Public Law 59–2511

An Act

Making appropriation for the support of the Army for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eight.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

office of the chief of staff. For contingent expenses of the military information division. General Staff Corps, including the purchase of law books, professional books of reference, professional and technical periodicals and newspapers, and of the military attachés at the United States embassies and legations abroad; and of the branch office of the military information division at Manila, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War, ten thousand dollars: Provided, That section thirty-six hundred and forty-eight, Revised Statutes, shall not apply to subscriptions for foreign and professional newspapers and periodicals to be paid for from this appropriation. United States service schools: To provide means for the theoretical and practical instruction at the Artillery School at Fort Monroe, Virginia; the Staff College (including the Infantry and Cavalry School and the Signal School) at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, and the school of application for cavalry and field artillery at Fort Riley, Kansas, by the purchase of text-books, books of reference, scientific and professional papers, the purchase of modern instruments and material for theoretical and practical instruction, and for all other absolutely necessary expenses, to be allotted in such proportions as may, in the opinion of the Secretary of War, be for the best interests of the military service, twenty-five thousand dollars.

the military secretary’s department. Contingencies, headquarters of military departments: For contingent expenses at the headquarters of the several military divisions and departments, including the staff corps serving thereat, being for the purchase of the necessary articles of office, toilet, and desk furniture, binding, maps, technical books of reference, professional and technical newspapers and periodicals, and police utensils, to be allotted by the Secretary of War. and to be expended in the discretion of the several military division and department commanders, seven thousand five hundred dollars: Provided, That hereafter the Military Secretary’s Department of the Army shall be known as the Adjutant-General’s Department, the senior in rank of the officers of said department shall be designated by the title of The Adjutant-General, the other officers of the Department shall be designated by the title of Adjutant-General, and The Military Secretary’s Office of the War Department shall be known as the Adjutant-General’s Office.

under the chief of artillery. School of Submarine Defense, Fort Totten, New York: For incidental expenses of school and depot, including chemicals, stationery. hardware; extra-duty pay to soldiers necessarily employed for periods not less than ten days as artificers on work in addition to and not strictly in line with their military duties, such as carpenters, blacksmiths, draftsmen, printers, lithographers, photographers, engine drivers, telegraph operators, teamsters, wheelwrights, masons, machinists, painters, overseers, laborers: office furniture and fixtures, machinery, and unforseen expenses, eight thousand dollars. For purchase of material for use in instruction of artillery troops in their special duties in connection with the loading and planting of submarine mines, nine hundred dollars. For purchase of special apparatus and for experimental purposes of the department of electricity, mines, and mechanism, and the department of chemistry and explosives, Fort Totten, New York, three thousand four hundred dollars. For purchase of special apparatus and materials for electrician sergeants’ division. School of Submarine Defense. Fort Totten. New York, two thousand seven hundred dollars. For purchase and binding of professional books of recent date treating of military and scientific subjects for library of School of Submarine Defense and for use of school, one thousand dollars.

office of the chief signal officer. Signal Service of the Army: For expenses of the Signal Service of the Army, as follows: Purchase, equipment, and repair of field electric telegraphs, signal equipments and stores, binocular glasses, telescopes, heliostats, and other necessary instruments, including necessary meteorological instruments for use on target ranges; war balloons; telephone apparatus (exclusive of exchange service) and maintenance of the same; electrical installations and maintenance at military posts; fire control and direction apparatus and material for field artillery; maintenance and repair of military telegraph lines and cables, including salaries of civilian employees, supplies, and general repairs, and other expenses connected with the duty of collecting and transmitting information for the Army by telegraph or otherwise, two hundred thousand dollars: Provided, That of the receipts of the Washington-Alaska Military Cable and Telegraph System that have been covered into the Treasury of the United States, the sum of one hundred and ninety thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby, made available until expended for defraying the cost of such extensions and betterments of the system as may be approved by the Secretary of War, the extent of such extensions and the cost thereof to be reported to Congress by the Secretary of War: Provided further, That hereafter detailed estimates shall be submitted to Congress for any further extension of the cable or telegraph lines in the district of Alaska.

pay of officers of the line. For pay of officers of the line, five million five hundred and fifty-six thousand two hundred dollars: Provided, That hereafter all commissioned officers of the Army may transfer or assign their pay accounts, when due and payable, under such regulations and restrictions as the Secretary of War may prescribe. For pay of officers for length of service, to be paid with their current monthly pay, one million one hundred and forty-eight thousand seven hundred and thirty dollars: Provided, That when the office of Lieutenant-General shall become vacant it shall not thereafter be filled, but said office shall cease and determine: Provided further, That nothing in this provision shall affect the retired list. Provided, That any officer or enlisted man of the Army who has been, or who may hereafter be, detailed for duty in connection with the Jamestown TerCentennial Exposition shall, while actually engaged on such duty, be regarded as employed on public duty and entitled to allowances authorized by law or regulations for officers or enlisted men so employed.

pay of enlisted men. For pay of enlisted men of all grades, including recruits, nine million nine hundred and seventy-two thousand five hundred and four dollars: Provided, That hereafter recruit and prison companies shall have noncommissioned officers, musicians, artificers and cooks of the number and grades allowed by law for companies of infantry. For additional pay for length of service, one million two hundred and six thousand dollars.

engineers. Two hundred and sixty-nine thousand six hundred and four dollars. Additional for length of service, thirty-three thousand dollars.

ordnance department. One hundred and seventy-four thousand three hundred and seventy- two dollars. Additional pay for length of service, forty-six thousand dollars.

quartermaster’s department. Two hundred quartermaster-sergeants, at four hundred and eight dollars each, eighty-one thousand six hundred dollars. Additional pay for length of service, fifteen thousand dollars.

subsistence department. Two hundred post commissary-sergeants, at four hundred and eight dollars each, eighty-one thousand six hundred dollars. Additional pay for length of service, sixteen thousand dollars.

signal corps. Thirty-six master signal electricians, at nine hundred dollars each, thirty-two thousand four hundred dollars. One hundred and thirty-two first-class sergeants, at five hundred and forty dollars each, seventy-one thousand two hundred and eighty dollars. One hundred and forty-four sergeants, at four hundred and eight dollars each, fifty-eight thousand seven hundred and fifty-two dollars. Twenty-four cooks, at two hundred and forty dollars each, five thousand seven hundred and sixty dollars. One hundred and fifty-six corporals, at two hundred and forty dollars each, thirty-seven thousand four hundred and forty dollars. Five hundred and fifty-two first-class privates, at two hundred and four dollars each, one hundred and twelve thousand six hundred and eight dollars. One hundred and sixty-eight privates, at one hundred and fifty-six dollars each, twenty-six thousand two hundred and eight dollars. In all, three hundred and forty-four thousand four hundred and forty-eight dollars. Additional pay for length of service, twenty-eight thousand dollars.

hospital corps. Seven hundred and eighty-three thousand three hundred and sixty dollars. Additional pay for length of service, eighty-seven thousand dollars.

pay to clerks, messengers, and laborers at headquarters of divisions, and departments and office of the chief of staff. One chief clerk, at the office of the Chief of Staff, two thousand dollars per annum. Six clerks at one thousand eight hundred dollars each per annum. Fifteen clerks at one thousand six hundred dollars each per annum. Twenty-seven clerks at one thousand four hundred dollars each per annum. Seventy-three clerks at one thousand two hundred dollars each per annum. One hundred clerks at one thousand dollars each per annum. Two clerks at nine hundred dollars each per annum. One clerk at seven hundred and twenty dollars per annum. One captain of the watch at nine hundred dollars per annum. Three watchmen at seven hundred and twenty dollars each per annum. One gardener at seven hundred and twenty dollars per annum. One packer at eight hundred and forty dollars per annum. Two messengers at eight hundred and forty dollars each per annum. Seventy-four messengers at seven hundred and twenty dollars each per annum. Two messengers at six hundred dollars each per annum. One laborer at six hundred and sixty dollars per annum. Two laborers at six hundred dollars each per annum. One laborer at four hundred and eighty dollars per annum. Five charwomen at two hundred and forty dollars each per annum. In all, three hundred and twenty-nine thousand and forty dollars. And said clerks, messengers and laborers shall be employed and assigned by the Secretary of War to the offices and positions in which they are to serve: Provided, That no clerk, messenger, or laborer at headquarters of divisions, departments, or office of the Chief of Staff, shall be assigned to duty with any bureau in the War Department.

for pay of officers of the staff corps, divisions, and departments. Military Secretary’s Department: For pay of officers in the Military Secretary’s Department, seventy-six thousand five hundred dollars. For additional pay to such officers for length of service, to be paid with their current monthly pay, twenty-two thousand dollars: Provided, That when a vacancy of lieutenant-colonel shall occur in the list of either permanent or detailed officers of that grade in The Military Secretary’s Department, the officer now holding a permanent appointment with the rank of major in that department may be promoted to such vacancy. In all, ninety-eight thousand five hundred dollars. Inspector-General’s Department: For pay of officers in the Inspector-General’s Department, fifty thousand five hundred dollars. For additional pay to such officers for length of service, to be paid with their current monthly pay, sixteen thousand dollars. In all, sixty-six thousand five hundred dollars. The Corps of Engineers: For pay of officers in the Corps of Engineers, three hundred and eighty-seven thousand eight hundred dollars. For additional pay to such officers for length of service, to be paid with their current monthly pay, ninety thousand dollars. In all, four hundred and seventy-seven thousand eight hundred dollars. Ordnance Department: For pay of officers in the Ordnance Department, one hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars. For additional pay to such officers for length of service, to be paid with their current monthly pay, thirty-seven thousand five hundred dollars. In all, two hundred and twelve thousand five hundred dollars. Quartermaster’s Department: For pay of officers in the Quartermaster’s Department, two hundred and twenty-three thousand five hundred dollars. For additional pay to such officers for length of service, to be paid with their current monthly pay, fifty-nine thousand dollars. In all, two hundred and eighty-two thousand five hundred dollars. Subsistence Department: For pay of officers in the Subsistence Department, one hundred and thirty-two thousand dollars. For additional pay to such officers for length of service, to be paid with their current monthly pay, twenty-eight thousand dollars. In all, one hundred and sixty thousand dollars. Medical Department: For pay of officers in the Medical Department, six hundred and seventy-nine thousand dollars. For additional pay to such officers for length of service, to be paid with their current monthly pay. ninety-two thousand dollars. In all, seven hundred and seventy-one thousand dollars. Pay Department: For pay of officers in the Pay Department, one hundred and twenty-eight thousand dollars. For additional pay to such officers for length of service, to be paid with their current monthly pay, twenty-six thousand dollars. In all, one hundred and fifty-four thousand dollars. Judge-Advocate-General’s Department: For pay of officers in the Judge-Advocate-General’s Department, forty thousand dollars. For additional pay to such officers for length of service, to be paid with their current monthly pay, seven thousand dollars. In all, forty-seven thousand dollars. Signal Corps: For pay of the officers of the Signal Corps, ninety- four thousand eight hundred dollars. For additional pay to such officers for length of service, to be paid with their current monthly pay, nineteen thousand dollars. In all, one hundred and thirteen thousand eight hundred dollars. Bureau of Insular Affairs: For officers of the Bureau of Insular Affairs, nine thousand dollars: Provided, That the Secretary of War is hereby authorized to detail an officer of the Army, whom he may consider especially well qualified, to act as principal assistant to the Chief of the Bureau of Insular Affairs of the War Department, and said principal assistant while acting under said detail shall have the rank, pay, and allowances of a major: And provided further, That the provisions of section twenty-seven of the Act of February second, nineteen hundred and one, with reference to the transfer of officers of the line to the departments of the staff for tours of service, shall apply to the vacancy created by this Act and to the return of the officer so detailed to the line of the Army.

retired officers. For pay of officers on the retired list and for officers who may be placed thereon during the current year, two million three hundred thousand dollars: Provided, That officers who served creditably in the regular or volunteer forces during the civil war prior to April ninth, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, and who now hold the rank of brigadier-general on the active list of the Army, having previously held that rank for three years or more, shall, when retired from active service, have the rank and retired pay of major-general. For additional pay to such officers for length of service, to be paid with their current monthly pay, three hundred and ninety-two thousand dollars. In all, two million six hundred and ninety-two thousand dollars.

retired enlisted men. For pay of the enlisted men of the Army on the retired list, nine hundred thousand dollars.

miscellaneous. For pay of seventy-five hospital matrons, nine thousand dollars. For pay of one Superintendent Nurse Corps, one thousand eight hundred dollars. For one hundred nurses, fifty-five thousand and twenty dollars. For pay of thirty-nine veterinarians, at one thousand five hundred dollars each, fifty-eight thousand five hundred dollars. For additional pay to such veterinarians, for length of service, to be paid with their current monthly pay, six thousand dollars. For thirty-one dental surgeons, fifty-seven thousand nine hundred and sixty dollars: Provided, That hereafter the number of dental surgeons authorized by law shall be thirty-one, of which number one shall be detailed to the United States Military Academy. For contract surgeons, three hundred and sixty thousand dollars. For pay of ninety paymasters’ clerks, one hundred and thirty-eight thousand seven hundred and eighty-eight dollars and three cents. For pay of paymasters’ messengers, sixteen thousand dollars. For traveling expenses of paymasters’ clerks and expert accountant of the Inspector-General’s Department, seventeen thousand dollars. For expenses of courts-martial, courts of inquiry, military commissions, and compensation of reporters and witnesses attending the same, thirty thousand dollars. For additional pay to officer in charge of public buildings and grounds at Washington, District of Columbia, one thousand dollars. For commutation of quarters to commissioned officers on duty without troops at stations where there are no public quarters, four hundred and eighteen thousand dollars. For travel allowance to enlisted men on discharge, one million dollars. For clothing not drawn due to enlisted men on discharge, eight hundred thousand dollars. For interest on soldiers’ deposits, one hundred thousand dollars, and so much as may be necessary to pay back such deposits. For pay of translator and librarian of the military information division, General Staff Corps, one thousand eight hundred dollars. For pay of expert accountant for the Inspector-General’s Department, two thousand five hundred dollars. For extra pay to enlisted men employed on extra duty for periods of not less than ten days in the offices of district artillery engineers, district ordnance officers, and switch-board operators, at seacoast fortifications, eight thousand dollars. For extra pay to enlisted men employed on extra duty as switch-board operators at each interior post of the Army, eight thousand dollars. For mileage to officers and contract surgeons when authorized by law, five hundred and fifty thousand dollars. For additional twenty per centum increase on pay of enlisted men serving beyond the limits of the States comprising the Union and the Territories of the United States contiguous thereto (excepting Porto Rico and Hawaii), as provided by Act approved June thirtieth, nine-teen hundred and two, the time of such service to be counted from the date of departure from said States to the date of return thereto, five hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars. For additional ten per centum increase on pay of officers serving beyond the limits of the States comprising the Union and the Territories of the United States contiguous thereto (excepting Porto Rico and Hawaii), as provided by Act approved June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and two, the time of such service to be counted from the date of departure from said States to the date of return thereto, two hundred and ten thousand dollars. For pay of one computer for artillery board, two thousand five hundred dollars. For pay of exchange by special disbursing agents of the Pay Department serving in foreign countries, five hundred dollars. For subsistence, mileage, and commutation of quarters to officers of the National Guard attending service and garrison schools, ten thou-sand dollars. For Porto Rico Provisional Regiment of Infantry, composed of two battalions of four companies each. Pay of officers of the line, forty-seven thousand eight hundred dollars. For additional pay for length of service, six thousand five hundred dollars. Pay of enlisted men, ninety-four thousand eight hundred dollars. Additional pay for length of service, fifteen thousand dollars.

philippine scouts. Pay of officers of the line: Fifty first lieutenants, seventy-five thou-sand dollars. Fifty second lieutenants, seventy thousand dollars. Eight first lieutenants (battalion adjutants), twelve thousand dollars. Eight second lieutenants (battalion quartermasters and commissaries), eleven thousand two hundred dollars. Difference in additional pay to officers serving in higher grades under authority of law in battalion of Phillippine Scouts: Eight majors from captains (not mounted), five thousand six hundred dollars. Fifteen captains from first lieutenants (not mounted), four thousand five hundred dollars. Additional for length of service, thirty-four thousand seven hundred and twenty dollars. Noncommissioned officers and privates, fifty companies, four hundred and ninety-seven thousand one hundred and thirty-one dollars and twenty cents. All the money hereinbefore appropriated, except the appropriation for mileage of officers and contract surgeons when authorized by law. for pay of the Army and miscellaneous shall be disbursed and accounted for by officers of the Pay Department as pay of the Army, and for that purpose shall constitute one fund. Encampments of organized militia with troops of the Regular Army: For paying the expenses of regiments, battalions, squadrons, and batteries of the organized militia of any State. Territory, or of the District of Columbia, which may be authorized by the Secretary of War to participate in such encampments as may be established for the field instruction of the troops of the Regular Army, as provided by sections fifteen and twenty-one of the Act of January twenty-first, nineteen hundred and three, entitled “An Act to promote the efficiency of the militia, and for other purposes,” one million dollars. For the purchase of flags for use on Memorial Day in suitably decorating the graves of soldiers and sailors of the Union Army buried in national cemeteries, two thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War. For settlement of two hundred and fifty-six approved claims for damages to and loss of private property in the United States, Cuba, Porto Rico, and the Philippine Islands, thirty-five thousand two hundred and seventy-one dollars and ten cents.

subsistence department. Purchase of subsistence supplies: For issue, as rations to troops, to civil employees when entitled thereto, hospital matrons and nurses, general prisoners of war (including Indians held by the Army as prisoners, but for whose subsistence appropriation is not otherwise made), to military prisoners at posts: Provided, That hereafter the emergency ration prescribed for use on emergent occasions shall, when issued, be furnished in addition to the regular ration under such regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary of War; and for sales to officers and enlisted men of the Army; for authorized issues of candles; of toilet articles, barbers’, laundry, and tailors’ materials, for use of general prisoners confined at military posts without pay or allowances, and recruits, including applicants for enlistment while held under observation at recruiting stations; of matches for lighting public fires and lights at posts and stations and in the field; of flour used for paste in target practice; of salt and vinegar for public animals; of issues to Indians employed with the Army, without pay, as guides and scouts; and for toilet paper for use by enlisted men at posts, camps, rendezvous, and offices where water-closets are provided with sewer connections, or where the sanitary conditions require its use. For payments: For meals for recruiting parties and recruits, including applicants for enlistment while held under observation; for hot coffee, canned meats, and baked beans for troops traveling, when it is impracticable to cook their rations: for coffee roasters, for cooking apparatus in the field and when traveling (except on transports), bake ovens and apparatus pertaining thereto; scales, weights, measures, utensils, tools, stationery, blank books and forms, printing, advertising, commercial newspapers, use of telephones, office furniture, commissary chests and outfits, and field desks of commissaries; for temporary buildings, cellars, and other means of protecting subsistence supplies (when not provided by the Quartermaster’s Department); for extra pay to enlisted men employed on extra duty in the Subsistence Department for periods of not less than ten days, at rates fixed by law; for compensation of civilians employed in the Subsistence Department; and for other necessary expenses incident to the purchase, testing, care, preservation, issue, sale, and accounting for subsistence supplies for the Army: for payment of commutation of rations to the cadets at the United States Military Academy in lieu of the regular established ration at the rate of thirty cents per ration: and for the payment of the regulation allowances of commutation in lieu of rations to enlisted men on furlough; to ordnance sergeants on duty at ungarrisoned posts; to enlisted men and male and female nurses when stationed at places where rations in kind can not be economically issued, and when traveling on detached duty where it is impracticable to carry rations of any kind; to enlisted men selected to contest for places or prizes in department and army rifle competitions while traveling to and from places of contest; to male and female nurses on leaves of absence; to applicants for enlistment while traveling under orders; for payment of commutation of rations in lieu of the regular established ration for members of the Nurse Corps (female) while on duty in hospital, and for enlisted men, applicants for enlistment held under observation, and general prisoners sick therein, at the rate of thirty cents per ration (except that at the General Hospital at Fort Bayard. New Mexico, fifty cents per ration is authorized for enlisted patients in said hospital) to be paid to the surgeon in charge: Provided further, That hereafter officers intrusted with the disbursement of funds for the subsistence of the Army are hereby authorized to keep, at their own risk, in their personal possession for disbursement, such restricted amounts of subsistence funds for facilitating payments of small amounts to public creditors as shall from time to time be authorized by the Secretary of War; for subsistence of the masters, officers, crews, and employees of the vessels of the Army transport service: for ice to organizations of enlisted men stationed at such places as the Secretary of War may determine; 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 nine hundred dollars per annum: in all, six million eight hundred and thirty-two thousand seven hundred and sixty-one dollars and fifteen cents, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War, and accounted for as “Subsistence of the Army,” and for that purpose to constitute one fund.

quartermaster’s department. Regular supplies of the Quartermaster’s Department, including their care and protection, consisting of stoves and heating apparatus required for heating offices, hospitals, barracks and quarters, and recruiting stations, and United States military prison: also ranges and stoves, and appliances for cooking and serving food at posts and on transports, and repair and maintenance of such heating and cooking appliances; of fuel and lights for enlisted men, including recruits, guards, hospitals, storehouses, and offices, and for sale to officers, and including also fuel and engine supplies required in the operation of modern batteries at established posts; for post bakeries; for ice machines and their maintenance where required for the health and comfort of the troops and for cold storage; for the construction, operation, and maintenance of laundries at military posts in the United States and its island possessions; for the necessary furniture, text-books, paper, and equipment for the post schools and libraries; for the tableware and mess furniture for kitchens and mess halls, each and all for the enlisted men, including recruits; of forage in kind for the horses, mules, and oxen of the Quartermaster’s Department at the several posts and stations and with the armies in the field, and for the horses of the several regiments of cavalry, the batteries of artillery, and such companies of infantry and scouts as may be mounted, and for the authorized number of officers’ horses, including bedding for the animals; and nothing in the Act making appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the Government for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eight, or any other Act, shall hereafter be held or construed so as to deprive officers of the Army, wherever on duty in the military service of the United States, of forage, bedding, shoeing, or shelter for their authorized number of horses, or of any means of transportation or maintenance therefor for which provision is made by the terms of this Act; of straw for soldiers’ bedding, and of stationery, including blank books for the Quartermaster’s Department, certificates for discharged soldiers, blank forms for the Pay and Quartermaster’s Departments, and for printing Department orders and reports, six million five hundred thousand dollars: Provided, That hereafter the heat and light actually necessary for the authorized allowance of quarters for officers and enlisted men shall be furnished at the expense of the United States under such regulations as the Secretary of War may prescribe: Provided further, That no part of the appropriations for the Quartermaster’s Department shall be expended on printing, unless the same shall be done 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 the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eight, 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 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. For the purchase of the necessary instruments, office furniture, stationery, and other authorized articles required for the equipment and use of the officers’ schools at the several military posts, ten thousand dollars. Incidental expenses: Postage; cost of telegrams on official business received and sent by officers of the Army; extra pay to soldiers employed on extra duty, under the direction of the Quartermaster’s Department, in the erection of barracks, quarters, and storehouses, in the construction of roads and other constant labor for periods of not less than ten days, and as clerks for post quartermasters at military posts, and for prison overseers at posts designated by the War Department for the confinement of general prisoners, and for noncommissioned officers of the United States military prison guard: Provided, That hereafter no part of the moneys appropriated for use of the Quartermaster’s Department shall be used in payment of extra duty pay for the Army service men in the Quartermaster’s Department at West Point; for expenses of expresses to and from frontier posts and armies in the field, of escorts to paymasters and other disbursing officers, and to trains where military escorts can not be furnished; expenses of the interment of officers killed in action or who die when on duty in the field, or at military posts or on the frontiers, or when traveling under orders, and of noncommissioned officers and soldiers; and in all cases where such expenses would have been lawful claims against the Government, reimbursement may be made of expenses heretofore or hereafter incurred by individuals of burial and transportation of remains of officers, including acting assistant surgeons, not to exceed the amount now allowed in the cases of officers, and for the reimbursement in the cases of enlisted men not exceeding the amount now allowed in their cases, may be paid out of the proper funds appropriated by this Act, and the disbursing officers shall be credited with such reimbursement heretofore made; but hereafter no reimbursement shall be made of such expenses incurred prior to the twenty-first day of April, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight; authorized office furniture, hire of laborers in the Quartermaster’s Department, including the hire of interpreters, spies, or guides for the Army; compensation of clerks and other employees to the officers of the Quartermaster’s Department, and clerks, foremen, watchmen, and organist for the United States military prison, and incidental expenses of recruiting: for the apprehension, securing, and delivering of deserters, including escaped military prisoners, and the expenses incident to their pursuit, and no greater sum than fifty dollars 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 five, dollars to each dishonorably discharged prisoner upon his release from confinement, under court-martial sentence, involving dishonorable discharge; for the following expenditures required for the several regiments of cavalry, the batteries of light artillery, and such companies of infantry and scouts as may be mounted, the authorized number of officers’ horses, and for the trains, to wit: Hire of veterinary surgeons, purchase of medicines for horses and mules, picket ropes, blacksmith’s tools and materials, horseshoes and blacksmith’s tools for the cavalry service, and for the shoeing of horses and mules, and such additional expenditures as are necessary and authorized by law in the movements and operations of the Army, and at military posts, and not expressly assigned to any other department, one million nine hundred and forty-four thousand and sixteen dollars and seventy-two cents. Horses for cavalry, artillery, and engineers: For the purchase of horses for the cavalry, artillery, and engineers, service school and staff colleges, and for the Indian scouts, and for such infantry and members of the Hospital Corps in field campaigns as may be required to be mounted, and the expenses incident thereto, four hundred and ninety-three thousand seven hundred and twenty-three dollars and thirty-seven cents: Provided, That the number of horses purchased under this appropriation, added to the number now on hand, shall be limited to the actual needs of the mounted service, 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’s Department and an inspection under the direction and authority of the Secretary of War. When practicable, horses shall be purchased in the open market at all military posts or stations, when needed, at a maximum price to be fixed by the Secretary of War. Barracks and quarters: For barracks and quarters for troops, other than seacoast artillery, storehouses for the safe-keeping of military stores, for offices, recruiting stations, to provide such furniture for the public rooms of officers’ messes and such heavy permanent furniture for officers’ quarters at military posts as may be approved by the, Secretary of War. and for the hire of buildings and grounds for summer cantonments, and for temporary buildings at frontier stations, for the construction of temporary buildings and stables, and for repairing public buildings at established posts, including the extra-duty pay of enlisted men employed on the same: Provided, That no part of the moneys so appropriated shall be paid for commutation of fuel or for quarters to officers or enlisted men: Provided further, That section nine of an Act approved June seventeenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight (Twentieth Statutes at Large, page one hundred and fifty-one), be, and the same is hereby, amended to read as follows: “That at all posts and stations where there are public quarters belong-ing to the United States officers may be furnished with quarters in kind in such public quarters, and not elsewhere, by the Quartermaster’s Department, assigning to the officers of each grade, respectively, such number of rooms as is stated in the following table, namely: Second lieutenants, two rooms; first lieutenants, three rooms; captains, four rooms; majors, five rooms; lieutenant-colonels, six rooms; colonels, seven rooms; brigadier-generals, eight rooms; major-generals, nine rooms; lieutenant-general, ten rooms: Provided further, That at places where there are no public quarters commutation therefor may be paid by the Pay Department to the officer entitled to the same at a rate not exceeding twelve dollars per month per room:” Provided further, That the number of and total sum paid for civilian employees in the Quartermaster’s Department, including those paid from the funds appropriated for regular supplies, incidental expenses, barracks and quarters, army transportation, clothing, camp and garrison equipage, shall be limited to the actual requirements of the service, and that no employee paid therefrom shall receive a salary of more than one hundred and fifty dollars per month, except upon the approval of the Secretary of War. three million seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars. For the acquisition of land near or adjoining Fort Taylor, at Key West, Florida, one hundred thousand dollars, or so much thereof as the Secretary of War may deem necessary. The Secretary of War is hereby authorized to permit the Florida East Coast Rail way Company and its successors to make a fill and construct an embankment upon the submerged lands in front of the existing military reservation on which now stand the barracks and quarters of the military post at Key West, the said fill and embankment to be used by said railway company and its assigns for railroad purposes, subject to such conditions and restrictions as the Secretary of War may deem necessary in the public interest. Military post exchange: For continuing the construction, equipment, and maintenance of suitable buildings at military posts and stations for the conduct of the post exchange, school, library, reading, lunch, amusement rooms, and gymnasium, to be expended in the discretion and under the direction of the Secretary of War, three hundred and ninety-seven thousand five hundred dollars: Provided, That not more than forty thousand dollars of the above appropriation shall be expended at any one post or station. Transportation of the Army and its supplies: Transportation of the Army, including baggage of the troops when moving either by land or water, and including also the transportation of recruits and recruiting parties heretofore paid from the appropriation for “ Expenses or recruiting” and the transportation of applicants for enlistment between recruiting stations and recruiting depots and the transportation of persons on their discharge from the United States military prison to their homes (or elsewhere as they may elect), provided the cost in each case shall not be greater than to the place of last enlistment: Provided, That hereafter any military prison that the Secretary of War may designate for the confinement of general prisoners for whom there is no room at the United States Military Prison at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, or whom it is impracticable to send there, shall be regarded as a branch of the said United States Military Prison and equally with it shall be subject to the laws relating thereto, including chapter six, title fourteen, of the Revised Statutes; of supplies to the militia furnished by the War Department for the permanent equipment thereof; of the necessary agents and employees: of clothing, camp and garrison equipage, and other quartermaster’s 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 equipments and subsistence stores from the places of purchase, and from the places of delivery under contract to such places as the circumstances of the service may require them to be sent; of ordnance, ordnance stores, and small arms from the. foundries and armories to the arsenals, fortifications, frontier posts, and army depots; freights, wharfage, tolls, and ferriages: Provided, That estimates for the next fiscal year shall be submitted to the Congress of the United States covering transportation of the Army and its supplies in one estimate, and additional estimates shall be submitted covering other items heretofore carried in appropriation bills under the head of transportation of the Army and its supplies; the purchase and hire of draft and pack animals and harness, and the purchase and repair of wagons, carts, and drays, and of ships and other vessels and boats required for the transportation of troops and supplies and for garrison purposes; for drayage and cartage at the several posts; hire of teamsters and other employees; extra-duty pay of enlisted men driving teams, repairing means of transportation, and employed as train masters, and in opening roads and building wharves; transportation of funds of the Army; the expenses of sailing public transports on the various rivers, the Gulf of Mexico, and the Atlantic and Pacific oceans; and hereafter no steamship in the transport service of the United States shall be sold or disposed of without the consent of Congress having been first had or obtained; for procuring water, and introducing the same to buildings at such posts as from their situation require it to be brought from a distance, and for the disposal of sewage and drainage, and for constructing roads and wharves: for the payment of army transportation lawfully due such land-grant railroads as have not received aid in Government bonds (to be adjusted in accordance with the decisions of the Supreme Court in eases decided under such land-grant acts), but in no case shall more than fifty per centum of full amount of service be paid: Provided, That such compensation shall be computed 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 company which has not received aid in bonds of the United States, and which obtained a grant of public land to aid in the construction of its railroad on condition that such railroad should be a post route and military road, subject to the use of the United States for postal, military, naval, and other Government services, and also subject to such regulations as Congress may impose restricting the charge for such Government transportation, having claims against the United States for transportation of troops and munitions of war and military supplies and property over such aided railroads, shall be paid out of the moneys appropriated by the foregoing provision only on the basis of such rate for the transportation of such troops and munitions of war and military supplies and property as the Secretary of War shall deem just and reasonable under the foregoing provision, such rate not to exceed fifty per centum of the compensation for such Government transportation as shall at that time be charged to and paid by private parties to any such company for like and similar transportation; and the amount so fixed to be paid shall be accepted as in full for all demands for such service: Provided further, That the number of draft animals purchased from this appropriation, added to those now on hand, shall be limited to such numbers as are actually required for the service, fourteen million five hundred thousand dollars: Provided, That no part of this appropriation shall be applied to the payment of the expenses of using transports in any other Government work than the transportation of the Army, its supplies and employees; and when, in the opinion of the Secretary of War, accommodations are available, transportation may be provided for the officers, enlisted men, employees, and supplies of the Navy, the Marine Corps, and for members and employees of the Philippine and Hawaiian governments, officers of the War Department, Members of Congress, other officers of the Government while traveling on official business, and without expense to the United States, for the families of those persons herein authorized to be transported, and when accommodations are available, transportation may be provided for general passengers to the island of Guam, rates and regulations therefor to be prescribed by the Secretary of War: Provided further, That of the amount herein appropriated seven hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars shall be expended for boats for the seacoast artillery service: Provided further, That leaves to be absent from the Philippine Islands, other than to return to the United States, which may be granted officers of the Army serving in said islands and sailing from Manila, shall be regarded as taking effect on the dates such officers reach Manila, and as terminating on the dates of their departure from Manila, in returning to their stations. For the construction and maintenance of military and post roads, bridges, and trails in the district of Alaska, to be expended under the direction of the board of road commissioners described in section two of an Act entitled “An Act to provide for the construction and maintenance of roads, the establishment and maintenance of schools, and the care and support of insane persons in the district of Alaska, and for other purposes,” approved January twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and five, and to be expended conformably to the provisions of said Act, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, to remain available until expended. Barracks and quarters, Philippine Islands: Continuing the work of providing for the proper shelter and protection of officers and enlisted men of the Army of the United States lawfully on duty in the Philippine Islands, including the acquisition of title to building sites when necessary, and including also shelter for the animals and supplies, and all other buildings necessary for post administration purposes, four hundred thousand dollars. Clothing, and camp and garrison equipage: For cloth, woolens, materials, and for the manufacture of clothing for the Army, for issue and for sale at cost price according to the army regulations; for altering and fitting clothing and washing and cleaning, when necessary; for equipage, and for expenses of packing and handling, and similar necessaries; for a suit of citizen’s outer clothing, to cost not exceeding ten dollars, to be issued upon release from confinement to each prisoner who has been confined under a court-martial sentence involving dishonorable discharge; for indemnity to officers and men of the Army for clothing and bedding, and so forth, destroyed since April twenty-second, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, by order of medical officers of the Army for sanitary reasons, three million four hundred and forty-three thousand and sixty-nine dollars and twenty-eight cents. Construction and repair or 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 increased garrisons, four hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars: Provided, That not to exceed the following sums may be used in the erection and completion of modern sanitary hospitals at the posts named: Fifty thousand dollars at Fort Douglas, Utah; sixty thousand dollars at San Juan, Porto Rico; forty-five thousand dollars at Fort Mackenzie, Wyoming; thirty-five thousand dollars at Whipple Barracks, Arizona; thirty-five thousand dollars at Fort Riley, Kansas. For the reconstruction and repair of the power house pertaining to the general hospital on the Presidio Military Reservation. San Francisco, California, thirty thousand dollars, said sum to be made immediately available: Provided further, That the hospital at Fort Bayard, New Mexico, for the treatment of tuberculosis, shall be opened to the treatment of the officers and men of the Navy and Marine Corps. Quarters for hospital stewards: For construction of quarters for hospital stewards at military posts already established and occupied, including the extra-duty pay of enlisted men employed on the same, forty thousand dollars. Shooting galleries and ranges: For shelter, shooting galleries, ranges for small arms target practice, repairs, and expenses incident thereto, 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, one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. Maintenance of the 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 one thousand two hundred dollars per annum; an assistant engineer, at nine hundred dollars; four firemen, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; one elevator condutor, at seven hundred and twenty dollars, nine thousand four hundred dollars.

medical department. Medical and Hospital Department: For the purchase of medical and hospital supplies, including disinfectants for military posts, camps, hospitals, hospital ships, and transports; for expenses of medical supply depots; for medical care and treatment not otherwise provided for, including care and subsistence in private hospitals, of officers, enlisted men, and civilian employees of the Army, of applicants for enlistment, and of prisoners of war and other persons in military custody or confinement, when entitled thereto by law, regulation, or contract: Provided, That this shall not apply to officers and enlisted men who are treated in private hospitals or by civilian physicians while on furlough; for the proper care and treatment of epidemic and contagious diseases in the Army or at military posts or stations, including measures to prevent the spread thereof, and the payment of reasonable damages not otherwise provided for, for bedding and clothing injured or destroyed in such prevention; for the pay of male and female nurses, not including the nurse corps (female), and of cooks and other civilians employed for the proper care of sick officers and soldiers, under such regulations fixing their number, qualifications, assignment, pay, and allowances, as shall have been or shall be prescribed by the Secretary of War; for the pay of civilian physicians employed to examine physically applicants for enlistment and enlisted men, and to render other professional services from time to time under proper authority; for the pay of other employees of the Medical Department: for the payment of express companies and local transfers employed directly by the Medical Department for the transportation of medical and hospital supplies, including bidders’ samples and water for analysis; for supplies for use in teaching the art of cooking to the hospital corps; for the supply of the Army and Navy Hospital at Hot Springs. Arkansas; for advertising, laundry, and all other necessary miscellaneous expenses of the Medical Department, six hundred and forty-four thousand two hundred and eighty-six dollars: Provided, That the Secretary of War may, in his discretion, contract for the care, maintenance, and treatment of the insane natives of the Philippine Islands serving in the Army of the United States at any asylum in the Philippine Islands in all cases which he is now authorized by law to cause to be sent to the Government Hospital for the Insane in the District of Columbia. Army Medical Museum and Library: For Army Medical Museum, preservation of specimens, and the preparation and purchase of new specimens, five thousand dollars. For the library of the Surgeon-General’s Office, including the purchase of necessary books of reference and periodicals, ten thousand dollars.

engineer department. Engineer depots: For incidental expenses of the depots, including fuel, lights, chemicals, stationery, hardware, machinery, pay of civilian clerks, mechanics, and laborers, 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; repairs of and for materials to repair public buildings, machinery, and unforeseen expenses, eleven thousand five hundred dollars. For purchase and repair of instruments to be issued to officers of the Corps of Engineers and to officers detailed and on duty as acting engineer officers for use on public works and surveys, five thousand dollars. Engineer School, Washington, District of Columbia: Equipment and maintenance of the Engineer School of Application at Washington Barracks, District of Columbia, including purchase of instruments, machinery, implements, models, and materials, for the use of the school and for instruction of engineer troops in their special duties as sappers and miners; for land mining, pontoniering, and signaling; for purchase and binding of professional works of recent date treating of military and civil engineering and kindred scientific subjects for the library of the United States Engineer School; for incidental expenses of the school, including fuel, lights, chemicals, stationery, hardware, machinery, and boats; for pay of civilian clerks, draftsmen, electricians, mechanics, and laborers; for extra-duty pay to soldiers necessarily employed for periods not less than ten days as artificers on work in addition to and not strictly in the line of their military duties, such as carpenters, blacksmiths, draftsmen, printers, lithographers, photographers, engine drivers, telegraph operators, teamsters, wheelwrights. masons, machinists, painters, overseers, laborers: for repairs of and materials to repair public buildings, and machinery; for unforeseen expenses, for travel expenses of officers on journeys approved by the Chief of Engineers and made for the 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 text-books, books of reference, scientific and professional papers, and for other absolutely necessary expenses, twenty-five thousand dollars. Buildings, Engineer School, Washington, District of Columbia: For completion of two incomplete sets of noncommissioned officers’ quarters, fifteen thousand dollars. For construction of one new stable, seventeen thousand five hundred dollars. Engineer equipment of troops: For pontoon material, tools, instruments, and supplies required for use in the engineer equipment of troops, including the purchase and preparation of engineer manuals, forty thousand dollars. For services of surveyors, draftsmen, photographers, master laborers, and clerks to engineer officers on the staff of division, corps, and department commanders, twenty-five thousand dollars. Total for Engineer Department, one hundred and thirty-nine thousand dollars.

ordnance department. Ordnance service: For the current expenses of the Ordnance Department in connection with purchasing, receiving, storing, and issuing ordnance and ordnance stores, comprising police and office duties, rents, tolls, fuel, light, water, and advertising, stationery and office furniture, tools and instruments for service; for incidental expenses of the ordnance service and those attending practical trials and tests of ordnance, small arms, and other ordnance stores; and for publications for libraries of the Ordnance Department, including the Ordnance Office, and payment for mechanical labor in the office of the Chief of Ordnance, three hundred thousand dollars. Ordnance stores Ammunition: Manufacture of ammunition and materials therefor for small arms for reserve supply; ammunition for burials at the National Soldiers’ Home in Washington, District of Columbia; ammunition for firing the morning and evening gun at military posts prescribed by General Orders, Numbered seventy, Head quarters of the Army, dated July twenty-third, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, and at National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers and its several Branches, including National Soldiers’ Home in Washington, District of Columbia, and Soldiers’ and Sailors’ State Homes, six hundred and forty-eight thousand dollars. Small-arms target practice: Ammunition, targets, and other accessories for small-arms target practice and instruction; marksmen’s medals, prize arms, and insignia for all arms of the service: one million three hundred thousand dollars. Field artillery for organized militia: For the purpose of procuring field-artillery material for the organized militia of the several States, Territories, and the District of Columbia, without cost to the said States, Territories, or the District of Columbia, but to remain the property of the United States and to be accounted for in the manner now prescribed by law, the Secretary of War is hereby authorized, under such regulations as he may prescribe, on the requisitions of the governors of the several States and Territories or the commanding general of the militia of the District of Columbia, to issue said artillery material to the organized militia; and the sum of five hundred and sixty-four thousand three hundred and seventy-seven dollars and ninety cents is hereby appropriated and made immediately available until expended for the procurement and issue of the articles constituting the same, five hundred and sixty-four thousand three hundred and seventy-seven dollars and ninety cents. The balance under the appropriations for field artillery for organized militia for the fiscal years nineteen hundred and four and nineteen hundred and five shall remain available during the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eight, to meet outstanding obli gations incurred under said appropriations. Manufacture of arms: For manufacturing, repairing, procuring, and issuing arms at the national armories, one million seven hundred thousand dollars. It shall be the duty of the Secretary of War, whenever a new type of small arm shall have been adopted for the use of the Regular Army, and when a sufficient quantity of such arms shall have been manufactured to constitute, in his discretion, an adequate reserve for the armament of any regular and volunteer forces that it may be found necessary to raise in case of war, to cause the organized militia of the United States to be furnished with small arms of the type so adopted, with bayonets and the necessary accouterments and equipments, including ammunition therefor: Provided, That such issues shall be made in the manner provided in section thirteen of the Act approved January twenty-first, nineteen hundred and three, entitled “An Act to promote the efficiency of the militia, and for other purposes.” 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 till requisitions of troops; for infantry, cavalry, and artillery equipments, including horse equipments for cavalry and artillery, one million dollars. National trophy and medals for rifle contests: That 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, and for the cost of the trophy, prizes, and medals herein provided for, and for the promotion of rifle practice, the sum of five thousand dollars, to be expended for the purposes hereinbefore prescribed under the direction of the Secretary of War, five thousand dollars. For range finders and other instruments for fire control in field batteries, thirty thousand dollars. Hereafter the appropriations “Ordnance-stores ammunition,” “Small-arms target practice,” and “Ordnance stores and supplies” shall be available for two years to procure the stores authorized by them. For marking the places where American soldiers fell and were temporarily interred in Cuba and China, four thousand dollars, said sum to be immediately available. The Secretary of War is hereby authorized to loan to the Jamestown Ter-Centennial Commission certain tents and camp equipage in the custody of the War Department which have had prior use, for the purpose of providing shelter for visiting commands of the organized militia and for detachments of foreign troops and marines: Provided, That such tents and camp equipage shall be returned to the proper bureau of the War Department within thirty days after the close of the TerCentennial Exposition: Provided further, That said Commission shall indemnify the War Department for any loss or damage to said tents and camp equipage not necessarily incident to such use: Provided also, That the said Commission shall give a bond with security satisfactory to the Secretary of War to conform to the conditions and requirements hereinbefore imposed. And the action of the Commanding General of the United States forces in Cuba in furnishing tents, camp equipage, and quartermaster’s stores for the use of the sufferers by earthquake and fire in the city of Kingston. Jamaica, with the approval of the Secretary of War. is hereby ratified and confirmed.

Approved, March 2, 1907.