Chapter 1485. Making appropriation for the support of the Army for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and five, and for other purposes
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CHAP. 1485.— An Act Making appropriation for the support of the Army for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and five, and for other purposes. April 23, 1904. [[H. R. 10670](/us/bill/58/hr/10670).] [[Public, No. 149](/us/pl/58/149).] *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 five:
Contingencies of the Army: For all contingent expenses of the Contingencies. 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, twenty 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 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, office furniture and fixtures, machinery, and unforeseen expenses, ten thousand dollars.
For purchase of material for use in instruction of artillery troops Material for instruction. in their special duties in connection with the loading and planting of submarine mines, one thousand dollars. For purchase of special apparatus and for experimental purposes of Apparatus. 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, three thousand dollars. For purchase and binding of professional books of recent date treating Books. of military and scientific subjects for library of School of Submarine Defense, and for use of school, two thousand five hundred dollars. United States service schools: To provide means for the theoretical Service schools. Fort Monroe, Va. Fort Totten, N. Y.
Fort Leavenworth, Kans. Fort Riley, Kans. 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.
For contingent expenses at the headquarters of the several military Contingent expenses at headquarters. 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, profes-260sional 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.
Military information division. For contingent expenses of the military information division, General Staff Corps, including the purchase of law books, professional books of reference, professional and technical 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 *Proviso*. Subscriptions to papers. [R.
S., sec. 3648, p. 718](/us/rs/s3648/p718). of War, ten thousand dollars: *Provided*, That section thirty-six 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. Office of Chief Signal Officer. office of the 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, Alaska military cable. two hundred and eight thousand five hundred dollars; for completing the purchase, installation, operation, and maintenance of a submarine military cable from Sitka, Alaska, to Fort Liscum, Alaska, connecting by an all-American route the headquarters of the Department of Vol. 32, p. 929.
Columbia with the military garrisons in southeastern Alaska, as authorized by the Act of Congress approved March second, nineteen hundred and three, three hundred and twenty-one thousand five hundred and eighty dollars. Pay. pay of officers of the line. Line officers. For pay of officers of the line, five million dollars. Longevity. For pay of officers for length of service, to be paid with their current monthly pay, one million and seventy-one thousand four hundred and twenty-eight dollars. pay of enlisted men.
Enlisted men. For pay of enlisted men of all grades, including recruits, nine million *Proviso*. Gunners’ additional pay. dollars: *Provided*, That hereafter first-class gunners of field artillery shall receive two dollars per month and second-class gunners one dollar per month in addition to their pay. William H. Arthur. Refund to. For refunding to Major William H. Arthur, Medical Department, United States Army, money disbursed through errors in descriptive list of an enlisted man of the Second Regiment, United States Infantry, seventy-five dollars.
Longevity. For additional pay for length of service, one million two hundred and eighty-eight thousand six hundred and fifty dollars. engineer battalion. Engineer battalion. Two hundred and seventy thousand seven hundred and fifty-six dollars. Longevity. Additional pay for length of service, twenty-seven thousand three hundred and seventy-six dollars. 261 ordnance department. One hundred and seventy-one thousand one hundred and twenty Ordnance Corps. dollars. Additional pay for length of service, nineteen thousand seven hundred Longevity. and eighty-six dollars. quartermaster’s department.
Two hundred quartermaster-sergeants, at four hundred and eight Quartermaster-sergeants. dollars each, eighty-one thousand and six hundred dollars. Additional pay for length of service, fourteen thousand four hundred Longevity. dollars. subsistence department. Two hundred post commissary-sergeants, at four hundred and eight Commissary-sergeants. dollars each, eighty-one thousand six hundred dollars. Additional pay for length of service, nineteen thousand two hundred Longevity. dollars. electrician sergeants (artillery corps).
Twenty-five master electricians, at nine hundred dollars each, and Electrician sergeants. one 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 Longevity. dollars. signal corps. One hundred and thirty-two first-class sergeants, at five hundred Signal Corps. Vol. 31, p. 754. 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.
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, at one hundred and fifty-six dollars each, twenty-nine thousand three hundred and twenty-eight dollars. Twenty-four cooks, at two hundred and forty dollars each, five thousand seven hundred and sixty dollars.
Thirty-six master signal electricians, at nine hundred dollars each, Electricians. *Proviso*. Increase to take effect immediately. thirty-two thousand four hundred dollars: *Provided*, That the increase of enlisted men herein authorized shall take effect immediately. In all, three hundred and forty-seven thousand five hundred and sixty-eight dollars. Additional pay for length of service, seventeen thousand one hundred Longevity. dollars. hospital corps. Seven hundred and seventy thousand four hundred dollars.
Hospital Corps. Additional pay for length of service, one hundred and three thousand Longevity. four hundred and sixty-two dollars. pay to clerks and messengers at headquarters of division and departments and office of the chief of staff. One chief clerk, at the office of the Chief of Staff, two thousand Clerks and messengers, at headquarters, etc. dollars per annum. Four clerks, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each per annum. Ten clerks, at one thousand six hundred dollars each per annum. 262 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 general-service messengers, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each per annum. In all, two hundred and seventy-three thousand one hundred and sixty dollars. Assignment. And said clerks and messengers shall be employed and assigned by the Secretary of War to the offices and positions in which they are to serve. Staff, etc. for pay of officers of the staff corps, divisions and departments.
Adjutant-General’s Department. Adjutant-General’s Department: For pay of officers in the Adjutant-General’s Department, eighty-three thousand five hundred dollars. Longevity. For additional pay to such officers for length of service, to be paid with their current monthly pay, twenty-five thousand and fifty dollars. In all, one hundred and eight thousand five hundred and fifty dollars. Military Secretary’s Department. Merger of Adjutant-General’s Department and Record and Pension Office into.
That the officers of the Adjutant-General’s Department, except the Adjutant-General, and the officers of the Record and Pension Office shall hereafter constitute one department of the Army, to be known as the Military Secretary’s Department; and the Adjutant-General’s Office and the Record and Pension Office, heretofore constituting Offices consolidated. *Ante*, p. 114. bureaus of the War Department, shall hereafter constitute a consolidated bureau to be known as the Military Secretary’s Office of the War Promotion, etc., of officers.
Department. The officers so consolidated shall be borne on one list in the order of rank held by them, and those of them who hold permanent appointments as officers of the Adjutant-General’s Department or of the Record and Pension Office shall be entitled to promotion below the grade of brigadier-general, as now provided by law and in the order of their standing on said list. Except as otherwise provided herein, the laws now in force shall continue to govern the appointment, promotion, and detail of all officers of the consolidated department hereby *Provisos*.
Under Chief of Staff. created: *Provided*, That the officers of the said consolidated department shall be subject to the supervision of the Chief of Staff in all matters pertaining to the command, discipline, or administration of Reduction in assistant adjutant-general’s grade. the existing military establishment: *Provided further*, That no appointments or details to the grade of assistant adjutant-general with the rank of major shall be made until the number of officers of that grade shall be reduced to less than ten, and thereafter the number of officers Military Secretary.
To be major-general. of said grade in the consolidated department shall be ten: *Provided further*, That of the officers consolidated as hereinbefore provided the senior in rank, who shall be chief of the consolidated department and the title of whose office is hereby changed to that of the military secretary, Second officer to be brigadier-general. shall hereafter have the rank of major-general, and the second senior of said officers shall hereafter have the rank of brigadier-general:
Subsequent appointments. *Provided further*, That when the office of Military Secretary with the rank of major-general shall hereafter become vacant, it shall not be filled with said rank, and thereafter the chief of the Military Secretary’s Department shall have the rank of a brigadier-general with the title of The Military Secretary, and there shall be only one officer above the rank of colonel in the said department. Except as hereinafter provided, the remaining offices of the consolidated department Vacancy in Adjutant-General not to be filled.
Future titles of officers. shall retain the titles that they now bear: *Provided further*, That when the office of Adjutant-General shall become vacant the vacancy so created on the active list of the Army shall not be filled, and thereafter the several officers now designated by the title assistant adjutant-263general and by the title assistant chief of the Record and Pension Office shall be designated by the title Military Secretary: *Provided further*, Soldiers’ Home service.
That the chief of the Military Secretary’s Department shall be a member of the Board of Commissioners of the United States Soldiers’ Home. Inspector-General’s Department: For pay of officers in the Inspector-General’s Department. Inspector-General’s Department, fifty 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-five thousand nine hundred and fifty dollars.
The Corps of Engineers: For pay of officers in the Corps of Engineers, Engineer Corps. 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. That section twenty-two of the Act approved February second, nineteen Vol. 31, p. 754, amended. hundred and one, entitled “An Act to increase the efficiency of the permanent military establishment of the United States,” be, and the same is hereby, amended so that it shall read as follows:
" “Sec. 22. That the Corps of Engineers shall consist of one Chief of Corps of Engineers. Number of officers increased. Engineers with the rank of brigadier-general, of ten colonels, sixteen lieutenant-colonels, thirty-two majors, forty-three captains, forty-three first lieutenants, and forty-three second lieutenants. The enlisted force provided in section eleven of this Act, and the officers serving with the organized battalions thereof, shall constitute a part of the line of the Army: *Provided*, That the Chief of Engineers shall be appointed as *Proviso*.
Filling vacancies. now provided by law, and hereafter vacancies in the Corps of Engineers in all other grades above that of second lieutenant shall be filled by promotion, according to seniority, from the Corps of Engineers. Any vacancies occurring at any time in the grade of second lieutenant shall be left for future promotions from the corps of cadets at the United States Military Academy.” " Ordnance Department: For pay of officers in the Ordnance Department, Ordnance Department. one hundred and fifty-three thousand nine hundred dollars.
For additional pay to such officers for length of service, to be paid Longevity. with their current monthly pay, forty-five thousand nine hundred and twenty dollars. In all, one hundred and ninety-nine thousand eight hundred and twenty dollars. Quartermaster’s Department: For pay of officers in the Qartermaster’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 thirty-three thousand four hundred dollars. For additional pay to such officers for length of service, to be paid Longevity. with their current monthly pay, two hundred thousand dollars. In all, eight hundred and thirty-three thousand four hundred dollars. 264 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, ninety-four thousand eight hundred dollars.
Longevity. For additional pay to such officers for length of service, to be paid with their current monthly pay, twenty-five thousand dollars. In all, one hundred and nineteen thousand eight hundred dollars. Record and Pension Office. Record and Pension Office: For pay of officers of the Record and Pension Office, eight thousand dollars. Longevity. *Ante*, p. 262. 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 nine hundred and Promotion for civil war service. forty-four thousand nine hundred dollars and ninety-five cents. That any officer of the Army below the grade of brigadier-general who served with credit as an officer or as an enlisted man in the regular or volunteer forces during the civil war prior to April ninth, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, otherwise than as a cadet, and whose name is borne on the official register of the Army, and who has heretofore been, or may hereafter be, retired on account of wounds or disability incident to the service, or on account of age or after forty years’ service, may, in the discretion of the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, be placed on the retired list of the Army with the rank and retired pay of one grade above that actually held by *Proviso*.
Exceptions. him at the time of retirement: *Provided*, That this Act shall not apply to any officer who received an advance of grade since the date of his retirement or who has been restored to the Army and placed on the retired list by virtue of the provisions of a special Act of Congress; Assignments to active duty. and the Secretary of War may assign retired officers of the Army, with their consent, to active duty in recruiting, for service in connection with the organized militia in the several States and Territories *Post*, p. 831. upon the request of the governor thereof, as military attaches, upon courts-martial, courts of inquiry and boards, and to staff duties not Pay, etc., when assigned. involving service with troops; and such officers while so assigned shall 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 dollars. In all, two million three hundred and sixty-nine thousand nine hundred dollars and ninety-five cents. retired enlisted men. Enlisted men.For pay of the enlisted men of the Army on the retired list, eight hundred and two thousand four hundred and ninety-eight dollars: *Proviso*. Allowance for service in China, etc. *Provided*, That hereafter in computing the length of service for retirement, credit shall be given soldiers for double the time of their actual service in China, Cuba, the Philippine Islands, the Island of Guam, 265 Alaska, and Panama; but double credit shall not be given for service Hawaii and Porto Rico excepted. hereafter rendered in Porto Rico or the Territory of Hawaii.
That no part of the sums appropriated for the support of the Regular Militia. Army shall be used to pay any part of the expenses of the organized Army appropriations not to be used for. Vol. 32, p. 777. 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 of January twenty-first, nineteen hundred and three, entitled “An Act to promote the efficiency of the militia, and for other purposes.
” That the following sums be, and are hereby, appropriated for paying Expenses of militia in encampments, etc. the expenses of the organized militia of any State, Territory, or District of Columbia, participating in joint encampment, maneuvers, and field instruction of the Regular Army and militia as provided by Vol. 32, pp. 777, 779. sections fifteen and twenty-one of the Act of January twenty-first, nineteen hundred and three, entitled “An Act to promote the efficiency of the militia, and for other purposes.
” For pay of officers and enlisted men, three hundred thousand dollars. Pay. For purchase of supplies for the Quartermaster’s and Ordnance Quartermaster’ sand ordnance supplies. Departments, including regular supplies, incidental expenses, barracks and quarters, transportation of the militia and its supplies, clothing and equipage, leases of land and damages of property, six hundred thousand dollars. For purchase of subsistence and supplies, one hundred thousand Subsistence. dollars.
The sums hereby appropriated for the expenses of the organized Fund created. militia for such joint encampment, maneuvers, and field instruction shall be disbursed as, and for that purpose shall constitute, one fund; and the Secretary of War shall hereafter forward to Congress at its Statement to Congress. next session a detailed statement of the expenses of such encampments and maneuvers. 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-five thousand and twenty dollars. Nurses. 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-nine Paymasters’ clerks. thousand nine hundred and seventy-eight dollars and twelve 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, one million five Allowance, enlisted men. hundred thousand dollars. For clothing not drawn, due to enlisted men on discharge, six hundred Clothing not drawn. thousand dollars.
For interest on soldiers’ deposits, one hundred and twenty-five Interest on soldiers’ deposits. thousand dollars, and so much as may be necessary to pay back such deposits. 266 Translator, etc. For pay of translator and librarian of the military information division, General Staff 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 two hundred and fifty contract surgeons, four hundred and fifty *Provisos*. Transfer of pay, insular, etc., duty. thousand dollars: *Provided*, That hereafter contract surgeons and contract 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 Authority. officers of the Army: *Provided*, That when a contract surgeon is in charge of a hospital he shall have the same authority as a commissioned medical officer.
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, to include the enlisted men of the present regiment who may be in the service June thirtieth, nineteen Field officers. hundred and four, and officers as herein provided. The field officers shall be detailed from the officers of the Regular Army of the same Reappointment of present officers. grade and shall receive the pay and emoluments of their grade.
The present officers of the regiment below the grade of field officers who are mentally, morally, and physically qualified and have proved efficient in their respective positions may be reappointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate (and such officers shall be entitled to preference in such appointments) for a provisional term of four years. Officers so reappointed shall be eligible for promotion in the regiment up to and including the rank of captain, Future vacancies. upon examination as to their fitness for such promotion.
Vacancies then existing or thereafter occurring in the grade of second lieutenant may be filled by the President, in his discretion, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, by the appointment of citizens of Porto Rico for the provisional term of four years, whose qualifications for commissions shall be established by such examination as the President may prescribe, who shall also be eligible for promotion in the regiment up to and including the rank of captain, upon an examination as to their fitness.
Vacancies not filled as hereinbefore provided by the reappointment or promotion of the present officers or by the appointment or promotion of citizens of Porto Rico, shall be filled by detail from the line of the infantry of the Army of the same grade Enlistments. with the vacancy to be filled. Men hereafter enlisted in the regiment shall be citizens of Porto Rico and shall be enlisted for a term of two years; and except in the case of noncommissioned officers shall not be reenlisted in time of peace.
The names of all enlisted men who have served honorably in the regiment shall be kept at the headquarters of the regiment, and these men shall be regarded as a reserve, to be Pay, etc. specially considered in time of war. The pay and allowances of officers and enlisted men of the regiment shall be the same as authorized for like grades in the Regular Army. Officers. Pay of officers of the line, forty-five thousand eight hundred dollars. Enlisted men. Pay of enlisted men, ninety-five thousand one hundred and forty-eight dollars. 267 philippine scouts.
Pay of officers of the line: Fifty first lieutenants, eighty thousand Philippine scouts. dollars. Fifty second lieutenants, seventy five thousand dollars. Noncommissioned officers and privates, fifty companies, four hundred and ninety-six thousand four hundred and forty dollars. All the money hereinbefore appropriated for pay of the Army and Pay accounts. miscellaneous shall be disbursed and accounted for by officers of the Pay Department as pay of the Army, and for that purpose shall constitute one fund: *Provided*, That hereafter all payments to the militia *Provisos*.
Militia expenses. Vol. 23, p. 777. *Ante*, p. 265. under the provisions of section fifteen of the Act of Congress approved January twenty-first, nineteen hundred and three, and all allowances for mileage shall be made solely from the sums herein appropriated for such purposes: *And provided further*, That all the accounts of Record, etc., of accounts by Paymaster-General. 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 for final audit. 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 and scouts, and for toilet paper for use by enlisted men at posts, camps, rendezvous, and offices where water-closets are provided with sewer connections.
For payments: For meals for recruiting parties and Payments. 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 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 on Extra duty pay. 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 of Commutation. 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, etc. 268 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 (except that at the general hospital at Fort Bayard, New Mexico, the difference between the cost of the ration at twenty-five 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-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 Amount. stationed at such places as the Secretary of War may determine; in all, seven million 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. 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 mess halls, each and all for the enlisted men, including recruits;
Forage, etc. of forage in kind for the horses, mules, and oxen of the Quartermaster’s Department at the several posts and stations and with the armies in the field, and for the horses of the several regiments of cavalry, the batteries of artillery, and such companies of infantry and scouts as may be mounted, and for the authorized number of officers’ horses, including bedding for the animals, and nothing in *Ante*, p. 142. the Act making appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the Government for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and five shall hereafter be 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 Quartermaster’s Department, certificates for discharged soldiers, blank forms for the Pay and Quartermaster’s departments, Amount. and for printing department orders and reports, five million dollars: *Provisos*.
Printing. *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:
Purchases. *Provided further*, That hereafter, except in cases of emergency 269 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 be may prescribe.
For the purchase of the necessary instruments, office furniture, stationery, Equipment of post schools. and other authorized articles required for the equipment and use of the officers’ schools at the several military posts, twenty-five thousand dollars. Incidental expenses: Postage; cost of telegrams on official business Incidental expenses. received and sent by officers of the Army; extra pay to soldiers employed on extra duty, under the direction of the Quartermaster’s Department, in the erection of barracks, quarters, and storehouses, in the construction of roads, and other constant labor for periods of not less than ten days, and as clerks for post quartermasters at military posts, and for prison overseers at posts designated by the War Department for the confinement of general prisoners; for expenses of expresses to and from frontier posts and armies in the field, of escorts to paymasters and other disbursing officers, and to trains where military escorts can not be furnished; expenses of the interment of officers killed in action or who die when on duty in the field, or at military posts or on the frontiers, or when traveling under orders, and of 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 court-martial sentence, involving dishonorable discharge; for the following expenditures required for the several regiments Horse expenditures. 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 Amount. assigned to any other department, two million dollars. 270 Horses, etc. Horses for cavalry, artillery, and engineers:
For the purchase 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 expenses *Proviso*. Limit. incident thereto, four 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 authority of the Secretary of War.
Barracks and quarters. Barracks and quarters: For barracks and quarters for troops, storehouses for the safe-keeping of military stores, for offices, recruiting stations, and for the hire of buildings and grounds for summer cantonments, and for temporary buildings at frontier stations, for the construction of temporary buildings and stables, and for repairing public buildings at established posts, including the extra-duty pay of *Provisos*. Commutation of fuel, etc. enlisted men employed on the same: *Provided*, That no part of the moneys so appropriated shall be paid for commutation of fuel or for Civilian employees. quarters to officers or eidisted 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.
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, five hundred *Proviso*. Limit. thousand 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 necessary for post administration purposes, three hundred and sixty-five thousand five hundred and ninety 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 271 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 teamstel’s 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 Gulf of Mexico, and the Atlantic and Pacific oceans (no steamship in the transport service of the United Sale of transports restricted.
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 Payment to land-grant railroads. lawfully due such land-grant railroads as have not received aid in Government bonds (to be adjusted in accordance with the decisions of the Supreme Court in cases decided under such land-grant acts), but Maximum. in no case shall more than fifty per centum of full amount of service be paid: *Provided*, That such compensation shall be computed upon *Provisos*.
Basis of compensation. 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 for such service: *Provided further*, That in expending the Fifty per cent to roads not bond aided. money appropriated by this Act, a railroad company which has not received aid in bonds of the United States, and which obtained a grant of public land to aid in the construction of its railroad on condition that such railroad should be a post route and military road, subject to the use of the United States for postal, military, naval, and other Government services, and also subject to such regulations as Congress may impose restricting the charge for such Government transportation, having claims against the United States for transportation of troops and munitions of war and military supplies and property over such aided railroads, shall be paid out of the moneys appropriated by the foregoing provision only on the basis of such rate for the transportation of such troops and munitions of war and military supplies and property as the Secretary of War shall deem just and reasonable under the foregoing provision, such rate not to exceed fifty per centum of the compensation for such Government transportation as shall at that time be charged to and paid by private parties to any such company for like and similar transportation; and the amount so fixed to be paid shall be accepted as in full for all demands for such service: *Provided further*, That the number of Draft animals. draft animals purchased from this appropriation, added to those now on hand, shall be limited to such numbers as are actually required for the service, fifteen million dollars.
For a survey and estimate of cost of a wagon road from Valdez to Alaska. Road, Valdez to Fort Egbert. Fort Egbert on the Yukon River, to be made under the direction of the Secretary of War, twenty-five thousand dollars, to be immediately available; said survey and estimate, herein provided, shall be submitted to Congress at the earliest practicable day. For surveying and locating a military trail, under the direction of Trail between Yukon River and Coldfoot. the Secretary of War, by the shortest and most practicable route, between the Yukon River and Coldfoot, on the Koyukuk River, twenty-five hundred dollars, to be immediately available, and a report and estimate upon said trail to be submitted to Congress at the earliest practicable day.
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 272 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 dollars.
Hospitals. Construction 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 Fort Riley, Kans. increased garrisons, three hundred and eighty thousand dollars; of Fort Totten, N.
Y. which sum not to exceed forty thousand dollars may be used to build Fort Leavenworth, Kans. a modern hospital at Fort Riley, Kansas; thirty thousand dollars to build a modern hospital at Fort Totten, New York; thirty thousand Fort Snelling, Minn. dollars to enlarge the hospital at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas; thirty-five thousand dollars to enlarge the hospital at Fort Snelling, Minnesota; Fort Sheridan, Ill. twenty-five thousand dollars to enlarge the hospital at Fort Sheridan, Fort Clark, Tex.
Illinois, and thirty thousand dollars for the erection of a modern hospital at Fort Clark, 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, forty-five thousand five hundred dollars.
Medical department. medical department. Supplies, etc. 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 supply depots; for medical care and treatment of officers and enlisted men of the Army on duty, and of prisoners of war and other persons in military custody or confinement, at posts and stations for which no other provision is made, under such regulations as shall have been or shall be prescribed by the Secretary of War; for the proper care and treatment of epidemic and contagious diseases in the Army or at military posts or stations, including measures to prevent the spread thereof, and the payment of reasonable damages, not otherwise provided for, for bedding and clothing injured or destroyed in such Nurses. 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 *Provisos*.
Open-market purchases. Medical Department, five hundred and fifty thousand dollars: *Provided*, That hereafter the purchase of medicines and medical stores 273 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: *Provided further*, That hereafter civilian employees Supplies to 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, five thousand dollars. For the library of the Surgeon-General’s Office, including the purchase Library. of necessary books of reference and periodicals, ten thousand dollars. engineer department. Engineer Department. Engineer, depots: For incidental expenses of the depots, including Incidental 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, wheelwrights, masons, machinists, painters, overseers, laborers; repairs of, and for materials to repair, public buildings, machinery, and unforeseen expenses, eleven thousand five hundred dollars.
For purchase and repair of instruments, to be issued to officers of Purchase, 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: Equipment Engineer 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 expenses Incidental 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, wheel-wrights, masons, machinists, painters, overseers, laborers; for repairs of, and materials to repair, public buildings, and machinery; for unforeseen expenses, for travel expenses of officers on journeys approved by Travel expenses. the Chief of Engineers and made for the purpose of instruction: *Provided*, *Proviso*.
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 Books, etc. papers, and for other absolutely necessary expenses, twenty-five thousand dollars. For the completion of the necessary buildings, including approaches, Buildings, etc. heating and lighting plant, for the Army War College, at Washington Barracks, District of Columbia, in accordance with plans of the archi-274tects, *Proviso*.
Limit of cost. three hundred thousand dollars: *Provided*, That no part of this appropriation shall be used until it shall have been determined, by the Secretary of War, that the entire cost of finishing the buildings, providing the approaches, heating and lighting plant, shall not exceed the appropriation herein made. Pontoon trains, etc. For ponton trains, intrenching tools, instruments, and drawing materials, and for purchase and printing of engineer manuals for use in the engineer equipment of troops, twenty-five thousand dollars.
Services. 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, three hundred and ninety-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 supplies, 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 purchase 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, marksmen’s medals and insignia for all arms of the service, one million one hundred *Proviso*.
Annual medals, prizes, etc. Vol. 32, p. 941, amended. *Post*, p. 580. and fifty thousand two hundred and sixty-six dollars: *Provided*, That provision “for the purpose of furnishing a national trophy and medals, and so forth,” contained in the Act approved March second, nineteen hundred and three, being an Act making appropriation for the support of the Army for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen Navy and Marine Corps added. hundred and four, is amended to read as follows:
“That for the 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, the sum of two thousand five hundred 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.
” Medals of honor. Issued for distinguished services. For three thousand medals of honor to be prepared, with suitable emblematic devices, upon the design of the medal of honor heretofore issued, or upon an improved design, together with appropriate rosettes or other insignia to be worn in lieu of the medal, and to be presented by direction of the President, and in the name of Congress, to such officers, noncommissioned officers, and privates as have most distinguished, or may hereafter most distinguish, themselves by their gallantry *Provisos*.
Replacing former medals, etc. in action, twelve thousand dollars: *Provided*, That the Secretary of War be and he is hereby, authorized and directed to use so many of the medals and rosettes or other insignia provided for by this Act 275 as may be necessary to replace the medals that have been issued under the joint resolution of Congress approved July twelfth, eighteen hundred Vol. 12, pp. 623, 751. and sixty-two, and section six of the Act of Congress approved March third, eighteen hundred and sixty-three: *And provided further*, That whenever it shall appear from official records in the War Department Persons no longer in the service. that any officer or enlisted man of the Army so distinguished himself in action as to entitle him to the award of the Congressional medal of honor under the provisions of the sixth section of the Act of Congress approved March third, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, entitled “An Act making appropriations for the sundry civil expenses of the Government for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, and for the year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, and for other purposes,” the fact that the person who so distinguished himself has since become separated from the military service, or that the award of the medal to him was not specifically recommended or applied for while he was in the said service, shall not be held to prevent the award and presentation of the medal to such person under the provisions of the law hereinbefore cited.
For the purpose of procuring field-artillery material for the organized Field artillery for issue to militia. 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 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 said artillery material to the organized militia; and the sum of five hundred and eighty-five thousand dollars is hereby appropriated and made immediately available, for the procurement and issue of the articles constituting the same.
For overhauling, cleaning, repairing and preserving ordnance and Ordnance stores. Preserving, purchase, etc. 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, Equipments. including horse equipments for cavalry and artillery, one million six hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. For firing the morning and evening gun at military posts prescribed Morning and evening gun. by General Orders, Numbered Seventy, Headquarters of the Army, dated July twenty-third, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, and at National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers and its several Branches, including National Soldiers’ Home in Washington, District of Columbia, and at Soldiers and Sailors’ State Homes, including material for cartridges, bags, reworking obsolete powder, and so forth, thirteen thousand five hundred dollars.
For converting muzzle-loading field guns to breech-loading guns, for Converting muzzle-loading guns. saluting purposes, and for necessary mounts for the same, forty thousand dollars. For targets for artillery practice and implements for mechanical Artillery practice. maneuvers, forty-one thousand five hundred dollars. Manufacture, repairing, procuring, and issuing arms at the national Manufacturing, etc., arms. armories, one million seven hundred thousand dollars. Hereafter purchases of ordnance and ordnance stores and supplies Open market purchases. and the procurement of services 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 purchase exceeding one hundred dollars shall be immediately reported to the Secretary of War.
All funds received as the value of military stores transferred by the Funds from stores transferred to Philippines. several staff departments of the Army to the Insular Department of 276 the Philippines shall be deposited in the Treasury of the United States and remain available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and five for the procurement of like military stores to replace those so transferred. Computation of monthly pay. Hereafter all employees of the Ordnance Department whose rate of compensation is annual shall be paid 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 provision each and every month shall be held to consist of thirty days, whether the actual number of days be greater or less.
Moneys from ordnance stores available to replace stores. Hereafter all moneys arising from disposition authorized by law and regulation of serviceable ordnance and ordnance stores shall constitute one fund on the books of the Treasury Department, which shall be available to replace ordnance and ordnance stores throughout the fiscal year in which the disposition was effected and throughout the following Sales to designers. year. The Secretary of War is hereby authorized to sell to American designers such serviceable ordnance and ordnance stores as may be necessary in the development of designs which may be used in the *Proviso*.
Conditions. military service: *Provided*, That such ordnance and ordnance stores can be spared for the purpose, and funds arising from such sales shall be available to replace like ordnance and ordnance stores. Settlement with Philippine government for launches transferred. The Secretary of War is authorized, if in his judgment the conclusion be an equitable one, to declare the existing open accounts between the civil government of the Philippine Islands and the Government of the United States to be settled and satisfied and to direct the transfer of the title of the following launches:
The Lexington, Leader, Frankfort, San Antonio, Guy Howard, Ogden, Sultana, Troy, Philadelphia, Johnny, Q. M. D., Julia Suerte, and Pittsburg to the Philippine government, and to direct that the same be dropped from the returns Closing of accounts. of the Quartermaster’s Department. The order of the Secretary of War in this behalf, with respect to the accounts of the Ordnance, the Subsistence, the Quartermaster’s, and the Signal Corps shall be taken as a balancing and final adjustment and settlement of such accounts.
No officer to be deprived of commission etc. Nothing in this Act shall be so construed as to deprive any officer of his commission or to increase the total number of officers of the Army, except as herein specially provided, and all laws or parts of laws inconsistent with the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed. Approved, April 23, 1904.