Vouchers for these local purchases will be paid by the local United States disbursing officer in the manner prescribed for paying such vouchers incident to summer camps of instruction. The department quartermaster of the proper territorial department of the Regular Army will furnish local United States disbursing officers with the necessary funds.

As soon as practicable after the establishment of a mobilization camp a quartermaster belonging to the State or Territorial administrative staff will be mustered and appointed camp quartermaster. He will perform his duties as required by regulations and orders governing quartermasters of the Regular Army.

2. (a) Mounted officers, mounted organizations, or members of such organizations owning suitable animals may take the same with them into the service of the United States provided the owners in each case have a certificate from a regular officer fully describing the animal and certifying to its soundness and suitability for military purposes. The owner, if an enlisted man, must agree to sell the animal at the average contract price for the year. Such certificates will be made in duplicate, using Form No. 277, Adjutant General's Office, modified so as to meet requirements. One copy will be filed with the senior inspectorinstructor on duty in the State, Territory, or the District of Columbia and one given the owner. They will be good for one year. When mustered out of the service of the United States the owner may purchase the horse thus sold to the United States at the price paid by the Government for the animal. Horses taken by mounted officers into the service of the United States will be subject to all provisions prescribed in Army Regulations for mounts for officers of the Regular Army.

(b) Officers of the Regular Army, when inspecting an organization under section 14 of the militia law, are authorized, when so requested, to inspect animals pertaining to said organization and to give certificates when the conditions found warrant such action.

457. (a) The militia authorities of the several States and Territories and the commanding general of the District of Columbia Militia will keep the proper department commander advised of the location of their mobilization camps. Department commanders will keep themselves informed of the facilities of the mobilization camps within their departments and, where deficiencies in equipment of the same exist, they will have plans prepared to make good all such deficiencies in the event mobilization is ordered. The execution of these plans will be accomplished, where practicable, through the agency of the State or Territorial authorities as directed by the proper department commander. any case the site selected is not well adapted for the purpose, the department commander will so report.

(b) The mobile troops of the Organized Militia called into the service of the United States will be mustered in at these designated places of mobilization by officers of the Army detailed for this purpose by the War Department. Every officer and enlisted man of the militia who shall duly be called forth shall be mustered for service without further medical examination previous to such muster, except in the cases of those States and Territories or the District of Columbia which have not adopted the standard of medical examination prescribed for the Regular Army, in which cases both officers and enlisted men shall be examined as follows before they are mustered into the United States service: They will be stripped of all clothing and then minutely examined, in the presence of the mustering officer, by a medical officer (from the Regular Army when practicable) detailed for that purpose to ascertain whether they have the physical qualifications necessary for the military service, reference being had to the length and character of the service for which they are called out. In the case of militia mustered in from those States and Territories or the

District of Columbia which have adopted the standard of medical examination prescribed for the Regular Army, as soon as practicable after such muster in a physical examination shall be made of all officers and enlisted men by a medical officer of the Army detailed for the purpose, who shall note all cases of defect and cause the same to be entered in the case of each individual on the report of his physical examination, stating in each case whether the defect so noted existed prior to the muster in of the soldier.

(c) Organizations belonging to the Coast Artillery Reserves may be sent directly from the company rendezvous to the coast defense command to which they may be assigned, and there mustered by an officer of the regular garrison, as the interests of the United States may require.

458. It shall be the duty of every officer designated to muster into the service of the United States any of the militia of the several States or Territories or of the District of Columbia, to see that the muster rolls contain all information that might in any way affect pay, or which it might be necessary to consider in the settlement of claims for pensions. Blank forms, with models and detailed instructions, will be forwarded to mustering officers by the War Department.

459. The muster of the Organized Militia into the service of the United States and its muster out will be conducted strictly in accordance with detailed regulations therefor prescribed by the Secretary of War.

460. As soon as a regiment or other separate organization has been mustered into the service of the United States the mustering officer or his assistant, acting with a representative of the governor of the State or Territory or the commanding general of the District of Columbia Militia, will inventory and inspect all property belonging to the United States taken by such troops into the Federal service.

The governor, or his representative at the mobilization camp, or the commanding general of the District of Columbia Militia, will invoice all such United States property to the proper officer of the regiment or separate unit of organization less than a regiment as follows:

1. All clothing, camp and garrison equipage, subsistence stores, and quartermaster's supplies to the quartermaster.

2. All property belonging to the medical department to the senior medical officer.

3. All property pertaining to the Corps of Engineers, the Ordnance Department, and the Signal Corps to an accounting officer detailed by the regimental or other commander of a separate organization from his staff.

4. Property pertaining to each department will be invoiced separately. The invoices and receipts will show the condition of the property as good, poor, or unserviceable. All property receipted for as good will be accepted at full value; all property receipted for as poor will be accepted at half value; and all property receipted for as unserviceable will be accepted as having no value. The several officers hereinbefore specified will use the invoices received from the governor or his representative as vouchers for taking up such property on their returns and they will furnish the usual receipts for the property received.

5. No clothing will be charged to enlisted men except that which may subsequently be supplied directly from time to time by the United States after muster in.

6. Questions arising as to the serviceability of United States property will be submitted to the senior mustering officer, whose decisions will be final.

7. Any State or Territorial property of a standard pattern and quality needed for the equipment of the troops should be brought into the service of the United States as herein provided for United States property.

461. At the termination of the period for which the President called the militia forces into the service of the United States they shall be mustered out by an officer of the United States detailed for the purpose at such rendezvous favorable to all interests concerned, as may be directed by the War Department. A thorough physical examination of all officers and enlisted men of the militia will be made immediately prior to their discharge or their muster out. The mustering officer will be provided by the War Department with blanks and detailed instructions.

462. In the event the militia is called forth during the winter and it is impracticable to order troops into the mobilization camps of some of the Northern States organizations may be mobilized in their armories, or a mobilization camp for such States may be designated in a warm climate beyond their boundaries, the organizations being forwarded thereto directly from the State armories. Under these exceptional conditions the mobilization camp of a particular State may even be at one of the concentration camps established by the United States. 463. In the event of mobilization of the Organized Militia or of any part thereof, all inquiries or requests from subordinates prior to muster into the service of the United States will be addressed through proper channels to the adjutant general of the State or Territory or the District of Columbia Militia.

These adjutants general will address all necessary requisitions for property, equipment, and funds and all inquiries in reference to the mobilization to the department adjutant of the proper territorial department of the Regular Army.

ARTICLE XLV.

THE GOVERNMENT HOSPITAL FOR THE INSANE.

464. The following classes of persons are entitled by law to admission to the Government Hospital for the Insane: (1) Officers, contract surgeons, and enlisted men of the Army who have become insane while in the military service, or within three years after their discharge therefrom, from causes which arose during and were incident to such service; (2) inmates of the Soldiers' Home and of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers; (3) civilian employees of the Quartermaster Corps who may become insane during such employment; (4) general prisoners.

465. The insane of the military service, except as otherwise provided for in paragraph 469, will be reported, through military channels, to The Adjutant General of the Army, that the orders of the Secretary of War for their disposition may be obtained. The report will be accompanied by a certificate of the surgeon containing the diagnosis, a detailed account of the medical history of the case, and a statement as to whether the disability was or was not incurred in line of duty; also a statement as to whether the patient, if discharged the service, can be released from military control without danger to himself or others.

466. In the case of an insane person ordered by the War Department to be sent to the Government Hospital for the Insane, all papers, including his descriptive list, certificates of disability, and form of medical certificate required by the Department of the Interior, properly filled in, will be forwarded directly to The Adjutant General of the Army by the post commander on the date of the person's departure from the post. An insane soldier will not be discharged from the service except by order of the Secretary of War.

The blank forms for the medical certificate required by the Department of the Interior will be furnished by The Adjutant General of the Army.

467. An insane soldier ordered by the War Department to be sent to the Government Hospital for the Insane will be escorted by a noncommissioned

officer. When a number are sent at one time or when the patient or patients require restraint, the department commander may order such addition to the escort as may be necessary. The noncommissioned officer will report to The Adjutant General of the Army, by telegraph, at least 24 hours in advance, the probable time and place of arrival in Washington. After leaving the patient at the hospital the noncommissioned officer will report to The Adjutant General of the Army for further instructions.

468. On the departure of the patient from his station the commanding officer will give such orders to the person in charge as will provide for transportation of the necessary attendants to the institution and returning to their posts, also subsistence during their absence. When payment of commutation, in lieu of subsistence in kind, is permissible under paragraph 1223, the commanding officer may, in writing, order commutation for the patient to be paid in advance to, and receipted for by, the noncommissioned officer to whose charge the patient is committed.

469. The insane of the military service in the Philippine Islands, except natives, will be sent by the commanding general, Philippine Department, to Letterman General Hospital, Presidio of San Francisco, Cal., for observation and treatment in that hospital before action is taken in their cases in accordance with the provisions of paragraph 465.

Insane natives of the Philippine Islands and Porto Rico serving in the Army of the United States may, under authority from the Secretary of War, be sent to an asylum in the Philippine Islands or to an asylum in Porto Rico, respectively. 470. To obtain the release of a patient when cured or his delivery to the care of friends, application must be made to The Adjutant General of the Army, accompanied by the recommendation of the superintendent of the hospital.

ARTICLE XLVI.

INDIANS.

INDIAN COUNTRY.

471. If any commanding officer of a military post has reason to suspect or is informed that any white person or Indian is about to introduce or has introduced any spirituous liquor or wine into the Indian country in violation of law, he may cause the boats, stores, packages, wagons, sleds, and places of deposit of such person to be searched; and if such liquor is found therein, the same, together with the boats, teams, wagons, and sleds used in conveying the same, and also the goods, packages, and peltries of such person, shall be seized and delivered to the proper officer, and shall be proceeded against by libel in the proper court. It shall, moreover, be the duty of any person in the service of the United States, or of any Indian, to take and destroy any ardent spirits or wine found in the Indian country, except such as may be introduced therein by the War Department. In all cases arising under sections 2139 and 2140, Revised Statutes, Indians shall be competent witnesses. It shall be a sufficient defense to any charge of introducing or attempting to introduce ardent spirits. ale, beer, wine, or intoxicating liquors into the Indian country that the acts charged were done under authority, in writing, from the War Department or any officer duly authorized thereunto by the War Department.

472. The Indian country within the meaning of the foregoing paragraph may be defined, in general, as the Indian reservations, or districts occupied by Indian tribes and to which the Indian title has not been extinguished; or sections of country over which the operation of the Indian trade and intercourse laws has been retained by Indian treaty stipulations. Should any case arise which, in the opinion of the department commander, does not appear to be embraced

within these definitions, he will report it to the Secretary of War, in order that the question whether the location is Indian country may be authoritatively determined.

473. When lands are secured to the Indians by treaty against occupation by the whites, the military commanders will keep intruders off the same by military force, if necessary, until such time as the Indian title is extinguished or the lands are opened by Congress for settlement.

474. When questions arise as to the ownership of animals in possession of Indians, the commanding officer of the nearest military post is authorized and directed to act in conjunction with the agent in charge of said Indians in the investigation and determination of ownership.

475. The introduction into the Indian country for the purpose of sale to, or exchange with, Indians of any breech-loading firearms and of any special ammunition adapted to them, and the sale and exchange to Indians in the Indian country of any such arms or ammunition is prohibited. The introduction into the country or district occupied by any tribe of hostile Indians, for the purpose of sale or exchange to them, of arms or ammunition of any description, and the sale or exchange thereof to or with such Indians is prohibited; and all such arms or ammunition introduced by traders or other persons, and which are liable in any manner to be received by such hostile Indians, shall be deemed contraband of war, to be seized by any officer and confiscated.

476. Supplies, stores, and property of any kind procured out of Army appropriations will not be transferred, in any way or under any circumstances, for the use of Indians except under authority first obtained from the Secretary of War. Any officer violating the terms of this regulation will be charged with the money value of the supplies, stores, or property transferred, and in addition be otherwise held accountable according to circumstances.

477. Indians held as prisoners of war are entitled to receive necessary subsistence, clothing, medicines, and medical attendance. There is no authority of law permitting such supplies and attendance to be furnished to Indians under the care and management of the Interior Department. All Indian prisoners will be reported on the post returns under the following form:

478. Purchases of cattle, hay, grain, fuel, or other produce or merchandise which Indians may have for sale and which may be required for the military service may, with the approval of the Secretary of War, be made from Indians in open market, at fair and reasonable prices, but not exceeding the market prices in the localities where such purchases are made,

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