No. 148.

WASHINGTON, September 9, 1904.

The following is published for the information and guidance of all concerned:

An examination will be held at 10 o'clock a. in. on November 14, 1904, or as soon thereafter as practicable, for the examination of captains of the line of the Army, with a view to their selection for detail for a period of four years for service in the Ordnance Department, in conformity with section 26 of the act of Congress approved February 2, 1901.

The contemplated details will be made from officers who shall have passed an examination satisfactory to a board of ordnance officers, which shall be convened as soon after the receipt of the examination papers as practicable, and upon its recommendation.

Eligible officers who may desire the detail should make application for examination to their respective division commanders through the proper military channels.

The examination will be made under the following heads: (a) Character;

(b) Professional efficiency.

No physical examination will be required.

The examination with respect to professional efficiency will include the character and scope of the examination prescribed for the examination of officers for detail to duty in the Ordnance Department to the grade of 1st lieutenant, namely: Gun construction, present and past state of the art; ballistics and ballistic machines; types of guns, gun carriages, projectiles, fuzes, sights, gunpowder, high explosives, small arms, machine guns and equipments; employment of artillery, kind of fire, etc.; armored defenses; raw material for ordnance constructions and processes of manufacture; torpedoes for coast defense; general principles of mechanics, electricity, and so much of chemistry as is applicable to ordnance material. In addition to the above, the examination will include the following:

(a) The principles involved in the design and construction of ordnance material, including the mathematical calculations relating thereto, and the history of the development of such material to the present date.

(b) Boilers, engines, electric machines, machine tools, shop and foundry practice.

(c) Description of processes and modes of manufacture of ordnance material.

(d) Each officer under examination may submit to the board for consideration any investigations of value or report involving the study of professional problems which may have been made by him, and in addition may be required to present a project of a design for new material or for the improve ment or development of existing ordnance material.

BY ORDER OF THE ACTING SECRETARY OF WAR:

OFFICIAL:

ADNA R. CHAFFEE, Lieutenant General, Chief of Staff.

F. C. AINSWORTH,

The Military Secretary.

GENERAL ORDERS,

No. 149.

WAR DEPARTMENT, WASHINGTON, September 9, 1904.

Upon the completion of the Army maneuvers at Manassas, Virginia, the headquarters, band, and 1st Squadron, 7th Cavalry, will proceed by marching to Fort Myer, Virginia, and will there go into camp pending the departure of the present cavalry garrison of that post, when it will take the quarters thus vacated. On October 20, 1904, the headquarters, band, and 2d Squadron, 15th Cavalry, will proceed to and take sta tion at Fort Ethan Allen, Vermont.

All enlisted men belonging to the 2d Squadron, 15th Cavalry, in excess of sixty five to a troop and all horses in excess of sixty to a troop will be transferred to the 1st Squadron, 7th Cavalry (Paragraph II, General Orders, No. 142, War Department, August 30, 1904).

The Quartermaster's Department will furnish the necessary transportation, the Subsistence Department suitable subsistence, and the Medical Department proper medical attendance and supplies.

BY ORDER OF THE ACTING SECRETARY OF WAR:

OFFICIAL:

ADNA R. CHAFFEE,

Lieutenant General, Chief of Staff.

F. C. AINSWORTH,

The Military Secretary.

SEP 26 Reed

Before a general court martial which convened at Manila, Philippine Islands, pursuant to Special Orders, No. 127, Department of Luzon, June 7, 1904, and of which Major DANIEL C. PEARSON, 2d Cavalry, was president, and Captain GEORGE D. MOORE, 20th Infantry, judge advocate, was arraigned and tried

First Lieutenant Harry J. Collins, 28th Infantry.

CHARGE. "Conduct unbecoming an officer and gentleman, in violation of the 61st Article of War.",

Specification 1st-"In that First Lieutenant Harry J. Collins, 28th Infantry, being temporarily in command of the 108th Company of United States Coast Artillery at Cuartel de Espana, Manila, P. I., and being on or about the 5th day of May, 1904, entrusted by Major William B. Schofield, paymaster, U. S. Army, with the sum of one hundred thirty-six dollars and ten cents, funds of the United States of the lawful currency thereof, to be paid to members of the said 108th Company of Coast Artillery, as follows: $31.75 to Corporal Charles E. Devery, $8.95 to Sergeant Royal Green, $13.35 to Private Allen Archer, $16.35 to Private Fate Stevens, $6.35 to Private Thomas A. Lawson, $10.35 to Private Jordan Miller, $9.35 to Private John R. Smith, $16.35 to Private John S. Thompson, $0.35 to Private Isham B. Ward, $22.95 to Private Green B. Wilson, as their pay or parts of their pay for the months of March and April, 1904, did, in violation of said trust, fail to pay said sum as aforesaid to said members of the 108th Company of Coast Artillery, and did unlawfully and wilfully convert the said sum of one hundred thirty-six dollars and ten cents to his, the said Collins', own use and benefit." Specification 2d-"In that First Lieutenant Harry J. Collins, 28th U. S. Infantry, being temporarily in command of the 108th Company of U. S. Coast Artillery at Cuartel de Espana, Manila, P. I., and being on or about May 5, 1904, entrusted by Major William B. Schofield, paymaster, U. S. Army, with the sum of eighteen dollars

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