Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress, With the Annual Message of the President, December 6, 1880

No. 424.
Mr. Bingham to Mr. Evarts.

United States Legation, Japan,
Tokei, November 11, 1879. (Received December 16.)

No. 1010.]

Sir: On the 27th ultimo this government furnished me with a notification and a copy of the revised conscriptive act of Japan, a translation of which notification and revised act I beg leave to inclose for your information.

I have, &c.,

JNO. A. BINGHAM.

[Inclosure 1 in No. 1010.]

(Translated by D. Thompson, interpreter to the United States Legation in Japan.)

No. 46.

Proclamation is hereby made that the conscription law has been revised as follows, and that all previous proclamations, notifications, and instructions relating thereto are repealed.

SANJO SANEYOSHI,
Prime Minister.

October 27, 1879.

CONSCRIPTION LAW.

Chapter I.

the enlisting of conscripts.

• Article I. A conscript is a person drafted from the male population of the whole country for military service.
• The army is to consist of four principal divisions, namely, the regular force, the first reserve force, the second reserve force, and the national militia; these again, according to the physical qualifications of the men, shall be divided into infantry, cavalry, artillery, and engineer corps.
• (Note.—The regulations for navy conscription will be separately enacted.)
• Art. II. The regular force is to consist of males twenty years of age and upwards, summoned from the states and counties of each military department, drawn by lot and enrolled for military service during three years in the garrisons of the military departments.
  • Section 1. Any one who has become specially proficient, may, on due deliberation, be allowed to return home provisionally, in time of peace before the expiration of the fixed time of service.
  • Sec 2. Strong, proficient, orderly persons after six months’ camp-life may be promoted to the imperial guards, to serve there for three years. After which they are to be enrolled in the first reserve force for two years and six months, and then be enrolled in the second reserve force.
  • (Note.—Regulations for enlisting the imperial guards will be separately enacted.)
  • Sec. 3. Persons desiring to become superior or inferior officers shall be admitted into the military schools or camps for instruction, after undergoing the prescribed examination.
  • Sec 4. Proficient and intelligent persons are to be promoted to be inferior officers.
• Art. III. Volunteers shall be called out for the transportation and hospital service, and for general work. If, however, the number is insufficient, able-bodied men under the standard height or unfit to bear arms, and also men of the standard height, when needed for special work, shall be called out and made to serve as the regular soldiers are called out.
  • Sec. 1. Persons enlisted for the transportation service shall serve six months with the regular army, and then enter the first reserve force and serve for five years and six months, after which they shall enter the second reserve force.
  • Sec. 2. Persons enlisted for hospital service, or as workmen, shall serve out the same time as the soldiers.
• Art. IV. Regular soldiers, while in camp, shall receive fixed daily wages, besides rations and clothing from the government.
• Art. V. The first reserve force shall be composed of those who have served three years in the regular army. These shall, as reserves, serve three years longer, residing at home in some employment. In case of war or of any unusual event they shall be called at once and added to the regular army to fill up its ranks or to form new companies for military service. They are therefore to be summoned to camp for drill once each year.
• Art. VI. The second reserve force shall be composed of those who have served three years in the first reserved force. These shall serve four years longer, and shall be called out after the first reserved force. They are, therefore, in time of peace, to be summoned once a year to some convenient place for drill.
• Art. VII. The time of military service, even for those who have served their term, may be extended, in time of war, or of any unusual event, beyond the time herein fixed.
• Art. VIII. The national militia shall consist of all the males in the whole land between the ages of seventeen and forty. These shall be registered for military service, and in case of any event affecting the entire nation shall be formed into companies, to act as guards in any emergency.

Chapter II.

the boundaries of conscription districts.

• Art. IX. The whole country shall be divided into seven great conscription districts.
• Those that coincide in boundary with the military departments shall be called military department districts. Those subdivisions that coincide as to boundary with the army-corps districts included in the military-department districts shall be called army-corps conscription districts; those that coincide with the army-division districts included in the army-corps districts shall be called army-division conscription districts; Those that coincide with the brigade districts included in the army-division districts shall be called brigade conscription districts; those that coincide with the regimental districts shall be called regimental conscription districts; and those that coincide with the battalion districts shall be called battalion conscription districts.
• (Note.—Conscription districts below the rank of army-division districts have not yet been formed. For the present therefore these shall coincide with the existing shi, fu, and ken (departments, principal cities, and provinces), and shall be known as the shi, fu, or ken conscription districts.
• Art. X. Each shi, fu, or ken shall constitute one conscription district, as a general rule; but when its territory is overlapped by two army-division districts, one conscription district shall be formed for each such army-division district.
• Art. XI. As the operation of the conscription law is not practicable throughout the whole of the seventh army department this for the present will be included in the second department.

Chapter III.

conscription officers and their duties.

• Art. XII A general of the army shall be appointed to the office of superintendent of conscription. He shall visit the shi, fu, and ken and manage the business of conscription in conjunction with the chief conscription officer of the shi, fu, or ken.
• (Note.—Deputies may be sent instead of the superintendent, if it is thought best to do so.)
• Art. XIII. Deputy superintendents.—A colonel in the army shall fill this post. Two or three deputies shall be appointed for each army-division conscription district. Acting for the superintendent they shall visit the places of inspection, and along with the shi, fa, and ken conscription officers and deputy surgeons shall manage the business of examination and drafting.
• Art. XIV. Conscription physician.—An army physician shall fill this post. He shall accompany the superintendent and shall conduct the business of examination as to their physical soundness and their fitness for military duty.
• Art. XV. Assistant physicians.—Assistant army physicians or their medical students shall be appointed to fill this post. Three or four shall be appointed for each division conscription district. They shall visit the places of examination along with the deputy superintendents, and perform the same duties as the conscription physician.
• Art. XVI. The resident executive officer.—An officer of the second reserve force, resident in the shi, fu, or ken, shall fill this post. He shall visit the county district along with the shi, fu, or ken executive officers and conduct preliminary examinations.
• He shall also visit the conscription stations and assist in transacting the business of these stations.
• Art. XVII. Conscription secretaries.—Inferior officers of the army or attaches from the tenth to the seventeenth grade shall be appointed. There shall be two or three appointed. They shall make up all the superintendent’s records.
• Art. XVIII. Chief director of the shi, fu, and ken.—The chief provincial magistrate or one of his secretaries, shall be appointed to this post. He shall have the direction of the conscription within his jurisdiction.
• Art. XIX. The shi, fu, and ken officials in charge of the conscription.—Officers under the shi, fu, and ken shall be appointed. The number of such officers shall correspond to the number of the deputy superintendents whom they shall accompany to the place of inspection. They shall also aid the chief director of the shi, fu, or ken in the performance of his duties, and visit the country district stations along with the executive officer and manage preliminary examinations.
• Art. XX. The county district official in charge of the conscription.—The county magistrate shall be appointed to this post. There shall be one such official for each county. He shall conduct correspondence relating to the conscription, report on the condition of the people, and manage conscription examinations in the county.
• (Note.—When, from any cause the county magistrate cannot serve, the county recorder shall act in his stead.)
• Art. XXI. Provincial conscription physicians.—These shall be appointed by the chief officer of the province in the proportion of one to every eighty or a hundred men.
• They shall make preliminary examinations and make up the records under the direction of the conscription physician.
• Art. XXII. Writers.—These shall be appointed by the chief officer of the province in the proportion of two to each place of examination. They shall keep a record of examinations and drafting, and have charge of the records of the places of preliminary examination.
• Art. XXIII. The superintendent, the shi, fu, and ken director, and the conscription physician shall attend to business at the shi, fu, and ken stations; the deputies, assistant physicians, and the shi, fu, and ken conscription officials shall form parties and visit all the places of examination.
• Art. XXIV. The superintendent along with the army officers mentioned in chapter III, shall set out on his visitation on the fifteenth of the second month, visit the shi, fu, and ken, consult with the provincial officials, establish stations at convenient places, oversee all matters relating to conscription, and return and report himself by the tenth of the fourth month.
• Art. XXV. The superintendent shall inspect all conscription records sent from the shi, fu, and ken to the garrison, determine the number of soldiers of the proper age to be furnished to the regular army during the year by any given shi, fu, or ken, and examine the records respecting persons exempted or excused from service.
• Art. XXVI. The conscription officers shall all be relieved from service when the yearly conscription is ended.

Chapter IV.

exclusion and exemption from service and postponement of conscription.

• Art. XXVII. The following persons are exempted or excluded for life from military service:

  1. Diseased and maimed persons, who, on examination according to the army regulations, give evidence of being unfit for military service.

  2. Persons actually sentenced to imprisonment for a year or more in the chain-gang, or to imprisonment in jail for sedition for a year or more.

• Art. XXVIII. The following persons are exempted or excused from all military service except in the national militia:

  1st. The heads of families.

  (Exception.—No one who has become the head of a branch house before the conscription age, or who has married a woman who is the head of a new branch house, or who has undertaken to raise up an extinct house, or who has retired before the age of fifty, leaving an adopted son or heir to perpetuate his family, will be excused from military service.)

  2d. Only sons, who are heirs, and only grandsons, who are the heirs of their grandparents, whether they have sisters or not.

  3d. The heirs of parents and grandparents over fifty years of age.

  (Exception.—When such heirs are made the heads of branch houses, or adopted without sufficient reason by a man under forty years of age, or when made to raise up extinct houses, or when married to a woman who is the head of a new branch house after they have reached the conscription age, while other sons or grandsons under the conscription age are made heirs, they shall not be exempted from military service.)

  4th. The adopted son of a person over fifty years of age, who has no lineal heir.

  (Exception.—No one who has been made son in the branch house of a retired man shall be exempted.)

  5th. The lineal heir of a father or grandfather or adopted son, when such parents are from sickness or injury unable to work, before the age of fifty.

  6th. Government officers, commissioned and non-commissioned, assistants in government training establishments, and the chiefs of wards or districts.

  7th. The presidents, vice-presidents, and members of the fu and ken assemblies.

  8th. Teachers in the public schools and in the other government schools connected with the department of education or other departments.

• Art. XXIX. The following are exempt from military duty in time of peace:

  1st. The heirs of persons under forty years of age, or the heirs of their grandfathers.

  (Exception.—Such heirs as are of legal age for military service when made the heads of branch houses, or when adopted without just cause by a person under fifty years of age, or when made to raise up an extinct house, or when married to a woman who is the head of a newly established branch house, while other children under conscription age have been made heirs, shall not be exempted.)

  2d. Army and navy cadets and workmen employed in arsenals and navy-yards.

  3d. The brother of one who has lost his life while serving in the army or navy, or who has been disabled in the government service and has retired.

  (Note.—The same rule shall be observed in the case of those who have been injured or killed while serving the government in the first or second reserved forces.)

  4th. Persons licensed to practice as physicians.

  5th. The graduates of government normal schools.

  6th. Graduates of public academies and special schools.

  7th. Graduates from government schools connected with the department of educacation or other departments.

  (Exception.—The pupils of lower schools connected with the government normal schools will not be exempted.)

  8th. Those who can give evidence in writing of having studied two years in foreign countries.

  9th. Persons who have been licensed according to the rules to act as ship-captains, navigators, or engineers.

  10th. Those who can give evidence of having served as sailors or firemen for three years or upwards, according to the rules laid down to govern the employment and dismissal of seamen.

• Art. XXX. The following persons, may have their conscription postponed not longer than one year:

  1st. Those who wish to serve in the navy.

  2d. When an even number of brothers are drafted at the same time, one-half the number shall be postponed; in the case of an odd number, as three, two shall be postponed.

  3d. A brother of an inferior officer serving as a regular in the army or navy.

  4th. One brother of an army or navy cadet.

  (Note.—A distinction must be made when one of the brothers mentioned above in sees. 2, 3, and 4 is under the standard height.)

  5th. Any one who is needed to support a family, on account of the death, disappearance, or sickness of a father or elder brother.

  6th. Pupils who have finished a course of a year or more in a government school or public normal school connected with the department of education or some other department of the government.

  7th. Those pupils who have finished a course of three years or more in some public academy or special school.

  8th. Persons residing in foreign countries for the purposes of study or trade.

  9th. Persons not yet grown to the standard height or who may be sick or convalescent, and so for the present unable to endure hard work.

  10th. The defendants in criminal cases not decided.

• Art. XXXI. The employés and others engaged in the service of the government in the various departments thereof are not exempt from service; but in the case of those whose work cannot be done by a substitute, the decision of the general government will be obtained.
• (Note.—The same rule is to be observed in the case of those who are supported at the government expense to require any art under the instruction of foreigners employed in any of the departments of the government.)
• Art. XXXII. Persons described in Art. XXVIII, sees. 1, 6, and 8; Art. XXIX, sees. 1, 2, 4, and 9, and in Art. XXXI, who withhold their names until the time of the third year by examination for regulars shall again be treated as conscripted persons.
• Art. XXXIII. The cases of all those described in Art. XXVIII, sees. 4, 6, and 8; Art. XXIX, sees. 4 and 10; and Art. XXX, sees. 6 and 7, must fall within the time specified in Art. LXI, as the limit for making reports; otherwise such persons will not be exempted from service nor their conscription postponed.
• Art. XXXIV. The cases of those described in Art, XXX, Art. XLI, Art. XLII, and Art. LVI (note) may, like circumstances again recurring, be delayed till the following year. Should this state of things continue till the third yearly examination for the regular army, such persons, in time of peace, shall be exempt from service.
• Art. XXXV. During the term of the regular service the principle laid down in Art. XXXIV shall be observed in case of those described in Art. XXVIII, sees. 1, 6, and 8; Art. XXIX, sees. 1, 2, 4, and 9; Art. XXXI, Art. XLI, Art. XLII, and Art. LVI.
• (Note.—Only those mentioned in Art. XXVIII, sees. 1, 6, and 8 shall serve in the national militia.)
• Art. XXXVI. Those who according to Art. XLIX and Art. LI (note) are in time of peace exempt from service, shall be regarded as reserve conscripts of first class. Those mentioned in Art. XXIX and Art. XXXIV shall be regarded as reserved conscripts of the second class, and till thirty years of age, in case of war or any unusual event, shall be liable to be called out in the order indicated to form new regiments or for the transportation service.

Chapter V.

examination of conscripts.

• Art. XXXVII. The superintendent shall give notice beforehand to the shi, fu, or ken of the time of the examination, and the district officials shall collect the men and forward a given number each day.
• Art. XXXVIII. At the time of the examination ruled paper shall be issued to the district officials from the shi, fu, or ken.
• The district officials shall write from the register of the persons to be examined, their names, birth-place, residence; the day, month, and year of their birth; the name of the head of the family; their religion; the names of father, mother, brothers, wife, children, &c., and forward the same in form, at the time of the examination.
• In the form thus forwarded, it is to be noted when one’s birth-place differs from the place of his present residence. The rank and social position is to be noted; also business, when a woman is head of the family.
• The fact is to be noted if a man’s father or mother is dead.
• The size, height, &c., are to be noted, after examination; as also the division of the army to be entered.
• Art. XXXIX. When the conscript undergoes corporal examination he is to be called according to the order of the register, and the physician shall examine him according to the army regulations, and the provincial physicians shall note the points of the examination in the prescribed form.
• Art. XL. The deputy superintendents, the shi, fu, and ken conscription officials, and the county conscription officials, shall sit together while conducting examinations.
• Art. XLI. When any one is unable to appear when called on to be examined, he shall obtain the certificate of a neighboring physician, stamped by the district official, and forward it through the county magistrate to the place of examination; in which case he may, if convenient, be sent to another place of examination, or be examined at home, or reserved till the next year.
• Art. XLII. When one is called on to be examined who is in mourning for a father or mother not yet three weeks dead, or whose father or mother are very sick, or in whose family any unusual event has taken place, a true record of the same shall be made out, stamped by the district official, and forwarded to the place of examination through the county magistrate, in which case the treatment shall be the same as specified in Art. XLI.
• Art. XLIII. In the cases of counties distant from the conscription station, the officers charged with conducting the examinations may depute some of their number to visit the place and establish an examination station in some suitable locality, where the examinations shall be conducted just as in the principal station.

Chapter VI.

of drawing by lot.

• Art. XLIV. After the examinations have been completed, the number of men fit for service according to the records shall be noted and classified, and the drawing for regular soldiers shall take place in the conscription station of the shi, fu, or ken.
• Art. XLV. As to drawing, each one may draw for himself, or the voters of a town or village, or villages, may choose one or three persons to represent them all, to whom the drawing shall he committed.
• Art. XLVI. A supplemental company of conscripts shall he formed to fill vacancies in the regular force. These shall serve one year, and shall be called out after the regular conscripts.
• Art. XLVII. Before the drawing takes place, a tabulated statement shall be exhibited showing the whole number of persons liable to conscription in each shi, fu, and ken; the kind of soldiers needed, as also the number of regular and supplemental troops.
• Art. XLVIII. The method of drawing shall be as follows: The men shall be examined, and a corresponding number of cards, numbered and marked in due form, shall be put in a box, which shall be placed beside the teller, who shall call on the men to draw in the ordor of the roll, and observe whether the drawing is done rightly or not. He shall call out the number drawn in a loud tone, take the card, and record the name and number in the register, and return the card to the drawer.
• Art. XLIX. If 500 men are drawn 500 tickets or cards shall be provided. If 200 regulars and 100 supplemental troops are needed during the year, the first 200 shall be regulars, the next 100 shall be supplemental troops, and the remainder blanks. Those that draw blanks shall be exempt from service in time of peace.
• Art. L. After the drawing has taken place, forms shall be made out, according to the records kept, and delivered to the conscripts drawn, in exchange for the cards held by them.
• Art. LI. The supplemental troops shall remain at home employed, and when vacancies occur in the ranks of the regulars, they shall receive notice from the garrison in the order of their draft number, and be made to enter camp.
• (Note.—Those who are not summoned within a full year, counting from the first day that regulars enter camp, that is from the 20th of the 4th month, shall be exempt from service in time of peace.)
• Art. LII. Those supplemental troops who enter the regular army shall serve three years, counting from the first day of the period when regulars enter camp, and without regard to the particular month or day of their entering.
• Art. LIII. After the superintendent has completed the conscription in any shi, fu, or ken, he shall examine the register and examination papers of the conscripts, and classify them as regulars or supplemental troops. He shall also collect the several registration papers and form them into a book called the “soldiers’ register,” and the several examination papers, and form them into a book called the “register of examinations,” and forward a copy of both books and a copy of the records of the drafting to the army department and to the garrison.
• Art. LIV. All documents relating to the conscription, such as the lists of persons called out and of persons exempted, petitions, notices, and the like, are to be kept on record in each shi, fu, and ken, and copies forwarded with the documents mentioned in Art. LIII, to the army department and to the garrison.

Chapter VII.

miscellaneous rules.

• Art. LV. Conscripts drawn as regulars shall enter camp between the 20th of the 4th month, and the 1st of the 5th month. The neighboring officials in each shi, fu, and ken shall collect and conduct them to camp, and the expenses shall be paid, according to regulations, by the finance department.
• Art. LVI. When any one fails to be in time on account of sickness or of a crime committed, a minute account of the facts in the case shall be made out, stamped, and forwarded by the county official to the garrison or camp. The person taken sick shall inclose the certificate of a neighboring physician, stamped in like manner.
• (Note.—Those who fail for the above reasons to enter camp till the 1st of the 10th month, shall defer entering camp till the next year, when they shall be examined again and enter camp before the ordinary conscripts.)
• Art. LVII. When any one’s home is removed while he is serving in the regular army, the fact shall be made known at once by the relatives to the person rendering such service, who shall inform the inferior officer to whose command he may belong.
• Art. LVIII. Those taken sick while serving as regulars shall be put in the hospital by the army physician and treated. Those who are thereafter unfit for service shall be dropped from the roll, and their regular expenses home be paid by the army department.
• Art. LIX. When one in the regular service is needed at home on account of the sickness of his parents, or other sufficient cause, one of his relatives shall obtain the county magistrate’s seal in confirmation, and present the request at the garrison or camp, when, after consultation, he may be allowed to go home, at his own expense, for two weeks, exclusive of the time required to go and come.
• (Exception.—Those who have been in camp less than six months, and who are hence untrained, or who are practicing special drill or engaged for review, will not have such leave granted them.)
• Art. LX. As all the males in the country are to be enrolled in the national militia when they reach the age of seventeen, all that become of age in any given year between the 1st and 12th months shall, through the head of the family, and between the 1st and 15th of the 9th month, report their names, rank, residence, time of birth, and occupation to the district magistrate, who shall examine their reports and send them to the county magistrate before the 25th of the same month. The county magistrate, after examining them, shall send them to the shi, fu, or ken before the 10th of the 10th month, when the persons thus reported shall be entered on the militia roll.
• (Note.—Those who reside temporarily in any shi, fu, or ken need only report to the district magistrate of the place where they are registered.)
• Art. LXI. As all the males are liable to military service in the regular army when they reach the age of twenty, all that reach this age in any given year between the 1st and 12th months shall, through the head of the family, and between the 1st and 15th of the 9th month, report in due form to the district magistrate, who shall collect the reports and forward them before the 25th of the same month to the county magistrate, who shall examine and classify them, and forward them with his report to the shi, fu, or ken before the 10th of the 10th month. The shi, fu, and ken officials shall inspect them and enter the names reported on the conscription roll to be forwarded to the proper garrison before the 25th of the 12th month.
• Art. LXII. When one is residing temporarily in the shi, fu, or ken he may be conscripted in the place of his registration, or in the place of his temporary residence, at his option.
• Art. LXIII. When any one concludes to be conscripted in his place of residence he shall report the fact, vouched for by his security in the place of residence, before the 1st of the 9th month to the government officers of the province where he resides, and of that in which he is registered; the government office of the latter shall inquire for the head of his family in his district and report to the government officer of the former where his name shall be appended to the conscription roll, and an account of the matter recorded.
• Art. LXIV. Any one that is conscripted, by the payment of 270 yen, and any one that is exempt in time of peace only, by the payment of 135 yen, may obtain exemption from all military service except in the national militia.
• Art. LXV. Any one wishing to obtain exemption shall, through a relative, present his petition to the district magistrate before the arrival of the superintendent.
• The district magistrate shall stamp the petition and forward it to the county magistrate, who, after inspection shall forward it to the shi, fu, or ken, from whence it shall be sent to the conscription station.
• Art. LXVI. Persons liable to conscription who shall falsify as to their ages or their relatives, or who shall injure their persons or make themselves sick, or attempt in any other dishonest way to evade conscription, and the county or district magistrates who vouch for such persons and acts, shall be dealt with in the manner prescribed by law.
• Art. LXVII. Those who attempt in the way indicated in Art. LXVI to escape the conscription, and those who fail to report themselves as required by Art. LXI shall be examined at the next year’s conscription and put in camp before those mentioned in the note under Art. LVI.

Chapter VIII.

the number of conscripts.

Art. LXVIII. In the six garrison districts the number and class of conscripted soldiers shall, in general, be as follows:

First military department.—The Tokei Garrison.

Infantry, three brigades; cavalry, one regiment; artilery, two regiments; engineers, one regiment; transportation, one company; coast-guards, three companies; total, 7,020, of whom 2,340 enter camp each year.

The first department includes the districts of Tokio, Kanagawa, Saitama, Shidzuoka, Yamanashi, Gunba, Chiba, Ibaragi, Tochigi, Nagano, and Nügata.

Second department, Sendai.

Infantry, two brigades; artillery, one regiment; engineers, one battalion; porters, one company; total, 4,260, of whom 1,420 enter camp each year.

The second department contains the provinces of Miyashiro, Tukushima, Aomori, Iwate, Akita, and Yamagata.

Third department, Nagoya.

Infantry, two brigades: artillery, one regiment; engineers, one battalion; porters one company; total, 4,260, of whom 1,420 enter camp each year.

The third department contains the provinces of Aichi, Sanuki, Ishikawa, and parts of Shidzuoka, Echizen, Nagano, Shinano, and Iga.

Fourth department, Osaka.

Infantry, three brigades; artillery, two regiments; engineers, one regiment; porters, one company; coast-guards, two companies; total, 6,700; proportion for each year, 2,233⅓.

The fourth department contains the provinces of Osaka, Hiogo, Sakai, Wakayaina, Kioto, Miiè, Iga, and Okayama.

Fifth department, Hiroshima.

Infantry, two brigades; artillery, one regiment; engineers, one battalion; porters, one company; coast-guards, one company; total, 4,340; or 1,446⅔ for each year.

This department contains the provinces of Hiroshima, Shimane, Yamaguchi, Kochi, Ehime, and Bichu, in Okayama.

Sixth department, Kumamito.

Infantry, two brigades; artillery, two regiments; engineers, one regiment; porters, the company; coast-guards, two companies; total, 4,780; or 1,593 each year.

The sixth department includes the provinces of Kumamito, Kagoshima, Owake, ukaoka, and Nagasaki.

Seventh department.

At present united with the second department.

Coast-guards, one company; total, 80; or 26⅔ for each year.

The territory included in this department is one county under the jurisdiction of the Hakodate branch of the colonization department.

Grand total, 31,440 regular troops in the army, of which number one-third or 10,480 enter camp each year.

Art. LXIX. The classes or kinds of supplemental soldiers are the same as those of the regular conscripts.

Art. LXX. The standard height of the different classes or kinds of soldiers is as follows:

Of artillery and coast-guards, 5 feet 4 inches and upwards.

Of cavalry, engineers, and porters, 5 feet 3 inches and upwards.

Of infantry, 5 feet and upwards.

Of porters and hospital men, unfixed.

Art. LXXI. The number of supplemental conscripts for one year is, on the whole, as shown above; but the number may be increased or diminished as circumstances require.