No. 141. ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE, Washington, November 4, 1901. I--Lieutenant Colonel Jesse M. Lee, 6th Infantry, is announced as inspector of small-arms practice at the Headquarters of the Army from this date. II. By direction of the Secretary of War, the following allotment of staff officers to artillery districts is announced: III--Artillery district commanders will appoint their staff officers from the available officers serving in their districts and will confine their selections to the above allowance. Should the officers selected be not unassigned application will be made for their transfer to the unassigned list. The names of the officers selected and any subsequent changes will be promptly reported to the Adjutant General of the Army. IV.. Orders and instructions issued by commanding officers of artillery districts will be so headed, the omission therein of the word "artillery" being unauthorized and not in conformity with the orders assigning commanders of artillery districts. BY COMMAND OF LIEUTENANT GENERAL MILES: H. C. CORBIN, Adjutant General, Major General, U. S. Army. Capt. No. 142. ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE Washington, November 4, 1901. By direction of the Secretary of War, the following changes in stations of troops are ordered: 1. Eleventh U. S. Cavalry, from the Departments of the East and the Missouri to the Division of the Philippines, to proceed as follows: Second Squadron, from Fort Ethan Allen, Vermont, to New York City, to sail on transport "Crook" about December 1, 1901; headquarters, field, staff, band, and 3d Squadron from Fort Myer, Virginia, to New York City, to sail on transport "Buford" about the middle of January, 1902; 1st Squadron, from Jefferson Barracks, Missouri, to San Francisco, California, to sail on regular transport December 16, 1901. Twenty-eighth U. S. Infantry, from the Department of the Columbia to the Division of the Philippines, to proceed as follows: Two battalions (to be designated by the department com. mander) to San Francisco, California, to sail on the transport "Grant" about November 15, 1901; headquarters, field, staff, band, and remaining battalion to San Francisco, California, to sail on the transport "Warren" about December 1, 1901. Each battalion and squadron will conduct a detachment of unassigned recruits, equal in number to its authorized strength, for assignment to regiments serving in the Division of the Philippines. These recruits will be assembled at points to be hereafter designated. The regiments named will be fully recruited and all troops will be fully clothed, armed, equipped, and supplied, and provided with not to exceed fifty rounds of cartridges per man, to be carried on the person ex cept recruits for regiments in the Division of the Philippines, for whom arms and ammunition will not be provided. Public horses of the 11th Cavalry will be left at its present stations in charge of the Quartermaster's Department. The baggage to accompany the troops by rail will be limited to 150 pounds per man, as directed in letter of April 6, 1901, from this office, to department commanders; the heavy bag gage will be forwarded by slow freight to the point of embarkation in time to be transferred to the transport carrying the troops. Department commanders concerned will direct the embarkation of the troops and by concert of action arrange the details of the movements and advise the Adjutant General of the Army as to the progress of the preparations, reporting by telegraph the hours of departures and arrivals and strength of organizations. 2. The 4th, 17th, 20th, and 22d Regiments of Infantry will be relieved from duty by the commanding general, Division of the Philippines, and ordered to the United States as nearly as practicable in the order named as soon as the transports are available. Private soldiers of these regiments who are serving in their first enlistments and who have six months or more to serve will be transferred by the division commander to other regiments serving in that division, and short-term privates of other regiments who signify their intention not to reenlist in the division will be transferred to the regiments returning to the United States. The division commander is authorized to arrange the transfer of noncommissioned officers and enlisted men other than privates as the good of the service may require. 3. For the foregoing movements the Quartermaster General will furnish the necessary transportation, the Subsistence Department suitable subsistence, and the Medical Department proper medical attendance and supplies. BY COMMAND OF LIEUTENANT GENERAL MILES: H. C. CORBIN, Adjutant General, Major General, U. S. Army. No. 143. ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE, Washington, November 5, 1901. The following order has been received from the War De. partment: WAR DEPARTMENT, Washington, November 4, 1901. I. A new paragraph, 21], is added to the Regulations, U. S. Military Academy, to read as follows: 21. The Academic Board will consider and may accept in lieu of the regular mental entrance examination First. The properly attested examination papers of a candidate who receives his appointment through a public competitive written examination covering the range of subjects prescribed in paragraph 21. Second. The properly attested certificate of graduation from a public high school in which the course of study, together with the requirements for entrance, shall cover the range of subjects prescribed in paragraph 21. Third. A properly attested certificate that the candidate is a regular student of any incorporated college or university, without condition as to any subject mentioned in paragraph 21. Application for consideration of papers or certificates shall be made by each candidate and alternate immediately after he receives his appointment. No application will be received after March 15 preceding the regular examination prescribed in paragraph 20. Candidates accepted as qualified mentally under the provisions of this paragraph shall appear for physical examination at such time and place as the Secretary of War may direct. II. Paragraphs 20 and 21, Regulations, U. S. Military Academy, are amended to read as follows: 20. Candidates selected for appointment, unless accepted under the provisions of paragraph 214. shall appear for mental and physical examination before boards of army officers to be convened at such places as the War Department may select, on the first of May, annually, except when that day comes on Sunday, in which case the examination shall commence on the following Tuesday. Candidates who pass successfully will be admitted to the Academy without further examination upon reporting in person to the superintendent at West Point before 12 o'clock noon on the 15th day of June of the same year. No candidate shall be examined at any other time unless prevented from presenting himself at the May examination by sickness or other unavoidable cause, in which case he shall report to the superintendent at West Point before 12 o'clock noon on the 12th day of June of the same year. 21. Each candidate before he shall be admitted to the Academy as a cadet must show, by the examination provided for in paragraph 20 or by the methods prescribed in paragraph 211, that he is well versed in the following-prescribed subjects, viz: Reading, writing, spelling. English grammar, English composition. English literature, arithmetic, algebra through quadratic equations, plane geometry, descriptive geography, and the elements of physical geography, especially the geography of the United States. United States history, the outlines of general history, and the general principles of physiology and hygiene. Candidates may be examined either orally or in writing, and no rejected candidate may be reexamined except upon the recommendation of the Academic Board. ELIHU ROOT, Secretary of War. BY COMMAND OF LIEUTENANT GENERAL MILES: H. C. CORBIN, Adjutant General, Major General, U. S. Army. |