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may be discharged and commissioned as a second lieutenant in the Officers’ Reserve Corps: Provided, That the Secretary of War is authorized to discharge at any time any flying cadet whose discharge shall have been recommended by a board of not less than three officers. (July 11, 1919, c. 8, 41 Stat. 109.)

300. Additional pay for flying duty.–Officers and enlisted men of the Army shall receive an increase of 50 per centum of their pay while on duty requiring them to participate regularly and frequently in aerial flights; and no person shall receive additional pay for aviation duty except as prescribed in this section, and except flying cadets as prescribed in section 303 of this title. (June 4, 1920, c. 227, subchapter I, § 13, 41 Stat 708.)

301. Additional pay for military aviators and junior military aviators.—In lieu of the per centum increase of pay provided for in section 300 of this title any officer or enlisted man upon whom the rating of junior military aviator, or military aviator, was conferred for having specially distinguished himself in time of war in active operations against the enemy shall, while on duty which requires him to participate regularly and frequently in aerial flights, have the rank, pay, and allowances of one grade higher than that held by him under his commission if his rank under said commission be not higher than that of captain, and in addition an increase of 50 per centum of the pay of his grade and length of service under his commission in case of a junior military aviator, and 75 per centum of the pay of his grade and length of service under his commission in case of a military aviator. (June 4, 1920, c. 227 subchapter I, § 51, 41 Stat. 785.)

302. Officers entitled to additional pay for aviation duty.-The authorization for increase of flying pay contained in section 300 of this title, shall be construed to include any officer or any branch of the service who may be ordered by proper authority to perform duty requiring him to participate regularly and frequently in aerial flights. (June 30, 1922, c. 253 Title,I, 42 Stat. 721.)

303. Base pay of flying cadets.–The base pay of a flying cadet shall be $75 per month, including extra pay for flying risk as provided by law. (July 11, 1919, c. 8, 41 Stat. 109.)

304. Allowances of flying cadets.—The ration allowance of a flying cadet shall not exceed $1 per day, and his other allowances shall be those of a private first class, Air Service. (July 11, 1919, c. 8, 41 Stat. 109.)

305. Mileage of officers traveling on aviation duty.-—Mileage to officers of the Army traveling on duty in connection with aviation shall be paid from the appropriation for the work in connection with with which the travel is performed. (July 9, 1918 c.143, 40 Stat. 849.)

306. Per diem allowance for additional, expenses of fliers making aerial surveys of rivers, harbors, etc.—To cover actual additional expenses to which fliers are subjected when making aerial surveys, hereafter a per diem of $7 in lieu of other travel allowances shall be paid to officers, warrant officers and enlisted men of the Army, for the actual time consumed while traveling by air, under competent orders, in connection with aerial surveys of rivers and harbors, or other governmental projects, and a per diem of $6 for the actual time consumed in making such aerial surveys, to be paid from appropriations available for the particular improvement or project for which the survey is being; made: Provided, That not, more than one of the per diem allowances authorized in this section sahll be paid for any one day. (Mar. 3, 1925, c. 467, § 5, 43 Stat. 1190.)

307. Bond for indemnity against injuries caused by. exhibition flights.—None of the funds appropriated for the Air Service shall be used for the purpose of giving exhibition flights to the public other than those under the control and direction of the War Department and if such flights are given by Army per-

sonnel upon other than Government fields, a bond of indemnity, in such sum as the Secretary of War may require for damages to person or property, shall be furnished the Government by the parties desiring the exhibition. (March 2, 1923, c. 178, Title I, 42 Stat 1308; June 7, 1924, c. 291, Title I, 43 Stat. 492; Feb 12, 1925, c. 225,Tit1e I, 43 Stat. 908.)

308. Compensation for death by aviation accident.–There shall be paid the the widow of any officers or enlisted man who shall die as the result of an aviation accident, not the result of his own miscocduct, or or to any other person designated by him in writing, an amount equal to one year’s pay at the rate to which such officer or enlisted man was`entitled, at at the time of the accident resuling in this death, bt any payment made in accordance with the terms of this action on account of the death of any officer or enlisted man shall be in lieu of and a bar to any payment under section 903 of this title. (July 18, 1914, c. 186, § 3, 38 Stat. 515.)

309. Employment of draftsmen and engineers in Air Service.—The services of aeronautical engineers; skilled draftsmen, and such technical and other services as the Secretary of War may deem necessary may be employed only in the office of the Chief of Air Service to carry into effect eh various approprations for aeronautical purposes, to be paid from such appropriation: Provided. That the Secretary of War shall each year in the Budget report to Congress the number of, persons so employed, their duties, and the amount paid to each; (Feb. 12, 1925, c. 225, 43 Stat. 908.)

Chapter 19.—PHILIPPINE SCOUTS.

321. Organization

322. Eligibility as officers of militia.

323, Appointment of officers.

324. Officers commissioned prior to July 1, 1920, and not recommissioned in Regular Army continued in service.

325. Computation of period of service of officers.

326. Promotions; classification and elimination of officers.

327. Retired pay officers.

328. Attendance on course of preparatory instruction pursuant to detail under section 386 or 1180 as active duty.

329. Ratification of administrative action as to pay of retired officers on duty mentioned in next preceding section.

330. Duty mentioned in section 328 performed prior to March 3, 1925.

331. Detail of retired officers to educational institutions.

332. Promotion on retired list.

333. Number of enlisted men.

334. Pay and allowances of enlisted men.

335. Philippine Scouts cooperating with Philippine Constabulary.

Section 321. Organization.—The President is authorized to form the Philippine Scouts info such branches and tactical units as he may deem expedient, within the limit of strength proscribed by law, organized similarly to those of the Regular Army, the officer to be detailed from those authorized in section 482 of this title (June 4, 1920; c. 227, subchapter I, § 22, 41 Stat. 770.)

322. Eligibility as officers of militia.—Officers of the Philippine Scouts shall be eligible to appointment as officers in the militia or other locally created armed force in the Philippine Islands which may be drafted into the service of the United States; and any such officer of the Philippine Scouts, and in case his commission in said Philippine Scouts shall terminate while holding a commission in said drafted force as aforesaid, he shall thereupon be eligible to reappointment as an officer of said Philippine Scouts notwithstanding his retention of a commission in said drafted forces. (Mar. 30, 1918, c. 30, § 1, 40 Stat. 500.)

323. Appointment of officers.—After July 1, 1920, no appointments as officer of Philippine Scouts shall be made except of citizens of the Philippine Islands, who may be appointed in the