Executive Order 574

The Executive Order of January 19, 1907, providing for certain amendments to the Rules and Regulations prescribed for the government of the Army and Navy General Hospital at Hot Springs, Arkansas, is hereby amended to read as follows:

Under authority of Act of Congress approved June 30, 1882 (22 Stat. L., 121), which prescribes that the Army and Navy General Hospital at Hot Springs, Arkansas, "shall be subject to such rules, regulations, and restrictions as shall be provided by the President of the United States," the following amendments are hereby made to the rules and regulations prescribed for the government of said hospital by Executive Order of August 25, 1892, as amended by later orders, viz:

(1) The ration of enlisted men of the Army on the active list while under treatment and the ration of the members of the nurse corps (female) while on duty in the hospital shall be commuted at the rate of 30 cents per ration to be paid to the surgeon in charge by the post commissary or such officer of the Subsistence Department as may be designated, conformably to the regulations governing the subsistence of patients and nurses at other Army hospitals.

(2) Since there is no issuing commissary at this post, and rations in kind can not in any case be economically issued, the ration of the enlisted men of the Army on duty at this hospital shall be commuted at the rate of 30 cents per ration, to be paid to the men by the commissary upon their individual receipts conformably to the regulations governing such payments in other Army cases.

(3) The subsistence of enlisted men of the Navy and Marine Corps on the active list under treatment in this hospital in pursuance of orders shall be paid for to the surgeon in charge at the rate of 30 cents per day by the proper officer of the Navy Department, upon monthly statements of amounts due certified by the Surgeon General of the Army to the Surgeon General of the Navy through the prescribed channels.

Theodore Roosevelt.

The White House,

March 1, 1907.