Executive Order No. 2345

[Increasing the Strength of the Regular Army.]

Under authority of the Joint Resolution of Congress, approved March 17, 1916, an emergency having arisen making necessary an increase in the enlisted strength of the Regular Army within the continental limits of the United States, the arms of the service are hereby brought up to the statutory maximum enlisted strength as set forth in the following tabulated statement.

                                                           Statutory maximum
                    Arms of the service                    enlisted strength.
    20 regiments of Infantry.......................................  36,720
    11 regiments, and regimental headquarters and two squadrons
        of Cavalry.................................................  14,469
     3 regiments, and regimental headquarters and one battalion
        of Field Artillery.........................................   4,172

Coast Artillery Corps.......................................... 19,321 Engineers...................................................... 2,002

WOODROW WILSON.

THE WHITE HOUSE, March 21, 1916.

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