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I. 1. Under authority conferred by sections 1, 
2, 8 and 9 of the act of Congress ‘‘ Authorizing the 
President to increase temporarily the military es- 
tablishment of the United States,’’ approved May 
18, 1917, and the act ‘‘ Authorizing the President 
to coordinate or consolidate executive bureaus, 
agencies and offices, and for other purposes, in the 
interest of economy and the more efficient concen- 
tration of the government,’’ approved May 28, 
1918, in pursuance of which act the President has 
issued an executive order dated June 25, 1918, 
placing the experiment station at American Uni- 
versity under control of the War Department, the 
President directs that the gas service of the army 
be organized into a Chemical Warfare Service, Na- 
tional Army, to include: 
(a) The Chemical Service Section, 
Army. 
(b) All officers and enlisted men of the Ordnance 
Department and Sanitary Corps of the Medical 
Department as hereinafter more specifically speci- 
fied (regular officers affected being detailed and 
not transferred). 
2. The officers for this service will be obtained as 
provided by the third paragraph of section 1 and 
by section 9 of the act of May 18, 1917, the en- 
listed strength being raised and maintained by vol- 
untary enlistment or draft. 
3. The rank, pay and allowances of the enlisted 
men of the Chemical Warfare Service, National 
Army, shall be the same as now authorized for the 
corresponding grades in the Corps of Engineers. 
4. The head of the Chemical Warfare Service, 
National Army, shall be known as the Director of 
the Chemical Warfare Service, and, under the di- 
rection of the Secretary of War, as such, he shall 
be, and hereby is, charged with the duty of operat- 
ing and maintaining or supervising the operation 
and maintenance of all plants engaged in the in- 
vestigation, manufacture, or production of toxic 
gases, gas-defense appliances, the filling of gas 
shells, and proving grounds utilized in connection 
therewith and the necessary research connected 
with gas warfare, and he shall exercise full, com- 
plete and exclusive jurisdiction and control over 
the manufacture and production of toxic gases, 
gas defense appliances, including gas-shell filling 
plants and proving grounds utilized in connection 
therewith, and all investigation and research work 
in connection with gas warfare, and to that end he 
shall forthwith assume control and jurisdiction 
over all pending government projects having to do 
or connected with such manufacture, production 
and operation of plants and proving grounds for 
National 
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the army and heretofore conducted by the Medical 
Department and Ordnance Department under the 
jurisdiction of the Surgeon General and the Chief 
of Ordnance, respectively, and all material on hand 
for such investigation or research, manufacture or 
production, operation of plants and proving 
grounds, and all lands, buildings, factories, ware- 
houses, machinery, tools and appliances, and all 
other property, real, personal or mixed, heretofore 
used in, or in connection with, the operation and 
maintenance of such plants and proving grounds 
for the purpose of investigation or research, manu- 
facture or production, already procured and now 
held for such use by, or under the jurisdiction and 
control of the Medical Department or the Ordnance 
Department, all books, records, files, and office 
equipment used by the Medical Department or the 
Ordnance Department in connection with such in- 
vestigation or research, manufacture or production, 
or operation of plants and proving grounds, all 
rights under contract made by the Medical De- 
partment or Ordnance Department in, or in connec- 
tion with, the operation of such plants and insti- 
tutions as specified herein, all rights under con- 
tract made by the Medical Department or Ord- 
nance Department in, or in connection with such 
work, and the entire personnel (commissioned, en- 
listed and civilian) of the Ordnance Department 
and Sanitary Corps of the Medical Department as 
at present assigned to or engaged upon work in, or 
in connection with, such investigation or research, 
manufacture or production, or operation of plants 
and proving grounds, are hereby transferred from 
the jurisdiction of the Ordnance Department and 
the Medical Department and placed under the jur- 
isdiction of the Director of the Chemical Warfare 
Service, it being the intention hereof to transfer 
from the jurisdiction of the Medical Department 
and the Ordnance Department to the jurisdiction 
of the Chemical Warfare Service, every function, 
power and duty connected with the investigation, 
manufacture, or production of toxic gases, gas- 
defense appliances, including the necessary research 
connected with gas warfare, gas-shell filling plants, 
and proving grounds utilized in connection there- 
with, all property of every sort or nature used or 
procured for use in, or in connection with, said 
operation of such plants and proving grounds and 
the entire personnel of the Ordnance Department 
and Sanitary Corps of the Medical Department as 
at present assigned to, or engaged upon work in, 
or in connection with, the operation and mainte- 
nance of such plants engaged in the investigation, 
manufacture or production of toxic gases, gas-de- 
