men of the Philippine Scouts, except that the ration for them for garrison or field service (to be known as the Filipino ration) shall be as below:

The kinds and quantities of articles of the Filipino ration and the quantities computed for 100 rations shall be as follows:

H.7.63/07.

—A. R. 1380, G. O. No. 24, A. G. O., 1902.
36; G. O. No. 130, A. G. O., 1901.

Vide G. O. 9, A. G. O., 1901, Sec.

731. Troops on active campaign will be supplied with an emergency ration, prepared under direction of the War Department, which will not be used at any time or place where regular rations are obtainable. It will be carried in the haversack or saddlebags, and accounted for at inspection, etc., by the soldier. It will not be opened except by order of an officer, or in extremity. If improperly opened or lost the money value will be charged against the soldier.—A. R., 1382. Vide G. O. No. 157, A. G. O., 1901.

732. The emergency ration will not habitually be kept on hand by post commissaries in the United States. In garrisons outside the United States emergency rations when required will be held and accounted for by the post commissary, who will keep in store at least three days' supply for the full strength of the garrison. Should the whole or any portion of the command be ordered on active campaign, emergency rations, in addition to the number of regular rations to be provided, will be issued to organizations on ration returns specially submitted. Upon the return of the command to a garrison the emergency rations which have not been used or charged to enlisted men will be turned in to the post commissary, who will take them up on his return of stores, noting in the proper column of the return from whom received. Should any number have been used by any organization of the command a like number of regular rations will be deducted from the next ration return of the organization. Company and detachment commanders are responsible for the proper care and use of

emergency rations carried on the person of the soldier. Emergency rations held on hand by post commissaries for two years will be issued one day in every twenty in substitution of the regular ration until exhausted.-G. O. No. 157, A. G. O., 1901.

733. It shall be the duty of the officers of the Subsistence Department, under the direction of the Secretary of War, to purchase and issue to the Army such supplies as enter into the composition of the ration.-Rev. Stats., 1141.

NOTE. For commutation of the ration of sugar and coffee, vide Rev. Stat., 1294; A. R., 1388. 734. Food on transports for troops traveling will be prepared from the articles of subsistence stores which compose the ration for troops in garrison, varied by the substitution of other articles of authorized subsistence stories of equal money value when required. No savings will be allowed to troops on transports.-A. R., 1381.

735. Sixty days' rations, except of perishable articles, will be placed on board Army transports sailing between San Francisco, Cal., Portland, Oreg., or Seattle, Wash., and the Philippine Islands, for the passengers, troops, and crews thereon; and the articles put on board will be of the type necessary for the different messes. Of the perishable articles-such as fresh beef, fresh fruit, and fresh vegetables-enough only will be put aboard to last the maximum trip of the transport, and in lieu of these, articles of the ration will be used, if necessary. In the event of the transport carrying complete rations in transit, but thirty-five days' rations for the troops will be put aboard, and instructions will be given the commissary of the ship, in case of emergency, to meet it by using from the supplies in transit. —91766, 115091, O. C. G.

736. An enlisted man traveling on duty under orders on a vessel of the United States Transport Service, or an enlisted man granted a furlough with permission to travel on a vessel of the United States Transport Service, will mess with the enlisted men aboard.-G. O. No. 96, A. G. O., 1899. Vide A. R., 1417, 1420.

737. The ration is not an emolument; if not drawn at the time when and at the place where due, it can not be subsequently drawn either in kind or in money value, except by authority from the War Department.-Regs. Subs. Dept. Vide L. B. 118, p. 145.

738. In camp or barracks, where companies are not joined in a general mess, a company commander will supervise the cooking and messing of his men. He will see that his company is provided with at least two copies of the Manual for Army Cooks (which contains comprehensive instructions in cooking, which will be observed as far as practicable), and that suitable men in sufficient numbers are fully instructed in managing and cooking the ration in the field; also that necessary utensils in serviceable condition are always on hand, together with the field mess furniture for each man. At a post where all the companies are joined in a general mess, the post commander will see that the instruction above mentioned is given. At such a post a company commander will confine his supervision of the mess of his company to observation and to notifying the officer in charge in writing of anything requiring remedy. Should this officer fail to apply proper remedy, report may then be made to the post commander.— A. R., 310, 313. Vide Rev. Stat., 1174, 1234.

739. An enlisted man on furlough visiting the United States from any station beyond the limits of the United States will report for duty at the close of the last day of his furlough at the military post nearest the particular home port from which transports usually sail for the station to which he is to return, and the commanding officer of the post will assign him to organizations under his command for the purpose of subsistence during the time the soldier (who will be returned to his proper station by the first available transport) is detained at

the post. The commissary of the transport on which these enlisted men return will indorse on such orders the dates during which they were subsisted aboard the transport.-A. R., 122.

740. An enlisted man, a resident of the United States, serving in Hawaii, Guam, the Philippine Islands, or in Alaska, who is discharged the service in those islands or in Alaska, with a view to his transfer to the civil service; or on his own application, whether by way of favor or by purchase; or because of confinement by the civil authorities; or by way of punishment for an offense or for disability caused by his own misconduct; or on account of fraudulent enlistment, is, by the operation of section 1290, Revised Statutes, and the act of March 16, 1896 (29 Stat. L., 63), prevented from being allowed the usual traveling allowances to the place of his enlistment, enrollment, or original muster into the service, but he will be brought by the Government to the United States on a transport free of charge: Provided, That an enlisted man discharged because of confinement by civil authorities, or by way of punishment for an offense, or for disability caused by his own misconduct, shall be required to leave the islands or Alaska by the first transport departing for the United States or forfeit the privilege of being sent to the United States at the expense of the Government.— A. R., 159, as amended by G. O. No. 140, A. G. O., 1901.

741. Fresh meats will ordinarily be issued seven days in ten and salt meats three days in ten. If fish (dried, pickled, or canned) is issued it will be in substitution of salt meat. The proportion of the meat issues to troops may be varied at the discretion of department commanders, not, however, without due consideration being given to the equitable rights of contractors engaged in furnishing fresh meats to the troops under their commands. Whenever the issue of both the fresh meat and vegetable components is impracticable, there may be issued in lieu of them canned fresh-beef-and-vegetable stew, at the rate of 281 ounces to the ration. The meat component to which the sick in hospital, drawing rations in kind, are entitled may, at the discretion of the medical officer, be called for and issued wholly in fresh beef, or partly in fresh beef and partly in salt meats.-A. R., 1383.

742. When troops are not supplied with fresh or desiccated vegetables in kind by the commissary, or when under paragraph 354, A. R., the troops raise vegetables for their own use in post gardens, and such use does not prejudice the interests of any contractor under his contract for supplying fresh vegetables to the post, commutation of the fresh vegetable portion of their rations will be allowed by the commissary at the prices of potatoes and onions in the vicinity of the post, or in the market from which the post is supplied, in the proportion of 80 per cent of potatoes and 20 per cent of onions, the commutation prices being determined monthly by the chief commissary of the department in which the post is situated. Where the raising of vegetables in a post garden is contemplated the post commissary, with the approval of the post commander, will notify the chief commissary of the period during which the post garden will be relied upon for vegetables, and that period will be excepted from the operation of any contract that may be made for supplying vegetables to the post. —A. R., 1384. Vide Cir. No. 25, A. G. O., 1901, and Cir. No. 8, O. C. G., 1901.

743. Hereafter chief commissaries will, as soon as commutation prices for fresh vegetables at any post in their departments have, upon the application of the post commissary, been determined by them under Army Regulations, 1384, furnish the Commissary General with information as to the prices so determined, for use in the examination of vouchers on which payments of such commutation are made. Officers making such payments will state on the vouchers the date of the authority of the chief commissary.—Cir. No. 8, O. C. G., 1901. Vide Cir. No. 25, A. G. O., 1901.

744. A primary duty of the Subsistence Department is to supply to troops the articles of the ration in kind wherever it is practicable to do so. Chief commissaries are not authorized in the absence of post gardens (A. R., 354) to produce a dearth of fresh vegetables at a post by not contracting for a supply of the same and thus give rise to claims by troops for commutation under paragraph 1384 of Army Regulations. The preference of the post for commutation should not waive the duty of the Subsistence Department in the premises.-Cir. No. 25, A. G. O., 1901. Vide Cir. No. 8, O. C. G., 1901.

745. At posts and stations where illumination is furnished by the Quartermaster's Department, candles are not issued as part of the ration except to individuals whom it is not practicable for that department to supply with illuminants.-A. R., 1385.

746. When troops supplied with travel rations arrive at their destination or rejoin their station, such of the travel rations furnished them in excess of the time actually consumed by the journey as may be in good condition will be turned in to the commissary in exchange for the regular ration, and subsistence upon the latter will thereupon be immediately resumed.—A. R., 1386.

NOTE. For information regarding savings on travel ration, vide "Savings."

747. In adjusting charges to be made against enlisted men or others on account of increased expense to the Government for their subsistence, the value of the garrison or field ration and the Filipino ration will be estimated at 20 cents each; that of travel ration at 40 cents.-A. R., 1387.

748. When a commissary issues rations under an order which directs the amount thereof, or any portion of it, to be charged against an enlisted man, he will furnish the soldier's company commander with a full statement of the facts connected with the stoppage and the amount to be charged on the next muster and pay roll together with the proper notations to be made in the column of remarks on that roll. For instance, if the amount to be charged is on account of difference in the cost of travel rations and ordinary rations, the notation to be made in the column of remarks on the muster and pay roll will be "Increased cost of rations, Subsistence Army, 19-" (giving the fiscal year current at the time the issue was made). Similar action will be taken where other stoppages on account of subsistence have to be made. The commissary will, in all such cases, indorse on the copy of the order which accompanies his returns, the fact that the company commander has been requested to make the stoppage, stating the amount and date of the request.-Regs. Subs. Dept. Vide A. R., 1387, 1422, 1436; Cir. No. 1, A.G.O., 1896.

749. After rations are issued by the commissary, they are in the keeping of the troops, and any loss sustained is theirs.-S. O. Book, 1870, p. 93.

750. Recruits at a garrisoned post will be assigned to companies for rations, and all proper subsistence expenses incurred in connection with their enlistment or the forwarding of them to destination will be paid by the post commissary on the order of the commanding officer.-G. O. No. 133, A. G. O., 1901.

NOTE. For necessary action to be taken by chief commissaries when articles of the ration become unexpectedly exhausted at a post; and also in emergencies when there is not time to obtain rations from usual sources of supplies, vide " Chief Commissaries.'

751. When enlisted men supplied with cooked or travel rations travel unaccompanied by an officer, funds for the purchase of liquid coffee in lieu of the coffee and sugar portion of the travel ration, at the rate of 21 cents per man per day for the anticipated number of days' travel, may, on the order of the commanding officer who directs the journey, be paid to each man and his receipt therefor taken on a receipt roll (Form 16), which must be accompanied by a copy of the order. When an enlisted man supplied with cooked or travel rations

travels under command of an officer, funds at the same rate for the same purpose will be transferred to the officer to be disbursed and accounted for (Form 15). At the end of the journey all money in excess of 21 cents per man per day for the actual number of days traveled will be transferred to the nearest commissary. Should any part of the 21 cents per man per day for the actual number of days traveled be unexpended, it will be transferred to company commanders pro rata, to be taken up by them as part of the company fund. The actual number of days and fractions of days traveled will be computed in the same manner as commutation of rations is computed under paragraph 364 of this manual—A. R., 1388; Regs. Subs. Dept.

NOTES. For the procedure in case where rations are ordered issued to a soldier on furlough to enable him to reach his proper station, vide A. R., 1387, 1422.

For information as to subsistence, reimbursement for expenses, etc., for enlisted men in pursuit of deserters, etc., vide A. R., 135, 136, 137; 1216 A, 1872.

For information regarding subsistence for noncommissioned officers, privates and recruits traveling to and from Pacific coast via Chicago, vide "Commutation of Rations; " G. O. No. 130, A. G. O., 1901.

For information relative to rations of civilian employees when traveling, etc., vide A. R., 815, 817 (as amended by G. O. No. 130, A. G. O., 1901) and "Civil Employees."

RATION ISSUES.

752. It shall be the duty of the officers of the Subsistence Department, under the direction of the Secretary of War, to issue to the Army such supplies as enter into the composition of the ration.-Rev. Stat., 1141.

753. Issues of articles of the ration are to be made at the discretion of the Government, according to the state of supplies on hand. -Decisions Sec. of War, Mar. 21, 1864 (S. O. B., 73, 1864).

754. Issues by the Subsistence Department of articles of the ration are of two kinds, viz: First, regular issues, being issues of ration articles for which no reimbursement is made; and second, issues of ration articles for which reimbursement is made to the Subsistence Department.

Regular issues are those which are made to the following classes of persons: 1. Enlisted men (of companies, troops, and batteries, noncommissioned staffs and bands, detachments, enlisted men in hospitals, Hospital Corps, hospital matrons, and nurses of the nurse corps) of the Regular Army.

2. Enlisted men, as above, belonging to the Volunteer Army.

3. Enlisted men, as above, of the militia, when called into the service of the United States.

4. Officers and seamen of the Navy when acting, or proceeding to act, on shore, in cooperation with the Army.

5. Officers and enlisted men of the Marine Corps, when acting, or proceeding to act, on shore, in cooperation with the Army.

6. Enlisted men serving sentence at posts after discharge, known as "general prisoners."

7. Prisoners of war.

8. Civilians employed with the Army under conditions prescribed in Army Regulations, 1378:

9. Indian scouts.

10. Other specially authorized issues.

Issues where reimbursement is made comprise:

1. Those made to other governmental bureaus, under competent orders, for which reimbursement is to be made to the Subsistence Department by the bureaus concerned.

2. Those made to many classes of persons in the Philippines, under orders of the commanding general, Division of the Philippines, for which the Subsistence Department is to be reimbursed from the civil funds of the islands.-Regs. Subs. Dept.

755. The unit of issue is a full day's ration. Issue of a fractional part of a day's ration for a fractional part of a day will not be made. Enlisted men supplied with cooked or travel rations, and those not supplied with subsistence of