In the edition of 1901 ""With Appendix Separately Indexed And Showing Changes to January 1, 1901"", in the Appendix, page 331, in "Headquarters of the Army, General Orders, No. 42, June 30, 1897, Part II", the lance corporal is authorised to wear "...a chevron having one bar..." In "Regulations for the Army of the United States 1904" (Article XXX, Paragraph 263), "...no company shall have more than one lance corporal at a time, unless there are noncommissioned officers absent by authority, during which absences there may be one for each absentee." This proscription appears again in Article XXX, Paragraph 272 of "Regulations for the Army of the United States 1910", and the editions of 1913, and 1917 ""Corrected to April 15, 1917 (Changes, Nos. 1 to 55)"".