Veterinary instruments, etc., for each post-Continued. Emergency or field equipment of veterinary instruments. For each troop of cavalry and each battery of field artillery: 1 farrier's case, leather, folding, containing the following instruments: 1 bistoury, curved, probe pointed; 1 bistoury, curved, sharp pointed: 1 director, grooved; 1 forceps, artery; 1 forceps, dressing; 1 hoof knife, searcher; needles, suture, half curved, dozen; 1 probe, silver; 1 scissors, curved on flat; silk, suture, heavy, -ounce; 1 thermometer, clinical. 1 graduate, glass, 4-ounce. 1 rectal douche. 1 syringe, hard rubber, 1-ounce. 1 syringe, hard rubber, 2-ounce. 1 saddle bags, farrier's, for use in the field. Equipment of veterinary dispensary. 1 funnel, small size, enamel ware. 1 funnel, medium size, enamel ware. 1 graduate, glass, 2-ounce. 1 graduate, glass, 4-ounce. 1 minim measure. 1 mortar and pestle (wedgewood), 33 inches inside diameter. 1 mortar and pestle (wedgewood), 64 inches inside diameter. 1 mortar and pestle, glass, 4 ounces. 1 pill tile, 10 inches square. 1 scales and weights (Troemer's new dispensing scale). 3 spatulas, being 1 with 3-inch, 1 with 6-inch, and 1 with 8-inch blade. 12911213 111 431211 Capsules, 1-ounce capacity. do. do. do.. Corks, for bottles, four times the allowance of bottles. 122 gross.. 1 Stationery: A 2-quire blank book for record of cases and such pens, pencils, ink, and paper as may be necessary. 243 124 283 3 344 No. 19 ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE, Washington, February 20, 1902. By direction of the Secretary of War, the following-named troops will be relieved from duty at their present stations and proceed to the Presidio of San Francisco, and report upon arrival to the commanding general, Department of California, for transportation to the Division of the Philippines: Headquarters, band, and 2d Battalion, 10th Infantry, from the Department of the Missouri, upon arrival of troops of 22d Infantry at Fort Crook, Nebraska. Second Battalion, 11th Infantry, from the District of Porto Rico, Department of the East. This battalion will be retained at the Presidio of San Francisco until recruited and otherwise fully prepared for service in the Philippines. The organizations named will be recruited to the maximum and fully clothed, armed, and equipped, and provided with not to exceed 50 rounds of cartridges per man, to be carried on the person. The baggage to accompany the troops by rail will as far as practicable be limited to 150 pounds per man, heavy baggage to be forwarded by freight and reduced to the lowest limit. Table ware, post exchange fixtures, and similar bulky property (libraries excepted) and tentage, except shelter tents, will not be taken. The soldier will not be allowed to have trunks or boxes as baggage; his personal effects will be limited to what he can carry in his full marching kit and in one regulation box locker. If practicable box lockers should be limited to one for every two men. Enlisted men having six months or less to serve and who do not signify their intention to reenlist will if convenient be transferred to another infantry regiment; otherwise they will be discharged at their present stations "by reason of remaining short term for the convenience of the Government." Noncommissioned officers so circumstanced will be discharged in like manner, except such as it may be advisable to retain in the interest of discipline, efficiency, and instruction. Those from the records in their possession, and if the records do not establish to the satisfaction of the officer who prepares the final statements the fact that the home of any soldier was not the place of his enlistment, then such officer will prepare the final statements on the assumption that the soldier's home was at the place of his last preceding enlistment in the United States, leaving the soldier to establish his claim that it is elsewhere before the Auditor for the War Department. BY COMMAND OF LIEUTENANT GENERAL MILES: H. C. CORBIN, Adjutant General, Major General, U. S. Army. |