586. Extra duty; details to be in writing.-Working parties of soldiers shall be detailed for employment as artificers or laborers, in the construction of permanent military works or public roads, or in other constant labor only upon the written order of a commanding officer, when such detail is for ten or more days.-Sec. 1235, R. S. 587. Additional; when granted a certificate of merit.—A certificate of merit granted to an enlisted man for distinguished service shall entitle him, from the date of such service, to additional pay at the rate of two dollars per month while he is in the military service, although such service may not be continuous.-Sec. 1285, R. S., as amended by sec. 2, act of Feb. 9, 1891 (26 Stat., 737). 588. Privates, first class, of the Medical Department, acting as dispensary assistants, nurses, surgical assistants, etc.-Privates, first class, of the Medical Department shall be eligible for rating for additional pay as follows: As dispensary assistant, two dollars a month; as nurse, three dollars a month; as surgical assistant, five dollars a month: Provided, That no enlisted man shall receive more than one rating for additional pay under the provisions of this section, nor shall any enlisted man receive any additional pay under such rating unless he shall have actually performed the duties for which he shall be rated. Sec. 10, act of June 3, 1916 (39 Stat., 173). 589. Mess sergeants.-Mess sergeants shall receive six dollars per month in addition to their pay.—Act of May 11, 1908 (35 Stat., 109). NOTE. This additional pay is not payable to soldiers serving in organizations for which the law provides a grade of mess sergeant. 590. Enlisted men qualifying as marksmen.-Hereafter enlisted men now qualified or hereafter qualifying as marksmen shall receive two dollars per month; as sharpshooters, three dollars per month; as expert riflemen, five dollars per month; as second-class gunners, two dollars per month; as first-class gunners, three dollars per month; as expert first-class gunners, Field Artillery, five dollars per month; as gun pointers, gun commanders, observers second class, chief planters, and chief loaders, seven dollars per month; as plotters, observers, first class, casemate electricians, and coxswains, nine dollars per month, all in addition to their pay, under such regulations as the Secretary of War may prescribe, but no man shall receive at the same time additional pay for more than one of the classifications named in this section.-Act of May 12, 1917 (40 Stat., 45). 591. Duty at recruiting stations.-The Secretary of War is authorized to detach from the Army at large such number of enlisted men as may be necessary to perform duty at the various recruiting stations, and while performing such duty one member of each party shall have the rank, pay, and allowances of sergeant, and one the rank, pay, and allowances of corporal of the arm of the service to which they respectively belong.-Sec. 31, act of Feb. 2, 1901 (31 Stat., 756). 592. Mess stewards and cooks at recruit depots, and instructor cooks at schools for bakers and cooks.-Extra-duty pay at rates to be fixed by the Secretary of War for mess stewards and cooks at recruit depots, who are graduates of the school for bakers and cooks, and instructor cooks at the schools for bakers and cooks.-See annual appropriation acts. NOTE. The rates fixed are one dollar per day for mess stewards and fifty cents per day for cooks.-A. R. 329. 593. Signal Service men.-Signal Service men shall not receive extra-duty pay unless specially directed by the Secretary of War.-Act of June 20, 1878 (20 Stat., 219). 594. Offices of coast defense artillery engineers and coast defense ordnance officers, and as switchboard operators at seacoast fortifications.-For extra pay to enlisted men employed on extra duty for periods of not less than ten days in the offices of coast defense artillery engineers and coast defense ordnance officers, and as switchboard operators at seacoast fortifications.-See annual appropriation acts. 595. Switchboard operators at interior posts. For extra pay to enlisted men employed on extra duty as switchboard operators at each interior post of the Army. See annual appropriation acts. 596. Enlisted men serving as stenographic reporters at general courts-martial, courts of inquiry, etc.-Hereafter enlisted men may be detailed to serve as stenographic reporters for general courts-martial, courts of inquiry, military commissions, and retiring boards, and while so serving shall receive extra pay at the rate of not exceeding five cents for each one hundred words taken in shorthand and transcribed, such extra pay to be met from the annual appropriation for expenses of courts-martial, and so forth.-Act of Aug. 24, 1912 (37 Stat., 575). * 597. Detailed to schools.-No detail shall be made under this act to any school unless it shall pay the cost of commutation of quarters of * * 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-Act of Apr. 21, 1904 (33 Stat. 225). 598. Army service detachment, West Point.-Hereafter no part of the moneys appropriated for use of the Quartermaster's Department shall be used in payment of extra-duty pay for the Army service men in the Quartermaster's Department of West Point.-Act of Mar. 2, 1907 (34 Stat., 1167). 599. Disciplinary Barracks Guard; one to have rank, pay, etc., of battalion sergeant major.-In addition to detailing for duty at said disciplinary barracks such number of enlisted men of the Staff Corps and departments as he may deem necessary, the Secretary of War shall assign a sufficient number of enlisted men of the line of the Army for duty as guards at said disciplinary barracks and as noncommissioned officers of the disciplinary organizations hereinafter authorized. Said guards, and also the enlisted men assigned for duty as noncommissioned officers of disciplinary organizations, shall be detached from the line of the Army, or enlisted for the purpose; and said guards shall be organized as infantry, with noncommissioned officers, musicians, artificers, and cooks of the number and grades allowed by law for infantry organizations of like strength: Provided, That at least one of said guards shall have the rank, pay, and allowances of a battalion sergeant major.-Sec. 4, act of Mar. 4, 1915 (38 Stat., 1085). 600. Same--Rates of pay.-Hereafter the extra-duty pay to the United States disciplinary barracks guard shall be at the following rates per day: Battalion sergeants major, first sergeants, mess sergeants, supply sergeants, and sergeants, thirty-five cents; corporals, thirty cents; cooks and mechanics, privates first class, privates, and buglers, twenty cents.-Act of May 12, 1917 (40 Stat., 52). 601. Extra pay to certain enlisted men employed on Washington-Alaska cable and telegraph system.-Extra pay to enlisted men of the line of the Army and to enlisted men of the Quartermaster Corps, Medical Department and of the Signal Corps employed in the Territory of Alaska on the Washington-Alaska cable and telegraph systems for periods of not less than ten days at the rate of thirty-five cents per day.—Annual appropriation act. * * * ALLOTMENTS OF PAY. * 602. Authority for making allotments of pay.-The Secretary of War is hereby authorized to permit, under such regulations as he may prescribe, any * * enlisted man on the active list of the Army, any retired * enlisted man of the Army on active duty * * to make allotments of his pay for the support of his wife, children, or dependent relatives, or for such other purposes as the Secretary of War may deem proper.-Act of Oct. 6, 1917 (40 Stat., 385). 603. Credit to disbursing officers for payment of.-Allotments of pay of enlisted men * * that have been or shall be paid to designated allotees previous to the receipt by disbursing officer of notice of discontinuance of the same from the officer required by regulations to furnish such notice shall pass to the credit of the disbursing officer who has made or shall make such payments.-Ibid. 604. Erroneous payments to be collected from responsible officers.—If erroneous payment is made because of the failure of an officer to report, in the manner prescribed by the Secretary of War, the death of the grantor, or any fact which renders the allotment not payable, then the amount of such erroneous payment shall be collected by the Quartermaster General from the officer who fails to make such report, if such collection is practicable. Nothing herein shall be construed to invalidate allotments now in force.-Ibid. ASSIGNMENTS OF PAY. 605. Prior to discharge, not authorized.-No assignment of pay by a noncommissioned officer or private, previous to his discharge, shall be valid.— Sec. 1291, R. S. BONUS FOR REENLISTMENT. 606. Three months' pay, first reenlistment.-Hereafter any private, soldier, musician, or trumpeter honorably discharged at the termination of his first enlistment, who reenlists within three months of the date of said discharge shall, upon such enlistment, receive an amount equal to three months' pay at the rate he was receiving at the time of his discharge.-Act of May 11, 1908 (35 Stat., 110). BOUNTY FOR REENLISTMENT IN TIME OF WAR. 607. Computation of amounts for reenlistment in the line of the Army, or in the Signal, Medical, or Quartermaster Departments.—For the purpose of utilizing as an auxiliary to the Regular Army Reserves the services of men who have had experience and training in the Regular Army, or in the United States Volunteers, outside of the continental limits of the United States, in time of actual or threatened hostilities, and after the President shall by proclamation have called upon honorably discharged soldiers of the Regular Army to present themselves for reenlistment therein within a specified period, subject to such conditions as may be prescribed, any person who shall have been discharged honorably from said Army, with character reported as at least good, and who, having been found physically qualified for the duties of a soldier, if not over fifty years of age, shall reenlist in the line of said Army, or in the Signal, Quartermaster, or Medical Department thereof, within the period that shall be specified in said proclamation, shall receive on so reenlisting a bounty which shall be computed at the rate of $8 for each month for the first year of the period that shall have elapsed since his last discharge from the Regular Army and the date of his reenlistment therein under the terms of said proclamation; at the rate of $6 per month for the second year of such period; at the rate of $4 per month for the third year of such period; and at the rate of $2 per month for any subsequent year of such period; but no bounty in excess of $300 shall be paid to any person under the terms of this section.-Sec. 34, act of June 3, 1916 (39 Stat., 188). CLOTHING ALLOWANCE. 608. Settlement of.-The money value of all clothing overdrawn by the soldier beyond his allowance shall be charged against him, every six months, on the muster roll of his company, or on his final statements if sooner discharged, and he shall receive pay for such articles of clothing as have not been issued to him in any year, or which may be due to him at the time of his discharge, according to the annual estimated value thereof. The amount due him for clothing, when he draws less than his allowance, shall not be paid to him until his final discharge from the service.-Sec. 1302, R. S. 609. Gratuitous issues in case of contagious diseases.-The Secretary of War may, on the recommendation of the Surgeon General, order gratuitous issues of clothing to soldiers who have had contagious diseases, and to hospital attendants who have nursed them, to replace any articles of their clothing destroyed by order of the proper medical officers to prevent contagion.-Sec. 1298, R. S. 610. Clothing allowance of sergeants of ordnance.-Sergeants of ordnance shall receive the same allowance of clothing as other sergeants in like staff departments.-Act of July 16, 1892 (27 Stat., 178). 611. Issue of clothing to discharged military convicts.-Every prisoner, upon being discharged from prison, shall be furnished with decent clothing.-Sec. 1355, R. S. 612. Gratuitous issue of suit of clothing, not exceeding ten dollars, to discharged military prisoners.-For a suit of citizen's outer clothing, to cost not exceeding ten dollars, to be issued upon release from confinement to each prisoner who has been confined under a court-martial sentence involving dishonorable discharge.—Annual appropriation acts. 613. Donation of five dollars to each dishonorably discharged military prisoner. For a donation of five dollars to each dishonorably discharged prisoner upon his release from confinement, under court-martial sentence, involving dishonorable discharge.-Annual appropriation acts. 614. Indemnity for clothing and bedding destroyed for sanitary reasons.—For indemnity to officers and men of the Army for clothing and bedding, and so forth, destroyed since April twenty-second, eighteen hundred and ninetyeight, by order of medical officers of the Army for sanitary reasons.-Annual appropriation acts. CLOTHING, ALTERATION OF. 615. Authority for; amount to be deducted from pay, etc.—It shall be lawful for the commanding officer of each regiment, whenever it may be necessary, to cause the coats, vests, and overalls or breeches which may from time to time be issued to and for his regiment to be altered and new-made, so as to better to fit them to the persons, respectively, for whose use they shall be delivered; and for defraying the expense of such alterations to cause to be deducted and applied out of the pay of such persons a sum or sums not exceeding twentyfive cents for each coat, eight cents for each vest and for each pair of overalls or breeches.-Sec. 1220, R. S. 616. Limit of cost for altering and fitting ciothing.-Hereafter the regimertal price fixed for altering and fitting soldiers' clothing shall not exceed the cost of making the same at the clothing depots.-Act of Mar. 2, 1889 (25 Stat., 831). COMMUTATION OF ALLOWANCES. 617. Of quarters, etc., where no public quarters are available.-Hereafter, at places where there are no public quarters available, commutation for the authorized allowance therefor shall be paid * * * when specifically authorized by the Secretary of War, to enlisted men at the rate of $15 per month, or in lieu thereof he may, in his discretion, rent quarters for the use of said enlisted men when so on duty.-Act of Mar. 4, 1915 (38 Stat., 1069). 618. Same Signal Service, Arctic regions.-The allowance for commutation of quarters * * * shall be, * * * for * * * enlisted men of the Signal Service serving in the Arctic regions, the same in amount as though they were serving in Washington, District of Columbia.--Act of June 30, 1882 (22 Stat., 118). * * 619. Of quarters, heat and light.—For commutation of quarters and of heat and light to * enlisted men on duty at places where no public quarters are available.-Annual appropriation acts. * * * 620. Of rations.—Of the regulation allowances of commutation in lieu of rations to enlisted men of furlough, enlisted men when stationed at places where rations in kind can not be economically issued, and when traveling on detached duty where it is impracticable to carry rations of any kind, enlisted men selected to contest for places or prizes in departments and Army rifle competition while traveling to and from places of contest applicants for enlistment, and general prisoners while traveling under orders.— Annual appropriation acts. DEPOSITS MADE BY ENLISTED MEN. * * * 621. Authority for; method of making and keeping, etc.-Any enlisted man of the Army may deposit his savings, in sums not less than five dollars, with any Army paymaster, who shall furnish him a deposit book, in which shall be entered the name of the paymaster and of the soldier, and the amount, date, |