Chapter 1403. To amend section twelve hundred and twenty-five of Revised Statutes, so as to provide for detail of retired officers of the Army and Navy to assist in military instruction in schools
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CHAP. 1403.— An Act To amend section twelve hundred and twenty-five of Revised Statutes, so as to provide for detail of retired officers of the Army and Navy to assist in military instruction in schools. April 21, 1904. [[S. 1399](/us/bill/58/s/1399).] [[Public, No. 126](/us/pl/58/126).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That section twelve hundred Military instruction in schools. Retired army and navy officers may be detailed to assist in. [R.
S., sec. 1225, p. 216, amended](/us/rs/s1225/p216). and twenty-five of the Revised Statutes, concerning the detail of officers of the Army and Navy to educational institutions, be, and the same is hereby, amended so as to permit the President to detail under the provisions of that Act, and in addition to the detail of the officers of the Army and Navy now authorized to be detailed under the existing provisions of said Act, such retired officers and noncommissioned officers of the Army and Navy of the United States as in his judgment may be required for that purpose to act as instructors in military drill and tactics in schools in the United States and Territories where such instructions shall have been authorized by the educational authorities thereof, and where the services of such instructors shall have been applied for by said authorities.
Sec. 2. That no detail shall be made under this Act to any school Schools to pay extra cost. unless it shall pay the cost of commutation of quarters of the retired officers or noncommissioned officers detailed thereto and the extra-duty 226 pay to which they may be entitled by law to receive for the performance *Provisos*. Detail not compulsory. of special duty: *Provided*, That no detail shall be made under the provisions of this Act unless the officers and noncommissioned officers Compensation. to be detailed are willing to accept such position: *Provided further*, That they shall receive no compensation from the Government other than their retired pay.
Sec. 3. Ordnance, etc., issue authorized. That the Secretary of War is authorized to issue at his discretion, and under proper regulations to be prescribed by him, out of ordnance and ordnance stores belonging to the Government, and which can be spared for that purpose, upon the approval of the governors of the respective States and Territories, such number of the same as may Bond. be required for military instruction and practice by such school, and the Secretary shall require a bond in each case, for double the value of the property, for the care and safe-keeping thereof and for the return of the same when required.
Sec. 4. Effect. That this Act shall take effect immediately. Approved, April 21, 1904.