Chapter 423. Making appropriation for the support of the Regular and Volunteer Army for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred
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Chap. 423: Making appropriation for the support of the Regular and Volunteer Army for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred. Chapter 423 30 Stat. 1064 1899-03-03 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2025-11-03 55 3 public chap. 423.— An Act Making appropriation for the support of the Regular and Volunteer Army for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred.March 3, 1899. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the following sums be, Army appropriations. and they are hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the support of the Army for the year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred: commanding general’s office.Commanding General’s Office.
To defray the contingent expenses of the Commanding General’s Contingent expenses. Office in his discretion, one thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars. adjutant-general’s department. For contingent expenses at the headquarters of the several military Adjutant-General’s Department. departments, including the staff corps serving thereat, except the department, judge-advocates, being for the purchase of the necessary articles of office, toilet, and desk furniture, binding, maps, books of reference, professional newspapers and periodicals, and police utensils, three thousand dollars, to be allotted by the Secretary of War, and to be expended in the discretion of the several military department commanders.
For contingent expenses of the military information division, Adjutant-General’s Military information division. Office, including the purchase of law books, books of reference, periodicals and newspapers, and of the military attaches at the United States embassies and legations abroad, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War, six thousand six hundred and forty dollars. inspector-general’s department. Contingencies, Inspector-General’s Department: For contingent Inspector-General’s Department. expenses of the Inspector-General’s Department at the offices of the several department inspectors-general, being for the purchase of the necessary articles of office, toilet, and desk furniture, binding, maps, books of reference, and police utensils, one thousand dollars. office of the chief signal officer.
Signal Service of the Army: For expenses of the Signal Service Signal Service. of the Army, as follows: Purchase, equipment, and repair of field electric telegraphs, signal equipments and stores, binocular glasses, telescopes, heliostats, and other necessary instruments, including necessary meteorological instruments for use on target ranges; war balloons; telephone apparatus (excluding exchange service), and maintenance of the same; electrical installations and maintenance at military posts; maintenance and repair of military telegraph lines and cables, includ-1065FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS.
Sess. III. Ch. 423. 1899.ing salaries of civilian employees, supplies, and general repairs, and other expenses connected with the duty of collecting and transmitting information for the Army, by telegraph or otherwise, forty-seven thousand five hundred dollars. Contingencies of the Army: For all contingent expenses of the Contingent expenses. Army not provided for by other estimates, and embracing all branches of the military service, to be expended under the immediate orders of the Secretary of War, two hundred thousand dollars.
United States service schools: To provide means for the theoretical United States service schools. and practical instruction at the artillery school at Fort Monroe, Virginia; the infantry and cavalry school at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, and the cavalry and light-artillery school at Fort Riley, Kansas, by the purchase of text-books, books of reference, scientific and professional papers, and for all other absolutely necessary expenses, to be allotted in such proportions as may, in the opinion of the Secretary of War, be for the best interest of the military service, eight thousand five hundred dollars. pay of officers of the line.Pay.
For pay of officers of the line, five million dollars.Line. For pay of officers for length of service, to be paid with their current Longevity. monthly pay, eight hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. For pay of the company commissioned officers in each regiment of the Payment of company commissioned officers, immunes, before commissioned, etc. special or immune regiments their salaries from the time each organized company reported at rendezvous as a company for service until said officers were commissioned; and for pay of the regimental commissioned officers their salaries from the time the regiment was mustered into service until said officers were commissioned, seventy-five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary: *Provided,**Proviso.* —payment from date of reporting for duty.
That such company and regimental officers shall be paid only from the time when they personally reported for duty. pay of enlisted men. Pay of enlisted men of all grades, including recruits, thirteen million Enlisted men. five hundred thousand dollars. For additional pay for length of service, seven hundred and twenty-five Longevity. thousand dollars. engineer regiment. Three hundred and seventy-five thousand three hundred and twenty-four dollars.Engineer regiment. ordnance department.
One hundred and seven thousand six hundred and thirty-seven Ordnance Department. dollars. noncommissioned staff (unattached to regiments). One hundred and seventy-one thousand three hundred and sixty Noncommissioned staff. dollars. signal corps. One hundred and seventy-two thousand two hundred and sixty Signal Corps. dollars. hospital corps. Seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars.Hospital Corps. pay to clerks and messengers at department headquarters and at headquarters of the army.
Thirty clerks, at one thousand four hundred dollars each per annum, Clerks and messengers at headquarters. forty-two thousand dollars; 1066 Sixty clerks, at one thousand two hundred dollars each per annum, seventy two thousand dollars; One hundred clerks, at one thousand dollars each per annum, one hundred thousand dollars; Sixty eight messengers, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each per annum, forty-eight thousand nine hundred and sixty dollars; In all, two hundred and sixty-two thousand nine hundred and sixty dollars.
And said clerks and messengers shall be employed and assigned by the Secretary of War to the offices and positions in which they are to serve. pay of the general staff.General staff. Adjutant-General’s Department: For pay of officers in the Adjutant-General’s Department. Adjutant-General’s Department, seventy-one thousand five hundred dollars; For additional pay to such officers for length of service, to be paid Longevity. with their current monthly pay, fifteen thousand three hundred dollars;
In all, eighty-six thousand eight hundred dollars. Inspector-General’s Department: For pay of officers in the Inspector-General’s Department. Inspector-General’s Department, fifty-seven thousand dollars; For additional pay to such officers for length of service, to be paid Longevity. with their current monthly pay, eleven thousand four hundred dollars; In all, sixty-eight thousand four hundred dollars. The Corps of Engineers: For pay of officers in the Corps of Engineers, Corps of Engineers. three hundred and fifty thousand nine hundred dollars:
For additional pay to such officers for length of service, to be paid Longevity. with their current monthly pay, seventy thousand one hundred dollars; In all, four hundred and twenty-one thousand dollars. Ordnance Department: For pay of officers in the Ordnance Ordnance Department. Department, one hundred and eighty-six thousand six hundred dollars; For additional pay to such officers for length of service, to be paid Longevity. with their current monthly pay, thirty-seven thousand three hundred and twenty dollars;
In all, two hundred and twenty-three thousand nine hundred and twenty dollars. Quartermaster’s Department: For pay of officers in the Quartermaster’s Quartermaster’s Department. Department, two hundred and fourteen thousand five hundred dollars; For additional pay to such officers for length of service, to be paid Longevity. with their current monthly pay, forty-three thousand nine hundred dollars; In all, two hundred and fifty-eight thousand four hundred dollars. Subsistence Department:
For pay of officers in the Subsistence Subsistence Department. Department, one hundred and sixteen thousand dollars: For additional pay to such officers for length of service, to be paid Longevity. with their current monthly pay, eighteen thousand two hundred dollars; In all, one hundred and thirty-four thousand two hundred dollars. Medical Department: For pay of officers in the Medical Department, Medical Department. five hundred and one thousand five hundred dollars; For additional pay to such officers for length of service, to be paid Longevity. with their current monthly pay, one hundred thousand three hundred dollars;
In all, six hundred and one thousand eight hundred dollars. Pay Department: For pay of officers in the Pay Department, one Pay Department. hundred and eighteen thousand five hundred dollars; For additional pay to such officers for length of service, to be paid Longevity. with their current monthly pay, twenty-three thousand seven hundred dollars; In all, one hundred and forty-two thousand two hundred dollars. Judge-Advocate-General’s Department: For pay of officers Judge-Advocate-General’s Department. in the Judge-Advocate-General’s Department, thirty-seven thousand dollars; 1067 For additional pay to such officers for length of service, to be paid Longevity. with their current monthly pay, six thousand nine hundred dollars;
In all, forty-three thousand nine hundred dollars. Signal Corps: For pay of the officers of the Signal Corps, eighty-two Signal Corps. thousand dollars; For additional pay to such officers for length of service, to be paid Longevity. with their current monthly pay, sixteen thousand four hundred dollars: *Provided,* That the regimental sergeant-majors and regimental quartermaster-sergeants *Proviso.* Pay regimental sergeant-majors, etc. of artillery and infantry shall have the same pay and allowances as the regimental sergeant-majors and regimental quartermaster-sergeants of cavalry.
In all, ninety-eight thousand four hundred dollars. Record and Pension Office: For pay of officers of the Record Record and Pension Office. and Pension Office, eight thousand five hundred dollars; For additional pay to such officers for length of service, to be paid Longevity. with current monthly pay, one thousand dollars: *Provided,* That the *Proviso.* *Ante,* p. 981. requirements of law relative to the reduction of the Army on July first, nineteen hundred and one, shall not be held to apply to the officers of the Record and Pension Office.
In all, nine thousand five hundred dollars. retired officers.Retired list. For pay of officers on the retired list, and for officers who may be Officers. placed thereon during the current year, one million two hundred and seventy-two thousand nine hundred and seventy-one dollars and twenty-one cents; For additional pay to such officers for length of service, to be paid Longevity. with their current monthly pay, three hundred and ninety thousand three hundred and eighty-five dollars and thirty-one cents;
In all, one million six hundred and sixty-three thousand three hundred and fifty-six dollars and fifty-two cents. retired enlisted men. For pay of the enlisted men of the Army on the retired list, five Retired enlisted men. hundred and fifty-three thousand seven hundred and sixty-three dollars and thirty-nine cents. miscellaneous. For pay of not exceeding one hundred hospital matrons, twelve Hospital matrons. thousand dollars. For pay of seventy paymasters’ clerks, at one thousand four hundred Paymasters’ clerks, messengers. dollars each, ninety-eight thousand dollars; paymasters’ messengers, fifteen thousand dollars; traveling expenses of paymasters’ clerks and expert accountant of the Inspector-General’s Department, thirty thousand dollars; in all, one hundred and forty-three thousand dollars.
For expenses of courts-martial, courts of inquiry, and compensation Courts-martial, etc. of reporters and witnesses attending the same, fifteen thousand dollars. For additional pay to officer in charge of public buildings and grounds Pay to officer, public buildings and grounds. at Washington, District of Columbia, one thousand dollars. For commutation of quarters to commissioned officers on duty, without Commutation of quarters, officers. troops, at stations where there are no public quarters, three hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars.
For travel allowance to enlisted men on discharge, five hundred Allowances, enlisted men. thousand dollars. For retained and detained pay to enlisted men on discharge, twenty thousand dollars. For clothing not drawn due to enlisted men on discharge, five hundred thousand dollars. For interest on deposits and detained pay of enlisted men, ninety-two thousand eight hundred and thirty-one dollars and sixty-six cents. 1068 For pay of a clerk attendant on the collection and classification of Military information, Clerk. military information, one thousand five hundred dollars.
For pay of expert accountant for the Inspector-General’s Department, Expert accountant. two thousand five hundred dollars. For mileage to officers and contract surgeons, when authorized by Mileage to officers. *Provisos.* Limit. law, five hundred thousand dollars: *Provided,* That hereafter the maximum sum to be allowed and paid to any officer of the Army shall be seven cents per mile, distances to be computed over the shortest usually traveled routes: *Provided further,* That when any officer so traveling Travel on bond-aided, etc., railroads, etc. shall travel in whole or in part on any railroad on which the troops and supplies of the United States are entitled to be transported free of charge, or over any of the bond-aided Pacific railroads, or over the railroad of any railroad company which is entitled to receive only fifty per centum of the compensation earned by such company for transportation services rendered to the United States, he shall be furnished with a transportation request by the Quartermaster’s Department for such travel; and the cost of the transportation so furnished shall be a charge against the officer’s mileage account for such travel, to be deducted by the Paymaster who pays the account, at rates paid by the general public for travel over such roads: *Provided further,* That officers Fifty per centum railroads; reimbursement to certain officers. who, by reason of the decision of the accounting officers of the Treasury, have been compelled to pay from their own means one-half of the cost of their travel fare over railroads known as fifty per centum railroads, shall be reimbursed the same by the Pay Department, and paymasters against whom disallowances have been made by the accounting officers of the Treasury under such decision shall have the amount so disallowed passed to their credit: *Provided further,* That actual Actual expense only to island possessions. expenses only shall be paid to officers when traveling to and from our island possessions in the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.
For traveling expenses and commutation of quarters for civilian Civilian physicians. physicians employed by the Surgeon-General, one thousand dollars. For four hundred contract surgeons, seven hundred and twenty Contract surgeons. thousand dollars. For two months’ extra pay to the enlisted men who served in the Extra pay, Astor Battery. Astor Battery, and who have been honorably discharged therefrom, two thousand eight hundred and thirty-four dollars and forty cents. All the money hereinbefore appropriated, except the appropriation Accounting.
“for mileage to officers when authorized by law,” shall be disbursed and accounted for by the Pay Department as pay of the Army, regular and volunteer, and for that purpose shall constitute one fund. subsistence department.Subsistence Department. Subsistence of the Army.-Purchase of subsistence supplies: Supplies. Purchases. For issue as rations to troops, civil employees when entitled thereto, hospital matrons and nurses, general prisoners of war (including Indians held by the Army as prisoners, but for whose subsistence appropriation is not otherwise made), estimated for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred, on the basis of sixty two million seven hundred and sixty-one thousand seven hundred and fifty rations; for sales to officers and enlisted men of the Army; for authorized issues of candles; of toilet articles, barbers’, laundry, and tailors’ materials, for use of general prisoners confined at military posts without pay or allowances, and recruits at recruiting stations; of matches for lighting public fires and lights at posts and stations and in the field; of flour used for paste in target practice; of salt and vinegar for public animals; of issues to Indians visiting military posts, and to Indians employed with the Army, without pay, as guides and scouts.
For payments Payments. for meals for recruiting parties and recruits; for hot coffee, canned beef, and baked beans for troops traveling, when it is impracticable to cook their rations; for scales, weights, measures, utensils, tools, stationery, blank books and forms, printing, advertising, commercial newspapers, use of telephones, office furniture; for temporary 1069 buildings, cellars, and others means of protecting subsistence supplies (when not provided by the Quartermasters Department): for commissary chests complete, and for renewal of their outfits; for field desks of commissaries; for extra pay to enlisted men employed on extra duty Extra-duty pay. in the Subsistence Department for periods of not less than ten days, at rates fixed by law; for compensation of civilians employed in the Civilian employees.
Subsistence Department, and for other necessary expenses incident to the purchase, care, preservation, issue, sale, and accounting for subsistence supplies for the Army; for the payment of the regulation Commutation of rations. allowances for commutation in lieu of rations to enlisted men on furlough, to ordnance sergeants on duty at ungarrisoned posts, to enlisted men stationed at places where rations in kind can not be economically issued, to enlisted men traveling on detached duty when it is impracticable to carry rations of any kind, to enlisted men selected to contest for places or prizes in department and army rifle competitions while traveling to and from places of contest; to be expended under Amount. the direction of the Secretary of War, eight million seven hundred thousand eight hundred and seventy-one dollars and nine cents.
Difference between the cost of the ration at twenty-five cents and Increased cost of ration enlisted men traveling from hospitals. commutation of rations at one dollar and fifty cents per day to enlisted men traveling from hospitals to their homes on furlough, allowed under General Orders, Number One hundred and fourteen, War Department, Adjutant-General’s Office, August ninth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, two hundred and eighty-one thousand two hundred and fifty dollars.
Difference between the cost of the ration at twenty-five cents and —men in hospitals. the amount of forty cents per day to be expended by the medical officers in charge of hospitals for the diet of enlisted men while undergoing hospital treatment under their charge, four hundred and ninety thousand five hundred dollars. Difference between the cost of the ration at twenty-five cents and —changed diet. the cost of rations differing in whole or in part from the ordinary ration, to be issued to enlisted men in camp during periods of recovery from low conditions of health consequent upon service in unhealthy regions or in debilitating climates, to be expended only under special authority of the Secretary of War, one hundred and eighty thousand dollars.
Subsistence supplies to be issued to inhabitants of the island of Cuba Supplies for Cubans. who are destitute and in imminent danger of perishing unless they receive the same, one hundred thousand dollars. Total for Subsistence Department, nine million seven hundred and Amount. fifty-two thousand six hundred and twenty-one dollars and nine cents, to be disbursed and accounted for as “Subsistence of the Army,” and for that purpose shall constitute one fund. quartermaster’s department.Quartermaster’s Department.
Regular supplies: Regular supplies of the Quartermaster’s Department, Regular supplies. including their care and protection, consisting of stoves and heating apparatus required for heating offices, hospitals, barracks, and quarters, and recruiting stations; also ranges and stoves, and appliances for cooking and serving food, and repair and maintenance of such heating and cooking appliances; of fuel and lights for enlisted men, including recruits, guards, hospitals, storehouses, and offices, and for sale to officers; for post bakeries; for the necessary furniture, text-books, paper, and equipment for the post schools and libraries; for the tableware and mess furniture for kitchens and mess halls, each and all for the enlisted men, including recruits; of forage in kind for the horses, Forage, etc. mules, and oxen of the Quartermaster’s Department at the several posts and stations and with the armies in the field, and for the horses of the several regiments of cavalry, the batteries of artillery, and such companies of infantry and scouts as may be mounted, and for the authorized number of officers’ horses, including bedding for the animals; of 1070 straw for soldiers’ bedding, and of stationery, including blank books for the Quartermaster’s Department, certificates for discharged soldiers, blank forms for the Pay and Quartermaster’s departments, and for printing department orders and reports, seven million two hundred Amount. thousand dollars.
Incidental expenses: Postage; cost of telegrams on official business Incidental expenses. received and sent by officers of the Army; extra pay to soldiers employed on extra duty, under the direction of the Quartermaster’s Department, in the erection of barracks, quarters, and storehouses, in the construction of roads, and other constant labor for periods of not less than ten days, and as clerks for post quartermasters at military posts, and for prison overseers at posts designated by the War Department for the confinement of general prisoners: for expenses of expresses to and from frontier posts and armies in the field, of escorts to paymasters and other disbursing officers and to trains where military escorts can not be furnished; expenses of the interment of officers killed in action or who die when on duty in the field, or at military posts or on the frontiers, or when traveling under orders, and of noncommissioned officers and soldiers; and that in all cases where they would have been lawful claims against the Government, reimbursement may be made of expenses heretofore or hereafter incurred by individuals of burial and transportation of remains of officers, including acting assistant surgeons, not to exceed what is now allowed in the cases of officers, and for the reimbursement in the eases of enlisted men of what is now allowed in their cases, may be paid out of the proper funds appropriated by this Act, and that the disbursing officers shall be credited with such reimbursements heretofore made; authorized office furniture; hire of laborers in the Quartermaster’s Department, including the hire of interpreters, spies, or guides for the Army; compensation of clerks and other employees to the officers of the Quartermaster’s Department, and incidental expenses of recruiting; for the apprehension, securing, and delivering of deserters, and the expenses incident to their pursuit, and no greater sum than fifty dollars for each deserter shall in the discretion of the Secretary of War be paid to any officer or citizen for such services and expenses; for a donation of five dollars to each dishonorably discharged prisoner upon his release from confinement, under court martial sentence, involving dishonorable discharge; for the following expenditures required for the several regiments of cavalry, the batteries of light artillery, and such companies of infantry and scouts as may be mounted, the authorized number of officers’ horses, and for the trains, to wit:
Hire of veterinary surgeons, purchase of medicines for horses and mules, picket ropes, blacksmiths’ tools and materials, horseshoes and blacksmiths’ tools for the cavalry service, and for the shoeing of horses and mules, and such additional expenditures as are necessary and authorized by law in the movements and operation of the Army and at military posts, and not expressly assigned to any other department, two million four hundred thousand dollars.Amount. Horses for cavalry and artillery:
For the purchase of horses Purchase of horses. for the cavalry and artillery, and for the Indian scouts, and for such infantry and members of the Hospital Corps in field campaigns as may be required to be mounted, and the expenses incident thereto seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Barracks and quarters: For barracks and quarters for troops, Barracks and quarters. storehouses for the safe-keeping of military stores, for offices, recruiting stations, and for the hire of buildings and grounds for summer cantonments, and for temporary buildings at frontier stations, for the construction of temporary buildings and stables, and for repairing public buildings at established posts, including the extra-duty pay of enlisted men employed on the same: *Provided,* That no part of the *Proviso.* Not available for commutation of fuel, etc. moneys so appropriated shall be paid for commutation of fuel, and for quarters to officers or enlisted men, three million dollars.
Transportation of the Army and its supplies: Transportation Transportation. of the Army, including baggage of the troops when moving either 1071 by land or water, and including also the transportation of recruits and recruiting parties heretofore paid from the appropriation for “Expenses for recruiting;” of supplies to the militia furnished by the War Department; of the necessary agents and employees; of clothing, camp and garrison equipage, and other quartermaster’s stores, from army depots or places of purchase or delivery to the several posts and army depots, and from those depots to the troops in the field; of horse equipments and subsistence stores from the places of purchase, and from the places of delivery under contract to such places as the circumstances of the service may require them to be sent; of ordnance, ordnance stores, and small arms from the foundries and armories to the arsenals, fortifications, frontier posts, and army depots; freights, wharfage, tolls, and ferriages; the purchase and hire of draft and pack animals and harness, and the purchase and repair of wagons, carts, and drays, and of ships and other seagoing vessels and boats required for the transportation of supplies and for garrison purposes; for drayage and cartage at the several posts; hire of teamsters and other employees; extra duty pay of enlisted men driving teams, repairing means of transportation, and employed as trainmasters, and in opening roads and building wharves; transportation of funds of the Army; the expenses of sailing public transports on the various rivers, the Gulf of Mexico, and the Atlantic and Pacific oceans; for procuring water, and introducing the same to buildings, at such posts as from their situation require it to be brought from a distance, and for the disposal of sewage and drainage, and for constructing roads and wharves; for the payment Payment to land-grant railroads. of army transportations lawfully due such land-grant railroads as have not received aid in Government bonds (to be adjusted in accordance with the decisions of the Supreme Court in cases decided under such land grant acts), but in no case shall more than fifty per centum of full amount of service be paid: *Provided,* That such compensation Maximum. *Proviso.* Compensation, how computed.
Fifty per cent to railroads not bond aided. shall be computed upon the basis of the tariff or lower special rates for like transportation performed for the public at large, and shall be accepted as in full for all demands for such service: *Provided further,* That in expending the money appropriated by this Act, a railroad company which has not received aid in bonds of the United States, and which obtained a grant of public land to aid in the construction of its railroad on condition that such railroad should be a post route and military road, subject to the use of the United States for postal, military, naval, and other Government services, and also subject to such regulations as Congress may impose restricting the charge for such Government transportation, having claims against the United States for transportation of troops and munitions of war and military supplies and property over such aided railroads, shall be paid out of the moneys appropriated by the foregoing provision only on the basis of such rate for the transportation of such troops and munitions of war and military supplies and property as the Secretary of War shall deem just and reasonable under the foregoing provision, such rate not to exceed fifty per centum of the compensation for such Government transportation as shall at the time be charged to and paid by private parties to any such company for like and similar transportation; and the amount so fixed to be paid shall be accepted as in full for all demands for such service, seventeen million five hundred thousand dollars.
Clothing, and camp and garrison equipage: For cloth, woolens, Clothing, camp and garrison equipage. materials, and for the manufacture of clothing for the Army, for issue and for sale at cost price according to the Army Regulations; for altering and fitting clothing and washing and cleaning, when necessary; for equipage, and for expenses of packing and handling, and similar necessaries; for a suit of citizen’s outer clothing to cost not exceeding ten dollars, to be issued upon release from confinement to each prisoner who has been confined under a court martial sentence involving dishonorable discharge, five million nine hundred and fifty-two thousand two hundred and forty-six dollars.
Construction and repair of hospitals: For construction and Hospitals.1072 repair of hospitals at military posts already established and occupied, including the extra duty pay of enlisted men employed on the same, and including also all expenditures for construction and repairs required at the Army and Navy Hospital at Hot Springs, Arkansas, except quarters for the officers, two hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars: *Provided,* That twenty-five thousand dollars of the foregoing amount be expended in the construction of an addition to the Army and Navy Hospital at Hot Springs, Arkansas, making thereby a new ward to accommodate fifty beds.
Quarters for hospital stewards: For construction of quarters Quarters for hospital stewards. for hospital stewards at military posts already established and occupied, including the extra duty pay of enlisted men employed on the same, twenty thousand dollars. Shooting galleries and ranges: For shelter, shooting galleries, Shooting ranges, etc. ranges for small arms target practice, repairs, and expenses incident thereto, ten thousand dollars. medical department.Medical Department.
Medical and hospital department: For the purchase of medical Supplies, etc. and hospital supplies, and all other necessary miscellaneous expenses for the Medical Department of the Army, one million five hundred thousand dollars. Army Medical Museum and library: For Army Medical Medical Museum. Museum, preservation of specimens and the preparation and purchase of new specimens, five thousand dollars; For the library of the Surgeon-General’s Office, ten thousand dollars;Library.
In all, fifteen thousand dollars. engineer department.Engineer Department. Engineer depot at Willets Point, New York: For incidental Incidental expenses. expenses of the depot, including fuel, lights, chemicals, stationery, hardware, extra duty pay to soldiers necessarily employed for periods not less than ten days as artificers on work in addition to and not strictly in the line of their military duties, such as carpenters, blacksmiths, draftsmen, printers, lithographers, photographers, engine drivers, teamsters, wheelwrights, masons, machinists, painters, overseers, laborers, repairs of, and for materials to repair, public buildings, machinery, and unforeseen expenses, five thousand dollars.
For the purchase of material for use of United States Engineer Materials. School and for instruction of engineer troops at Willets Point in their special duties as sappers and miners; for land and submarine mines, pontoniers, torpedo drill, and signaling, one thousand five hundred dollars. For purchase and repair of instruments, to be issued to officers of Instruments. the Corps of Engineers and to officers detailed and on duty as acting engineer officers, for use on public works and surveys, three thousand dollars.
For pontoon trains, intrenching tools, instruments, and drawing materials, twenty-five thousand dollars. For services of surveyors, draftsmen, photographers, clerks to engineer officers on the staff of division, corps, and department commanders, twenty five thousand dollars. Library of the United States Engineer School: For purchase Library. and binding of professional works of recent date treating of military and civil engineering and kindred scientific subjects, five hundred dollars.
Total for engineer department, sixty thousand dollars. ordnance department.Ordnance Department. Ordnance service: For current expenses of the ordnance service Current expenses. required to defray the current expenses at the arsenals; of receiving 1073 stores and issuing arms and other ordnance supplies; of police and office duties; of rents, tolls, fuel, and light; of stationery and office furniture; of tools and instruments for use; incidental expenses of the ordnance service and those attending practical trials and tests of ordnance, small arms, and other ordnance supplies, including payment for mechanical labor in the office of the Chief of Ordnance, two hundred and thirty-five thousand dollars.
Ordnance, Ordnance Stores, and Supplies: For manufacture Ammunition for small arms. of metallic ammunition for small arms and ammunition for reloading cartridges, including the cost of targets and material for target practice, ammunition for burials at the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers and its several branches, including National Soldiers’ Home in Washington, District of Columbia, and marksmen’s medals and insignia for all arms of the service, including machinery, tools, and fixtures for their manufacture at the arsenals, five hundred thousand dollars: *Provided,* The Chief of Ordnance is authorized to issue such *Proviso.* Issue of obsolete ordnance to Volunteer Soldiers’ Home. obsolete or condemned ordnance, gun carriages and ordnance stores, as may be needed for ornamental purposes, to the Homes for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, the Homes to pay for transportation and such other expenses as are necessary.
The Secretary of War is hereby authorized to deliver to the order of Thirty-third encampment Grand Army of the Republic. Delivery to, of condemned cannon authorized. Louis Wagner, chairman of the general committee of the Thirty-third National Encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic, to be held at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, September next, two dismounted condemned cannon, used in the late civil war, to be used for the purpose of furnishing memorial badges commemorative of the holding of such encampment at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: *Provided,* That no expense *Proviso.* No expense to United States. shall be caused to the United States through the delivery of said condemned cannon.
For repairing and preserving ordnance and ordnance stores in the hands Repairing and preserving stores, etc. of troops and for issue at the arsenals and depots, thirty thousand dollars. For purchase and manufacture of ordnance stores to fill requisitions Purchases for requisitions. of troops, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Infantry, cavalry, and artillery equipments, including horse equipments Equipments. for cavalry and artillery, including machinery, tools, and fixtures for their manufacture at the arsenals, three hundred and seventy thousand dollars.
For overhauling, cleaning, and preserving new ordnance on hand at Preserving, etc., ordnance. the arsenals and depots, fifty thousand dollars. For firing the morning and evening gun at military posts prescribed Morning and evening gun. by General Orders, Numbered Seventy, Headquarters of the Army, dated July twenty-third, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, and at National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers and its several Branches, including National Soldiers’ Home in Washington, District of Columbia, including material for cartridges, bags, and so forth, twenty-five thousand dollars.
For targets for artillery practice and implements for mechanical Artillery targets. maneuvers, ten thousand dollars. Manufacture, repairing, procuring, and issuing arms at the national Manufacturing arms etc. armories, including machinery, tools, and fixtures for their manufacture: *Provided,* That on application of the governor of any State or *Proviso.* Replacing ordnance, etc., to States used by volunteers, Spanish war. Territory the Secretary of War is authorized to replace the ordnance and ordnance stores which the volunteers from said State or Territory carried into the service of the United States Army during the recent war with Spain, and which have been retained by the United States, eight hundred thousand dollars.
For the purchase of machinery, tools, fixtures, and for the installation Rock Island Arsenal. of plant, for the manufacture of small arms at the armory shops, Rock Island Arsenal, available until expended, three hundred and fifty thousand dollars. That all enlisted men in the Regular Army who enlisted subsequent Extra pay on muster out, enlistments in Regular Army for Spanish war. to the declaration of war for the war only and mustered out of the service who have served honestly and faithfully beyond the limits of 1074FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS.
Sess. III. Chs. 423, 424. 1899. the United States shall be paid two months’ extra pay on muster out and discharge from the service, and all enlisted men in the Regular Army who enlisted subsequent to the declaration of war for the war only and mustered out of the service who have served honestly and faithfully within the limits of the United States shall be paid one month’s extra pay on muster out and discharge from the service from any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, said moneys to be immediately available.
That the Act of January twelfth, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, Extra pay on muster out, payable to legal representatives. *Ante,* p. 784. be, and it is hereby, amended so as to authorize the payment to the legal heirs or representatives of the officers and enlisted men who died or were killed or who may die in the service, the extra pay provided for in that Act for officers and enlisted men who have been or are to be mustered out. Professional publications for Ordnance Department: for Ordnance Bureau.
Publications for. military, technical, and professional publications for use of the Ordnance Department, United States Army, one hundred dollars. *Provided,* That the provisions of this Act shall apply for the payment Payment of volunteers effected as fully as though part of Regular Army. of volunteers as fully as though they formed part of the Regular Army. Sec. 2. That no property, franchises, or concessions of any kind No concessions, franchises, etc., granted in Cuba during military occupation. whatever shall be granted by the United States, or by any military or other authority whatever, in the Island of Cuba during the occupation thereof by the United States.
Approved, March 3, 1899.
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Making appropriation for the support of the Regular and Volunteer Army for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred
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