Public Documents of Massachusetts

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: ber 15 last, and already beneficial results are apparent in the increased efficiency of the administrative departments. Section 3 of General Orders, No. 24, shows the officers who lost their commissions by reason of this change, as well as those new commissions or offices created. Massachusetts has been a pioneer in bringing about this result; and her example is being followed by many other States. The report of the Adjutant General of the United States, showing the condition of the militia on July 1, 1907, showed that the militia was not properly organized, and in some cases not properly equipped. Both of these defects have been remedied, and with the issuance of the new uniform order, which is now in the hands of the printers, all requirements of United States law are believed to have been met. By the creation of an Adjutant General's department the work of this office is sufficiently relieved to make it possible for the Adjutant General to give part of his office hours to the performance of the duties of Chief of Staff, instead of being borne down with the large mass of detail and routine which has been necessary for him to attend to personally in the past. The formation of a quartermaster's department and the clerks assigned to the Quartermaster General make it possible for that officer to have the help which he has so badly needed in the past. In future that office is entirely separate from the office of the Adjutant General, and should be kept separate for all time, both in the interests of economy and property responsibility. It is recommended that, in revising the regulations by the Board which has been ordered to meet in January, consideration should be given to the question of having all requisitions come through the hands of brigade quartermasters, nnd possi...