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AND FIELD ARTILLERY, 1903.

ОВЈЕСТ.

1. By an act of Congress approved January 29, 1887, there is established "at Fort Riley a permament school of instruction for drill and practice for the cavalry and light artillery service of the Army of the United States."

Official designation changed by the War Department January 29, 1903, to the “School of Application for Cavalry and Field Artillery."

Practical instruction will be specially directed to field duties and to the coinbined operations of the two arms.

Theoretical instruction will be confined to subjects adapted to the needs of the school and will as far as practicable be carried on concurrently with practical instruction.

ORGANIZATION.

2. The School of Application shall comprise: The school of cavalry and the school of field artillery, established by General Orders, No. 6, Adjutant General's Office, 1896; the training school for farriers and horseshoers, established by General Orders, No. 115, Adjutant General's Office, 1892, and such other schools as may be hereafter authorized by the Secretary of War.

3. The commanding officer, Fort Riley, Kansas, shall be the commandant of the school.

4. The director of the school of cavalry shall be the senior officer of cavalry present next in rank to the commandant. The director of the school of field artillery shall be the senior officer of artillery present next in rank to the commandant. The instructor of equitation shall be a specially selected cavalry officer, who shall also be director of the training school for farriers and horseshoers.

5. The staff of the school shall consist of the commandant and the directors of the schools of cavalry and field artillery. 6. A secretary of the school, to be selected by the commandant from officers of the cavalry or artillery arin, shall be the custodian of such records, books, property, and funds as belong to the school proper, and shall be the recorder of the school staff. He will conduct the correspondence of the school and promulgate the orders of the commandant.

THE POST OF FORT RILEY.

7. The post of Fort Riley shall comprise the cavalry subpost, the artillery subpost, and all persons and public property

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within the limits of the military reservation, and in all that does not pertain to the course of instruction and its separate organization and administration as a service school shall have the same relation to division and department commanders as other posts in their commands.

8. The directors of the schools shall exercise such command of the subposts as may be delegated to them by the commandant, and each subpost (and command) shall, as far as practicable, be complete within itself for the purposes of administration, except in the matter of supply of troops, returns, and correspondence with superior authority.

DISCIPLINE.

9. The post and school shall at all times be governed by the rules of discipline prescribed for all military posts and by the regulations of the school, and in all that pertains to the course of instruction and its organization and administration as a school shall be under the exclusive control of the War Department.

10. All organizations serving at the school shall have, as far as practicable, a full complement of officers present. Officers on duty at the school shail not be detached without orders from the War Department.

THE COMMANDANT OF THE SCHOOL.

11. The commandant shall convene the school staff for the consideration of questions relative to the course of instruction and of such other subjects as may be properly brought before it. 12. He shall make application to the Adjutant General of the Army for such articles as may be required for the school. 13. He is empowered to direct the expenditure of such authorized quantities of ammunition as he may deem necessary for the proper instruction of the school.

14. All instruction in the combined operations of the two arms shall be under his immediate direction.

15. He shall make to the Chief of Staff of the Army, on the 1st of September of each year, an annual report of the progress and wants of the school.

DIRECTORS.

16. The director of each school shall have charge of the theoretical and practical instruction of the officers and enlisted men of his command who constitute his school.

The director of the training school for farriers and horseshoers shall have charge of the theoretical and practical instruction of all men detailed for attendance by proper orders from the War Department.

Each director shall submit to the commandant an annual report regarding the progress and wants of his school not later than August 20 of each year.

INSTRUCTION.

17. The course of instruction shall be complete each year, commencing January 10 and ending December 20. As far as practicable all organizations will be brought to a maximum strength before the beginning of the school year.

18. Preparatory to the work of instruction in each year the school staff shall consider and adopt a full scheme for the course of instruction to be followed that year for the schools of cavalry and field artillery and for the school of both arms combined.

19. This scheme shall be in the form of a general program setting forth the subjects to be covered in fixed periods of progressive instruction, preliminary, troop or battery, squadron or battalion, regimental, combined arms.

20. During that portion of the program devoted to his subdivision the officer in charge will be the instructor. He will be given as much latitude in method as is consistent with efficient supervision and inspection by superior commanders. 21. At the end of each period the efficiency of subdivisions will be tested under rules prescribed by the school staff.

22. The term of the training school for farriers and horseshoers shall be of four months' duration and its course of theoretical and practical instruction shall be subject to the approval of the school staff.

DIPLOMAS.

23. Officers who pass successfully through the entire course of instruction shall receive a diploma setting forth their proficiency. This diploma shall be signed by the commandant and the proper school director.

MISCELLANEOUS.

24. Disbursements of the fund appropriated for the school shall be made only on the written order of the commandant and vouchers shall be taken for all expenditures, one copy of which shall be filed with the school records.

25. The school library shall be maintained separate and apart from the post library.

26. In case of loss or damage to any book, periodical, map, or other property belonging to the school, the person responsible for such loss or damage shall make the same good by the payment of the actual cost of the article or the cost of repairs. This amount shall be assessed by the secretary of the school whose action, approved by the commandant, shall be final.

WASHINGTON, January 6, 1904.

No. 3. Before a general court-martial which convened at headquar ters, Department of Luzon, Manila, Philippine Islands, pursuant to Special Orders, Nos. 208, 210, 220, and 225. October 2 and 26 and November 6 and 12, 1903, respectively, Department of Luzon, and of which Colonel ALBERT L. MYER, 11th Infantry, was president, and Captain JOHN W. HEAVEY, 11th Infantry, was judge advocate, was arraigned and triedSecond Lieutenant Paul B. MacLane, 13th Cavalry. CHARGE L-Embezzlement, in violation of the 60th Article of War."

Specification 1st-"In this, that Second Lieutenant Paul B. MacLane, 13th Regiment of Cavalry, U. S. Army, being on duty as acting commissary of subsistence of the Mariquina River Guard, in the province of Rizal, P. I., and having in his possession property and moneys belonging to the United States, furnished and intended for the military service thereof, did wrongfully, and in violation of his trust, embezzle and wilfully misappropriate and divert and apply to his own use and benefit a portion of said property and funds to the amount and value of seven hundred twenty-three dollars seventyfour cents ($723.74), and did wholly fail, neglect and refuse to account for and turn over the said property and funds or any part thereof. This in the Mariquina Valley, Province of Rizal, P. I., and at the city of Manila, P. I., during or about the months of June and July, 1903."

Specification 2d-"In this, that Second Lieutenant Paul B. MacLane, 13th Regiment of Cavalry, U. S. Army, having been duly assigned to duty as acting commissary of subsistence by the commanding officer, Mariquina River Guard, in the Province of Rizal, P. I., with which cominand he was then serving; having entered upon his duties as such; having received in his said capacity various moneys the property of the United States, furnished and intended for the military service thereof, did einbezzle seven hundred twenty three dollars and seventy-four cents of such moneys. This in the Mariquina Valley, Province of Rizal, and in the city of Manila, P. I., during or about the months of June and July, 1903."

Specification 3d—"In this, that Second Lieutenant Paul B. MacLane, 13th Regiment of Cavalry, U. S. Army, having been duly assigned to duty as acting commissary of subsistence by the commanding officer, Mariquina River

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Guard, in the Province of Rizal, P. I., with which command he was then serving; having entered upon his duties as such; having received in his said capacity various moneys the property of the United States, furnished and intended for the military service thereof; having been duly relieved as such, and required by a legal order, to wit: G. O., No. 33, duly issued on July 25, 1903, by the commanding officer of said guard to transfer the said moneys then in his possession to 2d Lieutenant Otis R. Cole, 27th Infantry, who was duly appointed his successor, did fail and refuse to transfer to said Cole the sum of seven hundred twenty-three dollars and seventy-four cents of such public moneys, the property of the United States, furnished and intended for the military service thereof, for which he, said MacLane, was accountable and which had come into the hands of him, said MacLune, in his said capacity. This at San Mateo. Rizal, P. I., on or about July 25, 1903, and August 1, 1903."

Specification 4th-"In this, that Second Lieutenant Paul B. MacLane, 13th Regiment of Cavalry, U. S. Army, having been duly assigned to duty as acting commissary of subsistence by the commanding officer, Mariquina River Guard, in the Province of Rizal, P. I., with which he was then serving; having entered upon his duties as such; having received in his said capacity various moneys the property of the United States, furnished and intended for the military service thereof; having become by virtue of his said assignment, and by the receipt of said moneys a disbursing officer of the United States, did apply a part of said moneys so received, to wit: the sum of one hundred fifty one dollars and seventeen cents, for a purpose not prescribed by law, by delivering said sum of $151.17 to one John H. Lewis, 1st lieutenant, 5th U. S. Cavalry, in return for a check for that amount drawn by said Lewis on the Hong Kong & Shanghai Banking Corporation, Manila, P. I. This at San Mateo, in the Province of Rizal, P. I., or thereabouts, in or about the month of August, 1903." CHARGE II. "Neglect of duty, to the prejudice of good order and military discipline."

Specification-"In this, that Second Lieutenant Paul B. MacLane, 13th Regiment of Cavalry, U. S. Army, being on duty as acting commissary of subsistence of the Mariquina River Guard, in the Province of Rizal, P. I., having sold subsistence stores to the amount and value of one hundred fifty-one 17-100 dollars to Troop H, 5th Cavalry, and having accepted in payment thereof from

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