Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 39 Part 1.djvu/200

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SIXTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 134. 1916. 179 Each supply troodp shall consist of one captain (regimental supply S“P¥">’ *'°°P°· officer), two secon lieutenants, three regimental supply sergeants, one first sergeant, one mess sergeant, one stable sergeant, one corporal, one cook, one horseshoer, one saddler, and one wagoner for each authorized wagon of the field and combat train: Prmnkled That the fjggigéudhm President may, in his discretion, increase each troo of Cavalry by ` ten privates (first class) and twenty-five privates; the headquarters troop by two sergeants, Eve corporals, one horseshoer, five {privates (first class), and eighteen privates; each machine·gun troop y three sergeants, two corporals, one mechanic, one private (lirst class), and fourteen privates; each supply troop by one corporal, one cook, one saddler, and one horseshoer. The commissioned officers required for the Cavalry headquarters, c,,§?“““‘“"“ °' ““* suppg, and machine-gun troops, and for the troops oréganized into squa ons, shall be assigned from those hereinbefore au orized. mm Mm, mm Sec. 19. COMPOSITION or Fmnn Anriunnr UNITS.—·T.l10 Field Composition-zi. ` Artillery, including mountain artillery, light artilleigy, horse artillery, heavy artillery (tie d and siege types), sh consist o one hundred and twenty-six gun or howitzer atteries organized into twenty-one regiments. _ n time of actual or threatened hostilities the Presidentis authorized ,,,‘2,;’f"‘““°“ *“ ““‘ to organize such number of ammunition batteries and battalions, depot batteries and battalions, and such artillery parks with such numbers and grades of personnel and such organizations as he may 0m,,,,,,_ deem necessary. The officers necessary for such organization sh P,,,,_ mm be supplied from the Officers’ Reserve Corps provided by this Act v,,,_38,,,,,,_ and by temporary appointment as authorized by section eight of the Act o Congress Ialpproved April twenty-fifth, nineteen hundred and E I. i fourteen. he e ted men necessary {mr such or anizations shall be m°°‘ supplied from the Regular Army Reserve provided by this Act or from the Regular Army. Each regiment of Field Artillery shall consist of one colonel, one ”·°$*“‘°"‘·’· lieutenant colonel, one captain, one headqluarters company, one supply company, and such number of gun an howitzer battalions as the President may direct. Nothingl shall prevent the assembling, in the same regiment, of gun and owitzer battalions of different calibers and classes. Each gun or howitzer battery shall consist of one captain, two first B°*°°’*°°· lieutenants, two second lieutenants, one first sergea.nt, one supply sergeant, one stable sergeant, one mess se cant, six sergeants, thirteen corporals, one chief mechanic, one sadgller, two horseshoers, one mechanic, two buglers, three cooks, twenty-two privates (iirst class), and seventy-one privates. When no enlisted men of the Quarter- m§,`ldm°°'° °“”s°°° master Corps are attached for such positions there shall be added to each battery of mountain artillery one packmaster (sergeant, first class), one assistant packmaster (sergeant), and one cargador (corporal). H Each headquarters company of a regiment of two battalions shall °°"` consist of one ca tain, one first lieutenant, one regimental sergeant mm? "°°°““°” '°¤*· major, two battiion sergeants major, one first sergeant two color sergeants, one mess sergeant, one supply sergeant, one stable sergeant, two sergeants, nine corporals, one orseshoer, one saddler one mechanic, three buglers, two cooks, five privates (first class), fifteen privates, one band leader, one assistant band leader, one sergeant ugler, two band sergeants, four band corporals, two musicians (first class), four musicians (second class), and thirteen musicians Tmmmmné (third class). That when a regiment consists of three battalions ¤¤¤¤¤- there shall be added to the I;-éagqumerskcompgnyl one battalion sergeant major, one sergeant, t co r , one ug er, one private Adm mn (first class), and five privates. When iihoenlisted men of the gautier- mw- ml md master Corps is attached for such positions, there shall be ded to