Chapter 279. To authorize the Secretary of War to fix all allowances for enlisted men of the Philippine Scouts; to validate certain payments for travel pay, commutation of quarters, heat, light, and so forth, and for other purposes
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CHAP. 279.— An Act To authorize the Secretary of War to fix all allowances for enlisted men of the Philippine Scouts; to validate certain payments for travel pay, commutation of quarters, heat, light, and so forth, and for other purposes.May 10, 1926.[[S. 2658](/us/bill/69/s/2658).][[Public, No. 208](/us/pl/69/208).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Army.Philippine Scouts. That the last sentence of the second paragraph of section 36 of the Act entitled “An Act to increase the efficiency of the permanent Military Vol. 31, p. 757, amended.Establishment of the United States,” approved February 2, 1901 (Thirty-first Statutes at Large, page 757), be, and the same is hereby, amended to read as follows:
" Pay, etc., of enlisted men to he same as authorized for the Army.“The pay and allowances of whatever nature and kind to be authorized for the enlisted men of the Philippine Scouts shall be fixed by the Secretary of War and shall not exceed or be of other classes than those now or which may hereafter be authorized by law *Proviso*.Travel pay, etc., heretofore made, validated.for enlisted men of the Regular Army: *Provided*, That payments of travel pay and of commutation of quarters, heat, and light heretofore made to enlisted men of the Philippine Scouts, if not in excess of those authorized at the time for enlisted men of the Regular Army, Refund of amounts heretofore collected back.be, and the same are hereby, validated: *And provided further*, That any such payments of travel pay and commutation of quarters, heat, and light which have been collected back from enlisted men of the Philippine Scouts to whom originally paid shall be refunded to them.
” " Approved, May 10, 1926.