GENERAL ORDERS, No. 123. HEADQUARTERS OF THE ARMY, ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE, Washington, September 25, 1900. I..By direction of the Acting Secretary of War, the post of Fort Mott, New Jersey, is designated as a saluting station to return the salutes of foreign vessels of war, in addition to the posts so designated for the Department of the East by paragraph II, General Orders, No. 80, December 1, 1892, from this office. II. By direction of the Acting Secretary of War, Siege Battery 0, 7th Artillery, ordered to the Presidio, San Francisco, California, for duty in China, from the Department of the Missouri, by paragraph 1, General Orders, No. 97, July 20, 1900, from this office, will return to its proper station, Fort Riley, Kansas. The commanding general, Department of California, in conjunction with the commanding general, Department of the Missouri, will arrange for the details of this movement. The Quartermaster's Department will furnish the necessary transportation, the Subsistence Department suitable travel rations, and the Medical Department proper medical attendance and supplies. BY COMMAND OF LIEUTENANT GENERAL MILES: H. C. CORBIN, No 124. ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE, Washington, September 28, 1900. I. The following regulations governing the United States Artillery School, Fort Monroe, Virginia, are published for the information and guidance of all concerned: 1. The Artillery School shall consist of a commandant, an adjutant, such instructors as may be detailed, and such troops, officers, and enlisted men as may be assigned to it for duty or instruction by orders from Headquarters of the Army. 2. The general administration of the school is intrusted to the commandant. The head of each department of instruction will conduct the work of his department. 3. A school board, consisting of the commandant as president and the heads of departments as members, will meet at least once a week during school session and at such other times as the commandant may deem advisable. The school board will arrange the program of instruction as to subjects and allotment of time, prescribe the character and scope of the examinations, and have final determination of all questions of proficiency of students; provided, that no action of the board which affects the regulations of the school or the course of instruction shall be final until approved by the General Commanding the Army. 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 commandant and heads of departments of instruction shall constitute a board of artillery for the general service, to which may be referred from time to time all subjects pertaining to artillery upon which the General Commanding the Army may desire its opinion and recommendation. The secretary of the school board will act as recorder of the artillery board and will keep a separate record of its proceedings. 6. The methods of procedure followed by military boards shall govern in the meetings of the school board. 7. The deliberations and discussions of the board shall be confidential, and no member nor the secretary shall disclose the decision of the board before the same shall be announced by proper authority, nor shall any member nor the secretary disclose or discover the vote or opinion of any member, except 8. A majority of the board shall constitute a quorum. 9. 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. 10. Instructors will be respected and obeyed as such whether junior or senior to the officers instructed. 11. The full course of instruction shall embrace a period of one year and will be made to the greatest extent possible a thoroughly practicable one. Student officers will report to the commandant on the 15th of August of each year. 12. The year's 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 will continue daily, Saturdays and Sundays and legal holidays excepted, until August first, with an intermission of one week during the Christmas holidays. 13. The course of instruction is divided into departments as follows: (a) Ballistics and seacoast engineering. (b) Electricity, mines, and mechanism. (e) Special courses, including customs of the service, usages, property returns, correspondence, regulations, etc., and the actual performance of all the different duties of an officer at a post. 14. The method of instruction in the several departments will be by a course of reading, by lectures by the instructor, and by practical demonstration in the use of machines, instruments, and apparatus. 15. Officers under instruction may be required to prepare papers on stated subjects and personally 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 appurtenances. 16. A stated number of hours for investigation in reading, the practical manipulation of machines, instruments, and apparatus will be prescribed for each department by the school board. 17. Certificates of officers that the required time has been actually spent in investigation of the subjects mentioned may be required. |