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CONGRESS. (ARMY REORGANIZATION.) 



the command of troops shall be reported by 

 their regimental commanders to the War Depart- 

 ment, and shall be entitled to compete for any 

 such vacancy under such system of examination 

 as the President shall prescribe. 



" SEC. 7. That the judge-advocate general's 

 department, quartermaster's department, subsist- 

 ence department, medical department, pay de- 

 partment, Corps of Engineers, ordnance depart- 

 ment, and Signal Corps shall consist of the offi- 

 cers and enlisted men now provided by law: Pro- 

 vided, That the battalion of engineers, and the 

 officers serving therewith, shall constitute a part 

 of the line of the army: Provided further, That 

 in time of war retired "officers of the army may, 

 in the discretion of the President, be employed on 

 active duty, other than in the command of troops, 

 and when'so employed they shall receive the full 

 pay and allowances'of their grades: And provided 

 also, That no person in civil life shall hereafter 

 be appointed a judge advocate, paymaster, or 

 chaplain until he shall have passed satisfactorily 

 such examination as to his moral, mental, and 

 physical qualifications as may be prescribed by 

 the President: and no such person shall be ap- 

 pointed who is more than forty-four years of age: 

 Provided further, That in case of the appointment 

 of an officer who has served in a similar capacity 

 during the war with Spain and has demonstrated 

 his moral, mental, and physical qualifications for 

 the position, then such examination shall not be 

 required. 



>' SEC. 8. That the chief of the Record and 

 Pension Office of the War Department shall here- 

 after have the rank, pay, and allowances of a 

 brigadier general, and there shall be an assistant 

 chief of said office, who shall have the rank, pay, 

 and allowances of a major and who may be ap- 

 pointed from civil life: Provided, That whenever 

 a vacancy shall occur in the office of chief of 

 the Record and Pension Office subsequent to the 

 passage of this act said grade shall cease and 

 determine, and thereafter the chief of said office 

 shall have the rank, pay, and allowances of a 

 colonel. 



" SEC. 9. That the cooks authorized by this 

 act shall have the pay and allowances of ser- 

 geants of infantry. 



" SEC. 10. That the corps of cadets shall con- 

 sist of 1 from each congressional district, 1 from 

 each Territory, 1 from the District of Columbia, 

 and 20 from the United States at large. They 

 shall be appointed by the President, and shall, 

 with the exception of the 20 cadets appointed at 

 large, be actual residents of the congressional or 

 Territorial districts, or of the District of Colum- 

 bia, or of the States, respectively, from which 

 they purport to be appointed. 



"SEC. 11. That so much of the acts approved 

 July 7, 1898, as authorizes the assignment of cer- 

 tain officers of the quartermaster's and subsist- 

 ence departments with increased rank, and the 

 continuance in service of certain volunteer officers 

 of those departments for a period of one year 

 after the close of the present war is repealed. 



' SEC. 12. That to meet the present exigencies 

 of the military service the President is hereby 

 authorized to maintain the regular army at a 

 strength of not exceeding 65,000 enlisted men, to 

 be distributed among the several branches of the 

 service, including the Signal Corps, according to 

 the needs of each, and raise a force of not more 

 that 35,000 volunteers to be recruited as he may 

 determine from the country at large, or from the 

 localities where their services are needed, without 

 restriction as to citizenship or educational quali- 

 fications, and to organize the same into not more 



than 27 regiments organized as are infantry regi- 

 ments of war strength in the regular army, and 3 

 regiments to be composed of men of special quali- 

 fications in horsemanship and marksmanship, to 

 be organized as cavalry for service mounted or 

 dismounted: Provided, That each regiment shall 

 have 1 surgeon, with the rank of major; 2 assist- 

 ant surgeons, 1 of whom shall have the rank of 

 captain and 1 that of first lieutenant; and 3 hos- 

 pital stewards: Provided furthrec, That such in- 

 creased regular and volunteer force shall con- 

 tinue in service only during the necessity therefor, 

 and not later than July 1, 1901. 



" All enlistments for the volunteer force herein 

 authorized shall be for the term of two years and 

 four months, unless sooner discharged. 



" SEC. 13. That the President shall have power 

 to continue in service or to appoint, by and with 

 t*he advice and consent of the Senate, brigadier 

 generals of volunteers, who, including the briga- 

 dier generals of the regular army, shall not exceed 

 1 for every 4,000 enlisted men actually in service, 

 and major generals of volunteers, who, including 

 the major generals of the regular army, shall not 

 exceed 1 for every 12,000 enlisted men: Provided, 

 That regular army officers continued or ap- 

 pointed as general officers or as field or staff 

 officers of volunteers, under the provisions of this 

 act shall not vacate their regular army commis- 

 sions : And provided further, That no general offi- 

 cers appointed under the provisions of this sec- 

 tion shall be continued in service as such beyond 

 July 1, 1901 : And provided also, That any officer 

 now in the army, who was graduated at the head 

 of his class at the United States Military Acad- 

 emy and who is not now in the Corps of Engineers, 

 may be appointed to the Corps of Engineers with 

 the same grade and date of commission that he 

 would have if he had been appointed to the Corps 

 of Engineers on graduation; but said commission 

 shall not entitle an officer to any back pay or 

 allowance. 



" SEC. 14. That the President is hereby au- 

 thorized to continue in service, or to appoint by 

 and with the advice and consent of the Senate, 

 officers of the volunteer staff as follows: 



" Three assistant adjutant generals with the 

 rank of lieutenant colonel, and 6 assistant adju- 

 tant generals with the rank of major. 



" Three inspectors general with the rank of 

 lieutenant colonel, and 6 inspectors general with 

 the rank of major. 



" Five judge advocates with the rank of major. 



" Thirty quartermasters with the rank of major, 

 and 40 assistant quartermasters with the rank 

 of captain. 



" Six commissaries of subsistence with the rank 

 of major, and 12 assistant commissaries of sub- 

 sistence with the rank of captain. 



" Thirty-four surgeons with the rank of major. 



" Thirty additional paymasters with the rank 

 of major. 



" Four signal officers with the rank of major, 

 9 signal officers with the rank of captain, 9 sign-al 

 officers with the rank of first lieutenant, and 9 

 signal officers with the rank of second lieutenant. 



" Provided, That for each regular army officer 

 of a staff corps or department who may be re- 

 tained in or appointed to a higher volunteer rank 

 in said staff corps or department than that ac- 

 tually held by him in the regular establishment, 

 there may be appointed 1 officer of volunteers of 

 the lowest grade mentioned in this section for 

 such staff corps or department, but no appoint- 

 ment shall be made which will increase the total 

 number of officers, regular and volunteer, serv- 

 ing in any grade, above the number authorized 



