The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-08-20
TARGET POINTS
TO Be MADE BY
THE GUARDSMEN
New Rules to Govern
Annual Practice.
HOW MEDALS WILL BE GIVEN
STATE TROOPS IN THE GRAND
RECEPTION PARADE.
Naval Militia Veterans Are to Have
a Banquet and Will Effect
Permanent Organ
ization.

The following changes and amendments
TO firing regulations for small arms for
the National Guard Of California having
been adopted by the officers mentioned in
section 2O3l of the Political Code are here
by announced and approved:
Paragraph 2 is amended to read follows:
2-Target practice in the National Guard shall
be held in such months of each year as the
COmtnander-in-Chief may designate.
Paragraph IS amended to read as follows:
Each officer and enlisted man firing with the
rlhe Wi! be allowed annually slXty-hve rounds
Of ammunition and the same Will be fired as
follows: At rectangular target: One score OF
i've shots at each OF the 200, 300 and 300 yard
ranges at first practice; one score OF five shots
at each of the 2G0. 800 and 800 yard ranges at
second practice; one score of five shots at each
OF the zoo. 300 and 600 yard ranges third
practice period. At skirmsh targets; one
score of twenty shots time designated.
Paragraph is amended read S follows:
4-SklrmIsh firing Will be by company at sill
houettes at known distances between 200 and
6U0 yards, at target q, provided in para
graph $50. Blunts small arms firing regula-
Paragraph 10 is amended to read as follows:
1O-The names OF all national guardsmen who
have attended 20 per cent OF the drills for the
year ending on the last day OF the month next
preceding the one in which the last practice
IS held and who have qualified in any OF the
qualifications, VIII be announced in orders by
the adJutant general and be published in his
report.
1.-the target practice of the Naval Militia
Battalion will be under the supervision OF the
Paragraph 81 is amended to read as follows
b2-Each company, troop corps, division or
other commander shall keep a complete record
OF all target practice held in his organization.
lie shall make for the inspector of rifle praC-
held in each year, on blank forms furnished
by the adjutant general. Separate reports Will
be made OF sklTmish firing in like manner.
The inspector OF rifle practice shall carefully
examine and certify to the correctness of these
reports ana Wlthlh I'VE Gays atier the com
pleuQn OF the last practice forward three copies
10 the brigade inspector OF rifle practice lex
cept inspector Of naval militia who shall for-
ward Two copies TO the division inspector of
rifle practice). who shall verify said reports,
and within ten days after their receipt by him
forward two copies 10 the division inspector
of rifle practice who SHALL within ten days
after their receipt by him forward copy
To the inspector general OF rifle practice. The
inspector general Of rife practice shall, within
twenty days after his receipt of same, forward
copies OF all reports to the adjutant general.
together with his report, as prescribed IN sec
tiln zoos of the Political Code
Paragraph 80 is amended TO read as follows:
i5-Classihcation for revolver practice. Ten
shots Will be fired at each practice, of which
there shall be four, to be held in such months
as the commander in chief may designate.
Each officer and enlisted firing with the
revolver will be allowed annually forty rounds
as follows. Average OF 30 per cent, first class;
so Der cent, second class; 10 per cent. third
class; SO per cent, fourth class. The names of
these averaging less than 90 per cent for the
-FOUR shots viii not be announced in orders,
and only first class men Will be permitted to
compete Tor the State medal for revolver prac-
lin compliance with section 2o1S of the
Political Code, paragraph ., the National Guard
viii parade for target practice in their respect
I've localities in the year 1899 follows: One
practice at rectangular targets Will be held
during each Of the months Of September, Octo-
be- ana November. The practice at skirmish
firing Will be held after the practice at rectan-
gulaI targets is completed, and may be held
either in the months Of November or Deem
Der. The additional practice for those firing
with the revolver Will be held in either No
Vember or December
Regimental commanders. and the commanding
of Fha .,TFg-
designate the days in above named months
when the practice OF their commands will be
held and detail an officer to inspect same when
a regular inspector Of rife practice cannot be
present. Brigade commanders will issue like
orders for cavalry and signal corps in their
These orders viii not apply to the First In
fantry as regards time, but II said regiment
returns to duty in the guard in sufficient time
for practice this year the same Will be held
on dates designated by its regimental COM
II-No score will be accepted by these head
quarters unless same has been actually super
vised and attested by an inspector of rife
practice or a duly authorized officer. and a
copy Of the order authorizing must be filed
with said Headquarters Particular attention
Of inspecting officers is called to paragraph g.
Small Arms Firing Regulations The attention
of all commanding officers is also called to sec
ton 2C2O OF the Political Code.
N-Company and other commanders prepar-
ing rolls Tor reports Of target practice will
State medal held by each member in column
FOR that purpose.
N-MedalS and bars for various classes will
DE awarded as follows: Ri1e-Rifeman. medal
with bronze bar; sharpshooter medal with sill
Yer bar; distinguished marlsmar, medal with
Eoid par. ReVolyer-Ihlrd class, medal with
bronze bar; second class, medal with silver bar
first class. medal with gold bar. After the
first qualification bar only Will be awarded
NI-The greater part of the National Guard
having been mustered into and served in the
United States Volunteers during the SPANISH
American war OF 1898, and no complete target
practice having been held in that year, owing
10 disarrangement caused by said war therehy
fxyf In yor{o,,
classes in that year, therefore, in order that
they may not be deprived Of the consecutive
yearly decoration for 1885, 1t is hereby pro-
vided that all members Of the guard who be-
came such prior 10 the 9Th day Of July 1898
and who qualify in the practice for the year
1879 VIII receive IN ADDITION to the usual medal
and bar for 1899 bar for the year 1888 also in
accordance with the class in which they
qualify IN 1899.
VII-The ammunition for rife practice shall
contain not less than 6 grains Of powder and
400 grains or lead. Ammunition for revolver
practice viii be Colts revolver cartridges,
calber rs long.
VIII-Blank forms for returns and instruc-
tions governing skirmishing firing for 1899 Will
be issued later from this office.
The orders fer the parade of the Ma
tlonal Guard on the occasion of the re-
ception of the returning volunteers on the
morning that they shall land will be is
sued in a few days from division head
quarters. There viii be in line from San
Francisco md the cities within the terri
torial limits Of the Second Brigade. Briga-
der General Warfield and staff, the Fifth
Regiment of Infantry, the Signal Corps,
Troop A. cavalry the first and second d.
visions of the Naval Militia and the en-
gineer division of that body. From the
Third Brigade there will be Brigadier
General Muller and staff one company of
infantry from Sacramento, two from
Fresno and Troop B from Sacramento. 1t
IS possible that Brigadier General Last
and staff of the First Brigade will be in
line
The United States army will be repre-
scented by one or two regiments of the vol
unteers now at the Preside, batteries of
the Third Artillery and a squadron of
cavalry. The military VIII be under Brig
adler General Shafter and Major General
Dickinson.
Those members of the Naval Militia
who served on the Iroquois and Vigilant
during the Spanish-American war held a
meeting last Tuesday night on board of
the Marion for the purpose of arranging
10 enjoy a banquet on the evening of the
9th inst. and the following were named
as the committee to arrange for the event:
Mcmillan, Morrison and Plevin of the Iro-
uuois and Schmidt of the Vigilant Dur
ing the evening there was an organization
of the members with a view to a perma-
nent organization, and w +. Burke who
served on the Iroquois, and w. Ahern
who served on the Vigilant were named
a committee TO present plan. The COM
1nittee will report at a meeting to be held
next Tuesday night on the Marion.