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1054 SIXTY—FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 209. 1911. Aww- re lation, or contract: Provided, That this shall not apply to officers mmm mamem angdl enlisted men who are treated in private hospitals or by civilian physicians while on furlough; for the proper care and treatment of C°¤*¤8*°“*"“*°*°°*· epidemic and contagious diseases in the Army or at military posts or stations, including measures to prevent the spread thereof, and the ayment of reasonable damages not otherwise provided for, for liedding and clothin injured or destroyed in suc prevention; for N¤¤¤¤·°*¤- the pay of male auf female nurses, not including the Nurse Corps (female), and of cooks and other civilians emplo ed for the proper care of sick officers and soldiers, under such regulations fixing their number, qualifications, assignment, pay, and allowances as shall have been or shall be prescribed by the Secretary of War; for the pay of civilian physicians employed to examine physically applicants for enlistment and enlisted men, and to render other professional services from time to time under roper authority; for the pay of other employees of the Medical lgepartment; for the yiayment of express companies and local transfers employed direct by the Medical Department for the transportation of medical andy hospital supplies, inc uding bidders’ samples and water for analysis; for supplies for use in teaching the art of cooking to the Hospital Corps; for the uospmu. rio: supply of the Army and Navy Hospital at Hot Springs, Arkansas; S*"'““”’A’k‘ for advertising, laundry, and all other necessary miscellaneous gxpenses of the Medical Department, seven hundred thousand o ars. ¥¤¤¤¤¤· Amn·Mnmca1. Musmm nm Lrnnanr: For Army Medical Museum, preservatioré of ppecimegsa alilid the preparation and purchase of new s imens, ve thousand dollars. ¤¤¤¤’>‘· ’ PI•`cor the library of the Surgeon General’s office, including the purchase of necessary books of reference and periodicals, ten thousand dollars. gggm ‘;°;l:_'ée0ns Hereafter there shall be attached to the Medical Department a me aenngaenm sm- dental corps, which shall be composed of dental surgeons and acting ‘°°““““‘°““°· dental surgeons, the total number of which shall not exceed the proportion of one to each thousand of actual enlisted strength of the Arm ; the number of dental surgeons shall not exceed sixty, and the number of acting dental surgeons shall be such as may, from time to Am¤>i¤¤¤°¤¤· time, be authorized by law. All original appointments to the dental corps shall be as acting dental surgeons, who shall have the same official status, pay, and allowances as the contract dental surgeons now pr§:;;¤gj)¤;¤;f¤¤¤¤ wd authorized by law. Acting dental surgeons who have served three years in a manner satisfactory to the Secretary of War shall be eligible for appointment as dental surlgeons, and, after passin in a satisfactory manner an examination w ich may be rescribed iy the ¤¤~¤k· Secretary of War, may be commissioned with the rang: of first lieutenant in the dental corlps to fill the vacancies existing therein. Officers of the dental corps s all have rank in such corps according to date of their commissions therein and shall rank next below officers of the Medical Reserve Corps. Their right to command shall be limited mmmoaiiowsnces. to the dental corps. he pay and allowances of dental surgeons shall be those of first ieutenants, including the iight to retirement on acp»»·;;2»·. count of age or disability, as m the,case of other officers; Provided, ‘“"" """ That the time served by dental surgeons as acting dental or contract dental surgeons shall be reckoned in computing the increased service pay of such as are commissioned under t iis Act. The appointees as Quaimeaziens. acting dental surgeons must be citizens of the United States between twenty-one and twenty-seven years of age, graduates of a standard denta college, of good moral character and good professional education, and they shall be_ required to pass the usual physical examination required for ayipomtment in the Medical Corps, and a professional examination w 'ch shall include tests of skill in practical dentistry