Philippines scouts turned over to the constabulary-Continued. Companies. Seventeenth Ilocanos Nineteenth Ilocanos Twenty-second Ilo canos. Twenty-third Ilocanos Twenty-sixth Caga- Thirty-first Tagalos.... Thirty-eighth Visa yans. Forty-first Visayans... Forty-second Visayans Officers and rank. First Lieut. L. E. Cheatham.. First Lieut. I. F. Costello. The First, Second, Third, and Seventh Macabebes, Seventeenth, Nineteenth, Twenty-first, and Twenty-third Ilocanos and Thirty-third Bicols were turned over to the constabulary February 13, 1903; the Sixteenth Ilocanos, February 21; the Fifth and Eleventh Macabebes, Twenty-second Ilocanos, Twenty-ninth Tagalos, and Thirty-second Bicols, March 4; the Sixth Macabebes and Thirty-first Tagalos, March 7; the Thirty-fourth Tagalos and Forty-first Visayans, April 2; the Tenth Macabebes, Fourteenth and Twentieth Ilocanos, April 8; the Ninth Macabebes, May 1; the Thirteenth Ilocanos, June 7; the Twentyfifth, Twenty-sixth, and Twenty-seventh Cagayans, June 20, and the Thirty-eighth and Forty-second Visayans, July 21. Attention is also invited to the following letter of the commanding general of the division: HEADQUARTERS DIVISION OF THE PHILIPPINES, Brig. Gen. JAMES F. WADE, U. S. Army, Commanding Department of Luzon, Manila, P. I. GENERAL: Whenever organizations of Philippine scouts are furnished for operations against disturbers of the peace under orders of the chief of the Philippine constabulary the companies continue to be dependent on the army for their pay, rations, clothing, medicines, and medical attendance, arms and ammunition, and, of course, they continue to be amenable to the rules and articles of war. As respects animals and wagons for transportation, the scouts should be furnished with such as are available, and arrangements should be made for their forage by the army quartermaster. Very respectfully, GEO. W. DAVIS, Major-General, U. S. Army, Commanding. In spite of the fact that it is somewhat of an anomaly for one department or bureau to organize, equip, and maintain an armed force to be utilized in active operations by another, I wish to emphasize the fact that the cooperation on behalf of all concerned has been so full and complete that there has scarcely been a suspicion of friction. For this the credit is largely due to instructions given by the commanding general of the division and the several department commanders. As to the scout officers themselves, they have as a body responded in a most willing and effective manner to every call made upon them. As evidence of this, attention is invited to the numerous examples of zeal, persistency, and valor displayed by them in the execution of the instructions given them, as shown in the reports of Colonels Scott and Bandholtz. With the further implantation of civil government the constabulary has been called upon to assist in various works somewhat extraneous to the duties laid down for it in the organic act. Constabulary officers in certain provinces are acting as postmasters; in others they are charged with the guarding of jails, the expediting of mails, the maintenance of quarantine, transferring of prisoners between provinces and from the outlying provinces to Manila, supplying of commissaries to insular and provincial officials, and the maintenance of telegraph and telephone lines. Following is a list of constabulary inspectors and stations: FIRST DISTRICT. [NOTE. (S. I.) signifies senior inspector of province. (S. O.) signifies supply officer of province. Insprs. signifies inspectors. D. S. signifies detached service. Towns in italics are the provincial capitals.] |