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permitted to leave his post to engage in any pursuit, business, or performance in civil life, for emolument, hire, or otherwise, when the same shall interfere with the customary employment and regular engagement of local civilians in the respective arts, trades, or professions.1 Sec. 35, Id. 188.

702a. Act not to be construed as reducing pay or allowances of any enlisted man.-Nothing herein contained shall operate to reduce the pay or allowances now authorized by law for any grade of enlisted men of the Army.2 Sec. 28, Id., 187.

(For preceding provision of this section see par. 695a.)

704a. Detail of enlisted men for recruiting duty.-The Secretary of War is authorized to detach from the Army at large such number of enlisted men as may be necessary to perform 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 allowances of corporal of the arm of the service to which they respectively belong. Sec. 31, act of Feb. 2, 1901 (31 Stat. 756).

704b. Temporary sergeants and corporals at recruiting depots.— Hereafter the Secretary of War may authorize the temporary appointment of such number of sergeants and corporals in the com

to the pay of the grades actually held by them plus $6 per month, as provided in the act of May 11, 1908; and further, in answer to specific questions, Held, That

(a) The base or initial pay of the grade of mess sergeant, Corps of Engineers, is $36 per month, and no more.

(b) The base or initial pay of the grade of mess sergeant in the Infantry, Cavalry, and Artillery is $30 per month, and no more.

(c) The continuous-service pay of persons appointed to the grade of mess sergeant should be computed on the basis of the rates mentioned in the answers to questions (a) and (b).

(d) The arms of the service for which the act of June 3, 1916, makes provision for mess sergeants are not entitled to have additional mess sergeants assigned or detailed thereto. Such provision is complete as to such organizations. (Comptroller W. W. Warwick, June 30, 1916.) (War Dept. Bull. 18, July 8, 1916.)

'Held, That while an enlisted man on leave of absence or ordinary furlough is unquestionably to be deemed in active service within the meaning of this term as used in the statute mentioned, it would go beyond the primary purpose of the law to apply it to a case like this where the furlough has been granted to an enlisted man under authority of regulations to extend to the date of his retirement, it not being within the contemplation of the authorities granting the furlough that he will ever resume active duty, and that, therefore, in such cases the soldier may accept employment or engage in business without reference to the provisions of section 35 of the national defense act. (War Dept. Bull. 3, Jan. 19, 1917.)

Held, That this provision relates to the pay of grades and not of individuals, and that demotion of individual soldiers, if found necessary to be made in order to comply with the law providing for a reduction in the members of grades in any particular lise of the Army, is not a reduction of pay or allowances fixed by law for such grades, and hence would not be prohibited by this provision.

(Comp. Treas., July 19, 1916, War Dept. Bull. 28, Aug. 18, 1916.)

panies at the general recruiting depots as may be necessary for the proper control and instruction of the varying number of recruits. attached to such companies. Act of Mar. 3, 1909 (35 Stat. 741).

704c. One enlisted man at each recruit depot to have rank, pay, and allowances of a regimental sergeant major.-Hereafter one of the enlisted men detached from the Army at large for duty at each of the recruit depots under the provisions of the Act of June twelfth, nineteen hundred and six, shall, while so detached, have the rank, pay, and allowances of a regimental sergeant major. Act of Aug. 29, 1916 (39 Stat. 624).

721a. Transportation of change of station allowance of baggage on discharge for disability of enlisted man haring ten years or more of service. Hereafter when an enlisted man having ten or more years' service in the Army is discharged on account of disability incurred in the line of duty, transportation of his authorized change of station allowance of baggage from his last duty station to his home in addition to other travel allowances fixed by law may be authorized by the Secretary of War. Id. 633.

727a. Pay and allowances of soldier sentenced to dishonorable discharge during execution of suspended sentence.-Hereafter pay and allowances shall not accrue to a soldier under sentence of dishonorable discharge during such period as the execution of the sentence of discharge may be suspended under authority of the act of Congress approved April twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and fourteen, and pay which has heretofore been forfeited under such suspended sentence shall not be held to have accrued to the Soldiers' Home under the operation of section forty-eight hundred and eighteen, Revised Statutes, but shall be covered back into the Treasury of the United States. Act of Mar. 4, 1915 (38 Stat. 1065).

(This provision will also be found under paragraph 1507a.)

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728a. The Medical Department, composition of.-The Medical Department shall consist of one Surgeon General, with the rank of major general during the active service of the present incumbent of that office, and thereafter with the rank of brigadier general, who shall be chief of said department, a Medical Corps, a Medical Reserve Corps within the limit of time fixed by this Act, a Dental Corps, a Veterinary Corps, an enlisted force, the Nurse Corps and contract surgeons as now authorized by law, the commissioned officers of which shall be citizens of the United States. Sec. 10, Act of June 3, 1916 (39 Stat. 171).

(For the next provision of this section see par. 729a. For the provision of sec. 37 abolishing the Medical Reserve Corps one year after passage of act, see par. 1539.)

728b. Not to exceed five officers of, may be detailed with American Red Cross.-Hereafter the President shall be authorized to detail not to exceed five officers of the Medical Department of the Army for duty with the military relief division of the American National Red Cross. Id.

(For other provisions of this section, preceding this paragraph, see pars. 729a, 729b, 729c. 731a, and 732a.)

VETERINARY CORPS.

728c. Composition of.-The President is hereby authorized, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, to appoint veterinarians

and assistant veterinarians in the Army, not to exceed, including veterinarians now in service, two such officers for each regiment of Cavalry, one for every three batteries of Field Artillery, one for each mounted battalion of Engineers, seventeen as inspectors of horses and mules and as veterinarians in the Quartermaster Corps, and seven as inspectors of meats for the Quartermaster Corps; and said veterinarians and assistant veterinarians shall be citizens of the United States and shall constitute the Veterinary Corps and shall be a part of the Medical Department of the Army. Sec. 16, act of June 3, 1916 (39 Stat. 176).

(See pars. 544, 1078, and 1079 for existing law relative to veterinarians.)

728d. Appointment of assistant veterinarian, qualifications and examination for.-Hereafter a candidate for appointment as assistant veterinarian must be a citizen of the United States, between the ages of twenty-one and twenty-seven years, a graduate of a recognized veterinary college or university, and shall not be appointed until he shall have passed a satisfactory examination as to character, physical condition, general education, and professional qualifications. Id.

728e. Same-Rank, pay, and allowances of.—An assistant veterinarian appointed under this Act shall, for the first five years of service as such, have the rank, pay, and allowances of second lieutenant; that after five years of service he shall have the rank, pay, and allowances. of first lieutenant; that after fifteen years of service he shall be promoted to be a veterinarian with the rank, pay, and allowances of captain, and that after twenty years' service he shall have the rank, pay, and allowances of a major. Id.

728f. Same-Examination for promotion.-Any assistant veterinarian, in order to be promoted as hereinbefore provided, must first pass a satisfactory examination, under such rules as the President may prescribe, as to professional qualifications and adaptability for the military service; and if such assistant veterinarian shall be found deficient at such examination he shall be discharged from the Army with one year's pay. Id.

728g. Veterinarians now in Army appointed in Veterinary Corps, rank and pay of.-The veterinarians of Cavalry and Field Artillery now in the Army, together with such veterinarians of the Quartermaster Corps as are now employed in said corps, who at the date of the approval of this Act shall have had less than five years' governmental service, may be appointed in the Veterinary Corps as assistant veterinarians with the rank, pay, and allowances of second lieutenant; those who shall have had over five years of such service may be appointed in said corps as assistant veterinarians with the rank, pay, and allowances of first liutenant; and those who shall have had over fifteen years of such service may be appointed in said corps as

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