4. The adjutant of the Artillery School shall be ex-officio secretary of the school board, and as such shall keep a detailed record of all its proceedings. 5. The deliberations of the school board and its decisions, until duly published, shall be confidential. The vote or opinion of any member shall not be disclosed except by proper authority. 6. No action affecting a department of instruction shall be taken by the board unless the head of the department affected shall have had an opportunity to present his views in regard thereto either in person or in writing. 7. Instructors and assistant instructors will be respected and obeyed as such whether junior or senior to the officers instructed. 8. The full course of instruction shall embrace a period of one school year and will be as practical as possible. 9. The course of study will commence on the first day of September, or on the following Monday when the first falls on Saturday or Sunday, and the sessions of the school will be held daily, Saturdays, Sundays, the period from December 22 to January 4, both dates inclusive, and holidays excepted, until August 1. The holidays above excepted are Thanksgiv ing, Washington's Birthday, Memorial Day, July 4, and the first Monday in September (Labor Day). 10. The course of instruction shall be divided into three departments, as follows: (a) Ballistics and seacoast engineering. (b) Electricity. (c) Artillery. In the department of ballistics and seacoast engineering instruction will be given in the following subjects: 1. Ballistics proper; 2. Ballistic machines; 3. Seacoast engineering. In the department of electricity instruction will be given in the following subjects: 1. Power; 2. Electricity proper; 3. Mines. In the department of artillery instruction will be given in the following subjects: 1. Explosives; 2. Artillery proper; 3. Coast defense. The subject-matter treated of and the scope of instruction in each department shall until further orders remain as at present authorized. 11. The method of instruction in the several departments will be by a course of reading, by lectures, by practical demonstration in the use of machines, instruments and apparatus, and by recitations. 12. Officers under instruction may be required to prepare papers on stated subjects, and to demonstrate at any time their knowledge of the course passed over and their ability in caring for, operating, handling, and using any of the machines and electrical appliances. 13. A stated number of hours which student officers may be required to devote daily to the course of study will be prescribed for each department by the school board. 14. Whenever a recitation or the work of any student officer is unsatisfactory and the same is, in the opinion of the instructor, due to neglect, report shall at once be made in writing by the instructor to the adjutant of the school. 15. All student officers shall be embraced in one class which may be divided into sections of convenient size. 16. The commandant of the school will make a report at the close of the school year to the adjutant general, U. S. Army, through the chief of artillery, showing the progress of the school, the methods in detail, and time allotted to each department, and will accompany this report with his recommendations and requests for any changes in instructors that may be deemed advisable by him, and for any additions to or repairs of machines and material necessary for the practical instruction of the student officers in every detail of their work, and he shall transmit for the consideration of the War Department all matter acted upon by the school board which require its approval. 17. Each head of department shall require such oral or written recitations or practical work as he may deem necessary for deciding upon the proficiency of student officers in each subject embraced in his department, and at the close of the time allotted to each subject for any section of the class he shall report to the school board the names of such student officers as are proficient and also such as are in his judgment either deficient or doubtful. reports, and all student officers not pronounced proficient by it and belonging to the section reported on shall without unnecessary delay be examined in the subject under consideration by questions approved by the school board; such examination to be either wholly written or partly written and partly practical, as may be deemed advisable. In the latter case the instructor shall certify on the examination paper to all material defects in the practical work required on examination. On the result of this examination, together with the practical work and written recitations previously had in the subject in question, the school board shall pronounce on the proficiency of the officer under consideration. At the close of the school year an officer not recommended proficient in all subjects may apply in writing for a reexamination in such subjects as he may have been declared deficient and shall immediately thereafter be given a reexamination in such subjects, which shall be conducted as prescribed for the first examination. 18. Officers on finishing the prescribed course of study in a manner satisfactory to the school board shall be given the diploma of the school, and officers not receiving a diploma shall receive a certificate of proficiency covering those subjects in which they have been declared proficient. 19. The school board shall report the names of officers of distinguished grade, if any, not to exceed three, to be borne on the army register as "honor graduates." Such officers shall be exempt from all professional examination for promotion in the artillery to the grade next above that held by them at graduation for a period of five years thereafter. 20. The Artillery School appropriation and all other funds for the support of the school and the purchase of school property shall be disbursed only on the warrant of the commandant in each instance. 21. When expenditures or purchases of any kind are needed for any of the departments of the school requisition shall be made and submitted to the commandant. 22. Property purchased for the special use of any depart ment shall be accounted for by the instructor. He shall receipt for it and render to the commandant semiannually returns and abstract of expenditure of stores. Similar returns shall be made whenever an instructor is relieved from duty in any department. 23. When there is no special appropriation by Congress or other funds for the purchase of text books, officers will supply themselves at their own expense with such as may be approved by the school board. 24. The commandant will make quarterly estimates to the War Department for such articles pertaining to the quartermaster's, subsistence, engineer, and ordnance departments, and the signal corps as may be necessary for the school. 25. Whenever the course of instruction at the school is interrupted by the exigencies of the service the time remaining shall he employed as the school board may determine. 26 The Artillery School library, consisting for the most part of professional books, maps, and scientific periodicals, shall be maintained separate and apart from the post library, and for the convenience and improvement of officers. 27. In the 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 payment of the amount of the damage or actual cost of the article lost or destroyed. The damage shall be assessed by the adjutant of the school, whose action, when approved by the commandant, shall be final. 28. The commandant and heads of departments of instruction and such other officers as may be designated by the War Department shall constitute the Artillery Board, to which may be referred from time to time all subjects pertaining to artillery upon which the War Department may desire its opinion and recommendations. The chief of artillery and commandant of the Artillery School may also refer to the board such matters relating to artillery as they may deem advisable. All matters referred to the artillery board for action shall be returned to the authority making the reference through the chief of artillery, who will be furnished a duplicate copy of the action taken in each case. The secretary of the school board will act as recorder of the artillery board and will keep a separate record of its proceedings. 29. A quorum of the school board or of the artillery board shall consist of a majority of its members present for duty. |
