Switchboard operators at interior posts. Extra pay, Alaska cable, etc. Mileage to officers, etc. Additional pay, foreign service, officers. Enlisted men. Computer. Loss by exchange. Attendance of militia at service schools. Additional pay. Death from wounds, etc. Officers furnishing mounts. Jennie Carroll. Vol. 35, p. 1325. Mabel H. Lazear. Vol. 35, p. 1325. Porto Rico Regiment of Infantry. Officers. Enlisted men. Longevity. Philippine Scouts. Officers. Longevity. Enlisted men. For extra pay to enlisted men employed on extra duty as switchboard operators at each interior post of the army, nine thousand dollars. For extra pay to enlisted men of the line of the army and to enlisted men of the Signal Corps employed in the Territory of Alaska on the Alaskan cable and telegraph system, for periods of not less than ten days, at the rate of thirty-five cents per day, thirty-six thousand dollars. For mileage to officers and contract surgeons when authorized by law, six hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. For additional ten per centum increase on pay of officers on foreign service, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. For additional twenty per centum increase to enlisted men on foreign service, seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars. For pay of one computer for artillery board, two thousand five hundred dollars. For payment of exchange by special disbursing agents of the Pay Department serving in foreign countries, two hundred dollars. For subsistence, mileage, and commutation of quarters to officers of the national guard attending service and garrison schools, twenty thousand dollars. For three months' additional pay to enlisted men reenlisting within the period of three months from date of discharge from first enlistment, one hundred thousand dollars. For six months' additional pay to beneficiaries of officers and enlisted men who die while in active service from wounds or disease not the result of their own misconduct, one hundred thousand dollars. For additional pay to officers below the grade of major required to be mounted and who furnish their own mounts, one hundred and twenty-seven thousand five hundred dollars. For amount required to make monthly payment to Jennie Carroll, widow of James Carroll, late major and surgeon, United States Army, as per Act of Congress approved May twenty-third, nineteen hundred and eight, one thousand five hundred dollars. For amount required to make monthly payment to Mabel H. Lazear, widow of Jesse W. Lazear, late acting assistant surgeon, United States Army, as per Act of Congress approved May twentythird, nineteen hundred and eight, one thousand five hundred dollars. For Porto Rico Regiment of Infantry, composed of two battalions of four companies each: Pay of officers, sixty-five thousand seven hundred dollars. For additional pay for length of service, nine thousand one hundred dollars. Pay of enlisted men, one hundred and twenty-nine thousand and twenty-four dollars. Additional pay for length of service, twenty-nine thousand nine hundred and twenty-five dollars. PHILIPPINE SCOUTS. For pay of fifty-two captains, one hundred and twenty-four thousand eight hundred dollars. For pay of sixty-three first lieutenants, one hundred and twentysix thousand dollars. For pay of sixty-three second lieutenants, one hundred and seven thousand one hundred dollars. For pay of eleven majors, in addition to pay as captain, six hundred dollars each, six thousand six hundred dollars. Additional pay for length of service, eighty thousand dollars. For pay of enlisted men, six hundred and twelve thousand nine hundred and fifty dollars and forty cents. For additional pay for length of service, fifty thousand dollars. All the money herein before appropriated for pay of the army and miscellaneous, except the appropriation for mileage of officers and contract surgeons when authorized by law, 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. Longevity. Pay accounts. Organized militia. ments with Army. Expensesofencamp ENCAMPMENT AND MANEUVERS, ORGANIZED MILITIA: For paying the expenses 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 Vol. 32, pp. 777, 779. twenty-first, nineteen hundred and three, entitled "An Act to promote the efficiency of the militia, and for other purposes," to be immediately available and to remain available until the end of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and twelve, one million three hundred and fifty thousand dollars. SUBSISTENCE DEPARTMENT. Subsistence Depart ment. Supplies. Purchase of subsistence supplies: For issue, as rations to troops, civil employees when entitled thereto, hospital matrons, nurses, applicants for enlistment while held under observation, general prisoners of war (including Indians held by the army as prisoners, but for whose subsistence appropriation is not otherwise made), Indians employed with the army, without pay, as guides and scouts, and military convicts at posts; for the subsistence of the masters, officers, crews, and employees of the vessels of the army transport service; hot coffee for troops traveling when supplied with cooked or travel rations; meals for recruiting parties, and applicants for enlistment while held under observation; authorized issues of soap, candles, matches, toilet paper, salt, vinegar, flour, and towels; authorized issues of toilet articles, barbers', laundry, and tailors' materials, for use of military convicts confined at military posts without pay or allowances, and applicants for enlistment while held under observation; for issues of toilet kits to recruits upon their first enlistment; ice for issue to organizations of enlisted men at such places as the Secretary of War may determine; for sales to officers and enlisted men of the army; coffee roasters and 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, office furniture, commissary chests and outfits, and field desks of commissaries: Provided, That the sum of twelve thousand dollars is authorized to be expended to defray the cost of furnishing food, and for providing extra-duty pay for cooks, assistant cooks, and waiters, and for perishable table equipment in subsisting enlisted men of the Regular Army and the organized militia who may be competitors in the national rifle match: And provided further, That no competitor who is thus subsisted shall be entitled to commutation of rations, and no greater expense shall be incurred than one dollar and fifty cents per man per day for the period the contest is in progress. For payments: Of commutation of rations to the cadets at the United States Military tions. Academy in lieu of the regular established ration at the rate of thirty cents per ration; of the regulation allowances of commutation in lieu of rations to enlisted men on furlough, 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, enlisted men selected to contest for places or prizes in department and army rifle competitions while traveling to and from places Provisos. Restriction. Payments. vilians. men, etc. of contest, male and female nurses on leaves of absence, applicants for enlistment and military convicts while traveling under orders; 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 while held under observation, and military convicts 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 Compensation of ci- in said hospital), to be paid to the surgeon in charge; of compensaExtra pay, enlisted tion of civilians employed in the Subsistence Department; of 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; of extra-duty pay at rates to be fixed by the Secretary of War for mess stewards and cooks at recruit depots, who are to be graduates at the schools for bakers and cooks, and instructor cooks at the schools for bakers and cooks; for printing, advertising, commercial newspapers, and use of telephones; for temporary buildings, cellars, and other means of protecting subsistence supplies (when not proPrizes for bakers vided by the Quartermaster's Department); 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; for other necessary expenses incident to the purchase, testing, care, preservation, issue, sale, and accounting for subsistence supplies for the army; in all, eight million seven hundred thousand dollars, 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. and cooks. Amount. Quartermaster's De partment. Regular supplies. Vol. 32, p. 252. QUARTERMASTER'S DEPARTMENT. REGULAR SUPPLIES: 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 repair and maintenance of such heating and cooking appliances; for furnishing heat and light for the authorized allowance of quarters for officers and enlisted men, for officers of the national guard attending service and garrison schools, and for recruits, guards, hospitals, storehouses, offices, the buildings erected at private cost in the operation of the Act approved May thirty-first, nineteen hundred and two; 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 Allowance to officers animals; and hereafter, when an officer is separated from his authorized number of owned horses through the nature of the military service upon which employed, they shall not be deprived of forage, bedding, shelter, shoeing, or medicines therefor, because of such Forage, etc. separated from their horses. Provisos. Ice machines, laundries, etc. separation; of straw for soldiers' bedding, and of stationery, typewriters and exchange of same, 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: Provided, That no part of the appropriations for the Quartermaster's Department shall be expended on printing unless the same shall be done at the Government Printing Office, or 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 eleven, whenever the ice Disposal of surplus machines, steam laundries, and electric plants shall not come in products. 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 se 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, eight million two hundred thousand dollars. ceeds, etc. Amount. schools. pro For the purchase of the necessary instruments, oflice furniture, Equipment of post stationery, and other authorized articles required for the equipment and use of the officers' schools at the several military posts, ten thousand dollars. Interments. INCIDENTAL EXPENSES: Postage; cost of telegrams on official busi- Incidental expenses. ness 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 the United States military prison guard; 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 oflicers, 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 care of officers' mounts when the same are furnished by the Government and 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 Horse expenditures. 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, two million two hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. Amount. Provisos. HORSES FOR CAVALRY, ARTILLERY, AND ENGINEERS: For the purchase of horses for officers entitled to public mounts, 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 thirty-four thousand four hundred and eighty-seven dollars and ninety 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, including reasonable provisions for remounts, 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: Provided, That no part of this appropriation shall be used for breeding purposes: Provided further, That no part of this appropriation shall be expended for the purchase of any horses below the standard set by army regulations for cavalry and artillery horses: Purchases from offi- And provided further, That hereafter when a mounted officer is ordered to duty beyond the seas or to make a change of station in the United States in which the cost of transportation for his authorized number of owned horses exceeds the sum at the time allowed for that purpose in the Army Regulations, the Secretary of War is authorized, under such regulations in respect to inspection and valuation as he may prescribe, in his discretion to permit the purchase of said horses by the Quartermaster's Department, at a price not exceeding the average contract price paid for horses during the preceding fiscal year, the exact price to be fixed by a board of officers. BARRACKS AND QUARTERS: For barracks, quarters, stables, storehouses, magazines, administration and office buildings, sheds, shops, and other buildings necessary for the shelter of troops, public animals, and stores, and for administration purposes, except those Breeding. cers ordered to distant duty. Barracks and quar ters. |