two, twenty-three, twenty-four, twenty-five, twenty-six, twenty-seven, and twenty-eight, in township numbered eighteen south, range numbered seventy-one west of the sixth principal meridian, said lands being located along and on either side of the Arkansas River in said. State, and containing thereon a certain canon designated as the Royal Gorge; the said lands to be held by the said city solely for park purposes and for the use and benefit of the public, without other restriction than such as may be necessary to protect the said premises from trespasses and injury. And said lands and all of them are hereby withdrawn from location and entry, under the laws of the United States of America. SEC. 2. That the common council of the said city of Canon City shall have and is hereby granted full power and authority to control, protect, and preserve said lands so removed from entry and ceded, and the water courses and timber thereon; and for the purpose aforesaid to make such rules and regulations preventing trespass, defacement of natural scenery, or any preventable injury to the said canon as may be necessary or proper in the premises; and the said city council shall further have power and authority to locate and maintain through itself, or grant the right to so locate and maintain to others, railways, wagon roads, ditches, canals, and other improvements, and also to permit on said ceded premises the erection of all such buildings or structures as may be necessary or proper to carry out the purpose and intent of this Act. SEC. 3. That this Act shall be subject to all existing valid locations or appropriations under the land laws of the United States within the limits herein above provided and when and so soon as any present appropriations or locations, or any inchoate or incomplete appropriations, or locations of any of the said premises, under any of the land laws of the United States, shall lapse, become forfeited, cancelled, or abandoned, the premises covered by such locations shall at once, and without further action, fall under and become subject to the operation of this Act, and shall be ceded to and become the property of the said city of Canon City for the uses herein set forth. SEC. 4. That the grant and cession hereby made is to the said city Reversion. of Canon City alone, and upon any attempt by the said city of Canon City to alienate or encumber the said premises or any portion thereof, or should said city cease to care for said park for a period of three years or more, the title thereto and to all the said lands shall at once revert to and revest in the United States of America; and the said city Boundary monuof Canon City shall further, and within one year from the date hereof, mark and define the boundaries of the said lands by permanent and substantial monuments. SEC. 5. That the said city of Canon City shall further, and within six months after the marking of said premises, file in the United States land office at Pueblo, Colorado, proof of the said marking and determination of the boundaries of said premises as herein above set forth, and the formal acceptance by the said city of the grant herein evi ments. Filing proof of boundaries. denced, under the conditions herein set forth; and thereupon patent. Issue of patent. shall issue to the said city of Canon City for the lands above described, subject, however, to the herein stated reservations, limitations, and conditions. SEC. 6. That the right to amend or repeal this Act at any time is Amendment. hereby reserved, and upon such repeal the title granted herein shall revert to the United States. Approved, June 11, 1906. June 12, 1906. [H. R. 14397.] [Public, No. 224.] tions. CHAP. 3078.-An Act Making appropriation for the support of the Army for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seven. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Army appropria States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums be, and they are hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the support of the Army for the year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seven: Contingencies. Army War College. Office of Chief of Staff. Expenses, military information division. CONTINGENCIES OF THE ARMY: For all contingent expenses of the Army not otherwise provided for, and embracing all branches of the military service, including the office of the Chief of Staff, to be expended under the immediate orders of the Secretary of War, fifteen thousand dollars. ARMY WAR COLLEGE:. For expenses of the Army War College, being for the temporary hire of office rooms, purchase of the necessary stationery, office, toilet, and desk furniture, text-books, books of reference, scientific and professional papers and periodicals, binding, maps, police utensils, and for all other absolutely necessary expenses, fifteen thousand dollars. OFFICE OF THE CHIEF OF STAFF. For contingent expenses of the military information division, General Staff Corps, including the purchase of law books, professional books of reference, professional and technical periodicals and newspapers, and of the military attachés at the United States embassies and legations abroad, and of the branch office of the military information division at Manila, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War, ten thousand dollars: Provided, That section thirty-six R. S. sec. 3648, p. 718. hundred and forty-eight, Revised Statutes, shall not apply to subscriptions for foreign and professional newspapers and periodicals to be paid for from this appropriation. Proviso. 'Periodicals. Service schools. Fort Monroe, Va. Fort Totten, N. Y. Kans. Fort Riley, Kans. UNITED STATES SERVICE SCHOOLS: To provide means for the theoretical and practical instruction at the Artillery School, at Fort Monroe, Virginia; the School of Submarine Defense, at Fort Totten, New Fort Leavenworth, York; the General Service and Staff College, at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, and the School of Application for Cavalry and Field Artillery, at Fort Riley, Kansas, by the purchase of text-books, books of reference, scientific and professional papers, the purchase of modern instruments and material for theoretical and practical instruction, and for all other absolutely necessary expenses, to be allotted in such proportions as may, in the opinion of the Secretary of War, be for the best interest of the military service, twenty thousand dollars. Military Secretary's Department. Contingent expenses at headquarters. Under Chief of Artillery Submarine defense. school. THE MILITARY SECRETARY'S DEPARTMENT. CONTINGENCIES, HEADQUARTERS OF MILITARY DEPARTMENTS: For contingent expenses at the headquarters of the several military divisions and departments, including the staff corps serving thereat, being for the purchase of the necessary articles of office, toilet, and desk furniture, binding, maps, technical books of reference, professional and technical newspapers and periodicals, and police utensils, to be allotted by the Secretary of War, and to be expended in the discretion of the several military division and department commanders, seven thousand five hundred dollars. UNDER THE CHIEF OF ARTILLERY. SCHOOL OF SUBMARINE DEFENSE, FORT TOTTEN, NEW YORK: For Incidental expenses. incidental expenses of school and depot, including chemicals, stationery, hardware, extra-duty pay to soldiers necessarily employed for periods not less than ten days as artificers on work in addition to and not strictly in line with their military duties, such as carpenters, blacksmiths, draftsmen, printers, lithographers, photographers, engine drivers, telegraph operators, teamsters, wheelwrights, masons, machinists, painters, overseers, laborers, office furniture and fixtures, machinery, and unforeseen expenses, eight thousand dollars. For purchase of material for use in instruction of artillery troops in their special duties in connection with the loading and planting of submarine mines, nine hundred dollars. For purchase of special apparatus and for experimental purposes of the department of electricity, mines, and mechanism, and the department of chemistry and explosives, Fort Totten, New York, three thousand four hundred dollars. For purchase of special apparatus and materials for electrician sergeants' division, School of Submarine Defense, Fort Totten, New York, two thousand seven hundred dollars. For purchase and binding of professional books of recent date treating of military and scientific subjects for library of School of Submarine Defense, and for use of school, one thousand dollars. OFFICE OF THE CHIEF SIGNAL OFFICER. Material for instruction. Apparatus, etc. Books. Office of Chief Sig-. nal Officer. lines. SIGNAL SERVICE OF THE ARMY: For expenses of the Signal Service Expenses. of the Army, as follows: Purchase, equipment, and repair of field electric telegraphs, signal equipments and stores, binocular glasses, telescopes, heliostats, and other necessary instruments, including nec essary meteorological instruments for use on target ranges; war balloons; telephone apparatus (exclusive of exchange service) and maintenance of the same; electrical installations and maintenance at military posts; fire control and direction apparatus and material for field artillery; maintenance and repair of military telegraph lines and cables, Telegraph and cable including salaries of civilian employees, supplies, and general repairs, and other expenses connected with the duty of collecting and transmitting information for the Army, by telegraph or otherwise, two hundred thousand dollars: Provided, That of the receipts of the Receipts from AlasWashington-Alaska Military Cable and Telegraph System that have ka cable, etc., to be used for extensions, been covered into the Treasury of the United States, the sum of one etc. hundred and seventy-nine thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby, made available for defraying the cost of such extensions and betterments of the system as may be approved by the Secretary of War, the extent of such extensions and the cost thereof to be reported to Congress by the Secretary of War. PAY OF OFFICERS OF THE LINE. Proviso. Pay. Line officers. Proviso. For pay of officers of the line, five million three hundred and sixtynine thousand two hundred and forty dollars: Provided, That all commissioned officers of the Army may transfer or assign their pay lowed. accounts, when due and payable, under such regulations as the Secretary of War may prescribe. For pay of officers for length of service, to be paid with their cur Longevity. rent monthly pay, one million dollars. PAY OF ENLISTED MEN. For pay of enlisted men of all grades, including recruits, eight Enlisted men. million seven hundred and seventy-three thousand one hundred and six dollars and twenty-five cents: Provided, That hereafter enlisted men qualifying as expert riflemen shall receive in addition to their etc. pay three dollars per month; those qualifying as sharpshooters, two VOL XXXIV, PT 1—16 Provisos. Deduction from retired enlisted men for Soldiers' Home, repealed. dollars per month, and those qualifying as marksmen, one dollar per month, under such regulation as the Secretary of War may prescribe: Provided further, That so much of section forty-eight hundred and nineteen, Revised Statutes, as requires that twelve and one-half cents R. S., sec. 1819, p. 935. per month be deducted from the pay of retired enlisted men of the Army and passed to the credit of the Commissioners of the Soldiers' Home in the District of Columbia, be, and the same is hereby, repealed. Longevity. Proviso. Detachments at re prisons. Pay, etc. For additional pay for length of service, one million one hundred and eighty-three thousand four hundred and sixty-four dollars: Procruiting stations and vided further, That hereafter the Secretary of War shall be authorized to detach from the Army at large such number of enlisted men as may be necessary to perform duty at the various recruit depots and the United States military prison, and of the enlisted men so detached, and while performing such duty, there shall be allowed for each depot and the prison one who shall have the rank, pay, and allowances of battalion or squadron sergeant-major, and for each recruit and prison company one who shall have the rank, pay, and allowances of first sergeant, five the rank, pay, and allowances of sergeant, and six the rank, pay, and allowances of corporal, of the arm of the service to which they respectively belong. Engineer battalion. Ordnance Corps. Quartermaster-ser geants. Commissary-ser eants. Artillery electri cians. Signal Corps. ENGINEERS. Two hundred and sixty-nine thousand six hundred and four dollars. Additional for length of service, twenty-nine thousand three hundred and sixteen dollars. ORDNANCE DEPARTMENT. One hundred and seventy-four thousand three hundred and seventytwo dollars: Additional pay for length of service, thirty thousand dollars. QUARTERMASTER'S DEPARTMENT. Two hundred quartermaster-sergeants, at four hundred and eight dollars each, eighty-one thousand six hundred dollars. Additional pay for length of service, fourteen thousand dollars. SUBSISTENCE DEPARTMENT. Two hundred post commissary-sergeants, at four hundred and eight dollars each, eighty-one thousand six hundred dollars. Additional pay for length of service, sixteen thousand dollars. ELECTRICIANS, ARTILLERY CORPS. Twenty-five master electricians, at nine hundred dollars each, and one hundred electrician sergeants, at four hundred and eight dollars each, sixty-three thousand three hundred dollars. Additional pay for length of service, five thousand and eighty dollars. SIGNAL CORPS. Thirty-six master signal electricians, at nine hundred dollars each, thirty-two thousand four hundred dollars. One hundred and thirty-two first-class sergeants, at five hundred and forty dollars each, seventy-one thousand two hundred and eighty dollars. One hundred and forty-four sergeants, at four hundred and eight dollars each, fifty-eight thousand seven hundred and fifty-two dollars. Twenty-four cooks, at two hundred and forty dollars each, five thousand seven hundred and sixty dollars. One hundred and fifty-six corporals, at two hundred and forty dollars cach, thirty-seven thousand four hundred and forty dollars. Five hundred and fifty-two first-class privates, at two hundred and four dollars each, one hundred and twelve thousand six hundred and eight dollars. One hundred and sixty-eight privates, at one hundred and fifty-six dollars each, twenty-six thousand two hundred and eight dollars. In all, three hundred and forty-four thousand four hundred and forty-eight dollars. Additional pay for length of service, twenty-two thousand nine hundred and eight dollars. HOSPITAL CORPS. Seven hundred and seventy thousand four hundred dollars. PAY TO CLERKS, MESSENGERS, AND LABORERS AT HEADQUARTERS OF Six clerks at one thousand eight hundred dollars each per annum. annum. Seventy-three clerks at one thousand two hundred dollars each per annuni. One hundred clerks at one thousand dollars each per annum. One clerk at seven hundred and twenty dollars per annum. per annum. Two messengers at six hundred dollars each per annum. One laborer at four hundred and eighty dollars per annum. Five charwomen at two hundred and forty dollars each per annum. In all, three hundred and twenty-nine thousand and forty dollars. Longevity. Hospital Corps. Clerks, messengers. etc. Proviso. And said clerks, messengers, and laborers shall be employed and Assignment. assigned by the Secretary of War to the offices and positions in which they are to serve: Provided, That no clerk, messenger, or laborer at headquarters of divisions, departments, or office of the Chief of Staff, partment forbidden. shall be assigned to duty with any bureau in the War Department. FOR PAY OF OFFICERS OF THE STAFF CORPS, DIVISIONS, AND MILITARY SECRETARY'S DEPARTMENT: For pay of officers in The Military Secretary's Department, ninety-one thousand five hundred dollars. For additional pay to such officers for length of service, to be paid with their current monthly pay, nineteen thousand dollars. In ali, one hundred and ten thousand five hundred dollars. Staff officers, etc. Military Secretary's Department. |