Chapter 179. To regulate enlistments in the Army of the United States
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CHAP. 179.— An Act To regulate enlistments in the Army of the United States.August 1, 1894. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Army.Prohibition of reenlistment repealed. That so much of the Act of Congress entitled “An Act making appropriations for the support of 216 the Army for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred Vol. 27, p. 48.and ninety-four, and for other purposes,” approved February twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, as provides that “no private shall be re-enlisted who has served ten years or more or who is over thirty-five years of age, except such as have already served as enlisted men for twenty years or upwards,” be, and the same is hereby, repealed.
Sec. 2. That hereafter all enlistments in the Army shall be for theEnlistments.Qualifications for reenlistments.First enlistment, requirement of aliens. term of three years, and no soldier shall be again enlisted in the Army whose service during his last preceding term of enlistment has not been honest and faithful; and in time of peace no person (except an Indian) who is not a citizen of the United States, or who has not made legal declaration of his intention to become a citizen of the United States, or who can not speak, read, and write the English language, or who is over thirty years of age, shall be enlisted for the first enlistment *Proviso*.Certain discharged soldiers may reenlist.in the Army: *Provided*, That any soldier discharged since January twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, who has been prevented from reenlisting by the operations of the Act of Congress approved February twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, and who may hereafter enlist within three months from the date of the approval of this Act, shall be considered to have re-enlisted and shall be entitled to receive while serving subsequent to such enlistment the same pay, service pay, and allowances as if he had re-enlisted within thirty days from his latest discharge.
Sec. 3. That the period within which soldiers may re-enlist with thePeriod extended to three months for benefits of reenlistment.[R. S., secs. 1282, 1284, p. 222, amended](/us/rs/t/s1282/1284/p222).Additional pay. benefits conferred by sections twelve hundred and eighty-two and twelve hundred and eighty four of the Revised Statutes, be, and the same is hereby, extended to three months; and hereafter every enlisted man in the Army, excepting general service clerks and general service messengers, shall be entitled to all the benefits conferred by sections twelve hundred and eighty-one and twelve hundred and eighty-two of the *Proviso*.Continuous service.Revised Statutes: *Provided*, That to entitle them to the additional pay authorized by section twelve hundred and eighty-one, for men serving in the third, fourth, and fifth years, the service must have been continuous within the meaning of this section.
Approved, August 1, 1894.