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and who has served in France in the World War, and before retirement was repeatedly recommended for promotion to the grade of brigadier general: Provided, however, That the promotion authorized in this act shall not carry with it any increased pay or compensation or allowances, the pay, compensation, and allowances to remain the same as the grade from which such officers are respectively promoted under this act, any law to the contrary notwithstanding. Act of February 28, 1927 (44 Stat. 1249).

Under the provisions of the above act, six colonels on the retired list were appointed brigadier generals thereon. (C. M. L. No. 7, July 2, 1927.)

24194. Add new paragraphs and note:

Appointment and retirement of certain persons as first lieutenants, Medical Corps.-* * * And provided further, That any person who at the time of the approval of this act shall be and has been an officer of the Medical Reserve Corps, or contract surgeon, on active duty for twelve years subsequent to eighteen hundred and ninety-eight shall be eligible for appointment as first lieutenant in the Medical Corps, subject to examination: And provided further, That any officer so eligible who fails to pass the physical examination by reason of disability incurred in line of duty shall be retired with the pay and allowances of a first lieutenant of the Medical Corps. Sec. 1, Chap. XVII, act of July 9, 1918 (40 Stat. 889), amending sec. 10, act of June 3, 1916 (39 Stat. 171).

That the President is authorized to appoint any person retired under the last proviso of section 1, Chapter XVII, of the act entitled "An act making appropriations for the support of the Army for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1919," approved July 9, 1918, a first lieutenant, Medical Corps, United States Army, and to retire such person and place him on the retired list of the Army as a first lieutenant with the retired pay and allowances of that grade. Act of March 3, 1927 (44 Stat. 1350).

Sixteen persons were appointed first lieutenants, Medical Corps, and retired, under the provisions of the act of March 3, 1927. (C. M. L. No. 7, July 2, 1927.)

2465. Add note:

The provision added by Changes No. 4 is repeated in later War Department appropriation acts. (C. M. L. No. 7, July 2, 1927.)

2467. Change paragraph and add note:

Strike out second proviso added by Changes No. 5.

For permanent provision as to travel on Government-owned vessels, see 17802, as changed by Changes No. 7, ante. (C. M. L. No. 7, July 2, 1927.)

2574. Change citation.

Strike out citation to paragraph inserted by Changes No. 6 and insert new citation: "Sec. 20, act of June 10, 1922, as amended by act of May 31, 1924 (43 Stat. 251), as amended by sec. 6, act of July 2, 1926 (44 Stat. 782)." (C. M. L. No. 7, July 2, 1927.)

2584. Add new paragraph and note:

When approved by the Secretary of War 10 per centum of each of the foregoing amounts under the appropriation for "Arming, equipping, and training the National Guard" shall be available interchangeably for expenditure on the objects named, but no one item shall be increased by more than 10 per centum : Provided, That a report of amounts so transferred between appropriations shall be submitted to the Congress at the first regular session after the close of the fiscal year 1928. W. D. appropriation act of February 23, 1927 (44

Stat. 1132).

Provision for interchangeable expenditure is not always made. That set forth above has never before appeared in that precise form. (C. M. L. No. 7, July 2, 1927.)

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2585%. Add new paragraph:

Return of funds of unreconstituted units of the National Guard. That the Secretary of War is hereby authorized and directed to transfer to the governors of the respective States and Territories and to the commanding general of the District of Columbia such funds as he may now hold in trust for World War units of the National Guard which have not been reconstituted: Provided, That in the cases of States and Territories the legislatures thereof first pass acts enabling their respective governors to act as trustees for said funds. Act of March 3, 1927 (44 Stat. 1404). (C. M. L. No. 7, July 2, 1927.)

2612. Add note:

The provision, as described in the preceding notes (Changes Nos. 4 and 5), is repeated in later War Department appropriation acts. (C. M. L. No. 7, July 2, 1927.)

2624. Add new paragraph and note:

For the procurement, maintenance, and issue, under such regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary of War, to institutions at which one or more units of the Reserve Officers' Training Corps are maintained, of such public animals, means of transportation, supplies, tentage, equipment, and uniforms as he may deem necessary, including cleaning and laundering of uniforms and clothing at camps; and to forage, at the expense of the United States, public animals so issued, and to pay commutation in lieu of uniforms at a rate, including renovating costs, not to exceed $7.15; for transporting said animals and other authorized supplies and equipment from place of issue to the several institutions and training camps and return of same to place of issue when necessary; for purchase of training manuals, including Government publications; for the establishment and maintenance of camps for the further practical instruction of the members of the Reserve Officers' Training Corps, and for transporting members of such corps to and from such camps, and to subsist them while traveling to and from such camps and while remaining therein so far as appropriations will permit or, in lieu of transporting them to and from such camps and subsisting them while en route, to pay them travel allowance at the rate of 5 cents per mile for the distance by the shortest usually traveled route from the places from which they are authorized to proceed to the camp and for the return travel thereto, and to pay the return travel pay in advance of the actual performance of the travel; for reimbursement for the use, including upkeep and depreciation costs, of supplies, equipment, and matériel furnished in accordance with law from stocks under the control of the War Department; for pay for students attending advanced camps at the rate prescribed for soldiers of the seventh grade of the Regular Army; for the payment of commutation of subsistence to members of the senior division of the Reserve Officers' Training Corps, at a rate not exceeding the cost of the garrison ration prescribed for the Army, as authorized in the Act approved June 3, 1916, as amended by the Act approved June 4, 1920; for medical and hospital treatment, subsistence until furnished transportation, and transportation when fit for travel to their homes of members of the Reserve Officers' Training Corps injured in line of duty while at camps of instruction under the provisions of section 47a and section 47d of the National Defense Act approved June 3, 1916, as amended; and for the cost of preparation and transportation to their homes and burial expenses of the remains of members of the Reserve Officers' Training Corps who die while attending camps of instruction as provided in section 4 of the Act approved June 3, 1924; and for the cost of maintenance, repair, and operation of passenger-carrying vehicles, $2,645,914, to remain available until December 31, 1928: Provided, That uniforms and other

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