officers at recruit rendezvous and depots, or on such other duty as the President may prescribe. While such reserve officers are on such service they shall, by virtue of their commissions as reserve officers, exercise command appropriate to their grade and rank in the organizations to which they may be assigned, and shall be entitled to the pay and allowances of the corresponding grades in the Regular Army, with increase of pay for length of active service, as allowed by law for officers of the Regular Army, from the date upon which they shall be required by the terms of their orders to obey the same.-Sec. 88, ibid, 190.

739. Officers ordered to active service to take temporary rank, according to date of assignment; promotion to vacancies in volunteers and temporary vacancies in Repular Army.-Officers so ordered to active service shall take temporary rank among themselves, and in their grades in the organizations to which assigned, according to the dates of orders placing them on active service; and they may be promoted, in accordance with such rank, to vacancies in Volunteer organizations or to temporary vacancies in the Regular Army thereafter occurring in the organizations in which they shall be serving.—Ibid.

740. Officers of not entitled to retirement or retired pay; pensionable status.— Officers of the Officers' Reserve Corps shall not be entitled to retirement or retired pay, and shall be entitled to pension only for disability incurred in the line of duty and while in active service.-Ibid.

741. Subject to rules and articles of war when ordered to active service.Any officer who, while holding a commission in the Officers' Reserve Corps, shall be ordered to active service by the Secretary of War shall, from the time he shall be required by the terms of his order to obey the same, be subject to the laws and regulations for the government of the Army of the United States, in so far as they are applicable to officers whose permanent retention in the military service is not contemplated.—Ibid. 191.

742. Instruction of officers of the Officers' Reserve Corps-May be ordered to duty with troops, etc., for instruction. To the extent provided for from time to time by appropriations for this specific purpose the Secretary of War is authorized to order reserve officers to duty with troops or at field exercises, or for instruction, for periods not to exceed fifteen days in any one calendar year, and while so serving such officers shall receive the pay and allowances of their respective grades in the Regular Army.-Sec. 39, Ibid, p. 191.

743. Period of instruction may be extended with consent of reserve officers.— With the consent of the reserve officers concerned and within the limits of funds available for the purpose, such periods of duty may be extended for reserve officers as the Secretary of War may direct.-Ibid.

744. Appointment of reserve officers to active duty in time of war before appointment of Volunteers.-In time of actual or threatened hostilities, after all available officers of any section of the Officers' Reserve Corps corresponding to any arm, corps, or department of the Regular Army shall have been ordered into active service, officers of Volunteers may be appointed in such arm, corps, or department as may be authorized by law.-Ibid.

745. Appointment of officers of Regular Army as officers of Volunteers.Nothing herein shall operate to prevent the appointment of any officer of 49392-18-9

the Regular Army as an officer of Volunteers before all the officers of the Officers' Reserve Corps or any section thereof shall have been ordered into active service.-Ibid.

746. Relative rank and right of retirement of officers of Regular Army not affected by active service in.—In determining the relative rank and the right to retirement of an officer of the Regular Army, active duty performed by him while serving in the Officers' Reserve Corps shall not be reckoned.—Ibid.

747. Gratuitous service of members permissible.—That section three of the act approved February twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and six, entitled, "An act making appropriations to supply urgent deficiencies in the appropriations for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and six, and for prior years and for other purposes," shall not be construed to prohibit the Secretary of War from accepting the gratuitous services of members of the Officers' Reserve Corps of the Army in the furtherance of the enrollment, organization, and training of the Officers' Reserve Corps, the Reserve Officers' Training Corps, or the Enlisted Reserve Corps of the Army or in consultation upon matters relating to the military service.-Act of May 12, 1917 (40 Stat., 72).

RESERVE OFFICERS' TRAINING CORPS.

748. Senior and junior divisions to be organized at certain universities and colleges.-The President is hereby authorized to establish and maintain in civil educational institutions a Reserve Officers' Training Corps, which shall consist of a senior division organized at universities and colleges requiring four years of collegiate study for a degree, including State universities and those State institutions that are required to provide instruction in military tactics under the provisions of the act of Congress of July second, eighteen hundred and sixtytwo, donating lands for the establishment of colleges where the leading object shall be practical instruction in agriculture and the mechanic arts, including military tactics, and a junior division organized at all other public or private educational institutions, except that units of the senior division may be organized at those essentially military schools which do not confer an academic degree but which, as a result of the annual inspection of such institutions by the War Department, are specially designated by the Secretary of War as qualified for units of the senior division, and each division shall consist of units of the several arms or corps in such number and of such strength as the President may prescribe.-Sec. 40, June 3, 1916 (39 Stat., 191).

749. Units may be established on applications of any qualified State institution. The President may, upon the application of any State institution described in section forty of this act, establish and maintain at such institution one or more units of the Reserve Officers' Training Corps.-Sec. 41 ibid.

750. Units not to be established until an officer of the Army has been detailed as professor of military science and tactics.-No such unit shall be established or maintained at any such institution until an officer of the Army shall have been detailed as professor of military science and tactics, nor until such institution shall maintain under military instruction at least one hundred physically fit male students.-Ibid.

751. Establishment of units at qualified institutions, other than State institutions, maintaining a two years' course of military training.-The President

may, upon the application of any established educational institution in the United States other than a State institution described in section forty of this act, the authorities of which agree to establish and maintain a two years' elective or compulsory course of military training as a minimum for its physically fit male students, which course when entered upon by any student shall, as regards such student, be a prerequisite for graduation, establish and maintain at such institution one or more units of the Reserve Officers' Training Corps.-Sec. 42, ibid.

752. Units not to be established until an officer of the Army has been detailed as professor of military science and tactics.-No such unit shall be established or maintained at any such institution until an officer of the Army shall have been detailed as professor of military science and tactics, nor until such institution shall maintain under military instruction at least one hundred physically fit male students.—Ibid., 192.

753. Courses of training for the units to be prescribed by Secretary of War.-The Secretary of War is hereby authorized to prescribe standard courses of theoretical and practical military training for units of the Reserve Officers' Training Corps, and no unit of the senior division shall be organized or maintained at any educational institution the authorities of which fail or neglect to adopt into their curriculum the prescribed courses of military training for the senior division or to devote at least an average of three hours per week per academic year to such military training; and no unit of the junior division shall be organized or maintained at any educational institution the authorities of which fail or neglect to adopt into their curriculum the prescribed courses of military training for the junior division, or to devote at least an average of three hours per week per academic year to such military training. Sec. 43, ibid., 192.

754. Eligibility for membership in as to age, citizenship, etc.-Eligibility to membership in the Reserve Officers' Training Corps shall be limited to students of institutions in which units of such corps may be established who are citizens of the United States, who are not less than fourteen years of age, and whose bodily condition indicates that they are physically fit to perform military duty, or will be so upon arrival at military age.-Sec. 44, ibid.

755. Detail of active or retired officers as professors of military science and tactics; rank, pay, term of service, conditions, etc.-The President is hereby authorized to detail such numbers of officers of the Army, either active or retired, not above the grade of colonel, as may be necessary, for duty as professors and assistant professors of military science and tactics at institutions where one or more units of the Reserve Officers' Training Corps are maintained; but the total number of active officers so detailed at educational institutions shall not exceed three hundred, and no active officer shall be so detailed who has not had five years' commissioned service in the Army. In time of peace retired officers shall not be detailed under the provisions of this section without their consent. Retired officers below the grade of lieutenant colonel so detailed shall receive the full pay and allowances of their grade, and retired officers above the grade of major so detailed shall receive the same pay and allowances as a retired major would receive under a like detail. No detail of officers on the active list of the Regular Army under the provisions of this section shall extend for more than four years.—Sec. 45, ibid.

756. Detail of enlisted men, active, retired, or reservists. The President is hereby authorized to detail for duty at institutions where one or more units of the Reserve Officers' Training Corps are maintained such number of enlisted men, either active or retired or of the Regular Army Reserve, as he may deem necessary, but the number of active noncommissioned officers so detailed shall not exceed five hundred, and all active noncommissioned officers so detailed shall be additional in their respective grades to those otherwise authorized for the Army. Retired enlisted men or members of the Regular Army Reserve shall not be detailed under the provisions of this section without their consent. While so detailed they shall receive active pay and allowances.— Sec. 46, ibid.

757. Supplies for issue to instruction camps of educational institutions, where an officer has been detailed as professor of military science and tactics.-The Secretary of War is authorized to issue, at his discretion and under such regulations as he may prescribe, such quartermaster supplies and stores belonging to the Government, and which can be spared for that purpose, as may appear to be required for the establishment and maintenance of military instruction camps by the students of any educational institution to which an officer of the Army is detailed as professor of military science and tactics, and the Secretary of War shall require a bond in each case in the value of the property for the care and safe-keeping thereof and for the return of the same when required.-Act of May 18, 1916 (39 Stat., 123).

NOTE. Supplies to educational institutions are now being furnished under sections 47 and 56, act of June 3, 1916.

ISSUE OF SUPPLIES.

758. Issue of public animals, arms, uniforms, equipment, and means of transportation, and to forage public animals so issued, to institutions with established units.-The Secretary of War, under such regulations as he may prescribe, is hereby authorized to issue to institutions at which one or more units of the Reserve Officers' Training Corps are maintained such public animals, arms, uniforms, equipment, and means of transportation as he may deem necessary, and to forage at the expense of the United States public animals so issued. He shall require from each institution to which property of the United States is issued a bond in the value of the property issued for the care and safe-keeping thereof, and for its return when required.-Sec. 47, act of June 3, 1916 (39 Stat., 192).

759. Issue of military equipment to other schools and colleges, and detail of instructors thereat.-Such arms, tentage, and equipment as the Secretary of War shall deem necessary for proper military training shall be supplied by the Government to schools and colleges, other than those provided for in section forty-seven of this act, having a course of military training prescribed by the Secretary of War and having not less than one hundred physically fit male students above the age of fourteen years, under such rules and regulations as he may prescribe; and the Secretary of War is hereby authorized to detail such commissioned and noncommissioned officers of the Army to said schools and colleges, other than those provided for in sections forty-five and forty-six of this act, detailing not less than one such officer or noncommissioned officer to each five hundred students under military instruction.—Sec. 56, ibid., 197.

760. Commutation to institutions furnishing own uniforms.-That the Secretary of War, in his discretion, and under such regulations as he may pre

scribe, permit such institutions to furnish their own uniforms and receive as commutation therefor the sum allotted by the Secretary of War to such institutions for uniforms.-Act of May 12, 1917 (40 Stat., 71).

761. Camps for additional training; period of encampment, transportation, subsistence, etc.—The Secretary of War is hereby authorized to maintain camps for the further practical instruction of the members of the Reserve Officers' Training Corps, no such camps to be maintained for a period longer than six weeks in any one year, except in time of actual or threatened hostilities; to transport members of such corps to and from such camps at the expense of the United States so far as appropriations will permit; to subsist them at the expense of the United States while traveling to and from such camps and while remaining therein so far as appropriations will permit; to use the Regular Army, such other military forces as Congress from time to time authorizes, and such Government property as he may deem necessary for the military training of the members of such corps while in attendance at such camps; to prescribe regulations for the government of such corps; and to authorize, in his discretion, the formation of company units thereof into battalion and regimental units. June 3, 1916 (39 Stat., 193), Sec. 48.

762. Appointments of qualified graduates in the Officers' Reserve Corps to be made by the President; conditions.-The President alone, under such regulations as he may prescribe, is hereby authorized to appoint in the Officers' Reserve Corps any graduate of the senior division of the Reserve Officers' Training Corps who shall have satisfactorily completed the further training provided for in section fifty of this act, or any graduate of the junior division who shall have satisfactorily completed the courses of military training prescribed for the senior division and the further training provided for in section fifty of this act, and shall have participated in such practical instruction subsequent to graduation as the Secretary of War shall prescribe, who shall have arrived at the age of twenty-one years and who shall agree, under oath in writing, to serve the United States in the capacity of a reserve officer of the Army during a period of at least ten years from the date of his appointment as such reserve officer, unless sooner discharged by proper authority; but the total number of reserve officers so appointed shall not exceed fifty thousand.-Sec. 49, ibid.

763. Qualified graduates not eligible for appointment while undergoing postgraduate course.—Any graduate qualified under the provisions of this section undergoing a postgraduate course at any institution shall not be eligible for appointment as a reserve officer while undergoing such postgraduate course, but his ultimate eligibility upon completion of such postgraduate course for such appointment shall not be affected because of his having undergone such postgraduate course.-Ibid.

764. Commutation of subsistence for remainder of course may be furnished to members who have completed two years of training.-When any member of the senior division of the Reserve Officers' Training Corps has completed two academic years of service in that division, and has been selected for further training by the president of the institution and by its professor of military science and tactics, and has agreed in writing to continue in the Reserve Officers' Traning Corps for the remainder of his course in the institution, devoting five hours per week to the military training prescribed by the Secretary of War, and has agreed in writing to pursue the courses in camp training prescribed by the Secretary of War, he may be furnished, at the expense of the United States,