Chapter 115. Making appropriation for the support of the army for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eleven
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CHAP. 115.— An Act Making appropriation for the support of the army for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eleven. March 23, 1910[[H. R. HR 15384](/us/bill/61/hr/HR 15384)][[Public, No. 102](/us/pl/61/102)] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the following sums be,Army appropriations. and they are hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the support of the army for the year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eleven Contingencies of the army:
For all contingent expenses ofContingencies of the Army. 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, forty thousand dollars. office of the chief of staff.Office of the Chief of Staff. Army War College: For expenses of the Army War College,Army War College. being for the purchase of the necessary stationery, office, toilet, 244and desk furniture, text-books, books of reference, scientific and professional papers and periodicals, printing and binding, maps, police utensils, employment of temporary, technical, or special services, and for all other absolutely necessary expenses, including twenty-five dollars per month additional to regular compensation, to chief clerk of division for superintendence of the War College building, ten thousand dollars.
Contingent expenses.Contingencies, military in formation section, General Staff Corps: For contingent expenses of the military information section, 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 *Proviso*.Periodicals, etc.[R.
S., sec. 3648, p. 718](/us/rs/s3648/p718).of the Secretary 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. Service schools.United States service schools: To provide means for the theoretical and practical instruction at the Staff College (including Fort Leavenworth, Kans.Fort Riley, Kans.the Army School of the line and the Army Signal School) at Fort 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 *Proviso*.Leaves of absence to officers at service schools.[R.
S., sec. 1330, p. 228](/us/rs/s1330/p228).of the military service, twenty-five thousand dollars: *Provided*, That the provisions of section thirteen hundred and thirty, Revised Statutes, authorizing leaves of absence to certain officers of the Military Academy, during the period of the suspension of the ordinary academic studies, without deduction from pay and allowances, be, and are hereby, extended to include officers on duty exclusively as instructors at the service schools on approval of the officer in charge of said schools.
Adjutant-General’s Department.the adjutant general’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 Chief of Artillery.under the chief of artillery. Coast Artillery school, Fort Monroe, Va.Coast artillery school, Fort Monroe, Virginia: For incidental 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.
Special apparatus, etc.For purchase of engines, generators, motors, machines, measuring instruments, special apparatus and materials for the division of the enlisted specialists, seven thousand dollars. 245 For purchase of special apparatus and materials and for experimental purposes for the department of artillery, three thousand dollars. 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 dateBooks. treating 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*.Periodicals, etc.[R. S., sec. 3648, p. 718](/us/rs/s3648/p718). 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 ServiceSignal Service 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.
Washington-Alaska military cable and telegraph system:Washington-Alaska cable, etc.Extensions, etc. 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 twelve from the receipts of the Washington-Alaska military cable and telegraph system that have been covered into the Treasury of the United States, the extent of such extensions and the cost thereof to be reported to Congress by the Secretary of War, seventy-five thousand dollars. pay of officers of the line.Pay.
For pay of officers of the line, seven million two hundred and elevenLine officers. thousand seven hundred dollars. For pay of officers for length of service, to be paid with their currentLongevity. monthly pay, one million six hundred and eight thousand five hundred and forty dollars. pay of enlisted men. For pay of enlisted men of all grades, including recruits, sixteenEnlisted men. million two hundred and twenty-seven thousand and eighteen dollars. For additional pay for length of service, one million four hundredLongevity. and sixty thousand dollars. *Provided*, That one of the two “blacksmiths and farriers” now*Proviso*.Horseshoers and farriers.Vol. 31, p. 748, amended. authorized by law for each troop of cavalry shall hereafter be designated as “horseshoer” and receive the pay of a sergeant of cavalry, and the other shall hereafter be designated as “farrier” and receive the pay of a corporal of cavalry; and that one of the “mechanics” now authorized by law for each battery of field artillery shall hereafterVol. 34, p. 862, amended. be designated as “horseshoer” and receive the pay of a sergeant of artillery. 246 corps of engineers.
Engineer battalion.For pay of enlisted men, four hundred and seventy-five thousand seven hundred and sixteen dollars. Additional pay for length of service, sixty-six thousand dollars. ordnance department. Ordnance Corps.For pay of enlisted men, two hundred and sixteen thousand and thirty-six dollars. Additional pay for length of service, one hundred thousand dollars. quartermaster’s department. Quartermaster-sergeants.For pay of two hundred post quartermaster-sergeants, at forty-five dollars per month each, one hundred and eight thousand dollars.
Additional pay for length of service, thirty-six thousand dollars. subsistence department. Commissary-sergeants.For pay of two hundred and seven post commissary-sergeants, at forty-five dollars per month each, one hundred and eleven thousand seven hundred and eighty dollars. Additional pay for length of service, forty-five thousand dollars. signal corps. Signal Corps.For pay of forty-two master signal electricians, at nine hundred dollars each, thirty-seven thousand eight 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 twenty-eight dollars.
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. Additional pay to twelve sergeants, serving as mess sergeants, at six dollars per month, eight hundred and sixty-four dollars. Additional pay for length of service, fifty-two thousand dollars. hospital corps.
Hospital Corps.For pay of enlisted men, nine hundred and forty-five thousand three hundred and twelve dollars. Additional pay for length of service, one hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars. pay to clerks, messengers, and laborers at headquarters of divisions, and departments, and posts commanded by general officers, 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. 247 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 they are to serve: *Provided*, That no clerk, messenger, or*Proviso*.Duty in War Department forbidden. laborer at headquarters of divisions, departments, posts commanded by general officers, 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. For additional pay to such officers for length of service, to be paid with their current monthly pay, sixteen thousand dollars.
The Corps of 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 Ordnance Department,Ordnance 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, fifty-two thousand 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. 248 Subsistence Department.Subsistence Department: For pay of officers in the Subsistence Department, one hundred and forty-eight thousand eight 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.Medical Department: For pay of officers in the Medical Department, one million four hundred and ninety thousand five hundred dollars. For additional pay to such officers for length of service, to be paid with their current monthly pay, one hundred and eighty thousand dollars. Pay Department.Pay Department:
For pay of officers in the Pay Department, one 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.Judge-Advocate-General’s Department: For pay of officers in 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, nine thousand dollars.
Signal Corps.Signal Corps: For pay of the officers of the Signal Corps, one hundred and fourteen thousand two hundred dollars. For additional pay to such officers for length of service, to be paid with their current monthly pay, twenty-four thousand seven hundred and forty dollars. Insular Affairs Bureau.Bureau of Insular Affairs: For pay of officers of the Bureau of 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.
Additional assistant authorized.The Secretary of War is hereby authorized to detail one additional officer of the army as assistant to the Chief of the Bureau of Insular Vol. 34, p. 1162.Affairs, under the same provisions of law in regard to the vacancy in the line thus created and return to the line as govern in the case of Rank, pay, and allowances.the assistant authorized by the Act of March second, nineteen hundred and seven; and the assistant herein authorized while serving Title of officers.in this capacity shall have the rank, pay, and allowances of colonel; and both officers detailed in the Bureau of Insular Affairs shall hereafter be designated, while on this duty, as assistants to the chief of the bureau. retired officers.
Retired officers.For pay of officers on the retired list and for officers who may be placed thereon during the current year, two million eight hundred and twenty-two thousand and twenty-five dollars. Longevity.For additional pay to such officers for length of service, to be paid with their current monthly pay, four hundred thousand dollars. On active service.For pay of retired officers on active service, one hundred and sixty-seven thousand four hundred dollars. Longevity.For additional pay to such officers for length of service, to be paid with their current monthly pay, fifty-four thousand one hundred and twenty dollars. retired enlisted men.
Retired enlisted men.For pay of the enlisted men of the army on the retired list, two million one hundred thousand dollars. 249 miscellaneous.Miscellaneous. For pay of seventy-five hospital matrons, nine thousand dollars.Hospital matrons. For pay of one Superintendent Nurse Corps, one thousand eightFemale Nurse Corps. hundred dollars. For pay of one hundred nurses (female), sixty-seven thousandPay established.Vol. 31, p. 753, amended. eight hundred and eighty dollars; and the Superintendent and members of the Female Nurse Corps shall hereafter be paid at the following rates:
Superintendent Nurse Corps, one thousand eight hundred dollars per annum; female nurses, fifty dollars per month for the first period of three years’ service; fifty-five dollars per month for the second period of three years’ service; sixty dollars per month for the third period of three years’ service; and sixty-five dollars per month after nine years’ service in said Nurse Corps; and all female nurses shall hereafter be entitled, in addition to the rates of pay as herein provided, to ten dollars per month when serving beyond the limits of the States comprising the Union and the Territories of the United States contiguous thereto (excepting Porto Rico and Hawaii), and to cumulative leave of absence with payCumulative leaves of absence. at the rate of thirty days for each calendar year of service in said corps; and when serving as chief nurses their pay may be increased by. authority of the Secretary of War, such increase not to exceed thirty dollars per month; and the superintendent shall be entitledAllowances to superintendent. to the same allowances, when on duty, as the members of the Nurse Corps.
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, toLongevity. be paid with their current monthly pay, eleven thousand 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-threePaymasters’ clerks. thousand and forty-six 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 and militaryCourts-martial, etc. commissions,, and compensation of reporters and witnesses attending the same, thirty-five thousand dollars. 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 dutyCommutation of quarters. without troops at stations where there are no public quarters, four hundred and fifty thousand dollars. For travel allowance to enlisted men on discharge, one million oneTravel, enlisted men. hundred thousand dollars. For clothing not drawn due to enlisted men on discharge, nineClothing not drawn. hundred thousand dollars. For interest on soldiers’ deposits, one hundred thousand dollars,Interest on deposits. and so much as may be necessary to pay back such deposits.
For pay of translator and librarian of the military informationTranslator. division, 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. 250 Switchboard operators at interior posts.For extra pay to enlisted men employed on extra duty as switchboard operators at each interior post of the army, nine thousand dollars.
Extra pay, Alaska cable, etc.For extra pay to enlisted men of the line of the army and to enlisted 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. Mileage to officers, etc.For mileage to officers and contract surgeons when authorized by law, six hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. Additional pay, foreign service, officers.For additional ten per centum increase on pay of officers on foreign service, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
Enlisted men.For additional twenty per centum increase to enlisted men on foreign service, seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Computer.For pay of one computer for artillery board, two thousand five hundred dollars. Loss by exchange.For payment of exchange by special disbursing agents of the Pay Department serving in foreign countries, two hundred dollars. Attendance of militia at service schools.For subsistence, mileage, and commutation of quarters to officers of the national guard attending service and garrison schools, twenty thousand dollars.
Additional pay.First reenlistments.For three months’ additional pay to enlisted men reenlisting within the period of three months from date of discharge from first enlistment, one hundred thousand dollars. Death from wounds, etc.For six months’ additional pay to beneficiaries of officers and enlisted men who die while in active service from wounds or disease not the result of their own misconduct, one hundred thousand dollars. Officers furnishing mounts.For additional pay to officers below the grade of major required to be mounted and who furnish their own mounts, one hundred and twenty-seven thousand five hundred dollars.
Jennie Carroll.For amount required to make monthly payment to Jennie Carroll, 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. Vol. 35, p. 1325.For amount required to make monthly payment to Mabel H. Lazear, widow of Jesse W. Lazear, late acting assistant surgeon, Mabel H. Lazear.United States Army, as per Act of Congress approved May twenty-third, nineteen hundred and eight, one thousand five hundred dollars.
Vol. 35, p. 1325.For Porto Rico Regiment of Infantry, composed of two battalions of four companies each: Porto Rico Regiment of Infantry.Pay of officers, sixty-five thousand seven hundred dollars. Officers.For additional pay for length of service, nine thousand one hundred dollars. Longevity.Pay of enlisted men, one hundred and twenty-nine thousand and twenty-four dollars. Enlisted men.Additional pay for length of service, twenty-nine thousand nine hundred and twenty-five dollars.
Longevity.philippine scouts. Philippine Scouts.For pay of fifty-two captains, one hundred and twenty-four thousand eight hundred dollars. For pay of sixty-three first lieutenants, one hundred and twenty-six thousand dollars. For pay of sixty-three second lieutenants, one hundred and seven thousand one hundred dollars. Officers.For pay of eleven majors, in addition to pay as captain, six hundred dollars each, six thousand six hundred dollars. Longevity.Additional pay for length of service, eighty thousand dollars.
Enlisted men.For pay of enlisted men, six hundred and twelve thousand nine hundred and fifty dollars and forty cents. 251 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 payingOrganized militia.Expenses of encampments with Army. the 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 provided by sections fifteen and twenty-one of the Act of JanuaryVol. 32, pp. 777, 779. 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 twelve, one million three hundred and fifty 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, vinegar, flour, and towels; authorized issues of toilet articles, barbers’, laundry, and tailors’ materials, for use of military convicts confined 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; 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*Provisos*.National rifle match the sum of twelve thousand 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 no competitor who is thus subsistedRestriction. 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.
For payments: Of commutationPayments.Commutation of rations 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 252of 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 Compensation of civilians.Extra pay, enlisted men, etc.in said hospital), to be paid to the surgeon in charge; of compensation of civilians employed in the 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 Prizes for bakers and cooks.by the Quartermaster’s Department); 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 hundred dollars per annum; for other necessary expenses incident to the purchase, testing, care, preservation, issue, sale, and Amount.accounting for subsistence supplies for the army; in all, eight million seven hundred thousand dollars, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War, and accounted for as “Subsistence of the army,” and for that purpose to constitute one fund.
Quartermaster’s Department.quartermaster’s department. 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, 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 erected Vol. 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, each and all for the Forage, etc.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, including bedding for the Allowance to officers separated from their horses.animals; and hereafter, when an officer is separated from his authorized number of owned horses through the nature of the military service upon which employed, they shall not be deprived of forage, bedding, shelter, shoeing, or medicines therefor, because of such 253separation; 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 orders and reports: *Provided*, That no part of the appropriations*Provisos*.Printing. for the Quartermaster’s Department shall be expended on printing unless the same shall be done at the Government Printing Office, or 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 purchase of material and hire of the necessary labor for the purpose.
For the fiscal year endingIce machines, laundries, etc.Disposal of surplus products. June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eleven, 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 disposed 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 sales and in paymentDisposal of proceeds, etc. 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, eight million twoAmount. hundred thousand dollars.
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, ten 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 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 arid 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 254such 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’ 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 Horse expenditures.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.two million two hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. Horses, etc.Horses for cavalry, artillery, and engineers:
For the purchase 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, four hundred and thirty-four thousand four hundred and eighty-seven dollars and ninety cents: *Provisos*.Limit.*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, 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 Breeding.Restriction.War: *Provided*, That no part of this appropriation shall be used for breeding purposes: *Provided further*, That no part of this appropriation shall be expended for the purchase of any horses below the standard set by army regulations for cavalry and artillery horses: Purchases from officers ordered to distant duty.*And provided further*, That hereafter when a mounted officer is ordered to duty beyond the seas or to make a change of station in the United States in which the cost of transportation for his authorized number of owned horses exceeds the sum at the time allowed for that purpose in the Army Regulations, the Secretary of War is authorized, under such regulations in respect to inspection and valuation as he may prescribe, in his discretion to permit the purchase of said horses by the Quartermaster’s Department, at a price not exceeding the average contract price paid for horses during the preceding fiscal year, the exact price to be fixed by a board of officers.
Barracks and quarters.Barracks and quarters: For barracks, quarters, stables, storehouses, magazines, administration and office buildings, sheds, shops, and other buildings necessary for the shelter of troops, public animals, and stores, and for administration purposes, except those 255pertaining to the Seacoast Artillery; for repairing public buildings at military posts; for extra-duty pay to enlisted men and hire of employees; for rental of the authorized allowance of quarters for officers on duty with the troops at posts and stations where no public quarters are available; of barracks or authorized allowance of quarters for noncommissioned officers and enlisted men on duty where public quarters are not available; of grounds for cantonments, camp sites, and other military purposes, and of buildings or portions of buildings for occupation by troops, for use as stables, storehouses, and offices, and for other military purposes; for the hire of recruiting stations and lodgings for recruits; for such furniture for the public rooms of officers’ messes and for officers’ quarters at military posts, as may be approved by the Secretary of War; for wall lockers in permanent barracks and refrigerators in barracks and quarters; for screen doors, window screens, storm doors and sash, and window shades for barracks, offices, and quarters, and for flooring and framing for tents: *Provided*, That no part of the moneys so appropriated*Provisos*.Commutation restrictions.Civilian employees. shall be paid for commutation of fuel or quarters to officers or enlisted men: *Provided further*, That the number of and total sum paid for civilian employees in the Quartermaster-General’s Department, including those paid from the fund 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, one million six hundred thousand six hundred and thirty-one 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, including repairs to buildings erected at private cost in the operation of the Act approvedVol. 32, p. 282. May thirty-first, nineteen hundred and two, to be expended in the discretion and under the direction of the Secretary of War, seventy thousand nine hundred dollars: *Provided*, That not more than forty*Proviso*.Maximum. thousand dollars of the above appropriation shall be expended at any one post or station.
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: *Provided*, That hereafter*Provisos*.Excess baggage. baggage in excess of regulation change of station allowances may be shipped with such allowances, and reimbursement collected for transportation charges on such excess; for transportation of recruits and recruiting parties; of applicants for enlistment between recruiting stations and recruiting depots; 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, and hereafter transportation may be furnished for the ownedOfficers’ horses. horses of an officer, not exceeding the number authorized by law, from point of purchase to his station, when he would have been entitled to and did not have his authorized number of owned horses 256shipped upon his last change of station, and when the cost of shipment does not exceed that from his old to his new station; 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 Payment to land-grant railroads.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 government bonds (to be adjusted in accordance with the decisions of the Supreme Court in cases decided Maximum.Basis of computation.under such land-grant acts), but in no case shall more than fifty per centum of full amount of service be paid: *Provided*, That such compensation shall be computed 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:
Fifty per cent to roads not bond aided.*Provided further*, That in expending 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 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 Draft and pack animals, etc.shall be accepted as in full for all demands for such service; for the purchase 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; fShips, boats, etc.or the purchase and repair of ships, boats, and other vessels required for the transportation of troops and supplies and for garrison purposes; for expenses of sailing public transports and other vessels on the various rivers, the Gulf of Mexico, and the Atlantic and Privileges to Young Men’s Christian Association.Pacific oceans: *Provided*, That when, in the opinion of the Secretary of War, accommodations are available, transportation on vessels of the army transport service may be furnished the secretaries and supplies of the army and navy department of the Young Men’s Transportation to Guam.Christian Association: *Provided, further*, That when there is cargo space available without displacing military supplies, transportation may be provided for merchandise of American production consigned to residents and mercantile firms of the island of Guam, rates and Harbor boats, etc.regulations therefor to be prescribed by the Secretary of War; and for the purchase and repair of harbor boats, and repair of boats for the seacoast artillery service, eleven million eight hundred and fifty thousand four hundred and eighty-five dollars and seventy cents.
“Ingalls” transferred to Navy.Authority is hereby granted the Secretary of War to transfer to the Navy Department the United States Army transport Ingalls. 257 Roads, walks, wharves, and drainage: For the construction andMilitary posts.Roads, wharves, etc. repairs 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, nine hundred thousand five hundred and sixty-eight dollars.
Water and sewers at military posts: For procuring and introducingWater, sewers, etc. 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 five hundred and eighty-four thousand seven hundred and twenty-three dollars. Construction and maintenance of military and post roadsAlaska.Military and post roads, 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 ActVol. 33, p. 616. 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 thousand dollars, to remain available until the close of the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and twelve.
Barracks and quarters, Philippine Islands: Continuing thePhilippine Islands.Barracks 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 seventy-five thousand dollars: *Provided*, That no part of said three hundred and seventy-five*Proviso*.Restriction on amount for officers’ quarters. thousand dollars shall be expended for the construction of quarters for officers of the army, the total cost of which, including the heating and plumbing apparatus, wiring and fixtures, shall exceed in the case of quarters of a general officer the sum of twelve thousand dollars; of a colonel or officer above the rank of captain, ten thousand dollars; and of an officer of and below the rank of captain, six thousand 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, six million dollars.
Hereafter all moneys arising from disposition of serviceable quartermaster’sProceeds from sales available for following year. supplies or stores, authorized by law and regulations, shall remain available throughout the fiscal year following that in which the disposition was effected, for the purposes of that appropriation from which such supplies were authorized to be supplied at the time of the disposition. 258 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 increased garrisons, five hundred and twenty thousand dollars: *Proviso*.Fort Missoula, Mont.*Provided*, That of this sum there may be used for the construction of a modern hospital at Fort Missoula, Montana, forty-five thousand Fort H.
G. Wright, N.Y.dollars; for the construction of a modern hospital at Fort H. G. Wright, New York, fifty thousand dollars; for the enlargement of the Fort George Wright, Wash.hospital at Fort George Wright, Washington, twenty-five thousand dollars; and for the construction of quarters for nurses at the Walter Walter Reed, D. C.Reed General Hospital, District of Columbia, twenty-five thousand dollars. Quarters for hospital stewards.Quarters for hospital stewards: For construction and repair of quarters for hospital stewards at military posts already established and occupied, including the extra-duty pay of enlisted men employed on the same, fifteen thousand dollars.
Shooting ranges, etc.Shooting galleries and ranges: For shelter, shooting galleries, ranges for small-arms target practice, repairs, and expenses incident thereto, such ranges and galleries to be open, as far as practicable, to the National Guard and organized rifle clubs under regulations to be prescribed by the Secretary of War, one hundred and eighty-four *Provisos*.Fort Bliss, Tex.Exchange of lands.thousand one hundred and twenty-five dollars: *Provided*, That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, authorized to transfer so much of that part of the military reservation of Fort Bliss, Texas, now used as a target range as lies in section twenty-one and including the triangular extension east of this tract to the El Paso and Southwestern Railroad right of way, containing approximately two hundred and ten acres, and to accept in exchange therefor approximately four hundred and seventy-seven acres of land adjacent to the said military Sparta, Wis.Immediately, available.reservation of Fort Bliss, Texas: *Provided further*, That of the above sum there may be used and made immediately available forty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for the construction and equipment of a target range for the field firing of the artillery, cavalry, and infantry branches of the United States Army, and for machine guns, including the construction of a concrete storehouse, portable railroad, and improvements on camp sites for water and sanitation, on land authorized to be acquired near Sparta, Monroe County, Wisconsin, as a site for a target range, and for all other Fort D.
A. Russell, Wyo.Completion.absolutely necessary expenses in connection therewith; and twenty-four thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for the completion of rifle range of the military reservation of Fort D. A. Russell, Wyoming. Army War College.Maintenance.Maintenance of the Army War College: For supplying the 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.
Medical Department.medical department. Supplies, etc.Medical and Hospital Department: For the purchase of medical and hospital supplies, including disinfectants, for military posts, camps, hospitals, hospital ships, and transports; for expenses of medical supply depots; for medical care and treatment not otherwise provided for, including care and subsistence in private hospitals, of 259officers, 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*Proviso*.Private treatment. and enlisted men who are treated in private hospitals or by civilian physicians while on furlough; for the proper care and treatmentContagious diseases. 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 the Nurse CorpsNurses, etc.
(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 shah 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,Hospital, Hot Springs, Ark.
Arkansas; for advertising, laundry, and all other necessary miscellaneous expenses of the Medical Department, seven hundred thousand dollars. Army Medical Museum and Library: For Army MedicalMuseum. 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. Care of insane Filipino soldiers:
For the care, maintenance,Philippine Islands.Care of insane native soldiers. and treatment at asylums in the Philippine Islands of insane natives of the Philippine Islands cared for in such institutions comformably to the Act of Congress approved May eleventh, nineteen hundredVol. 35, p. 122. and eight, three thousand dollars. engineer department.Engineer Department. Engineer depots: For incidental expenses for the depots, includingIncidental expenses at depots. 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.
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 School, 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 260as sappers and miners; for land mining, pontoniering, 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 Incidental expenses.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, telephone operators, teamsters, wheelwrights, masons, machinists, painters, overseers, laborers; for repairs of and materials to repair public buildings and machinery; for unforeseen Traveling expenses.*Proviso*.In lieu of mileage, etc.Text-books, etc.expenses; for travel expenses of officers on journeys approved by the Secretary of War 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.
Pontoon material, etc.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, ninety thousand dollars. Surveyors, etc.For services of surveyors, survey parties, draftsmen, photographers, master laborers, and clerks to engineer officers on the staff of division, corps, and department commanders, forty thousand dollars. Philippine Islands.Contingencies.Contingencies, Engineer Department, Philippine Islands:
For contingent expenses incident to the operations of the Engineer Department in the Philippine Islands, to be expended at the discretion of the Secretary of War, five thousand dollars. Ordnance Department.ordnance department. Current expenses.Ordnance service: For the current expenses of the Ordnance 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.
Ammunition for small arms, etc.Ordnance stores—Ammunition: Manufacture and purchase of 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 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, four hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
Target practice.Small-arms target practice: Ammunition, targets, and other 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 261accessories 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 dollars.
For blank ammunition for use of troops participating in maneuverBlank ammunition for maneuvers. camps of instruction, seventy-five thousand dollars. Manufacture of arms: For manufacturing, repairing, procuring,Manufacturing, etc., arms.*Proviso*.Sales to Cuba permitted. and issuing arms at the national armories, one million dollars: *Provided*, That the Secretary of War is hereby authorized to sell, at the prices fixed and published by the Chief of Ordnance, to the Government of Cuba, for the use of its organized troops, not to exceed ten thousand United States magazine rifles of the present service model, with arm chests, arm racks, appendages, bayonets, and gun slings therefor, and such quantities of spare parts for the rifles, and of bayonet scabbards, articles of cavalry-horse equipment, and the present ordnance equipment of the soldier as may be desired by that Government for the equipment of its troops.
Ordnance stores and supplies: For overhauling, cleaning,Preserving, etc., ordnance. repairing, and preserving ordnance and ordnance stores in the bands 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, eight hundred thousand dollars. 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*.Withdrawal 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.
National trophy and medals for rifle contests: That for theRifle contests.Trophy, medals, and prizes. 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, including the reimbursement of necessary expenses of members of the national board for the promotion of rifle practice, to be expended for the purposes hereinbefore prescribed under the direction of the Secretary of War, ten thousand dollars.
Automatic rifles: For the purchase, manufacture, and test ofAutomatic rifles.Purchase, etc. automatic rifles, including their sights and equipments, to be available until the close of the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and twelve, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Ordnance contracts: Hereafter whenever contracts which are notOrdnance contracts.Writing required. to be performed within sixty days are made on behalf of the Government by the Chief of Ordnance, or by officers under him authorized to make them, and are in excess of five hundred dollars in amount, such contracts shall be reduced to writing and signed by the contracting parties with their names at the end thereof.
In all other cases contracts shall be prepared under such regulations as may be prescribed by the Chief of Ordnance. Approved, March 23, 1910.