2 Chargés d’Affaires from the United States to foreign courts.
12 United States Consuls-General and Consuls.
24 Members of the United States Senate and House of Representatives.
171 United States civil officers of various kinds.
8 Presiding officers of State Senates and Houses of Representatives.
13 Members of conventions to form State constitutions.
29 Adjutants, Inspectors, and Quartermasters-General and Chief Engineers of States and Territories.
46 Presidents of universities, colleges, etc.
14 Regents and chancellors of educational institutions.
11 Surveyors-General of States and Territories.
87 Presidents of railroads and other corporations.
63 Chief engineers of railroads and other public works.
62 Superintendents of railroads and other public works.
24 Treasurers and receivers of railroads and other corporations.
In accordance with sections 1327, 1328 and 1329 of the Revised Statutes of the United States a Board of Visitors, composed of twelve persons, seven appointed by the President, two by the presiding officer of the Senate, and three by the Speaker of the House of Representatives, was for years annually appointed to visit the Military Academy to “inquire into the actual state of discipline, instruction, police administration, fiscal affairs, and other concerns of the institution, and reported the same to the Secretary of War for the information of Congress.” Each member of the Board received not exceeding eight cents per mile traveled, by the most direct route, from his residence to West Point and return, and in addition, five dollars per day for expenses during each day of his service at West Point. This Board visited and inspected the Academy during the first two weeks of June.
The Act of Congress approved March 4, 1909, among other things says:
“That hereafter the Board of Visitors to the Military Academy shall consist of five members of the Committee on Military Affairs of the Senate and seven members of the Committee on Military Affairs of the House of Representatives, to be appointed by the respective chairman thereof, who shall annually visit the Military Academy on such date or dates as may be fixed by the chairman of the said committees; and the Superintendent of the academy and the members of the Board of Visitors shall be notified of such date by the chairman of the said committees, acting jointly, at least fifteen days before the meeting. The expenses of the members of the board shall be their actual expenses while engaged upon their duties as members of said board, and their actual expenses for travel by the shortest mail routes: Provided further, That so much of sections 1327, 1328 and 1329, Revised Statutes of the United States, as is inconsistent with the provisions of this Act is hereby repealed.”