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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 37 STAT. · August 24, 1912 · Chapter 391

Chapter 391. Making appropriation for the support of the Army for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and thirteen, and for other purposes

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CHAP. 391.— An Act Making appropriation for the support of the Army for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and thirteen, and for other purposes.August 24, 1912.[[H. R. 25531](/us/bill/62/hr/25531).][[Public, No. 338](/us/pl/62/338).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Army appropriations. That the following sums be, and they are hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the support of the Army for the year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and thirteen.
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, twenty-five thousand dollars. office of the chief of staff.Office of Chief of Staff. Army War College: For expenses of the Army War College,Army War College. being for the purchase of the necessary stationery, typewriters and exchange of same, office, toilet, and desk furniture, textbooks, 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, nine thousand dollars.
Contingencies military information section, General StaffContingent expenses, military information section. 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 legations abroad; and of the branch office of the military information section at Manila, to be expended under the direction of the Secre- 570 *Proviso*.Periodicals.[R.
S., sec. 3648, p. 718](/us/rs/s3648/p718).tary 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.Fort Leavenworth, Kans.United States service schools: To provide means for the theoretical and practical instruction at the Staff College (including the Army School of the Line, Army Field Engineer School, and the Army Signal School) at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, the Mounted Sender Fort Riley, Kans.School at Fort Riley, Kansas, and the School of Fire for Field Fort Sill.
Okla.Artillery at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, by the purchase of textbooks, 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 pro-portions as may, in the opinion of the Secretary of War, be for the best interests of the military service, thirty thousand dollars. the adjutant general’s department.Adjutant General’s Department.
Contingencies at headquarters.Contingencies, headquarters of military departments: For contingent expenses at the headquarters of the several military divisions and departments, including the Staff Corps serving thereat, being for the purchase of the necessary articles of office, toilet, and desk furniture, binding, maps, technical books of reference, professional and technical newspapers and periodicals, and police utensils, to be allotted by the Secretary of War, and to be expended in the discretion of the several military division and department commanders, seven thousand five hundred dollars. under the chief of coast artillery.Under Chief of Coast Artillery.
Coast Artillery Coast Artillery School, Fort Monroe, Virginia: For incidental School, Fort Monroe, Va.expenses of the school, including chemicals, stationery, hardware; cost of special instruction of officers detailed as instructors; 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.For purchase of engines, generators, motors, machines, measuring 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. Submarine mines.For purchase of generating, measuring, and mine apparatus, and 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.
Books.For purchase and binding of professional books of recent date treating of military and scientific subjects for library and for use of school, two thousand five hundred dollars. *Proviso*.Periodicals, etc.[R. S., sec. 3648, p. 718](/us/rs/s3648/p718).*Provided*, That section thirty-six hundred and forty-eight, Revised Statutes, shall not apply to subscriptions for foreign and professional newspapers and periodicals to be paid for from this appropriation. office of the chief signal officer.Signal Service.
Expenses.Signal Service of the Army: For expenses of the Signal Service of the Army, as follows: Purchase, equipment, and repair of field *Ante*, p. 386.electric telegraphs, signal equipments and stores, binocular glasses, tele- 571 scopes, heliostats, and other necessary instruments, including necessaryWar balloons and airships. meteorological instruments for use on target ranges; war balloons and airships, including their maintenance and repair; 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, three hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars: *Provided, however*, That not more than one hundred*Proviso*.Limit for aerial machines thousand dollars of said amount shall be used for the purchase, maintenance, operation, and repair of airships and other aerial machines.
Washington-Alaska military cable and telegraph system:Washington-Alaska cable, etc.Extensions, etc. For defraying the cost of such extension 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 fourteen, 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, fifty thousand dollars.
Annunciator buzzer systems at target ranges: For the installationTarget ranges.Annunciator buzzers. of annunciator buzzer systems at such target ranges as the Secretary of War may determine, ten thousand dollars. pay of officers of the line.Pay. For pay of officers of the line, six million eight hundred and ninety-threeLine officers. thousand nine hundred and eight dollars. For additional pay to officers for length of service, to be paid withLongevity. their current monthly pay, one million five hundred and twenty-four thousand one hundred and twenty dollars: *Provided*, That hereafter in*Proviso*.Restriction on details of officers below major.*Post*, p. 645. time of peace whenever any officer holding a permanent commission in the line of the Array with rank below that of major shall not have been actually present for duty for at least two of the last preceding six years with a troop, battery, or company, of that branch of the Army in which he shall hold said commission, such officer shall not be detached nor permitted to remain detached from such troop, battery, or company, or duty of any kind; and all pay and allowances shall be forfeited byForfeiture of pay by superior officer for violation. any superior for any period during which, by his order, or his permission, or by reason of his failure or neglect to issue or cause to be issued the proper order or instructions at the proper time, any officer shall be detached or permitted to remain detached in violation of any of theRejoining command. terms of this proviso; but nothing in this proviso shall be held to apply in the case of any officer for such period as shall be actually necessary for him, after having been relieved from detached service, to join the troop, battery, or company, to which he shall belong in that branch in which he shall hold a permanent commission, nor shall anything in thisDetails excepted. proviso be held to apply to the detachment or detail of officers for duty in the Judge Advocate General’s Department or in the Ordnance Department, or in connection with the construction of the Panama Canal until after such canal shall have been formally opened, or in the Philippine Constabulary until the first day of January, nineteen hundred and fourteen, or to any officer detailed, or who may be hereafter detailed, for aviation duty.
And hereafter no officer holding a permanentDetails restricted. commission in the Army with rank below that of major shall be detailed as assistant to the Chief of the Bureau of Insular AffairsInsular Affairs Bureau.Porto Rico regiment and Philippine Constabulary. with rank of colonel, or as commanding officer of the Porto Rico Regiment of Infantry, or as chief or assistant chief (Director or Assistant 572 Director) of the Philippine Constabulary, and no other officers of the Army shall hereafter be detailed for duty with the said Constabulary except as specifically provided by law. pay of enlisted men.Enlisted men.
For pay of enlisted men of all grades, including recruits, sixteen *Proviso*.No pay to officers and enlisted men for absence on account of drugs, liquors, etc.million dollars: *Provided*, That no officer or enlisted man in active service, who shall be absent from duty on account of disease resulting from his own intemperate use of drugs, or alcoholic liquors, or other misconduct, shall receive pay for the period of such absence from any part of the appropriation in this Act for the pay of officers or enlisted men, the time so absent and the cause thereof to be ascertained under such procedure and regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary of War.
Longevity.For additional pay for length of service, one million five hundred and thirty-five thousand dollars. corps of engineers.Engineer battalion. For pay of enlisted men, four hundred and seventy-seven thousand eight hundred and forty dollars. Additional pay for length of service, sixty-five thousand dollars. ordnance department.Ordnance Corps, For pay of enlisted men, two hundred and twenty-one thousand four hundred and thirty-six dollars. Additional pay for length of service, one hundred and five thousand five hundred dollars. quartermaster’s department.Quartermaster sergeants. *Post*, p. 592.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-eight thousand dollars. subsistence department.Commissary sergeants. *Post*, p. 592.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. 573 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 each, eight hundred and sixty-four dollars. Additional pay for length of service, fifty-six thousand dollars. hospital corps.Hospital Corps.
For pay of enlisted men, eight hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Additional pay for length of service, one hundred and sixty thousand dollars. pay to clerks, messengers, and laborers at headquarters ofClerks, messengers etc. divisions, departments, posts commanded by office of the chief of staff. 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 clerks, at one thousand two hundred dollars each per annum. Seventy-one clerks, at one thousand dollars each 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.
Sixty-five messengers, at seven hundred and twenty 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 seventeen thousand eight 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 arc to serve: *Provided*, That no clerk, messenger, or laborer at*Proviso*.Duty in War Department forbidden. 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 ofEngineer Corps. Engineers, four hundred and sixty thousand three hundred dollars. 574 For additional pay to such officers for length of service, to be paid with their current monthly pay, one hundred and ten thousand dollars. Ordnance Department.Ordnance Department: For pay of officers in the 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 thousand dollars.
Quartermaster’s Department.*Post*, p. 591.Quartermaster’s Department: For pay of officers in the Quartermaster’s Department, three hundred and forty-eight thousand two hundred dollars. For additional pay to such officers for length of service, to be paid with their current monthly pay, eighty-six thousand three hundred and forty dollars. Subsistence Department.*Post*, p. 591.*Proviso*.Acting commissaries.[R. S. sec. 1261, p. 220. amended](/us/rs/s1261/p220).Subsistence Department:
For pay of officers in the Subsistence Department, one hundred and twenty-three thousand eight hundred dollars: *Provided*, That so much of section twelve hundred and sixty-one of the Revised Statutes as pertains to additional pay for acting commissaries be, and the same is hereby, repealed. For additional pay to such officers for length of service, to be paid with their current monthly pay, thirty-four thousand four hundred and eighty dollars. Medical Department.Medical Department:
For pay of officers in the Medical Department, one million five hundred and forty-seven thousand eight hundred dollars. For additional pay to such officers for length of service, to be paid with their current monthly pay, one hundred and eighty-five thousand dollars. Pay Department.*Post*, p. 591.Pay Department: For pay of officers in the Pay Department, one hundred anti fifty-two thousand dollars. For additional pay to such officers for length of service, to be paid with their current monthly pay, forty thousand two hundred and twenty dollars.
Judge Advocate General’s Department,Judge Advocate General’s Department: For pay of officers in the Judge Advocate General’s Department, forty-five thousand five hundred dollars. For additional pay to such officers for length of service, to be paid with their current monthly pay, eight thousand seven hundred 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-seven thousand seven hundred and sixty dollars.
Insular Affairs Bureau.Bureau of Insular Affairs: For pay of officers of the Bureau of Insular Affairs, thirteen thousand dollars. For additional pay to such officers for length of service, to be paid with their current monthly pay, two thousand dollars. retired officers.Retired officers. Pay.For pay of officers on the retired list and for officers who may be placed thereon during the current year, two million eight hundred thousand dollars. Longevity,For additional pay to such officers for length of service, to be paid with their current monthly pay, four hundred and sixty-five thousand dollars.
On active service.For increased pay to retired officers assigned to active duty, forty-six thousand five hundred and fifty dollars. 575 For additional pay to such officers for length of service, to be paidLongevity, with their current monthly pay, eighteen thousand nine hundred and thirty dollars. retired enlisted men.Retired enlisted men. For pay of the enlisted men of the Army on the retired list, twoPay.*Proviso*.Double time for foreign service abolished. million one hundred and fifty thousand dollars: *Provided*, That in computing length of service for retirement credit for double time for foreign service shall not be given to those who hereafter enlist: *And provided further*, That nothing in this provision shall be so construedAccrued time not affected. as to forfeit credit for double time already accrued. 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.Superintendent.*Proviso*.Allowances. hundred dollars: *Provided*, That the superintendent shall receive such allowances of quarters, subsistence and medical care during illness as may be prescribed in regulations by the Secretary of War. For one hundred and twenty-five nurses (female), eighty-eightNurses. thousand 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, toLongevity. be paid with their current monthly pay, thirteen thousand two hundred and forty dollars. For pay of thirty dental surgeons, at two thousand dollars each,Dental surgeons. sixty thousand dollars. For additional pay to dental surgeons for length of service, to beLongevity. paid with their current monthly pay, twelve thousand dollars.
For pay of thirty acting dental surgeons, at one thousand eightActing dental surgeons. hundred dollars per annum, fifty-four thousand dollars. For pay of contract surgeons, thirteen thousand eight hundredContract surgeons. dollars. For pay of Army paymasters’ clerks, one hundred and fifty-sixPaymasters’ clerks.*Post*, p. 592. thousand two hundred and fifty dollars. For pay of fifteen Army paymasters’ clerks, retired, twenty-four thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars and forty-eight cents.
For pay of paymasters’ messengers, nineteen thousand dollars.Messengers. For traveling expenses of Army paymasters’ clerks and expertTraveling expenses. accountant of the Inspector General’s Department, nineteen thousand five hundred dollars: *Provided*, That hereafter Army paymasters’*Provisos*.Mileage allowance. clerks and the expert accountant, Inspector General’s Department, shall receive mileage at the same rates and under the same conditions as is provided by law for officers of the Army: *Provided further*, ThatRetirement age for paymasters’ clerks. hereafter the age limit for the retirement of Army paymasters’ clerks shall be the same as the age limit for the retirement of commissioned officers of the Army.
For expenses of courts-martial, courts of inquiry, military commissions,Courts-martial, etc. and compensation of reporters and witnesses attending the same, thirty-five thousand dollars: *Provided*, That hereafter enlisted*Proviso*.Extra pay to enlisted men for reporting. men may be detailed to serve as stenographic reporters for general courts-martial, courts of inquiry, military commissions, and retiring boards, and while so serving shall receive extra pay at the rate of not exceeding five cents for each one hundred words taken in shorthand and transcribed, such extra pay to be met from the annual appropriation for expenses of courts-martial, and so forth.
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, dental surgeons,Commutation of quarters, officers. and veterinarians on duty without troops at stations where 576 there are no public quarters, four hundred and seventy thousand dollars. Travel, enlisted men.For travel allowance to enlisted men on discharge, eight hundred *Proviso*.Transportation allowed to place of original enlistment.thousand dollars: *Provided*, That hereafter when an enlisted man is discharged from the service, except by way of punishment for an offense, he shall be entitled to transportation in kind and subsistence from the place of his discharge to the place of his enlistment, or to such other place within the continental limits of the United States as he may select, to which the distance is no greater than from the Selection of other place, etc.place of discharge to place of enlistment; but if the distance be greater he may be furnished with transportation in kind and subsistence for a distance equal to that from place of discharge to place of enlistment, or, in lieu or such transportation and subsistence, he shall, if he so elects, receive two cents a mile, except for sea travel, from the place of his discharge to the place of his enlistment.
Clothing not drawn.For clothing not drawn due to enlisted men on discharge, six hundred thousand dollars. Interest on deposits.For interest on soldiers’ deposits, one hundred and thirty thousand dollars, and so much as may be necessary to pay back such deposits. Translator.For pay of translator and librarian of the military information section, General Staff Corps, one thousand eight hundred dollars. Expert accountant.For pay of expert accountant for the Inspector General’s Department, two thousand five hundred dollars.
Extra pay, sea-coast fortifications.For extra pay to enlisted men employed on extra duty for periods of not less than ten days in the offices of district artillery engineers, and district ordnance officers, and as switchboard operators, at sea-coast fortifications, ten thousand nine hundred and fifty-two dollars and fifty-five cents. Switchboard operators at interior posts.For extra pay to enlisted men employed on extra duty as switch-board operators at each interior post of the Army, eleven thousand three hundred and sixty-nine dollars and seventy-five cents.
Alaska cable, etc,, service.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-two thousand dollars. Mileage to officers, etc.For mileage to officers, dental surgeons, veterinarians, and contract surgeons, when authorized by law, five hundred thousand dollars. Additional pay, foreign service, officers.For additional ten per centum increase on pay of officers on foreign service, two hundred and sixty-six thousand dollars.
Enlisted men.For additional twenty per centum increase on pay of enlisted men *Proviso*.Not applicable to Canal Zone, etc.on foreign service, seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars: *Provided*, That hereafter the laws allowing increase of pay to officers and enlisted men for foreign service shall not apply to service in the Canal Zone, Panama, or Hawaii or Porto Rico. 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, and when specially authorized by the Secretary of War by the special disbursing agents of the Pay Department serving in Alaska, six 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-one thousand five hundred dollars. Additional pay.For three months’ additional pay to enlisted men reenlisting within First reenlistment.the period of three months from date of discharge from first enlistment, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Deaths from wounds, etc.For six months’ additional pay to beneficiaries of officer’s and enlisted men who die while in active service from wounds or disease not the result of their own misconduct, sixty thousand dollars. 577 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 eighty thousand dollars.
For amount required to make monthly payment to Jennie Carroll,Jennie Carroll.Vol. 35, 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. Mabel H. Lazear.Vol. 85, p. 1325.Lazear, widow of Jesse W. Lazear, late acting assistant surgeon, United States Army, as per Act of Congress approved May twenty-third, nineteen hundred and eight, one thousand live hundred dollars.
For amount required to make monthly payments of one hundred dollars to John R. Kissinger, late of Company D, One hundredJohn R. Kissinger.Vol. 36, p. 1919. and fifty-seventh Indiana Infantry Volunteers, also late of the Hospital Corps, United States Army, one thousand two hundred dollars. For Porto Rico Regiment of Infantry, composed of two battalionsPorto Rico Regiment of Infantry. of four companies each: Pay of officers, sixty-five thousand seven hundred dollars.Officers, For additional pay for length of service, ten thousand dollars.Longevity.
Pay of enlisted men, one hundred and thirty-eight thousand nineEnlisted men. hundred and sixty dollars. Additional pay for length of service, thirty-five thousand dollars.Longevity. philippine scouts.Philippine Scouts. For pay of officers: For fifty-two captains, one hundred and twenty-fourOfficers. thousand eight hundred dollars. For pay of sixty-four first lieutenants, one hundred and twenty-eight thousand dollars. For pay of sixty-four second lieutenants, one hundred and eight thousand eight hundred dollars.
For pay of twelve majors, in addition to pay as captain, six hundred dollars each, seven thousand two hundred dollars. Additional pay for length of service, eighty-nine thousand eightLongevity. hundred and ten dollars. For pay of enlisted men, five hundred and eighty-five thousand fourEnlisted men. hundred and eighty-two dollars and forty cents. For additional pay for length of service, sixty-five 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: *Provided*, That section*Provisos*.Cheeks to endorser of pay accounts permitted.[R.
S., sec. 3620, p. 714](/us/rs/s/p). thirty-six hundred and twenty, Revised Statutes, as amended by the Act of Congress approved February twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, shall not be construed as precluding Army paymasters from drawing checks in favor of the person or institution designated by indorsement made on his monthly pay account by any officer of the Army if the pay account has been deposited for payment on maturity in conformity with such regulations as the Secretary of War may prescribe: *Provided further*, That paymentEffect of payment. by the United States of a check on the indorsement of the indorser specified on the pay account shall be a full acquittance for the amount due on the pay account.
Equipment of Coast Artillery, Armories, Organized Militia:Militia coast artillery.Equipment of armories. There is hereby made available and the same shall remain available until the end of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and thirteen, the unexpended balances of any appropriations heretofore made forUse of balances.Vol. 36, p. 1045. dummy guns and mortars; mounts for dummy guns and mortars; dummy ammunition; loading appliances; range and position finding 578 equipment; aiming and laying devices; subcaliber tubes and mountings therefor; labor and material necessary to install dummy guns and mortars, and to provide appliances and devices for instructional purposes in armory buildings provided by States for Coast Artillery companies of the Organized Militia. subsistence department.Subsistence Department.
Supplies, purchases, etc.Purchase of subsistence supplies: For issue, as rations to troops, 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 *Provisos*.National rifle match.chests and outfits, and field desks of commissaries: *Provided*, That the sum of twelve thousand dollars is authorized to be. expended for supplying meals or furnishing commutation of rations to enlisted men of the Regular Army and the Organized Militia who may be Restriction,competitors in the national rifle match: *And provided further*, That no competitor shall be entitled to commutation of rations in excess of one dollar and fifty cents per day, and when meals are furnished no greater expense than that sum per man per day for the period the Payments.contest is in progress shall be incurred.
For payments: Of Commutation of rations.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, at forty cents per ration, 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 and at other general hospitals forty cents per ration arc authorized for enlisted patients Compensation of civilians.Extra pay, enlisted men, etc.therein) 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 579 for periods of not less than ten days, at rates fixed by law; of extraduty pay at rates to be fixed by the Secretary of War for mess stewards and cooks at recruit depots, who are to be graduates of the schools for bakers and cooks, and instructor cooks at the schools for bakers and cooks; for printing, advertising, commercial news-papers, 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 bePrizes for bakers and cooks. 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 hunched dollars per annum; for other necessary expenses incident to the purchase, testing, care, preservation, issue, sale, and accounting for subsistence supplies for the Army; in all, eight million seven hundredAmount. and ninety-seven thousand and eighty dollars and forty-two 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: *Provided*, That hereafter the provisions ofAnnual statement of sales not required. section five of the Act of June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and six (Thirty-fourth Statutes, page seven hundred and sixty-three), shallVol. 34, p. 763. not be construed to apply to the Subsistence Department. quartermaster’s department.Quartermaster’s Department.
Regular supplies, Quartermaster’s Department: Regular suppliesRegular supplies. of the Quartermaster’s Department, including their care and protection, consisting of stoves and heating apparatus required for mating 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 contract surgeons and contract dental surgeons when stationed at, and occupying public quarters at, military posts, for officers of the National Guard attending service and garrison schools, and for recruits, guards, hospitals, storehouses, offices, the buildings erected at private cost in the operation of the Act approvedVol. 32, p. 282.
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 extra-duty pay of enlisted men and hire of employees; for the necessary furniture, textbooks, paper, and equipment for the post schools and libraries; for the tableware and mess furniture for kitchens and mess halls, each and all for the enlisted men, including recruits; of forage in kind for the horses,Forage, etc. 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; for remounts and for the authorized number of officers’ horses, including bedding for the animals; for seeds and implements required for the raising of forage at remount depots, and for labor and expenses incident thereto; for straw for soldiers’ bedding, and for stationery, type-writers and exchange of same, including blank books for the Quarter-master’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 restriction. for the Quartermaster’s Department shall be expended on 580 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 Ice machines, etc.Disposal of surplus products.of the Secretary of War, by the purchase of material and hire of the necessary labor for the purpose.
For the fiscal year ending Juno thirtieth, nineteen hundred and thirteen, 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 Use of proceeds, etc.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 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 Amountoperation of such plant is paid, seven million five hundred and fifty-seven thousand seven hundred and seventy-three dollars.
Equipment of post schools.For the purchase of the necessary instruments, office furniture, stationery, and other authorized articles required for the equipment and use of the officers’ schools at the several military posts, six thousand dollars. Incidental expenses.Incidental expenses, Quartermaster’s Department: Postage; cost of telegrams on official business received and sent by officers of the Array; 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 over-seers 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 cannot be furnished; 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 dishonorable discharge; for the Horse expenditures.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 581 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, one million eight hundred andAmount. eighty-six thousand dollars.
Horses for Cavalry, Artillery, Engineers, and so forth:Horse, etc.Purchases, etc. For the purchase of horses of ages, sex, and size as may be prescribed by the Secretary of War, for remounts, for officers entitled to public mounts, for the Cavalry, Artillery, Signal Corps, and Engineers, the United States Military Academy, service schools, 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, and for the hire of employees: *Provided*, That the number of horses purchased under this appropriation,*Provisos*.Limitations. 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 open market at all military posts or stations, when needed, at a maximum price to be fixed by the Secretary of War: *Provided*Standard required. *further*, That no part of this appropriation shall be expended for the purchase of any horses below the standard set by Army Regulations or Cavalry and Artillery horses, except when purchased as remounts, or for instruction of cadets at the United States Military Academy: *Provided further*, That the accounting officers of the Treasury areSuspensions on account of horses, removed. hereby authorized and directed to remove any suspensions or disallowances in the accounts of quartermasters for the fiscal years nineteen hundred and ten, nineteen hundred and eleven, and nineteen hunched and twelve, for the purchase, care, and foraging of horses, because of age, sex, or size, and for the purchase of seeds, machinery, and for labor and other expenditures in connection with the raising of forage at remount depots, from appropriations of the Quarter-master’s Department, three hundred thousand dollars.
Barracks and quarters: For barracks, quarters, stables, store-houses,Barracks and quarters. 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 pertaining 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 shall be paid*Provisos*.Commutation restrictions. for commutation of fuel or quarters to officers or enlisted men: *Provided further*, That the number of and total sum paid for civilianCivilian employees. 582 *Post*, p. 598.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, Fort Clark.Sale of reservation to Texas authorized.except upon the approval of the Secretary of War: *Provided further*, That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, authorized, in his discretion, to sell and convey to the State of Texas, on or before July first, nineteen hundred and thirteen, for the purposes of a State tuberculosis sanitorium, the military reservation of Fort Clark, Texas, or such portion of it as in the judgment of the Secretary of War may be sold, at a price to be fixed by a board of three appraisers, one of whom shall be designated by the Secretary of War, one by the governor of Texas, and the third to be agreed upon by the two Use for Improvements at abandoned reservations forbidden.appraisers first designated: *And provided further*, That no part of the appropriations contained in this Act shall be expended for permanent improvements at any Army post which has been abandoned or which may be ordered abandoned by the President of the Fort Leavenworth, Kans.School building.United States, one million seven hundred thousand dollars: *Provided*, That of the sum herein appropriated not exceeding ten thousand dollars may be expended for construction of a building for instruction purposes for the post at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.
Post exchanges.Military post exchange: For continuing the construction, equipment, and maintenance of suitable buildings at military posts and stations for the conduct of the post exchange, school, library, reading, lunch, amusement rooms, and gymnasium, including repairs to buildings erected at private cost in the operation of the Act approved May thirty-first, nineteen hundred and two, to be expended in the discretion and under the direction of the Secretary of War, forty thousand dollars.
Transportation.Transportation of the Army and its supplies: For transportation of the Army and its supplies, including transportation of the troops when moving cither 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; 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 quarter-master’s stores from Army depots or places of purchase or delivery to the several posts and Army depots and from those depots to the troops in the field; of horse equipments and of subsistence stores from places of purchase and from the places of delivery under contract to such places as the circumstances of the sender 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 Payment to land-grant railroads.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 under such land-grant Acts), but in no case shall more than fifty per centum of full amount of service be paid: *Provided*, *Provisos*.Basis of computation.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 Fifty per cent to roads not bond aided.service: *Provided further*, That in expending the money appropriated by this Act a railroad company which has not received aid in bonds 583 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 fore-going 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 theDraft and pack animals, etc. 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, hire, operation, maintenance, and repair of such harness, wagons, carte, drays, and other vehicles as are required for the transportation of troops and supplies, and for official, military, and 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 and repair of ships, boats, and other vessels requiredShips, boats, etc. for the transportation of troops and supplies and for official, military, and garrison purposes; for expenses of sailing public transports andTransports, etc. other vessels on the various rivers, the Gulf of Mexico, and the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, ten million eight hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
Roads, walks, wharves, and drainage: For the constructionMilitary posts.Roads, wharves, etc. and 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 and twenty-five thousand three hundred anti fifty dollars: *Provided*,*Provisos*.Vancouver Barracks, Wash.
That twenty-five thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars of the amount herein appropriated may be expended for the purchase of lands necessary and suitable for a target range for Vancouver Barracks, Washington: *Provided further*, That twenty-two thousandArlington, Va.Macadamizing roadway to. dollars of the amount herein appropriated may be expended to macadamize the roadway upon the Government property between the United States Government experimental farm and the Arlington National Cemetery, in the county of Alexandria, Virginia: *Provided*Public road from Highway Bridge. *further*, That forty-four thousand dollars of the amount herein appropriated may be used for constructing a public road from a point near the southern end of the new Highway Bridge across the Potomac River to a convenient point on or near the southern boundary line of the Arlington Reservation, and, following said boundary line, as near as practicable, to the old county road, which passes centrally through the Arlington Reservation; thence along said road, improving and repairing it, to the northern boundary of the reservation; and that the Secretary of War is hereby authorized and directed to purchase or acquire by condemnation such piece or parcel of land as may be necessary for the construction of said road from the new Highway Bridge to the Arlington Reservation, said piece or parcel of land not to exceed four acres: *Provided further*, That three thousand six hundredRoad to Vancouver Barracks, Wash. dollars of the sum herein appropriated maybe used for completing 584 the macadamizing of the road between the city of Vancouver and the Military Academy.Filling swamp, etc.barracks at Vancouver Military Post: *Provided further*, That thirty thousand dollars of the amount herein appropriated, or so much thereof as may be necessary, may be used for draining and tilling swamps within the Government reservation on Constitution Island, Fort Taylor, Fla.Filling ponds, etc.United States Military Academy, West Point, New York: *And provided further*, That fifty thousand dollars of the amount herein appropriated, or so much thereof as may be necessary, may be used for tilling in the ponds and lowlands of the Fort Taylor Military Reservation at Key West, Florida.
Water, sewers, etc.Water and sewers at military posts: For procuring and 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 installation and extension of plumbing within buildings where the same is not specifically provided for in other appropriations; for the purchase and repair of fire apparatus, including fire-alarm systems; for the disposal of sewage; for repairs to water and sewer systems and plumbing within buildings; and for extra-duty pay of enlisted men and hire of employees, one million seven hundred and two thousand five hundred and ninety-five dollars: *Proviso*.Fort D.
A. Russell. Wyo.Additional land for maneuvers, etc.Vol. 36, p. 1052.*Provided*, That not exceeding one thousand dollars of the sum herein appropriated, together with the unexpended balance, which is hereby reappropriated, of the appropriation in the Army appropriation Act approved March third, nineteen hundred and eleven, for the improvement of the Crow Creek or Fort 1). A. Russell Target and Maneuver Reservation, Wyoming, may be expended by the Secretary of War, in his discretion, in the acquirement by purchase or condemnation proceedings of certain tracts of land required for the maneuvering or troops and other military purposes lying within the limits of the aforesaid reservation.
Alaska.Military and post roads, etc.Construction and maintenance of military and post roads, bridges, and trails, Alaska: For the construction, repair, 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 Vol. 33, p. 616.road commissioners described in section two of an Act entitled “An Act to provide for the construction and maintenance of roads, the establishment and maintenance of schools, and the care and support of insane persons in the District of Alaska, and for other purposes,” approved January twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and five, as Vol. 34, p. 192.amended by the Act approved May fourteenth, nineteen hundred and six, and to be expended conformably to the provisions of said Act as amended, one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars.
Philippine Islands.Barracks and quarters.Barracks and quarters, Philippine Islands: Continuing the work of providing for the proper shelter and protection of officers and enlisted men of the Army of the United States lawfully on duty in the Philippine Islands, including 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 *Proviso*.Restriction on amount for officers quarters.post administration purposes, five hundred thousand dollars: *Provided*, That no part of said sum 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 eight thousand dollars; of a colonel or officer above the rank of captain, six thousand dollars: and of an officer of and below the rank of captain, four thousand dollars.
Clothing, and camp and garrison equipage.Clothing and camp and garrison equipage: For cloth, woolens, materials, and for the manufacture of clothing for the Army, for issue and for sale at cost price according to the Army Regulations; 585 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 ton 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, five million dollars.
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 Anny 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 thousand dollars.
Quarters for hospital stewards: For construction and repair ofQuarters for hospital stewards. quarters for hospital stewards at military posts already established and occupied, including the extra-duty pay of enlisted men employed on the same, ten thousand dollars. Shooting galleries and ranges: For shelter, shooting galleries,Shooting ranges, etc. ranges for small-arms target practice, repairs, and expenses incident thereto, including the extra-duty pay of enlisted men and hire of employees, 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: *Provided*, That of this amount*Proviso*.Fort D.
A. Russell. Wyo.Additional land. the sum of three thousand four hundred and fifty dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is made immediately available for the purchase of additional land adjoining the military reservation of Fort D. A. Russell, Wyoming, for use in connection with the rifle range, ninety-three thousand three hundred and thirty-six dollars. Maintenance of the Army War College: For supplying theArmy War College. necessary fuel for heating the Army War College building at Washington Barracks and for lighting the building and grounds; also for pay of a chief engineer, at one thousand two hundred dollars per annum; an assistant engineer, at nine hundred dollars; four fire-men, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; one elevator conductor, at seven hundred and twenty dollars, ten thousand seven hundred dollars.
Rent of buildings, Quartermaster’s Department: For rentRent of buildings in District of Columbia. of buildings and parts of buildings in the District of Columbia, for military purposes, during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and thirteen, as follows: Field medical supply depot, five thousand five hundred and sixty-seven dollars and ten cents; Signal Corps test rooms, two thousand one hundred dollars; Quartermaster’s stable, two thousand seven hundred dollars; Quartermaster’s stable and storehouse, four thousand nine hundred and thirty-eight dollars;
Quartermaster’s storehouse, three thousand six hundred dollars; quartermaster’s stable and warehouse, three thousand six hundred dollars; Five floors for Army Medical School, eight thousand six hundred and eighty dollars; Six rooms for attending surgeon and retiring board, one thousand dollars; Depot quartermaster’s office, two thousand five hundred dollars; Garage, Quartermaster’s Department, one thousand five hundred dollars; 586 One room (for storage purposes), Quartermaster’s Department, fifty-four dollars;
Quarters for officers, etc.Quarter for officers, noncommissioned officers, and privates on duty with troops where no public quarter are available, thirteen thousand three hundred and forty-seven dollars and ninety cents; In all, forty-nine thousand five hundred and eighty-seven dollars. Settlement of claims for damages from target practice, etc.*Proviso*.Secretary of War to adjust and report on claims.For settlement of claims for damages to and loss of private property belonging to citizens of the United States, Hawaii, and the Philippine Islands, thirty-two thousand six hundred and sixteen dollars: *Provided*, That hereafter the Secretary of War is authorized to consider, ascertain, adjust, anti determine the amounts due on all claims for damages to and loss of private property when the amount of the claim does not exceed the sum of one thousand dollars, occasioned by heavy gun fire and target practice of troops, and for damages to vessels, wharves, and other private property, found to be due to maneuvers or other military operations for which the Government is responsible, and report the amounts so ascertained and determined to be due the claimants to Congress at each session thereof through the Treasury Department for payment as legal claims out of appropriations that may be made by Congress therefor.
Fort William H. Seward.Payment for improvements on lands taken for.For the payment of claims of Indians and other claimants for the value of improvements made by them upon lands subsequently included in the Fort William H. Seward Military Reservation, two thousand three hundred and eighty-four dollars. Payment for clothing lost fighting forest fires.For reimbursement to one officer and certain enlisted men of the Army the money value of clothing worn out by them in the summer of nineteen hundred and ten while fighting forest fires in the North-west, fifteen thousand eight hundred and sixty-two dollars and eight cents. medical department.Medical Department.
Supplies, etc.Medical and hospital department: For the purchase of medical and hospital supplies, including ambulances and disinfectants, for military posts, camps, hospitals, hospital ships, and transports; for expenses of medical supply depots; for medical cam and treatment not otherwise 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 *Proviso*.Private treatment excepted.Contagious diseases expenses.thereto by law, regulation, or contract: *Provided*, That this shall not apply to officers 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 bedding and clot thing injured or destroyed in such prevention; for the pay of male and female nuises, 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 Hot Springs Hospital, Ark.Corps; for the supply of the Army and Navy Hospital at Hot Springs, Arkansas; for advertising, laundry, and all other necessary miscel- 587 laneous 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 the purchaseLibrary. of necessary books of reference and periodicals, ten thousand dollars. bureau of insular affairs.Bureau of Insular Affairs. Care of insane Filipino soldiers: For the care, maintenance,Care of insane soldiers in Philippines. and treatment at asylums in the Philippine Islands of insane natives of the Philippine Islands cared for in such institutions conformably to the Act of Congress approved May eleventh, nineteen hundredVol. 35, p. 122, and eight, two thousand dollars.
Care of insane soldiers, Porto Rico Regiment of Infantry:In Porto Rico. For the care, maintenance, and treatment at asylums in Porto Rico of insane soldiers of the Porto Rico Regiment of Infantry, five hundred dollars. engineer department.Engineer Department. Engineer depots: For incidental expenses for the depots, includingIncidental ex penses at depots. fuel, lights, chemicals, stationery, hardware, machinery, nay 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; for lumber and materials and for labor for packing and crating engineer supplies; repairs of, and for materials to repair, public buildings, machinery, and for 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 as 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 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; compensation of civilian lecturers and payment of tuition fees of student officers at civil technical institutions; for extra-duty pay to soldiers necessarily employed for periods of not less than ten (lays 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 travelTravel expenses. expenses of officers on journeys approved by the Secretary of War and made for the purpose of instruction: *Provided*, That the traveling*Proviso*.In lieu of mileage. expenses herein provided for shall be in lieu of mileage and other 588 allowances; and to provide means for the theoretical and practical Textbooks, etc.instruction at the Engineer School by the purchase of textbooks, 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. Civilian assistants, etc.Civilian assistants to engineer officers: 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, typewriters and adding machines, including their exchange, 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 thousand one hundred and eighteen dollars and thirty cents, of which amount the sum of one Loss of arms, etc., Post Office Department.hundred and eighteen dollars and thirty cents shall be used for the reimbursement of the Ordnance Department on account of the loss of arms, arm chests, and screw drivers, issued to the Post Office Department.
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, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars: *Proviso*.Price limited.*Provided*, That no part of this appropriation shall be paid for smallarms powder at a price exceeding seventy-one cents a pound.
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 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, eight hundred thousand *Proviso*.Price limited.dollars: *Provided*, That no part of this appropriation shall be paid for small-arms powder at a price exceeding seventy-one cents a pound. 589 Manufacture of arms:
For manufacturing, repairing, procuring,Manufacturing, etc., arms. and issuing arms at the national armories, seven hundred thousand dollars. Ordnance stores and supplies: For overhauling, cleaning,Preserving, etc., ordnance. repairing, and preserving ordnance and ordnance stores in the hands of troops and at the arsenals, posts, and depots; for purchase and manufacture of ordnance stores to fill requisitions of troops; for Infantry, Cavalry, and Artillery equipments, including home equipments for Cavalry and Artillery, seven hundred thousand dollars.
National trophy and medals for rifle contests: 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 one to the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and the National Guard or Organized Militia of the several States, Territories, and of the District of Columbia, members of rifle clubs, and civilians, and for the cost of the trophy, prizes, and medals herein provided for, and for the promotion of rifle practice throughout the United States, 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 machine rifles: For the purchase, manufacture, andAutomatic rifles.Purchase, etc. test of automatic machine rifles, including their sights and equipments, to be available until the close of the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and fourteen, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Field artillery for Organized Militia: For the purpose of procuringField artillery material.Issue to Organized Militia authorized. field artillery material for the Organized Militia of the several States, Territories, and the District of Columbia, without cost to the said States, Territories, or the District of Columbia, but to remain the property of the United States and to be accounted for in the manner now prescribed by law, the Secretary of War is hereby authorized, under such regulations as he may prescribe, on the requisitions of the Requisitions from governors, etc.governors of the several States and Territories or the commanding general of the Militia of the District of Columbia, to issue said artillery material to the Organized Militia; and the sum of one million dollarsAmount. is hereby appropriated and made available until the end of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fourteen, for the procurement and issue of the articles constituting the same: *Provided*, That hereafter when*Proviso*.Payment for sales, etc., to other bureaus or departments. authorized transfers or sales of ordnance or ordnance stores are made to another bureau of the War Department, or to another executive department of the Government, payment therefor shall be made by the proper disbursing officer of the bureau, office, or department concerned.
When the transaction is between two bureaus of the War Department, the price to be charged shall be the cost price of the stores, including the cost of inspection. When the transaction is between the Ordnance Department and another executive department of the Government, the price to be charged shall include the cost price of thePrice, etc. stores and the costs of inspection and transportation. Ammunition for Field Artillery for Organized Militia: Organized Militia.Ammunition for Field Artillery.For procuring reserve ammunition for Field Artillery for the Organized Militia of the several States, Territories, and the District of Columbia, one hundred thousand dollars.
There is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the United District of Columbia.Payment for acquiring reformatory site in Virginia, from.States Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of thirty-three thousand dollars to reimburse the government of the District of Columbia for the site acquired for a reformatory for the District of Columbia, which site is hereby transferred to the Secretary of War for such purposes as may be hereafter specifically authorized by Con 590 gress and the the jurisdiction now vested in the Commissioners of the District of Columbia over said site, being that certain parcel of land in the county of Fairfax, State of Virginia, known as “Belvoir” or the “ White House” tract, containing fifteen hundred acres, is hereby *Provisos*.Use of clay deposite permitted.transferred to the Secretary of War: *Provided*, That the Secretary of War may, in his discretion, authorize the Commissioners of the District of Columbia to use such of the clay deposits on said site as may be required in the brick manufacturing plant in the Workhouse Sum available for new site.Institution at Occoquan, Virginia: *And provided further*, That the sum herein appropriated is hereby made available for the purposes Vol. 35, p. 717.Vol. 36, p. 122.contained in the District appropriation Act approved March thirty-first, nineteen hundred and nine, under the title of “sites for reformatory and workhouse,” as amended by the provision contained in the urgent deficiency Act, approved August fifth, nineteen hundred and nine;
Restriction repealed.and the provision contained in the Act approved March thirty-first, nineteen hundred and nine, that the two tracts of land to be acquired as sites for a reformatory and workhouse shall be widely separated, and all laws and parts of laws in conflict herewith are hereby repealed. Sec. 2. Bounty to honor-ably discharged soldiers reenlisting on call of the President. That, for the purpose of utilizing as an auxiliary to the Army Reserve hereinafter provided for the services of men who have had experience and training in the Regular Army, in time of war or when war is imminent, and after the President shall, by proclamation, have called upon honorably discharged soldiers of the Regular Army to present themselves for reenlistment therein within a specified period, subject to such conditions as may be prescribed in said proclamation, any person who shall have been discharged honorably from said Army, with character reported as at least good, and who having been found physically qualified for the duties of a soldier, if not over forty-five years of age, shall reenlist in the line of said Army or in the Signal or Hospital Corps thereof within the period that shall be Computation of.specified in said proclamation, shall receive on so reenlisting a bounty which shall be computed at the rate of eight dollars for each month for the first year of the period that shall have elapsed since his last discharge from the Regular Army and the date of his reenlistment therein under the terms of said proclamation; at the rate of six dollars per month for the second year of such period; at the rate of four dollars per month for the third year of such period; and at the rate of two dollars per month for any subsequent year of such period, but no bounty in excess of three hundred dollars shall be paid to any person under the terms of this Act.
Enlistment term hereafter to be seven years.Division of.And that on and after November first, nineteen hundred and twelve, all enlistments in the Regular Army shall he for the term of seven years, the first four years in the service with the organizations of which those enlisting shall form a part, and, except as other-wise provided herein, the last three years on furlough and attached *Provisos*.Reenlistment permitted after four years’ service.to the Army Reserve hereinafter provided for: *Provided*, That at the expiration of four years’ continuous service with such organizations, er under a first or any subsequent enlistment, any soldier may be reenlisted for another period of seven years, as above provided for, in which event he shall receive his final discharge from his prior Transfers to Army Reserve.enlistment: *Provided further*, That any enlisted man, at the expiration of three years’ continuous service with such organizations, cither under a first or any subsequent enlistment, upon his written application, may be furloughed and transferred to the Army Reserve, in the discretion of the Secretary of War, in which event he shall not be entitled to reenlist in the service until the expiration of his term Four years to be computed as enlistment period.of seven years: *Provided further*, That for all enlistments hereafter accomplished under the provisions of this Act, four years shall be counted as an enlistment period in computing continuous-service pay:
Army Reserve.Composition of.*Provided further*, That hereafter the Army Reserve shall consist of all enlisted men who, after having served not less than four years 591 with the organizations of which they form a part, shall receive fur-loughs without pay or allowances until the expiration of their terms of enlistment, together with transportation in kind and subsistence as provided for by this Act in the case of discharged soldiers, but when any soldier is furloughed to the Reserve his accounts shall be closed and he shall be paid in full to the date such furlough becomes effective: *Provided further*, That any enlisted man, subject to goodContinuous service provisions. conduct and physical fitness for duty, upon his written application to that effect, shall have the right of remaining with the organization to which he belongs until the completion of his whole enlistment, without passing into the Reserve: *Provided further*, That except uponFinal discharges at end of service period; exceptions. reenlistment after four years’ service or as now otherwise provided for by law, no enlisted man shall receive a final discharge until the expiration of his seven-year term of enlistment, including his term of service in the Army Reserve, but any such enlisted man may beReenlistments. reenlisted for a further term of seven years under the same conditions in the Army at large, or, in the discretion of the Secretary of War, for a term of three years in the Army Reserve; and any person whoEnlistments in Army Reserve. may have been discharged honorably from the Regular Army, with character reported as at least good, and who has been found physically qualified for the duties of a soldier, if not over forty-five years of age, may be enlisted in the Army Reserve for a similar term of three years: *And provided further*, That in the event of actual or threatenedRecall of furloughed soldiers in event of hostilities. hostilities the President, when so authorized by Congress, may summon all furloughed soldiers who belong to the Army Reserve to rejoin their respective organizations, and during the continuancePay, etc. of their service with such organizations they shall receive the pay and allowances authorized by law for soldiers serving therein, and any enlisted man who shall have reenlisted in the Army Reserve shall receive during such service the additional pay now provided by law for the soldiers of his arm of the service in their second enlistment period.
Upon reporting for duty, and being found physically fit forPay for time in Reserve. service, they shall receive a sum equal to five dollars per month for each month during which they shall have belonged to the Reserve, as well as the actual cost of transportation and subsistence from their homes to the places at which they may be ordered to report for duty under such summons. Sec. 3. That the office establishments of the Quartermaster General,Quartermaster Corps.Department offices consolidated into. the Commissary General, and the Paymaster General of the Army are hereby consolidated and shall hereafter constitute a single bureau of the War Department, which shall be known as the Quartermaster Corps, and of which the Chief of the Quartermaster Corps created by this Act shall be the head.
The Quartermaster’s, Subsistence, andQuartermaster’s, Subsistence, and Pay Departments merged into.Rank and title of officers. Pay Departments of the Army are hereby consolidated into and shall hereafter be known as the Quartermaster Corps of the Army. The officers of said departments shall hereafter be known as officers of said corps and by the titles of the rank held by them therein, and, except as hereinafter specifically provided to the contrary, the provisions of sectionsDetails applicable to.Vol. 31, p. 755. twenty-six and twenty-seven of the Act of Congress approved February second, nineteen hundred and one, entitled “An Act to increase the efficiency of the permanent military establishment of the United States,” are hereby extended so as to apply to the Quartermaster Corps in the manner and to the extent to which they now apply to the Quartermaster’s, Subsistence, and Pay Departments, and the provision of said sections of said Act relative to chiefs of staff corps and departments shall, so far as they are applicable, apply to all offices and officers of the Quartermaster Corps with rank above that of colonel.
The officers now holding commissions as officers of the said departments shall hereafter have the. same tenure of commission in the Quartermaster Permanent commissions continued.Corps, and as officers of said corps shall have rank of the 592 same grades and dates as that now held by them, and, for the purpose of filling vacancies among them, shall constitute one list, on which they Filling vacancies.shall be arranged according to rank. So long as any officers shall remain on said list any vacancy occurring therein shall be filled, if possible, from among such officers, by selection if the vacancy occurs in a grade above that of colonel, and, if the vacancy occurs in a grade not above that of colonel, by the promotion of an officer who would have been entitled to promotion to that particular vacancy if the *Provisos*.Vacancies after January 1, 1917.consolidation of departments hereby prescribed had never occurred: *Provided*, That on and after the first day of January, nineteen hundred and seventeen, any vacancies occurring among officers of the Quartermaster Corps with rank above that of colonel may, in the discretion of the President, be filled by selection from among officers who shall have served by detail in said corps for not less than four years: *Provided* Advance in grade of certain officer.*further*, That not to exceed six officers holding commissions with the rank of captain in the Quartermaster Corps and who have lost in relative rank through irregularities of promotion and the operation of separate promotion within the three departments hereby consolidated, may, in the discretion of the President and subject to examination for promotion as prescribed by law, be advanced to the grade of major in the To be temporarily additional numbers.Quartermaster Corps, and any officer who shall be advanced to said grade under the terms of this proviso shall be temporarily an additional officer of said grade but only until a vacancy shall occur for him on the list of officers of said grade as hereafter limited; and no officer shall be detailed to fill any vacancy on the list of majors of the Quartermaster Corps until after all additional officers authorized by the Quartermaster sergeants and pay clerks.Pay, etc.proviso shall have been absorbed.
The noncommissioned officers now known as post quartermaster sergeants and post commissary sergeants shall hereafter be known as quartermaster sergeants; the Army pay-master’s clerks shall be known as pay clerks, and each of said noncommissioned officers and pay clerics shall continue to have the pay, Permanent organization.Colonels.allowances, rights, and privileges now allowed him by law: *Provided further*, That no details to fill Lieutenant colonels.vacancies in the grade of colonel in the Quartermaster Corps shall be made until the number of officers of that grade shall have been reduced by three, and thereafter the number of officers in that grade shall not exceed twelve; and no details to fill vacancies in the grade of lieutenant-colonel in the Quartermaster Corps shall be made until the number of officers of that grade shall have been reduced by three, and thereafter the number of officers of that grade shall not exceed eighteen; and no details to fill vacancies in the Majors.grade of major in the Quartermaster Corps shall be made until the number of officers of that grade shall have been reduced by nine, and thereafter the number of officers in said grade shall not exceed Captains.forty-eight; and no details to fill vacancies in the grade of captain in the Quartermaster Corps shall be made until after the number of officers of that grade shall be reduced by twenty-nine, and thereafter the number of officers of said grade shall not exceed one hundred and two; and Reduction in line Officers.whenever the separation of a line officer of any grade and arm from the Quartermaster Corps shall create therein a vacancy that, under the terms of this proviso, cannot be filled by detail such separation shall operate to make a permanent reduction of one in the total number of officers of said grade and arm in the line of the Army as soon as such reduction can be made without depriving any officer of his commission:
Performance of duties by regimental, etc., quartermasters and commissaries.*Provided further*, That whenever the Secretary of War shall decide that it is necessary and practicable, regimental, battalion, and squadron quartermasters and commissaries shall be required to perform any duties that junior officers of the Quartermaster Corps may properly be required to perform, and regimental and battalion quartermaster and commissary sergeants shall be required to perform any duties that non-commissioned officers or pay clerks of the Quartermaster Corps may 593 properly be required to perform, but such regimental, battalion and squadron quartermasters and commissaries shall not be required to receipt for any money or property which does not pertain to their respective regiments, battalions, or squadrons, and they shall not be separated from the organization to which they belong: *Provided further*,Designation for separate duties.
That such duty or duties as are now required by law to be performed by any officer or officers of the Quartermaster’s, Subsistence, or Pay Departments shall hereafter be performed by such officer or officers of the Quartermaster Corps as the Secretary of War may designate for the purpose: *Provided further*, That there shall be a Chief ofChief of Quarter-master Corps.Rank and appointment. the Quartermaster Corps, who shall have the rank of major general while so serving, and who shall be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, from among the officers of said corps and in accordance with the requirements ofVol. 31, p. 755. section twenty-six of the Act of Congress approved February second, nineteen hundred and one, hereinbefore cited: *Provided further*,Vacancy in grade of brigadier general.
That when the first vacancy in the grade of brigadier general in the Quartermaster Corps, except a vacancy caused by the expiration of a limited term of appointment, shall hereafter occur that vacancy shall not be filled, but the office in which the vacancy occurs shall immediately cease and determine: *Provided further*, That the QuartermasterSupervision of Chief of Staff. Corps shall be subject to the supervision of the Chief of Staff to the extent the departments hereby consolidated into said corps have heretofore been subject to such supervision under the terms of the existing law: *And provided further*, That for the purpose of carryingImmediate appointment of Chief of the Quartermaster Corps. into effect the provisions of this section the President is hereby authorized to appoint, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, the Chief of the Quartermaster Corps herein provided for immediately upon the passage of this Act, and it shall be the duty of the said chief, under the direction of the President and the Secretary of War, to put into effect the provisions of this section not less than sixty days after the passage of this Act.
Sec. 4. That as soon as practicable after the creation of a QuartermasterCivilian employees to be replaced by enlisted men. Corps in the Army not to exceed four thousand civilian employees of that corps, receiving a monthly compensation of not less than thirty dollars nor more than one hundred and seventy-five dollars each, not including civil engineers, superintendents of construction,Emp1oyments excepted. inspectors of clothing, clothing examiners, inspectors of supplies, inspectors of animals, chemists, veterinarians, freight and passenger rate clerks, civil service employees, and employees of the classified service, employees of the Army transport service and harbor-boat service, and such other employees as may be required for technical work, shall be replaced permanently by not to exceed an equal number of enlisted men of said corps, and all enlisted men of the lineExtra duty men. of the Army detailed on extra duty in the Quartermaster Corps or as bakers or assistant bakers shall be replaced permanently by not toAdditional enlisted men authorized. exceed two thousand enlisted men of said corps; and for the purposes of this Act the enlistment in the military service of not to exceed six thousand men, who shall be attached permanently to the Quarter-master Corps and who shall not be counted as a part of the enlisted force provided by law, is hereby authorized: *Provided*, That the enlisted*Provisos*.Enlisted force. force of the Quartermaster Corps shall consist of not to exceed fifteen master electricians, six hundred sergeants (first class), one thousand and five sergeants, six hundred and fifty corporals, two thousand five hundred privates (first class), one thousand one hundred and ninety privates, and forty-five cooks, all of whom shall receivePay, etc. the same pay and allowances as enlisted men of corresponding grades in the Signal Corps of the Army, and shall be assigned to such dutiesAssignment to duties. pertaining to the Quartermaster Corps as the Secretary of War may prescribe: *Provided further*, That the Secretary of War may fix the 594 Age limit for present employees.limits of age within which civilian employees who are actually employed by the Government when this Act takes effect and who arc to be replaced by enlisted men under the terms of this Act may enlist in the Quartermaster Corps: *Provided further*, That nothing in this Employment of excepted civilians, etc.section shall be held or construed so as to prevent the employment of the class of civilian employees excepted from the provisions of this Act or the continued employment of civilians included in the Act until such latter employees have been replaced by enlisted men of the Quartermaster Corps.
Sec. 5. General Staff Corps.Composition modified.Vol. 32, p. 831 amended. That hereafter the General Staff Corps shall consist of two general officers, one of whom shall be the Chief of Staff, four colonels, six lieutenant colonels, twelve majors, and twelve captains or first lieutenants, all of whom shall be detailed from the Army at large in *Proviso*.Appointments above rank of colonel.Vol. 31, p. 755.the manner and for the periods prescribed by law: *Provided*, That hereafter, except as otherwise provided herein, when any officer shall under the provisions of section twenty-six of the Act of Congress approved February second, nineteen hundred and one, be appointed to an office with rank above that of colonel, his appointment to said Vacancy to be filled.office and his acceptance of the appointment shall create a vacancy in the arm, staff corps, or staff department from which he shall be appointed, and said vacancy shall be filled in the manner prescribed Retention of relative position, etc.by existing law, but he shall retain in said arm, staff corps, or staff department, the same relative position that he would have held if he had not been appointed to said office, and he shall return to said relative position upon the expiration of his appointment to said office Restriction on filling vacancies.unless he shall be reappointed thereto; and if under the operation of this proviso the number of officers of any particular grade in any arm, staff corps, or staff department, shall at any time exceed the number authorized by law, no vacancy occurring in said grades shall be filled until after the total number of officers therein shall have been reduced Exception in present appointments.below the number authorized by law; but nothing in this proviso shall be held to apply in the case of any officer who now holds a four-year appointment to an office with rank above that of colonel, and whose return to the relative position that he would have held if he had not been appointed to said office is not possible under existing law.
Sec. 6. Service as cadet not to be counted as officer’s service. That hereafter the service of a cadet who may hereafter be appointed to the United States Military Academy or to the Naval Academy shall not be counted in computing for any purpose the length of service of any officer of the Army. Sec. 7. Appropriations of departments available for consolidated corps. That the appropriations herein provided for the several departments consolidated under this Act shall be available for the consolidated corps herein created.
Sec. 8. No officer’s rank diminished, etc. That nothing in this Act shall be held or construed so as to separate any officer from the Army or to diminish the rank now held by him, and that all laws and parts of laws, so far as they are inconsistent with the terms of this Act, be, and they are hereby, repealed. Approved, August 24, 1912.
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