and First Sergeants, will be handed to the Adjutant before eight o'clock in the morning, and will be consolidated by the Adjutant within the next hour, for the information of the Colonel; and if the consolidation is to be sent to higher authority, it will be signed by the Colonel and the Adjutant.

ARTICLE XXIX.

HONORS TO BE PAID BY THE TROOPS.

227....The President or Vice-President is to be saluted with the highest honors-all standards and colors dropping, officers and troops saluting, drums beating and trumpets sounding.

228....

....A General commanding-in-chief is to be received-by cavalry, with sabres presented, trumpets sounding the march, and all the officers saluting, standards dropping; by infantry, with drums beating the march, colors dropping, officers saluting, and arms presented.

229....A Major-General is to be received-by cavalry, with sabres presented, trumpets sounding twice the trumpet-flourish, and officers saluting; by infantry, with three ruffles, colors dropping, officers saluting, and arms presented.

230....A Brigadier-General is to be received-by cavalry, with sabres presented, trumpets sounding once the trumpet-flourish, and officers saluting; by infantry, with two ruffles, colors dropping, officers saluting, and arms presented.

231....An Adjutant-General or Inspector-General, if under the rank of a General officer, is to be received at a review or inspection of the troops under arms- -by cavalry, with sabres presented, officers saluting; by infantry, officers saluting and arms presented. The same honors to be paid to any field-officer authorized to review and inspect the troops. When the inspecting officer is junior to the officer commanding the parade, no compliments will be paid: he will be received only with swords drawn and arms shouldered.

232....All guards are to turn out and present arms to General officers as often as they pass them, except the personal guards of General officers, which turn out only to the Generals whose guards they are, and to officers of superior rank.

233....To commanders of regiments, garrison, or camp, their own guard turn out, and present arms once a day; after which, they turn out with shouldered arms.

234.... To the members of the Cabinet; to the Chief Justice, the President of the Senate, and Speaker of the House of Representatives of the United States; and to Governors, within their respective States and Territories—the same honors will be paid as to a General commandingin-chief.

235....Officers of a foreign service may be complimented with the honors due to their rank.

236....American and Foreign Envoys or Ministers will be received with the compliments due to a Major-General.

237....The colors of a regiment passing a guard are to be saluted, the trumpets sounding, and the drums beating a march.

238....When General officers, or persons entitled to salute, pass in the rear of a guard, the officer is only to make his men stand shouldered, and not to face his guard about, or beat his drum.

239.... When General officers, or persons entitled to a salute, pass guards while in the act of relieving, both guards are to salute, receiving the word of command from the senior officer of the whole.

240....All guards are to be under arms when armed parties approach their posts; and to parties commanded by commissioned officers, they are to present their arms, drums beating a march, and officers saluting.

241....No compliments by guards or sentinels will be paid between retreat and reveille, except as prescribed for grand rounds.

242....All guards and sentinels are to pay the same compliments to the officers of the navy, marines, and militia, in the service of the United States, as are directed to be paid to the officers of the army, according to their relative ranks.

243....It is equally the duty of non-commissioned officers and soldiers, at all times and in all situations, to pay the proper compliments to officers of the navy and marines, and to officers of other regiments, when in uniform, as to officers of their own particular regiments and corps.

244....Courtesy among military men is indispensable to discipline. Respect to superiors will not be confined to obedience on duty, but will be extended to all occasions. It is always the duty of the inferior to accost or to offer first the customary salutation, and of the superior to return such complimentary notice.

245.... Sergeants, with swords drawn, will salute by bringing them to a present-with muskets, by bringing the left hand across the body, so as to strike the musket near the right shoulder. Corporals out of the ranks, and privates not sentries, will carry their muskets at a shoulder as sergeants, and salute in like manner.

246....When a soldier without arms, or with side-arms only, meets an officer, he is to raise his hand to the right side of the visor of his cap, palm to the front, elbow raised as high as the shoulder, looking at the same time in a respectful and soldier-like manner at the officer, who will return the compliment thus offered.

247....A non-commissioned officer or soldier being seated, and without particular occupation, will rise on the approach of an officer, and make the customary salutation. If standing, he will turn toward the officer for the same purpose. If the parties remain in the same place or on the same ground, such compliments need not be repeated.

SALUTES.

248....The national salute is determined by the number of States composing the Union, at the rate of one gun for each State,

249....The President of the United States alone is to receive a salute of twenty-one guns.

250....The Vice-President is to receive a salute of seventeen guns. 251.....The Heads of the great Executive Departments of the National Government; the General commanding the army; the Governors of States and Territories, within their respective jurisdictions, fifteen guns.

252....A Major-General, thirteen guns.

253. ....A Brigadier-General, eleven guns.

254.... Foreign ships of war will be saluted in return for a similar compliment, gun for gun, on notice being officially received of such intention. If there be several posts in sight of, or within six miles of each other, the principal only shall reciprocate compliments with ships passing.

255....Officers of the Navy will be saluted according to relative

rank.

256....Foreign Officers invited to visit a fort or post may be saluted according to their relative rank.

257....Envoys and Ministers of the United States and foreign powers are to be saluted with thirteen guns.

258....A General officer will be saluted but once in a year at each post, and only when notice of his intention to visit the post has been given.

259....Salutes to individuals are to be fired on their arrival only. 260....A national salute will be fired at meridian on the anniversary of the Independence of the United States, at each military post and camp provided with artillery and ammunition.

ESCORTS OF HONOR.

261.... Escorts of honor may be composed of cavalry or infantry, or both, according to circumstances. They are guards of honor for the purpose of receiving and escorting personages of high rank, civil

or military. The troops for this purpose will be selected for their soldierly appearance and superior discipline.

262....The escort will be drawn up in line, the centre opposite to the place where the personage presents himself, with an interval between the wings to receive him and his retinue. On his appearance, he will be received with the honors due to his rank. When he has taken his place in the line, the whole will be wheeled into platoons or companies, as the case may be, and take up the march. The same ceremony will be observed, and the same honors paid, on his leaving the escort.

263....When the position of the escort is at a considerable distance from the point where he is expected to be received, as, for instance, where a court-yard or wharf intervenes, a double line of sentinels will be posted from that point to the escort, facing inward, and the sentinels will successively salute as he passes.

264....An officer will be appointed to attend him, to bear such communications as he may have to make to the commander of the

escort.

FUNERAL HONORS.

265....On the receipt of official intelligence of the death of the President of the United States, at any post or camp, the commanding officer shall, on the following day, cause a gun to be fired at every half hour, beginning at sunrise, and ending at sunset. When posts are contiguous, the firing will take place at the post only commanded by the superior officer.

266....On the day of the interment of a General commanding-inchief, a gun will be fired at every half hour, until the procession moves, beginning at sunrise.

267....The funeral escort of a General commanding-in-chief shall consist of a regiment of infantry, a squadron of cavalry, and six pieces of artillery.

268....That of a Major-General, a regiment of infantry, a squadron of cavalry, and four pieces of artillery.

269....That of a Brigadier-General, a regiment of infantry, one company of cavalry, and two pieces of artillery.

270. That of a Colonel, a regiment.

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271.... That of a Lieutenant-Colonel, six companies.

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That of a Major, four companies.

That of a Captain, one company.

That of a Subaltern, half a company.

275....The funeral escort shall always be commanded by an offi

cer of the same rank with the deceased; or, if none such be present, by one of the next inferior grade.

276....The funeral escort of a non-commissioned staff officer shall consist of sixteen rank and file, commanded by a Sergeant.

277....That of a Sergeant, of fourteen rank and file, commanded by a Sergeant.

278. ... That of a Corporal, of twelve rank and file, commanded by a Corporal; and,

279....That of a private, of eight rank and file, commanded by a Corporal.

280....The escort will be formed in two ranks, opposite to the quarters or tent of the deceased, with shouldered arms and bayonets unfixed; the artillery and cavalry on the right of the infantry.

281....On the appearance of the corpse, the officer commanding the escort will command,

Present-ARMS!

when the honors due to the deceased will be paid by the drums and trumpets. The music will then play an appropriate air, and the coffin will then be taken to the right, where it will be halted. The commander will next order,

1. Shoulder-ARMS! 2. By company (or platoon), left wheel. 3. MARCH! 4. Reverse-ARMS! 5. Column, forward. 6. Guide right. 7. MARCH!

The arms will be reversed at the order by bringing the firelock under the left arm, butt to the front, barrel downward, left hand sustaining the lock, the right steadying the firelock behind the back; swords are reversed in a similar manner under the right arm.

282....The column will be marched in slow time to solemn music, and, on reaching the grave, will take a direction so as that the guides shall be next to the grave. When the centre of the column is opposite the grave, the commander will order,

1. Column. 2. HALT! 3. Right into line, wheel. 4. MARCH!

The coffin is then brought along the front, to the opposite side of the grave, and the commander then orders,

1. Shoulder-ARMS! 2. Present-ARMS!

And when the coffin reaches the grave, he adds,