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such ram[>fl to be maintained for a pmod lonp«»r than six weeks in any one year, except 

 in linie of a<tual or threatened hostilities; to tran8|x)rt members of such corps to and 

 from such c"ami)s at the expenao of the Uniteil States so far as appropriations will per- 

 mit; to subsist them at the expense of the United States while traveling to and from 

 such camps and while remaiiunj,' therein so far as appropriations will permit ; to use the 

 Regular Army, such other military forces as ( "ongre^ss from time to time authorizes, and 

 such Government property as he may deem necessary for the military training of the 

 members of such corps while in attendance at such camps; to prescribe regulations for 

 the government of such corps; and to authorize, in his discretion, the formation of 

 comjjany units thereof into battalion and regimental units. 



Sec. 49. The President alone, under such regulations as ho may prescribe, is hereby 

 authorized to appoint in the Officers' Reserve Corps any gra<luate of the senior division 

 of the Reserve Officers' Training Corps who shall have satisfactorily completed the 

 further training providwl for in section fifty of this act, or any graduate of the junior 

 division who shall have satisfactorily completed the courses of military training pre- 

 scribed for the senior division and the further training provided for in section fifty of 

 this act, and shall have participated in such practical instruction subsequent to gradua- 

 tion as the Secretary of War shall prescribe, who shall havearrivwl at theixgcof twenty- 

 one years and wlio shall agree, under oath in \vriting, to serve the Uml(^l Slates in the 

 capacity of a reserve officer of the Army during a period of at lea.st ten years from the 

 date of his aj)pointment as such reserve officer, unless sooner discharginl by proper 

 authority; but the total number of reserve officers so appointcxl shall not excee<l fifty 

 thousand: Provided, That any graduate qualified under the pro\'ision.s of tliis section 

 undergoing a post|;;ra<luate course at any institution shall not be eligible for appoint- 

 ment as a reserve officer while undergoing such postgraduate course, but his ultimate 

 eligibility upon completion of such postgraduate course for such appointment shall 

 not be affected because of liis having undei^one such postgnuluate course. 



Sec. 50. When any member of the senior division of the Reserve Officers' Training 

 Corps has completed two academic years of service in that division, and has been 

 selected for furtlier training by the president of the institution and by its professor of 

 military science and tactics, and has agreed in wTiting to continue in the Reserve 

 Officers' Training Corps for the remainder of his course in the institution, devoting 

 five hours per week to the military training prescribed by the Secretary of War, and 

 has agreed in writing to pursue the courses in camp training prescribed by the Secre- 

 tary of War, he may be furnished, at the expense of the United States, with commuta- 

 tion of subsistence at such rate, not exceeding the cost of the garrison ration prescribed 

 for the Army, as may be fixed by the Secretary of War, during the remainder of his 

 service in the Reserve Ofiicers' Training Corps. 



Sec. 51. Any physically fit male citizen of the United States, between the ages of 

 twenty-one and twenty-seven years, who shall have graduated prior to the date of 

 this act from any educational institution at which an officer of the Anny wa.s detailed 

 as professorof military science and tactics, and who, while a student at such institu- 

 tion, completed courses of military training under tlie direction of Buch professor of 

 military science and tactics substantially e(|uivalcnt to those prescribed pursuant to 

 this act for the senior division, shall, after satisfactorily comj)leting such additional 

 j)ractical military tnuning as the Secretary of War shall prescribe, be eligil)le for 

 appointment txj the Officers' Reserve Corps and as a temporary additional second 

 lieutenant in accordance with the terms of lliis act. 



Skc. 62. The I'resident alone is hereby authorized to appoint and commission as a 

 temporary second lieutenant of tiie Regular Army in time of peace for purposes of 

 instruction, for a period not exceeding six months, with the allowances now provided 

 by law for that grade, but with j)ay at the rate of $100 per month, any reserve officer 

 apijointcd pursuant to sections forty-nine and fifty-one of this act and to attach him 



