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 expenditure. When such disbursements are made, the accounts of the disbursing officer shall show the charging of the proper appropriations, and the balances thereunder, which will be adjusted by the disbursing officer on receipt of funds, or by the accounting officer of the Treasury.

That the Nurse Corps (female) of the Medical Department of the Army shall hereafter be known as the Army Nurse Corps, and shall consist of one superintendent, who shall be a graduate of a hospital-training school having a course of instruction of not less than two years; of as many chief nurses, nurses, and reserve nurses as may from time to time needed and prescribed or ordered b the Secretary of War, and, in the discretion of the Secretary of War, of not exceeding six assistant superintendents, and, for each Army or separate force beyond the continental limits of the United States, one director and not exceeding two assistant directors of nursing service, all of whom shall be graduates of hospital-training schools and shall have passed such professional, moral, mental, and physical examination as shall be prescribed by the Secretary of War.

That rules and regulations rescribingb the duties of the  °° °° members of the Army Nurse rps shallpbe prescrr ed by the Surgeon General of the United States Army, subject to the approval o the Secretary of War.

That the su erintendent shall be a pointed gy, and, at his discretion, be removed) b, the Secretary of Viper; that other mem- ¤*°¤b¤- bers of said corps shall lie appointed y, and at his discretion, be removed by, the Surgeon General by and  the approval of the Secretary of War; but the assistant superintendents, the directors, the P'°"'°““°“‘ assistant directors, and the chief nurses shall bg appointed by promotion from other members of the corps, and sha , upon being relieved from duty as such, unless removed for incompetency or misconduct, revert to the grades in the corps from which they were promoted. P;

That the annual rate of pay of the members of said corps p,{;,,,_ 121]. shall be as follows: Superintendent, $2,400; assistant su erintendents and directors, $1,800; assistant directors, $1,500; chiefp nurses, $120 S I I M in addition to the pay of a nurse; nurses, $720 for the first period of mma three {years service, $780 for the second period of three years service, $840 or the third period of three years’ service, $900 for the fourth period of three years service, and $960 after twelve years’ servicein said corps (including in all cases time of service as contract nurse); reserve “°°°"° '“""’°“ nurses, when upon active duty, wiH receive the same pay as nurses who have served in the corps for yileriods corresponding to the full period of their active service; and a members of said corps, in addi- ,,;,d;$§‘§c‘Q,*f‘ ‘°' ‘°" tion to the foregoing, the sum of $10Sper month when serv1ng{beyond the continental limits of the United tates (excepting Porto ico and H”“'“li) Cumulative leaves of

That members of said Nurse Corps shall be entitled to absence snowed. cumulative leave of absence with pay at the rate of thirty days for each calendar year of service in said corps, not exceeding, however, one hundred and twenty days at one time, and in addition thereto sick leave not exceeding thirty days in any one calendar year in cases of illness or injury incurred in the line of duty. _ H

That members of said Nurse Corps shall receive trans rta- m'£§§"ling ° °w` tion and necessary expenses when traveling under orders, andxsuch allowances of quarters and subsistence and, during illness, such medical care as may be prescribed in regulations by the Secretary of War; and when atp aces where no public uarters are available, commute- q,,‘Q,'3,'§§,,‘§_°"°“ °f tron rn lieu thereof, and of heat andqlight therefor at such rates and upon such conditions as are now or shallhereaf ter be provided by law.