Chapter 294. To provide for a volunteer brigade of engineers and an additional force of ten thousand enlisted men specially accustomed to tropical climates
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CHAP. 294.— An Act To provide for a volunteer brigade of engineers and an additional force of ten thousand enlisted men specially accustomed to tropical climates. May 11, 1898. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * That, in addition to the volunteerV olunteer Army.Organization of brigade of engineers.*Ante*, p. 361.*Post*, p. 721. forces provided for by the Act of April twenty-second, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, entitled “An Act to provide for temporarily increasing the military establishment of the United States in time of war, and for other purposes,” the President may authorize the Secretary of War to organize, under the terms and conditions of the aforesaid Act, a volunteer brigade of engineers from the nation at large, to consist of not more than three regiments and not more than three thousand five hundred men, possessing the special qualifications necessary for engineer troops, under such rules and regulations, including the appointment of the officers thereof, as maybe prescribed by the Secretary of War: *Provided,* That not to exceed three officers of the Corps*Provisos.*Regular Army officers; limit. of Engineers of the Regular Army may hold volunteer commissions in any one regiment of the volunteer brigade of engineers at the same time: *And provided further,* That all officers shall be appointed by theAppointment of officers.
President and with the consent of the Senate. Sec. 2. And the President is further empowered, during the presentOrganization of force immune to tropical diseases. war, under the Act of April twenty-second, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, to authorize the Secretary of War to organize an additional volunteer force of not exceeding ten thousand enlisted men possessing immunity from diseases incident to tropical climates; the officers thereof to be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate.
Sec. 3. The provisions of the Act of April twenty-second, eighteenApportionment. hundred and ninety-eight, which provide that volunteers called out by proclamation of the President shall be apportioned to the several States, and the provisions of said Act which provide that the Governors of theAppointment of officers. States shall appoint officers shall not apply to this Act. Approved, May 11, 1898.