118 FORTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 254. 1882. ants, not mounted, one hundred and fifty second lieutenants, mounted, three hundred and nve second lieutenants, not mounted; to one hundred and eighty acting commissaries of subsistence, in addition to pay in line; to officers of foot regiments while on duty which requires them to be mounted, to the officer in charge of public buildings and grounds in Washington; additional pay to officers for length of service, to be paid with their current monthly pay, and the actual time of service in the Army or Navy, or both, shall be allowed all officers in computing 1*mvi•o._ their pay: Provided, That from and after the iirst day of July, eight- L°“$°”"Y WY een hundred and eighty-two, the ten per centum increase for length of service allowed to certain officers by sectiontwelve hundred and K 8_ ,262, yl sixty-two of the Revised Statutes shall be computed on the yearly B_ s_ ,2,,-1, gm pay of the grade fixed by sections twelve hundred and sixty one and · R_ gw, 22L twelve hundred and seventy-four of the Revised Statutes; pay to en- ’ listed men for length of service, payable with their current monthly pay; retired officers; for the payment of any such oilieers as may be in service, either upon the active or retired list, during the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-three, in excess of the numbers for each class provided for in this act; enlisted men of all grades, not exceeding twenty-five thousand men; five hundred enlisted men of the Signal Corps; the allowances for travel, retained pay, and clothing not drawn, payable to enlisted men on discharge · two retired ordnance-sergeants; and for interest on deposits of enlisted men; for mileage of officers of the Army for travel over shortest traveled routes, on duty under orders, the necessity for such travel to be certified by the officer issuing such order, not to exceed one hundred uiscenumeus. and eighty thousand dollars; for miscehaneous expenses, to wit: Hire of one hundred and twenty-five contract surgeons and two hundred hospital-matrons; extra-duty pay to enlisted men for service in hospitals; pay of fifty-four paymasters’ clerks at the rate of one thousand four hundred dollars each per annum, and fourteen veterinary surgeons; hire of paymasters’ messengers, not to exceed iilteen thousand dollars; cost of telegrams on official busmess received and sent by officers of the Army; compensation of citizen clerks and witnesses attending upon military courts and commissions; travel expenses of paymasters’ clerks ;_ and for commutation of quarters for officers on duty without troops at places where there are no public· quarters, in all, twelve million two h’°’*•••· hundred thousand dollars: Provided, That the allowance for commutation of quarters to the Lieutenantbleneral of the Army shall be one hundred dollars per month; and for officers and enlisted men of the Signal Service serving in the Arctic regions, the same in amount as though they were serving in Washington, District of Columbia: And provided jar- 0mm- gr mime; ther, That on and after the passage of this act when an officer has served 9ff¤¤=y y¤¤3r¤’¤9rv- forty years either as an officer or soldier in the regular or volunteer serv-
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,.,,,,i’;.,,d_u},°,, (,5,,,,,. be retired from active service and placed on the retired-list, and, when when sixty~foux· an officer is sixty-four years of age, he shall be retired from active ser- %:¤¤]¤f°::¤ dull vice and placed on the retired-list: Provided further, That the General t,m£,¥t_ °“ '°‘ of the Army, when retired, shall be retired without reduction in his G6,,,,.,,,,;-A,.my, current pay and allowances; and no act now in force shall be so conwhen mgmcasiis strned as to limit or restrict the retirement of omcers as herein provided §¤¤¤&>d v3_h¤¤# rv- for : Provuledjurther, That any officcr who is supernumerary to the pertggwzgmw °* manent organization of the Army as provided by law may, at his own 8,,,,,,,,,;,,,,,,,,, request, be honorably discharged from the Army, and shall thereupon emma m •y, on receive one years pay for each five years of his service, but no officer ¤¤d*i:¤é;i"x¤q¤t;; shall receive more than three year's pay in all: And provided further, mh L ‘" That section three of the act entitled “An act making appropriations 8,,,,5:, 34,,,,, for the support of the Army for the ilscal year ending June thirtieth, ticuampakd. eighteen hundred and eighty, and for other purposes! approved June twenty-third, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, providing that the examineuof State claims in the Office of the Secretary of War shall have, while on such duty, the pay, emolnments, and allowances of
