subsequently make transfer to 1st Lieutenant T. J. Fealy, First United States Infantry, a second and duplicate account and claim for pay as an officer of the United States Army, for the same month and for the same amount, he, the said Lieutenant Frank Pratt, well knowing that the said claim was false and fraudulent. This on board the U. S. A. T. 'Logan,' at sea, en route from Manila, P. I., to San Francisco, California, on or about the fifteenth day of April, 1903." Specification 2d-"In that Second Lieutenant Frank Pratt, First United States Infantry, having duly executed and transferred his account and claim for pay as an officer of the Army of the United States, for the month of July, 1903, amounting to one hundred and twenty-eight dollars and thirty-three cents, to G. J. Baetcke and Company, bankers, Brighton, Michigan, did, nevertheless, subsequently make and present in person to Major Harry L. Rogers, paymaster, U. S. Army, on or about August 7, 1903, a second and duplicate account and claim for pay as an officer of the United States Army, for the same month and for the same amount, he, the said Lieutenant Frank Pratt, well knowing that the said claim was false and fraudulent. This at Chicago, Illinois." ADDITIONAL CHARGE III.-"Embezzlement, in violation of the 62d Article of War." Specification "In that Second Lieutenant Frank Pratt, First United States Infantry, having received from Second Lieutenant Walter W. Merrill, First United States Infantry, a certain expense account and claim against the United States for the sum of twenty-one dollars, for the purpose of collecting it for the benefit of the said Lieutenant Walter W. Merrill, did, on or about November 30th, 1903, collect the said amount of twenty-one dollars from the United States for the said Lieutenant Walter W. Merrill and did afterwards fraudulently and feloniously embezzle, steal and convert to his own use the same. This at Chicago, Illinois." To which charges and specifications the accused pleaded as follows: To the 1st Specification, "Not guilty." To the 3d Specification, "Not guilty." Additional Charge I. To the 1st Specification, "Not guilty." Additional Charge II. To the 1st Specification, "Not guilty." To the 2d Specification, "Not guilty." To the CHARGE, "Not guilty." SENTENCE. And the court does therefore sentence him, 2d Lieutenant Frank Pratt, 1st Infantry, "To be dismissed the service of the United States and to be confined at hard labor at such penitentiary as the reviewing authority may direct for one (1) year." The record of the proceedings of the general court-martial in the foregoing case of 2d Lieutenant Frank Pratt, 1st Infantry, having been submitted to the President, the following are his orders thereon: WHITE HOUSE, Washington, April 1, 1904. The proceedings and findings in the case of Second Lieutenant Frank Pratt, 1st Regiment of Infantry, are approved, except the finding as to the specification to the third additional charge which is disapproved. The sentence is approved and will be duly executed. THEODORE ROOSEVELT. Lieutenant Pratt ceases to be an officer of the Army from April 7, 1904, and the Ohio State Penitentiary at Columbus, Ohio, is designated as the place for his confinement, where he will be sent by the commanding general, Department of the Lakes, under proper guard. BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF WAR: OFFICIAL: W. P. HALL, ADNA R. CHAFFEE, Lieutenant General, Chief of Staff. Acting Adjutant General. No. 65. Washington, April 6, 1904. I. The following laws, regulations, and instructions governing the detail of officers of the Army at educational institutions are published for the information and government of all concerned: [As amended by act approved September 26, 1888.] Ser. 1225. The President may, upon the application of any established military Institute, seminary or academy, college or university, within the United States, Laving capacity to educate at the same time not less than one hundred and fifty male students, detail an officer of the Army or Navy to act as superintendent, or professor thereof; but the number of officers so detailed shall not exceed fifty from the Army, and ten from the Navy, being a maximum of sixty, at any time, and they shall be apportioned throughout the United States, first, to those State institutions applying for such detail that are required to provide instruction in military tactics under the provisions of the act of Congress of July second, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, donating lands for the establishment of colleges where the leading object shall be the practical instruction of the industrial classes in agriculture and the mechanic arts, including military tactics; and after that, said details to be distributed, as nearly as may be practicable, according to population. The Secretary of War is authorized to issue, at his discretion and under proper regulations to be prescribed by him, out of ordnance and ordnance stores belonging to the Governmet, and which can be spared for that purpose, such number of the same as may -ppear to be required for military instruction and practice by the students of any college or university under the provisions of this section, and the Secretary shall require a bond in each case, in double the value of the property, for the care and safe keeping thereof, and for the return of the same when required": Provided, That nothing in this act shall be so construed as to prevent the detail of officers of the Engineer Corps of the Navy as professors in scientific schools or colleges as now provided by act of Congress approved February twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, entitled "An act to promote a knowledge of steam-engineering and ir-ship building among the students of scientific schools or colleges in the United States;" and the Secretary of War is hereby authorized to issue ordnance and ordnance stores belonging to the Government on the terms and conditions hereinbefore provided to any college or university at which a retired officer of the Army may be assigned as provided by section twelve hundred and sixty of the Revised Statutes, An Act To amend section twelve hundred and twenty-five of the Revised Statutes, concerning details of officers of the Army and Navy to educational institutions. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section twelve hundred and twenty-five of the Revised Statutes, concerning details of officers of the Army and Navy to educational institutions, be, and the same is hereby, amended so as to permit the President to MAY -3 Rec'd |