SIXTY-SECOND CONGRESS. Sms. H. Ch. 391. 1912. 59]. with theprganizations of which they form a part, shall receive furloughs without pay or allowances until the expiration of their terms of enlistment, together with transportation in kind and subsistence as provided for y this Act in the case of discharged soldiers, but when any soldier is furlonaghedto the Reserve his accounts shall be closed andheshall bepai infullto thedate such furlough becomes effective: Promded_furI7•er, That any enlisted man, subject to good °°"'°’ conduct and physical fitness for duty, upon his written application to that effect, shall have the right of with the organization to tplvhich he belongs upgitil the copipletionjp his we enlistment, md “ wi outp into rve: texceptu n ,,,,,,,"°’ . reenlistment lditer four yea1s’ service or as mow btherwise plioviiloed Em Period' for by law, no enlisted man shall receive a final discharge until the expiration_of his seven- ear term of enlistment, including his term I, 1, of service in the Army ieeerve, but any such enlisted man may be N reenlisted for a further term of seven years under the same conditions in the Army at large, or,_in the discretion of the Secretary of War, for a term of three in the Army Reserve; and any erson who ,f,§‘§,2§$,§"' "‘ may have been Aged honorably from the Regular Xrmy, with character reported as at east good, and who has been found physically qualified for the_dut1es of a so dier, if not over forty-five ears of age, maybeen.l1stedmtheArmy Iteserveforasimilarterm ofythreeyears: I ,1 M M h_ And provided further, That m the event of actual or threatened sa mann ui uxleut hostilities the President, when so authorized by Co , may °‘ *‘°'“““°* summon all furloughed soldiers who belong to the Armywrve to rejoin their respective organizations, and uring the continuance of P°"°°°‘ their service with such orgamzations they shall receive the pay and allowances authorized bi law for soldiers sewing therein, and an enlisted man who shall _ ave reenlisted in the Army Reserve shah receive during such service the additional pay now provided by law for the soldiers of his arm of the service in their second enlistment period. Upon re orting for duty, and being found physically fit for *°" ““°“‘ ’·’ service, they shall) receive a sum ual to five dollars per month for each month during which the sliiilll have_belonged to the Reserve, as well as the actual cost oftransportation and subsistence from their homes to the places at which they may be ordered to report for duty under such summons. Sec. 3. That the office establishments of the Quartermastcr Gen- c°‘};_•"***¤•·*°* eral the Commissary General, and the Paymaster General of the Army nepnsemcm amos are hereby consolidated and shall hereafter constitute a single bureau °°“"° "° " ‘ of the War Department, which shall be known ns the Quartermaster Corps, and of which the Chief of the Quartermastcr Corps created by this Act shall be the head. The Quartcrmaster’s, Subsistence, and S\gy,%¤c;¤:;;•;;•· Pay Departments of the Army are hereby consolidated into and shall mpsamah merged hereafter be known as the Cgluartermaster Corps of the Army. The "‘{&,,, md ml, M o cerso said eartmeu sa erca r ownsso como sax ¤ •¤ iii fddp ts llh ftebekn _ ifi f d¤<= corps and by the titles of the rank held by them therein, and, except as hereinafter specifically provided to the contrary, the provisions 0 sec- “¥g,:*;’*l• •Pv“· tions twenty-six and twenty-seven of the Act of approved V0l.3l,p.7U6. February second, nineteen hundred and one, ent1tle_ "An Act to increase the efficiency of the permanent military estabhshment of the United States," are hereby extended so us to apriuy to the Quartermaster Corps in the manner and to the extent to w ch they now ppplyto the Quartennastefs, Subsistence, and Bay Deglairtmente, end e provision of said sections of said Act relative to efs of staff corps and de artrnents shall, so far as the are applicable, apply to all offices and oflgzers of the Quartermaster Cldrps with rank above that of colonel. The officers now holding commissions as officers of the said dc ait rsmmgmmmms ments shall hereafter have the same tenure of commrssion in the V¥uar- '*°“' °°““°“°‘L termnster Corps, and as officers of said corps shall have rank 0 the
