Repeal. SEC. 10. That all Acts and parts of Acts in conflict with the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed. May 11, 1908. CHAP. 163.-An Act Making appropriation for the support of [H. R. 17288.] the Army for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen [Public, No. hundred and nine. 112.] 35 Stat. L., pt. 1, p. 106. priations. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assemArmy appro- bled, 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 nine: Contingent expenses. OFFICE OF THE CHIEF OF STAFF. 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 fortyriodicals, etc. eight, Revised Statutes, shall not apply to subscriptions for foreign and professional newspapers and periodicals. to be paid for from this appropriation. Proviso. R. S., 3648. pe sec. Service penses. Proviso. ex Conveyance graph office, OFFICE OF THE CHIEF SIGNAL OFFICER. SIGNAL SERVICE OF THE ARMY: For expenses of the Signal Service of the Army, as follows: * * * Provided, That the conveyance by Tillie Mcof lot in Alas Chesney to the United States of a lot in the town of ka fortele- Fairbanks, Territory of Alaska, donated by said town as etc., accepted. a site for a telegraph office and quarters for a detachment of the Signal Corps of the Army, which conveyance was by deed duly executed, acknowledged, and recorded in volume two of deeds, Fairbanks precinct, Alaska, is hereby accepted. Cost for ex * Washington- WASHINGTON-ALASKA MILITARY CABLE AND TELEGRAPH Alaska cable, etc. SYSTEM: For defraying the cost of such extensions and tension, etc., betterments of the Washington-Alaska military cable available from and telegraph system as may be approved by the Secretary of War, to be available until the close of the fiscal receipts. year nineteen hundred and ten from the receipts of the Washington-Alaska military cable and telegraph system that have been covered into the Treasury of the United States, the extent of such extensions and the cost thereof Report to Congress. to be reported to Congress by the Secretary of War, two hundred thousand dollars. Reimburse To reimburse officers traveling on duty in connection with the Washington-Alaska military cable and tele- ment. graph system since January first, nineteen hundred and four, for money paid by them for traveling expenses in excess of the mileage allowed them by law, two thousand five hundred dollars. PAY OF ENLISTED MEN. Pay of off sec. R. S.. 1261, amended. Cadets. Allowance for mounts. That hereafter the annual pay of officers of the Army cers increased. of the several grades herein mentioned shall be as follows: Major-general, eight thousand dollars; brigadiergeneral, six thousand dollars; colonel, four thousand dollars; lieutenant-colonel, three thousand five hundred dollars; major, three thousand dollars; captain, two thousand four hundred dollars; first lieutenant, two thousand dollars; second lieutenant, one thousand seven hundred dollars. And the pay of cadets at the Military Academy shall hereafter be six hundred dollars a year. That hereafter the United States shall furnish mounts and horse equipments for all officers of the Army below the grade of major required to be mounted, but in case any officer below the grade of major required to be mounted provides himself with suitable mounts at his own expense, he shall receive an addition to his pay of one hundred and fifty dollars per annum if he provides one mount, and two hundred dollars per annum if he provides two mounts. Section twelve hundred and sixty-seven of the Revised Statutes of the United States is hereby amended to read as follows: "In no case shall the pay of a colonel colonels and exceed five thousand dollars a year; the pay of a lieu- lieutenant-coltenant-colonel exceed four thousand five hundred dollars R. S., sec. a year, or the pay of a major exceed four thousand dol- 1267, amended. lars a year:" Provided, That nothing in this section is Proviso. intended to increase or change or shall be construed as not affected. increasing or changing the present pay or allowances of any officer in the United States Navy; and section thirteen of an Act entitled "An Act to reorganize and increase the efficiency of the personnel of the Navy and Marine Corps of the United States," approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, shall not be construed as changing the pay of any naval officer by reason of the provisions of this Act. Maximum for onels. Navy officers for death in That hereafter immediately upon official notification of Allowances the death from wounds or disease contracted in line of service. expenses. duty of any officer or enlisted man on the active list of the Army, the Paymaster-General of the Army shall cause to be paid to the widow of such officer or enlisted man, or to any other person previously designated by him, an amount equal to six months' pay at the rate received by such officer or enlisted man at the date of his death, less seventy-five dollars in the case of an officer and Interment thirty-five dollars in the case of an enlisted man. From Beneficiaries the amount thus reserved the Quartermaster's Departto be desig-ment shall be reimbursed for expenses of interment, and the residue, if any, of the amount reserved shall be paid subsequently to the designated person. The Secretary of War shall establish regulations requiring each officer and enlisted man to designate the proper person to whom this amount shall be paid in case of his death, and said amount shall be paid to that person from funds appropriated for the pay of the Army. nated. Pay of en listed men in R. S., secs. 1280, 1281, amended. Noncommis sioned officers. That hereafter the monthly pay of enlisted men of the creased. Army during their first enlistment shall be as follows, RSS namely: Master electricians, master signal electricians, seventy-five dollars; engineers, sixty-five dollars; sergeants first class Hospital Corps, fifty dollars; regimental sergeants-major, regimental quartermaster-sergeants, regimental commissary-sergeants, sergeants-major senior grade coast artillery, battalion sergeants-major of engineers, post quartermaster-sergeants, post commissarysergeants, post ordnance-sergeants, battalion quartermaster-sergeants of engineers, electrician-sergeants first class, sergeants first class Signal Corps, and first sergeants, forty-five dollars; battalion sergeants-major of infantry and field artillery, squadron sergeants-major, sergeantsmajor junior grade coast artillery, battalion quartermaster-sergeants, field artillery, and master gunners, forty dollars; electrician-sergeants second class, sergeants of engineers, ordnance, and Signal Corps, quartermaster-sergeants of engineers, and color-sergeants, thirty-six dollars; sergeants and quartermaster-sergeants of cavalry, artillery, and infantry, stable-sergeants, sergeants, and acting cooks of the Hospital Corps, firemen, and cooks, Provisos. thirty dollars: Provided, That mess sergeants shall remess sergeants.ceive six dollars per month in addition to their pay; corporals of engineers, ordnance, Signal Corps, and Hospital Corps, chief mechanics, and mechanics, coast artillery, twenty-four dollars; corporals of cavalry, artillery, and infantry, mechanics of field artillery, blacksmiths and farriers, saddlers, wagoners, and artificers, twentyHorseshoers. one dollars: Provided, That not to exceed one blacksmith and farrier in each troop of cavalry and one mechanic in each battery of field artillery shall receive nine dollars per month additional for performing the duty of horseshoer; privates first class of engineers, ordnance, Signal Corps, and Hospital Corps, eighteen dollars; privates. Hospital Corps, sixteen dollars; trumpeters, musicians of Extra to Privates. infantry, artillery, and engineers, privates of cavalry, artillery, infantry, Signal Corps, and privates second class, engineers and ordnance, fifteen dollars. Reenlistment continuousservice pay. 1282. 1284, That hereafter any soldier honorably discharged at the termination of an enlistment period who reenlists within three months thereafter shall be entitled to continuous- R. S.. secs. service pay as herein provided, which shall be in addition amended. to the initial pay provided for in this Act and shall be as follows, namely: For those whose initial pay as provided herein is thirty-six dollars or more an increase of four dollars monthly pay for and during the second enlistment, and a further increase of four dollars for and during each subsequent enlistment up to and including the seventh, after which the pay shall remain as in the seventh enlistment. For those whose initial pay as provided for herein is eighteen, twenty-one, twenty-four, or thirty dollars, an increase of three dollars monthly pay for and during the second enlistment, and a further increase of three dollars for and during each subsequent enlistment up to and including the seventh, after which the pay shall remain as in the seventh enlistment. For those whose initial pay as provided for herein is fifteen and sixteen dollars, an increase of three dollars monthly pay for and during the second and third enlistments each, and a further increase of one dollar for and during each subsequent enlistment up to and including the seventh, after which the pay shall remain as in the seventh enlistment: Provided, That hereafter any soldier honorably Provisos. discharged at the termination of his first or any succeed- for reenlisting enlistment period who reenlists after the expiration ing in three of three months shall be regarded as in his second enlistment; that an enlistment shall not be regarded as complete until the soldier shall have made good any time lost during an enlistment period by unauthorized absences exceeding one day, but any soldier who receives an honorable discharge for the convenience of the Government after having served more than half of his enlistment shall be considered as having served an enlistment period within the meaning of this Act; that the present enlistment period of men now in service shall be determined by the number of years continuous service they have had at the date of approval of this Act, under existing laws, counting three years to an enlistment, and the former service entitling an enlisted man to reenlisted pay under existing laws shall be counted as one enlistment period: And provided further, That hereafter any private soldier. Bonus to primusician or trumpeter honorably discharged at the ter- reenlistment. mination of his first enlistment period who reenlists within three months of the date of said discharge shall, upon such reenlistment, receive an amount equal to three months' pay at the rate he was receiving at the time of his discharge. 12607-09- -5 Allowance months, etc. vates for first pay. gunners, etc. Additional That hereafter enlisted men now qualified or hereafter Marksmen, qualifying as marksmen shall receive two dollars per month; as sharpshooters, three dollars per month; as expert riflemen, five dollars per month; as second-class gunners, two dollars per month; as first-class gunners, three dollars per month; as gun pointers, gun commanders, observers second class, chief planters and chief loaders, seven dollars per month; as plotters, observers first class, and casemate electricians, nine dollars per month, all in addition to their pay, under such regulations as the Secretary of War may prescribe, but no enlisted man shall receive at the same time additional pay for more than one of the classifications named in this section: Provided, That nothing in this Act shall be construed to increase the total number of gun pointers, gun commanders, observers, chief planters, chief loaders, plotters, and casemate electricians now authorized by law. Proviso. Service beyond United States. Musicians' pay increased. That increase of pay for service beyond the limits of the States comprising the Union, and the territories of the United States contiguous thereto, shall be as now provided by law. That hereafter the monthly pay during the first enlistment of enlisted men of bands, exclusive of the band of the United States Military Academy, shall be as follows: Chief musicians, seventy-five dollars; principal musicians and chief trumpeters, forty dollars; sergeants and drum-majors, thirty-six dollars; corporals, thirty dollars; and privates, twenty-four dollars; and the continuous-service pay of all grades shall be as provided in this Proviso. Act: Provided, That army bands or members thereof side military shall not receive remuneration for furnishing music outside the limits of military posts when the furnishing of such music places them in competition with local civilian Music out posts. 1280, 1281, Home fund. 4819, amended. muscians. R. S., secs. That sections twelve hundred and eighty, twelve hun1284, repealed, dred and eighty-one, and twelve hundred and eighty-four Soldiers' of the Revised Statutes be, and are hereby, repealed, and R. S., sec. so much of section forty-eight hundred and nineteen as pertains to the deduction of twelve and one-half cents per month from the pay of every soldier of the Regular Army for the benefit of the Soldiers' Home be, and the same is hereby, repealed. War pay repealed. Penalty for desertion. Present pay, etc., not reduced. That section six of the Act entitled “An Act for the better organization of the line of the Army of the United States," approved April twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, be amended so as to read as follows: "SEC. 6. That any soldier who deserts shall, besides incurring the penalties now attaching to the crime of desertion, forfeit all right to pension which he might otherwise have acquired." That nothing herein contained shall be construed so as to reduce the pay or allowances now authorized by law for any officer or enlisted man of the Army; and all laws |