8 VI__Official correspondence.-1. In order to expedite the record work in the office of The Adjutant General of the Army, the classification number, office mark, and date will be quoted in all communications, whether mail or telegraphic, addressed to that office and relating to prior correspondence from that office. If no classification number is given, the word "unclassified" will be used. Examples: "Reference A. G. 210.2, Off. Div., January 12, 1918"; "reference A. G. 320.2, Misc. Div., February 12, 1918"; "reference A. G. 220.2, Enl. Div., January 12, 1918"; "reference 123.7, Pub. Div., March 18, 1918"; or "reference unclassified, February 5, 1918 "; or "reference telegram March 3, 1918." 2. In all offices of record in which it is necessary to make a record of a communication bearing the classification number and office mark of The Adjutant General's Office, a notation of same with date will be made for future reference. [Cir. No. 99, W. D., 1919-312.13, A. G. O.] BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF WAR: PEYTON C. MARCH, OFFICIAL: P. C. HARRIS, The Adjutant General. WASHINGTON: GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE: 1919 Act of Congress-Enlistments and reenlistments in the Regular Army II I__Working down rifle bolts.-Bolts of rifles may be worked down when necessary to make them function smoothly. The work will be performed as prescribed in instructions issued by the Ordnance Department, under the supervision of division, camp, post, or station ordnance officers and by specially trained personnel. [474.81, A. G. O.] II__Act of Congress-Enlistments and reenlistments in the Regular Army.-The following act of Congress is published to the Army for the information and guidance of all concerned: AN ACT To authorize the resumption of voluntary enlistment in the Regular Army, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That so much of sections seven and fourteen of the act entitled "An act to authorize the President to increase temporarily the Military Establishment of the United States," approved May eighteenth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, as impose restrictions upon enlistments in the Regular Army, are hereby repealed in so far as they apply to enlistments and reenlistments in the Regular Army after the date of approval of this act: Provided, That from and after the approval of this act, one-third of the enlistments in the Regular Army of the United States shall be for a period of one year, and the remaining two-thirds thereof shall be for the period of three years. Any person enlisting under the provisions of this act shall not be required to serve with the reserves. The pay of the men enlisted hereunder shall be the same as that provided by the act entitled "An act to authorize the President to increase temporarily the Military Establishment of the United States," approved May 18, 1917: Provided further, That after the expiration of one year those enlisting for the period of three years may be discharged in 108154°-19 2 the discretion of the Secretary of War under such rules and regulations as may be prescribed by him after one year of service. ེ་ BULLETIN WAR DEPARTMENT, WASHINGTON, March 8, 1919. Deserters from the United States Army who later joined the forces of cobelligerents--- Post exchanges to pay floor tax on tobacco‒‒‒‒‒‒. Section. I II I_Deserters from the United States Army who later joined the forces of cobelligerents.-Any man who deserted from the United States Army before the United States entered the war and joined the forces of one of the cobelligerents against Germany is guilty of desertion. Such a man, on returning to this country, should surrender himself to the military authorities. The War Department does not promise such men any immunity or leniency as a matter of right or general amnesty. However, the officer concerned having general court-martial jurisdiction should make very careful investigation to determine whether such soldier may be properly restored to duty without trial or to what extent, if any, leniency should be shown. If such soldier left the United States Army prior to the declaration of war against Germany by the United States with a clean record, save for leaving it in order to join the forces of a cobelligerent, and did join such forces and received an honorable discharge therefrom, the presumption that he should be restored to duty without trial is strong. Each individual case, however, must be considered on its merits. Each man must return and surrender himself to military jurisdiction before his case will be considered at all, and even if the man surrenders himself, the Government is under no obligation to restore him to duty without trial, or if it should bring him to trial, to treat him with special clemency. In case of a man ordered restored to duty without trial by the competent authority, he will be held to serve out the time of the full original enlistment period for which he contracted. Any soldier deserting from the United States Army subsequently to the declaration of war against Germany by the United States is not entitled to any consideration because he later joined the forces of one of the cobelligerents against Germany. [251.2, A. G. O.] II. Post exchanges to pay floor tax on tobacco.-The following approved opinion of the Judge Advocate General of the 109076-19 |