Manual for the Medical Department.

(Blanks should be furnished and the applicants required to exemplify their use in the preparation of reports and returns.) 2. Drill Regulations for the Hospital Corps.

3. Practice of medicine.

4. Surgery.

5. Military sanitation.

6. Military law. Manual of Courts-Martial (official). Instructions for the government of armies of the United States in the field (General Orders, Nos. 4 and 52 of 1902, A. G. O., and Circular, No. 65, W. D., 1907, Rules of Land Warfare).

Field officers.

1. Administration. Army Regulations so far as they relate to the Medical Department or to the medical officer as an officer of the Army.

Field Service Regulations in so far as they relate to the Medical Department.

Manual for the Medical Department.

(Blanks should be furnished and the applicants required to exemplify their use in the preparation of reports and returns.) 2. Practice of medicine.

3. Surgery.

4. Military sanitation and epidemiology.

5. Military law.

Manual of Courts-Martial (official). Instructions for the government of armies of the United States in the field (General Orders, 4 and 52 of 1902, A. G. O., and Circular, No. 65, W. D., 1907, Rules of Land Warfare).

FOR JUDGE ADVOCATE GENERAL'S DEPARTMENT.

The applicant shall produce a diploma from a regularly established law school of good reputation and shall submit evidence that he has been a practicing attorney in good standing for a period of at least two years.

Administration.

For all officers.

Oral. Army Regulations: In the discretion of the board, special importance being attached to Article XLIV (The Organized Militia), (Employment of troops in the

enforcement of the laws); Articies XLVII and LXVIII (Judge Advocate General's Department); Article LXIX (Arrest and confinement); Article LXX (Courts-martial); Article LXXI Civilian witnesses); Article LXXII (Employment of civil counsel-Habeas corpus). The Articles of War.

Military law. Oral. Manual of Courts-Martial (official). International law and the law of war. Oral.

1. States and their essential attributes.

2. Perfect and imperfect rights.

3. National character.

4. The conflict of international rights.

5. War.

6. Neutrality; the rights and duties of neutrals.

7. Law of military occupation.

8. Rules of Land Warfare and Bulletin 6, W. D., 1913.

9. The Geneva Convention, 1906 (Circular No. 65, W. D.,

1907).

10. The Hague Conference (General Orders, Nos. 4 and 52, A. G. O., 1902).

11. Military Government and Martial Law (Birkhimer). Revised Statutes and acts of Congress relating to the organization, etc., of the Military Establishment of the United States. Oral. In the discretion of the board, the scope of the examination to be sufficient to test the applicant's knowledge of the fundamental principles and more important details of the laws relating to the Army of the United States and the militia.

LETTER OF APPLICATION FOR EXAMINATION FOR COMMISSION IN VOLUNTEER FORCE.

[Under sec. 23, act of Jan. 21, 1903.]

The Adjutant General,

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SIR: I have the honor to apply for examination for a commission as in any volunteer force which may hereafter be called for and organized under the

1 Insert grade.

Insert branch of service, as Cavalry, Field Artillery, Coast Artillery, or Infantry.

Name staff position, and in this case rule out (1) and (2).

authority of Congress, other than a force composed of Organ

The correctness of the statements above made was sworn to and subscribed before me,

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(G. O. 54, 1914—1475535 P, A. G. O. as amended by Par. I, G. O. 50, 1915-1475535 S, A. G. O.)

Insert service in Regular Army of the United States, or volunteer forces of the United States, or Organized Militia of any State, Territory, or District of Columbia; also state in what capacity.

5 Insert name and location of the military school or college of the United States Army.

Insert the name and location of the educational institution to which an officer of the Army or Navy has been detailed as superintendent or professor pursuant to law.

Insert "not" if in accordance with fact.

$ Oath to be taken before, and signature to be made by, officer authorized by law to administer oaths.

NOTE. The foregoing is the form to be followed in applying for examination, and is to be addressed to the adjutant general of a State or Territory, or to The Adjutant General of the Army, according as the applicant comes within the classes indicated in the fourth paragraph of Section III, and must embody all the information indi cated in the blanks. Blank forms are not supplied by the War Department.

ARTICLE III.

ASSIGNMENTS AND DETAILS-DETACHED SERVICE OF OFFICERS.

11. Employment of outside influence to obtain assignments, etc.-Attention is hereby specifically called to the Executive order published in General Orders, No. 112, of July 13, 1905, which is as follows:

EXECUTIVE ORDER.

The Congress of the United States, by appropriate legislative enactments, has made the matter of assignments, transfers, and details in the Army the subject of formal statutory regulation; Executive regulations in furtherance of these statutes have been adopted, the operation of which has been to place upon record in the War Department full and detailed information in respect to the character, capacity, military services, and general attainments of all officers composing the military establishment. The records so obtained fully set forth the relative merits of officers of all grades of rank in the several branches of the line and staff, and enable all vacancies which occur in the military service to be filled after a careful comparison of the records of those officers who are eligible under the law for particular assignments or details.

A similar legislative policy exists in respect to the Navy, and the records of the Navy Department furnish evidence of the character, service, and ability of all officers of the Navy, founded upon the official reports of those officers whose duty it is to make them. These reports are sufficiently specific to enable the department to determine the particular duty which each officer is fitted to perform without the intervention of requests, claims, or influence from sources outside the Navy.

It is therefore announced that in future appointments, details, transfers, and assignments in the Army and Navy, the Executive will be guided by the official records of the War and Navy Departments, respectively, to the exclusion of other sources of influence or information; but in case an officer has performed any special act of bravery or courage or rendered specially efficient service of which there is no record or only a partial record in the War or Navy Department, the testimony of any person who was an eyewitness of the same may be submitted for consideration.

Should it be discovered that since the publication of this order an officer of the Army or Navy has sought recommenda

tion or support from sources outside of those named above, this fact will debar him from obtaining the particular advancement, assignment, or detail which he has by such means attempted to secure, and the fact that he has sought such influence will be noted on his official record.

THE WHITE HOUSE, July 7, 1905.

THEODORE ROOSEVELT.

and to the order of the President published in General Orders, No. 38, of March 3, 1909, which is as follows:

To the SECRETARY OF WAR:

THE WHITE HOUSE, Washington, March 3, 1909.

Supplementing orders heretofore issued, it is directed that hereafter all requests and recommendations, either written or verbal, received at the War Department from or on behalf of Army officers, of whatever nature-other than those received through regular military channels-shall be filed with or noted on their records. Officers who do not desire such notations on their records should take such action as may be necessary to prevent such requests or recommendations being made.

THEODORE ROOSEVELT.

Notwithstanding these orders, this department is constantly in receipt of numerous requests, written and oral, concerning the promotion, assignment, transfer, detail, and other special treatment of officers in the service. In some instances of recent occurrence it has been found that the officer in question did not desire the thing requested in his behalf, and in many others it is difficult to believe that the officer was not directly or indirectly responsible for the request, although it came through a third person and bore no direct evidence of his participation therein. If the department heeds the importunities of those who, by disobeying these orders in letter or spirit, are enabled to reach it, the result is simply to put a premium upon disobedience and to punish those who strictly observe the orders.

Hereafter any communication made to this department, written or oral, requesting any promotion, assignment, transfer, detail, or other special consideration for any officer (excepting when made by the officer himself in the proper way), will at once be referred to the officer in question, who will be required to state whether the communication was made directly or indirectly by his procurement, and whether he avows or disavows the request as one on his behalf. (G. O. 31, 1913—2030735, A. G. O.)