Army Appropriation Bill, 1917: Hearings Before the Committee on Military AffairsU.S. Government Printing Office, 1916 |
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1917 for Regular 1917-Current requirements Adjutant amount estimated annum ANTHONY apportionment appropriation fiscal Army at present Barracks bill buildings capita Capt Cavalry cents CHAIRMAN Coast Artillery commutation construction Cost fiscal cost for fiscal CROZIER current requirements decrease department authorities depots duty employees Engineers enlisted equipment Estimate fiscal estimate for 1917 Estimate for fiscal Field Artillery fiscal year 1915 fiscal year 1917-Current horses Hospital Corps increase indorsement Infantry Item R. S. July KAHN less than appropriation less than cost Lieut lieutenants machines manufacture MCKELLAR ments military posts noncommissioned officers Ordnance sergeant pay clerks Philippine Islands Philippine Scouts present strength less purchase Quartermaster Corps quartermaster sergeant quarters rations regiments Regular Army rental repair rifle Secretary BAKER Secretary of War Sept SHALLENBERGER SHARPE Signal Corps submitted Supplies tion Total United transportation troops United States Army War Department
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Page 267 - Postage ; cost of telegrams on official business received and sent by officers of the Army ; extra pay to soldiers employed on extra duty, under the direction of the Quartermaster's Department, in the erection of barracks, quarters, and .storehouses, in the construction of roads, and other constant labor for periods of not less than ten days, and...
Page 367 - Unless otherwise expressly provided by law, no officer of the services mentioned in the title of this Act shall be allowed or paid any sum in excess of expenses actually...
Page 361 - States military prison or from any place in which they have been held under a sentence of dishonorable discharge and confinement for more than six months, or from the Government Hospital for the Insane after transfer thereto from such prison or place, to their homes (or elsewhere as they may elect), provided the cost in each case shall not be greater than to the place of last enlistment; of supplies furnished to the militia for the permanent equipment thereof; of the necessary agents and employees.
Page 20 - Navy." and shall not be subject to forfeiture by sentence of court-martial, but shall be forfeited by desertion, and shall not be permitted to be paid until final payment on discharge, or to the heirs or representatives of a deceased sailor, and that such deposit be exempt from liability for such sailor's debts: Provided, That the Government shall be liable for the amount deposited to the person so depositing the same.
Page 250 - ... of forage in kind for the horses, mules, and oxen of the Quartermaster's Department at the several posts and stations and with the armies in the field, and for the horses of the several regiments of cavalry, the batteries of artillery, and such companies of infantry and scouts as may be mounted, and for the authorized number of officers...
Page 116 - Department shall be reimbursed for expenses of interment, and the residue, if any, of the amount reserved shall be paid subsequently to the designated person. The Secretary of War shall establish regulations requiring each officer and enlisted man to designate the proper person to whom this amount shall be paid in case of his death, and said amount shall be paid to that person from funds appropriated for the pay of the Army.
Page 124 - President be, and he is hereby, authorized to prescribe the kinds and quantities of the component articles of the army ration, and to direct the issue of substitutive equivalent articles in place of any such components whenever, in his opinion, economy and a due regard to the health and comfort of the troops may so require. SEC. 41. That the distinctive badges adopted by military societies of men "who served in the armies and navies of the United States...
Page 878 - HOSPITAL CARE, CANAL ZONE GARRISONS. For paying the Panama Canal such reasonable charges, exclusive of subsistence, as may be approved by the Secretary of War for caring in its hospitals for officers, enlisted men, military prisoners, and civilian employees of the Army admitted thereto upon the request of proper military authority, $60,000: Provided, That the subsistence of the said patients, except commissioned...
Page 105 - That 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...
Page 262 - When soldiers are detailed for employment as artificers or laborers in the construction of permanent military works, public roads, or other constant labor of not less than ten days...