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ARTICLE VII.

APPOINTMENTS AND DETAILS ON THE STAFF.

39. As far as practicable, all appointments and details on the Staff will be equalized among the several regiments.-[Regs. 1863, 33.]

40. General officers appoint their own Aides-de-Camp.-[Regs. 1863, ¶ 34.]

41. Brevet Brigadier and Major Generals on duty as such may, with the special sanction of the War Department, be allowed the Aides-de-Camp of their brevet grades.―[Regs. 1863, ¶ 35.]

42. An officer shall not fill any Staff appointment, or other situation, the duties of which will detach him from his company, regiment, or corps, until he has served at least three years with his regiment or corps; nor shall any officer (Aides-de-Camp excepted) so remain detached longer than four years.-[Regs. 1863, ¶ 36.] 43. An officer of a mounted corps shall not be separated from his regiment, except for duty connected with his particular arm.— [Regs. 1863, ¶ 37.]

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45. The Staff of Division and Department Commanders is limited to the following:

The authorized Aides-de-Camp.

One Assistant Adjutant General, or an officer to act as Assistant Adjutant General.

One or more officers of the Inspector General's Department, if available; if none are available, an officer may be assigned to these duties with the sanction of the Secretary of War.

One Judge Advocate, or an officer assigned to that duty with the sanction of the Secretary of War.

One Chief Quartermaster and one Chief Commissary of Subsistence, who shall also take charge of the depot and purchases for their respective departments at the place where headquarters are located.

One Medical Director, who shall also perform the duty of attending surgeon at the place where headquarters are established.

A Chief Paymaster, who shall make his proportion of payments in the command.

An Engineer and an Ordnance Officer when needed.

46. In the absence of the Assistant Adjutant General, his duties will be temporarily performed by an Aide-de-Camp, whose signature to official papers, as Aide-de-Camp, is sufficient without the added title of Acting Assistant Adjutant General.-[Dec. of Gen. Army, Jan. 31, 1871.]

47. In the absence of a Regimental Quartermaster or Commissary of Subsistence, an officer may be detailed as Acting Assistant Quartermaster or Acting Commissary at a post or station. Copies of orders making such details will be forwarded at their date to the Staff Bureau concerned.-[R. S., § 1261; G. O. 40, 1866.]

48. The commanding officer of any command is authorized to designate an officer [to be known as the Acting Ordnance Officer], who will, under his direction, take charge of and be accountable for all the ordnance and ordnance stores not in the hands of the companies composing the command.—[G. O. 4, 1880.]

ARTICLE VIII.

DETAILS TO COLLEGES.

[G. O. 100, 1879.]

49. Details of officers of the Army as professors at colleges and universities, under sections 1225 and 1260, Revised Statutes, will be according to the following regulations:

50. Details" shall be apportioned throughout the United States as nearly as may be practicable according to population;" such States as do not contain sufficient population to entitle them to one officer will be grouped with one or more contiguous States or Territories, so that the combined population of the group will allow the detail of one or more officers, to the extent of thirty officers in all.

51. As a rule, Captains of companies, regimental staff officers, or officers who have served less than three years with their regiments or corps, or who have recently completed a tour of detached duty, will not be eligible. No details will be made that will leave a battery, troop, or company without two officers for duty with it. The period of detail will not be longer than three years.

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53. No detail will be made for any institution except upon an application from its proper representatives, nor will any officer be so detailed unless acceptable to the authorities of the institution, who should make their selection from the officers available for this duty.

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55. Officers of the Army desiring a detail at colleges or universities may make application to the Adjutant General, through the usual military channels; their applications and the recommendations forwarded therewith will, if the officers are available, be furnished to such institutions as may desire to make a selection.

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EXCHANGE OR TRANSFER OF OFFICERS.

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62. The transfer of officers from one regiment or corps to another will be made only by the War Department, on the mutual application of the parties desiring the exchange.-[Regs. 1863, ¶ 30.]

63. An officer shall not be transferred from one regiment or

corps to another with prejudice to the rank of any officer of the regiment or corps to which he is transferred.-[Regs. 1863, ¶ 31.]

64. Transfers will be seldom granted-never except for cogent reasons. [Regs. 1863, ¶ 32.]

65. Officers below the grade of Field officers, transferred from one regiment or corps to another, on their mutual application, will be renominated for reappointment with rank as of the date of the commission of the junior officer previous to the transfer, and upon confirmation by the Senate will be recommissioned accordingly. These new commissions will determine their rank in their regiments and corps, as well as in the Army. The same principle will govern in exchanges of Field officers from one corps or arm of service to another.-G. O. 19, 1878.]

66. Field officers of the same arm of service may, on their mutual application, be transferred from one regiment to another without change of rank or commission, excepting in regiments that have in their organization more than one Field officer of the same grade, when the exchanges in that grade will be made and the new commissions issued in conformity with the preceding paragraph. If the result of the transfers would not affect the positions or precedence of other Field officers of the same grades in their own regiments, the exchanges may be made in General Orders without alteration of rank or commission.-[G. O. 19, 1878.]

67. The transfer or exchange of company officers in a regiment will not be made without previous approval by the General of the Army. Temporary assignments of officers to do duty with other companies than their own are not hereby prohibited.-[G. O. 100, 1868.]

ARTICLE X.

OFFICERS TRAVELING ON DUTY.

68. Whenever an officer is ordered from one station to another, or for the performance of any duty, not being with troops, he shall proceed by the shortest usually traveled route without unnecessary delay; nor is he for any cause whatever, except that of sudden illness, to apply for leave of absence or permission to delay from the time he receives the order until he arrives at his place of destina- * tion.-[G.O. 2, 1871; G. O. 97, 1876.]

69. Whenever an officer under orders shall appear to have made unusual or unnecessary delay on the route, immediately on his arrival at the post the commanding officer will call upon him to report the cause thereof. Should such report be unsatisfactory, the officer will be placed in arrest, and charges against him for his unauthorized absence will be immediately submitted to the Department Commander. If the delinquent officer be superior in rank to the commander of the post, the required report will be made by the officer himself to his Department Commander.-[Regs. 1863, ¶ 173; G. O. 2, 1871.]

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70. Delay in joining for duty or in returning from leave amounts in most cases to a leave of absence, and must be governed by the laws and regulations applicable to that indulgence. Exceptional cases are determined, exclusively, by the Secretary of War and General of the Army.-[Decision of March 18, 1871.]

71. Whenever an officer is detached from his company, regiment, post, or station, for the performance of a specified duty, that duty being performed, he will return to his previous station, unless otherwise ordered.-[Regs. 1863, ¶ 174; G. O. 2, 1871.]

ARTICLE XI.

LEAVES OF ABSENCE TO OFFICERS.

72. In no case will leaves of absence be granted so that a company will be left without one of its commissioned officers, or a garrisoned post without two commissioned officers and competent medical attendance; nor shall leave of absence be granted to an officer during the season of active operations except on urgent necessity. -[Regs. 1863, ¶ 175.]

73. No leave of absence exceeding seven days, except on extraordinary occasions, when the circumstances must be particularly stated, shall be granted to any officer until he has joined his regiment or corps, and served therewith at least two years.-[Regs. 1863, ¶ 182.]

74. The immediate commander of the officer applying for leave of absence, and all intermediate commanders, will indorse their opinion on the application before forwarding it.-[Regs. 1863, ¶ 179.1

75. In giving permission to apply for the extension of a leave of absence, the term of the extension should be stated. The term of the extension approved by the Department Commander will be regulated by the season and the usual opportunities for reaching the officer's station, so that he may not be absent during the time for active operations.-[Regs. 1863, ¶ 177.]

76. The War Department and General of the Army will not grant leaves to officers on applications made out of the proper military channel, or longer extensions of leave than are recommended by the competent authority.-[Regs. 1863, ¶ 178; G. O. 19, 1870; G. O. 2, 1871.]

77. Leaves of absence will be granted for periods specified as "one month,” “ one month and ten days," "two months," &c., instead of so many days.-[G. O. 86, 1876.]

78. Leaves of absence commence on the day the officer departs from his proper station. The expiration of his leave must find him at his post. [Regs. 1863, ¶ 176.]

79. Leave for one month, beginning on the first day of a calendar month, will expire with the last day of the month, whatever its number of days. Commencing on an intermediate day of a

mouth, the leave will expire with the day preceding the same day in the next month. The day of departure, whatever the hour, is counted as a day of absence; the day of return, whatever its hour, as a day of duty.-[G. O. 86, 1876.]

80. The commander of a post may take leave of absence not to exceed seven days at one time, or in the same month, reporting the fact to his next superior commander.-[Regs. 1863, ¶ 180.]

81. In time of peace the commander of a post may grant leaves of absence not to exceed seven days at one time, or in the same month. [Regs. 1863, ¶ 177.]

82. A Department Commander may grant leaves for one month, or extend to that period those granted by post commanders; a Military Division Commander, for two months, or extend one month a leave granted by a Department Commander under him; the General of the Army, four months, or extend to that period a leave already granted.-[G. O. 6, 1870.]

83. Applications for leaves of absence for more than four months, or to officers of Engineers and Ordnance, or officers of the General Staff or serving on it (Aides-de-Camp excepted), for more than one month, must be referred to the Adjutant General for the decision of the Secretary of War.-[Regs. 1863, ¶ 177.]

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85. Officers will not leave the United States, to go beyond sea, without permission from the War Department.—[ Regs. 1863, ¶ 183. ] 86. Officers of the Army traveling or stopping in foreign countries, whether on duty or leave of absence, will avail themselves of all opportunities, properly within their reach, for obtaining information of value to the military service of the United States, especially that pertaining to their own arm or branch of service. They will report fully in writing the results of their observations to the Adjutant General of the Army on their return to duty in the United States, if unable to do so at an earlier date.-[G. O. 64, 1880.]

87. An officer on leave will report monthly his address for the thirty days following, to the commander of his post, of his regiment or corps, and to the Adjutant General of the Army. In his first report he will state when his leave commenced.-[Regs. 1863, ¶ 176.1

88. Verbal permits for less than twenty-four hours are not counted as leaves of absence. But for every other absence of whatever duration, the date of departure and return will be noted on Post, Regimental, Department, and Division Returns against each officer borne thereon.-[G. O. 86, 1876.]

89. Permission to hunt will not be considered as a leave of absence or charged as such if the officer, on his return to his station, files with his commanding officer a certificate that his absencé has been employed solely in hunting, and furnishes as complete a description of the country passed over as circumstances permit.— [Letter A. G. O., Aug. 24, 1880.]

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