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721 Trnsportation of change of station allowance of baggage on sree for disability of enlisted man having ten years or more of S-Hereafter when an enlisted man having ten or more years' sevice in the Army is discharged on account of disability incurred in the line of duty, transportation of his authorized change of station allowance of baggage from his last duty station to his home in addition to other travel allowances fixed by law may be authorized by the Secretary of War. Act of Aug. 29, 1916 (39 Stat. 633).

7278. Pay and allowances of soldier sentenced to dishonorable disCharge during execution of suspended sentence.-Hereafter pay and allowances shall not accrue to a soldier under sentence of dishonorable discharge during such period as the execution of the sentence of discharge may be suspended under authority of the act of Congress approved April twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and fourteen, and pay which has heretofore been forfeited under such suspended sentence shall not be held to have accrued to the Soldiers' Home under Die operation of section forty-eight hundred and eighteen, Revised Statutes, but shall be covered back into the Treasury of the United Sites. Act of Mar. 4, 1915 (38 Stat. 1065).

(Da provision will also be found under paragraph 1507a.)

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Department, composition of.-The Medical Deconsist of one Surgeon General, with the rank of al during the active service of the present incumbent' of d thereafter with the rank of brigadier general, who of of said department, a Medical Corps, a Medical Re* Cow within the limit of time fixed by this Act, a Dental Ah, Veterinny Corps, an enlisted force, the Nurse Corps and

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44 at goons as now authorized by law, the commissioned officer which shall be citizens of the United States. Sec. 10, Act of

(9 Stat. 171).

be next provision of this section see par. 729a. For the provision of vy sbording the Medical Reserve Corps one year after passage of act, see

Fat provision in section 3, act of October 6, 1917, giving the Surgeon Generat kank, pay, and allowances of major general, see paragraph 373a, ante.

728b. Not to exceed fire officers of, may be detailed with American Red Cross.-Hereafter the President shall be authorized to detail not to exceed five officers of the Medical Department of the Army for duty with the military relief division of the American National Red Cross. Id.

(For other provisions of this section, preceding this paragraph, see paragraphs 729a, 729b, 729c, 731a, and 732a.)

VETERINARY CORPS.

728c. Composition of.-The President is hereby authorized, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, to appoint veterinarians. and assistant veterinarians in the Army, not to exceed, including veterinarians now in service, two such officers for each regiment of Cavalry, one for every three batteries of Field Artillery, one for each mounted battalion of Engineers, seventeen as inspectors of horses and mules and as veterinarians in the Quartermaster Corps, and seven as inspectors of meats for the Quartermaster Corps; and said veterinarians and assistant veterinarians shall be citizens of the United States and shall constitute the Veterinary Corps and shall be a part of the Medical Department of the Army. Sec. 16, act of June 3, 1916 (39 Stat. 176).

(See paragraphs 544, 1078, and 1079 for existing law relative to veterinarians.)

728d. Appointment of assistant veterinarian, qualifications and examination for.-Hereafter a candidate for appointment as assistant veterinarian must be a citizen of the United States, between the ages of twenty-one and twenty-seven years, a graduate of a recognized

'Upon inquiry whether veterinarians of Cavalry, Field Artillery, and the Quartermaster Corps who have been recommended for commissions in the Veterinary Corps established by section 16 of the act of June 3, 1916, are to be considered members of the Veterinary Corps pending the issue of their commissions,

Held, that the language of the section referred to defines the Veterinary Corps as consisting of "said veterinarians and assistant veterinarians," and these words can relate only to the veterinarians and assistant veterinarians whose appointments have been provided for in the preceding clauses. The words, "including veterinarians now in the service," are employed in the section only for the purposes (1) of limiting the number of officers who may be appointed veterinarians and assistant veterinarians under the terms of the section, and (2) of indicating that the discharge of veterinarians then in the service was not required; and do not have the effect of including the "veterinarians now in the service" in the Veterinary Corps, which the section plainly constitutes through new appointment. (War Dept. Bull. 15, March 24, 1917.)

The question was presented whether the provision of the act of May 12, 1917 (Army appropriation act), amending section 24 of the national-defense act, so as to provide new age limits for appointments to the grade of second lieutenant, affected the eligibility for appointment as assistant veterinarians under section 16 of the national-defense act.

Held, that, since the provision of section 16 of the national-defense act governing the eligibility of persons for appointment as assistant veterinarians is not dependent upon or affected by the provisions governing the elegibility for appointment as second lieutenant found in section 24 of that act, the amendment of section 24 by the act of May 12, 1917, does not affect the provision relative to appointment as assistant veterinarians found in section 16 of the national-defense act. (War Dept. Bull. 49, August 22, 1917.)

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- and shall not be appointed until he amination as to character, physical professional qualifictions. Id.

rances of-An assistant vetershall, for the first five years of ay, and allowances of second lieurvice he shall have the rank, pay,

that after fifteen years of service terinarian with the rank, pay, and after twenty years' service he shall vizes of a major.1 Id.

promotion.-Any assistant veteridas hereinbefore provided, must first en, under such rules as the President Seal qualifications and adaptability for

such assistant veterinarian shall be nation he shall be discharged from the 1.1.

Army appointed in Veterinary Corps, inarians of Cavalry and Field Artillery with such veterinarians of the Quarterployed in said corps, who at the date of all have had less than five years' governpointed in the Veterinary Corps as assist

rank, pay, and allowances of second lieuSave had over five years of such service may Seps as assistant veterinarians with the rank, Sst lieutenant; and those who shall have had sch service may be appointed in said corps as

se act of June 3, 1916 (39 Stat. 176), a person who y as a veterinarian is eligible for a commission as deralized National Guard, even though he may not y college. (Sec. 74.) Candidates for the position the Regular Army, or that of reserve veterinarian, tos of a recognized veterinary college or university. . J. A. G., January, 1918.)

Ytary Establishment provided by the act of May 18, be appointment in the Veterinary Corps of officers of the adutenant colonel even though the national defense act A which established the Veterinary Corps, provides for no apropriate to the limited forces authorized by that act for lan that of major. This is so because the latter act prescribes Ay, whereas the enlarged forces called for by the act of May "ender necessary the appointment of such officers for administrative and in order to make such larger forces correspond in organization Na of the Regular Army. (Dig. Opin. J. A. G., January, 1918.)

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