STRENGTH AND DISTRIBUTION.
The commissioned, warranted, appointed, and enlisted personnel of the paymaster’s department, at the beginning of the war, consisted of:
| Permanent commissioned paymasters | 6 |
| Officers of the grade of captain detailed for four years | 3 |
| Officers appointed as special disbursing agents under Revised Statutes 3614 | 4 |
| Permanent pay clerks | 9 |
| Civil force | 3 |
| Enlisted men | 51 |
| Total force | 76 |
The above force was distributed as shown in the following table:
| Key for column headings: | |
| PC = | Pay clerks. |
| QS = | Quartermaster sergeants. |
| S = | Sergeants. |
| C = | Corporals. |
| P = | Privates. |
| T = | Total. |
| and lieut. = lieutenant. | |
| Pay stations. | Personnel attached. | ||||||
| Number and rank commissioned officers. | PC | QS | S | C | P | T | |
| Established offices in United States. | |||||||
| Headquarters, Washington, D. C. | 1 brigadier general; 1 lieut. colonel; 1 major; 1 first lieut. | 4 } | 4 | 5 | 2 | 6 | 28 |
| [7]3 } | |||||||
| San Francisco, Calif. | 1 major | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 7 |
| New York, N. Y. | 1 captain | 1 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 14 |
| Outside of United States. | |||||||
| Peking, China | 1 captain[8] | .. | 1 | .. | .. | .. | 2 |
| Virgin Islands | do.[8] | .. | 1 | .. | .. | .. | 2 |
| Port au Prince, Haiti | 1 first lieut. | .. | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 |
| Cape Haitien, Haiti | 1 captain[8] | .. | 1 | .. | 1 | .. | 3 |
| Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. | 1 captain | 1 | 1 | .. | 1 | .. | 4 |
| Santiago, Dominican Republic. | do. | 1 | 2 | 1 | .. | 3 | 8 |
| Managua, Nicaragua | 1 second lieut.[8] | .. | 1 | .. | .. | .. | 2 |
| Unassigned | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | |
| Total | 13 | 12 | 16 | 12 | 8 | 15 | 76 |
[7] Civil.
[8] Special disbursing agent.
The commissioned force of the paymasters department reached a maximum strength of 47 officers, including special disbursing agents, when the latest detail to the department from the line was made, and as then constituted, consisted of:
| Permanently commissioned paymasters | 5 |
| Officers detailed from the prewar line | 9 |
| Temporary officers (eight former pay clerks and four temporary line officers) | 12 |
| Officers of the reserve force | 16 |
| Officers appointed as special disbursing agents | 5 |
| Permanent pay clerk | 1 |
| Temporary pay clerks | 58 |
| Pay clerks of the reserve force | 6 |
| Enlisted men | 501 |
| Total authorized force | 613 |
The above force which was the maximum authorized complement of the paymaster’s department, was distributed as follows:
| Key for column headings: | |
| PC = | Pay clerks. |
| QS = | Quartermaster sergeants. |
| S = | Sergeants. |
| C = | Corporals. |
| P1C = | Privates, first class. |
| P = | Privates. |
| T = | Total. |
| and brig. gen. = brigadier general. | |
| and lieut. col. = lieutenant colonel. | |
| Pay stations. | Number and rank commissioned officers. | PC | QS | S | C | P1C | P | T |
| Established offices in United States. | ||||||||
| Headquarters, Washington, D. C.[9] | 1 brig. gen., 4 majors, 5 captains. | 22 | 27 | 37 | 55 | 22 | 67 | 240 |
| New York, N. Y. (established May, 1908). | 2 majors, 1 captain | 2 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 8 | 30 |
| Philadelphia, Pa. (established, May, 1917). | 1 colonel, 1 captain | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 14 |
| Quantico, Va. (established June, 1917). | 1 lieut. col., 1 major, 2 captains. | 4 | 5 | 8 | 8 | 3 | 13 | 45 |
| Atlanta, Ga. (established June, 1917). | 1 captain | 3 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 22 |
| San Francisco, Calif. (established March, 1901). | do. | 2 | 2 | 3 | 3 | .. | 3 | 14 |
| Outside United States. | ||||||||
| Expeditionary Forces in France. | 4 majors, 12 captains | 20 | 34 | 34 | 31 | 9 | 39 | 183 |
| Seventh Regiment, Cuba | 1 captain | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | .. | 1 | 7 |
| First Regiment, Cuba | do. | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | .. | 1 | 7 |
| San Domingo, Dominican Republic. | do. | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | .. | 1 | 8 |
| Santiago, Dominican Republic. | do. | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | .. | 1 | 7 |
| Port au Prince, Haiti | 1 special disbursing agent. | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | .. | .. | 5 |
| Cape Haitien, Haiti | do. | .. | 1 | .. | 1 | .. | 1 | 4 |
| St. Thomas, Virgin Islands. | do. | 1 | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 3 |
| Managua, Nicaragua | do. | .. | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 2 |
| Peking, China | do. | .. | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 2 |
| Attached to posts in United States and elsewhere. | 1 captain | 4 | 15 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 20 |
| Total | 47 | 65 | 102 | 98 | 118 | 39 | 144 | 613 |
[9] Authorized complement but never filled. Maximum number employed in paymaster’s office at any time subsequent to Apr. 6, 1917, was approximately 208 of all grades and ranks.