The accompanying table gives a general exhibit of the work performed during the past year, omitting, of necessity, the higher class of duties, which it is simply impossible to reduce to a tabular form.

Respectfully submitted.

Hon. ROBERT T. LINCOLN,

Secretary of War.

R. C. DRUM,

Adjutant-General.

REPORT OF THE JUDGE-ADVOCATE-GENERAL.

REPORT

OF

THE JUDGE-ADVOCATE-GENERAL.

WAR DEPARTMENT,

BUREAU (F MILITARY JUSTICE,
October 1, 1881.

SIR: In compliance with Circular of September 16, 1881, I have the honor to furnish the following report of the business of this bureau for the year between October 1, 1880, and October 1, 1881:

Number of general court-martial records received, reviewed, and registered.. 1,792
Number of reports made and opinions furnished upon court-martial proceed-
ings, applications for remission of sentence, &c., and upon miscellaneous
questions of law referred to the Judge-Advocate-General for opinion by the
Secretary of War

Number of official applications from the War and Treasury Departments and
Pension Office for abstracts of proceedings of trials, &c., answered
Copies of Records furnished under the 114th Article of War, &c., pages.

802

336

11, 452

The number of records of trials of enlisted men by inferior courtsmartial received and filed at the different military departments during the past year, as appears from reports of Judge-Advocates received, is as follows:

No report has been received from the Department of Arizona, and the number tried by inferior courts-martial in that Department is not embraced in the foregoing figures.

By Section 1199 of the Revised Statutes of the United States (as amended by the Act of June 23, 1874, Sec. 2, 18 Stat., 244) it is made the duty of the Judge-Advocate-General "to receive, revise, and cause to be recorded the proceedings of all courts-martial, courts of inquiry, and military commissions, and to perform such other duties as have been performed by the Judge-Advocate-General of the Army.

By the subsequent Act of March 3, 1877 (19 Stat., 310), the proceedings of garrison, regimental, and field officer's courts-martial are retained and filed in the office of the Judge Advocate of the geographical department in which they are held, and do not reach this Bureau uuless there is some alleged irregularity in the proceedings, or some question of law, practice,