Chapter 975. Making appropriation for the support of the Army for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and four
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CHAP. 975.— An Act Making appropriation for the support of the Army for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and four. March 2, 1903.[[Public, No. 132](/us/pl/57/132).] *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 four: commanding general’s office or that of the chief of staff.
Commanding General, or Chief of Staff. To defray the contingent expenses of the Commanding General’s Contingent expenses. Office or that of the Chief of Staff in his discretion, three thousand dollars. Contingencies of the Army: For all contingent expenses of the Contingencies of the Army. 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, twenty-five thousand dollars.
Army War College: For expenses of the Army War College, Army War College. being for the temporary hire of office rooms, purchase of the necessary stationery, office, toilet, and desk furniture, text-books, books of reference, scientific and professional papers and periodicals, binding, maps, police utensils, and for all other absolutely necessary expenses, fifteen thousand dollars. under the chief of artillery. Under Chief of Artillery. School of Submarine Defense, Fort Totten, New York:
For Submarine defense school. Incidental expenses. incidental expenses of school and 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 line with their military duties, such as carpenters, blacksmiths, draftsmen, printers, lithographers, photographers, engine drivers, telegraph operators, teamsters, wheelwrights, masons, machinists, painters, overseers, laborers, repairs of and for material to repair public buildings, boats used in connection with the school, office furniture and fixtures, machinery, and unforeseen expenses, ten thousand dollars. 928 Material for instruction.
For purchase of material for use in instruction of artillery troops in their special duties in connection with the loading and planting of submarine mines, one thousand dollars. Apparatus. For purchase of special apparatus and for experimental purposes of the department of electricity, mines, and mechanism, Fort Totten, New York, two thousand dollars. For purchase of special apparatus and for experimental purposes of the department of chemistry and explosives, Fort Totten, New York, one thousand five hundred dollars.
For purchase of special apparatus for electrician sergeants division, School of Submarine Defense, Fort Totten, New York, one thousand dollars. Books. For purchase and binding of professional books of recent date treating of military and scientific subjects for library of School of Submarine Defense, and for use of school, two thousand five hundred dollars. Service schools. Fort Monroe, Va. Fort Totten, N. Y. Fort Leavenworth, Kans. Fort Riley, Kans. United States service schools:
To provide means for the theoretical and practical instruction at the Artillery School at Fort Monroe, Virginia; the School of Submarine Defense at Fort Totten, New York; the General Service and Staff College at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, and the School of Application for Cavalry and Field Artillery at Fort Riley, Kansas, by the purchase of text-books, books of reference, scientific and professional papers, the purchase of modern instruments and material for theoretical and practical instruction, 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, twenty-five thousand dollars.
Adjutant-General’s Department. adjutant-general’s department. Contingent expenses at headquarters. For contingent expenses at the headquarters of the several military departments, including the staff corps serving thereat, 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, to be allotted by the Secretary of War, and to be expended in the discretion of the several military department commanders, seven thousand five hundred dollars.
Historical Register of the Army. Purchase authorized. To enable the Secretary of War to purchase from Francis B. Heitman, the compiler thereof, the manuscript of the Historical Register of the United States Army, compiled from the official records of the War Department from seventeen hundred and eighty-nine to the date of the passage of this Act, three thousand dollars, to be immediately Printing and distribution. available; and for printing an edition of six thousand copies of said register by the Public Printer, one thousand for the use of the Senate, two thousand for the use of the House of Representatives, and three thousand for the War Department, and from the copies allotted to the War Department each Government depository shall be supplied with one copy, twelve thousand dollars.
Military information division. For contingent expenses of the military information division, Adjutant-General’s 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, and of the branch office of the military information division at Manila, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War, ten thousand dollars: *Provisos*. Clerical pay. [R. S., sec. 3682, p. 723](/us/rs/s3682/p723). *Provided*, That section thirty-six hundred and eighty-two, Revised Statutes, shall not apply to the expenditure of this appropriation so far as it relates to the offices of the military attaches abroad and to Subscriptions to papers. [R.
S., sec. 3648, p. 718](/us/rs/s3648/p718). said branch office at Manila: *And provided further*, That section thirty-six hundred and forty-eight, Revised Statutes, shall not apply to subscriptions for newspapers and periodicals to be paid for from this 929 appropriation: *Provided further*, That section one hundred and Limitation removed. [R. S., sec. 192, p. 30](/us/rs/s192/p30). ninety-two, Revised Statutes, shall not apply to the subscriptions to newspapers by the military information division for the fiscal years ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred, June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and one, June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and two, June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and three, and thereafter. office of the chief signal officer.
Office of chief signal officer. Signal Service of the Army: For expenses of the Signal Service Expenses. 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 (exclusive of 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 sixty thousand dollars: *Provided*, That hereafter the purchase *Proviso*.
Open-market purchases. of signal stores and equipment, or the engagement of services not personal, by the Signal Corps of the Army, may be made by the Signal Corps of the Army in open market in the manner common among business men when the aggregate of the amount required does not exceed two hundred dollars, but every such purchase or employment shall be promptly reported to the Secretary of War. For the purchase, installation, operation, and maintenance of the Electrical communication. necessary lines and means of electrical communication, including telephones, dial and other telegraphs, wiring, and all special instruments, apparatus, and materials, and salaries of electrical experts, engineers, and other necessary employees connected with the use of coast artillery, three hundred and eighty-nine thousand dollars.
For the purchase, installation, operation, and maintenance of a submarine Cable to southeastern Alaska. cable for connecting the headquarters Department of the Columbia with military garrisons in southeastern Alaska, said cable to extend from a point at or near Fort Lawton, Seattle, Washington, via Sitka, Alaska, to Juneau, Alaska, to be immediately available and to To continue available. remain available until expended, four hundred and eighty-five thousand dollars. pay of officers of the line.
Pay. For pay of officers of the line, five million dollars. Line officers. For pay of officers for length of service, to be paid with their current Longevity. monthly pay, one million sixty-five thousand four hundred and twenty dollars. pay of enlisted men. For pay of enlisted men of all grades, including recruits, nine million Enlisted men. dollars. For additional pay for length of service, one million dollars. Longevity. For extra pay to expert riflemen, twelve thousand dollars: *Provided*, Expert riflemen. *Proviso*.
Extra allowance. That expert riflemen, hereafter qualifying as such, shall receive one dollar a month in addition to their pay. engineer battalions. Two hundred and sixty-two thousand one hundred and sixteen dollars. Engineers. Additional pay for length of service, twenty-seven thousand one Longevity. hundred and sixty-eight dollars. 930 ordnance department. Ordnance. One hundred and seventy-one thousand one hundred and twenty dollars. Longevity. Additional pay for length of service, thirty-live thousand eight hundred and eighty dollars. quartermaster’s department.
Quartermaster-sergeants. One hundred and fifty quartermaster-sergeants, at four hundred and eight dollars each, sixty-one thousand two hundred dollars. Longevity. Additional pay for length of service, fourteen thousand four hundred dollars. subsistence department. Commissary-sergeants. Two hundred post commissary-sergeants, at four hundred and eight dollars each, eighty-one thousand six hundred dollars. Longevity. Additional pay for length of service, nineteen thousand two hundred dollars. electrician sergeants (artillery corps).
Electrician sergeants, artillery. One hundred electrician sergeants, to be assigned for duty at such places as the Secretary of War may direct, at four hundred and eight *Proviso*. Master electricians. dollars each, forty thousand eight hundred dollars: *Provided*, That there shall be added to the Artillery Corps twenty-five master electricians, to be enlisted by the Secretary of War, after such examination as he may prescribe, who shall receive seventy-five dollars per month and the allowance of an ordnance sergeant, twenty-two thousand five hundred dollars.
Longevity. Additional pay for length of service, four thousand and eighty dollars. signal corps. Signal Corps. Two hundred and thirty-one thousand nine hundred and sixty dollars. Longevity. Additional pay for length of service, thirteen thousand and eighty dollars. hospital corps. Hospital corps. Seven hundred and seventy thousand four hundred dollars. Longevity. Additional pay for length of service, sixty-eight thousand six hundred and eighty dollars. *Proviso*. Reorganization. *Provided*, That hereafter the Hospital Corps of the United States Army shall consist of sergeants first class, sergeants, corporals, privates Vol. 24, p. 435. first class, and privates; the rank and pay of sergeants first class, sergeants, and privates first class shall be as now provided by law for hospital stewards, acting hospital stewards, and privates of the Hospital Corps; corporals shall receive twenty dollars per month and privates sixteen dollars, with such increase on account of length of service as is now or may hereafter be allowed by law to other enlisted men.
That the Secretary of War is authorized to organize companies of instruction, ambulance companies, field hospital, and other detachments of the Hospital Corps as the necessities of the service may require. pay to clerks and messengers at department headquarters, at headquarters of the army, or that of the chief of staff. Clerks and messengers at headquarters. One chief clerk at headquarters of the Army, or that of the Chief of Staff, two thousand dollars per annum. Four clerks, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each per annum. 931 Ten clerks, at one thousand six hundred dollars each per annum.
Twenty-five clerks, at one thousand four hundred dollars each per annum. Sixty-five 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-three thousand one hundred and sixty dollars. And said clerks and messengers shall be employed and assigned by Apportionment. the Secretary of War to the offices and positions in which they are to serve. for pay of the staff.
Staff. Adjutant-General’s Department: For pay of officers in the Adjutant-General’s Adjutant-General’s Department. Department, eighty-three thousand five hundred dollars. For additional pay to such officers for length of service, to be paid Longevity. 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 the Inspector-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 paid Longevity. with their current monthly pay, fifteen thousand four hundred and fifty dollars. In all, sixty-six thousand nine hundred and fifty dollars. The Corps of Engineers: For pay of officers in the Corps of Engineer Corps. Engineers, three hundred and thirty-one thousand nine hundred dollars. For additional pay to such officers for length of service, to be paid Longevity. 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 Ordnance Department. Department, one hundred and fifty-six thousand four hundred dollars. For additional pay to such officers for length of service, to be paid Longevity. 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’s Quartermaster’s Department. Department, two hundred and twenty-three thousand five hundred dollars. For additional pay to such officers for length of service, to be paid Longevity. with their current monthly pay, sixty-seven thousand and fifty dollars. In all, two hundred and ninety thousand five hundred and fifty dollars. Subsistence Department: For pay of officers in the Subsistence Subsistence Department. Department, one hundred and forty-nine thousand five hundred dollars.
For additional pay to such officers for length of service, to be paid Longevity. 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: For pay of officers in the Medical Department, Medical Department. six hundred and eleven thousand five hundred dollars. 932 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, eight hundred and six 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 sixty-six thousand four hundred dollars. Judge-Advocate-General’s Department. Judge-Advocate-General’s Department:
For pay of officers in the Judge-Advocate-General’s Department, forty thousand dollars. Longevity. 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. Signal Corps. Signal Corps: For pay of the officers of the Signal Corps, seventy-two thousand four hundred dollars. Longevity. For additional pay to such officers for length of service, to be paid with their current monthly pay, twenty-one thousand seven hundred *Provisos*.
Officers added. and twenty dollars: *Provided*, There shall be added to the Signal Corps of the Army, as now authorized by law, one lieutenant-colonel, two majors, four captains, and four first lieutenants: *Provided further*, Filling vacancies. That the vacancies thus created or caused shall be filled first by the promotion of officers of the Signal Corps, according to seniority, and thereafter by details from the line of the Army: *Provided further*, Chief of telegraph, etc., bureau, Executive Office.
That the President be, and is hereby, authorized to appoint, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, an officer of the Signal Corps as chief of the telegraph and cipher bureau of the Executive Rank, etc. Office, who shall have, while so serving, the rank, pay, and allowances of a major. In all, ninety-four thousand one hundred and twenty dollars. Record and Pension Office. Record and Pension Office: For pay of officers of the Record and Pension Office, eight thousand dollars.
Longevity. 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. Retired list. retired officers. Officers. For pay of officers on the retired list and for officers who may be placed thereon during the current year one million seven hundred *Proviso*. Detail with organized militia. *Ante*, p. 779. thousand dollars: *Provided*, That in addition to the detail of retired officers now authorized by law, it shall hereafter be lawful for the Secretary of War to detail, whenever in his judgment the public interests require it, not exceeding twenty retired officers for service in connection with the organized militia in the States or Territories, upon Pay, etc. the request of the governor thereof, and such retired officers shall be entitled, while so employed, to receive the full pay and allowances of their respective grades.
Longevity. For additional pay to such officers for length of service, to be paid with their current monthly pay, four hundred and twenty-five thousand *Proviso*. Further increase limited. dollars: *Provided*, That hereafter, except in case of officers retired on account of wounds received in battle, no officer now on the retired list shall be allowed or paid any further increase of longevity pay, and officers hereafter retired, except as herein provided, shall not be allowed or paid any further increase of longevity pay above that which had accrued at date of their retirement.
In all, two million one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. 933 retired enlisted men. For pay of the enlisted men of the Army on the retired list, seven Enlisted men. hundred and twenty-four thousand three hundred and twenty-seven dollars: *Provided*, That hereafter, in computing the length of service *Proviso*. Double allowance for China service. for retirement, credit shall be given soldiers for double the time of their actual service in China, the same as is now given in Porto Rico, Cuba, and the Philippine Islands. miscellaneous.
Miscellaneous. For pay of not exceeding one hundred hospital matrons, twelve Hospital matrons. thousand dollars. For pay of one Superintendent Nurse Corps, one thousand eight Superintendent Nurse Corps. hundred dollars. For one hundred nurses, fifty-six thousand two hundred and twenty Nurses. dollars. For pay of forty-two veterinarians, at one thousand five hundred Veterinarians. dollars, sixty-three thousand dollars. For thirty dental surgeons, fifty-six thousand one hundred and sixty Dental surgeons. dollars.
For pay of ninety paymasters’ clerks, one hundred and thirty-seven Paymasters’ clerks. thousand nine hundred and forty-four dollars and eighty-three cents. For pay of paymasters’ messengers, fifteen thousand dollars. Messengers. For traveling expenses of paymasters’ clerks and expert accountant Traveling expenses. of the Inspector-General’s Department, twenty thousand dollars. For expenses of courts-martial, courts of inquiry, military commissions, Courts-martial, etc. and compensation of reporters and witnesses attending the same, twenty thousand dollars.
For additional pay to officer in charge of public buildings and Officer, buildings and grounds, D. C. grounds at Washington, District of Columbia, one thousand dollars. For commutation of quarters to commissioned officers on duty, Commutation of quarters, officers. without troops, at stations where there are no public quarters, three hundred thousand dollars. For travel allowance to enlisted men on discharge, nine hundred Allowance, enlisted men. thousand dollars. For clothing not drawn due to enlisted men on discharge, four Clothing not drawn. hundred thousand dollars.
For interest on soldiers’ deposits, one hundred thousand dollars, and Interest on soldiers’ deposits. so much as may be necessary to pay back such deposits. For pay of translator and librarian of the military information division, Translator, etc. Adjutant-General’s Office, one thousand eight 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, etc. law, four hundred thousand dollars.
For three hundred and fifty contract surgeons, six hundred and Contract surgeons. thirty thousand dollars: *Provided*, That contract surgeons and contract *Proviso*. Transfer of pay, insular duty. dental surgeons on duty in Alaska, Hawaii, the Philippine Islands, and Porto Rico may transfer or assign their pay accounts when due and payable in the methods now provided by regulations for commissioned officers of the Army. For additional twenty per centum increase on pay of enlisted men Twenty per cent increase, enlisted men. serving at foreign stations, five hundred thousand dollars.
For additional ten per centum increase on pay of commissioned Ten per cent increase, officers. officers serving at foreign stations, two hundred thousand dollars. For pay of one computer for artillery board, two thousand five Computer. hundred dollars. 934 philippine scouts. Philippine Scouts. Fifty first lieutenants, eighty thousand dollars. Fifty second lieutenants, seventy-five thousand dollars. Noncommissioned officers and privates, fifty companies, five hundred *Proviso*.
Continuous-service pay for enlisted men. and fifteen thousand one hundred and sixty dollars: *Provided*, That all enlisted men of the Regular Army who served as commissioned officers of United States Volunteers organized in eighteen hundred and ninety-eight and eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, or who have served or may be now serving as such in the Porto Rico Provisional Regiment or in the Philippine Scouts, who, upon their muster out, have returned or may return to the ranks of the Regular Army, shall have such period of service counted as if it had been rendered as enlisted men, and that they be entitled to all continuous-service pay and to count, in computing the time necessary to enable them to retire, as enlisted men.
Payments of salaries. Hereafter, in all payments to be made under the provisions of army appropriation acts, when the rate of compensation is annual, payment shall be made monthly at the rate of one-twelfth of the annual rate, and of such monthly rate and of all other monthly rates of compensation one-thirtieth shall be the daily rate for computation of pay for fractional parts of a month; and for the purposes of this Act each and every month shall be held to consist of thirty days, whether the actual number of days be greater or less.
Porto Rico Provisional Regiment. For Porto Rico Provisional Regiment of Infantry, composed of two battalions of four companies each: Pay of officers of the line, fifty-four thousand three hundred dollars. Pay of enlisted men, one hundred and forty-three thousand six hundred *Provisos*. Citizens may enlist in Regular Army, etc. and seventy-six dollars: *Provided*, That citizens of Porto Rico shall be eligible for enlistment in the Regular Army and the Porto Rico Regiment may be ordered for service outside of the island of Muster out of volunteer officers.
Porto Rico: *Provided*, That all volunteer officers now in the Porto Rico Provisional Regiment shall be mustered out on June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and four, and their places be filled by detail from the Vacancies. line of the Army: *Provided further*, That any vacancy now existing or which may occur between now and June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and four, shall be filled by detail from the line of the Army. All the money hereinbefore appropriated for pay of the Army and miscellaneous 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. Supplies. Purchase of subsistence supplies: For issue, as rations, to cadets at the United States Military Academy, 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), and to military prisoners 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 flour 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 Payments. water-closets are provided with sewer connections.
For payments: For meals for recruiting parties and recruits; for hot coffee, canned meats, and baked beans for troops traveling, when it is impracticable 935 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 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 their outfits; for field desks of commissaries; for extra pay to enlisted men employed Extra-duty pay. on extra duty in the Subsistence Department for periods of not less than ten days, at rates fixed by law; for compensation of civilians Civilian employees. employed in the 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 Commutation. Cadets. of commutation of rations to the cadets at the United States Military Academy in lieu of the regular established ration at the rate of thirty cents per ration; and for the payment of the regulation allowances of 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, and when traveling on detached duty where 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 on leaves of absence.
For subsistence of Army transport service. the masters, officers, crews, and employees of the vessels of the army transport service; for 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; for 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 in the United States 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); and for ice to organizations of enlisted men at such places as the Secretary of War may determine; in all, seven million Amount. dollars, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War, and accounted for as “Subsistence of the Army,” and for that purpose to constitute one fund. quartermaster’s department.
Quartermaster’s Department. Regular supplies: Regular supplies of the Quartermaster’s Department, 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, and including also fuel and engine supplies required in the operation of modern batteries at established posts; for post bakeries; for ice machines and their maintenance where required for the health and comfort of the troops in the insular possessions, and for cold storage; 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, mules, and oxen of the Forage, etc.
Quartermaster’s Department at the several posts and stations and with the armies in the held, and for the horses of the several regiments of cavalry, the batteries of artillery, and such companies of infantry and 936 scouts as may be mounted, and for the authorized number of officers’ horses, including bedding for the animals; of straw for soldiers’ bedding, and of stationery, including blank books for the Quartermasters’ Department, certificates for discharged soldiers, blank forms for the Amount.
Pay and Quartermaster’s departments, and for printing department *Provisos*. Printing. orders and reports, five million dollars: *Provided*, That no part of the 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 cases 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 Purchases. the hire of the necessary labor for the purpose: *Provided further*, That hereafter, except in 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 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.
Equipment of post schools. For the purchase of the necessary instruments, office furniture, stationery, and other authorized articles required for the equipment and use of the officers’ schools at the several military posts, twenty-five thousand dollars, to be immediately available. Incidental expenses. Incidental expenses: Postage; cost of telegrams on official business 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 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 cases, 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 Quartermaster’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 937 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 Horse expenditures. 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, blacksmith’s tools and materials, horseshoes and blacksmith’s 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 Amount. other department, two million two hundred thousand dollars. Horses for cavalry and artillery:
For the purchase of horses Horses, etc. 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, four hundred thousand dollars: *Provided*, That the number of horses purchased *Provisos*. Limit. 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 under the direction and authority of the Secretary of War: *Provided further*, That when a mounted officer of the line is Purchase of horses from officers. ordered to duty beyond the seas or to make a change of station in the United States in which the cost of transportation for the private horses which he is required to keep exceeds the sum allowed for that purpose in the Army Regulations, the Secretary of War is authorized, under such regulations in respect to inspection and valuation as he may prescribe, to permit the purchase of said horses by the Quartermaster’s Department at a price not exceeding the average contract price paid for horses during the preceding fiscal year, from which sum shall be deducted one-seventh of such contract price for each year, or major fraction of a year, which may have elapsed since date of purchase by said officer.
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 *Provisos*.
Commutation of fuel, etc. Civilian employees. moneys so appropriated shall be paid for commutation of fuel or for quarters to officers or enlisted men: *Provided further*, 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, 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, four million seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars, and two million dollars of said sum shall be immediately available: *Provided*, That of Omaha, Nebr.
Additional ground. the above amount the sum of nine thousand dollars, to be immediately available, or so much thereof as may be necessary, may be used by the Secretary of War to purchase additional ground adjacent to the present Omaha Quartermaster’s Depot Reservation in Omaha, Nebraska, for the purpose of enlarging said reservation to admit the erection thereon of the Quartermaster’s warehouse building: *Provided further*, For Post exchanges, etc. 938 continuing the construction, equipment, and maintenance of suitable buildings at military posts and stations for the conduct of the post exchange, school, library, reading, lunch, amusement rooms, and gymnasium, to be expended in the discretion and under the direction of the Secretary of War, five hundred thousand dollars: *Provided Limit for any post. further*, That not more than forty thousand dollars of the above appropriation shall be expended at any one post or station.
Philippine Islands. Buildings, etc. Barracks and quarters, Philippine Islands: Continuing the work of providing for the proper shelter and protection of officers and enlisted men of the Army of the United States lawfully on duty in the Philippine Islands, including the acquisition of title to building sites when necessary, and including also shelter for the animals and supplies, and all other buildings necessary for post administration purposes, five hundred thousand dollars.
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 of 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 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 train masters, and in opening roads and building wharves; transportation of funds of the Army; the expenses of sailing public transports on the various rivers, the Sale of transports restricted.
Gulf of Mexico, and the Atlantic and Pacific oceans; no steamship in the transport service of the United States shall be sold or disposed of without the consent of Congress having been first had or obtained; 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 Payment to land-grant railroads. and wharves; for the payment 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 Maximum.
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: *Provisos*. Basis of compensation. *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 be accepted as in full for all demands Fifty per cent to roads not bond aided. 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 939 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: *Provided further*, That the number of draft animals purchased from this appropriation, Draft animals. added to those now on hand, shall be limited to such numbers as are actually required for the service, fifteen million five hundred thousand dollars: *Provided*, That no action looking to the discontinuance Transport service. of the transport service shall be taken without further action of Congress.
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; for indemnity to officers and men of the Army for clothing and bedding, and so forth, destroyed since April twenty-second, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, by order of medical officers of the Army for sanitary reasons, four million seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
Construction and repair of hospitals: For construction and Hospitals. 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 Hot Springs, Ark. required at the Army and Navy Hospital at Hot Springs, Arkansas, except quarters for the officers, and for the construction and repair of general hospitals and expenses incident thereto, and for additions needed to meet the requirements of increased garrisons, four hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars: *Provided*, That sixty thousand dollars *Proviso*.
Vancouver Barracks, Wash. of this amount may be used for the construction at Vancouver Barracks, Washington, of a modern hospital for forty-eight beds, necessary to accommodate the sick of the contemplated increase of the garrison at that post to one regiment of infantry and two light batteries of artillery. 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, fifteen thousand dollars.
Shooting galleries and ranges: For shelter, shooting galleries, Shooting ranges, etc. ranges for small-arms target practice, repairs, and expenses incident thereto, thirty-five thousand dollars. medical department. Medical Department. Medical and Hospital Department: For the purchase of medical Supplies, etc. and hospital supplies, including disinfectants for military posts, camps, hospitals, hospital ships, and transports; 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 940 and stations for which no other provision is made, under such regulations as shall have been or shall be prescribed by the Secretary of Epidemic, etc., diseases.
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 clothing injured Nurses. 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 services 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, four hundred and fifty *Proviso*.
Open-market purchases. thousand dollars: *Provided*, That hereafter the purchase of medicines and medical stores or the engagement of services not personal for the Medical Department of the Army may be made by the Medical Department in open market in the manner common among business men when the aggregate of the amount required does not exceed two hundred dollars, but every such purchase or employment shall be promptly reported to the Secretary of War. 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 depots: For incidental expenses of the depots, including fuel, lights, chemicals, stationery, hardware, machinery, pay of civilian clerks, mechanics, and laborers, 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, telegraph operators, teamsters, wheelwrights, masons, machinists, painters, overseers, laborers; repairs of, and for materials to repair, public buildings, machinery, and unforeseen expenses, eleven thousand five hundred dollars.
Purchase, etc., of instruments. For purchase and repair of instruments, to be issued to officers of the Corps of Engineers and to officers detailed and on duty as acting engineer officers for use on public works and surveys, five thousand dollars. Engineer School, Washington Barracks, D. C. Equipment, etc. Engineer School, Washington, District of Columbia: Equipment and maintenance of the Engineer School of Application at Washington Barracks, District of Columbia, including purchase of instruments, machinery, implements, models, and materials, for the use of the school and for instruction of engineer troops in their special duties as sappers and miners; for land and submarine mines, pontoniers, torpedo drill, and signaling; for purchase and binding of professional works of recent date treating of military and civil engineering and kindred scientific Incidental expenses. subjects, for the library of the United States Engineer School; for 941 incidental expenses of the school, including fuel, lights, chemicals, stationery, hardware, machinery, and boats; for pay of civilian clerks, mechanics, and laborers; for 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, telegraph operators, teamsters, wheelwrights, masons, machinists, painters, overseers, laborers; for repairs of, and materials to repair, public buildings, and machinery; for unforeseen Travel expenses. expenses, for travel expenses of officers on journeys approved by the Chief of Engineers and made for the purpose of instruction: *Provided*, *Proviso*.
That the traveling expenses herein provided for shall be in lieu of In lieu of mileage. Books, etc. mileage and other allowances; and to provide means for the theoretical and practical instruction at the Engineer School of Application, by the purchase of text-books, books of reference, scientific and professional papers, and for other absolutely necessary expenses, twenty-five thousand dollars. Buildings, Engineer School, Washington, District of Columbia: Completion of building.
For the completion of the establishment of the Engineer School and Post at Washington Barracks, District of Columbia, in accordance with plans submitted by the Chief of Engineers and approved by the Secretary of War, subject to such modifications as may prove to be expedient before or during’ construction, including buildings, roads, pavements, tree planting, grading, sea walls, sewerage, provision for lighting and protection against fire, and all purposes for the proper establishment of said Engineer School and Post not specifically mentioned herein, three hundred and sixty thousand dollars; this sum and Available until expended. all other funds heretofore appropriated for this purpose to be available until expended.
For pontoon trains, intrenching tools, instruments, and drawing materials, Pontoon trains, etc. and for purchase and printing of engineer manuals for use in the engineer equipment of troops, twenty-five thousand dollars. For services of surveyors, draftsmen, photographers, master laborers, Services. and clerks to engineer officers on the staff of division, corps, and department commanders, twenty-five thousand dollars. Total for Engineer Department, four hundred and fifty-one thousand five hundred dollars. ordnance department.
Ordnance Department. Ordnance Service: Current expenses of the Ordnance Service Current expenses. required to defray the current expenses at the arsenals; 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 library and payment for mechanical labor in the office of the Chief of Ordnance, three hundred thousand dollars.
Ordnance, ordnance stores, and supplies: Manufacture or purchase Ammunition for small arms. of metallic ammunition for small arms for current needs and reserve supply, 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, marksmen’s medals and insignia for all arms of the service, eight hundred and twenty-five thousand two hundred and sixty-six dollars: *Provided*, That for the purpose of furnishing a national trophy *Provisos*.
Annual medals, prizes, etc. and medals and other prizes to be provided and contested for annually, 942 under such regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary of War, said contest to be open to the Army, and the National Guard or organized militia of the several States, Territories, and of the District of Columbia, and for the cost of the trophy, prizes, and medals herein provided for, the sum of two thousand five hundred dollars be, and the same is hereby, annually appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be expended for the purposes hereinbefore Equipping organized militia. *Ante*, p. 777. prescribed under the direction of the Secretary of War: *Provided further*, That for the purpose of furnishing the necessary articles requisite to fully arm, equip, and supply each regiment, battalion, squadron, company, troop, battery, signal, engineer, and hospital corps and medical department of the organized militia of the several States, Territories, and the District of Columbia with the same armament and equipment as are now prescribed for corresponding branches of the line or staff in the Regular Army, without cost to said States, Territories, or the District of Columbia, but to remain the property of the United States, and to be accounted for in the manner now prescribed by law, the Secretary of War is hereby authorized, under such regulations as he may prescribe, on the requisitions of the governors of the several States and Territories, or the commanding general of the militia of the District of Columbia, to issue the said armament and equipment to the organized militia; and the sum of two million dollars is hereby appropriated and made immediately available until expended for the procurement and issue of the articles constituting the same.
Repairing and preserving stores, etc. For repairing and preserving ordnance and ordnance stores in the hands of troops and for issue at the arsenals and depots, seventy-five thousand dollars. Purchases for requisitions. For purchase and manufacture of ordnance stores to fill requisitions of troops, six hundred thousand dollars. Equipments. For infantry, cavalry, and artillery equipments, including horse equipments for cavalry and artillery, nine hundred and thirty thousand four hundred and twenty-five dollars.
Preserving, etc., ordnance. For overhauling, cleaning, and preserving new ordnance and ordnance stores on hand at the arsenals, posts, and depots, fifty thousand dollars. Morning and evening gun. For firing the morning and evening gun at military posts prescribed 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 cartridges, bags, reworking obsolete powder, and so forth, twenty-five thousand dollars.
Artillery targets. For targets for artillery practice and implements for mechanical maneuvers, forty thousand dollars. Manufacturing, etc., arms. Manufacture, repairing, procuring, and issuing arms at the national armories, one million seven hundred thousand dollars. Open-market purchases. And hereafter purchases of ordnance and ordnance stores and supplies may be made by the Ordnance Department in open market, in the manner common among business men, when the aggregate of the amount required does not exceed two hundred dollars but every such Funds from stores transferred to Philippines. purchase shall be immediately reported to the Secretary of War.
All funds received as the value of military stores transferred by the several staff departments of the Army to the Insular Department of the Philippines shall be deposited in the Treasury of the United States and remain available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and four for the procurement of like military stores to replace those so transferred. Detail of lieutenants to Ordnance Department. Vol. 31, p. 754. And hereafter details for service to the grade of first lieutenant in the Ordnance Department under the provisions of the Act of February second, nineteen hundred and one, may be made, from the Army at 943 large, from the grade of first or second lieutenant, and officers so detailed shall, while so serving, receive the pay of first lieutenant: *Provided*, That no officer shall he so detailed except upon such examination *Provisos*.
Examination. as may be prescribed by the Secretary of War: *Provided further*, That the Secretary of War is hereby authorized and empowered Acceptance of gift for memorial building. to accept the sum of ten thousand dollars, tendered the Government by Chaplain C. C. Pierce, United States Army, and the Daughters of the American Revolution, for the purpose of erecting a memorial building, for the physical and moral welfare of the enlisted men, at such army post as the Secretary of War may approve.
Approved, March 2, 1903.