Chapter 39. Making appropriations to supply deficiencies in appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1919, and prior fiscal years, and for other purposes
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CHAP. 39.— An Act Making appropriations to supply deficiencies in appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1919, and prior fiscal years, and for other purposes. February 25, 1919.[[H. R. 15140](/us/bill/65/hr/15140).][[Public, No. 275](/us/pl/65/275).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the following Second Deficiency Appropriation Act, 1919.sums are appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not other1162wise appropriated, to supply deficiencies in appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1919, and prior fiscal years, and for other purposes, namely:
District of Columbia.DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. Contingent expanses.contingent and miscellaneous expenses. District Building.Fuel, etc.District Building: For fuel, light, power, repairs, laundry, mechanics, and labor, not to exceed $2,500, and miscellaneous supplies, $12,000. Sewers.sewers. Pumping service.For operation and maintenance of the sewage pumping service, including repairs to boilers, machinery, and pumping stations, and employment of mechanics, laborers, and two watchmen, purchase of coal, oils, waste, and other supplies, and for maintenance of motor trucks, $30,000.
Streets.streets. City refuse disposalFor the disposal of city refuse, including the same objects and under the same limitations specified for this purpose in the District of Columbia appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1919, $220,000: *Proviso*.Ashes collection.*Provided*, That not more than $70,000 of this sum shall be expended for the collection arid disposal of ashes. Public schools.public schools. Community forums, etc.For payment of necessary expenses connected with the organization and conducting of community forums and civic centers in school buildings, including equipment, fixtures, and supplies for lighting and equipping the buildings, payment of janitor service, secretaries, teachers, organizers, and clerks, including the purchase of one motor vehicle for use of the central office for strictly official business not exceeding $1,200, and maintenance of same, and employees of the day schools may also be employees of the community forums and civic centers, $6,000.
Fire Department.fire department. Additional apparatus, etc.Permanent improvements: For additional for one aerial hook and ladder truck, motor driven, $1,000; For additional for two tractors, motor driven, $4,000; For additional for three fire engines, motor driven, $6,000; For additional for four combination chemical and hose wagons, motor driven, $1,800; In all, $12,800. Health department.health department. Preventing spread of diseases, etc.For enforcement of the various provisions of law to prevent the spread of contagious diseases in the District of Columbia, including the same objects specified under this head in the District of Columbia appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1919, and including also rent and repairs of a building or buildings for temporary emergency hospital, equipment, maintenance,.and operation of same, temporary services and such other items as in the judgment of the commissioners may be necessary to prevent the spread of epidemic influenza in *Proviso*.Voluntary services allowed.the District of Columbia, $30,000: *Provided*, That the commissioners may accept voluntary services in connection with the spread of contagious diseases in the District of Columbia. 1163 One-half of the foregoing amounts for the District of Columbia, Half from District revenues.except as otherwise provided herein, shall be paid out of the Treasury of the United States and one-half out of the revenues of the District of Columbia.
The appropriations contained in the “First Deficiency Appropriation Sums in former Act payable half from District revenues.*Ante*, p. 1021.Act, 1919,” for the government of the District of Columbia, shall be paid one-half out of the Treasury of the United States and one-half out of the revenues of the District of Columbia, except the sum for carrying out the provisions of the “District of Columbia Exception.minimum-wage law,” which shall be paid wholly out of the revenues of the District of Columbia.
EMPLOYEES COMPENSATION COMMISSION.Employees Compensation Commission. Not to exceed $9,000 of the appropriation of $25,000 for carrying Expenses in District of Columbia.*Ante*, p. 824.on the work of the commission in France, contained in the deficiency appropriation Act, approved July 8, 1918, may be expended in the District of Columbia for the purposes named in the Act: *Provided*, *Proviso*.No per diem.That no per diem in lieu of subsistence shall be allowed in the District of Columbia.
Employees’ compensation fund: For compensation provided by Compensation fund allowances.Vol. 39, pp. 743, 749.“An Act to provide compensation for employees of the United States suffering injuries in the performance of their duties, and for other purposes,” approved September 7, 1916, including medical, surgical, and hospital services, and supplies provided by section 9, and the transportation and burial expenses provided by sections 9 and 11, $700,000, to be available until expended.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT.Treasury Department. general supply committee.General Supply Committee. For salaries of employees, office equipment, fuel, light, electric Expenses, transferring office supplies, etc., to departments, etc.current, telephone service, maintenance of motor trucks, and other necessary expenses for carrying into effect the Executive order of December 3, 1918, regulating the transfer of office material, supplies, and equipment in the District of Columbia falling into disuse because of the cessation of war activities, $100,000, to continue available during the fiscal year 1920: *Provided*, That no person shall be employed *Provisos*.Pay restriction.hereunder at a rate of compensation in excess of $2,500 per annum and not more than three persons shall be employed at a rate in excess of $1,800 per annum each: *Provided further*, That the said Continuance of service to June 30, 1920.Executive order shall continue in effect until June 30, 1920, without modification except that proceeds from the transfer of appropriations thereunder shall be covered into the Treasury as miscellaneous receipts: *Provided further*, That the heads of the executive departments Cooperation of departments, etc., as to transfers, etc.and independent establishments and the commissioners of the District of Columbia shall cooperate with the Secretary of the Treasury in connection with the storage and delivery of material, supplies, and equipment transferred under the foregoing order: *Provided further*, That the Secretary of War is authorized and directed to transfer Trucks from War Department directed.to the Secretary of the Treasury without payment therefor three heavy motor trucks for use of the General Supply Committee. auditing accounts abroad.Auditing accounts abroad.
The available balance of the appropriation of $700,000 for the audit Use of balance abroad or in the District.*Ante*, p. 773.of accounts abroad, contained in the legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1919, may be expended 1164either abroad or in the District of Columbia for the purposes named in the Act, except that no per diem in lieu of subsistence shall be allowed in the District of Columbia. Auditor for War Department.office of auditor for war department.
Additional office employees.For additional employees, $100,000. Contingent expenses.contingent expenses. Files, etc.For purchase of file holders and file cases, $9,000. Miscellaneous.For washing and hemming towels, purchase of awnings and fixtures, and so forth, including the same objects specified under this head in the legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1919, $4,000. Furniture, etc.For purchase of boxes, book rests, chairs, and so forth, including the same objects specified under this head in the legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1919, $23,000.
Labor-saving machines.For purchase of labor-saving machines and supplies for the same, including the same objects specified under this head in the legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1919, $10,000. Public buildings.public buildings. New Orleans, La.Old customhouse, etc.New Orleans, Louisiana, customhouse: For additional for the completion of the remodeling, repair, or improvement of the old custom-house and post office, $13,700. War Department.WAR DEPARTMENT.
Temporary employees.temporary employees. Additional clerks, etc.For the temporary employment of such additional force of clerks and other employees as in the judgment of the Secretary of War may be proper and necessary to the prompt, efficient, and accurate dispatch of official business in the War Department and its bureaus, to be allotted by the Secretary of War to such bureaus and offices as the *Provisos*.Statement to Congress.exigencies of the existing situation may demand, $5,000,000: *Provided*, That the Secretary of War shall submit to Congress on the first day of its next regular session a statement showing by bureaus or offices the number and designation of the persons employed hereunder and Pay restriction.the annual rate of compensation paid to each: *Provided further*, That no person shall be employed hereunder at a rate of compensation in excess of $5,000 per annum, not more than five persons shall be employed hereunder at a rate of compensation in excess of $2,400 per annum each, and not more than thirty-five persons shall be employed at a rate of compensation in excess of $1,800 per annum each.
Reinstatement of Government employees discharged from military service.That all former Government employees who have been drafted or enlisted in the military sendee of the United States in the war with Germany shall be reinstated on application to their former positions, if they have received an honorable discharge and are qualified to perform the duties of the position. National cemeteries.national cemeteries. Interment of remains of officers, etc.For the disposition of remains of officers, soldiers, civilian employees, and so forth, including the same objects specified under this head in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1919, fiscal years 1918 and 1919, $2,473,782.68.
Morgan, N. J.Private property losses by explosions, etc., at.Ordnance Department: For the payment of the claims for damage to and loss of private property occasioned by the explosions and fire at the plant of T. A. Gillespie Company, at Morgan, New Jersey, 1165which have been agreed upon by the War Department and the claimants, *Ante*, p. 1026.and are enumerated and scheduled in House Document Num bered 1735 of the present session, $268,211.26. The Secretary of War is directed to consider, ascertain, and recommend Claims for disability or death therefrom to be considered, etc.to Congress the amounts which in his judgment are due on claims of persons not employees of the United States for compensation for disability or death resulting from personal injury sustained from the recent explosions and fire at the plant of the T.
A. Gillespie Company, at Morgan, New Jersey: *Provided*, That claims shall not be *Provisos*.Restriction.recommended hereunder for persons or in amounts which would not be allowable under the United States employees’ compensation Act if the individual were an employee of the United States: *Provided further*, Detailed statement in report.That the report to be made hereunder shall contain a full statement of the facts in connection with the injury or death of any person for whom payment may be recommended.
NAVY DEPARTMENT.Navy Department. contingent expenses.Contingent expenses. For professional and technical books, and so forth, including the same objects specified under this head in the legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1919, $500. For stationery, furniture, newspapers, and so forth, including the Stationery, etc.same objects specified under this head in the legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1919, $150,000.
For rental of additional quarters for the Navy Department, Rent.$2,614.84. naval observatory.Nayal Observatory. For fuel, oil, grease, and so forth, including the same objects specified Contingent expenses.under this head in the legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1919, $1,500. bureau of yards and docks.Bureau of Yards and Docks. The limitation specified in the legislative, executive, and judicial Increase of technical services, 1919.appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1919 upon the amount which may be expended for the services of skilled draftsmen and other technical *Ante*, p. 791, amended.services in the Bureau of Yards and Docks is increased by the sum of $150,000. bureau of ordnance.Bureau of Ordnance.
The limitation specified in the legislative, executive, and judicial Increase of technical services, 1919.appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1919 on expenditures for clerks, *Ante*, p. 791, amended.draftsmen, and other technical services from the appropriation “Ordnance and ordnance stores” is increased by the sum of $20,000. NAVAL ESTABLISHMENT.Navy. general expenses.General expenses. Pay, miscellaneous: For commissions and interest, transportation Pay, miscellaneous.For 1917 and 1918.of funds, exchange, and so forth, including the same objects specified under this head m the several Acts carrying appropriations thereunder for the fiscal years 1917 and 1918, $1,648,502.72.
For commissions and interest, transportation of funds, exchange, For 1919.and so forth, including the same objects specified under this head in the naval appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1919, $5,000,000. 1166 Naval emergency fund.naval emergency fund. Paying incurred obligations.For the payment of obligations incurred prior to November 11, 1918, under the naval emergency fund, including the same objects specified for this purpose in the deficiency appropriation Act approved October 6, 1917, and the naval appropriation Acts for the fiscal years 1918 and 1919, $33,000,000.
Bureau of Navigation.bureau of navigation. Transportation.Transportation: For travel allowance of enlisted men discharged on account of expiration of enlistment, and so forth, including the same objects specified under this head in the several Acts carrying appropriations thereunder for the fiscal years 1917 and 1918, $630,235.04. Outfits.Incurred obligations payable from current year funds.Outfits on first enlistment: The appropriation for outfits on first enlistment for the fiscal year 1919 is made available for the payment of obligations incurred for outfits on first enlistment during the fiscal years 1917 and 1918.
Contingent.Contingent: For ferriage, continuous-service certificates, and so forth, including the same objects specified under this head in the naval appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1919, $5,000. Training stations, California.Naval training station, California: For maintenance of naval training station, Yerba Buena Island, California, including the same objects specified under this head in the naval appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1918 and in the urgent deficiency appropriation Act ap-proved June 15, 1917, $22,066.25.
Rhode Island.Naval training station, Rhode Island: For maintenance of naval training station, Coasters Harbor Island, Rhode Island, including the same objects specified under this head in the naval appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1919, $411,899. Great Lakes.Naval training station, Great Lakes: For maintenance of naval training station, Great Lakes, including the same objects specified under this head in the naval appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1919, $457,000. Saint Helena.Naval training station, Saint Helena:
For maintenance of naval training stations at Saint Helena and at naval operating base, Virginia, labor and material, general care, repairs and improvements: schoolbooks, and all other incidental expenses, fiscal years 1917 and 1918, $4,978.35. Bureau of Yards and Docks.bureau of yards and docks. Maintenance.Maintenance: For general maintenance of yards and docks, including the same objects specified under this head in the naval appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1919, $6,000,000.
Contingent.Contingent: For contingent expenses and minor extensions and improvements of public works at navy yards and stations, $100,000. Public works.public works, bureau of yards and docks. New London, Conn., submarine base.Submarine base, New London, Connecticut: For the further development of the submarine base at New London, Connecticut, including the same objects specified under this head in the naval appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1919, $474,407.64. Washington, D.
C.Navy yard, Washington, District of Columbia: For yard improvements, $500,000. Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.Naval station, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii: For completion of dry dock, $78,000. Naval Academy.Bancroft Hall.Buildings and grounds, Naval Academy: For extension of Bancroft Hall, $750,000. 1167 Repairs and preservation at navy yards: For repairs and preservation Repairs and preservation.at navy yards, fuel depots, fuel plants, and stations, $750,000. bureau of medicine and surgery.Bureau of Medicine and Surgery.
Medical Department: For surgeons’ necessaries for vessels in commission, Surgeons’ necessaries.For 1917, 1918.and so forth, including the same objects specified under this head in the several Acts carrying appropriations thereunder for the fiscal years 1917–1918 and 1918, $976,118.08. For surgeons’ necessaries for vessels in commission, and so forth, For 1919.including the same objects specified under this head in the naval appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1919, $1,000,000.
Contingent: For tolls and ferriages, and so forth, including the Contingent.same objects specified under this head in the several Acts carrying appropriations thereunder for the fiscal years 1917 and 1918, $222,286.40. For tolls and ferriages, and so forth, including the same objects specified under this head in the naval appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1919, $500,000. Transportation of remains: For transportation of remains, and Transporting remains, etc.so forth, including the same objects specified under this head in the naval appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1919, $350,000.
Hospital patients: For the care, maintenance, and treatment Care, etc., of hospital patients.of patients in naval and in other than naval hospitals, fiscal years 1917 and 1918, $596,321. For the care, maintenance, and treatment of patients in naval and in other than naval hospitals, $500,000. bureau of supplies and accounts.Bureau of Supplies and Accounts. Pay of the Navy: For pay and allowances prescribed by law, and Pay of the Navy.For 1918.so forth, including the same objects specified under this head in the naval appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1918 and in the urgent deficiency appropriation Act approved June 15, 1917, $41,885,899.34.
For pay and allowances prescribed by law, and so forth, including For 1919.the same objects specified under this head in the naval appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1919, $95,521,836. Provisions, Navy: For provisions and commuted rations for the Provisions.seamen and marines, and so forth, including the same objects specified For 1917.under this head in the naval appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1917, $22,808,838.01. For provisions and commuted rations for the seamen and marines, For 1918.and so forth, including the same objects specified under this head in the naval appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1918 and in the urgent deficiency appropriation Act approved June 15, 1917, $3,746,250.99.
For provisions and commuted rations for the seamen and marines, For 1919.and so forth, including the same objects specified under this head in the naval appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1919, $22,647,041. Maintenance: For fuel, the removal and transportation of ashes Maintenance.For 1917, 1918.and garbage from ships of war, and so forth, including the same objects specified under this head in the several Acts carrying appropriations thereunder for the fiscal years 1917 and 1918, $1,716,463.28.
The limitation specified in the naval appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1918 on expenditures for pay of clerical, inspection, storemen, store laborers, and messenger service from the appropriation “Maintenance, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts,” is increased further by $15,000. Maintenance: For fuel, the removal and transportation of ashes For 1919.and garbage from ships of war, and so forth, including the same objects specified under this head in the naval appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1919, $5,000,000. 1168 Increase of clerical assistance, 1919.The limitation specified in the naval appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1919 on expenditures for pay of clerical, inspection, storemen, store laborers, and messenger service from the appropriation “Maintenance, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts,” is increased by the sum of $300,000.
Freight.For 1917, 1918.Freight: For all freight and express charges pertaining to the Navy Department and its bureaus, except the transportation of coal for the Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, fiscal years 1917 and 1918, $4,578,200.12. For 1919.For all freight and express charges pertaining to the Navy Department and its bureaus, except the transportation of coal for the Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, $10,000,000. Bureau of Construction and Repair.bureau of construction and repair.
Construction and re pair of vessels.For preservation and completion of vessels on the stocks and in ordinary, and so forth, including the same objects specified under this head in the naval appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1919, $15,000,000. Bureau of Steam Engineering.bureau of steam engineering. Engineering repairs, etc.Engineering: For repairs, preservation, and renewal of machinery, and so forth, including the same objects specified under this head in the naval appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1916, $30,882.14.
Naval Academy.naval academy. Maintenance and repairs.Maintenance and repairs: For general maintenance and repairs, and so forth, including the same objects specified under this head in the naval appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1919, $50,000. Interior Department.DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR. Reclamation Service.reclamation service. Lower Yellowstone project, Mont.Repairs.Lower Yellowstone project, Montana: For repairs to irrigation works, made necessary because of a cloudburst and flood on the lower Yellowstone project, near Savage, Montana, August 15 to 21, 1918, $52,000, to be paid out of the reclamation fund.
Payment of disallowed accounts.For payment of accounts of the Reclamation Service, which have been disallowed by the Auditor for the Interior Department, in the amounts set forth in House Document Numbered 1620 of the present session, $80.50. Saint Elizabeths Hospital.saint elizabeths hospital. Repairs, etc.For general repairs and improvements, $30,000. Postal Service.POSTAL SERVICE. out of the postal revenues. Temporary, auxiliary, and substitute clerks.Office of First Assistant Postmaster General:
For temporary and auxiliary clerk hire and for substitute clerk hire for clerks and employees absent with pay at first and second-class post offices and temporary and auxiliary clerk hire at summer and winter resort post offices, $3,000,000. Unusual conditions.For unusual conditions at post offices, $100,000. Miscellaneous.For miscellaneous items necessary and incidental to post offices of the first and second classes, $250,000. 1169 For vehicle allowance, the hiring of drivers, the rental of vehicles, Vehicle allowance, etc.and the purchase and exchange and maintenance, including stable and garage facilities, of wagons or automobiles for and the operation of screen-wagon and city delivery and collection services, $2,500,000.
For mail-messenger service, $350,000.Messenger service. office of fourth assistant postmaster general. For wrapping twine and tying devices, $100,000.Wrapping twine, etc. LEGISLATIVE.Legislative. house of representatives.House of Representatives. The appropriation of $2,000 “for the procurement of an oil portrait Portrait of Speaker Champ Clark.Reappropriation.*Ante*, p. 377.of Champ Clark, Speaker of the House of Representatives,” contained in the deficiency appropriation Act, approved October 6, 1917, is continued and made available during the fiscal year 1919.
To pay the widow of John A. Sterling, late a Representative from John A. Sterling.Pay to widow.the State of Illinois, $7,500. To pay the widow of Jacob E. Meeker, late a Representative from Jacob E. Meeker.Pay to widow.the State of Missouri, $7,500. To pay the widow of Edward E. Robbins, late a Representative Edward E. Robbins.Pay to widow.from the State of Pennsylvania, $7,500. For miscellaneous items and expenses of special and select committees, Miscellaneous items, etc.exclusive of salaries and labor, unless specifically ordered by the House of Representatives, $20,000. botanic garden.Botanic Garden.
For repairs and improvements, made necessary by the recent fire, Repairs, etc.including personal services and material, $1,800. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE.Government Printing Office. Holidays: To enable the Public Printer to comply with the provisions Holidays.of the law granting holidays and the Executive order granting half holidays with pay to the employees of the Government Printing Office, $80,410. Leaves of absence: To enable the Public Printer to comply with the Leaves of absence.provisions of the law granting thirty days’ annual leave to the employees of the Government Printing Office, $77,960.07. printing and binding.Printing and binding.
The allotment of the Navy Department for printing and binding Navy Department.*Ante*, p. 700, amended.for the fiscal year 1919, contained in the sundry civil appropriation Act, is further increased from $400,000 to $500,000. REPEAL OF APPROPRIATIONS AND AUTHORIZATIONS, MILITARY ESTABLISHMENT.Repeal of Army appropriations and authorizations. Sec. 2. That the following unexpended balances or portions of Unexpended balances covered in.unexpended balances or combined unexpended balances or combined portions of unexpended balances of appropriations for the support of the Military Establishment contained in appropriation Acts or for fiscal years enumerated in this section shall be carried to the surplus fund and be covered into the Treasury immediately upon the approval of this act, namely: 1170 Signal Service.office of chief signal officer.
Expenses, 1919.For expenses of the Signal Service of the Army, fiscal year 1919, $83,373,200.04. Authorization, 1919.Public Laws, 2d sess., p. 1027.The authorization of $45,000,000 for expenses of the Signal Service of the Army, contained in the first deficiency appropriation Act, 1919, is repealed. Total, appropriations and authorizations recovered, Signal Service, $128,373,200.04. Provost Marshal General’s Office.office of the provost marshal general. Draft registration expenses.For all expenses necessary in the registration of persons available for military service and in selection of certain such persons and their draft into the military service, fiscal year 1919, $12,040,047.
Military Aeronautic’s Division.division of military aeronautics. Air service expenses.*Ante*, p. 849.For expenses of the military air service under appropriations made directly to the division of military aeronautics or assigned to that division upon the order of the President, fiscal year 1919, $85,000,000. Aircraft Production Bureau.bureau of aircraft production. Aerial appliances, etc.For aerial appliances, aviation stations, vocational training in aviation, and so forth, fiscal year 1919, $400,000,000.
From Signal Service.For Signal Service of the Army, fiscal years 1917-1918 and 1918, $2,000,000. Quartermaster Corps.quartermaster corps. General appropriations.For general appropriations, Quartermaster Corps, fiscal year 1919, $2,996,414,707.14. Pay of the Army.For pay of the Army, fiscal year 1919, $654,557,911.68. Supplies, etc., 1917, 1918.For supplies, services, and transportation, fiscal years 1917-1918 and 1918, $6,971,460.45. Horses.For horses for cavalry, artillery, engineers, and so forth, fiscal years 1917-1918 and 1918, $32,170,956.08.
Civilian training camps.For civilian military training camps, fiscal years 1917-1918 and 1918, $244,272.41. Storage and shipping facilities.For inland and port storage and shipping facilities, fiscal years 1918 and 1919, $50,026,000. Total, appropriations to be covered into the Treasury, Quartermaster Corps, $3,740,385,307.76. Authorization for hospital construction, 1919. .*Ante*, p. 1029.The authorization of $15,750,000 for the Quartermaster Corps for the construction and repair of hospitals, contained in the first deficiency appropriation Act, 1919, is repealed.
Total, appropriations and authorizations recovered, Quartermaster Corps, $3,756,135,307.76. Medical Department.medical department. Supplies, 1919.For Medical and Hospital Department, fiscal year 1919, $54,145,513.73. Authorization, 1919.*Ante*, p. 1030.The authorization of $65,000,000 for medical and hospital supplies of the Army, contained in the first deficiency appropriation Act, 1919, is repealed. Total, appropriations and authorizations recovered, Medical Department, $119,145,513.73. 1171 engineer department.Engineer Department.
For engineer operations in the field, fiscal years 1917–1918 and Field operations.For 1917, 1918.1918, $6,056,469.60. For engineer operations in the field, fiscal year 1919, $660,000,000.For 1919. For engineer equipment of troops, fiscal year 1919, $126,532,966.16.Equipment of troops. Total, appropriations to be covered into the Treasury, Engineer Department, $792,589,435.76. The authorization of $200,000,000 for engineer operations Authorization for field operations, 1919.*Ante*, p. 1030.in the field, contained in the first deficiency appropriation Act, 1919, is repealed.
Total, appropriations and authorizations recovered, Engineer Department, $992,589,435.76. Ordnance Department.ordnance department. For purchase, manufacture, and test of mountain, field, and siege Field, etc., cannon.For 1917, 1918, 1919.cannon, including field artillery for the National Guard, and including antiaircraft guns, fiscal years 1917-1918, 1918, and 1919, and amounts in the fortifications appropriation Act approved July 8, 1918, $174,662,634.98. For purchase, manufacture, and test of ammunition, subcaliber Ammunition for field, etc., artillery practice.For 1917, 1918, 1919.guns, and other accessories for mountain, field, and siege artillery practice, fiscal year 1917-1918, and fortification appropriation Act approved July 8, 1918, $85,418,177.38.
For alteration and maintenance mobile artillery, fiscal years 1917–1918 Altering mobile artillery.For 1917, 1918, 1919.and 1918, and the fortification appropriation Act approved July 8, 1918, $233,083,244.78. For manufacture of arms, and for manufacture of rifles, fiscal Manufacture of arms.For 1917, 1918, 1919.years 1917–1918, 1918, and 1919, $210,878,057.09. For ordnance stores, ammunition, fiscal years 1917–1918, 1918, Ammunition, etc.For 1917, 1918, 1919.and 1919, $198,947,310.37.
For small-arms target practice, fiscal years 1917–1918, 1918, and Small-arms target practice.For 1917, 1918, 1919.1919, $100,108,390.84. For automatic machine rifles, including automatic rifles for the Automatic machine rifles.For 1917, 1918, 1919.National Guard, fiscal years 1917–1918, 1918, and 1919, $256,215,443.12. For armored motor cars, fiscal years 1917–1918, 1918, and 1919, Armored motor cars.For 1917, 1918, 1919.$197,339,362.40. For ordnance stores and supplies, fiscal years 1917–1918, 1918, and Stores and supplies.For 1917, 1918, 1919. 1919, $34,029,315.28.
For ordnance service, fiscal years 1917–1918, 1918, and 1919, Ordnance service.For 1917, 1918, 1919.$7,129,116.55. For ordnance stores and equipment, civilian military training camps, reserve officers’ training Ordnance for training camps, etc.For 1917, 1918, 1919.corps, ordnance equipment for home guard organizations, ordnance supplies for military equipment of schools and colleges, special aids and appliances for manufacture of arms, and so forth, fiscal years 1917–1918, 1918, and 1919, $5,557,956.96.
Total, appropriations to be covered into the Treasury, Ordnance Department, $1,503,369,009.75. The following authorizations or portions of authorizations or combined Authorisations repealed.authorizations or combined portions of authorizations granted to the Ordnance Department of the Army in the appropriations Acts enumerated are repealed:Field, etc., cannon. For purchase, manufacture, and test of mountain, field, and siege *Ante*, pp. 816, 1031.cannon fortification appropriation Act approved July 8, 1918, and first deficiency appropriation Act, 1919, $1,816,514,192. 1172 Ammunition for field, etc., cannon.*Ante*, pp. 817, 1031.For purchase, manufacture, and test of ammunition for mountain, field, and siege cannon, fortification appropriation Act approved July 8, 1918, and first deficiency appropriation Act, 1919, $2,523,522,251.43.
Ammunition for field, etc., artillery practice.*Ante*, p. 1031.For purchase, manufacture, and test of ammunition, subcaliber guns, for mountain, field, and siege artillery practice, first deficiency appropriation Act, 1919, $65,175,061. Altering mobile artillery.*Ante*, p. 817.For alteration and maintenance of mobile artillery, fortification appropriation Act approved July 8, 1918, $100,000,000. Manufacture of arms.*Ante*, pp. 870, 1030.For manufacture of arms. Army appropriation Act, approved July 9, 1918, and first deficiency appropriation Act, 1919, $242,481,200.
Ammunition.*Ante*, pp. 870, 1030.For ordnance stores, ammunition, Army appropriation Act approved July 9, 1918, and first deficiency appropriation Act, 1919, $1,117,289,421. Small-arms target practice.*Ante*, pp. 869, 1030.For small-arms target practice, Army appropriation Act approved July 9, 1918, and first deficiency appropriation Act, 1919, $143,861,293. Automatic machine rifles.*Ante*, pp. 873, 1030.For automatic machine rifles, Army appropriation Act approved July 9, 1918, and first deficiency appropriation Act, 1919, $441,788,000.
Armored motor cars.*Ante*, pp. 873, 1031.For armored motor cars, Army appropriation Act approved July 9, 1918, and first deficiency appropriation Act, 1919, $406,640,000. Stores and supplies.*Ante*, pp. 869, 1030.For ordnance stores and supplies, Army appropriation Act approved July 9, 1918, and first deficiency appropriation Act, 1919, $372,299,260. General contract authorization.*Ante*, p. 873.For general contract authorization for ordnance and ordnance supplies and material, Army appropriation Act approved July 9, 1918, $484,708,616.27.
Total, authorizations repealed, Ordnance Department, $7,714,279,294.70. Total, appropriations and authorizations recovered, Ordnance Department, $9,217,648,304.45. Chemical Warfare Service.chemical warfare service. Balances tor, covered in.Field, etc., artillery.For purchase, manufacture, and test of mountain, field, and siege cannon, fiscal year 1917-1918, and fortification appropriation Act, approved July 8, 1918, $38,182,621.89. Medical Department.For medical and hospital department, fiscal years 1917–1918, and 1919, $11,853,362.83.
National Security and Defense.For National Security and Defense, sundry civil Act approved July 1, 1918, $146,567.05. Ordnance Service.For ordnance service, fiscal years 1917–1918, and 1919, $219,871.65. Ammunition.For ordnance stores, ammunition, fiscal years 1917–1918, 1918, and 1919, $27,025,214.40. Ordnance stores and supplies.For ordnance stores and supplies, fiscal years 1917–1918, 1918, and 1919, $9,013,923.90. Repairs of arsenals.For repairs of arsenals, fiscal year 1919, $16,736.44.
Chemical Warfare Service, 1919.For Chemical Warfare Service, fiscal year 1919, $97,474,312.50. Total, appropriations to be covered into the Treasury, Chemical Warfare Service, $183,932,610.66 Authorization repealed.*Ante*, p. 1031.The authorization of $150,000,000 for expenses of the Chemical Warfare Service, contained in the first deficiency appropriation Act, 1919, is repealed. Total, appropriations and authorizations recovered, Chemical Warfare Service, $333,932,610.66. Total, appropriations to be covered into the Treasury, Military Establishment, $6,856,835,124.70. 1173 Total, authorizations repealed, Military Establishment, $8,190,029,294.70.
Total, appropriations and authorizations recovered, Military Establishment, $15,046,864,419.40. Sec. 3. That the portion of the Army appropriation Act, approved Sale of war supplies.July 9, 1918, relating to the “Sale of war supplies,” which reads as follows: " *“Provided*, That any moneys received by the United States as the Reuse of receipts from, repealed.*Ante*, p. 850, repealed.proceeds of any such sale shall be deposited to the credit of that appropriation out of which was paid the cost to the Government of the property thus sold, and the same shall immediately become available for the purposes named in the original appropriation:
” " hereby is repealed. REPEAL OF APPROPRIATIONS AND AUTHORIZATIONS, NAVAL ESTABLISHMENT.Repeal of Navy appropriations and authorizations. Sec. 4. That the following unexpended balances or portions of Unexpended balances covered in.the unexpended balances or combined unexpended balances or portions of combined unexpended balances of appropriations for the support of the Naval Establishment for the fiscal years 1917–1918, 1918, and 1919, as set forth in this section, shall be carried to the surplus fund and covered into the Treasury immediately upon the approval of this Act, namely: office of the secretary of the navy.Secretary of the Navy.
For aviation in the Navy, $97,000,000.Aviation. For basic patents for aircraft, $1,000,000.Aircraft patents. bureau of navigation.Bureau of Navigation. For instruments and supplies, $4,500,000.Equipment supplies. bureau of ordnance.Bureau of Ordnance. For ordnance and ordnance stores, $8,000,000Ordnance and stores. For contingent, Bureau of Ordnance, $10,000.Contingent. For experiments, Bureau of Ordnance, $150,000.Experiments. For new batteries for ships of the Navy, $60,305,257.Batteries for ships.
For torpedoes and appliances, $8,000,000.Torpedoes. For reserve ordnance supplies, $43,000,000.Reserve supplies. For contingent building fund, $3,847.26.Building fund. For increase of the Navy, armor and armament, $1,714,750.Armor and armament. For armament and ammunition of Coast Guard cutters, $79,574.03.Coast Guard cutters. Ammunition. For ammunition for vessels, $30,000,000. For ammunition for auxiliaries and merchantmen, $2,677,500.Auxiliaries, etc. For Navy nitrate plant, $8,311,881.Nitrate plant.
For fuel lands for armor and projectile plants, $24,513.16.Fuel lands for armor plant.Merchant auxiliaries ammunition.Batteries. For ammunition for merchant auxiliaries, $1,300,000. For batteries for merchant auxiliaries, $1,256,521.24. Total, appropriations to be covered into the Treasury, Bureau of Ordnance, $164,833,843.69. The authorization of $20,000,000 for new batteries for ships of the Navy, contained in the naval appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1919, is repealed.
The authorization of $11,000,000 for ammunition for vessels, contained Ammunition for ships.*Ante*, p. 721.in the naval appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1919, is repealed. Total appropriations and authorizations recovered, Bureau of Ordnance, $195,833,843.69. 1174 Bureau of Yards and Docks.Public works.Training camps.public works, bureau of yards and docks. For naval training camps, $257,885. Boston, Mass.Navy yard, Boston, Massachusetts: For water-front improvements, $570,000.
Washington, D. C.Naw yard, Washington, District of Columbia: For the acquisition of additional land, $100,000. Charleston, S. C.Navy yard, Charleston, South Carolina: For new superstructure for pier numbered 314, $17,000. New Orleans, La.Navy yard, New Orleans, Louisiana: For floating crane, $30,000. Mare Island, Cal.Navy yard, Mare Island, California: For revolving crane, $40,000; for structural shop and auxiliary improvements, $250,000; in all, $290,000. Naval Academy.Naval Academy:
For addition to Isherwood Hall, $15,000. Great Lakes training station.Naval training station, Great Lakes, Illinois: For additional land, $400,000. Hospital construction.Hospital construction: For hospitals and medical supply depots, $1,008,742. Handling appliances.For handling appliances at navy yards, $25,000. Total, appropriations to be covered into the Treasury, public works, Bureau of Yards and Docks, $2,713,627. Bureau of Supplies and Accounts.bureau of supplies and accounts.
Fuel, etc.For fuel and transportation, $23,096,000. Bureau of Steam Engineering.bureau of steam engineering. New York, machinery plant.For machinery plant, New York Navy Yard, $1,420.33. Marine Corps.marine corps. Reserve supplies.*Ante*, p. 737.For reserve supplies, Marine Corps, naval appropriation Act approved July 1, 1918, $7,000,000: *Provided*, That the Secretary of *Proviso*.Transfer of equal amount from Army stock, authorized.War is authorized and directed to transfer to the Secretary of the Navy for the use of the Marine Corps without payment therefor, such reserve stock of clothing, arms, and equipment, and other necessary military supplies, inventoried at the cost to the Army and not to exceed in the aggregate $7,000,000, as the same from time to time may be requisitioned.
Maintenance.For maintenance, Quartermaster’s Department, Marine Corps, $20,000,000. Pay.For pay, Marine Corps, $14,191,975.96. Marine Corps Reserve.For expenses, Marine Corps Reserve, $25,000. Total, appropriations to be covered into the Treasury, Marine Corps, $41,216,975.96. Total appropriations to be covered into the Treasury, Naval Establishment, $334,361,866.98. Total authorizations repealed, Naval Establishment, $31,000,000. Total appropriations and authorizations recovered, Naval Establishment, $365,361,866.98.
Sec. 5. Title of this Act.That this Act hereafter may be referred to as the “Second Deficiency Appropriation Act, 1919.” Approved, February 25, 1919.