21st Battery, Field Artillery. The 11th Battalion, Field Artillery (mountain), Manila, Phil ippine Islands: Commander, 17th Battery, Field Artillery (mountain). 18th Battery, Field Artillery (mountain). The 12th Battalion, Field Artillery, Fort Ethan Allen, Vermont: Commander, Major Edward E. Gayle, Artillery Corps. 23d Battery, Field Artillery. 27th Battery, Field Artillery. The 13th Battalion, Field Artillery (mountain), Vancouver Barracks, Washington: Commander, Major Alexander B. Dyer, Artillery Corps. 26th Battery, Field Artillery (mountain). 28th Battery, Field Artillery (mountain). The 9th Battery, Field Artillery, is provisionally attached to the 11th Battalion, Field Artillery. The staff of a battalion commander shall consist of an adjutant, a quartermaster and commissary, an ordnance officer, and a reconnaissance and signal officer. They are appointed from the officers serving in the battalion by the battalion commander, who will confine himself to the allowance published from time to time in orders from the War Department. When appointed from officers assigned to the batteries composing the battalion they will be required to perform their regular battery duties. The battalion noncommissioned staff shall consist of a sergeant major, junior grade. 6. For purposes of instruction in modern tactical methods for field artillery the 4th and 5th Battalions, Field Artillery, at Fort Riley, Kansas, and the 9th Battalion, Field Artillery, at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, will, when assembled at Fort Riley, Kansas, constitute a provisional regiment of field artillery under the commander of the artillery subpost at Fort Riley, Kansas, and will be known and designated as the "Provisional Regiment, Field Artillery." The staff of a regimental commander shall consist of an adjutant, a quartermaster and commissary, an ordnance officer, and a reconnaissance and signal officer. They are appointed from the officers serving in the regiment by the regimental commander, who will confine himself to the allowance published from time to time in orders from the War Department. When selected from the officers assigned to the batteries com posing the provisional regiment they will be required to perform their regular battery duties. The regimental noncommissioned staff shall consist of a sergeant major, senior grade. 7. Battalion commanders, except Major Hoyle, assigned to duty by this order will join their respective commands without delay. Major Hoyle will join his battalion upon completion of the duty assigned him by paragraph 2, Special Orders, No. 85, War Department, November 23, 1903. The changes in organization and in the assignment of additional officers and enlisted men and animals necessitated by this order will be made as soon as practicable. The changes of stations of batteries provided for herein will be made as soon as the necessary barrack and stable accommodations are completed at Fort D. A. Russell, Wyoming, and Buffalo, New York. Pending the completion of barracks and stables at the stations named the 16th (siege), the 28th (mountain), and the 29th Batteries, Field Artillery, stationed at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, the 12th and 22d Batteries stationed at Fort Douglas, Utah, and the 8th and 26th (mountain) Batteries stationed at Vancouver Barracks, Washington, will constitute provisional battalions. The travel enjoined is necessary for the public service. ADNA R. CHAFFEE, OFFICIAL: F. C. AINSWORTH, The Military Secretary. GENERAL ORDERS, No. 153. WAR DEPARTMENT, Washington, September 16, 1904. The following orders of the Honorable the Postmaster General, publishing rates of pay for communications by telegraph and cable, are published to the Army for the information and guidance of all concerned. BY ORDER OF THE ACTING SECRETARY OF WAR: RATES OF PAY FOR COMMUNICATIONS OVER THE COMMERCIAL PACIFIC CABLE. ORDER No. 877. POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT, Pursuant to the authority vested in the Postmaster General by the Preamble and Resolutions adopted at a meeting of the Board of Directors of the Commercial Pacific Cable Company, held in the City of New York on the 25th day of November, 1902, a certified copy of said Preamble and Resolutions being on file in this office, paragraph 4 of which reads as follows: 4. That the Government of the United States, any department thereof, its officers, agents, and insular or territorial officers and governments upon the route of such cable shall have priority for the official cablegrams over all other business, at such dates as the Postmaster General shall annually fix. I hereby fix the rates for the transmission of Government communications over the Commercial Pacific Cable Company's line during the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1904, and terminating June 30, 1905, said rates being exclusive of place from and rate, as follows: Between San Francisco, Cal., and Honolulu, H. I. $0.175 per word. Between Honolulu, H. I., and Midway 66 Between Midway and Sumaye, Guam.. "Manila, Luzon. Between Sumaye, Guam and Manila, Luzon. (2) |