HORSES OF MOUNTED OFFICERS.

1095. In the field, at posts, or in active service, horses held in the Quartermaster Corps unassigned, other than those at remount depots, may be sold to mounted officers on the authority of the department or division commander. An application to purchase a horse at a remount depot will be forwarded to the Chief of the Quartermaster Corps by the officer desiring to make the purchase. An application to purchase a horse at a post will be forwarded through military channels for the action of the department commander. In his application thè officer will state what horses he has purchased from the Government during the past 10 years and what disposition has been made of them; also what number of mounts he owns. The price to be paid for a horse purchased by an officer will be the price paid by the Government for the horse, but will not be less than the average price paid by the Government for horses for the mounted service during the preceding fiscal year. Purchase and payment will be completed within 30 days from the date of receipt of the authority for the sale and the purchase money at once deposited to the credit of the current appropriation. Horses thus sold will not be exchanged or returned.

When an officer of infantry or of the Coast Artillery Corps is relieved from mounted duty, or when a mounted officer is ordered to duty beyond the seas or to make a change of station in the United States, in which the cost of transportation for the private horses which he is required to keep exceeds $100 for each horse, including the cost of attendant, if any, the Quartermaster Corps may, upon the request of such officer, purchase such private horse or horses as he may not desire to take with him upon the following conditions: An officer desiring to dispose of his horse will request the necessary authority from the department commander, who will convene a board to be composed of not less than three commissioned officers to examine the animal with a view to determining its fitness for service or for sale to an officer, and if it be found serviceable to appraise its value; the price found by the board shall not exceed the average price paid by the Government for horses for the mounted service during the preceding fiscal year, except that in case of horses purchased from the Government the price shall not exceed that for which the animal was purchased. The proceedings of the board, when approved by the department commander, will be returned to the applicant and will authorize the payment of the appraised price upon the delivery of the animal to an officer of the Quartermaster Corps, who will be designated by the department commander to receive it. The purchase of a horse made under the authority conferred herein will be reported to the Chief of the Quartermaster Corps by the department quartermaster of the department in which the purchase has been made.

Horses assigned to organizations in the Philippine Islands and Hawaii Territory may be sold to mounted officers on authority of the commanding generals, Philippine and Hawaiian Departments, provided that they can be spared. The price to be paid for a horse purchased by an officer will be the price paid by the Government for the horse, but will not be less than the average price paid by the Government for horses for the mounted service during the preceding fiscal

year.

When a mounted officer purchases a horse under the provisions of this paragraph he shall not be permitted to sell him to private parties, but may sell him to another officer at a price agreed upon between seller and buyer, or back to the Government, at a price to be determined in the manner indicated above; this rule to govern subsequent owners.

If, however, the board should find that a horse purchased from the Government by a mounted officer, and offered for sale by him, is no longer fit for an

officer's mount, or for the military service, the owner may dispose of the horse at private sale.

1096. For their own headquarters and otherwise, except as provided in this paragraph, the use of public horses by officers will be regulated by department commanders in conformity with the necessities of the public service.

Officers below the rank of major who are required to be mounted will be furnished with one mount by the Quartermaster Corps in case they do not elect to provide themselves with suitable private mounts. Such public mounts will ordinarily be assigned one to the exclusive use of each officer and will be foraged, stabled, shod, groomed, fed, watered, and furnished with veterinary treatment and medicine at Government expense. Authorized private mounts of officers will similarly at Government expense be stabled, shod, foraged, and supplied with veterinary treatment and medicine. Should the circumstances of service at a particular station cause the number of Government mounts available for use under this paragraph to fall below the number of officers entitled to such mounts under the law, the post commander will regulate the use of the public mounts actually on hand with due consideration for the service and the rights and duties of the individual officers concerned.

1097. The Quartermaster Corps will provide and issue horse and mule shoes, nails, smith's tools, and materials required for the service, except the forges and tools for field service of cavalry, field artillery, and machine-gun platoons. The animals of a troop of cavalry or battery of field artillery will be shod by the organization.

1098. The Quartermaster Corps will transport for officers changing station, and for graduates of the United States Military Academy assigned to mounted organizations upon first assignment to station, the number of horses for which they are legally entitled to forage, and an attendant to accompany the horses when necessary, subject to the following restrictions:

1. That the expense to the United States shall not exceed $100 for each horse transported. The entire cost of such shipment may be paid by the Quartermaster Corps, but if the entire cost exceeds $100 for each horse, including transportation of attendant, if any, the excess must be refunded to the Quartermaster Corps by the owner. The expenses of the attendant other than his transportation will not be paid by the Quartermaster Corps, except that when an enlisted man is ordered to be such attendant there may be paid also commutation of rations when necessary.

2. That the shipment shall be made at a valuation of not to exceed $100 per animal, unless the owner pays, under the regulations of the Quartermaster Corps, the cost incident to increased valuation.

3. That the horses are owned by the officer and are intended to be used by him at his new station in the public service.

4. The horses of deceased or retired officers or officers ordered to their homes to await retirement, or of officers effecting a voluntary transfer, will not be transported at public expense.

5. When horses are purchased by officers at points other than their station the Quartermaster Corps will transport them from points of purchase to the station of the officer, provided the officer is entitled to have and has not had his authorized private mounts shipped from his old to his new station, and provided, when the cost of shipment from point of purchase to new station exceeds the cost from old to new station on last change of station, the officer will deposit the excess cost with the shipping officer when shipment is made by the Quartermaster Corps.

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6. Officers ordered for extended service over the seas or to Alaska, if they so desire, may have their authorized mounts transported from their old stations to any designated point in the United States for safe-keeping, and upon their return transported to their new stations in the United States.

Officers detailed on service in a foreign country and required to be mounted should furnish their own mounts, such mounts to be transported to and from their foreign stations at the expense of the United States, the limitation in the cost of transportation, as prescribed in section 1 of this paragraph, being waived in such cases. However, if an officer below the rank of major so desires, a public mount may be assigned to him and transported as hereinbefore provided, or, if it be to the interest of the United States, a mount may be purchased for him in the vicinity of his foreign station. Such officers should advise the War Department by which method they desire to be furnished with mounts. (Under present regulations of the Treasury Department, animals are not allowed to be returned from the Philippine Islands to the United States.)

1099. 1. An officer of the Army will be permitted to have his authorized private mounts (stallions excepted), for which forage is allowed, shipped to and cared for at a remount depot during his absence on foreign service or while on duty in Alaska.

2. The officer will make written application for permission to send his mount to a designated remount depot, upon receipt of which the post or regimental commander will cause the horse to be examined by a veterinarian as to soundness and will make a personal examination as to fitness as an officer's mount, and the post commander will indorse on the application the result of the examination and then forward the application directly to The Adjutant General of the Army for the decision of the Secretary of War. No horse will be shipped to a remount depot that does not pass both inspections, above provided for, and indicate prospective suitability for military service at probable termination of the officer's foreign service.

3. The horses will be shipped to and from the remount depot and kept there entirely at the risk of the owner. An officer in charge of a remount depot shall have the right to destroy a horse belonging to an officer when necessary to prevent contagion or terminate suffering; and neither the Government nor the authorities at a remount depot will be held responsible in case of accident or disease. In case of death or destruction of an officer's horse at a remount depot the affidavit of the veterinarian and the certificate of the officer in charge or his assistant will be forwarded to the owner, and will operate to relieve the officer in charge of further responsibility.

4. An officer's mount, upon arrival at a remount depot, will be lip-branded and an accurate descriptive card, showing the owner's name, will be prepared. The same care and attention as regards handling, stabling, grooming, and feeding will be given the mount as is accorded a horse purchased by the Government for military service and will include turning out to pasture during six or eight months in the year and feeding in open sheds in pasture during the remainder of the year.

5. On account of climatic conditions shipments of officers' horses to and from Fort Keogh Remount Depot should be avoided between November 1 and April 1.

MILITARY ATTACHÉS.

1100. An officer of the Army serving as military attaché abroad will be entitled to the following allowances: A suitably furnished office when needed, or an unfurnished room with one desk or table, six chairs, one book or file case,

the articles allowed for an office desk by regulations, and the stationery required in the performance of public duty, to be furnished by the Quartermaster Corps, and in either case the regulation allowance of fuel for one office fire. Mounted officers will be allowed forage if horses are actually kept, and officers not mounted, or mounted officers not drawing forage, the hire of a horse when necessary for mounted duty. Necessary funds for these allowances and blank forms for reports and returns will be procured by requisition on the Chief of the Quartermaster Corps. Money accounts will be rendered quarterly. Items for necessary cost of exchange will be entered on accounts current, the entries of each, being supported by the certificate of the officer that current rates of exchange were paid and that other vouchers are not obtainable.

TRANSPORTATION, GENERAL PROVISIONS.

1101. For wagon and pack transportation mules will generally be employed, but horses may be used for saddle purposes by wagon masters, messengers, expressmen, and employees or enlisted men having similar occupation which require them to be mounted. For draft purposes, except at depots or posts in or near large cities where little transportation is needed, horses will not be used, unless specially authorized by the War Department.

1102. The allotment of draft and pack animals to each military department will be made by the Chief of the Quartermaster Corps under the direction of the Secretary of War.

1103. The allowance of spring wagons, exclusive of the prescribed ambulance for the sick, is fixed at one to each post, except when otherwise authorized by the War Department. All four-wheeled passenger wagons (except ambulances) having springs under the body shall be considered spring wagons.

1104. Spring wagons will be used only by direction of commanding officers and for the purpose for which they are supplied, viz, for the transportation of officers and enlisted men traveling on duty when other means are not available. 1105. The Quartermaster Corps will provide the necessary ambulances for transporting the sick and wounded upon the requisition of the proper medical officer. It will purchase, hire, operate, maintain, and repair such harness, wagons, carts, drays, and other vehicles as are required for the transportation of troops and supplies, and for official, military, and garrison purposes.

1106. All means of public transportation at a post will be accounted for by the quartermaster, and will be under his charge except as provided in paragraph 1427. Commanding officers will cause mounted organizations to be provided daily with the proper facilities for policing stables and hauling forage.

1107. Commanding officers will give timely notice to the proper officers of the Quartermaster Corps of all contemplated movements of troops and supplies that proper and sufficient transportation may be in readiness.

1108. The duty of furnishing transportation at any post, station, or depot will be intrusted to one officer of the Quartermaster Corps, on whom requisitions will be made therefor. In the performance of their official and military duties officers of the Army are authorized to use the means of transportation provided by the Quartermaster Corps in accordance with law.

1109. The Quartermaster Corps is charged with the transportation of troops and supplies between the United States and such over-sea garrisons and military commands as shall be authorized. Those officers and employees who are detailed to carry out the work constitute the Army Transport Service. All necessary expenses incident to that service will be paid from the appropriations made for the support of the Army. The Army Transport Service is governed by special regulations promulgated by the Secretary of War.

TRANSPORTATION OF PERSONS.

1110. When troops are moved, suitable transportation will be provided; proper orders and an exact return of the command will be furnished to the quartermaster who is to provide the same.

1111. A person requiring transportation will exhibit an order from competent authority. The quartermaster will indorse on the original order, over his signature, the fact that transportation has been provided, its kind, the place from and to which it has been furnished, and the number of pounds of extra baggage transported, if any. The original order will be retained by the person who receives the transportation, and, in case of a soldier entitled to commutation of rations while traveling, will be disposed of as directed in paragraph 1232. When a quartermaster furnishes transportation, under the provisions of paragraph 110 to a soldier on furlough, he will report the actual or probable cost thereof to the company commander and will enter on the furlough a statement that the transportation has been furnished. The officer paying the account will notify the company commander of the actual amount paid and the date of payment.

11 12. When transportation is furnished for the entire journey, the route, if not designated in the order, will be determined by the Quartermaster Corps, in accordance with existing rules.

1113. A quartermaster who provides the transportation for troops will notify, by mail or telegraph, the quartermasters at places where changes of route are to be made, or means of transportation are to be changed, of the day on which the troops will start, their route, destination, the number of officers, enlisted men, and animals, and the quantity of public property and baggage for which transportation will be required.

1114. The quartermaster who provides the transportation, or a duly authorized representative, will be present at the embarkation of the troops, and will see that the accommodations contracted for have been provided. A similar course will be pursued, where practicable, at places where changes of route or important connections are to be made. If delay is necessary in either case in order to complete the arrangements for transportation, the commanding officer of the troops will be duly notified.

1115. The Quartermaster Corps will furnish transportation to accepted applicants for enlistment from general recruiting stations to designated recruiting depots (including recruit depot posts) and return transportation to such of the applicants as are rejected on final examination.

TRANSPORTATION REQUESTS.

1116. A request for transportation issued by a quartermaster should set forth date and place of issue; time for which it will be valid; name of company required to furnish transportation; name of the person, or of the one in charge of the party to be transported, with number thereof; pounds of extra baggage, if any; organization to which the person belongs, if an officer or enlisted man; and the initial letters of each road or line to be used on the journey.

1117. Requests should be properly receipted by the party named therein, and tickets procured before commencing the journey, as conductors are not authorized to accept transportation requests. If more than one person is to be transported, the officer or person in charge of the party, in filling the receipt, will state the number of the persons and pounds of extra baggage carried, and the class and description of transportation furnished. In no case will a receipt