the travel over such roads, be furnished with transportation requests, exclusive of sleeping and parlor car accommodations, by the Quartermaster's Department: And provided further, That when transportation is furnished by the Quartermaster's Department, or when the established route of travel is over any of the railroads above specified, there shall be deducted from the officer's mileage account by the paymaster paying the same three cents per mile for the distance for which transportation has been or should have been furnished: And provided further, That actual expenses only shall be paid to officers for sea travel when traveling, as herein provided for, to, from, or between our island possessions: Provided also, That hereafter when an officer shall be discharged from the service, except by way of punishment for an offense, he shall receive for travel allowances from the place of his discharge to the place of his residence at the time of his appointment or to the place of his original muster into the service, four cents per mile. That for sea travel on discharge, to, from. or between our island possessions, actual expenses only shall be paid to officers. Provided, That hereafter the pay proper of all officers serving in Porto Rico, Cuba, the Philippine Islands, Hawaii, and in the Territory of Alaska shall be increased ten per centum for officers. * * * That the act approved January twelfth, eighteen hundred and ninetynine, granting "extra pay to officers and enlisted men of the United States Volunteers," shall extend to all volunteer officers of the general staff who have not received waiting-orders pay prior to discharge, at the rate of one month to those who did not serve beyond the limits of the United States and two months to those who served beyond the limits of the United States; Two months' extra pay, on discharge, to those who had served faithfully beyond the limits of the United States, and one month's extra pay to those who had served within the limits of the United States. Act of February 2, 1901 (31 Stats., —). AN ACT to increase the efficiency of the permanent military establishment of the United States. SEC. 26. That when vacancies shall occur in the position of chief of any staff corps or department the President may appoint to such vacancies, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, officers of the Army at large not below the rank of lieutenant-colonel, and who shall hold office for terms of four years. When a vacancy in the position of chief of any staff corps or department is filled by the appointment of an officer below the rank now provided by law for said office, said chief shall, while so serving, have the same rank, pay, and allowances now provided for the chief of such corps or department. And any officer now holding office in any corps or department who shall hereafter serve as chief of a staff corps or department and shall subsequently be retired, shall be retired with the rank, pay, and allowances authorized by law for the retirement of such corps or department chief: Provided, That so long as there remain in service officers of any staff corps or department holding permanent appointments, the chief of such staff corps or department shall be selected from the officers so remaining therein. SEC. 34. That all officers who have served during the war with Spain, or since, as officers of the Regular or Volunteer Army of the United States, and have been honorably discharged from the service by resignation or otherwise, shall be entitled to bear the official title and, upon occasions of ceremony, to wear the uniform of the highest grade they have held by brevet or other commission in the regular or volunteer service. SEC. 41. That the distinctive badges adopted by military societies of men who served in the armies and navies of the United States during the Spanish-American war and the incident insurrection in the Philippines may be worn upon all occasions of ceremony by officers and men of the Army and Navy of the United States who are members of said organizations in their own right. Act of March 2, 1901 (31 Stats., -). AN ACT making appropriation for the support of the Army for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and two. Provided, That leaves of absence which may be granted officers of the Regular or Volunteer Army serving in the Territory of Alaska or without the limits of the United States, for the purpose of returning thereto, or which may have been granted such officers for such purpose since the thirteenth day of October, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, shall be regarded as taking effect on the dates such officers reached or may have reached the United States, respectively, and terminating, or as having terminated, on the respective dates of their departure from the United States in returning to their commands, as authorized by an order of the Secretary of War dated Octoher thirteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight: Provided further, That any officer or enlisted man in the service of the United States who was discharged in the Philippine Islands and there reentered the service through commission or enlistment shall, when discharged, except by way of punishment for an offense, receive for travel allowances from the place of his discharge to the place in the United States of his last preceding appointment or enlistment, or to his home if he was appointed or enlisted at a place other than his home, four cents per mile: That hereafter the pay proper of all officers serving beyond the limit of the States comprising the Union, and the Territories of the United States contiguous thereto, shall be increased ten per centum for officers over and above the rates of pay proper as fixed by law for time of peace, and the time of such service shall be counted from the date of departure from said States to the date of return thereto: Provided further, That the officers who have served in China at any time since the twenty-sixth day of May, nineteen hundred, shall be allowed and paid for such service the same increase of pay proper as is herein provided for: THE ADJUTANT-GENERAL'S DEPARTMENT. The Adjutant-General's Department eo nomine was first established under the act of March 3, 1813. From the disbandment of the Army in 1783 until the act of March 3, 1791, there was no regular Adjutant-General. The act of March 5, 1792, provided for an adjutant who should also do duty as inspector, and this dual function continued until the reorganization of the Army in 1821, which abolished the office of Adjutant and Inspector-General. This act, in effect, reduced the Adjutant-General's Department to one officer. There appears to have been no change in the legal status of the Department from that date to 1838, when, by the act of July 5 of that year, the President was empowered to appoint as many adjutantgenerals, not exceeding six, as he might deem necessary. June 17, 1775.-Brig. Gen. (Maj. Gen., May 16, 1776) Horatio Gates (Virginia). Jan. 22, 1777.-Brig. Gen. Arthur St. Clair (Pennsylvania), Acting Adjutant-General. Jan. 5, 1778.-Col. Alexander Scammel2 (Massachusetts): Jan. 8, 1781.-Brig. Gen. Edward Hand (Pennsylvania). Nov. 5, 1783.-Capt. William North,3 Sixteenth Massachusetts Continental Infantry (Massachusetts), Acting Adjutant and Inspector. Oct. 18, 1787.-Ensign and Adjutant Ebenezer Denny, First American Regiment (Pennsylvania), Acting Adjutant-General. Nov. 7, 1790.-Lieut. John Pratt, First American Regiment (Connecticut), Acting Adjutant-General. Sept. 1791.-Lieut. Col. Winthrop Sargent, militia (Massachusetts), Acting Adjutant-General. Nov. 4, 1791.-Lieut. Ebenezer Denny, First Infantry (Pennsylvania), resumed duties of Acting Adjutant-General. Mar. 10, 1792.—Lieut. Henry De Butts, Fourth Infantry (Maryland), Acting Adjutant and Inspector-General. Apr. 11, 1792.-Lieut. Col. Winthrop Sargent, militia (Massachusetts). July 18, 1793.—Sublegionary Maj. and Inspector Edward Butler (Pennsylvania), May 13, 1794.-Maj. John Mills, Second Sublegion (Massachusetts), Acting Adju- 1Colonel Pickering was elected a member of the Board of War November 7, 1777, but continued to do duty as Adjutant-General until General Scammel's arrival January 13, 1778. Colonel Scammel resigned his staff appointment January 1, 1781, to take command of the First New Hampshire Regiment, but remained at headquarters until relieved by General Hand January 12, 1781. On the general disbandment of the Continental Army, Captain North, who had been designated as inspector to the troops remaining in service, acted as adjutant and inspector to October 28, 1787. *Colonel Sargent declined the appointment, assigning as a reason that the office was not attended with sufficient rank, |