prescribe, but the said State or Territorial homes shall be exclusively under the control of the respective State or Territorial authorities, and the board of managers shall not have nor assume any management or control of said State or Territorial homes.

"The board of managers of the national home shall, however, have power to have the said State or Territorial homes inspected at such times as it may consider necessary, and shall report the result of such inspections to Congress in its annual report: Provided, That no State shall be paid a sum exceeding one-half the cost of maintenance of each soldier or sailor by such State: Provided further, That one-half of any sum or sums retained by State homes on account of pensions received from inmates shall be deducted from the aid herein provided for. That no money shall be apportioned to any State or Territorial home that maintains a bar or canteen where intoxicating liquors are sold: Provided further, That for any sum or sums collected in any manner from inmates of such State or Territorial homes to be used for the support of said homes a like amount shall be deducted from the aid herein provided for, but this proviso shall not apply to any State or Territorial home into which the wives or widows of soldiers are admitted and maintained."

Approved, January 27, 1920.

[032.01, A. G. O.]

III An Act to amend an Act entitled "An Act making appropriations for the support of the Army for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1919," approved July 9, 1918.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That so much of the Act entitled "An Act making appropriations for the support of the Army for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1919," approved July 9, 1918, as constitutes the fifth section under the subheading "Medals of honor, distinguished-service crosses, and distinguished-service medals" (Fortieth Statutes at Large, page 871), be, and is hereby, amended so as to read as follows:

"That no more than one medal of honor or one distinguishedservice cross or one distinguished-service medal shall be issued to any one person; but for each succeeding deed or act sufficient to justify the award of a medal of honor or a distinguished-service cross or a distinguished-service medal, respectively, the President may award a suitable bar or other suitable device, to be worn as he shall direct. And for each citation of an officer or enlisted man for gallantry in action, published in orders issued from the headquarters of a force commanded by, or which is the appropriate command of, a general officer, not warranting the award of a medal of honor or distinguished-service cross, he shall be permitted to wear, as the President shall direct, a silver star three-sixteenths of an inch in diameter."

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SEC. 2. That all laws and parts of laws in conflict herewith are rescinded.

Approved, January 24, 1920.

[210.52, A. G. O.]

BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF WAR:

OFFICIAL:

P. C. HARRIS,

The Adjutant General.

PEYTON C. MARCH,
General, Chief of Staff.

WASHINGTON GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE: 1920

BULLETIN
No. 4.

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WAR DEPARTMENT,

WASHINGTON, February 19, 1920.

Commutation status of duty at Reserve Officers' Training Corps

camps----

Act of Congress-Detached service of officers---

Act of Congress-Loan of Army rifles to posts of the American
Legion_

Act of Congress—Granting citizenship to certain Indians__.
Hospital treatment for discharged soldiers, sailors, and marines

Section.

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II

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IV

V

I__Commutation status of duty at Reserve Officers' Training Corps camps.-All duty with the Reserve Officers' Training Corps at camps of instruction is considered temporary duty in the field not within the restriction of section II, Bulletin No. 35, War Department, 1917 (Duty with troops in the field during present war is not temporary duty). While on such temporary duty commutation rights, if established by status at permanent station, will continue.

[246.81, A. G. O.]

II_Act of Congress-Detached service of officers.-The following act of Congress is published to the Army for the information and guidance of all concerned:

An Act Relating to detached service of officers of the Regular Army. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That, after the termination of the emergency incident to the war with Germany and Austria-Hungary, in the construction of any law relating to detached service of the officers of the Regular Army, all service performed by such officers during the said emergency shall be regarded as service with troops or organizations thereof. Approved, January 17, 1920.

[210.48, A. G. O.]

I__Act of Congress-Loan of Army rifles to posts of the American Legion.-The following act of Congress is published to the Army for the information and guidance of all concerned: An Act Authorizing the Secretary of War to loan Army rifles to posts of the American Legion.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of War is hereby authorized, under rules, limitations, 165653-20 Rescinded Sec I, Bull. 8, 1921.

Sec 4. amended by Sec. V. Rul.40 -1920

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and regulations to be prescribed by him, to loan obsolete or condemned Army rifles to posts of the American Legion for use by them in connection with the funeral ceremonies of deceased soldiers, sailors, and marines, and for other post ceremonial purposes; and to sell to such posts blank ammunition in suitable amounts for said rifles at cost price, plus cost of packing and transportation: Provided, however, That not to exceed ten such rifles shall be issued to any one post.

Approved, February 10, 1920.

[474.1, A. G. O.]

IV-Act of Congress-Granting citizenship to certain Indians. The following act of Congress is published to the Army for the information and guidance of all concerned:

An Act Granting citizenship to certain Indians.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That every American Indian who served in the Military or Naval Establishments of the United States during the war against the Imperial German Government, and who has received or who shall hereafter receive an honorable discharge, if not now a citizen and if he so desires, shall, on proof of such discharge and after proper identification before a court of competent jurisdiction, and without other examination except as prescribed by said court, be granted full citizenship with all the privileges pertaining thereto, without in any manner impairing or otherwise affecting the property rights, individual or tribal, of any such Indian or his interest in tribal or other Indian property.

Received by the President, October 25, 1919.

[NOTE BY THE DepartmenT OF STATE.-The foregoing act having been presented to the President of the United States for his approval, and not having been returned by him to the house of Congress in which it originated within the time prescribed by the Constitution of the United States, has become a law without his approval.]

[291.23, A. G. O.]

V__Hospital treatment for discharged soldiers, sailors, and marines.-Section II, Bulletin No. 12, War Department, 1919 (Hospital treatment for discharged soldiers), as amended by section V, Bulletin No. 12, section II, Bulletin No. 34, and section II, Bulletin No. 37, War Department, 1919, is rescinded and the following substituted therefor:

1. Discharged soldiers, sailors, and marines are civilians under the law, and are not usually admissible to Army hospitals for