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628. The additional pay of a regularly detailed mess sergeant is not affected by the merging of his organization temporarily into a general mess. Decision Secretary of War, Cir. 47, W. D., 1909.

629. First sergeants and color sergeants are not eligible to detail as mess sergeant.— P. M. G. O., Feb. 15 and 25, 1909, 73970 and 74162.

630. The provision in the Act of May 11, 1908, as amended by the Act of March 3, 1909, for the payment of additional pay at the rate of $9 per month for the performance of duty as horseshoer in the cavalry and field artillery, is revoked by the Act of March 23, 1910, which provides: "That one of the two 'blacksmiths and farriers' now authorized by law for each troop of cavalry shall hereafter be designated as ‘horseshoer' and receive the pay of a sergeant of cavalry, and the other shall hereafter be designated as 'farrier' and receive the pay of a corporal of cavalry; and that one of the 'mechanics' now authorized by law for each battery of field artillery shall hereafter be designated as 'horseshoer' and receive the pay of a sergeant of artillery."

631. The Act of March 23, 1910, abolishes the grade of blacksmith and farrier in the cavalry, and in lieu thereof creates a grade of horseshoer and a grade of farrier; it also reduces the authorized number of mechanics for each battery of field artillery from four to three, and establishes a grade of horseshoer in the field artillery.

For decisions pertaining to payment of the additional pay under the acts of May 11, 1908, and March 3, 1909, see War Department circulars 41 and 65, 1909, and 15, 1910.

BONUS FOR REENLISTMENT.

632. "Hereafter any private soldier, musician, or trumpeter honorably discharged at the termination of his first enlistment who reenlists within three months of the date of said discharge shall, upon such reenlistment, receive an amount equal to three months' pay at the rate he was receiving at the time of his discharge."—Act May 11, 1908, 35 Stat., 110; G. O., 80, 1908.

633. The bonus for reenlistment is payable to privates first-class of engineers, ordnance, Signal Corps, and Hospital Corps; privates Hospital Corps; trumpeters; musicians of infantry, artillery, and engineers; privates of cavalry, artillery, infantry, and Signal Corps; privates second-class of engineers and ordnance, and is payable to men who may have been discharged prior to May 11, but reenlisted after May 11, as well as to those who are discharged after May 11. (All bands are excluded.) The three months' pay includes all pay he was receiving at the time of his discharge, such as foreign service increase, additional pay for marksmanship, gunner, extra-duty or special ratings in the Coast Artillery Corps.-See 14 Comp., 859 and 866, June 8 and 11, 1908; Cir. 52 and 57, W. D., 1908.

NOTE. The appointment of a corporal or sergeant at recruiting stations, as provided by the Act of February 2, 1901 (Manual, paragraph 714), does not confer upon him the noncommissioned office of a sergeant or corporal, but only the rank, pay, and allowances of the noncommissioned grade, and in contemplation of said act he remains a private and is therefore not deprived of a right to receive the bonus of three month's pay. The rate of the bonus is the rate of pay which was actually being received at the date of discharge. Comptroller, July 30, 1910. (Marine Corps case.) P. M. G. O., 84267, G. O. 157, W. D., 1910.

634. When a soldier's continuous service on May 11, 1908, was such as placed him in his first enlistment period, any service which he may have had prior to the commencement of such continuous service does not affect his right to the bonus of three months' pay. Comp., July 21, 1908, Cir. 71, W. D., 1908.

635. A soldier discharged for the convenience of the Government subsequent to May 11, 1908, after having completed more than half of his first enlistment period, is to be viewed as having been discharged at the termination of his first enlistment.P. M. G. O., July 1, 1908, 63603.

636. An enlisted man of the Marine Corps honorably discharged as a private or musician at the expiration of his first enlistment of four years subsequent to May 11,

1908, and who enlists in the Army within three months, is entitled under the act of May 11, 1908, to receive the three months' pay as provided by said act. He is entitled to the bonus at the rate he was receiving at date of his discharge.—15 Comp., 97, Aug. 21, 1908.

If discharged prior to May 11, 1908, and enlisted after the passage of the act, but within three months of discharge, is entitled to the bonus.-See 15 Comp., 339, Nov. 8, 1908.

637. A soldier discharged as an acting cook of the Hospital Corps is not entitled to bonus upon reenlistment.-Comp., Aug. 31, 1908, P. M. G. O., 63603–119.

638. A private of a band transferred to a casual detachment of other than bands, for the purpose of discharge, ceases to be a member of a band from the date of his transfer, and is therefore entitled to the bonus upon reenlistment.-Sec. of War, Dec. 9, 1908, P. M. G. O., 72212.

BY EXPRESS OR REGISTERED MAIL.

639. "The Secretary of War is authorized to arrange for the payment of the enlisted men serving at posts or places where no paymaster is on duty, by check or by currency, to be sent to them by mail or by express, at the expense and risk of the United States."-Act Feb. 27, 1893, 27 Stat., 479; G. O., 20, 1893.

640. "Upon application approved by the department commander, a quartermaster may transport public funds by express. In such cases he will receipt only for so many sealed packages said to contain so much public money. When an absent disbursing officer sends his check to the order of the quartermaster, requesting him to express the amount named therein, the latter will receipt for the actual amount to be transported. In case of loss of funds by unavoidable accident the shipping officer will not be held responsible, and the officer accountable for the funds must seek relief through application to the Court of Claims or to Congress."—A. R., 1150, 1908.

641. "For posts at which payments are not required to be made in person, the paymaster will transmit by registered mail or express the pay due in one or more of the following ways:

1. By individual check, payable to the order of each man, for the exact amount due. 2. By inclosing in a separate sealed envelope the exact amount in currency due each soldier, with his name and the amount inclosed marked thereon."-A. R., 1336, 1908.

642. "If the payment is not to be made by the paymaster in person, the commanding officer, when forwarding the rolls, will furnish the paymaster with the name, rank, etc., of the officer designated to see that the men of the command are paid, and at the same time will state what part of the pay can conveniently be received by the men in individual checks and cashed at or near the post without discount, designating the location of depository on which it is desired that the checks should be drawn, and whether it is desired that the checks be sent by mail or by express. The remainder of the pay will be sent in envelopes."-A. R., 1340, 1908.

643. "The paymaster will, as far as practicable, draw the checks on the depository designated; the checks, when not sent by mail, and the money for each organization will be inclosed in separate packages properly marked, and the whole will be consolidated into one package and forwarded by express to the post commander. One of each of the company or detachment rolls, extended to show the amounts to be paid, will be returned to the commanding officer and by him sent to the proper company commanders."-A. R., 1341, 1908.

644. "The paymaster will, in the presence of at least one witness, personally place in each envelope the exact amount of money due the soldier, seal the same, see that

the name of the soldier and amount inclosed are marked on the envelope, and that the individual checks and the sealed envelopes are inclosed in one sealed package, upon the outside of which will be indorsed—

1. Name of the organization.

2. Number of checks inclosed.

3. Number of sealed envelopes inclosed.

4. Total amount of pay due and remitted, less deposits, $

(a) By check..

(b) By currency.

5. Signature of the paymaster.

All the packages containing checks and sealed envelopes for the several organizations, completed and indorsed as above, will be made up into one parcel and sealed by the paymaster. Upon the outside will be marked the name and address of the post or other command and the names of the subordinate organizations for which pay is therein remitted, and the paymaster will append thereto his signature."-A. R., 1342, 1908.

645. "The consolidated package thus marked and addressed to the commanding officer will be turned over to the quartermaster, who will forward the same by express to its destination.

The following are specimen indorsements: FOR THE COMMANDING OFFICER, FORT LEAVENWORTH, KANS.

Contents of this package.

Pay for Troop F, 8th Cavalry, September, 1896.
Contents.

43 sealed envelopes..

60 remittances.

The pay, less deposits, due for month of Sep- 17 checks.... tember, 1896, for

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646. "At places beyond express delivery the post commander, when notified by the paymaster that funds sent by express are to be expected, will send an officer with a suitable escort to receipt for the express package and convey the funds to the post. The name of the officer authorized to receipt for the package will previously have been reported to the paymaster."—A. R., 1344, 1908.

647. “When the express package is received at the post it will be opened in the presence of witnesses by the commanding officer, who will observe the condition of the seals, verify the number of company and detachment packages, and see that the marking upon them conforms to these instructions. The separate sealed packages containing the pay for the several companies and detachments will then be delivered to the officer designated to pay the command, for distribution, which will be made

as soon as practicable thereafter; but in no case will such distribution be deferred more than twenty-four hours. The commanding officer will be responsible for the safe-keeping of the packages of funds from the time of their receipt at the post until they have been thus turned over for distribution."—A. R., 1345, 1908.

648. "When a company or detachment is paraded for pay, the officer designated to pay the command will open the package containing the pay for that company or detachment in the presence of at least one witness, who shall be a commissioned officer; or, in the absence of a commissioned officer, the verification and delivery may be witnessed by a contract surgeon. The number of checks in the package and the number of sealed envelopes purporting to contain the pay of individual soldiers will be counted, and the agreement of this number with the record made by the paymaster upon the wrapper will be verified by both officers, and the amount marked on the sealed envelope as the pay due each man will be verified by comparison with the pay roll before the distribution begins. As each man's name is called the check drawn to his order will be given to him, or the envelope bearing the man's name will be opened, its contents verified by comparison with the marks on the envelope or with the pay roll, and the money handed to the soldier by said officer, all in presence and under the personal observation of the officer designated to witness the payment."-A. R., 1346, 1908.

649. "Should there be a deficiency it will be so certified on the roll by the paying and verifying officers, and the envelope will be resealed without taking anything from it, and returned to the paymaster unless the amount should be offset by finding a surplus in another envelope. Should there be an excess the surplus will be returned to the paymaster. In each case a statement of the facts, with appropriate certificates, will be sent to the paymaster by the commanding officer."-A. R., 1347, 1908.

650. "In case of error or informality a statement of the facts as found to exist will be immediately indorsed upon the envelope or wrapper, as the case may be, and the officers present will certify to the correctness of the statement and lay the same before the commanding officer."—A. R., 1348, 1908.

651. "The copy of the pay roll of each organization, which the paymaster is required by paragraph 1341 to return to the post, will be reforwarded to the paymaster by the commanding officer, without delay, after the payment is completed.”— A. R., 1349, 1908.

652. "Should any error or informality be discovered in a check it will be returned to the paymaster, who will correct the same and return it with the least practicable delay. The roll will be returned to the paymaster after payment of the company with a note thereon, verified by the witnessing officer, stating the facts as to the erroneous check. The receipt of the corrected check will be certified by the company commander to the paymaster, who will file such certificate with the pay rolls."A. R., 1350, 1908.

653. "Should the bank or person who cashes the individual check so desire, the company commander will certify to the correctness of the indorsements made by his men upon their respective checks. "A. R., 1351, 1908.

654. “An officer commanding a company or detachment at the time of payment will sign the prescribed certificate as to witnessing the payment, printed on the pay roll, and, when requested to do so by the paymaster, will certify that the paymaster's retained roll is a true copy of the roll upon which payment was made.”—A. R., 1352,

1908.

655. "Should a soldier die or desert in the interval between the signing of the pay roll and the receipt of the money at the post from the paymaster, the check or cash will be returned immediately to the paymaster by the company or detachment

commander, the cash by express, through the Quartermaster's Department, the check by registered mail; and a note of explanation stating the fact of nonpayment and return of the check or money will be made on the roll, and verified by the signature of the witnessing officer. The same course will be pursued should a soldier decline to receive his pay, or if for any reason it should be impracticable to deliver it to him in person. When a paymaster has had money returned to him in such cases he will not cancel the signature of the soldier on the roll, but will mark 'Not paid ' opposite the signature.

"Should it appear from the pay rolls submitted to the paymaster that the term of any soldier thereon will expire and he be discharged before the pay rolls and money can be received back at the post, the paymaster will ignore the man's account and mark 'Not paid' in the 'Total paid' column, and the company commander in preparing such soldier's final statements will note thereon the date of the last actual payment and not the date of expiration of the muster period for which he has signed the roll."A. R., 1353, 1908.

NOTE. The money returned to the paymaster should be taken up in collections.-See Manual, paragraph 823.

656. Money sent to an officer for delivery to a soldier who deserts before its receipt can not be used by the officer to settle the soldier's debts.—Digest Comp., 1902, p. 127. Where the company commander has made a technical delivery of the pay to the soldier it is to be viewed as having been constructively placed in the soldier's possession and may be used to liquidate post exchange dues and similar authorized indebtedness. Any balance remaining should be deposited as "effects of deserter."-J. A. G., Feb. 3, 1907, and Oct. 12, 1909; P. M. G. O., 60190 and 77593.

Should the date of desertion antedate the date of payment of the command there can be no actual or technical delivery of the pay.-P. M. G. O., Apr. 8, 1908, 63090. 657. "When companies or detachments of troops are absent from their stations for an indefinite period, and funds for their payment can not be sent by express, the rolls will be held and not sent to the paymaster until the troops reach some point to which it is practicable to send funds. When a command can be mustered and the rolls completed and duly signed by the men, they can be sent to the paymaster to be made out and held by him until notified where and when the command can be paid. In cases where the rolls have been sent to the paymaster and the troops are sent away from their station before the receipt of funds for their payment, post commanders will not hold the money at their discretion, but will return the rolls and the money to the paymaster unless payment can be made within a reasonable time, not exceeding three days."—A. R., 1354, 1908.

658. "Deposits may be made in the usual manner, the amount to be deposited being reported to the paymaster by letter forwarded with the rolls, the soldier's deposit book being also forwarded therewith. When it is known that the payment will be made by check and the rolls are forwarded without signatures, an order directing deposit of the desired amount of pay, signed by the soldier and witnessed by the company or detachment commander, will accompany the rolls. Should a man desire to deposit a sum greater than his pay his company commander will see that a proper check, postal order, or express order accompanies his deposit book; if neither check nor order can be obtained the company commander will send the money by registered mail at public expense, verifying the amount and reporting it in a separate communication to the paymaster. Deposit books will be returned to the company commander properly filled in for attestation.”—A. R., 1355, 1908, amended by G. O., 128, W. D., 1908.

NOTE.-The amount of pay so deposited should be treated as if actually deposited by the soldier in cash and paid to him in cash. The written order for deposit of an amount of pay due will be accepted as a valid acknowledgment of receipt of payment.-P. M G. O., 78079.

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