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REPORTS ON THE SUBJECT OF THE REMOVAL OF THE GARRISON FROM MOBILE TO MOUNT VERNON ARSENAL.

To the POST ADJUTANT:

POST HOSPITAL, MOBILE, ALABAMA,

September 19, 1873.

SIR: I have the honor to report to the commanding officer that the yellow fever has appeared in Mobile to such an extent as to render the removal of the troops at once judicious.

I have my information from the city physician, the surgeon of the city hospital, and other medical men of the city, and am entirely assured that the disease is here, and is of a violent type.

I respectfully recommend that the intention expressed by you to move at once to Mount Vernon in such as the present contingency, be carried into effect with as little delay as possible.

Very respectfully, your obedient servant,

JOS. K. CORSON,

Assistant Surgeon United States Army, Post-Surgeon.

HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE SOUTH,
MEDICAL DIRECTOR'S OFFICE,
Louisville, Kentucky, September 23, 1873.

To the SURGEON-GENERAL United States Army:

GENERAL: I have the honor to report that yellow fever having ap peared in Mobile, Alabama, the action of the commanding officer transferring the troops at once to Mount Vernon arsenal was approved; and at the same time, upon my recommendation, telegraphic instructions were sent to the commanding officers at Charleston, Savannah, and Saint Augustine, from these headquarters, to transfer their commands to healthy camps, if the disease appeared in those cities. Each year's experience in this department confirms the importance of this course when promptly adopted.

I have the honor to be, very respectfully, your obedient servant, WM. J. SLOAN,

Surgeon United States Army, Medical Director.

MOUNT VERNON BARRACKS, ALABAMA,

September 24, 1873.

To the SURGEON-GENERAL United States Army : GENERAL: I have the honor to state that on last Friday, September 19, I received information that two fatal cases of yellow fever had occurred at the city hospital, Mobile, one being that of a man direct from

Shreveport, Louisiana, where the fever was prevailing, and the other a Sister of Mercy who nursed him. One other death ensued on Satur day, of a citizen who lived opposite.

Immediately upon hearing of these cases I went to the office of the city physician, and on being assured by him and other prominent medical men of the city of the undoubted nature of the disease, I at once addressed a letter to the commanding officer, a copy of which is herewith inclosed, recommending the immediate removal of the troops to Mount Vernon barracks.

Active measures were at once commenced, and on Saturday (20th) all had left the city with the exception of a detachment of three noncommissioned officers and ten men, under command of Lieutenant Keller, Second Infantry, and myself, A telegram received that evening from headquarters Department of the South, ordered the employment of three citizen watchmen, and withdrawal of the detachment to Mount Vernon. In obedience to this, I arrived at this post Tuesday, September 23, and shall relieve Acting Assistant Surgeon Reynolds to-morrow in charge of post-hospital.

Up to the date of my leaving Mobile no new fatal cases of yellow fever had occurred, and I heard of none under treatment. Along the line of the Mobile and Montgomery Railroad, at Pollard and other towns, and at Pensacola, it is prevailing in a most distressing form.

I regret that the pressure of unusual duties, consequent upon the sudden removal of the troops, has prevented me from making an earlier report.

Very respectfully, your obedient servant,

JOS. K. CORSON, Assistant Surgeon United States Army.

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The want of a law affixing a penalty for tampering with the military telegraph-lines in Arizona.

JANUARY 27, 1874.--Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed.

WAR DEPARTMENT,
January 26, 1874.

The Secretary of War has the honor to submit to the House of Representatives, with request that it may receive early attention, copy of a communication from the chief quartermaster, Department of Arizona, dated December 29, 1873, with indorsement thereon of General Crook, relative to the want of a law affixing a penalty for tampering with the military telegraph-lines in Arizona.

WM. W. BELKNAP,
Secretary of War.

HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF ARIZONA,

CHIEF QUARTERMASTER'S OFFICE,
Prescott, A. T., December 29, 1873.

SIR: The attention of the commanding general is respectfully invited to the following suggestion :

In view of the fact that there is no law, national or territorial, affixing a penalty beyond that for a misdemeanor for tampering with the military telegraph-lines, and in view of the fact that the territorial legislature will not convene for over a year, the propriety of requesting the action of the proper authority, looking to the necessary legislation on the subject by the present Congress, is respectfully suggested for the consideration of the commanding general.

Very respectfully, &c.,

A. T. ROCKWELL,

A. Q. M., U. S. A., Acting C. Q. M., Department Arizona.

The ASSISTANT ADJUTANT-GENERAL,

Headquarters Department of Arizona.

[Indorsements.]

HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF ARIZONA,
Prescott, December 30, 1873.

Respectfully forwarded, inviting attention to the suggestion of Captain Rockwell, acting chief quartermaster of the department. The military telegraph-line passes in places over uninhabited deserts, and is exposed to being cut by deserters, &c., whose mischief would be beyond remedy for some days.

It is respectfully recommended that Congress be requested to pass an act affixing penalties equal to the severest imposed by any of the State legislatures for this offense, and offering suitable pecuniary rewards as an inducement to all parties to discover and deliver up any persons who tamper with the wires in this Territory.

GEORGE CROOK, Brig. and Bvt. Maj. Gen., Commanding Department.

HEADQUARTERS MILITARY DIVISION PACIFIC,

San Francisco, January 9, 1874.

Respectfully forwarded to the Adjutant-General, approved.

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A statement showing amounts due to or overdrawn by the several States under the law for arming the militia on the 22d day of January, 1874; also the Annual Report of Chief of Ordnance for the year ending June 30, 1871.

JANUARY 27, 1871.-Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be

printed.

WAR DEPARTMENT, January 26, 1874. The Secretary of War has the honor to transmit to the House of Representatives, in reply to request of the Committee on Military Affairs, dated the 22d instant, a statement showing amounts due to or overdrawn by the several States under the law for arming the militia, on the 22d day of Jannary, 1874; also copy of the Annual Report of Chief of Ordnance for the year ending June 30, 1871, on page 8 of which a full statement is given respecting the issue of arms and the annual appropriation therefor. WM. W. BELKNAP, Secretary of War.

Statement showing the amounts due to, or overdrawn by the several States and Territories, under the law for arming the militia, on this 23d day of January, 1874.

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