No. 196. WASHINGTON, December 28, 1904. The following is published for the information and guidance of all concerned: An examination will be held at 10 o'clock a. m. on March 14, 1905, or as soon thereafter as practicable, for the examination of first and second lieutenants of the Army at large, 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, as modified by the act of Congress approved March 2, 1903. The contemplated details will be made from officers who shall have passed an examination satisfactory to a board of ordnance officers, which will be convened as soon after the receipt of the examination papers as practicable, and upon its recommendation. Eligible officers who may desire these details should make application for examination to their respective division commanders. The character and scope of the examination will be as follows: 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. BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF WAR: ADNA R. CHAFFEE, Lieutenant General, Chief of Staff. OFFICIAL: F. C. AINSWORTH, The Military Secretary. JAN 10 Rec'd GENERAL ORDERS, No. 197. WAR DEPARTMENT, Washington, December 31, 1904. General Orders, No. 132, December 31, 1902, Headquarters of the Army, Adjutant General's Office, publishing the regulations for the uniform of the Army, and subsequent orders amending the same, are revoked and the following regulations are substituted therefor: So much of paragraph 56 as prescribes the collar ornaments to be the letters "U. S." instead of the coat of arms of the United States, will take effect June 1, 1905, and the change will be completed throughout the Army by June 30, 1905. Except as provided in General Orders, No. 122, July 13, 1904. War Department, issues by the Quartermaster's Department of the various articles of the new uniform for the enlisted men will not be made until the present available supply of corresponding articles of the old pattern shall have been exhausted, except to such organizations as have already been equipped with the new uniform, nor will cotton khaki service uniforms of the new pattern be issued until the corresponding articles of the old pattern shall have become exhausted. Enlisted men will not be permitted to wear articles of the uniform other than those furnished the organization to which they belong. BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF WAR: ADNA R. CHAFFEE, Lieutenant General, Chief of Staff. OFFICIAL: F. C. AINSWORTH, The Military Secretary. JAN 17 Rec'd |