Chapter 185. to promote the efficiency of the militia, and for other purposes,” approved January twenty-first, nineteen hundred and three
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CHAP. 185.— AN ACT To further amend the Act entitled “An Act to promote the efficiency of the militia, and for other purposes,” approved January twenty-first, nineteen hundred and three. April 21, 1910.[[[H.R. 22846.]](/us/bill/61/hr/22846).][[Public, No. 148](/us/pl/61/148).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That section fifteen of the Act Militia.entitled “An Act to promote the efficiency of the militia, and for other purposes,” Vol. 32. p. 777.approved January twenty-first, nineteen hundred and three, Vol. 35, p. 402, amended.as amended by the Act entitled “An Act to further amend the Act entitled ‘An Act to promote the efficiency of the militia, and for other purposes,' approved May twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and eight,” be, and the same is hereby, amended so as to read as follows:
“Sec.15.That the Secretary of War is authorized to provide for Participation in Army maneuvers, etc.participation by any part of the organized militia of any State, Territory, or the District of Columbia, on the request of the governor of a District of Columbia added.State or Territory, or the commanding-general of the militia of the District of Columbia, in the encampments, maneuvers, and field instruction of any part of the Regular Army, at or near any military post or camp or lake or sea-coast defenses of the United States.
In such case Pay.the organized militia so participating shall receive the same pay, subsistence, and transportation as is provided by law for the officers and men of the Regular Army, and no part of the sums appropriated for Army appropriations not to be used.the support of the Regular Army shall be used to pay any part of the expenses of the organized militia of any State or Territory or the District of Columbia, while engaged in joint encampments, maneuvers, and field instruction of the Regular Army and militia: *Provided,* That *Provisos.*the Secretary of War is authorized, under requisition of the governor Use of annual allotment to States, etc.of a State or Territory or the commanding-general of the militia of the District of Columbia, to pay to the quartermaster-general, or such other officer of the militia as may be duly designated and appointed for the purpose, so much of its allotment, under the annual appropriation authorized by section sixteen hundred and sixty-one, Revised Statutes, R.
S., sec. 1661, p.290.as amended, as shall be necessary for the payment, subsistence, transportation, Vol. 34, p. 449.and other expenses of such portion of the organized militia as may engage in encampments, maneuvers, and field instruction with any part of the Regular Army at or near any military post or camp or lake or sea-coast defenses of the United States, and the Secretary of Statement of expenses.War shall forward to Congress, at each session next after said encampments. a detailed statement of the expense of such encampments and maneuvers: *Provided,* That the command of such military post or camp Regular Army officer to retain command.and the officers and troops of the United States there stationed shall remain with the regular commander of the post without regard to the rank of the commanding or other officers of the militia temporarily so 330encamped within its limits or in its vicinity: *Provided further,* That Right to command, etc. except, as herein specified the right to command during such joint encampments, maneuvers, and field instruction shall be governed by *Ante,* p. 234.the rules set out in Articles One hundred and twenty-two and One hundred and twenty-four of the rules and articles for the government of the armies of the United States.
” Approved, April 21, 1910.