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488. Fuel; allowances limited to actual personal necessities.-Hereafter fuel may be furnished to commissioned officers on the active list by the Quartermaster's Department for the actual use of such officers only at the rate of three dollars per cord for standard oak wood, or at an equivalent rate for other kinds of fuel, the amount so furnished to each to be limited to the officers' actual personal necessities as certified to by him.-Act of June 12, 1906 (34 Stat., 250).

489. Forage, bedding, shoeing, shelter, etc.; officers not to be deprived of.— Nothing in the act making appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the Government for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eight or any other act, shall hereafter be held or construed so as to deprive officers of the Army, wherever on duty in the military service of the United States, of forage, bedding, shoeing, or shelter for their authorized number of horses, or of any means of transportation or maintenance therefor for which provision is made by the terms of this act.-Act of Mar. 3, 1909 (35 Stat., 742).

490. Same-Not to be deprived of when officer is separated from owned horses through military service.-Hereafter when an officer is separated from his authorized number of owned horses through the nature of the military. service upon which employed they shall not be deprived of forage, bedding, shelter, shoeing, or medicines therefor because of such separation.-Act of Mar. 23, 1910 (36 Stat., 252).

LEAVE OF ABSENCE.

491. Absence on account of sickness, wounds, etc.-Officers when absent on account of sickness or wounds, or lawfully absent from duty and waiting orders, shall receive full pay; when absent with leave, for other causes, full pay during such absence not exceeding in the aggregate thirty days in one year, and half pay during such absence exceeding thirty days in one year. When absent without leave, they shall forfeit all pay during such absence unless the absence is excused as unavoidable.-Sec. 1265, R. S.

492. Cumulative leave.-All officers on duty shall be allowed, in the discretion of the Secretary of War, sixty days' leave of absence without deduction of pay or allowance: Provided, That the same be taken once in two years: And provided further, That the leave of absence may be extended to three months if taken once only in three years, or four months if taken only once in four years.-Act of July 29, 1876 (19 Stat., 102).

493. Commencement and termination of leave--Service in Alaska, etc.Leaves of absence which may be granted officers of the Regular or Volunteer Army serving in the Territory of Alaska or without the limits of the United States, for the purpose of returning thereto, or which may have been granted such officers for such purpose since the thirteenth day of October, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, shall be regarded as taking effect on the dates such officers reached or may have reached the United States, respectively, and as terminating, or as having terminated, on the respective dates of their departure from the United States in returning to their commands, as authorized by an order of the Secretary of War dated October 13, 1898.-Act of Mar. 2, 1901 (31 Stat., 902).

494. Accrued leave; officers appointed from Volunteer to Regular Army.— Officers appointed to the Regular Army from the Volunteer service, whose service has been continuous, shall, in the computation of leaves of absence after

their appointment in the Regular Army, be entitled to the leave credits which accrued to them as Volunteer officers where such leave credits were not availed of during their Volunteer service.—Act of June 30, 1902 (32 Stat., 508).

495. To be absent from Philippines.-Leaves to be absent from the Philippine Islands, other than to return to the United States, which may be granted officers of the Army serving in said islands and sailing from Manila, shall be regarded as taking effect on the dates such officers reach Manila, and as terminating on the dates of their departure from Manila, in returning to their stations.-Act of Mar. 2, 1907 (34 Stat., 1171).

496. Instructors at service schools.-The provisions of section thirteen hundred and thirty, Revised Statutes, authorizing leaves of absence to certain officers of the Military Academy during the period of the suspension of the ordinary academic studies, without deduction from pay and allowances, be, and are hereby, extended to include officers on duty exclusively as instructors at the service schools on approval of the officers in charge of said schools.—Act of Mar. 23, 1910 (36 Stat., 244).

LONGEVITY PAY.

497. Ten per centum increase for each term of five years of service.—There shall be allowed and paid to each commissioned officer below the rank of brigadier general, including chaplains and others having assimilated rank or pay, ten per centum of their current yearly pay for each term of five years of service.-Sec. 1262, R. S.

498. To be computed on yearly pay of grade.-From and after the first day of July, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, the ten per centum increase for length of service allowed to certain officers by section twelve hundred and sixty-two of the Revised Statutes shall be computed on the yearly pay of the grade fixed by sections twelve hundred and sixty-one and twelve hundred and seventyfour of the Revised Statutes.-Act of June 30, 1882 (22 Stat., 118).

499. Not to exceed forty per centum of yearly pay.—The total amount of such increase for length of service shall in no case exceed forty per centum on the yearly pay of the grade as provided by law.-Sec. 1263, R. S.

500. Maximum for colonel, lieutenant colonel, and major.-In no case shall the pay of a colonel exceed five thousand dollars a year; the pay of a lieutenant colonel exceed four thousand five hundred dollars a year, or the pay of a major exceed four thousand dollars a year.-Act of May 11, 1908 (35 Stat., 108).

501. Service as officer in Volunteers or enlisted men in armies.—All officers of the Army of the United States who have served as officers in the Volunteer forces during the War of the Rebellion, or as enlisted men in the armies of the United States, Regular or Volunteer, shall be, and are hereby, credited with the full time they may have served as such officers and as such enlisted men in computing their service for longevity pay and retirement.-Sec. 7, act of June 18, 1878 (20 Stat., 150).

502. Service in Navy to be counted.-The actual time of service in the Army or Navy, or both, shall be allowed all officers in computing their pay.-Act of Feb. 24, 1881 (21 Stat., 346).

503. Service of cadet subsequent to act.-Hereafter the service of a cadet who may hereafter be appointed to the United States Military Academy or to the Naval Academy shall not be counted in computing for any purpose the length of service of any officer of the Army.-Sec. 6, act of Aug. 24, 1912 (37 Stat., 594).

MILEAGE, ETC.

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504. Sea travel; actual expenses of.-For all sea travel actual expenses only shall be paid to officers * 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).

505. Necessity for travel to be stated.-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).

506. Military information from abroad.-Hereafter the officers detailed to obtain military information from abroad shall be entitled to mileage and transportation as provided when on other duty.-Act of Feb. 27,

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1893 (27 Stat., 480).

507. Appropriations for, not available for inspections or investigations.— Hereafter no portion of the appropriation for mileage to officers traveling 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).

508. Special duty to be stated in orders involving payment of.—All orders involving the payment of mileage shall state the special duty enjoined.-Act of Aug. 6, 1894 (28 Stat., 237).

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

510. Traveling under competent orders, rate fixed at seven cents per mile; computation of. 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).

511. Duty without troops; Secretary of War to determine what shall constitute. The Secretary of War may determine what shall constitute travel and duty without troops within the meaning of the laws governing payment of mileage to officers of the Army.-Ibid.

512. Mileage and transportation allowances, foreign armies; officers and enlisted men of, traveling in the United States on official business in connection with aviation.-That during the present emergency, officers and enlisted men of foreign armies attached to the aviation section of the Signal Corps as instructors or inspectors when traveling in the United States on official business pertaining to the aviation section of the Signal Corps shall be authorized, from funds appropriated by this act, the same mileage and transportation allowances as are authorized for officers and enlisted men of the Regular Army.-Sec. 9, act of July 24, 1917 (40 Stat., 247).

513. Transportation in kind, on request.—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.—Ibid.

514. Travel over bond-aided roads; deduction.-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.—Ibid.

515. Change of station while on leave of absence.-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.-Ibid.

516. Officers of the Ordnance Department, duty in connection with that department. That mileage to officers of the Ordnance Department traveling on duty in connection with that department shall be paid from the appropriation for the work in connection with which the travel is performed.—Act of May 12, 1917 (40 Stat.. 65).

517. Officers of the aviation section, Signal Corps, duty in connection with aviation service.—That mileage to officers in the aviation section, Signal Corps, traveling on duty in connection with aviation service shall be paid from the appropriation for the work in connection with which the travel is performed.— Act of May 12, 1917 (40 Stat., 43).

518. Officers of the Corps of Engineers.—In determining the mileage of officers of the Corps of Engineers traveling without troops on duty connected with works under their charge, no deduction shall be made for such travel as may be necessary on free or bond-aided or land-grant railways.-Sec. 15, act of Sept. 19, 1890 (26 Stat., 456).

QUARTERMASTER CORPS.

519. Office of storekeeper revoked.—When a vacancy shall occur through death, retirement, or other separation from active service in the office of storekeeper in the Quartermaster Department and Ordnance Department, respectively, now provided for by law, said offices shall cease to exist.—Acts of Mar. 3, 1899 (30 Stat., 977) and Feb. 2, 1901 (31 Stat., 748).

520. Doorkeeper to President to have grade of storekeeper.-The military storekeeper now on duty at the White House as doorkeeper to the President may be continued in that employment, and shall receive the full pay and allowances of his grade from the date of his retirement until relieved by the President.-Act of June 30, 1902 (32 Stat., 511).

521. Grade of military storekeeper revived.—The President of the United States, in his discretion, be, and he is hereby, authorized to appoint Charles P. Daly, chief clerk, office of the Quartermaster Corps, United States Army, a military storekeeper in the Quartermaster Corps, United States Army, with the rank, pay, and allowances of a captain, mounted; and the grade of military storekeeper is hereby revived in the Army of the United States for this purpose only.-Act of Aug. 29, 1916 (39 Stat., 626).

522. Pay clerk commissioned as first lieutenant.—The President is authorized to appoint, and, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, to commission to the grade of first lieutenant in the Quartermaster Corps, United States Army, a pay clerk of over thirty-one years' service, now in active service, and who has been recommended by the then Secretary of War for such appointment.—Act of Aug. 29, 1916 (39 Stat., 644).

523. Pay clerks commissioned as second lieutenants.—The pay clerks now in active service shall, hereafter have the rank, pay, and allowances of a second lieutenant.-Sec. 9, act of June 3, 1916 (39 Stat., 170).

QUARTERS.

524. Allowance of.—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;

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