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SIXTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 417. 1916. 575 Reserve Corps and officers of the Dental Reserve Corps shall receive promotion in_ra.nk in the respective Reserve Corps under the same P'°"‘°“°“S· relative conditions and provisions of active service as is provided in this Act for the Naval Dental Corps. nmmrw or surrnms Arm Aooomvrs. ,n§‘§gg;’¤;’,g_S“PP“* PAY on THE NAVY: Pay and allowances prescribed by law of officers §*}{g’{g‘§,§°">'· 0, on sea duty and other duty, $12,927 735.36; officers on waiting amounts. orders, $175,000; officers on the retired list, $3,124,527; commutation of quarters for officers on shore not occup in public quarters, including boatswains, gurmers, carpenters, sadrnglrers, machinists, pharmacists, pay clerks, and mates, naval constructors, and assistant naval constructors, $510,000; and also members of Nurse Corps (female) $1,000; for hire of quarters for officers serving with troops where there are no public quarters belonging to the Government, and where there are not sufficient quarters possessed by the United States to accommodate them or commutation of quarters not to exceed the amount which an officer would receive were he not serving with troops and hire of quarters for officers and enlisted men on sea duty at such times as they may be deprived of their quarters on board shi due to repairs or other conditions which may render them uninhaliitable, $3,000; pay of enlisted men on the retired list, $443,134; E"“"°°d’“°"· extra pay to men reenlisting under honorable discharge, $1,016,000; A intermt on deposits by men, $12,000; pay of petty officers, seamen, landsmen, and a prentice seamen, mcluding men in the engi- _ neers’ force and_ men detailed for duty with the Fish Commission, sixty-eight thousand seven hundred men, and the President is here- I”°'°"·’° ““*”°“"‘°‘; after authorized, whenever in his jgrdgment a sufficient national emergency exists, to increase the authorrzed enlisted strength of the mmm $“°"€“‘· Navy to eighty-seven thousand men; and pay of enlisted men of the Hospital Chrps, and for the pay of enlisted men detailed for duty with the Naval Militia, $30,655,704.29; pay of enlisted men undergoing sentence of court-martial, $225,000, and hereafter the number of enlisted men of the Navy shall be exclusive of those sentenced by court-martial to discharge; and as many machinists as the President ma from time to time deem necessary to appoint; and six ,,cQ‘;‘gQ§,‘f' “*’*"°“’ thousandy apprentice seamen under training at training stations, and on board traming ships, at the pay prescribed by law, $999,630; pay _of the Nurse Corps, $119,182; rent of quarters for members of the Nurse Corps, $15,000; in all 350,2%,912.65; and the money herein specifically appropriated for “Pay of the Na.vy" shall be disbursed and accoun for in accordance with existing law as “Pay of the Navy," and for that purpose shall constitute one fund: Prmnlded §mP'{,,;m aww That the enlisted strength of the Navy authorized in this Act shall ¤¤l¤nd¤ry¤¤· be deemed to include all enlistments heretofore made during this calendar year which may have been in excess of the number author- Rav ized by law at the time: Prewidedfurther, That the designation of the mg ° rating of coal passer be changed to fireman, third class, and that of ordinary seaman to seaman, second class, without change of pay; and that the Bureau of Na `vation be authorized under rules esta — lished for the advancement gfnother enlisted men, to advance printers to the ratings of printer, first class, and chief printer, which ratings are hereby authorized with same pay and increases allowed to yeo- _ men, first class, and chief yeomen, respectively: And provided further, ,,,§"{,"{,',§§’c§,‘j"' ""°' That the rating} of storekeeper is hereby established in the artificcr R¤¤i¤€=*¤*· branch with the followinfgsrates of pay per month: Chief petty officer, $.50; pptty officer, t class, $40; petty officer, second class, $35; petty officer, third class, $30, subject to such increases of pay and allowances as are or may hereafter be authorized by law for the enlisted men of the Navy.