Chapter 252. Making appropriation for the support of the army for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and ten
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CHAP. 252.— An Act Making appropriation for the support of the army for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and ten. March 3, 1909.[[[H. R. 26915](/us/bill/70/hr/26915).][[[Public. No. 305](/us/pl/70/305).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the following sums be,Anny 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 ten:
Contingencies of the Army: For all contingent expenses of theContingencies of the Army. 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. office of the chief of staff.Office of Chief of Staff. Army War College: For expenses of the Army War College, beingArmy War College. for the purchase of the necessary stationery, office, toilet, and desk furniture, text-books, books of reference, scientific and professional papers and periodicals, printing and binding, maps, police utensils, and for all other absolutely necessary expenses, including twenty-five 733 dollars per month additional to regular compensation, to chief clerk of division for superintendence of the War College building, ten thousand dollars.
For contingent expenses of the military information division,Contingent expenses. 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 section at Manila, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War, ten thousand dollars: *Provided*,*Proviso.*Foreign periodicals.R.
S., sec. 3648, p, 718. 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 theService schools. theoretical and practical instruction at the Staff College (including the Army School of the line and the Army Signal School) at FortFort Leavenworth, Kans.Fort Riley, Kans. Leavenworth, Kansas, and the mounted service school 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 interests of the military service, twenty-five thousand dollars: *Prowled*, That*Proviso*.School detachments. from the enlisted force of the army now provided by law the President may authorize the organization of school detachments at each of the service schools, and may authorize the appointment therein of such noncommissioned officers, mechanics, artificers, farriers, horse- shoers, and cooks as may be necessary for the administration of such school: *Provided*, That nothing herein shall be construed as toIncrease of enlisted men prohibited. authorize an increase in the total number of enlisted men of the army now authorized by law. the adjutant-general’s department.Adjutant General’s Department.
Contingencies, Headquarters of Military Departments: ForContingent expenses at headquarters. contingent expenses at the headquarters of the several military divisions and departments, including the staff corns 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.
Coast Artillery School, Fort Monroe, Virginia: For incidentalCoast artillery school. Fort Monroe.Incidental expenses. expenses of the school, 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 engines, generators, motors, machines, measuringSpecial apparatus, etc. instruments, special apparatus and materials for the division of the enlisted specialists, seven thousand dollars. For purchase of special apparatus and materials and for experimental purposes for the department of artillery, three thousand dollars. 734 For purchase of generating, measuring, and mine apparatus, andSubmarine mines. materials for use in instruction of artillery troops in their special duties in connection with the loading and planting of submarine mines, five thousand five hundred dollars.
For purchase and binding of professional books of recent date treatingBooks, of military and scientific subjects for library and for use of school, two thousand five hundred dollars. *Provided*, That section three thousand six hundred and forty-eight,*Proviso.*Foreign periodicals, etc.R. S., sec. 3648, p. 718. Revised Statutes, shall not apply to subscriptions for foreign and professional newspapers and periodicals to be paid for from this appropriation. office of the chief signal officer.Office of Chief Signal Officer.
Signal Service of the Army: For expenses of the Signal ServiceService expenses. of the Army, as follows: Purchase, equipment, and repair of field electric telegraphs, signal equipments and stores, binocular glasses, telescopes, heliostats, and other necessary instruments, including necessary meteorological instruments for use on target ranges; war balloons; telephone apparatus (exclusive of exchange service) and maintenance of the same: electrical installations and maintenance at military posts; fire control and direction apparatus and material for field artillery; maintenance and repair of military telegraph lines and cables, including salaries of civilian employees, supplies, and general repairs, and other expenses connected with the duty of collecting and transmitting information for the army by telegraph or otherwise, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
For the increase of post telephone systems at interior posts, twentyPost telephone systems. thousand dollars. For the installation of post telephone systems at all garrisoned coast artillery posts, except those located in districts where post telephone systems have already been installed or are in course of installation, ten thousand dollars. Washington-Alaska Military Cable and Telegraph System:Washington- Alaska cable, etc.Cost for extension, etc., available from receipts. For defraying the cost of such extensions and betterments of the Washington-Alaska military cable and telegraph system as may be approved by the Secretary of War, to be available until the close of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eleven from the receipts of the Washington-Alaska military cable and telegraph system that haveReport to Congress. been covered into the Treasury of the United States, the extent of such extensions and the cost thereof to be reported to Congress by*Proviso*.Donation of cablestation site accepted. the Secretary of War, one hundred thousand dollars: *Provided*, That the conveyance by George C.
Hazelet, trustee, of a tract of about two acres of land in the town of Cordova, on Orea Inlet, Alaska, which it is proposed to donate to the United States as the site for a cable station be, and the same is hereby, accepted. Annunciator Buzzer Systems At Target Ranges : For installationTarget ranges.Annunciator buzzer systems. of annunciator buzzer systems at target ranges at Fort Ethan Allen, Vermont; Fort Niagara, New York; Fort Leavenworth, Kansas; Fort Riley, Kansas; Fort Sam Houston, Texas;
Fort Sheridan, Illinois; Presidio of Monterey, California; Fort D. A. Russell, Wyoming; and Fort William McKinley, Philippine Islands, eighteen thousand two hundred dollars. Wireless Telephone Apparatus: For the purchase and developmentWireless telephone apparatus. of wireless telephone apparatus, thirty thousand dollars. pay of officers of the line.Pay. For pay of officers of the line, seven million dollars.Line officers. For additional pay for length of service, to be paid with their current monthly pay, one million six hundred thousand dollars. 735 pay of enlisted men.
For pay of enlisted men of all grades, including recruits, sixteenEnlisted men. million seven hundred and forty-eight thousand and ten dollars. For additional pay for length of service, one million seven hundredLongevity. and fifty thousand dollars. *Provided*, That one of the two “blacksmiths and farriers” now*Proviso*.Additional pay to horseshoer. etc. authorized by law for each troop of cavalry shall hereafter be designated “farrier,” and the other “horseshoer,” and that the additional pay of nine dollars per month provided for “one blacksmith and farrier in each troop of cavalry for performing the duty of horseshoer” in the Act of Congress approved May eleventh, nineteen*Ante*, p. 109. hundred and eight, shall be paid to the soldier designated as “horseshoer.” *Provided further*, That the Act approved May eleventh, nineteenAllowances for death in service.*Ante*, p. 108, amended. hundred and eight, for the support of the army for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nine, in so far as it relates to the payment of six months’ pay to the widow of an officer or enlisted man, and so forth, be amended as follows:
Strike out the words “contracted in the line of duty” and insert in lieu thereof the words, “not the result of his own misconduct.” corps of engineers. For pay of enlisted men, four hundred and sixty-seven thousandEngineer battalion. five hundred and eighty dollars. For additional pay for length of service, sixty thousand dollars. ordnance department. For pay of enlisted mon, two hundred and ten thousand six hundredOrdmance Corps. and thirty-six dollars. For additional pay for length of service, sixty-five thousand dollars. quartermaster’s department.
For pay of two hundred post quartermaster-sergeants, at forty- fiveQuartermaster-sergeants. dollars per month each, one hundred and eight thousand dollars. For additional pay for length of service, twenty-five thousand dollars. subsistence department. For pay of two hundred post commissary-sergeants, at forty-fiveCommissary-sergeants. dollars per mont h each, one hundred and eight thousand dollars. For additional pay for length of service, twenty-seven thousand dollars. signal corps.Signal Corps.
For pay of thirty-six master signal electricians, at nine hundred dollars each, thirty-two thousand four hundred dollars. For pay of one hundred and thirty-two first-class sergeants, at five hundred and forty dollars each, seventy-one thousand two hundred and eighty dollars. For pay of one hundred and forty-four sergeants, at thirty-six dollars per month each, sixty-two thousand two hundred and eight dollars. For pay of twenty-four cooks, at thirty dollars per month each, eight thousand six hundred and forty dollars.
For pay of one hundred and fifty-six corporals, at twenty-four dollars per month each, forty-four thousand nine hundred and twentyeight dollars. 736 For pay of five hundred and fifty-two first-class privates, at eighteen dollars per month each, one hundred and nineteen thousand two hundred and thirty-two dollars. For pay of one hundred and sixty-eight privates, at fifteen dollars per month each, thirty thousand two hundred and forty dollars. For additional pay to eleven sergeants, serving as mess sergeants, at six dollars per month, seven hundred and ninety-two dollars.
For additional pay for length of service, fifty thousand dollars. hospital corps.Hospital Corps. For pay of enlisted men, nine hundred and forty-two thousand one hundred and sixty-eight dollars. For additional pay for length of service, one hundred and forty thousand dollars. pay to clerks, messengers, and laborers at headquarters of divisions, and departments and office of the chief of staff.Clerks, messengers, etc. One chief clerk, at the office of the Chief of Staff, two thousand dollars per annum.
Fifteen clerks, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each per annum. Fifteen clerks, at one thousand six hundred dollars each per annum. Thirty-eight clerks, at one thousand four hundred dollars each per annum. Seventy-three clerks, at one thousand two hundred dollars each per annum. Eighty-four 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 forty-four thousand six hundred 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*Proviso.*Duty in War Department forbidden. they are to serve: *Provided*, That no clerk, messenger, or laborer at 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 and staff departments.Staff officers.
Adjutant-General’s Department: For pay of officers in theAdjutant - General’s Department. Adjutant-General’s Department, eighty-eight thousand five hundred dollars. For additional pay to such officers for length of service, to be paid with their current monthly pay, twenty-two thousand dollars. Inspector-General’s Department: For pay of officers in theInspector- General’s Department. Inspector-General’s Department, fifty-nine thousand dollars. 737 For additional pay to such officers for length of service, to be paid with their current monthly pay, sixteen thousand dollars.
The Corps Op Engineers: For pay of officers in the Corps of Engineers,Engineer Corps four hundred and sixty thousand three hundred dollars. For additional pay to such officers for length of service, to be paid with their current monthly pay, one hundred and four thousand nine hundred and ninety dollars. Ordnance Department: For pay of officers in the OrdnanceOrdnance Department. Department, two hundred and twenty-eight thousand five hundred dollars. For additional pay to such officers for length of service, to be paid with their current monthly pay, sixty-one thousand six hundred and twenty dollars.
Quartermaster’s Department: For pay of officers in the Quartermaster’sQuartermaster’s Department. Department, two hundred and sixty-five thousand five hundred dollars. For additional pay to such officers for length of service, to be paid with their current monthly pay, seventy-two thousand seven hundred and eighty dollars. Subsistence Department: For pay of officers in the SubsistenceSubsistence Department. Department, one hundred and fifty-one thousand three hundred dollars.
For additional pay to such officers for length of service, to be paid with their current monthly pay, thirty-three thousand two hundred and eighty dollars. Medical Department: For pay of officers in the Medical Department,Medical Department.*Proviso.*Promotion of majors, etc.Suspensions if disqualified. one million three hundred thousand dollars: *Provided*, That any major of the Medical Corps on the active list of the army who, at his first examination for promotion to the grade of lieutenantcolonel in said corps, has been or shall hereafter be found disqualified for such promotion for any reason other than physical disability incurred in the line of duty shall be suspended from promotion and his right thereto shall pass successively to such officers next below him in rank in said corps as are or may become eligible to promotion under existing law during the period of his suspension; and any officerReexaminations. suspended from promotion, as hereinbefore provided, shall be reexamined as soon as practicable after the expiration of one year from the date of the completion of the examination that resulted in his suspension; and if on such reexamination he is found qualified for promotion, he shall again become eligible thereto; but if he is foundRetirement. disqualified by reason of physical disability incurred in line of duty, he shall be retired, with the rank to which his seniority entitles him to be promoted; and if he is not found disqualified by reason of such physical disability, but is found disqualified for promotion for any other reason, he shall be retired without promotion.
For additional pay to such officers for length of service, to be paid with their current monthly pay, one hundred and seventyeight thousand six hundred and twenty dollars. Pay Department: For pay of officers in the Pay Department, onePay Department. hundred and fifty-two thousand dollars. For additional pay to such officers for length of service, to be paid with their current monthly pay, thirty-eight thousand seven hundred and forty dollars. Judge-Advocate-General’s Department:
For pay of officers inJudge-Advocate- General’s Department. the Judge-Advocate-General’s Department, forty-six thousand dollars. For additional pay to such officers for length of service, to be paid with their current monthly pay, eight thousand eight hundred dollars. Signal Corps: For pay of the officers of the Signal Corps, one hundredSignal Corps. and fourteen thousand two hundred dollars. 738 For additional pay to such officers for length of service, to he paid with their current monthly pay, twenty-four thousand seven hundred and forty dollars.
Bureau of Insular Affairs: For pay of officers of the Bureau ofInsular Affairs Bureau. Insular Affairs, nine thousand dollars. For additional pay to such officers for length of service, to be paid with their current monthly pay, nine hundred 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 seven hundred and forty-seven thousand six hundred and fifty dollars and sixty- three cents.
For additional pay to such officers for length of service, to be paidLongevity. with their current monthly pay, four hundred and thirty-one thousand two hundred and fifty dollars. For pay of retired officers on active service, one hundred and fiftyOn active service. thousand eight hundred dollars. For additional pay to such officers for length of service, to be paidLongevity. with their current monthly pay, fifty-four thousand one hundred and twenty dollars. *Provided*, That the Act approved November third, eighteen hundred*Proviso.*Detail to colleges, etc.Vol. 28, p. 7, amended. and ninety-three, authorizing the detail of officers of the army and navy to educational institutions, be amended so as to provide thatFull pay and allowances, etc.Vol. 83, p. 831.Vol. 34, p. 246. retired officers, when so detailed, shall receive the full pay and allowances of their rank, except that the limitations on the pay of officers of the Army above the grade of major as provided in the Acts of March second, nineteen hundred and five, and June twelfth, nineteen hundred and six, shall remain in force. retired enlisted men.
For pay of the enlisted men of the army on the retired list, twoRetired enlisted men. million dollars. miscellaneous.Miscellaneous. For pay of seventy-five hospital matrons, nine thousand dollars.Hospital matrons. For pay of one Superintendent Nurse Corps, one thousand eightSuperintendent Nurse Corps. hundred dollars. For pay of one hundred nurses (female), fifty-five thousand andNurses. twenty dollars. For pay of forty-two veterinarians, at one thousand seven hundredVeterinarians. dollars each, seventy-one thousand four hundred dollars.
For additional pay to such veterinarians, for length of service, to beLongevity. paid with their current monthly pay, ten thousand eight hundred and eighty dollars. For pay of thirty-one dental surgeons, fifty-seven thousand nineDental surgeons. hundred and sixty dollars. For pay of contract surgeons, thirty-six thousand dollars.Contract surgeons. For pay of ninety paymasters’ clerks, one hundred and forty-twoPaymasters’ clerks. thousand dollars. For pay of paymasters’ messengers, eighteen thousand dollars.Messengers.
For traveling expenses of paymasters’ clerks and expert accountantTraveling expenses. of the Inspector-General’s Department, eighteen thousand five hundred dollars. For expenses of courts-martial, courts of inquiry, military commissions,Courts-martial, etc. and compensation of reporters and witnesses attending the same, thirty thousand dollars. 739 For additional pay to officer in charge of public buildings andOfficer, buildings and grounds, D. C. grounds at Washington, District of Columbia, one thousand dollars.
For commutation of quarters to commissioned officers on duty withoutCommutation of quarters. troops at stations where there are no public quarters, four hundred and fifty thousand dollars. For travel allowance to enlisted men on discharge, one millionTravel, enlisted men. dollars. For clothing not drawn due to enlisted men on discharge, eightClothing not drawn. hundred thousand dollars. For interest on soldiers’ deposits, one hundred thousand dollars, andInterest on deposits. so much as may be necessary to pay back such deposits.
For pay of translator and librarian of the military information division,Translator. General Staff Corps, one thousand eight hundred dollars. For pay of expert accountant for the Inspector-General’s Department,Expert accountant. two thousand five hundred dollars. For extra pay to enlisted men employed on extra duty for periodsExtra pay, seacoast fortifications. of not less than ten days in the offices of district artillery engineers, and district ordnance officers, and as switchboard operators, at seacoast fortifications, ten thousand nine hundred and fifty-two dollars and fifty-five cents.
For extra pay to enlisted men employed on extra duty as switchboardSwitchboard operators nt posts. operators at each interior post of the army, nine thousand dollars. For extra pay to enlisted men of the line of the army and to enlistedExtra pay, Alaskan cable, etc. men of the Signal Corps employed in the Territory of Alaska on the Alaskan cable and telegraph system, for periods of not less than ten days, at the rate of thirty-five cents per day, thirty-six thousand dollars. For mileage to officers and contract surgeons when authorized byMileage to officers, etc. law, six hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars.
For additional ten per centum increase on pay of officers on foreignAdditional pay, foreign service.Officers. service, three hundred and forty-four thousand one hundred and fifty-two dollars and twenty-live cents. For additional twenty per centum increase to enlisted men on foreignEnlisted men. service, seven hundred and eighty thousand seven hundred and thirty-one dollars and forty-two cents. For pay of one computer for artillery board, two thousand five hundredComputer. dollars.
For payment of exchange by special disbursing agents of the PayLoss by exchange. Department serving in foreign countries, two hundred dollars. For subsistence, mileage, and commutation of quarters to officers ofAttendance of militia at service schools. the National Guard attending service and garrison schools, seventeen thousand dollars. For three months’ additional pay to enlisted men reenlisting withinAdditional pay.First reenlistments. the period of three months from date of discharge from first enlistment, two hundred thousand dollars.
For six months’ additional pay to persons designated to receive theDeath from wounds, etc.*Ante*, p. 735. same by officers and enlisted men on active service who have died from wounds or disease contracted in line of duty, sixty-five thousand dollars. For additional pay to officers below the grade of major required toOfficers furnishing mounts. be mounted and who furnish their own mounts, one hundred and twenty-seven thousand five hundred dollars. For amount required to make monthly payment to Jennie Carroll,Jennie Carroll.*Post*, p. 1325. widow of James Carroll, late major and surgeon, United States Army, as per Act of Congress approved May twenty-third, nineteen hundred and eight, one thousand five hundred dollars.
For amount required to make monthly payment to Mabel H. Lazear,Mabel H. Lazear.*Post*, p. 1325. widow of Jesse W. Lazear, late acting assistant surgeon, 740 United States Army, as per Act of Congress approved May twenty- third,Porto Rico Regiment of Infantry.*Ante*, p. 392. nineteen hundred and eight, one thousand five hundred dollars. For Porto Rico Regiment or Infantry, of the United States Army, composed of two battalions of four companies each: Pay of officers, sixty-three thousand four hundred dollars.Officers.
For additional pay for length of service, nine thousand one hundredLongevity. dollars. For additional pay to officers required to be mounted who furnishOfficers furnishing mounts. their own mounts, one thousand four hundred dollars. Pay of enlisted men, one hundred and twenty-nine thousand andEnlisted men. twenty-four dollars. Additional pay for length of service, twenty-nine thousand nineLongevity. hundred and twenty-five dollars. philippine scouts.Philippine Scouts. Pay of officers:
For fifty captains, one hundred and twenty thousandOfficers. dollars. For fifty-eight first lieutenants, one hundred and sixteen thousand dollars. For fifty-eight second lieutenants, ninety-eight thousand six hundred dollars. For eight majors, in addition to pay as captain, six hundred dollars each, four thousand eight hundred dollars. For additional pay to sixteen battalion staff officers, required to beOfficers furnishing mounts. mounted, who furnish their own mounts, three thousand two hundred dollars.
For additional pay for length of service, eighty thousand dollars.Longevity. For pay for enlisted men, five hundred and eighty-seven thousandEnlisted men. eight hundred and ninety-nine dollars and twenty cents. For additional pay for length of service, fifty thousand dollars.Longevity. All the money hereinbefore appropriated for pay of the Army andPay accounts. miscellaneous, except the appropriation for mileage of officers and contract surgeons when authorized by law, 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.
Encampment and Maneuvers, Organized Militia: For paying theOrganized militia.Expenses of encampment with Army. expenses 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 encampments as may be established for the field instruction of the troops of the Regular Army, as providedVol. 82, pp. 777, 779. by 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,” to be immediately available and to remain available until the end of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eleven, four hundred and twenty-live thousand dollars. subsistence department.Subsistence Department, Purchase of subsistence supplies:
For issue, as rations to troops,Supplies. civil employees when entitled thereto, hospital matrons, nurses, applicants for enlistment while held under observation, general prisoners of war (including Indians held by the army as prisoners, but for whose subsistence appropriation is not otherwise made), Indians employed with the army, without pay, as guides and scouts, and military convicts at posts; for the subsistence of the masters, officers, crews, and employees of the vessels of the army transport service; hot coffee for troops traveling when supplied with cooked or travel rations; meals for recruiting parties, and applicants for enlistment while held under observation; authorized issues of soap, candles, matches, toilet paper, salt, 741 vinegar, flour, and towels; authorized issues of toilet articles, barbers’, laundry, and tailors’ materials, for use of military convicts confines at military posts without pay or allowances, and applicants for enlistment while held under observation; for issues of toilet kits to recruits upon their first enlistment: *Provided*, That hereafter the Secretary of*Provisos.*Recruiting depots, etc.
War may authorize the temporary appointment of such number of sergeants and corporals in the companies at the general recruiting depots as may be necessary for the proper control and instruction of the varying number of recruits attached to such companies; ice for issue to organizations of enlisted men at such places as the Secretary of War may determine; for sales to officers and enlisted men of the army; coffee roasters and cooking apparatus in the field, and when traveling (except on transports), bake ovens and apparatus pertaining thereto; scales, weights, measures, utensils, tools, stationery, blank books and forms, office furniture, commissary chests and outfits, and field desks of commissaries: *Provided*, That the sum of twelve thousandNational rifle match. dollars is authorized to be expended to defray the cost of furnishing food, and for providing extra-duty pay for cooks, assistant cooks, and waiters, and for perishable table equipment in subsisting enlisted men of the Regular Army and the organized militia who may be competitors in the national rifle match: *And provided further*, That noRestriction. competitor who is thus subsisted shall be entitled to commutation of rations, and no greater expense shall be incurred than one dollar and fifty cents per man per day for the period the contest is in progress.Payments.Commutation.
For payments: Of commutation of rations to the cadets at the United States Military Academy in lieu of the regular established ration at the rate of thirty cents per ration; of the regulation allowances of commutation in lieu of rations to enlisted men on furlough, 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, enlisted men selected to contest for places or prizes in department and army rifle competitions while traveling to and from places of contest, male and female nurses on leaves of absence, applicants for enlistment and military convicts while traveling under orders; 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, applicants for enlistment while held under observation, and military convicts 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), to be paid to the surgeon in charge; of compensation of civilians employed in theCompensation of civilians.Extra pay, enlisted men, etc.
Subsistence Department; of extra 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; of extra-duty pay at rates to be fixed by the Secretary of War for mess stewards and cooks at recruit depots, who are to be graduates at the schools for bakers and cooks, and instructor cooks at the schools for bakers and cooks; for printing, advertising, commercial newspapers, and use of telephones; for temporary buildings, cellars, and other means of protecting subsistence supplies (when not provided by the Quartermaster’s Department); for providing prizes to be established by the Secretary of War forPrizes for bakers, etc. 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 hundred dollars per annum; for other necessary expenses incident to the purchase, testing, care, preservation, issue, sale, and accounting for subsistence supplies for the army; for extraordinaryInauguration expenses of West Point cadets. expense of subsistence of West Point cadets while attending inaugural ceremony, to be immediately available, and to be expended from this appropriation, one thousand five hundred and eighty-seven 742 dollars; in all, seven million seven hundred and eighty-six thousand five hundred and eighty-eight dollars and twenty-nine 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 of the Quartermaster’sRegular supplies. Department, including their care and protection, consisting of stoves and heating apparatus required for heating offices, hospitals, barracks, and quarters, and recruiting stations, and United States military prison; also ranges and stoves, and appliances for cooking and serving food at posts, and repair and maintenance of such heating and cooking appliances; for furnishing heat and light for the authorized allowance of quarters for officers and enlisted men, for officers of the National Guard attending service and garrison schools, and for recruits, guards, hospitals, storehouses, offices, the buildings erectedVol. 32, p. 282. at private cost in the operation of the Act approved May thirty-first, nineteen hundred and’ two, 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 construction, operation, and maintenance of laundries at military posts in the United States and its island possessions; 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,Forage, etc. 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, includingHorses for officers,etc. bedding for the animals; and nothing in the Act making appropriationsVol. 33, p. 687 for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the Government for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eight, 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, typewriters and exchange of same, including blank books for the Quartermaster’s Department, certificates for discharged soldiers, blank forms for the Pay and Quartermaster’s departments, and for printing department*Provisos.*Printing. orders and reports: *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 purchaseIce machines, laundries, etc. of material and hire of the necessary labor for the purpose.
For the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and ten, 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 hereafterDisposal of surplus products, etc. be established in pursuance of law, surplus ice may be disposed of, 743 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, etc. 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 sums 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, nine million three hundred thousand dollars.Amount.
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, twelve thousand dollars. Incidental Expenses : Postage; cost of telegrams on official businessIncidental expenses. received and sent by officers of the army; extra pay to soldiers employed on extra duty, under the direction of the Quartermaster’s Department, in the erection of barracks, quarters, and storehouses, in the construction of roads and other constant labor for periods of not less than ten days, and as clerks for post quartermasters at military posts, and for prison overseers at posts designated by the War Department for the confinement of general prisoners, and for the United States military prison guard; 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 inInterments. 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 non-commissioned 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 care of officers’Care of officers’ mounts. mounts when the same are furnished by the Government and 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 clerks, foremen, watchmen, and organist for the United States military prison, 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 expendituresHorse 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 744 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, two million two hundred and fifty thousand dollars.Amount. Horses for Cavalry, Artillery, and Engineers :
For the purchaseHorses, etc. of horses for officers entitled to public mounts, for the cavalry, artillery, and engineers, service school and staff colleges, and for the Indian scouts, and for such infantry and members of the Hospital Corps in field campaigns as may be required to be mounted, and the expenses incident thereto, five hundred and ten thousand dollars: *Provided*, That the number of horses purchased under this appropriation,*Provisos.*Limi. added to the number now on hand, shall be limited to the actual needs of the mounted service, including reasonable provisions for remounts, 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.
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: *Provided*, That no part of this appropriation shall be used for breedingBreeding. purposes: *Provided further*, That no part of this appropriation shall beRestriction. expended for the purchase of any horses below the standard set by army regulations for cavalry and artillery horses. Barracks and Quarters: For barracks and quarters for troops,Barracks and quarters. other than seacoast artillery, storehouses for the safekeeping of military stores, for offices, recruiting stations, to provide such furniture for the public rooms of officers’ messes and officers’ quarters at military posts as may be approved by the Secretary of War; for the hire of buildings and grounds for summer cantonments, and for temporary buildings at frontier stations, for the construction of temporary buildings and stables, and for repairing public buildings at established posts, including the extra-duty pay of enlisted men employed on the same: *Provided*, That no part of the moneys so appropriated shall be*Provisos.*Commtation restrictions. 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, includingCivilian employees. 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 five hundred thousand dollars: *Provided*, That no part of theArmy War College. sum herein appropriated shall be used for the construction of officers’ quarters at the Army War College: *Provided further*, That fifteenChapel, Fort Des Moines, Iowa. thousand dollars of this sum may be used for the construction of a chapel on the military reservation at Fort Des Moines, Iowa: *And provided further*, That one thousand seven hundred dollars of theWashington Barracks, D.
C., stable. foregoing total amount may be expended for the completion of stable at the engineer post, Washington Barracks, District of Columbia. Military Post Exchange : For continuing the construction, equipment,Post exchanges,etc. 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, two hundred and fifteen thousand five hundred dollars: *Provided*, That*Proviso.*Maxium amounts or construction, etc. not more than forty thousand dollars of the above appropriation shall be expended at any one post or station. 745 Transportation of the Army and Its Supplies :
For transportationTransportation. of the army and its supplies, including transportation of the troops when moving either by land or water, and of their baggage, including the cost of packing and crating; for transportation of recruits and recruiting parties; of applicants for enlistment between recruiting stations and recruiting depots: *Provided*, That hereafter one of the*Provisos.*Infatry band at recruiting depots. companies at each recruiting depot shall have the organization of an infantry band, to which recruits showing an aptitude for music may be attached for examination and instruction before assignment to organizations in the Army; of persons on their discharge from the United States military prison to their homes (or elsewhere as they may elect), provided the cost in each case shall not be greater than to the place of last enlistment; of supplies furnished to the militia for the permanent equipment thereof; of the necessary agents and other employees; of clothing and equipage and other quartermaster’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 of subsistence stores from 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 and ordnance stores, and small arms from the foundries and armories to the arsenals, fortifications, frontier posts and army depots; for payment of wharfage, tolls, and ferriage; for transportation of funds of the army; for the hire of employees; for the payment of army transportation lawfully due such land-grant railroads as have not received aid in governmentPayment to landgrant railroads. bonds (to be adjusted in accordance with the decisions of the Supreme Court in cases decided under such land-grant acts), but in noMaximum. case shall more than fifty per centum of full amount of service be paid: *Provided*, That such compensation shall be computed upon the basisBasis of computation. 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 money appropriatedFifty per cent to roads not bond aided. 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; for the purchaseDraft and pack animals, etc. and hire of draft and pack animals in such numbers as are actually required for the service, including reasonable provision for replacing unserviceable animals; for the purchase and repair of such harness, wagons, carts, and drays as are required for the transportation of troops and supplies and for garrison purposes; for drayage and cartage at the several depots; for the hire of teamsters and other employees; and for extra-duty pay of enlisted men driving teams, repairing means of transportation, and employed as train masters; for the purchase andShips, boats, ete. repair of ships, boats, and other vessels required for the transportation of troops and supplies and for garrison purposes; for expenses of 746 sailing public transports and other vessels on the various rivers, the Gulf of Mexico, and the Atlantic and Pacific oceans; and for the purchase and repair of harbor boats, and repair of boats for the seacoast artillery service; in all, twelve million six hundred and thirty-twoAmount. thousand eight hundred and forty-six dollars and fifty cents.
Roads, Walks, Wharves, and Drainage : For the construction andRoads, walks, wharves, etc.Consruction and repair. repair by the Quartermaster’s Department of roads, walks, and wharves; for payment of extra-duty pay to enlisted men employed in opening roads and in building wharves; for the pay of employees; for the disposal of drainage; for dredging channels and for care and improvement of grounds at military posts and stations, one million one hundred thousand dollars. Water and Sewers At Military Posts:
For procuring andMilitary posts.Wate and sewers. introducing water to buildings and premises at such military posts and stations as from their situation require it to be brought from a distance; for the purchase and repair of fire apparatus; for the disposal of sewage; for repairs to water and sewer systems and for hire of employees, two million eight hundred and fifty-nine thousand six hundred and eighty-three dollars. Construction and Maintenance of Military and Post Roads,Alaska.Military and post roads, etc.Consruction, etc.
Bridges, and Trails, Alaska : 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 of an Act entitled “An Act toVol. 33, p. 616. 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, three hundred and fifty thousand dollars, to remain available until the close of the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eleven.
Barracks and Quarters, Philippine Islands : Continuing thePhilippine Islands.Barrcks and quarters. 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 repairs and payment of rents, the acquisition of title to building sites and such additions to existing military reservations as may be necessary, and including also shelter for the animals and supplies, and all other buildings necessary for post administration purposes, three hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
Care of Insane Filipino Soldiers : For the care, maintenance,Care of insane native soldiers.*Ante* p. 122. and treatment at asylums in the Philippine Islands during the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and ten, of insane natives of the Philippine Islands cared for in such institutions conformably to the Act of Congress approved May eleventh, nineteen hundred and eight (Thirty-fifth Statutes, page one hundred and twenty-two, Act of May eleventh, nineteen hundred and eight, volume thirty-five, page one hundred and twenty-two), one thousand five hundred dollars.
Clothing, and Camp and Garrison Equipage : For cloth, woolens,Clothing and camp and garrison equipage. materials, and for the manufacture of clothing for the army, for issue and for sale at cost price according to the army regulations; for altering and fitting clothing and washing and cleaning, when necessary; for equipage, and for expenses of packing and handling, and similar necessaries; for a suit of citizen’s outer clothing, to cost not exceeding ten dollars, to be issued upon release from confinement to each prisoner who has been confined under a court-martial sentence involving dishonorable discharge; for indemnity to officers and men of the army for clothing and bedding, and so forth, destroyed since April twenty-second, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, by order of medical officers of the army for sanitary reasons, seven million dollars. 747 Construction and Repair of Hospitals:
For construction andHospitals. 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 required at the Army and Navy Hospital at Hot Springs, Arkansas,Hot Springs, Ark. and for the construction and repair of general hospitals and expenses incident thereto, and for additions needed to meet the requirements of increased garrisons, four hundred and fifty-five thousand dollars: *Provided*, That eighty-five thousand dollars of this sum may be used*Proviso.*Fort Bayard, N.
Mex.Additional ward Miildings. for construction of additional ward buildings for the United States Army General Hospital at Fort Bayard, New Mexico, and that forty-five thousand dollars of the foregoing total amount may be used for the construction of a hospital at Fort Yellowstone, in the Yellowstone National Park. Quarters for Hospital Stewards: For construction and repairFort Yellowstone.Quarters for hospital stewards. of quarters for hospital stewards at military posts already established and occupied, including the extra-duty pay of enlisted men employed on the same, seventy-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 and seventyseven thousand one hundred and seventy-six dollars and fifty cents: *Provided*, That forty-one thousand dollars of this amount may be used*provise*Fort Leavenworth, Kans.Immediately available. for the acquisition of approximately three hundred and twenty acres of land adjacent to Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, as an addition to the target range, provided, that of the funds herein provided or as much thereof as may be necessary, for the purchase of an addition to said target range, not to exceed forty-one thousand dollars, shall be immediately available: *Provided further*, That of the foregoing total amountFort D.
A. Russell, Wyo.Purchase of land. eighteen thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, shall be immediately available for the purchase of one thousand four hundred acres of land, more or less, adjoining the military reservation of Fort D. A. Russell, Wyoming, as an addition to the rifle range: *And provided further*, That three thousand six hundred dollars of theFort Douglas Miliary Reservation, Utah.Purchase of land. foregoing total amount, or so much thereof as may be necessary, shall be immediately available for the purchase of the southeast quarter of the northwest quarter and the east half of section two, in township one south, range one east of the Salt Lake meridian, as an addition to the target range of Fort Douglas Military Reservation, in the State of Utah.
Maintenance of the Army War College: For supplying theAnny War College, D. C.Maintenance. 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, twelve thousand seven hundred dollars.
Buildings on Corregidor Island, Philippine Islands: For theCorregidor Island, P. I.Storehouses. construction on Corregidor Island, Philippine Islands, of storehouses for the Quartermaster’s Subsistence, Ordnance, and Medical departments of the Army, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Hereafter whenever pressing obligations are required to be paid byDisbursements in case of insufiicient balances. a disbursing officer of the (Quartermaster’s Department and there is an insufiicient balance to his official credit under the proper appropriation or appropriations for the purpose, he is authorized to make payment from the. total available balance to his official credit, provided sufficient funds under the proper appropriation or appropriations have been 748 apportioned by the Quartermaster-General for the expenditure.
When such disbursements are made the accounts of the disbursingAccounts. officer shall show the charging of the proper appropriations, the balances under which will be adjusted by the disbursing officer on receipt of funds or by the accounting officers of the Treasury. medical department.Medical Department. Medical and Hospital Department: For the purchase of medicalSupplies, etc. 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 not otherwiseTreatment at private hospitals, etc. provided for, including care and subsistence in private hospitals, of officers, enlisted men, and civilian employees of the army, of applicants for enlistment, and of prisoners of war and other persons in military custody or confinement, when entitled thereto by law, regulation, or contract: *Provided*, That this shall not apply to officers*Provisos.*Contagious diseases, etc.Restriction. and enlisted men who are treated in private hospitals or by civilian physicians while on furlough; 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 payNurses, etc. 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 andHospital, Hot Springs, Ark.
Navy Hospital at Hot Springs, Arkansas: *Provided*, That hereafter all persons admitted to treatment in the Army and Navy GeneralPatients subject tc Army rules. Hospital at Hot Springs, Arkansas, shall, while patients in said hospital, be subject to the rules and articles for the government of the armies of the United States; for advertising, laundry, and all other necessary miscellaneous expenses of the Medical Department, seven hundred thousand dollars. 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 theLibrary. purchase of necessary books of reference and periodicals, ten thousand dollars. engineer department.Engineer department. Engineer Depots: For incidental expenses of the depots, includingIncidental expenses. fuel, lights, chemicals, stationery, hardware, machinery, pay of civilian clerks, mechanics, and laborers, extra-duty pay to soldiers necessarily employed for periods not less than ten days as artificers on work in addition to and not strictly in the line of their military duties, such as carpenters, blacksmiths, draftsmen, printers, lithographers, photographers, engine drivers, telegraph operators, teamsters, wheelwrights, masons, machinists, painters, overseers, laborers; repairs of, and for materials to repair, public buildings, machinery, and unforeseen expenses, twenty thousand dollars. 749 For purchase and repair of instruments to be issued to officers ofPurchase. etc., of instruments. the Corps of Engineers and to officers detailed and on duty as acting engineer officers for use on public works and surveys, ten thousand dollars.
Engineer School, Washington District of Columbia: EquipmentEngineer Schools Washington Barracks D. C.Equipment. and maintenance of the Engineer School 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, pontooning, and signaling; for purchase and binding of professional works and periodicals 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 of the school, including fuel, lights,Incidental expenses. 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, telephone 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 approvedTraveling expenses. by the Chief of Engineers and made for the purpose of instruction: *Provided*, That the traveling expenses herein provided for shall be*Proviso.*In lieu of mileage, etc. 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.
Engineer Equipment of Troops: For pontoon material, tools,Pontoon material, etc. instruments, and supplies required for use in the engineer equipment of troops, including the purchase and preparation of engineer manuals, ninety thousand dollars. For services of surveyors, survey parties, draftsmen, photographers,Surveyors, etc. master laborers, and clerks to engineer officers on the staff of division, corps, and department commanders, forty thousand dollars. ordnance department.Ordnance Department.
Ordnance Service: For the current expenses of the OrdnanceCurrent expenses. Department, in connection with purchasing, receiving, storing, and issuing ordnance and ordnance stores, comprising police and office duties, rents, tolls, fuel, light, water, and advertising, stationery, and office furniture, tools, and instruments of service; for incidental expenses of the ordnance service and those attending practical trials and tests of ordnance, small arms, and other ordnance stores; and for publications for libraries of the Ordnance Department, including the Ordnance Office, and payment for mechanical labor in the office of the Chief of Ordnance, three hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars.
Ordnance Stores—Ammunition: Manufacture and purchase ofAmmunition for small arms, etc. ammunition 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 and evening gun at military posts prescribed by General Orders, Numbered Seventy, Headquarters or 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 750 Soldiers’ Home in Washington, District of Columbia, and soldiers’ and sailors’ state homes, seven hundred thousand dollars.
Small-Arms Target Practice: Ammunition, targets, and otherTarget practice. accessories for small-arms and machine-gun target practice and instruction; marksmen’s medals, prize arms, and insignia for all arms of the service; and ammunition, targets, target material, and other accessories may be. issued for small-arms target practice and instruction at the educational institutions and state soldiers’ and sailors’ orphans’ homes, to which issues of small arms are lawfully made, under such regulations as the Secretary of War may prescribe, provided the total value of the stores so issued to the educational institutions does not exceed thirty thousand dollars, one million three hundred and thirty 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,Preserving, etc.,ordnance. 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; forEquipments. infantry, cavalry, and artillery equipments, including horse equipments for cavalry and artillery, one million dollars.
National Trophy and Medals for Rifle Contests: That forRifle contests.Medals, prizes, and trophy. 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 fór the cost of the trophy, prizes, and medals herein provided for, and for the promotion of rifle practice, the sum of nine thousand dollars, to be expended for the purposes hereinbefore prescribed under the direction of the Secretary of War.
For range finders and other instruments for fire control in fieldFire control for field batteries. batteries, to be available until June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eleven, sixty-two thousand dollars: *Provided*, That the unexpended*Proviso.*Unexpended balance. balance of the sum of one hundred and sixty-five thousand dollars appropriated for range finders and other instruments for fire control in field batteries in the Act approved May eleventh, nineteen hundred*Ante*, p. 125. and eight, entitled “An Act making appropriation for the support of the army for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nine,” shall be available until the close of the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and ten.
For the purchase of material, equipment, books of instruction,Purchases for State coast artillery. range finders, and fire-control equipment for the instruction and use of State coast artillery organizations, twenty-five thousand dollars: *Provided*, That in time of war, or threatened war, such equipment*Proviso.*Use of, in time of war. may, in the discretion of the Secretary of War, be withdrawn from armories or other places where it is in use by the State coast artillery organizations, and may be used in the fortifications of the United States.
Automatic rifles: For the purchase, manufacture, and test of automaticPurchase, etc., of automatic rifles. rifles, including their sights, and equipments, to be available until the close of the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eleven, two hundred thousand dollars. Sales of ordnance stores are authorized to civilian employees of theSale of ordnance stores, etc. army and to The American National Red Cross under such regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary of War.
Hereafter whenever pressing obligations are required to be paidDisbursements in case of insufficient balances. by a disbursing officer of the Ordnance Department and there is an insufficient balance to his official credit under the proper appropriation 751 or appropriations for the purpose, he is authorized to make payment from the total available balance to his official credit, provided sufficient funds under the proper appropriation or appropriations have been allotted by the Chief of Ordnance for the expenditure.
When such disbursements are made the accounts of the disbursingAccounts. officer shall show the charging of the proper appropriations, the balances under which will be adjusted by the disbursing officer on receipt of funds or by the accounting officers of the Treasury. Hereafter officers serving by detail in the Ordnance Department,Rank of detailed officers.Vol. 31, p. 754.Vol. 34, p. 455. under the. Acts of February second, nineteen hundred and one, and June twenty-fifth, nineteen hundred and six, shall take rank in then- respective grades from the dates of their rank under their original detail in said grades.
Articles of ordnance property may be sold by the Chief of OrdnanceSale of ordnance property, etc. to officers of the Navy and Marine Corps, for their use in the public service, in the same maimer as these articles are now sold to officers of the army. The Secretary of War is hereby authorized and directed to acquireSalisbury National Cemetery.Rond way. title to the United States, by gift or donation, and not otherwise, of a strip of land lying on the southwest side of the roadway now under construction to the Salisbury National Cemetery, for sidewalk purposes.
And the sum of one thousand six hundred dollars, to be immediately available, is hereby appropriated for the completionImmediately available. of said roadway and sidewalks. The Secretary of War is hereby authorized to convey to the ownersFort Marion Military Reservation. Fla.Conveyance of portion of. authorized of premises which encroach upon the military reservation of Fort Marion in the city of Saint Augustine, Florida, all the right, title, and interest of the United States in and to the portions of the reservation which have been occupied by them, under license or claim of title, upon the payment by said owners of such sums of money as the Secretary of War shall determine proper to be paid for the said lands.
For the acquiring of water rights and necessary lands therewithFort William Henry Harrison, Mont.Water rights, etc. connected for a permanent water supply for Fort William Henry Harrison, in Montana, the amount of twenty thousand dollars appropriated therefor by the Act approved May eleventh, nineteen hundred and eight, entitled “An Act making appropriation for the support of the army for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nine,” is hereby reappropriated and madeReappropria t ion, etc.*Ante.* p. 122., available, and forty thousand dollars additional, or so much thereof as may be necessary for said purposes, including the acquiring of water rights and lands for intakes and right of way for pipe lines from such intakes to said fort, is hereby appropriated, to be expended from the amount appropriated in this Act for water and sewers at military posts; and the Secretary of War is hereby authorized to acquire such rights and lands by purchase or by condemnation proceedings.
Approved, March 3, 1909.