ceded to the United States by Spain; headquarters, Manila, P. I. Commander, MajorGeneral Arthur MacArthur.

DEPARTMENT OF NORTHERN LUZON-Includes all that part of the island of Luzon north of Laguna de Bay and the province of Laguna, the same being the provinces of Abra, Bontoc, Benguet, Bataan, Bulacan, Cagayan, Ilocos, Infanta, Morong, Norte, Ilocos Sur, La Isabela de Luzon, Lepanto, La Union, Nueva Vizcaya, Nueva Ecija, all that portion of Manila north of the Pasig River, Principe, Pangasinan, Pampanga, Tarlac and Zambales, and all the islands in the Philippine Archipelago north of Manila Bay and the provinces above named; headquarters, Manila, P. I. Commander, Major-General Lloyd Wheaton.

DEPARTMENT OF SOUTHERN LUZON-Includes island of Samar and all the remaining part of the island of Luzon, the same including the following provinces: Albay, Batangas, Camarines Norte, Camarines Sur, Cavite, La Laguna, Manila south of the Pasig, and Tayabas, and all islands of the Philippine Archipelago which lie south of the south line of the Department of Northern Luzon, as above described, including the island of Polillo and north of a line passing southeastwardly through West Pass of Apo to the twelfth parallel of north latitude; thence easterly along said parallel to 124° 10' east of Greenwich, but including the entire island of Masbate; thence northerly through San Bernardino Straits; headquarters, Manila, P. I. Commander, MajorGeneral J. C. Bates.

DEPARTMENT OF THE VISAYAS-Includes all islands (except island of Samar) south of the southern line of the Department of Southern Luzon and east of longitude 121° 45' east of Greenwich and north of the ninth parallel of latitude, excepting the island of Mindanao and all islands east of the Straits of Surigao; headquarters, Iloilo, P. I. Commander, Brigadier-General R. P. Hughes.

DEPARTMENT OF MINDANAO AND JOLO-Includes all the remaining islands of the Philippine Archipelago; headquarters, Zamboanga, P. I. Commander, BrigadierGeneral W. A. Kobbé.

DEPARTMENT OF ALASKA-Territory of Alaska; headquarters, Fort St. Michael, Alaska. Commander, Brigadier-General G. M. Randall.

DEPARTMENT OF CALIFORNIA-States of California and Nevada, the Hawaiian Islands and their dependencies; headquarters, San Francisco, Cal. Commander, MajorGeneral W. R. Shafter.

DEPARTMENT OF THE COLORADO-States of Wyoming (except so much thereof as is embraced in the Yellowstone National Park), Colorado and Utah, and the Territories of Arizona and New-Mexico; headquarters, Denver, Col. Commander, BrigadierGeneral H. C. Merriam.

DEPARTMENT OF THE COLUMBIA-States of Washington, Oregon, Idaho (except so much of the latter as is embraced in the Yellowstone National Park); headquarters, Vancouver Barracks, Wash. Commander, Major-General W. R. Shafter. DEPARTMENT OF CUBA-Consisting of the Island of Cuba; headquarters, Havana, Cuba. Commander, Major-General L. Wood.

DEPARTMENT OF DAKOTA-States of Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana and so much of Wyoming and Idaho as is embraced in the Yellowstone National Park; headquarters, St. Paul, Minn. Commander, Brigadier-General J. F. Wade. DEPARTMENT OF THE EAST-New-England States, New-York, New-Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, District of Columbia, West Virginia, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana and Porto Rico; headquarters, Governor's Island, N. Y. Commander, Major-General John R. Brooke.

DEPARTMENT OF THE LAKES-States of Wisconsin, Michigan, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky and Tennessee; headquarters, Chicago, Ill. Commander, Major-General E. S. Otis.

DEPARTMENT OF THE MISSOURI-States of Iowa, Nebraska, Missouri, Kansas and Arkansas, the Indian Territory, and the Territory of Oklahoma; headquarters, Omaha, Neb. Commander, Brigadier-General Fitzhugh Lee.

DEPARTMENT OF TEXAS-State of Texas; headquarters, San Antonio, Tex. Commander, Colonel Chambers McKibbin, 12th Infantry.

SOLDIERS.

NATIONAL HOME FOR DISABLED VOLUNTEER Board of Managers: President, General Martin T. McMahon, New-York City; vicepresidents, General William J. Sewell, Camden, N. J., and Colonel John L. Mitchell, Milwaukee, Wis.; secretary, General T. J. Henderson, Princeton, Ill.; managers, General A. L. Pearson, Pittsburg, Penn.; Colonel G. W. Steele, Marion, Ind.; Major W. H. Bonsall, Los Angeles, Cal.; General William B. Franklin, Hartford, Conn.; General C. M. Anderson, Greenville, Ohio; Colonel Sidney G. Cooke, Herington, Kan.; General Thomas J. Henderson, Princeton, Ill.; General J. M. Brown, Portland, Me.; treasurer, Major J. M. Bermingham, Hartford, Conn. Principal officers of branch homes: Central, Dayton, Ohio: Governor, J. B. Thomas; treasurer, J. G. Galbraith; surgeon, D. C. Huffman. Northwestern, Milwaukee, Wis.: Governor, Cornelius Wheeler; treasurer, J. E. Armitage; surgeon, Almon Clarke. Eastern, Togus, Me.: Governor, S. H. Allen; treasurer, A. L. Smith; surgeon, W. E. Elwell. Southern, Hampton, Va.: Governor, P. T. Woodfin; treasurer, William Thompson; surgeon, R. 9. Vickery. Western, Leavenworth, Kan.: Governor, J. G. Rowland; treasurer, W. B. Shockley; surgeon, A. G. Hull. Pacific, Santa Monica, Cal.: Governor, O. H. La Grange; treasurer, T. J. Cochrane; surgeon, H. E. Hasse. Marion, Marion, Ind.: Governor, J. H. Chapman; treasurer, H. O. Heichert; surgeon, A. D. Kimball. Danville, Danville, Ill.: Governor, Isaac Clements; treasurer, W. C. Tuttle; surgeon, D. C. Jones. The requirements for admission include an honorable discharge from the United States service; disability which prevents the applicant from earning his living by labor. Soldiers or sailors.

whose pensions exceed $16 a month are not eligible to the Home unless the reasons
are explained to the manager and are satisfactory to him. There are also twenty-six
State homes, located as follows: New-York State Soldiers and Sailors' Home, Bath,
N. Y.; Vermont Soldiers' Home, Bennington, Vt.; Soldiers' Home in Massachusetts,
Chelsea, Mass.; Fitch's Home for the Soldiers, Noroton Heights, Conn.; New-Jersey
Home for Disabled Soldiers, Kearny, N. J.; Pennsylvania Home for Disabled Volunteer
Soldiers and Sailors, Erie, Penn.; Michigan Soldiers' Home, Grand Rapids, Mich.; Ohio
Soldiers and Sailors' Home, Sandusky, Ohio; Illinois Soldiers and Sailors' Home,
Quincy,
v, Ill.; Wisconsin Veterans' Home, Waupaca, Wis.; Minnesota State Soldiers'
Home, Minnehaha, Minn.; Iowa Soldiers' Home, Marshalltown, Iowa; Nebraska Sol-
diers and Sailors' Home, Grand Island and Milford, Neb.; Kansas State Soldiers' Home,
Fort Dodge, Kan.; California Veterans' Home, Yountville, Cal.; South Dakota Soldiers'
Home, Hot Springs, S. D.; Colorado Soldiers and Sailors' Home, Monte Vista, Col.;
New-Hampshire Soldiers' Home, Tilton, N. H.; Washington's Soldiers' Home, Orting,
Wash.; Rhode Island State Soldiers' Home, Bristol, R. I.; North Dakota Soldiers'
Home, Lisbon, N. D.; Oregon Soldiers' Home, Roseburg, Ore.; Idaho Soldiers' Home,
Boise, Idaho; Wyoming Soldiers' Home, Cheyenne, Wyo.; Indiana State Home, La
Fayette, Ind.
UNITED STATES SOLIDERS' HOME COMMISSION.
Lieutenant-General Nelson A. Miles, president; Adjutant-General Henry C. Corbin,
Quartermaster-General M. I. Ludington, Acting Commissary-General John F. Weston,
Surgeon-General George M. Sternberg, Judge Advocate-General G. N. Lieber, Brig-
adier-General George D. Ruggles. Officers of the United States Soldiers' Home, Wash-
ington-Brigadier-General George D. Ruggles, governor; Brevet Brigadier-General R.
F. Bernard, deputy governor; Captain C. W. Taylor, secretary and treasurer; Major
Louis A. La Garde, attending surgeon.

Appoint

The United States Military Academy at West Point was founded in 1802. Each Congress District and Territory-also the District of Columbia-is entitled to have one cadet at the academy, the cadet to be named by the Representative in Congress, and the person appointed must be an actual resident of the district or Territory from which the appointment is made. There are also 120 appointments at large at the disposition of the President. The number of students is thus limited to 481. ments are usually required to be made one year in advance of date of admission, and may be made either after competitive examination or given direct, at the option of the Representative. The Representative, should he desire, may nominate a legally qualified alternate, who will be examined with the regular nominee, and admitted in the event of his success and the latter's failure to pass the prescribed preliminary examinations. Appointees to the Military Academy must be between seventeen and twentytwo years of age at date of admission, at least five feet three inches in height, free from any infectious or moral disorder, and, generally, from any deformity, disease or infirmity; must be well versed in reading, in writing, including orthography, in arithmetic, and have a knowledge of the elements of English grammar, of descriptive geography (particularly of the United States), and of the history of the United States. The course of instruction, which is quite thorough, requires four years, and is largely mathematical and professional. The principal subjects taught are mathematics, French, drawing, tactics of all arms of the service, natural and experimental philosophy, chemistry, mineralogy, geology and electricity, history, international, constitutional and military law, Spanish, and civil and military engineering and science of war. Academic duties commence September 1 and continue until June 1. Examinations are held in each January and June, and cadets found proficient in studies and correct in conduct are given the particular standing in their class to which their merits entitle them, while those cadets deficient in either conduct or studies are discharged. From about the middle of June to the end of August cadets live in camp, engaged only in military duties and receiving practical military instruction. Cadets are allowed but one leave of absence during the four years' course, and, as a rule, it is granted at the expiration of the first two years. The pay of a cadet is $540 a year, and with proper economy is sufficient for his support. The number of students at the Academy last year was 429. Upon graduating cadets are commissioned as second lieutenants in the United States Army. The whole number of graduates from 1802 to 1900 has been 3,993. MANNER OF APPLICATION.-Applications can be made at any time, by letter, to the Secretary of War, to have the applicant's name registered for submission to the proper Representative when a vacancy occurs. The application must exhibit the full name, date of birth and permanent abode of applicant, with the number of the Congress district in which his residence is situated. Immediately after his admission, and before receiving his warrant of appointment, the cadet must sign the following engagement for service, in the presence of the Superintendent or some officer deputed by him: I, of the State (or Territory) of aged years months, do hereby engage (with the consent of my parent or guardian) that, from the date of my admission as a cadet of the United States Military Academy, I will serve in the Army of the United States for eight years, unless sooner discharged by competent authority. In the presence The candidate must then take the following oath or affirmation: I, do solemnly swear that I will support the Constitution of the United States, and bear true allegiance to the National Government; that I will maintain and defend the sovereignty of the United States paramount to any and all allegiance, sovereignty or fealty I may owe to any State or country whatsoever, and that I will at all times obey the legal orders of my superior officers, and the rules and articles governing the armies of the United States.

After After After After

PAY OF RETIRED OFFICERS. Pay of grade. Monthly pay.

After After After After

Yearly. Monthly service service service service
5 y'rs' 10 y'rs' 15 y'rs' 20 y'rs' Yearly. Monthly 5 y'rs 10 y'rs' 15 y'rs' 20 y'rs
10 p. c. 20 p. c. 30 p. c. 40 D. c.

service service service service

$11,000 00 $916 67
7,500 00
5,500 00 458 33

.......$8,250 00

$687 50

625 00

5,625 00

4,125 00

468 75
343 75]

3,500 00 291 67

$320 83 $350 00 $375 00 $375 00

2,625 00

218 75 $240 62 $262 50|$281 25 $281 25

3,000 00 250 00

275 00

300 00

325.00

333 33

2,250 00

187 50 206 25] 225 00

243 751 250 00

*Regimental Adjutants and Regimental Quartermasters are never retired as such. †The maximum pay of a Colonel is, by law, $4,500 per annum.

The maximum pay of a Lieutenant Colonel is, by law, $4,000 per annum.

NOTES.-Under Sec. 1,261, Revised Statutes, an Aide-de-Camp to a Major-General is allowed $200 a year in addition to the pay
of his rank, not to be included in computing the service increase; an Aide-de-Camp to a Brigadier-General, $150 a year, and an Act-
ing Commissary of Subsistence $100 a year. Assistant Surgeons are entitled to pay of Captain after five years' service, service to be
reckoned from date of acceptance of appointment or commission.

Retired officers receive 75 per cent of pay (salary and increase) of their rank. Retired officers detailed for duty at colleges
under the act of November 3, 1893, are entitled to the full pay of officers of corresponding rank. Those detailed under other laws
are not entitled to anything beyond their retired pay.

Mileage, from and after July 1, 1898, is allowed to officers travelling on duty under orders at the rate of seven cents per mile, by
the shortest usually travelled routes. Comm utation of quarters is paid at the rate of $12 per month per room.

The monthly pay of enlisted men in the Army is as follows: Artillery, infantry and cavalry-Privates, $13; corporals, $15;
sergeants, $18; first sergeants, $25. Engineers and ordnance-Corporals, $20; sergeants, $34. The pay increases $1 per month each
year during the term of the first five years' enlistment. For the second term of enlistment the pay is $2 per month above that of
the last year of the first enlistment. The pay of others on the first year of enlistment is: Ordnance sergeant, commissary ser-
geant and post quartermaster sergeant, $34; hospital steward, $45; acting hospital steward, $25; senior veterinary surgeon, $100;
junior veterinary surgeon, $75. There is, in addition, a clothing allowance. Twenty per cent increase on pay proper of all enlisted
men is allowed in time of war. Enlisted men when retired are entitled to 75 per cent of the pay which they receive in active service.

.........Captain A. S. Crowninshield...
*Captain Royal B. Bradford....
*Captain Charles O'Neil........

Medicine and Surgery..
Supplies and Accounts..
Steam Engineering..
Construction and Repair.
Yards and Docks.

CHIEFS OF BUREAUS.

Name.

Term expires.

.....September 7, 1901

*Surgeon-General W. K. Van Reypen......October 21, 1901

*Pay Director Albert S. Kenney.
*Engineer-in-Chief George W. Melville...
.*Chief Constructor Philip Hichborn..
*Civil Engineer Mordecai T. Endicott..

. April 8, 1901

.June 1, 1901

....May 4, 1903

.August 9, 1903

.March 4, 1901

.April 4, 1902

Judge Advocate-General.. .†Lieutenant-Commander Samuel C. Lemly......June 5, 1904
Office of Naval Intelligence..Captain Charles D. Sigsbee..
....November, 1903
OFFICERS OF GRADE ABOVE LIEUTENANT-COMMANDER, ON ACTIVE LIST
JULY 1, 1900.
ADMIRAL

Name.

George Dewey.....

State from which appointed.
....Vermont.....

REAR-ADMIRALS.

Retirement date.

CAPTAINS.

State from Retirement
which appointed. date.
Benjamin P. Lamberton. Penn. Sept. 25, 1905
Richard P. Leary......Md...Nov. 3, 1904
William H. Whiting....Wis..July 8, 1905
Charles O'Neil
..Mass. Mar. 15, 1904

Caspar F. Goodrich.....Conn.Jan. 7, 1909
Bowman H. McCalla...N. J..June 19, 1906
French E. Chadwick...W.Va. Feb. 29, 1906
Theodore F. Jewell.....Va....Aug. 5, 1906
William M. Folger.....Ohio.. May 19, 1906
.Penn. Mar. 16, 1902
Cipriano Andrade..

Name.
Retirement
which appointed. date.
John A. Howell ....N. Y. Mar. 16, 1902
Albert Kautz
.Ohio..Jan. 29, 1901
George C. Remey. .Iowa. Aug. 10, 1903
Norman H. Farquhar...Penn. July 28, 1902
John C. Watson. ..Ky...Aug. 24, 1904
Winfield 'S. Schley. .Md....Oct. 9, 1901
Silas Casey
...N. Y.Sept. 11, 1903
William T. Sampson...N. Y. Feb. 9, 1902
Bartlett J. Cromwell....Neb.. Feb. 11, 1902
(Rank with Brigadier-General in Army.)
Francis J. Higginson... Mass. July 19, 1905
Frederick Rodgers .....Md...Oct. 3, 1904
Louis Kempff.. ...Ill....Oct. 11, 1903
George W. Sumner.. ..Ky...Dec. 31, 1903
Albert S. Barker... Mass. Mar. 31, 1905
Charles S. Cotton......Wis.. Feb. 15, 1905
Silas W. Terry.
Merrill Miller
John J. Read

.Ky...Dec. 28, 1904
..Ohio..Sept. 13, 1904
..N. J..June 17, 1904

CAPTAINS.

(Rank with Colonel in Army.)
Mortimer L. Johnson... Mass. June 1, 1904
Edwin M. Shepard.....N. Y.Sept. 16, 1905
Robley D. Evans.......Utah. Aug. 18, 1908
Frank Wildes..
Henry Glass

..Mass. June 17, 1905
..Ill....Jan. 7, 1906
Philip H. Cooper. ..N. Y.Aug. 5, 1906
Henry C. Taylor
Ohio..Mar. 4, 1907
George H. Wadleigh....N. H.Sept. 28, 1904
A. S. Crowninshield....N. Y. Mar. 14, 1905
James H. Sands..
Md...July 12, 1907
Yates Stirling
..Md...May 6, 1905
William C. Wise. .Ky...Nov. 8, 1904

Joseph B. Coghlan. ....Ill....Dec. 8, 1906
Purnell F. Harrington... Del...June 6, 1906
1Louis J. Allen.

Francis W. Dickins.....Conn. Nov. 2, 1906
1Lewis W. Robinson.. .N. J..Mar. 1, 1902
George F. F. Wilde.... .Mass. Feb. 23, 1907
Charles H. Davis.
Charles J. Train....
1Ralph Aston

.Mass. Aug. 28, 1907
Mass..May 14, 1907
Conn..Jan. 31, 1903
George W. Pigman ..Ind...Dec. 19, 1905
John McGowan.
.N. J..Aug. 4, 1905
James G. Green.. Mass. June 27, 1903
Charles H. Rockwell... Mass. June 12, 1902
James M. Forsyth.....Penn..Jan. 1, 1904
George A. Converse. ..Vt.... May 13, 1906
Royal B. Bradford......Me...July 22, 1906
Joseph E. Craig... ...N. Y. Feb. 24, 1907
Charles M. Thomas....Penn..Oct. 1, 1908
Albert S. Snow.
.Me... Nov. 18, 1907
George C. Reiter.... .Penn..July 6, 1907
Willard H. Brownson..N. Y..July 8, 1907
William W. Mead......Ky... Feb. 8, 1907
Edwin S. Houston..... Penn.. May 13, 1906
Edwin Longnecker......Penn.. Feb. 19, 1906
George E. Ide..........Ohio..Dec. 6, 1907
Thomas Perry...... ...N. Y..May 26, 1906
Charles H. Stockton... Penn..Oct. 13, 1907
Asa Walker ..
..N. H.Nov. 13, 1907
Oscar W. Farenholt....Tex... May 2, 1903
Robert E. Impey.... ...Ohio.. Mar. 17, 1907
Eugene W. Watson....Penn. Feb. 17, 1905
John F. Merry.
.Me...Mar. 5, 1902
William C. Gibson.. .N. Y.July 23, 1900

Washburn Maynard..... Tenn.Dec. 5, 1906
Henry W. Lyon........Mass. Nov. 8, 1907

1To perform engineer duty on shore only. The Engineer Corps was amalgamated with the line on March 5, 1899, by act of Congress.

*Rank of Rear-Admiral while Chief of Bureau. Rank of Captain while holding 'said office.