2 his rank entitles him, for the period between September 1 and April 30, 1,500 cubic feet of gas, or 150 cubic feet of acetylene, or 20,000 watt hours of electric current per month, and from May 1 to August 31, 900 cubic feet of gas, or 90 cubic feet of acetylene, or 12,000 watt hours of electric current per month, which allowances may be considered accumulative within a fiscal year, provided that the accumulated allowance shall at no time be exceeded. Where an officer or noncommissioned officer occupies quarters other than public, the lighting of which is measured by separate meter readings, the Quartermaster's Department will make settlement with the owner or authorized agent of the quarters, or agent of the company supplying the light, for the actual quantity of gas, acetylene, or electric current supplied, and if the prescribed allowance is exceeded such excess will be paid for to the quartermaster by the responsible officer or noncommissioned officer. Where an officer or noncommissioned officer occupies quarters other than public, which are lighted by gas, acetylene or electricity, and the quantity supplied is not measured by separate meter readings, the Quartermaster's Department will make settlement with the owner or authorized agent for light for the number of rooms to which the rank of the officer or noncommissioned officer entitles him, in accordance with the prescribed allowance, at the following rates: For electricity, 6 cents per kilowatt hour; for gas, 80 cents per 1,000 cubic feet; for acetylene gas, $8.00 per 1,000 cubic feet. At posts where electric current is furnished from a Government plant, the charge for excess current will be at the rate of 10 cents per 1,000 watt hours. At posts where gas is furnished from a Government plant, the charge for the excess will be at the actual cost of manufacture. At posts where gas or electric current is obtained from a local company, the charge for the excess will be at the contract price. [1248957, A. G. O.] BY ORDER OF THE ACTING SECRETARY OF WAR: OFFICIAL: WILLIAM P. DUVALL, Brigadier General, Acting Chief of Staff. HENRY P. MCCAIN, Adjutant General. GENERAL ORDERS, WAR DEPARTMENT, WASHINGTON, June 20, 1907. General Orders, No. 115, Headquarters of the Army, Adjutant General's Office, August 5, 1903, is rescinded, and the following instructions governing the appointment and promotion of sergeants major of the Coast Artillery Corps and rules governing boards of officers convened for the examination of candidates for appointment as such are published for the information and guidance of all concerned: Sergeants major of the Coast Artillery Corps are appointed by the Secretary of War upon the recommendation of the Chief of Artillery, after due examination, as follows: Sergeants major, senior grade, Coast Artillery Corps, from sergeants major, junior grade, Coast Artillery Corps; sergeants major, junior grade, Coast Artillery Corps, from noncommissioned officers of the Coast Artillery Corps who are duly qualified as first-class gunners and who have served at least one full enlistment, or a period equivalent thereto, in the artillery. Candidates for appointment as sergeants major, junior grade, Coast Artillery Corps, will submit the application required by paragraph 94, Army Regulations, and before appointment will be examined by a board of three officers of the Coast Artillery Corps convened by the department commander under instructions from the War Department. The board thus convened will be governed by the following rules: 1. PRELIMINARY WORK OF THE BOARD. Prior to examination the board will obtain from a medical officer a certificate as to the candidate's physical condition, and from The Adjutant General of the Army the original applicacation of the candidate and accompanying papers, if any, on file in his office to accompany the report of the board. 2. CONDUCT OF THE EXAMINATION. Written examinations and preparation of reports, returns, etc., will be made in the presence of one or more members of the board and without recourse to memoranda or other sources of assistance not supplied by the board. The candidate must enter all his work in ink upon the examination sheets, and will enter at the head of the first sheet on each subject the time when he began and the time when he finished work on the subject. 2 3. ORDER OF EXAMINATION, SERGEANTS MAJOR, JUNIOR GRADE. a. Personal history.-The candidate will be required to write a letter to the examining board stating the date and place of his birth, the experience he has had in clerical work, including his knowledge of shorthand, his educational advantages, whether he is married, and if married the number of minor children he has, if any. He will be required to establish to the satisfaction of the board his good character, integrity, intelligence, and temperance, and if during his service he has been reduced in grade he will state the cause therefor. b. Knowledge of regulations and arithmetic.-Written questions, ten in number, upon each of the following subjects will be propounded to the candidate and answered by him in writing, viz: Army Regulations bearing on the duties connected with the adjutant's office, military correspondence, reports, and returns, and arithmetic to include common and decimal fractions, percentage, and proportion. c. Skill in preparation of official papers.—Practical examination. To be shown by the candidate's ability to consolidate properly company morning reports; to keep a guard roster and prepare details for the following day; to write an official letter, using data furnished by the board, brief it, indorse it, and make record in proper books, giving it office marks; to make out enlistment papers, muster rolls and descriptive lists, descriptive and assignment card, discharges, and final statements; to make out an order directing officers and enlisted men to change station, covering transportation and rations. Examples of these various papers will be prepared and submitted by the candidate. The candidate will be required to show his ability to use the typewriter, and to perform the duties of a sergeant major at guard mounting. d. General education.-General education will be shown by answers to oral inquiries addressed to the candidate in the presence of the whole board upon such subjects as it may decide to be advisable, but such questions should generally be confined to the subjects in which the candidate has in his letter claimed to have received instruction or to have studied. During such examination the board will also consider the candidate's military bearing and address. e. Penmanship and orthography.-Proficiency in penmanship and orthography will be shown by the examination papers submitted. 4. ORDER OF EXAMINATION, SERGEANTS MAJOR, SENIOR GRade. Vacancies in this grade will be filled, after successful examiation, by promotion by seniority from sergeants major, junior 3 grade. The examination of candidates for sergeants major, senior grade, will consist of the medical examination indicated herein; the examination as prescribed under heading 3-a; general regulations as under heading 3-b; and the practical examination as under heading 3-c, including the following: a. He will be required to brief and record a letter received which, it shall be assumed, has arrived the second time as a letter received at the office where he is on duty, which letter shall be accompanied by not less than three inclosures; to note and mark the inclosures in the prescribed manner and make the proper cross references in the book of letters received. b. To write, from dictation, a letter in shorthand. c. In those cases where the candidate for sergeant major, senior grade, has not already passed the examination prescribed herein for sergeants major, junior grade, he will be required to pass the entire examination herein prescribed for sergeants major, junior grade. 5. PROFICIENCY RATING. The proficiency of the candidate will be determined in the following manner: a. Marking answers.-Each member of the board, independently of the other members, will examine the written answers and make a memorandum, separate from the papers, of the value which he gives to each answer, estimated on a scale of 100. The sum of the several values thus given to a particular answer by the members of the board divided by the number of members will give the mark of the board for that answer. b. Marks for subjects.-The sum of all the marks for a given subject divided by the number of questions in the subject will give the mark of the board upon that subject. Marks for penmanship, orthography, and general education will be based upon the examination papers and such oral inquiries as may be propounded by the board. c. Weights of subjects.—The following relative weights will be given to subjects: General regulations, 3; arithemetic, 2; practical examination, 5; penmanship, 2; orthography, 2; general education and military bearing and address, 1. d. General average showing proficiency.-The subject marks will be multipled by their relative weights, the sum of these products will be divided by the sum of the relative weights of all the subjects, and the general average resulting will show the proficiency of the candidate. The candidate's proficiency in shorthand will not be weighed or marked, but his ability in that line will be reported in the record of the board's proceedings, and will receive due con |