The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-05-11
PREPARING FOR
RIFLE PRACTICE
Military Board Will Soon Select
Site for Range and
Camp.


Sitting until after 12 o'clock. the
State Military Board held meeting
on Saturday night transacting con-
siderable amount of business.
All the members were present, as
We're Major C. L. Wright, of Norfolk,
and Colonel c.. A. Dempsey, by invi-
tation Of tho board.
The Adiutant-General submitted a
plan to conform the Virginia militia
to provisions of the Dick bill in ac-
cordancc With law passed by tina
recent Legislature, and it was agreed
to and ordered sent to the War Depart
ment for inspection and approval.
Camp Site.
The question of s. camp site and rife
range was taken up and discussed at
length. Communications from about
thirty points, ranging in location from
Basic City to Norfolk, We're laid before
the meeting, and the subcommittee of
the board having charge Of the mat
ter was requested to employ detail
OF one or more persons to inspect the
sites with view to selecting the most
favorable. Report on the matter is TO
be made to the board and some of its
members Will make a further nspec-
ton before final action is taken. In
view OF tho loss of property by various
other causes. 1t was determined to issue
an order TO be effective July l. 1908,
detailing through the captains, quar-
termaster sergeants, who shall be paid
SIS per month for taking care of the
property of the companies, and to the
artillery Cor the same purpose, includ-
ing the care of the eqdlpnient, $50 per
month.
The regulations will apply to Batteries a
and b on July lst and toNC whenever IL
receives the new armament TINS VIII pe
III addition to the regular sums paid tho
companies for armory rent and other eNpen-
diures under the annual allotment In the
appropriation bills. which latter amounts
rlay be increased when the approximations
recently made are available on June a7th.
For Rifle Practice.
1t was decided to allow General Vaughan
for the brigade and Blues for immediate
help In the matter of rifle practice the sum
of $500. on the general question of rifle
practice under control of Major Perry,
senior officer. it decided to detail an
officer to make further arrangements ana
to pick out the most competent riflemen TO
compete in the national shoot at Camp
Perry
| The Adiutant-Genera reported that ncw.
companies had been formed at Abingdon and
Re anoke, and 1t is understood that ii an
efficient company can be organized at Alex
anGria, it will probably be allowed to take
the place of the one dsbanded upon the
advice of Colonel 10 Lane Stern. assistant
Inspector general Of the Virginia military,
aud Colonel c. A. Dempsey United States
Inspector.
Following the reports Of Colonel Stern and
others under the law, Companies ! at
Franklin. y at Hampton and at Newport
News, viii again be inspected within sixty
days, and they will be dsbanded unless they
arc found efficient. The Adjutant- General
reported that the new Springfield rifles had
been received at nearly all points In the
state, but they would not be opened or used
until the ammunition arrives after
which the krag rifles will be returned to
tbs War Department.
It is confidently expected that Congress
viii pass the bill providing for the joint
| n,anoeuvres, and in view of this details from
the Seventeen and Seventy-second Regi-
ments have been directed to prepare for the
| Virginia military TO take part in the per,
formances at Chickamausa, July 1922 in
elusive