[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.
HOW WAR INCREASES WERE MET.
The enlargement of the paymaster’s department to meet war conditions at the beginning of the war, and until the enlisted strength was raised to 75,500, was effected in the following manner: