GENERAL ORDERS, Į WAR DEPARTMENT, WASHINGTON, June 28, 1905. No. 99. } The following is published for the information and guidance of all concerned: WAR DEPARTMENT, WASHINGTON, June 28, 1905. By direction of the President, Major General John C. Bates, Assistant Chief of Staff, is detailed as a member of the board appointed by Executive order dated January 31, 1905, published in General Orders, No. 20, February 9, 1905, War Department, vice Gillespie, heretofore retired. ROBERT SHAW OLIVER. [1030656, M. S. O.] Acting Secretary of War. BY ORDER OF THE ACTING SECRETARY OF WAR: ADNA R. CHAFFEE, Lieutenant General, Chief of Staff. OFFICIAL: F. C. AINSWORTH, SEP IT Recd GENERAL ORDERS, No. 100. WAR DEPARTMENT, WASHINGTON, June 28, 1905. The following named officers are detailed as members of the Joint Army and Navy Board appointed by the order published in General Orders, No. 107, July 20, 1903, Headquarters of the Army: Major General John C. Bates, Assistant Chief of Staff. Brigadier General Samuel M. Mills, Chief of Artillery. Lieutenant Colonel William W. Wotherspoon, General Staff. [1030655, M. S. O.] No. 101. DEPARTMENT, } WASHINGTON,June 29, 1905. 1. The following laws, regulations, and instructions governing the detail of officers of the Army at educational. institutions are published for the information and government.of.all concerned: [As amended by act approved September 26, 1888.] "SEC. 1225. The President may, upon the application of any. established military institute, seminary or academy, college or university, within the United States, having capacity to educate at the same time not less than one hundred and fifty male students, detail an officer of the Army or Navy to act as superintendent, or professor thereof; but the number of officers so detailed shall not exceed fifty from the Army, and ten from the Navy, being a maximum of sixty, at any time, and they shall be apportioned throughout the United States, first, to those State institutions applying for such detail that are required to provide instruction in military tactics under the provisions of the act of Congress of July second, eighteen hundred and sixty two, donating lands for the establishment of colleges where the leading object shall be the practical instruction of the industrial classes in agriculture and the mechanic arts, including military tactics; and after that, said details to be distributed, as nearly as may be practicable, according to population. 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, such number of the same as may appear to be required for military instruction and practice by the students of any college or university under the provisions of this section, and the Secretary shall require a bond in each case, in double the value of the property, for the care and safe-keeping thereof, and for the return of the same when required": Provided, That nothing in this act shall be so construed as to prevent the detail of officers of the Engineer Corps of the Navy as professors in SEF |