or parts of laws inconsistent with the provisions of this Repeal. Act are hereby repealed. MISCELLANEOUS. Alaskan cable, Mileage to officers, etc. For extra pay to enlisted men of the line of the Army Extra pay, and to enlisted men of the Signal Corps employed in the etc. Territory of Alaska on the Alaskan cable and telegraph system, for periods of not less than ten days, at the rate of thirty-five cents per day, thirty-six thousand dollars. For mileage to officers and contract surgeons when authorized by law, six hundred thousand dollars: Provided, Proviso. That 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. Per diem, etc., Alaska. Additional service. For additional ten per centum increase on pay of offi- pay, foreign cers on foreign service, two hundred and eighty-five thousand dollars. Officers. Proviso. ports. For additional twenty per centum increase to enlisted Enlisted men. men on foreign service, seven hundred and sixty-seven thousand dollars: Provided, That officers and enlisted men who have served on army transports in the Philip- army transpine Archipelago at any time since May twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred, under the control and orders of the commanding general, Philippines Division, or who may hereafter so serve, shall be entitled to receive the same rate of pay as is provided by law for officers and enlisted men serving at shore stations beyond the limits of the United States. For Porto Rico Provisional Regiment of Infantry, provisional composed of two battalions of four companies each: Pay of officers of the line, fifty thousand four hundred dollars. Regiment. Officers. For additional pay for length of service, six thousand Longevity. five hundred dollars. Pay of enlisted men, ninety-seven thousand six hundred and forty-four dollars. Enlisted men. Additional pay for length of service, fifteen thousand Longevity. dollars. Proviso. Provided, That men hereafter enlisted in the Porto Rico Provisional Regiment of Infantry shall be enlisted listment, etc. for a period of three years and may be reenlisted, such enlistments and reenlistments to be subject to the regulations governing the Army at large, with such modifications as to physical requirements as the President may prescribe. PHILIPPINE SCOUTS. Officers. Longevity. Enlisted men. Specific a ppropriations for pay increased. Proviso. Additional appropriation. Transporta tion. Alaska. Military and post roads. Pay for officers of the line: Fifty first lieutenants, seventy-five thousand dollars. Fifty second lieutenants, seventy thousand dollars. Eight first lieutenants (battalion adjutants), fourteen thousand four hundred dollars. Eight second lieutenants (battalion quartermasters and commissaries), twelve thousand eight hundred dollars. Difference in additional pay to officers serving in higher grades under authority of law in battalion of Philippine Scouts: Eight majors from captains (not mounted), five thousand six hundred dollars. Fifteen captains from first lieutenants (not mounted), four thousand five hundred dollars. Additional for length of service, thirty-four thousand seven hundred and twenty dollars. Noncommissioned officers and privates, fifty companies, five hundred and sixteen thousand six hundred dollars. The specific appropriations hereinbefore made for officers and enlisted men in the line of the Army and in the several staff corps and departments, enlisted men in the Hospital Corps, officers and enlisted men in the Porto Rico Provisional Regiment of Infantry, and officers in the Philippine Scouts, being based upon former rates of pay, said specific appropriations are hereby increased to the amounts necessary for payment of such increase of pay at the rates established in this Act: Provided, That the sum of seven million dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to provide for such increases in the said specific appropriations, and for the purpose of paying officers and enlisted men, including enlisted men of the Hospital Corps, at the rates provided for in this Act. QUARTERMASTER'S DEPARTMENT. * * TRANSPORTATION OF THE ARMY AND ITS SUPPLIES: For transportation of the Army and its supplies, for the purchase and repair of ships, boats, and other vessels required for the transportation of troops and supplies and for garrison purposes; for expenses of sailing public transports and other vessels on the various rivers, the Gulf of Mexico, and the Atlantic and Pacific oceans; * * * For the construction and maintenance of military and post roads, bridges, and trails in the district of Alaska, Construc- to the expended under the direction of the board of road commissioners described in section two of an Act entitled tion, etc. "An Act to provide for the construction and maintenance. of roads, the establishment and maintenance of schools, and the care and support of insane persons in the district of Alaska, and for other purposes," approved January twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and five, and to be expended conformably to the provisions of said Act, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, to remain available Available. until the close of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and ten. * Philippine Islands. BARRACKS AND QUARTERS, PHILIPPINE ISLANDS: Continuing the work of providing for the proper shelter and protection of officers and enlisted men of the Army of quarters. the United States lawfully on duty in the Philippine Islands, including payment of rents, the acquisition of title to building sites and such additions to existing military reservations as may be necessary, and including also shelter for the animals and supplies, and all other buildings necessary for post administration purposes, seven hundred and thirty-one thousand and twenty-two dollars. MEDICAL DEPARTMENT. Supplies, etc. Proviso. na Insane tives, Philip MEDICAL AND HOSPITAL DEPARTMENT: For the purchase of medical and hospital supplies, * * * Provided, That hereafter the Secretary of War may, in his discretion, contract for the care, maintenance, and treatment of the insane natives of the Philippine Islands serving in the pine Islands. Army of the United States at any asylum in the Philippine Islands in all cases which he is now authorized by law to cause to be sent to the Government Hospital for the Insane in the District of Columbia. CHAP. 166.-An Act Making appropriations for the naval May 13, 1908. service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred (H. R. 20471.] and nine, and for other purposes. [Public, No. ice appropria Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Repre- pt. 1, p. 126. sentatives of the United States of America in Congress Naval serv assembled, That the following sums be, and they are tions. hereby, appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the naval service of the Government for the year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nine, and for other purposes. PAY OF THE NAVY. creased. active list. Pay in Hereafter all commissioned officers of the active list of Officers on the Navy shall receive the same pay and allowances acR. S., sec. cording to rank and length of service, and the annual pay 1556, amended. of each grade shall be as follows: For Admiral, thirteen thousand five hundred dollars; rear-admiral, first nine. eight thousand dollars; rear-admiral, second nine, or commodore, six thousand dollars; captain, four thousand dollars; commander, three thousand five hundred dollars: lieutenant-commander, three thousand dollars; lieutenant. two thousand four hundred dollars; lieutenant, junior grade, two thousand dollars; ensign, one thousand seven Longevity. hundred dollars. There shall be allowed and paid to each commissioned officer below the rank of rear-admiral ten per centum of his current yearly pay for each term of five years service in the Army, Navy and Marine Corps. Maximum in- The total amount of such increase for length of service shall in no case exceed forty per centum on the yearly Maximum an- pay of the grade as provided by law: Provided, That the nual pay for annual pay of captain shall not exceed five thousand dolcaptain, etc. lars per annum; of commander, four thousand five hundred dollars per annum; and of lieutenant-commander, Additional four thousand dollars per annum. All officers on sea service. duty and all officers on shore duty beyond the continental limits of the United States shall while so serving receive ten per centum additional of their salaries and increase as above provided, and such increase shall commence from the date of reporting for duty on board ship or the date of sailing from the United States for shore duty beyond Midshipmen. the seas or to join a ship in foreign waters. The The pay of crease. Proviso. for foreign cers, etc. midshipmen shall hereafter be six hundred dollars per annum while at the Naval Academy, and one thousand four hundred dollars per annum after graduation from Warrant of the Naval Academy. The pay of all warrant officers and mates is hereby increased twenty-five per centum, and all paymasters' clerks shall, while on duty, receive the same pay and allowances as warrant officers of like length of Enlisted men. service in the Navy. The pay of all active and retired enlisted men of the Navy is hereby increased ten per Chiefs of centum: Provided further, That the pay and allowances R. S., sec. of chiefs of bureaus in the Navy Department shall be the highest pay of the grade to which they belong, and not below that of rear-admiral of the lower nine, and that the pay and allowances of chaplains in the Navy shall in no case exceed that provided for lieutenant-commanders. Aids to rear- Aids to rear-admirals embraced in the nine lower numbers of that grade shall each receive one hundred and fifty dollars additional per annum, and aids to all other rear-admirals, two hundred dollars additional per annum bureaus. 1565. Chaplains. admirals. etc., thirty etc., of retir chiefs. of retired com each. When an officer of the Navy has been thirty years Retirement, in the service, he may, upon his own application, in the years' service. discretion of the President, be retired from active service and placed upon the retired list with three-fourths of the highest pay of his grade: And provided further, That Rank, pay. any officer of the Navy who is now serving or shall here- ing bureau after serve as chief of a bureau in the Navy Department, and shall subsequently be retired, shall be retired with the rank, pay and allowances authorized by law for the retirement of such bureau chief. The pay of all commissioned, Basis of pay warrant and appointed officers and enlisted men of the missioned, etc., Navy now on the retired list shall be based on the pay, as R. S., sec. herein provided for, of commissioned, warrant and ap- 1569. pointed officers and enlisted men of corresponding rank and service on the active list; and all pay herein provided shall remain in force until changed by Act of Congress. Nothing herein shall be construed so as to reduce the pay or allowances now authorized by law for any commissioned, warrant or appointed officer or any enlisted man of the active or retired lists of the Navy, and all laws inconsistent with this provision are hereby repealed. officers. No reduction of present pay. Repeal. R. S., sec. That hereafter immediately upon official notification Allowances of the death from wounds or disease contracted in line of for death. duty of any officer or enlisted man on the active list of 1587. the Navy and Marine Corps the Paymaster-General of the Navy shall cause to be paid to the widow of such officer or enlisted man, or any person previously designated by him, an amount equal to six months' pay at the rate received by such officer or enlisted man at the date of his death, less seventy-five dollars in the case of an officer Interment exand thirty-five dollars in the case of an enlisted man penses. to defray expenses of interment, and the residue, if any, of the amount reserved shall be paid subsequently to the designated person. The Secretary of the Navy shall establish regulations requiring each officer and enlisted man to designate the proper person to whom this amount shall be paid in case of death, and said amount shall be to be designapaid to that person from funds appropriated for the pay of the Navy and Marine Corps. * ted. Beneficiaries BUREAU OF EQUIPMENT. * CIVIL ESTABLISHMENT, BUREAU OF EQUIPMENT: Naval station, Cavite, Philippine Islands: One master electrician, one thousand eight hundred and seventyeight dollars; one clerk, one thousand dollars; in all, two thousand eight hundred and seventy-eight dollars. Cavite, P. I. |