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been first planned. It will be kept open
ade rifle team and to enable men who
have not qualified in their record scores
to do SO.
A new edition of the Bulls-eye Score
Book. adapted to the regular army course
and the organized militia course as pre-
scribed in Small Arms Firing Manual
1913. has been prepared and can be OBJ
tained by states upon requisition, accord
ing to the bulletin of the division OF
militia affairs.
the minimum strength of militia orSani-
cations Is contained In the bulletin OF
the division of militia affairs for the cur
rent week:
''The notifications made in the former
prescribed minima by general orders No
81, War Department, July 2 1914, are
necessary in order that the organizations
concerned may conform to those pre-
scribed by statute for the regular army.
This will permit the use by the organized
scribed for the regular army. and thus
simplify the matter of equipment and
supply 1t will also facilitate the stor-
age, packing, marking and other prepara-
tory details incident to the shipment OF
mobilization supplies Ito their several
destinations in case the organized militia
should be called into the federal service.
THE change Is an increase of seven
men to company of infantry. cavalry
and engineers, and two men TO a COM
pany of coast artillery. The field artil-
lery and sanitary troops remain as they
are. In the case of the Signal Corps the
minima of the four types of companies
are decreased follows: Type a. by
twenty-one enlisted men. type b, by two
enlisted men; type c, by one enlisted
n nv two enlisted
'.Requisitions should be submitted I'M
mediately for, equipment and supplies In
the case of these organizations the mini
ma of which is increased
Capt. Thomas r. Clark, n. G. D. c.,
yesterday was appointed paymaster and
disbursing officer for the National Guard
of the District of Columbia, succeeding
Maj. Boyd Taylor, who resigned, after
having held the office for five years. Maj
Taylor performed the duties of disburs-
ing officer of the local National Guard in
such an efficient manner that it was
with some regret that Brig. Gen. George
II. Harries. commanding the District of
Columbia militia, accepted his resigna-
ton.
Capt. Clark is probably one Of the
youngest officers to be appointed to dis
burse the funds allotted to the local
National Guard. He is required to dis
District appropriation the National
Guard appropriation and the federal al
lotment He also will disburse the funds
for the Naval Battalion of the National
Guard of the District of Columbia under
the act of February 18. last. which places
the naval militia Indirectly under the
federal government SO far as funds for
its support are concerned. The funds al
lotted to the naval militia by the federal
government will be handled exclusively
by Capt Clark.
Having enlisted in the local National
Guard when he was but little more
than seventeen years old. Capt Clark's
promotion has been rapid. He served
for some time in Company 1, I'd Regi-
ment, which was. at the time. the crack
rifle company of the guard. In 1910 he
was detailed to the pay department. and
later was named as captain and assist
ant paymaster. During the time that
Mai. Taylor was paymaster. Capt. clark
was his right hand man.
Capt Clark has attended all Of the
camps of the local National Guard since
he has been a member, and has assisted
in disbursing the thousands of dollars IN
nav for officers and men. and also for the
camp supplies as well as the running
expenses of brigade headquarters. The
new paymaster is one of the most popu-
lar officers in the local National Guard