person, on account of disability from wounds, or injury received in battle with rebels or Indians, while temporarily rendering service, shall be valid unless prosecuted to a successful issue prior to the fourth day of July, eighteen hundred and seventy-four.

Fourth. Any acting assistant or contract surgeon disabled by any wound or injury received or disease contracted in the line of duty while actually performing the duties of assistant surgeon or acting assistant surgeon with any military force in the field, or in transitu, or in hospital.

Fifth. Any provost-marshal, deputy provost-marshal, or enrolling-officer disabled, by reason of any wound or injury, received in the discharge of his duty, to procure a subsistence by manual labor.

REVENUE CUTTERS TO COOPERATE WITH NAVY.

SECTION 2757, REVISED STATUTES

The revenue-cutters shall, whenever the Presidents directs, cooperate with the Navy, during which time they shall be under the direction of the Secretary of the Navy, and the expenses thereof shall be defrayed by the Navy Department.

REVENUE CUTTERS-OFFICERS AND SEAMEN.

SECTION 4741, REVISED STATUTES.

The officers and seamen of the revenue-cutters of the United States, who have been or may be wounded or disabled in the discharge of their duty while cooperating with the Navy by order of the President, shall be entitled to be placed on the Navy pension-list, at the same rate of pension and under the same regulations and restrictions as are provided by law for the officers and seamen of the Navy.

COAST GUARD.

ACT JANUARY 28, 1915 (38 STAT. L., 800).

SECTION 1. That there shall be established in lieu of the existing Revenue-Cutter Service and the Life-Saving Service, to be composed of those two existing organizations, with the existing officers and positions and the incumbent officers and men of those two services, the Coast Guard, which shall constitute a part of the military forces of the United States and which shall operate under the Treasury Department in time of peace and operate as a part of the Navy, subject to the orders of the Secretary of the Navy, in time of war or when the President shall so direct. When subject to the Secretary of the Navy in time of war the expense of the Coast Guard shall be paid by the Navy Department: Provided, That no provision of this Act shall be construed as giving any officer of either the Coast Guard or the Navy, military or other control at any time over any vessel, officer, or man of the other service except by direction of the President.

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SEC. 3. Provided, That no pension shall be allowed or paid to any commissioned officer, warrant officer, or enlisted man in the Coast Guard either on the active or retired list.

MISSOURI MILITIA.

SECTION 4722, REVISED STATUTES.

The provisions of this Title are extended to the officers and privates of the Missouri State militia, and the provisional Missouri militia, disabled by reason of injury received or disease contracted in the line of duty while such militia was cooperating with United States forces, and the widow or children of any such person, dying of injury received or disease contracted under the circumstances herein set forth, shall be entitled to the benefits of this Title. But the pensions on account of such militia shall not commence prior to the third day of March, one thousand eight hundred and seventythree.

MEDICAL RESERVE CORPS.

ACT APRIL 23, 1908 (35 STAT. L., 68).

SEC. 9. That officers of the Medical Reserve Corps when called upon active duty in the service of the United States, as provided in section eight of this Act, shall be subject to the laws, regulations, and orders for the government of the Regular Army, and during the period of such service shall be entitled to the pay and allowances of first lieutenants of the Medical Corps with increase for length of service now allowed by law, said increase to be computed only for time of active duty: Provided, That no officer of the Medical Reserve Corps shall be entitled to retirement or retirement pay, nor shall he be entitled to pension except for physical disability incurred in the line of duty while in active duty:

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MILITIA IN SERVICE OF UNITED STATES.

ACT JANUARY 21, 1903 (32 STAT. L., 779).

SEC. 22. That when any officer, noncommissioned officer, or private of the militia is disabled by reason of wounds or disabilities received or incurred in the service of the United States he shall be entitled to all the benefits of the pension laws existing at the time of his service, and in case such officer, noncommissioned officer, or private dies in the service of the United States or in returning to his place of residence after being mustered out of such service, or at any time, in consequence of wounds or disabilities received in such service, his widow and children, if any, shall be entitled to all the benefits of such pension laws.1

ORGANIZED MILITIA CALLED INTO SERVICE.

ACT MAY 27, 1908 (35 STAT. L., 400).

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That section four of said Act as amended be, and the same is hereby, amended and reenacted so as to read as follows:

66 SEC. 4. That whenever the United States is invaded or in danger of invasion from any foreign nation, or of rebellion against the authority of the Government of the United States, or the President is unable with the regular forces at his command to execute the laws of the Union, it shall be lawful for the President to call forth such

1 Secs. 4 and 7 of this act amended by act May 27, 1908, following.

2 Act Jan. 21, 1903 (32 Stat. L., 779).

number of the militia of the State or of the States or Territories or of the District of Columbia as he may deem necessary to repel such invasion, suppress such rebellion, or to enable him to execute such laws, and to issue his orders for that purpose, through the governor of the respective State or Territory, or through the commanding general of the militia of the District of Columbia, from which State, Territory, or District such troops may be called, to such officers of the militia as he may think proper."

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That section seven of said Act as amended be, and the same is hereby, amended and reenacted so as to read as follows:

66 SEC. 7. That every officer and enlisted man of the militia who shall be called forth in the manner hereinbefore prescribed, shall be mustered for service without further enlistment, and without further medical examination previous to such muster, except for those States and Territories which have not adopted the standard of medical examination prescribed for the Regular Army: Provided, however, That any officer or enlisted man of the militia who shall refuse or neglect to present himself for such muster, upon being called forth as herein prescribed, shall be subject to trial by courtmartial and shall be punished as such court-martial may direct."

NAVAL MILITIA CALLED INTO SERVICE.

ACT FEBRUARY 16, 1914 (38 STAT. L., 284).

SEC. 3. That in the event of war, actual or threatened, with any foreign nation involving danger of invasion, or of rebellion against the authority of the Government of the United States, or whenever the President.is, in his judgment, unable with the regular forces at his command to execute the laws of the United States, it shall be lawful for the President to call forth such number of the Naval Militia of a State or of the States, or Territories, or of the District of Columbia, as he may deem necessary to repel such invasion, suppress such rebellion, or to enable him to execute such laws, and to issue his orders for that purpose, through the governor of the respective State or Territory, or through the commanding officer of the Naval Militia of the District of Columbia, from which State, Territory, or District such Naval Militia may be called, to such officers of the Naval Militia as he may think proper.

SEC. 4. That whenever the President calls forth all or any part of the Naval Militia of any State, Territory, or of the District of Columbia, to be employed in the service of the United States, he may specify in his call the period for which such service is required, and the Naval Militia so called shall continue to serve during the term so specified, either within or without the territory of the United States, unless sooner relieved by order of the President: Provided, That if no period be stated in the call of the President, the period shall be held to mean the existence of the emergency, of which the President shall be the sole judge: And provided further, That no commissioned officer or enlisted man of the Naval Militia shall be held to service beyond the term of his existing commission or enlistment: Provided further, That when the military needs of the Federal Government,

arising from the necessity to execute the laws of the United States, suppress insurrection, or repel invasion, can not be met by the regular forces, the Naval Militia qualified as herein provided and any existing Naval Reserve now or hereafter organized shall be called into the service of the United States in advance of any volunteer naval force which it may then be determined to raise: And provided further, That nothing herein contained shall prevent the Secretary of the Navy, when vessels are purchased or otherwise acquired by the United States for a war, from manning such vessels by all or part of the officers and men then serving on said vessels.

SEC. 19. That when any officer, petty officer, or enlisted man of the Naval Militia is disabled by reason of wounds or disabilities received or incurred in the naval service of the United States in time of war he shall be entitled to all the benefits of the pension laws existing at the time of his service, and in case such officer, petty officer, or enlisted man dies in the naval service of the United States in time of war, or in returning to his place of residence after being mustered out of such naval service, or at any time in consequence of wounds or disabilities received in such naval service in time of war, his widow and children, if any, shall be entitled to all the benefits of such pension laws.

DOUBLE PENSION FOR DISABILITY FROM AVIATION DUTY.

ACT MARCH 3, 1915 (38 STAT. L., 940).

* * * In all cases where an officer or enlisted man of the Navy or Marine Corps dies, or where an enlisted man of the Navy or Marine corps is disabled by reason of any injury received or disease contracted in line of duty, the result of an aviation accident, received while employed in actual flying in or in handling air craft, the amount of pension allowed shall be double that authorized to be paid should death or the disability have occurred by reason of an injury received or disease contracted in line of duty, not the result of an aviation accident.

NAVAL RESERVE ESTABLISHED.

ACT MARCH 3, 1915 (38 STAT. L., 940).

There is hereby established a United States naval reserve, which shall consist of citizens of the United States who have been or may be entitled to be honorably discharged from the Navy after not less than one four-year term of enlistment or after a term of enlistment during minority. The naval reserve shall be organized under the Bureau of Navigation and shall be governed by the Articles for the Government of the Navy and by the Naval Regulations and Instructions. Whenever actively employed with the Navy, or whenever employed in authorized travel to and from prescribed active duty with the Navy, its members shall be employed as members of the naval reserve and shall while so employed be held and considered to be in all respects in the same status as enlisted men of the Navy on active duty, except that they shall not be advanced in rating in time of peace. When not actively employed with the Navy, members of the naval reserve shall not be entitled to any pay, bounty, gratuity, or

pension except the pay expressly provided for members of the naval reserve by the provisions of this Act, nor shall they be entitled to retirement by reason of such service in the naval reserve.

FIRST KANSAS COLORED VOLUNTEERS, 1863.

ACT MARCH 3, 1891 (26 STAT. L., 1436).

SECTION 1. That all officers of the First Kansas Colored Volunteers who were mustered into the service of the United States on or before the second day of May, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, shall take rank and be entitled to pay from the date when they respectively held and performed the duties of their rank in said regiment, or in the companies or battalions of which said regiment was composed, of a rank equal to the rank they respectively held when mustered into the service of the United States in said regiment.

SEC. 2. That Captain Andrew I. Crew, Corporal Joseph Talbot, Privates Marion Barber, Samuel Davis, Henry Gash, Thomas Lane, Allen Rhodes, and John Sixkiller, who were killed in action at Island Mound, Missouri, October twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, whilst on duty with the companies and battalions of which said regiment was subsequently composed, shall be entitled to the rank, pay, and emoluments conferred by section one of this act.

SEC. 3. That Privates Edward Curtis, Jacob Edwards, Lazarus Johnson, General Dudley, Manuel Dobson, and Thomas Knight, of said companies and battalions, who were wounded in action at Island Mound, Missouri, October twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, but were not mustered into the United States service, shall be entitled to all rights, privileges, and benefits conferred upon wounded or disabled soldiers by the provisions of the United States pension laws.

DEPARTMENT OF THE WEST OR OF MISSOURI.

ACT MARCH 25, 1862 (12 STAT. L., 374).

SECTION 1. That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, authorized and required to allow and pay to the officers, noncommissioned officers, musicians, and privates who have been heretofore actually employed in the military service of the United States, whether mustered into actual service or not, where their services were accepted and actually employed by the generals who have been in command of the department of the West, or the department of the Missouri, the pay and bounty as in cases of regular enlistment.

SEC. 2. That the officers, noncommissioned officers, musicians, and privates so employed, who may have been wounded or incapacitated for service, shall be entitled to and receive the pension allowed for such disability: Provided, That the length and character of their enlistment and service be such as to entitle them under existing laws to such pension.

SEC. 3. That the heirs of those killed in battle, or of those who may have died from wounds received while so in service, shall be entitled to receive the bounty and pay to which they would have been entitled had they been regularly mustered into service: Provided, That the bounty and pay referred to in this act shall not be payable unless their term of enlistment and service be of such duration as to entitle them to receive the same, according to existing laws.