GENERAL ORDERS, WAR DEPARTMENT, I.1. Paragraph I, General Orders, No. 9, War Department, 1913, relating to the tactical organization of the troops of the Mobile Army stationed within the continental limits of the United States, as amended, is further amended so as to omit the 29th Infantry from the organizations named as assigned to the 1st Brigade, 1st Division, and to omit Company M, 3d Battalion of Engineers, from the organizations named under the heading "Army troops," page 2, and under the heading "Detachments and attachments," page 3, of the order. 2. Paragraph V, General Orders, No. 9, War Department, 1913, relating to organizations assigned to duty in the several territorial departments as amended is further amended so as to add the 29th Infantry and Company M, 3d Battalion of Engineers, to the organizations named as assigned to the Eastern Department. [2286019, A. G. O.] II_Under the provisions of an act of Congress approved March 4, 1915, regulations have been put into effect for the parole, under certain conditions, of general prisoners confined at the United States Disciplinary Barracks, Fort Leavenworth, Kans., and its branches. When a prisoner is paroled to a place in the vicinity of a military post or a recruiting station the commanding officer of the post or station will be advised by the parole officer of the barracks as to the name of the prisoner, the place where he is to remain while on parole, and other pertinent facts in the case. In this connection attention is invited to the following extract from the parole regulations: Whenever any person connected with the military service shall have reasonable grounds for believing that any paroled prisoner has violated the terms of his parole, it shall be the duty of such person so to inform his commanding officer at once; and if it shall appear to the commanding officer, after due investigation, that such prisoner has in fact materially violated his parole, the commanding officer shall make immediate report thereof by telegram to The Adjutant General of the Army. [2288333 A-A. G. O.] 2 III__Section (i), paragraph 42, General Orders, No. 14, War Department, 1912, relating to the subject of ballistics in the examination as to professional fitness for promotion in the case of officers of Coast Artillery, is amended to read as follows: High Angle Fire (Hamilton). Published in Vol. 40, No. 2, Journal U. S. Artillery (Whole No. 123). Notes on Direct Fire (Wildrick). Published in Vol. 43, No. 1, Journal U. S. Artillery (Whole [2286215, A. G. O.] IV__Paragraph 13, General Orders, No. 57, War Department, 1914, relating to allowances of fuel for cooking and heating water in barracks and other buildings at military posts, is amended by adding the following allowance of fuel: Two Army ranges No. 5 single, when used by a single organization, 7,500 pounds per month. [2287569, A. G. O.] V--Commanding officers of Signal Corps organizations, instead of rendering the monthly returns of their organizations on Form No. 30, A. G. O., will hereafter make such returns on forms to be furnished by the office of the Chief Signal Officer. |