Army Appropriation Bill, 1916: Hearings Before the Committee on Military Affairs, House of Representatives, on the Bill Making Appropiations for the Support of the Army for the Fiscal Year 1916U.S. Government Printing Office, 1914 - 732 pages |
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Common terms and phrases
Actual strength June ALESHIRE allowance amount estimated annum ANTHONY appropriation fiscal approved Approximate cost remain Army authorized strength fiscal Average number paid Barracks Batangas Province buildings Cavalry cents CHAIRMAN clerks Coast Artillery construction and betterments cost fiscal cost for fiscal cost report crease CROZIER current requirements decrease department authorities depots duty Engineers enlisted Esti Estimate fiscal estimate for 1916 Estimate for fiscal expenses fiscal year 1914 follows Fort Huachuca Fort Sill geants GORGAS guns hire horses imate imate cost increase Infantry item consist June 30 KAHN Laguna Province less than appropriation less than cost lieutenants mate Maximum authorized strength ments military posts month during period noncommissioned officers Number estimated Ordnance paid per month Philippine Islands Philippine Scouts purchase Quartermaster Corps quarters recruiting regiments Remarks rental repair SCRIVEN Secretary of War sergeants shown by cost Signal Corps strength June 30 Supplies tion Total approx transportation troops
Popular passages
Page 420 - 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 96 - For expenses of courts-martial, courts of inquiry, military commissions, retiring boards, and compensation of reporters and witnesses attending same, and expenses of taking depositions and securing other evidence for use before the panic, $00.000.
Page 300 - Except as otherwise provided by law, sums appropriated for the various branches of expenditure in the public service shall be applied solely to the objects for which they are respectively made and for no others.
Page 136 - Army of not less than two years' service, or from officers or noncommissioned officers or enlisted men serving, or who have served, in the Volunteers subsequent to April twenty-first, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, and officers 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.
Page 22 - ... pay at the rate he was receiving at the time of his discharge. That hereafter enlisted men now qualified or hereafter qualifying as marksmen shall receive two dollars per month; as sharpshooters, three dollars per month; as expert riflemen, five dollars per month; as second-class gunners, two dollars per month: as first-class gunners, three dollars per month: as gun pointers, gun commanders, observers second class, chief planters and chief loaders, seven dollars per month; as plotters, observers...
Page 21 - ... to form companies, organized as are companies of the Regular Army, in squadrons or battalions, with officers and noncommissioned officers corresponding to similar organizations in the cavalry and infantry arms. The total number of enlisted men in said native...
Page 255 - Idaho, where during the remainder of the year one-half of such allowance may be issued, and in the State of California where the full allowance may be issued for the entire year. To troops stationed south of the thirty-seventh parallel of north latitude * the full allowance may be issued for the entire year. At posts where it is practicable during the cold season to cut and store ice required, no issues of ice will be allowed from susbistence funds as long as such stored ice is available.
Page 131 - ... in case any officer below the grade of major required to be mounted provides himself with suitable mounts, at his own expense, he shall receive an addition to his pay of $150 per annum if he provides one mount, and $200 per annum if he provides two mounts.
Page 275 - States for the same make and substantially the same model of machine during the fiscal year 1918 ; such price shall include the value of any typewriting machine or machines given in exchange, but shall not apply to special prices granted on typewriting machines used in schools of the District of Columbia or of the Indian Service, the lowest of which special prices paid for typewriting machines shall not be exceeded in future purchases for such schools...
Page 297 - By order of the Secretary of War; LEONARD WOOD, Major General, Chief of Staff.