Chapter 584. To amend the Act relating to pay of volunteer officers and soldiers
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Chap. 584.— An Act To amend the Act relating to pay of volunteer officers and soldiers. July 7, 1898. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the Act of CongressVolunteer Army.Pay and allowances, when to commence. approved May twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, entitled “An Act providing for the payment and maintenance of volunteers during the interval between their enrollment and muster into the United States service, and for other purposes,” be, and the same is hereby, amended to read as follows:
" “That the pay and allowance of all officers and enlisted men of the*Ante*, p. 420, amended. volunteers received into the service of the United States under the Act of Congress approved April twenty-second, eighteen hundred and*Ante*, pp. 362, 404, 405. ninety-eight, and the acts’ supplemental thereto, shall be deemed to commence from the day on which they had their names enrolled for service in the Volunteer Army of the United States and joined for duty therein after having been called for by the governor on the authority of the President and all officers and enlisted men who have not been so paid shall be so paid by the Pay Department of the Army out of any moneys appropriated for the maintenance of the Army: *Provided*,*Proviso*.Troops for Philippine Islands.
That troops about to embark for service in the Philippine Islands may, in the discretion of the Secretary of War, be paid one month’s wages in advance prior to embarkation.” " Approved, July 7, 1898.