Memorandum, Army Regulations, Changes Number 71, from Major General Peyton C. March

[C. A. R. 71.] atil the ARMY REGULATIONS. CHANGES WAR DEPARTMENT, No. 71. WASHINGTON, April 2, 1918. Paragraphs 114, 191, 2081, 470, 633, 634, and 937, Army Regulations, are changed as follows: 114. (Changed by C. A. R. No. 49, W. D., 1916, and No. 55, W. D., 1917.) Change subparagraphs 1 and 2 as follows 1. When not involving change of station- (a) Within a brigade, by the brigade commander; within a regiment, by the regimental commander. (b) Within a detached battalion serving at such a distance from regimental headquarters that more than 15 days are required for exchange of correspond- ence by mail, by the battalion commander. (c) Within a coast defense command, by the coast defense commander. 2. In cases involving change of station, transfers will be made by the 8 brigade commander, the regimental commander, the battalion commander, under the circumstances stated in the preceding section, or the coast defense commander, with the approval of the authority competent to direct the neces- sary travel. (C. A. R. No. 71, Apr. 2, 1918.) [220.33, A. G. O.] 191. (Changed by C. A. R. No. 49, W. D., 1916, and No. 57, W. D., 1917.) In the eighteenth line, between the word " commanders" and the semicolon, insert the following : ", except the supervisory control, as prescribed in para- graphs 193, 749, and 1004, over the issue of all supplies, except medical, for general hospitals." (C. A. R. No. 71, Apr. 2, 1918.) [300.31, A. G. O.] 2081. (Changed by C. A. R. No. 59, W. D., 1917.) Commanding officers shall appoint trustworthy persons to perform the duties of mail orderlies, to whom shall be given authority to receive the, mail from the post office, and to sign receipts for all registered and C. O. D. mail, except such as may be restricted in delivery by the addressee and that which the sender may have marked Deliver to addressee only." Mail orderlies will obtain from the post- masters a copy of a bill or substitute therefor describing registered and C. O. D. mail delivered to them, on which they will obtain the receipts of the addressees or indicate other disposition made of the mail. A copy of the bill, or substi- tute therefor, upon which final disposition of the mail is shown, will be filed by the mail orderly as a part of the records of the military organization. In all cases where commanding officers, for the good of the service or for some other good and sufficient reason, order the destruction of insured packages addressed to enlisted men and containing such articles as eat- ables, liquors, etc., such packages shall be destroyed under the supervi- sion of a commissioned officer in the presence of the addressee from whom a receipt for the package should be required at the time of destruction. (C. A. R. No. 71, Apr. 2, 1918.) [311.11, A. G. O.] 54616°-1: