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curring the risk of hostile capture and the penalties denounced by the law of nations in that behalf.

And I do hereby give notice that all citizens of the United States and others who may claim the protection of this Government, who may misconduct themselves in the premises, will do so at their peril, and that they can in no wise obtain any protection from the Government of the United States against the consequences of their misconduct.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.

DONE at the city of Washington this twenty-fourth day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand [SEAL.] nine hundred and fifteen and of the independence of the United States of America the one hundred and thirty-ninth.

By the President:

W. J. BRYAN,

Secretary of State.

[2291407, A. G. O.]

WOODROW WILSON.

II. By direction of the President, so much of General Orders, No. 118, War Department, 1909, as relates to the organization of the Mounted Service School Detachment and the Coast Artillery School Detachment, as amended, is further amended to read as follows:

Mounted Service School Detachment.

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WAR DEPARTMENT, WASHINGTON, June 3, 1915.

GENERAL ORDERS,] No. 32. I..The following regulations for the examination and classification of gunners of Field Artillery, which are not to take effect until the next period of field training, are published for the information and guidance of all concerned:

1. Examinations will take place where batteries or detachments are serving and will be held each year, beginning in the first month of the period of field training on such dates as may be designated by the commanders who convene the boards. The examinations will be separate for each battery and detachment, except as provided in paragraphs 40 and 41 of this order.

2. The board or boards for conducting the examinations in each Field Artillery command will be convened by the commanding officer thereof, or, in exceptional cases, by higher commanders. Each board shall consist of three officers of Field Artillery who shall be of the same branch, if practicable, as are the candidates to be examined; but any member of the board below the grade of field officer shall be replaced by another officer during the examination of candidates from his own organization.

3. Each battery or detachment commander, on the day previous to the date set for the examination of candidates from his command, will submit to the senior member of the board a list of the men of his command who are to appear for examination. Each officer will certify on the list submitted by him that the candidates who have not previously qualified as gunners are, as determined by a preliminary examination conducted under his supervision, well instructed in the subjects of the examination and qualified to pass the examination required for gunners of the class for which they are recommended.

4. The board will keep a record of marks during the examination, and at the conclusion thereof will submit directly to the commander ordering the examination a tabular list of the successful candidates from each organization, arranged in order of merit in their respective classes, with the date of qualification of each. The mark received in each subject by each candidate will appear opposite the candidate's name and the appropriate totals will be carried out. The tabular list, upon approval by the commander

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ordering the examination, will be published in orders as required by Army Regulations.

5. Candidates, to be classed as expert first-class gunners, must attain an average of not less than 85 per cent in each subject prescribed in paragraph 7 of this order or an average of not less than 80 per cent in each subject prescribed in paragraph 8 of this order; to be classed as first-class gunners, a general average of not less than 85 per cent, with an average in each subject of not less than 75 per cent; to be classed as second-class gunners, a general average of not less than 75 per cent, with an average in each subject of not less than 65 per cent.

6. The rating of a gunner as expert first-class, first-class, or second-class will continue for the period during which he is entitled to pay as gunner as prescribed in Army Regulations.

7. With the exceptions mentioned in paragraph 8 of this order, examinations of candidates from batteries will include the following:

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8. Examinations of candidates from the regimental and battalion noncommissioned staffs, beadquarters detachments, agents and mounted orderlies, and of any first-class gunner who so elects will include the following:

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