537. Seeds for post gardens may be purchased from company funds. (A. R., 350.)

538. No troop should have to exceed three cows and eight hogs. (Decision Chief of Staff, January 13, 1906; 10528, I. G. O.)

539. The fund of the hospital, or of a detachment or band having a separate mess, is regarded as a company fund. (A. R., 328.)

540. Hospital fund. (A. R., 313-315, 317-321, 328-329; M. M. D., 276-288.)

541. Cows may be purchased from hospital fund upon authority of chief surgeons. (M. M. D., 280.)

542. The hospital gardener may be paid not exceeding $10 per month from the hospital fund, when authorized by chief surgeon. (M. M. D., 282.)

543. At stations where ice is not furnished by the Quartermaster's Department it will, upon authority from the SurgeonGeneral, or in the Philippines Division upon authority from the chief surgeon, be purchased from the hosiptal fund or from the appropriation for medical and hospital supplies." (M. M. D.,

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326.)

544. The purchase from the hospital fund of liquors (wines, beer, etc.), except for use of the sick in hospital, will not be approved. (M. M. D., 279.)

545. Receipts for expenditures of hospital fund for which the responsible officer claims credit are required to accompany the accounts when audited under paragraph 313, Army Regulations, or 283, Manual for the Medical Department. (Dec. Actg. Scy. War, Oct. 29, 1907; 12006, I. G. O.)

NOTE.-A. R., 313, 1904, is same as A. R., 314, 1908.

546. It is not deemed advisable to require vouchers to hospital fund account to be made in duplicate; the inspection by the Inspector-General's Department should cover the hospital fund account to date if practicable, but if any vouchers have been forwarded to the chief surgeon of the department and not received back (see M. M. D., 283), the inspector should note this fact and what vouchers are missing. (Scy. War, Aug. 9, 1907; 11829, I. G. O.)

547. The company commander will keep an account of the company fund, which will be inspected by the post, regimental, battalion, or squadron commander at least once each quarter. (A. R., 329.)

548. Under no circumstances will regimental, bakery, company, mess, hospital, post exchange, or band funds be taken away from the post where the organization to which they pertain is stationed, except as may be necessary to pay indebtedness or for deposit in a bank.

Should the officer who is custodian of any of these funds be absent from the post, on leave or otherwise, for any period beyond three and less than ten days, he will leave the funds with the officer acting in his place, taking memorandum receipt therefor. If an officer is to be absent for more than ten days he will regularly transfer the funds of which he is custodian to his

successor.

Company, post exchange, bakery, and other funds authorized by A. R., 313, will, if deposited in a bank, be placed under their official designation, as, for example, Company Fund, Company B, Twenty-first Infantry, and not to the credit of the officer who is custodian. (A. R., 321.)

549. The restrictions imposed on the custody of funds by A. R. 320, 1904, as amended by paragraph 1, G. O. 32, W. D., 1908, are not intended to have any bearing upon the working of paragraph 287, Manual for the Medical Department, 1906. (Scy. War, March 13, 1908; 8340-AA, I. G. O.)

NOTE.-A. R., 320, 1904, as amended, is same as A. R., 321,

1908.

550. Councils of administration. (A. R., 313-318.)

551. In case of loss of regimental, bakery, exchange, company, or mess funds, the circumstances will be carefully investigated and reported by the post council, with recommendation as to responsibility, for the decision of the department commander. (A. R., 318. See also M. M. D., 281.)

552. Inspection of, by Inspector-General's Department. (A. R., 906, par. 17.)

GUARD DUTY.

553. Whenever practicable a single company, if of sufficient strength, furnishes the officers of the day and guard, the noncommissioned officers, musicians and privates of each guard, (I. D. R., 521.)

554. At coast artillery posts, each company in turn, except as otherwise provided for in G. O. 88, W. D., 1907, will furnish the entire enlisted strength of the post guard. (G. O. 88, W. D., 1907.)

555. Field artillery troops are no longer exempt from post guard, police and fatigue duty. (G. O. 179, W. D., 1907, rescinding A. R., 368, 1904, and M. G. D., 14.)

556. Details for post guards will, as far as practicable, be made so as to insure privates an interval of not less than six days between tours, or only one tour in seven days. When the number of available men at a post is not sufficient to fulfill this requirement, extra and special duty men should be regularly detailed for night guard duty, still performing their usual duties in the daytime. (M. G. D., 32.)

557. Except in emergencies, privates will not be detailed for guard duty oftener than once in five days. When necessary to fulfill this requirement, the number of posts will be diminished and the sentinels required to patrol a sufficient extent of ground to watch over all public property. (M. G. D., 32.)

558. Officer of the day will visit the guard and sentinels at least once between 12 o'clock midnight and daylight, and when there is no officer of the guard, he will visit each relief at least once while it is on post. (M. G. D., 55.)

559. The commander of the guard will visit each relief at least once while it is on post, and at least one of these visits will be made between 12 o'clock midnight and daylight. (M. G. D., 69.)

560. The detail of officers of the guard will be limited to the necessities of the service and efficient instruction; inexperienced officers may be detailed as supernumerary officers of the guard for the purpose of instruction. (M. G. D., 28.)

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561. Orderlies for commanding officers shall be selected daily from the guard at guard mounting. The unauthor-ized practice of detailing permanent orderlies has a tendency to establish a very objectionable connection between orderly duties proper and other employments not purely of a military character; this practice is, therefore, prohibited. (Cir. 10, A. G. O., 1890.)

562. Sentences imposing tours of guard duty are forbidden. (A. R., 973.)

563. By detachments of the Signal Corps. (Cir. 48, W. D., 1904.)

564. Sentries on duty at docks (seacoast posts) are to be instructed to report promptly any vessel that is about to anchor in the vicinity of military cables and to warn the master of such vessel that he is endangering the cables and is liable to prosecution if any damage is done. Additional sentries will not

be posted for this

(G. O. 165, W. D.,

purpose except when absolutely necessary. 1905.)

GUNS AND CARRIAGES.

565. For batteries of field artillery. (G. O. 162, W. D., 1904; G. O. 131, W. D., 1907.)

566. Distribution of load on 3-inch field carriage. (Cir. 8, W. D., 1907.)

567. Kind of guns to be used in firing blank ammunition. (G. O. 9, W. D., 1908, p. 9.)

568. All firings with blank ammunition, whether with breech or muzzle loading guns, will be under the personal supervision of a commissioned officer who shall be present at the firing and direct it. Whenever more than one round is fired from any gun or guns he will see that the chamber of breech-loading guns or the bore of muzzle-loading guns is carefully sponged out with a damp sponge, to extinguish sparks and remove powder residue after each round and before the insertion of another round. (G. O. 9, W. D., 1908, par. XXIII.)

569. Assembling and mounting of guns and carriages in seacoast fortifications. (Cir. 19, A. G. O., 1898.)

570. Numbering of guns and mortars at fixed batteries. (G. O. 51, W. D., 1906.)

571. Inspection of seacoast guns during closed season. (See par. 89, ante.)

572. Rules for the inspection of guns, gun carriages, etc., turned over to the artillery. (G. O. 65, A. G. O., 1901.)

573. Guns mounted on disappearing carriages will be kept habitually in the loading position, which is at an angle of elevation of about 5°. Guns not mounted on disappearing carriages will be kept habitually at an angle of depression of about 5°.

Mortars will be habitually elevated so that they will be parallel to the piston rod with the breech cover left off. The translating roller will be left in place. At posts where the sand blows into the breech mechanism and at all posts during the cold season where snow and ice may collect and form around the breech mechanism, the mortar will be kept horizontal with the breech cover on.

All seacoast guns will be kept habitually with breech and muzzle covers on when not in use. (Cir. 76, W. D., 1907.) 574. Electric circuits used on seacoast gun carriages. (W. D., G. O. 194, 1906; 94, 1907.)

575. Computations for elevation scales for seacoast guns. (W. D. Cirs. 7, 1906, 23, 1907.)

576. Instructions for adjusting gas-check pads for all calibers and models of guns. (Cir. 46, A G. O., 1902.)

577. Instructions for adjusting the new safety attachment to 4.7-inch and 6-inch Armstrong rapid-fire guns. (Cir. 59, A. G. O., 1902.)

578. Instructions for pulling obturating friction primers. (Cir. 47, A. G. O., 1902.)

579. Removal of name and direction plates when painting field, siege, and sea-coast gun carriages, and of trunnion brackets for telescopic sights for sea-coast gun carriages, is forbidden. (Cir. 36, A. G: O., 1903.)

580. Instructions for the removal of old paint from guns and carriages. (Cir. 56, A. G. O., 1902.)

581. Method of removing paint from the counter recoil springs of mortar carriages. (Cir. 45, W. D., 1906.)

582. Mortars will be raised out of their trunnion beds for the purpose of cleaning the trunnions, trunnion beds, and the oil grooves in the trunnion-bed liners at least once every year and as often as difficulty not due to the elevating gearing is found in elevating or depressing them.

Once every two years the counter recoil springs of mortar carriages will be dismounted, the old paint removed, and two coats of new paint given to each spring. The springs should not be reassembled until the paint is dry. (Cir. 12, W. D., 1908.)

583. Instructions for the care and cleaning of recoil cylinders. (Art. Mem. No. 1, W. D., 1904.)

584. Use of light slushing oil and synovial oil on guns and carriages. (Cir. 48, W. D., 1905.)

585. Transfer of guns, carriages, and range finders, or other ordnance material permanently emplaced, will not be made without authority from the Secretary of War. (G. O. 62, W. D., 1908, par. IV, sec. 21.)

586. The habitual place of storage of machine guns issued to coast artillery posts is in the galleries of batteries, for which purpose they may, when it is necessary, be dismounted. If the dampness of any particular batteries makes the removal of machine guns from them necessary, they should be stored at other places where shelter may be available as convenient as possible to the batteries to which they are assigned. (Chief of Artil