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ance with the procedure laid down in paragraphs 39 and 49, inclusive, General 

 Orders, No. 70, War Department, 1913. 



(/) In accordance with the act of Congress approved July 17, 1914, the purchase of 

 articles of clothing and puhlications in such quantities as are approved by the Secretary 

 of War can be made. Each application will be conaiilere<i separately. 



(g) The in.stifution will be inspected annually by General Staff ollicera with the 

 view of standardizing the course of instruction and correcting any deficiencies in 

 methods, manner of instruction and training that might exist. 



3. Before issuing any arms and equipment the law requires that a bond twice the 

 value of the ordnance and ordnance stores Lssued be filed with the Chief of Ordnance, 

 United States Army. (Pars. 60 to (59, General Orders, No. 70, War Department, 1913.) 



All information relative to the purchase of ordnance and ordnance stores or replacing 

 those damaged by fair wear and tear, or carelessness on the part of members of the 

 Cadet Corps, and accounting for the property of the Government in the hands of the 

 college or school authorities, will be found in paragraphs 50 to 59, inclusive. General 

 Orders, No. 70, War Department, 1913. 



A suitable place for the safe-keeping of the arms and equipment, as well as adequate 

 arrangements for their care and preservation, must be pro\'ided. Where a retired 

 ofTicer is detailed under the act approved April 21, 1904, the approval of the governor 

 of the State is necessary before submitting any application for arms and equipment. 



4. A retired officer can be detailed at any educational institution provided the insti- 

 tution will pay the oflicer's commutation. 



GRADUATES OF LAND-GRANT COLLEGES AND MILITARY SERVICE. 



[Extract from an act for making further and more effectual pro\'lsion for the naUonal defense, and for 



other purposes.] 



Sec. 40. The Reserve Officers' TR.\i>fiMO Corps. — The President is hereby 

 authorized to establish and maintain in civil educational institutions a Reserve Olli- 

 cers' Training Corps, which shall consist of a senior division organized at universities 

 and colleges requiring four years of collegiate study for a degree, including State 

 universities and those State institutions that are required to provide instruction in 

 military tactics under the provisions of the act of Congress of July second, eighteen 

 hundred and sixty-two, donating lands for the establishment of colleges where the 

 leading object shall be practical instruction in agriculture and the mechanic arts, 

 including military tactics, and a junior division organized at all other public or private 

 e<lucational institutions, except that units of the senior division may he organized at 

 those essentially military schools which do not confer an academic degree but which, 

 as a result of the annual in.spection of such iuHtitutions by the War Department, are 

 specially designated by the Secretary of War as qualified for units of the senior di vi.sion, 

 and each division shall consist of units of the several arms or corps in such number 

 and of such strength as the President may prescribe. 



Sec. 41. The rn-sident may, ui)on theapplicationof any State institution described 

 in section forty of this act, establish and maintain at such institution one or more units 

 of the Reserve Odiccrs' Training ('()ri)s: I'rovidvil, That no such unit shall be estab- 

 lish(!<l or maintaine<l at any such institution until an oflicerof the Army shall have been 

 (U'tailed as jjrofcssor of military' Hcicnce and tactics, nor until such institution shall 

 maintuin under niilit:ir>' instruction at least one hundrnl ])hysically fit mah'Stud<>nls, 



Skc. 42. The President may, upon the apj»licution of any established o<lucational 

 institution in the UniUnl States other than a Stat(^ institution (b'.scribiHl in section forty 

 of thisact, theauthoriticsof whiih agree to establish and maintain a two years' elective 

 or compulsory course of military' training as a tuinimum for its jihysically lit male stu- 



