ARMY APPROPRIATION ACT. [PUBLIC-No. 149.] By the Act Making appropriation for the support of the Army for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and five, and for other purposes, approved April 23, 1904. 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 they are hereby, appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the support of the Army for the year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and five: CONTINGENCIES OF THE ARMY: For all contingent expenses of the Army not otherwise provided for, and embracing all branches of the military service, including the office of the Chief of Staff, to be expended under the immediate orders of the Secretary of War, twenty thousand dollars ARMY WAR COLLEGE: For expenses of the Army War College, being for the temporary hire of office rooms, purchase of the necessary stationery, office, toilet, and desk furniture, text-books, books of reference, scientific and professional papers and periodicals, binding, maps, police utensils, and for all other absolutely necessary expenses, fifteen thousand dollars $20,000.00 15,000.00 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 unforeseen expenses, ten 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, one thousand dollars 10,000.00 1,000.00 For purchase of special apparatus and for experimental purposes of the department of electricity, mines, and mechanism, Fort Totten, New York, two thousand dollars.. 2,000.00 For purchase of special apparatus and for experimental purposes of the department of chemistry and explosives, Fort Totten, New York, one thousand five hundred dollars.... For purchase of special apparatus for electrician sergeants division, School of Submarine Defense, Fort Totten, New York, three thousand 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, two thousand five hundred dollars. [Total amount under the Chief of Artillery, $20,000.] UNITED STATES SERVICE SCHOOLS: To provide means for the theoretical and practical instruction at the Artillery School, at Fort Monroe, Virginia; the School of Submarine Defense, at Fort Totten, New York: the General Service and Staff College, at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, 1,500.00 3,000.00 2,500.00 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 interest of the military service, twenty-five thousand dollars.. 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 divisions and department commanders, seven thousand five hundred dollars 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. 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; 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 and eight thousand five hundred dollars; for completing the purchase, installation, operation, and maintenance of a submarine military cable from Sitka, Alaska, to Fort Liscum, Alaska, connecting by an all-American route the headquarters of the Department of Columbia with the military garrisons in southeastern Alaska, as authorized by the Act of Congress approved March second, nineteen hundred and three, three hundred and twenty-one thousand five hundred and eighty dollars.... PAY OF OFFICERS OF THE LINE. For pay of officers of the line, five million dollars For pay of officers for length of service, to be paid with their current monthly pay, one million and seventy-one thousand four hundred and twenty-eight dollars... PAY OF ENLISTED MEN. For pay of enlisted men of all grades, including recruits, nine million dollars: Provided, That hereafter first-class gunners of field artillery shall receive two dollars per month and second-class gunners one dollar per month in addition to their pay.. $25,000.00 7,500.00 10,000.00 530, 080.00 5, 000, 000. 00 1,071, 428. 00 9, 000, 000, 00 For refunding to Major William H. Arthur, Medical Department, United States Army, money disbursed through errors in descriptive list of an enlisted man of the Second Regiment, United States Infantry, seventy-five dollars For additional pay for length of service, one million two hundred and eighty-eight thousand six hundred and fifty dollars.. $75.00 1,288, 650.00 ENGINEER BATTALION. Two hundred and seventy thousand seven hundred and fifty-six dollars.. Additional pay for length of service, twenty-seven thousand three hundred and seventy-six dollars. 270, 756. 00 27, 376.00 ORDNANCE DEPARTMENT. One hundred and seventy-one thousand one hundred and twenty dollars.. 171, 120.00 Additional pay for length of service, nineteen thousand seven hundred and eighty-six dollars 19, 786. 00 QUARTERMASTER'S DEPARTMENT. Two hundred quartermaster-sergeants, at four hundred and eight dollars each, eighty-one thousand and six hundred dollars.. Additional pay for length of service, fourteen thousand four hundred dollars 81, 600.00 14, 400.00 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, nineteen thousand two hundred dollars.. 81, 600.00 19, 200.00 ELECTRICIAN SERGEANTS (ARTILLERY CORPS). Twenty-five master electricians, at nine hundred dollars each, and one hundred electrician sergeants, at four hundred and eight dollars each, sixty-three thousand three hundred dollars Additional pay for length of service, four thousand and eighty dollars. 63,300.00 4 080.00 SIGNAL CORPS. 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. 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-nine thousand three hundred and twenty-eight dollars. [Correct amount, $26,208.] Twenty-four cooks, at two hundred and forty dollars each, five thousand seven hundred and sixty dollars. Thirty-six master signal electricians, at nine hundred dollars each, thirty-two thousand four hundred dollars: Provided, That the increase of enlisted men herein authorized shall take effect immediately. In all, three hundred and forty-seven thousand five hundred and sixty-eight dollars. [Correct amount by items, $344,448.]Additional pay for length of service, seventeen thousand one hundred dollars $344, 448, 00 17,100.00 HOSPITAL CORPS. Seven hundred and seventy thousand four hundred dollars Additional pay for length of service, one hundred and three thousand four hundred and sixty-two dollars PAY TO CLERKS AND MESSENGERS AT HEADQUARTERS OF DIVISION AND One chief clerk, at the office of the Chief of Staff, two thousand dollars per annum. Four clerks, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each per annum. annum. Sixty five clerks, at one thousand two hundred dollars each per annum. Eighty-six clerks, at one thousand dollars each per annum. Sixty-eight general-service messengers, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each per annum. In all, two hundred and seventy-three thousand one hundred and sixty dollars And said clerks and messengers shall be employed and assigned by the Secretary of War to the offices and positions in which they are to serve. FOR PAY OF OFFICERS OF THE STAFF CORPS, DIVISIONS AND DEPART- ADJUTANT-GENERAL'S DEPARTMENT: For pay of officers in the Adjutant-General's Department, eighty-three thousand five hundred dollars. For additional pay to such officers for length of service, to be paid with their current monthly pay, twenty-five thousand and fifty dollars. In all, one hundred and eight thousand five hundred and fifty dollars. That the officers of the Adjutant-General's Department, except the Adjutant-General, and the officers of the Record and Pension Office shall hereafter constitute one department of the Army, to be known as the Military Secretary's Department; and the Adjutant-General's Office and the Record and Pension Office, heretofore constituting bureaus of the War Department, shall hereafter constitute a consolidated bureau to be known as the Military Secretary's Office of the War Department. The officers so consolidated shall be borne on one list in the order of rank held by them, and those of them who hold permanent appointments as officers of the Adjutant-General's Department or of the Record and Pension Office shall be entitled to promotion below the grade of brigadier-general, as now provided by law and in the order of their standing on said list. Except as otherwise provided herein, the laws now in force shall continue to govern the appointment, promotion, and detail of all officers of the consolidated department hereby created: Provided, That the officers of the said consolidated department shall be subject to the supervision of the Chief of Staff in all 770, 400.00 103, 462.00 273, 160.00 108, 550.00 matters pertaining to the command, discipline, or administration of the existing military establishment: Provided further, That no appointments or details to the grade of assistant adjutant-general with the rank of major shall be made until the number of officers of that grade shall be reduced to less than ten, and thereafter the number of officers of said grade in the consolidated department shall be ten: Provided further, That of the officers consolidated as hereinbefore provided the senior in rank, who shall be chief of the consolidated department and the title of whose office is hereby changed to that of the military secretary, shall hereafter have the rank of major-general, and the second senior of said officers shall hereafter have the rank of brigadier-general: Provided further, That when the office of Military Secretary with the rank of major-general shall hereafter become vacant, it shall not be filled with said rank, and thereafter the chief of the Military Secretary's Department shall have the rank of a brigadier-general with the title of The Military Secretary, and there shall be only one officer above the rank of colonel in the said department. Except as hereinafter provided, the remaining offices of the consolidated department shall retain the titles that they now bear: Provided further, That when the office of Adjutant-General shall become vacant the vacancy so created on the active list of the Army shall not be filled, and thereafter the several officers now designated by the title assistant adjutantgeneral and by the title assistant chief of the Record and Pension Office shall be designated by the title Military Secretary: Provided further, That the chief of the Military Secretary's Department shall be a member of the Board of Commissioners of the United States Soldiers' Home. 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, fifteen thousand four hundred and fifty dollars. In all, sixty-five thousand nine hundred and fifty dollars. THE CORPS OF ENGINEERS: For pay of officers in the Corps of Engineers, three hundred and thirty-one thousand nine hundred dollars. For additional pay to such officers for length of service, to be paid with their current monthly pay, ninety-nine thousand five hundred and seventy dollars. In all, four hundred and thirty-one thousand four hundred and seventy dollars.. That section twenty-two of the Act approved February second, nineteen hundred and one, entitled "An Act to increase the efficiency of the permanent military establishment of the United States," be, and the same is hereby, amended so that it shall read as follows: "SEC. 22. That the Corps of Engineers shall consist of one Chief of Engineers with the rank of brigadier-general, of ten colonels, sixteen lieutenant-colonels, thirty-two majors, forty-three captains, forty-three first lieutenants, and forty-three second lieutenants. The enlisted force provided in section eleven of this Act, and the officers serving with the organized battalions thereof, shall constitute a part of the line of the Army: Provided, That the Chief of Engineers shall be appointed as now provided by law, and hereafter vacancies in the Corps of Engineers in all other grades above that of second lieutenant shall be filled by promotion, according to seniority, from the Corps of Engineers. Any vacancies occurring at any time in the grade of second lieutenant shall be left for future promotions from the corps of cadets at the United States Military Academy." ORDNANCE DEPARTMENT: For pay of officers in the Ordnance Department, one hundred and fifty-three thousand nine hundred dollars." For additional pay to such officers for length of service, to be paid $65,950.00 431, 470. 00 |