and mess funds; post bakeries; libraries, etc.; rosters, detachments, and daily service; honors, courtesies, and ceremonies; purchase of supplies and engagement of services; money accountability and responsibility; accounts current; public property accountability and responsibility; survey officer; military correspondence; orders; returns of troops; records; enlistments; general duties of the quartermaster's department, and the records, returns, and reports required therein; general duties of the Subsistence Department and the ration tables, savings, sales, accounts and returns pertaining to the same; duties of the Pay Department, reenlistment and continuous-service pay, forfeitures and deductions, and deposits.

Practical.-Assignment to duty in turn as assistants to post staff and recruiting officers for such periods as the commanding officer may deem necessary to thoroughly acquaint them with the various duties.

(b) DRILL REGULATIONS.

Theoretical. Recitations in the prescribed manuals of the respective arms.

Practical-Drill of troops-not necessarily during the term prescribed for theoretical instruction. Lieutenants shall be given occasional opportunity to act as captains, and captains as field officers at drills.

(c) MANUAL OF GUARD DUTY.

Theoretical.-Recitations in the prescribed manual.

Practical.-Duty as officer of the day and as officer of the guard, when practicable.

(d) SMALL-ARMS FIRING REGULATIONS,

Theoretical.—Recitations in the prescribed manual.

Practical.-Practice upon the range and in supervision of troops during the regular practice season.

(e) FIELD-SERVICE REGULATIONS.

Theoretical.-Recitations in the prescribed manual, as follows: Organization, orders, marches, camps, bivouacs and cantonments, ammunition supply, subsistence.

(f) TACTICS.

Theoretical.-Recitations in the authorized textbooks, as follows: Advance guards, rear guards, outposts, reconnaissance, the cavalry screen, spies, orientation, organization, the characteristics of the various arms of the service, infantry in attack and defense, cavalry in attack and defense, artillery in attack and defense, the three arms combined, convoys.

Practical.--Exercises in patrolling, reconnaissance, formation and use of advance and rear guards, outposts, attack and defense of convoys, attack and defense of positions, etc., as frequently as possible for purposes of illustration during the school term and during the season of drill and field maneuvers.

(g) MILITARY LAW.

Theoretical.-Recitations in the authorized text-book. (h) FIELD ENGINEERING.

Theoretical.-Recitations in the authorized text-book. Practical.-Designing and superintending the actual construction of rifle pits, shelter trenches, loopholes, obstacles, etc., as well as locating trenches with reference to the configuration of the ground; the making of various kinds of revetments; establishing the trace and profile of fieldworks, with reference to requirements of defilade; extending and superintending working parties, as frequently as possible for purposes of illustration during the school term and during the season of field maneuvers.

(1) MILITARY TOPOGRAPHY AND SKETCHING.

Theoretical.-Recitations in the authorized text-books as follows: General principles of surveying; selection and construction of scales; measurement of distances; conventional signs; filling in the details of maps; contours; map reading; field geometry; reconnaissance and reports.

Practical.-Exercises in measuring lines with chains and tapes; ranging out lines; measuring angles with box and prismatic compasses; use of cavalry sketching case on foot and mounted in road sketching; keeping of notes and map drawing.

(j) INTERNATIONAL LAW.

Theoretical.-Recitations in the authorized text-book.

(k) HIPPOLOGY.

Theoretical. Recitations in the authorized text-book.

Practical.-At posts where cavalry or field artillery is stationedstable management and horse shoeing; examination of horse for age; conformation and soundness.

(1) MILITARY HYGIENE.

Theoretical.-Recitations in the authorized text-book.

14. Allotment of time, in hours, for recitations in the several subjects.

COURSE OF INSTRUCTION FOR OFFICERS OF THE COAST ARTILLERY.

15. The course of instruction shall consist of three annual terms of five months each. Officers entering the artillery service during any school year shall attend the term prescribed for that school year.

16. All officers of artillery, except field officers and captains of over ten (10) years' service, graduates of the United States Mili

tary Academy, graduates of the Artillery School, and officers who have entered or have been transferred to the Artillery Corps under the provisions of General Orders, No. 55, War Department, 1904, shall be required to pass a preliminary examination prior to the beginning of the first year of their attendance, on the following subjects: Algebra, as far as quadratic equations, use of logarithms, plane geometry, and plane trigonometry, including practical solution of triangles. Failure to pass such examination shall be reported to the War Department to be noted on the officer's efficiency record.

The regular course shall be as follows:

I. ADMINISTRATION.

II. DRILL REGULATIONS.

III. ARTILLERY.

FIRST TERM.

(Same as for infantry and cavalry.)
(Coast artillery.)

(a) Guns and carriages.

A detailed study of service guns and carriages.

(b) Sights and quadrants.

Recitations in Handbook of Sights for Cannon; description of sights and quadrant devices, and adjustment of same to guns and carriages.

(c) Projectiles.

Kind of projectiles, description, uses, care, preparation for use, distinctive colors.

(d) Explosives.

Black, brown, and smokeless powders; composition, granulation, preparation into charges for use in guns and mortars; priming of cartridge sections; use of crusher gauge; care of powder in magazines; management of powder storage magazines; service explosives for filling shell; properties of; methods of filling shell; service high explosives for destructive purposes; kinds, uses, storage of; the service tests to which high explosives are subjected; evidences of decomposition; kinds and description of primers and fuses; methods of fusing shell and shrapnel.

III. ARTILLERY-Continued. (e) Position finding.

Angle-measuring instruments, including position finders, used by Coast Artillery; description of; setting up; adjustments preparatory to use; use explained. Difference charts; principles of; description, preparation, and use.

Pratt ballistic board; description of and use.

Plotting boards; description and use of in plotting, relocating, and predicting.

IV. SMALL-ARMS FIRING REGULATIONS.

Recitations in the prescribed manual.

V. MANUAL OF GUARD DUTY.

Recitations in the prescribed manual.

SECOND TERM.

I. BALLISTICS.

(a) Ballistics proper.

Instructions in Handbook of Problems of Direct Fire (Ingalls).

(b) Range Tables.

Instruction in the Use of Range Tables, issued by the
Ordnance Department, including graphic tables.

II. MILITARY LAW.

Recitations in Military Law and Manual of Courts-Martial, using the authorized text-books.

III. TACTICS.

Recitations in the authorized text-books, as follows: Advance guards, rear guards, outposts, reconnoissance, the cavalry screen, spies, orientation, organization, the characteristics of the various arms of the service, infantry in attack and defense; cavalry in attack and defense; the three arms combined; convoys.

IV. FIELD SERVICE REGULATIONS. (Same as for infantry and cavalry.)