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sion will assign serial numbers to new instruments at the time of their purchase.

(d) Telegraph division. Will receive and act upon all requisitions for property and equipment which are purchased from signal service appropriations; maintain a file for such requisitions and correspondence and data pertaining thereto. A record of signal service property in stock at the signal corps general depots of supply will be maintained by posting the daily reports received from each depot. This division will have charge of providing the authorized post telephone systems at interior posts of the Army and will maintain a file for the records and reports pertaining thereto. Records will be maintained of all military telegraph lines and telegraph cables other than fire-control. The War Department telegraph code will be issued by the telegraph division and a record maintained of the location of each code book as per Paragraph II, General Orders 93, 1907. This division will have charge of the preparation, printing, and issue of signal corps blank forms and the estimates for and requisitions for all other printing for the Signal Corps done at the Government Printing Office, Washington. A file copy will be kept of each signal corps manual, and all reports of errors and recommendations for additions and alterations will be filed for use in the preparation of future editions.

(e) Aeronautical division. Will have charge of all matters pertaining to military ballooning, flying machines, and all kindred subjects. The operations of this division are strictly confidential, and no information will be given out to any party except through the Chief Signal Officer of the Army or his authorized representative.

(f) No officer in charge of a division will authorize or approve any account involving the expenditure of money or property in which he may be personally interested, all such accounts being referred to the Chief Signal Officer for action.

All papers pertaining to the work of any established division will, upon receipt, be sent by the chief clerk to the proper division for record or file.

5. Whenever authority is given by the Chief Signal Officer of the Army for the manufacture of special devices which require drawings or specifications of any character not furnished from the office of the Chief Signal Officer of the Army, one copy of such will be mailed to the electrical division, office of the Chief Signal Officer of the Army, Washington, D. C., for file and future reference.

PERSONNEL.

6. No officer, clerk, or employee in the United States Government employ shall at any time solicit contributions from other officers, clerks, or employees in the Government service for a gift or present to those in a superior official position; nor shall any such officials or clerical superiors receive any gift or present offered or presented to them as a contribution from persons in Government employ receiving a less salary than themselves; nor shall any officer or clerk make any donations as a gift or present to any official superior.. Every person who violates this section shall be summarily discharged from Government employ. (Sec. 1784, R. S.)

EXECUTIVE ORDER.

7. No officer or employee of the Government shall, directly or indirectly, instruct or be concerned in any manner in the instruction of any person or classes of persons, with a view to the special preparation for the examinations of the United States Civil Service Commission.

The fact that any officer or employee is found so engaged shall be considered sufficient cause for his removal from the service.

THE WHITE HOUSE, October 13, 1905.

THEODORE ROOSEVELT.

8. To determine the relative rank of noncommissioned officers of the Signal Corps with other noncommissioned officers in the Army, refer to paragraph 9 of the Army Regulations and the several amendments thereto.

9. Officers of the Signal Corps will not be required to attend the garrison schools for officers prescribed in General Orders, No. 115, June 27, 1904, War Department, and enlisted men of the Signal Corps will not be required to attend the post schools for enlisted men. (Circ. 48, W. D., 1904.)

10. Signal corps posts shall have a signal officer the same as other posts.

11. Officers obtaining leaves of absence or permission to delay en route in changing stations from authority other than of the Chief Signal Officer of the Army are directed to promptly notify the Signal Office, in writing as far as practicable, in advance of such leave or delay and give prospective date of leaving station and of return. Officers while on leave of absence will keep the Chief Signal Officer advised of any change of address in order that they may be communicated with if necessary.

12. Hereafter no enlisted man of the Signal Corps will be granted a furlough to visit the United States without being informed that the Chief Signal Officer of the Army will grant no change of station to men on furlough unless such change shall be recommended by the signal officer to whose command the furloughed soldier belongs.

13. Under no circumstances will signal corps men returning to the United States from either the Philippine Islands or Alaska on furlough be allowed to surrender said furlough with the understanding that they are to be assigned to stations in the United States, unless the reasons as to why the change of station should be made are set forth and the approval to such change furnished by the soldier's immediate commanding officer.

14. When an enlisted man of the Signal Corps is ordered to stations in a territorial department in which the men of that corps are assigned to a company other than that to which the man belongs, his descriptive list required by paragraph 114, Army Regulations, will be made in duplicate, the original to be forwarded to the commanding officer of the station to which the soldier is sent, the duplicate to the commanding officer of the signal corps company to which the soldier's new assignment carries him, for use in the preparation of muster roll of said company.

15. Signal officers are enjoined to exercise great care in making recommendations for foreign service. Men of indifferent character or dissipated habits should be kept on duty within the limits of the United States, where they can be disciplined and supervised; nor should men of week physique be recommended for foreign service. Unsuitable men are a source of weakness and injury either in Alaska or the Philippines, where signal corps men generally serve on detached duty.

16. Short-term men will not be recommended for foreign service unless they agree to reenlist upon the expiration of present term of service and then only when such statement is made in writing. In all such cases the written statement will be forwarded to the Chief Signal Officer of the Army with the recommendation for assignment to foreign service.

17. Enlisted men of the Signal Corps are not entitled to extra-duty pay for services of any kind rendered for the Signal Corps except telephone switchboard operators at signal corps posts. For extraduty pay as a teamster, baker, or such duty not in the line of signal corps work, application should be made by the post commander to the Adjutant-General, U. S. Army, requesting authority of the Secretary of War for extra-duty pay. This authority can not be retroactive, and such soldiers are not entitled to extra pay until the date of such authority.

18. Warrants of noncommissioned officers reenlisting in the Signal Corps will be continued in force only when the soldier reenlists the following day and has been given excellent character, unless there are specific orders to the contrary.

19. When the character to be given is below the grade of “excellent," the commanding officer of the company wherein the man is serving will notify the Chief Signal Officer of the Army by mail of the character to be given sufficiently in advance to receive the decision of the Chief Signal Officer, by mail, prior to discharge, whether the soldier will be continued in the grade in which he is serving at the time of discharge.

20. Master signal electricians of the Signal Corps should be addressed in writing and referred to in reports under their full titles. They may, however, be verbally addressed "Electrician."

21. Enlisted men of the Signal Corps are expected to perform all duties in connection with the transmission of military information for the use of the Army. At military posts it is discretionary with post commanders to require them to assist the post signal officers in the matter of signal instruction, care of the signal corps property, etc., as the former may deem the public interests or special conditions require.

22. When muster rolls of signal corps men are rendered to the Adjutant-General a copy will also be sent to the Chief Signal Officer of the Army for the information of his office.

23. Whenever an enlisted man of the Signal Corps dies, his commanding officer will immediately inform the Chief Signal Officer of the Army by telegraph. Whenever an enlisted man of the Signal Corps is discharged his commanding officer will immediately inform the Chief Signal Officer of the Army by letter and will add the character given on the soldier's discharge.

24. Whenever enlisted men of the Signal Corps are returned to the United States, by virtue of a furlough, from the Philippines or Alaska the Chief Signal Officer of the Army should be notified at once, in writing, and the descriptive list of such soldier forwarded, if from the Philippines, to the chief signal officer, Department of California, and if from Alaska to the chief signal officer, Department of the Columbia. The soldier should also be directed to report his postoffice address to the same office and to the Chief Signal Officer of the Army in order that he may be communicated with, if necessary.

25. All detached enlisted men of the Signal Corps serving at stations in the Departments of the East and Gulf will be attached to and carried on the rolls of the signal corps company stationed at Fort Wood, N. Y.

All detached enlisted men of the Signal Corps serving at stations in the Departments of the Lakes, Missouri, Dakota, Colorado, and Texas will be attached to and carried on the rolls of a signal corps company stationed at Fort Omaha, Nebr., the company to be designated by the commanding officer of that post.

All detached enlisted men of the Signal Corps serving at stations in the Departments of California and the Columbia, except those on duty with the two signal corps companies stationed in Alaska, will be attached to and carried on the rolls of the signal corps company stationed in the Department of California.

26. Each enlisted man of the Signal Corps (including all grades) on detached service away from the headquarters of his company will, at the end of each month, prepare a personal report on Form 212. This report will be forwarded by the post signal officer, or other officer in charge, through the post commander, to the commanding officer of his company. The signal corps company commander will note the information given and forward this report to the chief signal officer of the department for file. The chief signal officer of each department, upon receipt of these personal reports of detached enlisted men, will prepare a consolidated statement and include it with his monthly report to the Chief Signal Officer of the Army.

27. In cases where master signal electricians have been assigned to the "post noncommissioned staff," they will be dropped therefrom and transferred to a company of the Signal Corps stationed at the post where the men are serving, or to a signal corps company to which signal corps men, on duty in the territorial department in which the station is located, are attached.

28. Official communications from telegraph operators pertaining only to telegraph administration should be forwarded direct to the officer in charge of the line; but communications relating to other matters, such as clothing, pay, rations, etc., should be forwarded through the post commander.

29. The Signal Corps has an authorized strength of 1 brigadiergeneral, 1 colonel, 2 lieutenant-colonels, 6 majors, 18 captains, 18 first lieutenants, 36 master signal electricians, 132 sergeants (first class), 144 sergeants, 156 corporals, 552 first-class privates, 168 privates, and 24 cooks; in all, 46 officers and 1,212 enlisted men.

PROMOTION OF NONCOMMISSIONED OFFICERS.

30. Promotions and reductions in the Signal Corps are made by the Chief Signal Officer of the Army or by his authority. All enlistments are usually made in the grade of private; but the Chief Signal Officer of the Army is authorized to enlist men in the noncommissioned grades in special cases. Promotions can very rarely be made, except to fill vacancies occurring from time to time, and recommendations for such promotions must be made with unusual caution, the object being to secure the advancement of the most deserving and

suitable men.

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