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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 40 STAT. · May 12, 1917 · Chapter 12

Chapter 12. Making appropriations for the support of the Army for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, and for other purposes

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CHAP. 12.— An Act Making appropriations for the support of the Army for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, and for other purposes. May 12, 1917.[[[H. R. 13](/us/bill/65/hr/13).][[Public, No. 11](/us/pl/65/11).] *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 hi the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the support of the Army for the year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen:
Contingencies.Contingencies of the Army: For all contingent expenses of the Army not otherwise provided for and embracing all branches of the Emergencies, etc.military service, including the office of the Chief of Staff; for all emergencies and extraordinary expenses, including the employment of translators and exclusive of all other personal services in the War Department, or any of its subordinate bureaus or offices at Washington, District of Columbia, or in the Army at large, 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 Per diem subsistence.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, $50,000.
Office, Chief of Staff.office of the 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, General 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; *Proviso*.Periodicals.[R.
S., sec.3648, p. 718](/us/rs/sec3648/p718).to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War: *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, $11,000. Observing war operations abroad.Expenses of military observers abroad: For the actual and necessary expenses of officers of the Army on 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. 41 United States service schools:
To provide means for the Service 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 Fort Fort Riley, Kans.Riley, Kansas, and the School of Fire for Field Artillery and for the Fort Sill, Okla.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 proportion as may, in the opinion of the Secretary of War, be for the best interests of the military service.
Not exceeding Translator.$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, $35,350. *Provided*, That officers in the grade of second lieutenant in the *Proviso*.Assignment for Field Artillery instruction.Field Artillery may be assigned, for the period of one year, to batteries stationed at the School of Fire for Field Artillery at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, for the purpose of pursuing courses of practical instruction in field artillery. the adjutant general’s department.Adjutant General’s Department.
Contingencies, Headquarters of Military Departments, Contingencies at headquarters.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, pavanent 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. chief of coast artillery.
Chief of Coast Artillery. Coast Artillery School, Fort Monroe, Virginia: For incidental Coast Artillery School, Fort Monroe, Va. expenses of the school, including chemicals, stationery, printing and binding; hardware; materials; 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; for office furniture and fixtures, machinery, and unforeseen expenses, $10,000;
For purchase of engines, generators, motors, machines, measuring Special apparatus, etc.instruments, special apparatus and materials for the division of the enlisted specialists, $7,000; For purchase of special apparatus and materials and for experimental purposes for the department of artillery and land defense, $3,000; For purchase of engines, generators, motors, machines, measuring Engineering and mine defense.instruments, special apparatus and materials for the department of engineering and mine defense, $5,500; 42 For purchase and binding of professional books treating of military and scientific subjects for library, for use of school, and for temporary use in coast defenses, $2,500; in all, $28,000. *Provisos*.Periodicals.[R.
S., sec. 3648, p. 718](/us/rs/sec3648/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. Typewriting machines.*Provided further*, That purchase and exchange of typewriting machines, to be paid for from this appropriation, may be made at the special price allowed to schools teaching stenography and typewriting without obligating typewriter companies to supply these machines to all departments of the Government at the same price.
Signal Service.office of the chief signal officer. 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, radio installations, signal equipments and stores, binocular glasses, telescopes, heliostats, and other necessary instruments, including necessary meteorological instruments for use on target ranges; motorcycles and motor-driven vehicles used for technical and official purposes; professional and scientific books of reference, pamphlets, periodicals, newspapers, and maps, for use in the War balloons, airships, etc.office of the Chief Signal Officer; war balloons and airships and accessories, including their maintenance and repair; telephone apparatus Electric plants.(exclusive of exchange service) and maintenance of the same; electrical installations and maintenance at military posts; fire-control and direction apparatus and material for Field Artillery; maintenance and repair of military lines and cables, including salaries of civilian employees, supplies, general repairs, reserved supplies, and other expenses connected with the duty of collecting and transmitting information for the Army by telegraph or otherwise, $11,800,000. *Provisos*.
Aviation section. Purchases, etc., under. *Post*, pp. 187,245,355.*Provided, however*, That not more than $10,800,000 of the foregoing appropriation shall be used for the purchase, manufacture, maintenance, operation, and repair of airships and other aerial machines, buildings for equipment and personnel, and other accessories necessary in the Aviation Section; and for the purchase, maintenance, repair, and operation of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles which may be necessary Motor vehicles.for the Aviation Section: *Provided further*, Paying Reserves in service.That of the sum last above mentioned so much thereof as may be necessary will be available for paying and otherwise providing for such officers of the Officers’ Reserve Corps of the Aviation Section of the Signal Corps and such enlisted men of the Enlisted Reserve Corps of the Aviation Section of the Signal Corps as may be called into Aviation motor.active service; for the payment of all expenses in connection with the development of a suitable type of aviation motor, under such regulations as the Secretary of War may prescribe; for the cost of investigations to be made by and technical instruction of commissioned and noncommissioned officers of the said section.
Sites for aviation schools, etc.*Post*, p. 246.*Provided further*, That the Secretary of War is hereby authorized to acquire, by purchase, donation, or by condemnation, such land sites throughout the United States as are immediately necessary for the permanent establishment of aviation schools, aviation posts, and experimental aviation stations and proving grounds for the United States Army. Use of balances.*Provided further*, That in order to carry this legislation into effect the Secretary of War is hereby authorized to use such portion as may be necessary of the $13,281,666 appropriated for the Signal Service Vol. 39, p. 622.of the Army in the Act making appropriations for the support of the Limit.Army for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seventeen: *Provided, however*, That not more than $4,500,000 shall be made available for this purpose: *Provided further*, That the funds 43thus authorized for use in the purchase of land sites may also be used Expenditures specified.for the improvement and preparation of land and waters contiguous thereto ; for the construction, maintenance, and repair of permanent barracks, quarters, stables, storehouses, magazines, administration Construction, etc.buildings, hangars, sheds, shops, garages, and other permanent buildings necessary for the shelter of aviation troops, public animals, stores and equipment, and for administration purposes; for the purchase Installation, equipment, etc.of all equipment and material necessary for the installation, operation, and repair of all water, sewer, electric-light and electric-power systems; for the construction of roads, walks, and wharves; or the disposal of drainage; for the clearing, grading, rolling, seeding, dredging, and otherwise improving and preparing land and water sites; for rental and lease of grounds for aviation fields, camp sites, Leases.and other military aviation purposes ; for rental and lease of buildings or portions of buildings for occupation by aviation troops, and for use as storehouses, offices, shops, garages, and for other military aviation purposes; for the purchase of office furniture and office Purchase of office supplies,etc.equipment; for the purchase and installation of special equipment, supplies, and accessories necessary for the establishment of experimental stations and proving grounds, aviation schools, and aviation posts; for the purchase of such textbooks, books of reference, scientific and professional papers, periodicals and magazines, and the purchase of modern instruments and material for theoretical and practical instruction in all experimental stations and proving grounds and aviation schools and aviation posts: *Provided further*, That the funds Available until expended.thus authorized for these purposes shall be available until expended: *And provided further*, That not more than $600,000 of the foregoing Land purchases limited.Leases, it practicable. sum shall be used for the purchase of land: *Provided*, That no part of the foregoing appropriation shall be expended for the purchase of aviation fields if it is found practicable to lease suitable sites for such purposes on more favorable terms. *Provided further*, That hereafter motor-propelled vehicles, aeroplanes, Equipment exchanges.engines, and parts thereof may be exchanged in part payment for new equipment of the same or similar character, to be used for the same purpose as those proposed to be exchanged. *Provided further*, That hereafter nothing in section twenty-five of Details from Detached Officers’ List.Vol. 39, p. 183.the National Defense Act of June third, nineteen hundred and sixteen, shall be held to prevent the detail of an officer in the aviation section of the Signal Corps. *Provided further*, That mileage to officers in the aviation section, Payment of mileage.Signal Corps, traveling on duty in connection with aviation service shall be paid from the appropriation for the work in connection with which the travel is performed.
For the establishment and maintenance by the Weather Bureau of Aerological stations.additional aerological stations, for observing, measuring and investigating atmospheric phenomena in the aid of aeronautics, including salaries, travel and other expenses in the city of Washington and elsewhere, $100,000, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of Agriculture. Washington-Alaska Military Cable and Telegraph System:Washington-Alaska cable, etc.Ex lensions, etc.For defraying the cost of such extensions, betterments, operation, and maintenance 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 nineteen, from tho receipts of the Washington-Alaska Military Cable and Telegraph System which have been covered into the Treasury of tho 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. *Provided*, That hereafter the Signal Corps, in its operation *Proviso*.Charges for messages over commercial lines.of military telegraph lines, cables, or radio stations, is authorized, in the discretion of the Secretary of War, to collect forwarding charges due 44connecting commercial telegraph or radio companies for the transmission of Government radiograms or telegrams over their lines, and to this end, under such regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary of War, it can present vouchers to disbursing officers for payment or file claims with auditors of the Treasury Department for the amount of such forwarding charges.
Telephone service for Coast Artillery.Commercial telephone service at Coast Artillery posts: For providing commercial telephone service for official purposes at Coast Artillery posts, $8,500. Pay of the Army.PAY OF THE ARMY. Quartermaster Corps.Quartermaster Corps. Officers of the line.officers of the line. Amount. *Proviso*. Pay restriction.For pay of officers of the fine, $12,500,000: *Provided*, That no part of this appropriation shall be paid to any officer of the line of the Army who shall be appointed or promoted in violation of any of the Officers limited to increase of enlistment increments.terms next hereinafter specified:
That of the whole number of officers of Cavalry, Field Artillery, Coast Artillery Corps, Infantry, and of Engineers serving with the enlisted force of the Corps of Engineers necessary to fill vacancies created or caused in said aims of the Vol. 39, p. 182.service by reason of the second increment, authorized in said arms by Act of Congress approved June third, nineteen hundred and sixteen, not more than one-fourth shall be appointed or promoted until, exclusive of enlisted men belonging to said arms on June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, at least one-fourth of the second increment of enlisted men authorized for said arms by said Act shall have been enlisted; not more than one-half of said whole number of officers shall be appointed or promoted until at least one-half of said increment Dates of promotions.of enlisted men shall have been enlisted; and not more than three-fourths of said whole number of officers shall be appointed or promoted until at least three-fourths of said increment of enlisted men shall have been enlisted.
And all officers promoted in accordance with the terms of this proviso shall take rank, respectively, from the dates on which their promotions shall Longevity.National Defense Act.Vol. 39, p. 182, amended.have become lawful under the terms of this proviso. Additional pay to officers for length of service, $2,000,000: *Provided*, That the first part of the second paragraph of section twenty-four of the Act entitled “An Act for making further and more effectual provision for the national defense, and for other purposes,” approved June third, nineteen hundred and sixteen, down to the first proviso in said paragraph, be, and the same is hereby amended to read as follows:
" Second lieutenants.Order of filling vacancies.Cadets.*Post*, p. 890.“Vacancies in the grade of second lieutenant created or caused by the increases due to this Act, in any fiscal year shall be filled by appointment in the following order: (First) Of cadets graduated from the United States Military Academy during the preceding fiscal year Enlisted men.for whom vacancies did not become available during the fiscal year in which they graduated; (second) under the provisions of existing law of enlisted men, including officers of Philippine Scouts, between the ages of twenty-one and thirty-four years, whose fitness for Militia in service.promotion shall have been determined by competitive examination; and of members, including officers, of the Organized Militia, the National Guard, or Naval Militia, between the ages of twenty-one and thirty-four years who have had at least ninety days actual Federal military service under any call of the President during the calendar year nineteen hundred and sixteen, and whose fitness for Officers’ Reserve Corps, etc.promotion shall have been determined by examination;
(third) of members of the Officers’ Reserve Corps between the ages of twenty-45one and twenty-seven years, of distinguished colleges as are now or may hereafter be entitled to preference by general orders of the War Department; and (sixth) of candidates from civil life between the Civil life.ages of twenty-one and twenty-seven years; and the President is authorized to make the necessary rules and regulations to carry these provisions into effect.” " Pay of members of Officers’ Reserve Corps, $3,090,000.Officers’ Reserve Corps.National Guard.*Proviso*.Payments to small arms inspectors.
Pay of officers, National Guard, including staff corps, $3,000,000: *Provided*, That so much of this appropriation as may be necessary for the purpose shall be available to pay inspectors and assistant inspectors of small-arms practice of the Organized Militia and National Guard who responded to the call of the President of June eighteenth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, the pay and allowances appropriate to their grade from the dates they would have been entitled to pay had their services been authorized to the dates on which they were mustered out or their services were otherwise terminated; and the proper Credits authorized.accounting officers of the Treasury be, and they are hereby, directed to allow credit for any such payments which have heretofore been made to such officers from the appropriation from which made. enlisted men of the line.Enlisted men.
For pay of enlisted men of all grades, including recruits, $29,000,000.Line. That that paragraph of the Act of May eleventh, nineteen hundred Marksmen, etc.Vol. 35, p. 110, amended.and eight (Thirty-fifth Statutes at Large, page one hundred and ten), which provides for additional pay of marksmen, and so forth, is amended to read as follows: " “That hereafter enlisted men now qualified or hereafter qualifying New ratings established.as marksmen shall receive $2 per month; as sharpshooters, $3 per month; as expert riflemen, $5 per month; as second-class gunners, $2 per month; as first-class gunners, $3 per month; as expert first-class gunners, Field Artillery, $5 per month; as gun pointers, gun commanders, observers second-class, chief planters, and chief loaders, $7 per month; as plotters, observers first-class, casemate electricians, and coxswains, $9 per month, all in addition to their pay, under such regulations as the Secretary of War may prescribe, but no man shall receive at the same time additional pay for more than one of the classifications named in this section.
” " Additional pay for length of service of enlisted men of the line, Longevity.$3,500,000. Pay of enlisted men of the Regular Army Reserve, $290,000.Army Reserve. Enlisted Reserve Corps. Pay of enlisted men of the Enlisted Reserve Corps, $100,000. Pay of enlisted men, National Guard, $10,000,000.National Guard. ordnance department. Ordnance Department. Pay of enlisted men, $383,760. Additional pay for length of service, $185,996.16. quartermaster corps.Quartermaster Corps. Pay of enlisted men, $2,437,272.
Additional pay for length of service, $300,000. signal corps.Signal Corps. Pay of enlisted men, $1,070,000. Additional pay for length of service, $100,000. medical department.Medical Department. Pay of enlisted men, $2,000,000. Additional pay for length of service, $325,000. 46 Office of Chief of Stall.clerks, messengers, and laborers, office of the chief of staff. Clerks, messengers, etc.One chief clerk, at $2,250 per annum, $2,250; Three clerks, at $2,000 each per annum, $6,000;
Six clerks, at $1,800 each per annum, $10,800; Ten clerks, at $1,600 each per annum, $16,000; Twelve clerks, at $1,490 each per annum, $16,800; Seventeen clerks, at $1,200 each per annum, $20,400; Eight clerks, at $1,000 each per annum, $8,000; One captain of the watch, at $900 per annum. $900; Six watchmen, at $720 each per annum, $4,320; One gardener, at $720 per annum, $720; One packer, at $840 per annum, $840; One chief messenger, at $1,000 per annum, $1,000; Three messengers, at $840 each per annum, $2,520:
Fifteen messengers, at $720 each per annum, $10,800; Two laborers, at $720 each per annum, $1,440; One laborer, at $600 per annum, $600; Five charwomen, at $240 each per annum, $1,200; in all, $104,590. Headquarters of departments, etc.clerks and messengers at headquarters of the several territorial departments, territorial districts, tactical divisions and brigades, and service schools. Clerks, messengers, etc.Seven clerks, at $2,000 each per annum, $14,000; Eleven clerks, at $1,800 each per annum, $19,800;
Fourteen clerks at $1,600 each per annum, $22,400; Thirty-two clerks, at $1,400 each per annum, $44,800; Fifty-seven clerks, at $1,200 each per annum, $68,400; Forty-nine clerks, at $1,000 each per annum, $49,000; Thirty-nine messengers, at $720 each per annum, $28,080; In all, $246,480. Foreign service.Additional pay while on foreign service, $7,600. Commutation.For commutation of quarters and of heat and light, $53,742. Field clerks, Quartermaster Corps.For commutation of quarters and of heat and light for field clerks, Quartermaster Corps, $70,000. *Provisos*.
Service assignments.*Provided*, That said clerks, messengers, and laborers shall be employed and assigned by the Secretary of War to the offices and positions Duty in Department forbidden.in which they are to servo: *Provided further*, 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 in any bureau in the War Department. General Staff Corps.general staff corps.
Pay of officers. *Proviso*. Provisions amended during emergency.Vol. 39, p. 167, amended.Constitution of.Rank and precedence of Chief.For pay of officers of the General Staff Corps, $132,600: *Provided*, That the first paragraph of section five of the National Defense Act approved June third, nineteen hundred and sixteen, be, and the same is hereby, amended for the period of the existing emergency to read as follows: " “Sec. 5 The General Staff Corps.—The General Staff Corps shall consist of one Chief of Staff, who shall be a general officer of the line and who shall take rank and precedence over all other Other officers.officers of the Army; two assistants to the Chief of Staff, who shall be general officers of the line, one of whom shall be the president of the Army War College; ten colonels; twelve lieutenant colonels; thirty-two majors; and thirty-four captains, to be detailed from corresponding grades in the Army as in this section hereinafter Tour of details.provided.
All officers detailed in the General Staff Corps shall be detailed therein for a period of four years, unless sooner relieved. While serving in the General Staff Corps, officers may be temporarily 47assigned to duty with any branch of the Army. Upon being relieved Redetails limited.from duty in the General Staff Corns, officers shall return to the branch of the Army in which they hold permanent commissions, and no officer shall be eligible to a further detail in the General Staff Corps until he shall have served two years with the branch of the Army in which commissioned, except in time of actual or threatened hostilities.
Section twenty-seven of the Act of Congress approved Filling vacancies made by details.Vol. 31, p. 755.February second, nineteen hundred and one, shall apply to each position vacated by officers below the grade of general officer detailed in the General Staff Corps.” " Additional pay for length of service, $38,480.Longevity. adjutant general’s department.Adjutant General’s Department. For pay of officers of The Adjutant General’s Department, $115,500. Additional pay for length of service, $33,000. inspector general’s department.Inspector General’s Department.
For pay of officers of the Inspector General’s Department, 875,000. Additional pay for length of service, $21,000. corps of engineers.Engineer Corps. Pay of officers of the Corps of Engineers, $482,400. Additional pay for length of service, $96,455.41. ordnance department.Ordnance Department. For pay of officers of the Ordnance Department, $289,300. *Provided*, That section twenty-four of the national-defense Act *Proviso*. Immediate increase authorized.Vol. 39, p. 182, amended.approved June third, nineteen hundred and sixteen, is so amended as to authorize the President to organize immediately the whole of the increase in the Ordnance Department authorized by section twelve of said Act, or such part thereof as he may deem necessary.
Additional pay for length of service, $63,518.23. quartermaster corps.Quartermaster Corps. For pay of officers of the Quartermaster Corps, $771,200. Additional pay for length of service, $230,443.12. medical department. Medical Department. For pay of officers of the Medical Department, $2,225,000. Additional pay for length of service, $286,043.85.Reserve veterinarians. Contract surgeons. Nurse Corps. Forty reserve veterinarians at $1,700 each per annum, $68,000. Contract surgeons, at not exceeding $150 each per month, $24,000.
One superintendent, Nurse Corps, at $1,800 per annum, $1,800. Nurses (female), $160,000. judge advocate general’s department.Judge Advocate General ’s Department. For pay of officers in the Judge Advocate General’s Department, $75,500. Additional pay for length of service, $13,420. Codification of military laws.Vol. 39, p. 627. For paying the expenses of clerical hire and printing and other expenses incident to the making of the revision and codification hereto fore directed, not to exceed $5,000, to be expended upon certificates of the Secretary of War that the expenditures were necessary therefor of the military laws of the United States, $5,000. 48 Signal Corps.signal corps.
For pay of officers of the Signal Corps, $500,000. Additional pay for length of service, $76,733.34. 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, $2,000. Retired officers.retired officers. Pay.*Provisos*.Assignments as acting quartermasters.For pay of officers on the retired list, $2,700,000: *Provided*, That assignments which have been, or may hereafter be made, of retired officers of the Army to active duty as acting quartermasters shall be Vol. 33, p. 264.regarded as assignments to staff duties not involving service with troops within the meaning of the Act of Congress, approved April twenty-third, nineteen hundred and four.
Longevity credit for active duty service.*Provided, further*, That hereafter any retired officer of the Army who has been detailed to active duty, and who has since his retirement, served on active detail shall be entitled to increases of longevity pay, to be computed as provided by existing statute for the computation of longevity pay, for the time of his service before retirement and on active detail since his retirement. Longevity.Additional pay for length of service, $467,000.
Philippine Scout officers.Forty-three Philippine Scout officers, $1,040.40 each per annum, $44,737.20. Veterinarians.Three retired veterinarians, $5,355. Pay clerks.Thirteen retired pay clerks, $21,750. Active duty pay.Increased pay to retired officers on active duty, $145,275. Additional pay for length of service, $46,225. Retired enlisted men.retired enlisted men. Pay.>For pay of four thousand four hundred retired enlisted men, $3,100,000. On active duty.For pay and allowances of one hundred and fifty retired enlisted men on active duty, $21,600.
Reservists.For pay and allowances of one hundred Regular Army reservists on active duty, $54,000. Miscellaneous.miscellaneous. Hospital matrons.Thirty hospital matrons, at $120 each per annum, $3,600. Courts martial, etc.For expenses of courts-martial, courts of inquiry, military commissions, retiring boards, and compensation of reporters and witnesses attending same, and expenses of taking depositions and securing other evidence for use before the same, $60,000. 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, etc.For commutation of quarters and of heat and light to commissioned officers, members of the Nurse Corps, and enlisted men on duty at places where no public quarters are available, including enlisted men of the Regular Army Reserve and retired enlisted men when ordered to active duty, $1,100,000. Interest on deposits.For interest on soldiers’ deposits, $150,000.
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, $16,263.80. 49 For extra pay to enlisted men employed on extra duty as switch-board Switchboard opera tors, interior posts.operators at each interior post of the Army, $15,968.75.
For extra pay to enlisted men of the line of the Army and to Alaska cable, etc., service.enlisted men of the Quartermaster Corps, Medical Department, and of the Signal Corps employed in the Territory of Alaska on the Washington-Alaska cable and telegraph system for periods of not less than ten days at the rate of 35 cents per day, $30,660. For mileage to commissioned officers, members of the Officers’ Mileage to officers, etc.Reserve Corps when ordered to active duty, contract surgeons, expert accountant, Inspector General’s Department, Army field clerks, and field clerks of the Quartermaster Corps, when authorized by law, $740,000: *Provided*, That the amount appropriated for mileage to *Proviso*.Allowance for field clerks, 1916, 1917.Vol. 39, p. 629.commissioned officers, contract surgeons, and expert accountant, Inspector General’s Department, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, shall be available for the payment of the mileage of Army field clerks, and field clerks, Quartermaster Corps, when authorized by law.
For additional ten per centum increase of pay of officers on foreign Additional pay, foreign service.Officers.Enlisted men.service, $250,000. For additional twenty per centum increase of pay of enlisted men on foreign service, $800,000. For pay of one computer for Artillery Board, $2,500.Computer. For payment of exchange by acting quartermasters serving in foreign Loss by exchange.countries and when specially authorized by the Secretary of War by officers disbursing funds pertaining to the Quartermaster Corps when serving in Alaska, $600.
For three months’ additional pay to enlisted men reenlisting within Additional pay.First reenlistments.the period of three months from date of discharge from first enlistment, $150,500. For six months’ pay to beneficiaries of officers and enlisted men Death from wounds, etc.who die while on active service from wounds or disease not the result of their own misconduct, $75,000. For one year’s pay to beneficiaries of officers and enlisted men who Aviation accidents.die as the result of aviation accidents, $5,000.
For additional pay to officers below the grade of major required to Officers furnishing mounts.be mounted and who furnish their own mounts, $250,000. For amount required to make monthly payments to Jennie Carroll, Jennie Carroll.widow of James Carroll, late major, United States Army, $1,500: *Provided*, That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, *Proviso*.Harriet C. Carroll, mother of Maj. James Carroll.authorized and directed to pay to Harriet C. Carroll, mother of the late Major James Carroll, United States Army, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated the sum of $600 per annum, payable monthly.
For amount required to make monthly payments to Mabel H. Mabel H. Lazear.Lazear, widow of Jesse W. Lazear, late acting assistant surgeon, United States Army, $1,500. For amount required to make monthly payments of $100 to John John R. Kissinger.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. philippine scouts. Philippine Scouts. Fifty-two captains, at $2,400 each per annum, $124,800.Officers.
Sixty-five first lieutenants, at $2,000 each per annum, $130,000. Sixty-five second lieutenants, at $1,700 each per annum, $110,500. For pay of thirteen majors in addition to pay as captain, at $600 each per annum, $7,800. Additional pay for length of service, $98,612.32. For pay of enlisted men, $620,000.Enlisted men. Additional pay for length of service, $40,766.22. 50 Pay accounts specified.All the money hereinbefore appropriated for pay of the Army and miscellaneous, except the appropriation for mileage to commissioned officers, contract surgeons, expert accountant, Inspector General’s Department, Army field clerks, and field clerks of the Quartermaster Corpse 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.
Quartermaster Corps.Officers may designate agents for disbursements, etc.Hereafter, under such regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary of War, officers of the Quartermaster Corps accountable for public moneys may intrust such moneys to other officers for the purpose of having them make disbursements as their agents, and the Accountability.officers to whom the moneys are intrusted, as well as the officers who intrust it to them, shall be held pecuniarily responsible therefor to the United States.
Subsistence. Purchases.Subsistence of the Army: Purchase of subsistence supplies: For issue as rations to troops, including enlisted men of the Regular Army Reserve and retired enlisted men when ordered to active duty, 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.sales to officers, including members of the Officers’ Reserve Corps, *Provisos*.National Ration restrictions.rifle matches.while on active duty, and enlisted 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 National Guard who may be competitors in the national rifle match: *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 Payments.period the contest is in progress shall be incurred.
For payments: Of Commutation of rations, etc.commutation of rations to the cadets of the United States Military Academy in lieu of the regular established ration, at the rate of 40 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, including enlisted men of the Regular Army Reserve and retired enlisted men when ordered to active duty, 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 40 cents per ration (except that at the general hospital at Fort Bayard, New Mexico, 50 cents per ration and at other general hospitals 40 cents per ration are authorized for enlisted patients therein), to be paid to the surgeon in charge; advertising;
Prizes for takers and cooks.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 necessary expenses incident to the purchase, testing, care, preservation, issue, sale, and accounting for subsistence supplies for the Army; for extraordinary 51expense of subsistence of West Point cadets while attending inaugural West Point cadets at Inauguration.ceremony not to exceed $4,000, which shall be immediately available; in all, $18,500,000.
Regular supplies, Quartermaster Corps: Regular supplies of Regular quartermaster supplies.the Quartermaster Corps, including their care and protection; construction and repair of military reservation fences ; 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; and the necessary power for the operation of moving-picture machines authorized issues of canilles and matches; for furnishing heat and light for the Heat, light, etc.authorized allowance of quarters for officers, including members of the Officers’ Reserve Corps when ordered to active duty, and enlisted men, including enlisted men of the Regular Army Reserve and retired enlisted men when ordered to active duty; contract 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 Recreation buildings.Vol. 32, p. 282.buildings erected at private cost, in the operation of the Act approved May thirty-first, nineteen hundred and two; for sale to 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 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, paper, and equipment Supplies for schools, etc.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; for purchase of relief maps for issue to organizations, commercial news papers, market reports, and so forth; for the tableware and mess furniture for kitchens and mess halls, each and all for the enlisted men, including recruits; of forage, salt, and vinegar for the horses,Forage, etc., for animals. 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, and 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, including, when specifically authorized by the Secretary of War, the cost of irrigation; 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 Printing.orders and reports, $13,450,000. *Provided*, That no part of the appropriations for the Quartermaster *Provisos*.
Restriction.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 52impracticable to have the necessary printing done by contract the same may be done, with the approval of the Secretary of War, by the purchase of material and hire of the necessary labor for the Ice machines, etc.Disposal of products and services.purpose.
For the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, 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 Use of proceeds.prescribed by the Secretary of War: *Provided*, That the funds received rom 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.
Incidental expenses.Incidental expenses, Quartermaster Corps: Postage; cost of telegrams on official business received and sent by officers of the Army, including members of the Officers’ Reserve Corps, when Extra duty pay, etc.ordered to active duty; 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; as additional school-teachers during the school term at post schools, 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 *Provisos*.Disciplinary bar racks guard,etc.States disciplinary barracks guard: *Provided*, That hereafter the extra-duty pay to the United States disciplinary barracks guard shall be at the following rates per day:
Battalion sergeants major, first sergeants, mess sergeants, supply sergeants, and sergeants, 35 cents; corporals, 30 cents; cooks and mechanics, privates first class, privates, and buglers, 20 cents; of extra-duty pay at rates to be fixed by the Secretary of War for mess stewards and cooks at recruit depots, who are 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 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 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 Horse expenditures.under court-martial 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 53officers’ horses, and for the trains, to wit, purchase of 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, $2,000,000.*Provided*, That section eleven hundred and twenty of the Revised Recruiting premium repealed.[R.
S., sec. 1120,p.205, repealed](/us/rs/sec1120/p205).Statutes of the United States be, and the same is hereby, repealed. *Provided further*, That the proper accounting officers of the Treasury be, and they are hereby, authorized and directed to pay the account Evening Observer, La Grande, Oreg.Payment to.of the La Grande Evening Observer, of La Grande, Oregon, in the sum of $51.35 for advertising and other services rendered in connection with recruitment of the Oregon National Guard, called into the Federal service by the President under date of June eighteenth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, and ordered by Captain Lee M.
Clark, Ordnance Department, Oregon National Guard, a properly detailed recruiting officer. Transportation of the Army and its supplies: For transportation Transportation.of the Army and its supplies, including transportation of the troops when moving either by land or water, and of their baggage, including members of the Officers’ Reserve Corps, enlisted men of the Enlisted Reserve Corps, and retired enlisted men when ordered to active duty, 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 Travel allowances, etc.
Vol. 39, p. 217.Vol. 31, p. 902.allowance to enlisted men on discharge ; for payment of travel allowance as provided in section one hundred and twenty-six of the Act approved June third, nineteen hundred and sixteen, to enlisted men of the National Guard on their discharge from the service of the United States, and to members of the National Guard who have been mustered into the service of the United States and discharged on account of physical disability ; for payment of travel pay to officers of National Guard officers on discharge.Vol. 31 p. 902.the National Guard on their discharge from the service of the United States, as prescribed in the Act approved March second, nineteen hundred and one ; for travel allowance to 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 the necessary agents and other employees, including per diem allowances in lieu of subsistence not exceeding $4 for Per diemsubsistence.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 ferriages; for transportation of funds of the Army: for the hire of employees ; for the payment Payment to land grant roads.of Army transportation lawfully due such land-grant railroads as have not received aid in Government bonds (to be adjusted in accordance with the decisions of the Supreme Court in cases decided under such land-grant Acts), but in no case shall more than fifty per centum of full amount of service be paid: *Provided*, That such *Provisos*.
Basis of computation.compensation shall be computed upon the basis of the tariff or lower special rates for like transportation performed for the public at large and shall be accepted as in full for all demands for such service: 54Fifty per cent to roads not bond aided.*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 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 Full pay to excepted roads.shall be accepted as in full for all demands for such service: *And provided further*, That nothing in the preceding provisos shall be construed to prevent the accounting officers of the Government from making full payment to land-grant railroads for transportation of property or persons where the courts of the United States have held that such property or persons do not come within the scope of. the deductions provided for in the land-grant Acts; for the purchase and Draft and pack animals, etc.hire of draft and pack animals in such numbers as are actually required for the service, including reasonable provision for replacing unserviceable animals; for the purchase, hire, operation, maintenance, and repair of such harness, wagons, carts, drays, 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;
Ships, boats, etc.for the purchase and repair of ships, boats, and other vessels required for the transportation of troops and supplies and for official, military, Transporta.and garrison purposes ; for expenses of sailing public transports and other vessels on the various rivers, the Gulf of Mexico, and the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, $16,000,000. Employees on harbor boats.*Provided further*, That $75,000 of the appropriation hereby made shall be available for additional pay of employees on harbor boats, quartermaster service, in lieu of subsistence.
West Point cadets at inauguration.*Provided further*, That of the amount herein appropriated not exceeding $15,000 may be used for extraordinary expenses of transportation of West Point cadets to Washington, District of Columbia, to attend inaugural ceremonies, and return, which sum shall be immediately available. Water, sowers, 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 situations 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 m other appropriations; for the purchase and repair 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; for hire of employees, $2,000,000.
Clothing, camp and garrison equipage.Clothing and camp and garrison equipage: For cloth, woolens, materials, and for the purchase and manufacture of clothing for the Army, including enlisted men of the Regular Army Reserve and retired enlisted men when ordered to active duty, for issue and for sale at cost price according to the Army Regulations; for payment 55for 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 dishonorable discharge; for indemnity Indemnity for destroyed clothing.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, $28,640,000. *Provided*, That $20,100, or so much thereof as may be necessary, *Provisos*.Jeffersonville depot.Machinery for manufacture of clothing.is hereby appropriated, in addition to the above sum, for the purchase of the necessary machinery for the manufacture of clothing in the Jeffersonville Depot of the Quartermaster Corps, to be immediately available. *Provided*, That all the money hereinbefore appropriated under the Supplies, services, and transportation.Combination fund constituted of moneys for.titles Subsistence of the Army;
Regular supplies, Quartermaster Corps; Incidental expenses, Quartermaster Corps; Transportation of the Army and its supplies; Water and sewer 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, and for that purpose shall constitute one fund. Horses for Cavalry, Artillery, and Engineers: For the purchase Horses.Purchases.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 Medical Department 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.Limitation.added to the number now on hand, shall be limited to the actual needs of the mounted service, including reasonable provisions for remounts, and, unless otherwise ordered by the Secretary of War, no part of this appropriation shall be paid out for horses not purchased by contract after competition duly invited by the Quartermaster Corps and an inspection under the direction and authority of the Secretary of War.
When practicable, horses shall be purchased in Open market purchases.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 Standard required. no part of this appropriation shall be expended for the purchase of any horse 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 Polo ponies.provided further*, That no part of this appropriation shall be expended for polo ponies except for West Point Military Academy, and such pomes shall not be used at any other place, $400,000. *Provided, however*, That the Secretary of War is hereby authorized Sale of animals not needed.upon the approval of this Act to sell for cash at either public or private sale such horses and mules as are not needed for either the Regular Army or the National Guard and the proceeds shall be turned into the United States Treasury as miscellaneous receipts.
Barracks and quarters: For barracks, quarters, stables, store-houses,Barracks and quarters. magazines, administration and office buildings, sheds, shops, and other buildings necessary for the shelter of troops, public animals, 56and stores, and for administration purposes, except those pertaining to the Coast Artillery; for constructing and repairing public buildings at military posts; for hire of employees; for rental of the authorized allowance of quarters for officers, including members of the Officers’ Reserve Corps when ordered to active duty, 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, including enlisted men of the Regular Army Reserve, retired enlisted men, and members of the Enlisted Reserve Corps when ordered to active duty; of grounds for cantonments, camp sites, and other military purposes, and of buildings or portions of buildings for occupation by troops, for use as stables, storehouses, and offices, and for other military purposes ; for the hire of recruiting stations and lodgings for recruits; for such furniture for the public rooms of officers’ messes and for officers’ quarters at military posts as may be approved by the Secretary of War; for wall lockers in permanent barracks, and refrigerators in barracks and quarters; for screen doors, window screens, storm doors and sash, and window shades for barracks, offices, and quarters, and for flooring and framing for tents, For National Guard Inservice.and for the National Guard when called or drafted into the service of the United States, $3,000,000. *Provisos*.Chapel at Presidio of San Francisco, Cal.*Provided*, That not to exceed the sum of $18,000 of the above amount may be used for the construction, including plumbing, heating, and lighting, of a chapel at the Presidio of San Francisco, California, to be open to the use of all denominations, subject to such regulations as the Secretary of War may prescribe.
Commutation restrictions.*Provided*, That no part of the moneys so appropriated shall be paid for commutation of fuel or quarters to officers or enlisted men: Civilian employees.*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.
Jeffersonville Depot.Additional for clothing machinery.*Provided further*, That $9,500, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated, in addition to the above sum, for the purchase or alterations and additions to buildings at Jeffersonville Depot of the Quartermaster Corps, for the installation of machinery for the manufacture of clothing, to be immediately available: *Provided Fort Sam Houston, Tex.Cost of nurses’ dormitory, increased.Vol. 39, p. 638.further*, That the limit of cost of the nurses’ dormitory at Fort Sam Houston, Texas, be increased to not more than $30,000, including the heating and lighting fixtures, which sum shall be paid from the appropriation for Construction and Repair of Hospitals in the bill for the support of the Army for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seventeen.
Purchase of land for extending reservation, etc.*Provided further*, That the Secretary of War is hereby authorized and directed to purchase such parcels of land, not less than one thousand one hundred and eighty acres, adjoining the military reservation of Fort Sam Houston, Texas, as may be needed for the uses of said post, considering present and future needs, and such as may be suitable for encampments, maneuvers, and field instruction of the mobile army of the United St ates or parts thereof ; and for the purposes of this Act there is hereby authorized to be expended, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of $330,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to be immediately available.
Postexchanges.Construction, etc.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, reading, lunch, amusement rooms, and gymnasium, including re57pairs to buildings erected at private cost, in the operation of the Recreation buildings.Vol. 32, p. 282.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, $50,000.
Roads, walks, wharves, and drainage: For the construction Roads, walks, wharves, etc.and 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. *Provided*, That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, authorized, *Provisos*.Presidio of San Francisco,Site of Palace of Fine Arts conveyed to California University, Description.*Post*, p. 863.in his discretion, to convey to the regents of the University of California, their successors and assigns, for art, educational, and park purposes, that portion of the military reservation of the Presidio of San Francisco, in the city and county of San Francisco, California, on which the Palace of Fine Arts is located, included within metes and bounds described as follows, namely:
Commencing at the point on the westerly line of Lyon Street, distant therefrom five and seventeen one-hundredths feet southerly from the northerly line of Bay Street, if extended and produced Westerly, and running thence northerly along the westerly line of Lyon Street one thousand one hundred and ninety-six and eighty one-hundredths feet; thence southwesterly on a curve to the left of six hundred and twelve feet radius, central angle one hundred and fifty-five degrees forty-seven minutes and fifty seconds, tangent to a line deflected one hundred and two degrees six minutes and five seconds to the left from the preceding course a distance of one thousand six hundred and sixty-four and thirteen one-hundredths feet to the westerly line of Lyon Street and the point of commencement, containing nine and ninety-three Reversion for non user.one-hundredths acres, more or less: *Provided*, That if at any time in the future the property so conveyed to said regents shall cease to be used for the purposes for which conveyed, then all right and title thereto herein authorized to be granted to said regents shall revert to the United States: *And provided further*, That inLands from University in exchange. consideration of the said grant the said regents shall procure, to be conveyed to the United States, for use m connection with said military reservation, other lands situated within the city and county of San Francisco, California, located as the Secretary of War may approve and which he may deem satisfactory and useful in connection with said reservation, the title thereto to be subject to the approval of the Attorney General of the United States as required by law. *Provided*, That upon the transfer of wharf numbered two in the Honolulu, Hawaii.Exchange of wharves with Navy.city of Honolulu, Territory of Hawaii, now owned by the Navy Department, to the War Department, in exchange for wharf numbered one, now owned by the War Department, the Secretary of War is hereby authorized to expend from the funds above appropriated so much thereof as may be necessary in fitting up both wharves suitable for the needs of both departments.
Construction, repair, and maintenance, military and post Alaska.Roads, bridges, and trails.roads, bridges, and trails, Alaska: For the construction, repair, and maintenance of military and post roads, bridges, and trails, Territory of Alaska, $500,000, to remain available until June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nineteen. Barracks and quarters, Philippine Islands: Continuing Philippine Islands.Barracks and quarters.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 58Shelter in China.post administration purposes, and for shelter and repair thereof, and *Proviso*.Restriction on officers’ quarters.rentals for the United States troops in China, $500,000: *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, 46,000; and of an officer of and below the rank of captain, $4,000.
Hospitals.Construction and repair.Construction and repair of hospitals: For construction and repair of hospitals at military posts already established and occupied, including the extra-duty pay of enlisted men employed on the same, and including also all expenditures for construction and repairs required at the 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 Temporary hospitals, etc.of increased garrisons, and for temporary hospitals in standing camps Specified allotments.and cantonments, $750,000, of which amount not to exceed $25,000 may be used to build a modern hospital at Fort Ward, Washington; $100,000 to build a modern hospital at Schofield Barracks, Hawaii; $90,000 to enlarge the Walter Reed General Hospital; $90,000 to build a modern hospital at Fort McPherson, Georgia; and $60,000 *Proviso*, Cost restriction.to build an officers’ infirmary at Fort Bayard, New Mexico: *Provided*, That no building or structure of a permanent nature, the cost of which shall exceed $30,000, shall hereafter be erected for use as an Army hospital unless by special authority of Congress.
Quarters for hospital stewards.Quarters for hospital stewards: For construction and repair of quarters for hospital stewards at military posts already established and occupied, including the extra-duty pay of enlisted men employed on the same, $25,000.Shooting galleries and ranges.Shooting galleries and ranges: For shelter, shooting galleries, ranges for small-arms target practice, machine-gun practice, field-artillery practice, repairs, and expenses incident thereto, including flour or paste for marking targets, hire of employees, such ranges and galories to be open as far as practicable to the *Provisos*.Vancouver Barracks.Target range appropriation continued available.Vol. 39, p. 638.National Guard and organized rifle clubs under regulations to be prescribed by the Secretary of War, $45,000: *Provided*, That the sum of $100,000 appropriated for the acquisition of a target range of approximately five hundred and four acres of land situated near the city of Vancouver, and for the construction thereon of target butts, range buildings, and so forth, under “An Act making appropriations for the support of the Army for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, and for other purposes,” approved August twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, shall be available Discretionary use.for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen: *And provided further*, That the Secretary of War may, in his discretion, use said appropriation or any part thereof for the purchase only, and not for the purchase and improvement of a larger tract than that mentioned above, provided only the same shall be conveniently reachable from large centers of population as well as from Vancouver, Washington.
Army War College.Maintenance.Maintenance, Army War College: For supplying the 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 $1,400 per annum; and assistant engineer, at $900; four firemen, at $720 each; one elevator conductor, at $720; in all, $10,700. Rent of buildings, D. C.Rent of buildings, Quartermaster Corps: For rent of buildings and parts of buildings in the District of Columbia for military purposes, during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen, as follows:
Field medical supply depot, $7,967.10; Signal Corps test rooms, $2,100; 59 Quartermaster stable, $2,700; Quartermaster storehouse, $4,938; Quartermaster stable and warehouse, $3,600; For Army Medical School, $7,920; For attending surgeon and retiring board, $3,000; Depot quartermaster office, $2,500; Garage, Quartermaster Corps, $1,500; Claims for damages to and loss of private property: For Target practice damage claims.payment of claims for damages to and loss of private property incident to the training, practice, and operations of the Army that have accrued, or may hereafter accrue, from time to time, to be immediately available and to remain available until expended: *Provided*, *Proviso*.Settlement, etc.That settlement of such claims shall be made by the Auditor for the War Department, upon the approval and recommendation of the Secretary of War, where the amount of damages has been ascertained by the War Department, and payment thereof will be accepted by the owners of the property in full satisfaction of such damages, $5,000.
That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, authorized and Gettysburg Park.Purchase of additional lands.directed to acquire, by purchase, for the Gettysburg National Military Park the land composing the right of way of the Gettysburg Railway Company (the rails, ties, and superstructure of same to remain the property of the Gettysburg Railway Company and to be removed by the said company as required by the Secretary of War), said right of way embracing the tracts known as the Amos Leister Description. tracts, the F.
G. Pfeffer tracts, the Jacob Benner estate tract, the Simon J. Godori tract, the Jacob Masonheimer tract, the Annie E. Beecher tract, the Rosanna E. Wible tract, the James W. Timbers tract, the S. W. Crawford tracts, the William H. Tipton tract, the Calvin P. Krise tract, the George Bushman tract, and the Peter D. Swisher tract within the limits of the battle field of Gettysburg and within the limits of the Gettysburg National Military Park for the sum of $30,000, that being the amount awarded in condemnation proceedings in the eastern district of Pennsylvania, which sum is hereby appropriated and made immediately available for such purchase.
Vocational training: For the employment of the necessary Vocational education. Employment of instructors, tools, etc.civilian instructors in the most important trades, for the purchase of carpenter’s, machinist’s, plumber’s, mason’s, electrician’s, and such other tools and equipment as may be required, including machines used in connection with the trades, for the purchase of material and other supplies necessary for instruction and framing purposes and the construction of such buildings needed for vocational training in agriculture for shops, storage, and shelter of machinery as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of section twenty-seven of the Vol. 39, p. 186.Act approved June third, nineteen hundred and sixteen, authorizing, in addition to the military training of soldiers while in the active service, means for securing an opportunity to study and receive instruction upon educational lines of such character as to increase their military efficiency and enable them to return to civil life better equipped for industrial, commercial, and general business occupations, part of this instruction to consist of vocational education either in agriculture or the mechanic arts, $250,000: *Provided, however*, That the Secretary of *Provisos*.
Selection of regiments at continental posts.War may, in his discretion, in order to carry out the last provision, select one or more and not exceeding three regiments of Infantry, Cavalry, or Field Artillery to be stationed at a regimental post within the continental limits of the United States on or before July first, nineteen hundred and seventeen, and may transfer from suchTransfers of men not desiring instruction, etc. regiment to other organizations any enlisted man or men who do not desire educational or vocational training and instruction such as is 60contemplated by the concluding paragraph of section twenty-seven of the National Defense Act approved June third, nineteen hundred and sixteen, and may transfer thereto from other organizations a number of enlisted men to be selected under such rules and regulations as he may prescribe who do desire such instruction and training or may receive recruits thereto sufficient to bring the enlisted strength Time for military and educational training.of the regiment up to that authorized by law.
During such part of the year Beginning July first, nineteen hundred and seventeen, and thereafter as the enlisted men of the regiment so selected shall not be engaged on field service or in field t raining they shall be under training or instruction nine hours of each day, or as near that number of hours as possible, Sundays and holidays excepted, at least three hours of each day to be devoted to military training and six hours of each day, or as nearly that as possible, to educational and vocational training and instruction such as is contemplated by the concluding paragraph of Civilian instructors.section twenty-seven of the National Defense Act.
The educational and vocational training to be had under civilian instructors employed for that purpose under such rules and regulations as the Secretary ofRegulations controlling.War shall prescribe: *And provided further*, That said civilian instructors, as well as the discipline of the said post, shall be under the jurisdiction of the military authorities, under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of War may prescribe. Filing equipment for Army correspondence.Filing equipment for the Army:
For the purchase and supply of filing cases and other filing equipment for the installation in the Military Establishment of an improved system of recording and filing correspondence, to be immediately available, $45,000. Medical Department.medical department. Supplies, etc. Supplies, etc.*Post*, p. 597.Medical and Hospital Department: For the purchase of medical and hospital supplies, including motor ambulances, and motorcycles for medical service, their maintenance, repair, and operation, and disinfectants, and the purchase and exchange of typewriting machines for military posts, camps, hospitals, hospital ships and transports, Mosquito destruction.and supplies required for mosquito destruction in and about the *Provisos*.Motorambulances.military posts in the Canal Zone:*Provided*, That the Secretary of War may in his discretion select types and makes of motor ambulances for the Army and authorize their purchase without regard to the laws prescribing advertisement for proposals for supplies and material for the Army; for the purchase of veterinary supplies and hire of veterinary surgeons; for expenses of medical supply depots; for medical care and treatment not otherwise provided for, including care and subsistence in private hospitals, of officers, enlisted men, and civilian employees of the Army, of applicants for enlistment, and of prisoners of war and other persons in military custody or confinement, when entitled thereto by law, regulation, or contract:
Private treatment.*Provided*, That this shall not apply to officers and enlisted men who Contagious diseases, expenses.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 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 61employees 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 enlisted force of the Medical Department; for the supply of the Army and Navy hospital at Hot Springs, Ark., hospital.Hot Springs, Arkansas; for advertising, printing, binding, laundry, and all other necessary miscellaneous expenses of the Medical Department, $1,000,000.Hospital care, Canal Zone garrisons:
For paying the Panama Canal Zone.Care, etc., of troops at hospitals in.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 authority: *Provided*, *Proviso*.Subsistence p a ymeats.That the subsistence of the said patients, except commissioned officers, 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, $35,000.
Army Medical Museum and Library: For Army Medical Museum, Museum. preservation of specimens, and the preparation and purchase of new specimens, $5,000; For the library of the Surgeon General’s office, including the purchase Library.of the necessary books of reference and periodicals, $10,000; in all, $15,000. Care of insane Filipino soldiers: For care, maintenance, and Care of insane soldiers.Philippine Islands.treatment at asylums in the Philippine Islands of insane natives of the Philippine Islands cared for in such institutions conformable to the Act of Congress approved May eleventh, nineteen hundred and eight (Thirty-fifth Statutes, page one hundred and twenty-two), $1,500. bureau of insular affairs.
Bureau of Insular Affairs. Care of insane soldiers, Porto Rico Regiment of Infantry:Porto Rico.For care, maintenance, and treatment at asylums in Porto Rico of insane soldiers of the Porto Rico Regiment of Infantry, $300. engineer department.Engineer Department. Engineer depots: For incidental expenses for the depots, including Incidental expenses of depots.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, $35,000.
Engineer School, Washington, District of Columbia: Equipment Engineer School, Washington, D. C.Equipment, etc.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, stationery, Incidental expenses.hardware, machinery, and boats; for pay of civilian clerks, draftsmen, 62electricians, mechanics, and laborers; compensation of civilian lecturers and payment of tuition fees of student officers at civil technical Travel expenses.institutions ; for unforeseen expenses ; for travel expenses of officers on journeys approved by the Secretary of War and made for the purpose *Proviso*.Ini lieu of milcage, etc.Textbooks, etc.of instruction: *Provided*, That the traveling expenses herein 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, $30,000.
Equipment of troops.Engineer equipment of troops: For pontoon material, tools, 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 of special paper for same, and for a reserve supply of above equipment, to be immediately available, $1,174,000. *Proviso*.Motorcycles.*Provided*, That authority is granted for the purchase, maintenance, repair, and operation from this appropriation of not to exceed seventy-eight motorcycles, including those on hand.
Civilian assistants.Civilian assistants to Engineer officers: For services of surveyors, survey parties, draftsmen, photographers, master laborers, and clerks to Engineer officers on the staffs of division, corps, and department commanders, $75,000. Field operation expenses.Engineer operations in the field: For expenses incident to military engineer operations in the field, including the purchase of material and a reserve of material for such operations, the construction or rental of storehouses within and outside the District of Columbia, the purchase, operation, maintenance, and repair of horse-drawn and motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles, and such expenses as are ordinarily provided for under appropriations for “Engineer depots,” “Civilian assistants to engineer officers,” and “Maps, War Department,” $300,000. *Proviso>*.Use of prior appropriations,Vol. 39, p. 641.*Provided*, That the appropriations for “Engineer operations in the field,” during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, may be used for any of the purposes covered by the appropriation “ Engineer operations in the field” in this Act.
Contingencies, Philippine Islands.Contingencies, Engineer Department, Philippine Islands:For contingent expenses incident to the operations of the Engineer Department in the Philippine Islands, to be expended at the discretion of the Secretary of War, $4,000. Engineer School. etc.,Construction of buildings.Buildings, Engineer School and post, Washington, District of Columbia: For continuing construction of buildings for Engineer School and post at Washington Barracks, District of Columbia, to be immediately available and remain available until expended, $202,500.
Military surveys and maps.Expenses.Military surveys and maps: For the execution of topographic or other surveys, the securing of such extra topographic data as may be required, and the preparation and printing of maps required for military purposes, to be immediately available and remain available *Proviso*.Government offices to assist.until December thirty-first, nineteen hundred and eighteen: *Provided*, That the Secretary of War is authorized to secure the assistance, wherever practicable, of the United States Geological Survey, the Coast and Geodetic Survey, or other mapping agencies of the Government in this work, and to allot funds therefor to them from this appropriation, $200,000.
Per diem subsistence out of Washington.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 of the Engineer Department contained in the Army appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen, a per diem rate of $4 may be allowed in lieu of subsistence. 63 ordnance department.Ordnance Department. Ordnance Service: For the current expenses of the Ordnance Current 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; and for purchase, maintenance, repair, and operation of motor-propelled or horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles, $350,000.
Ordnance stores, ammunition: Manufacture and purchase of Ammunition for small arms.Manufacture and purchase of.ammunition for small arms and for hand use 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 home, $12,000,000. *Provided*, That not more than one-half of this sum shall be expended *Proviso*.Amount for purchases.in the purchase of the articles provided in this appropriation.
Small-arms target practice: For manufacture and purchase of Small-arms target practice.Ammunition, targets, etc.ammunition, targets, and other accessories for small-arms, hand, and machine-gun target practice and instructions; marksmen’s medals, prize arms, and insignia for all arms of the service; and ammunition, targets, target materials, and other accessories which may be issued for small-arms target practice and instruction at the At educational institutions.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, $2,000,000.
Manufacture of arms: For manufacturing, repairing, procuring, Manufacturing, etc., arms.and issuing arms at the national armories, $6,000,000. *Provided*, That not more than twenty per centum of this sum shall *Provisos*.Amount for purchases.be expended in the purchase of arms. *Provided*, That $200,000 of this appropriation may be used to procure gauges, Tools. etc., for manufacture by private parties.dies, jigs, tools, fixtures, and other special aids and appliances, including specifications and detailed drawings, necessary for the manufacture by private manufacturers, of arms necessary to arm the land forces likely to be required by the United States in time of war, and in the purchase of lots of arms to complete the object of this Competition modified.proviso the existing laws prescribing competition in the procurement of supplies by purchase shall not govern in orders not to exceed $50,000 in any one case.
Ordnance stores and supplies: For overhauling, cleaning, repairing, Preserving, etc,, ordnance.and preserving ordnance and ordnance stores in the hands of troops and at the arsenals, posts, and depots; for purchase and manufacture of ordnance stores to fill requisitions of troops ; for Infantry, Equipments.Cavalry, and Artillery equipments, including horse equipments for Cavalry and Artillery, $10,000,000. *Provided*, That not more than $6,000,000 of this appropriation may *Proviso*.Amount for purchases.be used for the purchase of ordnance stores.
National trophy and medals for rifle contests: For the purpose Rifle contests.Trophy, medals, prizes, etc.of furnishing a national trophy and medals and other prizes to 64be 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. *Proviso*.
Enlisted men as instructors.*Provided*, That the Secretary of War, in his discretion, and under such regulations as he may prescribe, may authorize the detail of enlisted men of the Army as temporary instructors in rifle practice to organized rifle clubs requesting such instruction. Automatic machine rifles.Automatic machine rifles: For the purchase, manufacture, and test of automatic machine rifles, including their sights and equipments, to be immediately available and remain available until the close of the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nineteen, $5,000,000.
Armored motor cars.Armored motor cars: For the purchase and manufacture of armored motor cars, $600,000. *Proviso*.Reappropriation.Vol. 39, p. 644.*Provided*, That the funds appropriated by the appropriation Act approved August twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, for the procurement of armored motor cars, are hereby made available to and including June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen. Automatic machine rifles, for National Guard.Automatic machine rifles for National Guard:
For the purchase, manufacture, and test of automatic machine rifles, including them sights and equipments, for the National Guard, to be immediately available, and to remain available until the close of the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nineteen, $2,500,000. Antiaircraft guns.Antiaircraft guns: For the procurement and test of antiaircraft guns and devices, including their carriages, sights, implements, and equipments, to be immediately available and to remain available the close of the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nineteen, $250,000.
Ammunition.Ammunition for antiaircraft guns: For the procurement and test of ammunition for antiaircraft guns and devices, including the necessary experiments in connection therewith, to be immediately available and to remain available until the close of the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nineteen, $200,000. National Guard.Field artillery material for.Field artillery for National Guard: For the purpose of manufacturing and procuring field artillery material for the National Guard of the several States, Territories, and the District of Columbia, but to remain the property of the United States and to be accounted for in the maimer 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 National Guard of the District of Columbia, to issue said artillery material to the National Guard; and the sum of $10,000,000 is hereby appropriated and made immediately available for the manufacture, procurement, and issue of the articles constituting the same.
Field artillery ammunition.Ammunition for field artillery for the National Guard: For the purpose of manufacturing and procuring reserve ammunition for field artillery for the National Guard of the several States, Territories, and the District of Columbia, the funds to be immediately *Provisos*.Tools, etc., for manufacture by private parties.available, $10,000,000: *Provided*, That not more than $200,000 of this appropriation may be used to procure gauges, dies, jigs, tools, fixtures, and other special aids and appliances, including specifica65tions and detailed drawings necessary for the manufacture by private manufacturers of field artillery ammunition necessary for the use of the land forces of the United States in time of war, and in the purchase Competition modified.of lots of ammunition to complete the object of this proviso the existing laws prescribing competition in the procurement of supplies by purchase shall not govern in orders not to exceed $50,000 in any one case.*Provided*, That hereafter any civilian employee of the Ordnance Leaves of absence to civilian employees at stations abroad.Department who is a citizen of the United States and employed at any station outside the continental limits of the United States may, in the discretion of the Secretary of War, after at least two years’ continuous, faithful, and satisfactory service abroad, and subject to the interests of the public service, be granted accrued leave of absence, with pay, for each year of service, and if an employee Cumulation allowed.should elect to postpone the taking of any or all of the leave to which he may be entitled in pursuance hereof such leave may be allowed to accumulate for a period of not exceeding four years, the rate of pay for accrued leave to be the rate obtaining at the time the leave is granted. *Provided further*, That all material purchased under the appropriations Material to be of American manufacture.Exception.for the Ordnance Department in this Act shall be of American manufacture, except in cases when, in the judgment of the Secretary of War, it is to the manifest interest of the United States to make purchases in limited quantities abroad, which material shall be admitted free of duty. *Provided further*, That mileage to officers of the Ordnance DepartmentPayment of mileage from work. traveling on duty in connection with that department shall be paid from the appropriation for the work in connection with which the travel is performed.
That if during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen, Ordnance limitations waived during emergency.in the opinion of the President an emergency exists affecting the general welfare of the United States he may waive the limitations contained in the paragraphs relating respectively to ordnance stores, ammunition, manufacture of arms, ordnance stores and supplies, and ammunition for field artillery for the National Guard. national guard. National Guard. Arming, equipping, and training the National Guard:
To Arming, equipping, etc.Horse expenditures.provide for the procurement of forage, bedding, shoeing, veterinary service and supplies for horses and pack mules that may be owned, acquired by, or issued to organizations of the National Guard, $1,000,000. *Provided*, That the Secretary of War is hereby authorized to transfer *Proviso*.Transfer of draft animals from Regular Army.Vol. 39, p. 634.to those organizations of the National Guard entitled thereto such number of horses and pack mules purchased by the Quarter-master Corps of the Army under the provisions of the Act of July first, nineteen hundred and sixteen, not required for the proper equipment of organizations of the Regular Army, that can be issued to National Guard organizations under the regulations prescribed by the Secretary of War, all expenses incident to such transfer to be Payment.met from appropriations made for and on behalf of the National Guard; pack mules so transferred may be issued not to exceed six Issues limited.to any one radio company, machine-gun troop or company, or four to any one ambulance company, under such regulations as the Secretary of War may prescribe.
To provide for the compensation of competent help for the care Pay of enlisted men for care, etc.of matériel, animals, and equipment thereof, under such regulations as the Secretary of War may prescribe: *Provided*, That the men to *Proviso*.Details authorized.be compensated, not to exceed five for each battery, troop, or company, shall be duly enlisted therein and shall be detailed by the 66battery, troop, or company commander under such regulations as the Secretary of War may prescribe, and shall be paid by the United States disbursing officer in each State, Territory, and the District of Columbia, $500,000.
Participation in encampments, maneuvers, etc.To provide for the participation of the whole or any part of the National Guard in encampments, maneuvers, or other exercises, including outdoor target practice and field and coast defense instruction, either independently or in conjunction with any part of the Regular Pay and allowances.Army, and there may be set aside from the funds apportioned for that purpose and allotted to any State, Territory, or the District of Columbia such portion of said funds as may be necessary for the payment, subsistence, transportation, and other proper expenses of such portion of the National Guard of said State, Territory, or the District of Columbia as shall participate in such encampments, maneuvers, or other exercises, including outdoor target practice and field and coast defense instruction; and the officers and enlisted men of such National Guard while so engaged shall be entitled to the same pay, subsistence, and transportation as officers and enlisted men of corresponding grades of the Regular Army are or hereafter may be Instruction camps, conducted by Army officers.entitled to by law.
To provide for camps of instruction for the instruction of officers and enlisted men of the National Guard. Such camps shall be conducted by officers of the Regular Army detailed by the Secretary of War for the purpose, and may be located either within or without the State, Territory, or District of Columbia to which the members of the National Guard designated to attend said Pay for attendance, etc.camps shall belong. Officers and enlisted men attending such camps shall be entitled to pay and transportation and enlisted men to subsistence in addition at the same rates as for encampments or maneuvers *Provisos*.Georgia.Reimbursed for encampment expenses, 1914.[R.S.,sec.l661,p.290](/us/rs/sec1661/p290).Vol. 34, p. 449.for field and coast defense instruction, $1,000,000: *Provided*, That from the sum appropriated by section sixteen hundred and sixty-one, Revised Statutes, for arming and equipping the whole body of the militia, the sum of $14.409.98, proportioned to the State of Georgia for the year nineteen hundred and fifteen and nineteen hundred and sixteen be, and the same is hereby, made immediately available for the purpose of paying the expenses incurred by said State over and above the allotments made by the Secretary of War to the State of Georgia from all appropriations therefor in connection with the joint encampment held at Augusta, Georgia, July twenty-second to thirty-first, nineteen hundred and fourteen; and the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized and instructed to pay over said amount to the governor of said State of Georgia for said purpose.
Oklahoma.Reimbursed for camp, etc., expenses, 1910,1911.[R. S.,sec.1661, p. 290](/us/rs/sec1661/p290) .Vol. 34, p. 449.That from the sum appropriated by section sixteen hundred and sixty-one, Revised Statutes, for arming and equipping the whole body of the militia, the sum of $812.60 out of the sum proportioned to the State of Oklahoma for the year nineteen hundred and sixteen and nineteen hundred and seventeen be, and the same is hereby, made available for the purpose of paying the expenses incurred by said State over and above the allotments made by the Secretary of War to the State of Oklahoma from all appropriations therefor in connection with the construction of the State rifle range at Chandler or the encampment held in Oklahoma in the year nineteen hundred and ten and nineteen hundred and eleven; and the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized and directed to pay over said amount to the governor of said State of Oklahoma for said purpose.
Transportation of Army troops.*Provided*, That of this sum so much thereof as may be necessary is authorized to be expended for the payment of transportation of troops of the Regular Army in connection with joint camps of instruction National Guard Resserves.of the National Guard: *Provided*, That of this sum as much thereof as may be necessary is authorized to be expended for the pay, transportation, and subsistence of officers and enlisted men of the National Guard Reserve as may be authorized by the Secretary of 67War under the law to attend encampments, maneuvers, or other exercises of the National Guard.
To provide for the attendance of selected officers or enlisted men of Instruction at Army schools.the National Guard who pursue a regular course of study at any military service school of the United States except the United States Military Academy; or to be attached to an organization of the same At posts.arm, corps, or department to which such officers or enlisted men shall belong, for routine practical instruction at or near an Army post during a period of field training or other outdoor exercises; and such Allotments for pay, etc.officers or enlisted men shall receive out of any National Guard allotment of funds available for the purpose, the same travel allowances and quarters or commutation of quarters, and the same pay, allowance, and subsistence to which officers or enlisted men of the Regular Army would be entitled for attending such school, college, or practical course of instruction under orders from proper military authority while in actual attendance at such school, college, or practical course of instruction: *Provided*, That in no case shall the pay and allowances *Proviso*.Pay limit.authorized herein exceed those of a captain, $150,000.
To provide for pay and allowances of officers of the National Guard Officers assigned to Militia Bureau.assigned to duty in the Militia Bureau, $12,000. To provide for pay of property and disbursing officers of the several Property and disbursing officers.States, Territories, and District of Columbia, $60,000. For providing arms, ordnance stores, quartermaster stores, camp Arms, military stores, etc., for practice, encampments, etc.equipage, and all other military supplies for issue to the National Guard; for the promotion of rifle practice, including the acquisition, construction, maintenance, and equipment of shooting galleries and suitable target ranges; for the hire of horses and draft animals for the use of mounted troops, batteries, and wagons; for forage for the same; and for such other incidental expenses in connection with lawfully authorized encampments, maneuvers, and field instruction as the Secretary of War may deem necessary; and for such other expenses pertaining to the National Guard as are now or may hereafter be authorized by law, $2,000,000: *Provided*, That not exceeding $125,000 *Proviso*.
Lands for Field Artillery camps, etc.of said sum shall be available for procurement by purchase or condemnation of lands in the Eastern and Western Departments for encampments and ranges for Field Artillery of the Regular Army and the National Guard. For the purchase of a rifle range for the use of the District of National Guard, D.C.Rifle range tor.Columbia National Guard, upon a suitable site to be selected by the Secretary of War, $50,000. *Provided*, That when any land which has been heretofore or may Disposal of target ranges, etc., unavailable.be hereafter acquired by purchase for a target range for the use of the National Guard of any State, Territory, or the District of Columbia, shall have become useless or shall be found to be unavailable for such purpose, the Secretary of War may cause the same to be sold either in whole or in two or more parts as he may deem best for the interests of the United States.
In the disposal of such property, the sAppraisal, sale, etc.Secretary of War shall cause the same to be appraised either as a whole or in two or more tracts, having due reference to the requirements of any permanent improvements made thereon; and he shall cause the property to be offered at public or private sale at not less than the appraised value. The expenses for advertising, appraisement, Disposal of proceeds, etc.survey, and sale shall be paid from the proceeds of trie sale; and the net proceeds thereof shall be placed to the credit of the State, Territory, or District of Columbia, as additional to its allotment under section sixty-seven of the Act of June third, nineteen hundred and sixteen.
Travel of officers and noncommissioned officers of the Regular Travel of Army officers for inspection, etc. Vol. 39, p. 206.Army in carrying out the provisions of section ninety-three, Act of June third, nineteenVol. 39, p. 199. hundred and sixteen, $25,000; 68 Travel of inspector-instructors and sergeant-instructors, joining at State stations for duty and returning to duty with regiments, $15,000; Armory Inspection, etc.Travel of inspector-instructors and sergeant-instructors, in making visits of instruction and inspection to armories, $130,000: *Proviso*.Limit.*Provided*, That said inspector-instructors traveling shall not receive more than their actual expenses out of these appropriations.
Instruction and joint camps.Travel of officers and noncommissioned officers of the Regular Army in connection with State camps of instruction and joint camps, $40,000; Target, etc., inspection.Inspection of target ranges and mobilization camps for use of the National Guard, $1,000; Material inspection.Inspection of material pertaining to Field Artillery, Coast Artillery, and Signal Corps in the hands of the National Guard, $4,000; Transporting supplies.Transportation of supplies (including transportation of animals issued for the use of Cavalry, Field Artillery, signal companies, engineer companies, ambulance companies, and other mounted units) of the National Guard, $200,000;
Sergeant instructors, etc.Expenses of sergeant instructors on duty with the National Guard, including quarters, fuel, light, medicines, and medical attendance, $100,000; Office rent and other necessary expenses of inspector-instructors, $25,000; *Proviso*.Offices.*Provided*, That whenever practicable inspector-instructors shall use the State armories or other public buildings for offices. Accounting.All the money hereinbefore appropriated for arming, equipping, *Proviso*.Stair corps included in National Guard.and training the National Guard shall be disbursed and accounted for as such and for that purpose shall constitute one fund: *Provided*, That the National Guard of any State, Territory, or the District of Columbia, shall include such officers and enlisted men of the Staff Corps and Departments, corresponding to those of the Regular Army, as may be authorized by the Secretary of War.
Arms, etc., for field service.Arms, uniforms, equipment, and so forth, National Guard: To procure by purchase or manufacture and issue from time to time to the National Guard upon requisition of the governors of the several States and Territories, or the commanding general, National Guard of the District of Columbia, such number of United States service arms with all accessories, Field Artillery and Coast Artillery material, engineer, signal, and sanitary material, accouterments, field uniforms, clothing, equipage, publications, and military stores of all Reserve supply.kinds, including public animals, and a reserve supply of such arms, material, accouterments, field uniforms, clothing, equipage, and military stores of all kinds, as are necessary to arm, uniform, and equip for field service the National Guard in the several States, Territories, *Provisos*,Aviation instruction allowance.and the District of Columbia: *Provided*, That of the sum herein appropriated $76,000, or so much thereof as may be required, may, in the discretion of the Secretary of War, be made available for the purchase and maintenance of material and equipment necessary for the proper instruction in military aviation of such officers and enlisted men of the National Guard as may be authorized by the War Department to Amount for reserve supply.attend the United States Aviation School, $7,000,000: *Provided*, That the sum of $3,000,000 out of this appropriation shall be used solely for the purpose of securing the reserve supply herein provided for.
Infantry equipment. Issue, etc., of new.Supplying and exchanging Infantry equipment, National Guard: For the purpose of manufacturing, procuring, exchanging, and issuing model of nineteen hundred and ten equipment to the Infantry and other dismounted organizations of the National Guard *Proviso, *Requisitions, etc.of the several States, Territories, and the District of Columbia: *Provided*, That whenever in the opinion of the Secretary of War a sufficient number of Infantry equipment, model of nineteen hundred and ten, shall have been procured and shall be available for the purpose 69the Secretary of War is hereby authorized to issue on the requisition of the governors of the several States and Territories or the commanding general of the District of Columbia National Guard, such numbers thereof as are required for equipping the National Guard in said States, Territories, and the District of Columbia, without charging the cost or value thereof or any expenses connected therewith, against any allotments to said States,Territories, or the District of Columbia, provided that the equipment thus issued shall be receipted for and Receipt, accounting, etc.shall remain the property of the United States and be annually accounted for in the manner prescribed by the Act of June third, nine-teen Vol.39, p.204.hundred and sixteen, and that each State, Territory, and the Return of prior issues.District of Columbia shall, upon receipt of new equipment, turn in to the Ordnance Department of the United States Army, without receiving any money credit therefor and without expense for transportation of Infantry equipment now in its possession, the property of the United States, and replaced by articles of the model of nineteen hundred and ten equipment, $1,200,000. *Provided further*, That any funds appropriated under section Use of former appropriations limited.[R.S.,sec. 1661, p. 290](/us/rs/sec1661/p290).Vol. 34, p. 449.sixteen hundred and sixty-one, Revised Statutes, for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixteen or former years and remaining on August twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, to the credit of any State, the Territory of Hawaii, or the District of Columbia, shall remain available only to the end of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen for expenditures authorized by law. rifle ranges for civilian instruction.Rifle ranges for civilians.
To establish and maintain indoor and outdoor rifle ranges for the Expenses of maintaining, etc.use of all able-bodied males capable of bearing arms, under reasonable regulations to be prescribed by the National Board for Promotion of Rifle Practice and approved by the Secretary of War; for the employment of labor in connection with the establishment of outdoor ana indoor rifle ranges, including labor in operating targets; for the employment of instructors; for clerical services; for badges and other insignia ; for the transportation of employees, instructors, and civilians to engage in practice; for the purchase of materials, supplies, and services, and for expenses incidental to instruction of citizens of the United States in marksmanship, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War and to remain available until expended, $20,000.
For arms, ammunition, targets, and other accessories for target Arms, ammunition, etc., for target practice.Vol.39, p. 211.practice for issue in connection with the encouragement of rifle practice in pursuance of the provisions of section one hundred and thirteen of the Act approved June third, nineteen hundred and sixteen, $300,000: *Provided*, That out of said sum of $300,000 there shall be *Provisos*.Transporting teams.used for the payment of transportation of teams authorized by the Secretary of War to participate in the national matches not to exceed $60,000: *Provided further*, That this amount shall be proportioned Proportion of travel expenses.among the several States, Territories, and the District of Columbia, according to the distance from the seat of Government to the place where the national matches are to be held: *And provided further*, Designation of teams.That the governors of the States, Territories, or the Board of Commissioners of the District of Columbia may designate which team or teams shall attend from their respective States, Territories, or District of Columbia. civilian military training.Civilian military training.
For the expense of maintaining, upon military reservations Expenses of instruction camps, etc.or elsewhere, camps for the military instruction and training of such citizens physically capable of bearing arms as may be selected under 70such regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary of War, and for furnishing said citizens, at the expense of the United States, uniforms, subsistence, transportation by the most usual and direct route within said limits as to territory as may be prescribed; for such expenditures as may be deemed necessary for water, fuel, light, temporary structures, not including quarters for officers nor barracks for men, screening, and damages resulting from field exercises, and other expenses incidental to maintaining said camps and the theoretical winter instruction in connection therewith, including textbooks and Equipments, transportation, etc.Vol. 39, p. 194.stationery; for furnishing such equipments, tentage, field equipage, and transportation belonging to the United States as may be deemed necessary as authorized by section fifty-four of the Act of Congress approved June third, nineteen hundred and sixteen, *Provisos*.Monthly pay while training.$3,281,000: *Provided*, That the Secretary of War is hereby authorized out of this appropriation to pay to persons designated by him for training as officers in the Army during the period of their training the sum of not to exceed $100 per month in addition to the allowances Condition.authorized by said section fifty-four: *Provided*, That they shall agree to accept appointment in the Officers’ Reserve Corps in such grade as may be tendered by the Secretary of War.
Travel pay to citizens attending camps.Vol. 39, p. 194, amended.Mileage rate allowed.*Provided further*, That so much of section fifty-four of the Act of June third, nineteen hundred and sixteen, entitled “An Act for making further and more effectual provision for the national defense, and for other purposes,” as relates to the transportation of citizens who, conformably to such regulations as the Secretary of War may prescribe, attend training camps be, and the same is hereby amended so as to provide that said citizens shall be paid as traveling allowances three and one-half cents per mile for the distance by the shortest usually traveled route from the places from which they are authorized to proceed to the camp and for the return travel thereto: *Provided further*, Advances for returning.That the payment of travel pay for the return journey may be made in advance of the actual performance of travel.
Arms, ammunition, etc., for issue.For arms and ordnance equipment, including overhauling and repairing of personal equipments, machine-gun outfits, horse equipment; ammunition, targets, and other accessories for target practice, and for overhauling and repairing arms for issue and use in connection with training camps for civilians in pursuance of the provisions of section fifty-four of the Act approved June third, nineteen hundred and sixteen, $250,000. No pay to officer, etc., using time-measuring device over job of employee.*Provided*, That no part of the appropriations made in this Act shall be 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 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 Cash rewards, etc.upon such work; nor shall any part of the appropriations made in this Act be 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.
Citizenship.Required of Army officers appointed in time of peace.That no part of the appropriations made in this Act shall be available for the salary or pay of any person hereafter, in time of peace, appointed an officer in the Army who is not a citizen of the United States. Council of National Defense.council of national defense Experimental work, etc.Vol. 39, p.649.For expenses of experimental work and investigations undertaken by the Council of National Defense, by the advisory commission, or subordinate bodies, for the employment of a director, expert and clerical expenses, for rental of quarters, and for the necessary sup71plies, and for the necessary expenses of members of the council, of the advisory commission, or subordinate bodies going to and attending meetings of the commission or subordinate bodies, there is hereby appropriated the unexpended balance remaining on hand June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, of the appropriation of Reappropriation.Vol. 39, p. 650.$200,000 appropriated by the act approved August twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and sixteen. *Provided*, That of this appropriation there shall be available during*Proviso*.Office rent, D.
C.the current fiscal year for the rent of offices in the District of Columbia the sum of $5,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary. reserve corps.Reserve Officers’ Training Corps. Quartermaster supplies and equipment for Reserve Officers’ Issue of quartermaster supplies to institutions.Vol. 39, p. 191.Training Corps: For the procurement and issue, under such regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary of War, to institutions at which one or more units of the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps are maintained, such public animals, uniforms, equipment, and means of transportation as be may deem necessary, and to forage at the expense of the United States public animals so issued; for transporting said animals and other authorized equipment from place of issue to the several institutions and return of same to place of issue Instruction camps.when necessary; for the maintenance of camps for the further practical instruction of the members of the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps, and for transporting members of such corps to and from such camps, and to subsist them while traveling to and from such camps and while remaining therein so far as appropriations will permit; for Commutation of subsistence.the payment of commutation of subsistence to members of the senior division of the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps, at such rate, not exceeding the cost of the garrison ration prescribed for the Army, as Vol. 39, p. 193.s*Provisos*.Amount immediately available.authorized in the act of Congress approved June third, nineteen hundred and sixteen, $4,385,000: *Provided*, That $1,215,000 of the amount herein appropriated shall be immediately available. *Provided further*, That the Secretary of War may, in his discretion Commutation for uniforms if supplied by Institutions.Ordnance stores and equipment.and under such regulations as he may prescribe, permit such institutions to furnish their own uniforms and receive as commutation therefor the sum allotted by the Secretary of War to such institutions for uniforms.
Ordnance stores and equipment for Reserve Officers’ Training Corps: For arms and ordnance equipment, including overhauling and repairing of personal equipments, machine-gun outfits, and horse equipments for use in connection with the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps, established by the Act approved June third, nineteen hundred and sixteen, $1,000,000. *Provided*, That the Secretary of War, in his discretion, is authorized *Provisos*.Massachusetts National Guard First Corps Cadets.Designated in senior division.Regulations, etc.to designate the First Corps Cadets of the National Guard of Massachusetts as a unit of the Senior Division of the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps: *Provided further*, That the First Corps Cadets shall be subject to such rules and regulations as may be prescribed under the provisions of the National Defense Act of June third, nineteen hundred and sixteen, or amendments thereto, relating to the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps: *Provided further*, That the drill and instruction, Drill, etc., waived.including indoor target practice, required of the First Corps Cadets as a National Guard organization is hereby waived: *And provided further*, That the privileges and benefits extended by existing Special organization privileges continued.Vol. 39, p. 198. law to National Guard organizations, including those organizations provided for in section sixty-three of the National Defense Act of one third, nineteen hundred and sixteen, be continued in full force and effect. 72 Officers’ Reserve Corps.Leave of absence,etc., to Government employees when serving in.*Provided further*, That all officers and employees of the United States or of the District of Columbia who shall be members of the Officers’ Reserve Corps shall be entitled to leave of absence from their respective duties, without loss of pay, time, or efficiency rating, on all days during which they shall be ordered to duty with troops or at field exercises, or for instruction, for periods not to exceed fifteen days in any one calendar year.
Restored to positions when relieved.*Provided further*, That members of the Officers’ Reserve Corps who are in the employ of the United States Government or of the District of Columbia and who are ordered to duty by proper authority shall, when relieved from duty, be restored to the positions held by them when ordered to duty. Gratuitous services by members accepted.Vol. 34, p. 49, not applicable.*Provided further*, That section three of the Act approved February twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and six, entitled, ‘‘An Act making appropriations to supply urgent deficiencies in the appropriations for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and six, and for prior years and for other purposes, ” shall not be construed to prohibit the Secretary of War from accepting the gratuitous services of members of the Officers’ Reserve Corps of the Army in the furtherance of the enrollment, organization, and training of the Officers’ Reserve Corps, the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps, or the Enlisted Reserve Corps of the Army or in consultation upon matters relating to the military service.
Enlisted Reserve Corps.Issue of quartermaster supplies to, when in service.Vol. 39, p. 195.Quartermaster supplies and equipment for Enlisted Reserve Corps: For providing, procuring, and issue to the Enlisted Reserve Corps in accordance with the provisions of section fifty-five of the Act of Congress approved June third, nineteen hundred and sixteen, except as provided for under appropriation “Pay of the Army,” when assigned as reserves to particular organizations of the Regular Army, or organized into units or detachments of any arm, corps, or department, and when ordered to active service for purposes of instruction and training; fuel, light, forage, subsistence, including commutation of rations when traveling, rosettes, uniforms, equipage, and such other necessary supplies as may be authorized by the Transportation, etc.Secretary of War; transporting members of said corps from homes to the places to which ordered and return to their homes; transporting supplies and equipment required; maintaining camps and providing the necessary kitchens, mess shelters, latrines, and screening; for the procurement of water and disposal of garbage and sewerage in connection with such camp, $250,000.
Signal equipment for the Enlisted Reserve Corps: For the purchase of signal equipment for the Enlisted Reserve Corps, authorized by the Act of June third, nineteen hundred and sixteen, $300,000. Signal equipment.Schools and colleges.Quartermaster supplies for training in other.Vol. 39, p. 197.Quartermaster supplies for military equipment of schools and colleges: For the procurement and supply as provided in section fifty-six of the Act of Congress approved June third, nineteen hundred and sixteen, of such tentage and equipment, including the transporting of same, as the Secretary of War shall deem necessary for proper military training to schools and colleges other than those Vol. 39, p. 192.provided for in section forty-seven of the Act above referred to, $80,000.
Ordnance supplies.Vol. 39, p. 197.Ordnance supplies for military equipment of schools and colleges: For arms and ordnance equipment, including overhauling and repairing of personal equipments, machine-gun outfits, and horse equipments for issue to schools and colleges in pursuance of the provisions of section fifty-six of the Act approved June third, nineteen hundred and sixteen, $500,000: Chaplains.Vol. 39, p. 176, amended.*Post*, p. 661.*Provided*, That section fifteen of the Act of June third, nineteen hundred and sixteen, entitled “An Act for making further and more effectual provision for the national defense, and for other purposes,” Appointments authorized.be amended so as to read as follows:
“The President is authorized 73to appoint, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, chaplains in the Army at the rate of not to exceed, including chaplains now in service, one for each regiment of Cavalry, Infantry, Field Artillery, and Engineers, and one for each one thousand two hundred officers and men of the Coast Artillery Corps, with rank, pay, and Preferences omitted.allowances as now authorized by law.” *Provided further*, That section twenty-four of the Act of June third, Increase of Army personnel.Vol. 39, p. 183, amended.nineteen hundred and sixteen, entitled “An Act for making further and more effectual provision for the national defense, and for other purposes,” be amended so as to add the following proviso:
“That Second lieutenants.Age limit waived in designated cases.the President be, and he is hereby, authorized to waive the age limit in all cases where the candidate for second lieutenant, who being within the maximum age limit at the date of examination has passed or may pass the examination, and who has become or may become ineligible on account of age before the date of his appointment; and to appoint such candidate with rank from the same date as other candidates of like class who have been or may be appointed as the result of the same examination: *Provided*, That such appointment Limitation.is made within one year from the date of such examination.” *Provided further*, That any former officer of the Regular Army, the Officers’ Reserve Corps.Eligibility of former officers for appointment in.Vol. 39, p. 189.Volunteer Army, the Organized Militia, or the National Guard, under the ago of sixty-four years and who has resigned or been honorably discharged from the service after a total commissioned service of not less than three years in in either the Regular Army, the Volunteer Army, the Organized Militia, or the National Guard, may, upon such examination and within such age limits as may be prescribed by the President, be appointed and commissioned, in the discretion of the President, in any appropriate arm, staff corps, department or section of the Officers’ Reserve Corps, with rank not more than one grade higher than any previously held by the officer in either of said forces, but in no case above that of lieutenant colonel. *Provided further*, That the following language of section five of General Staff Corps.Vol. 39, p. 167, amended.Limitation of details in District of Columbia may be waived during present emergency.the Act of June third, nineteen hundred and sixteen, entitled “An Act for making further and more effectual provision for the national defense, and for other purposes,” to wit:
“Not more than one-half of all of the officers detailed in said corps shall at any time be stationed, or assigned to or employed upon any duty, m or near the District of Columbia,” be amended so as to authorize the President to suspend the operation of the same during the existing emergency. *Provided further*, That on the sale or other disposal, in accordance “Meade”and “Crook.” To be given American registry.with law and regulations, of the United States Army transports Meade and Crook, the Secretary of Commerce is hereby authorized, on request of the Secretary of War, to issue to either or both of said vessels a register as a vessel of the United States. *Provided further*, That the second proviso of section thirty-seven of Officers’ Reserve Corps.Vol. 39, p. 189, amended.the Act of June third, nineteen hundred and sixteen, entitled “An Act for making further and more effectual provision for the national defense, and for other purposes,” be amended as follows: *Provided*, Commissions to registered colonels and lieu tenant colonels.Vol. 32, p. 778.That any person who on June third, nineteen hundred and sixteen, was carried as qualified and registered in the grade of colonel or lieutenant colonel pursuant to the provisions of the Act of January twenty-first, nineteen hundred and three, or any person holding a Service in National Guard under call of 1916, added.commission as colonel or lieutenant colonel in the National Guard of any State, Territory, or the District of Columbia on June third, nineteen hundred and sixteen, who has served satisfactorily as such in the service of the United States under the call of May ninth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, or that of June eighteenth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, may be commissioned or recommissioned in the Officers’ Reserve Corps with rank for which he had been found qualified and registered, or which he held in the National Guard on June 74third, nineteen hundred and sixteen, or while in the service of the Office to cease when vacated.United States; but when such person shall become thereafter separated from the Officers’ Reserve Corps for any reason, the vacancy so caused shall not be filled and such office shall cease and determine:
Acceptance of lower grade.*Provided further*, That any officer of the Officers’ Reserve Corps called for service with his consent in a lower grade than that held by him in said Reserve Corps shall, subject to such physical examination as may be prescribed, be considered eligible for recommission in such lower grade. Ordnance Department.Monthly payment of employees, repealed.Vol. 33, p. 276, repealed.*Provided further*, That the following provision contained in the Act approved April twenty-third, nineteen hundred and four, “Hereafter all employees of the Ordnance Department whose compensation is annual shall be paid monthly,” is hereby repealed.
Reenlistments.Restoration of enlisted men discharged to accept commissions under call of 1916.*Provided further*, That the enlisted men who were discharged from the Army to accept a commission in the National Guard, or in any volunteer force that may be authorized in the future, at the call of the President, June eighteenth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, be restored to their original status upon reenlisting in the Regular Army: Time limit.*Provided*, That they reenlist within three months from date of muster Service credit.out of the United States Service, and that in computing service for retirement and continuous service pay, service as an officer in the National Guard, or hi any volunteer force that may be authorized in the future, while in the service of the United States, be counted.
Service credit allowed hereafter.*Provided further*, That hereafter any enlisted man of the Army who shall be discharged to enable him to accept a commission in the Officers’ Reserve Corps, or in any National Guard or militia organization, or in any volunteer force that may be authorized in the future, and who shall enlist in the Army within three months after the termination of his connection as an officer with that corps. or with any organization of the National Guard or militia, or a volunteer force, or during the continuation of his connection therewith, as an officer, shall, in computing continuous service pay now authorized by-law, be entitled to créait for the period of time actually served by him prior to said discharge, and in computing service for retirement and continuous service pay, service as an officer of the National Guard, while in the service of the United States, service in any volunteer force, and service in the Officers’ Reserve Corps in active service shall be counted.
Expenditures for buildings, etc., restricted.*Provided further*, That hereafter no expenditure exceeding $5,000 shall be made upon any building or military post or grounds about the same without the approval of the Secretary of War, upon detailed estimates submitted to him. Civilian employees.Increased compensation allowed to,receiving not more than $1,800 a year.*Provided further*, That, during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen, all civilian employees in the Military Establishment, including on the lump-sum rolls only those persons who are carried thereon at the close of the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, shall receive increased compensation at the rate of ten per centum per annum to such employees who receive salaries or wages in such establishment at a rate per annum of less than $1,200, and increased compensation at a rate of five per centum per annum to such employees who receive salaries or wages in such establishment at a rate of not more than $1,800 per annum and not *Proviso*.Appropriation for.less than $1,200 per annum: *And provided further*, That so much as may be necessary for this purpose is hereby appropriated out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Public printing and binding.Vol. 28, p. 622, amended.Vol. 34, p. 762, amended.*Provided further*, That section eighty-seven of the printing and binding Act, approved January twelfth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five (volume twenty-eight, Revised Statutes, page six hundred and twenty-two), and section two of the act approved June thirtieth, 75nineteen hundred and six (volume thirty-four, Revised Statutes, page seven hundred and sixty-two), are hereby amended as follows: " “That in time of actual hostilities the Secretary of War may procure Work by private establishments permitted in time of war.from commercial or other printing establishments, by contract or open market purchase, such printing and binding as may be required for the use of the Army and also for the National Guard of the several States and Territories and of the District of Columbia or other military forces while in the military service of the United States or about to be called into said service, payment for such printing and binding to be made from available appropriations.
” " *Provided further*, That the Navasota Transfer Company, a copartnership Navasota Transfer Company.Relieved from contracts for hay, etc.composed of J. T. Evans and A. J. Riesto, be, and is hereby, relieved from further performance of its several contracts with the Government for the supply of hay and bedding at various posts and places in the Southern Department during the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, in view of the changed conditions resulting from the call into the Federal service of the Organized Militia and the National Guard of the several States, such conditions having resulted in greatly enhancing the price of the supplies and in making the performance of the contract inequitable and a matter of exceptional hardship on the contractor; and said contracts shall be regarded as closed, final settlement being made with the contractor at the contract price for the supplies already delivered under the same.
Approved, May 12, 1917.
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