recommendations for the appointment, assignment, transfer, examination, and retirement in all cases of officers, warrant officers, and noncommissioned staff officers and, in cases not covered by regulations, of other noncommissioned officers and other enlisted men of the Coast Artillery Corps. He classifies the Regular and Reserve commissioned personnel of his arm in accordance with methods prescribed by the Secretary of War. Under direction of the Secretary of War, he has immediate charge of the purchase, manufacture, maintenance, and test of submarine mine matériel and of its distribution to the Coast Artillery Corps. He submits to the Chief of Staff recommendations as to the character, number, and methods of mounting armament deemed necessary in any harbordefense project.

The Coast Artillery Corps is charged with manning the artillery primarily designed for fire upon naval targets, the controlled submarine mine systems, the sound-ranging installations in harbor defense, and the Antiaircraft Artillery.

OFFICE OF THE CHIEF OF INFANTRY

The Chief of Infantry is charged with the duty of keeping the Chief of Staff advised and informed on all questions affecting the Infantry. He exercises direct supervision and control over the special service schools and the special boards of his arm. He formulates and develops the tactical doctrine of the Infantry in accordance with the War Department doctrine and prepares the necessary manuals, training literature, and training memoranda relating to the employment, instruction, and training of his arm and of the care and use of matériel and equipment. He cooperates with the chiefs of supply services in developing the armament and equipment of the Infantry and submits to the Chief of Staff such recommendations as to armament and equipment as may be necessary. He submits to the Chief of Staff recommendations as to the organization of Infantry units and also as to their training and instruction, including units of the Infantry Reserve Officers' Training Corps. He confers with the appropriate agencies of the War Department in all matters connected with the organization, training and instruction, equipment, and general administration and efficiency of the personnel and organizations of his arm in the Organized Reserves and National Guard. He cooperates with the Personnel Bureau of The Adjutant General's Office and recommends officers to be detailed as students at service schools, at technical, professional, and other educational institutions, and for other similar duties, and makes recommendations for the appointment, assignment, transfer, examination, and retirement in all cases of officers, warrant officers, and, in cases not covered by regulations, of noncommissioned officers and other enlisted men of the Infantry. He or his representatives visit such places as may be necessary in connection with the efficiency of his arm.

OFFICE OF THE CHIEF OF CHAPLAINS

The Chief of Chaplains, under the direction of the Chief of Staff, is charged with the general supervision of matters pertaining to the religious and moral welfare of the military personnel. His specific duties in this realm include the investigation of the qualifications of candidates for appointment as chaplains and the preparation of examinations for their entrance into the Army; general coordination and supervision of the plans and duties of chaplains, recommendations for their assignment to stations and their relief therefrom; and advisory information as to the articles of equipment and supply necessary for their work. His duties also include direct supervision over the Chaplains' School, the preparation of training manuals for his branch, and training material for the extension courses for chaplains, and general direction of all other projects for the instruction of chaplains which may be considered necessary to secure a properly trained personnel. He promulgates such office circulars of professional nature as may be helpful to chaplains of the Regular Army, National Guard, and Reserve Corps; provides for them a stimulating interchange of ideas and programs; and makes such visitations and inspections of chaplain activities as will qualify him to give competent advice to the Chief of Staff in matters of religious and moral nature in the Army.

MILITARY BUREAUS

The chiefs of the military bureaus of the War Department are, with the exception of the Chief of the National Guard Bureau, officers of the Regular Army of the United States and a part of the Military Establishment. The Chief of the

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National Guard Bureau is appointed by the President by selection from lists of National Guard officers who hold commissions in the National Guard of the United States.

OFFICE OF THE ADJUTANT GENERAL

The Adjutant General is charged with the duty of recording, authenticating, and communicating to troops and individuals in the military service all orders, instructions, and regulations issued by the Secretary of War through the Chief of Staff, or otherwise; of preparing and distributing commissions; of compiling and issuing the Army Register and the Army List and Directory; of consolidating data from the general returns of the Army; of arranging and preserving the reports of officers of the Army detailed to visit encampments of militia; of compiling and maintaining a list showing the names of officers of the Army on detached service; of managing the recruiting service; of procuring candidates for admission to citizens' military training camps; of handling matters pertaining to the education and recreation of the soldier, including the Army motion-picture service; of conducting correspondence concerning the military service generally, including such as pertains to military training camps, the Officers' Reserve Corps, the Enlisted Reserve Corps, and the Reserve Officers' Training Corps; and in cooperation with other governmental agencies, participates in matters pertaining to the general administration of the Civilian Conservation Corps. He is vested by law with the government and control, under the direction of the Secretary of War, of the United States Disciplinary Barracks and its branches and of all offenders sent thereto for confinement and detention; and is charged with the duty of issuing and recording orders from the War Department remitting or mitigating sentences of general prisoners or honorably restoring them to duty. The Adjutant General is also vested by law with the charge, under the Secretary of War, "of the military and hospital records of the volunteer armies and the pension and other business of the War Department connected therewith"; of publishing War Department regulations, manuals, and miscellaneous documents pertaining to the military service and distributing those publications to the Army. He also has charge of the records of the permanent Military Establishment and of all War Department business pertaining thereto, including the consideration of applications for the Congressional Medal of Honor, the Distinguished Service Cross, the Distinguished Service Medal, and other medals or crosses awarded in connection with military service; for the benefits of the act of Congress approved April 27, 1916, establishing the Army and Navy medal-of-honor roll; for certificates of military service, and certificates authorizing the purchase of service medals; and for removal of charges of desertion and the issue of discharge certificates to such soldiers finally charged with desertion as are entitled to relief under the terms of existing law. The archives of The Adjutant General's Office include all military records of the Revolutionary War in the possession of the General Government; the records of all organizations, officers, and enlisted men that have been in the military service of the United States since the Revolutionary War, including those pertaining to the volunteer and drafted forces and the National Guard while in the active service of the United States; the records of the movements and operations of troops; the medical and hospital records of the Army; reports of physical examination of recruits and identification records; the records of the Provost Marshal General's Bureau of the Civil War period; the records of the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands; a considerable collection of the Confederate records, including those pertaining to the legislative, executive, and judicial branches of the Confederate government; and the records kept by draft boards and State headquarters while operating under the provisions of the selective service law approved May 18, 1917.

The Personnel Bureau of The Adjutant General's Office is charged by law, under such regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary of War, with the operating functions of procurement, assignment, promotion, transfer, retirement, and discharge of all officers and enlisted men of the Army, with the proviso that Territorial commanders and the chiefs of the several arms and services of the Army shall be charged with such of the above-described duties within their respective jurisdictions as may be prescribed by the Secretary of War.

INSPECTOR GENERAL'S OFFICE

The Inspector General, with his assistants, inspects the United States Military Academy; the service schools; garrisoned posts and commands; camps of maneuver and instruction; corps-area, department, and division headquarters; general hospitals; armories and arsenals; quartermaster, ordnance, medical,

torpedo signal, air, chemical warfare, and engineer depots; proving grounds; recruit depots and recruiting stations; remount purchasing and breeding headquarters; the disciplinary barracks; and military prisoners in United States penitentiary, Leavenworth, Kans.; ungarrisoned posts; national cemeteries under War Department jurisdiction; United States Army transports, cable boats, mine planters, and harbor boats; unserviceable property; money accounts of all disbursing officers of the Army and property and disbursing officers of the National Guard; Soldiers' Home, District of Columbia; the National Guard as required by the act of June 3, 1916; also makes such special investigations and such annual inspections of troops as may be ordered, and conducts inspections of all activities of the War Department.

OFFICE OF THE JUDGE ADVOCATE GENERAL

The Judge Advocate General is the official legal adviser of the Secretary of War, the Chief of Staff, the War Department and its bureaus, and the entire Military Establishment. He advises concerning the legal correctness of military administration, including disciplinary action, matters affecting the rights and mutual relationship of the personnel of the Army, and the financial, contractual, and other business affairs of the War Department and the Army. The functions of the Judge Advocate General's Department include not only those of the Judge Advocate General and of his office in Washington but also those of judge advocates serving as staff officers at the headquarters of Army, corps-area, department, corps, division, and separate brigade commanders, and at the headquarters of other officers exercising general court-martial jurisdiction.

OFFICE OF THE QUARTERMASTER GENERAL

The Quartermaster General, under the authority of the Secretary of War, shall be charged with the purchase and procurement for the Army of all supplies of standard manufacture and of all supplies common to two or more branches but not with the purchase or the procurement of special or technical articles to be used or issued exclusively by other supply departments; with the direction of all work pertaining to the construction, maintenance, and repair of buildings, structures, and utilities other than fortifications connected with the Army; with the storage and issue of supplies; with the operation of utilities; with the acquisition of all real estate and the issue of licenses in connection with Government reservations; with the transportation of the Army by land and water, including the transportation of troops and supplies by mechanical or animal means; with the furnishing of means of transportation of all classes and kinds required by the Army; and with such other duties not otherwise assigned by law as the Secretary of War may prescribe: Provided, That special and technical articles used or issued exclusively by other branches of the service may be purchased or procured with the approval of The Assistant Secretary of War by the branches using or issuing such articles, and the chief of each branch may be charged with the storage and issue of property pertaining thereto: Provided further, That utilities pertaining exclusively to any branch of the Army may be operated by such branches (sec. 9, act June 3, 1916, as amended by act June 4, 1920).

Executive Office.-In charge of administration of the Quartermaster General's Office; transmits orders and instructions of the Quartermaster General; supervises office personnel; distributes all authorized publications, supervises mail and record branch.

Supply Division. Has charge of all duties pertaining to the procurement, storage, and distribution of supplies; purchase of horses, mules, and forage required in connection with the operations of the Army and control of remount depots and stations.

Construction Division.-Is charged with the construction, maintenance, and repair of all buildings, structures, and utilities of the Army (other than permanent fortifications).

Transportation Division.-Is charged with the transportation of the Army by land and water.

Administrative Division.-Handles all administrative matters of general nature not assigned elsewhere; investigations; all matters pertaining to tables of basic allowances, war planning equipment charts, requirements, war plans, and training; general control over appropriations; in charge of matters relating to legislation; prepares proposed orders, circulars, regulations, bulletins, and similar papers for publication; compiles and prepares history of Quartermaster General's Office. Has charge of all matters pertaining to commissioned, enlisted, and

civilian personnel of the Quartermaster Corps. Has supervision over all matters pertaining to national cemeteries, including interments, disinterments, furnishing Government headstones, and disposition of remains of officers, enlisted men, and civilian employees of the United States Army who die while on active duty.

OFFICE OF THE CHIEF OF FINANCE

The Chief of Finance is charged with the disbursement of all funds of the War Department and has responsibility for and authority over such funds, also the examination and recording of money accounts, the auditing of property accounts, and with such other fiscal and accounting duties as may be required by law or assigned to him by the Secretary of War.

The Chief of Finance is the budget officer for the War Department and in this capacity is charged with the preparation of estimates for the War Department.

The Chief of Finance is charged with duties as the fiscal agent of the Director, Civilian Conservation Corps, in carrying out the provisions of the act establishing the Civilian Conservation Corps.

OFFICE OF THE SURGEON GENERAL

The Surgeon General is the adviser of the War Department upon all medical and sanitary affairs of the Army. He has administrative control of the Medical Department, which includes the Medical Corps, the Dental Corps, the Veterinary Corps, the Medical Administrative Corps, and the Army Nurse Corps; the designation of the stations of the commissioned personnel and civilian employees of the Medical Department and the issuance of orders and instructions relating to their professional duties; and the instruction and control of the enlisted force of the Medical Department. The Army Medical Museum, the Army Medical Library, and the general hospitals are under his direct control.

OFFICE OF THE CHIEF OF ENGINEERS

The Chief of Engineers is charged with control in technical matters over all of the Corps of Engineers and with the command of such portions of the corps as are not placed by the War Department under some Territorial command nor assigned to some tactical unit containing other than Engineer troops. The duties of the Corps of Engineers comprise reconnoitering and surveying for military purposes, including the laying out of camps in any theater of military operations; the preparation, reproduction, and distribution of military maps of the United States and its possessions, including cooperation with other Government and private mapping agencies; participation in the selection and acquisition of sites for military defenses, and preparation of plans and estimates therefor; construction and repair of fortifications and their accessories, including structures for submarine mine systems; procurement, installation, and maintenance of searchlights and electric power and lighting systems; construction of fire-control structures, and the maintenance pertaining to such latter systems which involve structural work; planning and supervising defensive or offensive works of troops in the field; military demolitions; military mining; military camouflage; military bridges; water supply of troops in the field; examination of routes of communication for supplies and for military movements; and all general construction and road work, including maintenance and repair (except telegraph and telephone lines), and the construction, operation, and maintenance of all railways, utilities, ferries, canal boats, or other means of water transportation within a theater of military operations. It collects, arranges, and preserves all correspondence, reports, memoirs, estimates, plans, drawings, and models which concern or relate in any way to the several duties above enumerated. The Corps of Engineers is also charged with the development, procurement, storage, and issue of certain classes of military supplies and equipment.

The Chief of Engineers, under the direction of the Secretary of War, is charged with the supervision of all Federal investigations and improvements of river and harbor and other waterways except as otherwise specifically provided by act of Congress. The duties include: The execution of work ordered by Congress for the improvements of rivers and harbors and other waterways; examinations and surveys; administration and enforcement of laws for the protection and preservation of navigable waters; the establishment of harbor lines and anchorage grounds; regulations for the use, administration, and navigation of waterways and for the operation of drawbridges; the removal of wrecks and other obstructions to navigation; approval of plans for bridges and dams; issuance of permits for structures, and for dredging, dumping, or other work in navigable waterways;

investigation and supervision in cooperation with the Federal Power Commission of power projects affecting navigable waters; supervision of operations affecting the scenic beauty and grandeur of Niagara Falls; surveying and charting the Great Lakes; reclamation and development of Anacostia River and Flats, D. C.; maintenance and repair of the Washington Aqueduct, the water supply of Washington, D. C.; and the preparation of reports and studies for agencies charged with the administration of relief programs with respect to improvements on streams and waterways throughout the United States, including general consulting services for the Works Progress Administration.

BOARD OF ENGINEERS FOR RIVERS AND HARBORS

The Board of Engineers for Rivers and Harbors is a permanent body created by the River and Harbor Act of June 13, 1902. To it are referred for consideration and recommendation all reports upon examinations and surveys provided for by Congress and all projects or changes in projects for works of river and harbor and flood-control improvements upon which report is desired by the Chief of Engineers, United States Army. It is further the duty of the Board, upon request of the Committee on Commerce of the Senate or of the Committees on Rivers and Harbors or Flood Control of the House of Representatives, in the same manner to examine and report through the Chief of Engineers upon any examinations, surveys, or projects for the improvement of navigation on rivers and harbors or relating to flood control. In its investigations the Board gives consideration to all engineering, commercial, navigation, and economic questions involved in determining the advisability of undertaking such improvements at the expense of the United States. The work of the Board has been extended to include passing upon the plans of local authorities for terminal improvements in order to determine their adequacy under the provisions of section 1 of the River and Harbor Act of March 2, 1919; advising and assisting local port authorities in planning the lay-out and equipment of terminal facilities; and the designing of floating plant for use in the prosecution of projects for river and harbor improvement. The Board is engaged on the investigations authorized by the Transportation Act of 1920, with a view to the promotion of water transportation, and the investigations of ports authorized by the Merchant Marine Act to be made in cooperation with the Shipping Board Bureau of the Department of Commerce. Its duties also include the compilation, publication, and distribution of useful statistics, data, and information concerning ports and water transportation.

OFFICE OF THE CHIEF OF ORDNANCE

The Chief of Ordnance is in command of the Ordnance Department, whose duties are to design, procure, store, supply, and maintain the ordnance and ordnance stores of the United States Army, including artillery, artillery ammunition, small arms, bombs, and all munitions of war which may be required for the fortifications of the Army, the armies of the field, and for the National Guard of the United States of America. The Ordnance Department performs all the technical engineering work necessary to investigate and construct experimental ordnance matériel for the adoption by the Army; prepares the necessary regulations for proof, inspection, storing, and for maintaining this matériel, as well as the detailed information necessary for the manufacture of munitions, for inspection of them, and for maintaining reserves prescribed by higher authority.

OFFICE OF THE CHIEF SIGNAL OFFICER

The Chief Signal Officer has immediate charge, under the direction of the Secretary of War, of the development, procurement, storage, issue, and repair of signal communication and meteorological equipment and supplies; the development, procurement, storage, and issue of all electrical apparatus associated with direction finding for determining the location of radio stations, aircraft and marine craft and of all the electrical apparatus associated with range finding; the preparation, publication, revision, storage, accounting, and distribution of all codes and ciphers required by the Army, and in time of war the interception of enemy radio and wire traffic, the goniometric location of enemy radio stations, the solution of intercepted enemy code and cipher messages, and laboratory arrangements for the employment and detection of secret inks; the installation, maintenance, and operation of all military signal communication systems and equipment, including military cable, telephone and telegraph lines, radio apparatus and stations, except the routine maintenance and operation of fixed firecontrol communication systems and fixed airways and airdrome control systems