men at that post.

It appears from these papers that one of the soldiers at the said post was illegally tried by summary court for this offense, and the sentence having been set aside, he escaped punishment, whereupon forty-seven other members of the troop declined to pay their debts to the exchange. Attention is invited to the opinion of the Judge Advocate General of the Army, as set forth in the 16th indorsement on the letter above referred to, in which he states that as the post exchange is now recognized as a Government instrumentality, he thinks stoppages in the pay of enlisted men can be made to reimburse post exchange funds for indebtedness contracted by such enlisted men. He also recommends that Army Regulations (paragraph 325) be amended by adding thereto the following provision:

The amount of indebtedness of a soldier to a post exchange contracted in accordance with such regulations will be noted on the muster roll for the next succeeding month and be deducted, if practicable, from his pay by the paymaster making the payment, and turned over to the post exchange officer who will duly receipt to the paymaster and the soldier for the amount so received. In case of discharge of a soldier the amount of any such indebtedness will be noted on the final statements and in like manner be deducted from payment made thereon."

In accordance with the further recommendation of the Judge Advocate General the papers are submitted to you with request for your views on the question of allowing paymasters credit for such payments.

The opinion of the Judge Advocate General of the Army referred to by you is as follows:

The views and recommendations of this office are desired on the subject of nonpayment of indebtedness to post exchanges by enlisted men.

It has been held by this office that the post exchange is an instrumentality of the Government, and the following language was used in an opinion dated November 30, 1898:

The post exchange (formerly canteen) was not established by Congress

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