REGIMENT OR CORPS. Chief trumpeter-cavalry and artillery. Principal musician-cavalry, artillery, and infantry. Sergeant major (junior grade)-artillery Sergeant major (senior grade)-artillery. Commissary sergeant-cavalry and infantry Sergeant major and quartermaster sergeant-cavalry and infantry. Chief musician-cavalry, artillery, and infantry. Corporal and cook-company. Sergeant-company.. Quartermaster sergeant-company. Sergeant major and quartermaster sergeant-battalion 16 18 20 25 45 For continuous service there is added $1 per month for third year; $2 per month for fourth year; $3 per month for fifth year, and thereafter $5 per month is allowed for the sixth to the tenth year, inclusive; $6 per month for eleventh to fifteenth year, inclusive; $7 per month for sixteenth to twentieth year, inclusive; $8 per month for twenty-first to twenty-fifth year, inclusive; $9 per month for twenty-sixth to thirtieth year, inclusive; $10 per month for thirty-first to thirty-fifth year, inclusive, etc. Qualified gunner, 1st class, $2 per month additional; qualified gunner, 2d class, $1 per month additional; qualified expert rifleman, $3 per month additional; qualified sharpshooter, $2 per month additional; qualified marksman, $1 per month additional. 4 The pay of a man who has ever served continuously more than five years and who reenters the service more than three months after discharge commences with the amount paid in the fifth year. The pay of enlisted men "serving beyond the limits of the States comprising the Union and the Territories of the United States contiguous thereto (excepting Porto Rico and Hawaii),” is increased twenty per centum. Whenever a soldier is honorably discharged at the expiration of his enlistment, or on account of disability, his travelpay is ample to carry him to the place of enlistment. By care and economy a soldier can save from his clothing allowance a considerable sum, payable to him on his discharge. The soldier can deposit his savings in sums not less than $5 with any Army paymaster, and for sums so deposited for the period of six months or longer, the soldier, on his final discharge, will be paid interest at the rate of four per centum per annum. These deposits are nonforfeitable except by desertion. Soldiers who have served honestly and faithfully twenty years, or who have been discharged for wounds received, or disease incurred in service, are entitled to admission to the Soldiers' Home in the city of Washington. The sum of 12 cents per month is deducted from the pay of each soldier on the active list, to be applied toward the support of the Home. After thirty years' service enlisted men are entitled to be retired, and upon retirement receive three-fourths of the monthly pay allowed by law to them in the grade they held when retired, and $9.50 per month additional as commutation for clothing and subsistence. In computing time for retirement credit is given a soldier for double the time of his actual service in China, Cuba, Philippine Islands, Island of Guam, Alaska, and Panama. CIRCULAR, No. 52. S WAR DEPARTMENT, WASHINGTON, October 3, 1906. The following parcels-post convention between the United States of America and Denmark is published for the information and guidance of all concerned: PARCELS-POST CONVENTION BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND DENMARK. For the purpose of making better postal arrangements between the United States of America and Denmark, the undersigned G. B. Cortelyou, Postmaster-General of the United States of America, and The Directorate General of Posts of Denmark, by virtue of authority vested in them, have agreed upon the following articles for the establishment of a Parcels-Post System of exchanges between the two countries. ARTICLE I. The provisions of this Convention relate only to parcels of mail matter to be exchanged by the system herein provided for, and do not affect the arrangements now existing under the Universal Postal Convention, which will continue as heretofore; and all the agreements hereinafter contained apply exclusively to mails exchanged under these articles, directly between the office of New York, and such other offices within the United States as may be hereafter designated by the Postmaster-General of the United States; and the office of Copenhagen, and such other offices in Denmark as may be hereafter designated by the Directorate General of Posts of Denmark. ARTICLE II. There shall be admitted to the mails exchanged under this Convention, articles of merchandise and mail matter-except letters, postcards and written matter of all kinds-that are admitted under any conditions to the domestic mails of the country of origin, except that no packet must exceed fifty dollars ($50) or its equivalent in value, 4 pounds 6 ounces [or 2 kilograms] in weight, nor the following dimensions: Greatest length in any direction, three feet six inches [105 centimeters]; greatest length and girth combined, six feet [180 centimeters]; and must be so wrapped or inclosed as to permit their contents to be easily examined by customs officers and by postmasters duly authorized to do so; and except that the following articles are prohibited: 2 Publications which violate the copyright laws of the country of destination; poisons, and explosive or inflammable substances; fatty substances; liquids, and those which easily liquefy; confections and pastes; live or dead animals, except dead insects and reptiles when thoroughly dried, and live bees inclosed in appropriate receptacles; fruits and vegetables which easily decompose, and substances which exhale a bad odor; lottery tickets, lottery advertisements or lottery circulars; all obscene or immoral articles; articles which may in any way damage or destroy the mails, or injure the persons handling them. ARTICLE III. A letter or communication of the nature of personal correspondence must not accompany, be written on, or inclosed with any parcel. If such be found, the letter will be placed in the mails if separable, and if the communication be inseparably attached, the whole package will be rejected. If, however, any such should inadvertently be forwarded, the country of destination may collect, on the letter or letters, double rates of postage according to the Universal Postal Convention. No parcel may contain parcels intended for delivery at an address other than that borne by the parcel itself. If such inclosed parcels be detected, they must be sent forward singly, charged with new and distinct parcels-post rates. ARTICLE IV. The packages in question shall be subject in the country of destination to all customs duties and all customs regulations in force in that country for the protection of its customs revenues, and to the following rates of postage, which shall in all cases be required to be FULLY PREPAID, viz: In the United States; for a parcel not exceeding one pound [455 grams] in weight, 12 cents; and for each additional pound [455 grams] or fraction of a pound, 12 cents: In Denmark; for a parcel not exceeding in weight one kilogram 60 öre, and for other parcels, 1 krone. ARTICLE V. The sender of each package must make a Customs Declaration, upon a special form provided for the purpose [see Form 1, “A” annexed hereto], giving the address, a general description of the parcel, an accurate statement of the contents and 3 value, date of mailing, and the sender's signature and place of residence; which declaration must accompany the parcel to destination. Either country may authorize the postoffice where the package is mailed to deliver to the sender of the package at the time of mailing, a certificate of mailing on a form like Form 2 annexed hereto. The sender of a package may have the same registered by paying the registration fee required for registered articles in the country of origin, and, on demand therefor, will receive a return receipt, without additional charge. ARTICLE VI. The addressees of registered articles shall be advised of the arrival of a package addressed to them, by a notice from the post-office of destination. The packages shall be delivered to addressees at the postoffices of address in the country of destination free of charge for postage; but the customs duties properly chargeable thereon shall be collected on delivery in accordance with the customs regulations of the country of destination; and the Post-Office Department of the United States may, at its option, levy and collect from the addressee in this country for interior service and delivery a charge not exceeding five cents on each single parcel of whatever weight. ARTICLE VII. The packages shall be considered as a component part of the mails exchanged direct between the United States and Denmark, to be dispatched by the country of origin to the other at its cost and by such means as it provides, but must be forwarded, at the option of the dispatching office, either in boxes prepared especially for the purpose or in ordinary mail sacks, to be marked "Parcels-post," and not to contain any other articles of mail matter, and to be securely sealed with wax or otherwise, as may be mutually provided by regulations hereunder. Each country shall promptly return empty to the dispatching office by next mail, all such bags and boxes, but subject to other regulations between the two Administrations. Although articles admitted under this Convention will be transmitted as aforesaid between the exchange offices, they should be so carefully packed as to be safely transmitted in the open mails of either country, both in going to the exchange |