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A79588 1 (1918-08-30)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadaef0001 and id is 1 raw text is: DEOISIONS OF THE COMPTROLLER. retired list, while on active duty, may be temporarily advanced to and commissioned in such higher grade or rank on the retired list, not above that of lieutenant commander in the Navy or major in the Marine Corps or captain in the Coast Guard, as the President may determine, and any officer so advanced shall, while on active duty, be entitled to the same pay and allowances as officers of like grade or rank on the active list: Provided, That any such com- missioned or warrant officer who has been so temporarily advanced in grade or rank shall, upon his relief from active duty, or in any case not later than six months after the termination of the war or of the national emergency, declared as aforesaid, revert to the grade or rank on the retired list and to the pay and allowance status which he would have held had he not been so temporarily advanced: Pro- vided further, That nothing in this Act shall operate to reduce the pay and allowances now allowed by law to retired officers. Your are accordingly advised that Maj. Rittenhouse is not entitled while on active duty to the pay and commutation of quarters and of heat and light of a lieutenant colonel from July 9, 1918. ABSTRACTS OF TITLE.. Urnder the acts of July 2 and October 6, 1917, .the expense of making necessary searches and abstracts of title to land acquired by the War Department during the existing emergency by purchase, requisition, or condemnation may be paid for under the approprlation which authorizes the acquirement of the land. Comptroller Warwick to the Secretary of War, August 30, 1918: I have your letter of August 13, 1918, requesting decision whether the expense of making the necessary searches and abstracts of title to property acquired during the existing emergency by purchase, requisition, or condemnation for the purposes stated above may be paid from the funds available for the procurement of the premises. The purpose for which the land is stated as being acquired is for artillery ranges, supply depots, and other purposes. The particular appropriations under which the land is or will be ac- quired are not stated, and no more than a general reply can be made to the question. The act of March 2, 1889 (25 Stat., 941), requires that abstracts of title, etc., be furnished by the grantors of sites for public build- ings free of expense to the United States. Section 355 of the Revised Statutes provides: No public money shall be expended upon any site or land pur- chased by the United States for the purposes of erecting thereon any armory, arsenal, fort, fortification, navy-yard, custom-house, light-house, or other public building, of any kind whatever, until the written opinion of the Attorney-General shall be had in favor of the validity of the title, nor until the consent of the legislature of the 195

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