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CONGRESS. (THE ARMY BILL.) 



l:er of enlisted men as may be necessary to per- 

 form 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 allow- 

 ances of corporal of the arm of the service to 

 which they respectively belong. 



" SEC. 32. That when the exigencies of the serv- 

 ice of any officer who would be entitled to promo- 

 tion upon examination require him to remain ab- 

 sent from anv place where an examining board 

 could be convened, the President is hereby author- 

 ized to promote such officer, subject to examina- 

 tion, and the examination shall take place as soon 

 thereafter as practicable. If upon examination 

 the officer be found disqualified for promotion, he 

 shall, upon the approval of the proceedings by the 

 Secretary of War, be treated in the same manner 

 as if he had been examined prior to promotion. 



"SEC. 33. The President of the United States 

 is hereby authorized to select from the brigadier- 

 generals of volunteers 2 volunteer officers., with- 

 out regard to age, and, by and with the advice 

 and consent of the Senate, appoint them brigadier- 

 generals, United States army, for the purpose of 

 placing them on the retired list. 



" And the President is also hereby authorized to 

 select from the retired list of the army an officer 

 not above the rank of brigadier-general who may 

 have distinguished himself during the w^ar with 

 Spain, in command of a separate army, and to 

 appoint, by and with the advice and consent of 

 the Senate, the officer so selected to be major- 

 general, United States army, with the pay and 

 allowances established by law for officers of that 

 grade on the retired list. 



" SEC. 34. That all officers who have served dur- 

 ing the war with Spain, or since, as officers of the 

 regular or volunteer army of the United States, 

 and have been honorably discharged from the 

 service by resignation or otherwise, shall be en- 

 titled to bear the official title and, upon occasions 

 of ceremony, to wear the uniform of the highest 

 grade they have held by brevet or other commis- 

 sion in the regular or volunteer service. 



"SEC. 35. That the Secretary of War be, and 

 he is hereby, authorized and directed to cause pre- 

 liminary examinations and surveys to be made 

 for the purpose of selecting four sites with a view 

 to the establishment of permanent camp grounds 

 for instruction of troops of the regular army and 

 National Guard, Avith estimates of the cost of the 

 sites and their equipment with all modern appli- 

 ances, and for this purpose is authorized to detail 

 such officers of the army as may be necessary to 

 carry on the preliminary work; and the sum of 

 $10.000 is hereby appropriated for the necessary 

 expense of such work, to be disbursed under the 

 direction of the Secretary of War : Provided, That 

 the Secretary of War shall report to Congress the 

 result of such examination and surveys, and no 

 contract for said sites shall be made nor any ob- 

 ligation incurred until Congress shall approve 

 such selections and appropriate the money there- 

 for. 



" SEC. 36. That when in his opinion the condi- 

 tions in the Philippine Islands justify such action 

 the President is authorized to enlist natives of 

 those islands for service in the army, to be organ- 

 ized as scouts, with such officers as he shall deem 

 necessary for their proper control, or as troops 

 or companies, as authorized by this act, for the 

 regular army. The President is further authorized, 

 in his discretion, to form companies, organized as 

 are companies of the regular army, in squadrons 

 or battalions, with officers and non-commissioned 

 officers corresponding to similar organizations in 



the cavalry and infantry arms. The total num- 

 ber of enlisted men in said native organizations 

 shall not exceed 12,000, and the total enlisted force 

 of the line of the army, together with such native 

 force, shall not exceed at any one time 100,000. 



" The majors to command the squadrons and 

 battalions shall be selected by the President from 

 captains of the line of the regular army, and while 

 so serving they shall have the rank, pay, and al- 

 lowances of the grade of major. The captains of 

 the troops or companies shall be selected by the 

 President from first lieutenants of the line of the 

 regular army, and while so serving they shall have 

 the rank, pay, and allowances of captain of the 

 arm to which assigned. The squadron and bat- 

 talion staff-officers, and first and second lieuten- 

 ants of companies, may be selected from thi non- 

 commissioned officers or enlisted men of the regu- 

 lar army of not less than two years' service, or 

 from officers or non-commissioned officers or en- 

 listed men serving, or who have served, in the 

 volunteers subsequent to April 21, 1898, and offi- 

 cers of those grades shall be given provisional 

 appointments for periods of four years each, and 

 no such appointments shall be continued for a 

 second or subsequent term unless the officer's 

 conduct shall have been satisfactory in every 

 respect. The pay and allowances of provisional 

 officers of native organizations shall be those 

 authorized for officers of like grades in the regu- 

 lar army. The pay, rations, and clothing allow- 

 ances to be authorized for the enlisted men shall 

 be fixed by the Secretary of War, and shall not 

 exceed those authorized for the regular army. 



" When, in the opinion of the President, natives 

 of the Philippine Islands shall, by their services 

 and character, show fitness for command, the 

 President is authorized to make provisional ap- 

 pointments to the grades of second and first lieu- 

 tenants from such natives, who, when so ap- 

 pointed, shall have the pay and allowances to be 

 fixed by the Secretary of War, not exceeding those 

 of corresponding grades of the regular army. 



" SEC. 37. That the President is authorized to 

 organize and maintain one provisional regiment of 

 not exceeding three battalions of infantry, for 

 service in Porto Rico, the enlisted strength thereof 

 to be composed of natives of that island as far as 

 practicable. The regiment shall be organized as 

 to numbers as authorized for infantry regiments 

 of the regular army. The pay, rations, and cloth- 

 ing allowances to be authorized for the enlisted 

 men shall be fixed by the Secretary of War, and 

 shall not exceed those authorized for the regular 

 army. The field-officers shall be selected from 

 officers of the next lower grades in the regular 

 army and shall, while so serving in the higher 

 grade, have the rank, pay, and allowances there- 

 of. The company and regimental and battalion 

 staff-officers shall be appointed by the President. 

 The President may, in his discretion, continue 

 w r ith their own consent the volunteer officers and 

 enlisted men of the Porto Rico regiment, whose 

 terms of service expire by law July 1, 1901. En- 

 listments for the Porto Rico regiment shall be 

 made for periods of three years, unless sooner dis- 

 charged. The regiment shall be continued in serv- 

 ice until further directed by Congress. 



" SEC. 38. The sale of or dealing in, beer, wine, 

 or any intoxicating liquors by any person in any 

 post exchange or canteen or army transport or 

 upon any premises used for military purposes by 

 the United States, is hereby prohibited. The Sec- 

 retary of War is hereby directed to carry the pro- 

 visions of this section into full force and effect. 



"SEC. 39. That nothing in this act shall be 

 held or construed so as to discharge any officer 



