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894 SIXTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 143. 1918. mQ§’”§§*‘_§§,f,S,“{?,,“§§$ Pnnsrnnnr Aurnomznn ·ro mzmsr MEN orrrsrnn or naarr Aon:

V¤rD¢p¤m¤¤¤¢s¤rv~ That during the present war the President be, and he is hereby,

°°’°*°' authorized to enlist for service in the offices of the War Department or under its control or on detached service under its dirurisdiction men p,f{,;;a,';;{e;‘m";;‘;g§ outside the draft ages, and for the same purpose to aft men Wlthlll mma mmm. such ages, who have been disqualified by minor physical defects for active service in the Army; to establish regulations under which such enlistments ma be made, and to fix the pay and allowances of men so enlisted or chafted, which said pay and allowances shall not exceed those of enlisted men of the Regular Army. . John o.,i.nma. Jomv Q. A. Bnnrr: That the President is authorized to appoint, ,,,,g,£§',, l§’,,,_f‘,§,*?,§’,,‘§§$ and, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, to commis- °°\*;g{·39 P ,,0 sion to the grade of captain in the Quartermaster Corps, United ` ’ ` States Army, John Q. A. Brett, who was appointed to the grade of Erst lieutenant in the Quartermaster Corps pursuant to the Act of August twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, and who had over thirty-one years’ service as pay clerk, United States Army. CHAPTER XXI. ,,,,‘;‘,S‘g§YEm”g°“°’I”‘ Powmz or Tim Pansmnnr TO mcnnasn rms: nnarrnn Amrr: That mama, p. veameua- the authority conferred upon the President by the Act apgoved ' May eighteenth, nineteen and seventeen, entitled Act U to authorize the President to increase temlporarily the Military Esmé-gwdgaaggmthiggig tabhshment of the United States, is here y extended so as_to aueach yea mm end or thorrze him during each fiscal year to raise by draft as provided in '·"° “'· said Act and Acts amendatory thereof the maximum number of men which may be organized, egluipped, trained, and used d such year for the prosecution of the present war until the samelghlzi have een brought to a successful conclusion. Cmrmn XXII. @{jggygd¤g,¤_ Arromrunurs or cannrs, Mrnrranr Acanmn: That the Corps crgsgd. ms M of Cadets of the United States_M1l1tary Academy shall hereafter con- ,,,,,;,,,{§f°‘ · p‘ · srst of two from each congressional district, two from each Territory, N;,<§,,Edf*°» P- 6% four from the District of Columbia, two from natives of Porto Rico, four from each State at large, and eighty-two from the United States sermon from nom: at large, twenty of whom shall be selected from among the honor ““°°“‘ graduates of e ucational institutions having officers of the Regular rjmy detailed as professors of military science and tactics under existing law or any law hereafter enacted for the detail of officers of the Regular Army to such institutions, and which institutions are desrgnatedss "honor schools," upon the determination of their rela- _ _ five standing at the last preceding annual inspection regularly ,,g,;*j° bY “·=¤ hw- made by the War Department, and two of whom shall be selected ufaesaaeuee quarrel- fronrpersons recommended lay the Vice President. They shall be ‘“‘ appointed by the President an shall, with the exception of the eighty- two appointed from the United States_at large, e actual residents of the congressional or territorial district, or of the District of Columbia, or of the Island of Porto Rico, or of the States, respectively, from which they purport to be appointed. Cnarrrrm XXIII. ·-“‘“°’”*°“°m8 **°‘ Tmn-nmasunme nnvror-xs: That no art of the appropriations in 71095.

 ggavgtg (gigger this Act shall be available for the salarg or pay of ably oldicer, manempréyee, Y ager, superintendent, foreman, or other person having charge of the

_ work of any employee of the United States Government while making or causmg_to be made with a stop watch, or other time-measuring device, a time study of any such employee between the starting