FINDING.

Charge I.

Of the Specification, "Guilty, except the words, 'wilfully disobey, substituting therefor the words, fail to fully comply with; of the excepted words not guilty; of the substituted words, guilty."

Of the CHARGE, "Not guilty, but guilty of conduct to the prejudice of good order and military discipline, in violation of the 62d Article of War."

And the court does therefore sentence him, 2d Lieutenant E. W. Perkins, 8th Infantry, “To be dismissed the service of the United States."

The record of the proceedings of the general court martial in the foregoing case of 2d Lieutenant E. W. Perkins, 8th U. S. Infantry, having been forwarded for the action of the President, the following are his orders thereon:

EXECUTIVE MANSION, April 20, 1899. The sentence in the case of 2d Lieutenant E. W. Perkins, 8th Infantry, is approved, but is mitigated to forfeiture of one-third of his monthly pay for twelve months. As thus mitigated the sentence will be duly executed.

WILLIAM MCKINLEY.

BY COMMAND OF MAJOR GENERAL MILES:

H. C. CORBIN,

Adjutant General

No. 80.

ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE,

Washington, April 24, 1899.

By direction of the Secretary of War, paragraphs 29, 33, 41, and 42 of the Regulations and Decisions pertaining to the uniform of the Army of the United States are hereby amended to read as follows:

CHEVRONS.*

29. The rank of noncommissioned officers will be marked on the blouse and overcoat by chevrons of cloth, and on the uniform dress coat, except for the Hospital Corps, by chevrons of gold lace.

The chevrons will be worn points down; those upon the uniform dress coat and blouse will be above the elbow; those on the overcoat will be below the elbow, with the point inch above the cuff.

The cloth chevrons to be of the same color as the facings of the uniform dress coat, except those worn by the Hospital Corps, which will be of emerald green. Those for the overcoat of infantry will be of dark blue cloth.

The Engineers and Signal Corps chevrons are to be piped with white cloth. The bars of the chevrons will be inch wide separated by silk stitching, white for hospital stewards, acting hospital stewards, engineers, signal corps, and for overcoats for infantry; black for all others; the upper and lower edges to be finished or bound with a similar stitching. The arms of the chevron bars to be 6 to 7 inches long, to be the arcs of a circle of about 25 inches radius, and to meet at an angle of about 96 degrees; distance between extreme outer ends about 9 inches.

Rank will be indicated as follows:

REGIMENTAL SERGEANT MAJOR.-Three bars and an arc of three bars

*The stripes prescribed for “candidates" for promotion will be worn on the upper half of each cuff, and will consist of a double stripe running the length of the cuff, pointed at the upper end, and with a small button below the point of the stripe; for uniform coat, of gold braid; for blouse and overcoat, of cloth of same color as facings of uniform; width of braid

REGIMENTAL QUARTERMASTER SERGEANT.-Three bars and a tie of three bars.

REGIMENTAL COMMISSARY SERGEANT.-Three bars and a tie of three bars, having a crescent (points front) inch above the inner angle of chevron.

SQUADRON OR BATTALION SERGEANT MAJORS-Three bars and an arc of two bars.

CHIEF MUSICIAN.-Three bars and an arc of two bars, with a bugle of pattern worn on caps in the center.

CHIEF TRUMPETER.-Three bars and an arc of one bar, with a bugle of pattern worn on caps in the center.

PRINCIPAL MUSICIAN.-Three bars and a bugle.

DRUM MAJOR.-Three bars and two embroidered crossed batons.

ORDNANCE SERGEANT.-Three bars and a star.

POST QUARTERMASTER SERGEANT.-Three bars and a crossed key and pen.

POST COMMISSARY SERGEANT.-Three bars and a crescent (points to the front) 11 inches above the inner angle of chev

ron.

HOSPITAL STEWARD.-Three bars and an arc of one bar, of emerald green cloth, inclosing a red cross.

ACTING HOSPITAL STEWARD.-The same as for a hospital steward, omitting the arc.

PRIVATE OF THE HOSPITAL CORPS, AND ALL PERSONS NEU TRALIZED BY THE TERMS OF THE GENEVA CONVENTION.-A brassard of white cloth, 16 inches long and 3 inches wide, with a cross of red cloth, 2 inches long and 2 inches wide, in center, to be worn on the left arm, above the elbow.

SERGEANT OF THE FIRST CLASS OF THE SIGNAL CORPS.-Three bars and an arc of one bar, inclosing a device consisting of crossed signal flags, red and white, and a burning torch in yellow.

SERGEANT OF THE SIGNAL CORPS.-Same as for a sergeant of the first class, omitting the arc.

CORPORAL OF THE SIGNAL CORPS.-Two bars inclosing same device as for sergeant of the first-class.

FIRST-CLASS PRIVATE OF THE SIGNAL CORPS.-Device consisting of crossed signal flags, red and white, and a burning torch in yellow.

ELECTRICIAN SERGEANT.-Three bars and a representation of forked lightning, embroidered in white silk, bars to be scarlet.

FIRST SERGEANT.-Three bars and a lozenge.

TROOP, BATTERY, OR COMPANY QUARTERMASTER SER. GEANT.-Three bars and a tie of one bar.

SERGEANT.-Three bars.

REGIMENTAL AND BATTALION COLOR SERGEANT.-Three bars and a sphere, 14 inches in diameter.

CORPORAL.-Two bars.

LANCE CORPORAL.-One bar.

COOK.-A Cook's cap of cloth conforming in color to arm of service, except for Signal Corps, which will be black upon white cloth.

FARRIER.-A horseshoe of cloth 44 inches long and 3 inches wide, worn toe uppermost.

SADDLER-A saddler's round knife, of cloth.

MECHANIC AND ARTIFICER.-Two crossed hammers, of cloth.

FIRST CLASS GUNNER.-An insignia of scarlet cloth neatly piped and stitched on the outside of the right sleeve halfway between the point of the shoulder and elbow, below the chevron in case of a noncommissioned officer, the shape of the insigna to be that of an elongated cannon projectile 14 inches long and 4 inch wide, point up. This insignia will be charged only in case of loss or damage, and will be worn upon the right sleeve of the dress coat, blouse, and overcoat.

GOLD LACE CHEVRONS.

The gold lace chevrons will be of the same dimensions as cloth chevrons, stitched upon cloth of the same color as the facings of the uniform dress coat. Those for Engineers to have a stitching of white silk on each edge of the gold lace. Those for the Signal Corps to have the crossed signal flags and torches of the same color and dimensions as those for the cloth

SERVICE CHEVRONS.

All enlisted men who have served faithfully for one term of enlistment, for either three or five years, will wear as a mark of distinction, upon both sleeves of the uniform dress coat, below the elbow, a diagonal half chevron of gold lace, inch wide, stitched upon a piece of dark-blue cloth of the color of the uniform dress coat, and extending from seam to seam, the front end nearest the cuff and inch above the point of the cuff.

Those for enlisted men of the hospital corps, however, shall consist of single stripe of emerald green facing cloth, inch wide and 12 inches long, stitched on the outer edges with white chevron silk, and will be worn on both sleeves of the blouse below the elbow.

TO INDICATE SERVICE IN WAR. - A diagonal half chevron of gold lace, inch wide, with piping on each side inch wide, of cloth of the same color as the facings of the arm of service in which the soldier earned the right to wear it; those for Engineers to have in addition a stitching of white silk on each side of the gold lace. To be worn on both sleeves of the uni form dress coat.

Those for the enlisted men of the Hospital Corps will be worn on both sleeves of the blouse, and shall consist of a single stripe of emerald green facing cloth, inch wide and 12 inches long, piped on outer edges with orange facing cloth inch wide, indicating war service in the Hospital Corps only.

War service in other arms will be indicated by pipings of the color worn by the arm in which such service was ren dered, except in the Engineer Corps, in which case the outer edges of the scarlet pipings shall have a row of white silk stitching.

All soldiers who have served during the war of the rebellion, and who were honorably discharged; all who served in the Indian campaigns enumerated in general orders from the Headquarters of the Army; and all who have served or may serve in the Army of the United States in war, or in such Indian campaigns approaching the magnitude of war, as may from time to time be so designated by the Secretary of War, are entitled to wear the "service in war" chevron.