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Par. 1 of the above order was modified, Apr. 11, 1919, to the extent of making the Finance Service an operating service, and not a branch of the Purchase, Storage, and Traffic Division.

The duties and functions of the Finance Service were defined in General Order No. 104, W. D., Aug. 18, 1919, superseding General Order No. 72, W. D., June 5, 1919. Fourteen territorial zones, with headquarters in large cities, each in charge of a zone finance officer, were established to take charge of all financial activities in the respective zones. The above section is the first recognition by Congress of the Finance Service (now the Finance Department).

497. Duties of the Chief of Finance.-The Chief of Finance, under the authority of the Secretary, shall be charged with the disbursement of all funds of the War Department, including the pay of the Army and the mileage for officers and the accounting therefor; and with such other fiscal and accounting duties as may be required by law, or assigned to him by the Secretary of War: * Sec. 9a, added to the act of June 3, 1916, by sec. 5, act of June 4, 1920 (41 Stat. 766).

497). Civilian force, Finance Department.-For employees in the office of the Chief of Finance, $325,000: Provided, That no person shall be employed hereunder at a rate of compensation exceeding $1,800 per annum except the following: One at $5,000, one at $3,000, two at $2,750 each, one at $2,400, one at $2,250, four at $2,000 each; auditors for Red Cross accounts-one $3,500, one $3,000, four at $2,750 each. Act of Mar. 3, 1921 (41 Stat. 1278), making appropriations for legislative, executive, and judicial expenses: Office of Chief of Finance.

For personal services in the office of the Director of Finance, War Department, $183,000, which may be expended notwithstanding the third proviso of the paragraph entitled "Temporary employees, War Department," contained in the legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation act for the fiscal year 1921.Act of June 5, 1920 (41 Stat. 893), making appropriations for sundry civil expenses: War Department, temporary employees.

498. Superintendent of State, War and Navy Building.-The President is hereby authorized and directed to designate from the Engineer Corps of the Army or the Navy, an officer well qualified for the purpose, who shall be detailed to act as superintendent of the completed portions of the State, War, and Navy Department building, under direction of the Secretaries of State, War, and Navy, who are hereby constituted a commission for the purposes of the care and supervision of said building, as hereinafter specified. Said officer shall have charge of said building, and all the engines, machinery, steam and water supply, heating, lighting, and ventilating apparatus, elevators, and all other fixtures in said building, and all necessary repairs and alterations thereof, as well as the direction and control of such force of engineers, watchmen, laborers, and others engaged about the building or the apparatus under his supervision; of the cleaning of the corridors and water closets; of the approaches, side-walks, lawns, court-yards, and areas of the,building, and of all rooms in the sub-basement which contain the boilers and other machinery, or so much of said rooms as may be indispensable to the proper performance of his duties as herein provided. Act of Mar. 3, 1883 (22 Stat. 553), making appropriations for legislative, executive, and judicial expenses.

499. Annual report of the American National Red Cross.-That the said American National Red Cross shall as soon as practicable after the first day of July of each year make and transmit to the Secretary of War a report of its proceedings for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth next preceding, including a full, complete, and itemized report of receipts and expenditures of what

ever kind, which report shall be duly audited by the War Department, and a copy of said report shall be transmitted to Congress by the War Department. Sec. 6, act of Jan. 5, 1905 (33 Stat. 602), as amended by act of Feb. 27, 1917 (39 Stat. 946).

The American National Red Cross annually shall reimburse the War Department for auditing the accounts of the American National Red Cross, as required by the act approved February 27, 1917, and the sum so paid shall be covered into the Treasury of the United States as a miscellaneous receipt.-Act of May 29, 1920 (41 Stat. 658), making appropriations for legislative, executive, and judicial expenses.

500. History of an organization furnished to the Governor of a State.-* and the Secretary of War, shall, upon the application of the Governor of any State, furnish to such Governor a transcript of the military history of any regiment or company of his State, under such regulations as the Secretary of War may prescribe, at the expense of such State. Act of May 28, 1896 (29 Stat. 161), making appropriations for legislative, executive and judicial expenses: Record and Pension Office.

For provisions of the act of June 5, 1920 (41 Stat. 951) as to records of the drafted forces in the World War, see post, 2257.

CHAPTER 8.

BUREAU OF INSULAR AFFAIRS.

Independent bureau established, 501.

Composition, 502.

Chief of the bureau, 503.

Assistant to the chief of the bureau, 504.
Additional assistant to the chief, 505.

501. Independent bureau established.-That the Division of Insular Affairs of the War Department, organized by the Secretary of War, is hereby continued until otherwise provided, and shall hereafter be known as the Bureau of Insular Affairs of the War Department. The business assigned to said Bureau shall embrace all matters pertaining to civil government in the island possessions of the United States subject to the jurisdiction of the War Department. ** Sec. 87, act of July 1, 1902 (32 Stat. 712).

The "Division of Customs and Insular Affairs" was created in the War Department by the Acting Secretary of War on Dec. 13, 1898, the title being changed to "Division of Insular Affairs" on Dec. 10, 1900.

502. Composition. The officers of the Bureau of Insular Affairs shall be one Chief of the Bureau with the rank of brigadier general, and two officers below the grade of brigadier general: Provided, That during the tenure of office of the present Chief of the Bureau of Insular Affairs he shall have the rank of major general. Sec. 14, act of June 3, 1916 (39 Stat. 176), as amended by sec. 14, act of June 4, 1920 (41 Stat. 769).

Sec. 14, as originally enacted, merely provided that existing laws should not be construed as repealed by that act.

503. Chief of the Bureau.-That the Chief of the Bureau of Insular Affairs of the War Department shall hereafter be appointed by the President for the period of four years, unless sooner relieved, with the advice and consent of the Senate, and while holding that office he shall have the rank, pay, and allowances of a brigadier general. Act of June 25, 1906 (34 Stat. 456).

504. Assistant to the Chief of the Bureau.- * Provided, That the Secretary of War is hereby authorized to detail an officer of the Army, whom he may consider especially well qualified, to act as principal assistant to the Chief of the Bureau of Insular Affairs of the War Department, and said principal assistant while acting under said detail shall have the rank, pay, and allowances of a major: And provided further, That the provisions of section twenty-seven of the Act of February second, nineteen hundred and one, with reference to the transfer of officers of the line to the departments of the staff for tours of service, shall apply to the vacancy created by this Act and to the return of the officer so detailed to the line of the Army. Act of Mar. 2, 1907 (34 Stat. 1162). making appropriations for the support of the Army: Bureau of Insular Affairs. Act Feb. 2, 1901, sec. 27, mentioned in this section, is set forth post, 2288. 2353 and 2331, post.

But see

505. Additional assistant to the Chief of the Bureau.-The Secretary of War is hereby authorized to detail one additional officer of the army as assistant to the Chief of the Bureau of Insular Affairs, under the same provisions of law

in regard to the vacancy in the line thus created and return to the line as govern in the case of the assistant authorized by the Act of March second, nineteen hundred and seven; and the assistant herein authorized while serving in this capacity shall have the rank, pay, and allowances of colonel; and both officers detailed in the Bureau of Insular Affairs shall hereafter be designated, while on this duty, as assistants to the chief of the bureau. Act of Mar. 23, 1910 (36 Stat. 248), making appropriations for the support of the Army.

No officer holding a permanent commission in the Army with rank below that of major shall be detailed as assistant to the Chief of the Bureau with rank of colonel, by a provision of act Aug. 24, 1912, sec. 1, post, 2349. But see 2353 and 2331, post.

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Sec. 3, act of Feb. 14, 1903 (32 Stat. 831), originally prescribed the composition of the General Staff Corps, providing that it was to consist of 1 Chief of Staff, 2 general officers, 4 colonels, 6 lieutenant colonels, 12 majors, and 20 captains, detailed from the Army at large for periods of four years, unless sooner relieved. It was superseded in part by sec. 5, act of Aug. 24, 1912, which provided that the General Staff Corps should consist of 2 general officers, one of whom was to be Chief of Staff, 4 colonels, 6 lieutenant colonels, 12 majors, and 12 captains. Sec. 5, act of June 3, 1916 (39 Stat. 167), which the above section superseded, provided that the General Staff Corps should consist, in time of peace, of a Chief of Staff, detailed from major generals of the line, 2 assistants to the Chief of Staff, who should be general officers of the line (one not above the grade of brigadier general, to be president of the Army War College), 10 colonels, 10 lieutenant colonels, 15 majors, and 17 captains.

By the act of May 12, 1917 (40 Stat. 46), amending sec. 5, act of June 3, 1916 (39 Stat. 167), it was provided that during the World War the General Staff Corps should consist of 1 Chief of Staff, who should be a general officer of the line and take rank and precedence over all other officers of the Army, 2 assistants to the Chief of Staff, who should be general officers of the line (one of whom should be president of the Army War College), 10 colonels, 12 lieutenant colonels, 32 majors, and 34 captains.

The Chief of Coast Artillery (formerly the Chief of Artillery), was an additional member of the General Staff Corps by sec. 5, act of Feb. 14, 1903 (32 Stat. 831), secs. 1, 2, act of Jan. 25, 1907, and sec. 5, act of June 3, 1916 (39 Stat. 168).

The Chief of the Militia Bureau was ex officio a member of the General Staff Corps by sec. 81, act of June 3, 1916 (39 Stat. 203).

506. The corps established.—That there is hereby established a General Staff Corps, to be composed of officers detailed from the Army at large, under such rules as may be prescribed by the President. Sec. 1, act of Feb. 14, 1903 (32 Stat. 830).

But see 507, post.

Provisions relating to clerks and other civilian employees in the office of the General Staff, and forbidding details, etc., of clerks or other employees to or from the War Department, made by act June 22, 1906, sec. 1, are set forth, ante, 41. Similar provisions forbidding the assignment to duty with any bureau in the War Department of clerks or other employees at the office of the Chief of Staff, made by act June 5, 1920, are also set forth ante, 40.

507. Composition.-The General Staff Corps shall consist of the Chief of Staff, the War Department General Staff and the General Staff with troops. The War Department General Staff shall consist of the Chief of Staff and four assistants to the Chief of Staff selected by the President from the general

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