said Secretaries, and included therein may be rules and regulations for making reports and communications between the officers or bureaus of the War and Navy Departments and the Coast and Geodetic Survey. Medical Corps, Navy. SEC. 17. That nothing contained in the Act of August twentyninth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, shall operate to disturb the Vol. 39, p. 577. relative position of officers in the Medical Corps with reference to precedence or promotion, but all such officers otherwise qualified shall be advanced in rank with or ahead of officers in said corps who were their juniors on the date of said Act. etc. mirals or vice admirals SEC. 18. That the President be, and he is hereby, further authorized etCommand of fleets, to designate six officers of the Navy for the command of fleets or Designation of adsubdivisions thereof and, after being so designated from the date of for. assuming such command until relinquishing thereof, not more than three of such officers shall each have the rank and pay of an admiral, and the others shall each have the rank and pay of a vice admiral; and the grades of admiral and vice admiral are hereby authorized and continued for the purpose of this Act: Provided, That in time of war the selections under the provisions of this section shall be made from war. the grades of rear admiral or captain on the active list of the Navy: Provided further, That the pay of an admiral shall be $10,000 and the Designation in time pay of a vice admiral $9,000 per annum: Provided further, That in of peace. time of peace officers for the command of fleets and subdivisions thereof, as herein authorized, shall be designated from among the Provisos. Pay. To return to regular rear admirals on the active list of the Navy: Provided further, That No vacancy created. nothing herein contained shall create any vacancy in any grade in the Navy or increase the total number of officers authorized by law: Provided further, That when an officer with the rank of admiral or vice rank when detached. admiral is detached from the command of a fleet or subdivision thereof, as herein authorized, he shall return to his regular rank in the list of officers of the Navy and shall thereafter receive only the pay and allowances of such rank: And provided further, That nothing in this Act shall be held or construed as amending or repealing the provisions of sections fourteen hundred and thirty-four, fourteen hundred and sixty-three, and fourteen hundred and sixty-four of the Revised Statutes of the United States. Status of "flag offi cers" not affected. 1464, pp. 252, 255. Former provision re That the provision in the Act approved March third, nineteen pealed. hundred and fifteen, for the designation of commanders in chief of Vol. 38, p. 941. certain fleets with the rank of admiral and for the designation of officers second in command of such fleets with the rank of vice admiral be, and the same is hereby, repealed. Criminal Code Vol. 35, p. 1097, amended. SEC. 19. That section forty-four of the Act entitled "An Act to amendment. codify, revise, and amend the penal laws of the United States," approved March fourth, nineteen hundred and nine, as amended by an Act entitled "An Act making appropriation for the naval service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, and for other purposes," approved March fourth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, be, and is hereby, amended by adding the following to said section: Violating defensive Jurisdiction of Dis "Provided, That offenses hereunder committed within the Canal sea areas regulations, Zone or within any defensive sea areas which the President is author- etc. Vol. 39, p. 1194, ized to establish by said section, shall be cognizable in the District amended. Court of the Canal Zone, and jurisdiction is hereby conferred upon trict Court of Canal said court to hear and determine all such cases arising under said Zone over offenses. section and to impose the penalties therein provided for the violation of any of the provisions of said section." Staff officers. SEC. 20. That hereafter all laws relating to the examination of Examination for adofficers of the Navy for promotion shall be construed to apply to the vancement to higher regular advancement of staff officers to higher ranks on the active list the same as though such advancements in rank were promotions ranks. Provisos. Records of examin ing board to be acted on by Secretary of the Navy. R.S., sec. 1502, p. 259, amended. Extra ration for deck to higher grades: Provided, That examinations for such staff officers shall not be required except for such regular advancements in rank: Provided further, That the President be, and he is hereby, authorized to direct the Secretary of the Navy to take such action on the records of proceedings of naval examining boards and boards of naval surgeons for the promotion of officers of the Navy as is now required by law to be taken by the President. SEC. 21. That during the continuance of the present war an extra force on night duty allowance of one ounce of coffee or cocoa, two ounces of during present war. May 22, 1917. [S. J. Res. 61.] sugar, four ounces of hard bread or its equivalent, and four ounces of preserved meat or its equivalent shall be allowed to enlisted men of the deck force when standing night watches between eight o'clock postmeridian and eight o'clock antemeridian. Approved, May 22, 1917. CHAP. 21.-Joint Resolution To grant authority for the erection of temporary [Pub. Res., No. 3.] buildings at the headquarters of the American Red Cross, Washington, District of Columbia. District of Columbia. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Memorial to Women States of America in Congress assembled, That authority be, and is American Red Cross hereby, given to the Commission on Memorial to Women of the Civil allowed temporary War to grant permission, under such conditions and restrictions as it of the Civil War. structures on. may deem necessary, to the central committee of the American Red Cross to erect upon square numbered one hundred and seventy-two, in the city of Washington, a temporary building or buildings for the use of the American Red Cross in connection with its work in cooperation with the Government of the United States: Provided, That any building or buildings which may be erected under this authority shall be removed and the site or sites thereof placed in good condition within three years from the date of the approval of this resolution, unless otherwise especially provided by Congress: Provided further, That the United States shall be put to no expense of any kind by reason of the exercise of the authority hereby conferred. Approved, May 22, 1917. CHAP. 22.-An Act Making appropriations for the support of the Military Academy for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the support of the Military Academy for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen: PERMANENT ESTABLISHMENT. For pay of seven professors, $27,000; For pay of the master of the sword, $3,000; Provided, That the master of the sword shall have the relative rank and shall be entitled to the pay, allowances, and emoluments of a major during the active service of the present incumbent of that office. For pay of cadets, $540,000; For extra pay of officers of the Army on detached service at the Military Academy: For pay of one commandant of cadets (lieutenant-colonel), in addition to pay as captain, $1,100; For pay of one professor of ordnance and science of gunnery (lieutenant colonel), in addition to pay as major, $500; For pay of one professor of law (lieutenant colonel), in addition to pay as major, $500; For pay of one professor of practical military engineering (lieutenant colonel), in addition to pay as major, $500; For pay of twelve assistant professors (captains), in addition to pay as first and second lieutenants, $4,800; For pay of three battalion commanders (majors), in addition to pay as captains, $1,800; For pay of one senior assistant instructor of artillery tactics (captain), in addition to pay as first lieutenant, $400; For pay of twelve instructors of cavalry, artillery, and infantry tactics (captains), in addition to pay as first and second lieutenants, $4,900; For pay of one adjutant, in addition to pay as captain or lieutenant, $600; For pay of one quartermaster and commissary of cadets and treasurer, in addition to pay as captain, $600; For pay of one line officer, on duty in quartermasters' department at academy, in addition to pay as first lieutenant, $400; For pay of one associate professor of mathematics (major), in addition to pay as captain, $600; For pay of one associate professor of modern languages (major), in addition to pay as captain, $600; For pay of one constructing quartermaster, in addition to his regular pay, $1,000; For additional pay of professors and officers (and officers on in- Longevity. creased rank) for length of service, $12,000. For pay of the Military Academy band, field musicians, general Army service, Cavalry, Artillery, and Engineering detachment, and enlisted men on detached service, and extra pay for enlisted men on special duty: For pay of one band sergeant and assistant leader, $900; Şixteen enlisted musicians, at $30 per month, $5,760; Twenty-two privates, at $15 each per month, $3,960; Additional pay for length of service, $664. For pay of general Army service: One first sergeant, $540; Twenty corporals, $5,040; Four cooks, $1,440; One hundred and seventy-nine privates, at $15 each per month, $32,220; Additional pay for length of service, $20,907. Extra pay of the enlisted men of the Army service detachment, Quartermaster's Department, on extra duty at West Point, $30,000. For pay of Cavalry detachment: One first sergeant, $540; One supply sergeant, $360; Two stable sergeants, at $30 each per month, $720; Six sergeants, $2,160; Four cooks, $1,440; Twelve corporals, $2,916; Two buglers, $360; Enlisted men. Academy band. Field musicians. General Army serv ice. Quartermaster duty. Cavalry detachment. Four horseshoers, $1,440; Two farriers, $504; Three saddlers, $756; Two wagoners, $504; One mechanic, at $21 a month, $252. One hundred and ten privates, at $15 each per month, $19,800; For additional pay of one sergeant in charge of mess, at $6 per month, $72; Additional pay for length of service, $13,800. For pay of Artillery detachment: One first sergeant, $540; One supply sergeant, $360; Two stable sergeants, $720; One chief mechanic, $288; Ten sergeants, $3,600; One mess sergeant, at $36 a month, $432; Four cooks, $1,440; Sixteen corporals, $4,032; One saddler, at $21 a month, $252; Two horseshoers, at $21 each per month, $504; Five mechanics, at $21 each per month, $1,260; Two buglers, $360; One hundred and twenty-five privates, at $15 each per month, $22,500; One electrician sergeant, $540; One electrician sergeant, second class, $432; One master gunner, $480; For additional pay for expert first-class gunners, at $5 each per month, first-class gunners, at $3 each per month, and second-class gunners, at $2 each per month (increase $1,600), $5,200; Additional pay for length of service, $7,932. For pay of Engineer detachment: One first sergeant, at $45 per month, $540; One quartermaster sergeant, at $36 per month, $432; Eight sergeants, at $36 each per month, $3,456; Ten corporals, at $24 each per month, $2,880; Two cooks, at $30 each per month, $720; Two musicians, at $15 each per month, $360; Thirty-eight privates, first class, and thirty-eight privates, $15,080; For additional pay of one sergeant in charge of detachment mess, at $6 per month, $72; Additional pay for length of service, $8,604. Additional pay of marksmen, sharpshooters, and expert riflemen, $2,280. Travel allowances to enlisted men on discharge, $2,000. Clothing not drawn due enlisted men on discharge, $9,000. For extra pay of one enlisted man employed as bugler at the cadet barracks, at 35 cents per day, $159.80. For extra pay of five ordnance soldiers employed; one as draftsman in charge of museum, one as machinist, one as clerk, one in the department of ordnance and gunnery, and one as skilled attendant in the museum, at 50 cents each per day, $782.50. For extra pay of seven enlisted men (cavalrymen) employed, two when performing especially skilled mechanical labor, one as saddler, one in charge of property and saddle equipment pertaining to riding and equitation other than military, one sergeant in charge of stables and horses, one clerk, and one in charge of new riding hall and property, and property contained therein, $1,173.50. For extra pay of nineteen enlisted men (cavalrymen), two teamsters, eleven laborers employed in keeping clean the equipment used by cadets in riding and equitation other than military, four specially qualified trainers engaged in training mounts used by cadets in riding and equitation other than military, and two laborers for harrowing and sprinkling and assisting in the care of the riding hall, at 35 cents each per day, $1,460.48. For extra pay of one enlisted man on duty in charge of engineer property and fatigue, at 50 cents per day, $156.50. For extra pay of one enlisted man as clerk in the department of practical military engineering and to the officer in charge of waterworks and works of construction at the Military Academy, at 50 cents per day, $156.50. For extra pay of eight enlisted men (artillerymen), three performing extra mechanical labor, one sergeant in charge of stables, horses, and mules, one enlisted man employed as clerk and stenographer to senior instructor of artillery tactics, and three enlisted men performing the duty of mechanics in the batteries, at 50 cents each per day, $1,304. For extra pay of four teamsters (artillerymen), at 35 cents each per day, $511. For extra pay of eight laborers (artillerymen), employed in keeping clean the equipment used by cadets, at 35 cents each per day, $876.40. For extra pay of one enlisted man as messenger in the office of the adjutant, United States Military Academy, at 35 cents per day, Sundays and holidays included, $127.75. For extra pay of one teamster (engineer soldier) employed in the department of practical military engineering, in connection with the water supply and on works of construction, at 35 cents per day, $127.75. For pay of one battalion sergeant major, Infantry, $768. Battalion sergeant major. Assistant For extra pay of thirty-eight noncommissioned officers (artillery- instructors. men) as assistant instructors of cadets, at 50 cents each per day, $6,935. PAY OF CIVILIANS. For pay of one teacher of music, $1,700. For pay of four clerks in the office of the quartermaster, as follows: One clerk, at $1,500; two, at $1,400 each; and one clerk and stenographer, at $1,200. For pay of nine clerks and stenographers employed at headquarters, United States Military Academy, in the offices of the superintendent and adjutant, as follows: One chief clerk, $1,600; One clerk, $1,500; Two clerks, at $1,400 each; one clerk, $1,300; one clerk, $1,100; $5,200. Three clerks, at $1,000 each, $3,000. For pay of one clerk to treasurer, $1,800. For pay of one clerk and stenographer in the office of the commandant of cadets, $1,200. For two civilian instructors in French, to be employed under rules prescribed by the Secretary of War, $2,000 per year each, $4,000. For two civilian instructors in Spanish, at $2,000 per year each, to be employed under rules prescribed by the Secretary of War, $4,000. For two expert civilian instructors in fencing, broadsword exercises, and other military gymnastics as may be required to perfect this part of the training of cadets, $3,000. artillery Pay of civilians. |