Chapter 3078. Making appropriation for the support of the Army for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seven
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CHAP. 3078.— An Act Making appropriation for the support of the Army for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seven. June 12, 1906. [[H. R. 14397](/us/bill/34/hr/14397).] [[Public, No. 224](/us/pl/34/224).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Army appropriations. That the following sums be, 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 seven:
Contingencies.Contingencies of the Army: For all contingent expenses of 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.Army War College: For expenses of the 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. office of the chief of staff.Office of Chief of Staff.
Expenses, 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*.[R. S. sec. 3648, p. 718](/us/rs/s3648/p718).Periodicals.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. 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 thousand dollars. the military secretary’s department.Military Secretary’s Department.
Contingent expenses at headquarters.Contingencies, headquarters of military departments: For 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 division and department commanders, seven thousand five hundred dollars. under the chief of artillery.Under Chief of Artillery.
Submarine defense school.Incidental expenses.School of Submarine Defense, Fort Totten, New York: For incidental expenses of school and depot, including chemicals, stationery, hardware, extra-duty pay to soldiers necessarily employed for periods 241not 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, eight thousand dollars.
For purchase of material for use in instruction of artillery troops inMaterial for instruction. their special duties in connection with the loading and planting of submarine mines, nine hundred dollars. For purchase of special apparatus and for experimental purposes ofApparatus, etc. the department of electricity, mines, and mechanism, and the department of chemistry and explosives, Fort Totten, New York, three thousand four hundred dollars. For purchase of special apparatus and materials for electrician sergeants’ division, School of Submarine Defense, Fort Totten, New York, two thousand seven hundred dollars.
For purchase and binding of professional books of recent date treatingBooks. of military and scientific subjects for library of School of Submarine Defense, and for use of school, one thousand dollars. office of the chief signal officer.office of Chief Signal Officer. Signal Service of the Army: For expenses of the Signal ServiceExpenses. of the Army, as follows: Purchase, equipment, and repair of Held 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; lire control and direction apparatus and material for Held artillery; maintenance and repair of military telegraph lines and cables,Telegraph and cable lines. 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 thousand dollars: *Provided*, That of the receipts of the*Proviso.*Receipts from Alaska cable, etc., to be used for extensions, etc.
Washington-Alaska Military Cable and Telegraph System that have been covered into the Treasury of the United States, the sum of one hundred and seventy-nine thousand dollars be. and the same is hereby, made available for defraying the cost of such extensions and betterments of the system as may be approved by the Secretary of War, the extent of such extensions and the cost thereof to be reported to Congress by the Secretary of War. pay of officers of the line.Pay. For pay of officers of the line, five million three hundred and sixty-nineLine officers. thousand two hundred and forty dollars: *Provided*, That all*Proviso.*Assignments allowed. commissioned officers of the Army may transfer or assign their pay accounts, when due and payable, under such regulations as the Secretary of War may prescribe.
For pay of officers for length of service, to be paid with their currentLongevity. monthly pay, one million dollars. pay of enlisted men. For pay of enlisted men of all grades, including recruits, eightEnlisted men. million seven hundred and seventy-three thousand one hundred and six dollars and twenty-five cents: *Provided*, That hereafter enlisted*Provisos.*Extra to riflemen, etc. men qualifying as expert riflemen shall receive in addition to their pay three dollars per month; those qualifying as sharpshooters, two 242dollars per month, and those qualifying as marksmen, one dollar per month, under such regulation as the Secretary of War may prescribe:Deduction from retired enlisted men tor Soldiers’ Home, repealed.[R.
S., sec. 4819, p. 935](/us/rs/s4819/p935). *Provided further*, That so much of section forty-eight hundred and nineteen, Revised Statutes, as requires that twelve and one-half cents per month be deducted from the pay of retired enlisted men of the Army and passed to the credit of the Commissioners of the Soldiers’ Home in the District of Columbia, be. and the same is hereby, repealed. Longevity.For additional pay for length of service, one million one hundred and eighty-three thousand four hundred and sixty-four dollars: *Proviso.*Detachments at recruiting stations and prisons. *Provided further*, That hereafter the Secretary of War shall be authorized to detach from the Army at large such number of enlisted men as may be necessary to perform duty at the various recruit depots and the United Pay, etc.States military prison, and of the enlisted men so detached, and while performing such duty, there shall be allowed for each depot and the prison one who shall have the rank, pay, and allowances of battalion or squadron sergeant-major, and for each recruit and prison company one who shall have the rank, pay, and allowances of first sergeant, five the rank, pay, and allowances of sergeant, and six the rank, pay, and allowances of corporal, of the arm of the service to which they respectively belong. engineers.
Engineer battalion.Two hundred and sixty-nine thousand six hundred and four dollars. Additional for length of service, twenty-nine thousand three hundred and sixteen dollars. ordnance department. Ordnance Corps.One hundred and seventy-four thousand three hundred and seventy- two dollars. Additional pay for length of service, thirty thousand dollars. quartermaster’s department. Quartermaster-sergeants.Two hundred quartermaster-sergeants, at four hundred and eight dollars each, eighty-one thousand six hundred dollars.
Additional pay for length of service, fourteen thousand dollars. subsistence department. Commissary-sergeants.Two hundred post commissary-sergeants, at four hundred and eight dollars each, eighty-one thousand six hundred dollars. Additional pay for length of service, sixteen thousand dollars. electricians, artillery corps. Artillery electricians.Twenty-live master electricians, at nine hundred dollars each, and one. hundred electrician sergeants, at four hundred and eight dollars each, sixty-three thousand three hundred dollars.
Additional pay for length of service, five thousand and eighty dollars. signal corps. Signal Corps.Thirty-six master signal electricians, at nine hundred dollars each, 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. 243 Twenty-four cooks, at two hundred and forty dollars each, live 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, at one 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, twenty-two thousandLongevity. nine hundred and eight dollars. hospital corps. Seven hundred and seventy thousand four hundred dollars.Hospital Corps. Additional pay for length of service, ninety-nine thousand eight hundred 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, messengers, etc. dollars per annum.
Six clerks at one thousand eight hundred dollars each per annum. Fifteen clerks at one thousand six hundred dollars each per annum. Twenty-seven clerks at one thousand four hundred dollars each per annum. Seventy-three clerks at one thousand two hundred dollars each per annum. One hundred clerks at one thousand dollars each per annum. Two clerks at nine hundred dollars each per annum. One clerk at seven hundred and twenty dollars per annum. One captain of the watch at nine hundred dollars per annum.
Three watchmen at seven hundred and twenty dollars each per annum. One gardener at seven hundred and twenty dollars per annum. One packer at eight hundred and forty dollars per annum. Two messengers at eight hundred and forty dollars each per annum. Seventy-four 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. Two laborers at six hundred dollars each per annum.
One laborer at four hundred and eighty dollars per annum. Five charwomen at two hundred and forty dollars each per annum. In all, three hundred and twenty-nine thousand and forty dollars. And said clerks, messengers, and laborers shall be employed andAssignment. assigned by the Secretary of War to the offices and positions in which they are to serve: *Provided*, That no clerk, messenger, or laborer at*Proviso*.Duty in War Department forbidden. headquarters of divisions, departments, or office of the Chief of Staff, shall be assigned to duty with any bureau in the War Department. for pay of officers of the staff corps, divisions, and departments.Staff officers, etc.
Military Secretary’s Department: For pay of officers in TheMilitary Secretary’s Department. Military Secretary’s Department, ninety-one thousand five hundred dollars. For additional pay to such officers for length of service, to be paid with their current monthly pay. nineteen thousand dollars. In all, one hundred and ten thousand five hundred dollars. 244 Inspector-General’s Department.Inspector-General’s Department: For pay of officers in the Inspector-General’s Department, fifty thousand five hundred dollars.
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 eighty-seven thousand eight hundred dollars. For additional pay to such officers for length of service, to be paid with their current monthly pay, eighty-eight thousand eight hundred and ten dollars.
In all, four hundred and seventy-six thousand six hundred and ten dollars. Ordnance Department.*Post*. p. 455.Ordnance Department: For pay of officers in the Ordnance Department, one hundred and fifty-three thousand nine hundred dollars. For additional pay to such officers for length of service, to be paid with their current monthly pay, thirty-seven thousand five hundred and sixty dollars. In all. one hundred and ninety-one thousand four hundred and sixty dollars. Quartermaster’s DepartmentQuartermaster’s Department:
For pay of officers in the Quarter master’s Department, two hundred and twenty-three thousand five hundred dollars. For additional pay to such officers for length of service, to be paid with their current monthly pay. fifty-six thousand seven hundred and twenty-three dollars. In all, two hundred and eighty thousand two hundred and twenty- three dollars. Subsistence Department.Subsistence Department: For pay of officers in the Subsistence Department, one hundred and thirty-four thousand five hundred dollars.
For additional pay to such officers for length of service, to be paid with their current monthly pay, twenty-six thousand five hundred dollars. In all, one hundred and sixty-one thousand dollars. Medical Department.Medical Department: For pay of officers in the Medical Department, six hundred and sixty-five thousand eight hundred dollars. For additional pay to such officers for length of service, to be. paid with their current monthly pay. eighty-eight thousand three hundred and seventy-six dollars.
In all, seven hundred and fifty-four thousand one hundred and seventy-six dollars. Pay Department.Pay Department: For pay of officers in the Pay Department, one hundred and twenty-eight thousand dollars. For additional pay to such officers for length of service, to be paid with their current monthly pay, twenty-seven thousand two hundred and sixty dollars. In all, one hundred and fifty-five thousand two hundred and sixty 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. For additional pay to such officers for length of service, to be paid with their current monthly pay, seven thousand three hundred and fifty dollars. In all, forty-seven thousand three hundred and fifty dollars. Signal corps.Signal Corps: For pay of the officers of the Signal Corps, ninety- four thousand eight hundred dollars. For additional pay to such officers for length of service, to be paid 245with their current monthly pay, twenty thousand five hundred and twenty dollars.
In all, one hundred and fifteen 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 three hundred thousand dollars: (*Provided*, That a colonel or lieutenant-colonel heretofore*Provisos.*Pay of colonels and lieutenant-colonels on active duty. or hereafter assigned to active duty shall hereafter receive the same pay and allowances as a retired major would receive under a like assignment:) *Provided further*, That hereafter no officer holding aService of generals before retirement. rank above that of colonel shall be retired except for disability or on account of having reached the age of sixty-four years until he shall have served at least one year in such rank.
For additional pay to such officers for length of service, to be paidLongevity. with their current monthly pay, four hundred thousand dollars. In all, two million seven hundred thousand dollars. retired enlisted men. For pay of the enlisted men of the Army on the retired list, nineRetired enlisted men. hundred thousand 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 additional pay to such veterinarians, for length of service, to beLongevity. paid with their current monthly pay, five thousand two hundred and fifty dollars. For thirty dental surgeons, fifty-six thousand one hundred and sixtyDental surgeons. dollars. For contract surgeons, three hundred and sixty thousand dollars.Contract surgeons.
For pay of ninety paymasters’ clerks, one hundred and thirty-ninePaymasters’ clerks. thousand five hundred and sixty dollars. For pay of paymasters’ messengers, sixteen thousand dollars.Messengers For traveling expenses of paymasters’ clerks and expert accountantTraveling expenses. of the Inspector-General’s Department, seventeen 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-five thousand dollars.
For additional pay to officer in charge of public buildings andofficer, buildings and grounds, District of Columbia. 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 and three thousand dollars. For travel allowance to enlisted men on discharge, one million sixTravel, enlisted men. hundred and twenty-eight thousand dollars.
For clothing not drawn due to enlisted men on discharge, one millionClothing not drawn. dollars. For interest on soldiers’ deposits, one hundred and forty-three thousandInterest on deposits. dollars, and so much as may be necessary to pay back such deposits as may not be repaid on June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and six, as shown by the books of the Paymaster-General’s Office, said sum toTransfer of deposits. 246be transferred in the Treasury Department from pay of the Army to the credit of the deposit fund created by section thirteen hundred and five of the Revised Statutes, as herein amended.
That sections thirteen hundred and five and thirteen hundred and eight of the Revised Statutes of the United States are hereby amended, to take effect July first, nineteen hundred and six, and to read as follows: " “Sec. 1305. Deposit of savings, enlisted men.[R. S., sec. 1305, p. 225, amended](/us/rs/s1305/p255).Any enlisted man of the Army may deposit his savings, in sums not less than five dollars, with any army paymaster, who shall furnish him a deposit book, in which shall be entered the name of the paymaster and of the soldier, and the amount, date, and place Deposits made a separate fund.of such deposit.
The amount so deposited shall be accounted for in the same manner as other public funds, and shall be deposited in the Treasury of the United States and kept as a separate fund, known as Repayment.pay of the Army deposit fund, repayment of which to the enlisted man on discharge from the service shall be made out of the fund created by said deposits, and shall not be subject to forfeiture by sentence of court-martial, but shall be forfeited by desertion, and shall not be permitted to be paid until final payment on discharge, or to the heirs Not liable for debts.*Proviso.*Government liability.or representatives of a deceased soldier, and that such deposits be exempt from liability for such soldier’s debts: *Provided*, That the Government shall be liable for the amount deposited to the person so depositing the same.
“Sec. 1308. Clothing balances payable from pay fund.[R. S., sec. 1308, p. 225, amended](/us/rs/s1308/p255).Clothing balances accumulating to the soldier’s credit under section thirteen hundred and two shall, when payable to him upon his discharge, be paid out of the appropriation for pay of the Army for the then current fiscal year.” " 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. Extra-duty-pay. artillery and ordnance service.For extra pay to enlisted men employed on extra duty for periods of not less than ten days in the offices of district artillery engineers and district ordnance officers, four thousand five hundred and ninety- nine dollars. Mileage to officers, etc.*Provisos.*Allowance; computations.For mileage to officers and contract surgeons when authorized by law, four hundred and fifty thousand dollars: *Provided*, That hereafter ’officers, active and retired, when traveling under competent orders without troops, and retired officers who have so traveled since March third, nineteen hundred and five, shall be paid seven cents per mile and no more; distances to be computed and mileage to be paid over the shortest usually traveled routes, with deduction as hereinafter provided; and payment and settlement of mileage accounts of officers shall be made according to distances and deductions computed over routes established and by mileage tables prepared by the Paymaster-General of the Determination of travel and duty.Army under the direction of the Secretary of War.
The Secretary of War may determine what shall constitute travel and duty without troops within the meaning of the laws governing the payment of mileage and Deductions for transportation orders, etc.commutation of quarters to officers of the Army: *Provided further*, That officers who so desire may, upon application to the Quartermaster’s Department, be furnished under their orders transportation requests for the entire journey by land, exclusive of sleeping and parlor car accommodations, or by water; and the transportation so furnished shall, if travel was performed under a mileage status, be a charge against the officer’s mileage account, to be deducted at the rate of three cents per mile by the paymaster paying the account, and of the amount so deducted there shall be turned over to an authorized officer of the Quartermaster’s Department three cents per mile for transportation furnished, except over any railroad which is a free or fifty per centum land-grant railroad, for the credit of the appropriation for the transportation On land-grant, etc.,of the Army and its supplies: *And provided further.* That 247when the established route of travel shall, in whole or in part, be over the line of any railroad on which the troops and supplies of the United States are entitled to be transported free of charge, or over any fifty per centum land-grant railroad, officers traveling as herein provided for shall, for the travel over such roads, be furnished with transportation requests, exclusive of sleeping and parlor car accommodations, by the Quartermaster’s Department: *And provided further*, That when transportationDeductions. is furnished by the Quartermaster’s Department, or when the established route of travel is over any of the railroads above specified, there shall be deducted from the officer’s mileage account by the paymaster paying the same three cents per mile for the distance for which transportation has been or should have been furnished: *And provided further*, That when the station of an officer is changed while he is onAllowance if on leave when station changed. leave of absence he will on joining the new station be entitled to mileage for the distance to the new station from the place where he received the order directing the change, provided the distance be no greater than from the old to the new station; but if the distance be greater he will be entitled to mileage for a distance equal to that from the old to the new station only: *And provided further*, That for all sea travel actualSea-travel expenses. expenses only shall be paid to officers, contract surgeons, contract dental surgeons, and veterinarians, to pay masters’ clerks, and to the expert accountant of the Inspector-General’s Department, when traveling on duty under competent orders, with or without troops, and the amount so paid shall not include any shore expenses at port of embarkation or debarkation; but for the purpose of determining allowancesDetermining allowances. for all travel under orders, or for officers and enlisted men on discharge, travel in the Philippine Archipelago, the Hawaiian Archipelago, the home waters of the United States, and between the United States and Alaska shall not be regarded as sea travel and shall be paid for at the rates established by law for land travel within the boundaries of the United States.
For additional twenty per centum increase on pay of enlisted menTwenty per cent increase. enlisted men.Service determined. serving beyond the limits of the States comprising the Union and the Territories of the United States contiguous thereto (excepting Porto Rico and Hawaii), as provided by Act approved June thirtieth, nineteenVol. 32, p. 512. hundred and two, the time of such service to be counted from the date of departure from said States to the date of return thereto, five hundred and forty thousand three hundred and sixty-nine dollars and forty-eight cents.
For additional ten per centum increase on pay of commissionedTen per cent to officers. officers serving beyond the limits of the States comprising the Union and the Territories of the United States contiguous thereto (excepting Porto Rico and Hawaii), as provided by Act approved June thirtieth,Vol. 32, p. 512. nineteen hundred and two, the time of such service to be counted from the date of departure from said States to the date of return thereto, two hundred thousand two hundred and one dollars and thirty-nine cents: *Provided*, That the appropriations for pay of the Army for the*Proviso.*Balances available. fiscal years ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and five, and June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and six, shall be available for the payment of the increase for service at foreign stations to which commissioned officers and enlisted men are entitled under the provisions of the Act of June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and two.
For pay of one computer for artillery board, two thousand five hundredComputer. dollars. For pay of exchange by special disbursing agents of the Pay DepartmentLoss by exchange. serving in foreign countries, five hundred dollars. For Porto Rico Provisional Regiment of Infantry, composed of twoPorto Rico Provisional Regiment. battalions of four companies each: Pay of officers of the line, forty-seven thousand eight hundredOfficers. dollars. 248 For additional pay for length of service, six thousand five hundred dollars.
Enlisted men.Pay of enlisted men, ninety-four thousand eight hundred dollars. philippine scouts.Philippine Scouts. Officers.Pay of officers of the line: Fifty first lieutenants, seventy-five thousand dollars. Fifty second lieutenants, seventy thousand dollars. Seven first lieutenants (battalion adjutants), ten thousand five hundred dollars. Seven second lieutenants (battalion quartermasters and commissaries), nine thousand eight hundred dollars. Difference in additional pay to officers serving in higher grades under authority of law in battalion of Philippine Scouts:
Seven majors from captains (not mounted), four thousand nine hundred dollars. Fifteen captains from first lieutenants (not mounted), four thousand five hundred dollars. longevity.Additional for length of service, thirty-four thousand seven hundred and twenty dollars. Enlisted men.*Proviso.*Credit for service as officers.Noncommissioned officers and privates, fifty companies, four hundred and ninety-seven thousand seven hundred dollars: *Provided*, That all enlisted men of the Regular Army who have been appointed commissioned officers of Philippine Scouts subsequent to March second, nineteen hundred and three, or who may hereafter be so appointed, and who, upon their muster out, have returned or may return to the ranks of the Regular Army, shall have such period of service counted as if it had been rendered as enlisted men, and that they be entitled to all continuous service pay and to count, in computing the time necessary to enable them to retire, as enlisted men.
Computation of annual salaries.Hereafter, where the compensation of any person in the military service of the United States is annual or monthly the following rules for division of time and computation of pay for services rendered are Division into twelve equal installments.hereby established: Annual compensation shall be divided into twelve equal installments, one of which shall be the pay for each calendar month; and in making payments for a fractional part of a month one- thirtieth of one of such installments, or of a monthly compensation, Fractions of months, etc.shall be the daily rate of pay.
For the purpose of computing such compensation and for computing time for services rendered during a fractional part of a month in connection with annual or monthly compensation, each and every month shall be held to consist of thirty days, without regard to the actual number of days in any calendar month, thus excluding the thirty-first of any calendar month from the computation and treating February as if it actually had thirty days. Any person entering the service of the United States during a thirty- one day month and serving until the end thereof shall be entitled to pay for that month from the date of entry to the thirtieth day of said month, both days inclusive; and any person entering said service during the month of February and serving until the end thereof shall be entitled to one month’s pay, less as many thirtieths thereof as there *Proviso.*Absence.were days elapsed prior to date of entry: *Provided*, That for one day’s unauthorized absence on the thirty-first day of any calendar month one day’s pay shall be forfeited.
Pay accounts.All the money hereinbefore appropriated, except the appropriation for mileage of officers and contract surgeons when authorized by law. 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 one fund. 249 Encampment of organized militia with troops of the Regular Army:Organized militia. For paying the expenses of regiments, battalions, squadrons, andExpenses of encampments with Army. batteries of the organized militia of any State, Territory, or of the District of Columbia, which may be authorized by the Secretary of War to participate in such brigade or division encampments as may be established for the field instruction of the troops of the Regular Army, as provided by sections fifteen and twenty-one of the Act ofVol. 32, pp. 777, 779.
January twenty-first, nineteen hundred and three, entitled “ An Act to promote the efficiency of the militia, and for other purposes,” seven hundred thousand dollars: *Provided*, That hereafter when any portion*Proviso.*Payment for period of service on muster. of the organized militia of any State, Territory, or the District of Columbia participates in the encampment, maneuvers, and field instruction of any part of the Regular Army, under the provisions of section fifteen of the Act of January twenty-first, nineteen hundred and three, they may, after being duly mustered by an officer of the Regular Army, be paid at any time after such muster for the period from the date of leaving the home rendezvous to date of return thereto as determined in advance, both dates inclusive, and such payment, if otherwise correct, shall pass to the credit of the paymaster making the same. subsistence department.Subsistence Department.
Purchase of subsistence supplies: For issue as rations to troops,Supplies. to 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 salt’s to officers and enlisted men of the Army; for authorized issues of candles; of toilet articles, barbers’, laundry, and tailors’ materials; for use of general prisoners confined at military posts without pay or allowances, and recruits at recruiting stations; of matches for lighting public fires and lights at posts and stations and in the field; of Hour used for paste in target practice; of salt and vinegar for public animals; of issues to Indians employed with the Army, without pay, as guides and scouts, and for toilet paper for use by enlisted men at. posts, camps, rendezvous, and offices where water-closets are provided with sewer connections or where the sanitary conditions require its use.
For payments:Payments. For meals for recruiting parties and recruits, including applicants for enlistment while held under observation; for hot coffee, canned meats, and baked beans for troops traveling, when it is impracticable to cook their rations; for coffee roasters, scales, weights, measures, utensils, tools, stationery, blank books and forms, printing, advertising, commercial newspapers, use of telephones, office furniture, commissary chests and outfits, and field desks of commissaries; for temporary buildings, cellars, and other means of protecting subsistence supplies (when not provided by the Quartermaster’s Department); for extraExtra-duty pay. pay to enlisted men employed on extra duty in the Subsistence Department for periods of not less than ten days, at rates fixed by law; forCivilian compensation. compensation of civilians 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 of rations to the cadets at theCommutation.
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 250kind: to enlisted men selected to contest for places or prizes in department and army rifle competitions while traveling to and from places of contest; to male and female nurses on leaves of absence; for payment of commutation of rations in lieu of the regular established ration for members of the Nurse Corps (female) while on duty in hospital, and for enlisted men sick therein, at the rate of thirty cents per ration (except that at the General Hospital at Fort Bayard, New Mexico, fifty cents per ration is authorized for enlisted patients in said hospital) Army transport service.to be paid to the surgeon in charge; for subsistence of the masters, officers, crews, and employees of the vessels of the army transport service; for ice to organizations of enlisted men stationed at such places as the Secretary of War may determine; for providing prizes to be established by the Secretary of War for enlisted men of the Army who graduate from the Army schools for bakers and cooks, the total amount of such prizes at the various schools not to exceed nine Amount.hundred dollars per annum: in all, six million two hundred and forty- nine thousand seven hundred and three dollars and seventy cents, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War and accounted for as “Subsistence of the Army,” and for that purpose to constitute one fund. quartermaster’s department.Quartermaster’s Department.
Regular supplies.Regular supplies: 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, etc.mess halls, 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 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, Horses, etc., for officers.,Vol. 33, p. 687.including 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 seven, or any other Act, 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 Amount.*Provisos.*Fuel to officers.departments, and for printing department orders and reports, five million dollars: *Provided*, That hereafter fuel may be furnished to commissioned officers on the active list by the, Quartermaster’s Department, for the actual use of such officers only, at the rate of three dollars per cord for standard oak wood, or at an equivalent rate for other kinds of fuel, the amount so furnished to each to be limited to the officer’s actual personal necessities as certified to by him: *Provided further,* Printing.That no part of the appropriations for the Quartermaster’s 251Department 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.
For the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteenIce machines laundries, and electric plants. hundred and seven, whenever the 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 pursuance of law, surplus ice may be disposedDisposal of surplus products, etc. of, laundry work may be done for other branches of the Government, and surplus electric light and power may be sold on such terms and in accordance with such regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary of War: *Provided*, That the funds received from such salesUse of proceeds. and in payment for such laundry work shall be used to defray the cost of operation of said ice, 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 sun remaining, after such cost of maintenance and operation have been defrayed, shall be 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, nine thousand seven hundred and forty-two dollars and twenty-six cents. Incidental expenses: Postage; cost of telegrams on official businessIncidental expenses. received and sent by officers of the Army; extra pay to soldiers employed on extra duty, under the direction of the Quartermaster’s Department, in the erection of barracks, quarters, and storehouses, in the construction of roads and other constant labor for periods of not less than ten days, and as clerks for post, quartermasters at military posts, and for prison overseers at posts designated by the War Department for the confinement of general prisoners; for expenses of expresses to and from frontier posts and armies in the field, of escorts to paymasters and other disbursing officers, and to trains where military escorts can not be furnished; expenses of the interment of officers killed in action or who die when on duty in the field, or at military posts or on the frontiers, or when traveling under orders, and of 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 eases, may be paid out of the proper funds appropriated by this Act. and the disbursing officers shall be credited with such reimbursement heretofore made; but hereafter no reimbursement shall be made of such expenses incurred prior to the twenty-first day of April, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight; authorized office furniture, hire of laborers in the Quartermaster’s Department, including the hire of interpreters, spies, or guides for the Army; compensation of clerks and other employees to the officers of the 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 252of 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, Horse expenditures.involving dishonorable discharge; for the following expenditures required for the several regiments of cavalry, the batteries of light artillery, and such companies of infantry and scouts as may be mounted, the authorized number of officers’ horses, and for the trains, to wit:
Hire of veterinary surgeons, purchase of medicines for horses and mules, picket ropes, blacksmith’s tools and materials, horseshoes and blacksmith’s tools for the cavalry service, and for the shoeing of horses and mules, and such additional expenditures as are necessary and authorized by law in the movements and operations of the Army, and at military posts, and not expressly assigned to any other department, Amount.one million seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars. 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, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars: *Provided, *That the number of horses purchased under this appropriation, added to the number now on hand, shall be limited to the actual needs of the mounted service, and, unless otherwise ordered by the Secretary of War, no part of this appropriation shall be paid out for horses not purchased by contract after competition duly invited by the Quartermaster’s Department and an inspection under the direction and authority Purchases in open market at posts.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. Horse-breeding Station at Fort Keogh, Mont.The Secretary of War is authorized, in his discretion, to permit the Department of Agriculture to use for the purposes of an experimental horse-breeding station such portion of the Fort Keogh Military Reservation, in Montana, as may not. in his opinion, be required for military purposes.
Barracks and quarters.Barracks and quarters: For barracks and quarters for troops, storehouses for the safe-keeping of military stores, for offices, recruiting stations, to provide such furniture for the public rooms of officers’ messes at military posts as may be approved by the Secretary of War, and for the hire of buildings and grounds for summer cantonments, and for temporary buildings at frontier stations, for the construction of temporary buildings and stables, and for repairing public buildings at established posts, including the extra duty pay of enlisted men *Provisos*.Commutation of fuel, etc.Civilian employees.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 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, three million one hundred Additional land, Texas posts.and fifty thousand dollars: *Provided further*, That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, authorized, in his discretion, to use not more than three hundred thousand dollars of the sum set apart for Vol. 33, p. 836.barracks and quarters in the Act of appropriation for the support of the Army for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and six, in the acquisition by purchase of not less than three hundred Fort Sam Houston.and ten acres of land adjoining the military reservation at Fort Sam Houston, Texas, at a cost not exceeding one hundred and eighty-eight thousand dollars; and in the acquisition by purchase of not less than 253seventeen thousand acres of land lying near San Antonio, Texas, forSan Antonio. military purposes at a cost not exceeding one hundred and twelve thousand dollars.
Military post exchange: For continuing the construction, equipment,Post exchanges. 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 and fifty thousand dollars: *Provided*, That twenty thousand*Provisos.*Presidio of San Francisco, Cal. dollars of the sum herein appropriated shall be used for the construction of a post exchange and amusement hall for the use of patients of the general hospital, Presidio of San Francisco, California: *Provided further*, That not more than forty thousand dollars of the aboveLimit. appropriation shall be expended at any one post or station.
Transportation of the Army and its supplies: TransportationTransportation. 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” and the transportation of applicants for enlistment between recruiting stations and recruiting depots; of supplies to the militia furnished by the War Department; of the necessary agents and employees; of clothing, camp and garrison equipage, and other quarter master’s stores, from army depots or places of purchase or delivery to the several posts and army depots, and from those depots to the troops in the field; of horse equipments and subsistence stores from the places of purchase, and from the places of delivery under contract to such places as the circumstances of the service may require them to be sent: of ordnance, ordnance stores, and small arms from the foundries and armories to the arsenals, fortifications, frontier posts, and army depots; freights, wharfage, tolls, and ferriages; the purchase and hire of draft and pack animals and harness, and the purchase and repair of wagons, carts, and drays, and of ships and other vessels and boats required for the transportation of troops and supplies and for garrison purposes; for drayage and cartage at the several posts; hire of teamsters and other employees; extra duty pay of enlisted men driving teams, repairing means of transportation, and employed as 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; and hereafter no steamship in the transportSale of transports restricted. 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 lawfullyPayment to land grant railroads. 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 eases decided under such land-grant Acts), butMaximum. in no case shall more than fifty per centum of full amount of service be paid: *Provided*, That such compensation shall be computed*Provisos.*Basis of compensation. upon the basis of the tariff or lower special rates for like transportation performed for the public at large, and shall be accepted as in full for all demands for such service: *Provided further*, That in expendingFifty per cent to roads not bond aided. the money appropriated by this Act, a railroad company which has not received aid in bonds of the United States, and which obtained a grant of public land to aid in the construction of its railroad on condition that such railroad should be a post route and military road, subject to the use of the United States for postal, military, naval, and other Government services, and also subject to 254such 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 Draft animals.demands for such service: *Provided further*, That the number of draft animals purchased from this appropriation, added to those now on hand, shall be limited to such numbers as are actually required for the Restriction on use of transports.service, twelve million six hundred thousand dollars: *Provided*, That no part of this appropriation shall be applied to the payment of the expense of using transports in any other Government work than the transportation of the Army, Navy, and Marine Corps, and their supplies; and, when in the opinion of the Secretary of War accommodations are available, transportation may be provided for the families and employees of officers and men of the Army, Navy, and Marine Corps, and members of the Philippine government and families, and their employees and families.
Alaska.Roads, trails, etc.For the construction and maintenance of military and post roads, bridges, and trails in the district of Alaska, to be expended under the direction of the board of road commissioners described in section two Vol. 33, p. 616.of an Act entitled “An Act to provide for the construction and maintenance of roads, the establishment and maintenance of schools, and the care and support of insane persons in the district of Alaska, and for other purposes,” approved January twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and five, and to be expended conformably to the provisions of said Act, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
Philippines.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, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
Clothing, camp and garrison equipage.Clothing, and camp and garrison equipage: For cloth, woolens, materials, and for the manufacture of clothing for the Army, for issue and for sale at cost price, according to the Army Regulations; for altering and fitting clothing, and washing and cleaning, when necessary; for equipage, and for expenses of packing and handling, and similar necessaries; for a suit of citizen’s outer clothing, to cost not exceeding ten dollars, to be issued upon release from confinement to each prisoner who has been confined under a court-martial sentence involving dishonorable discharge; for indemnity to officers and men of the Army for clothing and bedding, and so forth, destroyed since April twenty-second, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, by order of medical officers of the Army for sanitary reasons, three 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, and including also all expenditures for construction and repairs Hot Springs, Ark.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 *Proviso.*increased garrisons, five hundred thousand dollars: *Provided*, That the following sums be. used in the erection of modern sanitary hospitals 255at the posts named:
One hundred and twenty thousand dollars at FortFort D. A. Russell, Wyo.Columbus Barracks, Ohio.Jefferson Barracks, Mo. D. A. Russell, Wyoming; one hundred thousand dollars at Columbus Barracks, Ohio; and seventy-five thousand dollars at Jefferson Barracks, Missouri. Quarters for hospital stewards: For construction of quartersHospital stewards’ quarters. for hospital stewards at military posts already established and occupied, including the extra-duty pay of enlisted men employed on the same, twenty-five thousand dollars.
Shooting galleries and ranges: For shelter, shooting galleries,Shooting ranges, etc. 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, one hundred thousand dollars. Maintenance of the Army War College: For supplying theArmy War College. necessary fuel for heating the. Army War College building at Washington Barracks and for lighting the building and grounds; also for pay of a chief engineer, at one thousand two hundred dollars per annum: an assistant engineer, at nine hundred dollars; four firemen, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; one elevator conductor, at seven hundred and twenty dollars, nine thousand four hundred dollars. medical department.Medical Department.
Medical and Hospital Department: For the purchase of medicalSupplies. 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, enlisted men, and contract surgeons of the Army on duty, and for applicants for enlistment while held under observation, 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; for the pay of male and female, nurses, not including theNurses, etc.
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 and twenty-three thousand dollars: *Provided*, That no contract or purchase on behalf of the United States*Provisos.*Restriction on all Government contracts.Exception for Army and Navy. shall be made, unless the same is authorized by law or is under an appropriation adequate to its fulfillment, except in the War and Navy Departments, for clothing, subsistence, forage, fuel, quarters, transportation, or medical and hospital supplies, which, however, shall not exceed the necessities of the current year: *Provided further*, That allFort Bayard hospital, N.
Mex.Admission of patients. persons admitted to treatment in the general hospital at Fort Bayard. New Mexico, shall, while patients in said hospital, be subject to the rules and articles for the government of the armies of the United 256Use of proceeds from sales of supplies.States: *Provided further*, That hereafter all moneys arising from dispositions of serviceable medical and hospital supplies authorized by law and regulation shall constitute one fund on the books of the Treasury Department, which shall be available to replace medical and hospital supplies throughout the fiscal year in which the dispositions were effected and throughout the following fiscal year.
Museum.Army Medical Museum and library: For Army Medical Museum, preservation of specimens, and the preparation and purchase of new specimens, four thousand dollars. Library.For the library of the Surgeon-General’s Office, including the purchase of necessary books of reference and periodicals, ten thousand dollars. engineer department.Engineer Department. Incidental expenses of depots.Engineer depots: For incidental expenses of the depots, including fuel, lights, chemicals, stationery, hardware, machinery, pay of civilian clerks, mechanics, and laborers, extra-duty pay to soldiers necessarily employed for periods not less than ten days as artificers on work in addition to and not strictly in the line of their military duties, such as carpenters, blacksmiths, draftsmen, printers, lithographers, photographers, engine drivers, telegraph operators, teamsters, wheelwrights. masons, machinists, painters, overseers, laborers; repairs of, and for materials to repair, public buildings, machinery, and unforeseen expenses, eleven thousand five hundred dollars.
Purchase, etc., of instruments.For purchase and repair of instruments to be issued to officers of the Corps of Engineers and to officers detailed and on duty as acting engineer officers for use on public works and surveys, five thousand dollars. Engineer school, Washington, D. C.Equipment, etc.Engineer School, Washington, District of Columbia: Equipment and maintenance of the Engineer School of Application at Washington Barracks, District of Columbia, including purchase of instruments, machinery, implements, models, and materials, for the use of the school and for instruction of engineer troops in their special duties as sappers and miners; for land 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 Incidental expenses.the United States Engineer School; for 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, wheelwrights, 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 the *Provisos*.Traveling expenses allowance.Chief of Engineers and made for the purpose of instruction: *Provided*, 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 by the purchase, of text-books, books of reference, scientific and professional papers, and for other absolutely necessary expenses, twenty-five thousand dollars:
Chaplain authorized. *Provided further*, That in addition to the number of chaplains now authorized by law there shall hereafter be one for the Corps of Engineers. Equipment of troops.Materials.Engineer equipment of troops: For pontoon material, tools, instruments, and supplies required for use in the engineer equipment of troops, including the purchase and preparation of engineer manuals, forty thousand dollars. 257 For services of surveyors, draftsmen, photographers, master laborers,Services. and clerks to engineer officers on the staff of division, corps, and department commanders, twenty-five thousand dollars.
Total for Engineer Department, one hundred and six thousand five hundred dollars. ordnance department.Ordnance Department. Ordnance Service: Current expenses of the Ordnance ServiceCurrent expenses. required to defray the current expenses at the arsenals; of receiving stores and issuing arms and other ordnance supplies; of police and office duties; of rents, tolls, fuel, 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.
Ordnance stores—Ammunition: Manufacture or purchase of ammunitionAmmunition for small arms. and materials therefor for small arms for reserve supply; ammunition for burials at the National Soldiers’ Home in Washington, District of Columbia; ammunition for firing the morning andMorning and evening gun. 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 Soldiers and Sailors’ State Homes, six hundred thousand dollars.
Small-arms target practice: Ammunition, targets, and otherSmall-arms target practice. accessories, for small-arms target practice and instruction; marksmen’s medals, prize arms, and insignia for all arms of the service, one million dollars. Field artillery for organized militia: For the purpose of procuringField artillery for militia. field-artillery material for the organized militia for 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 fifty thousand dollars is hereby appropriated and made immediately available for the procurement and issue of the articles constituting the same, five hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
Manufacture of arms: For manufacturing, repairing, procuring,Manufacturing, etc., arms. and issuing arms at the national armories, one million seven hundred thousand dollars. Ordnance stores and supplies: For overhauling, cleaning, repairing,ordnance stores.Preserving, purchase. etc. 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; for infantry,Equipments cavalry, and artillery equipments, including horse equipments for cavalry and artillery one million one hundred thousand dollars.
Benicia Arsenal, Benicia, California: For increasing the facilitiesBenicia Arsenal, Cal. for the repair of seacoast armament, field artillery, and general stores, fifty thousand dollars. That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, authorized to establishFort Mason, Cal.General depot for supplies established. on the military reservation at Fort Mason, California, a general depot for the supply departments of the United States Army, and to 258construct thereon the necessary storehouses, offices, shops, stables, sheds, power houses, quarters, and other buildings, together with wharves for the accommodation of at least four ships of the Army *Proviso.*Contracts.transport service: *Provided*, That a contract or contracts may be entered into by the Secretary of War for the construction of the buildings herein provided for, including the preparation of the ground for building sites, the acquisition by condemnation proceedings of the submerged lands needed for wharves, the construction of roads, walks, and drainage, and for the installation of sewerage, water-supply, and electric-light systems; to be paid for as appropriations may from time Limit of cost.to time be made by law. not to exceed in the aggregate the sum of one million live hundred thousand dollars, of which amount seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars shall be immediately available.
Rifle contests, trophy and medals.National trophy and medals for rifle contests: 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, and for the promotion of rifle practice, the sum of five thousand dollars, to be expended for the purposes hereinbefore prescribed under the direction of the Secretary of War. five thousand dollars.
National Board, Promotion of Rifle Practice.Expenses.That the following sum be, and the same is hereby, appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to pay under the, direction of the Secretary of War, the actual expenses of members of the National Board for the Promotion of Rifle Practice incident to attending official meetings of said board, called by the Secretary of War, during the fiscal years ended June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and three, June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and four, and June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and five, the sum of two thousand one hundred and sixty-two dollars.
Funds from stores transferred to Philippines.Hereafter all funds received as the value of military stores transferred by the several staff departments of the Army to the Insular Department of the Philippines, or work done, shall be deposited in the Treasury of the United States and remain available during the fiscal year in which the transaction occurred and the following year for the procurement of like military stores to replace those so transferred. Purchases by Ordnance Department.Whenever the Ordnance Department, under existing regulations, procures stores for other Executive Departments or bureaus, including the Philippine government, its appropriations shall be applicable to defray the necessary expenses in connection with the procurement, subject to reimbursement from time to time, or on completion of the work, from the department or bureau for which the stores were procured.
Purchases in open market for Army supplies.Limit.Hereafter the purchase of supplies and the procurement of services for all branches of the Army service may be made in open market, in the manner common among business men. when the aggregate of the amount required does not exceed five hundred dollars; but every such purchase exceeding one hundred dollars shall be promptly reported to the Secretary of War for approval, under such regulations as he may prescribe. Isle Saint Michel.Marking graves.To enable the Secretary of War to prepare the ground and suitably mark the graves of soldiers and sailors buried on Isle Saint Michel, commonly known as “Crab Island,” the sum of twenty thousand dollars, or such portion thereof as may be necessary.
Balls Bluff National Cemetery, Va.Acceptance of land.That the Secretary of War is hereby authorized to accept, on behalf of the United States, the dedication and gift by Mrs. Rachael A. Paxson, as stated in her written offer of January fourteenth, nineteen hundred 259and two, of a strip of land thirty feet wide from the Leesburg and Point of Rocks turnpike in Loudoun County, Virginia, to the forty- one-acre tract over which the United States now has a right of way to the Balls Bluff National Cemetery; and the sum of five thousand dollars,Constructing road. or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated to enable the Secretary of War to build a substantial road from the Leesburg turnpike to said cemetery, and to properly fence and protect the same, and, within said appropriation, buy so much of the Balls Bluff battlefield as may be necessary for its protection and preservation.
For the fencing, protection, and maintenance of the GovernmentNahant, Mass.*Proviso*.Sale of land permitted. reservation at Nahant, Massachusetts, five thousand dollars: *Provided*, That if in the opinion of the Secretary of War said reservation is no longer needed for the purposes for which it was originally acquired, he may. in his discretion, in lieu of expending the said five thousand dollars, sell and convey the lands in said reservation. That subject to the approval of the Secretary of War, and to beSalisbury, N.
C.Road to cemetery. expended under his direction, the sum of fifteen thousand dollars is hereby appropriated for purchasing right of way and approaches and for constructing proper driveways and approaches from the city of Salisbury, North Carolina, to the national cemetery at or near said city, the beginning, direction, and terminus of said driveway and approaches to be determined by the Secretary of War. That the Secretary of the Treasury be authorized, and he is herebyMoores Creek Monument.
N. C. directed, to pay to the governor of the State of North Carolina the sum of five thousand dollars, to be by him transferred to the Moores Creek Monumental Association, incorporated by the legislature of the State of North Carolina, for the purpose of repairing the monumentRepairs, etc. already erected on said battlefield and for inclosing and beautifying the same. That the Secretary of War is hereby authorized to accept, underMonument Hill, Tenn.Acceptance of grave of Andrew Johnson. the will of Martha J.
Patterson and from the heirs of W. B. Bachman; all descendants of Andrew Johnson, late President of the United States, free of cost to the Government, the tract of land where said Andrew Johnson’s remains now lie, known as “Monument Hill,” containing not exceeding fifteen acres and situated in Greene County and in or near the town of Greeneville, Tennessee, and upon presentation of good and perfect title to said tract of land the Secretary of War isUse of land for national cemetery. authorized and directed to establish thereon a national cemetery of the fourth class.
To be expended under the supervision and direction of the SecretaryFredericksburg, Va.Road to cemetery. of War in the improvement of the national boulevard owned by the United States, between Princess Anne street and the gate to the national cemetery, at Fredericksburg, Virginia, the sum of ten thousand dollars. Approved, June 12, 1906.