*Thomas N. Trickey, late Second Lieutenant of the Fifty-fourth Regi ment United States Colored Troops, for faithful and meritorious services during the war, to date from March 13, 1865. * James Riley Weaver, late Second Lieutenant of the Eighteenth Penn sylvania Cavalry, for faithful and meritorious services, to date from March 13, 1865. BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF WAR: E. D. TOWNSEND, Assistant Adjutant General. OFFICIAL: Assistant Adjutant General. GENERAL ORDERS No. 92. HEADQUARTERS OF THE ARMY, The following Regulations have been received from the War Depart ment: 1. With a view to the instruction and equipment of the army for any contingency in which communication by signals may become necessary, the Chief Signal Officer of the Army will furnish, with as little delay as is practicable, two full sets of signal equipments and two copies of the "Manual of Signals" to each company and post. 2. Telescopes or binocular glasses will be issued by the Chief Signal Officer of the Army upon the requisitions of officers commanding companies, approved by the Department Commanders, and then by the General of the Army. 3. Such articles of signal equipments or signal stores will be furnished particular companies, detachments, or posts, as, in the opinion of the Chief Signal Officer of the Army, their circumstances may require. 4. All articles of signal equipment or supply will be receipted for by the company or other officers to whose charge they may be sent, and will thereafter be regularly accounted for to the office of the Chief Signal Officer on forms to be furnished for this purpose. 5. The Chief Signal Officer of the Army will provide for the equipment and management of field electric telegraphs to be used with active forces in the field. BY COMMAND OF GENERAL GRANT: E. D. TOWNSEND, Assistant Adjutant General. OFFICIAL: Assistant Adjutant General. GENERAL ORDERS No. 93. HEADQUARTERS OF THE ARMY, The following Orders and Regulations have been received from the War Department, and are published for the information and government of all concerned: I.. All the appointments of commissioned officers in the army, provided for by the act of July 28, 1866, having now been filled in accordance with provisions of that act, it is hereby announced that a higher standard of qualification, analogous to that which prevailed before the late war, will in future be required of all candidates for the appointment of second lieutenant. II..As a general rule, one-fourth of the vacancies occurring annually will be filled, agreeably to existing laws and regulations, from non-com. missioned officers in the army. The remainder, not filled by the gradu. ating classes of the Military Academy, will be supplied from civil life. III..The following regulations will be observed in the examination of candidates: 1. No person shall be examined who has not a letter authorizing the same from the War Department. 2. No candidate will be examined who is under 20 or over 28 years of age; who, in the judgment of the board, has not the physical ability to endure the exposure of service; who has any deformity of body, or whose moral habits are bad. 3. The board being satisfied of these preliminary points, will proceed to examine each candidate separately: First. In his knowledge of English grammar, and his ability to read and write with facility and correctness. Second. In his knowledge of arithmetic, and his ability in the application of its rules to all practical questions. In his knowledge of the use of logarithms, and ability to apply them to questions of practice. In his knowledge of algebra, to the solution of simple equations, and in his knowledge of plane and solid geometry. Third. In his knowledge of geography, particularly in reference to the northern continent of America, and in his ability to solve the usual probJems on the terrestial globe. Also, in his knowledge of what is usually denominated popular astronomy. Fourth. In his knowledge of history, particularly in reference to his own country. |