146 SIXTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. I; Ch. 166. 1908. _ In all, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, three hundred and eighty- five thousand dollars. Num s=<¤‘§¤·*¤¤¤¤¤- The nurse corps (female) of the United States Navy is hereby estab- Ommm °°’ lished, and shall consist of one superintendent, to be appointed by the Secretary of the Navy, who shall be a graduate of a hospital training school having a course of instruction of not less than two years, whose . term of office may be terminated at his discretion, and of as many chief {"’”'§;féM¤, gx_ nurses, nurses, and reserve nurses as may be needed: Przwzde , That ¤mihli°ti¤n.s¤c.' all nurses in the nurse corps shall be alppointed or removed by the Surgeon-General, with the approval of the Secretary of the Navy, and that they shall be graduates of hospital training schools having a course 8¤r¤¤¤¢¤¤¤•¤•-¤*¢- of instruction not less than two ears. The appointment of superintendent, chief nurses, nurses, and reserve nurses shall be subject to an examination as to their piéofessional, moral, mental, and physical iitness, and that the shall eligible for duty at naval hospitals and on · board of hospitafand ambulance ships and for such special duty as m-}vfg'§_gj,’.P§;°‘f,’c,,’;$‘, may be deemed necessary by the Surgeon-General of the Navy. Reduty. serve nurses may be assigned to active duty when the necessities of the service demand, and when on such duty shall receive the pay and °°'¤P°'*”**°¤· ***9- allowances of nurses: Provided, That they shall receive no compensation except when on active duty. The superintendent, chief nurses, Vol. 31. v- 753- and nurses shall respectively receive the same pay, allowances, emoluments, and privileges as are now or may hereafter be provided by or in Hospital Corps. pursuance of law for the nurse coiips (female) of the Army. mfg? °l °¤““‘°d ‘“°“ The pay of enlisted men of the ospital Corps shall be the same as ' that provided for the corresponding ratings of the seaman branch and other staif corps of the Navy. ,m*f,“_{°c”c‘},u‘;f,f“""°“ mmnlu: or surruns Ann socomrrs. P’""*“*°““· "‘°· Pnovisious, N avr: For provisions and commuted rations for the seamen and marines, which commuted rations ma Y be paid to caterers of messes, in case of death or desertion, upon ordlers of the commanding officers, commuted rations for officers on sea duty (other than commissioned officers of the line, Medical and Pay Corps, and chief boatswains, chief gunners, chief sailmakers, chief carpenters), and midshi men, and rommuted rations stopped on account of sick in hospital anti) credited to the naval hospital fund; subsistence of officers and men unavoidabl y detained or absent from vessels to which attached under orders (during which subsistence rations to be stopped on board ship and no credit for commutation therefor to be given); labor in general storehouses and paymasters’ officcs in navy-yards, including naval stations maintained in island possessions under the control of the United States, and expenses in handling stores purchased under the naval supply fund; one chemist. at two thousand hvc hundred dollars per annum, and two chemists, at two thousand dollars each per annum, and for the
Mmmm_ purchase of United States Army emergency rations. as required; Pmplbyrés. vided, That such stores as the Secretary of the Navy may designate
may be procured and sold to officers and enlisted men`of the Navy and Marine Corps, also to civilian employees at naval stations bevond the continental imits of the United States and in Alaska, under such regulations as the Secretary of the Navy may prescribe. In all, six million nine hundred and thi rty-one thousand one hundred and fifty-three dollars and seventy·live cents. <‘<»¤¢i¤¤¤¤*- Uoxrrseimyr, BUREAU or SUPPLIES AND AcCOUNrs: For fuel, books · and blanks, stationery, advertising, furniture and interior fiftings for general storehouses and pay offices in navy-yards; coffee mills and repairs thereto; expenses of naval clothing factory and machinerv for same, tolls. ferringes, yeoman's stores, safes, newspa ers, and other incidental expenses, one hundred and seventy thousand) dollars.
