months the following remark shall be entered on the mustea and pay roll in the column of Remarks opposite his name: Paid on Form 3, P. M. G. O., Assigned." General officers and their staffs and officers detached from their commands shall be paid on the usual individual (officer's) voucher. Officers so paid will make the notation on the pay account required by A. R., 1288. II. By direction of the Secretary of War, transportation of persons and materials required for the service of the civil gov ernment in Cuba and Porto Rico shall be by commercial lines. and transportation furnished on Army transport ships shall be limited to persons and supplies required for service in the military establishment, except such as are authorized by the Secretary of War. BY COMMAND OF MAJOR GENERAL MILES: H. C. CORBIN, GENERAL ORDERS, No. 142. HEADQUARTERS OF THE ARMY, ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE, Washington, August 5, 1899. The following order from the War Department is published for the information and guidance of all concerned: WAR DEPARTMENT, Washington, August 2, 1899. The President, by order dated July 10, 1899, having set apart for military purposes the following-described public lands located at the point where the Tannana River joins the Yukon, district of Alaska, the same are declared a military reservation for the post of Fort Gibbon, subject to any existing legal rights to any land within the limits of the reservation, viz: Beginning at a post marked U. S. M. R., situated on the north or right bank of the Yukon River, opposite the mouth of the Tannana River; thence running due north from said post ten miles; thence due west ten miles; thence due south to a point at low-water mark on the north bank of the Yukon River: thence easterly along the north bank of said Yukon River at low-water mark to a point due south of said beginning post; thence north to the place of beginning. ELIHU ROOT, Secretary of War. BY COMMAND OF MAJOR GENERAL MILES: H. C. CORBIN, |