BULLETIN

No. 12.

WAR DEPARTMENT,

WASHINGTON, March 31, 1915.

The following act of Congress is published to the Army for the information and guidance of all concerned:

AN ACT Making appropriations for the support of the Army for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and sixteen.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums be, and they are hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the support of the Army for the year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and sixteen.

CONTINGENCIES OF THE ARMY: For all contingent expenses of the Army not otherwise provided for and embracing all branches of the military service, including the office of the Chief of Staff; for all emergencies and extraordinary expenses, exclusive of personal services in the War Department, or any of its subordinate bureaus or offices at Washington, District of Columbia, arising at home or abroad, but impossible to be anticipated or classified; to be expended on the approval and authority of the Secretary of War, and for such purposes as he may deem proper, including the payment of a per diem allowance not to exceed $4, in lieu of subsistence, to employees of the War Department traveling on official business outside of the District of Columbia and away from their designated posts, $25,000.

OFFICE OF THE CHIEF OF STAFF.

ARMY WAR COLLEGE: For expenses of the Army War College, being for the purchase of the necessary stationery; typewriters and exchange of same; office, toilet, and desk furniture; textbooks; books of reference; scientific and professional papers and periodicals; printing and binding; maps; police utensils; employment of temporary, technical, or special services; and for all other absolutely necessary expenses, including $25 per month additional to regular compensation to chief clerk of division for superintendence of the War College building, $9,000.

CONTINGENCIES, MILITARY INFORMATION SECTION, GENERAL STAFF CORPS: For contingent expenses of the military information section, General Staff Corps, including the purchase of law books,

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professional books of reference; periodicals and newspapers; drafting and messenger service; and of the military attachés at the United States embassies and legations abroad; and of the branch office of the military information section at Manila; the cost of special instruction at home and abroad and in maintenance of students and attachés; and for such other purposes as the Secretary of War may deem proper; to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War, $11,000: Provided, That section thirty-six hundred and forty-eight, Revised Statutes, shall not apply to subscriptions for foreign and professional newspapers and periodicals to be paid for from this appropriation.

For the actual and necessary expenses of officers of the Army on duty abroad for the purpose of observing operations of armies of foreign States at war, to be paid upon certificates of the Secretary of War that the expenditures were necessary for obtaining military information, $15,000: Provided, That the actual and necessary expenses of officers of the Army who, after July first, nineteen hundred and fourteen, have been on duty abroad for the purpose of observing operations of armies of foreign States at war, and of officers who may hereafter be on duty abroad for that purpose, shall be paid out of the appropriation for contingencies of the military information section, General Staff Corps, upon certificates of the Secretary of War that the expenditures were necessary for obtaining military information; and the amount appropriated for such contingencies by an Act entitled "An Act making appropriations for the support of the Army for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and fifteen," approved April twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and fourteen, is increased to $26,000.

UNITED STATES SERVICE SCHOOLS: To provide means for the theoretical and practical instruction at the Army service schools (including the Army Staff College, the Army School of the Line, the Army Field Engineer School, the Army Field Service and Correspondence School for Medical Officers, and the Army Signal School) at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, the Mounted Service School at Fort Riley, Kansas, and the School of Fire for Field Artillery and for the School of Musketry, at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, by the purchase of textbooks, books of reference, scientific and professional papers, the purchase of modern instruments and material for theoretical and practical instruction, employment of temporary, technical, or special services, and for all other absolutely necessary expenses, to be allotted in such proportions as may, in the opinion of the Secretary of War, be for the best interests of the military

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service, $35,350, of which sum not exceeding $100 per month may be used for the payment of one translator, to be appointed by the commandant of the Army Service Schools, with the approval of the Secretary of War.

THE ADJUTANT GENERAL'S DEPARTMENT.

CONTINGENCIES, HeadquartERS OF MILITARY DEPARTMENTS, DISTRICTS, AND TACTICAL COMMANDS: For contingent expenses at the headquarters of the several territorial departments, territorial districts, tactical divisions and brigades, including the staff corps serving thereat, being for the purchase of the necessary articles of office, toilet, and desk furniture, stationery, ice, and potable water for office use when necessary, binding maps, technical books of reference, professional and technical newspapers and periodicals, payment for which may be made in advance, and police utensils, to be allotted by the Secretary of War, and to be expended in the discretion of the commanding officers of the several military departments, districts, and tactical commands, $7,500.

UNDER THE CHIEF OF COAST ARTILLERY.

COAST ARTILLERY SCHOOL, FORT MONROE, VIRGINIA: For incidental expenses of the school, including chemicals, stationery, printing, and binding; hardware; cost of special instruction of officers detailed as instructors; employment of temporary, technical, or special services; extra-duty pay to soldiers necessarily employed for periods not less than ten days as artificers on work in addition to and not strictly in line with their military duties, such as carpenters, blacksmiths, draftsmen, printers, lithographers, photographers, engine drivers, telegraph operators, teamsters, wheelwrights, masons, machinists, painters, overseers, laborers; office furniture and fixtures, machinery, and unforeseen expenses, $10,000.

For purchase of engines, generators, motors, machines, measuring instruments, special apparatus and materials for the division of the enlisted specialists, $7,000.

For purchase of special apparatus and materials and for experimental purposes for the department of artillery and land defense, $3,000.

For purchase of engines, generators, motors, machines, measuring instruments, special apparatus and materials for the department of engineering and mine defense, $5,500.

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For purchase and binding of professional books treating of military and scientific subjects for library and for use of school, $2,500.

Provided, That section thirty-six hundred and forty-eight, Revised Statutes, shall not apply to subscriptions for foreign and professional newspapers and periodicals to be paid for from this appropriation.

OFFICE OF THE CHIEF SIGNAL OFFICER.

SIGNAL SERVICE OF THE ARMY: For expenses of the Signal Service of the Army, as follows: Purchase, equipment, and repair of field electric telegraphs, signal equipments, and stores, binocular glasses, telescopes, heliostats, and other necessary instruments, including necessary meteorological instruments for use on target ranges; war balloons and airships, and accessories, including their maintenance and repair; telephone apparatus (exclusive of exchange service) and maintenance of the same; electrical installations and maintenance at military posts; fire control and direction apparatus and matériel for field artillery; maintenance and repair of military telegraph lines and cables, including salaries of civilian employees, supplies, and general repairs, and other expenses connected with the duty of collecting and transmitting information for the Army by telegraph or otherwise, $600,000.

Provided, however, That not more than $300,000 of the foregoing appropriation shall be used for the purchase, maintenance, operation, and repair of airships and other aerial machines and accessories necessary in the aviation section; and for the purchase, maintenance, repair and operation of motor-propelled, passenger-carrying vehicles, which may be necessary for the aviation section: Provided further, That not more than $500 of the foregoing shall be used for the cost of special technical instruction of officers of said section: Provided further, That hereafter the Signal Corps may exchange typewriters and adding machines in the purchase of similar equipment.

The Secretary of War is hereby authorized and directed to appoint a commission of not more than three Army officers, whose duty it shall be to report upon the advisability of the acquirement by the United States Government of land near the Bay of San Diego, San Diego County, California, and elsewhere on the Pacific, Gulf, and Atlantic coasts, for an aviation school and training grounds of the Signal Corps of the United States Army, and said commission shall ascertain and report what would be the probable cost of acquiring such land; and the sum of $1,000, or so much

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thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated to defray any expenses incurred by the said commission in the performance of the duties herein imposed upon it.

WASHINGTON-ALASKA MILITARY CABLE AND TELEGRAPH SYSTEM: For defraying the cost of such extensions and betterments of the Washington-Alaska military cable and telegraph system as may be approved by the Secretary of War, to be available until the close of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixteen, from the receipts of the Washington-Alaska military cable and telegraph system which have been covered into the Treasury of the United States, the extent of such extensions and betterments and the cost thereof to be reported to Congress by the Secretary of War, $50,000.

COMMERCIAL TELEPHONE SERVICE AT COAST ARTILLERY POSTS: For providing commercial telephone service for official purposes at Coast Artillery posts, $8,500, of which $2,000 is made immediately available.

PAY OF OFFICERS OF THE LINE.

For pay of officers of the line, $7,800,000: Provided, That the President is authorized to retain Major General Arthur Murray, United States Army, on the active list of the Army as an additional officer in the grade of major general and as commanding general, Western Department, United States Army, from April twentyninth, nineteen hundred and fifteen, the date on which he would retire from active service under the provisions of section one of the act of Congress approved June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, until the close of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, December fourth, nineteen hundred and fifteen, when he shall be retired from active service: Provided further, That the number of major generals of the line of the Army on the active list shall be increased by one during the period named, and for that period only: Provided further, That the President of the United States be, and he is hereby, authorized to detail officers of the Army, active or retired, for duty with the Panama-Pacific International Exposition without extra compensation.

For pay of officers for length of service, to be paid with their current monthly pay, $1,800,000.

PAY OF ENLISTED MEN.

For pay of enlisted men of all grades, including recruits, $18,200,000: Provided, That hereafter pay and allowances shall not accrue to a soldier under sentence of dishonorable discharge, during such