Quarters: Furnished in kind According to grades, 1748. Superintendent of Army Nurse Corps, 1749. Officers temporarily in the field, 1750. Dependents provided for, 1751. Officers in Canal Zone, 1752. Commutation of quarters Rate, 1753. Reservists and retired enlisted men, 1754. Military attachés, etc., 1756. Signal Corps, 1758. Availability of public quarters, 1759. No claim for quarters for servants, 1760. Ileat and light, 1761. Mounts, care and forage: Mounted officers, 1762. Signal details of enlisted men, 1763. West of the Mississippi River, 1764. Care of mounts, 1767. During absence of officers, 1768. Officers overseas or in Alaska, 1769. Transportation of mounts From point of purchase, 1770. After death of officers, 1772. Of discharged enlisted men, 1776. Duty without troops, 1777. Travel pay and traveling expenses-Contd. In connection with aviation, 1794. Discharged officers, 1796. By sea, 1797. Enlisted men Recruits and recruiting parties, 1798. Furlough fares, 1800. Relieved from active duty, 1801. Discharged, 1802. Discharged to reenlist, 1803. National Guardsmen discharged from Veterans of the World War of Polish Wives of enlisted men, 1807. American National Red Cross, 1809. On aviation business, 1811. Road Commissioners of Alaska, 1813. Special aviation duty, 1815. Rates, 1816. Competitors at national rifle match, 1817. Retired enlisted men, 1818. Clothing balances: Settlement, 1819. Appropriations chargeable, 1820. Laundry, etc., for recruits, 1821. Disposition of remains, 1822. Vocational trainees, 1823. Burial expenses, 1824. Burial in national cemeteries, 1825. Veterans of Civil War, 1826. Indigent patients, 1827. Army nurses, 1828. Memorials in Arlington Memorial Amphi theater, 18281. Headstones in private cemeteries, 1829. Monuments in Cuba and China, 1830 Headstones for Confederate veterans, 1831. Transportation of baggage of civilians, 1832. Settlement of accounts, 1833. Gratuity to heirs, 1835. Death from aviation accident, 1836. 1593. Pay of the Army Fund.-All the money hereinbefore appropriated for pay of the Army and miscellaneous, except the appropriation for mileage to commissioned officers, warrant officers, members of the Officers' Reserve Corps when ordered to active duty, contract surgeons, expert accountant, Inspector General's Department, Army field clerks, and field clerks of the Quartermaster Corps, when authorized by law, shall be disbursed and accounted for as pay of the Army, and for that purpose shall constitute one fund. Act of June 5, 1920 (41 Stat. 956), making appropriations for the support of the Army. Similar provisions appear in previous appropriation acts for many years. Provisions that no part of the sums appropriated for support of the Regular Army shall be used for the expenses of the organized militia while engaged in joint encampment, etc., of the Regular Army and militia, under sec. 15, act of Jan. 21, 1903 (32 Stat. 777), were added to that section by amendment by sec. 9, act of May 27, 1908 (35 Stat. 402). Said section was omitted as superseded by sec. 94, act of June 3, 1916, 2574, post. For regulations for the method of making payments to enlisted men, see paragraphs 1315-1346, A. R., 1913. 1594. Examination of pay accounts.* * Provided, That hereafter all the accounts of individual paymasters shall be analyzed under the several heads of the appropriation and recorded in detail by the Paymaster-General of the Army before said accounts are forwarded to the Treasury Department for final audit, and the Secretary of War may hereafter authorize the assignment to duty in the office of the Paymaster-General, not to exceed five paymasters' clerks, now authorized by law. Act of Mar. 2, 1905 (33 Stat. 832). 1595. Pay of the Army forwarded by mail or express.** * And provided further, That hereafter the Secretary of War is also 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 express, at the expense and risk of the United States. Act of Feb. 27, 1893 (27 Stat. 479). Notes of Decisions. Loss of funds.-A paymaster of the Army who alleges that he inclosed certain sums of money in a package transmitted by him to an officer for the payment of troops, which sums were not found in the package when received, the seals being unbroken, is not entitled to credit therefor. 6 Comp. Dec., 940. 1596. Officers to receive monthly payments.-The sums hereinbefore allowed shall be paid in monthly payments by the paymaster. R. S. 1268. The reference in this section to sums hereinbefore allowed is to the sums allowed as pay of officers in R. S. 1261-1267, post, 1627, 1637, 1638, 1634, 1661, 1667, 1639. Rules for division of time and computation of pay, where compensation is annual or monthly, 949, ante. Notes of Decisions. Overpayments.-See (1882) 17 Op. Atty. Gen. 425, 448; (1883) 17 Op. Atty. Gen. 603; (1885) 18 Op. Atty. Gen. 158; (1885) 18 Op. Atty. Gen. 229. 1597. Monthly payment of enlisted men, Signal Corps.-Provided further, That the pay of the enlisted men, including the items of commutation of quarters, and commutation of fuel, shall be paid monthly to each enlisted man entitled thereto by one check upon one properly certified voucher. Act of Aug. 30, 1890 (26 Stat. 400), making appropriations for sundry civil expenses: Signal Service. This was the last of several provisos annexed to appropriations for pay, etc., of offers and enlisted men, "Signal Service." All the provisos preceding this related in terms to the Signal Service or Signal Corps, and this proviso appears not to have been intended to have any different application. The act was passed before the reorganization of the Signal Corps as part of the military establishment by act of Oct. 1, 1890, ante, 658. |