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tion, on the recommendation of the Chief of Coast Artillery, such enlisted men holding a certificate of proficiency in any course and awaiting appointment to the grade for which they have qualified, as may be designated by the Secretary of War to take any of the prescribed courses of study therein.

41. Any master electrician, engineer, electrician sergeant, master gunner, sergeant major, or fireman who has been designated to take a prescribed course of study at the school and fails to complete such course to the satisfaction of the school board will be discharged from the service for the convenience of the Government, and will not be eligible for appointment to or reenlistment in the grade held by him at the time of his discharge.

42. In order to be eligible for a course of instruction, an enlisted candidate shall have had at the commencement of the course elected, at least one and one-half years' continuous service in the Coast Artillery Corps or the Coast Artillery School Detachment.

43. A candidate for the electrical course must be practically familiar with one or more classes of machinery, apparatus, or equipment pertaining to the power and electrical installation of a coast defense command; a candidate for the artillery course must be familiar with the use of the position finding apparatus of a coast defense command; a candidate for the clerical course must have had sufficient clerical work to have demonstrated his ability for this class of duty; a candidate for the radio course must be a reliable man of excellent character. Each candidate will satisfy his commanding officer of his ability to pursue successfully the course of study prescribed.

44. A candidate for either the electrical, artillery, or clerical course, if he is stationed in the United States, will make application to his coast defense commander on or before July 1, for permission to attend the school; a candidate stationed in the foreign possessions will make such application on or before May 1. A candidate for the radio course, if he is stationed in the United States, will make application to his coast defense commander on or before July 1 for the course commencing the following January, and on or before January 1 for the course commencing the

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following July; if stationed in the foreign possessions he will make such application two months earlier than above indicated. As soon as the coast defense commander has received all applications from men of the coast defense command, he will request directly from the commandant, Coast Artillery School, the proper number of sets of examination papers. Before admission to the school a candidate who complies with the conditions stated above will be examined, in writing, under the direction of his commanding officer, in the presence of a commisisoned officer, upon the questions furnished by the school and prepared by the school board.

45. Examinations for the electrical, artillery, and clerical courses will be held in the United States on September 1 and in the foreign possessions on August 1. For the radio course commencing on July 1, the examinations will be held in the United States on March 1 and in the foreign possessions on February 1. For the radio course commencing on January 1, the examinations will be held in the United States on September 1 and in the foreign possessions on August 1. Upon the completion of examinations, all papers, with the applications of candidates, will be sent directly to the commandant, Coast Artillery School, each application to bear endorsements from the company, fort, and coast defense commanders stating the qualifications of the candidate, and whether he has the character and reliability essential to the grade for which he would be eligible upon satisfactorily completing the school course.

46. On October 1 the commandant will forward to The Adjutant General of the Army his recommendations as to the candidates to be selected for the courses to commence the first part of January; and on April 1 for the course commencing the first part of July. No candidate will be selected for a radio course unless he will have at least one year to serve after completing the course which he desires to take.

47. The candidates finally selected for the electrical, artillery, and clerical courses will be ordered to report at the school on the first day of January following their examination; upon receipt in the coast defenses in which they are serving of the order designating the successful candidates who are to attend the school, these men will be immediately discharged from the service for the convenience of

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the Government and will on the date following that of discharge be reenlisted for the organizations to which they belonged; their discharge papers will not be delivered to them until they shall have reenlisted. The candidates selected for the radio course will be ordered to report to the school as follows: Those examined on February 1 in the foreign possessions and March 1 in the United States, on the first day of July following their examination; those examined on August 1 in the foreign possessions and September 1 in the United States, on the first day of January following their examination.

48. Candidates for admission to the electrical course will be examined in the following subjects: (a) Arithmetic, (b) algebra, to include simple exercises (not problems) and the solution of equations of the first degree containing two unknown quantities; (c) elementary steam engineering; (d) elementary electricity and its practical applications; (e) elementary power transmission. For admission to the artillery course candidates will be examined in: (a) Arithmetic; (b) algebra, to include simple exercises (not problems) and the solution of equations of the first degree containing two unknown quantities. For admission to the clerical course candidates will be examined in: (a) Penmanship; (b) orthography; (c) arithmetic, to include common and decimal fractions, percentage, and proportion; (d) grammar; (e) punctuation. For admission to the radio course candidates will be examined in: (a) Penmanship; (b) orthography; (c) arithmetic, to include common and decimal fractions; (d) grammar; (e) punctuation,

49. Those candidates who successfully complete the prescribed electrical course will be furnished with certificates of proficiency, and will be reported by the commandant to the War Department as eligible for appointment as electrician sergeants, second class; those who successfully complete the prescribed artillery course will be furnished with certificates of proficiency and will, in like manner, be reported as eligible for appointment as master gunners; those who successfully complete the prescribed clerical course will be furnished with certificates of proficiency and will, in like manner, be reported as eligible for appointment as sergeants major, junior grade; those who successfully complete the

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prescribed radio course will be furnished with certificates of proficiency and will, in like manner, be reported as eligible for duty as radio operators.

50. Unless otherwise directed the commandant will, at the end of the school year, relieve from duty at the school those enlisted students who have failed to complete successfully the prescribed course of study, and will, by the authority of the Secretary of War, order men thus relieved to rejoin their proper station, provided the station be within the limits of the United States. The commandant may, also, at any time during the school year, relieve from duty and return to his station as indicated above, any enlisted student in the department of enlisted specialists who may have demonstrated his incapacity or unfitness to pursue the prescribed course of study.

THE SCHOOL YEAR.

51. The course of instruction will commence on the third day of January of each year or on the following Tuesday when the third falls on Saturday, Sunday, or Monday, and the work of the school will be carried on daily until the first day of the following December, except on Saturdays, Sundays, and authorized holidays.

[1662813 J-A. G. O.]

BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF WAR:

H. L. SCOTT,

Major General, Chief of Staff.

OFFICIAL:

H. P. MCCAIN,

The Adjutant General.