Chapter 607. To amend section twelve hundred and twenty-five of Revised Statutes so as to provide for detail of retired officers of the Army and Navy to assist in military instruction in schools
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CHAP. 607.— An Act To amend section twelve hundred and twenty-five of Revised Statutes so as to provide for detail of retired officers of the Army and Navy to assist in military instruction in schools. February 26, 1901. Whereas the national defense must depend upon the volunteer service of the people of the several States; and Whereas those schools which shall adopt a system of military instruction are entitled to the assistance of the Government in order to secure to the United States such a knowledge of military affairs among the youth of the country as will render them efficient as volunteers if called upon for the national defense:
Therefore, *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Detail authorized as instructors in drill, etc., in schools. [R. S., sec. 1225, p. 216](/us/rs/s1225/p216), amended. That section twelve hundred and twenty-five of the Revised Statutes, concerning the detail of officers of the Army and Navy to educational institutions be, and the same is hereby, amended so as to permit the President to detail under the provisions of that Act, and in addition to the detail of the officers of the Army and Navy now authorized to be detailed under the existing provisions of said Act, such retired officers of the Army and Navy of the United States as in his judgment may be required for that purpose, to act as instructors in military drill and tactics in schools in the United States, where such instruction shall have been authorized by the educational authorities thereof, and where the services of such instructors shall have been applied for by said authorities.
Sec. 2. That no detail shall be made under this Act to any schoolPayments to officers by school. unless it shall pay the cost of commutation of quarters of the retired officers detailed thereto and the extra-duty pay to which the latter may be entitled by law to receive for the performance of special duty: *Provided*, That no detail shall be made under the provisions of this*Proviso*.—by United States. Act unless the officers to be detailed are willing to accept such position without compensation from the Government other than their retired pay. 811 Sec. 3.
That the Secretary of War is authorized to issue at his discretion,Use of ordnance, etc., for instruction authorized. and under proper regulations to be prescribed by him, out of ordnance and ordnance stores belonging to the Government, and which can be spared for that purpose, upon the approval of the governors of the respective States, such number of the same as may be required for military instruction and practice by such school, and the Secretary shall require a bond in each case, for double the value of the property, for the care and safe-keeping thereof and for the return of the same when required.
Sec. 4. That this Act shall take effect immediately.Effect. Approved, February 26, 1901.