in one affidavit. Each one must subscribe and acknowledge his own oath separately. The sufficiency of the sureties must be certified to by some United States judge or district attorney, whose official character must be certified to by the clerk of his court, such certificate to be on or attached to the bond.

30. Incorporated surety companies which have complied with the requirements of the War Department will also be accepted as surety on the bond, and in this case only one surety is required.

31. A college corporation desiring ordnance or ordnance stores for the use of the college must furnish evidence that some one is authorized to execute in its behalf the bond which the law requires.

32. This authority can only be given by the governing body of the corporation, i. e., the body invested with authority to employ the faculty and make all other contracts in its behalf, and designated in the charter of the corporation as board of regents, board of trustees, etc., and this body must give the authority in the formal way in which it does other business, the action taken being recorded as a part of the proceedings of the meetings at which it was taken. The evidence of this authority required to be furnished to this office will be an extract from the record of the proceedings of the board of regents, or board of trustees, showing that the board met in its official capacity, that a resolution was offered authorizing some person by name to execute the required bond for the corporation, and that this resolution was adopted; and this extract must be certified, under the corporate seal, to be a true extract from the record of the proceedings of the board, by the secretary or other custodian of the records. His certificate that the authority has been conferred, or that such a resolution was passed, is not sufficient. The record speaks for itself, and a copy of so much of it should be furnished as will show that it purports to be a record of the board, that the resolution was offered, and that it was passed.

33. Great pains should be taken to use the name given the corporation by its charter, and to mention in the resolution the particular bond to be given.

34. It is desired that a copy of the charter be sent to the Chief of Ordnance, United States Army, Washington, D. C.; also a copy (accompanied by certificate under corporate seal) of so much of the record of the election of the officers of the

corporation as will show the election of the particular officer who is to execute the bond.

In calling for form of bond it should be stated

First. If the principals and sureties are individuals.

Second. If the principal is a corporation and surety an individual.

Third. If principal is an individual and surety a corporation.

Fourth. If both principal and surety are corporations.

As indicated above, there are four forms of bond, as follows: Form K. When both principal and sureties are individuals. Form L. When principal is a corporation and sureties are individuals.

Form M. When principal is an individual and surety is a corporation.

Form N. When both principal and surety are corporations. In calling for the blank forms of bond, they may be called for as" Form K," "Form L," etc.

VIII. In the administration of each cadet battalion the adjutant, assisted by the sergeant major, shall keep a letter book, an order book, a roster, and a consolidated morningreport book. The quartermaster, assisted by the quartermaster sergeant, shall keep a book containing a record of all issues of Government property, with the receipts of those to whom issued. Each captain shall keep a morning-report book and, where necessary for the regulation of duty, a roster. At institutions of Class C the morning report shall be made out by the captains daily; at the other institutions on drill days or when the cadets are ordered to parade.

IX. The professor of military science and tactics shall render a quarterly report to the Adjutant General of the Army of the whole number of undergraduate students in the institution capable of performing military duty, the number required by the institution to be enrolled as military students, the average attendance at drills, the number absent, and number and kind of drills, recitations and lectures, or other instruction had during the quarter, and the number reported for discipline. He will retain copies of all reports and correspondence and transfer them to the officer who may succeed him, or forward them to the office of the Adjutant General should the detail expire. On the graduation of every class he shall obtain from the president of the college and report to the Adjutant General

of the Army the names of such students belonging to the class as have shown special aptitude for military service, and furnish a copy thereof to the adjutant general of the State for his information. At those institutions which grade the department of military science and tactics equally with the other important branches of instruction, and which make proficiency in that department a requisite for securing a diploma, the names of the three most distinguished students in said department shall, when graduated, be inserted in the United States Army Register.

X. The military department shall be subject to inspection under the authority of the President of the United States; such inspections to be made, when practicable, in the months of April or May. The inspecting officer shall, upon his arrival at the institution, report to the president or other administrative officer, in order to obtain from him the necessary facilities for the performance of his duty. A copy of the report of inspection will be furnished the president of the institution by the War Department.

XI. The reports of the regular inspection of the colleges and schools to which officers of the Army are detailed as professors of military science and tactics will hereafter be submitted annually to the General Staff for its critical examination; and the Chief of Staff shall report to the Secretary of War from the institutions which have maintained a high standard the six whose students have exhibited the greatest application and proficiency in military training and knowledge.

The President of the United States authorizes the announcement that an appointment as second lieutenant in the Regular Army will be awarded annually to an honor graduate of each of the six institutions thus designated, provided that sufficient vacancies exist aftor the appointment of graduates of the Military Academy at West Point and the successful competitors in the annual examination of enlisted men. By the term honor graduate is understood a graduate whose attainments in scholarship have been so marked as to receive the approbation of the president of the school or college, and whose proficiency in military training and knowledge and intelligent attention to duty have merited the approbation of the professor of military science and tactics.

The student recommended must be a member of the graduating class of the year in which the appointment is made,

must be a citizen of the United States, unmarried, not less than twenty-one nor more than twenty-seven years of age, of exemplary habits and good moral character, and must be able to pass the examination required by existing regulations of candidates for appointment from civil life to the grade of second lieutenant in the Regular Army.

In each of the six institutions designated, the president and the professor of military science and tactics, acting jointly, will select two honor graduates, one as principal and one as alternate. In case the president and the professor of military science and tactics can not agree in the selection, they will forward separate reports for the consideration and decision of the Chief of Staff. In case of the failure of the principal, the alternate shall, if he successfully pass the examination, be given the appointment.

No school or college shall be considered among the six institutions selected unless the reports of the inspector and the professor of military science and tactics show that the military department has received cordial support from the authorities of the institution and that the military instruction has been carried out faithfully and efficiently.

XII. The following are the laws providing for the detail of retired officers at colleges, universities, etc.:

Section 1260, Revised Statutes.

Any retired officer may, on his own application, be detailed to serve as professor in any college. (But while so serving, such officer shall be allowed no additional

compensation.)

Extract from the act of Congress approved May 4, 1880.

That upon the application of any college, university, or institution of learning incorporated under the laws of any State within the United States, having capacity at the same time to educate not less than one hundred and fifty male students. the President may detail an officer of the Army on the retired list to act as president, superintendent, or professor thereof; and such officer may receive from the institution to which he may be detailed the difference between his retired and full pay, and shall not receive any additional pay or allowance from the United States.

Extract from the act of Congress approved August 6, 1894.

Provided, That nothing in the Act entitled "An Act to increase the number of officers of the Army to be detailed to colleges," approved November third, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, shall be so construed as to prevent, limit, or restrict the detail of retired officers of the Army at institutions of learning under the provisions of section twelve hundred and sixty, Revised Statutes, and the Act making appro priations for the support of the Army, and so forth, approved May fourth, eighteen

hundred and eighty, nor to forbid the issue of ordnance and ordnance stores, as provided in the Act approved September twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and eightyeight, amending section twelve hundred and twenty-five, Revised Statutes, to the institutions at which retired officers may be so detailed; and said Act of November *third, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, and said Act of May fourth, eighteen hundred and eighty, shall not be construed to allow the full pay of their rank to retired officers detailed under said section twelve hundred and sixty, Revised Statutes, and mid Act of May fourth, eighteen hundred and eighty.

Extract from the act of Congress approved February 26, 1901. SECTION 1. * That section twelve hundred and twenty-five of the Revised Statutes, concerning the detail of officers of the Army and Navy to educational institutions, be, and the same is hereby, amended so as to permit the President to detail under the provisions of that Act, and in addition to the detail of the officers of the Army and Navy now authorized to be detailed under the existing provisions of said Act, such retired officers of the Army and Navy of the United States as in his judgment may be required for that purpose, to act as instructors in military drill and tactics in schools in the United States, where such instruction shall have been authorized by the educational authorities thereof, and where the services of such instructors shall have been applied for by said authorities

SEC. 2. That no detail shall be made under this Act to any school unless it shall pay the cost of commutation of quarters of the retired officers detailed thereto and the extra-duty pay to which the latter may be entitled by law to receive for the performance of special duty; Provided, That no detail shall be made under the provisions of this Act unless the officers to be detailed are willing to accept such position without compensation from the Government other than their retired pay.

Sc. 3. That the Secretary of War is authorized to issue at his discretion, and under proper regulations to be prescribed by him, out of ordnance and ordnance stores belonging to the Government, and which can be spared for that purpose, upon the approval of the governors of the respective States, such number of the same as may be required for military instruction and practice by such school, and the Secretary shall require a bond in each case, for double the value of the property, for the care and safe-keeping thereof and for the return of the same when required.

The details authorized by section 1260, Revised Statutes, as amended by the act approved May 4, 1880, and by the act approved February 26, 1901, will be in addition to the number allowed by section 1225, Revised Statutes, and the amendments thereof, and may be made to incorporated institutions of learning of the requisite grade in any State, without reference to population or to the number of officers already serving therein.

BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF WAR:

OFFICIAL:

W. P. HALL,

ADNA R. CHAFFEE, Lieutenant General, Chief of Staff.

Acting Adjutant General.