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74TH C ONGRESS . SESS. II. CH. 404 . MAY 15, 1936 . services, transportation of books and equipment for these services, rental of films, purchase of slides for and making repairs to moving- picture outfits, and for similar and other recreational purposes at training and mobilization camps now established or which may be her eafter establi shed, $34,940 . Finance Depart- ment . Pay of the Army. FINANCE DEPARTMENT PAY OF THE A RMY officers .

For pay of not to exceed an average of twelve thousand one hun- ProDiso .

dred and twenty-five commissioned officers, $34,169,252

Provided,

Commissioned strength increased . That on and after July 1, 1936, there shall be authorized one thousand and thirty-t hree off icers of the Med ical Cor ps and o ne hundr ed and eighty-three officers of the Dental Corps, notwithstanding the pro- Vol.42,p.72i. visions of the Act of June 30, 1922 (42 Stat . 721), and the authorized commissioned strength of the Regular Army is hereby increased by seventy-five in order to provide for the increases herein authorized in National Guard.

the number of officers in the Medical and Dental Corps ; pay of officers, National Guard, $100 ; pay of warrant officers, $1,474,844 ; Av iat ion incr ease . aviation increase to commissioned and warrant officers of the Army, Flights bre nonflreing including not to exceed five medical officers, $ 2,224,001, none of which ofcers .

shall be available for increased pay for making aerial flights by nonflying officers at a rate in excess of $1,440 per annum, which shall Longevitre .

be the legal maximum rate as to such nonflying officers ; additional Enlisted men ; in- pay to officers for length of service, $9,706,748 ; pay of not less than cre as e,

an average of one hundred and sixty-five thousand enlisted men of the line and staff, not including the Philippine Scouts, $61,383,965, Sum reappropri ated . and, in addition, $2,344,211 of the appropriation "Pay of the Army, Ante, p. 124 . 1936", which sum shall remain available until June 30, 1937, for defraying the cost of increasing the enlisted strength of the Regular Army fr om an average of one hundred and forty-seven thousand to a n averag e of one hundred and six ty-five thousand enliste d men, and the attainment of such one hundred and sixty-five thousand enlisted men shall be accomplished by recruiting at the rate of one thousand five hundred men per month in addition to recruits nec- essary to maintain one hundred and forty-seven thousand enlisted National Guard.

men ; pay of enlisted men of National Guar d, $100 ; aviation Aviat ion inc rease . Philippine sco uts . increase to enlisted men of the Army, $508,782 ; pay o enli sted Long evity .

men of the Ph ili ppi ne Sco ut s, $1, 050 ,44 7

additional

pay for Retired officers, etc. length of service to enlisted men, $4,759,614 ; pay of the officers on the retired list, $12,369,850 ; increased pay to not to exceed seven retired officers on active duty, $9,145

pay of retired enlisted men,

Civil-service at headquarters . $1 3,58 9,06 0

pay not to exceed sixty civil-service messengers at not

to exceed $1,200 each at headquarters of the several Territorial depa rtments, corps a reas, Ar my and c orps hea dquarter s, Terri torial districts, tactical divisions and brigades, service schools, camps, and Contract su rge ons, port s of emb arkation and deb arkation , $72,00 0 ; p ay and all owa nce s nurses, etc . of contract surgeons, $53,076 ; pay of nurses, $899,260 ; pay o hos- Rent, subsistence, pital matrons, $600 ; rental allowances, including allowances for at e,

quarters for enlisted men on duty where public quarters are not availa ble, $6,352,57 4

subsistence allowances, $5,955,042 ; interest on

Loss by exchang e. Soldiers' deposits, $30,000

payment of exch ange by officers serving

in foreign countries, and when specially authorized by the Secretary of W ar, by o fficers disbursi ng funds pertain ing to t he War D epart- ment , when s erving i n Alaska , and al l foreig n money received shall be charged to and paid out by disbursing officers of the Army at the legal valuation fixed by the Secretary of the Treasury, $100 ; in all, $154,608,560, less $285,000 to be supplied by the Secretary of