detail, under the provisions of said act, not to exceed seventy-five officers of the Army of the United States; and the maximum number of officers of the Army and Navy to be detailed at any one time under the provisions of the act passed September twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, amending said section twelve hundred and twenty-five of the Revised Statutes, is hereby increased to eighty-five: Provided, That no officer shall be detailed to or maintained at any of the educational institutions mentioned in said act where instruction and drill in military tactics is not given: Provided further, 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 iron-ship building among the students of scientific schools or colleges in the United States."

Approved January 13, 1891.

An Act To increase the number of officers of the Army to be detailed to colleges. 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 detail under the provisions of said act not to exceed one hundred officers of the Army of the United States; and no officer shall be thus detailed who has not had five years' serv ice in the Army and no detail to such duty shall extend for more than four years and officers on the retired list of the Army may upon their own application be detailed to such duty and when so detailed shall receive the full pay of their rank; and the max imum number of officers of the Army and Navy to be detailed at any one time under the provisions of the act approved January thirteenth, eighteen hundred and ninetyone, amending section twelve hundred and twenty-five of the Revised Statutes as amended by an act approved September twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and eightyeight, is hereby increased to one hundred and ten.

Approved, November 3, 1893.

II. The following regulations, in regard to the detail of officers of the Army at established colleges, universities, etc., within the United States, are prescribed by the President, under the above laws:

1. All institutions, within the meaning of section 1225, Revised Statutes of the United States, and of the acts of Congress amendatory thereof, shall, for purposes of the detail of officers of the Army as professors of military science and tactics and of the course of military instruction to be pursued thereat, be divided into three classes, as follows:

CLASS A.-All schools to which officers of the Army, active or retired, may be detailed under the provisions of existing law, except schools of the second and third classes.

CLASS B.-Agricultural schools established under the provisions of the act of Congress of July 2, 1862, and which

are required by said act to include military tactics in their curriculum.

CLASS C.-Military schools or colleges, i. e., those whose organization is essentially military and one of whose primary objects is the acquisition of a high degree of military drill and discipline.

2. No officer who has not had five years' service as such, nor any officer not of the line of the Army, shall be eligible for detail as professor of military science and tactics, nor shall any officer above the grade of lieutenant be so detailed so long as there are eligible lieutenants available; nor shall any officer on the retired list of the army be detailed in the limited number authorized by the act of November 3, 1893, if any eligible officer on the active list be available, except at institutions of Class A, for detail to which competent officers on the retired list shall have the preference. All details from the retired list will, under the provisions of said act, be included in the limited number of details authorized by that act.

3. Details shall be made, first, from lieutenants who have graduated at one of the service schools; second, from those recommended by their regimental commanders. No lieutenant shall be recommended by his regimental commander whose record as a student in the officers' post school and whose military deportment and performance of duty have not been creditable to a marked degree.

4. Details shall be made to begin with the school term; and in the case of officers of the active list shall be for a period of three years, except when the detail becomes vacant by the death or separation from the service of the professor of military science and tactics; in which case the unexpired term of such officer, if six months or less, shall be added to the three years' detail of his successor; otherwise the detail will terminate two years after the close of the school year in which the professor of military science and tactics begins his duties as such. The detail of a retired officer shall be for four years. No retired officer above the rank of major shall be detailed as a professor of military science and tactics unless in connection with his duties as such he is to hold the position of president, superintendent, or principal of the institution.

5. When an officer is detailed to relieve another as professor of military science and tactics, he shall report at the institution to which assigned not less than two weeks prior to the departure of his predecessor.

6. Applications for the detail of officers must be addressed by the president of the institution to the Adjutant General of the Army and be accompanied by the last printed catalogue and a certificate as to the number of male students the institution has the capacity in buildings, apparatus, and instructors to educate at one and the same time; the number of such students in actual attendance at the time of application, or, if the application be made during vacation, the number actually in attendance during the session immediately preceding it; and the number over 15 years of age. The certificate must also show the grade of the institution, the degrees it confers, and whether or not it is a land-grant school, or a military school as defined in the preceding Paragraph II, section 1.

7. Where a State has more than one school endowed by the national land grant, under the act approved July 2, 1862, the school which is reported by the governor of the State as most nearly meeting the requirements of existing law will be held to have the first claim to the officer allotted to the State for detail at a land-grant college.

8. When application is made for the detail of an officer of the Army at an institution to which an officer had not theretofore been assigned, it shall be visited by an inspector or other suitable officer, who, after explaining to the president and the faculty the requirements of these regulations, shall satisfy himself as to the intention and ability of the school authorities to comply with them, and whether the general sentiment of the faculty is cordially in favor of military instruction as herein required. It will be especially ascertained and reported whether the college authorities will refuse to graduate any student who has shown in the military department a spirit of insubordination or habitual disregard of discipline. The inspector shall then report to the War Department whether such a detail should be made.

9. Officers detailed as professors of military science and tactics shall, at the end of each quarter, report in writing to the Adjutant General of the Army as to the exact compliance by the school authorities with these requirements of the regulations, for such action as the Secretary of War may direct. A similar report shall be made annually by an officer acting under the orders of the Inspector General, after a careful inspection of the military department of each institution, and if in any case the report is adverse the professor of military

science and tactics shall be withdrawn. If the college authorities condone in any degree a spirit of insubordination or disregard of discipline on the part of students undergoing military instruction, an adverse report will be made, regardless of all other considerations.

10. No detail of professor of military science and tactics shall be made at any institution which does not guarantee to maintain at least 100 pupils under military instruction.

11. Pupils under military instruction shall be organized into companies and battalions of infantry, the drill and administration of which shall conform in all respects to that of the Army. The officers and the noncommissioned officers shall be selected by the professor of military science and tactics according to the principles governing such selection at the United States Military Academy, and shall receive their commissions and warrants from the president of the institution. 12. Pupils organized for military instruction shall be known as The company (or, battalion) of cadets of Institution." Upon occasions of military ceremony, in the execution of drills, guard duty, and when students are receiving any other practical military instruction, they shall appear in the uniform prescribed by the institution. They shall be held strictly accountable for the arms and accouterments issued to them.

13. At every institution of Class A-see Section 1 of Paragraph II-at which a professor of military science and tactics is detailed there shall be allowed a minimum of four hours each week during each school term to the department of military science and tactics; at every institution of Class B there shall be allowed a minimum of five hours; and at every institution of Class C there shall be allowed a minimum of six hours. This time shall be occupied as the professor of military science and tactics, in view of the hereinafter prescribed curriculum and such instructions as he may from time to time receive from the War Department, may deem best.

14. The officer detailed as professor of military science and tactics shall reside at or near the institution to which assigned, and when in the performance of his military duties shall appear in proper uniform. He shall, in his relations to the institution, observe the general usages and regulations therein established affecting the duties and obligations of other members of the faculty. Except at institutions of Class A as defined

in Paragraph II, section 1, he shall not perform any other duties than those of instructor in military science and tactics.

III. All rules and orders relating to the organization and government of the military students; the appointment, promotion, and change of officers, and all other orders affecting the military department, except those relating to routine duty, shall be made and promulgated by the professor of military science and tactics after being approved by the president or other administrative officer of the institution.

IV. It is the duty of the professor of military science and tactics to enforce proper military discipline at all times when students are under military instruction, and in case of serious breaches of discipline, or misconduct, to report the same to the proper authorities of the institution, according to its established methods. In case no suitable action is taken by the authorities of the school, the professor of military science and tactics will report the facts to the Adjutant General of the Army with a view to his being relieved from an institution where discipline can not be maintained.

V. The following is prescribed as the minimum course of military instruction, practical and theoretical, at all institutions to which a professor of military science and tactics is assigned:

(a) Practical:

1. INSTITUTIONS OF CLASS A.

Infantry Drill Regulations, through the school of the
battalion in close and extended order.

Advance and rear guards, and outposts.
Marches.

The ceremonies of battalion review, inspection, pa-
rades, guard mounting, and escort of the colors.
Infantry target practice.

Instruction in First Aid to the Injured.

Weather permitting, there shall be not less than one parade and one guard mount during each week of the school term; and one battalion inspection and review each month.

In no case shall target practice, to the extent permitted by the allowance of ammunition, be omitted during the school year except on authority given in each case by the Secretary of War.