The requirements for admission are a knowledge of arithmetic,
knowlege
The large tables on pages 800ff. and 816ff. (West Point) and 889ff. (Annapolis) have been rearranged for this e-text. In table headings, states are identified by their modern two-letter postal abbreviations.
PART X.
MILITARY SYSTEM AND SCHOOLS
IN THE UNITED STATES.
[MILITARY SYSTEM AND EDUCATION OF THE UNITED STATES.]
The Constitution of the United States grants to Congress the power “to raise and support armies,” “to provide and maintain a navy,” “to make rules for the government of the land and naval forces; and to provide for calling forth the militia,” as well as “for organizing, arming and disciplining” the same, and for governing such parts of them as may be employed in the service of the United States—reserving to the States, respectively, the appointment of the officers, and the authority of training the militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress. By the same instrument the President is made commander-in-chief of the army and navy of the United States, and of the militia of the several States when called into actual service of the United States “to execute the laws of the Union, suppress insurrections, and repel invasions.”