No. 11. ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE, Washington, February 8, 1901. 1. By direction of the Secretary of War, section 31 of “An act to increase the efficiency of the permament military establishment of the United States," approved February 2, 1901, and instructions for carrying the same into effect are published for the information and guidance of all concerned: SEC. 31. That the Secretary of War is authorized to detach from the Army at large such number of enlisted men as may be necessary to perform duty at the various recruiting stations, and while performing such duty one member of each party shall have the rank, pay, and allowances of sergeant, and one the rank, pay, and allowances of corporal of the arm of the service to which they respectively belong. 2. The recruiting officer in charge of each city station of the general recruiting service, having first satisfied himself of the soldiers' fitness for the positions, will announce in orders from his station and muster from the date of such announcement, one member of his recruiting party as sergeant and one as corporal "of the arm of the service to which they respectively belong," i. e., either infantry, cavalry, or artillery. Such orders will be spread upon the records of the recruiting station and a copy of each order will be forwarded to the Adjutant General's Office (Recruiting Division); a copy will also be furnished to each soldier concerned. 3. Members of recruiting parties will be regarded as belonging to the arm of the service for which they last enlisted or from which they were transferred to the general recruiting service. Any member of a party who may have been enlisted for the general service without choice or designation of a particular arm of the service will be mustered as an infantry soldier if enlisted for the foot service or as a cavalry soldier if enlisted for the mounted service. 4. Members of recruiting parties announced and mustered under the provisions of this order as sergeants or corporals will not be reduced while performing such duty, without the approval of the Adjutant General. Their appointments as sergeants or corporals will, however, terminate whenever they are relieved from recruiting duty, or when the 'stations at which they are serving are discontinued, unless they shall be assigned to other recruiting stations at which there are vacancies in their respective grades. The recruiting officer will in every case announce in orders the date of the termination of an appointment as sergeant or corporal and furnish copies of each order as indicated in paragraph 2. 5. All transfers of enlisted men to the general recruiting service for duty on recruiting parties will be as privates, the question of their promotion as sergeants or corporals being for determination after their fitness and capacity shall have been demonstrated. Individual applications for such transfers will be forwarded, whenever practicable, through the proper commanding officers, who will indorse thereon their recommendations, based upon service and merit, and also a statement of the soldier's fitness for recruiting duty, especially as regards clerical ability and knowledge of army papers. The transfers will be made from time to time as the interests of the service require in orders from this office. BY COMMAND OF LIEUTENANT GENERAL MILES: H. C. CORBIN, No. 12. ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE, Washington, February 8, 1901. By direction of the Secretary of War, the following is published to the Army for the information and guidance of all concerned: 1. The transport quartermaster on each U. S. Army transport engaged in Atlantic or Pacific traffic shall at the beginning of each voyage, or as soon thereafter as practicable, forward through the general superintendent of the home port to the Quartermaster General of the Army a complete passenger list of all officers of the Army and their servants and of all persons not belonging to any military organization aboard who were transported as passengers on such voyage, giving a copy of the authority under which he furnished transportation to each, or making proper references to such authority if previously furnished. He shall at the same time forward to the Commissary General of Subsistence, through the subsistence superintendent of the home port, a copy of such passenger list, unaccompanied by copies of authority but giving notations of the same. The names of officers of the Army and their servants and of passengers not entitled to free subsistence aboard will be grouped together in one class on these lists, and the names of those entitled to subsistence free will be grouped in another. Transport quartermasters on U. S. Army transports engaged in interisland traffic will forward similar passenger lists through the chief quartermaster and chief commissary of the department in which employed. 2. The transport commissary will file with his monthly account current, as a voucher thereto, a list giving the name of each officer of the Army and his servant, if any, and the name of each person not belonging to any military organization aboard, who were transported during the month and who were chargeable for meals, together with the amounts collected by him from each on account of meals furnished. Meals will be charged from the first meal served after embarkation of the passenger until the last meal served before debarkation. In reckoning for parts of a day each meal will be considered as one-third of a day's subsistence. Deductions will not be allowed for meals not taken during a voyage. The list will be made out on form No. 74, Subsistence Department. BY COMMAND OF LIEUTENANT GENERAL MILES: H. C. CORBIN, No. 13. ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE, Washington, February 8, 1901. I--By direction of the Secretary of War, the following changes in stations of troops are ordered: Fifth U. S. Cavalry: The colonel, staff, noncommissioned staff, band, 1st and 3d squadrons, from the Departments of the East and Colorado, not later than March 9, 1901, to the Presidio of San Francisco, Department of California, preparatory to immediate service in the Division of the Philippines; these squadrons will by transfers and recruitment be filled to the maximum of 100 men per troop. The 2d squadron, which will constitute the depot squadron of the regiment, will be relieved from its present stations, Fort Ethan Allen, Vermont, and Jefferson Barracks, Missouri, and proceed not later than March 1, 1901, to the Department of the Colorado and take station, relieving the 1st squadron, as follows: The major, staff, and Troops E and G to Fort Grant, Arizona Territory; Troop F to Fort Huachuca, Arizona Territory; Troop H to Fort Wingate, New Mexico. Privates serving in the first year of their first enlistment and fit for tropical service will be transferred to troops of the active squadrons. Enlisted men having less than six months to serve, and who have not signified their intention to reenlist, will be transferred to the depot squadron. The exchanges and transfers directed in General Orders, No. 153, 1899, Adjutant General's Office, will also be made. The foregoing transfers will be made under the direction of the regimental commander. Noncommissioned officers shall not be reduced in consequence of transfer, but shall be carried as detached from their organizations until the transfers are completed by assignments to vacancies in their new commands. The department commanders concerned will by concert of action arrange the details of the movement, send to their proper commands the officers and men who have been transferred, provide troops for posts which would be left without sufficient garrisons, and report by telegraph to the Adjutant General of the Army the dates of departures and arrivals and strength of organizations. |