Chapter 72. Making appropriations for the support of the Army for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and fifteen
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CHAP. 72.— An Act Making appropriations for the support of the Army for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and fifteen. April 27, 1914. [[H. R. 13453](/us/bill/63/hr/13453).] [[Public, No. 91](/us/pl/63/91).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the following sums be, Army appropriations.and they are hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the support of the Army for the year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and fifteen.
Contingencies of the Army: For all contingent expenses of theContingencies of the Army. Army not otherwise provided for and embracing all branches of the military service, including the office of the Chief of Staff; for all emergenciesEmergencies. 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 homo 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 purposes as he may deem proper, $25,000. office of the chief of staff.Office of Chief of Staff.
Army War College: For expenses of the Army War College, beingArmy War College. for the purchase of the necessary stationery; typewriters and exchange of same; office, toilet, and desk furniture; textbooks; books of reference; scientific and professional papers and periodicals; printing and binding; maps; police utensils; employment of temporary, technical, or special services; and for all other absolutely necessary expenses, including $25 per month additional to regular compensation to chief clerk of division for superintendence of the War College Building, $9,000.
Contingencies, Military Information Section, General Staff Corps:Contingencies, Military information Section. For contingent expenses of the Military Information Section, General Staff Corps, including the purchase of law books, professional books of reference, professional and technical periodicals and newspapers, and of the military attachés at the United States embassies and legations abroad; and of the branch office of the Military Information Section at Manila and the actual and necessary traveling expenses incurred by military attachés abroad under orders from the 352Secretary of War, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary *Proviso.* Periodicals. [R.
S., sec. 3648, p. 718](/us/rs/s3648/p718).of War, $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. Service schools. Fort Leavenworth, Kans.United States service schools: To provide means, for the theoretical and practical instruction at the Staff College (including the Army School of the Line, Army Field Engineer School, and the Fort Riley, Kans.Army Signal School) at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, the Mounted Fort Sill, Okla.Service School at Fort 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, 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, $30,350.
Adjutant General’s Department.the adjutant general’s department. Contingencies at headquarters.Contingencies, headquarters of military departments, districts, 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.
Under Chief of Coast Artillery.under the 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; 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, etc.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.* [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. 353 office of the chief signal officer.Signal Service. Signal Service of the Army:
For expenses of the Signal ServiceExpenses. of the Army, as follows: Purchase, equipment, and repair of field electric telegraphs, signal equipments and stores, binocular glasses, telescopes, heliostats, and other necessary instruments, including necessary meteorological instruments for use on target ranges; warWar balloons and airships. *Post*, p. 480. balloons and airships and accessories, including their maintenance and repair; telephone apparatus (exclusive of exchange service) and maintenance or the same; electrical installations and maintenance at military posts; fire control and direction apparatus and material for field artillery; maintenance and repair of military telegraph lines and cables, including salaries of civilian employees, supplies, and general repairs, and other expenses connected with the duty of collecting and transmitting information for the Army by telegraph or otherwise, $500,000: *Provided, however*, That not more than*Provisos.* Limit for aerial machines. $250,000 of said amount shall be used for the purchase, maintenance, operation, and repair of airships and other aerial machines, of which latter amount $50,000 is made immediately available. *Provided*, That the Act of Congress approved October twelfth,Property returns to be made semiannually.
Vol. 25, p. 552, amended. eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, entitled “An Act to make enlisted men of the Signal Corps responsible for public property,” be amended so as to read that property returns or the Signal Corps shall be rendered semiannually or more often. Hereafter all moneys arising from the disposition of serviceableUse of receipts from sales of serviceable materials. Signal Corps supplies and equipment, authorized by law and regulations, shall constitute one fund on the books of the Treasury Department and be available during the fiscal year in which their disposition was effected and the year following, for the replacement of Signal Corps supplies and equipment.
Washington-Alaska military cable and telegraph system:Washington-Alaska cable, etc. Extensions, etc. For defraying the cost of such extensions and betterments of the Washington-Alaska military cable and telegraph system as may be approved by the Secretary of War, to be available until the close of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fifteen, 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.
Annunciator buzzer systems at target ranges: MaintenanceTarget ranges. Annunciator buzzers. of annunciator buzzer systems at target ranges, $3,800. Signaling equipment for coast defense posts: For the purchaseSignaling equipment, coast defenses. of mortars, rockets, shells, Very pistols, heliographs, acetylene lanterns, flag kits, and other signaling equipment to supply coast defense posts for signaling purposes, $12,000. Commercial telephone service at Coast Artillery posts:
For providingTelephone service, Coast Artillery. commercial telephone service for official purposes at Coast Artillery posts, $6,000. pay of officers of the line.Pay. For pay of officers of the line, $7,750,000.Line officers. Additional pay for length of service, $1,616,218.27.Longevity. pay of enlisted men. For pay of enlisted men of all grades, including recruits, $18,170,884.Enlisted men. Additional pay for length of service, $2,325,746.64.Longevity. *Provided*, That hereafter no officer or enlisted man in active service*Provisos.* No pay for absence on account of drugs, liquors, etc. who shall be absent from duty on account of disease resulting from 354his own intemperate use of drugs or alcoholic liquors or other misconduct shall receive pay for the period of such absence, the time so absent and the cause thereof to be ascertained under such procedure and regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary of War:
Enlistment period continued, etc.*Provided further*, That an enlistment shall not be regarded as complete until the soldier shall have made good any time in excess of one day lost by unauthorized absences, or on account of disease resulting from his own intemperate use of drugs or alcoholic liquors or other misconduct, or while in confinement awaiting trial or disposition of his case if the trial results in conviction, or while in confinement under Suspension of sentences of dishonorable discharge.sentence: *Provided further*, That the reviewing authority may suspend the execution of a sentence of dishonorable discharge until the soldier’s release from confinement; but the order of suspension may be vacated at any time and the execution of the dishonorable discharge directed by the officer having general court-martial jurisdiction over the command in which the soldier is held, or by the Secretary of War:
Enlisted strength to be exclusive of soldiers to be dishonorably discharged.*And provided further*, That the authorized enlisted strength of the Army and of organizations thereof shall be exclusive of soldiers under sentences which include confinement and dishonorable discharge. Engineer battalion.corps of engineers. For pay of enlisted men, $467,040. Additional pay for length of service, $68,657.77. Ordnance Corps.ordnance department. For pay of enlisted men, $221,436. Additional pay for length of service, $105,000.
Quartermaster Corps.quartermaster corps. Sergeants.For pay of four hundred and seven quartermaster sergeants, at $45 per month each, $219,780. *Proviso*.Additional pay for length of service, $86,800: *Provided*, That the Appointments for charge of public property, etc.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. For pay of forty-two master signal electricians, at $900 each, $37,800. One hundred and thirtyfive first-class sergeants, at $540 each, $72,900. One hundred and forty-four sergeants, at $36 per month each, $62,208. Twenty-four cooks, at $30 per month each, $8,640. One hundred and fifty-six corporals, at $24 per month each, $44,928. Five hundred and fifty-two first class privates, at $18 per month each. $119,232. One hundred and sixty-eight privates, at $15 per month each, $30,240.
Additional pay to twelve sergeants, serving as mess sergeants, at $6 per month each, $864. Additional pay for length of service, $72,500. 355 hospital corps.Hospital Corps. For pay of enlisted men, $950,000. Additional pay for length of service, $179,600. quartermaster corps (enlisted men).Quartermaster Corps. For pay of enlisted men, Quartermaster Corps, $1,000,000.Enlisted men. *Provided*, That the enlisted force of the Quartermaster Corps shall*Proviso.* Enlisted force graded. consist of not to exceed fifteen master electricians, six hundred sergeants (first class), nine hundred and seventy-five sergeants, six hundred and twenty-five corporals, two thousand five hundred privates (first class), one thousand one hundred and ninety 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, $208,740. pay to clerks, messengers, and laborers at headquarters of the several territorial departments, territorial districts, tactical divisions and brigades, service schools and office of the chief of staff.Clerks, messengers, etc. One chief clerk, at the office of the Chief of Staff, $2,000 per annum. Fifteen clerks, at $1,800 each per annum. Fifteen clerks, at $1,600 each per annum. Thirty-eight clerks, at $1,400 each per annum. Seventy clerks, at $1,200 each per annum.
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 $720 each per annum. One gardener, at $720 per annum. One packer, at $840 per annum. Two messengers, at $840 each per annum. Fifty-nine messengers, at $720 each per annum. Six messengers (Filipinos), at $300 each per annum. One laborer, at $660 per annum. Two laborers, at $600 each per annum. One laborer, at $480 per annum.
Five charwomen, at $240 each per annum. In all, $312,320. Additional pay while on foreign service, $9,000.Foreign service pay. *Provided*, That on and after July first, nineteen hundred and*Provisos.* Philippine service. Increased pay to citizens. fourteen, 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, *That the money hereby appropriated for such of said clerks, at $1,200Employment of Filipinos. 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. 356 Assignment.And said clerks, messengers, and laborers shall be employed and assigned by the Secretary of War to the offices and positions in *Proviso.* Duty in Department forbidden.which they are to serve: *Provided*, That no clerk, messenger, or laborer at 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.
Staff officers.for pay of officers of the staff corps and staff departments. Adjutant General’s Department.Adjutant General’s Department: For pay of officers in the Adjutant General’s Department, $80,500. Additional pay for length of service, $22,000. Inspector General’s Department.Inspector General’s Department: For pay of officers in the Inspector General’s Department, $59,000. Additional pay for length of service, $16,000. Engineer Corps.The Corps of Engineers: For pay of officers in the Corps of Engineers, $549,716.67.
Additional pay for length of service, $105,043.12. Ordnance Department.Ordnance Department: For pay of officers in the Ordnance Department, $228,500. Additional pay for length of service, $49,756.89. Quartermaster Corps.Quartermaster Corps: For pay of officers in the Quartermaster Corps, *Proviso.* Chief to be Quartermaster General.$534,800: *Provided*, That hereafter the title of the Chief of the Quartermaster Corps shall be Quartermaster General of the Army. Additional pay for length of service, $168,169.34.
Pay clerks.Seventy-nine pay clerks, at $1,125 each per annum, $88,875. Additional pay for length of service, $61,750. Medical Department.Medical Department: For pay of officers in the Medical Department, $1,471,000. Additional pay for length of service, $237,983.74. Acting dental surgeons.Forty acting dental surgeons, at $1,800 each per annum, $72,000. Contract surgeons.Eighteen contract surgeons, $27,000. Nurse Corps.One superintendent, Nurse Corps, at $1,800 per annum, $1,800.
Nurses (female), $106,030. *Proviso.* Allowances, superintendent.*Provided*, That the superintendent shall receive such allowances of quarters, subsistence, and medical care during illness as may be proscribed 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, $45,500. Additional pay for length of service, $11,504.44. Signal Corps.Signal Corps: For pay of the officers of the Signal Corps, $114,200.
Additional pay for length of service, $32,516.77. Insular Affairs Bureau.Bureau of Insular Affairs: For pay of officers of the Bureau of Insular Affairs, $13,000. Additional pay for length of service, $1,730.67. *Provisos.* Do tails to grade above colonel extended.*Provided*, That hereafter whenever the number of officers holding permanent appointments in any staff corps or staff department of the Army, except the Quartermaster Corps, shall have been reduced below four and a vacancy shall occur in an office above the grade of colonel in said corps or department, any officer of the Army with rank above that of major who shall have served creditably for not less than four years by detail in said corps or department under the Vol. 31, p. 755.provisions of section twenty-six of the Act of Congress approved February second, nineteen hundred and one, shall, in addition to officers otherwise eligible, be eligible for appointment to fill. said Staff officers above colonel not reappointed may be appointed to former grade.vacancy: *Provided further*, That Hereafter whenever the President shall deem it inadvisable to reappoint, at the end of a four-year term, any officer who, under the provisions of section twenty-six of the Act approved February second, nineteen hundred and one, or Acts amendatory thereof, has been appointed for such a term, in any staff corps or staff department, to an office with rank above that of colonel, 357but whose commission in the lower grade held by him in said staff corps or staff department at the time of his appointment under said Act to an office of higher grade has been vacated, the President may, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, appoint said officer to be an officer of the grade that he would have held, and to occupy the relative position that he would have occupied, in said staff corps or staff department if he had not been appointed to said office with rank above that of colonel; and if under the operation of this proviso the number ofTo be carried as additional number. officers of any particular grade in any staff corps or staff department shall at any time exceed the number authorized by law other than this Act, no vacancy occurring in said grade shall be filled until after the total number of officers therein shall have been reduced below the number so authorized: *And provided further*, That after SeptemberRestriction on details of colonels, lieutenant colonels, or majors. *Post*, p. 812. first, nineteen hundred and fourteen, in time of peace, whenever any officer holding a permanent commission in the line of the Army, with rank of colonel, lieutenant colonel, or major, shall not have been actually present for duty for at least two years of the last preceding six years with a command composed of not less than two troops, batteries, or companies of that branch of the Army in which he shall hold said commission, such officer shall not be detached nor permitted to remain detached from such command for duty of any kind except as herein after specifically provided; and all pay and allowances shallForfeiture of pay by officer for violating. be forfeited by any superior for any period during which, by his order or his permission, or by reason of his failure or neglect to issue or cause to be issued the proper order or instructions at the proper time, any officer shall be detached or permitted to remain detached in violation of any of the terms of this Act; but nothing in this Act shall be held toRejoining command. apply in the case of any officer for such period as shall be actually necessary for him, after having been relieved from detached service, to join the organization or command to which he shall belong in that branch in which he shall hold a permanent commission; nor shallDetails excepted. anything in this Act be held to apply to the detachment or detail of officers for duty in connection with the construction of the Panama Canal until after such canal shall have been formally opened, or in connection with the Alaska Road Commission or the Alaska Railroad or the Bureau of Insular Affairs; and nothing in this Act shall preventRedetails allowed. the redetail of officers above the grade of major to fill vacancies in the various staff corps and departments as provided for by sectionVol. 31, p. 755. twenty-six of the Act of Congress approved February second, nineteen hundred and one: *Provided further*, That whenever the serviceService below major credited as actual presence for duty with command. record of any field officer is to be ascertained for the purposes of this Act, all duty actually performed by him during the last preceding six years, in a grade below that of major, in connection with any statutory organization of that branch of the Army in which he shall hold a permanent commission, or as a staff officer of any coast-defense or coast-artillery district, shall be credited to him as actual presence for duty with a command composed as hereinbefore proscribed: *And provided further*, That temporary duty of any kindSpecial temporary duty counted as actual presence with command hereafter performed with United States troops in the field for a period or periods the aggregate of which shall not exceed sixty days in any one calendar year, and duty hereafter performed in command of United States Army mine planter by an officer assigned to a company which this detachment is drawn, and duty hereafter performed in command of a machine-gun platoon or a machine-gun unit, by any officer who, before assignment to such duty, shall have been regularly assigned to, and shall have entered upon duty with, an organization or a command the detachment of certain officers from which is prohibited by the Act of Congress approved AugustVol. 37, p. 571. twenty-fourth, nineteen hundred and twelve, or by this Act, shall, for the purposes of said Acts, hereafter be counted as actual presence for duty with such organization or command. 358 Retired officers.retired officers.
Pay.For pay of officers on the retired list and for officers who may be placed thereon during the current year, $2,894,175. Additional pay for length of service, $469,432.50. Pay clerks.For thirteen pay clerks, retired, $21,750. Officers on active service.For increased pay to retired officers assigned to active duty, $53,300. Additional pay for length of service, $22,420. Retired enlisted men.retired enlisted men. Pay.For pay of the enlisted men of the Army on the retired list, $2,482,000.
Miscellaneous.miscellaneous. Hospital matrons.For pay of forty hospital matrons, at $120 each, $4,800. Veterinarians.For pay of forty-two veterinarians, at $1,700 each, $71,400. Additional pay for length of service, $10,370. Courts-martial, etc.For expenses of courts-martial, courts of inquiry, military commissions, and compensation of reporters and witnesses attending the same, and expenses of taking depositions and securing other evidence for use before the same, $40,000. Officer, buildings and grounds, D.
C.For additional pay to officer in charge of public buildings and grounds at Washington, District of Columbia, $500. Commutation of quarters, officers.For commutation of quarters to commissioned officers, acting dental surgeons, and veterinarians and pay clerks on duty without troops at stations where there are no public quarters, $450,000. Clothing not drawn.For clothing not drawn due to enlisted men on discharge, $600,000. Interest on deposits.For interest on soldiers’ deposits, $90,000.
Translator.For pay of translator and librarian of the military information section, General Staff Corps, $1,800. Expert accountant.For pay of expert accountant for the Inspector General’s Department, $2,500. Extra pay, seacoast fortifications.For extra pay to enlisted men employed on extra duty for periods 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, $11,719.05.
Switchboard operators at interior posts.For extra pay to enlisted men employed on extra duty as switchboard operators at each interior post of the Army, $11,880.75. Alaska cable, etc.For extra pay to enlisted men of the line of the Army and to enlisted men of the Signal Corps employed in the Territory of Alaska on the Alaskan cable and telegraph system, for periods of not less than ten days, at the rate of 35 cents per day, $32,000. Mileage to officers, etc.For mileage to officers, acting dental surgeons, veterinarians, contract surgeons, pay clerks, and expert accountant, Inspector General’s Department, when authorized by law, $500,000.
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. Loss by exchange.For payment of exchange by special disbursing agents of the Quartermaster Corps serving in foreign countries, and when specially authorized by the Secretary of War, by special disbursing agents of the Quartermaster Corps serving in Alaska, $600.
Attendance of militia at service schools.For subsistence, mileage, and commutation of quarters to officers of the National Guard attending service and garrison schools, $20,000. Additional pay. First reenlistment.For three months’ additional pay to enlisted men reenlisting within the period of three months from date of discharge from first enlistment, $100,000. 359 For six months’ additional pay to beneficiaries of officers andDeath from wounds, etc. enlisted men who die while in active service from wounds or disease not the result of their own misconduct, $60,000.
For additional pay to officers below the grade of major requiredOfficers furnishing mounts. to be mounted and who furnish their own mounts, $175,000. For thirty-five per centum additional pay to officers who are actualAviation service. fliers of heavier-than-air craft, $25,493.65. For amount required to make monthly payment to Jennie Carroll, Jennie Carroll. Vol. 35, p. 1325.widow of James Carroll, late major and surgeon, United States Army, as per Act of Congress approved May twenty-third, nineteen hundred and eight, $1,500.
For amount required to make monthly payment to Mabel H.Mabel H. Lazear. Vol. 35, p. 1325. Lazear, widow of Jesse W. Lazear, late acting assistant surgeon, United States Army, as per Act of Congress approved May twenty-third, nineteen hundred and eight, $1,500. For amount required to make monthly payments of $100 to JohnJohn R. Kissinger. Vol. 36, p. 1919. 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.
For Porto Rico Regiment of Infantry, composed of two battalionsPorto Rico Regiment of Infantry. of four companies each: For pay of officers, $67,100.Officers. Additional pay for length of service, $10,237.01. For pay of enlisted men, $141,060. Enlisted men. Additional pay for length of service, $30,220.12. philippine scouts.Philippine Scouts. For pay of officers: For fifty-two captains, $124,800.Officers. For pay of sixty-four first lieutenants, $128,000. For pay of sixty-four second lieutenants, $108,800.
For pay of twelve majors, in addition to pay as captain, $600 each, $7,200. Additional pay for length of service, $90,994.22. For pay of enlisted men, $598,856.40.Enlisted men. For additional pay for length of service, $35,000. All the money hereinbefore appropriated for pay of the Army andPay accounts specified. 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 Quartermaster Corps as pay of the Army, and for that purpose shall constitute one fund.
Encampment and maneuvers, Organized Militia: For payingOrganized Militia. Expenses of encampment with Army. the expenses of the Organized Militia of any State, Teritory, 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 January twenty-first,Vol. 32, pp. 777, 779. nineteen hundred and three, entitled “An Act to promote the efficiency of the militia, and for other purposes,” to be immediately available and to remain available until the end of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixteen, $1,250,000: *Provided*, That of the*Provisos.* Allotment for maneuvering camps. amount herein appropriated the Secretary of War is hereby authorized to expend $25,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for the improvement and rendering available for use as maneuvering camps, rifle and artillery ranges, either of said tracts of land referred to hereinafter, and the Secretary of War is hereby authorized in his discretion to accept title to one or the other of the following tracts of land:Selection of alternative sites.
In Tennessee. One tract of land of approximately five thousand acres in the vicinity of Tullahoma, in the State of Tennessee, which certain citizens have 360offered to donate to the United States, and which has been inspected Vol. 36, p. 1457.by the commission authorized under the joint resolution approved February twenty-fourth, nineteen hundred and eleven, In Alabama.and the other tract of land of four thousand acres at or near Anniston, in the State of Alabama, which has heretofore been inspected by Colonel Stephen C.
Mills, Inspector General United States Army, as shown by the report submitted by him to the War Department on the twelfth day Title in fee required.of January, nineteen hundred and twelve: *Provided further*, That neither of the aforesaid tracts of land shall be accepted by the Secretary of War unless fee-simple title without encumbrances shall be conveyed by proper and sufficient deeds to the United States for the purpose of establishing a maneuvering camp and for the maneuvering of troops, establishing and maintaining camps of instruction for rifle and artillery ranges, and for mobilizing and assembling of troops from such States as may be designated by the Secretary of War: *Provided further*, That upon acquisition of title to the land mentioned herein the Secretary of War is hereby further authorized to locate and establish upon said land a permanent maneuver camp for the troops of the United States Army, and to establish and maintain thereon camps of instruction for rifle and artillery ranges and for the mobilization and assembling of troops from such States as may Conditions required for annual allotment to States, etc. [R.
S., sec. 1661, p. 290](/us/rs/s1661/p290). Vol. 34, p. 449.be designated by the Secretary of War: Establishment of permanent camp on selected site.*Provided further*, That hereafter the allotment to any State, Territory, or the District of Columbia, from the annual appropriation made by section sixteen hundred and sixty-one, Revised Statutes, as amended, shall be available for the purposes specified by law only under such conditions as may be prescribed by the Secretary of War to secure effective organizational field or camp service for instruction and generally increased field efficiency on the part of the Organized Militia.
Militia Coast Artillery. Equipment of armories.Equipment of Coast Artillery, armories, Organized Militia:Equipment of Coast Artillery, armories, Organized Militia—Dummy guns and mortars, mounts for dummy guns and mortars, dummy ammunition, loading appliances, range and position finding equipment, aiming and laying devices, subcaliber tubes and mountings therefor, labor and material necessary to install dummy guns and mortars, and to provide appliances and devices for instructional purposes in armory buildings provided by States for Coast Artillery companies of the Organized Militia, to be immediately available and to remain available until expended, $100,000.
Subsistence. Supplies, purchase, etc.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 military convicts at posts; for the subsistence of the masters, officers, crews, and employees of the vessels of the Army transport service; hot coffee for troops traveling when supplied with cooked or travel rations; meals for recruiting parties and applicants for enlistment while under observation; for sales to officers and enlisted *Provisos*.
National rifle match.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: Cost restricted.*Provided further*, 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 contest is Payments.
Commutation of rations.in progress shall be incurred. For payments: Of commutation of rations to the cadets at the United States Military Academy in lieu of the regular established ration, at the rate of 30 cents per ration; of the regulation allowances of commutation in lieu of rations to 361enlisted 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 nuises on leaves of absence, applicants for enlistment, and military convicts while traveling under orders: of commutation of rations in lieu of the regular established ration for members of the Nurse Corps (female) while on duty in hospital, at 40 cents per ration, and for enlisted men, applicants for enlistment while held under observation, and military convicts sick therein, at the rate of 30 cents per ration (except that at the general hospital at Fort Bayard, New Mexico, 50 cents per ration and at other general hospitals 40 cents per ration are authorized for enlisted patients therein) to be paid to the surgeon inPrizes for bakers and cooks. charge; 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 various schools not to exceed $900 per annum; for other necessaryPreserving, accounting, etc. expenses incident to the purchase, testing, care, preservation, issue, sale, and accounting for subsistence supplies for the Army, $9,802,- 141.39: *Provided further*, That the officers and the enlisted men ofSales to Navy and Marine Corps. the Navy and the Marine Corps shall be permitted to purchase subsistence supplies at the same price as is charged the officers and the enlisted men ofPurchase of naval supplies by Army. 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. *And provided further*, That hereafter all moneys arising from salesUse of receipts from sales. of subsistence supplies or stores, authorized by law and regulations, shall be covered into the Treasury to the credit of the proper appropriation and shall remain available throughout the fiscal year following that in which the sales were effected, for the purposes of that appropriation from which such supplies or stores were authorized to be supplied at the time of the sales.
Regular Supplies, Quartermaster Corps: Regular supplies ofRegular supplies, Quartermaster Corps. the Quartermaster Corps, including their care and protection, consisting of stoves and heating apparatus required for heating offices, hospitals, barracks and quarters, and recruiting stations, and United States military prisons; also ranges, stoves, coffee roasters, and appliances for cooking and serving food at posts, in the field, and when traveling, and repair and maintenance of such heating and cooking appliances; authorized issues of candles and matches; forHeat, light, etc. 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 ActRecreation buildings. approved May thirty-first, nineteen hundred and two; for sale toVol. 32, p. 282. officers, and including also fuel and engine supplies required in the operation of modem batteries at established posts; for post bakeries, including bake ovens and apparatus pertaining thereto, and the repair thereof; for ice machines and their maintenance where required for the health and comfort of the troops and for cold storage; ice for issue to organizations of enlisted men and offices at such places as the Secretary of War may determine, and for preservation of stores; for the construction, operation, and maintenance of laundries at military posts in the United States and its island possessions; for the authorized issues of laundry materials for use of general prisoners 362confined at military posts without pay or allowances, and for applicants for enlistment while held under observation; authorized issues Post schools, etc.of soap; for hire of employees; for the necessary furniture, textbooks, 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: *Provisos*.
Subscriptions to periodicals.*Provided*, That hereafter subscriptions to newspapers, magazines, periodicals, and other publications, purchased from funds of the Quartermaster Corps, may be paid for in advance; for the tableware and mess furniture for kitchens and mess halls, each and all for Forage, etc.the enlisted men, including recruits; of forage, salt, 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:
Printing restrictions.*Provided*, That no part of the appropriations for the Quartermaster Corps shall be expended on printing unless the same shall be done at the Government Printing Office, or by contract after due notice and competition, except in such cases as the emergency will not admit of the giving notice of competition, and in cases where it is impracticable to have the necessary printing done by contract the same may be done, with the approval of the Secretary of War, Ice machines, etc.
Disposal of surplus products.by the purchase of material and hire of the necessary labor for the purpose. For the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and fifteen, whenever the ice machines, steam laundries, and electric plants shall not come in competition with private enterprise for sale to the public, and in the opinion of the Secretary of War it becomes necessary to the economical use and administration of such ice machines, steam laundries, and electric plants as have been or may hereafter be established in pursuance of law, surplus ice may be disposed of, laundry work may be done for other branches of the Government, and surplus electric light and power may be sold on such terms and in accordance with such regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary of War:
Use of proceeds.*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, $8,155,000.
Incidental expenses, Quartermaster Corps.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 prison overseers at posts designated by the War Department for the confinement of general prisoners, and for the United States military prison guard; or 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 363for 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, watchmen, and organist for the United States military prison, and incidental expenses of recruiting; for the apprehension, securing, and delivering of deserters, including escaped military prisoners, and the expenses incident to their pursuit, and no greater sum than $50 for each deserter or escaped military prisoner shall, in the discretion of the Secretary of War, be paid to any civil officer or citizen for such services and expenses; for a donation of $5 to each dishonorably discharged prisoner upon his release from confinement, under court-martial sentence, involving dishonorable discharge; for the following expenditures required for the several regiments ofHorse expenditures.
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 homes 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, $1,833,127.
Horses for Cavalry, Artillery, Engineers, and so forth:Horses. Purchases, etc. For the purchase of horses of ages, sex, and size as may be prescribed by the Secretary of War, for remounts, for officers entitled to public mounts, for the Cavalry, Artillery, Signal Corps, and Engineers, the United States Military Academy, service schools, and staff colleges, and for the Indian scouts, and for such Infantry and members of the Hospital Corps in field campaigns as may be required to be mounted, and the expenses incident thereto, and for the hire of employees: *Provided*, That the number of horses purchased under this appropriation,*Provisos.* Limitations. added to the number now on hand, shall be limited to the actual needs of the mounted service, including reasonable provisions for remounts, and, unless otherwise ordered by the Secretary of War, no part of this appropriation shall be paid out for horses not purchased by contract after competition duly invited by the Quartermaster Corps and an inspection under the direction and authority of the Secretary of War.
When practicable, horses shall be purchasedOpen-market purchases. in 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 theStandard required. purchase of any horses below the standard set by Army Regulations for Cavalry and Artillery horses, except when purchased as remounts or for instruction of cadets at the United States Military Academy: *And provided further*, That no part of this appropriation shall bePolo ponies. expended for polo ponies except for West Point Military Academy, and such ponies shall not be used at any other place, $565,285, and the sum of $200,000 of this appropriation is made immediately available: *And provided further*, That hereafter no part of this orAttendance at horse shows, etc., restricted. any other appropriation shall be expended for defraying expenses of officers, enlisted men, or horses in attending or taking part in horse shows or horse races; but nothing in this proviso shall be held to apply to the officers, enlisted men, and horses of any troop, battery, 364or company which shall, by order or permission of the Secretary of War, and within the limits of the United States, attend any horse show or any State, county, or municipal fair, celebration, or exhibition.
Barracks and quarters.Barracks and quarters: For barracks, quarters, stables, storehouses, magazines, administration and office buildings, sheds, shops, and other buildings necessary for the shelter of troops, public animals, and stores, and for administration purposes, except those 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 on duty with the troops at posts and stations where no public quarters are available; of barracks or authorized allowance of quarters for noncommissioned officers and enlisted men on duty where public quarters are not available; of grounds for cantonments, camp sites, and other military purposes, and of buildings or portions of buildings for occupation by troops, for use as stables, storehouses, and offices, and for other military purposes; for the hire of recruiting stations and lodgings for recruits; for such furniture for the public rooms of officers messes and for officers’ quarters at military posts as may be approved by the Secretary of War; for wall lockers in permanent barracks and refrigerators in barracks and quarters; for screen doors, window screens, storm doors and sash, and window shades for barracks, offices, and quarters, and for flooring and framing *Provisos.* Commutation restricted.for tents, $2,123,997: *Provided*, That no part of the moneys so appropriated shall be paid for commutation of fuel or quarters to Presidio, San Francisco, Cal.officers or enlisted men: *Provided further*, That not exceeding the sum of $6,000 of this appropriation may be expended, in the discretion of the Secretary of War, for the construction of a rostrum in the national cemetery in the Presidio of San Francisco, California:
Fort Leavenworth, Kans., schools.*Provided further*, That not exceeding the sum of $60,000 of this appropriation may be expended, in the discretion of the Secretary of War, for the construction of a library building for the Army Service Civilian employees.Schools at Fort Leavenworth: *And provided further*, 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 approval of the Secretary of War.
Post exchanges.Military post exchange: For continuing the construction, equipment, and maintenance of suitable buildings at military posts and stations for the conduct of the post exchange, school, library, reading, lunch, amusement rooms, and gymnasium, including repairs Recreation buildings. Vol. 32, p. 282.to buildings erected at private cost in the operation of the Act approved May thirty-first, nineteen hundred and two, to be expended in the discretion and under the direction of the Secretary of War, $154,391.
Transportation.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 or their baggage, including the cost of packing and crating; for transportation of recruits and recruiting parties; of applicants for enlistment between recruiting stations and recruiting depots; for travel allowance to enlisted men on discharge; of persons on their discharge from the United States military prison or from any place in which they have been held under a sentence of dishonorable discharge and confinement for more than six months, or from the Government Hospital for the Insane after transfer thereto from such prison or place, to their homes (or elsewhere as they may elect), provided the cost in each case shall not be greater than to the place of last enlistment; of supplies furnished to the militia for the permanent equipment thereof; of the necessary agents and other employees; of clothing and equipage and other 365quartermaster 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 home equipment; of ordnance and ordnance stores, and small arms from the foundries and armories to the arsenals, fortifications, frontier posts, and Army depots; for payment of wharfage tolls and ferriage; for transportation of funds of the Army; for the hire of employees; for the payment of Army transportationPayment to land-grant railroads. lawfully due such land-grant railroads as have not received aid in Government bonds (to be adjusted in accordance with the decisions of the Supreme Court in cases decided under such land-grant acts), but in no case shall more than fifty per centum of full amount of service be paid: *Provided*, That such compensation shall be computed*Provisos.* Basis of computation. upon the basis of the tariff or lower special rates for like transportation performed for the public at large and shall be accepted as in full for all demands for such service: *Provided further*, That in expendingFifty per cent to roads not bond aided. the money appropriated by this Act a railroad company which has not received aid in bonds of the United States, and which obtained a grant of public land to aid in the construction of its railroad on condition that such railroad should be a post route and military road, subject to the use of the United States for postal, military, naval, and other Government services, and also subject to such regulations as Congress may impose restricting the charge for such Government transportation, having claims against the United States for transportation of troops and munitions of war and military supplies and property over such aided railroads, shall be paid out of the moneys appropriated by the foregoing provision only on the basis of such rate for the transportation of such troops and munitions of war and military supplies and property as the Secretary of War shall deem just and reasonable under the foregoing provision, such rate not to exceed fifty per centum of the compensation for such Government transportation as shall at that time be charged to and paid by private parties to any such company for like and similar transportation; and the amount so fixed to be paid shall be accepted as in full for all demands for such service; for the purchase and hire of draft and pack animals in such numbersDraft and pack animals, vehicles, etc. as are actually required for the service, including reasonable provision for replacing unserviceable animals; for the purchase, hire, operation, maintenance, and repair of such harness, wagons, carts, drays, and other vehicles as are required for the transportation of troops and supplies, and for official, military, and garrison purposes; for drayage cartage at the several depote; for the hire of teamsters and other employees; for the purchase and repair of ships, boats, and otherShips, boats, etc. vessels required for the transportation of troops and supplies and for official, military, and garrison purposes; for expenses of sailingTransports. public transports and other vessels on the various rivers, the Gulf of Mexico, and the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans: *Provided further*, ThatShipping officers’ private mounts. hereafter private mounts of officers in excess of the authorized mounts may be shipped on Government bill of lading with authorized mounts, and reimbursement collected for transportation charges on such excess mounts: *Provided further*, That $75,000 of the appropriationEmployees on harbor boats. hereby made shall be available for additional pay to employees on harbor boats, quartermaster service, in lieu of subsistence: *And provided further*, That authority is hereby granted the SecretarySale of “Seward” and “Wright.” of War to sell or otherwise dispose of in accordance with law and regulations the United States Army inter-island transports Seward and Wright, $10,164,645.
Roads, walks, wharves, and drainage: For the constructionMilitary posts. Roads, wharves, etc. and repair by the Quartermaster Corps of roads, walks, and wharves; for payment of extra-duty pay to enlisted men employed in opening roads and in building wharves; for the pay of employees; for the disposal of drainage; for dredging channels; and for care and improvement of grounds at military posts and stations, $485,000. 366 >Water, sewers, etc.Water and sewers at military posts: For procuring and introducing water to buildings and premises at such military posts and stations as from their situation require it to be brought from a distance; for the installation and extension of plumbing within buildings where the same is not specifically provided for in other appropriations; for the purchase and repairs of fire apparatus, including fire-alarm systems; for the disposal of sewage, and expenses incident thereto, including the authorized issue of toilet paper; for repairs to water and sewer systems and plumbing within buildings; and for hire of employees, $1,100,000.
Alaska. Military and post roads, etc.Construction, repair, and maintenance of military and post roads, bridges, and trails, Alaska: For the construction, repair, and maintenance of military and post roads, bridges, and trails, *Proviso.* First Lieut. Robert L. Weeks. Credit in accounts.Territory of Alaska, $125,000: *Provided*, That the accounting officers of the Treasury are authorized and directed to allow and credit in the accounts of First Lieutenant Robert L. Weeks, United States Army, the sum of $1,340, disallowed against him on the books of the Treasury in accordance with a ruling of the Comptroller of the Treasury dated Officers serving as road commissioners.
Vol. 34, p. 193.March fourteenth, nineteen hundred and thirteen; and that hereafter any officer of the Army and member of said Board of Road Commissioner who is living with his family while serving as a member of said board within the limits of the Territory of Alaska, and not stationed at a military post, shall be entitled to receive a per diem commutation fixed by the board in lieu of “actual firing expenses,” as now provided Reimbursement.by law; and this provision shall embrace the time during which any member of said board shall have failed in the past to receive any allowance for expense of living by reason of the decision of the Comptroller of the Treasury above referred to, to the effect that said allowance could not be made to an officer living with his family.
Philippine Islands. Barracks and quarters.Barracks and quarters, Philippine Islands: Continuing the work of providing for the proper shelter and protection of officers and enlisted men of the Army of the United States lawfully on duty in the Philippine Islands, including repairs and payment of rents, the acquisition of title to building sites, and such additions to existing military reservations as may be necessary, and including also shelter for the animals and supplies, and all other buildings necessary for post *Proviso.* Restriction on amounts for officers’ quarters.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 or a general officer the sum of $8,000; of a colonel or officer above the rank of captain, $6,000; and of an officer of and below the rank of captain, $4,000.
Clothing, and camp and garrison equipage.Clothing, 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 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 Indemnity for destroyed clothing, etc.dishonorable discharge; for indemnity to officers and men of the Army for clothing and bedding, and so forth, destroyed since April twenty-second, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, by order of medical officers of the Army for sanitary reasons, $6,500,000. 367 Construction and repair of hospitals:
For construction andHospitals. Construction, etc. repair of hospitals at military posts already established and occupied, including the extra-duty pay of enlisted men employed on the same, and including also all expenditures for construction and repairsHot Springs, Ark. required at the Army and Navy Hospital at Hot Springs, Arkansas, and for the construction and repair of general hospitals and expenses incident thereto, and for additions needed to meet the requirements of increased garrisons, and for temporary hospitals in standing campsTemporary buildings. and cantonments, $440,000.
Quarters for hospital stewards: For construction and repairQuarters for hospital stewards. of quarters for hospital stewards at military posts already established and occupied, including the extra-duty pay of enlisted men employed on the same, $9,700. Shooting galleries and ranges: For shelter, shooting galleries,Shooting ranges, etc. ranges for small-arms target practice, repairs, and expenses incident thereto, including flour or paste for marking targets, hire of employees, such ranges and galleries to be open, as far as practicable, to the National Guard and organized rifle clubs under regulations to be prescribed by the Secretary of War, $40,000.
Maintenance of the Army War College: For supplying theArmy War College. necessary fuel for heating the Army War College Building at Washington Barracks and for lighting the building and grounds; also for pay of a chief engineer, at $1,200 per annum; and assistant engineer, at $900; four firemen, at $720 each; one elevator conductor, at $720, $10,700. Rent of buildings, Quartermaster Corps: For rent of buildingsRent of buildings, District of Columbia. and parts of buildings in the District of Columbia, for military purposes, during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fifteen, as follows:
Field medical supply depot, $5,567.10. Signal Corps test rooms, $2,100. Quartermaster stable, $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 privatesQuarters for officers, etc. on duty with troops where no public quarters are available, $13,347.90; total, $45,987.
Claims for damages to and loss of private property: ForDamage claims. settlement of claims for damages to and loss of private property belonging to citizens of the United States, Hawaii, and the Philippine Islands, $5,069.09. medical department.Medical Department. Medical and hospital department: For the purchase of medicalSupplies, etc. and hospital supplies, including ambulances and disinfectants, and the exchange of typewriting machines, for military posts, camps hospitals, hospital ships, and transports; for expenses of medical supply depots: for medical care and treatment not otherwise provided for, including care and subsistence in private hospitals, of officers, enlisted men, and civilian employees of the Army, of applicants for enlistment, and of prisoners of war and other persons hi military custody or confinement, when entitled thereto by law, regulation, or contract: *Provided*, That this shall not apply to officers*Proviso.* Private treatment excepted. and enlisted men who are treated in private hospitals or by civilian physicians while on furlough; for the proper care and treatment of 368Contagious diseases expenses.epidemic and contagious diseases in the Army or at military posts or stations, including measures to prevent the spread thereof, and the payment of reasonable damages not otherwise provided for, for bedding and clothing injured or destroyed in such prevention; for the pay of male and female nurses, not including the Nurse 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;
Hot Springs Hospital, Ark.for the supply of the Army and Navy Hospital at Hot Springs, Arkansas; for advertising, laundry, and all other necessary miscellaneous expenses of the Medical Department, $700,000. Museum.Army Medical Museum and Library: For Army Medical Museum, preservation of specimens, and the preparation and purchase of new specimens, $5,000. Library.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.bureau of insular affairs. Care of insane soldiers. In Philippines.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 Vol. 35, p. 122.to the Act of Congress approved May eleventh, nineteen hundred and eight, $2,000. In Porto Rico.Care of insane soldiers, Porto Rico Regiment of Infantry: For the care, maintenance, and treatment at asylums in Porto Rico of insane soldiers of the Porto Rico Regiment of Infantry, $500.
Engineer Department.engineer department. Incidental expenses at depots.Engineer depots: For incidental expenses for the depots, including 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, wheelrights, 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 Barracks, D. C. Equipment, etc.Engineer School, Washington, District of Columbia: Equipment and maintenance of the Engineer School at Washington Barracks, District of Columbia, including purchase of instruments, machinery, implements, models, and materials, for the use of the school and for instruction of Engineer troops in their special duties as sappers and miners; for land mining, pontoniering, and signaling; for purchase and binding of professional works and periodicals of recent date treating on military and civil engineering and kindred scientific subjects for the library of the United States Engineer School; for Incidental expenses.incidental expenses of the school, including fuel, lights, chemicals, 369stationery, hardware, machinery, and boats; for pay of civilian clerks, draftsmen, electricians, mechanics, and laborers; compensation or civilian lecturers and payment of tuition fees of students officers at civil technical institutions; for extra-duty pay to soldiers necessarily employed for periods not less than ten days as artificers on work in addition to and not strictly in the line of their military duties, such as carpenters, blacksmiths, draftsmen, printers, lithographers, photographers, engine drivers, telegraph operators, telephone operators, teamsters, wheelwrights, masons, machinists, painters, overseers, laborers; for repairs of and materials to repair public buildings and machinery; for unforeseen expenses; for travel expenses of officersTravel expenses. on journeys approved by the Secretary of War and made for the purpose of instruction: *Provided*, That the traveling expenses herein*Provisos.* In lieu of mileage. 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,Textbooks, etc. scientific and professional papers, and for other absolutely necessary expenses: *Provided*, That hereafter section thirty-six hundred andPeriodicals. [R.
S., sec, 3648, p. 718](/us/rs/s3648/p718). forty-eight, Revised Statutes, shall not apply to subscriptions for foreign and professional newspapers and periodicals to be paid for from this appropriation, $25,000. Engineer equipment of troops: For pontoon material, tools,Equipment of troops. 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, $50,000.
Civilian assistants to engineer officers: For services of surveyors,Civilian assistants. survey parties, draftsmen, photographers, master laborers, and clerks to engineer officers on the staff of division, corps, and department commanders, $40,000. Contingencies, Engineer Department, Philippine Islands:Contingencies, Philippine Islands. For contingent expenses incident to the operations of the Engineer Department in the Philippine Islands, to be expended at the discretion of the Secretary of War, $5,000.
Hereafter in the settlement of transactions between appropriationsPayment of accounts. under the Engineer Department, or between the Engineer Department and another office or bureau of the War Department, or of any other executive department of the Government, payment therefor shall be made by the proper disbursing officer of the Corps of Engineers or of the office, bureau, or department concerned. ordnance department.Ordnance Department. Ordnance service: For the current expenses of the OrdnanceCurrent expenses.
Department, in connection with purchasing, receiving, storing, and issuing ordnance and ordnance stores, comprising police and office duties, rents, tolls, fuel, light, water, and advertising, stationery, typewriters, and adding machines, including their exchange, and office furniture, tools, and instruments of service; for incidental expenses of the ordnance service and those attending practical trials and tests of ordnance, small arms, and other ordnance stores; for publications for libraries of the Ordnance Department, including the Ordnance Office; subscriptions to periodicals which may be paid for in advance, and payment for mechanical labor in the office of the Chief of Ordnance, $300,000.
Ordnance stores—Ammunition: Manufacture of ammunitionAmmunition for small arms, etc. 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, Number Seventy, Headquarters of the 370Army, 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 *Proviso.* Allowance for experiments.of Columbia, and soldiers’ and sailors’ State homes: *Provided*, That not more than $5,000 of this appropriation may be used in the purchase of ammunition for purposes of experiment, $125,000.
Target practice.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 material, and other accessories may be issued for small-arms target practice and instruction at the educational institutions and State soldiers’ and sailors’ orphans’ homes to which issues of small arms are lawfully made, under such regulations as the Secretary of War may prescribe, provided the total value of the stores so issued to the educational institutions and homes does not exceed $30,000, $750,000.
Manufacturing, etc., arms.Manufacture of arms: For manufacturing, repairing, and issuing arms at the national armories, $450,000: *Provided*, That existing *Provisos.* Patented articles.written agreements involving the purchase of patented articles, patents for which have not expired, may be carried out. Allowance for experiments.*Provided*, That not more than $10,000 of this appropriation may be used in the purchase of materials for purposes of experiment. Issue of magazine rifles, etc., for target practice, to clubs and schools.*Provided further*, That the Secretary of War is hereby authorized to issue, without expense to the United States, for use in target practice, United States magazine rifles and appendages therefor not of the existing service model and not necessary for the maintenance of a proper reserve supply, together with forty rounds of ball cartridges suitable to said arm, for each range at which target practice is had, not to exceed a total of one hundred and twenty rounds per year per man participating in target practice, to rifle clubs organized under the rules of the National Board for the Promotion of Rifle Practice and to schools having a uniformed corps of cadets and carrying on military training, in sufficient number for the conduct of proper target practice.
Regulations to be prescribed.Issues of public property under this provision shall be made in compliance with regulations prescribed by the Secretary of War insuring the designed use of the property issued, providing against loss to the United States through lack of proper care, and for the return of the property when required, and embodying such other requirements as he may consider necessary adequately to safeguard the interests of the United States. Preserving, etc., ordnance.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 Equipments.Infantry, Cavalry, and Artillery equipments, including horse equipments for Cavalry and Artillery, $700,000. Rifle contests.National trophy and medals for rifle contests: For the Trophy, medals, and prizes.purpose of furnishing a national trophy and medals and other prizes to be provided and contested for annually, under such regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary of War, said contest to be open to the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and the National Guard or Organized Militia of the several States, Territories, and of the District of Columbia, 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. 371 Field artillery for Organized Militia:
For the purpose ofOrganized Militia. Field artillery material for. 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 $2,100,000 is hereby appropriated and made immediately available and to remain available until the end of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixteen, for the manufacture and issue of the articles constituting the same.
Ammunition for field artillery for Organized Militia: For Ammunition for Militia field artillery.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 sixteen, $3,000,000. Approved, April 27, 1914.