3. Former soldiers over thirty-five years of age who were last discharged as privates and have failed to re-enlist within three months thereafter. In such cases the applications must show that the enlistments will be for the interests of the service.

4. A former soldier having a wife or minor child. In such a case application will not be made by telegraph, but will be forwarded by mail through post and regimental commanders in sufficient time to admit of receipt of reply by mail before date of discharge. The application must clearly set forth the fact that re-enlistment will be in the interests of the service.

5. Former soldiers who can not pass the required examination in all respects. To entitle an application of this nature to consideration it must have the recommendation of the soldier's former commanding officer, which should be given only when it is shown that any existing defects will not prevent the performance by the applicant of full military duty, and that his continuance in service will be a benefit to the Army.

839. Enlisted men of good character and faithful service who, at the expiration of their terms, are undergoing treatment for injuries incurred or disease contracted in the line of duty, may be re-enlisted if they so elect, and if the disability prove to be permanent they will subsequently be discharged on certificates of disability. An enlisted man not under treatment, but who has contracted in the line of duty infirmities that may raise a question of physical eligibility to re-enlistment, but not such as to prevent his performing the duties of a soldier, may be re-enlisted by authority of the War Department on application made through the surgeon and proper military channel in time to receive a decision before the date of discharge.

840. Commanding officers forwarding applications from men of their commands for permission to re-enlist for some other organization will report in each case whether the applicant is married or single, what character will be given him on discharge, and whether or not he can pass the required examination.

MEDICAL INSPECTION.

841. The physical examination of recruits will be conducted in accordance with the authorized manual for the examination of recruits. The enlistment paper of each recruit must show what indelible or permanent marks were found on his person.

842. The recruiting officer will be present at the physical examination of the recruit by the medical officer. When there is no medical officer, the recruiting officer will make the required examination. An applicant enlisted at a post where there is no medical officer will be re-examined within two weeks after enlistment, and before any clothing is issued to him, by a medical officer, or, in the absence of such officer, by the civilian physician employed by the Medical Department.

843. As soon as a recruit joins any rendezvous, regiment, or post, he will be examined by the medical officer, to ascertain whether vaccination is required. In all cases where there is not unmistakable evidence of successful vaccination within a reasonable period, the operation will be performed immediately.

844. A critical inspection by the senior medical officer present will be made of every recruit received at a rendezvous within two days after his

arrival, if he has not already undergone examination by a surgeon. Should the recruit be found unfit for service or to have been illegally enlisted, a board of officers will be called by the post commander to examine into the case, and if the board recommends the discharge of the recruit for physical disability it will fully report its reasons, based upon a thorough investigation of the case, and will show in its report whether the enlistment involved fraud, whether the disability existed prior to enlistment, when, where, and by whom the enlistment was made, and whether, in its opinion, the disqualification might have been discovered by the recruiting officer (with whom the board will communicate, and who will be given opportunity to be heard in the case) had due care been exercised. This report, together with the surgeon's certificate of disability and the original form for examining a recruit, will be forwarded by the post commander direct to the AdjutantGeneral of the Army.

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845. Every detachment of recruits ordered from a recruit rendezvous to any regiment or post will, immediately preceding its departure, be critically inspected by the post commander and the senior medical officer present, and any sick or otherwise disabled will be held at rendezvous. recruit deemed unfit for continuance in the service will not be sent to a regiment, but a board of officers will be convened to consider the case and report as indicated in the preceding paragraph.

846. Before recruits are forwarded from a rendezvous to regiments, the post commander will cause the character of each recruit to be entered upon the descriptive and assignment card, also the date and result of last vaccination. Officers in charge of detachments, if called upon, will exhibit the entries relative to vaccination to authorized inspectors of State boards of health.

817. Upon arrival at a post each recruit who has not undergone examination by a surgeon will be examined, and defects will be recorded by the medical officer, with his opinion as to whether they existed prior to enlistment. A certificate of disability will be submitted if the recruit is absolutely disqualified for the service. If the certificate be submitted, the post commander will carefully scan the answers made by the recruit on the "Form for the physical examination of a recruit," and if his answers show that fraud was practiced to secure his enlistment, the post commander will make full report of the facts to the Adjutant-General of the Army, and forward therewith the certificate and the examination form.

848. A register of the medical examination of recruits will be kept at each recruiting station and rendezvous. A report of the recruits examined during the preceding month will be forwarded, not later than the 6th day of every month, to the Surgeon-General, who will furnish blanks for the purpose, as well as blank registers of medical examination. When a register is filled it will be forwarded to the Surgeon-General. Cases of "recruits on probation" who have failed for any cause to complete their enlistment will be indicated by an appropriate entry in the column of remarks, both on the monthly reports to the Surgeon-General and in the register. Care must be taken to embody in these reports all needed information, including a record of the height, weight, chest measures, the complexion, and the color of the hair and eyes of every accepted applicant.

RECRUITS SENT TO REGIMENTS.

849. Recruits will be assigned to regiments by the Adjutant-General of the Army, under the direction of the Secretary of War, from either general recruiting stations or rendezvous. Recruits designated for assignment will be borne on the rolls and returns of the stations or rendezvous until the date of departure therefrom, when the assignment will take effect; prior to that date they will not be taken up on the rolls of companies or regiments.

850. When recruits are sent to a regiment, a descriptive and assignment card for each will be given to the officer assigned to its command, or if no officer be so assigned the cards will be sent by mail.

851. When recruits are sent to regiments from rendezvous or other posts, the descriptive and assignment cards will be made by the post commander; when they go direct from a recruiting station not at a post, they will be made by the recruiting officer.

852. An officer intrusted with the command of recruits ordered to regiments will, on arriving at destination, forward the following papers:

1. To the Adjutant-General of the Army, a report of date of arrival at the post, the strength and condition of the party when turned over to the commanding officer, and all circumstances worthy of remark which occurred on the journey.

2. To the commanding officer of the regiment or post, the descriptive and assignment cards furnished him at the rendezvous or station, properly completed by noting in the column for remarks time and place of death, desertion, or other casualty that may have occurred.

853. The descriptive and assignment card of every recruit sent to a regiment, with remarks showing final disposition of the recruit, and number of regiment and letter of company to which he has been assigned, will be signed and forwarded to the Adjutant-General of the Army by the officer who makes the assignment.

DEPARTMENT AND REGIMENTAL RECRUITING.

854. Every post is a general recruiting station for the whole Army, and recruiting thereat will be conducted by an officer of the garrison detailed by the commanding officer. The commander of each detachment of troops absent from its permanent station will, if he deem it advisable, designate an officer for this duty.

855. The recruiting officer at any post may make enlistments to fill vacancies in the troops of the line serving thereat, and, when authorized by the department commander, for those serving at other posts in the same territorial department. He may make enlistments for any organization in the service when authorized by the Adjutant-General of the Army. An applicant will be subjected to the required examination before application is made for special authority for his enlistment.

856. Regimental recruiting may be carried on away from posts by one or more officers detailed from a regiment by its commander, with the approval of the department commander under authority of the War Department, and in accordance with instructions from the Adjutant-General of the Army. A regimental recruiting officer, with the authority of the AdjutantGeneral of the Army, may make enlistments for any organization in the service.

ARTICLE LXXII.

INSPECTOR-GENERAL'S DEPARTMENT.

GENERAL PROVISIONS.

857. The sphere of inquiry of the Inspector-General's Department includes every branch of military affairs except when specially limited in these regulations or in orders. Inspectors-general and acting inspectorsgeneral will exercise a comprehensive and general observation within their respective districts over all that pertains to the efficiency of the Army, the condition and state of supplies of all kinds, of arms and equipments, of the expenditure of public property and moneys, and the condition of accounts of all disbursing officers of every branch of the service, of the conduct, discipline and efficiency of officers and troops, and report with strict impartiality in regard to all irregularities that may be discovered. From time to time they will make such suggestions as may appear to them practicable for the cure of any defect that may come under their observation.

858. Inspectors-general and acting inspectors-general are under the orders of the Secretary of War and the Commanding General of the Army only, and all orders, not confidential, will be issued from the Adjutant-General's Office and transmitted to them through the Inspector-General of the Army. They will make the general inspections within the limits of their respective districts, and will each be allowed the necessary clerks and one messenger, who will be assigned by the Secretary of War.

859. An officer on duty in the Inspector-General's Department, upon arriving at his station, will report by letter to the Inspector-General of the Army, and thereafter will report the execution of all orders received through him, together with date of departure from and return to his station. Prior to starting on a tour of inspection he will furnish the Inspector-General an itinerary of his route and approximate dates of arrival and departure from each station to be visited.

860. An inspector-general or acting inspector-general will give a department commander, within the limits of whose command he is ordered to make inspections, timely notice of his orders and of the date when he desires to execute them. He will also make known to commanding and other offcers whose troops and affairs he is directed to inspect his orders or instructions, and these officers will see that every facility and assistance, including clerical aid, if requested, is afforded.

861. An inspector-general or acting inspector-general will not give orders unless specially authorized to do so, and then only in the name of the superior giving such authority. He will report with strict impartiality all irregularities. He should refrain from informal conversation or comment upon subjects under investigation.

862. An inspector-general or acting inspector-general will exercise the greatest care that he does no injustice to organizations or individuals. When investigating accusations prejudicial to the character of an officer, he will make known to the officer their nature, and give him an opportunity to make his own statement in writing, which will be appended to the report.

Copies or extracts from an inspection report, reflecting upon or commending the character or efficiency of an officer, may be furnished him by the commander through whom the report is submitted.

863. An inspector-general or acting inspector-general detailed to investigate attempts to defraud the Government, or misconduct on the part of any officer or agent of the United States, has authority to administer oaths to witnesses.

SPECIAL DUTIES.

864. Inspectors-general and acting inspectors-general will, from time to time, designate the articles which in their opinion should be procured and kept for sale by the Subsistence Department to officers and enlisted men. These recommendations will be submitted to the Secretary of War for his action.

865. All matters pertaining to the supervision of the accounts of the receipts and expenditures of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, under acts of Congress, are assigned to the Inspector-General of the Army under the direction of the Secretary of War.

STATED INSPECTIONS.

866. In addition to the inspection of the Soldiers' Home required by law, the Inspector-General of the Army will, in person, make an annual inspection of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, its records, disbursements, management, discipline, and condition, and report in writing the results of such inspection to the Secretary of War.

867. Officers of the Inspector-General's Department will inspect once in each year all military commands, garrisoned posts and camps, and once in two years such ungarrisoned posts and national cemeteries as can be visited without departing materially from the routes of other prescribed inspections.

868. All depots, armories, arsenals, and public works of every kind under charge of officers of the Army, except works of engineering conducted under the direction of the Secretary of War and supervision of the Chief of Engineers, will be inspected annually by officers of the Inspector-General's Department. These inspections will include military and business administration and methods, but will not extend to the scientific or technical character of work for which the officer in charge is responsible, through the head of his department, to the Secretary of War.

869. Inspections of the Military Academy will be made only under specific instructions given in each case by the Secretary of War, and inspections of the service schools, in so far as they are distinct from posts, under similar instructions given by the Secretary of War or the Commanding General of the Army.

870. The military department of civil institutions of learning at which officers of the Army are detailed will be inspected annually, near the close of the college year, under specific instructions. The inspecting officer, upon his arrival at the institution, will apply to the president or the administrative officer thereof for such aid or facilities as he may require. His report will be sent to the Inspector-General of the Army, then to the Adjutant-General of the Army for note and return, and a copy furnished the president of the institution by the War Department.