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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 38 STAT. · March 4, 1915 · Chapter 143

Chapter 143. Making appropriations for the support of the Army for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and sixteen

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CHAP. 143.— An Act Making appropriations for the support of the Army for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and sixteen. March 4, 1915.[[H. R. 20947](/us/bill/63/hr/20947).][[Public, No. 292](/us/pl/63/292).] *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 sixteen.
Contingencies.Contingencies of the Army: For all contingent expenses of the Army not otherwise provided for and embracing all branches of the military service, including the office of the Chief of Staff; for all Emergencies.emergencies and extraordinary expenses, exclusive of personal services in the War Department, or any of its subordinate bureaus or offices at Washington, District of Columbia, arising at home or abroad, but impossible to be anticipated or classified; to be expended on the approval and authority of the Secretary of War, and for such purposesPer diem subsisterance. as he may deem proper, including the payment of a per diem allowance not to exceed $4, in lieu of subsistence, to employees of the War Department traveling on official business outside of the District of Columbia and away from their designated posts, $25, 000. office of the chief of staff.Office of Chief of Staff.
Army War College.Army War College: For expenses of the 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 $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.Contingencies, military information section, General. Staff Corps: For contingent expenses of the military information section, 1063General Staff Corps, including the purchase of law books, professional books of reference; periodicals and newspapers; drafting and messenger service; 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; the cost of special instruction at home and abroad and in maintenance of students and attachés; and for such other purposes as the Secretary of War may deem proper; to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War,*Proviso*.Periodicals.[R.
S., sec. 3648, p. 718](/us/rs/s3648/p718). $11, 000: *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. For the actual and necessary expenses of officers of the Army onOfficers observing war operations abroad. duty abroad for the purpose of observing operations of armies of foreign States at war, to be paid upon certificates of the Secretary of War that the expenditures were necessary for obtaining military information, $15, 000: *Provided*, That the actual and necessary expenses*Proviso.*Payment of prior expenses, etc. of officers of the Army who, after July first, nineteen hundred and fourteen, have been on duty abroad for the purpose of observing operations of armies of foreign States at war, and of officers who may hereafter be on duty abroad for that purpose, shall be paid out of the appropriation for contingencies of the military information section, General Staff Corps, upon certificates of the Secretary of War that the expenditures were necessary for obtaining military information; and the amount appropriated for such contingencies byAdditional for fiscal year 1915.*Ante*, p. 351. an Act entitled “An Act making appropriations for the support of the Army for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and fifteen, ” approved April twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and fourteen, is increased to 326, 000.
United States service schools: To provide means for theService schools.Fort Leavenworth, Kans. theoretical and practical instruction at the Army service schools (including the Army Staff College, the Army School of the Line, the Army Field Engineer School, the Army Field Service and Correspondence School for Medical Officers, and the Army Signal School) at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, the Mounted Service School at FortFort Riley, Kans. Riley, Kansas, and the School of Fire for Field Artillery and for the School of Musketry, at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, by the purchase of textbooks, Fort Sill, Okla.books of reference, scientific and professional papers, the purchase of modern instruments and material for theoretical and practical instruction, employment of temporary, technical, or special services, 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, $35, 350, of which sumPay of translator. not exceeding $100 per month may be used for the payment of one translator, to be appointed by the commandant of the Army Service Schools, with the approval of the Secretary of War. the adjutant general’s department.Adjutant General’s Department.
Contingencies, Headquarters of Military Departments, DistrictsContingencies at headquarters. and Tactical Commands: For contingent expenses at the headquarters of the several territorial departments, territorial districts, tactical divisions and brigades, including the staff corps serving thereat, being for the purchase of the necessary articles of office, toilet, and desk furniture, stationery, ice, and potable water for office use when necessary, binding, maps, technical books of reference, professional and technical newspapers and periodicals, payment for which may be made in advance, and police utensils, to be allotted by the Secretary of War, and to be expended in the discretion of the commanding officers of the several military departments, districts, and tactical commands, $7, 500. 1064 under the chief of coast artillery.Under Chief of Coast Artillery.
Coast Artillery School, Fort Monroe. Va.Coast Artillery School, Fort Monroe, Virginia: For incidental expenses of the school, including chemicals, stationery, printing, and binding; hardware; cost of special instruction of officers detailed as instructors; employment of temporary, technical, or special services; 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, $10, 000.
Special apparatus.For purchase of engines, generators, motors, machines, measuring 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. Mine defense apparatus, etc.For purchase of engines, generators, motors, machines, measuring instruments, special apparatus and materials for the department of engineering and mine defense, $5, 500.
For purchase and binding of professional books treating of military and scientific subjects for library and for use of school, $2, 500. *Proviso. *Periodicals.[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 electric telegraphs, signal equipments, and stores, binocular glasses, telescopes, heliostats, and other necessary instruments, including War balloons, airships, etc.*Ante*, p. 1022.necessary meteorological instruments for use on target ranges; war balloons and airships, and accessories, 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 matériel 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, $600, 000. *Provisos.*Limit for aerial machines, etc.*Provided, however*, That not more than $300, 000 of the foregoing appropriation shall be used for the purchase, maintenance, operation, and repair of airships and other aerial machines and accessories necessary in the aviation section; and for the purchase, maintenance, Motor vehicles.repair and operation of motor-propelled, passenger-carrying vehicles, which may be necessary for the aviation section: *Provided further*, That not more than $500 of the foregoing shall be used for the cost Technical instruction.
Exchange of typewriters, etc. of special technical instruction of officers of said section: *Provided further*, That hereafter the Signal Corps may exchange typewriters and adding machines in the purchase of similar equipment. Aviation grounds, San Diego, Cal. Board to report on advisability of.The Secretary of War is hereby authorized and directed to appoint a commission of not more than three Army officers, whose duty it shall be to report upon the advisability of the acquirement by the United States Government of land near the Bay of San Diego, San Diego County, California, and elsewhere on the Pacific, Gulf, and Atlantic coasts, for an aviation school and training grounds of the Signal Corps of the United States Army, and said commission shall ascertain and 1065report what would be the probable cost of acquiring such land; andExpenses. the sum of $1,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary is hereby appropriated to defray any expenses incurred by the said commission in the performance of the duties herein imposed upon it.
Washington-Alaska military cable and telegraph system:Washington-Alaska cables, etc.Extensions, etc. For defraying the cost of such extensions and betterments of the Washington-Alaska military cable and telegraph system as may be approved by the Secretary of War, to be available until the close of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixteen, from the receipts of the Washington-Alaska military cable and telegraph system which have been covered into the Treasury of the United States, the extent of such extensions and betterments and the cost thereof to be reported to Congress by the Secretary of War, $50, 000.
Commercial telephone service at Coast Artillery posts:Telephone service. Coast Artillery. For providing commercial telephone service for official purposes at Coast Artillery posts, $8, 500, of which $2, 000 is made immediately available. pay of officers of the line.Pay. For pay of officers of the line, $7, 800, 000: *Provided*, That theLine officers.*Provisos.*Maj. Gen. Arthur Murray.Retention on active list authorized. President is authorized to retain Major General Arthur Murray, United States Army, on the active list of the Army as an additional officer in the grade of major general and as commanding general, Western Department, United States Army, from April twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and fifteen, the date on which ho would retire from active service under the provisions of section one of theVol. 22, p. 118.
Act of Congress approved June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, until the close of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, December fourth, nineteen hundred and fifteen, when he shall be retired from active service: *Provided further*, That the numberTemporary increase of major generals. of major generals of the line of the Army on the active list shall be increased by one during the period named, and for that period only: *Provided further*, That the President of the United States be,Details for Panama-Pacific Exposition duty authorized. and he is hereby, authorized to detail officers of the Army, active or retired, for duty with the Panama-Pacific International Exposition without extra compensation.
For pay of officers for length of service, to be paid with their currentLongevity pay. monthly pay, $1, 800, 000. pay of enlisted men. For pay of enlisted men of all grades, including recruits, $18,200,000:Enlisted men.*Proviso.*Pay, etc., during suspended sentence of dishonorable discharge. *Provided*, That hereafter pay and allowances shall not accrue to a soldier under sentence of dishonorable discharge, during such period as the execution of the sentence of discharge may be suspended under authority of the Act of Congress approved April twenty-seventh,Covered back to the Treasury. nineteen hundred and fourteen, and pay which has heretofore been forfeited under such suspended sentence shall not be held to have accrued to the Soldiers’ Home under the operation of section[R.
S., sec. 4818, p. 935](/us/rs/s4818/p935). forty-eight hundred and eighteen, Revised Statutes, but shall be covered back into the Treasury of the. United States. For additional pay for length of service, $2, 300, 000. corps of engineers.Engineer battalion. For pay of enlisted men, $467, 000. Additional pay for length of service, $70, 032. 60. 1066 ordnance department.Ordnance Corps. For pay of enlisted men, $225, 000. Additional pay for length of service, $105, 134. 40. quartermaster corps.Quartermaster Corps.
Sergeants.For pay of four hundred and seven quartermaster sergeants, at $45 per month each, $219, 780. Additional pay for length of service, $86, 800. *Proviso.*Appointments for charge of public property.*Provided*, That hereafter the Secretary of War is authorized to appoint such number of quartermaster sergeants, Quartermaster Corps, not to exceed the number provided for by law, as he may deem necessary for the interest of the service, said quartermaster sergeants to be selected from the most competent noncommissioned officers of the Army, who shall have served therein at least five years, three years of such service having been rendered as noncommissioned officers, and whose character and education shall fit them to take charge of public property and to act as clerks and assistants to the proper officers of the Army in charge of public property. signal corps.Signal Corps.
Fifty-six master signal electricians, at $75 each per month, four having an increase of fifty per centum, $52, 200. One hundred and forty-eight first-class sergeants, at $45 each per month, eight having an increase of fifty per centum, $82, 080. One hundred and sixty-eight sergeants, at $36 each per month, twenty having an increase of fifty per centum, $76, 896. Two hundred and thirty-four corporals, at $24 each per month, twenty having an increase of fifty per centum, $70, 272.
Thirty-two cooks, at $30 each per month, $11, 520. Six hundred and thirty-four first-class privates, at $18 each per month, $136, 944. Two hundred and twelve privates, at $15 each per month, $38, 160. Additional pay to twelve sergeants serving as mess sergeants, at $6 each per month, $864. In all, $468, 936. Additional pay for length of service, $84, 236. hospital corps.Hospital Corps. For pay of enlisted men, $1, 050, 000. Additional pay for length of service, $200, 000. quartermaster corps .ENLISTED MEN).Quartermaster Corps.
Enlisted men.For pay of enlisted men, Quartermaster Corps, $1, 200, 000. *Proviso.*Enlisted force graded.*Provided*, That the enlisted force of the Quartermaster Corps shall consist of not to exceed fifteen master electricians, three hundred and eighty sergeants (first class), one thousand two hundred and forty sergeants, six hundred corporals, two thousand nine hundred and twenty privates (first class), seven hundred and fifty privates, and ninety-five cooks, all of whom shall receive the same pay and allowances as enlisted men of corresponding grades in the Signal Corps of the Army, and shall be assigned to such duties pertaining to the Quartermaster Corps as the Secretary of War may prescribe.
Additional pay for length of service, $190, 656. 1067 Pay To Clerks, Messengers, And Laborers At Headquarters OfClerks, messengers, etc. the several territorial departments, territorial districts, tactical divisions and brigades, service schools, and office of tile chief of staff: One chief clerk, at the office of the Chief of Staff, $2, 250 per annum. Three clerks, at $2, 000 each per annum. Twelve clerks, at 31, 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. Sixty-five clerks, at $1,000 each per annum. Six clerks (Filipinos), at $500 each per annum. One captain of the watch, at $900 per annum. Three watchmen, at 3720 each per annum. One gardener, at $720 per annum. One packer, at 3840 per annum. Two messengers, at $840 each per annum. Fifty-nine messengers, at $720 each per annum. Six messengers (Filipinos), at $300 each per aimum. One laborer, at $660 per annum. Two laborers, at S600 each per annum.
Five charwomen, at $240 each per annum. In all, $312, 690. Additional pay while on foreign service, $9, 000.Foreign service pay. *Provided*, That on and after July first, nineteen hundred and fourteen,Provisos.Philippine service.Increased pay to citizens. the pay of clerks and messengers at headquarters of territorial departments, tactical divisions, brigades, and service schools, who are citizens of the United States, shall be increased $200 each per annum while serving in the Philippine Islands, such service to be computed from the date of departure from the continental limits of the United States to the date of return thereto: *Provided further*,Employment of Filipinos at reduced salaries.
That the money hereby appropriated for such of said clerks at $1,200 and $1,000 each per annum, and such of said messengers at $720 each per annum as may be employed and assigned by the Secretary of War to the headquarters of the Philippine Department, districts and posts therein, may, in case of vacancy and in the discretion of the commanding general, Philippine Department, be expended, in whole or in part, for the employment of Filipinos as clerks at not to exceed $500 each per annum, and messengers at not to exceed $300 each per annum.
And said clerks, messengers, and laborers shall be employed andAssignment. assigned by the Secretary of War to the offices and positions in which they are to serve: *Provided*, That no clerk, messenger, or laborer at*Proviso.*Duty in Department forbidden. headquarters of tactical divisions, military departments, brigades, service schools, and 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, 380, 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, $562, 400. 1068 For additional pay to such officers for length of service, to be paid with their current monthly pay, $117, 347. 32. Ordnance Department.Ordnance Department: For pay of officers in the Ordnance Department, $228, 500. For additional pay to such officers for length of service, to be paid with their current monthly pay, $53, 214. 98. Quartermaster Corps.Quartermaster Corps: For pay of officers in the Quartermaster Corps, $534,800.
Additional pay to such officers for length of service, $155, 773. 67. Seventy-six pay clerks, at $1, 125 each per annum, $85, 500. Additional pay for length of service, $60, 500. Medical Department.Medical Department: For pay of officers in the Medical Department, $1, 400, 000. Additional pay to such officers for length of service, $210, 043. 68. Acting dental surgeons.Contract surgeons.Forty acting dental surgeons, at $1, 800 each per annum, $72, 000. Eighteen contract surgeons, $30, 000.
Nurse Corps.One superintendent, Nurse Corps, at $1, 800 per annum, $1, 800. Nurses (female), $105, 420. *Proviso.*Allowances, superintendent.*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. Judge Advocate General’s Department.Judge Advocate General’s Department: For pay of officers in the Judge Advocate General’s Department, $47, 500. For additional pay to such officers for length of service, to be paid with their current monthly pay, $12, 200.
Signal Corps.Signal Corps: For pay of the officers of the Signal Corps, $225, 000. For additional pay to such officers for length of service, to be paid with their current monthly pay, $43, 487. 56. Insular Affairs Bureau.Bureau of Insular Affairs: For pay of officers of the 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. Pay.For pay of officers on the retired list and for officers who may be *Provisos.*Transfers to active list of officers retired for disability by board.placed thereon during the current year, $2, 850, 000: *Provided*, That hereafter the President be, and he is hereby, authorized, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, to transfer to the active list of the Army any officer under fifty years of age and with rank not above that of captain who may have been transferred heretofore or who may be transferred hereafter for physical disability from the active to the retired list of the Army by the action of any retiring board:
Restored to file, as additional number.*Provided*, That such officer shall be transferred to the place on the active list which he would have had if he had not been retired, and shall be carried as an additional number in the grade to which he may be transferred or at any time thereafter promoted: *Provided further*,Examinations required. That such officer shall stand a satisfactory medical and professional examination for promotion as now provided for by law: Further transfers authorized, within two years.*Provided further*, That the President be, and he is hereby, authorized within two years of the approval of this Act, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, to transfer to the active list of the Army any officer who may have been transferred heretofore for physical disability from the active to the retired list of the Army by the action of Restored to file, as additional number.any retiring board: *Provided*, That such officer shall be transferred to the place on the active list which he would have had if he had not been retired, and shall be carried as an additional number in the grade to which he may be transferred or at any time thereafter promoted:
Examinations.*Provided further*, That such officer shall stand a satisfactory medical and professional examination for promotion as may be prescribed by 1069the Secretary of War: *Provided further*, That any officer who mayBenefits to officers previously restored. have already been transferred from the retired list to the active list, shall receive the benefits of this Act. For additional pay to such officers for length of service, to be paidLongevity. with their current monthly pay, $460, 000.
For fourteen pay clerks, retired, $23,437,50.Pay clerks. Four retired veterinarians, $7,140.Veterinarians. For increased pay to retired officers on active duty, $55,050.Officers on active duty. For additional pay to such officers for length of service, to be paid with their current monthly pay, $22, 420. retired enlisted men.Retired enlisted men. For pay of the enlisted men of the Army on the retired list,Pay. $2, 850, 000. miscellaneous.Miscellaneous. For pay of forty hospital matrons, at $120 each, S4, 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, $12, 832. 16. For expenses of courts-martial, courts of inquiry, military commissions,Courts-martial.etc. and compensation of reporters and witnesses attending the same, and expenses of taking depositions, and securing other evidence for use before the same, $50, 000. For additional pay to officer in charge of public buildings andOfficer, public buildings and grounds, D.C. grounds at Washington, District of Columbia, $500.
For commutation of quarters, and of heat and light, to commissionedCommutation o.quarters. officers, acting dental surgeons, veterinarians, pay clerks, members of the Nurse Corps and enlisted men, $640, 000. *Provided*, That hereafter, at places where there are no public*Provisos.*Rate for officers.etc. quarters available, commutation for the authorized allowance therefor shall be paid to commissioned officers, acting dental surgeons, veterinarians, members of the Nurse Corps, and pay clerks at the rate ofEnlisted men. $12 per room per month; and, when Specifically authorized by the Secretary of War, to enlisted men at the rate of $ 15 per month, or in lieu thereof he may, in his discretion, rent quarters for the use of said enlisted men when so on duty. *Provided further*, That hereafter the Secretary of War may determineDetermination of available quarters. where and when there are no public quarters available within the meaning of this or any other Act.
For interest on soldiers’ deposits, $100,000.Interest on deposits. For pay of translator and librarian of the military information Translator.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 coast defense artillery engineers, and coast defense ordnance officers, and as switchboard operators, at seacoast fortifications, $14, 004. 90.
For extra pay to enlisted men employed on extra duty as switch-boardSwitchboard operators at interior posts. operators at each interior post of the Army, $11, 913. 30. For extra pay to enlisted men of the line of the Army and to enlistedAlaska cable, etc. men of the Signal Corps employed in the Territory of Alaska on the Washington-Alaska military cable and telegraph system, for periods of not less than ten days, at the rate of 35 cents per day, $30, 744. For mileage to officers, veterinarians, pay clerks, acting dentalMileage, officers, etc. surgeons, contract surgeons, and expert accountant, Inspector General’s Department, when authorized by law, $500,000. 1070 Additional pay, foreign service.Officers.For additional ten per centum increase on pay of officers on foreign service, $240, 000.
Enlisted men.For additional twenty per centum increase to enlisted men on foreign service, $750, 000. Computer.For pay of one computer for artillery board, $2, 500. For payment of exchange by acting quartermasters serving in foreign countries, and when specially authorized by the Secretary of War by officers disbursing funds pertaining to the Quartermasters Corps when serving in Alaska, $600. Loss by exchange.For subsistence, mileage, and commutation of quarters to officers of the National Guard attending service and garrison schools, $20, 000.
Attendance of militia at service schools.For three months’ additional pay to enlisted men reenlisting within the period of three months from date of discharge from first enlistment, $100, 000. Additional pay.First reenlistment.For six months’ additional pay to beneficiaries of officers and en-listed men who die while in active service from wounds or disease not the result of their own misconduct, $65, 000. Death from wounds, etc.For one year’s additional pay to beneficiaries of officers and enlisted men who die as the result of aviation accidents, $5, 000.
Death from aviation accidents.For additional pay to officers below the grade of major required to be mounted and who furnish their own mounts, $190, 000. Officers furnishing mounts.For amount required to make monthly payments to Jennie Carroll, widow of James Carroll, late major and surgeon, United States Army, as per Act of Congress approved May twenty-third, nineteen hundred and eight, $1, 500. Jennie Carroll.Vol. 35, p. 1325.For amount required to make monthly payments to Mabel H.
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. Mabel H. Lazear.Vol. 35, p. 1325.Amount required to make monthly payments of $100 to John R. Kissinger, late of Company D, One hundred and fifty-seventh Indiana Volunteer Infantry, also late of the Hospital Corps, United States Army, $1, 200. John R. Kissinger.Vol. 36, p. 1919.For Porto Rico Regiment of Infantry, composed of two battalions of four companies each:
Porto Rico Regiment of Infantry.Pay of officers, $67, 100. For additional pay for length of service, $15, 432. 02. Officers.Pay of enlisted men, $140, 088. Additional pay for length of service, $30,220.12. Enlisted men.*Provided*, That the permanent captains of the Porto Rico Regiment of Infantry now holding commissions as such in said regiment shall be recommissioned as captains of Infantry of the United States Army, to take rank on the lineal list of officers of Infantry immediately after the junior officers of the same grade whose total commissioned service *Provisos.*Captains to be recommissioned as captains of Infantry.equals or exceeds theirs: *Provided further*, That those officers of the Porto Rico Regiment of Infantry, recommissioned as captains of Infantry, whose total commissioned service is less than that of any officer of Infantry of the next lower grade, shall not advance on the lineal list of captains of Infantry, nor on the relative list of officers of the United States Army, until such time as there no longer remains on the lineal list of officers of Infantry any officer of the next lower grade of equal or greater length of total commissioned service and shall take rank in the grade of captain on the lineal list of officers of Infantry and on the relative list of officers of the United States Army immediately after the juniors in rank of such officers of Infantry of equal or greater Status on lineal list.total commissioned service: *Provided*, That for the purpose of th is Act total commissioned service shall include commissioned service in the Regular Army, in the Volunteers, in the Porto Rico Provisional Regiment of Infantry, and in the Porto Rico Regiment of Infantry, and that the commissioned service of those officers of the Porto Rico Regi1071ment of Infantry who were officers of the Porto Rico Provisional Regiment of Infantry, shall be counted as continuous and uninterrupted between the twenty-ninth day of June, nineteen hundred and eight, and the thirty-first day of December, nineteen hundred and eight. philippine scouts.Credit of prior commissioned service.
For pay of officers: For fifty-two captains, $124, 800.Philippine Scouts. For pay of sixty-five first lieutenants, S130, 000. For pay of sixty-five second lieutenants, $110, 500. For pay of thirteen majors, in addition to pay as captain, $60C each, S7, 800. Additional pay for length of service, $99, 553. 91. For pay of enlisted men, $593, 144. 40.Officers. For additional pay for length of service, $35, 000. All the money hereinbefore appropriated for pay of the Army andEnlisted men. miscellaneous, except the appropriation for mileage of officers, 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.
Encampment and maneuvers, Organized Militia For payingPay accounts specified. the expenses of the Organized Militia of any State, Territory, or of the District of Columbia, which may be authorized by the Secretary of War to participate in such encampments as may be established for the field instruction of the troops of the Regular Army, as provided by sections fifteen and twenty-one of the Act of JanuaryOrganized Militia.Expenses of encampments with Army. twenty-first, nineteen hundred and three, entitled “An Act to pro-mote the efficiency of the militia, and for other purposes, ” to be immediately available and to remain available until the end of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, $250, 000. *Provided*, That of this sum $50, 000, or as much thereof as mayVol. 32, pp. 777, 779. be necessary, is authorized to be expended for payment of transportation of teams of the Organized Militia authorized by the Secretary of War to participate in the national match.
Care of horses and matériel for Field Artillery of the*Proviso.*Transportation of teams at rifle match. Organized Militia: For the purchase and issue of forage, bedding, shoeing, and veterinary services and supplies for Field Artillery horses of the Organized Militia that may be owned or acquired by or issued to any State or Territory, or the District of Columbia, or an individual, a battery, or battalion, or regimental headquarters, and for the compensation of competent help for the care of the matériel, animals, and equipment thereof, under such regulations as the Secretary of War may prescribe, $200, 000: *Provided*, That for theMilitia Field Artillery.Care of horses, supplies, etc. purpose of this section the total number of horses shall not exceed thirty-two to any one battery or four to each battalion or regimental headquarters, and that such horses shall be used exclusively for Field Artillery purposes: *And provided further*, That the men to be*Provisos.*Number of horses. so compensated, not to exceed five for each battery, shall be duly enlisted therein and shall be detailed by the battery commander under such regulations as the Secretary of War may prescribe, and shall be paid by the United States disbursing officer in each State provided for in the Act of January twenty-first, nineteen hundred and three, entitled, “An Act to promote the efficiency of the militia, and for other purposes, ” as amended: *And provided further*, ThatPayment to detailed enlisted men.Vol. 32, p. 777. the funds appropriated by section sixteen hundred and sixty-one, Revised Statutes, and by the Act entitled “An Act to promote the efficiency of the militia, and for other purposes, ” approved May twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and eight, as amended, shall be 1072available for the purchase, under such regulations as the Secretary of War may prescribe, of horses conforming to the Regular Army standards, said horses to remain the property of the United States and to be for the sole continuous use of the Field Artillery of the Purchase of horses from militia fund.
Organized Militia: *And provided further*, That the Secretary of War may, under the provisions of this Act and such regulations as he may prescribe, issue to the Field Artillery organizations hereinbefore mentioned and without cost to the State condemned Army horses which are no longer fit for service but may still be suitable for purposes of instruction, the same to be sold as now provided by law when the latter purpose has been served. [R. S., sec. l661, p. 290](/us/rs/s1661/p290).Vol. 34, p. 449.
Vol. 35, p. 401. Subsistence of the Army: 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 as guides and scouts, and general prisoners 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 enlistedIssue of condemned Arm.horses. men of the Army: *Provided*, That the sum of $12, 000 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 competitors in the national rifle match: *Provided further*,Subsistence.Supplies, purchase, etc.
That 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 *Provisos.*National rifle match.contest is in progress shall be incurred. For payments: Of commutation of rations to the cadets of 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 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 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 general prisoners 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 40 cents per ration, and for enlisted men, applicants for enlistment while held under observation, and general prisoners 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;
Excess restricted.advertising; for providing prizes to be established by the Secretary of War for enlisted men of the Army who graduate from the Army schools for bakers and cooks, the total amount of such prizes at the Payments.Commutation of rations, etc.various schools not to exceed $900 per annum; for other necessary expenses incident to the purchase, testing, care, preservation, issue, sale, and accounting for subsistence supplies for the Army, Prizes for bakers an.cooks.$9, 943, 384. 64: *Provided further*, That the officers and enlisted men of the Navy and the Marine.
Corps shall be permitted to purchase subsistence supplies at the same price as is charged the officers and the Preserving, accounting.etc.enlisted men of the Army: and the officers and the enlisted men of the Army shall be permitted to purchase subsistence supplies from the Navy and Marine Corps at the same price as is charged the officers and the enlisted men of the Navy and Marine Corps. 1073 Regular supplies, Quartermaster Corps: Regular supplies of Sales to Navy and Marine 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 disciplinary barracks; 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 Purchase of Navy supplies by Army.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 ActRegular supplies, Quartermaster Corps. approved May thirty-first, nineteen hundred and two; for sale to officers, and including also fuel and engine supplies required in the operation of modern batteries at established posts; for post bakeries, 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 officers 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, textbooks,Heat, light, etc. paper, and equipment for the post schools and libraries; for the purchase and issue of instruments, office furniture, stationery, and other authorized articles for the use of officers’ schools at the several military posts; 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,Recreation buildings.Vol. 32, p. 282. and vinegar for the horses, mules, oxen, 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, typewriters and exchange of same, including blank books and blank forms for the Quartermaster Corps, certificates for discharged soldiers, and for printing department orders and reports, $7, 661, 360: *Provided*, That no part of thePost schools, etc. 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 nave 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 endingForage, etc. June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, 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, 1074and electric plants as have been or may hereafter be established in pursuance of law, surplus ice may be disposed of, laundry work may be done for other branches of the Government, and surplus electric light and power may be sold on such terms and in accordance with such regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary of War: *Provisos.*Printing restrictions.*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 operation of such plant is paid.
Ice machines, etc.Disposal of surplus products.Incidental expenses, Quartermaster Corps: Postage; cost of 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 quartermasters at military posts, and for overseers of general prisoners at posts designated by the War Department for the confinement of general prisoners, and for the United States disciplinary barracks 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 can not 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, watch- men, and organist for the United States disciplinary barracks, 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-martialUse of proceeds. sentence involving dishonorable discharge; for the following expenditures required for the 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, $1,872,163:
Incidental expenses, Quartermaster Corps.*Provided*, That the United States military prison at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, shall hereafter be known as the United States disciplinary barracks and the branches of said prison as branches of such barracks: *Provided further*, That the authority now vested in the Secretary of War to give an honorable restoration to duty, in case the same is merited, to general prisoners confined in the United States disciplinary barracks and its branches shall be extended so that such 1075restoration may be given to general prisoners confined elsewhere, and the Secretary of War shall be, and he is hereby, authorized to establishHorse expenditures. a system of parole for prisoners confined in said barracks and its branches, the terms and conditions of such parole to be such as the Secretary of War may prescribe.
Horses for Cavalry, Artillery, Engineers, and so forth:*Proviso.*Fort Leavenworth military prison to be disciplinary barracks, hereafter.Honorable restoration to duty extended. 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,System of parole authorized. 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 inHorses.Purchase, etc. open market at all military posts or stations, when needed, at a maximum price to be fixed by the Secretary of War: *Provided further*, That no part of this appropriation shall be expended for the*Provisos*.Limitations. purchase of any horse 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: *And provided further*, That no part of this appropriation shall beOpen market purchases. expended for polo ponies except for West Point Military Academy, and such ponies shall not be used at any other place: *And provided further*, That the Secretary of War is authorized to expend $2,110.32,Standard required. or so much thereof as may be necessary, of the amount appropriated herein, for the completion of the purchase of certain lands included in the reservation of the Front Royal (Virginia) Remount Depot, which was acquired under authority of the Act of Congress approved March third, nineteen hundred and eleven, namely, tracts twenty-two, twenty-five, and twenty-eight, aggregating one hundred and ninety-three and seven-eighths acres, more or less, and for the release of all claims against the United States for the use and occupation thereof, the said sum being the amount necessary to complete the purchase of the said tracts under the proposed compromise of the suit now pending for the condemnation of the same, $495, 120.
Barracks and quarters: For barracks, quarters, stables, store-houses,Polo ponies. 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 Coast Artillery; for repairing public buildings at military posts; for hire of employees; for rental of the authorized allowance of quarters for officers and acting dental surgeons 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 1076screens, storm doors and sash, and window shades for barracks, offices, and quarters, and for flooring and framing for tents, $2, 067, 558:
Front Royal remount depot.Additional lands.Vol. 36, p. 1049.*Provided*, That no part of the moneys so appropriated shall be paid for commutation of fuel or quarters to officers or enlisted men: *And provided further*,Barracks and quarters. That the number of and total sum paid for civilian employees in the Quartermaster Corps shall be limited to the actual requirements of the service, and that no employee therein shall receive a salary of more than $150 per month, except upon the *Provisos.*Commutation restricted.approval of the Secretary of War: *Provided*, That of the foregoing appropriation $5, 000, or so much thereof as may be required, shall be expended to complete the post chapel at Fort Sam Houston.
Civilian employees.Military post exchanges: For continuing the construction, equipment, and maintenance of suitable buildings at military posts and stations for the conduct of the post exchange, school, library, Fort Sam Houston.Post chapel.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, for the rental of films, purchase of slides, supplies for and making repairs to moving-picture outfits, to be expended in the discretion and under the direction of the Secretary of War, $45, 839. 85.
Post exchanges.Transportation of the Army and its supplies: For transportation 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 disciplinary barracks 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 barracks 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 Recreation buildings.Vol. 32, p. 282.the necessary agents and other employees, including per diem allowances in lieu of subsistence not exceeding $4 for those authorized to receive the per diem allowance; 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 Transportation.Army; for the hire of employees; for the payment of Army transportation lawfully due such land-grant railroads as have not received aid in Government bonds (to be adjusted in accordance with the decisions of the Supreme Court in cases decided under such land-grant Acts), but in no case shall more than fifty per centum of full amount of Per diem for subsistence.service be paid: *Provided*, That such compensation shall be computed upon the basis of the tariff or lower special rates for like transportation performed for the public at large and shall be accepted as Payment to land-grant railroads.in full for all demands for such service: *Provided further*, That in expending the money appropriated by this Act a railroad company which has not received aid in bonds of the United States, and which obtained a grant of public land to aid in the construction of its railroad on condition that such railroad should be a post route and military road, subject to the use of the United States for postal, military, naval, and other Government services, and also subject to such regulations as Congress may impose restricting the charge for such Government transportation, having claims against the United States for 1077transportation of troops and munitions of war and military supplies and property over such aided railroads, shall be paid out of the moneys appropriated by the foregoing provision only on the basis of such rate for the transportation of such troops and munitions of war and military supplies and property as the Secretary of War shall deem just and reasonable under the foregoing provision, such rate not to exceed fifty per centum of the compensation for such Government transportation as shall at that time tie charged to and paid by private parties to any such company for like and similar transportation; and the amount so fixed to be paid shall be accepted as in full for all demands for such service; for the purchase and hire of draft and pack animals*Provisos*.Basis of computation. 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, other vehicles and motor-propelled and horse-drawn passenger-carrying 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 ofFifty per cent to roads not bond aided. ships, boats, and other vessels required for the transportation of troops and supplies and for official, military, and garrison purposes; for expenses of sailing public transports and other vessels on the Draft and pack animals, vehicles, etc.various rivers, the Gulf of Mexico, and the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, $10, 626, 518: *Provided further*, That $75, 000 of the appropriationShips, boats, etc. hereby made shall be available for additional pay of employees on harbor boats, quartermaster service, in lieu of subsistence: *And provided further*, That the provisions of the Act of MarchTransports. third, eighteen hundred and eighty-five (Twenty-third Statutes, page three hundred and fifty), entitled “An Act to provide for the settlement of the claims of officers and enlisted men of the Army for loss of private property destroyed in the military service of the United States, ” shall hereafter extend to cover loss of or damage to theEmployees on harbor boats. regulation allowance of baggage of officers and enlisted men sustained in shipment under orders, to the extent of such loss or damage over and above the amount recoverable from the carrier furnishing the transportation.
Roads, walks, wharves, and drainage: For the construction and Payment for lost property.Vol. 23, p. 350.repair 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, $600, 000. The Secretary of War is hereby authorized to accept, on behalf ofExtended to baggage allowance of officers and enlisted men. the Government of the United States, the land which has been donated for the purpose of connecting the monument of the Ninth Regiment of New York Volunteers with the road system of the battle field of Antietam.
Water and sewers at military posts: For procuring and introducingMilitary posts.Roads, walks, and wharves. 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 buddings; and for hire of employees, $1, 656, 254: *Provided*, That $75, 000, or so much thereof asAntietam battle field.Acceptance of donated land authorized. may be necessary, of the amount appropriated herein shall be immediately available for commencing the project of improving and increasing the water supply at Corregidor Island, Philippine Islands. 1078 Water and sewers.Construction, repair, and maintenance, military and post roads, bridges, and trails, Alaska:
For the construction, repair, and maintenance of military and post roads, bridges, and trails, Territory of Alaska, $165, 000. *Proviso.*Corregidor Island, P. I., water supply.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 post Alaska.Military and post roads, etc.administration purposes, $400, 000: *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 $8, 000; of a colonel or officer above the rank of captain, $6, 000; and of an officer of and below the rank of Philippine Islands.Barracks and quarters.captain, $4, 000: *Provided further*, That on and after October first, nineteen hundred and fifteen, no officer or enlisted man of the Army shall, except upon his own request, be required to serve in a single tour of duty for more than two years in the Philippine Islands, nor more than three years in the Panama Canal Zone, except in case of insurrection or of actual or threatened hostilities: *Provided further*, *Provisos*.Restriction on amount for officers’ quarters.That the foregoing provision shall not apply to the organization known as the Philippine Scouts.
Tour of duty in Philippines and Canal Zone reduced.Clothing, and camp and garrison equipage: For cloth, woolens, 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 payment for clothing not drawn due to enlisted men on discharge; 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 Philippine Scouts not affected.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 medicalClothing, and camp and garrison equipage. officers of the Army for sanitary reasons, $6, 693, 000: *Provided*, That hereafter whenever contracts which are not to be performed within sixty days are made on behalf of the Government by the Quartermaster General, or by officers of the Quartermaster Corps authorized to make them, and are in excess of $500 in amount, such contracts shall be reduced to writing and signed by the contracting parties.
In all other cases contracts shall be entered into under such regulations as may be prescribed by the Quartermaster General: Indemnity for destroyed clothing, etc.*Provided further*, That all the money hereinbefore appropriated under the titles Subsistence of the Army, Regular Supplies—Quartermaster Corps, Incidental Expenses—Quartermaster Corps, Transportation of the Army and its Supplies, Water and Sewers at Military Posts, and Clothing and Camp and Garrison Equipage shall be disbursed and accounted for by officers and agents of the Quartermaster Corps as “Supplies, Services, and Transportation, Quartermaster Corps, ” *Provisos.*Regulation of contracts made by Quartermaster Corps.and for that purpose shall constitute one fund: *Provided further*, That hereafter funds appropriated for support of the Army may be used for the procurement of supplies to be held in store for issue 1079to the Army during subsequent fiscal years: *Provided further*, ThatSupplies, services, and transportation.Combination of funds as. articles of serviceable quartermaster property may be sold by the Quartermaster General of the Army to officers of the Navy and Marine Corps, for their use in the public service, in the same manner as these articles are now sold to officer’s of the Army.
Construction and repair of hospitals: For construction and Purchases for future years.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 requiredSale of property to Navy and Marine Corps officers. at the Army and Navy Hospital at Hot Springs, Arkansas, and or the construction and repair of general hospitals and expenses incidentHospitals.Construction, etc. thereto, and for additions needed to meet the requirements of increased garrisons, and for temporary hospitals in standing camps and cantonments, $380, 000.
Quarters for hospitals stewards: For construction and repair Hot Springs, Ark.of quarters for hospital stewards at military posts already established and occupied, including the extra-duty pay of enlisted men employed on the same, $12, 500. Shooting galleries and ranges: For shelter, shooting galleries,Temporary structures. 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, $45, 000.
Maintenance, Army War College: For supplying the necessary Quarters for hospital stewards.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; and assistant engineer, at $900; four firemen, at $720 each; one elevator conductor, at S720, $10, 700. Rent of buildings, Quartermaster Corps: For rent of buildings Shooting galleries and ranges.and parts of buildings in the District of Columbia, for military purposes, during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixteen, as follows;
Field medical supply depot, $5, 567. 10. Signal Corps test rooms, $2, 100. Quartermaster stables, $2, 700. Quartermaster stable and storehouse, $4, 938. Quartermaster 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 office, $2, 500. Garage, Quartermaster Corps, $1, 500. One room (for storage purposes), Quartermaster Corps, $54. Quarters for officers, noncommissioned officers, and privates onArmy War College. duty with troops where no public quarters are available, $13, 347. 90.
In all, $45, 987. Claims for damages to and loss of private property: For settlementRent of buildings, District of Columbia. of claims for damages to and loss of private property belonging to citizens of the United States, Hawaii, and the Philippine Islands, $2, 928. 86. medical department. Medical and hospital department: For the purchase of medicalQuarters for officers, etc. and hospital supplies, including motor and other ambulances, their maintenance, repair, and operation, 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 tor, 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 1080Damage claims.custody or confinement, when entitled 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, 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 supplyMedical Department. of the Army and Navy Hospital at Hot Springs, Arkansas; for advertising, laundry, and all other necessary miscellaneous expenses Supplies, etc.of the Medical Department, $750, 000: *Provided*, That hereafter, with the approval of the Secretary of War and at rates of charge of not less than the contract prices paid therefor plus twenty-five per centum to cover the cost of purchase, inspection, and so forth, the Medical Department of the Army may sell for cash to the American National Red Cross such medical supplies and equipments as can be spared without detriment to the military service: *Provided further*, *Provisos.*Private treatment excepted.Contagious diseases expenses.That hereafter in the settlement of accounts between the appropriations of the Medical Department and those of any other branch of the Army service, or any bureau or office of the War Department, or any other executive department or establishment of the Government, payment thereof may be made by the proper disbursing officer of the Medical Department or of the branch of the Army service office, bureau, department, or establishment concerned.
Hot Springs Hospital, Ark. Hospital care, Canal Zone garrisons: For paying the Panama Canal such reasonable charges, exclusive of subsistence, as may be approved by the Secretary of War for caring in its hospitals for officers, enlisted men, military prisoners, and civilian employees of the Army admitted thereto upon the request of proper military Sales of supplies to Red Cross authorized. authority: *Provided*, That the subsistence of the said patients except commissioned officers and acting dental surgeons, shall be paid to said hospitals out of the appropriation for subsistence of the Army at the rates provided therein for commutation of rations for enlisted patients in general hospitals, $45, 000.
Payment of accounts with other offices. Army Medical Museum and library: For Army Medical Museum preservation of specimens, and the preparation and purchase of new specimens, $5, 000. Canal Zone.Payment for hospital care, etc., at garrisons. For the library of the Surgeon General’s office, including the purchase of necessary books of reference and periodicals, $10, 000. bureau of insular affairs.*Proviso.*Subsistence payments. Museum.Care of insane Filipino soldiers: For the care, maintenance, 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 and eight, $1, 500. 1081 Care of insane soldiers, Porto Rico Regiment of Infantry:Library.
For the care, maintenance, and treatment at asylums in Porto Rico of insane soldiers of the Porto Rico Regiment of Infantry, $300. engineer department.Bureau of Insular Affairs. Engineer depots: For incidental expenses for the depots, includingCare of insane soldiers.In the Philippines. fuel, lights, chemicals, stationery, hardware, machinery, pay of civilian clerks, mechanics, laborers, and other employees, 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 instruments, and for unforeseen expenses, $25, 000.
Engineer School, Washington, District of Columbia: Equipment Vol. 35, p. 122.and maintenance of the Engineer School at Washington Barracks, District of Columbia, including purchase and repair 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 on military and civil engineering and kindred scientific subjects for the library of the United States Engineer School; for incidental expenses of the school, including chemicals,In Porto Rico. 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 opera-tors, teamsters, wheelwrights, masons, machinists, painters, overseers, and laborers; for unforeseen expenses; for travel expenses of officersEngineer Department. on journeys approved by the Secretary of War and made for the purpose of instruction: *Provided*, That the traveling expenses hereinIncidental expenses at depots. provided for shall be in lieu of mileage and other allowances; and to provide means for the theoretical and practical instruction at the Engineer School by the purchase of textbooks, books of reference, scientific and professional papers, and for other absolutely necessary expenses, $25, 000.
Engineer equipment of troops: For pontoon material, tools,Engineer School, Washington, D. C.Equipment, etc. instruments, supplies, and appliances required for use in the engineer equipment of troops, for military surveys, and for Engineer operations in the field, including the purchase and preparation of Engineer manuals and procurement or special paper for same, $48, 000: *Provided*Incidental expenses. That authority is granted for the expenditure from this appropriation of the sum of $750 for the purchase of two motor cycles, and of the sum of $200 for the maintenance and repair (exclusive of fuel) of four motor cycles.
Civilian assistants to Engineer officers: For services of surveyors,Travel expenses. survey parties, draftsmen, photographers, master laborers, and clerks to Engineer officers on the staffs of division, corps, and department commanders, $40, 000. Contingencies, Engineer Department, Philippine Islands:*Proviso.*In lieu of mileage. For contingent expenses incident to the operations of the Engineer 1082 Department in the Philippine Islands, to be expended at the discretion of the Secretary of War,. $4, 000.
Textbooks, etc.Where the expenses of persons engaged in field work or traveling on official business outside of the District of Columbia and away from their designated posts of duty are chargeable to appropriations Equipment of troops.of the Engineer Department contained in the Army appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixteen, a per diem rate of $4 may be allowed in lieu of subsistence. ordnance department.*Proviso.*Motor cycles. Civilian assistants.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 trial 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; and for purchase, maintenance, repair, and operation of horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles, and maintenance, repair, and operation of one motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicle, $325, 000.
Contingencies, Philippine Islands.Ordnance stores—ammunition: Manufacture of ammunition 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, $100, 000: *Provided*,Per diem subsistence out of District of Columbia.
That not more than $5, 000 of this appropriation may be used in the purchase of ammunition. *Ante*, p. 680.Small-arms target practice: For manufacture of 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 materials, 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 and homes does not exceed $30, 000, $800, 000:
Ordnance Department.*Provided*, That not more than $30, 000 of this appropriation may be used for the purchase of articles not manufactured by the Government, and necessary for small-arms target practice. Current expenses.. Manufacture of arms: For manufacturing, repairing, and issuing arms at the national armories, $250, 000; *Provided*, That existing written agreements involving the purchase of patented articles patents for which have not expired may be carried out. Ammunition for small arms, etc.Ordnance stores and supplies:
For overhauling, cleaning, 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 *Proviso.*Limit of purchases.Infantry, Cavalry, and Artillery equipments, including horse equipments for Cavalry and Artillery, $1, 000,000. 1083 National trophy and medals for rifle contests: For the Target practice.purpose of furnishing a national trophy and medals and other prizes to be provided and contested for annually, under such regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary of War, said contest to be open to the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and the National Guard or Organized Militia of the several States, Territories, and of the District of Columbia, 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: For the purchase, manufacture, and *Proviso.*Limit of purchases.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 seventeen, $150, 000. *Provided*, That the balance remaining available and unexpendedManufacturing, etc. arms.*Proviso.*Patented articles. from the appropriation for the above purpose made in the Act approved August twenty-fourth, nineteen hundred and twelve, is hereby reappropriated and made available until expended, in addition to the appropriation made in this Act.
For the purchase and manufacture of armored motor cars, $50, 000.Preserving, etc. ordnance. Field artillery for Organized Militia: For the purpose of Equipment.manufacturing 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 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 $2, 090, 000 is hereby appropriated and made immediately available and to remain available until the end of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, for the manufacture and issue of the articles constituting the same. *Provided*, That not more than $170, 000 of this appropriation mayRifle contests.Trophy, medals, prizes, etc. be used for the purchase of field artillery material.
Ammunition for Field Artillery for Organized Militia: ForAutomatic rifles.Purchase, etc. the purpose of manufacturing reserve ammunition for Field Artillery for the Organized Militia of the several States, Territories, and the District of Columbia, the funds to be immediately available and to remain available until the end of the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, $2, 900, 000. *Provided*, That not more than 8100, 000 of this appropriation may*Proviso*.Reappropriation.Vol. 37, p. 589. be used in the purchase of Field Artillery reserve ammunition. *Provided*, That no part of the appropriations made in this bill shall beArmored motor cars. available for the salary or pay of any officer, manager, superintendent, foreman, or other person having charge of the work of any employee of the United States Government while making or causing to be made, with a stop watch or other time-measuring device, a time study of any job of any such employee between the starting and completion thereof or of the movements of any such employee while engaged upon such work; nor shall any part of the appropriations made in this bill beOrganized Militia.Field artillery material for. available to pay any premium or bonus or cash reward to any employee in addition to his regular wages, except for suggestions resulting in improvements or economy in the operation of any Government plant; and no claim for services performed by any person while violating this proviso shall be allowed. 1084 *Proviso.*Limit of purchases.*Provided*, That the appropriations hereinbefore made under the heading “Ordnance Department” shall be available for the payment of an allowance not to exceed $4 per day in lieu of subsistence to civilian employees of the Ordnance Department traveling on official business outside of the District of Columbia and away from their designated posts of duty.
Ammunition for field artillery.That there is hereby donated to the trustees of the Gordon Institute, located at Barnesville, Georgia, ten condemned cannon, the same being ten twelve-pound Napoleon guns now located at the United States Arsenal in Augusta, Georgia, and being condemned and not fitted for use by the military forces of the United States; also a suitable outfit of cannon balls; and the Secretary of War is hereby authorized and directed to deliver said ten Napoleon guns and cannon balls to the *Provisos.*Limit of purchases.trustees of the said Gordon Institute: *Provided*, That no expense shall be incurred or paid by the United States, and that the Secretary of War shall approve of said donation.
No pay to officers, etc., using time-measuring devices on jobs of employees.*Provided*, That hereafter when one bureau of the War or Navy Departments procures by purchase or manufacture stores or material of any kind or performs any service for another bureau of such departments the funds of the bureau or department for which the stores or material are to be procured or the service performed may be placed subject to the requisition of the bureau or department making the procurement or performing the service for direct Cash rewards, etc., restricted.expenditure by it: *Provided*, That when the stores being procured are for current issue during the year stores of equal value may be issued from stock on hand in place of any of those aforesaid.
Per diem subsistence outside of District of Columbia.That the President be, and he is hereby, authorized to appoint, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, any brigadier general of the Army on the retired fist who has held the rank and command of major general of Volunteers and performed the duties incident to that grade in time of actual warfare, and has been honorably discharged, and who served with credit in the Regular or Volunteer forces during the Civil War prior to April ninth, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, to the grade of major general in the United States Army and place him on the retired list with the pay of brigadier Condemned cannon.Donated to Gordon Institute, Barnesville, Ga.*Post*, p. 1208.general on the retired list; and any officer now on the retired list of the Army who served with credit for more than two years as a commissioned officer of Volunteers during the Civil War prior to April ninth, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, and who subsequently served with credit for more than forty years as a commissioned officer of the Regular Army, including service in command of troops in five Indian campaigns, the War with Spain, and the Philippine insurrection, and to whom the Congressional medal of honor for most distinguished conduct in action has been twice awarded, and who has also been brevetted for conspicuous gallantry in action, and place him on the retired list of the Army with the rank and retired pay of one grade above that actually held by him at the time of his retirement from active service in the Regular Army.
Sec. 2. *Provisos.*No expense. That chapter six, Title XIV, of the Revised Statutes of the United States be, and the same is hereby, amended to read as follows:" “ 1. The United States Military Prison, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, shall hereafter be known as the United States Disciplinary Barracks. “2. Accounting of services or supplies between bureaus of War or Navy Departments. Persons sentenced to confinement upon conviction by courts-martial or other military tribunals of crimes or offenses which, under some statute of the United States or under some law of the State, Territory, District, or other jurisdiction in which the crime or offense may be committed, are punishable by confinement in a penitentiary, including persons sentenced to confinement upon conviction by courts-martial or other military tribunals of two or more acts or omissions, any one of which, under the statute or other law herein1085before mentioned, constitutes or includes a crime or offense punishable by confinement in a penitentiary, may be confined at hard labor, during the entire period of confinement so adjudged, in any United States, State, Territorial, or District penitentiary, or in any other penitentiary directly or indirectly under the jurisdiction of the United States; and all persons sentenced to confinement upon conviction*Proviso.*Exchanges permitted. by courts-martial or other military tribunals who are not confined in a penitentiary may be confined and detained in the United States Disciplinary Barracks.
“3. The government and control of the United States DisciplinaryAppointments on retired list.Brigadier generals.Qualifications. Barracks and of all offenders sent thereto for confinement and detention therein shall be vested in the Adjutant General of the Army under the direction of the Secretary of War, who shall from time to time make such regulations respecting the same as may be deemed necessary, and who shall submit annually to Congress a full statement of the financial and other affairs of said institution for the preceding fiscal year.
“4. The officers of the United States Disciplinary Barracks shallIncreased grade for specified service of retired officer. consist of a commandant and such subordinate officers as may be necessary, who shall be detailed by the Secretary of War from the commissioned officers of the Army at large. In addition to detailingMilitary Prison.[R. S., ch. 6, Title XIV, pp. 242–244](/us/rs/c6/tXIV/p22–244), amended.Disciplinary Barracks established. for duty at said disciplinary barracks such number of enlisted men of the Staff Corps and departments as he may deem necessary, the Secretary of War shall assign a sufficient number of enlisted men of the line of the Army for duty as guards at said disciplinary barracks and as noncommissioned officers of the disciplinary organizations hereinafter authorized.
Said guards, and also the enlisted menCriminals convicted by courts-martial, etc., to be confined in Federal, State, etc., penitentiaries. assigned for duty as noncommissioned officers of disciplinary organizations, shall be detached from the fine of the Army, or enlisted for the purpose; and said guards shall be organized as infantry, with noncommissioned officers, musicians, artificers, and cooks of the number and grades allowed by law for infantry organizations of likeConfinement in disciplinary barracks. strength: *Provided*, That at least one of said guards shall have the rank, pay, and allowances of a battalion sergeant major.
“5. The commandant of the United States Disciplinary BarracksControl, etc., of disciplinary barracks. shall have command thereof and charge and custody of all offenders sent thereto for confinement and detention therein; shall govern Commandant, etc., detailed from Army officers.such offenders and cause them to be employed at such labor and in such trades and to perform such duties as may be deemed best for their health and reformation and with a view to their honorable restoration to duty or their reenlistment as hereinafter authorized; shall cause note to be taken and a record to be made of the conduct of such offenders; and may shorten the daily time of hard labor of those who by their obedience, honesty, industry, and general good conduct earn such favors—all under such regulations as the Secretary of War may from time to time prescribe.
“6. The Secretary of War shall provide for placing under militaryService of enlisted men as guards, etc. training those offenders sent to the United States Disciplinary Bar-racks for confinement and detention therein whose record and conduct are such as to warrant the belief that upon the completion of a course of military training they may be worthy of an honorable restoration to duty or of being permitted to reenlist; may provide for the organizationDisciplinary organizations. of offenders so placed under military training into disciplinary companies and higher units, organized as infantry, with noncommissioned officers, except color sergeants, selected or appointed from the enlisted men assigned to duty for that purpose pursuant to the provisions of paragraph four hereof; and may provide for uniforming, arming, and equipping such organizations.
“7. Whenever he shall deem such action merited the Secretary of*Proviso.*Sergeant major. War may remit the unexecuted portions of the sentences of offenders sent to the United States Disciplinary Barracks for confinement and 1086detention therein, and in addition to such remission may grant those Authority of commandant.who have not been discharged from the Army an honorable restoration to duty, and may authorize the reenlistment of those who have been discharged or upon their written application to that end order their restoration to the Army to complete their respective terms of enlistment, and such application and order of restoration shall be effective to revive the enlistment contract for a period equal to the one not served under said contract.
Organization into disciplinary companies, etc. Remission of unexecuted portions of sentences for good conduct. “8. Employment of offenders. The Secretary of War may, from time to time, designate any building or structure or any part thereof under the control of the Secretary of War and pertaining to the military establishment as a branch disciplinary barracks for the confinement and detention of offenders whom it is impracticable to send to the United States Disciplinary Barracks at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas; and all branch disciplinary barracks and all offenders sent thereto for confinement and detention therein shall be subject to the laws respecting the United States Disciplinary Barracks at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, and the offenders sent thereto for confinement and detention therein. ” " Sec. 3.
Military training of offenders for restoration to duty, etc. That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed. Approved, March 4, 1915.
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