MILITARY COMMANDS AND POSTS, WITH POSTOFFICES, TELEGRAPH STATIONS AND NEAREST RAILROAD STATIONS OR BOAT LANDINGS. ARMY OF THE UNITED STATES.-Headquarters, Washington, D. C. Major-General John M. Schofield, commanding.

DEPARTMENT OF THE EAST.- Major-General Oliver O. Howard, commanding. Headquarters, Governor's Island, New-York Harbor. Geographical limits: The NewEngland States, States of New-York, New-Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina. Georgia, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Kentucky, Tennessee, Ohio and the District of Columbia. DEPARTMENT OF THE MISSOURI.-Major-General Nelson A. Miles, commanding. Headquarters, Chicago, Ill. Geographical limits: States of Michigan, Wisconsin, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Kansas and Arkansas, Indian and Oklahoma Terri

tories.

DEPARTMENT OF TEXAS.-Brigadier-General David S. Stanley, commanding. Headquarters, San Antonio, Tex. Geographical limits: State of Texas.

DEPARTMENT OF CALIFORNIA.-Brigadier-General Thomas H. Ruger, commanding. Headquarters, San Francisco, Cal. Geographical limits: States of Cali

fornia (excepting south of 35th parallel) and Nevada.

DEPARTMENT OF DAKOTA.-Brigadier-General Wesley Merritt, commanding. Headquarters, St. Paul, Minn. Geographical limits: States of Minnesota, South Dakota (excepting south of 44th parallel), North Dakota and Montana and post of Fort Yellowstone, Wyo.

DEPARTMENT OF THE PLATTE.-Brigadier-General John R. Brooke, commanding. Headquarters, Omaha, Neb. Geographical limits: States of Iowa, Nebraska, Colorado and Wyoming (excepting post of Fort Yellowstone, Wyo.); Territory of Utah, Idaho east of a line formed by extension of western noundary of Utah to northeastern boun dary of Idaho, and South Dakota south of 44th parallel.

DEPARTMENT OF ARIZONA.-Brigadier-General Alexander McD. McCook, commanding. Headquarters, Los Angeles, Cal. Geographical limits: Territories of Arizona and New-Mexico, and California south of 35th parallel.

DEPARTMENT OF THE COLUMBIA.-Brigadier-General August V. Kautz, commanding. Headquarters, Vancouver Barracks, Wash. Geographical limits: States of Oregon, Washington and Idaho, and Alaska Territory, excepting part of Idaho embraced in Department of the Platte.

UNITED STATES MILITARY ACADEMY.

METHOD OF APPOINTMENT.-Each Congressional District and Territory and the District of Columbia is entitled to have one cadet at the academy. Ten are also appointed at large. The appointments (except those at large) are made by the Secre tary of War at the request of the Representative or Delegate in Congress from the district or territory, of which the appointee must be an actual resident. The appointments at large are specially conferred by the President of the United States.

MANNER OF APPLICATION.-Applications can be made at any time, by letter, to the Secretary of War, to have the applicant's name registered for submission to the proper representative when a vacancy occurs. The application must exhibit the full name, date of birth and permanent abode of applicant, with the number of the Congressional district in which his residence is situated.

DATE OF APPOINTMENT.-Appointments must be made one year in advance of date of admission, except in cases where, by death or otherwise, a vacancy occurs which cannot be provided for by such appointment in advance. These vacancies are filled in time for the next annual examination.

ALTERNATES.-The Representative or Delegate in Congress may nominate a legally qualified second candidate, to be designated the alternate The alternate will receive from the War Department a letter of appointment and will be examined with the regu lar appointee, and if duly qualified will be admitted to the academy if the principal fails to pass the prescribed preliminary examinations. The alternate may not defer reporting at West Point until the result of the examination of the regular appointee is known, but must report at the time designated in his letter of appointment. The alternate, like the nominee, should be designated as nearly one year in advance of the date of admission as possible.

JADMISSION OF CADETS.-The candidate, upon receiving his conditional appointment, is ordered to report at West Point to the Superintendent of the Military Academy in time to appear before the Academic Board for examination at its meeting early in June, unless there be got reasons for designating another time. The candidate, soon after arrival at West Point, is subjected to a rigid physical examination by a board of Army surgeons. If he passes successfully, he is then examined by the Academic Board. These examinations are made as soon as prac ticable after the candidate reports to the Superintendent. The candidate who passes successfully both examinations is admitted, at once, to the Academy without returning to his home. Immediately after his admission, and before receiving his warrant of appointment, he must sign the following engagement for service, in the presence of the Superintendent, or of some officer deputed by him:

I,

aged

years

months,

of the State (or Territory), of do hereby engage (with the consent of my parent or guardian) that, from the date of my admission as a Cadet of the U. S. Military Academy, I will serve in the Army of the U. S. for eight years, unless sooner discharged by competent authority. In the presence of

The candidate must then take the following oath or affirmation: I, do solemnly swear that I will support the Constitution of the U. S., and bear true allegiance to the National Government; that I will maintain and defend the sovereignty of the U. S. paramount to any and all allegiance, SOVereignty or fealty I may owe to any State or country whatsoever; and that I wil at all times obey the legal orders of my superior officers, and the rules and articles governing the armies of the U. S.

and

Sworn and subscribed, at

this

day of

eighteen hundred before me. QUALIFICATIONS.-The age for the admission of cadets to the Academy is between 17 and 22 years. Candidates must be unmarried, at least 5 feet in height, free from any infectious or immoral disorder, and generally, from any deformity, discase, or infirmity which may render them unfit for military service. They must be well versed in reading, in writing, including orthography, in arithmetic, and have a knowledge of the elements of English grammar, of descriptive geography (particularly of our own country), and of the history of the U. S.

MILITARY ORDER OF THE LOYAL LEGION. Organized April 15, 1865; non-sectarian and non-political. The members are of three classes: 1, commissioned officers and honorably discharged commissioned officers of the Army, Navy and Marine Corps (regulars or volunteers), actually engaged in suppressing the Rebellion prior to April 15, 1865; 2, the eldest sons of living original companions of the first class who are twenty-one years old; 3, men who, in civil life, during the war were specially distinguished by active and eminent services to the Union, the ratio not to exceed 1 to 33 of the first class.

Membership on July 31, 1891, 7,358. Largest commanderies, New-York and Pennsylvania. The other seventeen local or State commanderies, in order of their organization, are: Maine, headquarters, Portland; Massachusetts, headquarters, Boston; California, headquarters, San Francisco; Wisconsin, headquarters, Milwaukee; Illinois, headquarters, Chicago; District of Columbia, headquarters, Washington; Ohio, headquarters, Cincinnati; Michigan, headquarters, Detroit; Minnesota, headquarters, St. Paul; Oregon, headquarters, Portland; Missouri, headquarters, Louis Nebraska, headquarters, Omaha; Kansas, headquarters, Leavenworth; Iowa, headquarters, Des Moines; Colorado, headquarters, Denver; Indiana, headquarters, Indianapolis; Washington, headquarters, Tacoma. The Pennsylvania Commandery was the acting commandery-in-chief until October 21, 1885, when a National Commandery was organized with Major-Gen. W. S. Hancock as Commander-in-Chief. Lieut.-Gen. P. H. Sheridan succeeded him. The present National officers are:

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Commander-in-Chief, Major-Gen. Rutherford B. Hayes; senior vice-com.-in-chief, Rear Admiral John J. Almy; junior vice-com.-in-chief. Col. Nelson Cole; corder, Lieut.-Col. John P. Nicholson; registrar, Brig. Gen. Albert Ordway; chancellor, Captain Peter D. Keyser; chaplain. H. Clay Trumbull, D. D.

Council-in-chief, Brig.-Gen. Orlando M. Poe, Col. H. C. King, Brig. Gen. Marshall Brown, Col. Arnold A. Rand, Major Wm. P. Hufford.

NAVAL MILITIA.

Secretary Tracy, in his first and second annual reports, called attention to the great importance of a trained militia for the Navy. On March 2, 1891, Congress accordingly appropriated $25,000 to purchase arms for the mil tia, to be expended under direction of the Secretary of the Navy. This fund is not distributed directly to the States, but is used, under supervision of the Bureau of Ordnance, to fill requisitions from Governors for arms and equipment. California, on Dec. 1, 1891, had received $8,094 43. New-York $7,461 71, Massachusetts $5,123 93, North Carolina $2,203 60. Rhode Island $1,178 16, and Texas $938 17. California had mustered in 371 men, New-York 342, Massachusetts 238. North Carolina 101, Rhode Island 54, and Texas 43: total. 1,149. The First Battalion of the Naval Reserve Artillery of the State of New-York is regularly mustered in as a part of the State militia, and has 310 members. The officers are: Lieutenant-Commander, J. W. Miller; Adjutant and Executive Officer, George Edward Kent; Ordnance Officer, Lieutenant H. L. Satterlee; Paymaster, Lieutenant J. G. Agar; Surgeon, Lieutenant John Vanderpoel; Assistant Surgeon, Ensign A. M. Thomas; Lieutenants, S. Dana Greene, W. B. Duncan, Robert P. Forshew, L. M. Mowbray and Washington Irving; Ensigns, E. C. Weeks, Daniel Bacon, T. C. Zerega, Byron French, W. C. Brown, George W. Blair and W. J. Henderson. The battalion is divided into four batteries, and will be drilled each summer on board men-of-war assigned by the Government for the purpose. In winter the drills take place in some available armory. The men are instructed in all the duties of a sailor, though the battalion is intended primarily to furnish a force which in time of war can work the batteries of a warship. The headquarters of th New-York Naval Reserve Association are at No. 9 West 29th-st., New-York. The president is Herbert L. Satterlee, and the secretary, J. Arden Harriman.

1. An Aide-de-Camp to a Major-General is allowed $200 per year in addition to the pay of his rank, not to be included in computing the service increase.-(Section 1,261, Revised Statutes.

2. An Aide-de-Camp to a Brigadier-General is allowed $150 per year in addition to the pay of his rank, not to be included in computing the service increase.-(Section 1,261, Revised Statutes.

3. An Acting Commissary of Subsistence is allowed $100 per year in addition to the pay of his rank, not to be included in comput-
ing the service increase.-(Section 1,261, Revised Statutes.

4. Assistant Surgeons are entitled to pay of Captain after five years' service, service to be reckoned from date of acceptance of
appointment or commission.
5. Retired officers receive 75 per cent of pay (salary and increase) of their rank.

6. A retired Chaplain receives 75 per cent of pay (salary and increase) of his rank (Captain not mounteα).

7. The officer in charge of the public buildings and grounds (Washington) has, while so serving, the rank, pay and emoluments of a Colonel.

8. For additional pay as mounted officers, see pars. 2,385 and 2,386, Regulations of the Army, 1881.

9. The principal assistant in the Ordnance Bureau of the War Department shall receive a compensation, including pay and emoluments, not exceeding that of a Major of Ordnance.

10. An Acting Judge-Advocate, detailed by the Secretary of War, is entitled to the pay and allowances of Captain of Cavalry.

UNITED STATES.*

FLAG OFFICERS,

REAR ADMIRALS (6).-Lewis A. Kimberly, Pres't B'd Insp'n and Survey; Bancroft Gherardi, Com'd'g N. A. Station; George E. Belknap, Com'd'g Asiatic Station; David B. Harmony, Lancaster; A. E. K. Benham, ready to command South Atlantic Station; John Irwin, Com'd't Navy Yd., Mare id.

COMMODORES (10).-James A. Greer, Member Lighthouse B'd; Aaron Weaver, Com'd't Navy Yard, Norfolk; William P. McCann (a). Pres'd Ex'g and Retiring B'ds; James H. Gillis, waiting orders; George Brown (b), Com'd'g Pacific Station; John G. Walker (c), Com'd'g Squadron of Evolution; Francis M. Ramsay, Chief Bureau of Navigation; Joseph S. Skerrett, Com'd't Navy Yard, Washington, D. C.; Joseph Fyffe, Com'd' Naval Sta'n, New-London, Conn.; Oscar F. Stanton, Governor Naval Home, Phila.

Newark; William T. Sampson. Com'd'g
San Francisco; Bartlett J. Cromwell, Capt.
Com'd'g Atlanta; Henry F. Picking,
Lighthouse Inspector; Frederick Rodgers,
Com'd'g Philadelphia; John F. McGlensey,
Com'd'g receiving ship Franklin; Louis
Kemp, Board Inspection, San Francisco;
Francis J. Higginson, on leave; George W.
Sumner, equip't officer, Navy Yard, Nor-
folk, Va.

COMMANDERS (85).-Benjamin F. Day, equip. officer, Navy-Yard, Boston; Frederick R. Smith, waiting orders; James D. Graham, Com'd'g Monitors, Richmond, Va; William R. Bridgman, member Board Inspection and Survey; Alexander H. McCormick, Inspector Ordnance, Navy-Yard, New-York; Albert S. Barker, assistant, Bureau of Navigation; Charles S. Cotton, com'd❜g Mchican; John R. Bartlett, com'd'g Marion; Oliver A. Batcheller, com'd'g Concord; Silus W. Terry, member CAPTAINS (45).-Henry Erben, Com'd.t Retiring Board Navy Yard, New-York; Richard W. Mead, Home, Philadelphia, Penn.; John J. Read, Merrill Miller, Naval Mem. World's Colum. Exposition; Charles com'd'g Iroquois; Edward T. Woodward, C. Carpenter, Com'd't Navy Yard, Ports-Lighthouse duty, 10th District; George mouth, N. H.; William A. Kirkland, Com'd't Navy Yard, League Island; Edward E. Potter, Com'd'g Minnesota; Lester A. Beard lee, Com'd'g Naval Station, Port Royal, S. C.; Thomas O. Selfridge, Com'd't Navy Yard, Boston; Joseph N. Milier, Com'd'g Chicago; Montgomery Sicard, ordered to command Miantonomoh; Edmund O. Matthews, Mem. Board Inspection and Survey; Charles S. Norton, Com'd'g receiving ship Vermont; Robert F. Bradford, waiting orders; Róbert L. Phythian, Superin'd't Naval Academy; Augustus P. Cooke, special duty, New York; Rush R. Wallace, on leave; Francis M. Bunce, com'd'g Richmond and station; Byron Wilson, Com'd'g receiving ship Independence; Frederick V. McNair, Superin'd't Naval Observatory; Arthur R. Yates, Navy Yard, Portsmouth, N. H.; John A. Howell, Pres'd't Steel Board; Allen V. Reed, Com'd't Navy Yard, Pensa cola, Fla.; George Dewey, Chief Bureau Equipment; Henry L. Howison, Mem. Lighthouse Board; Albert Kautz, Com'd'g Pensacola; Alfred T. Mahan, special duty, Bur. Navigation; George C. Remey, Com'd'g Charleston; Norman H. Farquhar, Chief Bur. Yards and Docks; Theodore F. Kane, Capt. Navy Yard, New-York; Henry B. Seely. Com'd'g Lancaster; Gilbert C. Wiltse, Com'd'g Boston: James O'Kane, Com'd'g receiving ship Wabash; J. Crit tenden Wat-on, Navy Yard, Mare Island, Cal.; Henry B. Robeson, Superv's'r Harhor of New-York; William Whitehead, Navy Yard, Boston; Winfield S. Schley, Com'd'g Baltimore; Silas Casey. Com'd'g

* Active list.

a Has rank of Rear-Admiral while commanding South Atlantic Station.

b Has rank of Rear-Admiral while commanding Pacific Station.

c Has rank of Rear-Admiral while commanding Squadron of Evolution.

d With relative rank of commodore.

W. Wood, Navy Yard, Norfolk, Va.; MorShepard, Lighthouse Inspector, 14th Distimer L. Johnson, detached; Edwin M. trict; Robley D. Evans, com'd'g Yorktown; George W. Coffin, Secretary Lighthouse Board; Henry Glass, member Examining and Retiring Board; Philip H. Cooper, member Examining and Retiring Board; Henry C. Taylor, on leave; Henry L. Johnson, under suspension; George D. Wadleigh, com'd'g Michigan: A. S. Crowninshield, Ordnance Dept, Navy Yard, NewYord; Frank Wildes, Lighthouse Inspector; Augustus C. Kellogg, treatment, Goyernment Insane Asylum; James H. Sands, com'd'g Monongahela; Yates Stirling, on leave; William C. Wise, Lighthouse Inspector; Purnell F. Harrington, Lighthouse Inspector; William Bainbridge Hoff, com'd'g receiving ship Dale; Nicoll Ludlow, Inspector 9th Lighthouse District; Francis A. Cook, Inspector Ordnance, Navy Yard, Boston; Colby M. Chester, Naval Academy; Charles E. Clark, Ordnance duty, Mare Island; Charles J. Barclay, Equipment Officer, Navy Yard, Portsmouth, N. H.; Joseph B. Coghlan, Inspector Ordnance, Navy Yard, League Island; Charles V. Gridley, Ordnance Inspector, Navy Yard, Washington; Charles D. Sigsbee, com'd'g training ship Portsmouth; Richard P. Leary, Equipment Officer, Navy Yard, Norfolk; William H. Whiting, Navy Yard, New-York; Dennis W. Mullan, Lighthouse Inspector; N. Mayo Dyer, Ordnance Officer, Navy-Yard, Portsmouth, N. H.; Francis M. Green, com'd'g Nautical Schoolship Saratoga; Charles O'Neil, Inspector Ordnance. Navy Yard, Washington; Casper F. Goodrich, special duty; Theodore F. Jewell, in chargo of Torpedo Station; Bowman H. McCalla, under suspension; William M. Folger (d), Chief Bureau Ordnance Horace Elmer, commanding Kearsarge

Benjamin P. Lamberton, commanding

training-ship Jamestown; John Schouler,

FLAG OFFICERS-Continued.

Note.-All officers below the rank of Brigadier-General are entitled to ten per cent, in addition to their current yearly pay as given above, for every period of five years' service, provided the total amount of such increase shall not exceed forty per cent of their current yearly pay; and provided further, that the pay of a Colonel shall not exceed $4,500 per annum, and that of a Lieutenant-Colonel $4,000 per annum. Officers on the retired list are entitled to seventy-five per cent of pay (salary and increase) of their rank, but no increase accrues for time subsequent to date of retirement.