2 gunners' haversacks, at $3.35. 2 handspikes, trail, at $1.. 4 lanyards, at 10 cents 2 priming wires, at 10 cents 4 sponges and rammers, 3-inch, at $1. 4 sponge-covers, 3-inch, at 30 cents 2 tube-pouches, at $1.50.. 4 thumbstalls, at 20 cents. 2 tompions, 3-inch, at 30 cents. 2 vent-covers, at 40 cents 1 pendulum hausse, 3-inch 1 pendulum hausse seat.. 1 pendulum hausse pouch .......... 2 paulins, 12 by 15 feet, at $11.75 2. Small-arms and accoutrements: ... 0.93 84 150 Springfield "cadet" rifles, cal. .45, with appendages, &c., at $18........ 2,700 00 150 cartridge-boxes, cal. .45, at $1.25.... 3. Ammunition: 136 50 75.00 187 50 For practice-firing the following allowances of ammunition will be made annually to each of the various institutions, viz: 1,000 carbine metallic ball-cartridges, cal. .45. 100 rounds blank cartridges for 3-inch gun. 300 friction primers. This ammunition will be issued upon requisitions, which should be forwarded to the Chief of Ordnance by the presidents or superintendents of the institutions. As annual allowances date in all cases from July 1 of each year, requisitions should be forwarded before or as soon after that date as practicable for the prospective year's supply. Undrawn allowances of one year cannot be drawn in the succeeding year. 57. The following is the blank form of bond to be executed previous to the issue of ordnance and ordnance stores, viz: Form of bond. of Know, all men, by these presents that we [name of the college or university, if an incorporated institution; if not, the name of a person described as president or other officer of the college or university, naming it. In case nobody should be legally empowered to bind the college, & c., by a bond, the obligors may be any person or persons who may be willing to answer for the performance of the obligation by the college, and who will then execute as principals, without any further sureties], as principal, and and of as sureties, are held and bound to the United States of America in the penal sum of [double the value of articles], for the payment of which, well and truly to be made to the Secretary of War, or to such officer or person as he may designate, we do bind ourselves and each of us jointly and severally, firmly by these presents. Given under our hands and seals at [place of execution] this day of A. D. 18-. The condition of this obligation is such, that whereas the [name of "college” or “university"] is an established [college or university] within the United States, having capacity to educate at the same time not less than one hundred and fifty male students; and whereas the said [college or university] has heretofore applied to the President of the United States to detail an officer of the Army to act as [president, superintendent, or professor] thereof, and the President, by virtue of the authority vested in him by section 1225, Revised Statutes, has detailed such an officer to so act accordingly; and whereas the Secretary of War, by the authority vested in him by said section, is about to issue to the said [college or university], for the military instruction and practice of the students thereof, the following [small-arms and (or) pieces of field artillery], to wit [naming and describing the articles in detail, adding value of each where practicable], being together of the value of [the total value]; all of which property, when issued, the said [college or university] hereby agrees to account for quarterly on blank forms to be prescribed by the Chief of Ordnance, and to return all of said property to the Chief of Ordnance, or such officer or person as may be designated to receive the same, within thirty days after demand by the Secretary of War: Now, therefore, if the said [college or university] shall take good care of and safely keep and account for the said [small-arms and (or) pieces of field artillery], and shall, when required by the Secretary of War, duly return the same within thirty days in good order to the Chief of Ordnance United States Army, or such officer or person as the Secretary of War may designate to receive them, then this obligation shall become inoperative and void; otherwise, shall be and remain in full force and virtue. [SEAL.] The corporate name of the college, &c., or the name of the individual (Corporate seal, if any exists, { (Name of surety or other principal.) [SEAL.] [SEAL.] (Name of surety or other principal.) In presence of us— The signatures (or any signature made separately) should have two subscribing witnesses. Form of justification by surety, or principal answering for the college, &c., where there is no surety as such. I [name], one of the [sureties or principals] named in the within bond, do swear that I am worth the sum of [full amount of the penalty] over and above all my debts and liabilities. Before ine (Signature.) (Signature of notary, &c., with official seal, if any.) 58. Regular property returns will be rendered quarterly to the Chief of Ordnance by each president or superintendent of an institution supplied with arms, &c., accounting for all ordnance and Ordnance stores issued to the institution under his charge. These returns will be made on blank forms supplied by the Chief of Ordnance. 59. Whenever any institution shall fail to return the public property in its charge within thirty days after demand made by the Secretary of War, the delinquency will be promptly referred to the Attorney General, that the bond of the institution may forthwith be put in suit. 60. All expenses of repairs of stores are to be borne by the institution using the same, the Ordnance Department supplying spare parts for repairs at cost price. 61. To conform to the requirements of the law, the terms "college" and "university" herein used are held to relate to "State institutions, incorporated or public," and not to "mere schools, private or municipal." ARTICLE IX. EXCHANGE OR TRANSFER OF OFFICERS. 62. The transfer of officers from one regiment or corps to another will be made only by the War Department, on the mutual application of the parties desiring the exchange.-[Regs. 1863, ¶ 30.] 63. An officer shall not be transferred from one regiment or corps to another with prejudice to the rank of any officer of the regiment or corps to which he is transferred.— [Regs. 1863, 31.] 64. Transfers will be seldom granted-never except for cogent reasons.-[Regs. 1863, ¶ 32.] 65. Officers below the grade of Field officers, transferred from one regiment or corps to another, on their mutual application, will be renominated for reappointment with rank as of the date of the commission of the junior officer previous to the transfer, and upon confirmation by the Senate will be recommissioned accordingly. These new commissions will determine their rank in their regiments and corps, as well as in the Army. The same principle will govern in exchanges of Field officers from one corps r arm of service to another.-[G. O. 19, 1878.] 66. Field officers of the same arm of service may, on their mutual application, be transferred from one regiment to another without change of rank or commission, excepting in regiments that have in their organization more than one Field officer of the same grade, when the exchanges in that grade will be made and the new commissions issued in conformity with the preceding paragraph. If the result of the transfers would not affect the positions or precedence of other Field officers of the same grades in their own regiments, the exchanges may be made in General Orders without alteration of rank or commission.-[G. J. 19, 1878.] 67. The transfer or exchange of company officers in a regiment will not be made without previous approval by the General of the Army. Temporary assignments of officers to do duty with other companies than their own are not hereby prohibited.— [G. O. 100, 1868.] ARTICLE X. OFFICERS TRAVELING ON DUTY. 68. Whenever an officer is ordered from one station to another, or for the performance of any duty, not being with troops, he shall proceed by the shortest usually traveled route without unnecessary delay; nor is he for any cause whatever, except that of sudden illness, to apply for leave of absence or permission to delay from the time he receives the order until he arrives at his place of destination.-[G. O. 2, 1871; G. O. 97, 1876.] 69. Whenever an officer under orders shall appear to have made unusual or unnecessary delay on the route, immediately on his arrival at the post the commanding officer will call upon him to report the cause thereof. Should such report be unsatis factory, the officer will be placed in arrest, and charges against him for his unauthorized absence will be immediately submitted to the Department Commander. If the delinquent officer be superior in rank to the commander of the post, the required report will be made by the officer himself to his Department Commander.-[Regs. 1863, ¶ 173; G. O. 2, 1871.] Go. 126. 8570. Delay in joining for duty or in returning from leave amounts in most cases to a leave of absence, and must be governed by the laws and regulations applicable to that indulgence. Exceptional cases are determined, exclusively, by the Secretary of War and General of the Army.-[Decision of March 18, 1871.] 71. Whenever an officer is detached from his company, regiment, post, or station, 4.6.1 for the performance of a specified duty, that duty being performed, he will return to his previous station, unless otherwise ordered.-[Regs. 1863, ¶ 174; G. O. 2, 1871.] 81 4.0.23.815 ·119.849 ARTICLE XI. LEAVES OF ABSENCE TO OFFICERS. 72. In no case will leaves of absence be granted, so that a company will be left without one of its commissioned officers, or a garrisoned post without two commissioned officers and competent medical attendance; nor shall leave of absence be granted to an officer during the season of active operations except on urgent necessity.-[Regs. 1863, ¶ 175.] 73. No leave of absence exceeding seven days, except on extraordinary occasions, when the circumstances must be particularly stated, shall be granted to any officer until he has joined his regiment or corps, and served therewith at least two years.[Regs. 1863, ¶ 182.] 74. The immediate commander of the officer applying for leave of absence, and all intermediate commanders, will indorse their opinion on the application before forwarding it.-[Regs. 1863, ¶ 179.] 75. In giving permission to apply for the extension of a leave of absence, the term of the extension should be stated. The term of the extension approved by the Department Commander will be regulated by the season and the usual opportunities for reaching the officer's station, so that he may not be absent during the time for active operations.-[Regs. 1863, ¶ 177.] 76. The War Department and General of the Army will not grant leaves to officers on applications made out of the proper military channel, or longer extensions of leave than are recommended by the competent authority.-[Regs. 1863, ¶ 178; G. O. 19, 1870; G. O. 2, 1871.] 99.66 77. Leaves of absence will be granted for periods specified as one month," one month and ten days," "two months," &c., instead of so many days.-[G. O. 86, 1876.] 78. Leaves of absence commence on the day the officer departs from his proper station. The expiration of his leave must find him at his post.-[Regs. 1863, ¶ 176.] 79. Leave for one month, beginning on the first day of a calendar month, will 7 85 expire with the last day of the month, whatever its number of days. Commencing on an intermediate day of a mouth, the leave will expire with the day preceding the same day in the next month. The day of departure, whatever the hour, is counted as a day of absence; the day of return, whatever its hour, as a day of duty.-[G. O. 86, 1876.] 80. The commander of a post may take leave of absence not to exceed seven days at one time, or in the same month, reporting the fact to his next superior commander. [Regs. 1863, ¶ 180.] Par 7942 0.77.8 81. In time of peace the commander of a post may grant leaves of absence not to exceed seven days at one time, or in the same month.-[Regs. 1863, ¶ 177.] \ 82. A Department Commander may grant leaves for one month, or extend to that period those granted by post commanders; a Military Division Commander, for two months, or extend one month a leave granted by a Department Commander under him; the General of the Army, four months, or extend to that period a leave already granted.-[G. O. 6, 1870.] 4.20. 84 83. Applications for leaves of absence for more than four months, or to officers of 4.0.132.84. Engineers and Ordnance, or officers of the General Staff or serving on it (Aides-de-Camp excepted), for more than one month, must be referred to the Adjutant General for the decision of the Secretary of War.-[Regs. 1863, ¶ 177.] 127.85 84. Three months' leave of absence without deduction of pay will be allowed to G.0.98.84 graduates from the time of quitting (as cadet) the Military Academy. The leave herein authorized will not be counted against a subsequent application for leave; but it cannot be postponed to another time.-[Regs. 1863, ¶ 181; Circ. A. G. O., Aug. 6, 1869; Sec. War, April 14, 1875.] 85. Officers will not leave the United States, to go beyond sea, without permission from the War Department.-[Regs. 1863, ¶ 183.] 86. Officers of the Army traveling or stopping in foreign countries, whether on duty or leave of absence, will avail themselves of all opportunities, properly within their reach, for obtaining information of value to the military service of the United States, especially that pertaining to their own arm or branch of service. They will report fully in writing the results of their observations to the Adjutant General of the Army on their return to duty in the United States, if unable to do so at an earlier date.-[G. O. 64, 1880.] 87. An officer on leave will report monthly his address for the thirty days following, to the commander of his post, of his regiment or corps, and to the Adjutant General of the Army. In his first report he will state when his leave commenced.-[ Regs. 1863, ! 176.] 88. Verbal permits for less than twenty-four hours are not counted as leaves of absence. But for every other absence of whatever duration, the date of departure and return, will be noted on Post, Regimental, Department, and Division Returns against each officer borne thereon.-[G. O. 86, 1876.] 89. Permission to hunt will not be considered as a leave of absence or charged as such if the officer, on his return to his station, files with his commanding officer a certificate that his absence has been employed solely in hunting, and furnishes as complete a description of the country passed over as circumstances permit.-[Letter A. G. O., Aug. 24, 1880.] SICK-LEAVE. 90. Leaves of absence on account of sickness will not be granted to officers to go beyond the limits of the Military Department within which they are stationed, unless the certificate of the Medical officer shall explicitly state that a greater change is necessary to save life, or prevent permanent disability. Nor will sick-leaves to go beyond the Department limits be given in any case, except of immediate urgency, without the previous sanction of the War Department.-[Regs. 1863, ¶ 186.] 91. Commanders of Geographical Departments and Divisions are authorized to grant leaves of absence, on account of sickness, subject to the limits fixed by the General Regulations of the Army for ordinary leaves. The application must be accompanied by a Surgeon's certificate of disability. Leaves will not be granted unless they originate at the post of duty of the officer.-[G. O. 114, 1877.] 92. No application for extension of sick-leave will be granted from the Headquarters of the Army, or the War Department, unless such extension shall have been approved by the Department or Division Commander.-[G. O. 114, 1877.] 93. On the expiration of a leave of absence on account of sickness, if the officer be able to travel (without endangering his ultimate cure), he will forthwith proceed to his post, although his disability may not have been removed. Exceptions to this general rule must be made in each case by the War Department, on full and explicit medical certificates, forwarded to the Adjutant General of the Army, through Department Headquarters, setting forth the reasons for delay and the length of time delay is considered necessary.-[Regs. 1863, ¶ 187; G. O. 114, 1877.] 94. When an officer is prevented by sickness from joining his station, he will transmit the prescribed medical certificates, monthly, to the commanding officer of his post, and regiment or corps, and to the Adjutant General—all through Department Headquarters; and when he cannot procure the certificate of a medical officer of the Army, he will substitute his own certificate, on honor, as to his condition, the certificate to embrace a full statement of his case. The certificates, when approved by the Department Commander and forwarded to the Adjutant General of the Army, will be sufficient authority for his absence until he is able to travel to his post. If the officer's certificate is not satisfactory, he will be so informed; if satisfactory, the Adjutant 0.135. 8x G.0.130.84 9.0.88 84 General will furnish him, for the advice of the Pay Department and to secure his pay, an official letter of acceptance. Whenever an officer has been absent on account of sickness for one year, he may be examined by a Medical Board, and the case specially reported to the President.-[Regs. 1863, ¶ 188; G. O. 114, 1877.] 95. When an officer is absent under an accepted certificate of disability, he will be entitled to the same pay as if an order had been issued granting him leave of absence on account of disability.-[G. O. 114, 1877.] 9.0.131. 96. FORM OF MEDICAL CERTIFICATE. of the Regiment of -, having applied for a certificate on which to ground an application for leave of absence, I do hereby certify that I have 84 carefully examined this officer and find that-[Here the nature of the disease, wound, or disability is to be fully stated, and the period during which the officer has suffered under its effects], and that, in consequence thereof, he is, in my opinion, unfit for duty, and not able to travel without endangering his ultimate cure. I further declare my belief that he will not be able to resume his duties in a less period than-[ Here state candidly and explicitly the opinion as to the period which will probably elapse before the officer will be able to resume his duties. When there is no reason to expect a recovery, or when the prospect of recovery is distant or uncertain, or when a change of climate is recommended, it must be so stated.] Dated at this day of [Regs. 1863, ¶ 185; G. O. 114, 1877.] [Signature of the Medical Officer.] 97. An ordinary leave will not be changed to a sick-leave except on the application of the officer through his post commander, that the medical officer of the post, familiar with the habits of the officer, may certify as to its necessity. The post commander will forward the application through the Department Commander, who will indorse his remarks, for the action of the General of the Army and the Secretary of War.— [G. O. 114, 1877.] 98. In all reports of absence, or applications for leave of absence on account of sickness, the officer shall state how long he has been absent already on that account, and by whose permission.-[Regs. 1863, ¶ 189.] 99. Department Commanders are authorized, at any time it may seem to them proper, to order officers absent on sick-certificate to return to their posts.―[G. O. 114, 1877.] ARTICLE XII. RETIREMENT OF OFFICERS. 100. Officers of the Army are retired according to the terms of the Statutes, sections 1243 to 1260. 101. The number of officers on the Retired List is limited to four hundred.-[ Act of Congress approved June 18, 1878, sec. 7, in G. O. 37, 1878.] 102. Department Commanders will, from time to time, report to the Adjutant General of the Army the names of officers belonging to their Departments who are incapacitated for active service or command, with a view to their being brought before a Retiring Board. The reports in each separate case will contain a specific statement of facts, and the names of witnesses to prove them.-[G. O. 2, 1871.]] 103. Habitual intemperance, gambling, low company, or other vices that tend to corrupt an officer and lower the professional standard, are causes sufficient to bring an officer before a Board, to be wholly retired.—[ G. O. 2, 1871.] 104. When ample testimony establishes the fact that an officer has, through vicious indulgences, slighted or neglected his ordinary duties to such a degree as to make it evidently unsafe to intrust him with a command or responsibility that rightfully belongs to his grade, and when it is shown that such habits have continued for such length of time as to make a permanent reformation improbable, this fact, rather than the present condition of the officer when he appears before the Board, should weigh in the verdict as to his incapacity for active duty.-[Cir. W. D., Oct. 26, 1868.] 105. Officers on the Retired List are amenable to the Rules and Articles of War, and subject to trial by Court-Martial for a violation thereof. It is made the duty of all officers of the Army who may become cognizant of flagrant violations of military law by any retired officer to report the same to the Adjutant General of the Army for the action of the General.-[G. O. 2, 1871; R. S., § 1256.] 106. Retired officers may engage in private business or hold civil offices not contrary to law. They may change their residences, or travel, at pleasure; except that to leave the United States to go beyond sea requires permission from the War Department.-[G. O. 15, 1870: G. O. 57, 1877; Regs. 1863, ¶ 183.] 107. Retired officers will report their address to the Adjutant General of the Army |