Chapter 803. Making appropriation for the support of the Army for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and two
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CHAP. 803.— An Act Making appropriation for the support of the Army for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and two. March 2, 1901. *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 and two: commanding general’s office.
To defray the contingent expenses of the Commanding General’sCommanding General’s Office. Office in his discretion, one thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars. Contingencies of the Army: For all contingent expenses of theContingent 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, seventy-five thousand dollars. adjutant-general’s department. For contingent expenses at the headquarters of the several militaryAdjutant-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, seven 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’sMilitary 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. United States service schools: To provide means for the theoreticalUnited States service schools. and practical instruction at the artillery school at Fort Monroe, Virginia; the infantry and cavalry school at Fort Leavenworth, 896Kansas; and the cavalry and light-artillery school at Fort Riley, Kansas, by the purchase of textmooks 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, fifteen thousand dollars. office of the chief signal officer.
Signal service.Signal Service of the Army: For expenses of the 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, including 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, one hundred and ninety-two thousand five hundred dollars.
Cable to Gardiners Island, N.Y.For cable from Goshen Point, Connecticut, to Gardiners Island, New York, fourteen miles, sixteen thousand two hundred and ninety-six dollars. Electrical communication for coast artillery.For the purchase, installation, operation, and maintenance of the necessary lines and means of electrical communication, including telephones, dial and other telegraphs, wiring, and all special instruments, apparatus, and materials connected with the use of coast artillery, *Proviso*.Unexpended balance for St.
Michael, Alaska, available.thirty-five thousand dollars: *Provided,* That so much of the appropriation of four hundred and fifty thousand five hundred and fifty dollars, made by the army appropriation Act approved May twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred ‘(Thirty-first Statutes, page two hundred and. six), for the purpose of connecting headquarters, Department of Alaska, at Saint Michael, by military telegraph and cable lines with other military stations in Alaska, as shall remain unexpended on June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and one, be continued and made available for the same purpose during the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and two. pay of officers of the line.Pay.
Line.For pay of officers of the line, five million dollars. Longevity.For pay of officers for length of service, to be paid with their current monthly pay, one million dollars. pay of enlisted men. Enlisted men.For pay of enlisted men of all grades, including recruits, fourteen million dollars. Longevity.For additional pay for length of service for all enlisted men, exclusive of Hospital Corps, one million dollars. *Provisos*.Allotments of pay by enlisted men for support of their families, etc.
Certain credits authorized to disbursing officers who made payments to allottees, etc.Vol. 30, p. 977.—inquiry by disbursing officer required.*Provided,* That hereafter all allotments of pay of enlisted men of the United States Army, under section sixteen of Act of Congress approved March second eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, that have been or shall be paid to the designated allottees, after the expiration of one month subsequent to the month in which said allotments accrued, shall pass to the credit of the disbursing officer who has made or shall make such payment: *Provided*, That said disbursing officer shall, before making payment of said allotments, use, or shall have used, due diligence in obtaining and making use of all information that may have been received in the War Department relative to the grantors of 897the allotments: *And prodded further*, That if an erroneous payment—liability of officers for failure to report, etc. is made because of the failure of an officer responsible for such report to report, in the manner prescribed by the Secretary of War, the death of a grantor or any fact which renders the allotment not payable, then the amount of such erroneous payment shall be collected by the Paymaster-General from the officer who fails to make such report, if such collection is practicable: *Provided*, That enlistments in the RegularDates when enlistments deemed for Spanish war.
Army on and after April twenty-first, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, from which date war was declared to have existed between the United States and Spain, up to and including April twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, shall be deemed enlistments for the war with Spain, and shall entitle men so enlisting to the extra pay and on the same conditions granted to men who enlisted in the Regular Army subsequent to the declaration of war. for the war only, as provided by an Act approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine,Vol. 30, p. 1065. entitled “An Act making appropriations for the support of the Regular and Volunteer Army for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred:” *Provided further*, That in fulfillment of the declarationCuba.Future relations with United States must be defined in Constitution.Vol. 30, p. 798. contained in the joint resolution approved April twentieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, entitled, “For the recognition of the independence of the people of Cuba, demanding that the Government of Spain relinquish its authority and government in the island of Cuba, and to withdraw its land and naval forces from Cuba and Cuban waters, and directing the President of the United States to use the land and naval forces of the United States to carry these resolutions into effect,” the President is hereby authorized to “leave the government and control of the island of Cuba to its people” so soon as a government shall have been established in said island under a constitution which, either as a part thereof or in an ordinance appended thereto, shall define the future relations of the United States with Cuba, substantially as follows:
I. That the government of Cuba shall never enter into any treaty orConditions.—treaties. other compact with any foreign power or powers which will impair or tend to impair the independence of Cuba, nor in any manner authorize or permit any foreign power or powers to obtain by colonization or for military or naval purposes or otherwise, lodgment in or control over any portion of said island. II. That said government shall not assume or contract any public debt,—public debt. to pay the interest upon which, and to make reasonable sinking fund provision for the ultimate discharge of which, the ordinary revenues of the island, after defraying the current expenses of government shall be inadequate.
III. That the government of Cuba consents that the United States may—intervention by United States. exercise the right to intervene for the preservation of Cuban independence, the maintenance of a government adequate for the protection of life, property, and individual liberty, and for discharging the obligations with respect to Cuba imposed by the treaty of Paris on the United States, now to be assumed and undertaken by the government of Cuba. IV. That all Acts of the United States in Cuba during its military occupancy—acts of United States during military occupancy ratified. thereof are ratified and validated, and all lawful rights acquired thereunder shall be maintained and protected. 898 V. —sanitary measures.That the government of Cuba will execute, and as far as necessary extend, the plans already devised or other plans to be mutually agreed upon, for the sanitation of the cities of the island, to the end that a recurrence of epidemic and infectious diseases may be prevented, thereby assuring protection to the people and commerce of Cuba, as well as to the commerce of the southern polls of the United States and the people residing therein.
VI. —Isle of Pines.That the Isle of Pines shall be omitted from the proposed constitutional boundaries of Cuba, the title thereto being left to future adjustment by treaty. VII. —coaling stations.That to enable the United States to maintain the independence of Cuba, and to protect the people thereof, as well as for its own defense, the government of Cuba will sell or lease to the United States lands necessary for coaling or naval stations at certain specified points, to be agreed upon with the President of the United States.
VIII. —foregoing to be made part of a treaty.That by way of further assurance the government of Cuba will embody the foregoing provisions in a permanent treaty with the United States. engineer battalions. Engineer battalions.Four hundred and sixteen thousand four hundred and eight-four dollars. Longevity.Additional for length of service, eighty-three thousand two hundred and ninety-six dollars and eighty cents. ordnance department. Ordnance Department.One hundred and seventy-one thousand one hundred and twenty dollars.
Longevity.Additional pay for length of service, thirty-four thousand two hundred and twenty-four dollars. noncommissioned staff (unattached to regiments). Noncommissioned staff.One hundred and thirty-two thousand six hundred dollars. Additional pay for length of service, twenty-six thousand five hundred and twenty dollars. signal corps. Signal Corps.Two hundred and four thousand nine hundred and sixty dollars. Additional pay for length of service, twenty thousand four hundred and ninety-six dollars. hospital corps.
Hospital Corps.One million two hundred and forty thousand eight hundred dollars. Additional pay for length of service, sixty-two thousand and forty dollars. 899 pay to clerks and messengers at department headquarters and at headquarters of the army. Five clerks at one thousand eight hundred dollars each per annum.Clerks and messengers at headquarters. Ten clerks at one thousand six hundred dollars each per annum. Twenty-five clerks at one thousand four hundred dollars each per annum.
Sixty-live clerks at one thousand two hundred dollars each per annum. Eighty-six clerks at one thousand dollars each per annum. Sixty-eight messengers at seven hundred and twenty dollars each per annum. In all. two hundred and seventy-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. for pay of the general staff.General staff. Adjutant-General’s Department:
For pay of officers in theAdjutant-General’s Department. Adjutant-General’s Department, eighty-three thousand five hundred dollars. For additional pay to such officers for length of service, to be paidLongevity. with their current monthly pay, twenty-five thousand and fifty dollars. In all, one hundred and eight thousand five hundred and fifty dollars. Inspector-General’s Department: For pay of officers in theInspector-General’s Department. Inspector-General’s Department, fifty-one thousand five hundred dollars.
For additional pay to such officers for length of service, to be paidLongevity. with their current monthly pay, fifteen thousand four hundred and fifty dollars. In all, sixty-six thousand nine hundred and fifty dollars. *Provided*, That upon the occurrence of a vacancy in the grade of*Provisos*.Composition of Department after vacancy in grade of colonel. colonel in the Inspector-General’s Department after the present lieutenant-colonels therein shall have been promoted or retired, such vacancy shall not be filled, and thereafter the number of officers authorized for that department shall be as follows:
One inspector-general with the rank of brigadier-general: three inspectors-general with the rank of colonel: four inspectors-general with the rank of lieutenant-colonel, and nine inspectors-general with the rank of major. The Corps of Engineers: For pay of officers in the CorpsCorps of Engineers. of Engineers, three hundred and thirty-one thousand nine hundred dollars. For additional pay to such officers for length of service, to be paidLongevity. with their current monthly pay, ninety-nine thousand five hundred and seventy dollars.
In all, four hundred and thirty-one thousand four hundred and seventy dollars. Ordnance Department: For pay of officers in the Ordnance Department,Ordnance Department. one hundred and fifty-six thousand four hundred dollars. For additional pay to such officers for length of service, to be paidLongevity. with their current monthly pay, forty-six thousand nine hundred and twenty dollars. In all, two hundred and three thousand three hundred and twenty dollars. Quartermaster’s Department:
For pay of officers in the Quartermaster’sQuartermaster’s Department. Department, two hundred and seventy-three thousand five hundred dollars. For additional pay to such officers for length of service, to be paidLongevity with their current monthly pay, sixty-seven thousand and fifty dollars. 900 In all, three hundred and forty thousand five hundred and fifty dollars. Subsistence Department.Subsistence Department: For pay of officers in the Subsistence Department, one hundred and forty-nine thousand five hundred dollars.
Longevity.For additional pay to such officers for length of service, to be paid with their current monthly pay, thirty-one thousand three hundred and fifty dollars. In all, one hundred and eighty thousand eight hundred and fifty dollars. Medical Department.Medical Department: For pay of officers in the Medical Department, one million and seventy-six thousand five hundred dollars. Longevity.For additional pay to such officers for length of service, to be paid with their current monthly pay, one hundred and ninety-five thousand four hundred and fifty dollars.
In all, one million two hundred and seventy-one thousand nine hundred and fifty dollars. Pay Department.Pay Department: For pay of officers in the Pay Department, one hundred and twenty-eight thousand dollars. Longevity.For additional pay to such officers for length of service, to be paid with their current monthly pay, thirty-eight thousand four hundred dollars. In all, one hundred and seventy-one thousand six hundred dollars. Judge-Advocate-General’s Department.Longevity.Judge-Advocate-General’s Department:
For pay of officers in the Judge-Advocate-General’s Department, forty thousand dollars. Signal Corps.For additional pay to such officers for length of service, to be paid with their current monthly pay, twelve thousand dollars. In all, fifty-two thousand dollars. Longevity.Signal Corps: For pay of the officers of the Signal Corps, eighty-seven thousand nine hundred dollars. Record and Pension Office.For additional pay to such officers for length of service, to be paid with their current monthly pay, twenty-one thousand seven hundred and twenty dollars.
In all, one hundred and nine thousand six hundred and twenty dollars. Longevity.Record and Pension Office: For pay of officers of the Record and Pension Office, eight thousand dollars. *Proviso*.Staff Departments.Officers of Volunteers eligible for appointment to lowest grades, etc.For additional pay to such officers for length of service, to be paid with their current monthly pay. two hundred and fifty dollars. In all, eight thousand two hundred and fifty dollars. Chaplains.Age limit.*Provided*, That appointments to till original vacancies in the lowest grade in the Adjutant-General’s Department, the Inspector-General’s Department, and Judge Advocate-General’s Department, and in the grade of captain in the Quartermaster’s Department.
Subsistence Department, and Pay Department may be made from officers of volunteers commissioned since April twenty-first, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, and the age limit prescribed as to chaplains shall not apply to persons who served as chaplains of volunteers after said date who were under forty-two years of age when originally appointed. retired officers.Retired list. Officers.For pay of officers on the retired list and for officers who may be placed thereon during the current year, one million five hundred thousand dollars.
Longevity.For additional pay to such officers for length of service, to be paid with their current monthly pay, four hundred and nineteen thousand four hundred and seventy-eight dollars and sixty cents. In all, one million nine hundred and nineteen thousand four hundred and seventy-eight dollars and sixty cents. 901 retired enlisted men.Enlisted men. For pay of the enlisted men of the Army on the retired list, six hundred and thirty-live thousand four hundred and twenty-three dollars and seventy cents. miscellaneous.
For pay of not exceeding one hundred hospital matrons, twelveHospital matrons. thousand dollars. For pay of one Superintendent Nurse Corps, one thousand eightNurses. hundred dollars. For two hundred and twenty-seven nurses, one hundred and thirty thousand dollars. For pay of forty-two veterinarians, at one thousand five hundredVeterinarians. dollars, sixty-three thousand dollars: *Provided*, That twelve of the*Proviso.*—artillery quota. veterinarians herein provided for. may be assigned to the artillery.
For thirty dental surgeons, at one hundred and fifty dollars perDental surgeons. month, fifty-four thousand dollars. For pay of ninety paymasters’ clerks, one hundred and twenty-sixPaymasters’ clerks. thousand dollars. For paymasters’ clerks for length of service, eight thousand seven hundred dollars. For pay of paymasters’ messengers, ten thousand dollars.—messengers. For traveling expenses of paymasters’ clerks and expert accountantTravel expenses, paymasters’ clerks. of the Inspector-General’s Department, thirty-five thousand dollars.
For expenses of courts-martial, courts of inquiry, and compensationCourts-martial, etc., expenses. of reporters and witnesses attending the same, twenty thousand dollars. For additional pay to officer in charge of public buildings andAdditional pay, officer in charge of public buildings, District of Columbia. grounds at Washington, District of Columbia, one thousand dollars. For commutation of quarters to commissioned officers on duty, withoutCommutation of quarters. troops, at stations where there are no public quarters, four hundred thousand dollars.
For travel allowance to enlisted men on discharge, four millionTravel allowance, enlisted men on discharge. dollars. For clothing not drawn due to enlisted men on discharge, one millionUndrawn clothing. dollars. For interest on soldiers’ deposits, fifty thousand dollars, and soInterest on deposits, enlisted men. much as may be necessary to pay back such deposits. For pay of the translator and librarian of the military informationTranslator, Adjutant-General’s Office. division of the Adjutant-General’s Office, one thousand eight hundred dollars.
For pay of expert accountant for the Inspector-General’s Department,Expert accountant, Inspector-General’s Department. two thousand five hundred dollars. For mileage to officers and contract surgeons, when authorized byMileage to officers. law, five hundred thousand dollars: *Provided.* That hereafter officers*Provisos.*—limit. so traveling shall be paid seven cents per mile and no more; distances to be computed and mileage to be paid over the shortest usually traveled routes, with deduction as hereinafter provided; and paymentSettlement of mileage accounts. and settlement of mileage accounts of officers shall be made according to distances and deductions computed over routes established and by mileage tables prepared by the Paymaster-General of the Army under the direction of the Secretary of War: and all payments made by paymasters on account of mileage previous to the passage of this Act shall be settled in accordance with distance tables officially promulgated and in use at date of payment.
The Secretary of WarTravel “without troops;” what constitutes. etc. may determine what shall constitute travel and duty “without troops” within the meaning of the laws governing the payment of mileage and commutation of quarters to officers of the Army: *Provided further,* That officers who so desire may, upon application to theTransportation requests. Quartermaster’s Department, be furnished with transportation 902requests, exclusive of sleeping and parlor car accommodations, for the entire journey under their orders; and the transportation so furnished shall be a charge against the officer’s mileage account, to be deducted at the rate of three cents per mile by the paymaster paying the account, and of the amount so deducted there shall be turned over to an authorized officer of the Quartermaster’s Department three cents per mile for transportation furnished over any railroad which is not a free, bond-aided, or fifty per centum land-grant railroad for the credit of the appropriation for transportation of the Army and Travel on bondaided, etc., railroads, etc.its supplies: *And provided further,* That when the established route of travel shall, in whole or in part, be over the line of 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 any fifty per centum land-grant railroad, officers traveling as herein provided tor shall, for the travel over such roads, be furnished with transportation requests, exclusive of sleeping and parlor car accommodations, by the Quartermaster’s Department: *And provided further*,—deduction.
That when transportation is furnished by the Quartermaster’s Department, or when the established route of travel is over any of the railroads above specified, there shall be deducted from the officer’s mileage account by the paymaster paying the same three cents per mile for the distance for which transportation has been or —reimbursement to officers traveling without transportation requests for certain refunds to United States.should have been furnished: *And provided further,* That officers of the Army and acting assistant surgeons who, by reason of failure to obtain transportation requests for travel over so-called “Agreement railroads,” have, in addition to paying their own fare over such railroads, been required by the accounting officers of the Treasury to refund to the United States one-half of the cost of travel fare over such rail-roads, shall be reimbursed by the proper accounting officers the amount —credit to paymasters.so refunded; and paymasters against whom disallowances have been made by the accounting officers on account of failure to deduct the cost of travel fare over such railroads shall have the amount so disallowed—reimbursement to officers for transportation not furnished, etc. passed to their credit: *And provided further,* That in all cases where three cents per mile has been deducted from the mileage accounts of officers of the Army or acting assistant surgeons on account of transportation which should have been but was not furnished such officers and acting assistant surgeons shall be reimbursed by the proper accounting officers an amount equal to what it would have cost the Government if transportation had been furnished: *And provided further*, That actual expenses only shall be paid to officers for sea travel when traveling, as herein provided for, to from, or between our Leaves of absence to officers, foreign service, when to commence, etc.island possessions: *Provided,* That leaves of absence which may be granted officers of the Regular or Volunteer Army serving in the Territory of Alaska or without the limits of the United States, for the purpose of returning thereto, or which may have been granted such officers for such purpose since the thirteenth day of October, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, shall be regarded as taking effect on the dates such officers reached or may have reached the.
United States, respectively, and as terminating, or as having terminated. on the respective dates of their departure from the United States in returning to their commands, as authorized by an order of the Secretary of War dated October thirteenth, eighteen hundred Travel allowance on discharge.—officers.and ninety-eight: *Provided also,* That hereafter when an officer shall be discharged from the service, except by way of punishment for an offense, he shall receive for travel allowances from the place of his discharge to the place of his residence at the time of his appointment or to the place of his original muster into the service four cents per —enlisted men.mile; and an enlisted man when discharged from the service, except by way of punishment for an offense, shall receive four cents per mile from the place of his discharge to the place of his enlistment, enroll-903ment, or original muster into the service: *Provided further*, That any—reentering service in Philippines. officer or enlisted man in the service of the United States who was dis-charged in the Philippine Islands and there reentered the service through commission or enlistment shall, when discharged, except by way of punishment for an offense, receive for travel allowances from the place of his discharge to the place in the United States of his last preceding appointment or enlistment, or to his home if he was appointed or enlisted at a place other than his home, four cents per mile: *Provided further.* That for sea travel on discharge actual expenses only—sea travel. shall be paid to officers and transportation and subsistence only shall be furnished to enlisted men.
For contract surgeons, eight hundred and sixty-four thousand dollars.Contract surgeons. For additional twenty per centum increase on pay of enlisted men,Twenty per cent increase, enlisted men. two million five hundred thousand dollars. For additional ten per centum increase on pay of officers—officers, foreign service.*Provisos*.Increase for foreign service fixed. serving at foreign stations, five hundred thousand dollars: *Provided,* That here-after the pay proper of all officers and enlisted men serving beyond the limits of the States comprising the Union, and the Territories of the United States contiguous thereto, shall be increased ten per centum for officers and twenty per centum for enlisted men over and above the rates of pay proper as fixed by law for time of peace, and the time—time of service computed.Increase for Chinese service. of such service shall be counted from the date of departure from said States to the date of return thereto: *Provided further,* That the officers and enlisted men who have served in China at any time since the twenty-sixth day of May, nineteen hundred, shall be allowed and paid for such service the same increase of pay proper as is herein provided for: *Provided further,* That enlisted men receiving or entitled to the—no extra-duty pay. twenty per centum increased pay herein authorized small not be entitled to or receive any additional increased compensation for what is known as extra or special duty.
For the continuance of the Army War College, having for its objectArmy War College. the direction and coordination of the instruction in the various sendee schools, extension of the opportunities for investigation and study in the Army and militia of the United States, and the collection and dissemination of military information, ten thousand dollars. All the money hereinbefore appropriated, except the appropriationAccounting. for mileage of officers when authorized by law shall be disbursed and accounted for by the Pay Department as pay of the Army, and for that purpose shall constitute one fund. subsistence department.Subsistence Department.
Subsistence of the Army: Purchase of subsistence supplies: ForSupplies.Purchases. 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): military convicts at posts; 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 Hour used for paste in target practice; of salt and vinegar for public animals; of issues to Indians employed with the Army, without pay. as guides and scouts, and for toilet paper for use by enlisted men at posts, camps, rendezvous, and offices, where water-closets are provided with sewer connections.
For payments: For meals for recruiting parties and recruits; for hotPayments. coffee, canned meats, 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, advertis-904ing, commercial newspapers, use of telephones, office furniture; for temporary buildings, cellars, and other means of protecting subsistence supplies (when not provided by the Quartermaster’s Department); for coffee roasters; for commissary chests, complete, and for renewal of Extra-duty pay.their outfits; for field desks of commissaries: for extra pay to enlisted men employed on extra duty in the Subsistence Department for periods Civilian employees.of not less than ten days, at rates fixed by law; for compensation of civilians employed in the Subsistence Department, and for other necessary expenses incident to the purchase, care, preservation, issue, sale, Commutation of rations.and accounting for subsistence supplies for the Army.
For the payment of the regulation allowances tor commutation in lieu of rations: To enlisted men on furlough, to ordnance sergeants on duty at ungarrisoned posts, to enlisted men and male and female nurses when 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; and to male and female nurses Amount.on leaves of absence: to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War, twelve million dollars.
Transport service.Subsistence of the masters, officers, crews, and employees of the vessels of the army transport service, three hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Increased cost of ration enlisted men in hospitals.Difference between the cost of the ration at twenty-five cents per day and the amount of forty cents per day to be expended by commissaries on request of medical officers for special diet to enlisted patients in hospital who are too sick to be subsisted on the army ration, four hundred and thirty-eight thousand dollars.
Convalescents.Difference between the cost of the ration at twenty-five cents and 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. Ice, men in foreign service.For ice to organizations of enlisted men stationed in island possessions. fifty-four thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars.
Total for the Subsistence Department, thirteen million twenty-two thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars, to be disbursed and accounted for as “Subsistence of the Army,” and for that purpose it shall constitute one fund. quartermaster’s department.Quartermaster’s Department. Regular supplies.Regular supplies: Regular supplies of the Quartermaster’s Department. 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: and including also fuel and engine supplies required in the operation of modern batteries at established posts; 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 Forage, etc.recruits; of forage in kind for the horses, 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 905scouts as may be mounted, and for the authorized number of officers’ horses, including bedding for the animals: of straw for soldiers’ bedding,Amount. 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, nine million dollars: *Provided*, That no part of the*Provisos.*Contracts for printing. appropriations for the Quartermaster’s Department shall be expended on printing, unless the same shall be done by contract after due notice and competition, except in such cases as the emergency will not admit of the giving notice of competition, and in eases where it is impracticable to have the necessary printing done by contract the same may be done, with the approval of the Secretary of War, by the hire of the necessary labor for the purpose: *Provided further.* That hereafter, except inPurchase of supplies by advertisement, etc. cases of emergency or where it is impracticable to secure competition, the purchase of all supplies for the use of the various departments, and posts of the Army and of the branches of the army service shall only be made after advertisement, and shall be purchased where the same can be purchased the cheapest, quality and cost of transportation and the interests of the Government considered; but every open-market—report. emergency purchase made in the manner common among business men which exceeds in amount two hundred dollars shall be reported for approval to the Secretary of War under such regulations as he may prescribe.
Incidental expenses: Postage, cost of telegrams on official businessIncidental 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 non-commissioned officers and soldiers; and in all cases where such expenses 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 the amount now allowed in the cases of officers, and for the reimbursement in the cases of enlisted men not exceeding the amount now allowed in their eases may be paid out of the proper funds appropriated by this Act. and the disbursing officers shall be credited with such reimbursement heretofore made; but hereafter no reimbursement shall be made of such expenses incurred prior to the twenty-first day of April, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight; 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 Quarter-master’s Department, and incidental expenses of recruiting: for the apprehension, securing, and delivering of deserters, including escaped military prisoners, and the expenses incident to their pursuit. and no greater sum than fifty dollars for each deserter or escaped military prisoner shall, in the discretion of the Secretary of War, be paid to any civil 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 906required 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 operations of the Army and at military’ posts, and not expressly assigned to any other Amount.department, two million four hundred thousand dollars.
Purchase of horses.Horses for cavalry and artillery: For the 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 *Proviso.*—limit, etc.hundred and fifty thousand dollars: *Provided*, That the number of horses purchased under this appropriation, added to the number now on hand, shall be limited to the actual needs of the mounted service, and. unless otherwise ordered by the Secretary of War, no part of this appropriation shall be paid out for horses not purchased by contract after competition duly invited by the Quartermaster’s Department, and an inspection by such Department, all under the direction and authority of the Secretary of War.
Barracks and quarters.Barracks and quarters: For barracks and quarters for troops, 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 *Provisos.*Not available for commutation of fuel, etc.enlisted men employed on the same: *Provided,* That no part of the moneys so appropriated shall be paid for commutation of fuel, or for quarters to officers or enlisted men, three million dollars: *Provided further*,Civilian employees, number, etc., limited.
That the number of and total sum paid for civilian employees in the Quartermaster’s Department, including those paid from the funds appropriated for regular supplies, incidental expenses, barracks and quarters, army transportation, clothing, camp and garrison equipage,—limit individual salaries. shall be limited to the actual requirements of the service, and that no employee paid therefrom shall receive a salary of more than one hundred and fifty dollars per month, except upon the approval of the Secretary of War.
Transportation.Transportation of the Army and its supplies: Transportation of the Army, including baggage of the troops when moving either 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 vessels and boats required for the transportation of troops and 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 907building 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 paymentPayment to land grant railroads. of army transportation 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—maximum.—compensation. how computed. land-grant Acts), but in no case shall more than fifty per centum of full amount of service be paid: *Provided*, That such compensation shall be computed upon the basis of the tariff or lower special rates for like transportation performed for the public at large, and shall he accepted as in full for all demands for such service: *Provided, furtiter,* That inFifty per cent to railroads not bond aided. 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 that 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, thirty-four million dollars: *Provided,* That the balance of the appropriationUnexpended balance for military roads in Alaska available.*Ante,* p. 214. of one hundred thousand dollars made by the Act of May twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred, for construction of military roads and bridges in Alaska remaining unexpended on June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and one. is hereby reappropriated and made available for such construction: *Provided further.* That the number of draft animals purchasedLimit number of draft animals. from this appropriation, added to those now on hand, shall be limited to such numbers as are actually required for the service.
Clothing, and camp and garrison equipage: For cloth, woolens,Clothing, camp, an 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, for indemnity to officers and men of the Army for clothing and bedding, and so forth, destroyed by order of medical officers of the Army for sanitary reasons, eight millionAmount.s dollars.
Construction and repair of hospitals: For construction andHospitals.Hot Springs. 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, one hundred thousand dollars. Quarters for hospital stewards: For construction of quartersQuarters for hospital stewards. for hospital stewards at military posts already established and occu-908pied, including the extra-duty pay of enlisted men employed on the same, ten thousand dollars.
Shooting ranges.Shooting galleries and ranges: For shelter, shooting galleries, ranges for small-arms target practice, repairs, and expenses incident thereto, ten thousand dollars. medical department.Medical Department. Supplies, etc.For the purchase of medical and hospital supplies, including disinfectants for military posts, camps, hospitals, hospital ships, and trans-ports; for the purchase, installation, operation, and maintenance of ice-making plants; for expenses of medical supply depots: for medical care and treatment of officers and enlisted men of the Army on duty, and of prisoners of war and other persons in military custody or confinement, at posts and stations for which no other provision is made, under such regulations as shall have been or shall be prescribed by the Secretary of War; for the proper care and treatment of epidemic and contagious diseases in the Army or at military posts or stations, including measures to prevent the spread thereof, and the payment of reasonable damages not otherwise provided for for bedding and Nurses, etc.clothing injured or destroyed in such prevention; for the pay of male and female nurses, not including the Nurse Corps (female), and of cooks and other civilians, employed for the proper care of sick officers and soldiers under such regulations fixing their number, qualifications, assignment, pay. and allowances as shall have been or shall be prescribed by the Secretary of War; for the pay of civilian physicians employed to examine physically applicants for enlistment and enlisted men, and to render other professional service from time to time under proper authority; for the pay of other employees of the Medical Department; for the payment of express companies and local transfers employed directly by the Medical Department for the transportation of medical and hospital supplies, including bidders’ samples and water for analysis; for supplies for use in teaching the art of cooking to the Hospital Corps: for the supply of the Army and Navy Hospital at Hot Springs, Arkansas; for advertising, laundry, and all other necessary miscellaneous expenses of the Medical Department, two million dollars.
Museum.Army Medical Museum and library: For Army Medical Museum, preservation of specimens, and the preparation and purchase of new specimens, five thousand dollars. Library.For the library of the Surgeon-General’s Office, including the purchase of necessary books of reference and periodicals, ten thousand dollars. engineer department.Engineer Department. Incidental expenses.Engineer depot at Willets Point. New York: For incidental expenses of the depot, including find, 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, black-smiths, draftsmen, printers, lithographers, photographers, engine drivers, telegraph operators, 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 School and for instruction of engineer troops at Fort Totten, Willets Point, in their special duties as sappers and miners; for land and sub-marine mines, pontoniers, torpedo drill, and signaling, and for travel expenses of officers on journeys approved by the Chief of Engineers and made for the purpose of instruction, one thousand five hundred 909dollars: *Provided,* That the traveling expenses herein provided for shall be in lieu of mileage or other allowances.
For purchase and repair of instruments, to be issued to officers ofInstruments. 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 purchase and binding of professional works of recent date treatingLibrary. of military and civil engineering and kindred scientific subjects, for library of the United States Engineering School, five hundred dollars. Addition to the building containing the collection of engineeringAddition to building. models used for illustration and instruction, and the library of the United States Engineer School, to be available until expended, twelve thousand dollars.
For pontoon trains, intrenching tools, instruments, and drawingTools, etc. materials, twenty thousand dollars. For services of surveyors, draftsmen, photographers, master laborers,Surveyors, etc. clerks to engineer officers on the staff of division, corps, and department commanders, twenty-five thousand dollars. Total for Engineer Department, sixty-seven thousand dollars. ordnance department.Ordnance Department. Ordnance service: For current expensesCurrent expenses. of the ordnance service required to defray the current expenses of receiving 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 purchase of publications for ordnance office and payment for mechanical labor in the office of the Chief of Ordnance three hundred thousand dollars.
Ordnance, ordnance stores, and supplies: For manufacture orAmmunition for small arms. purchase 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 at Soldiers and Sailors’ State Homes, and marksmen’s medals and insignia for all arms of the service, seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
For repairing and preserving ordnance and ordnance stores in theRepairing and preserving stores, etc. hands of troops and for issue at the arsenals and depots, seventy-five thousand dollars. For purchase and manufacture of ordnance stores to fill requisitionsPurchases for requisitions. of troops, five hundred thousand dollars. For infantry, cavalry, and artillery equipments, including horseEquipments. equipments for cavalry and artillery, seven Hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
For overhauling, cleaning, and preserving new ordnance and ordnancePreserving, etc.,ordnances. stores on hand at the arsenals, posts, and depots, fifty thousand dollars. For firing the morning and evening gun at military posts prescribedMorning 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, and at Soldiers and Sailors’ State Homes, including material for cartridge bags, reworking obsolete powder, and so forth, twenty-five thousand dollars.
For targets for artillery practice and implements for mechanicalArtillery targets. maneuvers, ten thousand dollars. 910 Manufacturing arms.*Provisos*.Appropriations not available for freight charges.Manufacture, repairing, procuring, and issuing arms at the national armories, one million one hundred thousand dollars: *Provided*. That no part of the appropriations made for the Ordnance Department shall be used in payment of freight charges on ordnance or ordnance stores issued by said Department.
Additional members Board of Ordnance. etc., authorized.*Provided further*, That the Secretary of War is hereby authorized to appoint two additional members for the Board of Ordnance and Fortification, both of whom shall be selected from the Artillery Corps. Time extended to War Department to examine montly accounts of Army expenditures.The time for examination of monthly accounts, covering expenditures from appropriations for the Army, by the bureaus and offices of the War Department, after the date of actual receipt and before transmitting the same to the Auditor for the War Department, as limited Vol. 28, p. 209.by section twelve.
Act approved July thirty-first, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, is hereby extended from twenty to sixty days. Philippine Islands.Vol 30. p. 1754.President authorized to establish temporary civil government in.All military, civil, and judicial powers necessary to govern the Philippine Islands, acquired from Spain by the treaties concluded at Paris on the tenth day of December, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, and at Washington on the seventh day of November, nineteen hundred, shall, until otherwise provided by Congress, be vested in such person and persons and shall be exercised in such manner as the President of the United States shall direct, for the establishment of civil government and for maintaining and protecting the inhabitants of said islands *Provisos.*Franchises to contain reservation of right to amend.in the free enjoyment of their liberty, property, and religion: *Provided.* That all franchises granted under the authority hereof shall contain a reservation of the right to alter, amend, or repeal the same.
Reports to be made to Congress, etc.Until a permanent government shall have been established in said archipelago full reports shall be made to Congress on or before the first day of each regular session of all legislative acts and proceedings of the temporary government instituted under the provisions hereof: and full reports of the acts and doings of said government, and as to the condition of the archipelago and of its people, shall be made to the President, including all information which may be useful to the *Provisos.*No sale, etc., of public lands.Congress in providing for a more permanent government: *Provided, *That no sale or lease or other disposition of the public lands or the timber thereon or the mining rights therein shall be made: *And provided further,*Restrictions on grant of franchises.
That no franchise shall be granted which is not approved by the President of the United States, and is not in his judgment clearly necessary for the immediate government of the islands and indispensable for the interest of the people thereof, and which can not, without great public mischief, be postponed until the establishment of permanent civil government and all such franchises shall terminate one year after the establishment of such permanent civil government. Repeal.All laws or parts of laws inconsistent with the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed.
Approved, March 2, 1901.