ORDERS I..The following changes in station of troops are ordered: 1. (a) Lieutenant Colonel Frank Taylor, 19th Infantry, and Companies K and M, same regiment, from Fort Lawton, Washington, to Vancouver Barracks, Washington. (b) Major Silas A. Wolf, 19th Infantry, and Companies I and L, same regiment, from Fort Wright, Washington, to Vancouver Barracks, Washington. (c) Headquarters, band, and 1st Battalion, 10th Infantry, from Infantry Cantonment, Presidio of San Francisco, California, to Fort Lawton, Washington. (d) Second Battalion, 10th Infantry, from Infantry Cantonment, Presidio of San Francisco, California, to Fort Wright, Washington. The foregoing movements will take place as soon as practicable and under the direct orders of the commanding general, Pacific Division. 2. The following movements will begin October 15 next: (b) Second Squadron, 9th Cavalry, to Fort Leavenworth, (c) Third Squadron, 9th Cavalry, to Jefferson Barracks, Missouri. (d) Third Battalion, 10th Infantry, to Fort Walla Walla, Washington. (e) Headquarters, band, 1st and 2d Squadrons, 4th Cavalry, to the Infantry Cantonment, Presidio of San Francisco, California. (f) Third Squadron, 4th Cavalry, to Ord Barracks, Monterey, California. 3. The horses and horse equipments pertaining to the 2d and 3d Squadrons, 9th Cavalry, and to the entire 4th Cavalry, will be left at their present stations. Upon arrival of the 3d Battalion of the 10th Infantry at Fort Walla Walla, Washington, the headquarters and band, 9th Cavalry, will proceed by rail, dismounted, to Fort Riley, Kansas, and the 2d Squadron, 9th Cavalry (1 officer and 20 men excepted), will proceed, dismounted, to Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. One officer and 20 enlisted men of the 2d Squadron will be sent with the horses V 22 Recd and the horse equipments pertaining to the headquarters, band, and 2d Squadron to the Presidio of San Francisco, Cali-, fornia, where they will be turned over to the 4th Cavalry. Upon completion of this duty this detachment will be sent, dismounted, to its proper station at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. Private horses of officers of the 4th Cavalry will be assem bled at Fort Riley, Kansas (the horses pertaining to the squadron at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, to march to Fort Riley, Kansas), and will be shipped by car-load lots to San Fran cisco, California, and there distributed to stations. Private horses belonging to officers of the 1st and 3d Squadrons, 9th Cavalry, will be assembled at San Francisco, California, and shipped by car-load lots to Fort Riley, Kansas, and there distributed to stations. Private horses of officers belonging to headquarters and 2d Squadron, 9th Cavalry, will be shipped from Fort Walla Walla, Washington, to Fort Riley, Kansas, and from there distributed to proper stations. (The horses of the 2d Squadron, 9th Cavalry, will be sent overland from Fort Riley, Kansas, to Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.) 4. The movements directed in paragraph 2 will be executed through concert of action by the commanding generals of the Pacific and Northern Divisions. The Quartermaster's Department will furnish the necessary transportation, the Subsistence Department suitable subsistence, and the Medical Department proper medical attendance and supplies. II..When an enlisted man of the Signal Corps is ordered to station in a territorial division in which the men of that corps are assigned to a company other than that to which the man belongs, his descriptive list required by paragraph 126, Army Regulations, will be made in duplicate, the original to be forwarded to the commanding officer of the station to which the soldier is sent, the duplicate to the commanding officer of the Signal Corps company to which the soldier's new assignment carries him, for use in the preparation of muster roll of said company. BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF WAR: ADNA R. CHAFFEE, Lieutenant General, Chief of Staff. OFFICIAL: F. C. AINSWORTH, The Military Secretary. No. 99. WASHINGTON, June 9, 1904. I--The act of Congress approved January 30, 1903, entitled "An act to promote the efficiency of the Philippine constabulary, to establish the rank and pay of its commanding officers, and for other purposes," provides that Any companies of Philippine scouts ordered to assist the Philippine constabulary in the maintenance of order in the Philippine Islands may be placed under the command of officers serving as chief or assistant chiefs of the Philippine constabulary, as herein provided: Provided, That when the Philippine scouts shall be ordered to assist the Philippine constabulary, said scouts shall not at any time be placed under the command of inspectors or other officers of the constabulary below the grade of assistant chief of constabulary. (Sec. 2, act of Jan. 30, 1903; 32 Stat. L., 783.) Whenever it becomes necessary in the execution of the statute above cited to direct the travel of officers, or the movement of companies or detachments of Philippine scouts which have been placed under the command and control of the chief or assistant chiefs of the Philippine constabulary, the orders directing such travel of officers or movements of troops will be issued by the chief of the Philippine constabulary or by an assistant chief if the travel or movement is within the limits of the district under his charge and control. The cost of transportation of troops and the reimbursement of expenses incurred in travel will constitute a charge upon the appropriations for the support of the Army, and will be accepted and paid by officers of the Pay and Quartermaster's Departments as if issued by the commanding general of a territorial division or department. Orders involving the payment of mileage will state the special duty enjoined, the necessity of the travel will be certified to, and no orders directing inspections or investigations will be issued. It should be shown affirmatively in all orders that the transportation or travel therein directed is ordered with a view to the maintenance of public order in the Philippine Islands, and that the officers and troops have been duly placed under the orders of the constabulary officer issuing the order. The chief of the Philippine constabulary will submit, in advance, quarterly estimates of the funds needed under the several heads of appropriation for the movement of troops or for |