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of time allotted any department, or in the courses of instruction, or in the character of practical work, or in the methods of instruction and marking in practical work and examinations will be made without the approval of the Secretary of War.

GRADUATION.

98. A student officer who passes successfully through the entire course of instruction in The Army School of the Line, The Army Signal School, The Army Field Engineer School, or The Army Staff College will receive a diploma setting forth his proficiency, and also a certificate of proficiency covering all subjects completed by him during the course, and his name will be borne thereafter upon the Army Register as a graduate thereof. Diplomas will be signed by the commandant and by the academic board. Officers who have been unable to complete the entire course will receive certificates of proficiency in such subjects as they have completed satisfactorily.

99. At the end of the term the academic board will report upon the qualifications of each student officer for The Army School of the Line, The Army Staff College, The Army Signal School, and The Army Field Engineer School, and will state the professional employments for which he appears to be well or especially well qualified. These reports, together with a report of the marks and standing of each student officer in The Army School of the Line will be forwarded by the commandant with such remarks in the case of each student officer as he deems proper to The Adjutant General of the Army for file with the personal record of the officer concerned. The commandant will also send a copy of each student officer's school record to his regimental commander, or, in the case of a staff officer, to the chief of his corps or department.

MISCELLANEOUS.

100. Upon graduation of the classes the commandant will also make a special report to The Adjutant General of the Army showing how each graduate should be borne upon the register in pursuance of these regulations.

101. After the standing of the student officers in The Army School of the Line and The Army Field Engineer School has been determined, the academic board will convene to recommend officers for detail for instruction in The Army Staff College for the following year. These recommendations will be forwarded by the

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commandant, with his own action thereon, to The Adjutant General of the Army. Entrance to The Army Staff College from The Army School of the Line and The Army Field Engineer School will be accorded student officers in order of their graduation as far down the class (arranged according to merit) as they shall be recommended by the academic board, approved by the commandant, subject to the restrictions of paragraph 34. Said recommendation and approval, however, will not be withheld from any officer and given to one below him in order of graduation, except on account of moral deficiencies or defects in habits or disposition sufficiently serious to render him markedly unsuitable for staff service. Whenever the recommendation of the academic board or the approval of the commandant is thus withheld, the reason for such action will be stated clearly in each case, giving details of such misconduct or defects as are relied upon to justify the withholding of said recommendation or approval.

102. Any graduate of The Army School of the Line, with the approved recommendation of the academic board, may take the course in The Army Signal School. Applications from officers of The Army School of the Line to take the course in The Army Signal School will be submitted to the commandant not later than May 1, each year.

103. Upon completion of the course of instruction in The Army School of the Line and The Army Field Engineer School the commandant may retain at the post, with a view to their detail for instruction in The Army Staff College and The Army Signal School, such officers as may have received corresponding recommendations by the academic board approved by the commandant, awaiting the issue of orders by the War Department in their cases.

104. Unless otherwise instructed the commandant will, upon the completion of the courses of instruction, relieve all student officers of the Regular Army (except those designated for instruction in The Army Staff College and The Army Signal School for the following year) from duty at Fort Leavenworth, and order, by authority of the Secretary of War, those whose stations are in the United States or Alaska to join their proper stations, and those whose stations are in the Philippine Islands or Hawaii to arrange for transportation with the Quartermaster General and report at San Francisco, California, in time to take the first Army transport which sails thereafter. All student officers of the Organized Militia will be relieved and authorized, by order of the Secretary of War, to proceed to their respective homes.

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105. The commandant may also, at their own request or upon expiration of detail, relieve from duty members of the staff of the schools and college and issue the necessary orders in each case as authorized above.

106. Upon the recommendation of the academic board the commandant may, with the approval of the Secretary of War, retain graduates of The Army Staff College on duty at the schools and college and assign them to duties specified in paragraph 77 of this order, but no graduate of The Army Staff College will be so retained on such duty for a longer period than two years without the special authority of the Secretary of War in each case. the same conditions and limitations graduates of The Army Signal School and The Army Field Engineer School may be retained for assignment to duty therein.

Under

107. The commandant shall furnish to The Adjutant General of the Army, and to all headquarters, commanding officers, and others interested in or affected by such changes, copies of all orders issued by him, pursuant to authority contained in these regulations changing the official status of officers.

GENERAL ORDERS,

No. 129.

WAR DEPARTMENT,

WASHINGTON, September 21, 1911.

I. By direction of the President, the following order is issued to take effect October 1, 1911:

1. The District of Hawaii in the Department of California, as described in General Orders, No. 183, War Department, September 30, 1910, is constituted a geographical department in the Western Division, to be known and designated as the Department of Hawaii.

2. Owing to the remoteness of the Department of Hawaii from the headquarters of the Western Division, general command over all troops of the line and staff within that department is given to the commanding officer thereof, who is also authorized to pass upon the sufficiency of charges to be tried by general courts-martial and to refer such charges for trial to courts-martial convened in his department by the division commander, and in addition to his duties as a department commander, as prescribed in regulations, will supervise the work of all staff departments within his command and will make such report and recommendation in regard to the same as he may deem advisable.

3. Brigadier General Montgomery M. Macomb, United States Army, is assigned to the command of the Department of Hawaii, with headquarters at Honolulu.

4. Major Archibald Campbell, adjutant general, is assigned to duty as adjutant general, Department of Hawaii.

5. Captain Clifton C. Carter, General Staff, is assigned to duty as assistant to the chief of staff, and Captains Frank B. Edwards and Clyffard Game, quartermasters; Major Alexander M. Davis, commissary; Captain Eleutheros H. Cooke, paymaster; Captain Alfred B. Putnam, Corps of Engineers, and Captain Elmer J. Wallace, Signal Corps, are assigned as assistants to the chiefs of their respective departments or corps for the Western Division, with station at Honolulu.

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II. By direction of the President, so much of General Orders, No. 64, War Department, May 19, 1911, as relates to the

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Western Division is amended so that that division shall embrace the following, to take effect October 1, 1911:

The Department of California.

The Department of the Columbia.

The Department of Hawaii.

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III. By direction of the President, General Orders, No. 183, War Department, September 30, 1910, is rescinded, to take effect October 1, 1911.

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IV. 1. When changes or modifications are made in articles of clothing or equipage, issues to the Regular Army and Organized Militia of the kinds and patterns now on hand will be continued until the supply thereof is exhausted and whenever any particular kind or size of articles of clothing or equipage that has been modified is exhausted requisitions for that kind or size will be filled from the new pattern that may be adopted. 2. So much of the provisions of section 3, paragraph I, General Orders, No. 89, War Department, June 29, 1911, as conflicts with the provisions of section 1, paragraph IV, of this order is rescinded.