MILEAGE, ETC.

276. When the station of an officer is changed while he is on leave of absence, he will, on joining the new station, be entitled to mileage for the distance to the new station from the place where he received the order directing the change, provided the distance be no greater than from the old to the new station; but if the distance be greater he will be entitled to mileage for a distance equal to that from the old to the new station only.-Act of June 12, 1906 (34 Stat., 247).

277. Hereafter no portion of the appropriation for mileage to officers travelling on duty without troops shall be expended for inspections or investigations except such as are especially ordered by the Secretary of War, or such as are made by Army and department commanders in visiting their commands, and those made by the Inspector General's Department in pursuance of law, Army Regulations, or orders issued by the Secretary of War.—Act of Aug. 6, 1894 (28 Stat., 237).

278. All allowances for mileage shall be made solely from the sums herein appropriated for such purposes.-Act of Apr. 23, 1904 (33 Stat., 267).

279. All orders involving the payment of mileage shall state the special duty enjoined.-Act of Aug. 6, 1894 (28 Stat., 237)

280. The necessity for travel in the military service shall be certified to by the officer issuing the order and stated in the order.-Act of Mar. 3, 1883 (22 Stat., 456).

281. Hereafter the officers detailed to obtain military information from abroad shall be entitled to mileage and transportation, and also to commutation of quarters while on duty, as provided when on other duty.-Act of Feb. 27, 1893 (27 Stat., 480).

282. Hereafter officers, active and retired, when traveling under competent orders without troops, and retired officers who have so traveled since March third, nineteen hundred and five, shall be paid seven cents per mile and no more; distances to be computed and mileage to be paid over the shortest usually traveled routes, with deductions as hereinafter provided; and payment and settlement of mileage accounts of officers shall be made according to distances and deductions computed over routes established and by mileage tables prepared by the Paymaster General of the Army under the direction of the Secretary of War.-Act of June 12, 1906 (34 Stat., 246).

283. The Secretary of War may determine what shall constitute travel and duty without troops within the meaning of the laws governing the payment of mileage and commutation of quarters to officers of the Army.-Act of June 12, 1906 (34 Stat., 246).

284. For travel expenses of officers (engineers) on journeys approved by the Secretary of War and made for the purpose of instruction: Provided, That the traveling expenses herein provided for shall be in lieu of mileage and other allowances.-Act of Mar. 2, 1913 (37 Stat., 719).

ACTUAL EXPENSES, SEA TRAVEL, ETC.

285. For all sea travel actual expenses only shall be paid to officers, contract surgeons, contract dental surgeons, and veterinarians, to paymasters' clerks, and to the expert accountant of the Inspector General's Department when traveling on duty under competent orders, with or without troops, and the amount so paid shall not include any shore expenses at port of embarkation or debarkation; but for the purpose of determining allowances for all travel under orders, or for officers and enlisted men

on discharge, travel in the Philippine Archipelago, the Hawaiian Archipelago, the home waters of the United States, and between the United States and Alaska shall not be regarded as sea travel and shall be paid for at the rates established by law for land travel within the boundaries of the United States.-Act of June 12, 1906 (34 Stat., 247).

286. Hereafter actual expenses only, not to exceed four dollars and fifty cents per day and cost of transportation when not furnished by the Quartermaster's Department, shall be paid to the officers of the Army, contract surgeons, and dental surgeons when traveling on duty without troops, under competent orders, within the geographical limits of the Territory of Alaska.-Act of May 11, 1908 (35 Stat., 114).

DEDUCTIONS, MILEAGE, ETC.

287. Officers who so desire may, upon application to the Quartermaster's Department, be furnished under their orders transportation requests for the entire journey by land, exclusive of sleeping and parlor car accommodations, or by water; and the transportation so furnished shall, if travel was performed under a mileage status, be a charge against the officer's mileage account, to be deducted at the rate of three cents per mile by the paymaster paying the account, and of the amount so deducted there shall be turned over to an authorized officer of the Quartermaster's Department three cents per mile for transportation furnished, except over any railroad which is a free or fifty per centum land-grant railroad, for the credit of the appropriation for the transportation of the Army and its supplies.-Act of June 12, 1906 (34 Stat., 246).

288. When the established route of travel shall, in whole or in part, be over the line of any railroad on which the troops and supplies of the United States are entitled to be transported free of charge, or over any fifty per centum land-grant railroad, officers traveling as herein provided for shall, for the travel over such roads, be furnished with transportation requests, exclusive of sleeping and parlor car accommodations, by the Quartermaster's Department. When transportation is furnished by the Quartermaster's Department, or when the established route of travel is over any of the railroads above specified, there shall be deducted from the officer's mileage account by the paymaster paying the same, three cents per mile for the distance for which transportation has been or should have been furnished.-Act of June 12, 1906 (34 Stat., 247).

MILITARY DETAILS UNDER CUBA AND PANAMA.

289. The consent of Congress is hereby granted to the acc eptance by officers of the Army, in the discretion of the President, of such military details under the Governments of Cuba and Panama as may be requested by the Presidents of these Republics: Provided, That such details shall not exceed five in number: And provided further, That no officer so detailed shall receive any present, emolument, office, or title of any kind whatever from the Government of Cuba or Panama.-Act of Apr. 19, 1910 (36 Stat., 324).

PAY FOR MOUNTS.

290. 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.-Act of May 11, 1908 (35 Stat., 108).

RETIREMENT FOR PHYSICAL DISABILITY.

291. Should the officer fail in his physical examination and be found incapacitated for service by reason of physical disability contracted in line of duty he shall be retired with the rank to which his seniority entitled him to be promoted; but if he should fail for any other reason he shall be suspended from promotion for one year, when he shall be reexamined, and in case of failure on such reexamination he shall be honorably discharged with one year's pay.-Act of Oct. 1, 1890 (26 Stat., 562).

QUARTERS AND COMMUTATION OF QUARTERS.

292. That at all posts and stations where there are public quarters belonging to the United States officers may be furnished with quarters in kind in such public quarters, and not elsewhere, by the Quartermaster's Department, assigning to the officers of each grade, respectively, such number of rooms as is stated in the following table, namely: Second lieutenants, two rooms; first lieutenants, three rooms; captains, four rooms; majors, five rooms; lieutenant colonels, six rooms; colonels, seven rooms; brigadier generals, eight rooms; major generals, nine rooms; lieutenant generals, ten rooms: Provided further, That at places where there are no public quarters commutation therefor may be paid by the Pay Department to the officer entitled to the same at a rate not exceeding twelve dollars per month per room.-Act of Mar. 2, 1907 (34 Stat., 1168).

293. No allowance shall be made for claims for quarters for servants heretofore or hereafter; and that the rate of commutation shall hereafter be twelve dollars per month per room for officers' quarters, in lieu of ten dollars, as now provided by law.— Act of June 23, 1879 (21 Stat., 31).

294. Hereafter officers temporarily absent on duty in the field shall not lose their right to quarters, or commutation thereof, at their permanent station while so temporarily absent.—Act of Feb. 27, 1893 (27 Stat., 480).

295. Hereafter the heat and light actually necessary for the authorized allowance of quarters for officers and enlisted men shall be furnished at the expense of the United States under such regulations as the Secretary of War may prescribe.—Act of Mar. 2, 1907 (34 Stat., 1167).

296. For shelter, shooting galleries, ranges for small-arms target practice, repairs, and expenses incident thereto, such ranges and galleries to be open as far as practicable, to the National Guard and organized rifle clubs under regulations to be prescribed by the Secretary of War.-Act of Mar. 3, 1911 (36 Stat., 1053).

TRAVEL ALLOWANCE.

297. Hereafter when an officer shall be discharged from the service, except by way of punishment for an offense, he shall receive for travel allowances from the place of his discharge to the place of his residence at the time of his appointment or to the place of his original muster into the service four cents per mile.-Act of Mar. 2, 1901 (31 Stat., 902).

RETIRED COMMISSIONED OFFICERS.

298. Officers retired from active service shall receive seventy-five per centum of the pay of the rank upon which they are retired.-Sec. 1274, R. S.

299. Any officer of the Army below the grade of brigadier general who served with credit as an officer or as an enlisted man in the regular or volunteer forces during the Civil War prior to April ninth, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, otherwise than as a

cadet, and whose name is borne on the official register of the Army, and who has heretofore been, or may hereafter be, retired on account of wounds or disability incident to the service or on account of age or after forty years' service, may, in the discretion of the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, be placed on the retired list of the Army with the rank and retired pay of one grade above that actually held by him at the time of retirement: Provided, That this act shall not apply to any officer who received an advance of grade since the date of his retirement or who has been restored to the Army and placed on the retired list by virtue of the provisions of a special act of Congress.—Act of Apr. 23, 1904 (33 Stat., 264).

300. Any officer now holding office in any corps or department who shall hereafter serve as chief of a staff corps or department and shall subsequently be retired, shall be retired with the rank, pay, and allowances authorized by law for the retirement of such corps or department chief.-Act of Feb. 2, 1901 (31 Stat., 755).

301. Officers who served creditably in the regular or volunteer forces during the Civil War prior to April ninth, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, and who now hold the rank of brigadier general on the active list of the Army, having previously held that rank for three years or more, shall, when retired from active service, have the rank and retired pay of major general.—Act of Mar. 2, 1907 (34 Stat., 1163).

ACTIVE DUTY.

302. Any retired officer may, on his own application, be detailed to serve as professor in any college (but while so serving such officer shall be allowed no additional compensation).-Sec. 1260, R. S.

303. Retired officers of the Army may be assigned to duty at the Soldiers' Home, upon a selection by the commissioners of that institution, approved by the Secretary of War; and a retired officer shall not be assignable to any other duty: Provided, That they receive from the Government only the pay and emoluments allowed by law to retired officers.-Sec. 1259, R. S.

304. Retired officers of the Army above the grade of major, heretofore or hereafter assigned to active duty, shall hereafter receive their full retired pay and shall receive no further pay or allowances from the United States.—Act of Mar. 2, 1905 (33 Stat., 831).

305. A colonel or lieutenant colonel heretofore or hereafter assigned to active duty shall hereafter receive the same pay and allowances as a retired major would receive under a like assignment.-Act of June 12, 1906 (34 Stat., 245.)

306. That the act approved November third, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, authorizing the detail of officers of the Army and Navy to educational institutions, be amended so as to provide that retired officers, when so detailed, shall receive the full pay and allowances of their rank, except that the limitations on the pay of officers of the Army above the grade of major as provided in the acts of March second, nineteen hundred and five, and June twelfth, nineteen hundred and six, shall remain in force.— Act of Mar. 3, 1909 (35 Stat., 738).

307. That no detail shall be made under this act to any school unless it shall pay the cost of commutation of quarters of the retired officers or noncommissioned officers detailed thereto and the extra-duty pay to which they may be entitled by law to receive for the performance of special duty: Provided, That no detail shall be made under the provisions of this act unless the officers and noncommissioned officers to be detailed

are willing to accept such position: Provided further, That they shall receive no compensation from the Government other than their retired pay.—Act of Apr. 21, 1904 (33 Stat., 225).

308. In addition to the detail of retired officers now authorized by law, it shall hereafter be lawful for the Secretary of War to detail, whenever in his judgment the public interests require it, not exceeding twenty retired officers for service in connection with the Organized Militia in the States or Territories, upon the request of the governor thereof, and such retired officers shall be entitled, while so employed, to receive the full pay and allowances of their respective grades.-Act of Mar. 2, 1903 (32 Stat., 932).

309. In time of war retired officers of the Army may, in the discretion of the President, be employed on active duty, other than in the command of troops, and when so employed they shall receive the full pay and allowances of their grades.—Act of Mar. 2, 1899 (30 Stat., 979).

310. The President of the United States may detail as adjutant general of the District of Columbia Militia any retired officer of the Army who may be nominated to the President by the brigadier general commanding the District of Columbia Militia, said retired officer while so detailed to have the active-service pay and allowances of his rank in the Regular Army.-Act of June 6, 1900 (31 Stat., 671).

311. That upon the application of any college, university, or institution of learning incorporated under the laws of any State within the United States, having capacity at the same time to educate not less than one hundred and fifty male students, the President may detail an officer of the Army on the retired list to act as president, superintendent, or professor thereof; and such officer may receive from the institution to which he may be detailed the difference between his retired and full pay, and shall not receive any additional pay or allowance from the United States.-Act of May 4, 1880 (21 Stat., 113).

LONGEVITY PAY.

312. 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 Stat., 511).

313. 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 Mar. 2, 1903 (32 Stat., 932).

WHOLLY RETIRED OFFICERS.

314. Officers wholly retired from the service shall be entitled to receive, upon their retirement, one year's pay and allowances of the highest rank held by them, whether by staff or regimental commission, at the time of their retirement.-Sec. 1275, R. S.

SETTLEMENT OF ACCOUNTS OF DECEASED OFFICERS AND ENLISTED MEN.

315. Hereafter, in the settlement of the accounts of deceased officers or enlisted men of the Army, where the amount due the decedent's estate is less than five hundred dollars and no demand is presented by a duly appointed legal representative of the