GENERAL ORDERS, No. 2. HEADQUARTERS OF THE ARMY, The following amended paragraph of the General Regulations for the U. S. Military Academy of 1877, having been approved by the Secretary of War, is published for the information of all concerned: Par. 66. At the annual and semi-annual examinations, the Academic Board shall, after examination, arrange the cadets of each class in order of merit, and decide upon their proficiency or deficiency in each study pursued by that class in the term preceding the examination. 1st. The examinations shall be made by the Academic Board, or by its committees. For examination by committees, the board shall be divided into two or three committees of as nearly equal numbers as may be convenient. The arrangement of the committees and the determination of the order and method of examination shall be made by the Superintendent. 2d. The committees shall conduct examinations in the manner prescribed by the Superintendent, and shall report to the board as fully as may be required the results of the examinations; and upon their reports the board shall take such action as it may think proper. 3d. The Superintendent may, in his discretion, be a member of any one of the committees, and preside therein; otherwise, the senior member of the Academic Board present shall preside. 4th. Each member of the Academic Board shall keep careful notes of the examination at which he is present, so that he may be able to give, when required, full information of the performance of every one examined before him. To aid in the accurate arrangement in order of merit and in the determination of proficiency or deficiency, every instructor in charge of a section shall, just before its examination, carefully prepare and submit to the board or committee a list of members of the section arranged in the order of merit, as indicated by the marks during the term and by the impression left on his mind by the daily recitations, noting every case of doubtful proficiency. This list shall be submitted through the head of the department of instruction, who shall make thereon such remarks as he may deem proper. 5th. The senior assistant in each department of instruction shall be a member of the Academic Board and of the committee, for the purpose of examining cadets, arranging them in order of merit, and determining their proficiency or deficiency, in every branch of study in that department; and the instructor of any section under examination or consideration shall be a member of the Academic Board and of the committee, for the purpose of examining the section and arranging it in order of merit. 6th. The record of each committee shall be kept by an officer detailed for that purpose, and shall be delivered by him, after the approval of the presiding officer, to the secretary of the Academic Board, to be laid before the board and afterward to be preserved among the records of the Academy. 7th. The Academic Board shall decide the question of proficiency or deficiency of a cadet by a vote of ayes and nays, taken viva voce, or by ballot, as the board may decide. 8th. All deliberations and decisions of the Academic Board and of its committees, and expressions of opinion and votes, individual or collective, of members thereof, shall be confidential; and of such matters no member or secretary of the board or of a committee shall make any disclosure, unless required by competent authority to give, as a witness, evidence in relation thereto. These restrictions, however, shall not apply to the necessary publications by proper authority of the decisions of the board. 9th. At the close of each examination, the Academic Board shall report to the Superintendent, to be submitted to the War Department, the names of all cadets who are deficient in studies or discipline. The Superintendent may at any time bring any cadet before the board to be examined, and reported in like manner, if found hopelessly deficient. BY COMMAND OF GENERAL SHERMAN : OFFICIAL: R. C. DRUM, Adjutant General. Assistant Adjutant General. GENERAL ORDERS, No. 3. HEADQUARTERS OF THE ARMY, Washington, January 13, 1882. By direction of the Secretary of War the Regulations are corrected by striking out paragraphs 1603 and 1604, the portion of General Orders, No. 10, of 1874, from this office, embodied therein having been revoked by General Orders, No. 21, of the same year. BY COMMAND OF GENERAL SHERMAN: OFFICIAL: R. C. DRUM, Adjutant General. Assistant Adjutant General. GENERAL ORDERS, No. 4. HEADQUARTERS OF THE ARMY, Washington, January 16, 1882. By direction of the Secretary of War paragraphs 529, 1387, 1390, 1428, 1832, 2174, and 2224 of the Regulations are corrected to read as follows: 529. The troops will bake their own bread when practicable. The loaf of bread for issue to troops should never weigh less than eighteen ounces when fresh. At posts where fresh vegetables cannot be raised, the ration of bread may be increased, at the discretion of the department commander, not to exceed twenty-two ounces; but this regulation shall not be construed to authorize any increase in the issue of flour by the Subsistence Department.-[G. O. 94, 1873; G. O. 42, 1875.] 1387. An officer commanding a department, or an army in the field, may give orders, on the report of the authorized inspectors, to sell, destroy, or make such other disposition of any condemned property as the case may require the sale of ordnance and ordnance stores alone excepted, for which the orders of the War Department must always be taken. But if the property be of very considerable value, and there should be reason to suppose that it could be advantageously applied or disposed of elsewhere than within his command, he will refer the matter to the chief of the staff department to which it belongs, for the orders of the War Department. No other persons than those above designated, or the General-in-chief, will order the final disposition of condemned property, saving only in the case of horses, which should be killed at once to prevent contagion, and of provisions or other stores which are rapidly deteriorating, when the immediate commander may have to act perforce. Inventories of condemned property will be made in triplicate, one to be retained by the person accountable, one to accompany his accounts, and one to be forwarded through the department or other superior headquarters to the chief of the staff department to which the property belongs. Separate inventories must be made of the articles to be repaired, of those to be broken up, to be sold, to be dropped, &c.-[Regs. 1863, ¶ 1023.] 1390. The inspector will, whenever practicable, mark with a brand, stencil, cold-chisel, steel cutter or punch, depending on the material to be marked, the letters I. C. (Inspected-Condemned) upon all property condemned and ordered to be sold or dropped from the returns. Should it happen, when final action is had, that the inspector's recommendation is disapproved, the marks will be canceled, and a certificate of the fact will be given to the officer accountable.—[G. O. 193, 1863; G. O. 5, 1866.] |