Chapter 93. Making appropriations for the support of the Army for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and fourteen
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CHAP. 93.— An Act Making appropriations for the support of the Army for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and fourteen.March 2, 1913.[[H. R. 27941](/us/bill/62/hr/27941).][[Public, No. 401](/us/pl/62/401).] *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 fourteen:
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, $25,000. office of the chief of staff.Office of Chief of Staff. Army War College: For expenses of the Army War College, beingArmy War College. for the purchase of the necessary stationery, 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 $25 per month additional to regular compensation to chief clerk of division for superintendence of the War College Building. $9,000.
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 attachés at the United States embassies and legations abroad; and of the branch office of the Military Information Section at Manila and the actual and necessary traveling expenses incurred by military attachés abroad under orders from the Secretary of War, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War, $10,000: *Provided*, That section thirty-six hundred and forty-eight,*Proviso*.Periodicals.[R.
S., sec, 3648, p, 718](/us/rs/s3648/p718). Revised Statutes, shall not apply to subscriptions for foreign and professional newspapers and periodicals to be paid for from this appropriation. United States service schools: To provide means for theService schools. theoretical and practical instruction at the Staff College (includingFort Leavenworth, Kans. the Army School of the Line, Army Field Engineer School, and the Army Signal School) at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, the Mounted Service School at Fort Riley, Kansas, and the School of Fire forFort Riley, Kans.
Field Artillery at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, by the purchase of text-books,Fort Sill, Okla. books of reference, scientific and professional papers, the purchase of modern instruments and material for theoretical and practical instruction, and for all other absolutely necessary expenses, to be allotted in such proportions as may, in the opinion of the Secretary of War, be for the best interests of the military service, $30,350. the adjutant general’s department.Adjutant General’s Department, Contingencies, headquarters of military divisions andContingencies at headquarters. 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, $7,500. 705 under the chief of coast artillery.Under Chief of Coast Artillery.
Coast Artillery School, Fort Monroe, Virginia: For incidentalCoast Artillery 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, drafts-men, printers, lithographers, photographers, engine drivers, telegraph operators, teamsters, wheelwrights, masons, machinists, painters, overseers, laborers; office furniture and fixtures, machinery, and unforeseen expenses, $10,000.
For purchase of engines, generators, motors, machines, measuringSpecial apparatus. instruments, special apparatus and materials for the division of the enlisted specialists, $7,000. For purchase of special apparatus and materials and for experimental purposes for the department of artillery and land defense, $3,000. For purchase of engines, generators, motors, machines, measuringMine defense apparatus. etc. instruments, special apparatus and materials for the department of engineering and mine defense, $5,500.Books.
For purchase and binding of professional books of recent date treating of military and scientific subjects for library and for use of school, $2,500. *Provided*, That section thirty-six hundred and forty-eight, Revised*Proviso*.Periodicals.[R. S., sec. 3648, p. 718](/us/rs/s3648/p718). 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. Signal Service of the Army:
For expenses of the Signal ServiceExpenses. of the Army, as follows: Purchase, equipment, and repair of field electric telegraphs, signal equipments and stores, binocular glasses, telescopes, heliostats, and other necessary instruments, including necessary meteorological instruments for use on target ranges; warWar balloons and airships.*Post*, p. 764. 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 transmit-ting information for the Army by telegraph or otherwise, $375,000: *Provided, however*, That not more than $125,000 of said amount shall*Provisos*.Limit for aerial ma-chines.Increase of pay, etc., aviation duty. be used for the purchase, maintenance, operation, and repair of air-ships and other aerial machine: *Provided further*, That from and after the passage and approval of this Act the pay and allowances that are now or may be hereafter fixed by law for officers of the Regular Army shall be increased thirty-five per centum for such officers as are now or may be hereafter detailed by the Secretary of War on aviation duty: *Provided*, That this increase of pay and allowances shallRestriction. be given to such officers only as are actual flyers of heavier than air craft, and while so detailed: *Provided further*, That no more than thirtyDetail limited. officers shall be detailed to the aviation service: *Provided further*,Tour of detail.Vol. 31, p. 755.
That paragraph two of section twenty-six of an 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,” shall not limit the tour of detail to aviation duty of officers below the grade of lieutenant colonel: *Provided further*, That nothing in this provision shall be construed to increaseTotal of officers not increased. the total number of officers now in the Regular Army. 706 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 fifteen, 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, $50,000.
Annunciator buzzer systems at target ranges: For the installationTarget ranges.Annunciator buzzers. of annunciator buzzer systems at target ranges at Fort McPherson, Georgia, and Fort Sill, Oklahoma, $4,000. pay of officers of the line.Pay. For pay of officers of the line, $7,710,800: *Provided*, That hereafter,Line officers.*Provisos*Staff service with troop, etc., deemed line duty. in determining the eligibility, under the provisions of the Act of Congress approved August twenty-fourth, nineteen hundred and twelve, of troop, battery, or company officers for detail as officers of the various staff corps and departments of the Army, except the General Staff Corps, service actually performed by any such officer with troops prior to December fifteenth, nineteen hundred and twelve, as a regimental, battalion, or squadron staff officer, shall be deemed to have been duty with a battery, company, or troop: *Provided further*, That regimental, battalion, and squadron quartermastersPerformance of Quartermaster Corps duty by regimental, etc., staff officers.*Ante*, p. 592. and commissaries shall hereafter be required to perform the duties of officers of the Quartermaster Corps, including the receipting for any money or property pertaining to said corps, when no officer of the Quartermaster Corps is present for such duties, and nothing contained in the Army appropriation Act approved August twenty-fourth, nineteen hundred and twelve, shall hereafter be held or construed so as to prevent competent authority from requiring any officers of the Army to act temporarily as quartermasters wherever there shall be no officers of the Quartermaster Corps and no regimental, battalion, or squadron quartermasters or commissaries present for such duty.
Additional pay of officers for length of service, to be paid with theirLongevity. current monthly pay, $1,742,916.73. pay of enlisted men. For pay of enlisted men of all grades, including recruits,Enlisted men. $16,973,474. Additional pay for length of service, $2,291,574.56: *Provided*,Longevity.*Proviso*.No pay to officers and enlisted men for absence on account of drugs, liquors, etc. 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 m 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. corps of engineers.Engineer battalion.
For pay of enlisted men, $467,040. Additional pay for length of service, $60,322. ordnance department.Ordnance Corps. For pay of enlisted men, $221,436. Additional pay for length of service, $100,090.23. 707 quartermaster corps.Quarter master Corps. For pay of four hundred and seven quartermaster sergeants, atSergeants. $45 per month each, $219,780. Additional pay for length of service, $83,000. signal corps.Signal Corps. For pay of forty-two master signal electricians, at $900 each, $37,800.
For pay of one hundred and thirty-five first-class sergeants, at $540 each, $72,900. For pay of one hundred and forty-four sergeants, at $36 per month each, $62,208. For pay of twenty-four cooks, at $30 per month each, $8,640. For pay of one hundred and fifty-six corporals, at $24 per month each, $44,928. For pay of five hundred and fifty-two first-class privates, at $18 per month each, $119,232. For pay of one hundred and sixty-eight privates, at $15 per month each, $30,240.
Additional pay to twelve sergeants, serving as mess sergeants, at $6 per month each, $864. Additional pay for length of service, $61,064.64. hospital corps.Hospital Corps. For pay of enlisted men, $925,000. Additional pay for length of service, $166,121.64. quartermaster corps enlisted men.Quarter master Corps. For pay of enlisted men, Quartermaster Corps, and additional payEnlisted men. for length of service, $810,000. pay to clerks, messengers, and laborers at headquarters ofClerks, messengers, etc. divisions, departments, posts commanded by general officers, and office of the chief of staff.
One chief clerk, at the office of the Chief of Staff, $2,000 per annum. Fifteen clerks, at $1,800 each per annum. Fifteen clerks, at $1,600 each per annum. Thirty-eight clerks, at $1,400 each per annum. Seventy clerks, at $1,200 each per annum. Seventy-one clerks, at $1,000 each per annum. One captain of the watch, at $900 per annum. Three watchmen, at $720 each per annum. One gardener, at $720 per annum. One packer, at $840 per annum. Two messengers, at $840 each per annum. Sixty-five messengers, at $720 each per annum.
One laborer, at $660 per annum. Two laborers, at $600 each per annum. One laborer, at $480 per annum. Five charwomen, at $240 each per annum. In all, $317,840. 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*. 708 headquarters of divisions, departments, posts commanded by general officers, or office of the Chief of Staff shall be assigned to duty withDuty in War Department forbidden. 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, #80,500. For additional pay to such officers for length of service, to be paid with their current monthly pay, $22,000. Inspector General’s Department: For pay of officers in theInspector General’s Department. Inspector General’s Department, $59,000. For additional pay to such officers for length of service, to be paid with their current monthly pay, $16,000.
The Corps of Engineers: For pay of officers in the Corps ofEngineer Corps. Engineers, $460,300. For additional pay to such officers for length of service, to be paid with their current monthly pay, $118,610. Ordnance Department: For pay of officers in the Ordnance Department,Ordnance Department. $228,500. For additional pay to such officers for length of service, to be paid with their current monthly pay, $55,180. Quartermaster Corps: For pay of officers in the QuartermasterQuartermaster Corps.
Corps, $534,800. For additional pay to such officers for length of service, to be paid with their current monthly pay, $151,591.67. For pay of eighty-five pay clerks, at$l,125 each per annum, $95,625:Pay clerks. *Provided*, That hereafter no further appointments of pay clerks shall*Proviso*.No further appointments. be made. For additional pay for length of service, $63,293.16. Medical Department: For pay of officers in the Medical Department,Medical Department and acting dental surgeons and contract surgeons, $1,600,000.
For additional pay to such officers for length of service, to be paid with their current monthly pay, $185,232.70. For pay of one superintendent Nurse Corps, at $1,800 per annum,Nurse Corps.*Proviso*.Allowances, etc., superintendent. $1,800: *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 pay of one hundred and fifty nurses (female), $106,030.
Judge Advocate General’s Department: For pay of officers inJudge Advocate General’s Department. the Judge Advocate General’s Department, $45,500. For additional pay to such officers for length of service, to be paid with their current monthly pay, $10,400: *Provided*, That hereafter*Provisos*.Number of majors.Vol. 31, p. 751, amended.Army total not increased.Signal Corps. the number of majors in said department shall be seven: *Provided*, That this shall not be so construed as to increase the total number of officers now in the Regular Army.
Signal Corps: For pay of the officers of the Signal Corps, $114,200. For additional pay to such officers for length of service, to be paid with their current monthly pay, $29,877.67. Bureau of Insular Affairs: For pay of officers of the BureauInsular Affairs Bureau. of Insular Affairs, $13,000. For additional pay to such officers for length of service, to be paid with their current monthly pay, $2,000. retired officers.Retired officers. For pay of officers on the retired list and for officers who may bePay. placed thereon during the current year, $2,877,000.
For additional pay to such officers for length of service, to be paidLongevity. with their current monthly pay, $460,000. 709 For pay of retired pay clerks, $21,750.Pay clerks. For increased pay to retired officers assigned to active duty, $54,250.Officers on active service.Longevity. For additional pay to such officers for length of service, to be paid with their current monthly pay, $22,350. retired enlisted men.Retired enlisted men. For pay of the enlisted men of the Army on the retired list,Pay. $2,400,935.20. miscellaneous.Miscellaneous.
For pay of forty hospital matrons, $4,800.Hospital matrons. For pay of forty-two veterinarians, at $1,700 each, $71,400.Veterinarians. For additional pay to such veterinarians for length of service, to be paid with their current monthly pay, $10,000. For expenses of courts-martial, courts of inquiry, military commissions,Courts-martial, etc. and compensation of reporters and witnesses attending the same, $35,000. For additional pay to officer in charge of public buildings andOfficer, buildings and grounds, D.
C, grounds at Washington, District of Columbia, $1,000. For commutation of quarters to commissioned officers, acting dentalCommutation of quarters, officers. surgeons, veterinarians and pay clerks on duty without troops at stations where there are no public quarters, $500,000. For clothing not drawn due to enlisted men on discharge, $600,000.Clothing not drawn. Interest on deposits. Translator. For interest on soldiers’ deposits, $90,000. For pay of translator and librarian of the military information section, General Staff Corps, $1,800.
For pay of expert accountant for the Inspector General’s Department,Expert accountant. $2,500. For extra pay to enlisted men employed on extra duty for periodsExtra pay, seacoast fortifications. of not less than ten days in the offices of district Artillery engineers, and district ordnance officers, and as switchboard operators, at sea-coast fortifications, $11,208.05. For extra pay to enlisted men employed on extra duty as switchboardSwitchboard operators at interior posts. operators at each interior post of the Army, $11,242.
For extra pay to enlisted men of the line of the Army and toAlaska cable, etc. 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 35 cents per day, $32,000. For mileage to officers, acting dental surgeons, veterinarians,Mileage to officers, etc. contract surgeons, pay clerks, and expert accountant, Inspector General’s Department, when authorized by law, $550,000, of which $100,000 shall be immediately available.
For additional ten per centum increase on pay of officers on foreignAdditional pay, foreign service, officers. service, $245,000. For additional twenty per centum increase on pay of enlisted menEnlisted men. on foreign service, $750,000. For pay of one computer for Artillery board, $2,500.Computer. For payment of exchange by special disbursing agents of theLoss by exchange. Quartermaster Corps serving in foreign countries, and when specially authorized by the Secretary of War by special disbursing agents of the Quartermaster Corps serving in Alaska, $600.
For subsistence, mileage, and commutation of quarters to officersAttendance of militia at service schools. of the National Guard attending service and garrison schools, $20,000.Additional pay. For three months additional pay to enlisted men reenlistingFirst reenlistment within the period of three months from date of discharge from first enlistment, $200,000. For six months’ additional pay to beneficiaries of officers andDeaths from wounds, etc. enlisted men who die while in active service from wounds or disease not the result of their own misconduct, $60,000. 710 For additional pay to officers below the grade of major requiredOfficers tarnishing mourns. to be mounted and who furnish their own mounts, $186,000.
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, $1,500. For amount required to make monthly payment to Mabel H.Mabel H. Lazear.Vol. 35, 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, $1,500.
Amount required to make monthly payments of $100 to John R.John R. Kissinger.Vol. 36, p. 1919. Kissinger, late of Company D, One hundred and fifty-seventh Indiana Volunteer Infantry, also late of the Hospital Corps, United States Army, $1,200. For Porto Rico Regiment of Infantry, composed of two battalionsPorto Rico Regiment of Infantry. of four companies each: Pay of officers, $65,100.Officers. For additional pay for length of service, $9,860.05.Longevity. Pay of enlisted men, $134,052.Enlisted men.
Additional pay for length of service, $30,220.12.Longevity. philippine scouts.Philippine Scouts. For pay of officers: For fifty-two captains, $124,800.Officers. For pay of sixty-four first lieutenants, $128,000. For pay of sixty-four second lieutenants, $108,800. For pay of twelve majors, in addition to pay as captain, $600 each, $7,200. Additional pay for length of service, $70,576.26Longevity. For pay of enlisted men, $586,094.40.Enlisted men. For additional pay for length of service, $35,000.Longevity.
All the money hereinbefore appropriated for pay of the Army andPay accounts. miscellaneous, except the appropriation for mileage of officers, acting dental surgeons, contract surgeons veterinarians, pay clerks, and expert accountant Inspector General’s Department, when authorized by law, shall be disbursed and accounted for by officers of the Quarter-master Corps as pay of the Army, and for that purpose shall constitute one fund: *Provided*, That hereafter section thirty-six hundred and*Provisos*.Checks to indorsees of pay accounts permitted.[R.
S., sec, 3620, p. 714](/us/rs/s3620/p714). 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 officers of the Quartermaster Corps 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 payment by the UnitedEffect of payment.
States of a check on the indorsement of the indorsee specified on the pay account shall be a full acquittance for the amount due on the pay account. Encampment and maneuvers, Organized Militia: For payingOrganized Militia, the expenses of the Organized Militia of any State, Territory, or of theExpenses of encampment with Army. District of Columbia, which may be authorized by the Secretary of War to participate in such encampments as may be established for the field instruction of the troops of the Regular Army, as provided by sections fifteen and twenty-one of the Act of January twenty-first,Vol. 32, pp. 777, 779. nineteen hundred and three, entitled “An Act to promote the efficiency of the militia, and for other purposes,” to be immediately avail-able and to remain available until the end of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fifteen, $350,000: *Provided*, That of the amount herein*Proviso*.Purchase of land for field artillery target range. appropriated the Secretary of War is hereby authorized to expend $50,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for the acquisition, 711 by purchase or condemnation, of the necessary land for a suitable range for Field Artillery target practice, the land to be of such general character as to permit its use for the instruction of troops of other arms, to be located within the eastern military division, and to be so situated as to present a high degree of availability for concentration of Field Artillery.
Equipment of Coast Artillery armories, Organized Militia:Militia Coast Artillery.Equipment of armories. Equipment of Coast Artillery armories, Organized Militia—Dummy guns and mortars, mounts tor dummy guns and mortars, dummy ammunition, loading appliances, range and position finding 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, to be immediately available and remain available until expended, $185,000.
To meet the expenses incident to holding an international rifleshootingInternational rifle match. Camp Perry. Ohio. competition at Camp Perry, Ohio, in cooperation with the Perry Victory Centennial Celebration to be held in September, nine-teen hundred and thirteen: In connection therewith the Secretary of War is hereby authorized to loan to the management of the tournamentLoan of magazine rifles, etc. such new United States magazine rifles, caliber thirty, model nineteen hundred and three, as may be necessary to carry out the regulations of the international union and to detail officers and men to conduct the tournament, $25,000: *Provided*, That the rifles and*Proviso*.Free admission of rifles, etc., of competing visitors. equipment of the visiting riflemen be admitted under bond, and that the ammunition and personal effects of such riflemen be admitted to the United States without the imposition of duty. subsistence of the army.Subsistence.
Purchase of subsistence supplies: For issue, as rations toSupplies, purchase. etc. 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, 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 under observation; for sales to officers and enlisted men of the army: *Provided*, That the sum of $12,000 is authorized to be expended*Provisos*.National rifle match. for supplying meals or furnishing commutation of rations to enlisted men of the Regular Army and the Organized Militia who may be competitors in the national rifle match: *And provided further*, ThatRestriction. no competitor shall be entitled to commutation of rations in excess of $1.50 per day, and when meals are furnished no greater expense than that sum per man per day for the period the contest is in progress shall be incurred.
For payments: Of commutation of rations to thePayments.Commutation of rations. cadets at the United States Military Academy in lieu of the regular established ration, at the rate of 30 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 cannot 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 departments 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 712 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 40 cents per ration, and for enlisted men, applicants for enlistment while held under observation, and military convicts sick therein, at the rate of 30 cents per ration (except that at the general hospital at Fort Bayard, New Mexico, 50 cents per ration and at other general hospitals 40 cents per ration are authorized for enlisted patients therein) to be paid to the surgeon in charge; advertising; for providing prizes to be established by the Secretary of War forPrizes for bakers and cooks. 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 $900 per annum; for oilier necessary expenses incident to the purchase, testing, care, preservation, issue, sale, and accounting for subsistence supplies for the Army; and for extraordinaryWest Point cadets at inauguration. expense of subsistence of West Point cadets while attending inaugural ceremony not to exceed $2,000, which shall be immediately available; in all $9,098,517.
Regular supplies, Quartermaster Corps: Regular supplies ofRegular supplies, Quartermaster Corps. the Quartermaster Corps, including their care and protection, consisting of stoves and heating apparatus required for heating offices, hospitals, barracks and quarters, and recruiting stations, and United States military prisons; also ranges, stoves, coffee roasters, and appliances for cooking and serving food at posts, in the field, and when traveling, and repair and maintenance of such heating and cooking appliances; authorized issues of candles and matches; for furnishing heat and light for the authorized allowance of quarters for officers and enlisted men, for contract surgeons and acting 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 approved MayVol 82, p. 282. 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, including bake ovens and apparatus pertaining thereto, and the repair thereof; for ice machines and their maintenance where required for the health and comfort of the troops and for cold storage; ice for issue to organizations of enlisted men and offices at such places as the Secretary of War may determine, and for preservation of stores; for the construction, operation, and maintenance of laundries at military posts in the United States and its island possessions; for the authorized issues of laundry materials for use of general prisoners confined at military posts without pay or allowances, and for applicants for enlistment while held under observation; authorized issues of soap; for hire of employees; for the necessary furniture, text books, paper, and equipment for the post schools and libraries; commercial newspapers, market reports, and so forth; for the tableware and mess furniture for kitchens and mess halls, each and all for the enlisted men, including recruits; of forage, salt and vinegar for the horses, mules, oxen,Forage, etc. and other draft and riding animals of the Quartermaster Corps 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 on military reservations in the Hawaiian and Philippine Islands, and for labor and expenses incident thereto; for straw for soldiers’ bedding, stationery, type-writers and exchange of same, including blank books and blank forms for the Quartermaster Corps, certificates for discharged soldiers, and 713 for printing department orders and reports: *Provided*, That no part*Provisos*.Printing restriction. of the appropriations for the Quartermaster Corps shall be expended on printing unless the same shall be done at the Government Printing Office, or by contract after due notice and competition, except in such cases as the emergency will not admit of the giving notice of competition, and in cases where it is impracticable to have the necessary printing done by contract the same may be done, with the approval of the Secretary of War, by the purchase of material and hire of the necessary labor for the purpose.
For the fiscal year ending JuneIce machines, etc.Disposal of surplus products. thirtieth, nineteen hundred and fourteen, 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 aw, surplus ice may be disposed of, laundry work may be done for other branches of the Government, and surplus electric light and power may be sold on such terms and in accordance with such regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary of War: *Provided*,Use of proceeds, etc.
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 operation of such plant is paid, $7,652,648.Amount.
Equipment of officers’ schools, military posts: For the purchaseEquipment of post schools. 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, $5,700. Incidental expenses, Quartermaster Corps: Postage; cost ofIncidental expenses, Quartermaster Corps. telegrams on official business received and sent by officers of the Army; extra-pay to soldiers employed on extra duty, under the direction of the Quartermaster Corps, 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 quarter-masters at military posts, and for prison overseers at posts designated by the War Department for the confinement of general prisoners, and for the United States military prison guard; of extra-duty pay at rates to be fixed by the Secretary of War for mess stewards and cooks at recruit depots, who are to be graduates of the schools for bakers and cooks, and instructor cooks at the schools for bakers and cooks; for expenses of expresses to and from frontier posts and armies in the field, of escorts to officers or agents of the Quartermaster Corps and to trains where military escorts cannot be furnished; authorized office furniture ; authorized issues of towels; hire of laborers in the Quartermaster Corps, 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 Corps, 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 $50 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 $5 to each dishonorably discharged prisoner upon his release from confinement, under court-martial sentence, involving dishon714 orable discharge; for the following expenditures required for theHorse expenditures. several regiments of Cavalry, the batteries of Field Artillery, and such companies of Infantry and Scouts as may be mounted, the authorized number of officers’ horses and for the trains, to wit:
Hire of veterinary surgeons, purchase of medicines for horses and mules, picket ropes, blacksmith’s tools and materials, horseshoes and blacksmith’s tools for the Cavalry service, and for the shoeing of horses and mules; chests and issue outfits; 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, $1,960,000.Amount. Horses for Cavalry, Artillery, Engineers, and so forth:Horses.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 underProvisos.Limitations. this appropriation, added to the number now on hand, shall be limited to the actual needs of the mounted service, including reasonable provisions for remounts, and, unless otherwise ordered by the Secretary of War, no part of this appropriation shall be paid out for horses not purchased by contract after competition duly invited by the Quartermaster Corps and an inspection under the direction and authority of the Secretary of War.
When practicable, horses shall be purchased in open market at alt military posts or stations,Open-market purchases. when needed, at a maximum price to be fixed by the Secretary of War: *Provided further*, That no part of this appropriation shall beStandard required. expended for the purchase of any horses below the standard set by Army Regulations for Cavalry and Artillery horses, except when purchased as remounts or for instruction of cadets at the United States Military Academy, $325,240, of which $100,000 shall be immediately available: *Provided*, That no part of this appropriation shall be expended for polo ponies except for West Point MilitaryPolo ponies.
Academy, and such ponies shall not be used at any other place. 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 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*Provisos*.Commutation restrictions.Civilian employees. be paid for commutation of fuel or quarters to officers or enlisted men: *Provided further*, That the number of and total sum paid for civilian employees in the Quartermaster Corps, shall be limited to the actual 715 requirements of the service, and that no employee therein shall receive a salary of more than $150 per month, except upon the approval of the Secretary of War, $2,073,680: *Provided*, That of this appropriationFront Royal, Va., remount depot. the sum of $150,000 shall be spent for the construction of the necessary officers’ quarters and other buildings required at the remount depot, Front Royal, Virginia.
Military post exchange: For continuing the construction, equipment,Post exchanges. and maintenance of suitable buildings at military posts and stations for the conduct of the post exchange, school, library, reading, lunch, amusement rooms, and gymnasium, including repairs to buildings erected at private cost in the operation of the Act approvedVol. 32. p, 282. May thirty-first, nineteen hundred and two, to be expended in the discretion and under the direction of the Secretary of War, $40,000: *Provided*, That not to exceed $1,300 of this sum, to be made immediately*Proviso*.Fort Sam Houston, Tex. available, may be used for the payment of existing indebtedness on the chapel building at Fort Sam Houston, Texas, which was incurred subsequent to March third, nineteen hundred and eleven, for placing this chapel hi condition for temporary use for recreation purposes by enlisted men of the maneuver division then encamped at Fort Sam Houston, Texas.
Transportation or the Army and its supplies: For transportationTransportation. of the Army and its supplies, including transportation of the troops when moving either by land or water and of their baggage, including the cost of packing and crating: for transportation of recruits and recruiting parties; of applicants for enlistment between recruiting stations and recruiting depots; for travel allowance to enlisted men on discharge; of persons on their discharge from the United States military prison or from any place in which they have been held under a sentence of dishonorable discharge and confinement for more than six months, or from the Government Hospital for the Insane after transfer thereto from such prison or place, to their homes (or elsewhere as they may elect), provided the cost in each case shall not be greater than to the place of last enlistment; of supplies furnished to the militia for the permanent equipment thereof; of the necessary agents and other employees; of clothing and equipage and other quartermaster 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 equipment; of ordnance and ordnance stores, and small arms from the foundries and armories to the arsenals, fortifications, frontier posts, and Army depots; for payment of wharfage tolls and ferriage; for transportation of funds of the Army; for the hire of employees; for the paymentPayment to land-grant railroads. 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 hi 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*, That such compensation*Provisos*.Basis of computation. shall be computed upon the basis of the tariff or lower special rates for like transportation performed for the public at large and shall be accepted as in full for all demands for such service: *Provided further*, That in expending the money appropriated by thisFifty per cent to roads not bond aided.
Act a railroad company which has not received aid in bonds of the United States, and which obtained a grant of public land to aid in the construction of its railroad on condition that such railroad should be a post route and military road, subject to the use of the United States for postal, military, naval, and other Government services, and also subject to such regulations as Congress may impose restricting the charge for such Government transportation, having claims against the United States for transportation of troops and munitions of war and military supplies and property over such aided railroads, 716 shall be paid out of the moneys appropriated by the foregoing provision only on the basis of such rate for the transportation of such troops and munitions of war and military supplies and property as the secretary of War shall deem just and reasonable under the foregoing provision, such rate not to exceed fifty per centum of the compensation for such Government transportation as shall at that time be charged to and paid by private parties to any such company for like and similar transportation; and the amount so fixed to be paid shall be accepted as in full for all demands for such service; forDraft and pack animals, etc. the purchase and hire of draft and pack animals in such numbers as are actually required for the service, including reasonable provision for replacing unserviceable animals; for the purchase, hire, operation, maintenance, and repair of such harness, wagons, carts, 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; for the purchase and repair of ships, boats,Ships, boats, etc. and other vessels required for the transportation of troops and suppliesTransports, etc. and for official, military, and garrison purposes; for expenses of sailing public transports and other vessels on the various rivers, the Gulf of Mexico, and the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, $10,555,555.
Roads, walks, wharves, and drainage: For the constructionMilitary posts.Roads, wharves, etc. and repairs by the Quartermaster Corps of roads, walks, and 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, $642,597: *Provided*, That upon the completion of a*Provisos*.Fort Banks, Mass.Payment for side-walk. satisfactory sidewalk approximately sixteen hundred feet in length on Revere Street, Winthrop, Massachusetts, bordering the property of the Government at Fort Banks, the Secretary of War is authorized to pay to the town of Winthrop not exceeding $1,500 of the amount herein appropriated: *Provided further*, That one-half of the cost ofTown’s share. said sidewalk shall be borne by the said town: *And provided further*, That the Secretary of War is authorized and directed to sell the ripeFort Canby, Wash.Sale of ripe timber. timber in the Fort Canby Military Reserve, Washington, and so much of the money received therefrom as may be needed shall be expended,Use of proceeds. under the direction of the Secretary of War, for the improvement of Fort Canby military road in said reserve which connects with the road loading from the town of Ilwaco, Washington, to the grounds of the United States life-saving station and lighthouse, and any surplus money shall be turned into the Treasury or the United States.
Water and sewers at military posts: For procuring and introducingWater, sewers, etc. water to buildings and premises at such military posts and stations as from their situation require it to be brought from a distance; for the installation and extension of plumbing within buildings where the same is not specifically provided for in other appropriations; for the purchase and repairs of fire apparatus, including fire-alarm systems; for the disposal of sewage, and expenses incident thereto, including the authorized issue of toilet paper; for repairs to water and sewer systems and plumbing within buildings; and for hire of employees, $1,534,412.
Construction and maintenance of military and post roads,Alaska.Military and roads, etc. bridges, and trails, Alaska: For the construction, repair, and maintenance of military and post roads, bridges, and trails in the Territory of Alaska, to be expended under the direction of the board of road commissioners described in section two of an Act entitledVol. 33, p. 616. “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 andVol. 34, p. 192. five, as amended by the Act approved May fourteenth, nineteen hun717 dred and six, and to be expended conformably to the provisions of said Act as amended, $155,000: *Provided*, That not to exceed $55,000*Proviso*.Signal Corps building, etc. of this amount may be used by the Board of Road Commissioners for Alaska for the protection of the Signal Corps building and terminal grounds of the Alaska Military Cable and Telegraph System.
Barracks and quarters, Philippine Islands: Continuing thePhilippine Islands.Barracks and quarters. work of providing for the proper shelter and protection of officers and enlisted men of the Army of the United States lawfully on duty in the Philippine Islands, including repairs and payment of rents, the acquisition of title to building sites, and such additions to existing military reservations as may be necessary, and including also shelter for the animals and supplies, and all other buildings necessary for post administration purposes, $500,000: *Provided*, That no part of*Proviso*.Restriction on amount for officers quarters. 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 $8,000; of a colonel or officer above the rank of captain, $6,000; and of an officer of and below the rank of captain, $4,000.
Clothing and camp and garrison equipage: For cloth, woolens,Clothing and camp and garrison equipage. materials, and for the purchase and manufacture of clothing for the Army, for issue and for sale at cost price according to the Army Regulations; for altering and fitting clothing and washing and cleaning when necessary; for equipage, including authorized issues of toilet articles, barbers and tailors’ materials, for use of general prisoners confined at military posts without pay or allowances and applicants for enlistment while held under observation; issue of toilet kits to recruits upon their first enlistment, and issue of housewives to the Army; for expenses of packing and handling and similar necessaries; for a suit of citizen’s outer clothing, to cost not exceeding $10, 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 clothingIndemnity for destroyed clothing, etc. and bedding, and so forth, destroyed since April twenty-second, eightheen hundred and ninety-eight, by order of medical officers of the Army for sanitary reasons, $6,000,000.
Construction and repair of hospitals: For construction andHospitals.Construction, etc. 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 requiredHot Springs, Ark. at the Army and Navy Hospital at Hot Springs, Arkansas, and for the construction and repair of general hospitals and expenses incident thereto, and for additions needed to meet the requirements of increased garrisons, $450,000.
Quarters for hospital stewards: For construction and repairQuarters for hospital stewards. of quarters for hospital stewards at military posts already established and occupied, including the extra-duty pay of enlisted men employed on the same, $9,700. Shooting galleries and ranges: For shelter, shooting galleries,Shooting ranges, etc. ranges for small-arms target practice, repairs, and expenses incident thereto, including flour or paste for marking targets, 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, $54,857.
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 $ 1,200 per annum; an assistant engineer, at $900; four firemen, at $720 each; one elevator conductor, at $720, $10,700, 718 Rent of buildings, Quartermaster Corps: For rent of buildingsRent of buildings in District of Columbia. and parts of buildings in the District of Columbia, for military purposes, during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fourteen, as follows:
Field medical supply depot, $5,567.10. Signal Corps test rooms, $2,100. Quartermaster’s stable, $2,700. Quartermaster’s stable and storehouse, $4,938. Quartermaster’s storehouse, $3,600. Quartermaster’s stable and warehouse, $3,600. Five floors for Army Medical School, $8,680. Six rooms for attending surgeon and retiring board, $1,000. Depot quartermaster’s office, $2,500. Garage, Quartermaster Corps, $1,500. One room (for storage purposes). Quartermaster Corps, $54. Quarters for officers, noncommissioned officers, and privates, onQuarters for officers, etc. duty with troops where no public quarter are available, $13,347.90; total, $49,587.
The heads of the several executive departments are authorizedExecutive departments.Lease of storage accommodations authorized. to enter into contracts for the lease, for periods of not exceeding six years, of modern fireproof storage accommodations within the District of Columbia for their respective departments, at rates per square foot of available floor space not exceeding 25 cents, payable from appropriations that Congress may from time to time make for rent of buildings for their respective departments.
Claims for damages to and loss of private property: ForDamage claims. settlement of claims for damages to and loss of private property belonging to citizens of the United States, Hawaii, and the Philippine Islands, $1,652.43. medical department.Medical Department Medical and Hospital Department: For the purchase of medicalSupplies, etc. and hospital supplies, including ambulances and disinfectants, and the exchange of typewriting machines, for military posts, camps hospitals, hospital ships, and transports; for expenses of medical supply depots; for medical care and treatment not otherwise provided for, including care and subsistence in private hospitals, of officers, enlisted men, and civilian employees of the Army, of applicants for enlistment, and of prisoners of war and other persons in military custody or confinement, when entitled thereto by law, regulation, or contract: *Provided*, That this shall not apply to officers andProviso.Private treatment excepted.Contagious diseases expenses. enlisted men who are treated in private hospitals or by civilian physicians while on furlough; for the proper care and treatment of epidemic and contagious diseases in the Army or at military posts or stations, including measures to prevent the spread thereof, and the payment of reasonable damages not otherwise provided for, for bed-ding and clothing injured or destroyed in such prevention; for the pay of male and female nurses, not including the Nurse Corps (female), and of cooks and other civilians employed for the proper care of sick officers and soldiers, under such regulations fixing their number, qualifications, assignment, pay, and allowances as shall have been or shall be prescribed by the Secretary of War; for the pay of civilian physicians employed to examine physically applicants for enlistment, and enlisted men, and to render other professional services from time to time under proper authority; for the pay of other employees of the Medical Department; for the payment of express companies and local transfers employed directly by the Medical Department for the transportation of medical and hospital supplies, including bidders’ samples and water for analysis; for supplies for use in teaching the art of cooking to the Hospital Corps; for the supply of the Army and 719 Navy Hospital at Hot Springs, Arkansas; for advertising, laundry,Hot Springs Hospital, Ark. and all other necessary miscellaneous expenses of the Medical Department, $750,000.
Army Medical Museum and Library: For Army Medical Museum,Museum. preservation of specimens, and the preparation and purchase of new specimens, $5,000. For the library of the Surgeon General’s office, including the purchaseLibrary. of necessary’ books of reference and periodicals, $10,000. 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 hundred andVol. 35, p. 122. eight, $2,000.
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, $500. engineer department.Engineer Department. Engineer depots: For incidental expenses for the depots, includingIncidental expenses at depots. fuel, lights, chemicals, stationery, hardware, machinery, pay of civilian clerks, mechanics, and laborers, extra-duty pay to soldiers necessarily employed for periods not less than ten days as artificers on work in addition to and not strictly in the line of their military duties, such as carpenters, blacksmiths, draftsmen, printers, lithographers, photographers, engine drivers, telegraph operators, teamsters, wheelwrights, masons, machinists, painters, overseers, laborers; for lumber and materials and for labor for packing arid crating engineer supplies; repairs of, and for materials to repair, public buildings, machinery, and unforeseen expenses, $20,000.
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, $10,000. Engineer School, Washington, District of Columbia:Engineer School, Washington Barracks, D. C.Equipment. 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 not less than ten days as artificers on work in addition to and not strictly in the line of their military duties, such as carpenters, blacksmiths, draftsmen, printers, lithographers, photographers, engine drivers, telegraph operators, telephone operators, teamsters, wheelwrights, masons, machinists, painters, overseers, laborers; for repairs of and materials to repair public buildings and machinery; for unforeseen expenses; for 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 720 allowances; and to provide means for the theoretical and practical instruction at the Engineer School by the purchase of textbooks,Textbooks, etc. books of reference, scientific and professional papers, and for other absolutely necessary expenses, $25,000.
Engineer equipment of troops: For pontoon material, tools,Pontoon material, etc. instruments, and supplies required for use in the engineer equipment of troops, including the purchase and preparation of engineer manuals, $50,000. For construction of pontoon shed at Washington Barracks, District of Columbia, for shelter for now pontoon and bridge material, $15,000. Civilian assistants to engineer officers: For services of surveyors,Civilian assistants, etc. survey parties, draftsmen, photographers, master laborers, and clerks to engineer officers on the staff of division, corps, and department commanders, $40,000.
Contingencies, Engineer Department, Philippine Islands:Philippine Islands.Contingencies. 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, $5,000. ordnance department.Ordnance Department. Ordnance service: For the current expenses of the OrdnanceCurrent expenses. Department, in connection with purchasing, receiving, storing, and issuing ordnance and ordnance stores, comprising police and office duties, rents, tolls, fuel, light, water, and advertising, stationery, 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; for publications for libraries of the Ordnance Department, including the Ordnance Office; subscriptions to periodicals which may be paid for in advance, and payment for mechanical labor in the office of the Chief of Ordnance, $300,000.
Ordnance Stores—Ammunition: Manufacture and purchase ofAmmunition for small arms, etc. ammunition and materials therefor for small arms for reserve supply; ammunition for burials at the National Soldiers’ Home in Washington, District of Columbia; ammunition for firing the morning and evening gun at military posts prescribed by General Orders, Numbered Seventy, Headquarters 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, $200,000: *Provided*, That no part of any*Proviso*.Price of powder limited. sum in this Act appropriated shall be expended in the purchase of ordnance powder at a price in excess of 53 cents per pound or for small-arms powder at a price in excess of 65 cents per pound.
Small-arms target practice: Ammunition, targets, and otherTarget practice. accessories for small-arms and machine-gun target practice and instruction; marksmen’s medals, prize arms, and insignia for all arms of the service, and ammunition, targets, target material, and other accessories may be issued for small-arms target practice and instruction at the educational institutions and State soldiers’ and sailors’ orphans’ homes, to which issues of small arms are lawfully made, under such regulations as the Secretary of War may prescribe, provided the total value of the stores so issued to the educational institutions does not exceed $30,000, $750,000.
Manufacture of arms: For manufacturing, repairing, procuring,Manufacturing, etc., arms. and issuing arms at the national armories, $600,000. Ordnance stores and supplies: For overhauling, cleaning, repairing,Preserving, etc., ordnance. and preserving ordnance and ordnance stores in the hands of 721 troops and at the arsenals, posts, and depots; for purchase and manufactureEquipments. of ordnance stores to fill requisitions of troops; for Infantry, Cavalry, and Artillery equipments, including horse equipments for Cavalry and Artillery, $700,000.
National trophy and medals for rifle contests: For the purposeRifle contests.Trophy, medals, and prized. of furnishing a national trophy and medals and other prizes to be provided and contested for annually, under such regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary of War, said contest to be open to the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and the National Guard or Organized Militia of the several States, Territories, and of the District of Columbia, 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, $10,000.
Automatic machine rifles: Authority is hereby conferred uponAutomatic rifles. the Secretary of War, if in his opinion it be for the best interests of the service, to contract for the construction of automatic machine rifles and their appurtenances to the extent of not exceeding $150,000, prior to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and fourteen. Field artillery for Organized Militia: For the purpose ofField artillery material.Issue to Organized Militia authorized. procuring 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 requisitionsRequisitions from governors, etc. of the governors of the several States and Territories or the commanding general of the Militia of the District of Columbia, to issue said artillery material to the Organized Militia; and the sum ofAmount immediately available. $1,000,000 is hereby appropriated and made immediately available and to remain available until the end of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fifteen for the procurement and issue of the articles constituting the same.
Ammunition for Field Artillery for Organized Militia: ForOrganized Militia.Ammunition for field artillery. procuring reserve ammunition for field artillery for the Organized Militia of the several States, Territories, and the District of Columbia, $500,000, the funds to be immediately available and to remain available until the end of the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and fifteen. The sum of $13,913.25, a part of the sum of $200,000 appropriatedAutomatic rifles.Payment of royaltiesVol. 35. p. 750. by the Act of March third, nineteen hundred and nine, for automatic rifles, and set aside by the Ordnance Department for payment of royalties, is hereby made available for the payment of such royalty on automatic rifles completed during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and twelve.
The Secretary of War, in his discretion, may loan or grant for useChattanooga and Chickamauga Park.Loan of tents for use at, authorized. at Chattanooga and Chicamauga Park, during the year nineteen hundred and thirteen, the temporary use of tents and other camp equipage belonging to the United States to any organization of the Grand Army of the Republic, and of the Confederate Veterans, provided that no cost or expense shall accrue to the United States on account of said loan or temporary use of said tents, equipage, and so forth.
On and after July first, nineteen hundred and thirteen, courts-martialCourts-martial.Classification. shall be of three kinds, namely: First, general courts-martial; second, special courts-martial; and third, summary courts-martial. 722 General courts-martial may consist of any number of officers fromGeneral. five to thirteen, inclusive. Special courts-martial may consist of any number of officers fromSpecial. three to five, inclusive. A summary court-martial shall consist of one officer.Summary.
The President of the United States, the commanding officer of aAuthority to appoint.[R. S., sec. 1342, p. 237, amended](/us/rs/s1342/p237).General. territorial division or department, the Superintendent of the Military Academy, the commanding officer of an army, a field army, an army corps, a. division, or a separate brigade, and when empowered by the President, the commanding officer of any district or of any force or body of troops, may appoint general courts-martial whenever necessary; but when any such commander is the accuser or the prosecutor of the person or persons to be tried the court shall be appointed by superior competent authority, and no officer shall be eligible to sit as a member of such court when he is the accuser, or a witness for the prosecution.
The commanding officer of a district, garrison, fort, camp, or otherSpecial. place where troops are on duty, and the commanding officer of a brigade, regiment, detached battalion, or other detached command, may appoint special courts-martial for his command; but such special courts-martial may in any case be appointed by superior authority when by the latter deemed desirable, and no officer shall be eligible to sit as a member of such court when he is the accuser or a witness for the prosecution.
The commanding officer of a garrison, fort, camp, or other placeSummary. where troops arc on duty, and the commanding officer of a regiment, detached battalion, detached company, or other detachment may appoint summary courts-martial for his command; but such summary courts-martial may in any case be appointed by superior authority when by the latter deemed desirable: *Provided*, That*Proviso*.One officer with command. when but one officer is present with a command he shall be the summary court-martial of that command and shall hear and determine cases brought before him.
General courts-martial shall have power to try any person subjectJurisdiction.General. to military law for any crime or offense made punishable by the Articles of War and any other person who by statute or by the law of war is subject to trial by military tribunals: *Provided*, That no*Proviso*.Restriction. officer shall be brought to trial before a general court-martial appointed by the Superintendent of the Military Academy. Special courts-martial shall have power to try any person subjectSpecial. to military law, except an officer, for any crime or offense not capital made punishable by the Articles of War: *Provided*, That the President*Proviso*.Exceptions. may by regulations, which he may modify from time to time, except from the jurisdiction of special courts-martial any class or classes of persons subject to military law.
Special courts-martial shall have power to adjudge punishment notPunishment by. to exceed confinement at hard labor for six months or forfeiture of six months’ pay, or both, and in addition thereto reduction to the ranks in thy cases of noncommissioned officers, and reduction in classification in the cases of first-class privates. Summary courts-martial shall have power to try any soldier, exceptSummary. one who is holding the privileges of a certificate of eligibility to promotion, for any crime or offense not capital made punishable by the Articles of War: *Provided*, That noncommissioned officers shall not,*Proviso*.Nonecommissioned officers. if they object thereto, be brought to trial before a summary court-martial without the authority of the officer competent to bring them to trial before a general court-martial.
Summary courts-martial shall have power to adjudge punishmentPunishment by. not to exceed confinement at hard labor for three months or forfeiture 723 of three months’ pay, or both, and in addition thereto reduction to the ranks in the cases of noncommissioned officers and reduction in classification in the cases of first-class privates: *Provided*, That when *Proviso*.Approval required.the summary court officer is also the commanding officer no sentence of such summary court-martial adjudging confinement at hard labor or forfeiture of pay, or both, for a period in excess of one month shall be carried into execution until the same shall have been approved by superior authority.
Articles seventy-two, seventy-three, seventy-five, eighty-one,Articles of War repealed. eighty-two, and eighty-three of section thirteen hundred and forty-two of the Revised Statutes; the first section of an Act entitled “An[R. S. sec. 1342. pp. 237, 238, amended](/us/rs/s1342/pp237/238). Act to promote the administration of justice in the Army,” approved October first, eighteen hundred and ninety, as amended by the firstVol. 26, p, 648. section of an Act approved June eighteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight (Thirtieth Statutes, four hundred and eighty-three, fourVol. 30, p. 483. hundred and eighty-four), are hereby repealed, but courts-martial duly and regularly convened in orders issued prior to the date whenPresent courts continued. this Act takes effect and in existence on that date, under Articles of War hereby repealed, may continue as legal courts for the trial of cases referred to them prior to that date with the same effect as if this Act has not been passed: *Provided*, That prior to July first, nineteen*Proviso*.Authority for appointment. hundred and thirteen, the President may, when deemed by him necessary, empower any officer competent under the terms of this Act to appoint the general courts-martial which it authorizes, to appoint general courts-martial authorized by existing law.
Approved, March 2, 1913.