Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-08-02

gust 9 to ID inclusive. Mastering officer.
| will report no officer or man present wht
| does not answer to his name at the mus
| ter, and they will muster no substitute
| VIII. The officer commanding the camI
| will render to this office a consolidate
morning report on the morning of eact
| day of the encampment.
| TX. Company cooks not exceeding tive
| to IA company. and one each for the am.
| bulance corps and the signal corps. vii
| be paid $1.25 a day for each days. ser.
| vice from the eth to the 18th inclusive
| Enlisted men serving as cooks will be Sc
| noted on the rolls. Accounts for pay
| ment of civilian cooks, whose names
must be entered in the account, viii be
rendered.
| X. The commanding officer OF Camp
| Powers is authorized 10 grant leaves oil
| absence and furloughs in cases of neces-
| sity upon applications approved by inter
mediate authority. In cases of Illness
the certificate of the surgeon in charge
of the post hospital or of the regimental
surgeon must accompany the application
Officers and men absenting themselves
without such leave of absence or fur
Tough will be SO reported.
XII The attention of the national
guard is called to the assignment of their
pay upon the pay rolls Each officer and
enlisted man must indicate upon the pay
rolls to whom their pays to be assigned,
by writing in the proper column upon the
pay roll the name of their assignee. But
one assignee will be named for each or
sanization.
XII. Company commanders viii imme-
dldtely on receipt OF TINS order make re-
QUESTION for campaign hats for the uni
formed and equipped enlisted men and
the officers of their companies, giving the
number OF each size required. They viii
be issued for wear on fhe rifle range on
drills and when there is rain during the
eneampment, and officers will be held to
strict accountability for them. Company
commanders Will report al the store
house with sufficient detail. for the pur-
pose of recciptfnG for and receiving mats
issued upon approved requisitions, Satur-
day the 9TH. the 1sts Regiment ambu-
lance corps and signal corps. at T.e0 r.
NJ, the I'd Regiment, at T.3D +. NJ.
XIII The colonel LIST Regiment will Or
der company cook of company +, to re-
port for duty on Friday, August 9th in
season to cook dinner for the rifle teams.
NV. The board of examination will
meet at the adjutant generals office.
Camp Powers, Friday. August G. 1897 at
qualifications of such officers-elect as
may be directed to appear before it.
XIV. Regimental rifle teams and those
designated for competitions by the in
spector general of rifle practice will come
into camp for practice on Friday, Au-
gust 9Th subsistence will be furnished
but no pay allowed.
XVI. The ambulance corps will occupy
the west half Of their mess house. the
signal corps will occupy the east half OF
the same. A tent will be pitched near the
cook house for the use OF the cook OF
the signal corps.
CASUALTIES.
XVII. First Lieut.. Lincoln II. New
comb /. X. F.. ID Regiment. resigned and
discharged July ~. 1897; Second Lieut., Hi
ram O. Ray. "a Regiment resigned and
discharged July 16. 1897.
XVIII. The following enlisted men
,pon the Recommendation of their rcspec-
the regfmental commanders. are hereby
discharged:
FIRST REGIMENT.
For Disobedience of orders.
Privates-Frank j. Wade, Company h.
Private Timothy j. Han, Company ID.
discharged in general orders No. II,
should read Timothy j. Heath.
SECOND REGIMENT.
Non-Attendance at Drills and Inspection.
Privates-George NJ. Richwel and Sam
uel j. Hcfel, company II.
BY order of the Comma ntler-in- Chief
JOHN r. RICHARDS.
Adjutant General.
The following are the instructions
issued by Col. Kendell, to the First
Regiment:
Headquarters
First Regiment infantry,
National Guard of the State of Maine
Biddeford. July &c, 1897.
General Orders No. IL.
L. The following announcement is
hereby made of the non commissioned
staff of the colonel commanding: Priv.
Ernest II. Wheeler of Rockland to be
hospital steward with rank of sergeant,
he will be obeyed and respected ac-
cordingly
III. In compliance with Gen. Orders
No. IL. A. G. O., G. S., this regiment
will go into camp at Augusta, Satur-
day, August 7th, 1897, for seven days,
under the same conditions relative to
pay, etc. as in former years.
III. Orders governing the train SER
vice for the conveyance of the several
companies to Augusta and return also