3 physically fit male students, which course, when entered upon by any student, shall, as regards such student, be a prerequisite for graduation, to allot a minimum of an average of three hours per week per academic year to military training and instruction during the four academic years, and to use their endeavors to promote and further the objects for which the training corps is organized, there is hereby established in said Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Mo., a Medical Corps unit of the senior division of the Reserve Officers' Training Corps. 3. Unit of the junior division in the Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute.-By direction of the President, and pursuant to the authority vested in him by the provisions of section 40, National Defense Act, as amended by the act of Congress approved June 4, 1920, and in response to the application of the Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute, Hampton, Va., the authorities of which have agreed to establish and maintain a two years' compulsory course of military training as a minimum for its physically fit male students, which course, when entered upon by any student, shall, as regards such student, be a prerequisite for graduation, to allot a minimum of an average of three hours per week per academic year to military training and instruction, and to use their endeavors to promote and further the objects for which the training corps is organized, there is hereby established in the said Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute, Hampton, Va., a unit of the junior division of the Reserve Officers' Training Corps. [000.862, A. G. O.] V__Payment and adjustment of accounts chargeable to Bureau' of War Risk Insurance appropriation for care and treatment of beneficiaries in Army hospitals.-1. Paragraph 5, section V, Bulletin No. 4, War Department, 1920, is rescinded. 2. The sundry civil act approved June 5, 1920 (41 Stat. 881, Bul. No. 31, W. D., 1920), under the heading "Treasury Department, Bureau of War Risk Insurance," contains the following provisions: Medical and hospital services: For medical, surgical, and hospital services, medical examinations, funeral expenses, traveling expenses, and supplies, for beneficiaries of the Bureau of War Risk Insurance, including court costs and other expenses incident to proceedings heretofore or hereafter taken for commitment of mentally incompetent persons to hospitals for the BULLETIN } WAR DEPARTMENT, WASHINGTON, November 20, 1920. Discontinuance of Reserve Officers' Training Corps unit in Loyola Section. I Discontinuance of Reserve Officers' Training Corps unit in Massachusetts Agricultural College-- II Discontinuance of Reserve Officers' Training Corps units in certain institutions__ III Establishment of Reserve Officers' Training Corps units in cer- IV V I__Discontinuance of Reserve Officers' Training Corps unit in Loyola Academy. The authority for the establishment of a junior unit of the Reserve Officers' Training Corps in Loyola Academy, Chicago, Ill., granted in paragraph 2, section IV, Bulletin No. 43, War Department, 1919, is withdrawn. [000.862, A. G. O.] II__Discontinuance of Reserve Officers' Training Corps unit in Massachusetts Agricultural College. The authority for the establishment of an Infantry unit of the senior division, Reserve Officers' Training Corps, in the Massachusetts Agricultural College, Amherst, Mass., granted in section IX, Bulletin No. 6, War Department, 1917, is withdrawn. [000.862, A. G. O.] III__Discontinuance of Reserve Officers' Training Corps units in certain institutions.-The authority for the establishment of an Infantry unit of the senior division, Reserve Officers' Training Corps, in each of the following-named institutions granted in the bulletin referred to after the respective names is withdrawn: 4 care and treatment of the insane, $46,000,000. This appropriation shall be disbursed by the Bureau of War Risk Insurance and such portion thereof as may be necessary shall be allotted from time to time to the Public Health Service, the Board of Managers of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, and the War and Navy Departments, and transferred to their credit for disbursement by them for the purposes set forth in this paragraph. The allotments to the said Board of Managers shall also include such sums as may be necessary to alter or improve existing facilities in the several branches under its jurisdiction so as to provide adequate accommodations for such beneficiaries of the Bureau of War Risk Insurance as may be committed to its care. The allotments made to the War and Navy Departments shall be available for expenditure under the various headings of appropriations made to said departments as may be necessary. 3. Vouchers covering subsistence charges.-Subsistence charges for beneficiaries of the Bureau of War Risk Insurance patients undergoing care and treatment in Army hospitals at the rates prescribed in Army Regulations for civilian patients in military hospitals carried on officer or enlisted status (par. 1460, A. R.), will be entered separately for each class as additional headings on War Department Form No. 351 (commutation of rations in hospital), and the amounts included, together with other authorized charges in the total amount of the voucher. There will be attached to each voucher a certified list, prepared in duplicate, showing full name of each beneficiary, dates of admission and discharge (or remaining), and days each were subsisted during the month. Vouchers prepared as outlined above will, if correctly stated, be paid by finance officers making settlement of the accounts of each hospital involved, and in complying with the provisions of paragraph 8, Finance Circular No. 113, 1920 (Army account of advances and methods of procedure to be followed in connection therewith), finance officers will use the following designation or such other designation as the Chief of Finance may hereafter prescribe to cover amounts properly chargeable against the Bureau of War Risk Insurance appropriation, it being impracticable to issue advices of allotment to specific disbursing officers: "Medical and Hospital Services, War Department, 1921 (B. W. R. I.), F-PJ-21260 PM-260. Item 9904.995." Amounts properly chargeable to appropriations involved, including the Bureau of War Risk Insurance appropriation, will 5 be carried to the "Schedule of disbursements" and "Recapitulation of expenditures" and entered thereon under proper appropriation titles. 4. Vouchers covering expenses other than subsistence charges.--The appropriation "Medical and Hospital Services, War Department, 1921" (B. W. R. I.), will not be stated on vouchers covering expenses, other than subsistence charges, pertaining to hospitals wherein beneficiaries of the Bureau of War Risk Insurance are being treated as patients, as it is impracticable to make a proper proportionate segregation on such vouchers of the amounts chargeable against the appropriations of the Bureau of War Risk Insurance and the War Department. Vouchers covering such expenses will state the proper Army appropriation applicable as though such expenses had been incurred entirely for Army patients, and the proper adjustment between appropriations of the Bureau of War Risk Insurance and the War Department will be effected as hereinafter indicated. The proper proportionate amount of expenses, other than subsistence charges, that are chargeable against the Bureau of War Risk Insurance appropriation will be prorated by the Surgeon General and adjusted in the following manner: a. The officer in charge of the hospital, at the end of each month, will forward to the Surgeon General of the Army the following: (1) A certified copy of War Department Form No. 351. 66 (2) The value of all supplies not purchased locally, which were actually issued from stock to personnel, put into use or consumed at the hospital during the month, showing segregation of monetary value of "Medical" and Quartermaster" according as they were originally purchased out of the appropriation "Medical and Hospital Department" of "General Appropriations, Quartermaster Corps." (3) The amount of funds actually disbursed during the month on behalf of the hospital from the appropriations "Medical and Hospital Department" and "General Appropriations, Quartermaster Corps," including ration values paid members of the Army Nurse Corps, but excluding other ration values paid on War Department Form No. 351. b. This statement will be accompanied by a duplicate list of the beneficiaries of the Bureau of War Risk Insurance arranged |
