and disposed of by him under such regulations as he may prescribe. Id.

1625. Same-Employment of necessary officers or agents to carry out purposes of section.-The President is hereby authorized and empowered to employ such officers, agents, or agencies as may in his discretion be necessary to enable him to carry out the purposes herein specified, and to authorize and require such officers, agents, or agencies to perform any and all of the duties imposed upon him by the provisions hereof. Id.

1626. Same-Appropriation for, to remain available until expended. The sum of $20,000,000 is hereby appropriated, out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, available until expended, to enable the President of the United States to carry out the purposes herein provided for. Id.

1627. Same-Plants to be operated solely by the Government.— The plant or plants provided for under this Act shall be constructed and operated solely by the Government and not in conjunction with any other industry or enterprise carried on by private capital. Id.

1628. Funds appropriated for, may be raised by sale of Panama Canal bonds.-In order to raise the money appropriated by this Act and necessary to carry its provisions into effect, the Secretary of the Treasury, upon the request of the President of the United States, may issue and sell, or use for such purpose or construction hereinabove authorized, any of the bonds of the United States now available in the Treasury of the United States under the Act of August fifth, nineteen hundred and nine, the Act of February fourth, nineteen hundred and ten, and the Act of March second, nineteen hundred and eleven, relating to the issue of bonds for the construction of the Panama Canal, to a total amount not to exceed $20,000,000. Id.

1629. Same-Maturity of bonds.-Any Panama Canal bonds issued and sold or used under the provisions of this section may be made payable at such time after issue as the Secretary of the Treasury, in his discretion, may deem advisable, and fix, instead of fifty years after date of issue, as in said Act of August fifth, nineteen hundred and nine, not exceeding fifty years. Id. 216.

1630. Draft, organize, and equip additional force of 500,000 men; officers therefor.-To raise by draft as herein provided, organize and equip an additional force of five hundred thousand enlisted men, or such part or parts thereof as he may at any time deem necessary, and to provide the necessary officers, line and staff, for said force and for organizations of the other forces hereby authorized, or by combining organizations of said other forces, by ordering members of the Officers' Reserve Corps to temporary duty in accordance with the provisions of section thirty-eight of the national defense Act approved June third, nineteen hundred and sixteen; by appointment from the Regular Army, the Officers' Reserve Corps, from those duly qualified and registered pursuant to section twenty-three of the Act of Congress approved January twenty-first, nineteen hundred and three (Thirty-second Statutes at Large, page seven hundred and seventy-five), from the members of the National Guard drafted into the service of the United States, from those who have been graduated from educational institutions at which military instruction is compulsory, or from those who have had honorable service in the Regular Army, the National Guard, or in the volunteer

'Certain paragraphs which relate to the Regular Army, etc., will be found under other chapters.

Paragraph 1544, ante, or 39 Stat. 190.

See footnote to paragraph 1388, ante, or 32 Stat. 779.

forces, or from the country at large, by assigning retired officers of the Regular Army to active duty with such force with their rank on the retired list and the full pay and allowances of their grade; or by the appointment of retired officers and enlisted men, active or retired 2 of the Regular Army as commissioned officers in such forces. Par. 3, Sec. 1, Act of May 18, 1917 (40 Stat. 76.)

(See note to paragraph 329a for distinction between a commission in the National Army, the Regular Army, etc.)

1631. Same-Organization same as corresponding organizations of Regular Army.-The organization of said force shall be the same as that of the corresponding organizations of the Regular Army. Id.

(For paragraphs 1 and 2 of this section, see paragraphs 331c1, 331c, 1339p, and 1339q, and for the ensuing provision of this paragraph of the section, see paragraph 356b, ante.)

1632. Appointment of officers.-Officers with rank not above that of colonel shall be appointed by the President alone, and officers above that grade by the President by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. Id., 77.

(For the provision of this paragraph of section 1 immediately preceding this paragraph, see paragraph 356e.)

1633. Same-Recommissioning in Coast Guards former officers of Revenue-Cutter Service or.-The President may in his discretion recommission in the Coast Guard persons who have heretofore held commissions in the Revenue-Cutter Service or the Coast Guard and have left the service honorably, after ascertaining that they are qualified for service physically, morally, and as to age and military fitness. Id.

1634. Draft, organize, officer, equip, and train additional force of 500,000 men.-The President is further authorized, in his discretion. and at such time as he may determine, to raise and begin the training of an additional force of five hundred thousand men organized, offi

1An officer appointed to the National Army from civil life under the act of May 18, 1917, upon his acceptance of his commission is entitled to mileage for travel under competent orders from his place of residence to his first duty station. (Act of June 12, 1906, 34 Stat. 246.) Similarly a member of the Officers' Reserve Corps is entitled to mileage upon being ordered to active duty (national defense act of June 3, 1916, sec. 38); (see 23 Comp. Dec. Comptroller 705). So much of paragraph 1279, Army Regulations, as is inconsistent herewith is not in accordance with the law. (Dig. Opin. J. A. G., January, 1918.)

The acceptance by a retired enlisted man of an appointment to a higher grade while employed on active duty, under section 7 of the act of May 18, 1917 (40 Stat. 76), will not affect his retired status. Upon the termination of his active duty he will revert to the same status as a retired enlisted may which he occupied prior to the acceptance of an appointment in the temporary forces and will again become entitled to the retired pay and allowances of an enlisted man of his grade on the enlisted man's retired list. During his active duty his pay on the retired list is in abeyance. (Id. February, 1918.)

*See paragraph 1532a, ante, for authorization for appointments into certain designated grades in staff corps.