Birmingham age-herald., 1895-06-09
THE STATE ENCAMPMENT
Adiutant-6eneral and His Staff
 Are Perfecting Details.
AS TO THE SOCIAL FEATURE
Full Text of General Orders No. 6 Relative to the Encampment- Officers Com
 missions Signed.

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 Montgomery, June S.-(Special.)- adjutant- general and his assistants are hard at work making all the necessary arrangements for the coming brigade encampment of Alabama state troops, and if their efforts count for anyt hing this will be the largest and most excel lent encampment ever held in the state. Arrangements are being made to give the men more personal comforts this year than usual and to make the social fea- ture of the camp more pronounced. Reveille call has been placed at 5:30 o'clock, instead of o'clock, and visitors will be. allowed to remain inside the lines during the evenings until 10:3O (taps). In all other respectes, however the camp will be decidedly a camp of in-# struction and thoroughly military.
 The following general orders, which are of great interest of officers and men, were issued today:
 Headuuarters A. s. T.,
 Adjutant-Generals Office.
 Montgomery, June 6, 1895. General Orders No. 6:
 1. The following detailed instructions relative to the brigade encampment at Mobile, commencing June 20, 1895, are published for the guidance of all:
 Commanding officers of the several reg iments will hold their commands in read mess to proceed to Mobile by such routes and at such times as will enable them to reach the encampment as hereafter prescribed in special instructions sent them.
 ?. The state will pay for the transpor- tation of officers and men, camp equip horses and to and from the encampment,i and the commanding oftf- cers of the several organizations will not be- required to advance the trans- portation or to have any responsibility therefor Each company will be allowed transportation and subsistence for two servants only.
 Each officer in command will be fur nshed by the quartermaSter-g general with a transportation request which he will be required to fill in for the number of menih he brings into camp These trans portation requests will be presented to the local railroad ticket agent, who will take up same and issue one ticket for the entire number of men present at de- parture of train, good for one passage to camp. Return transportation will be fur nshed from camp. The state having procured reduced rates over the rail- roads, applicable only to officers and men when in uniform. going to and returning from camp with their commands, no
 
 fieers or men travelling under other cir cumstances. unless upon a certificate of disability of the surgeon-general
 If however, for any good reason mem bers of company are prevented from leaving with their commands the inn mediate commanding officer will apply to the quartermaster-gener for trans portation for men so detained. stating reasons for their detention. This request must be made in advance of the depart ure of their commands.
 Immediately upon receipt of this order the colonel of each regiment is required to furnish the quartermaster-Sen with a list of the members of reginNntal staff for whom they wish transportation, designating the place from which they wish transportation. together with their postoffice address.
 No baggage will be checked to camp, the quarterma aster-sergeant of each or ganization will be required to take charge of all impedmenta of company during journey to and from camp
 The commanding officer of each organ ization will immediately, upon arrival at camp, furnish in writing to the quar- termaster-general a certified statement pf the number of men for whom he filled out transportation requests.
 No transportation will be furnished unless the foregoing provisions are com piled with.
 3. While in camp the officers and men Will De SuDSlSleu pN the SlaLe without any cost to them. A separate mess hall and kitchen will be assigned each regi- ment, and the same will be under the di- rect lcontrol of the commissary of each regiment, under the general direction of the commissary- general
 There will be allowed from the state appropriation for the hire of labor in the commissary department of each regi- ment, as follows:
 One head cook wages not to exceed n T. each. per day; one head waiter, Sl per day twelve walters 75 cents each per day; one head dish washer, S1 per day; three assistant dish washers. D cents each per day.
 Batteries and troops will mess with their respective regiments Each reg iment having hitherto been supplied with ranges, kitchen utensils and table ware will, under orders from the quartermas- ter-general. ship the same as he directs.
 The commiSsary of each regiment is hereby authorized to employ the neces- sary labor to the number stated above at wages not to exceed those therein given. and upon application to the quar- termaster-genera1 transportation will be furnished to such of this number as the regimental commissary may elect to car ry to camp, ,or at his option he may hire such labor in Mobile.
 Supplies will be furnished upon the written application of the commissary of each regiment. approved by the regi- mental commander, and forwarded through the commissary-gener Col. N. G. Winn, to the purchasing officer Col B. L. Holt. Both of these officers will be at camp grounds several days before the commencement of the encampment
 Regmental quartermasters and com missaries will report at camp to the heads of their respective departments -
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