8571. Accrued leaves of absence to civilian employees of Ordnance Department serving abroad.-Hereafter any civilian employee of the Ordnance Department who is a citizen of the United States and employed at any station outside the continental limits of the United States may, in the discretion of the Secretary of War, after at least two years' continuous, faithful, and satisfactory service abroad, and subject to the interests of the public service, be granted accrued leave of absence, with pay, for each year of service, and if an employee should elect to postpone the taking of any or all of the leave to which he may be entitled in pursuance hereof such leave may be allowed to accumulate for a period of not exceeding four years, the rate of pay for accrued leave to be the rate obtaining at the time the leave is granted. Act of May 12, 1917 (40 Stat. 65). 864a. Taylor system-No salary to be paid officer, superintendent, manager, or foreman using.-No part of the appropriations made in this bill shall be available for the salary or pay of any officer, manager, superintendent, foreman, or other person having charge of the work of any employee of the United States Government while making or causing to be made, with a stop watch or other time-measuring device, a time study of any job of any such employee between the starting and completion thereof or of the movements of any such employee while engaged upon such work; nor shall any part of the appropriations made in this bill be available to pay any premium or bonus or cash reward to any employee in addition to his regular wages, except for suggestions resulting in improvements or economy in the operation of any Government plant; and no claim for services performed by any person while violating this proviso shall be allowed. Act of Mar. 4, 1915 (38 Stat. 1083). 864b. Same. No part of the appropriations made in this Act shall be available for the salary or pay of any officer, manager, superintendent, foreman, or other person having charge of the work of any employee of the United States while making or causing to be made with a stop watch, or other time-measuring device, a time study of any job of any such employee between the starting and completion thereof, or of the movements of any such employee while engaged upon such work; nor shall any part of the appropriations made in this Act be available to pay any premium or bonus or cash reward to any employee in addition to his regular wages, except for suggestions resulting in improvements or economy in the operation of any Government plant. Act of Aug. 29, 1916 (39 Stat. 648.) For similar provisions in the current sundry civil, fortifications, and naval appropriations acts, see 39 Stats, 336, 351, and 619; also sec. 6, act of Feb. 14, 1917 (39 Stat. 914); act of Mar. 4, 1917 (39 Stat. 1194); and acts of May 12 and June 12, 1917 (40 Stat. 70, 180). 889uu pecial aviation duty at home and abroad___. Same-Special course in foreign aviation schools and manufacturing establishments Development of suitable types of aviation engines, etc------ 889vv Plants, etc., for manufacture of airplanes, aircraft, engines, 889cc 889dd officers and enlisted men of the Aviation Section, Officers' Reserve Corps and Enlisted Reserve Corps, when called into active service. Appropriation for development of suitable type of aviation motor___ Secretary of War to receive officers and enlisted men of Coast Guard for instruction in aviation at aviation schools_______ 889ee Obtaining basic patents for manufacture and development of aircraft Same--Purchase arrangements advantageous to Government may be entered into---------- 889gg Same-Bond to be required where validity of patents is in litigation 889ff 889hh men of foreign armies serving with the Aviation Section___ 889yy Appropriation for carrying into effect provisions of act_------ 889zz Aircraft Board_________ 889aaa-889¡¡i Purpose for which created---- 889aaa Same Compensation of board and appointment of its chairman and civilian members__ 889bbb Same-Tenure of board and office of its members; compensation of civilian members--- 889ccc 879a. Composition of and details to the Aviation Section.-The Signal Corps shall consist of one Chief Signal Officer, with the rank of brigadier general;1 three colonels; eight lieutenant colonels; ten majors; thirty captains; seventy-five first lieutenants; and the Aviation Section, which shall consist of one colonel; one lieutenant. colonel; eight majors; twenty-four captains; and one hundred and fourteen first lieutenants, who shall be selected from among officers. of the Army at large of corresponding grades or from among officers of the grade below, exclusive of those serving by detail in staff corps or departments, who are qualified as military aviators, and shall be detailed to serve as aviation officers for periods of four years unless sooner relieved; and the provisions of section twenty-seven of the Act of Congress approved February second, nineteen hundred and one, are hereby extended to apply to said aviation officers and to vacancies created in any arm, corps, or department of the Army by the detail of said officers therefrom; but nothing in said Act or in any other law now in force shall be held to prevent the detail or redetail at any time, to fill a vacancy among the aviation officers au For provision in section 3, Act of October 6, 1917, giving the Chief Signal Officer the rank, pay, and allowances of major general, see paragraph 373a, ante. 172 thorized by this Act, of any officer who. Jungen ervice as at (For the ensuing provision of this section see parim. “K, 879b. Increase of commissioned and enlisti privinding 879c. Same-Temporary officers, appointment, etc.—It promão the 8794. Same-Examination prior to appointment, promotion or detail.-No person shall be so promoted, appointed, detallet, o attached until he shall have been found physically, mental, szi morally qualified under regulations prescribed by the Secretary of War. Id. 879e. Same-Appointment by President, and by President with consent of Senate.-Officers with rank not above colonel shall be ap pointed and commissioned by the President alone, irrespective of the rank or grade held by them on the date of the passage of this Act. and that officers above the grade of colonel shall be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, irrespective of the rank or grade held by them on the date of the passage of this Act. Id. (For sections 3 and 4 of this act see paragraphs 890d-890j, post.) 879f. Appointment of general officers for, including Aviation Section-The President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, is authorized to appoint for the period of the existing emergency such general officers of appropriate grades as may be necessary for staff duty and for duty with such brigades and divisions of the troops of the Signal Corps, including the Aviation Section thereof, as may be organized by the President. Sec. 5, Id., 244. 879g. Vacancies in Regular Army, etc., from temporary appointments to Signal Corps.-Vacancies in all grades of the Regular Army, National Army, or National Guard resulting from the temporary appointment of officers thereof to higher grades shall be filled or vacated as provided for in sections eight and nine of the 1 See paragraphs 1663-1667, post. 1 |