8 Additional pay for length of service to enlisted men, $3,875,000: Provided, That the provisions of section 10 of an act entitled "An act to authorize the President to increase temporarily the Military Establishment of the United States," approved May 18, 1917, in so far as it increases the pay of the enlisted men of the Army, be, and the same hereby are, continued in force and effect from and after the date and approval of this act. Pay of persons with retired status: For pay of the officers on the retired list, $2,500,000. For increase pay to retired officers on active duty, $200,000. For pay of retired enlisted men, $3,000,000. For pay and allowances of retired enlisted men on active duty, $20,000. For pay and allowances of Regular Army reservists on active duty, $40,000. For pay of retired Philippine Scout officers, $45,000. For pay of retired pay clerks, $18,000. For pay of retired veterinarians, $3,500. Clerks, messengers, and laborers, office of the Chief of Staff: One chief clerk, at $2.500 per annum, $2,500. One clerk, at $2,250 per annum, $2,250. Six clerks, at $2,000 each per annum, $12,000. Twenty-one clerks, at $1,400 each per annum, $29.400. One packer, at $840 per annum, $840. One chief messenger, at $1,000 per annum, $1,000. Five charwomen, at $240 each per annum, $1,200. Pay of Army field clerks and civil-service messengers at headquarters of the several territorial departments, Army and Corps Headquarters, territorial districts, tactical divisions and brigades, service schools, camps and ports of embarkation and debarkation: Eighty clerks, at $1,800 each per annum, $144,000. Seven clerks, at $2,000 each per annum, $14,000. One hundred and seventy-two clerks, at $1,600 each per annum, $275,200. Eleven clerks, at $1,800 each per annum, $19,800. Two hundred and twenty-two clerks, at $1,400 each per annum, $310,800. Fourteen clerks, at $1,600 each per annum, $22,400. 9 Five hundred and twenty-six clerks, at $1,200 each per annum, $631,200. Thirty-two clerks, at $1,400 each per annum, $44,800. One hundred and nineteen messengers, at $720 each per annum, $85,680. Fifty-seven clerks, at $1,200 each per annum, $68,400. For commutation of quarters and of heat and light, $23,040: Provided, That Army field clerks shall have the same allowances and benefits as heretofore allowed by law to pay clerks, Quartermaster Corps, not including retirement: Provided, however, That the minimum or entrance pay exclusive of said allowances of said Army field clerks shall be $1,200 per annum: Provided further, That Army field clerks shall receive the same increase of pay for service beyond the continental limits of the United States as is allowed by law to commissioned officers of the Army: And provided further, That the Secretary of War is authorized to employ, during the present emergency and for a period not exceeding four months thereafter, such additional Army field clerks as may be necessary, not exceeding 4,272. For commutation of quarters and of heat and light for field clerks, Quartermaster Corps, $76,800: Provided, That said clerks, messengers, and laborers shall be employed and assigned by the Secretary of War to the offices and positions in which they are to serve: Provided further, That no clerk, messenger, or laborer at headquarters of tactical divisions, military departments, brigades, service schools, and office of the Chief of Staff shall be assigned to duty in any bureau of the War Department. Miscellaneous: For pay of contract surgeons, $90,000. For pay of hospital matrons, $3,600. For pay of reserve veterinarians, $350,000. For expenses of courts-martial, courts of inquiry, military commissions, retiring boards, and compensation of reporters and witnesses attending same, and expenses of taking depositions and securing other evidence for use before the same, $200,000. For additional pay to officer in charge of public buildings and grounds at Washington, District of Columbia, $500. For commutation of quarters and heat and light to commissioned officers, warrant officers, members of the Nurse Corps, and enlisted men on duty at places where no public quarters are available, including enlisted men of the Regular Army Reserve and retired enlisted men when ordered to active duty, $4,821,150. For interest on soldiers' deposits, $145,000. For pay of expert accountant for the Inspector General's Department, $2,500. 130340-19--2 10 For extra pay to enlisted men employed on extra duty for periods of not less than ten days in the offices of Coast Defense Artillery Engineers and Coast Defense Ordnance officers, and as switchboard operators at seacoast fortifications, $25,000. For extra pay to enlisted men employed on extra duty as switchboard operators at each interior post of the Army, $19,215. For extra pay to enlisted men of the line of the Army and to enlisted men of the Quartermaster Corps, Medical Department, and of the Signal Corps employed in the Territory of Alaska on the Washington-Alaska cable and telegraph system for periods of not less than ten days at the rate of 35 cents per day, $38,430. For mileage to commissioned officers, warrant officers, members of the Officers' Reserve Corps, when ordered to active duty, contract surgeons, expert accountant, Inspector General's Department, Army field clerks, and field clerks of the Quartermaster Corps, when authorized by law, $2,500,000. For additional 10 per centum increase of pay of officers on foreign service, $1,000,000: Provided, That hereafter warrant officers shall receive the same increase of pay for service beyond the continental limits of the United States as is allowed to commissioned officers of the Army. For additional 20 per centum increase of pay of enlisted men on foreign service, $4,000,000. For pay of one computer for Artillery Board, $2,500. For payment of exchange by acting quartermasters serving in foreign countries and when specially authorized by the Secretary of War by officers disbursing funds pertaining to the Quartermaster Corps when serving in Alaska, and all foreign money received shall be charged to and paid out by disbursing officers of the Quartermaster Corps at the legal valuation fixed by the Secretary of the Treasury, $1,000. For additional pay to officers below the grade of major required to be mounted and who furnish their own mounts, $240,000. For amount required to make monthly payment to Jennie Carroll, widow of James Carroll, late major, United States Army, $1,500. For amount required to make monthly payments to Mabel H. Lazear, widow of Jesse W. Lazear, late acting assistant surgeon, United States Army, $1,500. For amount required to make monthly payments of $100 to John R. Kissinger, late of Company D, One hundred and fiftyseventh Indiana Volunteer Infantry, also late of the Hospital Corps, United States Army, $1,200. All the money hereinbefore appropriated for pay of the Army and miscellaneous, except the appropriation for mileage to commissioned officers, contract surgeons, expert accountant, Inspector General's Department, Army field clerks, and field clerks of the Quartermaster Corps, when authorized by law, shall be 11 disbursed and accounted for as pay of the Army, and for that purpose shall constitute one fund. SUBSISTENCE OF THE ARMY: Purchase of subsistence supplies: For issue as rations to troops, including enlisted men of the Regular Army Reserve and retired enlisted men when ordered to active duty, members of Reserve Officers' Training Corps at camps, 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 as guides and scouts, and general prisoners 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 under observation; for sales to officers, including members of the Officers' Reserve Corps while on active duty, and enlisted men of the Army: Provided, That the sum of $12,000 is authorized to be expended for supplying meals or furnishing commutation of rations to enlisted men of the Regular Army and the National Guard who may be competitors in the national rifle match: Provided further, That no competitor shall be entitled to commutation of rations in excess of $1.50 per day, and when meals are furnished no greater expense than that sum per man per day for the period the contest is in progress shall be incurred. For payments: Of commutation of rations to the cadets of the United States Military Academy in lieu of the regular established ration, at the rate of 68 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, including enlisted men of the Regular Army Reserve and retired enlisted men when ordered to active duty, 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 departments and Army rifle competitions while traveling to and from places of contest, male and female nurses on leave of absence, applicants for enlistment, and general prisoners while traveling under orders. For payment of the regulation allowances of commutation in lieu of rations for members of the Nurse Corps (female) while on duty in hospital, and for enlisted men, applicants for enlistment while held under observation, civilian employees who are entitled to subsistence at public expense, and general prisoners sick therein, to be paid to the surgeon in charge; advertising; 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 $900 per annum; for other necessary expenses incident to the purchase, testing, care, preservation, issue, sale, and accounting for subsistence supplies for 12 the Army, $62,526,466.50: Provided, That not to exceed $22,500 of this sum be made available for the care of the peach orchard on Poole Island, Aberdeen Proving Ground, and the grain now growing at this and other reservations and the harvest and disposal of the crops; and such disposal by sale or otherwise shall be made pursuant to such regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary of War: Provided further, That all moneys received by the United States as the proceeds of such sales shall be deposited in the Treasury of the United States as “Miscellaneous receipts." REGULAR SUPPLIES: Regular supplies of the Quartermaster Corps, including their care and protection; construction and repair of military reservation fences; stoves and heating apparatus required for the use of the Army for heating offices, hospitals, barracks and quarters, and recruiting stations, and United States disciplinary barracks; also ranges, stoves, coffee roasters, and appliances for cooking and serving food at posts, in the field, and when traveling, and repair and maintenance of such heating and cooking appliances; and the necessary power for the operation of moving-picture machines; authorized issues of candles and matches; for furnishing heat and light for the authorized allowance of quarters for offices, including members of the Officers' Reserve Corps when ordered to active duty, and enlisted men, warrant officers, and field clerks, including enlisted men of the Regular Army Reserve and retired enlisted men when ordered to active duty; contract surgeons when stationed at and occupying public quarters at military posts; 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 31, 1902, and buildings for similar purposes on military reservations authorized by War Department regulations; for sale to officers, and including also fuel and engine supplies required in the operation of modern batteries at established posts; for post bakeries, including bake ovens and apparatus pertaining thereto and the repair thereof; for ice machines and their maintenance where required for the health and comfort of the troops and for cold storage; ice for issue to organizations of enlisted men and offices at such places as the Secretary of War may determine, and for preservation of stores; for the construction, operation, and maintenance of laundries at military posts in the United States and its island possessions; for the authorized issues of laundry materials for use of general prisoners confined at military posts without pay or allowances, and for applicants for enlistment while held under observation; authorized issues of soap; toilet paper and towels; for the necessary furniture, textbooks, paper, and equipment for the post schools and libraries, and schools for noncommissioned officers; for the purchase and issue of instruments, office furniture, stationery, and other authorized articles for the use of officers' schools at the several military posts; for purchase of relief maps for issue to organizations, commercial |