The numbers in the various grades shall not exceed the following percentages of the total authorized enlisted strength of the Signal Corps, namely: Master signal electricians, two per centum; sergeants, first class, seven per centum; sergeants, ten per centum; corporals, twenty per centum. The number of privates, first class, shall not exceed twenty-five per centum of the number of privates. Sec. 13, Act of June 3, 1916 (39 Stat. 176).

(For the provision of this section immediately preceding this paragraph see paragraph 889u. For outhorization for one thousand additional sergeants for detail from the Infantry, Cavalry, Field Artillery, Corps of Engineers, Coast Artillery Corps, Medical Department, and Signal Corps of the Regular Army, with corresponding organizations of the National Guard, to assist in the instruction of its personnel and the care of property, and the similar detail of one hundred additional sergeants with the disciplinary organizations at the United States Disciplinary Barracks, see paragraph 1332a.)

890b. Same-Organization of into companies, battalions, and acro squadrons.-Authority is hereby given the President to organize, in his discretion, such part of the commissioned and enlisted personnel of the Signal Corps into such number of companies, battalions, and acro squadrons as the necessities of the service may demand. Id.

890c. Same-May be mounted.-Enlisted men detailed for signal duty shall, when it is deemed necessary, be mounted on horses provided by the Government.1 Sec. 1197, R. S.

890d. Increase in enlisted men by enlistment or draft.—To provide the additional enlisted men required by this Act, the President is authorized to raise and maintain, by voluntary enlistment or by draft, such number of enlisted men as he may deem necessary and to embody them into organizations hereinafter provided for in section four. Sec, 3, Act of July 24, 1917 (40 Stat. 243).

(For the preceding sections of this act see paragraphs 879b-879e, ante.)

890e. Same-Age limits for draft.—The draft herein provided for shall not apply to any person under the age of twenty-one years or to any person above the age of thirty-one years. Id.

8901. Same--Grades of chauffeur, first class, and chauffeur

d. The grades of chauffeur, first class, and chauffeur are hereby created in the Signal Corps. Id., 244.

800g Same Pay and allowances of chauffeurs. The pay and allowances of a chauffeur, first class, shall be the same as a sergeant, Get class, in the Signal Corps. Pay and allowances of a chauffeur all be the same as a sergeant in the Signal Corps. Id.

* Cup puttsted men mentioned in this section were those detailed from the Þaréneral Fis, meer for signal duty under section 1196, R. S. The provision W yperexaidostas applicable to enlisted men of the Signal Corps as constituted

890h. Same-Rank of chauffeurs.-All chauffeurs while serving as such shall rank with corporals of the Signal Corps and shall be subject to promotion and reduction to any other grade now authorized in the Signal Corps. Id.

8901. Organization into divisions, briagdes, regiments, etc.-The President is hereby authorized to appropriately officer and organize the personnel of the Signal Corps into such number of divisions, brigades, regiments, wings, squadrons, battalions, companies, and flights as may be necessary, and to increase or decrease the number of organizations prescribed for the divisions, brigades, regiments, wings, squadrons, battalions, companies, and flights, and to prescribe such new and different organizations and personnel for divisions, brigades, regiments, wings, squadrons, battalions, companies, and flights as the efficiency of the service may require. Sec. 4, id.

890j. Same-Organization of headquarters and headquarters detachments. The President is further authorized to organize such headquarters and headquarters detachments for divisions, brigades, regiments, wings, squadrons, battalions, companies, and flights as may be necessary, and to prescribe new and different organizations for such headquarters and headquarters detachments whenever the efficiency of the service may require.1 Id.

(For the ensuing section of this act see paragraphs 879f, 879g, ante.) 898a. Collection of forwarding charges due connecting commercial or radio companies for transmission of Government business; vouchers and claims for.-Hereafter the Signal Corps, in its operation of military telegraph lines, cables, or radio stations, is authorized, in the discretion of the Secretary of War, to collect forwarding charges due 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. Act of May 12, 1917 (40 Stat. 43).

901a. Property returns to be made semiannually.-The Act of Congress approved October twelfth, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, entitled "An Act to make enlisted men of the Signal Corps responsible for public property," be amended so as to read that property returns of the Signal Corps shall be rendered semiannually or more

'Under the act of July 24, 1917, no authority is given to enlist men in the Signal Corps for musical purposes solely and on condition that they shall not be liable to or eligible for general military duty as soldiers. War Dept. Bull. 67, Nov. 30, 1917.)

often. Act of Apr. 27, 1914 (38 Stat. 353), amending Act of Oct. 12, 1888 (25 Stat. 552).

901b. Settlement of accounts between other bureaus of War Department, etc., and the Signal Corps.-Hereafter in the settlement of transactions between appropriations under the Signal Corps, or between the Signal Corps and another office or bureau of the War Department, or of any other executive department of the Government, payment therefor shall be made by the proper disbursing officer of the Signal Corps, or of the office, bureau, or department concerned. Act of Aug. 29, 1916 (39 Stat. 622).

902a. Chaplains, appointment of.-The President is authorized to appoint, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, chaplains in the Army at the rate of not to exceed, including chaplains now in service, one for each regiment of Cavalry, Infantry, Field Artillery, and Engineers, and one for each one thousand two hundred officers and men of the Coast Artillery Corps, with rank, pay, and allowances as now authorized by law. Sec. 15, Act of June 3, 1916 (39 Stat. 176).

902b. Same-Preference to be given to applicants who have been honorably discharged from the Army.-In appointment of chaplains in the Regular Army, preference and priority shall be given to applicant veterans, if otherwise duly qualified and who shall not have passed the age of forty-one years at the time of application, who have rendered honorable war service in the army of the United States or who have been honorably discharged from such Army. Id. 902c. Chaplains, appointment of.-The President is authorized to appoint, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, chaplains in the Army at the rate of not to exceed, including chaplains now in service, one for each regiment of Cavalry, Infantry, Field Artillery, and Engineers, and one for each one thousand two hundred officers and men of the Coast Artillery Corps, with rank, pay, and allowances as now authorized by law. Act of May 12, 1917 (40 Stat. 72) amending sec. 15, Act of June 3, 1916 (39 Stat. 176). 902d. Chaplains at large, number.-The President may appoint for service during the present emergency not exceeding twenty chaplains at large for the United States Army representing religious sects not recognized in the apportionment of chaplains now recognized by law. Act of Oct. 6, 1917 (40 Stat. 394).

902e. Same-Qualifications as to citizenship.-No person shall be eligible to such appointment unless he be at the time of his appointment a citizen of the United States. Id.

'First readers of the Christian Science Church are eligible to appointment as chaplains at large under the act of October 6, 1917, authorizing appointment from religious sects not recognized in the apportionment of chaplains now recog nized by law. (War Dept. Bull. 67, Nov. 30, 1917.)