Subject: Report of operations of the office of the Judge In compliance with the department's order of June 19, 1911, on the above subject, the following résumé of the work of this office for the period mentioned is submitted: GENERAL COURTS-MARTIAL. Charges and specifications drawn up in this office during the fiscal year. Trials by order of officers authorized to convene general courts-martial. Conduct to the prejudice of good order and discipline... Conduct unbecoming an officer and a gentleman and scandalous conduct. 1 Conduct unbecoming an officer and a gentleman; scandalous conduct; conduct to the prejudice of good order and discipline, and falsehood.. Culpable inefficiency and neglect of duty. Culpable negligence and inefficiency in the performance of duty. Desertion.. Disrespectful in language and deportment to his superior officer; violation of a lawful regulation issued by the Secretary of the Navy, and conduct to the prejudice of good order and discipline.. Drunkenness.. Drunkenness; neglect of duty, and absence without leave. 1 1 Drunkenness on duty.. 1 Leaving station before being regularly relieved and sleeping on watch.. 1 2 Scandalous conduct tending to the destruction of good morals.. Scandalous conduct tending to the destruction of good morals, and conduct to the prejudice of good order and discipline. Acquitted.... Through negligence suffering a vessel of the Navy to be run on a rock.. Total... Absence without leave, or after his leave had expired, and conduct to the prejudice of good order and discipline... 62 Assaulting another person in the service. 3 Assault with intent to kill.. Assaulting a sentinel..... 4 Assaulting and striking a superior officer, or threat of same. 10 Assaulting with a deadly weapon and wounding another person in the service. 5 Breaking arrest.. 1 Desertion and conduct to the prejudice of good order and discipline, or breaking arrest, or scandalous conduct.. Disobeying a lawful order... Disrespectful in language and deportment to a superior officer. Drunkenness.. Drunkenness on duty. 84 3 2 4 15 8 4 41 2 534 134 10 16 5 17 34 Falsehood. Forgery.. 3 Fraudulent enlistment.. 151 44 195 Knowing of an intended mutiny and not communicating it to his superior or commanding officer, and conduct to the prejudice of good order and discipline... Leaving station before being regularly relieved.. Using abusive, profane, or obscene language to a superior officer, or to another person in the service. Violation of article 14, A. G. N.; stealing, selling, embezzling, or unlawfully disposing of Government property. Total... Acquitted. Disapproved.. Statute of limitations pleaded and accepted. Total.... Percentages of enlisted personnel in the Navy and Marine Corps tried by court-martial. Courts of inquiry received and examined. Courts of inquiry followed by courts-martial. Courts of inquiry followed by action other than courts-martial.. Courts of inquiry in which no further action was deemed necessary. Boards of inquest received and examined....... 37 8 10 19 179 109 EXAMINING BOARDS. 475 11 16 Failed professionally and physically.. Passed for promotion... Officers of the Marine Corps: Examined for promotion. Failed physically... Passed for promotion... 446 34 4 30 EXAMINING BOARDS-CANDIDATES FOR SECOND LIEUTENANT, UNITED STATES MARINE CORPS, PASSED UPON IN THIS OFFICE. Examined.. Passed.. Failed professionally. Failed professionaaly and physically. 34 10 Total..... Total number of examinations for promotion, Navy and Marine Corps.. 1 23 509 69 102 680 LEGISLATION. Senate and House bills, joint resolutions, and proposed amendments referred to the department for recommendation. Senate bills, etc.: Private Total House bills, etc., referred..... Statutes, etc., drafted: Public bills or amendments thereto drafted and submitted to Congress.. The bills, etc., referred to in the last annual report of the Judge Advocate General, which were recommended or approved by the department and which became laws during the third session of the Sixty-first Congress, are as follows: S. 4239. To amend section 183 of the Revised Statutes. (Approved Feb. 13, 1911; authorizes the detail of any officer of the Navy, Marine Corps, or Revenue-Cutter Service, in addition to those persons heretofore designated by sec. 183, as amended, to conduct investigations, etc., and empowers such persons to administer oaths.) S. 4744. To provide that officers of the United States Navy who, under authority of law, perform engineering duty on shore only be made additional numbers. (Émbodied in naval appropriation act approved Mar. 4, 1911, with a proviso that such officers shall be eligible to all the benefits of retirement equally with other officers, etc.) S. 4746. To extend the provisions of section 3 of the act of October 1, 1890, to officers of the United States Navy. (Embodied in the naval appropriation act approved Mar. 4, 1911; authorizes retirement with rank to which an officer is entitled by seniority in case of his failure, when incident to the service, to qualify physically for promotion.) H. R. 23015. To protect the dignity and honor of the uniform of the United States. (Approved Mar. 1, 1911.) H. R. 24256. To authorize commissions to issue in the cases of officers retired or advanced on the retired list with increased rank. (Approved Mar. 4, 1911.) The following public bills heretofore advocated by the department have again been introduced-during the first session of the Sixtysecond Congress--and have received the department's approval: Retirement of enlisted men after 16, 20, and 25 years' service. (S. 291 and H. R. 1235; the Senate bill was favorably reported May 24, 1911-Report No. 39-and is now Calendar No. 28; no action taken as yet by House Naval Committee.) Medals of honor, to provide for award of, to officers of the Navy. (S. 2001 and H. R. 5140; not yet reported by either naval committee.) Personnel bill. (S. 2002 and H. R. 8144; not yet reported by either naval committee.) Naturalization of alien enlisted men, Navy and Marine Corps. (S. 2235 and H. R. 9326; not yet reported from respective committees.) The following public measures, affecting the personnel of the Navy, were referred to the department for recommendation during the first |