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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 40 STAT. · July 9, 1918 · Chapter 143

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

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CHAP. 143.— An Act Making appropriations for the support of the Army for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nineteen.July 9, 1918.[[H. R. 12281](/us/bill/65/hr/12281).][[Public, No. 193](/us/pl/65/193).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the following sums be, Army appropriations.*Post*, p. 1026.and they are hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the support of the Army for the year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nineteen:
Contingencies of the Army: For all contingent expenses of the Contingencies.*Post*, p. 1026.Army not otherwise provided for and embracing all branches of the military service, including the office of the Chief of Staff; for all Emergencies.emergencies and extraordinary expenses, 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 deem proper, including the payment of a per diem allowance not to Per diem subsistence.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, $250,000.
OFFICE OF THE CHIEF OF STAFF.Office, Chief of Stall. Army War College: For expenses of the Army War College, being Army War College.for the purchase of the necessary stationery ; typewriters and exchange of same; office, toilet, and desk furniture; textbooks, books of reference; scientific and professional papers and periodicals; printing and binding; maps; police utensils; employment of temporary, technical, or special services; and for all other absolutely necessary expenses, including $25 per month additional to regular compensation to chief clerk of division for superintendence of the War College Building, $9,000. 846 Contingencies, Military Information Section.*Post*, p. 1026.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, and the cost of special instruction at home and abroad and in maintenance of students and attachés; and for such other purposes as the Secretary of War may deem proper; to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War, $2,000,000.
Observing military 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, $100,000. Service schools.Fort Leavenworth, Kans.United States Service Schools: To provide means for the 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 Fort Riley, Kans.Leavenworth, Kansas, the Mounted Service School at Fort Riley, Fort Bill, Okla.Kansas, and the School of Fire for Field Artillery, and for the Infantry School of Arms 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 Translators.best interests of the military service.
Not exceeding $200 per month may be used for the payment of $100 per month to a translator at the Army Service Schools, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, and $100 per month to a translator at the School of Fire for Field Artillery, and the Infantry School of Arms, Fort Sill, Oklahoma, to be appointed by the commandants of the schools named, with the approval of the Secretary of War, $82,810. Adjutant General’s Department.the adjutant general’s department Contingencies at headquarters.Contingencies, headquarters of military departments, districts, and tactical commands:
For contingent expenses at the headquarters of the several territorial departments, territorial districts, tactical divisions and brigades, including the Staff Corps serving thereat, being for the purchase of the necessary articles of office, toilet, and desk furniture, stationery, ice, and potable water for office use when necessary, binding, maps, technical books of reference, professional and technical newspapers and periodicals, payment for which may be made in advance, and police utensils, to be allotted by the Secretary of War, and to be expended in the discretion of the commanding officers of the several military departments, districts, and tactical commands, $20,000.
Coast Artillery School, Fort Monroe, Va.*Post*, p. 1027.Coast Artillery School, Fort Monroe, Virginia.—For incidental 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 847furniture and fixtures, machinery, motor trucks, and unforeseen expenses, $12,000.
For purchase of engines, generators, motors, machines, measuring special apparatus, etc.instruments, special apparatus and materials for the division of enlisted specialists, $10,000. For purchase of special apparatus and materials and for experimental purposes for the department of artillery and land defense, $1,500. 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, $2,000.
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. *Provided*, That section thirty-six hundred and forty-eight, Revised *Proviso*.Periodicals.[R. S., sec. 3648, p. 718](/us/rs/sec3648/p718).Statutes, shall not apply to subscriptions for foreign and professional newspapers and periodicals to be paid for from this appropriation. Purchase of typewriting-machines:
That purchase and exchange of Typewriting machines.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 ail departments of the Government at the same price. office of the chief signal officer.Signal Service. Telegraph and telephone systems: Purchase, equipment, operation, Telegraph and telephone systems. Purchases, operation, etc.*Post*, p. 1027.and repair of military, telegraph, telephone, radio, cable, and signaling systems; signal equipment and stores, field glasses, telescopes, heliographs, signal lanterns, flags, and other necessary instruments; wind vanes, barometers, anemometers, thermometers, and other meteorological instruments; motorcycles, motor-driven and other vehicles for technical and official purposes in connection with the construction, operation, and maintenance of communication or signaling systems, and supplies for their operation and maintenance; professional and scientific books of reference, pamphlets, periodicals newspapers, and maps for use in the office of the Chief Signal Officer; telephone apparatus, including rental and payment for commercial, exchange, message, trunk line, long distance, and leased line telephone service at or connecting any post, camp, cantonment, depot, arsenal, headquarters, hospital, aviation station, or other office or station of the Army, excepting local telephone service for the various Exception.bureaus of the War Department in the District of Columbia and toll messages pertaining to the office of the Secretary of War; electric time service; the rental of commercial telegraph lines and equipment and their operation at or connecting any post, camp, cantonment, depot, arsenal, headquarters, hospital, aviation station, or other office or station of the Army, but not including payment for individual telegraph messages transmitted over commercial lines; electrical installations Electrical plants.and maintenance at military posts, cantonments, camps, and stations of the Army; fire control and direction apparatus and materiel for field artillery; salaries of civilian employees, including those necessary as instructors at vocational schools ; supplies, general repairs, reserve supplies, and other expenses connected with the collecting and transmitting of information for the Army by telegraph or otherwise; experimentation and research for the purpose of developing Experiments in signaling.improvements in apparatus and methods of signaling, including machines, instruments, and other equipment for laboratory and repair purposes; purchase, lease, construction, alterations, and repair for such buildings required for storing or guarding Signal Corps supplies, equipment, and personnel when not otherwise pro848vided for, including the land therefor, the introduction of water, electric light and power, sewerage, grading, roads and walks, and other equipment required, $105,946,054.77.
Aviatical.Purchase, manufacture, operation, etc., of aircraft.*Post*, p. 1027.Aerial appliances, aviation stations, and vocational training in aviation, and so forth: For the purchase, manufacture, maintenance, repair, and operation of airships, war balloons, and other aerial machines, including instruments and appliances of every sort and description necessary for the operation, construction, or equipment of all types of aircraft, and all necessary spare parts and equipment Buildings, etc.connected therewith; and all necessary buildings for equipment and personnel in any bureau or department charged with the production, procurement, storage, maintenance, repair, transportation, or operation of aeronautical equipment and material, and for the purchase, maintenance, repair, and operation of all motor-propelled passenger and equipment carrying vehicles which may be necessary for any such bureau or department.
Aviation stations, balloon schools, etc.And also, for the establishment, enlargement, equipment, maintenance, and operation of aviation stations, balloon schools, fields for Acquiring lands, buildings, etc.testing and experimental work, including
(a)the acquisition of land, or any interest in land, with any buildings and improvements thereon, *Proviso*.Public property or lands.by purchase, lease, donation, condemnation, or otherwise: *Provided*, That by order of the President any Government property or unappropriated or reserved public lands may be reserve from entry, designated, and used for such aviation stations or fields for testing Improving sites.and experimental work;
(b)the improvement of such land by clearing, draining, seeding, and otherwise making the same suitable for the Water, lighting, plumbing, etc.purpose intended;
(c)procuring and introducing water, electric light and power, telephones, telegraph, and sewerage to aviation stations, testing or experimental fields, and buildings and structures thereon by the extension of existing systems or the creation of new systems and their maintenance, operation, and repair, installation of plumbing, electric fixtures, and telephones, fire apparatus and fire-alarm systems and the maintenance, operation, and repair of all such systems, Subsistence equipment.fixtures, and apparatus;
(d)purchase of stoves and other cooking and heating apparatus, kitchen and tableware, and furniture and equipment for kitchens, mess halls, offices, quarters, barracks, hospitals, and other buildings, screens, lockers, refrigerators, and all Fuel, etc., supplies.other necessary equipment;
(e)purchase of special lubricating oil, fuel, and all supplies of every kind and character necessary or advisable for maintenance and operation of aviation stations, and airplanes and motor vehicles, including electric light and power, telephones, Constructing, etc., machinery, tools, etc.water supply, and sewerage service;
(f)purchase and manufacture and installation of all kinds of machinery, tools, material, supplies, and equipment for construction, maintenance, and repair of aircraft, buildings, and improvements at aviation stations and balloon schools and testing and experimental stations, or property or appliances used in connection with aviation. Special clothing.And also for the purchase or manufacture and issue of special clothing, wearing apparel, and similar equipment for aviation purposes. Traveling expenses at home and abroad.And also, for the actual and necessary expenses of officers, enlisted men, and civilian employees of the Army and authorized agents sent on special duty at home and abroad for aviation purposes, including observation and investigation of foreign military operations and organizations, manufacture of aircraft, and engines; also special courses in foreign aviation schools and manufacturing establishments, to be paid upon certificates of the Secretary of War certifying that the expenditures are necessary for military purposes. Vocational training.Instructors, tools, etc.And also, for vocational training, including employment of necessary civilian instructors in important trades related to aviation, purchase of tools, equipment, materials, and machines required for849such training, purchase of textbooks, books of reference, scientific and professional papers, periodicals and magazines, and instruments and material for theoretical and practical instruction at aviation schools and stations, and all other means to carry out the provisions Vol. 39, p. 186.of section twenty-seven of the Act approved June third, nineteen hundred and sixteen, authorizing, in addition to the military training of soldiers while in active service, means for securing educational and vocational training of a character to increase their military efficiency and enable them to return to civil life better equipped for industrial, commercial, and general business occupations. Also, to pay such civilian employees in the District of Columbia or Civilian employees, District of Columbia.elsewhere as may be necessary, and for the payment of their traveling and other necessary expenses. That hereafter mileage to officers of the Army traveling on duty in Mileage to officers from aviation appropriations.connection with aviation shall be paid from the appropriation for the work in connection with which the travel is performed. And also, for the payment of all expenses in connection with the Development of aircraft and appurtenances.development of suitable types of aviation engines, airplanes, balloons, and other aircraft appurtenances, including the cost of sample engines, airplanes, balloons, and appurtenances, cost of any patents and other rights therein, and costs of investigation, experimentation, and research in respect thereto. And also, for the payment of all expenses in connection with the Maintenance of manufacturing plants, etc.creation, expansion, acquisition, and development of plants, factories, and establishments for the manufacture of airplanes, aircraft, balloons, engines, and appurtenances, including provision for the purchase or lease of lands with the buildings thereon, and for the Buildings, etc.construction of permanent or temporary buddings for all purposes, including suitable office accommodations, in the District of Columbia or elsewhere, purchase of machinery, tools, and employment of operatives, together with all administrative expenses necessary, the purchase and supply of raw and semifinished materials and of fuel and other things necessary for creating and extending the production of airplanes, balloons, aircraft, engines, and all appurtenances. And also, for creating, maintaining, and operating at technical Aviation technical instruction at schools and colleges.schools and colleges courses of instruction for aviation students, including cost of instruction, equipment, and supplies necessary for instruction and subsistence of students while receiving such instruction, $884,304,758: *Provided*, That the President may hereafter *Provisos*. Allotment of moneys by the President.apportion and allot the moneys herein or heretofore appropriated for aviation purposes in such manner as he may deem most advisable for the accomplishment of said purposes with the same force and effect as though such apportionment had been made by this Act: *Provided further*, That no person otherwise qualified for service as a College education not a requisite.cadet, pilot, military aviator, or other officer in the aviation service, shall be barred from such service by reason of not being equipped with a college education. Exchange of aerial material: That, subject to the approval of Exchanges of equipment.the Secretary of War, motor-propelled vehicles, airplanes, engines, parts thereof, balloons, and appurtenances may be exchanged in part payment for new equipment of the same or similar character to be used for the same purposes as those proposed to be exchanged. Mileage for foreign instructors: That during the present Foreign instructors allowed mileage, etc.emergency, officers and enlisted men of foreign armies attached to the United States Army as instructors or inspectors when traveling in the United States on authorized official business pertaining to aviation shall be entitled to receive, from funds appropriated by this Act, the same mileage and transportation allowances as are authorized for officers or enlisted men of the Regular Army. Continuing the appropriations for the Signal Service: That Funds for fiscal year 1918, continued available.funds appropriated by the Act approved July twenty-fourth, nine850*Ante*, p. 243.teen hundred and seventeen, for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen, entitled “An Act to authorize the President to increase temporarily the Signal Corps of the Army and to purchase, maintain, manufacture, repair, and operate airships and make appropriations *Ante*, p. 42.therefor and for other purposes,“ and the funds appropriated for the Signal Service of the Army in the Act approved May twelfth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, entitled, “An Act making appropriations *Ante*, p. 355.for the support of the Army for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen,” and October sixth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen and prior years entitled, “An Act making appropriations to supply urgent deficiencies and so forth,” are hereby made available until June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nineteen. All moneys immediately available.Appropriation immediately available: That the moneys appropriated in this Act for Signal Corps and for aviation purposes shall be and become immediately available upon the passage of this Act, and all shall also be available for the payment of obligations incurred prior to the passage of this Act in the event such obligations are of a character otherwise within the scope of the appropriation. Aircraft production.Employees authorized in District of Columbia during existing emergency.Aircraft employees in the District of Columbia: That during the existing emergency the head of the bureau or department charged with aircraft production be, and he is hereby, authorized to employ in the District of Columbia out of appropriations made for designing, procuring, caring for, and supplying airships, engines, and property connected therewith such services as are necessary for carrying out these purposes. War supplies, etc.Sales of, authorized to persons, departments, allied Governments, etc.*Ante*, p. 548.Sale of war supplies: That the President be, and he hereby is, authorized, through the head of any executive department, to sell, upon such terms as the head of such department shall deem expedient, to any person, partnership, association, corporation, or any other department of the Government, or to any foreign State or Government, engaged in war against any Government with which the Buildings, factories, etc.United States is at war, any war supplies, material and equipment, and any by-products thereof, and any building, plant or factory, acquired since April sixth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, including the lands upon which the plant or factory may be situated, for the production of such war supplies, materials, and equipment which, *Provisos*.Arms and ammunition restricted.during the present emergency, may have or may hereafter be purchased, acquired, or manufactured by the United States: *Provided Detailed report of sales to be made.further*, That sales of guns and ammunition made under the authority contained in this or any other Act shall be limited to sales to other departments of the Government and to foreign States or Governments engaged in war against any Government with which the United States is at war, and to members of the National Rifle Association and of other recognized associations organized in the United States for the encouragement of small-arms target practice: *Provided further*, That a detailed report shall be made to Congress on the first day of each regular session of the sales of any war supplies, matériel, lands, factories, or buildings, and equipment made under the authority To allied Governments excepted.contained in this or any other Act, except sales made to any foreign State or Government engaged in war against any Government with which the United States is at war, showing the character of the articles sold, to whom sold, the price received therefor, and the purpose Moneys to be reused. *Post*, p. 1173.for which sold: *Provided*, That any moneys received by the United States as the proceeds of any such sale shall be deposited to the credit of that appropriation out of which was paid the cost to the Government of the property thus sold, and the same shall Aircraft Board.Allotment for employees, etc.immediately become available for the purposes named in the original appropriation: *Provided further*, That there shall be allotted to the Aircraft Board, by the head of the bureau or department charged with the production of aircraft, from the appropriations herein made851for aircraft production for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen and nineteen hundred and nineteen, the sum of $100,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, which money shall be available during the fiscal year for the payment of such clerks or other employees, either in the District of Columbia or elsewhere, as may be necessary for the conduct of its business, including such technical experts and advisors as may be found necessary; and Rent, office supplies, etc. for the payment of rental of offices in the District of Columbia or elsewhere, purchase of necessary office equipment and supplies, including scientific publications, printing, necessary administration and contingent expenses of said board. Commercial telephone service at Coast Artillery Posts:Telephone service for Coast Artillery.For providing commercial telephone service for official purposes at Coast Artillery posts, $15,150. Washington-Alaska Military Cable and Telegraph System:Washington Alaska cable, etc.Extensions of system.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 twenty, from the receipts of the Washington-Alaska Military Cable and Telegraph System which have been covered into the Treasury of the United States, the extent of such extensions and betterments and the cost thereof to be reported to Congress by the Secretary of War, $147,445. office of the provost marshal general.Provost Marshal General. For all expenses necessary in the registration of persons available Draft registration expenses, office of.*Post*, p. 1027.for military service and in the selection of certain such persons and their draft into the military service: *Provided*, That per diem allowances *Proviso*.Per diem subsistence.in lieu of subsistence not exceeding $4 may be paid to those employees authorized to travel, and to members of the boards when in attendance upon board meetings at too great a distance from their homes to enable them to five there, $15,762,000. For reimbursing enlisted men of the military police for necessary Military police.Reimbursement for securing evidence, liquor and prostitution prosecutions.*Ante*, pp. 82, 83.expenses incurred by them for travel, subsistence, and other purposes in securing evidence upon which to base prosecutions under sections twelve and thirteen of the draft Act, approved May eighteenth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, $38,400, or so much thereof as may be necessary for said purpose. Rent of quarters, draft boards: That, during the present Draft boards.Written leases not required during emergency.[R. S., sec. 3744, p. 738](/us/rs/sec3744/p738). emergency, the requirements of section thirty-seven hundred and forty-four of the Revised Statutes shall not apply to the rent of quarters for the use of local, district, or medical advisory boards where the amount to be paid is less than is customarily charged the public for the same quarters: *Provided*, That all payments made by *Proviso*. Accounts to be credited.disbursing officers appointed in connection with the execution of the selective service law for rents unsupported by a lease may be passed to their credit by the accounting officers of the Treasury if otherwise correct. pay, and so forth, of the Army.Pay of the Army. quartermasters corps.Quartermaster Corps. Officers of the line: For pay of eighty-seven thousand one hundred Officers, line.*Post*, p. 1027.and eighty-three officers of the line, $201,654,279. Additional pay to officers for length of service, $3,500,000.Longevity.Retirement of officers physically incapacityVol. 39, p. 1B2, amended. Retirement of officers physically incapacitated: That section twenty-three of an Act entitled “An Act for making further and more effectual provision for the national defense, and for other852purposes,” approved June third, nineteen hundred and sixteen, be, and the same hereby is, amended by adding thereto the following: " Provisional appointments.“Should any such officer during such provisional period of two years become incapable of performing the duties of his office by reason of physical incapacity resulting from an incident of service, Retired for disability inline of duty.he shall be retired from active service by the President upon the actual rank held by him at the time of retirement in the manner provided To be additional numbers on Army retired list.by law for the retirement of permanent officers of the Regular Army, and provisional officers retired under the provisions of this section shall be in addition to the number of the officers of the Army on the retired list now fixed by law.” " Officers’ Reserve Corps.National Guard.Enlisted men, line. *Post*, p. 1027.Pay of officers of the Officers’ Reserve Corps, $100. Pay of officers, National Guard, including staff corps, $100. Enlisted men of the line: For pay of one million nine hundred and sixty-four thousand three hundred and seventy-six enlisted men of the line,$776,458,721.04. Longevity.Additional pay for length of service, $8,520,000. Additional Infantry bands authorized.Bands: That the Secretary of War is authorized to organize for use during the present emergency twenty bands additional to those now authorized for the Army to be organized as are bands of Infantry. Army Reserve Corps.Pay of enlisted men of the Regular Army Reserve, $100. Enlisted Reserve Corps.National Guard.Ordnance Department.Pay of enlisted men of the Enlisted Reserve Corps, $100. Pay of enlisted men, National Guard, $100. Ordnance Department: Pay of sixty-six thousand three hundred twenty-four enlisted men, $26,111,095.56. Additional pay for length of service, $180,000. Quartermaster Corps.Quartermaster Corps: Pay of one hundred and ninety-five thousand five hundred and thirty enlisted men, $76,978,205.70. Additional pay for length of service, $350,000. Signal Corps.Signal Corps: Pay of one hundred and eighty-four thousand eight hundred and sixty-five enlisted men, $72,779,501.85. Aviation Increase.Aviation increase, $4,916,800. Medical Department.Additional pay for length of service, $150,000. Medical Department: Pay of one hundred and eighty-nine thousand four hundred and sixty-five enlisted men, $74,876,475.85. Additional pay for length of service, $360,000. Clerks, messengers,Pay of clerks, messengers, and laborers, office of the Chief of Staff: Office of Chief of Staff.One chief clerk, at $2,500. One clerk, at $2,250. Six clerks, at $2,000 each, $12,000. Eight clerks, at $1,800 each, $14,400. Thirteen clerks, at $1,600 each, $20,800. Twenty-one clerks, at $1,400 each, $29,400. Twenty-four clerks, at $1,200 each, $28,800. Twenty-six clerks, at $1,000 each, $26,000. One captain of the watch, at $900. Six watchmen, at $720 each, $4,320. One gardener, at $720. One packer, at $840. One chief messenger, at $1,000. Three messengers, at $840 each, $2,520. Fifteen messengers, at $720 each, $10,800. Two laborers, at $720 each, $1,440. One laborer, at $600. Five charwomen, at $240 each, $1,200. Headquarters of departments, etc.*Post*, p. 1028.Pay of clerks and messengers at headquarters of the several territorial departments, territorial districts, tactical divisions and brigades, and service schools: Fifty-one clerks, at $2,000 each, $102,000. One hundred and eleven clerks, at $1,800 each, $199,800. Three hundred and twenty-one clerks, at $1,600 each, $513,600. 853 Seven hundred and sixty-eight clerks, at $1,400 each, $1,075,200. Two thousand one hundred and thirty-two clerks, at $1,200 each, $2,558,400. One thousand two hundred and eighty-nine clerks, at $1,000 each, $1,289,000. One hundred and thirty-nine messengers, at $720 each, $100,080.*Post*, p. 1028. Additional pay while on foreign service, $7,600.Foreign service. That during the present emergency Army field clerks shall have the same allowances and benefits as heretofore allowed by law to pay clerks, Quartermaster Corps, not including retirement: *Provided, *Provisos*. Entrance pay.however*, That the minimum or entrance pay, exclusive of said allowances, of said Army field clerks shall be $1,200 per annum: *Provided further*, That Army field clerks shall receive the same increase of pay Increase for foreign service.for service beyond the continental limits of the United States as is now allowed by law to commissioned officers of the Army. For commutation of quarters and of heat and light, $53,742.Commutation of Quarters, etc. *Post*, p. 1028. For commutation of quarters and of heat and light for field clerks, Quartermaster Corps, $70,000. *Provided*, That said clerks, messengers, and laborers shall be *Provisos*. Service assignments.employed and assigned by the Secretary of War to the offices and positions in which they are to serve: *Provided further*, That no clerk, Duty in Department forbidden.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 of the War Department. General Staff Corps: For pay of three hundred and sixteen officers. Staff officers. General Staff Corps.$730,908. Additional pay for length of service, $40,000. Adjutant General’s Department: For pay of nine hundred and six Adjutant General’s Department.officers, $2,095,578. Additional pay for length of service, $35,000. Inspector General’s Department: Pay of two hundred and sixty-eight Inspector General’s Department. officers, $619,884. Additional pay for length of service, $23,000. Corps of Engineers: Pay of three hundred and sixty-two officers, Engineer Corps. $837,306. Additional pay for length of service, $90,000. Ordnance Department: Pay of seven thousand two hundred and Ordnance Department.thirty-nine officers, $16,743,807. Additional pay for length of service, $70,000. Quartermaster Corps: Pay of seven thousand five hundred and Quartermaster Corps.eighty-three officers, $17,539,479. Additional pay for length of service, $250,000. Medical Department: Pay of twenty-three thousand four hundred Medical Department.and forty-three officers, $54,223,659. Additional pay for length of service, $300,000.Reserve veterinarians. Contract surgeons. Nurses. *Post*, p. 879. Judge Advocate General’s Department. Reserve veterinarians, $68,000. Contract surgeons, $250,000. Nurses, $26,724,000. Judge Advocate General’s Department: Pay of three hundred and sixty-two officers, $837,306. Additional pay for length of service, $15,000. *Provided*, That during the existing emergency the President is *Proviso*. Appointments of civilians in Officers’ Reserve Corps and National Army to servo in.authorized to appoint in the Officers’ Reserve Corps and the National Army, for service in the Judge Advocate General’s Department, in addition to the grades now authorized, officers of the grades of first lieutenant and captain from such citizens as he shall find to be physically, mentally, and morally qualified for appointment. Appointment from staff corps to line of Army: That hereafter Staff Corps. Appointment of two liner major generals from, etc.the President be, and he is hereby, authorized, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, to appoint any chief of a staff corps, department, or bureau of the Army who has had forty or more 854 years of service in the Army, a major general of the line of the Army. The officers so appointed shall not exceed two, and shall be extra numbers in the list of major generals of the line. Signal Corps.Signal Corps: Pay of seventeen thousand one hundred and seventy-one officers, $39,716,523. Aviation increase.Aviation increase, $12,744,009. Additional pay for length of service, $100,000. Insular Affairs Bureau.Bureau of Insular Affairs: Pay of three officers, 815,000. Additional pay for length of service, $2,000. Retired officers.Retired officers: For pay of officers on the retired list, $2,821,125. Additional pay for length of service, $467,000. Philippine Scouts.Pay of retired Philippine Scout officers, $48,880. Veterinarians.Pay of retired veterinarians, $5,355. Pay clerks.Pay of retired pay clerks, $21,750. Active duty pay.Increased pay to retired officers on active duty, $750,000. Retired enlisted men. Active duty pay.Additional pay for length of service, $47,932.50. Retired enlisted men: Pay of retired enlisted men, $3,196,512. Pay and allowances of retired enlisted men on active duty, $95,000. Reservists.Pay and allowances of Regular Army reservists on active duty, $5,000. Miscellaneous. Hospital matrons. Courts-martial, etc.Miscellaneous: Thirty hospital matrons, $3,600. 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, $350,000. Officer, buildings and grounds, D. C.For additional pay to officer in charge of public buildings and grounds at Washington, District of Columbia, $1,000. Commutation of quarters, etc.*Post*, p. 1028.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 Allowances to families at officers abroad, etc.*Ante*, p. 530.of the Regular Army Reserves and retired enlisted men when ordered to active duty, and for every commissioned officer of the Army of the United States on duty in the field, or on active duty without the territorial jurisdiction of the United States, who maintains a place of abode for a wife, child, or dependent parent, for whom no public quarters are available, $33,350,000. Interest on deposits.For interest on soldiers’ deposits, $150,000. 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, $19,202.45. Switchboard operators at interior posts.For extra pay to enlisted men employed on extra duty as switchboard operators at each interior post of the Army, $17,885. Alaska cable, etc., service.For extra pay to enlisted men of the line of the Army and to 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 thirty-five cents per day, $30,660. Mileage, officers, etc. *Post*, p. 1028.For mileage to commissioned officers, members of the Officers’ 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, $3,000,000. Foreign service pay. Officers.For additional ten per centum increase of pay of officers on foreign service, $24,683,808.73. Enlisted men.For additional twenty per centum increase of pay of enlisted men Computer.on foreign service, $89,806,752. For pay of one computer for Artillery Board, $2,500. 855 For payment of exchange by acting quartermasters serving in Loss by exchange.foreign countries and when specially authorized by the Secretary of War by officers disbursing funds pertaining to the Quartermaster Corps when serving in Alaska, and all foreign money received shall be charged to and paid out by disbursing officers of the Quarter-master Corps at the legal valuation fixed by the Secretary of the Treasury, $75,000. For additional pay to officers below the grade of major requiredOfficers furnishing mounts. to be mounted and who furnish their own mounts, $200,000. For amount required to make monthly payments to Jennie Jennie Carroll.Carroll, widow of James Carroll, late major, United States Army, $1,500. 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: Fifty-two captains, at $2,400 each per annum, Philippine Scents. Officers.$124,800. 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, $91,225.24. For pay of enlisted men, $620,000.Enlisted men. Additional pay for length of service, $40,766.22.*Post*, p. 1027. All the money hereinbefore appropriated for pay of the Army and Pay accounts specified.miscellaneous, except the appropriation for mileage to commissioned officers, contract singeons, expert accountant, Inspector General’s Department, Army field clerks, and field clerks of the Quarter-master Corps, 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. Housing of officers serving in the Canal Zone: Hereafter Canal Zone.Free quarters to officers with troops serving in.officers of the Army pertaining to the United States troops serving in the Canal Zone shall not be required to pay rent for the occupancy of houses of the Panama Canal to which they may be assigned. general appropriations, quartermaster corps. General appropriations, Quartermaster Corps. Subsistence of the Army: Purchase of subsistence supplies: For Subsistence.Purchases.*Post*, p. 1028.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 to officers, including members Sales to officers, etc.of the Officers’ Reserve Corps while on active duty, and enlisted men of the Army: *Provided*, That the sum of $12,000 is authorized to be *Provisos*. Competitors at national rifle match.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*, 856 Ration restriction.That no competitor shall be entitled to commutation of rations in excess of $1.50 per day, and when meals are furnished no greater expense than that sum per man per day for the period the contest Payments.Commutation of ration.is in progress shall be incurred. For payments: Of commutation of rations to the cadets of the United States Military Academy in lieu Increase for Military Academy.of the regular established ration, at the rate of 68 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 leave of absence, applicants for enlistment, and general prisoners while traveling under orders: For payment of the regulation allowances of commutation in lieu of rations for members of the Nurse Corps (female) while on duty in hospital, and for enlisted men, applicants for enlistment while held under observation, civilian employees who are entitled to subsistence at public expense, and general prisoners sick therein, Prizes for bakers and cooks.to be paid to the surgeon in charge; advertising; for providing prizes to be established by the Secretary of War for enlisted men of the Army who graduate from the Army schools for bakers and cooks, the total amount of such prizes at the various schools not to exceed Expenses of purchasing. etc.$900 per annum; for other necessary expenses incident to the purchase, testing, care, preservation, issue, sale, and accounting for subsistence supplies for the Army, $830,557,398. Regular quartermaster supplies.Regular supplies, Quartermaster Corps: Regular supplies of 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; Heat, light, etc.authorized issues of candles and matches; for furnishing heat and light for the 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 Recreation buildings, etc.Vol. 32, p. 282.service and garrison schools, and for recruits, guards, hospitals, storehouses, offices, the buildings erected at private cost, m the operation of the Act approved May thirty-first, nineteen hundred and two, and buildings for similar purposes on military reservations authorized by War Department regulations; for sale to officers, and including also fuel and engine supplies required in the operationBakeries. of modern batteries at established posts; for post bakeries, including bake ovens and apparatus pertaining thereto and the repair thereof; Ice machines.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; Laundries.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 appli857cants for enlistment while held under observation; authorized issues of soap; for hire of employees; for the necessary furniture, textbooks, Supplies for schools.paper, and equipment for the post schools and libraries, and schools for noncommissioned officers; 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 newspapers, market reports, and so forth; for the tableware and mess furniture for kitchens and mess halls, each and all for the enlisted men, including recruits; of forage, salt, and vinegar for the horses, 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, Stationery, printing, etc.including blank books and blank forms for the Quartermaster Corps, certificates for discharged soldiers, and for printing department orders and reports, $552,868,390. *Provided*, That no part of the appropriations for the Quartermaster *Provisos*. Printing 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 impracticable to have the necessary printing done by contract the same may be done, with the approval of the Secretary of War, by the purchase of material and hire of the necessary labor for the purpose. For Ice machines, etc.Bale of products and services.the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nineteen, whenever the ice machines, steam laundries, and electric plants shall not come in competition with private enterprise for sale to the public, and in the opinion of the Secretary of War it becomes necessary to the economical use and administration of such ice machines, steam laundries, and electric plants as have been or may hereafter be established in pursuance of law, surplus ice may be disposed of, laundry work may be done for other branches of the Government, and surplus electric light and power may be sold on such terms and in accordance with such regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary of War: *Provided*, That the funds Use of proceeds. *Post*, p. 1028.received from such sales and in payment for such laundry work shall be used to defray the cost of operation of said ice, laundry, and electric plants, and the sales and expenditures herein provided for shall be accounted for in accordance with the methods prescribed by law, and any sums remaining after such cost of maintenance and operation have been defrayed shall be deposited in the Treasury to the credit of the appropriation from which the cost of operation of such plant is paid. Incidental expenses, Quartermaster Corps: Postage; cost of Incidental expenses.*Post*, p. 1028.telegrams on official business received and sent by officers of the Army, including members of the Officers’ Reserve Corps, when ordered to active duty; extra pay to soldiers employed on extra Extra duty pay, etc.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 over 858 seers of general prisoners at posts designated by the War Department for the confinement of general prisoners, and for the United States disciplinary barracks guard; of extra-duty pay at rates to be fixed by the Secretary of War for mess stewards and cooks at recruit depots who are 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 under court-martial sentence involving dishonorable Horse expenditures.discharge; for the following expenditures required for the several regiments of Cavalry, the batteries of Field Artillery, and such companies of Infantry and Scouts as may be mounted, the authorized number of officers’ horses, and for the trains, to wit, purchase of picket ropes, blacksmith’s tools and materials, horseshoes and lacksmith’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 operation of the Army, and at military posts, and not expressly assigned to any other department, $35,000,000. Transportation. *Post*, p. 1029.Transportation of the Army and its supplies: For transportation of the Army and its supplies, including transportation of the troops when moving either by land or water, and of their baggage, including 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., National Guard.Vol. 39, p. 217,allowance to officers and 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 National Guard officers on discharge.Vol. 31, p. 902.discharged on account of physical disability; for payment of travel pay to officers of 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 m 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 Per diem subsistence.not be greater than to the place of last enlistment; of the necessary agents and other employees, including per diem allowances in lieu of subsistence not exceeding $4 for those authorized to receive the per diem allowance; of clothing and equipage and other quarter 859 master 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 of Army transportation Payment to land-grant roads.lawfully due such land-grant railroads as have not received aid in Government bonds (to be adjusted in accordance with the decisions of the Supreme Court in cases decided under such land-grant acts), but in no case shall more than fifty per centum of full amount of service be paid: *Provided*, That such compensation shall *Provisos*. Basis of computation.be computed upon the basis of the tariff or lower special rates for like transportation performed for the public at large and shall be accepted as in full for all demands for such service: *Provided further*, That in expending the money appropriated by this Act a railroad Fifty percent to roads not bond aided.company which has not received aid m bonds of the United States, and which obtained a grant of public land to aid in the construction of its railroad on conditions 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 of such Government transportation as shall at that time be charged to and paid by private parties to any such company for like and similar transportation; and the amount so fixed to be paid shall be accepted as in full for all demands for such service: *And provided further*, That nothing in the preceding provisos shall be Full pay to excepted roads.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 Draft, and pack animals, vehicles, etc.and hire of draft and pack animals in such numbers as are actually required for the service, including reasonable provision for replacing unserviceable animals; for the purchase, hire, operation, maintenance, and repair of such harness, wagons, carts, drays, 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 gasoline and Gasoline tor aircraft.lubricants for flying machines; for drayage and cartage at the several depots; for the hire of teamsters and other employees; for the purchase and repair of ships, boats, and other vessels required for Ships, boats, etc.the transportation of troops and supplies and for official, military, and garrison purposes ; for expenses of sailing public transports and Transports.other vessels on the various rivers, the Gulf of Mexico, and the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, $1,532,606,103: *Provided further*, That Employees on barber boats.$75,000 of the appropriation hereby made shall be available for additional pay of employees on harbor boats, quartermaster service, in lieu of subsistence: *And provided further*, That hereafter, under Keeping horses of officers ordered abroad.such regulations as the Secretary of War may direct, the authorized horses of mounted officers ordered for duty over the seas or to Alaska may be transported at public expense to remount depots or elsewhere in the United States for safekeeping during the absence of 860 Travel pay, enlisted men on entering or leaving service.such officers: *And provided further*, That in the discretion of the Secretary of War, and under such regulations as he may prescribe, travel pay at the rate now prescribed by law for discharged soldiers may be given to all enlisted men for whom the law authorizes travel allowances as an incident to their entry upon and relief from active duty with the Army. Water, sewers, etc.*Post*, p. 1029.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 in 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 *Proviso*. Fort Crook, Nebr., connection with Omaha water service.repairs to water and sewer systems and plumbing; for hire of employees, $70,569,605: *Provided*, That the Secretary of War may in his discretion connect the water mains of Fort Crook, Nebraska, with the mains of the metropolitan water district of the city of Omaha at a cost not to exceed $59,000 to be paid out of the above amount. Clothing, and camp and garrison equipage.*Post*, p. 1029.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 for clothing not drawn due to enlisted men on discharge; for altering and fitting clothing and washing and. cleaning when necessary; for equipment and repair of equipment of laundries, dry cleaning plants, salvage and sorting storehouses, hat repairing shops, shoe repair shops, clothing repair shops, and garbage reduction works; educational Equipage.propaganda in connection with reclamation; 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; to each enlisted man convicted by civil court for an offense resulting in confinement in a penitentiary or other civil prison; and to each enlisted man ordered interned by reason of the fact that he is an alien enemy, or, for the same reason, discharged without internment; Indemnity for destroyed clothing.for indemnity to officers and men of the Army for clothing and bedding, and so forth, destroyed since April twenty-second, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, by order of medical officers of the Army for sanitary reasons, $1,230,190,089. Storage and shipping facilities.Expenses of buildings, docks, etc.Storage and shipping facilities: For inland and port storage, including all necessary buildings, docks, tracks, handling, and other facilities for Government supplies, including rentals and purchase of land, the hire of employees, and for all other necessary expenses, $147,000,000: *Proviso*. Restrictions waived. [R. S., sec. 355, p. 60](/us/rs/sec355/p60). Horses. Purchase. *Post*, p. 1029.*Provided*, That the foregoing sums may be expended without reference to section three hundred and fifty-five of the Revised Statutes. Horses for Cavalry, Artillery, Engineers, and so forth: For the purchase of horses of ages, sex, and size as may be prescribed by the Secretary of War for remounts, for officers entitled to public mounts for the Cavalry, Artillery, Signal Corps, and Engineers, the United States Military Academy, service schools, and staff colleges and for the Indian scouts, and for such Infantry and members of the Medical Department in field campaigns as may be required to be 861 mounted, and the expenses incident thereto, and for the hire of employees: *Provided*, That the number of horses purchased under *Provisos*.Limitation.this appropriation, added to the number now on hand, shall be limited to the actual needs of the mounted service, including reasonable provisions for remounts, and unless otherwise ordered by the Secretary of War, no part of this appropriation shall be paid out for horses not purchased by contract after competition duly invited by the Quartermaster Corps and an inspection under the direction and authority of the Secretary of War. When practicable, horses shall Open market purchases.be purchased in open market at all military posts or stations, when needed, at a maximum price to be fixed by the Secretary of War: *Provided further*, That no part of this appropriation shall be expended Standard required.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 provided further*, That no part of this appropriation Polo ponies.shall be expended for polo ponies except for West Point Military Academy, and such ponies shall not be used at any other place, $70,000,000. Barracks and quarters: For barracks, quarters, stables, storehouses, Barracks and quarters.magazines, administration and office buildings, sheds, shops, and other buildings necessary for the shelter of troops, public animals, and stores, and for administration purposes, except those pertaining to the Coast Artillery; for construction of reclamation plants; for Reclamation plants.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 whore 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; for grounds for cantonments, camp sites, and other military purposes, and for 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; or 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, and for the National Guard For National Guard in service.when called or drafted into the service of the United States, $175,100,000. *Provided*, That no part of the moneys so appropriated shall be *Provisos*.Commutation restriction.paid for commutation of fuel or quarters to officers or enlisted men: *Provided further*, That the number of and total sum paid for civilian Civilian employees.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: *Provided further*, That in time of Buildings, etc. in District of Columbia.war, or when war is imminent, the Secretary of War is hereby authorized, in his discretion, to rent or lease any building or part of building in the District of Columbia that may be required for military purposes. Naval Reservation, Bishops Point, Oahu, Hawaii: That theBishops Point, Oahu, Hawaii.Portion of naval reservation at, transferred to Army Use. following-described part of the naval reservation at Bishops Point, island of Oahu, Territory of Hawaii, is hereby transferred to and placed under the control and jurisdiction of the War Department for use for military purposes: Beginning at an iron bolt driven in the 862coral at the northwest comer of the Bishop Point Naval Reservation, and running thence with the north line of the reservation by true Description.azimuths and distances as follows: First, azimuth two hundred and ninety-three degrees forty-nine minutes four hundred and thirty feet to a concrete monument; second, azimuth twenty-three degrees forty-nine minutes three hundred and seventy-five feet to the high-water line, and thence along the high-water line to the point of *Proviso*.Right of way reserved.beginning; containing three acres, more or less: *Provided*, That there is hereby reserved to the use of the Navy Department a right of way over the said military reservation from the remaining portion of the naval reservation on Bishops Point to and upon any landing which may be built from the shore of the military reservation to water of sufficient depth to permit naval launches to moor alongside the said landing. Post exchanges. Construction, etc.*Post*, p. 1029.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 repairs Recreation buildings.Vol. 32, p. 1029.to buildings erected at private cost, in the operation of the Act approved May thirty-first, nineteen hundred and two, for the rental Training camp recreation.of films, purchase of slides, supplies for and making repairs to moving picture outfits, and for similar and other recreational purposes at training and mobilization camps now established, or which may be hereafter established, and for such purposes not enumerated above as the Secretary of War may deem advisable, to be expended in the *Proviso*.Personal services and pay restriction.discretion and under the direction of the Secretary of War: *Provided*, That not more than $629,200 of this appropriation may be expended for personal services and no person shall be employed hereunder at a rate of compensation exceeding $1,800 per annum, $2,994,950. Roads, wharves, drainage, etc.Roads, walks, wharves, and drainage: For the construction 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, $35,117,175. Presidio of San Francisco, Cal.Site, etc., Palace of Fine Arts, conveyed to California University. Use extended.Palace of Fine Arts, Presidio, San Francisco, California: That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, authorized in his discretion to convey to the regents of the University of California, their successors and assigns, for art, education, and park purposes *Ante*, p. 57, amended.and for the benefit of the people of the city and county of San Francisco and the public generally, 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: Description.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 one-hundredths acres, more or less. Reversion for non-user.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,863then all right and title thereto herein authorized to be granted to said regents shall revert to the United States. That in consideration of the said grant, the said regents shall Land from the University in exchange.Condemnation to secure title.procure from the city and county of San Francisco the consent of said city and county to a judgment being rendered and entered against the said city and county in eminent domain proceedings to be instituted by the United States Government against said city and county for the purpose of acquiring from said city and county all right, title, and interest that said city and county may have in and to any 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. That the said regents or the Secretary of War shall procure to be Warranty deed.executed by the said city and county of San Francisco a warranty to the United States Government of perpetual quiet possession to said lands. That in any such judgment in eminent domain as may be so rendered Rights of San Francisco reserved. and entered, there may be reserved to the city and county of San Francisco in such lands to be so acquired, such rights and interests as in the discretion of the Secretary of War should properly be reserved to said city and county of San Francisco, and also a condition Reversion for non-user.that the said lands shall revert to the city and county of San Francisco in the event of the United States Government ceasing to use the lands for the purposes for which they may be so acquired in said eminent domain proceedings. That the provision in the Act entitled “An Act making appropriations Former provision repealed.*Ante*, p. 57.for the support of the Army for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, and for other purposes,” approved May twelfth, nineteen hundred and seventeen (chapter twelve, page fifty-seven, Fortieth Revised Statutes), authorizing the Secretary of War to convey to the regents of the University of California, for art, educational, and park purposes, that portion of the military reservation of the Presidio, San Francisco, on which the Palace of Fine Arts is located, in consideration of the transfer to the United States of other lands situated within the said city and county, be and is hereby repealed. 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, $100,000: *Provided*, That hereafter, so long as *Proviso*.Estimates to be submitted.the construction and maintenance of “Military and Post” Roads in Alaska, and of other roads, bridges, and trails in that Territory shall remain under the direction of the Secretary of War, he be authorized to submit such estimates for the consideration of Congress as are in his judgment necessary for a proper prosecution of the work. Barracks and Quarters, Philippine Islands: Continuing thePhilippine Islands.Barracks and quarters for Army in. work of providing for the proper shelter and protection of officers and enlisted men of the Army of the United States lawfully on duty m the Philippine Islands, including repairs and payment of rents, the acquisition of title to building sites, and such additions to existing military reservations as may be necessary, and including also shelter for the animals and supplies, and all other buildings necessary for post administration purposes, and for shelter and repair thereof, Shelter in China.and rentals for the United States troops in China, $500,000:*Provided*, *Proviso*.Restriction on officers’ quarters.That no part of said sum shall be expended for the construction of quarters for officers of the Army the total cost of which, including the heating and plumbing apparatus, wiring and fixtures, shall exceed in the case of quarters of a general officer the sum of $8,000; of a colonel or officer above the rank of captain, $6,000; and of an officer of and below the rank of captain, $4,000. 864 Hospitals.Construction, repair, etc.*Post*, p. 1029.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 of Temporary hospitals, purchase of grounds, etc.increased garrisons, and for temporary hospitals in standing camps and cantonments. For the alteration of permanent buildings at posts for use as hospitals, construction and repairs of temporary hospital buildings at permanent posts, construction and repair of temporary general hospitals, rental or purchase of grounds and rental and alteration of buildings for use for hospital purposes in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, for use during the existing emergency, including necessary temporary quarters for hospital personnel, outbuildings, heating and laundry apparatus, plumbing, waters and sewers, and electric work, cooking apparatus, and roads and walks for the same, $80,000,000; 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, $66,600. Shooting galleries and ranges.Shooting galleries and ranges: For shelter, grounds, shooting galleries, ranges for small-arms target practice, machine-gun practice, field-artillery practice, repairs, and expenses incident thereto, including flour for paste for marking targets, hire of employees, such ranges and galleries to be open as far as practicable to the National Guard and organized rifle clubs under regulations to be prescribed by the Secretary of War, $343,110. 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; and assistant engineer, at $900; carpenter, at $900; four firemen, at $720 each; one elevator conductor, at $720; in all, $12,200. 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 nineteen, as follows: Field medical supply depot, $7,967. Quartermaster stables, $2,700. Quartermaster stables and storehouses, $3,600. Army Medical School, $7,920. Army Medical School, $2,400. Office of attending surgeon, $3,000. Depot quartermaster’s office, $2,500. Depot quartermaster’s office, $7,200. Garage, Quartermaster Corps, $1,500. Office, Aviation Section, Signal Corps, $3,360. Office, Aviation Section, Signal Corps, $1,320. Recruiting offices, miscellaneous, $1,000. Warehouse, $4,938. Corral, $510. Laboratory, Signal Corps, $2,100. Medical supply depot. Target practice damages. Payment of claims for.Army medical supply depot, $48,000. Claims for damages to and loss of private property: For payment of claims for damages to and loss of private property incident to the training, practice, operation, or maintenance of the Army that have accrued, or may hereafter accrue, from time to time, to be immediately available and to remain available until expended: *Proviso*.Settlement, etc.*Provided*, That settlement of such claims shall be made by the Auditor for the War Department, upon the approval and recommen865dation 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, $30,000. Persons killed on Mexican Border: To enable the Secretary Persons kilted on Mexican border.Payment to heirs, etc.Vol. 37, p. 641.of War to pay to the heirs or to the legal representatives of citizens of the United States killed on the American side of the line at El Paso, Texas; Douglas, Arizona, and other points as found and ascertained by the commissioners appointed pursuant to the joint resolution entitled “Joint resolution directing the Secretary of War to investigate the claims of American citizens for damages suffered within American territory and growing out of the late insurrection in Mexico,” approved August ninth, nineteen hundred and twelve, the sum of $71,000. Vocational training: For the employment of the necessary Vocational training.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 training 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, $75,000.General appropriations, Quartermaster Corps.Consolidation of specified appropriations into fund designated as. That all the money hereinbefore designated under the titles “Subsistence of the Army,” “Regular supplies, Quartermaster Corps,” “Incidental expenses, Quartermaster Corps,” “Transportation of the Army and its supplies,” “Water and sewers at military posts,” “Clothing and camp and garrison equipage,” “Horses for Cavalry, Artillery, Engineers, and so forth,” “Barracks and quarters,” “Military post exchanges,” “Roads, walks, wharves, and drainage,” “Barracks and quarters, Philippine Islands,” “Construction and repair of hospitals,” “Quarters for hospitals stewards,” “Shooting galleries and ranges,” “Maintenance, Army War College,” “Rent of buildings, Quartermaster Corps,” “Claims for damages to and loss of private property,” “Vocational training,” “Rifle ranges for civilian instruction, “ Quartermaster supplies, equipment, and so forth, Reserve Officers’ Training Corps,” “Quartermaster supplies for military equipment of schools and colleges,” shall be disbursed and accounted for by officers and agents of the Quartermaster Corps as “General appropriations, Quartermaster Corps,” and for that purpose shall constitute one fund. medical department.Medical Department. Medical and Hospital Department: For the manufacture and Supplies, gas masks, etc.*Post*, p. 1030.purchase of medical and hospital supplies, including gas masks, 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, and supplies required for mosquito destruction m and about the military posts in the Canal Mosquito destruction.*Provisos*.Motor ambulances.Zone: *Provided*, That the Secretary of War may in his discretion select types and makes of motor ambulances for the Army and866authorize their purchase without regard to the laws prescribing advertisement for proposals for supplies and materials 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 treatment, etc.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 Not applicable if on furlough, etc.thereto by law, regulation, or contract: *Provided further*, That this shall not apply to officers and enlisted men who are treated in private hospitals or by civilian physicians while on furlough; for the proper Contagions diseases expenses.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 employees of the Medical Department; for the payment of express companies and local transfers employed directly by the Medical Department for the transportation of medical and hospital supplies, including bidders’ samples and water for analysis; or supplies for use in teaching the art of cooking to the enlisted force Hot Springs, Ark., Hospital.of the Medical Department; for the supply of the Army and Navy Hospital at Hot Springs, Arkansas; for advertising, printing, binding, laundry, and all other necessary miscellaneous expenses of the Medical Department, $267,408,948. Personnel increased.One major general, and two brigadier generals, for service abroad.Vol. 39, p. 171.Increase in Medical Department: That the Medical Department of the Regular Army be, and is hereby, increased by one Assistant Surgeon General, for service abroad during the present war, who shall have the rank of major general, and two Assistant Surgeons General, who shall have the rank of brigadier general, all of whom shall be appointed from the Medical Corps of the Regular Army. Two major generals and four brigadier generals for National Army.That the President may nominate and appoint in the Medical Department of the National Army, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, from the Medical Reserve Corps of the Regular Medical Corps.Army not to exceed two major generals and four brigadier generals. Ratio of officers not above colonels.Vol. 35, p. 66.That the commissioned officers of the Medical Corps of the Regular Army, none of whom shall have rank above that of colonel, shall be proportionately distributed in the several grades as now provided by law. Medical Reserve Corps. Distribution of grades.That the commissioned officers of the Medical Reserve Corps of the Regular Army, none of whom shall have rank above that of colonel, shall be proportionately distributed in the several grades as now provided by law for the Medical Corps of the Regular Army: *Provided*, *Proviso*.Present officers retained, etc.That nothing in this Act shall be held or construed so as to discharge any officer of the Regular Army or deprive him of a commission which he now holds therein. Canal Zone. Care, etc., of troops in.Hospital care, Canal Zone garrisons: For paying the Panama Canal such reasonable charges, exclusive of subsistence, as may be approved by the Secretary of War, for caring in its hospitals for officers, enlisted men, military prisoners, and civilian employees of the Army admitted thereto upon the request of proper military *Proviso*. Subsistence payments.authority: *Provided*, 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 867 commutation of rations for enlisted patients in general hospitals, $60,000. Army Medical Museum and Library: For Army Medical Museum, Medical 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, $20,000. bureau of insular affairs.Insular Affairs. 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 Vol. 35, p. 122.eight, $1,500. 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 Depart ment. 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, $50,000. Engineer School, Washington, District of Columbia: Equipment Engineer School, D. C. Equipment and maintenance.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, electricians, mechanics, and laborers; compensation of civilian lecturers and payment of tuition fees of student officers at civil technical institutions; for unforeseen expenses; for travel expenses of officers Travel expenses.on journeys approved by the Secretary of War and made for the *Proviso*. In lieu of mileage.purpose 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, Textbooks, etc.scientific and professional papers, and for other absolutely necessary expenses, $30,000. Engineer equipment of troops: For pontoon material, tools, Engineer equipment of troops.instruments, supplies, and appliances required for use in the engineer equipment of troops, for military surveys, and for engineer operations in the field, including the purchase, maintenance, operation, and repair of the necessary motorcycles; the purchase and preparation of engineer manuals and procurement of special paper for same, and for a reserve supply of above equipment, $135,000,000. 868 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, $90,000. Field operation ex penses. *Post*, p. 1030.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 *Proviso*. Options for material.“Engineer depots,” “Civilian assistants to engineer officers,” and “Maps, War Department”: *Provided*, That when to the interest of the Government, funds appropriated under this head may be used for the purchase of options on material for use in engineer operations in the field, $892,000,000. Contingencies, Philippines.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, $2,500. 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 mili tary purposes, to be immediately available and remain available until *Provisos*. Government offices to assist.December thirty-first, nineteen hundred and nineteen: *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, Paying incurred obligations.$850,000: *Provided further*, That not to exceed $150,000 of the funds appropriated herein shall be available to cover obligations incurred during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen. Service schools. Lithographie press.Lithograph press, Army Service Schools, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.—For one power lithograph press for the Army Schools, Fort Leavenworth, $6,000. Per diem subsistence outside of Washington.Per diem allowance for traveling expenses: 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 nineteen, a per diem rate of $4 may be allowed in lieu of subsistence. Bands for Engineer regiments. Vol. 39, p. 173, amended.Bands for Engineer Corps: That the second paragraph of section eleven of chapter one hundred thirty-four, Thirty-ninth Statutes, page one hundred seventy-three, be, and the same hereby is, amended to read as follows: Regimental organization.Each regiment of Engineers shall consist of one colonel; one lieutenant colonel; two majors; eleven captains; twelve first lieutenants; six second lieutenants; two master engineers, senior grade; one regimental sergeant major; two regimental supply sergeants; two color sergeants; one sergeant bugler; one cook; one Wagoner for each Band added.authorized wagon of the field and combat train; one band; and two *Proviso*.Present band continued.battalions: *Provided*, That the present Engineer band shall be considered as one of the bands provided for above. Slavic Legion. Organization of volunteers from specified races, residents but not citizens.Slavic Legion: That, under such regulations as the President may prescribe, a force of volunteer troops in such unit or units as he may direct may be raised to be composed of JugoSlavs, Czecho Slovaks, and Ruthenians (Ukranians) belonging to the oppressed races of the Austro Hungarian or German Empire resident in the United States but not citizens thereof nor subject to the draft. Such force shall be known as the Slavic Legion or by such other description as the 869 President may prescribe. No man shall be enlisted in it until he has Loyalty, etc., required.furnished satisfactory evidence that he will faithfully and loyally serve the cause of the United States and that he desires to fight the Imperial governments of Germany and Austria-Hungary, and the allies thereof. The force so raised and duly sworn into the service Equipment, maintenance and training, for use against common enemy.may be equipped, maintained, and trained with our own troops or separately as the President may direct and thereafter may be transported to such field of action as the President may direct to be used against the common enemy in connection with our own troops or with those of any nation associated with the United States in the present war; and the several items of expense involved in the equipment, Expenses from Army funds.maintenance, training, and transportation of such force may be paid from the respective appropriations herein made or from any subsequent appropriations for the same: *Provided*, That American citizens *Proviso*.Loyal citizens of Austrían or German birth, etc., may be commissioned In Army or Navy.of Austrian or German birth, or who were born in alien enemy territory, who have passed the necessary examination and whose loyalty is unquestioned, may, in the discretion of the Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy, be commissioned in the United States Army or Navy. ordnance department.Ordnance Department. Ordnance service: For the current expenses of the Ordnance Current expenses.*Post*, p. 1171.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, $30,000,000. Ordnance stores, ammunition: Manufacture and purchase of Ammunition for small arms. Manufacture and purchase. *Post*, p. 1171.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 at Washington, District of Columbia, and soldiers’ and sailors’ State homes, $390.000,000: *Provided*, That the Secretary *Proviso*.Additional contracts authorized.*Post*, pp, 873, 1030.*Post*, p. 1172.of War is authorized to enter into contracts, or otherwise incur obligations for the purposes above mentioned in this item not to exceed $706,486,991, in addition to the appropriation herein and heretofore made. Small-arms target practice: For manufacture and purchase of Small arms target practice.Ammunition, targets, etc.*Post*, p. 1171.At educational institutions, etc.ammunition, targets, and other accessories for small-arms, hand, and machine-gun target practice and instruction; marksmen’s medals, prize arms, and insignia for all arms of the service; and ammunition, targets, target materials, and other accessories which may be issued for small-arms target practice and instruction at the educational institutions and State soldiers’ and sailors’ orphans’ homes to which issues of small arms are lawfully made, under such regulations as the Secretary of War may prescribe, $75,200,000: *Provided*, That *Proviso*.Additional contracts authorized.*Post*, pp. 873,1030.*Post*, p. 1172.the Secretary of War is authorized to enter into contracts or otherwise incur obligations for that purposes above mentioned in this item not870to exceed $84,073,725, in addition to the appropriation herein and heretofore made. Manufacturing, etc., arms.*Post*, p. 1171.*Proviso*.Additional contracts authorised.*Post*, pp, 873, 1030.*Post*, p. 1172.Manufacture of arms: For manufacturing, repairing, procuring, and issuing arms at the national armories, $50,000,000: *Provided*, That the Secretary of War is authorized to enter into contracts or otherwise incur obligations for the purposes above mentioned in this item not to exceed $207,324,325, in addition to the appropriation herein and heretofore made. Civilian employees in gun factories.Additional pay for working while entitled to leave of absence. Pay of civilian employees in gun factories on leave of absence: That the Secretary of War is hereby authorized and empowered, during the period of the war, to make payment, under such regulations as may be prescribed by him, in addition to and at the rate of pay now provided by law to each and all civilians employed by the War Department in gun factories and arsenals for work performed on all days of leave of absence granted by law to such employees. Preserving, etc., ordnance. *Post*, p. 1171. Purchase, etc.Ordnance stores and supplies: For overhauling, cleaning, repairing, and preserving ordnance and ordnance stores in the hands of troops and at the arsenals, posts, and depots; for purchase and manufacture of ordnance stores to fill requisitions of troops; Equipments.for Infantry, Cavalry, and Artillery equipments, including horse *Proviso*. Additional contracts authorized.*Post*, pp. 873, 1030.*Post*, p. 1172.equipments for Cavalry and Artillery, $93,400,000: *Provided*, That the Secretary of War is authorized to enter into contracts or otherwise incur obligations for the purposes above mentioned in this item not to exceed $350,299,260, in audition to the appropriation herein and heretofore made. Rifle contests. Trophy, medals, prizes, etc.National trophy and medals for rifle contests: For the purpose of furnishing a national trophy and medals and other prizes to be provided and contested for annually under such regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary of War, said contest to be open to the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and the National Guard or Organized Militia of the several States. Territories, and of the District of Columbia, members of rifle clubs, and civilians, and for the cost of the trophy, prizes, and medals herein provided for, and for the promotion of rifle practice throughout the United States, including the reimbursement of necessary expenses of members of the National Board for the Promotion of Rifle Practice, to be expended for the purposes hereinbefore prescribed under the direction of the Secretary of War, $10,000. Medals of honor, etc. Congressional medal of honor for conspicuous gallantry, etc., in actual conflict,Vol. 33, p. 274.Medals of honor, distinguished-service crosses, and distinguished-service medals: That the provisions of existing law relating to the award of medals of honor to officers, noncommissioned officers, and privates of the Army be, and they hereby are, amended so that the President is authorized to present, in the name of the Congress, a medal of honor only to each person who, while an officer or enlisted man of the Army, shall hereafter, in action involving actual conflict with an enemy, distinguish himself conspicuously by gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty. Distinguished service cross.Awarded for extraordinary heroism in present war against armed enemy.That the President be, and he is hereby, further authorized to present, but not in the name of Congress, a distinguished-service cross of appropriate design and a ribbon, together with a rosette or other device, to be worn m lieu thereof, to any person who, while serving in any capacity with the Army of the United States since the sixth day of April, nineteen hundred and seventeen, has distinguished, or who shall hereafter distinguish, himself or herself by extraordinary heroism in connection with military operations against an armed enemy. Distinguished service medal. Awarded for exceptionally meritorious service in the Army since April 6, 1917.That the President be, and he is hereby, further authorized to present, but not in the name of Congress, a distinguished-service medal of appropriate design and a ribbon, together with a rosette or other device, to be worn in lieu thereof, to any person who, while 871 serving in any capacity with the Army of the United States since the sixth day of April, nineteen hundred and seventeen, has distinguished, or who hereafter shall distinguish, himself or herself by exceptionally meritorious service to the Government in a duty of great responsibility; and said distinguished-service medal shall also be issued to all Issued to holders of former certificate of merit in lieu thereof.Vol. 27, p. 12.[R. S., sec. 1216, p. 215, repealed](/us/rs/sec1216/p215).enlisted men of the Army to whom the certificate of merit has been granted up to and including the date of the passage of this Act under the provisions of previously existing law, in lieu of such certificate of merit, and after the passage of this Act the award of the certificate of merit for distinguished service shall cease; and additional pay heretofore Additional pay to cease.authorized by law for holders of the certificate of merit shall not be paid to them beyond the date of the award of the distinguished-service medal in lieu thereof as aforesaid. That each enlisted man of the Army to whom there has been or Additional pay to enlisted men for each award.shall be awarded a medal of honor, a distinguished-service cross, or a distinguished-service medal shall, for each such award, be entitled to additional pay at the rate of $2 per month from the date of the distinguished act or service on which the award is based, and each bar, Further for each bar issued as subsequent award.or other suitable device, in lieu of a medal of honor, a distinguished-service cross, or a distinguished-service medal, as hereinafter provided for, shall entitle him to further additional pay at the rate of $2 per month from the date of the distinguished act or service for which the bar is awarded, and said additional pay shall continue Continued during active service. throughout his active service, whether such service shall or shall not be continuous; but when the award is in lieu of the certificate of merit, as provided for in section three hereof, the additional pay shall begin with the date of the award. That no more than one medal of honor or one distinguished-service Only one issue to a person.cross or one distinguished-service medal shall be issued to any one person; but for each succeeding deed or act sufficient to justify the Bar awarded for subsequent deed.award of a medal of honor or a distinguished-service cross or a distinguished-service medal, respectively, the President may award a suitable bar, or other suitable device, to be worn as he shall direct; and for each other citation of an officer or enlisted man for gallantry Silver star for citation in orders.in action published in orders issued from the headquarters of a force commanded by a general officer he shall be entitled to wear, as the President shall direct, a silver star three-sixteenths of an inch in diameter. That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, authorized Payment of expenses.to expend from the appropriations for contingent expenses of his department from time to time so much as may be necessary to defray the cost of the medals of honor, distinguished-service crosses, distinguished-service medals, bars, rosettes, and other devices hereinbefore provided for. That whenever a medal, cross, bar, ribbon, rosette, or other device Lost, etc., honor device to be replaced.presented under the provisions of this Act shall have been lost, destroyed, or rendered unfit for use, without fault or neglect on the part of the person to whom it was awarded, such medal, cross, bar, ribbon, rosette, or device shall be replaced without charge therefor. That, except as otherwise prescribed herein, no medals of honor, Time limit for issuing.distinguished-service cross, distinguished-service medal, or bar or other suitable device in lieu of either of said medals or of said cross, shall be issued to any person after more than three years from the date of the act justifying the award thereof, nor unless a specific statement or report Specific statement of service to be made.distinctly setting forth the distinguished service and suggesting or recommending official recognition thereof shall have been made at the time of the distinguished service or within two years thereafter, nor unless it Official Department record. shall appear from the official records in the War Department that such person has so distinguished himself as to entitle him thereto; but in Award in case of death.case an individual who shall distinguish himself dies before the making of the award to which he may be entitled, the award may 872 nevertheless be made and the medal or cross or the bar or other emblem or device presented, within three years from the date of the act justifying the award thereof, to such representative of the Subsequent entirely honorable service required.deceased as the President may designate; but no medal, cross, bar, or other device, hereinbefore authorized, shall be awarded or presented to any individual whose entire service subsequently to the tune Awards to persons now in service, which have been recommended.he distinguished himself shall not have been honorable; but in cases of officers and enlisted men now in the Army for whom the award of the medal of honor has been recommended in full compliance with then existing regulations but on account of services which, though insufficient fully to justify the award of the medal of honor, appear to have been such as to justify the award of the distinguished-service cross or distinguished-service medal hereinbefore provided for, such cases may be considered and acted upon under the provisions of this Act authorizing the award of the distinguished-service cross and distinguished-service medal, notwithstanding that said services may have been rendered more than three years before said cases shall have Official records of Department to govern.been considered as authorized by this Act, but all consideration of and action upon any of said cases shall be based exclusively upon Citations in orders for heroism included.official records now on file in the War Department; and in the cases of officers and enlisted men now in the Army who have been mentioned in orders, now a part of official records, for extraordinary heroism or especially meritorious services, such as to justify the award of the distinguished-service cross or the distinguished-service medal hereinbefore provided for, such cases may be considered and acted on under the provisions of this Act, notwithstanding that said act or services may have been rendered more than three years before said cases shall have been considered as authorized by this Act, but all consideration of and action upon any said cases shall be based exclusively upon official records of the War Department. Commanding general in the field may award medal, etc.That the President be, and he is hereby, authorized to delegate, under such conditions, regulations, and limitations as he shall prescribe, to the commanding general of a separate army or higher unit in the field, the power conferred upon him by this Act to award the medal of honor, the distinguished-service cross, and the distiuguished service medal; and he is further authorized to make from time to time any and all rules, regulations, and orders which he shall deem necessary to carry into effect the provisions of this Act and to execute the full purpose and intention thereof. Citizens receiving decorations In allied service may wear them in Federal service.That American citizens who have received, since August first, nineteen hundred and fourteen, decorations or medals for distinguished service in the armies or in connection with the field service of those nations engaged in war against the Imperial German Government, shall, on entering the military service or the United States, be permitted to wear such medals or decorations. Acceptance of decorations from allied nations permitted.That any and all members of the military forces of the United States serving in the present war be, and they are hereby, permitted and authorized to accept during the present war or within one year thereafter, from the Government of any of the countries engaged in war with any country with which the United States is or shall be concurrently likewise engaged in war, such decorations, when tendered, as are conferred by such Government upon the members of Constitutional consent of Congressgranted hereby.its own military forces; and the consent of Congress required therefor *Proviso*. Previous decorations by allied governments Included.by clause eight of section nine of Article I of the Constitution is hereby expressly granted: *Provided*, That any officer or enlisted man of the military forces of the United States is hereby authorized to accept and wear any medal or decoration heretofore bestowed by the Government of any of the nations concurrently engaged with the United States in the present war. Decorations may be conferred on members of allied forces.That the President is authorized, under regulations to be prescribed by him, to confer such medals and decorations as may be 873 authorized in the military service of the United States upon officers and enlisted men of the military forces of the countries concurrently engaged with the United States in the present war.That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, authorized and War with Spain and Mexican border service. Bronze medal to members of National Guard serving in.directed to procure a bronze medal, with suitable device and ribbon, to be presented to each of the several officers and enlisted men, and families of such as may be dead, of the National Guard who, under the orders of the President of the United States, served not less than ninety days in the War with Spain, and who have received an honorable discharge from the service, and who served on the Mexican border in the years nineteen hundred and sixteen and nineteen hundred and seventeen and who are not eligible to receive the Mexican service badge heretofore authorized by the President: *Provided*, That such medals shall not be issued to men who have, *Provisos*.Excluded if dishonorably discharged.subsequent to such service, been dishonorably discharged from the service or deserted: *And provided further*, That the sum of $7,000, Appropriation.or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the purpose of carrying this last paragraph into effect. Automatic machine rifles: For the purchase, manufacture, test, Automatic machine rifles.*Post*, p. 1171.repair, and maintenance of automatic machine rifles, or other automatic or semiautomatic guns, including their mounts, sights, and equipments, and the machinery necessary for their manufacture, $237,144,000: *Provided*, That the Secretary of War is authorized *Proviso*.Additional contracts authorized.*Infra.* *Post*, pp. 1030,1172.to enter into contracts, or otherwise incur obligations, for the purposes above mentioned in this item not to exceed $337,726,000, in addition to the appropriation herein and heretofore made. Armored motor cars: For the purchase, manufacture, test, Armored motor cars.*Post*, p. 1171.repair, and maintenance of armored motor cars, to remain available until the end of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and twenty, $75,550,000: *Provided*, That the Secretary of War is authorized to *Proviso*.Additional contracts authorized.*Infra*.*Post*, pp. 1031, 1172.enter into contracts, or otherwise incur obligations, for the purposes above mentioned in this item not to exceed $272,422,500, in addition to the appropriation herein and heretofore made. Contract obligations for ordnance: The Secretary of War is Ordnance.Additional contracts authorized. *Post*, pp. 1030, 1031. *Post*, p. 1172.authorized, during the present emergency, in addition to the appropriations and obligations specifically authorized by law, to incur obligations for ordnance and ordnance supplies and materials: *Provided*, That the aggregate amount of such obligations shall not *Proviso*.Aggregate.exceed $500,000,000. *Provided*, That out of the authorizations provided for ordnance Appropriation for authorizations herein made.stores, ammunition, ordnance stores and supplies, small-arms target practice, manufacture of arms, automatic machine rifles, and armored motor cars there is authorized to be expended and is hereby appropriated the sum of $600,000,000. *Provided further*, That all material purchased under the appropriations Material to be of American manufacture.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 abroad, which material shall be admitted free of duty. Civilian ordnance employees, District of Columbia: That Ordnance Office.Employment of technical, etc., services in.the Chief of Ordnance of the United States Army is authorized to employ in the District of Columbia, out of the appropriations made in this Act for designing, procuring, caring for, and supplying ordnance and ordnance stores to the Army, such services, other than clerical, as are necessary for carrying out these purposes. The appropriations made in this Act shall be available for the Incurred obligations payable from appropriations herein made.payment of obligations on account of the existing emergency incurred prior to the passage of this Act and which are properly chargeable to such appropriations. 874 Subsistence allowance to civilians traveling outside of Washington.That the appropriations hereinbefore made under the heading “Ordnance Department” shall be available for the payment of an allowance not to exceed $4 per day in lieu of subsistence to civilian employees of the Ordnance Department traveling on official business outside of the District of Columbia and away from their designated posts of duty. National Guard.national guard. Training, etc. Participation in encampments, maneuvers, etc.Arming, equipping, and training the National Guard: 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 Army, Pay and allowances from State, etc., allotments.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 entitled Instruction camps under Army officers.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 camps Fay for attendance, etc.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 rate as for encampments or maneuvers for *Provisos*. Transportation Of Army troops.field and coast defense instruction: National Guard Reserve.*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 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 War under the law to attend encampments, maneuvers, or other exercises of the National Guard, $2,473,650. Instruction at Army schools.To provide for the attendance of selected officers or enlisted men of the National Guard who pursue a regular course of study at any military service school of the United States, except the United States At posts.Military Academy; or to be attached to an organization of the same arm, corps, or department to which such officers or enlisted men shall belong, for routine practical instruction at or near an Army post Allotment tor pay, etc.during a period of field training or other outdoor exercises ; and such 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, *Proviso*. Pay limit. or practical course of instruction: *Provided*, That in no case shall the pay and allowances authorized herein exceed those of a captain, $50,000. 875 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, etc., officers.States, Territories, and District of Columbia, $26,000. 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, $650,000. 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, nineteen hundred and sixteen, $5,000. Travel of inspector-instructors and sergeant-instructors joiningInstructors. at State stations for duty and returning to duty with regiments, $2,000. Travel of inspector-instructors and sergeant-instructors in making Armory Inspection. *Proviso*. Limit.visits of instruction and inspection to armories: *Provided*, That said inspector-instructors traveling shall not receive more than their actual expenses out of these appropriations, $5,000. Travel of officers and noncommissioned officers of the Regular Inspecting Joint camps.Army in connection with State camps of instruction and joint camps, $1,000. Inspection of material pertaining to Field Artillery, Coast Artillery, Material inspection.and Signal Corps, in the hands of the National Guard, $500. Transportation of supplies (including transportation of animals Transporting sup plies, etc.issued for the use of Cavalry, Field Artillery, Signal companies, Engineers companies, ambulance companies, and other mounted units) of the National Guard, $10,000. Expenses of sergeant-instructors on duty with the National Guard, Sergeant instructors.including quarters, fuel, light, medicines, and medical attendance, $5,000. All the money hereinbefore appropriated for arming, equipping, and Accounting.training the National Guard shall be disbursed and accounted for as such and for that purpose shall constitute one fund: *Provided*, *Proviso*. Staff corps included in National Guard.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. Longevity pay for men other than the Regular Army: That Longevity pay. Service in National Guard credited to persons entering armed forces other than through draft.Vol. 39, p. 211.officers and enlisted men of the forces of the Army of the United States other than the Regular Army who have had service in the National Guard and Organized Militia of any State, Territory, or District, but who have entered the service in the forces of the Army of the United States, otherwise than through draft under the provisions of section one hundred and eleven of the Act of June third, nineteen hundred and sixteen, known as the national defense Act, shall be upon the same footing as to pay and allowance as the members of said forces who were drafted under the provisions of said section. Arms, uniforms, equipment, and so forth, for field service, Arms, etc., for field service.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 876 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 kinds, including public animals, and a Reserve supply.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 of the several States, Territories, and the District of Columbia, $3,210,000. Rifle ranges for civilians.rifle ranges for civilian instruction. Expenses of maintaining.Rifle ranges for civilian instruction: To establish and maintain indoor and outdoor rifle ranges for the 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 and 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, $10,000. Arms, ammunition, etc., for target practice.Rifle ranges for civilian instruction: For arms, ammunition, targets, and other accessories for target 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, $200,000. Civilian military training.civilian military training. Expenses of instruction camps, etc.Vol. 39, p. 194.Arms and ordnance equipment: 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. Home Guard. Arms, ammunition, etc., for issue to. *Ante*, p. 181. *Post*, p. 1171.Ordnance equipment for Home Guard organizations: For procuring arms, including pistols, ammunition, equipment, and so forth, for issue and use in connection with Home Guard organizations in pursuance of the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to authorize the issue to States and Territories and the District of Columbia of rifles and other property for the equipment of organizations of Home Guards,” approved June fourteenth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, authorizing issues to Home Guard organizations, $2,500,000. Reserve Officers’ Training Corps.reserve corps. Quartermaster supplies, etc., to Institutions having units. Vol. 39, p. 191. Quartermaster supplies, equipment, and so forth, Reserve Officers’ 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 he 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 877 place of issue when necessary; for the maintenance of camps for the Training camps.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 the payment of commutation of subsistence to members Commutation of subsistence.Vol. 39, p. 193.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 authorized in the Act of Congress approved June third, nineteen hundred and sixteen, $2,788,096. Ordnance stores, equipment, and so forth, Reserve Officers’ Ordnance stores, equipment, etc.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, $2,921,725. Quartermaster supplies for military equipment of schools Schools and colleges.Quartermaster supplies for training in other.Vol. 39, p. 197.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 provided for in section forty-seven of the Act above referred to, Vol. 39, p. 192. $45,505. Ordnance supplies for military equipment of schools and Ordnance supplies.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, Vol. 30, p. 197.nineteen hundred and sixteen, $1,138,700. Printing and binding: That the appropriations herein made for Printing building, etc.Authorized from Army funds.the support of the Army and the National Guard are available for such printing, binding, and blank books as may be necessary in putting in effect the objects of the appropriations: *Provided*, That *Provisos*. Outside the District at other than Government Printing Office, permitted.printing, binding, and blank books required for use outside of the District of Columbia in connection with the support of the Army and the National Guard may be done or procured elsewhere than at the Government Printing Office when in the opinion of the Secretary of War such work can be more advantageously done or procured locally, the cost thereof to be paid from the proper appropriations: *Provided*, That where practical so to do no work be done or contract Contracts, etc.Restriction on making.made under or by authority of any provision of this Act on or under a percentage or cost-plus percentage basis, nor shall any contract, where circumstances so permit, be let involving more than $1,000 until at least three responsible competing contractors shall have been notified and considered in connection with such contract and all contracts to be awarded to the lowest responsible bidder, the Government reserving the right to reject any and all bids. Leon Springs Military Reservation, Texas: That there is hereby Leon Springs Military Reservation, Tex.Purchase of additional land.appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of $316,941 or so much thereof as may be necessary, for the acquisition of land as an addition to the Leon Springs Military Reservation, Texas. Bertram T. Clayton, junior: That the President of the United Bertram T. Clayton, jr.May be appointed second lieutenant, Infantry, and retired.States be, and he is hereby, authorized, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, to appoint Bertram T. Clayton, junior, late a cadet of the United States Military Academy at West Point, to the position of second lieutenant of Infantry of the Army, and to place him upon the retired list with the pay of a retired second lieutenant of Infantry. 878 Col, David L. Brainard.May be appointed brigadier general, retired.That, in view of the conspicuous service in the Arctic of Colonel David L. Brainard, Quartermaster Corps, United States Army, he being one of the seven survivors of the original twenty-five members of the Greely Expedition, and of the injury to his eyesight resulting from exposure while in said service, which injury will necessitate his early retirement from active service, the President is hereby authorized to place that officer on the retired list of the Army, after over forty years’ active service, as a brigadier general, with the pay and emoluments of a retired officer of that grade, and to grant him a commission in accordance with such advanced rank. Appropriations herein available for incurred obligations.Appropriation available for obligations heretofore incurred: The appropriations contained herein shall be available for the payment of obligations on account of the existing emergency incurred prior to the passage of this Act or prior to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, and which are properly chargeable to such appropriations. ChapterII. Aberdeen Proving Ground, Md.Exchange of lands for.*Ante*, 352.*Post*, pp. 1707,1731.Aberdeen Proving Ground: That the Secretary of War be, and he hereby is, authorized to exchange a strip of land of about two hundred feet in width, within the Aberdeen Proving Ground, and extending from Bush River to Magnolia, Maryland, and adjoining the right of way of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, for a tract of land situated inside the limits of the Aberdeen Proving Ground, Payment.and having an area of about eight acres, upon the payment to the United States of such consideration, in addition to said tract of land, as the Secretary of War shall deem equitable. ChapterIII. Army disbursements.Officers accountable for moneys may designate other officers to make.Accountability for trust funds: That during the present emergency, under such regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary of War, officers of the Army, accountable for public moneys, may intrust such moneys to other officers for the purpose of having them make disbursements as their agents, and the officers to whom the moneys are intrusted, as well as the officers who intrusted such funds to them, shall be held pecuniarily responsible therefor to the United States. Property officers, National Guard.Vol. 39, p.200, amended.Governors to appoint property officers: That the first sentence of the third paragraph of section sixty-seven of an 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, be, and the same is hereby, amended to read as follows: " Adjutant General or an officer of the National Guard to be appointed as.“The governor of each State and Territory and the Commanding General of the National Guard of the District of Columbia shall appoint, designate, or detail, subject to the approval of the Secretary of War, the Adjutant General or an officer of the National Guard of the State, Territory, or District of Columbia, who shall be regarded as property and disbursing officer of the United States.” " ChapterIV. Pressing obligations.Permission to pay, from available balance if specific credit of officer insufficient.Payments from total available balances: That during the present emergency when pressing obligations are required to be paid by a disbursing officer of the Army and the allotment to his official credit under the proper appropriation or appropriations is temporarily insufficient to pay the same, he is authorized to make payments from the total available balance to his official credit, provided sufficient funds under proper appropriation or appropriations have been appropriated by the chief officer of the bureau or department for the 879 expenditure. When such disbursements are made, the accounts of the disbursing officer shall show the charging of the proper appropriations, and the balances thereunder, which will be adjusted by the disbursing officer on receipt of funds, or by the accounting officer of the Treasury. ChapterV.Army Nurse Corps. Army Nurse Corps: That the Nurse Corps (female) of the Medical Created as part of Medical Department.Vol. 39. p. 171.Vol. 31, p. 753, amended.Constitution of.Department of the Army shall hereafter be known as the Army Nurse Corps, and shall consist of one superintendent, who shall be a graduate of a hospital-training school having a course of instruction of not less than two years; of as many chief nurses, nurses, and reserve nurses as may from time to time be needed and prescribed or Additional for overseas service.ordered by the Secretary of War, and, in the discretion of the Secretary of War, of not exceeding six assistant superintendents, and, for each Army or separate military force beyond the continental limits of the United States, one director and not exceeding two assistant directors of nursing service, all of whom shall be graduates of hospital-training schools and shall have passed such professional, moral, mental, and physical examination as shall be prescribed by the Secretary of War. Sec. 2.That rules and regulations prescribing the duties of the Duties, etc., to be prescribed.members of the Army Nurse Corps shall be prescribed by the Surgeon General of the United States Army, subject to the approval of the Secretary of War. Sec. 3.That the superintendent shall be appointed by, and, at his Appointments.Superintendent.Other members.discretion, be removed by, the Secretary of War; that all other members of said corps shall be appointed by, and. at his discretion, be removed by, the Surgeon General by and with the approval of the Secretary of War; but the assistant superintendents, the directors, the Promotions.assistant directors, and the chief nurses shall by appointed by promotion from other members of the corps, and shall, upon being relieved from duty as such, unless removed for incompetency or misconduct, revert to the grades in the corps from which they were promoted. Sec. 4. That the annual rate of pay of the members of said corps Pay.*Post*, p. 1211.shall be as follows: Superintendent, $2,400; assistant superintendents and directors, $1,800; assistant directors, $1,500; chief nurses, $120 in addition to the pay of a nurse; nurses, $720 for the first period of Service increase for nurses.three years’ service, $780 for the second period of three years’ service, $840 for the third period of three years’ service, $900 for the fourth period of three years’ service, and $960 after twelve years’ service in said corps (including in all cases time of service as contract nurse); reserve Reserve nurses.nurses, when upon active duty, will receive the same pay as nurses who have served in the corps for periods corresponding to the full period of their active service; and all members of said corps, in addition Additional for foreign service.to the foregoing, the sum of $10 per month when serving beyond the continental limits of the United States (excepting Porto Rico and Hawaii). Sec. 5.That members of said Nurse Corps shall be entitled to Cumulative leaves of absence allowed.cumulative leave of absence with pay at the rate of thirty days for each calendar year of service in said corps, not exceeding, however, one hundred and twenty days at one time, and in addition thereto sick leave not exceeding thirty days in any one calendar year in cases of illness or injury incurred in the fine of duty. Sec. 6.That members of said Nurse Corps shall receive transportation Traveling allowances.and necessary expenses when traveling under orders, and such allowances of quarters and subsistence and, during illness, such medical care as may be prescribed in regulations by the Secretary of War; and when at places where no public quarters are available, commutation Commutation of quarters, etc.in lieu thereof, and of heat and light therefor at such rates and upon such conditions as are now or shall hereafter be provided by law. 880 Sec. 7. Prior laws repealed.Vol. 31, p. 753That section nineteen of chapter one hundred and ninety-two of Thirty-first Statutes, page seven hundred and fifty-three; Vol. 37, pp. 72, 575.chapter fifty of Thirty-seventh Statutes, page seventy-two; that part of the Act approved August twenty-fourth, nineteen hundred and twelve (Thirty-seventh Statutes, page five hundred and seventy-five), providing for allowances, subsistence, and medical care during illness Vol. 38, p. 249.for the Superintendent of the Nurse Corps; and that part of the Act approved March twenty-third, nineteen hundred and ten (Thirty-sixth Statutes, page two hundred and forty-nine) prescribing the pay of the superintendent and members of the Nurse Corps, be, and the same are, hereby repealed. ChapterVI. Losses of private property in service.Former law amended.Vol. 23, p. 350.*Ante*, p. 479.Claims of enlisted men for loss of private property: That the Act entitled “An Act to provide for the settlement of the claims of officers and enlisted men of the Army, for loss of private property destroyed in the military service of the United States,” approved March third, eighteen hundred and eighty-five (chapter three hundred and thirty-five, Twenty-third Statutes, page three hundred and fifty), be, and the same is hereby, amended to read as follows: " “Sec. 1.Claims allowed officers, etc., for specified private property lost, etc., after April 5, 1917. That private property belonging to officers, enlisted men, and members of the Nurse Corps (female) of the Army, including all prescribed articles of equipment and clothing which they are required y law or regulations to own and use in the performance of their duties, and horses and equipment required by law or regulations to be provided by mounted officers, which since the fifth day of April, nineteen hundred and seventeen, has been or shall hereafter be lost, damaged, or destroyed in the military service shall be replaced, or the Conditions.damage thereto or its value recouped to the owner as hereinafter provided, when such loss, damage, or destruction has occurred or shall hereafter occur in any of the following circumstances: “First. Without personal fault, etc. When such loss or destruction was without fault or negligence on the part of the owner. “Second. Shipped on unseaworthy vessel under orders. When such private property so lost or destroyed was shipped on board an unseaworthy vessel by order of an officer authorized If owner was saving public property.to give such order or direct such shipment. “Third. When it appears that such private property was so lost or destroyed in consequence of its owner having given his attention to the saving of property belonging to the United States which was in danger at the same time and in similar circumstances. “Fourth. By common carrier in transit.When during travel under orders the regulation allowance of baggage transferred by a common carrier is lost or damaged; but replacement or recoupment in these circumstances shall be limited to the extent of such loss or damage over and above the amount recoverable from said carrier. “Fifth. Destroyed by enemy, etc.When such private property is destroyed or captured by the enemy, or is destroyed to prevent its falling into the hands of the enemy, or is abandoned on account of lack of transportation or by reason of military emergency requiring its abandonment, or is otherwise lost in the field during campaign. “Sec. 2. Limitation on liability. That, except as to such property as by law or regulations is required to be possessed and used by officers, enlisted men, and members of the Nurse Corps (female), respectively, the liability of the Government under this chapter shall be limited to damage to or loss of such articles of personal property as the Secretary of War shall decide or declare to be reasonable, useful, necessary, and proper for officers, enlisted men, or members of the Nurse Corps (female), respectively, as the case may be, while in quarters, engaged in the public service, in the line of duty. 881 “Sec. 3. That the proper accounting officers of the Treasury be, and Value to be ascertained by accounting officers.they are hereby, authorized and directed to examine into, ascertain and determine the value of the property lost, destroyed, captured, or abandoned as specified in the foregoing sections, or the amount of the damage thereto, as the case may be; and the amount of such value Payment authorized.or damage so ascertained and determined shall be paid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated: *Provided*, That *Proviso*.Replacement, or commutation in time of war.in time of war or of operations during public disaster such property lost, destroyed, captured, or abandoned, or so damaged as to be unfit for service, shall be replaced in kind from Government property on hand, or adequate commutation given therefor when replacement in kind can not be made, or can not be made within a reasonable time, by the supply officer or quartermaster of the organization to which the person entitled thereto belongs or with which he is serving upon the order of the commanding officer thereof. “Sec. 4. That the tender of replacement or of commutation or the Tender, etc., a final determination of claim.determination made by the proper accounting officers of the Treasury upon a claim presented as provided for in the foregoing section, shall constitute a final determination of any claim cognizable under this chapter, and such claim shall not thereafter be reopened or considered. “Sec. 5.That no claim arising under this chapter shall be considered Time limit for presenting claims.unless made within two years from the time that it accrued; except that when a claim accrues in time of war, or when war intervenes within two years after its accrual, such claim may be presented within two years after peace is established.” " ChapterVII. Suspending restrictions in purchase of military supplies:Purchase of military supplies. Restriction of, to Quartermaster Corps suspended during the war.[R. S., sec. 1133, p. 206](/us/rs/sec1133/p206).Vol. 39, p. 171.That so much of section eleven hundred and thirty-three of the Revised Statutes, and of section nine 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, as restricts the purchase and distribution of military stores and supplies to officers of the Quartermaster Corps, be, and the same is hereby, suspended for the period of the present war. Chapter VIII. Care of persons discharged from the military service: That Aliens in United States service.Care, etc., of, discharged therefrom for disability.the President of the United States is hereby authorized and empowered to make provision for such care and treatment as he may deem advisable of persons discharged from the military or naval forces of the United States on account of physical disability who are citizens of any nation at war with a nation with which the United States is at war; but such provision shall be made only for the citizens of a nation Reciprocal action by other nations required.that makes suitable provision for the care and treatment of persons discharged from the military or naval forces on account of physical disability who are citizens of the United States: *Provided*, That such *Proviso*.Limitation.care and treatment shall in no case exceed the care and treatment authorized by law and regulations for members of the Army and Navy of the United States discharged from the military or naval service for like cause. Chapter IX. Army Mine Planter Service: That hereafter there shall be in the Army Mine Planter service.Created in Coast Artillery Corps.Coast Artillery Corps of the Regular Army a service to be known as the Army Mine Planter Service, which shall consist, for each mine Personnel.planter in the service of the United States, of one master, one first mate, one second mate, one chief engineer, and one assistant engineer, who shall be warrant officers appointed by and holding their offices 882at the discretion of the Secretary of War, and two oilers, four firemen, four deck hands, one cook, one steward, and one assistant steward, who shall be appointed from enlisted men of the Coast Artillery Corps *Provisos*. Coast Artillery increased thereby.under such regulations as the Secretary of War may prescribe; *Provided*, That the Coast Artillery Corps is hereby increased by such numbers of warrant officers and enlisted men as may be necessary to Pay established.constitute the force provided by this chapter: *Provided further*, That the annual pay of the warrant officers and enlisted men in the various grades established by this chapter shall be as follows: Masters, $1,800; first mates, $1,320; second mates, $972; chief engineers, $1,700; assistant engineers, $1,200; oilers, $432; firemen, $396; deckhands, $216; cooks, $360; steward, $540; assistant stewards, $288: *And Allowances.provided further*, That warrant officers shall have such allowances as the Secretary of War may prescribe, and shall be retired, and shall receive longevity pay, as now provided by law for officers of the Army, and that the enlisted force herein provided for shall receive the allowances and continuous-service pay now provided by law for enlisted Warrant officers.men of the Army: *And provided further*, That in computing length of service for retirement, and in computing longevity pay for warrant Enlisted men.officers and continuous-service pay for the enlisted men authorized Prior-service credits allowed.by this chapter, service on boats in the service of the Quartermaster Department of the Quartermaster Corps prior to the passage of this Pay increases during present emergency.Act shall be counted: *And provided further*, That during the continuation of the present emergency all enlisted men of the Mine Planter Service of the Army of the United States in active service whose base pay does not exceed $21 per month shall receive an increase of $15 per month; those whose base pay is $24, an increase of $12 per month; those whose base pay is $30, $33, $36, or $40, an increase of $8 per month; and those whose base pay is $45 or more, an increase Not credited to service pay.of $6 per month: *And provided further*, That the increases of pay herein authorized shall not enter into the computation of continuous-service pay. ChapterX. Articles of war.Amendments to designated articles.Amending the Articles of War: That articles fifty-two, fifty-three, fifty-seven, and one hundred and twelve of section thirteen hundred and forty-two of the Revised Statutes of the United States, as amended by the Act entitled “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, be, and the same are hereby, amended to read as follows: " “Art. 52.Suspension of sentences.Vol. 39, p. 659, amended.Allowed in all, except death. Suspension of sentences.—The authority competent to order the execution of the sentence of a court-martial may, at the time of the approval of such sentence, suspend the execution, in whole or in part, of any such sentence as does not extend to death, and may restore the person under sentence to duty during such Remission by officer having jurisdiction.suspension. A sentence, or any part thereof, which has been so suspended may be remitted, in whole or in part, except in cases of persons confined in the United States Disciplinary Barracks or its branches, by the officer who suspended the same, by his successor in office, or by any officer exercising appropriate court-martial jurisdiction over the command in which the person under sentence may Vacation of suspension.be serving at the time, and, subject to the foregoing exceptions the same authority may vacate the order of suspension at any time and order the execution of the sentence or the suspended part thereof in Effect of death or honorable discharge.so far as the same shall not have been previously remitted. The death or honorable discharge of a person under suspended sentence shall operate as a complete remission of any unexecuted or unremitted part of such sentence. 883 “Art. 53. Execution or remission—Confinement in disciplinary Dishonorable discharge on release from confinement. Vol. 39, p. 659, amended.barracks.—When a sentence of dishonorable discharge has been suspended until the soldier’s release from confinement, the execution or remission of any part of his sentence shall, if the soldier be confined in the United States Disciplinary Barracks, or any branch thereof, be directed by the Secretary of War.” “Art. 57. False returns—Omission to render returns.— Returns required to be made, modified.Vol. 39, p. 660, amended.Every officer commanding a regiment, an independent troop, battery, or company, or a garrison shall, in the beginning of every month, transmit through the proper channels, to the Department of War, an exact return of the same. Every officer whose duty it is to render Punishment for making false returns.to the War Department or other superior authority a return of the state of the troops under his command, or of the arms, ammunition, clothing, funds, or other property thereunto belonging, who knowingly makes a false return thereof shall be dismissed from the service and suffer such other punishment as a court-martial may direct. And any officer who, through neglect or design, omits to render such return shall be punished as a court-martial may direct.” “Art. 112. Effects of deceased persons—Disposition of.—Effects of deceased persons.Vol. 39, p, 668, amended.Disposal by commanding officer.In case of the death of any person subject to military law, the commanding officer of the place of command will permit the legal representative or widow of the deceased, if present, to take possession of all his effects then in camp or quarters, and if no legal representative or widow be present, the commanding officer shall direct a summary court to secure all such effects; and said summary court shall have Duties of summary court modifiedDistribution of effects through Quartermaster Corps.authority to collect and receive any debts due decedent’s estate by local debtors; and as soon as practicable after the collection of such effects said summary court shall transmit such effects, and any money collected, through the Quartermaster Department, at Government expense, to the widow or legal representative of the deceased, if such be found by said court, or to his son, daughter, father, mother, brother, or sister, in the order named, if such be found by said court, or to the beneficiary named by the deceased, if such be found by said court, and such court shall thereupon make to the War Department a full report of its transactions; but if there be none of the persons Transmittal to Auditor for War Department for action.hereinabove named, or such persons or their addresses are not known to, or readily ascertainable by, said court, and the court shall so find, said summary court shall have authority to convert into cash, by public or private sale, not earlier than thirty days after the death of the deceased, all effects of the deceased, except sabers, insignia, decorations, medals, watches, trinkets, manuscripts, and other articles valuable chiefly as keepsakes; and as soon as practicable after converting such effects into cash said summary court shall deposit with the proper officer, to be designated in regulations, any cash belonging to decedent’s estate, and shall transmit a receipt for such deposits, any will or other papers of value belonging to the deceased, any sabers, insignia, decorations, medals, watches, trinkets, manuscripts, and other articles valuable chiefly as keepsakes, together with an inventory of the effects secured by said summary court, and a full account of its transactions to the War Department for transmission to the Auditor for the War Department for action as authorized by law in the settlement of the accounts of deceased officers and enlisted men of the Army. “The provisions of this article shall be applicable to inmates of the Soldiers’ Home inmates dying at outside Army hospital.United States Soldiers’ Home who die in any United States military hospital outside of the District of Columbia where sent from the home for treatment.” " Chapter XI.Selective draft. Method of determining quotas for military service: That in Call for full quota of registrants in a class, authorized.the determination of quotas for the several States, Territories, and 884 *Ante*, pp. 76, 551.the District of Columbia, or subdivisions thereof, to be raised for military service under the terms of the Act entitled “An Act to authorize the President to increase temporarily the Military Establishment of the United States,” approved May eighteenth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, the provisions of the joint resolution approved May sixteenth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, providing for the calling into military service of certain classes of persons registered and liable for military service under the said Act, shall apply to any *Post*, p. 955. *Post*, pp. 1664. 1781, 1834, 1840.or all forces heretofore or hereafter raised under the provisions of said Act for any State, Territory, District, or subdivision thereof, from and after the time when such State, Territory, District, or subdivision thereof has completed or completes its quota of forces called and furnished under the President’s proclamation dated July twelfth, nineteen hundred and seventeen. Registration and drafting of aliens.ChapterXII. Resident aliens liable to draft under treaty agreement.Registration and drafting of aliens: That the President may by proclamation set a day or days and place or places for the registration for military service of male aliens within designated ages residing within the United States who are citizens or subjects of a foreign country with whose Government the United States has concluded or hereafter concludes a convention or agreement in accordance with the terms of which its citizens or subjects within designated ages, residing within the United States, become under certain conditions liable to be drafted into the military service of the United Registration required on day proclaimed by the President.States; that upon proclamation by the President stating the time and place of such registration it shall be the duty of any such alien, unless exempted from registration by the terms of the President’s proclamation, to present himself for and submit to registration *Ante*, p. 80.under the provisions of the Act approved May eighteenth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, entitled “An Act to authorize the President to increase temporarily the Military Establishment of the United States,” and all amendments thereto, and he shall thereupon be registered in the same manner as those previously registered under Personal notice inferred.the terms of said Act; and every such alien shall be deemed to have notice of the requirements of said Act and this joint resolution upon Punishment for failure, etc.the publication by the President of any such proclamation, and any such alien who shall willfully fail or refuse to present himself for registration or to submit thereto shall be subject to all the provisions and liable to all the penalties provided in said Act or any amendment thereto. Sec. 2. Registrants liable to military service, subject to regulations, etc. That any such alien, when registered, shall be and remain liable to military service in the forces of the United States and subject to draft under the provisions of said convention or agreement and of said Act and all amendments thereto, and subject to such Exceptions.regulations as the President may have prescribed or may prescribe under the terms thereof, unless during the period specified in the convention or agreement concluded with the country whereof he is a citizen or subject and designated in the President’s proclamation, he shall have enlisted or enrolled in the military forces of his own country or returned to his own country for the purpose of enlisting Exemption through diplomatic representative.or enrolling in its military forces, or unless the country whereof he is a citizen or subject, through its diplomatic representatives, in accordance with the terms of the convention or agreement concluded between the United States and such foreign country, shall issue to such alien a certificate of exemption from military service. Sec. 3. Liability if remaining alter expiration of time to enlist in his own country, etc. That any such alien, after the expiration of the time fixed by the President’s proclamation within which he may enlist or enroll in the military forces of his own country, return to his own country for the purpose of military service, or be exempted through the885diplomatic representative of the country whereof he is a citizen or subject, shall be and remain subject in all respects to the terms, provisions, liabilities, and penalties of said Act and all amendments thereto, except as modified by the terms of the convention or agreement concluded between the United States and the country whereof such alien is a citizen or subject, and shall be subject to such regulations as the President may have prescribed or may prescribe under the terms of said Act. Sec. 4. That the second sentence of section two of the Act entitled Selective draft.*Ante*, p. 77, amended.“An Act to authorize the President to increase temporarily the Military Establishment of the United States,” approved May eighteenth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, be, and is hereby, amended to read as follows: " “That such draft as herein provided shall be based upon liability Basis of draft.*Post*, p. 955.to military service of all male citizens or male persons not alien enemies who have declared their intention to become citizens between the ages of twenty-one and thirty years, both inclusive, and shall take place and be maintained under such regulations as the President may prescribe not inconsistent with the terms of this Act: *Provided*, *Proviso*.Neutral aliens may withdraw declaration of intention and be relieved from military liability.That a citizen or subject of a country neutral in the present war who has declared his intention to become a citizen of the United States shall be relieved from liability to military service upon his making a declaration, in accordance with such regulations as the President may prescribe, withdrawing his intention to become a citizen of the United States, which shall operate and be held to cancel his declaration Citizenship forever barred thereby.of intention to become an American citizen and he shall forever be debarred from becoming a citizen of the United States.” " ChapterXIII. Raising the age limit for volunteer duty in the staff corps:Staff Corps. Voluntary enlistments. *Ante*, p. 81, amended.That the first sentence of section seven of the Act entitled “An Act to authorize the President to increase temporarily the Military Establishment of the United States,” approved May eighteenth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, be, and the same is hereby, amended to read as follows: " “That the qualifications and conditions for voluntary enlistment Qualifications, etc.as herein provided shall be the same as those prescribed by existing law for enlistments in the Regular Army, except that recruits for Age limit for staff enlistments extended.service in the staff corps and departments may be accepted who are between the ages of forty-one and fifty-five years, both inclusive, at the time of their enlistment, and that all other recruits must be between the ages of eighteen and forty years, both inclusive, at the time of their enlistment; and such enlistment shall be for the period Service period.of the existing emergency unless sooner discharged.” " Chapter XIV. Prohibiting prostitution near cantonments: That section Prostitution near cantonments, etc.*Ante*, p. 83, amended.thirteen of the Act entitled “An Act to authorize the President to increase temporarily the Military Establishment of the United States,” approved May eighteenth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, be, and the same is hereby, amended to read as follows, subject to the same modifications as prescribed in the Act approved October sixth, nineteen hundred and seventeen: " “Sec. 13. That during the present emergency it shall be unlawful, Engaging in prostitution, etc., near military places unlawful.within such reasonable distance of any military camp, station, fort, post, cantonment, training or mobilization place as the Secretary of War shall determine to be needful to the efficiency and welfare of the Army, and shall designate and publish in general orders or bulletins, Offenses further designated.to engage in prostitution or to aid or abet prostitution or to procure 886 or solicit for purposes of prostitution, or to keep or set up a house of ill fame, brothel, or bawdy house, or to receive any person for purposes of lewdness, assignation, or prostitution into any vehicle, conveyance, place, structure, or building, or to permit any person to remain for purposes of lewdness, assignation, or prostitution in any vehicle, Punishment for violations.conveyance, place, structure, or building; and any person, corporation, partnership, or association violating the provisions of this chapter shall, unless otherwise punishable under the Articles of War, be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and be punished by a fine of not more than $1,000, or by imprisonment for not more than one year, or by both such fine and imprisonment, and any person subject to Suppression of unlawful acts, ate.military law violating this chapter shall be punished as provided by the Articles of War; and the Secretary of War is hereby authorized, empowered, and directed to do everything by him deemed necessary to suppress and prevent violation thereof. " ChapterXV. Interdepartmental Social Hygiene Board.Creation and composition of.Interdepartmental Social Hygiene Board: That there is hereby created a board to be known as the Interdepartmental Social Hygiene Board, to consist of the Secretary of War, the Secretary of the Navy, and the Secretary of the Treasury as ex officio members, and of the Surgeon General of the Army, the Surgeon General of the Navy, and the Surgeon General of the Public Health Service, or of representatives designated by the Secretary of War, the Secretary of the Navy, and the Secretary of the Treasury, respectively. The Duties specified.duties of the board shall be:
(1)To recommend rules and regulations for the expenditure of moneys allotted to the States under section five of this chapter;
(2)to select the institutions and organizations and fix the allotments to each institution under said section five;
(3)to recommend to the Secretary of the Treasury, the Secretary of War, and the Secretary of the Navy such general measures as will promote correlation and efficiency in carrying out the purposes of this chapter by their respective departments; and
(4)to direct the expenditure of the sum of $100,000 referred to in the last paragraph Meetings, etc.of section seven of this chapter. The board shall meet at least quarterly, and shall elect annually one of its members as chairman, and shall adopt rules and regulations for the conduct of its business. Sec. 2. Isolation, etc., of civilians to protect armed forces against venereal diseases.Assistance to States. That the Secretary of War and the Secretary of the Navy are hereby authorized and directed to adopt measures for the purpose of assisting the various States in caring for civilian persons whose detention, isolation, quarantine, or commitment to institutions may be found necessary for the protection of the military and naval forces of the United States against venereal diseases. Sec. 3. Division of Venereal Diseases.Established in Public Health Service.That there is hereby established in the Bureau of the Public Health Service a Division of Venereal Diseases, to be under the charge of a commissioned medical officer of the United States Public Health Service detailed by the Surgeon General of the Public Health Service, which officer while thus serving shall be an Assistant Surgeon General of the Public Health Service, subject to the provisions of law applicable to assistant surgeons general in charge of administrative divisions in the District of Columbia of the Bureau Employees authorized.of the Public Health Service. There shall be in such division such assistants, clerks, investigators, and other employees as may be necessary for the performance of its duties and as may be provided for by law. Sec. 4. Duties prescribed. That the duties of the Division of Venereal Diseases shall be in accordance with rules and regulations prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury
(1)to study and investigate the cause, treatment, and prevention of venereal diseases;
(2)to cooperate with State boards or departments of health for the prevention and control of887such diseases within the States; and
(3)to control and prevent the spread of these diseases in interstate traffic: *Provided*, That nothing *Proviso*.Functions of other departments, etc., not interfered with.in this chapter shall be construed as limiting the functions and activities of other departments or bureaus in the prevention, control, and treatment of venereal diseases and in the expenditure of moneys therefor. Sec. 5. That there is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Appropriation for co operation with States.Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of $1,000,000, to be expended under the joint direction of the Secretary of War and the Secretary of the Navy to carry out the provisions of section two of this chapter: *Provided*, That the appropriation herein made shall not *Proviso*.Additional to general appropriations.be deemed exclusive, but shall be in addition to other appropriations of a more general character which are applicable to the same or similar purposes. Sec. 6. That there is hereby appropriated, out of any moneys in Annual appropriations for two years. the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of $1,400,000 annually for two fiscal years, beginning with the fiscal year commencing July first, nineteen hundred and eighteen, to be apportioned as Apportionment.State boards of health, etc.follows: The sum of $1,000,000, which shall be paid to the States for the use of their respective boards or departments of health in the prevention, control, and treatment of venereal diseases; this sum to Allotments.be allotted to each State, in accordance with the rules and regulations prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury, in the proportion which its population bears to the population of the continental United States, exclusive of Alaska and the Canal Zone, according to the last preceding United States census, and such allotment to be Conditioned on equal contribution from States after June 30, 1919.so conditioned that for each dollar paid to any State the State shall specifically appropriate or otherwise set aside an equal amount for the prevention, control, and treatment of venereal diseases, except for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nineteen, for which the allotment of money is not conditioned upon the appropriation or setting aside of money by the State, provided that Partial subsequent allotments.any State may obtain any part of its allotment for any fiscal year subsequent to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nineteen, by specifically appropriating or otherwise setting aside an amount equal to such part of its allotment for the prevention, control, and treatment of venereal diseases; the sum of $100,000, which shall be paid to Universities, etc., for discovering preventive medical measures.such universities, colleges, or other suitable institutions, as in the judgment of the Interdepartmental Social Hygiene Board are qualified for scientific research, for the purpose of discovering, in accordance with rules and regulations prescribed by the Interdepartmental Social Hygiene Board, more effective medical measures in the prevention and treatment of venereal diseases; the sum of $300,000, Developing more effectual educational methods for prevention, etc.which shall be paid to such universities, colleges, or other suitable institutions or organizations, as in the judgment of the Interdepartmental Social Hygiene Board are qualified for scientific research, for the purpose of discovering and developing more effective educational measures in the prevention of venereal diseases, and for the purpose of sociological and psychological research related thereto. Sec. 7. That there is hereby appropriated, out of any money in Appropriation for administrative expenses.the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of $300,000 for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nineteen, to be apportioned as follows: The sum of $200,000 to defray the Division of Venereal Diseases.expenses of the establishment and maintenance of the Division of Venereal Diseases in the Bureau of the Public Health Service; and Interdepart mental Board.the sum of $100,000 to be used under the direction of the Interdepartmental Social Hygiene Board for any purpose for which any of the appropriations made by this chapter are available. Sec. 8. That the terms “State” and “States,” as used in this District of Columbia included.chapter, shall be held to include the District of Columbia.888 Condemnation of lands for military purposes.*Ante*, p. 518.That the Act entitled “An Act to authorize condemnation proceedings of lands for military purposes,” approved July second, nineteen hundred and seventeen, as amended by an Act approved April eleventh, nineteen hundred and eighteen, be, and the same is hereby, Extended to timber production, etc.amended, and its provisions in all respects together with all its privileges and benefits are hereby extended to the right of condemnation of standing or fallen timber, sawmills, camps, machinery, logging roads, rights of way, equipment, materials, supplies, and any works, property, or appliances suitable for the effectual production of such lumber and timber products, for the Army, Navy, United States Shipping Board, or the United States Shipping Board Right of condemnation vested.Emergency Fleet Corporation. That the right to institute such condemnation proceedings is hereby conferred upon the Secretary of War, the Secretary of the Navy, and the Chairman of the United States Shipping Board and the United States Shipping Board Limitation of purposes.Emergency Fleet Corporation, individually or collectively. Such right of condemnation shall be exercised by such officials only for the purpose of obtaining such property when needed for the production, manufacture, or building aircraft, Jurisdiction of district courts.dry-docks, or vessels, their apparel or furniture, for housing of Government employees in connection with the Army, Navy, or the United States Shipping Board and the United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation, and for the procurement of materials and equipment for aircraft, dry-docks and vessels. The jurisdiction of such condemnation proceedings is hereby vested in the District Courts of the United States, where the property which is sought to be condemned or any part thereof is located or situated, regardless of the value of the same. Disposal of lands, Jogs, etc.And the President is hereby authorized through any department or the United States Shipping Board or said Fleet Corporation to sell and dispose of any lands or interests in real estate acquired for the production of lumber and timber products, and to sell any logs, manufactured or partly manufactured or otherwise procured for the Army, Navy, or United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation, or resulting from such manufacture or procurement, either to individuals, corporations or foreign states or governments, at such price as he shall determine acting through his above representatives Reuse of proceeds.selling or disposing of the same, and the proceeds of such sale shall be returned to the appropriations which bore the expense of such procurement. ChapterXVI. Aircraft Production Corporation.Organization authorized.Aircraft Production Corporation: That the Director of Aircraft Production may, whenever in his judgment it will facilitate and expedite the production of aircraft, aircraft equipment, or materials therefor, for the United States and Governments allied with it in the prosecution of the present war, form under the laws of the District of Columbia or under the laws of any State one or more corporations Purposes.for the purchase, production, manufacture, and sale of aircraft, aircraft equipment, or materials therefor, and to build, own, and Capital stock, etc., limited.operate railroads in connection therewith. The total capital stock of the corporation or corporations so formed, together with any bonds, notes, debentures, or other securities issued by them, shall not at any one time exceed $100,000,000. Sec. 2. Director of Aircraft Production to purchase, hold majority of stock, etc., for the United States. That the Director of Aircraft Production may, for and on behalf of the United States, subscribe, purchase, and vote not less than a majority of the voting capital stock of any such corporation, and may purchase for and on behalf of the United States all or any Other securities.part of the preferred non voting stock, bonds, notes, debentures, or other securities issued by such corporations, and do all things necessary to protect the interest of the United States and to carry out889the purpose of this chapter; and, with the approval of the Secretary Sell stock, etc.of War, may sell any or all of the stock, bonds, notes, debentures, or other securities of the United States in such corporation: *Provided*, *Proviso*.Control.That at no time shall the United States be a minority holder of voting stock therein. Any sums heretofore or hereafter appropriated for Money available to purchase stock, etc.the purchase or procurement of aircraft, aircraft equipment, or materials therefor, for the Army shall be available for the purchase of the capital stock of such corporation or corporations or their bonds, notes, debentures, or other securities. Sec. 3. That within one year from the signing of a treaty of peace Dissolution one year after end of war.with the Imperial German Government the Director of Aircraft Production shall, on behalf of the United States as a stockholder, institute such proceedings as are necessary to dissolve such corporation or corporations under the laws of the District of Columbia or the State or States under which such corporation or corporations are organized. Upon the dissolution of the corporation or corporations Distribution of assets.the same shall be liquidated and the assets distributed in accordance with the laws of the District of Columbia or the State or States under which such corporation or corporations are organized. Sec. 4. That the Secretary of War is hereby authorized to assign Army assignments to corporation.for duty, under the direction of the Director of Aircraft Production, any enlisted men or commissioned officers, from time to time, in the military organization as he shall deem necessary or desirable to carry on the work of such corporation or corporations: *Provided*, That *Proviso*.Employment of civilians.nothing in this chapter shall prevent such corporation or corporations from employing civilians in the manner customary in the conduct of ordinary business under corporate organization. Sec. 5. That the Secretary of War, acting through the Director of Transfer of existing contracts, plants, etc.Aircraft Production, is authorized to transfer, by appropriate instruments, to any such corporation as may be found under this chapter, any interest of the United States in any existing contracts for aircraft, aircraft equipment, or materials therefor, and the title to any lands, plants, railroads, or equipment used in or in connection with the production of aircraft, aircraft equipment, or materials therefor, on such terms as the Secretary of War, acting through the Director of Aircraft Production, shall deem fit. ChapterXVII. Amending the national defense Act, and so forth: That National Defense Act Amendments.certain sections 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, be, and the same are hereby, amended as follows: " That section ten of said Act be, and is hereby, amended by striking Medical Department.Enlisted men.Vol. 39, p. 172, amended.Stable sergeant instead of farrier.out the word “farrier” wherever it occurs in said section and substituting therefor the words “table sergeant”; change the period at the end of the second paragraph of said section to a colon and add the following: *“And provided further*, That any person who at the *Provisos*.Medical Corps.Vol. 39, p. 171, amended.Eligibility of Medical Reserve officers and contract surgeons.time of the approval of this Act shall be and has been an officer of the Medical Reserve Corps, or contract surgeon, on active duty for twelve years subsequent to eighteen hundred and ninety-eight shall be eligible for appointment as first lieutenant in the Medical Corps, subject to examination: *And provided further*, That any officer so Retirement if disabled in service.eligible who fails to pass the physical examination by reason of disability incurred in line of duty shall be retired with the pay and allowances of a first lieutenant of the Medical Corps. Sec. 2.That section twenty-two of said Act be, and is hereby,Enlisted men at recruiting stations.Vol. 39, p. 181, amended.*Proviso*. amended by striking out the period at the end thereof, substituting therefor a colon, and adding thereto the following: *Provided*, That890One to have rank, etc., of first sergeant or Infantry.one of the enlisted men at each main recruiting station who has been detached for duty at such station under the provisions of the Act of Congress approved February second, nineteen hundred and one, may, in the discretion of the Secretary of War, have the rank, pay, and allowances of a first sergeant of Infantry. Sec. 3.Second lieutenancies.*Ante*, p. 44, amended. That the second paragraph of section twenty-four of said Act down to the third proviso in said paragraph be, and is hereby, amended to read as follows: " Filling vacancies.Eligibles.“Vacancies in the grade of second lieutenant, however arising, in Cadets.any fiscal year shall be filled by appointment in the following order:
(1)Of cadets graduated from the United States Military Academy during the preceding fiscal year for whom vacancies did not become available during the fiscal year in which they were graduated;
(2)Enlisted men.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 promotion shall have been determined by National Guard and Naval Militia in service, 1916.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 during the calendar year nineteen hundred and sixteen, or subsequent thereto, and whose fitness for promotion shall have been determined by examination; National Guard officers.(3) of commissioned officers of the National Guard, between the ages of twenty-one and twenty-seven years, not otherwise provided for Officers’ Reserve Corps.Honor military school graduates.herein;
(4)of members of the Officers’ Reserve Corps, between the ages of twenty-one and twenty-seven years;
(5)of such honor graduates, between the ages of twenty-one 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
(6)of Civil life.candidates from civil life, between the 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: *Proviso*.Age limit waived after successful examination.*Ante*, p. 73.*Provided*, That the President is hereby authorized to waive the maximum age limit prescribed by law for appointment as second lieutenant in the Regular Army in the case of any candidate for such appointment who has successfully completed or who may hereafter successfully complete the required examination for such appointment Limitation.before arriving at the prescribed maximum age limit; but no appointment of any such candidate shall be made to any vacancy which did not exist upon the date he successfully completed the required Date of appointment.examination for appointment; and persons appointed under the provisions of this proviso shall be appointed with the rank and date of rank with which they would have been appointed if their appointment had not been prevented by reason of the maximum age limit prescribed by law.” " Sec. 4. Pay of retired colonels on active duty.Vol. 39, p. 183, amended. That the last proviso of section twenty-four of said Act be, and is hereby, amended by substituting the word “colonel” for the word “major” therein. Sec. 5. Pay of certain enlisted men.Vol. 39, p. 187, amended. That section twenty-eight of said Act be, and is hereby, amended by striking out the period at the end thereof, substituting therefor a colon, and adding the following: " Military telegraphers, added.*“ Provided*, That enlisted men who are now qualified or who may hereafter qualify, as expert military telegraphers, shall receive $5 a month; as first-class military telegraphers, $3 a month; as military telegraphers, $2 a month; all in addition to their pay, under such regulations as the Secretary of War may prescribe, but no enlisted man shall receive at the same time additional pay for more than one of the classifications named. " Sec. 6. Regular Army Reserves.Vol. 39, p. 187, amended. That section thirty-one of said Act be, and is hereby, amended by striking out the words “ travel expenses and pay at the rate of their respective grades in the Regular Army during such891periods of training,” occurring in lines nine, ten, and eleven, and substituting therefor the following: “ From the date of their departure Pay and allowances at yearly field training.to place where ordered pay and allowances at the rate of their respective grades in the Regular Army, transportation, and reimbursement of cost of subsistence at such rate as may be fixed by the Secretary of War during travel from home to place where ordered and return to home, and subsistence in kind during period not in transit and while in service.” Sec. 7. That section forty-two of said Act be, and is hereby, Reserve Officers’ Training Corps.Vol. 39, p. 19 2, amended.Discharges authorized at other than State, etc., institutions. amended by striking out the period at the end thereof, substituting therefor a colon, and adding the following: *“Provided further*, That upon the recommendation of the professor of military science and tactics of any such institution, the authorities thereof may discharge a member of the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps from such corps and from the necessity of completing the course of military training as a prerequisite to graduation.” Sec. 8. That section fifty-one of said Act be, and is hereby, amended Eligibility of school graduates extended.Vol. 39, p.193, amended.by striking out the words “prior to the date of this Act,” in line three thereof, and substituting therefor the words “prior to July first, nineteen hundred and nineteen.” Sec. 9. That the fifth paragraph of section fifty-five of said Act Enlisted Reserve Corps.be, and is hereby, amended to read as follows:Vol. 39, p. 196, amended. " “Enlisted men of the Enlisted Reserve Corps shall receive the pay Pay, etc. in active service.and allowances of their respective grades, but only when ordered into active service and from the date of their departure to place where ordered, transportation and reimbursement of cost of subsistence at such rate as may be fixed by the Secretary of War during travel from home to place where ordered and return home and subsistence in kind during period not in transit and while in service: *Provided*, That said enlisted men shall not be entitled to retirement *Provisos*. No retirement, etc.or retirement pay: *Provided further*, That when any enlisted man of the Enlisted Reserve Corps shall be ordered to active service for Payment when ordered for training, etc.purposes of instruction or training he may be paid at any time after the date such order shall become effective for the period from the date of leaving home to date of return thereto as determined in advance, both dates inclusive, and such payment, if otherwise correct, shall pass to the credit of the disbursing officer making the same.” " Sec. 10. That section one hundred and twenty-five of said Act be, Protection of uniform.Vol. 39, p. 217, amended.*Provisos*.Uniform of enlisted men discharged, etc., to be kept for military use.Exception.*Post*, p. 1202.and is hereby, amended by striking out the period at the end thereof, substituting therefor a colon, and adding thereafter the following: *“Provided*, That hereafter, upon the discharge or furlough to the Reserve of an enlisted man, all uniform outer clothing then in his possession, except such articles as he may be permitted to wear from the place of termination of his active service to his home, as authorized by this section, will be retained for military use; and within four Outer uniform worn home to be returned.months after such termination of his active service he shall return all uniform clothing, which he was so permitted to retain for wear to his home, by mail, under a franked label which shall be furnished him for the purpose, and in conformity with the instructions given him at the time of such termination of his active service; and in casePunishment for failure. he shall fail to return the same within such period, and in accordance with such instructions, he shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction, suffer the punishment prescribed by this section: *Provided further*, That upon the release from Federal National Guard uniform to be taken and accounted for on release from Federal service.Vol. 39, p. 200.service of an enlisted man of the National Guard called as such into the service of the United States, all uniform outer clothing then in his possession shall be taken up and accounted for as property issued to the National Guard of the State to which the enlisted man belongs, in the manner prescribed by section sixty-seven of said Act: *And provided further*, That when an enlisted man is discharged otherwise Citizen’s suit given if not honorably discharged.than honorably, all uniform outer clothing in his possession shall be892retained for military use, and, when authorized by regulations prescribed by the Secretary of War, a suit of citizen’s outer clothing to cost not exceeding $15 may be issued to such enlisted man: *And Permission to Volunteer Soldiers’ Home inmates.provided further*, That officers and members of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers may, regardless of the preceding provisions of said Act, wear such uniforms as the Secretary of War may authorize.” " ChapterXVIII. Military Academy.Graduates may serve as instructors at training camps.Graduates of the Military Academy may serve as instructors: That the service of graduates of the Military Academy may be utilized during the months of June, July, August, and September of the year in which they graduate as instructors at the citizens’ training camps, and their graduation leave may be taken at the termination of their services as instructors at these camps. Mounts of deceased officers. Transportation to homo of family, etc., allowed.Transportation of mounts of deceased officers: That hereafter, under such regulations as the Secretary of War may prescribe, authorized mounts of officers who die in the service may, within ninety days after the death of the officer, be transported at public expense from their last duty station to such places within the limits of the United States as may be the home of their families, or as may be designated by their legal representatives or executors, or such mount may be disposed of as directed by such representatives or executors. Civilian employees. Baggage of deceased, may be transported to home of family, etc.Transportation of baggage of deceased civilian employees: That hereafter, under such regulations as the Secretary of War may prescribe, transportation at public expense may be provided for the baggage of civilian employees who die in the service from their last duty station to such places within the limits of the United States as may be the home of their families, or as may be designated by their legal representatives or executors. Disbursing officers’ accounts.Time for transmitting to Auditor extended during the war. Vol. 28, p. 209.Extension of time for transmitting money accounts: That the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized in time of war, upon request to the Secretary of War, to extend the period during which money accounts covering expenditures from appropriations for the Army may be transmitted to the Auditor for the War Department after their receipt in the War Department from sixty to ninety days. ChapterXIX. Ordnance target practice, etc.Regulations to be prescribed for use of navigable waters adjacent to Army proving grounds.*Ante*, p. 266.Protection of life and property in target practice: That in the interest of the national defense, and for the better protection of life and property on said waters, the Secretary of War is hereby authorized and empowered to prescribe such regulations as he may deem best for the use and navigation of any Waters occupied by submarine mines, etc.portion or area of the navigable waters of the United States or waters under the jurisdiction of the United States endangered or likely to be endangered by Coast Artillery fire in target practice or otherwise, or by the proving operations of the Government ordnance proving grounds at Sandy Hook, New Jersey, or at any Government ordnance proving ground that may be established elsewhere on or near such waters, and of any portion or area of said waters occupied by submarine mines, mine fields, submarine cables, or other material and accessories pertaining to seacoast fortifications, or by any plant or facility engaged in the execution of any public project of river and harbor improvement; and the said Secretary shall have like power to regulate the transportation *Proviso*.Food fishing permits, etc.of explosives upon any of said waters: *Provided*, That the authority hereby conferred shall be so exercised as not unreasonably to interfere with or restrict the food fishing industry, and the regulations prescribed in pursuance hereof shall provide for the use of such waters by food fishermen operating under permits granted by the War Department. 893 Sec. 2. That to enforce the regulations prescribed pursuant to this Enforcement by public vessels.chapter, the Secretary of War may detail any public vessel in the service of the War Department, or, upon the request of the Secretary of War, the head of any other department may enforce, and the head of any such department is hereby authorized to enforce, such regulations by means of any public vessel of such department. Sec. 3. That the regulations made the Secretary of War pursuant Posting of regulations.to this Chapter shall be posted in conspicuous and appropriate places, designated by him, for the information of the public; and every person Punishment for violations.who and every corporation which shall willfully violate any regulations made by the said Secretary pursuant to this Chapter shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof in any court of competent jurisdiction shall be punished by a fine not exceeding $500, or by imprisonment (in the case of a natural person) not exceeding six months, in the discretion of the court. Sec. 4. That offenses against the provisions of this Chapter, or any Jurisdiction of offenses committed in a Territory or where no United States court exists.regulation made pursuant thereto, committed in any Territory or other place subject to the jurisdiction of the United States where there is no court having general jurisdiction of crimes against the United States, shall be cognizable in any court of such place or Territory having original jurisdiction of criminal cases in the place or Territory in which the offense has been committed, with the same right of appeal in all cases as is given in other criminal cases where imprisonment not exceeding six months forms a part of the penalty, and jurisdiction is hereby conferred upon such courts and such courts shall exercise the same for such purposes ; and in case any such offense be committed Trial of offender where found if not in jurisdiction at any court.beyond the territorial jurisdiction of any court having jurisdiction thereof, the offense shall be deemed and held to have been committed within the jurisdiction in which the offender may be found or into which he is first brought, and shall be tried by the court having jurisdiction thereof. ChapterXX. Proceeds from operation of public utilities: That, in case of Public utilities.Proceeds from operating, overseas, available for use, etc., thereof.actual or threatened hostilities, any proceeds received from the operation of a public utility, in connection with engineer operations in the field overseas, shall be available for the purpose of such utility until the close of the fiscal year following that in which the proceeds are received, and a detailed report of such proceeds and application thereof shall be rendered to Congress on forms conforming as far as practicable to those used by American Companies in reports to the Interstate Commerce Commission: *Provided*, That the provision of *Proviso*.Use of proceeds from Engineer material for following fiscal year.Vol. 36, p. 257.the Act of March twenty-third, nineteen hundred and ten, making moneys arising from the disposition of serviceable quartermaster material available for the purposes of the appropriation throughout the fiscal year following that in which the disposition was affected, is hereby extended to apply to material supplied to the Army by the Engineer Department. Retired officers on active duty: That when any retired officer Retired officers.On active duty considered officer of arm in which serving.of the Army is, in the discretion of the President, employed on active duty and assigned to duty in an arm, corps, department, or organization, he shall, for all purposes, except promotion, be considered an officer of such arm, corps, department, or organization while so serving, and shall be an extra number therein. Corporal bugler and bugler, first class: That there are Corporal bugler and bugler, first class.Grades created.hereby created in the Army the grades of corporal bugler, and bugler, first class ; and hereafter for each battalion and squadron headquarters of units in which the grade of bugler is now authorized, there shall be one corporal bugler, and for each company, battery, troop, or organization in which the grade of bugler is now authorized there shall be one bugler, first class. 894 Men outside draft age may be enlisted for War Department service, etc.President authorized to enlist men outside of draft age: That during the present war the President be, and he is hereby, authorized to enlist for service in the offices of the War Department or under its control or on detached service under its jurisdiction men Men with minor physical defects may be drafted therefor.outside the draft ages, and for the same purpose to draft men within such ages, who have been disqualified by minor physical defects for active service in the Army; to establish regulations under which such enlistments may be made, and to fix the pay and allowances of men so enlisted or drafted, which said pay and allowances shall not exceed those of enlisted men of the Regular Army. John Q. A. Brett.May be appointed captain Quartermaster Corps.Vol. 39, p. 170.John Q. A. Brett: That the President is authorized to appoint, and, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, to commission to the grade of captain in the Quartermaster Corps, United States Army, John Q. A. Brett, who was appointed to the grade of first lieutenant in the Quartermaster Corps pursuant to the Act of August twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, and who had over thirty-one years’ service as pay clerk, United States Army. ChapterXXI. Army Emergency Increase.*Ante*, p. 76, amended.Power of the President to increase the drafted Army: That the authority conferred upon the President by the Act approved May eighteenth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, entitled “An Act to authorize the President to increase temporarily the Military Establishment Additional maxi mum draft authorized each year until end of the war.of the United States,” is hereby extended so as to authorize him during each fiscal year to raise by draft as provided in said Act and Acts amendatory thereof the maximum number of men which may be organized, equipped, trained, and used during such year for the prosecution of the present war until the same shall have been brought to a successful conclusion. ChapterXXII. Military Academy.Number of cadets increased.[R. S., sec. 1315, p. 226, amended](/us/rs/sec1315/p226).Vol. 39, p. 62, amended.Appointments of cadets, Military Academy: That the Corps of Cadets of the United States Military Academy shall hereafter consist of two from each congressional district, two from each Territory, four from the District of Columbia, two from natives of Porto Rico, four from each State at large, and eighty-two from the United States Selection from honor schools.at large, twenty of whom shall be selected from among the honor graduates of educational institutions having officers of the Regular Army detailed as professors of military science and tactics under existing law or any law hereafter enacted for the detail of officers of the Regular Army to such institutions, and which institutions are designated as “honor schools,” upon the determination of their relative standing at the last preceding annual inspection regularly Two by Vice President.made by the War Department, and two of whom shall be selected Residence qualifications.from persons recommended by the Vice President. They shall be appointed by the President and shall, with the exception of the eighty-two appointed from the United States at large, be actual residents of the congressional or territorial district, or of the District of Columbia, or of the Island of Porto Rico, or of the States, respectively, from which they purport to be appointed. Chapter XXIII. Time-measuring devices.No pay to officer using, on work of any employee.Time-measuring devices: That no part of the appropriations 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 Government while making or causing to be made with a stop watch, or other time-measuring device, a time study of any such employee between the starting895and completing thereof, or of the movements of any such employee while engaged upon such work; nor shall any part of the appropriations Cash rewards, etc., restricted.made in this Act be available to pay any premiums 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. Chapter XXIV. Condemnation of property for generating electric energy: Electric power.Condemnation authorized of rights of way for lines to transmit, to the United States, or plants producing ships, war materials, etc.That during the pendency of the present war, any person, association, or corporation, for the purpose of furnishing electric power to the United States or to persons, associations, or corporations engaged in the manufacture of ships, explosives, or munitions of war, or other articles and things for the use of the United States or its allies, upon compliance with the conditions hereinafter set forth, may institute proceedings in any district court of the United States or in any court of any State having jurisdiction of the property to be condemned, for the acquirement by condemnation of any land, the temporary use thereof, or other interest therein, or right pertaining thereto, required for the location or construction of any line or lines for the transmission of electric power for the operation of any plants which are or may be employed in the production of the articles and things hereinbefore mentioned: *Provided*, That nothing herein shall *Proviso*.Existing property rights not impaired.Procedure.be construed to authorize the appropriation of any property already devoted to such use. That proceedings for the condemnation of property required for the generation and transmission of such electric power shall be prosecuted in accordance with the procedure prescribed for the condemnation of property in the State wherein the proceedings may be instituted. Sec. 2. That before any person, association, or corporation, furnishing Submission of plans, etc., to Secretary of War.or to furnish electric power for the purposes mentioned in section one of this Act, shall have the right to institute proceedings for condemnation, they shall submit to the Secretary of War a full and complete statement of the plan for furnishing power and the nature and extent of the easements or property which they desire to acquire under condemnation proceedings, for the purposes stated in the preceding section. If the Secretary of War approve such plan Right to operate, etc., on approval of plans.and finds that the construction or extension of such facilities for the generation or transmission of power and that the condemnation herein authorized is necessary to increase the supply of power for the objects and purposes stated in section one of this Act, then such person, association, or corporation shall, upon the approval of such plan by the Secretary of War, have the right to construct, maintain, and operate the facilities described in such plan, and may cause proceedings Condemnation proceedings, etc., may be instituted.to be instituted in any court having jurisdiction thereof for the acquirement by condemnation of any lands, the temporary use thereof, or other interest therein, or right pertaining thereto, as may be needed for the construction, maintenance, and operation of such facilities: *Provided*, That nothing in this section shall be construed as Limitation as to public lands.authorizing any rights in any public lands of the United States, or in any waters of the United States except such as may be necessary to build such transmission lines along or across said waters as may be approved by the Secretary of War: *Provided further*, That the Indemnity bond may be required.Secretary of War may, prior to granting his approval as above set forth, require such person, association, or corporation to file with him a bond, in an amount and with a surety or sureties satisfactory to him, conditioned upon the prompt construction of the proposed facilities and the diligent maintenance and operation of the same to the satisfaction of the Secretary of War during the present war. 896 Sec. 3. Immediate possession of rights, etc., on commencement of condemnation proceedings.That any person, association, or corporation having secured the approval of the Secretary of War and filed a petition for condemnation as herein provided may, upon filing with the court in which such petition is filed a bond to secure payment of just compensation to the owners of property taken, in a form and an amount and with a surety or sureties approved by said court after such notice and such hearing as the court may prescribe, have the right of immediate possession and use of such property or rights. Sec. 4.No plans, etc., considered after end of war proclaimed. That no plan for the construction or extension of any facilities shall be submitted to or approved by the Secretary of War hereunder after the existing state of war between the United States and its enemies shall have terminated, and the fact of such termination shall be ascertained and proclaimed by the President, but such termination of the existing state of war so ascertained and proclaimed shall not interfere with the condemnation of any laud or other property or rights needed for the construction, maintenance, and operation of any facilities approved hereunder by the Secretary of War before *Provisos*.Revocation of approval on termination of war.such proclamation: *Provided, however*, That the Secretary of War may upon such termination of the existing state of war and prior to the entry of judgment in any condemnation proceeding hereunder and the commencement of construction or extension of the proposed facilities revoke any approval given hereunder to the plan for such proposed Franchises limited to duration of war.facilities: *Provided further*, That nothing in this chapter shall be construed as granting any franchise to utilize such facilities after the termination of the existing state of war. Inconsistent laws repealed.That all Acts or parts of Acts inconsistent with the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed. Approved, July 9, 1918.
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