independent establishment with such frequency as to make them as nearly as possible records of fact. Such system shall provide a minimum rating of efficiency which must be attained by an employee before he may be promoted; it shall also provide a rating below which no employee may fall without being demoted; it shall further provide for a rating below which no employee may fall without being dismissed for inefficiency. All promotions, demotions, or dismissals shall be governed by provision of the civil-service rules. Copies of all records of efficiency shall be furnished by the departments and independent establishments to the Civil Service Commission for record in accordance with the provisions of this section: Provided, that in the event of reductions being made in the force in any of the executive departments no honorably discharged soldier or sailor whose record in said department is rated good shall be discharged or dropped or reduced in rank or salary. Any person knowingly violating the provisions of this section shall be summarily removed from office and may also upon conviction thereof be punished by a fine of not more than one thousand dollars or by imprisonment for not more than one year. The proviso of this section applies not only to reductions in force and "does not prohibit the head of a department from conforming the salary of an honorably discharged soldier or sailor to the grade or character of work he may be called upon to perform."1 III. REINSTATEMENT. 3 SEC. 17. Civil-service Rule IX. This rule contains a provision that the limitation of one year after separation, during which the requisition of the appointing officer for a certificate authorizing reinstatement must be made if at all, "shall not apply to a person who served 2 in the Civil War or the War with Spain and was honorably discharged, or his widow, or an Army nurse of either war.”5 SEC. 18. Proof of service. The War and Navy Departments pass upon matters relating to military or naval service, and the Commission is bound by their records respecting such service rendered by the person proposed for reinstatement and the cause of his separation therefrom. Unless the records of these departments show military or naval service in the wars mentioned, with honorable discharge therefrom, the Commission has no authority to issue a certificate for reinstatement after the time limit has expired. Service in the Post Office Guards, Treasury Guards, War Department Rifles, and like organizations is not military service within the meaning of the rule. The privilege granted applies only to those who actually served as soldiers or sailors in the Civil War or the War with Spain and does not permit appointment by reinstatement after the year limit of those who, being in the service of the departments in 1 Op. At. Gen., June 2, 1913, 30 Op. 167. 2 Quartermasters' volunteers who served in the Civil War and contract surgeons who served in the Civil War or the War with Spain and were honorably discharged are entitled to the benefits of the exception to the time limit. 3 The Civil War opened on April 15, 1861, and closed on August 20, 1866. whether on the frontier or elsewhere, and whether or not in any State or rebellion, will be regarded as service in the Civil War. Service between those dates, part of the country in actual • The War with Spain began April 21, 1898, and terminated April 11, 1899. The Philippine insurrection, which grew out of that war, terminated July 4, 1902. Military service after July 4, 1902, will not be accepted as a basis for allowing reinstatement without regard to the year limitation. The service must have been in the wars mentioned in order to entitle a claimant to the benefit of this section. 1864, were organized into companies and regiments and drilled for a longer or shorter time, not one of whom regarded himself or was regarded as a soldier, or as engaged in the military service.1 SEC. 19. Widows.· A woman who claims a right to reinstatement without regard to the time limit as the widow of a soldier must prove (1) military service of the soldier during one of the wars mentioned and honorable discharge therefrom, (2) the death of the soldier, and (3) that she is his widow. Separation from the service before marriage to the soldier does not affect the privilege conferred by the rule. The privilege given applies to the direct widows of such deceased soldiers or sailors; by remarriage such a widow forfeits the rights and privileges afforded by the rule, and a woman cannot be regarded as a widow when she is remarried, nor can she be recognized after the death of her second husband as the widow of her first husband. GENERAL ORDERS, CAMPAIGN BADGES, ARMY. WAR DEPARTMENT, WASHINGTON, July 9, 1906. II. The following act of the Congress is published to the Army for the information and guidance of all concerned: AN ACT PROVIDING MEDALS FOR CERTAIN PERSONS. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to procure a bronze medal, with suitable device, to be presented to each of the several officers and enlisted men and families of such as may be dead, who, having volunteered and enlisted under the calls of the President for the war with Spain, served beyond the term of their enlistment to help to suppress the Philippine insurrection, and who subsequently received an honorable discharge from the army of the United States, or who died prior to such discharge. SEC. 2. That the sum of $5,000 is hereby appropriated, out of any funds in the treasury of the United States not otherwise appropriated, for the purpose of carrying this act into effect. Approved, June 29, 1906. 1 The clerks in the Quartermaster Department who, in 1862, were employed as an armed force to protect public property at Washington, and to assist in its defense, were not in the military service proper, but remained civilians. The mere fact, therefore, that they served till their service was no longer required did not, at the end of that time, place them in the status of being “honorably discharged" in the sense of the civil service rules regulating appointments to civil office. Howland, Dig. Op. J. A. G., Army, 234. This does not apply to the Quartermasters' Volunteers, who did actual fighting and who were employees of the military department. WAR DEPARTMENT, WASHINGTON, Feb. 29, 1908. CIRCULAR, No. 11. The following decisions of the Secretary of War are published to the army for the information and guidance of all concerned: 1. Issue of the Philippines Congressional Medal for Enlisted Service in the Regular Army. The medal provided for by the act of Congress approved June 29, 1906, published in paragraph II, General Orders, No. 125, War Department, July 9, 1906, will be issued by the Quartermaster General of the army, upon application and proof of identity, to those men who enlisted, or re-enlisted, in the regular army between April 21 and Oct. 26, 1898, for service during the war with Spain, who were entitled to their discharge from that service under the provisions of paragraph II, General Orders, No. 40, Headquarters of the army, Adjutant General's Office, May 10, 1898, as limited by paragraph 1, General Orders, No. 173, Headquarters of the army, Adjutant General's Office, Oct. 26, 1898, and who did not avail themselves of the privilege of discharge conferred thereby but remained in the service to help to suppress the Philippine insurrection, and who were subsequently honorably discharged as of that enlistment or re-enlistment, or who died in the service. Upon application this medal will be issued to the proper legal representative of any deceased enlisted man who, if living, would be entitled to the same. WAR DEPARTMENT, WASHINGTON, May 11, 1909. GENERAL ORDERS, 1. By authority of the President, a service badge with ribbon will be issued to officers and enlisted men who are in the military service of the United States on the date of this order, or at any time thereafter, and who served as officers or enlisted men in Cuba with the Army of Cuban Pacification between Oct. 6, 1906, and April 1, 1909. The badge and ribbon will be issued as a part of the army uniform, gratuitously to enlisted men and at cost price to officers. WAR DEPARTMENT, THE ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE, The Secretary of War has authorized the sale of army campaign badges to former officers and soldiers, now in civil life, who have served honorably and in the campaigns named below. Arrangements have been made with the United States Mint, Philadelphia, Pa., to supply these badges upon receipt of 50 cents, accompanied by a statement from The Adjutant General of the army that the person named served in a certain campaign between the dates specified for that campaign. When requested, blank forms will be furnished by The Adjutant General of the army, who, upon verifying from the official records of the War Department that the person is entitled to purchase a certain badge, will mail to the applicant a statement, which should be sent to the Superintendent, United States Mint, Philadelphia, Pa., together with 50 cents in cash or money order to procure the badge. Do not send money to The Adjutant General. Circulars and blank forms will be furnished to Grand Army posts and other military societies for use of their members. to Do not apply unless service has been rendered between the dates named. (c) Spanish campaign badge: For service ashore in, or on the high seas en route Cuba, between May 11, 1898, and July 17, 1898. Porto Rico, between July 24, 1898, and Aug. 13, 1898. Philippine Islands, between June 30, 1898, and Aug. 16, 1898. (d) Philippine campaign badge: For service ashore in Philippine Islands, between Feb. 4, 1899, and July 4, 1902. Department of Mindanao, Philippine Islands, between Feb. 4, 1899, and Dec. 31, Against Pala and his followers, Jolo, Philippine Islands, April and May, 1905. Against Datu Ali and his followers, Mindanao, Philippine Islands, October, 1905. Against hostile Moros on Mount Bud-Dajo, Jolo, Philippine Islands, March, 1906. (e) China campaign badge: For service ashore in China with the Peking Relief Expedition, between June 20, 1900, and May 27, 1901. (f) Army of Cuban Occupation badge: For service in Cuba with the Army of Cuban Occupation, between July 18, 1898, and May 20, 1902. (g) Army of Cuban Pacification badge: For service in Cuba with the Army of Cuban Pacification, between Oct. 6, 1906, and April 1, 1909. Only one campaign badge will be issued for service in any one campaign, and only one Indian campaign badge will be issued, notwithstanding the fact that service may have been rendered in more than one Indian campaign. NOTE. H. P. MCCAIN, The Adjutant General. Campaign badges are issued for service in the navy in the above campaigns. Applications should be directed to the Bureau of Navigation, Washington, D. C. ADMISSION TO NATIONAL SOLDIERS' HOME. GENERAL ORDERS, No. 148. WAR DEPARTMENT, WASHINGTON, July 20, 1909. The following is published to the Army for the information and guidance of all concerned: GENERAL ORDERS, HEADQUARTERS NATIONAL HOME FOR D. V. S., Paragraphs 83 ... Home Regulations, are hereby amended to read as follows: 83. The following persons only shall be entitled to the benefits of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers and may be admitted thereto upon the order of a member of the Board of Managers, namely: All honorably discharged officers, soldiers, and sailors who served in the regular or volunteer forces of the United States in any war in which the country has been engaged, including the Spanish-American war, the provisional army (authorized by Act of Congress approved March 2, 1899), in any of the campaigns against hostile Indians, or who have served in the Philippines, in China, or in Alaska, who are disabled by disease, wounds or otherwise, and who have no adequate means of support, are not otherwise provided for by law, and by reason of such disability are incapable of earning their living. Write plainly and be careful to spell correctly the names of soldiers or other persons for whose graves headstones are desired; if any of them served under an assumed name, both the true name and the alias must be given. Write the first or given name in full if known, as Chas. T. Jones instead of C. T. Jones. Where soldier served with State troops, the State and arm of service (whether infantry, cavalry, or artillery) should be given; and in the case of a sailor or marine, the name of one or more vessels on which he served, and the approximate date of enlistment is required. The approximate dates of enlistment and discharge should also be given where the soldier served in the Regular Army. By carefully observing these directions and giving the information called for in each column, delay will be avoided. Officers or Committees of G. A. R. Posts and other persons having charge of securing headstones for soldiers buried in their vicinity should ascertain before ordering headstones whether or not the relatives or friends of the soldiers desire the headstones or whether they intend to erect private monuments. Applications for headstones, the receipt of which has been once acknowledged by this office, should not be duplicated; the headstones will be furnished as soon as practicable. NOTE. Upon application to the Quartermaster General, U. S. Army, headstones will be furnished for unmarked graves of soldiers, sailors, and marines who served in the Army or Navy of the United States during any war or insurrection (including |