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 PROCLAMATIONS, 1918. 1891 the United States to serve therein for the period of one month, unless sooner discharged, as of and from the twentieth day of November, one thousand nine hundred and eighteen, the members of one Infant Division of the Philippine Guard, as organized under the Tables oflgrganization of the United States Army, approved the third day of May, one thousand nine hundred and seventeen, as appears in Table twenty-five thereof, saving and excepting one major general, one regiment of cavalry, one aero squadron, artillery an /°mmS·. subject to Arm All persons hereby called, shall, on and from the twentieth day of mg.mmm,_ Y lilovpmber, time tliousand nine hundlriedllandleighteen, be subject to t e laws an re ations overmn the egu ar Army. The officers ollbaid orggnizatiori who are called and whose offices ersrC° °l °m` are provided for in like organizations of the Regular Army, under Tabes of Organization here before referred to, shall continue to exercise command in the grade in which they now hold COII1ID1SSl0I]S Nmmmmmiond as officers of said Guard. On and from the twentieth day of Novem- omws ber, one thousand nine hundred and eighteen, the non-commissioned officers of said organizations, the members of which are hereby called, shall continue as non—commissioned officers in said organizations in other mumdmm the Federal Service with the same relative rank as heretofore and all other enlisted men in said organizations shall continue in the grades and ratings held by them in the Guard of the Philippine Islands on the twentieth day of November, one thousand nine hundred and eighteen, in all cases where such grades and ratings correspond to the ades and ratings (provided for in like organizations of the Regrgrar Army as provided in the Tables of Organization herein referred to. These, however, shall be without prejudice to the authority of the duly authorized commanders in respect to promotions and changes in the enlisted personnel. D The several organizations hereby called into, the Federal Service m.,§§‘"°“°”’ "' will bear the designation which they now hold in the Guard of the Philippine Islands. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. Done in the District of Columbia this eighteenth da of November in the ylear of our Lord one thousand, nine hundred [snare] and eig teen, and in the Independence of the United States of America, the one hrmdred and forty-third. Woormow Wr1.soN. By the President: Rorsmzr LANsmG, Secretary of S tate.