the professors, assistant professors, instructors, and other officers of the academy, for the entire period of the suspension of the ordinary academic studies, without deduction from pay or allowances. R. S. 1330; U. S. C. 10: 1144.

The provisions of this section were extended to include officers on duty exclusively as instructors at the service schools by a provision of act of Mar. 23, 1910, post, 1444.

1242. Same; cadets. That the service of graduates of the Military Academy may be utilized during the months of June, July, August, and September of the year in which they graduate as instructors at the citizens' training camps, and their graduation leave may be taken at the termination of their services as instructors at these camps. Ch. XVIII, act of July 9, 1918 (40 Stat. 892); U. S. C. 10: 445.

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1243. Same; civilian employees.-* Provided, That the constructing quartermaster, United States Military Academy, is hereby exempted from all laws and regulations relative to employment and to granting leaves of absence to employees with pay while employed on construction work at the Military Academy. Act of Feb. 28, 1929 (45 Stat. 1368), making appropriations for the support of the War Department; U. S. C. 10: 1145.

A similar provision has appeared in prior appropriation acts.

1244. Reserve Officers' Training Corps; establishment of units. The President is hereby authorized to establish and maintain in civil educational institutions a Reserve Officers' Training Corps, one or more units in number, which shall consist of a senior division organized at universities and colleges granting degrees, including State universities and those State institutions that are required to provide instruction in military tactics under the Act of Congress of July 2, 1862, donating lands for the establishment of colleges where the leading object shall be practical instruction in agriculture and the mechanic arts, including military tactics, and at those essentially military schools not conferring academic degrees, specially designated by the Secretary of War as qualified, and a junior division organized at all other public and private educational institutions, and each division shall consist of units of the several arms, corps, or services in such number and such strength as the President may prescribe: Provided, That no such unit shall be established or maintained at any institution until an officer of the Regular Army shall have been detailed as professor of military science and tactics, nor until such institution shall maintain under military instruction at least one hundred physically fit male students, except that in the case of units other than infantry, cavalry or artillery, the minimum number shall be fifty: Provided further, That except at State institutions described in this section, no unit shall be established or maintained in an educational institution until the authorities of the same agree to establish and maintain a two years' elective or compulsory course of military training as a minimum for its physically fit male students, which course, when entered upon by any student, shall, as regards such student, be a prerequisite for graduation unless he is relieved of this obligation by regulations to be prescribed by the Secretary of War. Sec. 40, act of June 3, 1916 (39 Stat. 191), as amended by sec. 33, act of June 4, 1920 (41 Stat. 776); U. S. C. 10: 381.

Provided further, That none of the funds appropriated in this Act shall be used for the organization or maintenance of an additional number of mounted, motor transport, or tank units in the Reserve Officers' Training Corps. Act of Feb. 28, 1929 (45 Stat. 1372), making appropriations for the support of the War Department.

A provision similar to that contained in second paragraph, above, has appeared in prior appropriation acts.

For a restriction on the National Guard similar to that set out in second paragraph hereof, see 1331, post.

Provision for issue of military supplies and equipment to institutions maintaining units of the Reserve Officers' Training Corps is found in 1956, post.

Commutation of subsistence and commutation of uniform are paid advanced students under 1591 and 1592, post.

1245. Same; eligibility for membership.-Eligibility to membership in the Reserve Officers' Training Corps shall be limited to students of institutions in which units of such corps may be established who are citizens of the United States, who are not less than fourteen years of age, and whose bodily condition indicates that they are physically fit to perform military duty, or will be so upon arrival at military age. Sec. 44, act of June 3, 1916 (39 Stat. 192);

U. S.. C. 10: 382.

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1246. Same; admission of reserve officers to training.—' ther, That any reserve officer who is also a medical, dental, or veterinary student may be admitted to such Medical, Dental, or Veterinary Corps unit for such training, under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of War may prescribe: Sec. 47c, added to the act of June 3, 1916, by sec. 34, act of June 4, 1920 (41 Stat. 779); U. S. C. 10: 384.

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1247. Same; courses of training. The Secretary of War is hereby authorized to prescribe standard courses of theoretical and practical military training for units of the Reserve Officers' Training Corps, and no unit of such corps shall be organized or maintained at any educational institution the authorities of which fail or neglect to adopt into their curriculum the prescribed courses of military training or to devote at least an average of three hours per week per academic year to such military training, except as provided in section 47c of this Act. Sec. 40a, added to the act of June 3, 1916, by sec. 33, act of June 4, 1920 (41 Stat. 777); U. S. C. 10: 385.

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* Provided, That any medical, dental, or veterinary student may be admitted to a Medical, Dental, or Veterinary Corps unit of the Reserve Officers' Training Corps for a course of training at the rate of ninety hours of instruction per annum for the four collegiate years, * Sec. 47c, added to act of June 3, 1916, by sec. 34, act of June 4, 1920 (41 Stat. 779); U. S. C. 10: 383. 1248. Same; interruption of course.-Provided further, That nothing in this Act shall be construed to require that the advanced training provided for herein shall follow without interruption upon the completion of the two years' elective or compulsory course of military training prescribed in section 40 of this Act or to require that such advanced training be pursued without interruption after it has been commenced in those cases where the person selected for advanced training at any institution will, under the rules and regulations thereof, normally require, in order to be graduated therefrom, a period of sufficient duration after any interruption to complete the advanced course without curtailment. Sec. 47c, added to the act of June 3, 1916, by sec. 34, act of June 4, 1920 (41 Stat. 778), as amended by act of May 12, 1928 (45 Stat. 501); U. S. C. 10: 386a.

1249. Same; credit for prior military training.-That in the interpretation and execution of section fifty of the Act of Congress approved June third, nineteen hundred and sixteen, credit shall be given as for service in the senior division of the Reserve Officers' Training Corps to any member of that division for any period or periods of time during which such member has received or shall have received at an educational institution under the direction of an officer of the Army, detailed as professor of military science and tactics, a course of military training substantially equivalent to that prescribed by regulations under this section for the corresponding period or periods of training of the

senior division, Reserve Officers' Training Corps. Public Resolution of Sept. 8, 1916 (39 Stat. 853); U. S. C. 10: 388.

Section 50 of the Act of June 3, 1916, referred to above, was superseded by 1248, ante. 1250. Same; training camps.-The Secretary of War is hereby authorized to maintain camps for the further practical instruction of the members of the Reserve Officers' Training Corps, no such camps to be maintained for a longer period than six weeks in any one year, except in time of actual or threatened hostilities; and to admission to military hospitals at such camps, and to furnish medical attendance and supplies; to use the troops of the Regular Army, and such Government property as he may deem necessary, for the military training of the members of such corps while in attendance at such camps; and to prescribe regulations for the government of such camps. Sec. 47a, added to the act of June 3, 1916, by sec. 34, act of June 4, 1920 (41 Stat. 778); U. S. C. 10: 441.

1251. Rifle practice; national matches.-That there shall be held an annual competition, known as the national matches, for the purpose of competing for a national trophy, medals, and other prizes to be provided, together with a smallarms firing school, which competition and school shall be held annually under such regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary of War. Act of Feb. 14, 1927 (44 Stat. 1095), as amended by sec. 1, act of May 28, 1928 T. S. C. 32: 181a.

(45 Stat. 786);

The national matches contemplated in this Act shall consist of rifle and pistol matches for the national trophy, medals, and other prizes mentioned in section 1 above, to be open to the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, National Guard, or Organized Militia of the several States, Territories, and District of Columbia, the Reserve Officers' Training Corps, and the citizens' military training camps, rifle clubs, and civilians, together with a small-arms firing school to be connected therewith and competitions for which trophies and medals are provided by the National Rifle Association of America; and for the cost and expenditures required for and incident to the conduct of the same, including the personal expenses of the members of the National Board for the Promotion of Rifle Practice, the sum necessary for the above-named purposes is hereby authorized to be appropriated annually as a part of the total sum appropriated for national defense: Sec. 2, act of May 28, 1928 (45 Stat. 786); U. S. C. 32: 181b. 1252. Same; National Board for Promotion of Rifle Practice.-Hereafter the Secretary of War shall, within the limits of appropriations made from time to time by Congress and in accordance with reasonable rules and regulations approved by him upon the recommendation of the National Board for the Promo. tion of Rifle Practice, authorize and provide for

(e) Maintenance of the National Board for the Promotion of Rifle Practice, including provision for the necessary expenses thereof and of its members; * War Department appropriation act of June 7, 1924 (43 Stat. 510); U. S. C. 32: 181.

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For the incidental expenses of the National Board for the Promotion of Rifle Practice, including books, pamphlets, badges, trophies, prizes, and medals to be expended for such purposes, the sum of not more than $7,500 is hereby authorized to be appropriated annually. Sec. 3, act of May 28, 1928 (45 Stat. 786); U. S. C. 32: 181c.

1253. Rifle ranges; construction and operation.-The Secretary of War shall annually submit to Congress recommendations and estimates for the establishment and maintenance of indoor and outdoor rifle ranges, under such a comprehensive plan as will ultimately result in providing adequate facilities for rifle

practice in all sections of the country.

(39 Stat. 211).

Sec. 113, act of June 3, 1916

Hereafter the Secretary of War shall, within the limits of appropriations made from time to time by Congress and in accordance with reasonable rules and regulations approved by him upon the recommendation of the National Board for the Promotion of Rifle Practice, authorize and provide for

(a) Construction, equipment, maintenance, and operation of indoor and outdoor rifle ranges and their accessories and appliances;

(b) Instruction of able-bodied citizens of the United States in marksmanship and, in connection therewith, the employment of necessary instructors; (c) Promotion of practice in the use of rifled arms, the maintenance and management of matches or competitions in the use of such arms, and the issuance in connection therewith of the necessary arms, ammunition, targets, and other necessary supplies and appliances, and the award to competitors of trophies, prizes, badges, and other insignia ;

(f) Procurement of necessary materials, supplies, appliances, trophies, prizes, badges, and other insignia, clerical and other services, and labor; • War Department appropriation act of June 7, 1924 (43 Stat. 510); U. S. C. 32: 181.

1254. Same; use of.-*

* And that all ranges so established and all ranges which may have already been constructed, in whole or in part, with funds provided by Congress shall be open for use by those in any branch of the military or naval service of the United States and by all able-bodied males capable of bearing arms, under reasonable regulations to be prescribed by the controlling authorities and approved by the Secretary of War. Sec. 113, act of June 3, 1916 (39 Stat. 211)..

The annual appropriations for shooting galleries and rifle ranges provide that they shall be open to the National Guard, organized rifle clubs, and all able-bodied males capable of bearing arms, under regulations to be prescribed by the Secretary of War.

By a provision of the act of June 14, 1917 (40 Stat. 181), "all home guards, State troops, and militia receiving arms and equipments as herein provided shall have the use. in the discretion of the Secretary of War and under such regulations as he may prescribe, of rifle ranges owned or controlled by the United States of America."

1255. Citizens' Military Training Camps; establishment, maintenance, and eligibility for membership.-The Secretary of War is hereby authorized to maintain, upon military reservations or elsewhere, schools or camps for the military instruction and training, with a view to their appointment as reserve officers or noncommissioned officers, of such warrant officers, enlisted men, and civilians as may be selected upon their own application; to fix the periods during which such camps shall be maintained; to prescribe rules and regulations for the government thereof: * Sec. 47d, added to act of June 3, 1916, by

sec. 34. act of June 4, 1920 (41 Stat. 779); U. S. C. 10: 442.

Provided, That the funds herein appropriated shall not be used for the training of any person in the first year, or lowest course, who shall have reached his twenty-fourth birthday before the date of enrollment: *** Act of Feb. 28, 1929 (45 Stat. 1373), making appropriations for the support of the War Department.

A provision similar to that contained in second paragraph hereof has appeared in prior appropriation acts.

For provision for transportation and subsistence of persons authorized to attend citl zens' military training camps, see 1588, post.

Provision for the use of military supplies and equipment in imparting military instruc tion at these camps is found in 1950, post, and for sales of quartermaster and ordnance property to members in 1981, post.