the waterworks are no longer needed or are no longer serviceable they may be sold in such manner as the superintendent may direct and the proceeds credited to the appropriation for the department or the waterworks for which they were purchased or acquired. Act of Aug. 9, 1912 (37 Stat. 260).

1180. The Cullum Memorial Hall. - The Memorial Hall to be erected under the provisions of this act shall be a receptacle of statues, busts, mural tablets, and portraits of distinguished and deceased officers and graduates of the Military Academy, of paintings of battle scenes, trophies of war, and such other objects as may tend to give elevation to the military profession; and to prevent the introduction of unworthy subjects into this hall the selection of each shall be made by not less than two-thirds of the members of the entire academic board of the United States Military Academy, the vote being taken by ayes and nays and to be so recorded. Sec. 6, Act of July 23, 1892 (27 Stat. 263).

1181. Buildings for religious worship. - The Secretary of War, in his discretion, may authorize the erection of a building for religious worship by any denomination, sect, or religion on the West Point Military Reservation: Provided, That the erection of such building will not interfere with the uses of said reservation for military purposes. Said building shall be erected without any expense whatever to the Government of the United States, and shall be removed from the reservation, or its location changed by the denomination, sect, or religious body erecting the same whenever, in the opinion of the Secretary of War, public or military necessity shall require it, and without compensation for such building or any other expense whatever to the Government. Act of July 8, 1898 (30 Stat. 722).

1182. The Army War College. For hire of clerks, purchase of stationery, furniture, and for contingent expenses incident to the establishment of the Army War College, having for its object the direction and coordination of the instruction in the various service schools, extension of the opportunities for investigation and study in the Army and militia of the United States, and the collection and dissemination of military information, twenty thousand dollars. Act of May 26, 1900 (31 Stat. 209).

1183. The service schools. United States service schools: To provide means for the theoretical and practical instruction at the Staff College (including the Army School of the Line,1 Army Field Engineer School, and the Army Signal School) at Fort Leavenworth,

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The Infantry and Cavalry School was established at Fort Leavenworth, Kans., in pursuance of General Orders, No. 42, Adjutant-General's Office, of May 7, 1881. Although not created by statute, its existence was recognized by Congress in several acts of appropriations, beginning with the act of March 2, 1889. It has been superseded by the "Army School of the Line," which was first recognized by statute in the act of March 3, 1909 (35 Stat. 733).

For complete list of service schools see par. 449, A. R., 1913.

Kansas, the Mounted Service School at Fort Riley, Kansas, and the School of Fire for Field Artillery at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, 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, $30,350. Act of Mar. 2, 1913 (37 Stat. 704).

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That from the enlisted force of the army now provided by law the President may authorize the organization of school detachments at each of the service schools, and may authorize the appointment therein of such noncommissioned officers, mechanics, artificers, farriers, horseshoers, and cooks as may be necessary for the administration of such school: Provided, That nothing herein shall be construed as to authorize an increase in the total number of enlisted men of the army now authorized by law. Act of Mar. 3, 1909 (35 Stat. 733).

1184. The Engineer School. - Equipment and maintenance of the Engineer School at Washington Barracks, District of Columbia, including purchase of instruments, machinery, implements, models, and materials, for the use of the school and for instruction of engineer troops in their special duties as sappers and miners; for land mining, pontooning, and signaling; for purchase and binding of professional works and periodicals of recent date treating of military and civil engineering and kindred scientific subjects for the library of the United States Engineer School, Mar. 2, 1913 (37 Stat. 719).

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1185. The artillery schools. - Coast Artillery School, Fort Monroe, Virginia. For incidental expenses of the school, including chem

The United States Engineer School was established by Executive order, but has been recognized in the several acts of appropriation from the act of March 3, 1873 (17 Stat. 546), down to the present time. It was originally located at Fort Totten, Willets Point, N. Y., but was removed in 1902 to Washington Barracks, D. C. (See General Orders 155, A. G. O., Nov. 27, 1901.)

*The Artillery School was established at Fortress Monroe, Va., in pursuance of General Orders, No. 18, Adjutant-General's Office, of April 5, 1824. It ceased to exist, in 1835, by reason of the transfer of the troops composing the school to other duties. It was reestablished by General Orders, No. 9, Adjutant-General's Office, of October 30, 1856. A code of regulations and plan of instruction was approved by the Secretary of War and published to the Army in General Orders, No. 5, Adjutant-General's Office, of May 18, 1858. The school was again discontinued at the outbreak of the War of the Rebellion in 1861. It was reorganized by General Orders, No. 99, Adjutant-General's Office, of November 13, 1867. Although not created by statute, its existence has been recognized and the courses of study pursued have been sanctioned by Congress in several acts of appropriation. (See the various acts of appropriation from that of June 20, 1878 (20 Stat. 223), down to the present time). It was first appropriated for as the "Coast Artillery School" in the act of March 3, 1909 (35 Stat. 733). In the act of August 24, 1912 (37 Stat. 570), under the appropriation for "United States Service Schools" provision is made for a "School of Fire for Field Artillery at Fort Sill, Okla.," and this provision is continued in the act of March 2, 1913 (37 Stat. 704).

icals, stationery, hardware; cost of special instruction of officers detailed as instructors; extra-duty pay to soldiers necessarily employed for periods not less than ten days as artificers on work in addition to and not strictly in line with their military duties, such as carpenters, blacksmiths, draftsmen, printers, lithographers, photographers, engine drivers, telegraph operators, teamsters, wheelwrights, masons, machinists, painters, overseers, laborers; office furniture and fixtures, machinery, and unforeseen expenses, $10,000.

For purchase of engines, generators, motors, machines, measuring instruments, special apparatus and materials for the division of the enlisted specialists, $7,000.

For purchase of special apparatus and materials and for experimental purposes for the department of artillery and land defense, $3,000.

For purchase of engines, generators, motors, machines, measuring instruments, special apparatus and materials for the department of engineering and mine defense, $5,500.

For purchase and binding of professional books of recent date treating of military and scientific subjects for library and for use of school, $2,500. Act of Mar. 2, 1913 (37 Stat. 705).

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1186. The Mounted Service School. - That the Secretary of Warbe, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to establish upon the military reservation at Fort Riley, a permanent school of instruction for drill and practice for the cavalry and light artillery service of the Army of the United States, and which shall be the depot to which all recruits for such service shall be sent; and for the purpose of construction of such quarters, barracks, and stables as may be required to carry into effect the purposes of this act the sum of two hundred thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated.1 Act. of Jan. 29, 1887 (24 Stat. 372).

1187. Leaves of absence of instructors at service schools. The provisions of section thirteen hundred and thirty, Revised Statutes, authorizing leaves of absence to certain officers of the Military Academy, during the period of the suspension of the ordinary academic studies, without deduction from pay and allowances, be, and are hereby, extended to include officers on duty exclusively as instructors at the service schools on approval of the officer in charge of said schools. Act of Mar. 23, 1910 (36 Stat. 244).

The Cavalry and Light Artillery School was established in pursuance of the act of January 29, 1887, by General Orders, No. 17, Adjutant-General's Office, of March 14, 1892. See also in connection with this school the acts of October 2, 1888 (25 Stat. 534), and March 2, 1889 (id., 966). This school has been superseded by the "Mounted Service School at Fort Riley, Kans.," and provision has been made therefor under that title beginning with the act of March 3, 1909 (35 Stat. 733). (See par. 1183, ante.)

1188. Prizes for graduates from Army schools for bakers and cooks. For providing prizes to be established by the Secretary of War for enlisted men of the Army who graduate from the Army schools for bakers and cooks, the total amount of such prizes at the various schools not to exceed nine hundred dollars per annum,

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'A similar provision has occurred in the several annual Army appropriation acts since this enactment.