Provided, That such accounts originated subsequent to April twentyfirst, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, and prior to the ninth day of July, nineteen hundred and one: Provided further, That no settlement shall be made by the officers of the Treasury, under this act, of the accounts of any officer whose combined responsibility for public money and Government property shall exceed the sum of five thousand dollars, and only of such officers of the Army in whose accounts there is no apparent fraud against the United States: And provided further, That this act shall remain in force for two years from and after its passage, and no longer. Sec. 2, act of March 3, 1903 (32 Stats., 956).

DEPOSIT AND SAFE-KEEPING OF THE PUBLIC MONEY.

607a. All funds received as the value of military stores transferred by the several staff departments of the Army to the Insular Department of the Philippines shall be deposited in the Treasury of the United States and remain available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and five for the procurement of like military stores to replace those so transferred. Act of April 23, 1904 (33 Stats., 275).

FORMS OF KEEPING AND RENDERING ACCOUNTS.

635a. Hereafter, in all payments to be made under the provisions of army appropriation acts, when the rate of compensation is annual, payment shall be made monthly at the rate of one-twelfth of the annual rate, and of such monthly rate and of all other monthly rates of compensation one-thirtieth shall be the daily rate for computation of pay for fractional parts of a month; and for the purposes of this Act each and every month shall be held to consist of thirty days, whether the actual number of days be greater or less. Act of March 2, 1903 (32 Stats., 934).

(See Circular 33, War Department, 1904.)

635b. The annual compensation of officers, agents, and employees of the United States for services rendered subsequent to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and four, shall be divided into twelve equal installments, one of which shall be the pay for each calendar month; and in making payments for a fractional part of a month, one-thirtieth of one of such installments, or of a monthly compensation, shall be the rate to be paid for each day. For the purpose of computing such compensation each and every month shall be held to consist of thirty days, without regard to the actual number of days in any month, thus excluding the thirty-first day of any month from the computation, and treating February as if it actually had thirty days. Sec. 4, act of April 28, 1904 (33 Stats., 513).

(See Circular 33, War Department, 1904.)

CHAPTER XV.

THE ADJUTANT-GENERAL'S DEPARTMENT.

663a. 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 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. Act of April 23, 1904 (33 Stats., 262).

(This paragraph merges the Adjutant-General's Department with the Record and Pension Office; the Military Secretary's Department assuming the duties heretofore appertaining to both. The laws applicable to the Adjutant-General's Department and to the Record and Pension Office are now applicable to the Military Secretary's Department, except where otherwise provided. See Chapter XXV, Military Laws of the United States, "The Record and Pension Office.")

663b. Nothing in this Act shall be so construed as to deprive any officer of his commission or to increase the total number of officers of the Army, except as herein specially provided, and all laws or parts of laws inconsistent with the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed. Act of April 23, 1904 (33 Stats., 276).

663c. Whenever the office of the Adjutant-General and the Record and Pension Office shall be consolidated by operation of law, any appropriation available at the time of such consolidation, or that may thereafter become available, for the support of either of those offices shall be equally available for the support of the bureau formed by the consolidation, and all employees provided by law for either of said offices, except such employees as were transferred by the Secretary of War to the Military Information Division of the General Staff prior to April first, nineteen hundred and four, shall be regarded as employees of the consolidated bureau and shall be exclusively engaged upon the work of that bureau as required in the case of the employees of the Record and Pension Office by the Acts making appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the Government for the fiscal years nineteen hundred and four and nineteen hundred and five. Act of April 27, 1904 (33 Stats., 401).

CHAPTER XVII.

THE JUDGE-ADVOCATE GENERAL'S DEPARTMENT.

694a. Vacancies created or caused by this Act in the grade of major may be filled by appointment of officers holding commissions as judgeadvocate of volunteers since April twenty-first, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight. Vacancies which may occur thereafter in the grade of major in the Judge-Advocate-General's Department shall be filled by the appointment of officers of the line, or of persons who have satisfactorily served as judge-advocates of volunteers since April twentyfirst, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, or of persons from civil life who at date of appointment are not over thirty-five years of age and who shall pass a satisfactory examination to be prescribed by the Secretary of War. Sec. 15, Act of February 2, 1901 (31 Stats. 751).

(This paragraph takes the place of paragraph 694, from which part of the text was omitted.)

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CHAPTER XVIII.

THE QUARTERMASTER'S DEPARTMENT.

PROMOTIONS, TRANSFERS, AND DETAILS.

706a. The military storekeeper now on duty at the White House as doorkeeper to the President may be continued in that employment and shall receive the full pay and allowances of his grade from the date of his retirement until relieved by the President. Act of June 30, 1902 (32 Stats., 511).

POST QUARTERMASTER-SERGEANTS.

707a. Two hundred quartermaster-sergeants, at four hundred and eight dollars each. Act of April 23, 1904 (33 Stats., 261).

(See paragraph 707.)

THE PROCUREMENT OF SUPPLIES.

715a. For continuing the construction, equipment, and maintenance of suitable buildings at military posts and stations for the conduct of the post exchange, school, library, reading, lunch, amusement rooms, and gymnasium, to be expended in the discretion and under the direction of the Secretary of War, five hundred thousand dollars: Provided, That not more than forty thousand dollars of the above appropriation shall be expended at any one post or station. Act of April 23, 1904 (33 Stats., 270).

(See paragraphs 715 and 1551.)

OFFICERS' HORSES.

741a. When a mounted officer of the line 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 the private horses which he is required to keep exceeds the sum 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, 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, from which sum shall be deducted one-seventh of such contract price for each year, or major fraction of a year, which may have elapsed since date of purchase by said officer. Act of March 2, 1903 (32 Stats., 937).

CLOTHING AND BEDDING.

750a. For indemnity to officers and men of the Army for clothing and bedding, and so forth, destroyed since April twenty-second, eight

een hundred and ninety-eight, by order of medical officers of the Army for sanitary reasons, four million dollars. Act of June 30, 1902, (32 Stats., 517).

(This provision appears also in subsequent army appropriation acts, and its effect is to broaden the scope of paragraph 750 within certain dates.)

CHAPTER XIX.

THE SUBSISTENCE DEPARTMENT.

POST COMMISSARY-SERGEANTS.

762a. Two hundred post commissary-sergeants, at four hundred and eight dollars each, eighty-one thousand six hundred dollars. Act of April 23, 1904 (33 Stats., 261).

(See paragraph 762.)

THE RATION.

769a. For difference between the cost of the ration at twenty-five cents and the cost of rations differing in whole or in part from the ordinary ration, to be issued to enlisted men in camp in the United States during periods of recovery from low conditions of health consequent upon service in unhealthy regions or in debilitating climates (to be expended only under special authority of the Secretary of War); and for ice to organizations of enlisted men stationed at such places as the Secretary of War may determine; in all, seven million 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. Act of April 23, 1904 (33 Stats., 268).

CHAPTER XX.

THE PAY DEPARTMENT.

DUTIES.

801a. All the money herein before appropriated for pay of the Army and miscellaneous 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. Act of April 23, 1904 (33 Stats., 267).

801b. Hereafter all payments to the militia under the provisions of section fifteen of the Act of Congress approved January twenty-first, nineteen hundred and three, and all allowances for mileage shall be made solely from the sums herein appropriated for such purposes. Act of April 23, 1904, (33 Stats., 267).

(See paragraphs 1662a and 1662b.)