Pay of enlisted personnel, United States Navy-Continued.

MY DEAR MR. FORDNEY: Referring further to your letter of March 12, 1920, requesting a schedule of the various grades and ranks, from private to general, with the pay of each and allowances, both for domestic and foreign service, for use in connection with hearings before the Committee on Ways and Means, with respect to adjusted compensation for ex-service men, I have the honor to inclose herewith tables showing the pay and allowances of officers and enlisted men while on duty in the United States and on foreign service, which it is believed will furnish the information desired by you.

Very sincerely, yours,

P. C. HARRIS,
The Adjutant General.

Pay and allowances of officers and enlisted men, United States Army.

PAY OF OFFICERS IN ACTIVE SERVICE WITH 10 PER CENT INCREASE FOR SERVICE BEYOND THE CONTINENTAL LIMITS OF THE UNITED STATES, EXCEPT IN THE CANAL ZONE, PANAMA, HAWAII, OR PORTO RICO.

1. An aid to a major general is allowed $200, and an aid to a brigadier general $150 per year, in addition to the pay of his rank.-R. S., 1261.

2. Any officer below the grade of major, required to be mounted, shall receive $150 per annum additional if he provides one suitable mount at his own expense, and $200 if he provides two mounts.-Act May 11, 1908.

3. Lieutenants of the Medical Corps are entitled to pay of captain after three years' service.-Act April 23, 1908. After five years' service for those commissioned after June 2, 1916.-Act June 3, 1916.

4. An acting judge advocate detailed by the Secretary of War is entitled to the pay of captain.-Acts July 5, 1884, February 2, 1901.

5. Ten per cent increase on pay of all officers serving outside the United States, except Canal Zone, Panama, Porto Rico, or Hawaii.-Act August 24, 1912.

6. Chaplains appointed prior to April 21, 1904, are entitled to pay of captains; appointed subsequent to April 21, 1904, entitled to pay of first lieutenant for first seven years of service, thereafter to pay of captain; retired from active service prior to April 21, 1904, entitled to the retired pay of captain; appointed prior to April 21, 1904, and retired from active service subsequent to that date, but prior to completion of seven years' service, entitled to the retired pay of captain.-Acts February 2, 1901; April 21, 1904; 10 Comp., 765, May 7, 1904.

7. When assigned to active duty, retired officers below the grade of lieutenant colonel receive the full pay and allowances of their grades, and a colonel or lieutenant colonel receive the same pay and allowances as a retired major would receive under a like assignment.-Acts April 23, 1904: March 2, 1905; and June 12, 1906.

When assigned to duty at educational institutions under the provisions of the act of November 3, 1893, retired officers below the grade of lieutenant colonel receive the full pay and allowances of their grades, and a colonel or lieutenant colonel receive the full pay of a major with the allowances of their respective grades.-Act March 3, 1909.

Retired officers above the grade of colonel receive only their full retired pay when assigned to active duty or detailed to duty with an educational institution.-Acts March 2, 1905, and March 3, 1909.

The President is hereby authorized to detail such numbers of officers of the Army, either active or retired, not above the grade of colonel, as may be necessary, for duty as professors and assistant professors of military science and tactics at institutions where one or more units of the Reserve Officers' Training Corps are maintained Retired officers below the grade of lieutenant colonel so detailed shall receive the full pay and allowanances of their grade, and retired officers above the grade of major

so detailed shall receive the same pay and allowances as a retired major would receive under a like detail.-Act of June 3, 1916.

8. Aviation officers of the Signal Corps while on duty that requires them to participate regularly and frequently in aerial flights are entitled to an increase in the pay of their grade and length of service under their commissions as follows: Aviation officers, 25 per cent; junior military aviators, 50 per cent; and military aviators, 75 Each junior military aviator and each military aviator duly qualified and while so serving shall have the rank, pay, and allowances of one grade higher than that held by him under his commission, provided that his rank under said commission be not higher than that of captain.-Act June 3, 1916.

per cent.

9. The office of General of the Armies of the United States is hereby revived

and the officer appointed under the foregoing authorization shall have the pay prescribed by section 24 of the act of Congress approved July 15, 1870, and such allowances as the President shall deem appropriate Act September 3, 1919. The pay

prescribed by section 24, act of July 15, 1870, is $13,500 per annum.

The pay of the grades of general and lieutenant general shall be $10,000 and $9,000 per year, respectively, with allowances appropriate to said grades as determined by the Secretary of War.-Act October 6, 1917; see Bulletin 57, W. D., 1917.

10. In time of war retired officers of the Army may be employed on active duty, in the discretion of the President, and when so employed they shall receive the full pay and allowances of their grade.-Act June 3, 1916; Bulletin 16, W. D., 1916. All retired officers now on active duty under assignment by War Department orders are, by direction of the President, placed on active military duty under the provisions of the next to last proviso of section 24 of the Act of Congress approved June 3, 1916, from the date of this order.-G. O. 59, W. D., May 11, 1917.

OFFICE DIRECTOR OF FINANCE,

March 18, 1920.

Rates of monthly pay of enlisted men-Acts May 11, 1908, June 3, 1916, and July 11, 1919.

Mess sergeant--Infantry, Cavalry, Artillery..

Fireman-Coast Artillery Corps...

Medical Department.

Chief mechanic-Field Artillery.

Corporal-Artillery, Cavalry, Infantry, corporal, bugler.

Medical Departinent, stable sergeant

Deck hand, Mine Planter Service.

Medical Department.

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