of concentration. (Form of circular for this purpose is given in paragraph 693, Quartermaster's Manual, 1904.)

Blank forms of contracts, transportation requests, and bills of lading, to cover the cost of the movements, on which are printed full instructions, will be furnished by the chief quartermaster of the military department in which the State or Territory or the District of Columbia is located, on application. All accounts for the transportation of the organized militia ordered out will be submitted by the carriers to the officer of the State or Territory or of the militia of the District of Columbia making the contract, who will examine them, and, if found correct, transmit them duly certified, together with the transportation requests, bills of lading, and contracts, to the chief quartermaster of the military department in which the State or Territory or the District of Columbia is located, for adjustment and settlement.

(d) Ammunition will be supplied under orders of the War Department upon arrival at place of concentration.

460. To expedite the mobilization of the organized militia ordered into the service of the United States, the War Department, after consultation with the governors or the commanding general of the militia of the District of Columbia, will designate convenient places in the State or Territory or in the District of Columbia for assembling companies, batteries, etc., the United States Government meeting, as hereinbefore provided, all authorized expenses incident to this preliminary concentration from the day the militia appear at their places of company rendezvous. The organized militia called into the service of the United States will be mustered in at these designated places of concentration by officers of the Army detailed for this purpose by the War Department. The extent of the physical examination, upon said muster in, will be in accordance with the length and character of the service for which the organizations are called out and will be prescribed in orders from the War Department: Provided, That in such States or Territories or the District of Columbia as shall have adopted a standard of physical examination for enlistment and reenlistment of the organized militia, approved by the Secretary of War, such militia shall be deemed under the law "fit for military service," and shall be duly mustered into the service of the United States as such. Under these conditions, as soon as practicable after such muster in, without interfering with the supreme duty of the militia-the defense of the country-and in such a manner as not to prevent their employment against an enemy, a physical examination will be made by a medical officer of the Army, detailed for the purpose, who shall note all cases of defect and cause the same to be entered on the muster roll against the name of each individual, stating in each case whether the defect so noted existed prior to the muster in of the soldier.

461. It shall be the duty of every officer designated to muster into the service of the United States any of the militia of the several States or Territories or of the District of Columbia, to see that the muster rolls contain all information that might in any way affect pay or which it might be necessary to consider in the settlement of claims for pensions. Blank forms and detailed instructions will be forwarded to mustering officers by the War Department. Upon the completion of the muster in of any organization, the mustering officer shall forward the rolls promptly to their proper destinations as given in his detailed instructions.

462. 1. As soon as a regiment or other separate organization has been mustered into the service of the United States, the governor of the State to which the organization belongs will invoice all property belonging to the United States taken by such troops into the service, as follows:

(a) All clothing, camp and garrison equipage, and quartermaster supplies, to the quartermaster of the organization.

(b) All property pertaining to the Subsistence Department, to the commissary of the organization.

(c) All property pertaining to the Medical Department, to the senior medical officer on duty with the organization.

(d) All property pertaining to the Engineer Department, the Ordnance Department, and the Signal Corps, to the company or detachment commanders.

2. Property pertaining to each department will be invoiced separately. On receipt of the stores invoiced to the several officers hereinbefore specified, from the governor of the State, such officers will use the invoices received by them from the governor as vouchers for taking up such property on their returns, and will furnish the usual receipts to the governor for the property received. The receipts will be used as vouchers to the governor's next property returns rendered to the several chiefs of bureaus of the War Department.

3. On receipt of the clothing, camp and garrison equipage, and other quartermaster supplies from the State, the quartermaster, under the direction of the commanding officer of the organization, will turn over to each company or detachment commander the stores required by each company or detachment, taking memorandum receipts therefor; but the quartermaster will continue to carry such supplies on his returns until they shall have been transferred or expended and duly accounted for as required by Army Regulations. This provision will also apply in the case of subsistence property for which the commissary of an organization is accountable.

4. As soon as practicable after a regiment or other separate organization has been mustered into the service, the commanding officer thereof will convene a board of officers of his command to make an inventory of all United States property received from the governor of the State to which his command is credited, and make report which will conform to the following requirements:

(a) The report to be prepared in duplicate and submitted to the commanding officer for his action.

(b) Separate reports to be made for each staff department concerned.

(c) Each report to contain an itemized list of the property pertaining to one staff department and a statement as to its condition and value at the time the property was received from the State.

(d) In the case of clothing, the report to show the price (average) at which each article should be charged to enlisted men.

The report of the board, after approval by the commanding officer, will be forwarded directly to the chief of the bureau to which the property pertains. The duplicate copy of the report will be forwarded to the governor of the State.

463. In all cases payments to militia mustered into the service of the United States will be made in the same manner as to organizations of the Regular Army.

464. At the termination of the period for which the President called the militia forces into the service of the United States they shall be mustered out by an officer of the Army, detailed for the purpose, at such rendezvous favorable to all interests concerned as may be directed by the War Department. The mustering officer will be provided by the War Department with blanks and detailed instructions.

465. To facilitate the settlement of claims that may be made for pensions on account of disability incurred in the military service, that is, to establish the rights of persons under the pension laws, as well as to protect the interests of the United States, a thorough physical examination of all officers and enlisted

men of the militia will be made immediately prior to their discharge or their muster out.

466. Specific regulations for mustering the militia into the service of the United States and for its muster out will be published by the War Department when the necessity arises.

467. When any company, troop, battery, battalion, or regiment of the organized militia of any State or Territory or of the District of Columbia enlists in a body in the Volunteer Army, such organization loses its identity as a part of the organized militia, so far as the United States Government is concerned, changes its designation, and becomes a similar unit of the Volunteer Army. It shall comply with all the conditions and requirements prescribed for similar organizations of the Volunteer Army as to strength, medical examination, etc. If the President, under authority vested in him by law, has called forth any of the organized militia, no part of the organization so called forth is eligible for enlistment in the Volunteer Army, should one be raised, until properly mustered out of the service of the United States.

ARTICLE XLVI.

THE GOVERNMENT HOSPITAL FOR THE INSANE.

468. The following classes of persons are entitled by law to admission to the Government Hospital for the Insane: (1) Officers, contract surgeons, and enlisted men of the Army who have become insane while in the military service, or within three years after their discharge therefrom, from causes which arose during and were incident to such service; (2) inmates of the Soldiers' Home and of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers; (3) civilian employees of the Quartermaster's, Subsistence, and Pay Departments who may become insane during such employment; (4) military convicts.

469. The insane of the military service will be sent by department commanders, under proper escort, to Washington, D. C., where they will be reported to The Adjutant-General of the Army, that the orders of the Secretary of War for admission to the Government Hospital for the Insane may be obtained.

470. An application for admission to the hospital will be forwarded in time to reach The Adjutant-General of the Army at least one day before the arrival of the patient. It will contain a full description of the patient, and will be accompanied by a certificate of the post surgeon containing the diagnosis and a detailed account of the medical history of the case. If the patient be a soldier, his descriptive list and certificates of disability will accompany the application. He will not be discharged from the service except by order of the Secretary of War after his arrival at the hospital.

471. An insane soldier will be escorted by a noncommissioned officer. When a number are sent at one time or when the patient or patients are violent, the department commander may order such addition to the escort as may be necessary. The noncommissioned officer will report to The Adjutant-General of the Army, by telegraph, at least twenty-four hours in advance, the probable time and place of arrival in Washington. After leaving the patient at the asylum the noncommissioned officer will report to The Adjutant-General for further instructions.

472. On the departure of the patient from his station the commanding officer will give such orders to the person in charge as will provide for transportation of the necessary attendants to the institution and returning to their posts, also subsistence during their absence. When payment of commutation,

in lieu of subsistence in kind, is permissible under paragraph 1241, the commanding officer may, in writing, order commutation for the patient to be paid in advance to, and receipted for by, the noncommissioned officer to whose charge the patient is committed.

473. To obtain the release of a patient when cured or his delivery to the care of friends, application must be made to The Adjutant-General of the Army, accompanied by the recommendation of the superintendent of the hospital.

ARTICLE XLVII.

INDIANS.

INDIAN COUNTRY.

474. If any commanding officer of a military post has reason to suspect or is informed that any white person or Indian is about to introduce or has introduced any spirituous liquor or wine into the Indian country in violation of law, he may cause the boats, stores, packages, wagons, sleds, and places of deposit of such person to be searched; and if such liquor is found therein, the same, together with the boats, teams, wagons, and sleds used in conveying the same, and also the goods, packages, and peltries of such person, shall be seized and delivered to the proper officer, and shall be proceeded against by libel in the proper court. It shall, moreover, be the duty of any person in the service of the United States, or of any Indian, to take and destroy any ardent spirits or wine found in the Indian country, except such as may be introduced therein by the War Department. In all cases arising under sections 2139 and 2140, Revised Statutes, Indians shall be competent witnesses. It shall be a sufficient defense to any charge of introducing or attempting to introduce ardent spirits, ale, beer, wine, or intoxicating liquors into the Indian country that the acts charged were done under authority, in writing from the War Department or any officer duly authorized thereunto by the War Department.

475. The Indian country within the meaning of the foregoing paragraph may be defined, in general, as the Indian Territory, Indian reservations, or districts occupied by Indian tribes and to which the Indian title has not been extinguished; or sections of country over which the operation of the Indian trade and intercourse laws has been retained by Indian treaty stipulations. Should any case arise which, in the opinion of the department commander, does not appear to be embraced within these definitions, he will report it to the Secretary of War, in order that the question whether the location is Indian country may be authoritatively determined.

476. When lands are secured to the Indians by treaty against occupation by the whites, the military commanders will keep intruders off the same by military force if necessary, until such time as the Indian title is extinguished or the lands are opened by Congress for settlement.

477. When questions arise as to the ownership of animals in possession of Indians, the commanding officer of the nearest military post is authorized and directed to act in conjunction with the agent in charge of said Indians in the investigation and determination of ownership.

478. The introduction into the Indian country for the purpose of sale to, or exchange with, Indians of any breech-loading firearms and of any special ammunition adapted to them, and the sale and exchange to Indians in the Indian country of any such arms or ammunition is prohibited. The introduction into the country or district occupied by any tribe of hostile Indians, for the purpose of sale or exchange to them, of arms or ammunition of any description,

and the sale or exchange thereof to or with such Indians is prohibited; and all such arms or ammunition introduced by traders or other persons, and which are liable in any manner to be received by such hostile Indians, shall be deemed contraband of war, to be seized by any officer and confiscated.

479. Supplies, stores, and property of any kind procured out of army appropriations will not be transferred, in any way or under any circumstances, for the use of Indians except under authority first obtained from the Secretary of War. Any officer violating the terms of this regulation will be charged with the money value of the supplies, stores, or property transferred, and in addition be otherwise held accountable according to circumstances.

480. Indians held as prisoners of war are entitled to receive necessary subsistence, clothing, medicines, and medical attendance. There is no authority of law permitting such supplies and attendance to be furnished to Indians under the care and management of the Interior Department. All Indian prisoners

will be reported on the post returns under the following form:

481. Purchases of cattle, hay, grain, fuel, or other produce or merchandise which Indians may have for sale and which may be required for the military service may, with the approval of the Secretary of War, be made from Indians in open market, at fair and reasonable prices, but not exceeding the market prices in the localities where such purchases are made.

INDIAN SCOUTS.

482. Indians employed as scouts under the provisions of sections 1094 and 1112, Revised Statutes, will be enlisted for periods of three years and discharged when the necessity for their services shall cease. While in service they will receive the pay and allowances of cavalry soldiers and an additional allowance of 40 cents per day, provided they furnish their own horses and horse equipments; but such additional allowance will cease if they do not keep their horses and equipments in serviceable condition.

483. Department commanders are authorized to appoint the sergeants and corporals for the whole number of enlisted Indian scouts serving in their de partments, but such appointments must not exceed the proportion of 1 first sergeant, 5 sergeants, and 4 corporals for 60 enlisted Indian scouts.

484. The number of Indian scouts allowed to military departments will be announced from time to time in orders from the War Department.

485. The enlistment and reenlistment of Indian scouts will be made under the direction of department commanders. The appointment or mustering of farriers or blacksmiths on the rolls of Indian scouts is illegal.