Telephone service for Coast Artillery. Pay of the Army. Quartermaster Corps. Officers of the line. Amount. Provisos. Pay restriction. crease of enlistment increments. Vol. 39, p. 182. connecting commercial telegraph or radio companies for the transmission of Government radiograms or telegrams over their lines, and to this end, under such regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary of War, it can present vouchers to disbursing officers for payment or file claims with auditors of the Treasury Department for the amount of such forwarding charges. COMMERCIAL TELEPHONE SERVICE AT COAST ARTILLERY POSTS: For providing commercial telephone service for official purposes at Coast Artillery posts, $8,500. PAY OF THE ARMY. QUARTERMASTER CORPS. OFFICERS OF THE LINE. For pay of officers of the line, $12,500,000: Provided, That no part of this appropriation shall be paid to any officer of the line of the Army who shall be appointed or promoted in violation of any of the Officers limited to in- terms next hereinafter specified: That of the whole number of officers of Cavalry, Field Artillery, Coast Artillery Corps, Infantry, and of Engineers serving with the enlisted force of the Corps of Engineers necessary to fill vacancies created or caused in said arms of the service by reason of the second increment, authorized in said arms by Act of Congress approved June third, nineteen hundred and sixteen, not more than one-fourth shall be appointed or promoted until, exclusive of enlisted men belonging to said arms on June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, at least one-fourth of the second increment of enlisted men authorized for said arms by said Act shall have been enlisted; not more than one-half of said whole number of officers shall be appointed or promoted until at least onehalf of said increment of enlisted men shall have been enlisted; and not more than three-fourths of said whole number of officers shall be appointed or promoted until at least three-fourths of said increDates of promotions. ment of enlisted men shall have been enlisted. And all officers promoted in accordance with the terms of this proviso shall take rank, respectively, from the dates on which their promotions shall have become lawful under the terms of this proviso. Additional Vol. 39, 182, pay to officers for length of service, $2,000,000: Provided, That the first part of the second paragraph of section twenty-four of the Act entitled "An Act for making further and more effectual provision for the national defense, and for other purposes," approved June third, nineteen hundred and sixteen, down to the first proviso in said paragraph, be, and the same is hereby amended to read as follows: Longevity. amended. Second lieutenants. cancies. Cadets. Enlisted men. Militia in service. Officers' Reserve Corps, etc. "Vacancies in the grade of second lieutenant created or caused by the increases due to this Act, in any fiscal year shall be filled by appointment in the following order: (First) Of cadets graduated from the United States Military Academy during the preceding fiscal year for whom vacancies did not become available during the fiscal year in which they graduated; (second) under the provisions of existing law of enlisted men, including officers of Philippine Scouts, between the ages of twenty-one and thirty-four years, whose fitness for promotion shall have been determined by competitive examination; and of members, including officers, of the Organized Militia, the National Guard, or Naval Militia, between the ages of twenty-one and thirty-four years who have had at least ninety days actual Federal military service under any call of the President during the calendar year nineteen hundred and sixteen, and whose fitness for promotion shall have been determined by examination; (third) of members of the Officers' Reserve Corps between the ages of twenty one and twenty-seven years, of distinguished colleges as are now or Officers' Reserve arms inspectors. Pay of members of Officers' Reserve Corps, $3,000,000. Pay of officers, National Guard, including staff corps, $3,000,000: Provided, That so much of this appropriation as may be necessary for Payments to smallthe purpose shall be available to pay inspectors and assistant inspectors of small-arms practice of the Organized Militia and National Guard who responded to the call of the President of June eighteenth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, the pay and allowances appropriate to their grade from the dates they would have been entitled to pay had their services been authorized to the dates on which they were mustered out or their services were otherwise terminated; and the proper accounting officers of the Treasury be, and they are hereby, directed to allow credit for any such payments which have heretofore been made to such officers from the appropriation from which made. ENLISTED MEN OF THE LINE. For pay of enlisted men of all grades, including recruits, $29,000,000. That that paragraph of the Act of May eleventh, nineteen hundred and eight (Thirty-fifth Statutes at Large, page one hundred and ten), which provides for additional pay of marksmen, and so forth, is amended to read as follows: Credits authorized. Enlisted men. Line. Marksmen, etc. Vol. 35, p. 110, amended. New ratings estab "That hereafter enlisted men now qualified or hereafter qualifying lished. as marksmen shall receive $2 per month; as sharpshooters, $3 per month; as expert riflemen, $5 per month; as second-class gunners, $2 per month; as first-class gunners, $3 per month; as expert firstclass gunners, Field Artillery, $5 per month; as gun pointers, gun commanders, observers second-class, chief planters, and chief loaders, $7 per month; as plotters, observers first-class, casemate electricians, and coxswains, $9 per month, all in addition to their pay, under such regulations as the Secretary of War may prescribe, but no man shall receive at the same time additional pay for more than one of the classifications named in this section." Additional pay for length of service of enlisted men of the line, Longevity. $3,500,000. Pay of enlisted men of the Regular Army Reserve, $290,000. ORDNANCE DEPARTMENT. Pay of enlisted men, $383,760. Additional pay for length of service, $185,996.16. QUARTERMASTER CORPS. Pay of enlisted men, $2,437,272. Additional pay for length of service, $300,000. SIGNAL CORPS. Pay of enlisted men, $1,070,000. Additional pay for length of service, $100,000. MEDICAL DEPARTMENT. Pay of enlisted men, $2,000,000. Additional pay for length of service, $325,000. Army Reserve. Enlisted Reserve Corps. National Guard. Office of Chief of CLERKS, MESSENGERS, AND LABORERS, OFFICE OF THE CHIEF OF STAFF. Staff. Clerks, messengers, etc. One chief clerk, at $2,250 per annum, $2,250; One packer, at $840 per annum, $840; One chief messenger, at $1,000 per annum, $1,000; Fifteen messengers, at $720 each per annum, $10,800; Two laborers, at $720 each per annum, $1,440; One laborer, at $600 per annum, $600; Five charwomen, at $240 each per annum, $1,200; in all, $104,590. Headquarters of de- CLERKS AND MESSENGERS AT HEADQUARTERS OF THE SEVERAL TERRI- Clerks, messengers, etc. Foreign service. Field clerks, Quartermaster Corps. Provisos. Service assignments. forbidden. Seven clerks, at $2,000 each per annum, $14,000; Additional pay while on foreign service, $7,600. For commutation of quarters and of heat and light, $53,742. Provided, That said clerks, messengers, and laborers shall be employed and assigned by the Secretary of War to the offices and posiDuty in Department tions in which they are to serve: Provided further, That no clerk, messenger, or laborer at headquarters of tactical divisions, military departments, brigades, service schools, and office of the Chief of Staff shall be assigned to duty in any bureau in the War Department. General Staff Corps. Pay of officers. Vol. 39, p. amended. Constitution of. of Chief. Other officers. For pay GENERAL STAFF CORPS. of officers of the General Staff Corps, $132,600: Provided, Provisions amended That the first paragraph of section five of the National Defense Act during emergency. 167, approved June third, nineteen hundred and sixteen, be, and the same is hereby, amended for the period of the existing emergency to read Rank and precedence as follows: "Sec. 5. The General Staff Corps.-The General Staff Corps shall consist of one Chief of Staff, who shall be a general officer of the line and who shall take rank and precedence over all other officers of the Army; two assistants to the Chief of Staff, who shall be general officers of the line, one of whom shall be the president of the Army War College; ten colonels; twelve lieutenant colonels; thirty-two majors; and thirty-four captains, to be detailed from corresponding grades in the Army as in this section hereinafter provided. All officers detailed in the General Staff Corps shall be detailed therein for a period of four years, unless sooner relieved. While serving in the General Staff Corps, officers may be temporarily Tour of details. assigned to duty with any branch of the Army. Upon being relieved Redetails limited. from duty in the General Staff Corps, officers shall return to the branch of the Army in which they hold permanent commissions, and no officer shall be eligible to a further detail in the General Staff Corps until he shall have served two years with the branch of the Army in which commissioned, except in time of actual or threatened hostilities. Section twenty-seven of the Act of Congress approved February second, nineteen hundred and one, shall apply to each position vacated by officers below the grade of general officer detailed in the General Staff Corps." Additional pay for length of service, $38,480. ADJUTANT GENERAL'S DEPARTMENT. For pay of officers of The Adjutant General's Department, $115,500. INSPECTOR GENERAL'S DEPARTMENT. For pay of officers of the Inspector General's Department, $75,000. CORPS OF ENGINEERS. Pay of officers of the Corps of Engineers, $482,400. ORDNANCE DEPARTMENT. For pay of officers of the Ordnance Department, $289,300. made by details. Vol. 31, p. 755. Filling vacancies Longevity. Adjutant General's Department. Proviso. Provided, That section twenty-four of the national-defense Act Immediate increase approved June third, nineteen hundred and sixteen, is so amended Vol. 39, p. 182, as to authorize the President to organize immediately the whole of amended. the increase in the Ordnance Department authorized by section twelve of said Act, or such part thereof as he may deem necessary. Additional pay for length of service, $63,518.23. QUARTERMASTER CORPS. For pay of officers of the Quartermaster Corps, $771,200. MEDICAL DEPARTMENT. For Forty reserve veterinarians at $1,700 each per annum, $68,000. JUDGE ADVOCATE GENERAL'S DEPARTMENT. For pay of officers in the Judge Advocate General's Department, $75,500. Additional pay for length of service, $13,420. Codification of mili Vol. 39, p. 627. For paying the expenses of clerical hire and printing and other ex- tary laws. penses incident to the making of the revision and codification heretofore directed, not to exceed $5,000, to be expended upon certificates of the Secretary of War that the expenditures were necessary therefor of the military laws of the United States, $5,000. Signal Corps. Insular Affairs Bu reau. Retired officers. Pay. Provisos. Assignments as acting quartermasters. Vol. 33, p. 264. Longevity credit for active duty service. Longevity. Philippine Scout offi cers. Veterinarians. Pay clerks. Active duty pay. Retired enlisted men. Pay. On active duty. Reservists. Miscellaneous. Hospital matrons. Officer, buildings and grounds, D. C. Commutation of quarters, etc. Interest on deposits. Extra pay, seacoast fortifications. pay RETIRED OFFICERS. For pay of officers on the retired list, $2,700,000: Provided, That assignments which have been, or may hereafter be made, of retired officers of the Army to active duty as acting quartermasters shall be regarded as assignments to staff duties not involving service with troops within the meaning of the Act of Congress, approved April twenty-third, nineteen hundred and four. Provided, further, That hereafter any retired officer of the Army who has been detailed to active duty, and who has since his retirement, served on active detail shall be entitled to increases of longevity pay, to be computed as provided by existing statute for the computation of longevity pay, for the time of his service before retirement and on active detail since his retirement. Additional pay for length of service, $467,000. Forty-three Philippine Scout officers, $1,040.40 each per annum, $44,737.20. Three retired veterinarians, $5,355. Thirteen retired pay clerks, $21,750. Increased pay to retired officers on active duty, $145,275. RETIRED ENLISTED MEN. For pay of four thousand four hundred retired enlisted men, $3,100,000. For pay and allowances of one hundred and fifty retired enlisted men on active duty, $21,600. For pay and allowances of one hundred Regular Army reservists on active duty, $54,000. MISCELLANEOUS. Thirty hospital matrons, at $120 each per annum, $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, $60,000. For additional pay to officer in charge of public buildings and grounds at Washington, District of Columbia, $500. For commutation of quarters and of heat and light to commissioned officers, members of the Nurse Corps, and enlisted men on duty at places where no public quarters are available, including enlisted men of the Regular Army Reserve and retired enlisted men when ordered to active duty, $1,100,000. For interest on soldiers' deposits, $150,000. For pay of expert accountant for the Inspector General's Department, $2,500. For extra pay to enlisted men employed on extra duty for periods of not less than ten days in the offices of coast defense artillery engineers and coast defense ordnance officers, and as switchboard operators at seacoast fortifications, $16,263.80. |