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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 41 STAT. · June 30, 1921 · Chapter 240

Chapter 240. Making appropriations for the support of the Army for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1921, and for other purposes

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CHAP. 240.— An Act Making appropriations for the support of the Army for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1921, and for other purposes. June 5, 1920. [[H. R. 13587](/us/bill/66/hr/13587).] [[Public, No. 251](/us/pl/66/251).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* Army appropriations. That the following sums be, and they are hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the support of the Army for the year ending June 30, 1921:
Secretary of War.SECRETARY OF WAR. Army contingencies.Contingencies of the Army. Expenses designated.For all contingent expenses of the Army not otherwise provided for and embracing all branches of the military service, including the949office of the Chief of Staff; for all emergencies and extraordinary expenses, including the employment of translators and exclusive of all other personal services in the War Department or any of its subordinate bureaus or offices at Washington, District of Columbia, or in the Army at large, but impossible to be anticipated or classified; to be expended on the approval and authority of the Secretary of War, and for such purposes as he may deem proper, including the payment of a per diem allowance not to exceed $4, in lieu of subsistence,Per diem subsistence. to employees of the War Department traveling on official business outside of the District of Columbia and away from their designated posts, $300,000: *Provided*, That not to exceed $250,000*Provisos*.Civilian employees, selling war supplies, etc. of the money herein appropriated shall be expended for the payment of salaries of civilian employees connected with the sale of war supplies and the adjustment of war contracts and claims: *Provided further*, That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, authorized,Sales of surplus supplies, etc., to foreign Governments, etc., authorized. in his discretion, to sell to any State or foreign Government with which the United States is at peace at the time of the passage of this Act, upon such terms as he may deem expedient, any materiél, supplies, or equipment pertaining to the Military Establishment, except foodstuffs, as, or may hereafter be found to be surplus, which are not needed for military purposes and for which there is no adequate domestic market: *Provided further*, That none of the fundsPay restriction. appropriated or made available under this Act shall be used for the payment of any salary in excess of $12,000 per annum to any civilian employee in the War Department.
General Staff College.General Staff College. For expenses of the General Staff College, being for the purchaseExpenses. of the necessary stationery; typewriters and exchange of same; office, toilet, and desk furniture; textbooks, books of reference, scientific and professional papers and periodicals; printing and binding; maps; police utensils; the necessary fuel for heating the General Staff College Building and for lighting the building and grounds; employment of temporary technical or special services and expenses of special lectures; and for all other absolutely necessary expenses, including $25 per month additional to regular compensation to chief clerk for superintendence of the General Staff College Building; also for pay of a chief engineer at $1,400, an assistantMaintenance of building. engineer at $1,000, a carpenter at $1,000, four firemen at $720 each, an elevator conductor at $720; in all, $25,000.
Contingencies, Military Intelligence Division, Office of Chief of Staff.Office, Chief of Staff. For contingent expenses of the Military Intelligence Division,Military Intelligence Division.Contingencies. General Staff Corps, including the purchase of law books, professional books of reference; subscription to newspapers and periodicals; drafting and messenger service; and of the military attaches at the United States embassies and legations abroad; the cost of special instruction at home and abroad, and in maintenance of students and attaches; and for such other purposes as the Secretary of War may deem proper; to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War, $300,000: *Provided*, That section 3648, Revised Statutes,*Proviso*.Periodicals.[R.
S., sec. 3648, p. 718](/us/rs/s3648/p718). shall not apply to subscription for foreign and professional newspapers and periodicals to be paid for from this appropriation. Expenses, Military Observers Abroad.Military observers abroad. For the actual and necessary expenses of officers of the Army onExpenses of officers. duty abroad for the purpose of observing operations of armies of950foreign States at war, to be paid upon certificates of the Secretary of War that the expenditures were necessary for obtaining military information, $25,000.
Service schools.United States Service Schools. Instruction expenses at designated schools.To provide means for the theoretical and practical instruction at the Army Service Schools (including the General Staff School, the School of the Line, and the Signal Corps School at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, the Army Field Service School and Correspondence School for Medical Officers, at Washington, District of Columbia, the Cavalry School at Fort Riley, Kansas, the Field Artillery Schools at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, and at Camp Zachary Taylor or Camp Knox, Kentucky, and for the Infantry School at Camp Benning, Georgia) by the purchase of textbooks, books of reference, scientific and professional papers, the purchase of modern instruments and material for the theoretical and practical instruction, employment of temporary, technical, or special services, and for all absolutely necessary expenses, to be allotted in such proportion as may, in the opinion of the Secretary of War, be for the best interests of the military service.
Not exceeding $400 per month may be used for the payment of Translators.$100 per month each to a translator at the Army Service Schools, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, Field Artillery School, Fort Sill, Oklahoma, the Infantry School, Camp Benning, Georgia, and the Cavalry School, Fort Riley, Kansas, to be appointed by the commandants of the schools named, with the approval of the Secretary of War, $100,000. Field Artillery activities.Field Artillery Activities. Instruction expenses at designated firing centers.To provide means for the theoretical and practical instruction in Field Artillery activities at the three brigade firing centers at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, Camp Bragg, North Carolina, and Camp Knox, Kentucky, by the purchase of modern instruments and material for theoretical and practical instruction, for the tuition of officers detailed as students at civil educational institutions, and for all other necessary expenses, to be allotted in such proportion as may, in the opinion of the Secretary of War, be for the best interests of the service, $6,000.
Adjutant General’s Department.THE ADJUTANT GENERAL’S DEPARTMENT. Contingencies, Headquarters of Military Departments, and so forth. Contingencies at headquarters, etc.For contingent expenses at the headquarters of the several territorial departments, armies, territorial districts, tactical corps, divisions, and brigades, including the Staff Corps serving thereat, being for the purchase of the necessary articles of office, toilet, and desk furniture, stationery, ice, and potable water for office use when necessary, binding, maps, technical books of reference, professional and technical newspapers and periodicals, payment for which may be made in advance, and police utensils, to be allotted by the Secretary of War, and to be expended in the discretion of the commanding officers of the several military departments, districts, armies, and tactical commands, $9,000. 951 Completion and Preservation of the Selective ServiceSelective draft records, etc.
Records and the Preparation of Statements of Service for Adjutants General of States. The unexpended balance of the $3,500,000, reappropriated in theReappropriation of balances for completing, etc., of.*Ante*, p. 109.Vol. 40, p. 76. Army Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1920, approved July 11, 1919, for the completion, preservation, and transportation of the records pertaining to the draft under the Act entitled “An Act to authorize the President to increase temporarily the Military Establishment of the United States,” approved May 18, 1917, including the employment of the necessary clerical and other help for duty in the office of The Adjutant General of the Army in connection with the arrangement, operation, and maintenance of the files of those records, and for the employment of clerical help required to furnishClerical services to furnish State adjutants general information therefrom. to the adjutants general of the several States statements of service of all persons from those States who entered the military service during the war with Germany, is hereby reappropriated and made available for the fiscal year 1921, for all expenses, including the employment of clerical and other help in the office of The Adjutant General of the Army, necessary for the completion and preservation of the selective-service records and the completion of the work of furnishing statements of service to adjutants general of States: *Provided*, That this appropriation shall be disbursed by such officer*Proviso*.Disbursing officer for. as may be designated by the Secretary of War for the purpose.
CHIEF OF COAST ARTILLERY.Chief, Coast Artillery. Coast Artillery School, Fort Monroe, Virginia.School, Fort Monroe, Va. For incidental expenses of the school, including chemicals, stationery,Incidential expenses. printing, and binding; hardware; materials; cost of special instruction of officers detailed as instructors; employment of temporary, technical, or special services; extra-duty pay to soldiers necessarily employed for periods not less than ten days as artificers on work in addition to and not strictly in line with their military duties, such as carpenters, blacksmiths, draftsmen, printers, lithographers, photographers, engine drivers, telegraph operators, teamsters, wheel-wrights, masons, machinists, painters, overseers, laborers; for office furniture and fixtures, machinery, motor trucks, and unforeseen expenses, $11,600.
For purchase of engines, generators, motors, machines, measuringSpecial apparatus, etc., for divisions. instruments, special apparatus, and materials for the division of enlisted specialists, $10,540. For purchase of special apparatus and materials and for experimental purposes for the department of artillery and land defense, $1,500. For purchase of engines, generators, motors, machines, measuring instruments, special apparatus, and materials for the department of engineering and mine defense, $2,000.
For purchase and binding of professional books treating of militaryBooks, etc: and scientific subjects for library, for use of school, and for temporary use in coast defense, $2,360: *Provided*, That section 3648, Revised*Proviso*.Periodicals.[R. S., sec. 3648, p.718](/us/rs/s3648/p718). Statutes, shall not apply to subscriptions for foreign and professional newspapers and periodicals to be paid for from this appropriation. 952 Chief Signal Officer.OFFICE OF THE CHIEF SIGNAL OFFICER.
Signal Service.Signal Service of the Army. Telegraph and telephone systems.Purchases, operation, etc.Telegraph and telephone systems: Purchase, equipment, operation, and repair of military, telegraph, telephone, radio, cable, and signaling systems; signal equipments and stores, field glasses, telescopes, heliographs, signal lanterns, flags, and other necessary instruments; wind vanes, barometers, anemometers, thermometers, and other meteorological instruments; photographic and cinematographic work performed for the Army by the Signal Corps; motor cycles, motor-driven and other vehicles for technical and official purposes in connection with the construction, operation, and maintenance of communication or signaling systems, and supplies for their operation and maintenance; professional and scientific books of reference, pamphlets, periodicals, newspapers, and maps for use in the office of the Chief Signal Officer and the Signal Corps at Camp Alfred Vail, Telephones.New Jersey; telephone apparatus, including rental and payment for commercial, exchange, message, trunk-line, long-distance, and leased-line telephone service at or connecting any post, camp, cantonment, depot, arsenal, headquarters, hospital, aviation station, or other Exceptions.office or station of the Army, excepting local telephone service for the various bureaus of the War Department in the District of Columbia, and toll messages pertaining to the office of the Secretary of War; electric time service; the rental of commercial telegraph lines and equipment and their operation at or connecting any post, camp, cantonment, depot, arsenal, headquarters, hospital, aviation station, or other office or station of the Army, but not including payment for individual telegraph messages transmitted over commercial lines;
Electrical installations, etc.electrical installations and maintenance at military posts, cantonments, camps, and stations of the Army; fire control and direction Civilian employees.apparatus and materiél for Field Artillery; salaries of civilian employees, including those necessary as instructors at vocational schools; supplies, general repairs, reserve supplies, and other expenses connected with the collecting and transmitting of information for the Signaling experiments.Army by telegraph or otherwise; experimentation and research for the purpose of developing improvements in apparatus and methods of signaling, including machines, instruments, and other equipment for laboratory and repair purposes; tuition, laboratory fees, and so forth, for Signal Corps officers detailed to civilian technical schools Buildings for supplies, etc.for the purpose of pursuing technical courses of instruction along Signal Corps lines; lease, construction, alteration, and repair of such buildings required for storing or guarding Signal Corps supplies, equipment, and personnel when not otherwise provided for, including the land therefor, the introduction of water, electric light and power, sewerage, grading, roads and walks, and other equipment required, $4,000,000.
Washington-Alaska cable, etc.Washington—Alaska Military Cable and Telegraph System. Extensions, betterments, etc.For defraying the cost of such extensions, betterments, operation, and maintenance of the Washington-Alaska Military Cable and Telegraph System, as may be approved by the Secretary of War, to be available until the close of the fiscal year 1922, from the receipts of the Washington-Alaska Military Cable and Telegraph System which have been covered into the Treasury of the United States, the extent of such extensions and betterments and the cost thereof to be reported to Congress by the Secretary of War, $140,000. 953 AIR SERVICE.Air service.
For creating, maintaining, and operating at established flyingDesignated expenses of flying schools, aviation stations, etc. schools and balloon schools courses of instruction for officers, students, and enlisted men, including cost of equipment and supplies necessary for instruction, purchase of tools, equipment, materials, machines, textbooks, books of reference, scientific and professional papers, instruments, and materials for theoretical and practical instruction; for maintenance, repair, storage, and operation of airships, war balloons, and other aerial machines, including instruments, gas plants, hangars, and repair shops, and appliances of every sort and description necessary for the operation, construction, or equipment of all types of aircraft; and all necessary spare parts and equipment connected therewith; for purchase of supplies for securing, developing, printing, and reproducing photographs in connection with aerial photography; improvement, equipment, maintenance, lease, and operation of aviation stations, balloon schools, plants for testing and experimental work; procuring and introducing water, electric light and power, telephones, telegraphs, and sewerage, including maintenance, operation, and repair of such utilities; for the acquisition of land or interestHelium production. in land by purchase, lease, or condemnation where necessary to explore for, procure, or reserve helium gas, and also for the purchase, manufacture, construction, maintenance, and operation of plants for the production thereof and experimentation therewith; salaries and wages of civilian employees within the District of Columbia and elsewhere as may be necessary, and payment of their traveling and other necessary expenses as authorized by existing law; experimental investigation and purchase and development of new types of aircraft, accessories thereto, and aviation engines, including patents and other rights thereto, and plans, drawings, and specifications thereof; for the purchase, manufacture, and construction of airships,Purchase and manufacture of aerial machines, etc. balloons, and, other aerial machines, including instruments, gas plants, hangars, and repair shops, and appliances of every sort and description, necessary for the operation, construction, or equipment of all types of aircraft, and all necessary spare parts and equipment connected therewith; for the purchase, manufacture, and issue of special clothing, wearing apparel, and similar equipment for aviation purposes; for all necessary expenses connected with the sale or disposalDisposal of surplus equipment, etc. of surplus or obsolete aeronautical equipment, and the rental of buildings, and other facilities for the handling or storage of such equipment; for the services of such consulting engineers at experimentalConsulting engineers. stations of the Air Service as the Secretary of War may deem necessary, including necessary traveling expenses; purchase of special apparatus and appliances, repairs, and replacements of sameSpecial apparatus, etc. used in connection with special scientific medical research in the Air Service; for printing and binding, including supplies, equipment,Printing, office supplies, etc. and repairs for such Air Service printing plants at stations outside of the District of Columbia, as may be authorized in accordance with law; for publications, station libraries, special furniture, supplies, and equipment for offices, shops, and laboratories; for special services, including the salvaging of wrecked planes, $33,000,000: *Provided*, That not less than $5,250,000 thereof shall be expended*Provisos*.Airplanes research work.New airplanes, etc. for experimental and research work with airplanes or lighter than air craft and their equipment: *Provided further*, That not less than $6,000,000 shall be expended for the production and purchase of new airplanes and their equipment, spare parts, and accessories: *Provided further*, That claims not exceeding $250 in amount forPayment of damages, claims. damages to persons and private property resulting from the opera-954tion of aircraft at home and abroad, may be settled out of the funds appropriated hereunder, when each claim is substantiated by a survey report of a board of officers appointed by the commanding officer of the nearest aviation post, and approved by the Director of Limit.Air Service:
Provided further, That claims so settled and paid from the sum hereby appropriated shall not exceed in the aggregate the Periodicals.[R. S., sec. 3648, p. 718](/us/rs/s3648/p718).sum of $150,000: *Provided further*, That section 3648, Revised Statutes, shall not apply to subscriptions for foreign and professional newspapers and periodicals to be paid for from this appropriation: Distribution of Army and Navy aviation control.*And provided further*, That hereafter the Army Air Service shall control all aerial operations from land bases, and Naval Aviation shall have control of all aerial operations attached to a fleet, including shore stations whose maintenance is necessary for operation connected with the fleet, for construction and experimentation and for the training of personnel.
Buildings at stations, etc.For the establishment, enlargement, and improvement of public buildings and facilities at aviation stations, schools, and depots, $245,000. Bolling Field, Anacostia Park, D. C.Land set aside for aviation purposes.That piece of land reclaimed and to be reclaimed now the property of the United States Government known as Bolling Field, Sections A and B, in the District of Columbia on the east side of the Anacostia River extending from the Giesboro Point upstream to the outfall sewer at Poplar Point lying between the Anacostia River sea wall and the original high-water shore line on the east, is hereby set aside for use as a military reservation to be used for aviation purposes: *Proviso*.Funds available.*Provided*, That funds heretofore appropriated for the reclamation of this area shall remain available for this purpose.
Selfridge Field, Mich.Purchase of land, for aviation station.For the acquisition by purchase, condemnation or otherwise, of six hundred and forty acres of land more or less, and the appurtenances thereunto belonging, situate in Macomb County, State of Michigan, now occupied by the Air Service of the Army as an aviation station and known as Selfridge Field, not to exceed $190,000. Pay of the Army.Pay, and so forth, of the Army. Officers.pay of officers. Line.For pay of officers of the line, $23,000,000.
Staff.For pay of the officers of staff corps and departments, $17,000,000. National Guard.For pay of officers, National Guard, $100. Officers’ Reserve Corps.For pay of the officers of the Officers’ Reserve Corps, $2,751,000. Warrant officers.For pay of warrant officers, $1,785,280. Aviation increase.For aviation increase, to officers of the Air Service, $1,445,376. Longevity.For additional pay to officers for length of service, $5,570,708. Enlisted men.pay of enlisted men. Line.For pay of enlisted men of the line, $60,000,000.
National Guard.For pay of enlisted men of National Guard, $100. Staff.For pay of enlisted men of the staff corps and departments, $18,000,000. Enlisted Reserve Corps.For pay of enlisted men of the Enlisted Reserve Corps, $100. Aviation increase.For aviation increase, to enlisted men of the Air Service, $192,726. Philippine Scouts.For pay of the enlisted men of the Philippine Scouts, $1,076,430. Longevity.For additional pay for length of service to enlisted men, $3,500,000. Retired list.pay of persons with retired status.
Officers.For pay of the officers on the retired list, $3,994,577. On active duty.For increase pay to retired officers on active duty, $225,000. 955 For pay of retired enlisted men, $3,755,496.Enlisted men. For pay and allowances of retired enlisted men on active duty,On active duty. $25,000. For pay of retired Philippine Scout officers, $171,360.Philippine Scout officers. Pay clerks.For pay of retired pay clerks, $20,250. For pay of retired veterinarians, $3,570.Veterinarians. clerks, messengers, and laborers, office of the chief of staff.Office, Chief of Staff.
One chief clerk, at $2,500 per annum, $2,500.Clerks, messengers, etc. On clerk, at $2,250 per annum, $2,250. Six clerks, at $2,000 each per annum, $12,000. Eight clerks, at $1,800 each per annum, $14,400. Thirteen clerks, at $1,600 each per annum, $20,800. Twenty-one clerks, at $1,400 each per annum, $29,400. Twenty-four clerks, at $1,200 each per annum, $28,800. Twenty-six clerks, at $1,000 each per annum, $26,000. One chief messenger, at $1,000 per annum, $1,000. Three messengers, at $840 each per annum, $2,520.
Ten messengers, at $720 each per annum, $7,200. One laborer, at $720 per annum, $720. clerks, messengers, and laborers, general staff college.General Staff College. One chief clerk, at $2,000 per annum, $2,000.Clerks, messengers, etc. Two clerks, at $1,800 each per annum, $3,600. Six clerks, at $1,600 each per annum, $9,600. Seven clerks, at $1,400 each per annum, $9,800. Six clerks, at $1,200 each per annum, $7,200. Three clerks, at $1,000 each per annum, $3,000. One captain of the watch, at $900 per annum, $900.
Six watchmen, at $720 each per annum, $4,320. One packer, at $840 per annum, $840. Five messengers, at $720 each per annum, $3,600. One laborer, at $720 per annum, $720. One laborer, at $600 per annum, $600. One gardener, at $720 per annum, $720. Five charwomen, at $240 each per annum, $1,200. pay of army field clerks and civil service messengers atHeadquarters, departments, districts, divisions, etc. headquarters of the several territorial departments, army and corps headquarters, territorial districts, tactical divisions and brigades, service schools, camps and ports of embarkation and debarkation.
Fifteen Army field clerks, at $2,000 each per annum, $30,000.Field clerks. Seventy-three Army field clerks, at $1,800 each per annum, $131,400. One hundred and twenty-nine Army field clerks, at $1,600 each per annum, $206,400. One hundred and seventy-nine Army field clerks, at $1,400 each per annum, $250,600. Two hundred and seventy-nine Army field clerks, at $1,200 each per annum, $334,800. One hundred messengers, at $720 each per annum, $72,000.Messengers. For additional pay while on foreign service, $7,072.Foreign service pay.
For commutation of quarters and of heat and light, $400,000.Commutation of quarters, etc. For commutation of quarters and of heat and light for field clerks,Quartermaster Corps field clerks,*Provisos*.Assignments. Quartermaster Corps, $100,000: Provided, That said clerks, messengers, and laboreres shall be employed and assigned by the Secretary of War to the offices and positions in which they are to serve: *Pro-956Duty in Department forbidden.vided further*, That no clerk, messenger, or laborer at headquarters of tactical divisions, military departments, brigades, service schools, and office of the Chief of Staff snail be assigned to duty in any bureau of the War Department.
Miscellaneous.miscellaneous. Contract surgeons.For pay of contract surgeons, $63,000. Nurses.For pay of nurses, $819,300. Hospital matrons.For pay of hospital matrons, $3,600. Reserve veterinarians.For pay of reserve veterinarians, $1,000. Courts martial, etc.For expenses of courts-martial, courts of inquiry, military commissions, retiring boards, and compensation of reporters and witnesses attending same, and expenses of taking depositions and securing other evidence for use before the same, $87,500.
Commutation of quarters, etc.For commutation of quarters and heat and light to commissioned officers, warrant officers, members of the Nurse Corps, and enlisted men on duty at places where no public quarters are available, including enlisted men of the Regular Army Reserve and retired enlisted men when ordered to active duty, $6,131,550. Interest, soldiers’ deposits.For interest on soldiers’ deposits, $100,000. Expert accountant.For pay of expert accountant for the Inspector General’s Department, $2,500.
Mileage, officers, etc.For mileage to commissioned officers, warrant officers, members of the Officers’ Reserve Corps when ordered to active duty, contract surgeons, expert accountant, Inspector General’s Department, Army field clerks and field clerks of the Quartermaster Corps, when authorized by law, $3,000,000. Foreign pay.Officers.For additional 10 per centum increase of pay of officers on foreign service, $291,797. Enlisted men.For additional 20 per centum increase of pay of enlisted men on foreign service, $1,497,548.
Computer.For pay of one computer for Artillery Board, $2,500. Loss by exchange.For payment of exchange by officers serving in foreign countries and when specially authorized by the Secretary of War, by officers disbursing funds pertaining to the War Department when serving in Alaska, and all foreign money received shall be charged to and paid out by disbursing officers of the Army at the legal valuation fixed by the Secretary of the Treasury, $1,000. Officers furnishing mounts.For additional pay to officers below the grade of major required to be mounted and who furnish their own mounts, $300,000.
Jennie Carroll.For amount required to make monthly payments to Jennie Carroll, widow of James Carroll, late major, United States Army, $1,500. Mabel H. Lazear.For amount required to make monthly payments to Mabel H. Lazear, widow of Jesse W. Lazear, late acting assistant surgeon, United States Army, $1,500. John R. Kissinger.For amount required to make monthly payments of $100 to John R. Kissinger, late of Company D, One hundred and fifty-seventh Indiana Volunteer Infantry, also late of the Hospital Corps, United States Army, $1,200.
Pay accounts specified.All the money hereinbefore appropriated for pay of the Army and miscellaneous, except the appropriation for mileage to commissioned officers, warrant officers, members of the Officers’ Reserve Corps when ordered to active duty, contract surgeons, expert accountant, Inspector General’s Department, Army field clerks, and field clerks of the Quartermaster Corps, when authorized by law, shall be disbursed and accounted for as pay of the Army, and for that purpose shall constitute one fund.
Mine Planter Service.Increased pay, warrant officers.That, commencing January 1, 1920, warrant officers, Army Mine Planter Service, shall be paid, in addition to all pay and allowances now authorized by law, an increase at the rate of $240 per annum:957*Provided*, That this increase shall remain effective until the close*Proviso*.Duration. of the fiscal year ending June 30, 1922, unless sooner amended or repealed. General Appropriations, Quartermaster Corps.General appropriations, Quartermaster Corps. subsistence of the army.Subsistence.
Purchase of subsistence supplies: For issue as rations to troops,Purchase of supplies, for issue. including warrant officers of the Mine Planter Service, enlisted men of the Regular Army Reserve and retired enlisted men when ordered to active duty, members of the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps at camps, civil employees when entitled thereto, hospital matrons, nurses, applicants for enlistment while held under observation, general prisoners of war (including Indians held by the Army as prisoners, but for whose subsistence appropriation is not otherwise made), Indians employed with the Army as guides and scouts, and general prisoners at posts; for the subsistence of the masters, officers, crews, and employees of the vessels of the Army Transport Service; hot coffee for troops traveling when supplied with cooked or travel rations; meals for recruiting parties and applicants for enlistment while under observation; for sales to officers, including members ofSales to officers, etc. the Officers’ Reserve Corps while on active duty, and enlisted men of the Army: *Provided*, That the sum of $12,000 is authorized to be*Provisos*.Competitors at national rifle match. expended for supplying meals or furnishing commutation of rations to enlisted men of the Regular Army and the National Guard who may be competitors in the national rifle match: *Provided further*,Ration restriction.
That no competitor shall be entitled to commutation of rations in excess of $1.50 per day, and when meals are furnished no greater expense than that sum per man per day for the period the contest is in progress shall be incurred. For payments: Of commutationPayments.Commutation of ration.Increased rate, cadets. of rations to the cadets of the United States Military Academy in lieu of the regular established ration, at the rate of $1.08 per ration; of the regulation allowances of commutation in lieu of rations to enlisted men on furlough, enlisted men and male and female nurses when stationed at places where rations in kind can not be economically issued, including warrant officers of the Mine Planter Service, enlisted men of the Regular Army Reserve and retired enlisted men when ordered to active duty, and when traveling on detached duty where it is impracticable to carry rations of any kind, enlisted men selected to contest for places or prizes in department and Army rifle competitions while traveling to and from places of contest, male and female nurses on leave of absence, applicants for enlistment, and general prisoners while traveling under orders.
For payment of the regulation allowances of commutation in lieu of rations for members of the Army Nurse Corps while on duty in hospital, and for enlisted men, applicants for enlistment while held under observation, civilian employees who are entitled to subsistence at public expense, and general prisoners sick therein, to be paid to the surgeon in charge; advertising; for providing prizes to be established by thePrizes, bakers, and cooks. Secretary of War for enlisted men of the Army who graduate from the Army schools for bakers and cooks, the total amount of such prizes at the various schools not to exceed $900 per annum; and forExpenses of purchase, etc. other necessary expenses incident to the purchase, testing, care, preservation, issue, sale, and accounting for subsistence supplies for the Army, $32,000,000. regular supplies.
Regular supplies of the Quartermaster Corps, including their careRegular quartermaster supplies. and protection; construction and repair of military reservation958fences; stoves and heating apparatus required for the use of the Army for heating offices, hospitals, barracks and quarters, and recruiting stations, and United States disciplinary barracks; also ranges, stoves, coffee roasters, and appliances for cooking and serving food at posts, in the field, and when traveling, and repair and maintenance of such heating and cooking appliances; and the necessary power for the operation of moving-picture machines; authorized issues of Heat, light, etc., for quarters.candles and matches; for furnishing heat and light for the authorized allowance of quarters for officers, including members of the Officers’ Reserve Corps when ordered to active duty, and enlisted men, warrant officers, and field clerks, including enlisted men of the Regular Army Reserve and retired enlisted men when ordered to active duty; contract surgeons when stationed at and occupying public quarters at military posts; for officers of the National Guard attending service Recreation buildings.Vol. 32, p. 282.and garrison schools, and for recruits, guards, hospitals, storehouses, offices, the buildings erected at private cost, in the operation of the Act approved May 31, 1902, and buildings for a similar purpose on military reservations authorized by War Department regulations; for sale to officers, and including also fuel and engine supplies required Bakeries, ice machines, and laundries.in the operation of modern batteries at established posts; for post bakeries, including bake ovens and apparatus pertaining thereto and the repair thereof; for ice machines and their maintenance where required for the health and comfort of the troops and for cold storage; ice for issue to organizations of enlisted men and officers at such places as the Secretary of War may determine, and for preservation of stores; for the construction, operation, and maintenance of laundries at military posts in the United States and its island possessions; for the authorized issues of laundry materials for use of general prisoners confined at military posts without pay or allowances, and for applicants for enlistment while held under observation; authorized Supplies for schools.issues of soap, toilet paper, and towels; for the necessary furniture, textbooks, paper, and equipment for the post schools and libraries, and for schools for noncommissioned officers; for the purchase and issue of instruments, office furniture, stationery, and other authorized articles for the use of officers’ schools at the several military posts; for purchase of relief maps for issue to organizations, commercial newspapers, market reports, and so forth; for the tableware and mess furniture for kitchens and mess halls, each and all for the enlisted men, Forage, etc., for animals.including recruits; for forage, salt, and vinegar for the horses, mules, oxen, and and other draft and riding animals of the Quartermaster Corps at the several posts and stations and with the armies in the field, and for the horses of the several regiments of Cavalry and batteries of Artillery, and such companies of Infantry and Scouts as may be mounted; for remounts and for the authorized number of officers’ horses, including bedding for the animals; for seeds and implements required for the raising of forage at remount depots and on military reservations in the Hawaiian and Philippine Islands, and for labor and expenses incident thereto, including, when specifically authorized by the Secretary of War, the cost of irrigation; for straw Stationery, printing, etc.for soldiers’ bedding, stationery, typewriters and exchange of same, including blank books and blank forms for the Army, certificates for discharged soldiers, and for printing department orders and reports, $28,000,000. incidental expenses.
Incidental expenses.Postage; cost of telegrams on official business received and sent by officers of the Army, including members of the Officers’ Reserve Extra duty pay.Corps, when ordered to active duty; extra pay to soldiers employed on extra duty, under the direction of the Quartermaster Corps, in the erection of barracks, quarters, and storehouses, in the construc-959tion of roads, and other constant labor for periods of not less than ten days; as additional school-teachers during the school term at post schools, and as clerks for post quartermasters at military posts, and for overseers of general prisoners at posts designated by the War Department for the confinement of general prisoners, and for the United States disciplinary barracks guard; of extra-duty pay at rates to be fixed by the Secretary of War for mess stewards and cooks at recruit depots who are graduates of the schools for bakers and cooks, and instructor cooks at the schools for bakers and cooks; for expenses of expresses to and from frontier posts and armies in the field; of escorts to officers or agents of the Quartermaster Corps to trains where military escorts can not be furnished; hire of laborers in the Quartermaster Corps, including the care of officers’ mounts when the same are furnished by the Government, and the hire of interpreters, spies, or guides for the Army; compensation of clerksClerks, etc. and other employees of the Quartermaster Corps and Finance Service, and clerks, foremen, watchmen, and organist for the United States disciplinary barracks, and incidental expenses of recruiting; for the apprehension, securing, and delivering of deserters, including escaped military prisoners, and the expenses incident to their pursuit, and no greater sum than $50 for each deserter or escaped military prisoner shall, in the discretion of the Secretary of War, be paid to any civil officer or citizen for such services and expenses; for a donation of $10 to each dishonorably discharged prisoner upon his release from confinement under court-martial sentence, involving dishonorable discharge; and such additional expenditures as are necessary and authorized by law in the movements and operation of the Army, and at military posts, and not expressly assigned to any other department, $10,000,000. transportation of the army and its supplies.
For transportation of the Army and its supplies, including transportationTransportation. of the troops when moving either by land or water, and of their baggage, including the warrant officers of the Mine Planter Service, members of the Officers’ Reserve Corps, enlisted men of the Enlisted Reserve Corps, and retired enlisted men when ordered to active duty, including the cost of packing and crating; for transportation of recruits and recruiting parties, of applicants for enlistment between recruiting stations and recruiting depots; for travelTravel allowance, National Guard.Vol. 39, p. 217. allowance to officers and enlisted men on discharge; for payment of travel allowance as provided in section 126 of the Act approved June 3, 1916, to enlisted men of the National Guard on their discharge from the service of the United States, and to members of the National Guard who have been mustered into the service of the United States, and discharged on account of physical disability; forNational Guard officers on discharge.Vol. 31, p. 902. payment of travel pay to officers of the National Guard on their discharge from the service of the United States, as prescribed in the Act approved March 2, 1901; for travel allowance to discharged prisoners and persons discharged from the Government Hospital for the Insane after transfer thereto from such barracks or place to their homes (or elsewhere as they may elect), provided the cost in each case shall not be greater than to the place of last enlistment; of the necessary agents and other employees, including per diemPer diem subsistence. allowances in lieu of subsistence not exceeding $4 for those authorized to receive the per diem allowance; of clothing and equipage and other quartermaster stores from Army depots or places of purchase or delivery to the several posts and Army depots and from those depots to the troops in the field; of horse equipment; of ordnance and ordnance stores, and small arms from the foundries and armories to the arsenals, fortifications, frontier posts, and Army depots; for960Payment to land grant roads.payment of wharfage, tolls, and ferriages; for transportation of funds of the Army; for the payment of Army transportation lawfully due such land-grant railroads as have not received aid in Government bonds (to be adjusted in accordance with the decisions of the Supreme Court in cases decided under such land-grant Acts), but in no case shall more than 50 per centum of full amount of service Draft and pack animals, vehicles.be paid; for the purchase and hire of draft and pack animals in such numbers as are actually required for the service, including reasonable provision for replacing unserviceable animals; for the purchase, hire, operation, maintenance, and repair of such harness, wagons, carts, drays, other vehicles, and horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles as are required for the transportation of troops and supplies and for official, military, and garrison purposes; for Ships, boats, etc.drayage and cartage at the several depots; for the purchase and repair of ships, boats, and other vessels required for the transportation of troops and supplies and for official, military, and garrison Transports.purposes; for expenses of sailing public transports and other vessels on the various rivers, the Gulf of Mexico, and the Atlantic and *Provisos*.Compensation rates.Pacific Oceans, $40,000,000: *Provided*, That such compensation shall be computed upon the basis of the tariff or lower special rates for like transportation performed for the public at large, and shall be accepted as in full for all demands for such service: *Provided further*, Fifty per cent to land grant roads not bond aided.That in expending the money appropriated by this Act a railroad company which has not received aid in bonds of the United States and which obtained a grant of public land to aid in the construction of its railroad on conditions that such railroad should be a post route and military road, subject to the use of the United States for postal, military, naval, and other Government services, and also subject to such regulations as Congress may impose restricting the charge for such Government transportation, having claims against the United States for transportation of troops and munitions of war and military supplies and property over such aided railroads, shall be paid out of the moneys appropriated by the foregoing provisions only on the basis of such rate for the transportation of such troops and munitions of war and military supplies and property as the Secretary of War shall deem just and reasonable under the foregoing provision, such rate not to exceed 50 per centum of the compensation of such Government transportation as shall at that time be charged to and paid by private parties to any such company for like and similar transportation; and the amount so fixed to be paid shall be accepted as in full for all demands for such service:
Full pay to excepted roads.*Provided further*, That nothing in the preceding provisos shall be construed to prevent the accounting officers of the Government from making full payment to land-grant railroads for transportation of property or persons where the courts of the United States have held that such property or persons do not come within the scope of the deductions provided for in the land-grant Acts: *Provided further*, Restriction on use for motor vehicles.That no money herein appropriated shall be expended for the hire, operation, maintenance, or repair of any motor-propelled vehicle, which shall be employed wholly or in part for personal, social, or similar use, except such use as is prescribed by order for the transportation of Army personnel in connection with the recreational Porto Rican employees permitted on transports.activities of the Army: *Provided further*, That hereafter, when, in the opinion of the Secretary of War, accommodations are available, transportation on Army transports may be provided for members and employees of the Porto Rican Government and their families Discretionary use of transports for passengers or cargoes.without expense to the United States: *Provided further*, That in the joint discretion of the Secretary of War and chairman of the Shipping Board, and when space is available, civilian passengers and shipments of commercial cargo may be transported on Army transports in the trans-Atlantic service, at such times as space is not available961on commercial lines, at rates not less than those charged by commercial steamship companies, between the same ports, for the same class of accommodations, the receipts from which shall be covered into the Treasury of the United States to the credit of miscellaneous receipts: *Provided further*, That authority is hereby granted theDisposal of designated transports.
Secretary of War to sell or otherwise dispose of, in accordance with law and regulations, the United States Army transports Sherman, Sheridan, Thomas, Logan, Buford, Kilpatrick, Crook, and Warren; and the proceeds of such sales shall be deposited in the Treasury of the United States to the credit of miscellaneous receipts; and suchCoastwise trade permitted, while owned by citizens. vessels, if sold to citizens of the United States, may engage in the coastwise trade so long as they remain wholly the property of citizens of the United States: *Provided further*, That $683,000 of the appropriationEmployees on harbor boats. hereby made shall be available for additional pay for employees on harbor boats, quartermaster service, in lieu of subsistence: *And provided further*, That none of the funds appropriated or madeRestriction on motor vehicle purchases. available under this Act or any of the unexpended balances of any other Act shall be used for the purchase of motor-propelled passenger or freight carrying vehicles for the Army except those that are purchased solely for experimental purposes. water and sewers at military posts.
For procuring and introducing water to buildings and premises atWater, sewers, etc., at posts. such military posts and stations as from their situations require to be brought from a distance; for the installation and extension of plumbing within buildings where the same is not specifically provided for in other appropriations; for the purchase and repair of fire apparatus, including fire-alarm systems; for the disposal of sewage, and expenses incident thereto; for repairs to water and sewer systems and plumbing; for hire of employees, $4,000,000: *Provided*,*Proviso*.Fort Niagara, N.Y.
That not to exceed the following sums may be used in the erection and completion of buildings, structures, or systems enumerated at the places named: $30,000 for a filtration plant at Fort Niagara, New York; $60,000 for improvement of the water mains at FortFort Leavenworth, Kans. Leavenworth, Kansas. clothing, and camp and garrison equipage.Clothing. For cloth, woolens, materials, and for the purchase and manufacturePurchase, manufacture, etc. of clothing for the Army, including retired enlisted men when ordered to active duty; for members of the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps; for issue and for sale at cost price according to the Army regulations; for payment for clothing not drawn due to warrant officers of the Mine Planter Service and to enlisted men on discharge; for altering and fitting clothing and washing and cleaning when necessary; for equipment and repair of equipment of laundries, dry-cleaning plants, salvage and sorting storehouses, hat repairing shops, shoe repair shops, clothing repair shops, and garbage reduction works; tor equipage, including authorized issues of toilet articles,Equipage. barbers’ and tailors’ materials, for use of general prisoners confined at military posts without pay or allowances and applicants for enlistment while held under observation; issue of toilet kits to recruits upon their first enlistment, and issue of housewives to the Army; for expenses of packing and handling and similar necessaries; for a suit of citizen’s outer clothing, to cost not exceeding $40, to be issued to each soldier discharged otherwise than honorably; to each enlisted man convicted by civil court for an offense resulting in confinement in a penitentiary or other civil prison; and to each enlisted man ordered interned by reason of the fact that he is an alien enemy, or,962Indemnity for destroyed clothing.Indemnity for destroyed clothing.for the same reason, discharged without internment; for indemnity to officers and men of the Army for clothing and bedding, and so forth, destroyed since April 22, 1898, by order of medical officers of the Army for sanitary reasons, $19,000,000.
General appropriations, Quartermaster Corps.Appropriations designated as.That all the money hereinbefore designated under the titles “Subsistence of the Army,” “Regular supplies, Quartermaster Corps,” “Incidental expenses, Quartermaster Corps,” “Transportation of the Army and its supplies,” “Water and sewers at military posts,” “Clothing and camp and garrison equipage” shall be disbursed and accounted for as “General appropriations, Quartermaster Corps,” and for that purpose shall constitute one fund.
Horses.Horses for Cavalry, Artillery, Engineers, and so forth. Purchase.For the purchase of horses of ages, sex, and size as may be prescribed by the Secretary of War for remounts, for officers entitled to public mounts for the Cavalry, Artillery, Signal Corps, and Engineers, the United States Military Academy, service schools, and staff colleges, and for the Indian Scouts, and for such Infantry and members of the Medical Department in field campaigns as may be required to be mounted, and the expenses incident thereto, *Provisos*.Limitation.$1,500,000: *Provided*, That the number of horses purchased under this appropriation, added to the number now on hand, shall be limited to the actual needs of the mounted service, including reasonable provisions for remounts, and unless otherwise ordered by the Secretary of War, no part of this appropriation shall be paid out for horses not purchased by contract after competition duly invited by the Quartermaster Corps and an inspection under the direction Open market purchases.and authority of the Secretary of War.
When practicable, horses shall be purchased in open market at all military posts or stations, when needed, within a maximum price to be fixed by the Secretary Standard required.of War: *Provided further*, That no part of this appropriation shall be expended for the purchase of any horse below the standard set by Army Regulations for Cavalry, and Artillery horses, except when purchased as remounts or for instruction of cadets at the United Polo ponies.States Military Academy: *Provided further*, That no part of this appropriation shall be expended for polo ponies except for West Point Military Academy, and such ponies shall not be used at any Encouraging breeding of riding horses.other place: *Provided further*, That not to exceed $250,000 of the appropriation hereby made shall be available for the encouragement of the breeding of riding horses suitable for the Army, including cooperation with the Bureau of Animal Industry, Department of Agriculture, and for the purchase of animals for breeding purposes Donations of breeding animals, etc., accepted.and their maintenance: *Provided further*, That the Secretary of War may, in his discretion, and under such rules and regulations as he may prescribe, accept donations of animals for breeding and donations of money for other property to be used as prizes or awards at agricultural fairs, horse shows, and similar exhibitions, in order to encourage the breeding of riding horses suitable for Army purposes:
Report of expenses, etc.*And provided further*, That the Secretary of War shall report annually to Congress, at the commencement of each session, a statement of all expenditures under this appropriation, and full particulars of means adopted and carried into effect for the encouragement of the breeding of riding horses suitable for the military service. Barracks and quarters.Barracks and Quarters. Construction, repairs, etc.For barracks, quarters, stables, storehouses, magazines, administration and office buildings, sheds, shops, and other buildings necessary for the shelter of troops, public animals, and stores, and for administration purposes, except those pertaining to the Coast963Artillery; for construction or reclamation plants; for constructingReclamation plants, etc. and repairing public buildings at military posts; for hire of employees; for rental of the authorized allowance of quarters for officers, including members of the Officers’ Reserve Corps when ordered to active duty, on duty with the troops at posts and stations where no public quarters are available; of barracks or authorized allowance of quarters for noncommissioned officers and enlisted men, men on duty where public quarters are not available, including enlisted men of the Regular Army Reserve, retired enlisted men, and members of the enlisted Reserve Corps when ordered to active duty; for grounds for cantonments, camp sites, and other military purposes, and for buildings or portions of buildings for occupation by troops, for use as stables, storehouses, and offices, and for other military purposes; for the hire of recruiting stations and lodgings for recruits; for such furniture for the public rooms of officers’ messes and for officers’ quarters at military posts as may be approved by the Secretary of War; for wall lockers in permanent barracks and refrigerators in barracks and quarters; for screen doors, window screens, storm doors and sash, and window shades for barracks, offices and quarters, and for flooring and framing for tents, and for the NationalNational Guard in service.
Guard when called or drafted into the service of the United States, $8,500,000: *Provided*, That not to exceed the following sums may*Proviso*.Buildings, Fort Leavenworth, Kans. be used in the erection and completion of buildings enumerated at the places named—$404,256 for motor training school buildings at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas; $600,000 for construction of officers’ and noncommissioned officers’ quarters, and the repair and remodeling of such existing buildings as may be available for such quarters at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.
That the Secretary of War may, in his discretion, transfer to theWhipple Barracks, Ariz.Transfer to Public Health Service authorized. Secretary of the Treasury, for the use of the Public Health Service, the military reservation of Whipple Barracks, Arizona, now occupied by said service for hospital purposes. Buildings for Infantry School, Camp Benning, Georgia.Infantry School, Camp Benning, Ga. For the construction of the necessary buildings for the InfantryConstruction of buildings, etc.
School at Camp Benning, Georgia, including the installation of plumbing, heating, lighting, roads and walks, the sum of $1,000,000, remainingReappropriation.Vol. 40, p. 865. from “General Appropriations, Quartermaster Corps” for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1919, is hereby appropriated and made immediately available and shall be available until expended: *Provided*,*Proviso*.Cost, etc., restrictions not applicable.[R. S., sec. 1136, p. 206](/us/rs/s1136/p206).Vol. 36, p. 721.
That section 1136, Revised Statutes, and the provision contained in the Sundry Civil Appropriation Act of June 25, 1910 (Thirty-sixth Statutes, page 721), prescribing limitations as to the cost of certain structure, shall not apply to structures to be constructed under this project. Military Post Exchanges.Post exchanges. For continuing the construction, equipment, and maintenance ofConstruction, equipment, etc. suitable buildings at military posts and stations for the conduct of the post exchange, school, library, reading, lunch, amusement rooms, and gymnasium, including repairs to buildings erected at privateRecreation buildings.Vol. 32, p. 282. cost, in the operation of the Act approved May 31, 1902, for the rental of films, purchase of slides, supplies for and making repairs to moving-picture outfits and for similar and other recreational purposesCamp recreation expenses. at training and mobilization camps now established, or which may be hereafter established, and for such purposes not enumerated above as the Secretary of War may deem advisable, to be expended in the discretion and under the direction of the Secretary of War., $500,000. 964 Philippine Islands.Barracks and Quarters, Philippine Islands.
Barracks and quarters for the Army in.Continuing the work of providing for the proper shelter and protection of officers and enlisted men of the Army of the United States lawfully on duty in the Philippine Islands, including repairs and payment of rents, the acquisition of title to building sites, and such additions to existing military reservations as may be necessary, and including also shelter for the animals and supplies, and all other buildings necessary for post administration purposes, and for shelter Troops in China.*Proviso*.Limit, quarters for officers.and repair thereof, and rentals for the United States troops in China, $300,000: *Provided*, That no part of said sum shall be expended for the construction of quarters for officers of the Army the total cost of which, including the heating and plumbing apparatus, wiring, and fixtures, shall exceed in the case of quarters of a general officer the sum of $8,000; of a colonel or officer above the rank of captain, $6,000; and of an officer of and below the rank of captain, $4,000.
Roads, wharves, etc.Roads, Walks, Wharves, and Drainage. Construction, repairs, etc.For the construction and repair by the Quartermaster Corps of roads, walks, and wharves; for the pay of employees; for the disposal of drainage; for dredging channels; and for care and improvement *Provisos*.Deer Island, Mass.of grounds at military posts and stations, $3,000,000: *Provided*, That not to exceed $100 may be used for the purchase of land near terminal Camps, etc., excluded.of bridge at Deer Island, Boston Harbor, Mass.: *Provided further*, That none of the funds appropriated or made available under this Act shall be used for the permanent construction or repair of any roads, walks, or wharves connected with any of the National Army cantonments or National Guard camps.
Hospitals.Construction and Repair of Hospitals. Construction, repairs, etc.For construction and repair of hospitals at military posts already established and occupied, including the extra-duty pay of enlisted men employed on the same, and including also all expenditures for construction and repairs required at the Army and Navy Hospital at Hot Springs, Arkansas, and for the construction and repair of general hospitals and expenses incident thereto, and for additions needed to meet the requirements of increased garrisons, and for Temporary camp hospitals, etc.temporary hospitals in standing camps and cantonments; for the alteration of permanent buildings at posts for use as hospitals, construction and repairs of temporary hospital buildings at permanent posts, construction and repair of temporary general hospitals, rental or purchase of grounds, and rental and alteration of buildings for use for hospital purposes in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, including necessary temporary quarters for hospital personnel, outbuildings, heating and laundry apparatus, plumbing, water and sewers, and electric work, cooking apparatus, and roads and walks *Proviso*.Specific allotments.for the same, $1,594,900: *Provided*, That of this amount not to exceed the following sums may be used toward the erection and completing of buildings, structures, or systems enumerated as follows:
Letterman Hospital, San Francisco, Calif.Letterman General Hospital, San Francisco, California, one or two hospital wards as the Secretary of War may determine, $94,900. Walter Reed Hospital, D. C.Walter Reed General Hospital, Washington, District of Columbia, for such building or buildings as may, in the judgment of the Secretary of War, be necessary and suitable for the use of the Army Medical School, including necessary heating apparatus, plumbing, water and sewer systems, electrical work, and roads and walks for the same, $500,000. 965 Quarters for Hospital Stewards.Quarters for hospital stewards.
For construction and repair of quarters for hospital stewards atConstruction, repairs, etc. military posts already established and occupied, including the extra-pay duty of enlisted men employed on the same, $20,000. Shooting Galleries and Ranges.Shooting galleries and ranges. For shelter, grounds, shooting galleries, ranges for small-armsExpenses. target practice, machine-gun practice, field-artillery practice, repairs, and expenses incident thereto, including flour for paste for marking targets, hire of employees, such ranges and galleries to be open as far as practicable to the National Guard and organized rifle clubs under regulations to be prescribed by the Secretary of War, $50,000: *Provided*,*Proviso*.Leon Springs, Tex.Additional land for target range.
That there is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of $88,880 for the acquisition of land as an addition to the Leon Springs Military Reservation in Texas, heretofore authorized, and now in use as a target range for Camp Travis, Texas. Claims for Damages to and Loss of Private Property.Target practice, etc., damages. For payment of claims for damages to and loss of private propertyPaying claims for, to private property. incident to the training, practice, operation, or maintenance of the Army that have accrued, or may hereafter accrue, from time to time, to be immediately available and to remain available until expended, $40,000: *Provided*, That settlement of such claims shall be made by*Proviso*.Settlement, etc. the Auditor for the War Department, upon the approval and recommendation of the Secretary of War, where the amount of damages has been ascertained by the War Department, and payment thereof will be accepted by the owners of the property in full satisfaction of such damages.
Rent of Buildings, Quartermaster Corps.Rent. For rent of buildings and parts of buildings in the District ofBuildings in District of Columbia. Columbia for military purposes during the fiscal year 1921, $200,000: *Provided*, That this appropriation shall not be available if space is*Proviso*.Restriction. provided by the Public Buildings Commission in Government-owned buildings. Vocational Training.Vocational training. For the employment of the necessary civilian instructors in theInstructors, tools, equipment, etc. most important trades, and for the payment of their traveling expenses, as authorized under existing law; for the purchase of carpenter’s, machinist’s, mason’s, electrician’s, and such other tools and equipment as may be required, including machines used in connection with the trades; for the purchase of materials, live stock (including fowls), and other supplies necessary for instruction and training purposes and the construction of such buildings needed for vocational training in agriculture; for shops, storage, and shelter of machineryVol. 39, p. 186. as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of section 27 of the Act approved June 3, 1916, authorizing, in addition to the military training of soldiers while in the active service, means for securing an opportunity to study and receive instruction upon educational lines of such character as to increase their military efficiency and enable them to return to civil life better equipped for industrial, commercial, and general business occupations, part of this instruction to consist of vocational education either in agriculture or the mechanic arts,966*Provisos*.Details of instructors from Army.$3,500,000: *Provided*, That whenever possible officers, warrant officers, noncommissioned officers, or other enlisted men shall be detailed as instructors in vocational training in the most important trades in Sale, etc., of farm products, etc.lieu of civilian instructors: *Provided further*, That farm products and the increase in live stock (including fowls) which accrue as incidental to vocational training in agriculture and animal husbandry, may be sold under such regulations as the Secretary of War may prescribe and the proceeds of such sales shall be deposited in the Treasury of the United States to the credit of miscellaneous receipts.
Civilian military instruction.Quartermaster Supplies and Services for Rifle Ranges for Civilian Instruction. Expenses of rifle ranges for.To establish and maintain indoor and outdoor rifle ranges for the use of all able-bodied males capable of bearing arms, under reasonable regulations to be prescribed by the National Board for the Promotion of Rifle Practice and approved by the Secretary of War; for the employment of labor in connection with the establishment of outdoor and indoor rifle ranges, including labor in operating targets; for the employment of instructors; for clerical services; for badges and other insignia; for the transportation of employees, instructors, and civilians to engage in practice; for the purchase of materials, supplies, and services, and for expenses incidental to instruction of citizens of the United States in marksmanship, and their participation in national and international matches, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War, and to remain available until expended, $100,000: *Provisos*.Civilian rifle teams at National matches.*Provided*, That out of the said sum of $100,000 there may be expended for the payment of transportation, for supplying meals, or furnishing commutation of subsistence of civilian rifle teams authorized by the Commutation of traveling expenses.Secretary of War to participate in the national matches, not to exceed $80,000: *Provided further*, That hereafter members of civilian rifle teams may, in the discretion of the Secretary of War, be paid, as commutation of traveling expenses at the rate of 5 cents per mile for the shortest usually traveled route from their homes to national matches, when authorized to participate therein by the Secretary of War and Payment in advance.for the return travel thereto: *Provided further*, That the payment of travel pay for the return journey may be made in advance of the actual performance of travel.
Reserve Officers’ Training Corps.Quartermaster Supplies, Equipment, and so forth, Reserve Officers’ Training Corps. Quartermaster supplies, etc., to institutions having units of.For the procurement and issue, under such regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary of War, to institutions at which one or more units of the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps are maintained, such public animals, uniforms, equipment, and means of transportation as he may deem necessary, and to forage at the expense of the United States public animals so issued; for transporting said animals and other authorized equipment from place of issue to the several institutions and training camps and return of same to place of issue Training camps.when necessary; for the maintenance of camps for the further practical instruction of the members of the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps, and for transporting members of such corps to and from such camps, and to subsist them while traveling to and from such camps and while remaining therein so far as appropriations will permit;
Commutation of subsistence.for the payment of commutation of subsistence to members of the senior division of the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps, at such rate, not exceeding the cost of the garrison ration prescribed for the Army, Vol. 39, p. 193.*Provisos*.as authorized in the Act of Congress approved June 3, 1916, $3,000,000: *Provided*, That so much of section 48 of the Act of June 3, 1916,967entitled “An Act for making further and more effectual provisionsTravel allowances, attending summer camps.Vol. 39, p. 193, amended. for the national defense, and for other purposes,” as relates to the transportation of members of the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps attending summer camps be, and the same is hereby amended so as to provide that such members of the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps shall be paid as traveling allowances 5 cents per mile for the distance by the shortest usually traveled route from the places from which they are authorized to proceed to the camp and for the return travel thereto: *Provided further*, That the payment of travel pay forPayment in advance. the return journey may be made in advance of the actual performance of travel: *Provided further*, That the Secretary of War may,Commutations for uniforms furnished by institutions. in his discretion and under such regulations as he may prescribe, permit such institutions to furnish their own uniforms and receive as commutation therefor the sum allotted by the Secretary of War to such institutions for uniforms.
Quartermaster Supplies for Military Equipment of SchoolsSchools and colleges. and Colleges. For the procurement and supply as provided in section 56 of theQuartermaster supplies for training in other.Vol. 39, p. 197.Vol. 39, p. 192. Act of Congress approved June 3, 1916, of such tentage and equipment, including the transporting of same, as the Secretary of War shall deem necessary for proper military training to schools and colleges other than those provided for in section 47 of the Act above referred to, $100.
Inland and Port Storage and Shipping Facilities.Storage and shipping facilities. For inland and port storage, including all necessary buildings,Expenses of inland and port. docks, tracks, handling, and other facilities for Government supplies, including rentals and hire of the necessary employees, $100. MEDICAL DEPARTMENT.Medical department. Medical and Hospital Department. For the manufacture and purchase of medical and hospital supplies,Medical and hospital supplies, etc. including disinfectants, for military posts, camps, hospitals, hospital ships and transports, for laundry work for enlisted men and Army nurses while patients in a hospital, and supplies required for mosquitoMosquito destruction. destruction in and about military posts in the Canal Zone, $3,500,000: *Provided*, That the Secretary of War may, in his discretion, select*Provisos*.Motor ambulances. types and makes of motor ambulances for the Army and authorize their purchase without regard to the laws prescribing advertisement for proposals for supplies and materials for the Army; for the purchase of veterinary supplies and hire of veterinary surgeons; for expenses of medical supply depots; for medical care and treatmentPrivate treatment. not otherwise provided for, including care and subsistence in private hospitals, of officers, enlisted men, and civilian employees of the Army, of applicants for enlistment, and of prisoners of war and other persons in military custody or confinement, when entitled thereto by law, regulation, or contract: *Provided further*, That thisNot applicable if on furlough, etc. shall not apply to officers and enlisted men who are treated in private hospitals or by civilian physicians while on furlough; forContagious diseases expenses. the proper care and treatment of epidemic and contagious diseases in the Army or at military posts or stations, including measures to prevent the spread thereof, and the payment of reasonable damages not otherwise provided for, for bedding and clothing injured or destroyed in such prevention; for the pay of male and female nurses, not including the Army Nurse Corps, and of cooks and other civilians employed for the proper care of sick officers968and soldiers, under such regulations fixing their number, qualifications, assignments, pay, and allowances as shall have been or shall be prescribed by the Secretary of War; for the pay of civilian physicians employed to examine physically applicants for enlistment and enlisted men and to render other professional services from time to time under proper authority; for the pay of other employees of the Medical Department; for the payment of express companies and local transfers employed directly by the Medical Department for the transportation of medical and hospital supplies, including bidders’ samples and water for analysis; for supplies for use in teaching the art of cooking to the enlisted force of the Medical Hospital, Hot Springs, Ark.Department; for the supply of the Army and Navy Hospital at Hot Springs, Arkansas; for advertising, printing, binding, laundry, and all other necessary miscellaneous expenses of the Medical Department.
Canal Zone.Hospital Care, Canal Zone Garrisons. Care of troops, etc., in hospitals of.For paying the Panama Canal such reasonable charges, exclusive of subsistence, as may be approved by the Secretary of War for caring in its hospitals for officers, enlisted men, military prisoners, and civilian employees of the Army admitted thereto upon the request *Proviso*.Subsistence payments.of proper military authority, $60,000: *Provided*, That the subsistence of the said patients, except commissioned officers, shall be paid to said hospitals out of the appropriation for subsistence of the Army at the rates provided therein for commutation of rations for enlisted patients in general hospitals.
Medical Museum.Army Medical Museum. Preserving specimens, etc.For Army Medical Museum, preservation of specimens, and the preparation and purchase of new specimens, $20,000. Surgeon General’s Library.Library, Surgeon General’s Office. Purchase of books, etc.For the library of the Surgeon General’s Office, including the purchase of the necessary books of reference and periodicals, $20,000. Insular Affairs Bureau.BUREAU OF INSULAR AFFAIRS. Care of insane soldiers.Care of Insane Filipino Soldiers.
In Philippine Islands.Vol. 35, p. 122.For care, maintenance, and treatment at asylums in the Philippine Islands of insane natives of the Philippine Islands cared for in such institutions conformable to the Act of Congress approved May 11, 1908, $2,000. Care of Insane Soldiers of Porto Rico Regiment of Infantry. In Porto Rico.For care, maintenance, and treatment at asylums in Porto Rico of insane soldiers of the Porto Rico Regiment of Infantry, $100. Engineer Department.ENGINEER DEPARTMENT.
Depots.Engineer Depots. Incidental expenses.For incidental expenses for the depots, including fuel, lights, chemicals, stationery, hardware, machinery, pay of civilian clerks, mechanics, laborers, and other employees, extra-duty pay to soldiers necessarily employed for periods not less than ten days as artificers on work in addition to and not strictly in the line of their military969duties, such as carpenters, blacksmiths, draftsmen, printers, lithographers, photographers, engine drivers, telegraph operators, teamsters, wheelwrights," masons, machinists, painters, overseers, laborers; for lumber and materials and for labor for packing and crating engineer supplies; repairs of, and for materials to repair, public buildings, machinery, and instruments, and for unforeseen expenses, $21,500.
Engineer School.School, D. C. Equipment and maintenance of the Engineer School, includingEquipment and maintenance. purchase and repair of instruments, machinery, implements, models, boats, and materials for the use of the school and to provide means for the theoretical and practical instruction of Engineer officers and troops in their special duties as sappers and miners; for land mining, pontoniering, and signaling; for purchase and binding of scientific and professional works, papers, and periodicals treating on military engineering and scientific subjects, textbooks, and books of reference for the library of the United States Engineer School; for incidentalIncidental expenses. expenses of the school, including chemicals, stationery, hardware, machinery, and boats; for pay of civilian clerks, draftsmen, electricians, mechanics, and laborers; compensation of civilian lecturers and payment of tuition fees of student officers at civil technical institutions; for unforeseen expenses; for travel expenses of officersTravel expenses of officers. on journeys approved by the Secretary of War and made for the purpose of instruction, $40,000: *Provided*, That the traveling expenses*Provisos*.In lieu of mileage, etc.Periodicals.[R.
S., sec. 3648, p. 718](/us/rs/s3648/p718). herein provided for shall be in lieu of mileage and other allowances, and for other absolutely necessary expenses: *Provided further*, ThatEquipment of troops. section 3648, Revised Statutes, shall not apply to subscriptions for foreign and professional newspapers and periodicals to be paid for from this appropriation. Engineer Equipment of Troops.Material, tools, supplies, etc. For pontoon material, tools, instruments, supplies, and appliances*Provisos*. required for use in the engineer equipment of troops, for military surveys, and for engineer operations in the field, including the purchase, maintenance, operation, and repair of the necessary motor cycles; the purchase and preparation of engineer manuals and procurement of special paper for same, and for a reserve supply of above equipment, $200,000: *Provided*, That the services of skilled draftsmen, Technical services etc., in the Department. civil engineers, and such other services as the Secretary of War may deem necessary may be employed only in the Office of the Chief of Engineers to carry into effect the various appropriations for “Engineer equipment of troops,” “Engineer operations in the field,” and other military appropriations, to be paid from such appropriations: *ProvidedLimit. further*, That the expenditures on this account for the fiscal year 1921 shall not exceed $150,000.
The Secretary of War shall each year, inReport. the annual estimates, report to Congress the number of persons who are employed, their duties, and amount paid to each. Civilian Assistants to Engineer Officers.Civilian assistants. For services of surveyors, survey parties, draftsmen, photographers,Surveyors, etc. master laborers, and clerks to engineer officers on the staffs of division, corps, and department commanders, $40,000. Engineer Operations in the Field.Field operations.
For expenses incident to military engineer operations in the field,Expenses. including the purchase of material and a reserve of material for such970operations, the construction or rental of storehouses within and outside the District of Columbia, the operation, maintenance, and repair of horse-drawn and motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles, and such expenses as are ordinarily provided for under appropriations for “Engineer Depots,” “Civilian assistants to engineer officers,” *Provisos*.Purchase of options on materials.and “Maps, War Department,” $500,000: *Provided*, That when to the interest of the Government funds appropriated under this head may be used for the purchase of options on material for use in engineer Construction work at camp, etc.operations in the field: *Provided, further*, That so much of this appropriation as is necessary to provide facilities for Engineer training of troops may be expended for military construction work of a temporary character at camps and cantonments and in training areas, for training purposes only.
Philippine Islands.Contingencies, Engineer Department, Philippine Islands. Engineer contingencies in.For contingent expenses incident to the operations of the Engineer Department in the Philippine Islands, to be expended at the discretion of the Secretary of War, $2,500. Surveys and maps.Military Surveys and Maps. Expenses of preparing military.For the execution of topographic and other surveys, the securing of such extra topographic data as may be required, and the preparation and printing of maps required for military purposes, to be immediately available and remain available until December 31, 1921, *Proviso*.Other offices to assist.$100,000: *Provided*, That the Secretary of War is authorized to secure the assistance, wherever practicable, of the United States Geological Survey, the Coast and Geodetic Survey, or other mapping agencies of the Government in this work and to allot funds therefor to them from this appropriation.
Alaska.Construction and Maintenance of Military and Post Roads, Bridges, and Trails, Alaska. Roads, bridges, and trails in.For the construction, repair, and maintenance of military and post roads, bridges, and trails, Territory of Alaska, to be immediately available, $350,000. Ordnance Department.ORDNANCE DEPARTMENT. Ordnance Service. Current expenses.*Post*, p. 1164.For the current expenses of the Ordnance Department in connection with purchasing, receiving, storing, and issuing ordnance and ordnance stores, comprising police and office duties, rents, tolls, fuel, light, water, and advertising, stationery, typewriters, and adding machines, including their exchange, and office furniture, tools, and instruments of service; for incidental expenses of the Ordnance Service, and those attending practical trials and tests of ordnance, small arms, and other ordnance stores; for instruction purposes; for publications for libraries of the Ordnance Department, including the Ordnance Office; subscriptions to periodicals, which may be paid for in advance; and payment for mechanical labor in the office of the Chief of Ordnance; and for maintenance, repair, and operation of motor-propelled or horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles, *Provisos*.Vehicle restriction.$5,000,000: *Provided*, That no money appropriated herein shall be expended for maintenance, repair, or operation of any motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicle employed wholly or in part for personal, social or other similar use or for any use except for military and971official business: *Provided further*, That all material purchased underMaterial to be of American manufacture.Exception, etc. the appropriations in this Act for the Ordnance Department of the United States Army shall be of American manufacture, except in cases when, in the judgment of the Secretary of War, it is to the manifest interest of the United States to make purchases abroad, which material shall be admitted free of duty.
Ordnance Stores, Ammunition.Ammunition. For the development, manufacture, purchase, and maintenance ofManufacture, etc., of, for small arms, airplane bombs, etc. airplane bombs; of ammunition for small arms and for hand use for reserve, supply; of ammunition for burials at the National Soldiers’ Home in Washington, District of Columbia, and of ammunition for firing the morning and evening gun at military posts prescribed by General Orders, Numbered 70, Headquarters of the Army, dated July 23, 1867, and at National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers and its several branches, including National Soldiers’ Home at Washington, District of Columbia, and Soldiers’ and Sailors’ State homes, $1,000,000.
Small-Arms Target Practice.Small-arms target practice. For manufacture and purchase of ammunition, targets, and otherAmmunition, targets, etc. accessories for small arms, hand and machine gun target practice and instruction.; marksmen’s medals, prize arms, and insignia for all arms of the service; and ammunition, targets, target materials, and otherEducational institutions, etc. accessories which may be issued for small-arms target practice and instruction at the educational institutions and State soldiers’ and sailors’ orphans’ homes to which issues of small arms are lawfully made, under such regulation as the Secretary of War may prescribe, $500,000.
Manufacture of Arms.Manufacture of arms. For manufacturing, repairing, procuring, and issuing arms at theAt arsenals. national armories, $700,000. Ordnance Stores and Supplies.Stores and supplies. For the manufacture, test, purchase, and maintenance of sightingAirplane bombs. devices for airplane bombs, of carrying and releasing devices for airplane bombs; for overhauling, cleaning, repairing, and preservingPreserving, etc., ordnance. ordnance and ordnance stores in the hands of troops and at the arsenals, posts, and depots; for purchase and manufacture of ordnancePurchase, etc. stores to fill requisitions of troops, $590,055.
National Trophy and Medals for Rifle Contests.Rifle contests. For the purpose of furnishing a national trophy and medals andNational trophy, medals, prizes, etc., for. other prizes to be provided and contested for annually, under such regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary of War, said contest to be open to the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and the National Guard or Organized Militia of the several States, Territories, and of the District of Columbia, members of rifle clubs, and civilians, and for the cost of the trophy, prizes, and medals herein provided for, and for the promotion of rifle practice throughout the United States, including the reimbursement of necessary expenses of members of the National Board for the Promotion of Rifle Practice, to be expendedNational Board for Promotion of Rifle Practice. for the purposes hereinbefore prescribed, under the direction of the Secretary of War, $10,000. 972 Automatic Machine Rifles.Automatic Machine Rifles.
Purchase, manufacture, etc.For the purchase, manufacture, test, repair, and maintenance of automatic machine rifles, or other automatic or semiautomatic guns, including their mounts, sights, and equipments, and the machinery necessary for their manufacture, to remain available until June 30, 1922, $500,000. Tanks.Tanks. Purchase, etc., of, and other armored vehicles.For the purchase, manufacture, test, maintenance, and repair of tanks and other self-propelled armored vehicles, to remain available until June 30, 1922, $500,000.
Chemical Warfare Service.CHEMICAL WARFARE SERVICE. Purchase of cases, etc.Reappropriation.Vol. 40, p. 885.That of the unexpended balance remaining June 30, 1920, allotted to the Chemical Warfare Service under the appropriation “Medical and Hospital Department, 1919,” there is hereby made immediately available and to remain available during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1921, for the purchase, manufacture, and test of chemical warfare gases or other toxic substances, gas masks or other offensive or defensive materials or appliances required for gas warfare purposes, including all necessary investigation, experimentation, and operations Buildings, machinery, etc.connected therewith, construction and repair of buildings and equipment and the machinery therefor, expenses incidental to the organization and training of gas troops not otherwise provided for, $2,000,000.
National Guard.NATIONAL GUARD. Arming, etc.Arming, Equipping, and Training the National Guard. Animals.For purchase of animals for mounted units, $1,218,482. Forage, etc.For procurement of forage, bedding, and so forth, for animals, $2,096,254. Care, etc.For compensation of help for care of matériel, animals, and equipment, $1,873,951. Instruction camps.For expenses, camps of instruction, $5,968,125. Service school instruction.For expenses, selected officers and enlisted men, military service schools, $224,002.
Officers, Militia Bureau.For pay and allowances, officers, National Guard, Militia Bureau, $12,000. Property, etc., officers.For pay of property and disbursing officers for the United States, $40,667. General expenses, equipment, etc.For general expenses, equipment and instruction, National Guard, $679,304. Travel, Federal officers.For travel of Federal officers and noncommissioned officers making inspections, $30,462. For travel of Federal officers and noncommissioned officers changing stations, $6,092.
For travel of Federal officers and noncommissioned officers on visits of instruction, $30,462. For travel of Federal officers and noncommissioned officers connected with camps of instruction, $46,013. Inspection.For inspection of target ranges, $1,370. For inspection of material, Field Artillery, Coast Artillery, Tank Corps, and Signal Corps, $2,285. Transporting supplies.For transportation of supplies, $182,772. Sergeant instructors.For expenses, sergeant-instructors, $45,692.
For office rent, inspector-instructors, $9,140. 973 For pay of National Guard, $7,532,927: *Provided*, That all thePay.*Proviso*.Accounting. moneys hereinbefore appropriated for the arming, equipping, and training of the National Guard shall be disbursed and accounted for as one fund. Arms, Uniforms, Equipment, etc., for Field Service, NationalArms, etc., for field service Guard. To procure by purchase or manufacture and issue from time toPurchase or manufacture for issue. time to the National Guard upon requisition of the governors of the several States and Territories, or the commanding general, National Guard of the District of Columbia, such number of United States service arms with all accessories, Field Artillery and Coast Artillery material, Engineer, Signal, and sanitary material, accouterments, field uniforms, clothing, equipage, publications, and military stores of all kinds, including public animals, and a reserve supply of such arms, material, accouterments, field uniforms, clothing, equipage, and military stores of all kinds, as are necessary to arm, uniform, and equip for field service the National Guard of the several States, Territories, and the District of Columbia, $8,000,000: *Provided*, That the*Provisos*.Mexican border medal.Issue extended for service other than at border stations.Vol. 40, p. 873.
Mexican border medal and ribbon issued to National Guard officers and enlisted men under the provisions of the Act entitled "An Act making appropriations for the support of the Army for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1919,” approved July 9, 1918, shall be issued to National Guard officers and enlisted men who at the same time served as such in the field under the call of the National Guard to such Mexican border service but were stationed for service at points other than on the Mexican border: *Provided further*, That such medals shallBarred if dishonorably discharged, etc. not be issued to men who have subsequent to such service been dishonorably discharged from the service or deserted: *ProvidedPayment of Army pay for service less than a month. further*, That members of the National Guard who have or shall "become entitled for a continuous period of less than one month to Federal pay at the rates fixed for the Regular Army, whether by virtue of a call by the President, of attendance at school or maneuver, or of any other cause, and whose accounts have not yet been settled, shall receive such pay for each day of such period; and the thirty-first day of a calendar month shall not be excluded from the computation: *And provided further*, That the Secretary of War is herebyIssue of clothing, equipment, etc., from surplus stores. directed to issue from surplus stores and matériel now on hand and purchased for the United States Army such articles of clothing and equipment and Field Artillery matériel and ammunition as may be needed by the National Guard organized under the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act for making further and more effectual provisionsVol. 39, p. 197. for the national defense, and for other purposes,” approved June 3, 1916.
This issue shall be made without charge against militiaNot chargeable to militia appropriations. appropriations. Field Artillery Matériel, National Guard.Field Artillery matériel. For the purpose of manufacturing Field Artillery matériel for theManufacturing. National Guard, $100. For the purpose of manufacturing and procuring Field ArtilleryManufacturing, etc., to remain United States property. matériel for the National Guard of the several States, Territories, and the District of Columbia, but to remain the property of the United States and to be accounted for in the manner now prescribed by law, the Secretary of War is hereby authorized, under such regulations as he may prescribe, on the requisitions of the governors of the several States and Territories or the commanding general of the National Guard of the District of Columbia, to issue said artillery matériel to the National Guard, $100. 974 Miscellaneous.MISCELLANEOUS.
Civilian military instruction.Ordnance Equipment for Rifle Ranges for Civilian Instruction. Arms, etc., for rifle target practice.Vol. 39, p. 211.For arms, ammunition, targets, and other accessories for target practice for issue in accordance with rules and regulations prescribed by the National Board for the Promotion of Rifle Practice and approved by the Secretary of War, in connection with the encouragement of rifle practice, in pursuance of the provisions of law, $100. Training camps.Civilian Military Training Camps.
Expenses of maintaining, for civilians.Vol. 39, p. 194; Vol. 40, p. 70.For the expense of maintaining upon military reservations, camps for military instruction and training of such citizens as may be selected and under such regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary of War pursuant to section 54 of the Act of June 3, 1916, as amended by the Act of May 12, 1917, and for furnishing said citizens at the Uniforms, transportation, etc.expense of the United States, uniforms, subsistence, and transportation by the most usual and direct routes within such limits as to territory as may be prescribed; for such expenditures as are authorized by said section and may be necessary for the establishment and maintenance of said camps; for furnishing such equipment, tentage, field equipage, and transportation belonging to the United States as Arms, ammunition, etc.may be necessary; for arms and ordnance equipment, including overhauling and repairing of personal equipment, machine-gun outfits, horse equipment, ammunition, targets and their accessories for target *Proviso*.Age limitation.practice, and for overhauling and repairing arms for issue and use in connection with said camps, $250,000: *Provided*, That the funds herein appropriated shall not be used for the training of any person who is over forty-five years of age.
Reserve Officers’ Training Corps.Ordnance Stores, Equipment, and so forth, Reserve Officers’ Training Corps. Arms, equipments, etc., for units of.Vol. 39, p. 191.For arms and ordnance equipment, including overhauling and repairing of personal equipments, machine-gun outfits, and horse equipments for use in connection with the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps, established by the Act entitled “An Act for making further and more effectual provision for the national defense, and for other purposes,” approved June 3, 1916, $100.
Schools and colleges.Ordnance Supplies for Military Equipment of Schools and Colleges. Arms, equipments, etc., to other.Vol. 39, p. 197.For arms and ordnance equipment, including overhauling and repairing of personal equipments, machine-gun outfits, and horse equipments for issue to schools and colleges in pursuance of the provisions of section 56 of the Act entitled “An Act for making further and more effectual provision for the national defense, and for other purposes,” approved June 3, 1916, $100.
Tank Service.Tank Service. Civilian employees.For payment of the necessary civilian employees to assist in handling the clerical work in the office of the Chief of Tank Corps, the various Tank Corps organization headquarters, and Tank Corps schools; and for the payment of the necessary mechanics to assist in repairing and preserving tanks in the hands of Tank Corps units, $79,000. Tank Corps schools.Incidental Expenses, Tank Corps Schools. Incidental expenses.Incidental expenses in connection with the operation of the Tank Corps schools, $5,000. 975 Advances to Disbursing Officers.Army account of advances.
That the Secretary of War be, and he hereby is, authorized to issueIssue of advances to disbursing officers. his requisitions for advances to disbursing officers and agents of the Army, under an “Army account of advances,” not to exceed the total appropriation for the Army, the amount so advanced to be exclusively used to pay, upon proper vouchers, obligations lawfully payable under the respective appropriations. That the amount so advanced be charged to the proper appropriationsTo be charged to proper appropriation.Limit. and returned to “Army account of advances” by pay and counterwarrant.
The said charge, however, to particular appropriations shall be limited to the amount appropriated to each. That the Auditor for the War Department shall declare the sumsSettlement upon complete vouchers. due from the several special appropriations upon complete vouchers, as heretofore, according to law; and he shall adjust the said liabilities with the “Army account of advances.” That any balances of existing Army appropriations now availableExisting balances transferred to new account, for disbursing and accounting. for withdrawal from the Treasury, together with any unexpended balances now charged to disbursing officers or agents of the Army which, under existing law, are available for disbursement, shall at such time as may be designated by the Secretary of War, be transferred on the books of the Treasury Department to “Army account of advances” and shall be disbursed and accounted for as such.
Time-Measuring Devices.Time measuring devices. That no part of the appropriations made in this Act shall be availableNo pay to officers using, on work of employees. for the salary or pay of any officer, manager, superintendent, foreman, or other person having charge of the work of any employee of the United States while making or causing to be made with a stop watch, or other time-measuring device, a time study of any j ob of any such employee between the starting and completion thereof, or of the movements of any such employee while engaged upon such work; norCash rewards, etc., restricted. shall any part of the appropriations made in this Act be available to pay any premium or bonus or cash reward to any employee in addition to his regular wages, except for suggestions resulting in improvements or economy in the operation of any Government plant.
Purchase of Articles Manufactured at Government Arsenals.Articles made at arsenals. That no part of the moneys appropriated in each or any section ofRestriction on purchasing elsewhere. this Act shall be used or expended for the purchase or acquirement of any article or articles that at the time of the proposed acquirement can be manufactured or produced in each or any of the Government arsenals of the United States for a sum less than it can be purchased or procured otherwise.
That all orders or contracts for the manufacture of material pertainingConsideration of manufacturing orders at Government establishments. to approved projects heretofore or hereafter placed with Government-owned establishments shall be considered as obligations in the same manner as provided for similar orders placed with commercial manufacturers, and the appropriations shall remain available for the payment of the obligations so created as in the case of contracts or orders with commercial manufacturers.
Transportation of Wounded and Otherwise Disabled Soldiers,Disabled soldiers, etc., traveling on furlough. Sailors, or Marines when Traveling on Furlough. The Secretary of War and the Secretary of the Navy, under suchFurlough certificate to be given from hospital regulations and restrictions as they may provide, are hereby authorized to issue to all wounded and otherwise disabled soldiers, sailors, or marines under treatment in any Army, Navy, or other hospital,976who are given furloughs at any time, a furlough certificate, which certificate shall be signed by the commanding officer at such hospital.
Holder entitled to purchase ticket at one cent a mile on presentation.This furlough certificate when presented by such furloughed soldier, sailor, or marine to the agent of any railroad or steamship company over whose lines said soldier, sailor, or marine may travel to and from his home during the furlough period shall entitle said soldier, sailor, or marine to purchase a ticket from the point of departure to point Difference to be paid carrier, from the Treasury.of destination and return at the rate of 1 cent per mile, and on presentation of such certificate on which such ticket has been issued the railroad or steamship company issuing such ticket shall be entitled to receive from the Treasury of the United States the difference between the amount paid, for such ticket at the rate of 1 cent per mile and the regular scheduled rate for such ticket.
The sum of Appropriation for.$250,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated, out of any funds in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this paragraph. *Provisos*.No pay to officer issuing order preventing social intercourse of officers and enlisted men not on duty.*Provided*, That no part of the funds herein appropriated shall be expended in payment of the salary of any officer of the Army of the United States who shall issue or cause to be issued any order, written or verbal, preventing social intercourse between officers and enlisted men of said Army while not on military duty when such order was not authorized by law or general Executive order: *Provided further*, Exception.That this limitation shall not apply to an officer who shall have acted in obedience to the mandates of his superior.
Army stores.Purchase of Army Stores by Discharged Receiving Treatment from the Public Health Service. Purchases permitted by discharged persons under Public Health treatment.That hereafter honorably discharged officers and enlisted men of the Army, Navy, or Marine Corps who are being cared for and are receiving medical treatment from the Public Health Service shall, while undergoing such care and treatment, be permitted to purchase subsistence stores and articles of other authorized supplies, except articles of the uniform, from the Army, Navy, and Marine Corps at the same price as charged the officers and enlisted men of the Army, Navy, and Marine Corps.
Tenafly, N. J.Repairing Road Damaged by Government Motor Trucks, Tenafly, New Jersey. Completion of road work at, authorized.That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, authorized to complete the work of grading and paving that portion of Hickory Avenue lying between Knickerbocker Street and Jefferson Street in the borough of Tenafly, of the County of Bergen, and State of New Jersey, begun but not completed by the Government during the war with *Provisos*.Share of expenses.Germany: *Provided*, That the said borough shall bear one-half or more of the cost of the above work and the Government shall bear Limit.not over one-half of the cost of said work: *Provided further*, That the share to be borne by the Government shall not exceed $5,200; and Appropriation.there is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of $5,200 for said work, to be paid Borough to assume pending claims.on the completion of the work: *Provided further*, That the said borough shall contract to assume to pay and discharge all claims arising out of the present uncompleted condition of said Hickory Avenue.
War veterans organizations.Rifles and Accessori es for Organizations of War Veterans. Rifles to American Legion posts.*Ante*, p. 403, amended.That the Act entitled “An Act authorizing the Secretary of War to loan Army rifles to posts of the American Legion,” approved February 10, 1920, be, and the same is hereby, amended to read as follows: 977 “That the Secretary of War is hereby authorized, under rules,Obsolete rifles, etc., may be loaned to organizations of war veterans for ceremonies. limitations, and regulations to be prescribed by him, to loan obsolete or condemned Army rifles, slings, and cartridge belts to posts or camps of organizations composed of honorably discharged soldiers, sailors, or marines, for use by them in connection with the funeral ceremonies of deceased soldiers, sailors, and marines, and for otherSales of ammunition. post ceremonial purposes; and to sell such posts and camps blank ammunition in suitable amounts for said rifles at cost price, plus cost of packing and transportation: *Provided, however*, That not to exceed*Proviso*.Limitation. ten such rifles shall be issued to any one post or camp.
” Emergency Commissioned Personnel.Emergency commissioned personnel. That the President is authorized to retain temporarily in service,Temporary retention of, authorized.*Ante*, p. 786. under their present commissions, or to discharge and recommission temporarily in lower grades, such emergency officers as he may deem necessary; but the total number of officers on active duty, exclusiveLimit. of retired officers and disabled emergency officers undergoing treatment for physical reconstruction, shall at no time exceed seventeen thousand eight hundred and twenty-three.
Any emergency officerFinal discharge. may be discharged when his services are no longer required, and all such officers shall be discharged not later than December 31, 1920. All officers of the Regular Army holding commissions granted for theRegular Army officers to be discharged therefrom by June 30, 1920. period of the existing emergency, in whatever grade, shall be discharged therefrom not later than June 30, 1920. Medal of Honor for Verdun.Medal of Honor for Verdun. That the President be, and he is hereby, authorized, in the namePresentation of, in the name of Congress, authorized. of the Congress and people of the United States, to present to the city of Verdun, France, a suitable memorial medal or tablet as a mark of America’s appreciation of the valor of its defenders, the cost to be paid from the appropriation for contingencies of the Army.
Approved, June 5, 1920.
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