801c. All the accounts of individual paymasters shall be analyzed under the several heads of the appropriation and recorded in detail by the Paymaster-General of the Army before said accounts are forwarded to the Treasury Department for final audit. Act of April 23, 1904, (33 Stats., 267).

RETIRED OFFICERS.

824a. No part of this sum shall be used for payment of further increase of longevity pay to officers now on the retired list, and officers hereafter retired from active service shall not be therefrom allowed or paid any increase of longevity pay above the sum allowed and paid to such officers at the date of retirement, unless retired on account of wounds received in battle. Act of June 30, 1902 (32 Stats., 511).

824b. Hereafter, except in case of officers retired on account of wounds received in battle, no officer now on the retired list shall be allowed or paid any further increase of longevity pay, and officers hereafter retired, except as herein provided, shall not be allowed or paid any further increase of longevity pay above that which had accrued at date of their retirement. Act of March 2, 1903 (32 Stats., 932).

(This paragraph changes the law heretofore existing. See note 5 to paragraph 824. ) MILEAGE TO PAYMASTERS' CLERKS AND TO THE EXPERT ACCOUNTANT OF THE INSPECTOR-GENERAL'S DEPARTMENT.

847a. Hereafter actual expenses only shall be paid to paymasters' clerks and the expert accountant of the Inspector-General's Department for sea travel when traveling on duty to, from, or between our island possessions. Act of June 30, 1902 (32 Stats., 511).

(See paragraph 847.)

PAY OF ENLISTED MEN.

862a. 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. Act of April 23, 1904 (33 Stats., 260).

(See paragraph 1444.)

ADDITIONAL PAY.

865a. Expert riflemen, hereafter qualifying as such, shall receive one dollar a month in addition to their pay. Act of March 2, 1903 (32 Stats., 929).

REENLISTMENT AND CONTINUOUS SERVICE PAY.

869a. All enlisted men of the Regular Army who served as commissioned officers of United States Volunteers organized in eighteen hundred and ninety-eight and eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, or

who have served or may be now serving as such in the Porto Rico Provisional Regiment or in the Philippine Scouts, who, upon their muster out, have returned or may return to the ranks of the Regular Army, shall have such period of service counted as if it had been rendered as enlisted men, and that they be entitled to all continuousservice pay and to count, in computing the time necessary to enable them to retire, as enlisted men. Act of March 2, 1903 (32 Stats., 934). (See paragraphs 1381 and 1381a.)

CHAPTER XXI.

THE MEDICAL DEPARTMENT.

CONTRACT SURGEONS-DENTAL SURGEONS.

907a. For two hundred and fifty contract surgeons, four hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Act of April 23, 1904 (33 Stats., 266.) (See Paragraph 907.)

909a. Hereafter contract surgeons and contract dental surgeons on duty in Alaska, Hawaii, the Philippine Islands, and Porto Rico may transfer or assign their pay accounts, when due and payable, in the methods now provided by regulations for commissioned officers of the Army. Act of April 23, 1904 (33 Stats., 266).

DUTIES.

910a. The Surgeon-General of the Army, the Surgeon-General of the Navy, and the supervising Surgeon-General of the Marine-Hospital Service, are hereby constituted a board with authority, subject to the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury, to promulgate from time to time such rules as may be necessary in the judgment of said board to govern the issue, suspension, and revocation of licenses for the maintenance of establishments for the propagation and preparation of viruses, serums, toxins, antitoxins, and analogous products, applicable to the prevention and cure of diseases of man, intended for sale in the District of Columbia, or to be sent, carried, or brought for sale from any State, Territory, or the District of Columbia, into any other State, Territory, or the District of Columbia, or from the United States into any foreign country, or from any foreign country into the United States: Provided, That all licenses issued for the maintenance of establishments for the propagation and preparation in any foreign country of any virus, serum, toxin, antitoxin, or product aforesaid, for sale, barter, or exchange in the United States, shall be issued upon condition that the licentiates will permit the inspection of the establishments where said articles are propagated and prepared, in

accordance with section three of this Act. Sec. 4, Act of July 1, 1902 (32 Stats., 729).

910b. There shall be an advisory board for the hygienic laboratory provided by the Act of Congress approved March third, nineteen hundred and one, for consultation with the Surgeon-General of the Public Health and Marine-Hospital Service relative to the investigations to be inaugurated, and the methods of conducting the same, in said laboratory. Said board shall consist of three competent experts, to be detailed from the Army, the Navy, and the Bureau of Animal Industry by the Surgeon-General of the Army, the Surgeon-General of the Navy, and the Secretary of Agriculture, respectively, which experts, with the director of the said laboratory, shall be ex officio members of the board, and serve without additional compensation. Five other members of said board shall be appointed by the SurgeonGeneral of the Public Health and Marine-Hospital Service, with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury, who shall be skilled in laboratory work in its relation to the public health, and not in the regular employment of the Government. The said five members shall each receive compensation of ten dollars per diem while serving in conference, as aforesaid, together with allowance for actual and necessary traveling expenses and hotel expenses while in conference. Said conference is not to exceed ten days in any one fiscal year. The term of service of the five members of said board, not in the regular employment of the Government, first appointed shall be so arranged that one of said members shall retire each year, the subsequent appointments to be for a period of five years. Appointments to fill vacancies occurring in a manner other than as above provided shall be made for the unexpired term of the member whose place has become vacant. Sec. 5, Act of July 1, 1902 (32 Stats.,713).

913a. When a contract surgeon is in charge of a hospital he shall have the same authority as a commissioned medical officer. Act of April 23, 1904 (33 Stats., 266).

(See paragraph 907 and note thereto; see also A. R. 1418 and 1421 of 1904.)

THE HOSPITAL CORPS.

914a. The Hospital Corps of the United States Army shall consist of sergeants first class, sergeants, corporals, privates first class, and privates. Act of March 2, 1903 (32 Stats., 930).

(This paragraph amends paragraph 914. See also paragraphs 915-921, and 924.) 919a. The rank and pay of sergeants first class, sergeants, and privates first class shall be as now provided by law for hospital stewards, acting hospital stewards, and privates of the Hospital Corps; corporals shall receive twenty dollars per month and privates sixteen dollars, with such increase on account of length of service as is now or

may hereafter be allowed by law to other enlisted men. Act of March 2, 1903 (32 Stats., 930).

(See paragraphs 923 and 924.)

924a. The Secretary of War is authorized to organize companies of instruction, ambulance companies, field hospital, and other detachments of the Hospital Corps as the necessities of the service may require. Act of March 2, 1903 (32 Stats., 930).

PURCHASES OF MEDICAL SUPPLIES.

932a. Purchase of medicines and medical stores, or the engagement of services not personal for the Medical Department of the Army, may be made by the Medical Department in open market in the manner common among business men when the aggregate of the amount required does not exceed two hundred dollars, but every such purchase or employment shall be promptly reported to the Secretary of War. Act of April 23, 1904 (33 Stats., 272).

(This paragraph amends paragraph 932.)

SALE OF MEDICAL SUPPLIES.

934a. Hereafter civilian employees of the Army stationed at military posts may, under regulations to be made by the Secretary of War, purchase necessary medical supplies when prescribed by a medical officer of the Army. Act of April 23, 1904 (33 Stats., 273).

(This paragraph amends paragraph 934.)

NATIONAL SANITARIUM AT HOT SPRINGS, SOUTH DAKOTA.

939a. One hundred and fifty thousand dollars is hereby appropriated for the erection of a National Sanitarium for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers at Hot Springs, in the State of South Dakota, which shall be erected by and under the direction of the Board of Managers of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, which Sanitarium, when in a condition to receive members, shall be subject to such rules, regulations, and restrictions as shall be provided by said Board of Managers: Provided, That such Sanitarium shall be erected on land donated to the United States by the people of Hot Springs, South Dakota, and accompanied with a deed of perpetual lease to one or more of the medical or hot springs for the use of the above-named Sanitarium, the location and area of the land and springs of hot water to be selected by the Board of Managers of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, or such persons as they may appoint to make the selection of location and hot springs, and that exclusive jurisdiction shall be vested in said Board of Managers over the premises occupied by said Sanitarium as over other realty held by said Board until further

enactment by the Congress of the United States. Sec. 1, act of May 29, 1902 (32 Stats., 282).

939b. The further sum of twenty thousand dollars is hereby appropriated, to be used for the transportation to and from said Sanitarium of such patients as may be ordered to said Sanitarium by said Board of Managers and for equipping and maintaining said Sanitarium, subject to the aforesaid rules and regulations of said Board of Managers: Provided, That any member of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers who shall be certified to said Sanitarium by the medical and legal authorities of said Board of Managers shall be admitted and treated thereat until discharged therefrom or returned to some Branch of the National Home by order of said Board of Managers. Sec. 2, Act of May 29, 1902 (32 Stats., 282).

CHAPTER XXII.

THE CORPS OF ENGINEERS.

ORGANIZATION.

953a. The Corps of Engineers shall consist of one Chief of Engineers with the rank of brigadier-general, of ten colonels, sixteen lieutenantcolonels, 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. Act of April 23, 1904 (33 Stats., 263).

(This paragraph contains an amendment to section 22 of the act of February 2, 1901. See paragraph 953. See also paragraphs 954-956, and 962.)

PUBLIC BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS.

978a. Section seventeen hundred and ninety-seven of the Revised Statutes of the United States is hereby amended to read as follows: "SEC. 1797. That the Chief of Engineers shall have charge of the public buildings and grounds in the District of Columbia, under such regulations as may be prescribed by the President, through the War Department, except those buildings and grounds which are otherwise