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To each coast artillery post equipped with a provisional firecontrol installation it will supply a post tool chest. (G. Ο. 241, W. D., 1907.)

For fortifications in general.Will supply all necessary lines and means of electrical communication, including telephones, dial and other telegraphs, wiring, all necessary electrical instruments not permanently attached to the switchboard, including portable ammeters and portable voltmeters, and such special instruments as may be directed to be supplied by the Secretary of War. (G. O. 72, W. D., 1906.)

Anemometer stop watches in use at meteorological stations form a part of the present anemometer equipment and will continue to be issued by the Signal Department. (G. O. 65, W. D., 1906.)

All testing cells and sets for use in testing electrical installations in seacoast fortifications, except those needed as a part of the mine equipment, will hereafter be issued by the Signal Corps, and requsitions for the cells and sets should be made to the Chief Signal Officer of the Army. (G. O. 72, W. D., 1907.)

(c) Ordnance Department.

For fire-control installations.—Will supply range finders, observation telescopes, plotting boards, deflection boards, range boards, azimuth prediction boards, wind component indicators, asimuth instruments, stop watches, scale arms, materials for the construction of battle and difference charts, range tables, prediction scales, set forward rulers, drawing boards, drawing instruments, draftsman's supplies, etc., prescribed for use in connection with the fire control and direction system for coast fortifications and for the control of mine fields. (G. O. 72, W. D., 1906.)

For fortifications in general.—Will furnish all motors to be attached to gun and mortar carriages and mechanical loading apparatus, including motor generators, switchboards, terminal boxes, resistances, flexible metallic conduits, dry-cell batteries, magneto-generators, conductors, connections, etc., required for the power, illumination, and firing circuits attached to carriages; will supply all bench and hand tools and appliances for engineer power plants and ordnance repair shops, including supplies for the latter; will furnish and install, in buildings provided by the Quartermaster's Department, such machines, tools, etc., as may be prescribed for ordnance repair shops; will make all necessary repairs to guns, carriages, instruments of the fire control and direction system furnished by it, including implements, accessories, tools, etc.; will furnish thermometers and hygrometers for use in connection with the ventilation of magazines, and stencils for all gun and mortar letters and figures for designating emplacements, etc. Clinometers and rests for each caliber and model of gun in service will be supplied by the nearest district armament officer of the Ordnance Department whenever needed by artillery officers in complying with the requirements of General Orders, No. 65, A. G. O., 1901. (G. O. 72, W. D., 1906.)

In order to fix more definitely the accountability for stop watches used at seacoast fortifications, all such instruments now on Signal Corps property returns, except those in use at meteorological stations, will be transferred to Ordnance Department returns, and in future these instruments will be issued only by the latter department. (G. O. 65, W. D., 1906.)

Ordnance officers of artillery posts will hereafter make requisition on the Ordnance Department for such maximum and minimum thermometers and ordinary thermometers as will insure there being on hand one of each kind for each magazine in which powder in any form is stored.

Such numbers of wet and dry bulb thermometers as the Chief of Artillery may recommend are issued by the Ordnance Department without requisition to each coast artillery post. (G. O. 62, W. D., 1907.)

(d) Quartermaster's Department.

For fire-control stations, etc.-Will supply stationery, heating apparatus, oil lamps, and furniture (not including rubber floor cloth nor circular benches for observers and plotters). (G. O. 72, W. D., 1906.)

For fortifications in general.Will furnish all fuel and engine supplies, such as waste, lubricating oils, oil lamps, brooms, brushes, coal-handling and fire tools and appliances, etc., necessary for the maintenance, operation, and preservation of all electric plants; for central plants which furnish current to the post as well as to the fortifications, it will, in addition, furnish all material and funds necessary for their repair and preservation (A. R., 1066) [A. R., 1068, 1908]. It will also furnish such materials as may be needed for the use of the battery

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mechanics, all grass-cutting tools, and all carpenter's tools. When under the provisions of A. R., 1535 [A. R., 1523, 1908], any seacoast post, or any part of it, has been turned over to and garrisoned by the coast artillery, all repairs to the post buildings, and to all plumbing, water-supply, and sewer systems, roads, walks, and grounds will be made by the Quartermaster's Department, governed in this work by the provisions of paragraph 1534, A. R. [A. R., 1522, 1908]. (G. O. 72, W. D., 1906.) 517. Allowance of furniture for position-finding stations at coast artillery posts furnished by the Quartermaster's Department.

(G. O. 45, W. D., 1906.)

518. Establishment of provisional fire-control systems, and staff departments which furnish equipments, etc., for same. (G. O. 13, 54, W. D., 1906.)

NOTE. Topical indexes of artillery subjects are published as Artillery Notes Nos. 21 and 27.

FUNDS.

Regimental, bakery, company, and mess.

519. Regulations. (A. R. 313–331, 334-335, 347, 906, 1152.) 520. Band fund, Coast Artillery. (A. R., 323.)

521. Army bands or members thereof shall not receive remuneration for furnishing music outside the limits of military posts when the furnishing of such music places them in competition with local civilian musicians. (Act May 11, 1908; G. O. 80, W. D., 1908.)

522. No projects by which money will accrue will be entered upon under color of military control without specific authority from the War Department. (A. R., 320.)

523. The establishment of company exchanges or other undertakings not authorized by the Army Regulations or the orders or instructions of the War Department, for the purpose of accumulating company funds, is prohibited. (G. O. 165, W. D., 1906.)

524. Fuel or mineral oil issued to troops can not be sold for the benefit of company fund. (A. R., 1051, 1064.)

525. Empty flour sacks and barrels may lawfully be sold by a post bakery, company, or general mess, and the proceeds of the sale taken up and accounted for in the proper fund. (Cir. 11, W. D., 1908.)

526. The purchase from regimental, bakery, company, or mess funds of any article which can be obtained on requisition from a supply department is forbidden. (A. R., 319.)

527. Paragraph 318, A. R., 1904, is not held to apply in its restrictions to ration articles, the word "articles" as therein contained being interpreted to mean those of a permanent or semipermanent nature, as brooms, scrubbing brushes, tableware, kitchen utensils, etc. (Memo. Asst. to Chief of Staff, approved by Acting Secretary of War April 9, 1908.)

NOTE.-A. R., 318, 1904, is continued as A. R., 319, 1908.

528. The expense of the bakery will be restricted to the extra pay of the bakers, the purchase of articles necessary for making bread and utensils not furnished by the supply departments, and the cost of power used in the operation of authorized breadmaking machinery. These expenses must be paid from the bakery fund. (A. R., 335.)

529. The company fund is not intended for expenditure in the purchase of articles to facilitate the transaction of business in a company. On the contrary the legitimate and proper application of this fund is in supplementing the articles already furnished by the supply departments for the purpose of increasing the comfort, pleasure, contentment, mental and physical improvement of the organization. To accomplish this purpose, disbursements of company fund are authorized; disbursements for all other purposes are unauthorized. (Cir. 6, W. D., 1904.)

530. Circular 6, W. D., 1904, is construed as not prohibiting the purchase or repair of typewriting machines from the company fund, provided the officer responsible for expenditures from that fund decides that the same are made solely for the benefit of the company and for the purpose of increasing the comfort, pleasure, and contentment of the enlisted men. (Cir. 56, W. D., 1906.)

531. The purchase of aprons for company cooks from company funds is deemed to be authorized by Circular 6, W. D., 1904. (Chief of Staff, Sept. 5, 1905; 10274, I. G. O.)

NOTE.-White coats and trousers are issued to cooks and bakers by the Q. M. Dept., at cost price. (Cir. 60, W. D., 1907.) 532. Prizes to rifle competitors are not permissible expenditures from the company fund under existing regulations as interpreted by Cir. 6, W. D., 1904. (Scy. War, Dec. 18, 1906; 11274, I. G. O.)

533. Where soldiers are detached for duty as members of machine gun platoons and at rifle competitions, an allotment to improve their mess can be ordered by the department, regimental, or post commander from the fund of the organization to which they belong. (Inspector-General of the Army, approved by Scy. of War July 28, 1908; 12515, 12518, I. G. O.)

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534. Paying a man to look after a pool table should increase the profits therefrom; and paying men who cultivate a garden should increase its output. The post commander's statement shows that Company gained materially by paying for such services. These expenditures from the company fund benefited the company, and solely the company, if the men employed were paid no more than their extra services for the company were worth.

Paragraph 329, Army Regulations (A. R., 330, 1908), authorizes paying an enlisted man extra compensation from company funds for cooking food for a company. The same principal would permit paying a gardener for providing food for a company. It is only a step further in the same direction to paying a pool table attendant for increasing the funds with which food may be purchased for a company.

It is recommended that the expenditures reported in this case be approved.

The Inspector-General was consulted, and concurs in the above recommendation, adding, however, that unduly large expenditures for the purposes in question should not be made. (Report of Asst. to the Chief of Staff, approved by the Acting Scy. War March 31, 1908; 12240, I. G. O.)

535. In payment of extra-duty pay to company cooks, A R.. 329, 1904, should be strictly complied with. Recommendation that the paragraph cited (329) be amended so as to give greater latitude in the payment of company cooks from company funds was not favorably considered by the War Department. War, May 29, 1906; 10806-A, I. G. O.)

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NOTE.-A. R., 329, 1904, is same as A. R., 330, 1908. 536. The act of May 26, 1900, does not prohibit the payment of extra-duty pay where such extra pay is not derived from an appropriation of Congress. (J. A. G., July 31, 1906; 11009-A, I. G. O.) Under this ruling enlisted men receiving or entitled to receive foreign-service pay, may receive extra pay from company, bakery, mess, and exchange funds, for services as cooks, bakers, attendants, etc.

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