The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1879-09-07
MILITARY MATTERS.

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Leave of absence for six months grant
ed to First Lieutenant John ]. Clagua,
twelfth infantry.
Captain John w. Roder, Fourth art
illery, recently promoted, is ordered to
join his battery at Fortress Monroe,
Virginia.
Leave of absence for one year on sur
geon's certificate of disability, with per-
mission to leave the department of the
Columbia, is granted to First Lieuten-
ant William V. Wolfe, second infan-
try.
The resignation of Captain Charles
7. Humphreys, assistant quartermaster
of the United States army, of his COM
mission as first lieutenant of the fourth
artillery only, has been accepted by the
president.
The secretary of war has ordered
division commanders to reduce the
number of civilian quartermasters'
clerks including copyists, to the follow
ing, which is fixed as the limit of this
class of employees:
Leave of absence for six months is
granted Captain w. NJ. Wallace, sixth
cavalry. Captain William A. Thomp-
son, sixth cavalry, is ordered proceed
to New York city and conduct a de-
tachment of recruits from the cavalry
rendezvous in that city to jefferson
Barracks, Mo.
The recommendation of the academic
board under paragraph of the regu-
lation of the United States military ac-
ademy, that subjects of geology and
mineralogy be transferred from the
fourth year to the third year of the
course of instruction at the military ac-
ademy has been approved by the secret
ary of war
BY direction of the secretary of war
commisfary sergeant John P. Jones is
relieved from duty at West Point, N.
Y, and is ordered to report in person
to the commanding officer of Madison
barracks, N. Y, for duty at that post
to relieve Commissary Sergeant William
Bolton, who, on being relieved, will
proceed without delay to Fort Omaha,
Nebraska, and report to the command
ing general of the department of the
Platte for assignment to duty at the new
post to be established on the Niobrara
river.
A general order issued from the head
quarters of the army, and approved by
the secretary Of war, Says Except
ing when otherwise specially provided
for by the secretary of war or the gener-
al of the army every military post sta
tion will hereafter be inspected at least
once every year by division or depart
ment inspectors under the direction of
their respective commanders. In addi-
tion to these inspections, post station
and other permanent commanders,
will, between the 1st and 5th- days of
September in each year, make thorough
inspections of their respective COM
iiohuS, ohu ioi Waiu IcpoItS IneEtOl
through the proper military channels to
the inspector generals office at tho
headquarters of the army, SO as to reach
that Office not later than October ~
Military division of the Atlantic, 6;
department of the east, @; department
Of the south, 8. Total division of the
Atlantic military division of the Miss
ouri, 8; department of Platte, 12; de-
partment of Dakota, 20; department of
Texas, 12-total division of the Mis-
souri,, Ga. Military division of the
Pacific and department of California, s;
department of California, s; depart
ment of Columbia, 6; department of
Arizona, 6-total division of the Paci-
fic, 80. Total civilian quartermasters.
clerks and copyists, 10S. Should they
find that the foregoing distribution
among the departments can be amend
ed, with advantage to the service, divi.
sion commanders are authorized to
change the same, but without exceed
in any division the whole number of
clerks and copyists herein assigned
thereto.