War Department to which the property for which they were accountable or responsible pertains, and the certificate from the Chief of the Division of Bookkeeping and Warrants, Treasury Department, and such certificates, accompanied by the affidavits of officers, of nonaccountability or nonresponsibility to other bureaus of the War Department, certified to by the commanding officer of . the regiment or independent organization, shall warrant Provisos. their final payment: Provided, That officers who have not accounta- not been responsible at any time for public property shall be required to make affidavit of that fact, certified to by their commanding officers, which shall be accepted as sufficient evidence to warrant their final payment on their discharge from the service: Provided further, That mustering officers are empowered to administer oaths in all matters pertaining to the muster out of volunteers. Approved, January 12, 1899. of officers ble, affidavit sufficient. Administering oaths. NOTE. Under this act there was appropriated and paid the sum of $2,340,000. Extra pay on muster out, enlistments in for Spanish war. [30 Stat. L., p. 1073, 1074.] [Extract from an act making appropriation for the support of the Regular and Volunteer Army for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1900.] * * * * * That all enlisted men in the Regular Army who enlisted subsequent to the declaration of war for the war only and Regular Army mustered out of the service who have served honestly and faithfully beyond the limits of the United States shall be paid two months' extra pay on muster out and dicharge from the service, and all enlisted men in the Regular Army who enlisted subsequent to the declaration of war for the war only and mustered out of the service who have served honestly and faithfully within the limits of the United States shall be paid one month's extra pay on muster out and discharge from the service from any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, said moneys to be immediately available. Extra pay on muster out, tives. That the Act of January twelfth, eighteen hundred and payable to le- ninety-nine, be, and it is hereby, amended so as to authorgal representa-ize the payment to the legal heirs or representatives of Ante, p. 784. the officers and enlisted men who died or were killed or who may die in the service, the extra pay provided for in that Act for officers and enlisted men who have been or are to be mustered out. Approved March 3, 1899. NOTE.-Under the terms of this Act there was appropriated the sum of $665,000. [30 Stat. L., p. 1224.] [Extract from an act making appropriations to supply deficiencies in the appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1899, and for other purposes.] * * * * * remains of offi cers, etc. To enable the Secretary of War, in his discretion, to Transporting cause to be transported to their homes the remains of officers and soldiers who die at military camps or who are killed in action or who die in the field at places outside of the limits of the United States, one hundred thousand dollars. That in all cases where an officer or an enlisted man in Reimburse etc., for bring soldiers. either the Army, Navy, Marine Corps of the United ment of family, States, or contract surgeon or trained nurse in the employ ing home dead of the Government, has died while on duty away from home since the first day of January, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, and the remains have been taken home and buried at the expense of the family or friends of the deceased, the parties who paid the cost of transportation and burying such remains shall be repaid at the expense of the United States by the Secretary of the Treasury, not to exceed what it would have cost the United States to have transported the remains to their homes. Approved March 3, 1899. NOTE. Under the above acts the War Department has paid $208,415.60 bringing home the remains of officers and soldiers who died abroad, etc., leaving a balance June 30, 1899, of $91,584.40. , Statement showing the number of volunteers furnished, by States and Territories, during the war with Spain. In addition to the above there were raised at large 3 regiments of volunteer engineers, 3 regiments of cavalry, and 10 regiments of infantry; a total of 16,500, making an aggregate of volunteers during the war of 222,552. The following table exhibits the strength of the Volunteer Army at the several periods indicated: The aggregate strength of the Regular and of the Volunteer armies for each of the months of May, June, July, and August was as follows: |