2 When a single field gun is used to fire a salute the interval between a [1046676, M. S. 0.] 995. When a reporter is employed under section 1203, Revised Statutes, he shall be paid, upon the certificate of the judge advocate, not to exceed $1 an hour for the time occupied in court by himself or a competent assistant, and 10 cents per 100 words for transcribing the notes, and 5 cents per 100 words for copying exhibits; for carbon copies, if ordered, he shall be paid at the rate of 2 cents per 100 words. In case the court is held more than 10 miles from the place of employment of himself or assistants they shall each be allowed mileage over the shortest usually traveled route at the rate of 8 cents per mile going to the place of holding the court and $3 a day as expenses while necessarily kept by the judge advocate away from the place of employment. Carbon copies will only be ordered with the approval of the convening authority, or, in the cases of courts of inquiry and retiring boards, of the Secretary of War. Reporters are employed by the judge advocate and are paid by the Pay Department, at the rates herein before named, upon the certificate of the judge advocate that the services charged for have been rendered. [1052958, M. S. O.] 1068. The issue of stationery for all military purposes shall be made on requisition approved by the commanding officer. The material to be issued shall consist of typewriter supplies, writing and blotting paper, pads, pens, penholders, ink, mucilage, sealing wax, office tape, envelopes, and lead pencils. Officers approving requisitions will enforce economy in the use of stationery. But one issue a quarter will be made to officers not drawing for an office. For each issue the quartermaster |will require two copies of the approved requisition receipted by the officer to whom the issue is made. These issues, as soon as made, will be entered upon the return, and one copy of the approved requisition will be forwarded to the Quartermaster General with the return, as a voucher thereto. [1045375, M. S. O.] II.Paragraph 874, Army Regulations, is revoked. [1054897, M. S. O.] BY ORDER OF THE ACTING SECRETARY OF WAR: OFFICIAL: J. C. BATES, Major General, Acting Chief of Staff. F. C. AINSWORTH, The Military Secretary. WAR DEPARTMENT, GENERAL ORDERS, } No. 154. S WASHINGTON, September 20, 1905. On September 30, 1905, the employment of civilian physicians as examiners of recruits at stations of the general recruiting service will be discontinued. Thereafter the examination of recruits at all such stations, where the services of medical officers of the Army are not available, will be personally conducted by the recruiting officers themselves, assisted by the enlisted members of their recruiting parties and in accordance with the instructions set forth in the manual for the examination of recruits. The medical examination of recruits enlisted at general recruiting stations will be held at the recruit depots or military posts to which the recruits are first sent from those stations, and will be conducted as directed in paragraph 877, Army Regulations, and in General Orders, No. 104, War Department, June 30, 1905, the provisions of which are hereby extended so as to apply to all military posts to which recruits may be sent without previous medical examination. The depots and posts to which recruits will be sent from the various recruiting stations will be designated in instructions to be issued from the office of The Military Secretary of the Army. Posts designated to receive recruits under the provisions of this order will be regarded as recruit depots within the meaning of paragraph 851, Army Regulations, as amended by General Orders, No. 135, War Department, August 15, 1905, and of paragraphs 877, 878, 879, 881, and 882, Army Regulations, and paragraph I, General Orders, No. 143, War Department, August 22, 1905. No recruits enlisted by officers of the general recruiting service will be assigned to regiments or other organizations from recruiting stations, depots, or posts except as directed by the last-named paragraph. Under the system of examining recruits herein prescribed recruiting officers are expected to exercise great care in order not to accept recruits having defects which should be evident to a line officer having knowledge of the physical requirements of a soldier. Such defects and the methods of detecting them are clearly shown in the manual for the examination of recruits, and recruiting officers will be held responsible for accepting recruits possessing defects that should be detected without expert medical examination. As examples of defects 2 that should be detected by a layman may be mentioned, variations from the standards of physical proportions prescribed in Circular, No. 15, War Department, Washington, March 23, 1905, lack of the free use of the limbs and joints, inability to read the test cards at the required distances, defective hearing in either ear, impediments of speech, defective teeth, deformities, depressions of the skull from injury, skin diseases, obvious venereal diseases, hernia, shortness of breath, marked palpitation of the heart, external piles, etc. Varicose veins, varicocele, corns, bunions, flat feet, and hammer toes, while causes of rejection when they exist in a marked degree, should be very carefully considered, as minor degrees of these defects are very common among men who lead the most active lives and who would make desirable recruits. While a line officer is not expected to detect errors of refraction of the eye, valvular lesions of the heart, tuberculosis of the lungs, Bright's disease, or other obscure internal affections, he is reminded that these affections usually give rise to signs, such as defective vision, shortness of breath, emaciation, tumultuous beating of the heart, etc., which the recruiting officer should detect, and which are causes of rejection. Attention is especially invited to the last paragraph of page 14 of the manual for the examination of recruits, which is as follows: "If a careful inspection is made and a defect noted, which upon due consideration is not considered by the officer making the examination to be disqualifying, he is relieved from responsibility; but if he passes a recruit who has a serious defect, which is discernible by an ordinary layman, and enlists the man without noting the defect upon the examination form and enlistment papers, it evidences neglect in the examination.” [1047110, M. S. O.] BY ORDER OF THE ACTING SECRETARY OF WAR: OFFICIAL: J. C. BATES, Major General, Acting Chief of Staff. F. C. AINSWORTH, The Military Secretary. GENERAL ORDERS, No. 155. WAR DEPARTMENT, WASHINGTON, September 21, 1905. I..The clothing allowance of the enlisted men of the Philippine Scouts, organized under the provisions of section 36 of the act of Congress approved February 2, 1901, is, under the provisions of said act, fixed as follows: The allowance of clothing will be at the rate of 17 cents per day, or $5.10 per month, for the first six months of each enlistment or reenlistment, and thereafter at the rate of 9 cents per day, or $2.70 per month, irrespective of grade. The articles of uniform clothing allowed for issue will be designated by the commanding general, Philippines Division. General Orders, No. 24, Headquarters of the Army, Adjutant General's Office, March 12, 1902, and General Orders, No. 105, War Department, June 30, 1905, are modified accordingly. This order will take effect in each organization on the date of its receipt. [1048959, M. S. O.] II.1. Schools for the instruction of the children of officers, enlisted men, and civil employees of the Government, to be known as post schools for children, may be established upon the recommendation of post commanders, approved by the division commander, at such military posts as have no school facilities near them. 2. Instruction shall be given under the supervision of officers by teachers detailed from the enlisted men. The number of teachers shall not exceed one to every twenty pupils or fraction thereof. For Saturdays and Sundays and during vacations but one teacher at each school will be allowed extra-duty pay, and he will be required to care for the school books and property. A school teacher is not entitled to extra-duty pay while absent or on pass exceeding twenty-four hours. The Military Secretary. |