and on the military
academy and prisons.

The Quartermaster-General.--Under direction of the
Quartermaster-General the army is transported, clothed, and
equipped.

The Chief of Ordnance.--Arms are supplied by the Chief of
Ordnance. The arms used are manufactured chiefly in the United
States arsenals. The arsenals at Springfield, Mass., and Rock
Island, Ill., manufacture rifles and carbines; and that at West
Troy, N.Y., cannon and mortars.

The United States Military Academy.--The United States
Military Academy at West Point was founded in 1802. The corps of
cadets is made up of one cadet from each of the Congressional
districts, one from each of the Territories and the District of
Columbia, and one hundred from the United States at large. Prior to
the year 1900 there were only ten cadets at large. The act of that
year also provided that thirty cadets were to be named by the
President directly and the remainder apportioned among the States.
They all receive their appointments from the President, but it has
become the custom for the representatives and delegates to select
(usually after a competitive examination) those from the
Congressional districts and the Territories. The cadet must be
between seventeen and twenty-two years of age. Each receives $540 a
year during the four years of his course. Upon graduation, the
cadets are commissioned as second lieutenants in the united States
army. In case there are more graduates than vacancies, those in
excess are honorably discharged with the payment of one year's
salary.

THE NAVY DEPARTMENT.

The Secretary of the Navy--The duties of the Secretary of the Navy
pertain to the construction, manning, arming, quipping, and employment
of war-vessels.[53]

[Footnote 53: The appropriation for this department in 1913 was
$140,000,000.]

The United States Naval Academy.--The naval academy at Annapolis
was established in 1846. One cadet is allowed in the naval academy for
each member or delegate of the House of Representatives, one for the
District of Columbia, and ten at large. Candidates for admission, at the
time of their examination, must be between the ages of fifteen and
twenty years. The nomination of a candidate to fill a vacancy is made
upon recommendation of a representative or delegate if made before July
1; but if no recommendati