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General Orders, ! WAR DEPARTMENT.


No. 10. SApJuTANT GEsEnAL's OrrIcE,
Washington, March 10, 1919.
!. Ten additional Chaplans and SchoolmasIers
being authorized 70 BE- employed by the Act Of March
eral Orders" No. 66, is revised as iollows
/. Fort Mackinac, Mich.
2 Eor Gaines, upper Mississippi, lComiles above
Fort Snelling)
A. New Post at or near Fort Laramie on the Or
egon Route 300 miles West Of Fort Kearny
s. Fort Kearny Grand Island, plattee River, 22O
miles West Of Fort Leayenworth
o. Fort I.eavenworth, Mo.
a. Fort Scott Missouri Frontier.
g. Fort Gibson, Cherokee Nation.
g. Fort Towson, Red River.
TO- Fort Washlm, Red River.
H. Fort Pickens, Pensacola, Fla.
IL. Fort Morgan Ala
H. Fort Brooke, Fla
a. For Moaltrie, Charleston Harbor, S. G.
- Fort Monroe, Va.
l6 Principal Recruiting Depot, New York Harbor
H. San francisco, California.
H. Monterey, California.
49, Fort Marcy, Santa Fe New Mexico
20 Fort------, III Paso, New Mexico
2. Three Chaplains allowed 10 the Posts 10 be
established In Oregon one in California one In New
Mexico, and four In Texas 70 be designated BY the
Commanding Officer Of the 81 Division and Depart
ments No. and respectively, and TO be reported
for the approval of the Secretary OF War
= The above designation OF Military Posts al
which Chapains are authorized 10 be employed. Is
made In conformity with the 18Th section Of the Act
Of July s. 1885, and the I'd section Of the Act supple
| mentary thereto
r. JONES,
Adiutant General.
For the information OF persons who may make APP
pica'ion for the appointment Of Post Chaplain aud
Schoolmaster the following extract from the Regu-
lations IS published for their guidance
Article XVIII.
26a Section H. Of the Act Of Congress July s,
1888, authorizes the Council Of Administration $40
employ such persons as they may think proper, 10
ofciate as Chaplain irho staH also perform he dtt
tfs Of Scioo.adsfer," ut the Post for which he is
chosen; and the "a clause Of the supplement- to the
same ACT, approved July 4 1888 limits the number
of Posts "most destitute 0finsfracfion" for which
Chapains may be allowed, 10 thirty, TO be approx
ed by the Secretary Of War
269. When the Council Of Administration shall
have selected person 10 ofliciaie Chaplain they
will also determine his compensation, and report
these acts, through The Adjntnn General 10 the War
Department. They will be careful transmit al the
same time, the recommendations Of the highest &C.
cesiastlcal authority Of the communion TO which
the applicant belongs
270. The monthly pay of n Chaplain shall not ex-
coed forty dollars, In addition 10 which he win be al
lowed four rations per day and quarters and fuel pro
vided for a Captain.
272. The dulles Of Schoolmasier Of the Post will
be performed under such regulations may be es-
tabished BY the Council Of Administration approved
by the commanding officer He win teach the chill
dren OF ensied men, as well Us those Of officers
II win be seen from The foregoing Regulations that
applications for Post Chapains not made 10 the
Secretary Of War but should BIO addressed and drec
ted ITO the Commanding Officer or the Posts al
which they are employed. See the annexed list.
II. JONES,
March 10, 1919. Adjutan General