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Philippine scouts will be permitted to turn in empty shells under the provisions of this order, receiving therefor ball or blank cartridges in the proportions herein provided.

The adjutants general of the various States and Territories, and the commanding general, District of Columbia militia, will be permitted to turn in empty shells under the provisions of this order, receiving therefor ball or blank cartridges in the proportions herein provided. The empty shells should be forwarded by the adjutant general of the State or Territory and District of Columbia and made in one shipment to the commanding officer of the Frankford Arsenal, so as to reach that arsenal prior to December 31 of each year.

XXVIII. Gallery-Practise Allowance.-The annual allowance per company or troop of caliber .30 reloading ammunition will be sufficient to load 10,000 rounds of ammunition for gallery practise, as follows:

1,000 gallery cartridge cases, unprimed.
10,000 cartridge primers.
10,000 bullets, lubricated.

74 pounds small-arms powder.

XXIX. Reloading Tools, Gallery Practise.-Special caliber .30 shells and reloading materials are issued upon requisition for gallery practise. These shells will bear about 100 firings without resizing. After firing 100 times they may be sent in lots to the Frankford Arsenal for inspection and resizing, and will then, if serviceable, be returned to the commanding officers of the companies or troops.

One set of reloading tools for gallery-practise ammunition is issued to each company or troop. The set of reloading tools for the elongated bullet comprises the following articles: (a) Priming tool without spindle.

(b) Primer extracting spindle with five extra pins.

(c) Primer inserting spindle.

(d) Resizing and reloading anvil.

(e) Resizing die.

(f) Resizing punch.

(g) Ejecting stem.

(h) Charger funnel.

(i) Charger, hand reloading (capacity 3 grains smokeless

powder).

(j) Loading die.

(k) Loading punch.

(1) Brush wiper.

(m) Brass wiping rod (cleaning fired cases, dies, etc.).

(n) Wooden mallet.

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(0) Wooden box for tools.

Tools (b), (h), (l), and (m) constitute, when necessary, a separate set for decapping and cleaning service, caliber .30, fired cases, before turning them in to Frankford Arsenal. If necessary the case can be decapped by inserting the spindle in it and striking the butt of the latter on a bench or block, but when the priming tool is available the decapping should be done with it and the spindle. The reloading tools for the model of 1903 gallery-practise ammunition will answer for reloading the model of 1898 ammunition. The reloading tools made for the model of 1898 ammunition are the same as those for the model of 1903, except the priming tool, primer extracting spindle, and primer inserting spindle, which are only adapted to the shorter model of 1898 cartridge.

Caliber .30 service ammunition will not be reloaded at posts, and reloading tools for this purpose are not issued to the service.

XXX. Shotguns and Ammunition.-Shotguns will be issued only to troops stationed in Alaska for hunting purposes. The annual allowance of ammunition will be 1,000 loaded cartridges per company or troop.

XXXI. Arms for Prison Guards.-For use in guarding prisons the Springfield carbine, caliber .45, with the necessary supply of guard cartridges, will be issued upon requisition. XXXII. All orders or circulars heretofore issued on the subject, in conflict with this order, are hereby revoked. [1167519, M. S. O.]

BY ORDER OF THE ACTING SECRETARY OF WAR:

OFFICIAL:

THOMAS H. BARRY,

Brigadier General, Acting Chief of Staff.

HENRY P. MCCAIN,

Military Secretary.

GENERAL ORDERS, }
No. 173.

WAR DEPARTMENT,

WASHINGTON, October 12, 1906.

I.. The following is published for the informaiion and guidance of all concerned:

1. The military post at Zamboanga, Island of Mindanao, Philippine Islands, is designated and will hereafter be known as the Post of Zamboanga.

2. The military post at Parang, Island of Mindanao, Philippine Islands, is designated and will hereafter be known as the Post of Parang.

3. The military post at Jolo, Island of Jolo, Philippine Islands, is designated and will hereafter be known as the Post of Jolo.

[1166993, M. S. O.]

II..The following Executive Order is published to the Army for the information and guidance of all concerned:

EXECUTIVE ORDER.

The military reservation at Fort San Pedro, in the neighborhood of Iloilo, anay. Philippine Islands, as reserved by Executive Order of Octo ber 10, 1903 (G. O., No. 43, War Department, October 27, 1903), and modified by Executive Order of September 18, 1905 (G. O., No. 161, War Department' September 30, 1905), is further modified so as to exclude therefrom the parcel of land reserved for light-house purposes by order of the Civil Gov ernor of the Philippine Islands, dated July 28, 1903 (Executive Order, No' 60, Manila, July 28, 1903), and erroneously included therein, viz:

The reservation for Iloilo port light, entrance to Iloilo River, Island of Panay, Province of Iloilo, described as an area on the right bank of the Iloilo River at its junction with the sea surrounding the present lighthouse structures and inclosed by metes and bounds as follows:

Beginning at a point on the shore line of Iloilo Strait thirty-one meters southward from a point on said shore line opposite the center of the pres ent light; thence westerly on a line parallel to the longer side of the lightkeeper's dwelling thirty-six meters; thence northerly on a line parallel to the shorter side of the light-keeper's dwelling forty-six meters; thence due east thirty meters, more or less, to the shore line; thence along said shore line to the point of beginning.

THE WHITE HOUSE,

October 3, 1906.

[1167093, M. S. o.]

THEODORE ROOSEVELT.

III..The following is published to the Army for the information and guidance of all concerned:

The United States having acquired under decree of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts, rendered June 28, 1906, and quit-claim deed from Emery W.

Clark and wife, dated July 17, 1906, a copy of said decree and said deed being recorded with Plymouth County Deeds, Book 953, pages 258 and 261, et seq., the following-described tract of land situated on Point Allerton, in the town of Hull, County of Plymouth, and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, for a site for range-finder station, in connection with the fortifications of Fort Andrews, Massachusetts, the same is announced as comprising an addition to Fort Andrews Military Reservation, viz:

Starting at point "1," marked by a drill hole in a stone bound set at the intersection of the easterly line of a proposed street with the northerly line of land of Conant, and running northerly along said easterly line of proposed street (being the arc of a circle with a radius of 457 feet) 150 feet to point "3" (passing at 75 feet from point "1" measured on said arc, through point "2," both said points "2" and "3" being marked by drill holes in stone bounds lettered "U. S."); thence turning at point "3" and running S. 89° 19′ 20′′ E. (parallel with the said northerly line of land of Conant) 129.39 feet to point "4" (approximately 3 feet before reaching the crest of the bluff), marked by a drill hole in a stone bound lettered "U.S."; thence continuing S. 89° 19′ 20′′ E. to the line of mean low water (being 354 feet, more or less, from point "4"); thence turning and following southerly said line of mean low water to a point in the easterly prolongation of the aforesaid northerly line of land of Conant; thence turning and running in said prolongation N. 89° 19′ 20′′ W. 376 feet, more or less, to point "5," marked by a drill hole in a stone bound about 3 feet beyond the crest of the bluff; thence continuing along the northerly line of said land of Conant to the point of beginning; the area of said plot being 70,600 sq. ft., more or less, of which 18,300 sq. ft. are upland westerly of the crest of the bluff. All as shown on map of Land at Point Allerton, Hull, Massachusetts, drawn by Frederic M. Hersey, Engineer, dated January 13, 1906.