Chapter 1307. Making appropriation for the support of the Army for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and six
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CHAP. 1307.— An Act Making appropriation for the support of the Army for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and six. March 2, 1905. [[H. R. 17473](/us/bill/58/hr/17473).] [[Public, No. 127](/us/pl/58/127).] *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 six:
Contingencies of the Army: For all contingent expenses ofContingencies. the Army not otherwise provided for, and embracing all branches of the military service, including the office of the Chief of Staff, to be expended under the immediate orders of the Secretary of War, fifteen 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, hooks of reference, scientific and professional papers and periodicals, binding, maps, police utensils, and for all other absolutely necessary expenses, fifteen thousand dollars. office of the chief of staff.Office of Chief of Staff.
For contingent expenses of the military information division, GeneralContingent. Staff Corps, including the purchase of law books, professional books of reference, professional and technical periodicals and news-papers, 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: *Provided,* That section thirty-sixProviso.Foreign periodicals.[R.
S., sec. 3648, p. 718](/us/rs/s3648/p718). hundred and forty-eight, Revised Statutes, shall not apply to subscriptions for foreign and professional newspapers and periodicals to be paid for from this appropriation. United States service schools: To provide means for the theoreticalService schools. and practical instruction at the Artillery School, at Fort Monroe,Fort Monroe, Va.Fort Totten, N. Y.Fort Leavenworth, Kans.Fort Riley, Kans. 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 pro-portions as may, in the opinion of the Secretary of War, be for the best interest of the military service, twenty-five thousand dollars. the military secretary’s department.Military Secretary’s Department.
Contingencies, headquarters of military departments: ForContingent expenses at headquarters. contingent expenses at the headquarters of the several military divisions and departments, including the staff corps serving thereat, being for the purchase of the necessary articles of office, toilet, and desk furniture, binding, maps, technical books of reference, professional and technical 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 divisions and department commanders, seven thousand five hundred dollars. under the chief of artillery.Under Chief of Artillery.
School of Submarine Defense, Fort Totten, New York: ForSubmarine defense school.Incidental expenses. incidental expenses of school and depot, including chemicals, stationery, hardware, extra-duty pay to soldiers necessarily employed for 828periods not less than ten days as artificer 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, office furniture and fixtures, machinery, and unforeseen expenses, five thousand five hundred dollars.
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, two thousand dollars. For purchase of special apparatus for electrician sergeants division, school of submarine defense. Fort Totten, New York, three 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, one thousand five hundred dollars. office of the chief signal officer.Office of Chief Signal Officer. Expenses.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 (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, two hundred and eight thousand dollars.
Repair of deep-sea military cables.Repair of deep-sea military gables: For materials and expenses for repair of interrupted deep-sea military cables, to be available until expended, fifty thousand dollars. Alaska military cable.For continuing the, cable from Valdez, Prince William Sound, to Seward, at the head of Resurrection Bay, Alaska, ninety-five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, this money to be immediately available. pay of officers of the line.Pay.
Line officers.For pay of officers of the line, five million three hundred and sixty-nine thousand two hundred and forty dollars. Longevity.For pay of officers for length of service, to be paid with their current monthly pay, nine hundred thousand dollars. pay of enlisted men. Enlisted men.For pay of enlisted men of all grades, including recruits, nine million two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Longevity.For additional pay for length of service, one million two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. engineer battalion.
Engineer battalion.Two hundred and sixty-five thousand dollars. Longevity.Additional for length of service, thirty thousand dollars. 829 ordnance department. One hundred and seventy-one thousand dollars.Ordnance Corps. Additional pay for length of service, twenty thousand dollars.Longevity. quartermaster’s department. Two hundred quartermaster-sergeants, at four hundred and eight dollars each, eighty-oneQuartermaster-sergeants. thousand six hundred dollars. Additional pay for length of service, nineteen thousand two hundredLongevity. dollars. subsistence department.
Two hundred post commissary-sergeants, at four hundred and eightCommissary-sergeants. dollars each, eighty-one thousand six hundred dollars. Additional pay for length of service, nineteen thousand two hundredLongevity. dollars. electricians, artillery corps. Twenty-five master electricians, at nine hundred dollars each, and oneElectrician sergeants. hundred electrician sergeants, at four hundred and eight dollars each, sixty-three thousand three hundred dollars. Additional pay for length of service, four thousand and eighty dollars.Longevity. signal corps.
Thirty-six master signal electricians, at nine hundred dollars each,Signal Corps.Vol. 31, p. 754. thirty-two thousand four hundred dollars. One hundred and thirty-two first-class sergeants, at five hundred and forty dollars each, seventy-one thousand two hundred and eighty dollars. One hundred and forty-four sergeants, at four hundred and eight dollars each, fifty-eight thousand seven hundred and fifty-two dollars. Twenty-four cooks, at two hundred and forty dollars each, five thousand seven hundred and sixty dollars.
One hundred and fifty-six corporals at two hundred and forty dollars each, thirty-seven thousand four hundred and forty dollars. Five hundred and fifty-two first-class privates, at two hundred and four dollars each, one hundred and twelve thousand six hundred and eight dollars. One hundred and sixty-eight privates, atone hundred and fifty-six dollars each, twenty-six thousand two hundred and eight dollars. In all, three hundred and forty-four thousand four hundred and forty-eight dollars.
Additional pay for length of service, eighteen thousand dollars.Longevity. hospital corps. Seven hundred and seventy thousand four hundred dollars.Hospital Corps. Additional pay for length of service, one hundred and twenty-fiveLongevity. thousand dollars. pay to clerks, messengers, and laborers at headquarters of divisions, and departments and office of the chief of staff. One chief clerk, at the office of the Chief of Staff, two thousandClerks and messengers. dollars per annum.
Six clerks at one thousand eight hundred dollars each per annum. Thirteen clerks at one thousand six hundred dollars each per annum. Twenty-six clerks at one thousand four hundred dollars each per annum. Seventy clerks atone thousand two hundred dollars each per annum. Ninety-five clerks at one thousand dollars each per annum. 830 Two clerks at nine hundred dollars each per annum. One clerk at seven hundred and twenty dollars per annum. Two messengers at eight hundred and forty dollars each per annum.
Sixty-nine messengers at seven hundred and twenty dollars each per annum. Two messengers at six hundred dollars each per annum. One laborer at six hundred and sixty dollars per annum. One laborer at four hundred and eighty dollars per annum. In all, three hundred and five thousand two hundred and twenty dollars. Assignment.And said clerks and messengers and laborers shall he employed and assigned by the Secretary of War to the offices and positions in which *Proviso*.Exception.they are to serve: *Provided,* That no clerk, messenger, or laborer at headquarters of divisions, departments, or office of the chief of stiff, shall be assigned to duty with any bureau in the War Department. for fay of officers of the staff corps divisions, and departments.Staff, etc.
Pay of Adjutant-General.Adjutant-General’s Department: For pay of the Adjutant-General of the Army, seven thousand five hundred dollars. Military Secretary’s Department.Military Secretary’s Department: For pay of officers in the Military Secretary’s Department, ninety-one thousand five hundred dollars. Longevity.For additional pay to such officers for length of service, to be paid with their current monthly pay, twenty-sewn thousand dollars. In all, one hundred and eighteen thousand five hundred dollars. *Proviso*.Assistant Chief, Record and Pension Office.*Provided,* That any vacancy that shall occur in the office of the Assistant Chief of the Record and Pension Office previous to July first, nineteen hundred and five, shall be tilled by the appointment of a captain of the line of the Army, and vacancies thereafter occurring shall Titles.not be filled, and the offices now designated by the title of Assistant Chief of the Record and Pension Office and by the title of Asssistant Adjutant-General, shall hereafter be designated by the title of Military Secretary.
Inspector-General’s Department.Inspector-General’s Department: For pay of officers in the Inspector-General’s Department, fifty thousand five hundred dollars. Longevity.For additional pay to such officers for length of service, to be paid with their current monthly pay, sixteen thousand dollars. In all, sixty-six thousand five hundred dollars. Engineer Corps.The Corps of Engineers: For pay of officers in the Corps of Engineers, three hundred and sixty thousand dollars. Longevity.For additional pay to such officers for length of service, to be paid with their current monthly pay, ninety thousand eight hundred and ten dollars.
In all, four hundred and fifty thousand eight hundred and ten dollars. Ordnance Department.Ordnance Department: For pay of officers in the Ordnance Department, one hundred and forty thousand dollars. Longevity.For additional pay to such officers for length of service, to be paid with their current monthly pay, thirty thousand dollars. In all, one hundred and seventy thousand dollars. Quartermaster’s Department.Quartermaster’s Department: For pay of officers in the Quartermaster’s Department, two hundred and twenty-three thousand five hundred dollars.
Longevity.For additional pay to such officers for length of service, to be paid with their current monthly pay, sixty-one thousand seven hundred and twenty-three dollars. In all, two hundred and eighty-five thousand two hundred and twenty-three dollars. Subsistence Department.Subsistence Department: For pay of officers in the Subsistence Department, one hundred and thirty-nine thousand five hundred dollars. 831 For additional pay to snob officers for length of service, to be paidLongevity. with their current monthly pay, twenty eight thousand five hundred dollars.
In all, one hundred and sixty-eight thousand dollars. Medical Department: For pay of officers in the Medical Department,Medical Department. six hundred and thirty-five thousand four hundred dollars. For additional pay to such officers for length of service, to be paidLongevity. with their current monthly pay, one hundred and eight thousand three hundred and seventy-six dollars. In all, seven hundred and forty-three thousand seven hundred and seventy-six dollars. Pay Department:
For pay of officers in the Pay Department, onePay Department. hundred and twenty-eight thousand dollars. For additional pay to such officers for length of service, to be paidLongevity. with their current monthly pay, twenty-four thousand two hundred and sixty dollars. In all, one hundred and fifty-two thousand two hundred and sixty dollars. Judge-Advocate-General’s Department: For pay of officersJudge-Advocate-General’s Department. in the Judge-Advocate-General’s Department, forty thousand dollars.
For additional pay to such officers for length of service, to be paidLongevity. with their current monthly pay, five thousand three hundred and fifty dollars. In all, forty-five thousand three hundred and fifty dollars. Signal Corps: For pay of the officers of the Signal Corps, ninety-fourSignal Corps. thousand eight hundred dollars. For additional pay to such officers for length of service, to be paidLongevity. with their current monthly pay, eighteen thousand five hundred and twenty dollars.
In all, one hundred and thirteen thousand three hundred and twenty dollars. retired officers. For pay of officers on the retired list and for officers who may beRetired officers. placed thereon during the current year, two million one hundred and fifty-eight thousand three hundred and twenty-four dollars and seventy-one cents: *Provided,* That retired officers of the Army above the grade*Provisos*.No additional pay, etc., when assigned to active duty. of major, heretofore or hereafter assigned to active duty, shall hereafter receive their full retired pay and shall receive, no further pay or allowances from the United States: *Provided further,* That a colonelException. or lieutenant-colonel so assigned shall receive the full pay and allowances of a major on the active list.
For additional pay to such officers for length of service, to be paidLongevity. with their current monthly pay, five hundred thousand dollars. In all, two million six hundred and fifty-eight thousand three hundred and twenty-four dollars and seventy-one cents. retired enlisted men. For pay of the enlisted men of the Army on the retired list, eightEnlisted men. hundred and seventy-two thousand five hundred and twenty-three dollars. miscellaneous.Miscellaneous. For pay of not exceeding one hundred hospital matrons, twelveHospital matrons. thousand dollars.
For pay of one Superintendent Nurse Corps, one thousand eightSuperintendent Nurse Corps. hundred dollars. For one hundred nurses, fifty-five thousand and twenty dollars.Nurses. For pay of forty-two veterinarians, at one thousand five hundredVeterinarians. dollars each, sixty-three thousand dollars. For thirty dental surgeons, fifty-six thousand one hundred andDental surgeons. sixty dollars. 832 Paymasters’ clerks.For pay of ninety paymasters’ clerks, one hundred and thirty-nine thousand nine hundred and seventy-eight dollars and twelve cents.
Messengers.For pay of paymasters’ messengers, fifteen thousand dollars. Traveling expenses.For traveling expenses of paymasters’ clerks and expert accountant of the Inspector-General’s Department, fifteen thousand dollars. Courts-martial, etc.For expenses of courts-martial, courts of inquiry, military commissions, and compensation of reporters and witnesses attending the same, twenty thousand dollars. Officer, buildings and grounds, D. C.For additional pay to officer in charge of public buildings and grounds at Washington, District of Columbia, one thousand dollars.
Commutation of quarters, officers.For commutation of quarters to commissioned officers on duty, without troops, at stations where there are no public quarters, two hundred and ninety thousand dollars. Allowance, enlisted men.For travel allowance to enlisted men on discharge, one million five hundred thousand dollars. Clothing not drawn.For clothing not drawn due to enlisted men on discharge, six hundred thousand dollars. Interest on soldiers’ deposits.For interest on soldiers’ deposits, one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars, and so much as may be necessary to pay back such deposits.
Translator, etc.For pay of translator and librarian of the military information division. General Stuff Corps, one thousand eight hundred dollars. Expert accountant.For pay of expert accountant for the Inspector-General’s Department, two thousand five hundred dollars. Mileage to officers, etc.For mileage to officers and contract surgeons when authorized by law, four hundred thousand dollars. Contract surgeons.For pay of contract surgeons, three hundred thousand dollars. Twenty per cent increase, enlisted men.For additional twenty per centum increase on pay of enlisted men serving in the Philippine Islands, the Island of Guam.
Alaska. China, and Panama, five hundred and thirty-three thousand four hundred and twelve dollars and fifty-one cents. Ten per cent increase, officers.For additional ten per centum increase on pay of commissioned officers serving in the Philippine Islands, the Island of Guam. Alaska. China, and Panama, one hundred and sixty-seven thousand four hundred and twenty-six dollars and thirty cents. Computer.For pay of one computer for artillery board, two thousand five hundred dollars.
Porto Rico Provisional Regiment.For Porto Rico Provisional Regiment of Infantry, composed of two battalions of four companies each. Officers.Pay of officers of the line, forty-four thousand four hundred dollars. For additional pay for length of service, six thousand five hundred dollars. Enlisted men.Pay of enlisted men, ninety-five thousand one hundred and forty-eight dollars. philippine scouts.Philippine Scouts. Officers.Pay of officers of the line: Fifty first lieutenants, eighty thousand dollars.
Fifty second lieutenants, seventy-rive thousand dollars. Longevity.Additional for length of service, thirty-four thousand seven hundred and twenty dollars. Noncommissioned officers, etc.Noncommissioned officers and privates, fifty companies, four hundred and ninety-six thousand four hundred and forty dollars. Pay accounts.All the money hereinbefore appropriated for pay of the Army and miscellaneous shall be disbursed and accounted for by officers of the Pay Department as pay of the Army, and for that purpose shall constitute*Provisos*.Records, etc., of accounts. one fund: *Provided,* That hereafter all the accounts of individual paymasters shall be analyzed under the several heads of the appropriation and recorded in detail by the Paymaster-General of the Army before said accounts are forwarded to the Treasury Department 833for final audit, and the Secretary of War may hereafter authorize the assignment to duty in the office of the Paymaster-General, not to exceedAssignment of paymasters’ clerks. five paymasters’ clerks, now authorized by law. subsistence department.Subsistence Department.
Purchase of subsistence supplies: For issue, as rations, to troops,Supplies. 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 mid scouts, and for toilet paper for use by enlisted men at posts, camps, rendezvous, and offices where water-closets are provided with sewer connections.
ForPayments. payments: For meals for recruiting parties and recruits; for hot 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 hooks 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 menExtra duty pay. employed on extra duty in the Subsistence Department for periods of not less than ten days, at rates fixed by law; for compensation of civiliansCivilian compensation. 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 ofCommutation. 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 the masters, officers,Army transport service. crews, and employees of the vessels of the army transport service; for difference between the cost of the ration at twenty-three cents per day and the amount of thirty-eight cents per day to be expended by commissaries on request of medical officers for special diet to enlisted patients in hospital (except that at the general hospital at Fort Havard, New Mexico, the difference between the cost of the ration at twenty-three cents and fifty cents per day, is authorized) who are too sick to be subsisted on the army ration: for difference between the cost of the ration at twenty-three 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 stationed at such places as the Secretary of War may determine; inAmount. 834all, six million two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War, and accounted for as “Subsistence of the Anny,” and for that purpose to constitute one fund.
Inauguration expenses of West Point cadets.For extraordinary expense of subsistence of West Point cadets while attending inaugural ceremony, to be immediately available, one thousand and eighty dollars. quartermaster’s department.Quartermaster’s Department. 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 ice machines and their maintenance where required for the health and comfort of the troops, 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 Forage.mess shall, each and all for the enlisted men, including 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 fields and for the horses of the several regiments of cavalry, the batteries of artillery, and such companies of infantry and scouts as may be mounted, and for the, authorized number of officers’ horses, including *Ante*, p. 687.bedding for the animals; and nothing in the Act making appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the Government for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and six or any other Act shall hereafter he held or construed so as to deprive officers of the Army, wherever on duty in the military service of the United States, of forage, bedding, shoeing, or shelter for their authorized number of horses, or of any means of transportation or maintenance therefor for which provision is made by the terms of this Act; of straw for soldiers bedding, and of stationery, including blank books for the Quartermasters Department, certificates for discharged soldiers, blank forms for the Pay Amount.and Quartermaster’s departments, and for printing department orders *Proviso*.Printing.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 the hire of the necessary labor for the purpose.
Ice machines, laundries, and electric plants.For the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and six, whenever ice machines, steam laundries, and electric plants shall not come in competition with private enterprise for sale to the public and in the opinion of the Secretary of War it becomes necessary to the economical use and administration of such ice machines, steam laundries, and electric plants as have been or may hereafter be established in pursuanceDisposal of surplus products, etc. of law, surplus ice may he disposed of, laundry work may be done for other branches of the Government, and surplus electric light and power may he sold on such terms and in accordance with such *Proviso*.Use of proceeds.regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary of War: *Provided, *That the funds received from such sales and in payment for such laundry work shall be used to defray the cost of operation of said ice, 835 laundry, and electric plants; and the sales and expenditures herein provided for shall be accounted for in accordance with the methods prescribed by law, and any sums remaining, after such cost of maintenance and operation have been defrayed, shall he deposited in the Treasury to the credit of the appropriation from which the cost of operation of such plant is paid.
For the purchase of the necessary instruments, office furniture,Equipment of post schools. stationery, and other authorized articles required for the equipment and use of the officers’ schools at the several military posts, fifteen thousand dollars. 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 anti 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 fire 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 expenses; for a donation of five dollars to each dishonorably discharged prisoner upon his release from confinement, under courtmartial sentence, involving dishonorable discharge; for the following expenditures required for the severalHorse expenditures. 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 department, two million dollars.Amount. Horses for cavalry, artillery, and engineers:
For the purchaseHorses, etc. of horses for the cavalry, artillery, and engineers, 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 836*Proviso*.Limit.expenses incident thereto, two hundred 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 under the direction and authorityPurchases in open market. of the Secretary of War.
When practicable, horses shall be purchased in the open market at all military posts or stations, when needed, at a maximum price to be fixed by 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*.Commutation of fuel, etc.Civilian employees.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: *Provided further,* That the number of and total sum paid for civilian employees in the Quartermasters 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, three million four hundred and eighty-eight thousand nine, hundred Road, Fort Riley, Kans.and fifty dollars: *Provided further,* That of this sum not to exceed six thousand dollars may be expended in the construction of a road on the military reservation of Fort Riley, Kansas, to replace a road Establishing military posts restricted.heretofore destroyed for purpose of constructing a rifle range: *Provided further,* That hereafter no military post within the United States shall be established without the express authority of Congress.
Post exchanges.Military post exchange: For 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, three hundred *Proviso*.Limit.and thirty-three thousand five hundred dollars: *Provided,* 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 necesssary for post administration purposes, two hundred and thirty 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, 837and 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;Sale of transport restricted. the expenses of sailing public transports on the various rivers, the Gulf of Mexico, and the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, and hereafter 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 and wharves; for the payment of army transportation lawfully duePayment to landgrant railroads. such land-grant railroads as have not received aid in Government bonds (to be adjusted in accordance with the decisions of the Supreme Court in cases decided under such land-grant acts), but in no caseMaximum. shall more than fifty per centum of full amount of service be paid: *Provided,* That such compensation shall be computed upon the basis*Provisos*.Basis of compensation. of the tariff or lower special rates for like transportation performed for the public at large, and shall be accepted as in full for all demands for such service: *Provided further,* That in expending the moneyFifty per cent to roads not bond aided. 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 fore-going 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 parries to any such company for like mid 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, twelve million dollars.
That no part of the sums appropriated for the support of the RegularJoint encampment maneuvers.Militia expense restriction. Army shall he used to pay any part of the expenses of the organized militia of any State, Territory, or District of Columbia while engaged in joint encampment maneuvers, and field instruction of the Regular Army and militia as provided by section fifteen of the Act ofVol. 32, p. 777. January twenty-first, nineteen hundred and three, entitled “An Act to promote the efficiency of the militia, and for other purposes.
” 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 838exceeding 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 dollars.
Hospitals.Constriction and repair of hospitals: For construction and repair of hospitals at military posts already established and occupied, including the extra-duty pay of enlisted men employed on the same, Hot Springs, Ark.and including also all expenditures for construction and repairs required at the Army and Navy Hospital at Hot Springs, Arkansas, and for the construction and repair of general hospitals and expenses incident thereto, and for additions needed to meet the requirements of increased garrisons, three hundred and ninety thousand dollars: *Proviso*.Fort Sam Houston, Tex.*Provided,* That seventy-five thousand dollars be used in the erection of a modern sanitary hospital at Fort Sam Houston, Texas.
Quarters for hospital stewards.Quarters for hospital stewards: For construction of quarters 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 ranges, etc.Shooting galleries and ranges: For shelter, shooting galleries, ranges for small-arms target practice, repairs, and expenses incident thereto, such ranges and galleries to be open, as far as practicable, to the National Guard and organized rifle clubs under regulations to be prescribed by the Secretary of War, seventy-five thousand dollars. medical department.Medical Department.
Supplies.Medical and Hospital Department: For the purchase of medical and hospital supplies, including disinfectants for military posts, camps, hospitals, hospital ships, and transports; for expenses of medical sup-ply 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 clothing injured or destroyed in such prevention:Nurses. 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, six hundred thousand *Provisos*.Open-market purchases.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 839hundred dollars, but every such purchase or employment shall be promptly reported to the Secretary of War: *Provided further,* ThatSupplies to civilian employees. hereafter civilian employees of the Army stationed at military posts may, under regulations to be made by the Secretary of War, purchase necessary medical supplies when prescribed by a medical officer of the Army.
Army Medical Museum and library: For Army Medical Museum,Museum. preservation of specimens, and the preparation and purchase of new specimens, three thousand dollars. For the library of the Surgeon-General’s Office, including the purchaseLibrary. of necessary books of reference and periodicals, nine thousand dollars. engineer department.Engineer Department. Engineer depots: For incidental expenses of the depots, includingIncidental expenses. 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, wheel-wrights, masons, machinists, painters, overseers, laborers; repairs of, mid for materials to repair, public buildings, machinery, mid unforeseen expenses, eleven thousand five hundred dollars.
For purchase and repair of instruments to be issued to officers ofPurchase, etc., of instruments. 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. District of Columbia: EquipmentEngineer School, Washington, D. C.Equipments, etc. 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 mining, pontoniering, and signaling; for purchase and binding of professional works of recent date treating of military and civil engineering and kindred scientific subjects, for the library of the United States Engineer School; for incidental expensesIncidental expenses. of the school, including fuel, lights, chemicals, stationery, hardware, machinery, and boats: for pay of civilian clerks, draftsmen, electricians, 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, labors; for repairs of, and materials to repair, public buildings, and machinery; for unforeseenTravel expenses. expenses, for travel expenses of officers on journeys approved by the Chief of Engineers and made for the purpose of instruction: *Provided,**Provisos*,In lieu of mileage.
That the traveling expenses herein provided for shall be in lieu of 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: *Provided further,* To cover extra expense inExtra building expense.Appropriation immediately available the establishment of the Engineer School and post at Washington Barracks, District of Columbia, due to difficult foundations, increased cost of labor, and other unforeseen and adverse contingencies, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, to be immediately available.
For intrenching tools, instruments, and drawing materials, and forInstruments, etc. purchase and printing of engineer manuals for use in the engineer equipment of troops, fifteen thousand dollars. 840 Surveyors, etc.For services of surveyors, draftsmen, photographers, master laborers, and clerks to engineer officers on the staff of division, corps, and department commanders, twenty-five thousand dollars. Total for Engineer Department, two hundred thirty-one thousand five hundred dollars. ordnance department.Ordnance Department.
Current expenses.Ordnance Service: Current, expenses of the Ordnance Service 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, light, water, and advertising: of stationery and office furniture; of tools and instruments for service; incidental expenses of the Ordnance Service and those attending practical trials and tests of ordnance, small arms, and other ordnance sup-plies, including purchase of publications for libraries for the Ordnance Department and payment for mechanical labor in the office of the Chief of Ordnance, three hundred thousand dollars.
Ammunition for small arms.Ordnance, ordnance stores, and supplies: Manufacture or pin-chase of metallic ammunition and the materials therefor 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, and at soldiers’ and sailors’ State homes, and 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’ Shite homes, including material for cartridges, bags, reworking obsolete powder, and similar items, and marksmen’s medals and insignia for all arms of the service, one million two hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
Field artillery for issue to militia.For the purpose of procuring field-artillery material for the organized militia of the several States, Territories, and the District of Columbia, without, cost to the 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 be 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 said artillery material to the organized militia; and the sum of five hundred and sixteen thousand dollars is hereby appropriated and made immediately available for the procurement and issue of the articles constituting the same.
Manufacturing, etc., arms.For manufacturing, repairing, procuring, and issuing arms at the national armories, one million seven hundred thousand dollars. Converting muzzle-loading guns.For converting muzzle-loading field guns to breech-loading guns for saluting purposes, and for necessary mounts for the same, sixteen thousand dollars. Ordnance stores.Preserving, purchase, etc.For overhauling, cleaning, repairing, and preserving ordnance and ordnance stores in the hands of troops and at the arsenals, posts, and depots; for purchase and manufacture of ordnance stores to fill requisitions of troops; and for infantry, cavalry, and artillery equipments, including horse equipments for cavalry and artillery, one million two hundred and fifty-four thousand nine hundred and twenty-two dollars.
Deductions, etc.Hereafter moneys arising from deductions made from carriers on account of the loss of or damage to military stores in transit shall be credited to the proper appropriation or funds out of which such or 841similar stores shall be replaced and individual pieces of United States armament which are not needed on account of historical value, and canSale of obsolete historical guns. be advantageously replaced, may be sold at a price not less than their cost price, when there exist for such sale sentimental reasons adequate in the judgment of the Secretary of War or Secretary of the Navy.
National trophy and medals for rifle contests: That for theMedals, etc., for rifle practice. purpose of furnishing a national trophy and medals and other prizes to be provided and contested for annually, under such regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary of War, said contest to be open to the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, 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, and for the promotion of rifle practice, the sum of four thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be expended for the purposes hereinbefore prescribed under the direction of the Secretary of War.
All funds received as the value of military stores transferred by theFunds from stores transferred to Philippines. 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 six for the procurement of like military stores to replace those so transferred. Approved, March 2, 1905.