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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 41 STAT. · June 30, 1920 · Chapter 8

Chapter 8. Making appropriations for the support of the Army for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1920, and for other purposes

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CHAP. 8.— An Act Making appropriations for the support of the Army for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1920, and for other purposes. July 11, 1919. [[H. R. 5227](/us/bill/66/hr/5227).] [[Public, No. 7](/us/pl/66/7).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the following sums be, Army appropriations.*Post,* pp. 272, 1632.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, 1920:
CONTINGENCIES OF THE ARMY. Contingent expenses. For all contingent expenses of the Army not otherwise provided for and embracing all branches of the military service, including the 105Office of the Chief of Staff; for all emergencies and extraordinary Emergencies.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 Per diem subsistence.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, to employees of the War Department traveling on official business outside of the District of Columbia and away from their *Provisos.*Restrictions not applicable to sale of war supplies.Vol. 40, p. 850.designated posts, $1,000,000: *Provided,* That the restrictions herein above recited concerning personal services and the amount allowable for per diem allowance shall not apply to so much of the funds herein appropriated as may be required to carry out the purpose of existing laws relating to the sale of war supplies: *Provided further, * That none of the funds appropriated or made available under this Act shall be used for the payment of any salary in excess of $12,000 per annum Sale of surplus motor vehicles authorized.to any civilian employee in the War Department: *Provided further,* That m addition to the delivery of the property heretofore authorized to be delivered to the Public Health Service, the Department of Agriculture and the Post Office Department of the Government, the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, authorized to sell any surplus supplies including motor trucks and automobiles now owned by and in the possession of the Government for the use of the War Department to any State or municipal subdivision thereof, or to any corporation or individual upon such terms as may be deemed best.
OFFICE OF THE CHIEF OF STAFF. Office, Chief of Staff. Army War College. Army war college. For expenses of the Army War College, being for the purchase of Expenses.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; employment of temporary, technical, or special services; and for all other absolutely necessary expenses, including $25 per month additional to regular compensation to chief clerk of division for superintendence of the War College Building, $9,000.
GENERAL STAFF CORPS. General Staff Corps. Military Intelligence Division. Military Intelligence Division. contingencies. For contingent expenses of the 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, $400,000.
Military Observers Abroad. For the actual and necessary expenses of officers of the Army on Observing military operations abroad.duty abroad for the purpose of observing operations of armies of 106foreign States at war, to be paid upon certificates of the Secretary of War that the expenditures were necessary for obtaining military information, $25,000. United States Service Schools. Service schools.Instruction expenses.Fort Leavenworth, Kans. To provide means for the theoretical and practical instruction at the Army service schools (including the Army Staff College, the Army School of the Line, the Army Field Engineer School, the Army Field Service School and Correspondence School for Medical Officers Fort Riley, Kansand the Army Signal School) at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, the Mounted Service School at Fort Riley, Kansas, and the School of Fort Sill, Okla.*Post,* p. 453.Fire for Field Artillery, and for the Infantry School of Arms at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, by the purchase of textbooks, books of reference, scientific and professional papers, the purchase of modern instruments and material for theoretical and practical instruction, employment of temporary, technical, or special services, and for all other absolutely necessary expenses, to be allotted in such proportion as may, in the opinion of the Secretary of War, be for the best interests Translators.of the military service.
Not exceeding $300 per month may be used for the payment of $100 per month to a translator at the Army Service Schools, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, $100 per month to a translator at the School of Fire for Field Artillery, and $100 per month to a translator at the Infantry School of Arms, Fort Sill, Oklahoma, to be appointed by the commandants of the schools named, with the approval of the Secretary of War, $75,000. THE ADJUTANT GENERAL’S DEPARTMENT. Adjutant General’s Department.
Contingencies, Headquarters of Military Departments, Districts, and Tactical Commands. Contingencies at headquarters. For contingent expenses at the headquarters of the several territorial departments, territorial districts, tactical 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, and tactical commands, $12,000.
CHIEF OF COAST ARTILLERY. Chief of Coast Artillery. Coast Artillery School, Fort Monroe, Virginia. Coast Artillery School, Fort Monroe, Va.Incidental expenses. For incidental expenses of the school, including chemicals, stationery, 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, wheelwrights, masons, machinists, painters, overseers, laborers; for office furniture and fixtures, machinery, motor trucks, and unforeseen expenses, $12,000.
Special apparatus, etc. For purchase of engines, generators, motors, machines, measuring instruments, special apparatus, and materials for the division of enlisted specialists, $10,000. 107 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 military Books, etc.and scientific subjects for library, for use of school, and for temporary use in coast defenses, $2,500: *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. Purchase of Typewriting Machines. Typewriting machines.
That no part of any money appropriated by this Act shall be used Restriction on prices.during the fiscal year 1920 for the purchase of any typewriting machine at a price in excess of the lowest price paid by the Government of the United States for the same make and substantially the same model of machine during the fiscal year 1918; such price shall include the value of any typewriting machine or machines given in exchange, but shall not apply to special prices granted on typewriting machines used in schools of the District of Columbia or of the Indian Service, the lowest of which special prices paid for typewriting machines shall not be exceeded in future purchases for such schools: *Provided,* That in construing this section the Commissioner *Proviso.*Determining Character of machines.of Patents shall advise the Comptroller of the Treasury as to whether the changes in any typewriter are of such structural character as to constitute a new machine not within the limitation of this section.
OFFICE OF THE CHIEF SIGNAL OFFICER. Chief Signal Officer. Signal Service of the Army. Signal Service. Telegraph and telephone systems: Purchase, equipment, operation, Telegraph and telephone systems.Purchases, operation, etc.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 Telephones.Chief Signal Officer; 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 office or station of the Army, excepting local telephone service for the Exception.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 and maintenance at military posts, cantonments, camps, and stations of the Army; fire control and direction apparatus and materiel for Field Artillery; salaries of civilian employ-108ees, 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; lease, construction, alterations, and repair for 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, $3,250,000.
Commercial Telephone Service at Coast Artillery Posts. Coast Artillery posts.Telephone commercial service at. For providing commercial telephone service for official purposes at Coast Artillery posts, $10,000. Washington-Alaska Military Cable and Telegraph System. Washington - Alaska cable, etc.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 1921, 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.
AIR SERVICE. Air Service.Expenses of flying schools, aviation stations, etc. Appropriations, Air Service: Creating, maintaining, and operating at established flying schools, courses of instruction for aviation students and enlisted men, including cost of equipment, and supplies necessary for instruction and subsistence of students, purchase of tools, equipment, materials, machines, textbooks, books of reference, scientific and professional papers, and instruments and material for theoretical and practical instruction at aviation schools; purchase of supplies for securing, developing, printing, and reproducing photographs made by aerial observers; to maintain and replace the equipment of organizations already in service; improvement, equipment, maintenance, lease, and operation of aviation stations, balloon schools, plants for testing and experimental work, including the acquisition of land, or any interest in land by purchase, lease, or condemnation, where necessary to procure helium gas; procuring and introducing water, electric light and power, telephones, telegraphs, and sewerage, including maintenance, operation, and repair of such utilities; salaries and wages of civilian employees in the District of Columbia or 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, including helium gas rights, and aviation engines, including patents and other rights thereto, and plans, drawings, and Purchases, manufacture of aerial machines, etc.specifications thereof; purchase, manufacture, construction, 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, and also for the purchase or manufacture and the issue of special clothing, wearing apparel, and similar equipment for aviation purposes; for all 109necessary expenses connected with the sale or disposal of surplus or obsolete aeronautical equipment, including the hire of civilian employees, and the rental of buildings, and other facilities for the handling or storage of such equipment; for the services of such consulting Consulting engineers.engineers at experimental stations of the Air Service as the Secretary of War may deem necessary, including necessary traveling expenses: *Provided,* That the entire expenditures for the services of consulting *Provisos.*Limit.Special apparatus, etc.engineers for the fiscal year 1920 shall not exceed $100,000; purchase of special apparatus and appliances, repairs, and replacements of same used in connection with special scientific medical research in the Air Service; for the establishment of aviation stations in the Philippine Aviation stations in the Philippines.Islands, including the lease of land or any interest in land for landing fields only and the preparation of land now owned by the Government necessary to make the same suitable for the purpose intended, buildings, heating, lighting, plumbing, water, sewer, roads, and walks, at a total cost not to exceed $350,000; in all, $25,000,000: *Provided,* That Damages to private property, etc.claims not exceeding $250 in amount for damages to persons and private property resulting from the operation 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 Air Service: *Provided further,* That claims Amount for settlement, limited.so settled and paid from the sum hereby appropriated shall not exceed in the aggregate the sum of $150,000: *Provided further,* That hereafter Allowance for traveling by air on duty without troops.actual and necessary expenses only, not to exceed $8 per day, shall be paid to officers of the Army and contract surgeons when traveling by air on duty without troops, under competent orders:
Periodicals.[R. S., sec. 3648, p. 718](/us/rs/s3648/p718).*And 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. The Secretary of War is hereby authorized and directed to establish Schools for aviation students.and maintain at one or more established flying schools courses of instruction for aviation students. Aviation students shall be enlisted in or appointed to the grade of Flying cadet grade established.*Proviso.*Limited number.Pay, etc.flying cadet, Air Service, which grade is hereby established: *Provided,* That the total number of flying cadets shall not at any time exceed one thousand three hundred.
The base pay of a flying cadet shall be $75 per month, including extra pay for flying risk as provided by law. The ration allowance of a flying cadet shall not exceed $1 per day, and his other allowances shall be those of a private, first class, Air Service. Upon completion of a course prescribed for flying cadets, each flying Commissions in Officers’ Reserve Corps.cadet, if he so desire, may be discharged and commissioned as a second lieutenant in the Officers’ Reserve Corps: *Provided,* That the *Proviso.*Discharges.Secretary of War is authorized to discharge at any time any flying cadet whose discharge shall have been recommended by a board of not less than three officers.
PROVOST MARSHAL GENERAL’S OFFICE. Provost Marshal General’s office. Completion, Preservation, and Transportation of the Records. Preservation, etc., of registration records. That not to exceed $3,500,000 of the unexpended balances on June Balance of appropriations reappropriated for expenses.Vol. 40, pp. 851, 1027.*Post,* pp. 509, 951.30, 1919, of the appropriations “Registration and Selection for Military Service, fiscal year 1919,” contained in the Army Appropriation Act for 1919, approved July 9, 1918, and the Deficiency Appropriation Act for 1919, approved November 4, 1918, are reappropriated and made available for the fiscal year 1920, for all expenses necessary 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 110the 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: *Provisos.*Information to State Adjutants General.*Provided,* That such part of this appropriation as may be necessary shall be available for the employment of clerical help required to furnish to the Adjutants General of the several States statements of service of all persons from those States who entered the military Disbursement officer.service during the war with Germany: *Provided further,* That this appropriation shall be disbursed by such officer as may be designated by the Secretary of War for the purpose.
QUARTERMASTER CORPS. Quartermaster Corps. Pay, and so forth, of the Army. Pay of the Army. pay of officers. Officers.Line. For pay of officers of the line, $20,300,000. Staff. For pay of the officers of staff corps and departments, $19,429,367. National Guard. Pay of officers, National Guard, $100. Officers’ Reserve Corps. For pay of the officers of the Officers’ Reserve Corps, $2,325,000. Mine Planter Service. For pay of warrant officers, Mine Planter Service, $83,700. Insular Affairs Bureau.
For pay of the officers, Bureau of Insular Affairs, $15,000. Signal Corps, aviation. Aviation increase, to officer’s of the Signal Corps, $775,000. Philippine Scouts. For pay of the officers, Philippine Scouts, $483,600. Longevity. Additional pay to officers for length of service, $2,892,925. pay of enlisted men. Enlisted men.Line.*Provisos.*Payment on personal affidavit if service record delayed, etc. For pay of enlisted men of the line, $92,728,230: *Provided,* That the pay due enlisted men of the Army shall not be withheld from them by reason of the fact that their service records or other official papers showing the status of their accounts with respect to pay have been lost or not returned from overseas and, under such regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary of War, these men may be paid upon their personal affidavit as to date of last payment and condition Credit allowed in disbursing officers’ accounts.of their accounts: *Provided further,* That payments made in accordance with such regulations (or which have already been made upon the affidavit of the soldier) shall be passed by the accounting officers of the Treasury to the credit of the disbursing officers making them.
National Guard. For pay of enlisted men of National Guard, $100. Staff corps, etc. For pay of enlisted men of the staff corps and departments, $48,162,500. Regular Army Reserve. For pay of enlisted men of the Regular Army Reserves, $224,750. Enlisted Reserve Corps. For pay of enlisted men of the Enlisted Reserve Corps, $77,500. Signal Corps, aviation. Aviation increase, to enlisted men of the Signal Corps, $7,750. Philippine Scouts.Longevity. For pay of the enlisted men of the Philippine Scouts, $1,007,500.
Additional pay for length of service to enlisted men, $3,875,000: *Proviso.*Emergency increased pay continued.Vol. 40, p. 82*Provided,* That the provisions of section 10 of an Act entitled “An Act to authorize the President to increase temporarily the Military Establishment of the United States”, approved May 18, 1917, in so far as it increases the pay of the enlisted men of the Army, be, and the same hereby are, continued in force and effect from and after the date and approval of this Act. pay of persons with retired states.
Retired pay.Officers. For pay of the officers on the retired list, $2,500,000. On active duty. For increase pay to retired officers on active duty, $200,000. 111 For pay of retired enlisted men, $3,000,000. Enlisted men. For pay and allowances of retired enlisted men on active duty, $20,000. On active duty. For pay and allowances of Regular Army reservists on active duty, $40,000. Reservists on active duty. For pay of retired Philippine Scout officers, $45,000. Philippine Scout officers.
For pay of retired pay clerks, $18,000. Pay clerks. For pay of retired veterinarians, $3,500. Veterinarians. clerks, messengers, and laborers, office of the chief of staff. Office of Chief of Staff. One chief clerk, at $2,500 per annum, $2,500. Clerks, messengers, etc. One 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 captain of the watch, at $900 per annum, $900. Six watchmen, at $720 each per annum, $4,320. One gardener, at $720 per annum, $720. One packer, at $840 per annum, $840. One chief messenger, at $1,000 per annum, $1,000. Three messengers, at $840 each per annum, $2,520. Fifteen messengers, at $720 each per annum, $10,800. Two laborers, at $720 each per annum, $1,440.
One laborer, at $600 per annum, $600. Five charwomen, at $240 each per annum, $1,200. pay of army field clerks and civil service messengers at 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. Headquarters, departments, districts, schools, etc. Eighty clerks, at SI,800 each per annum, $144,000. Clerks and messengers. Seven clerks, at S2,000 each per annum, $14,000.
One hundred and seventy-two clerks, at $1,600 each per annum, $275,200. Eleven clerks, at $1,800 each per annum, $19,800. Two hundred and twenty-two clerks, at $1,400 each per annum, $310,800. Fourteen clerks, at $1,600 each per annum, $22,400. Five hundred and twenty-six clerks, at $1,200 each per annum, $631,200. Thirty-two clerks, at $1,400 each per annum, $44,800. One hundred and nineteen messengers, at $720 each per annum, $85,680. Fifty-seven clerks, at $1,200 each per annum, $68,400.
Forty-nine clerks, at $1,200 each per annum, $58,800. Thirty-nine messengers, at $720 each per annum, $28,080. Additional pay while on foreign service, $8,000. For commutation of quarters and of heat and light, $23,040: *Provided,* Foreign service.Commutation of quarters, etc.*Provisos.*Pay, etc., field clerks.That Army field clerks shall have the same allowances and benefits as heretofore allowed by law to pay clerks, Quartermaster Corps, not including retirement: *Provided, however,* That the minimum Minimum pay.or entrance pay exclusive of said allowances, of said Army field clerks shall be $1,200 per annum: *Provided further,* That Army field Foreign service increase.clerks shall receive the same increase of pay for service beyond the 112continental limits of the United States as is allowed by law to commissioned Additional emergency field clerks.officers of the Army: *And provided further,* That the Secretary of War is authorized to employ, during the present emergency and for a period not exceeding four months thereafter, such additional Army field clerks as may be necessary, not exceeding 4,272.
Field clerks, Quartermaster Corps.*Provisos.*Service assignment. For commutation of quarters and of heat and light for field clerks, Quartermaster Corps, $76,800: *Provided,* That said clerks, messengers, and laborers shall be employed and assigned by the Secretary of War to the offices and positions in which they are to serve: Department duty forbidden.*Provided further,* That no clerk, messenger, or laborer at headquarters of tactical divisions, military departments, brigades, service schools, and office of the Chief of Staff shall be assigned to duty in any bureau of the War Department. miscellaneous.
Miscellaneous.Contract surgeons. For pay of contract surgeons, $90,000. Nurses. For pay of nurses, $800,000. Hospital matrons. For pay of hospital matrons, $3,600. Reserve veterinarians. For pay of reserve veterinarians, $350,000. 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, $200,000.
Officer, buildings, and grounds, D. C. For additional pay to officer in charge of public buildings and grounds at Washington, District of Columbia, $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, $4,821,150.
Interest on deposits. For interest on soldiers’ deposits, $145,000. Expert accountant. For pay of expert accountant for the Inspector General’s Department, $2,500. Extra pay, seacoast fortifications. For extra pay to enlisted men employed on extra duty for periods of not less than ten days in the offices of Coast Defense Artillery Engineers and Coast Defense Ordnance officers, and as switchboard operators at seacoast fortifications, $25,000. Switchboard operators at interior posts.
For extra pay to enlisted men employed on extra duty as switchboard operators at each interior post of the Army, $19,215. Alaska cable, etc., service. For extra pay to enlisted men of the line of the Army and to enlisted men of the Quartermaster Corps, Medical Department, and of the Signal Corps employed in the Territory of Alaska on the Washington-Alaska cable and telegraph system for periods of not less than ten days at the rate of 35 cents per day, $38,430. Mileage to 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, $2,500,000. Foreign pay.Officers.*Proviso.*Allowed warrant officers. For additional 10 per centum increase of pay of officers on foreign service, $1,000,000: *Provided,* That hereafter warrant officers shall receive the same increase of pay for service beyond the continental limits of the United States as is allowed to commissioned officers of the Army.
Enlisted men. For additional 20 per centum increase of pay of enlisted men on foreign service, $4,000,000. Computer. For pay of one computer for Artillery Board, $2,500. Loss by exchange. For payment of exchange by acting quartermasters serving in foreign countries and when specially authorized by the Secretary of War by officers disbursing funds pertaining to the Quartermaster 113Corps when serving in Alaska, and all foreign money received shall be charged to and paid out by disbursing officers of the Quartermaster Corps at the legal valuation fixed by the Secretary of the Treasury, $1,000.
For additional pay to officers below the grade of major required Officers furnishing mounts.to be mounted and who furnish their own mounts, $240,000. For amount required to make monthly payment to Jennie Carroll, Jennie Carroll.widow of James Carroll, late major, United States Army, $1,500. For amount required to make monthly payments to Mabel H. Mabel H. Lazear.Lazear, widow of Jesse W. Lazear, late acting assistant surgeon, United States Army, $1,500. For amount required to make monthly payments of $100 to John John R.
Kissinger.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. All the money hereinbefore appropriated for pay of the Army and Pay accounts specified.miscellaneous, except the appropriation for mileage to commissioned officers, 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.
Subsistence of the Army. Subsistence. Purchase of subsistence supplies: For issue as rations to troops, Purchase of supplies for issue.including enlisted men of the Regular Army Reserve and retired enlisted men when ordered to active duty, members of 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 Sales to officers, etc.members of the Officers’ Reserve Corps while on active duty, and enlisted men of the Army: *Provided,* That the sum of $12,000 is *Provisos.*Competitors at national rifle match.authorized to be 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,* That no competitor shall be entitled to commutation Ration restriction.of rations in excess of $1.50 per day, and when meals are furnished no greater expense than that sum per manner day for the period the contest is in progress shall be incurred.
For payments: Of commutation Payments.Commutation of rations.of rations to the cadets of the United States Military Academy in lieu of the regular established ration, at the rate of 68 cents 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 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 departments 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 Nurse Corps 114(female) 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; Prizes for bakers and cooks.for providing prizes to be established by the 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 Expenses of purchase, etc.schools not to exceed $900 per annum; for other necessary expenses incident to the purchase, testing, care, preservation, issue, sale, and accounting for subsistence supplies for the Army, $62,526,466.50:
Aberdeen Proving Ground.Care, sale, etc., of crops.*Provided,* That not to exceed $22,500 of this sum be made available for the care of the peach orchard on Poole Island, Aberdeen Proving Ground, and the grain now growing at this and other reservations and the harvest and disposal of the crops; and such disposal by sale or otherwise shall be made pursuant to such regulations as may be Deposit or receipts.prescribed by the Secretary of War: *Provided further,* That all moneys received by the United States as the proceeds of such sales shall be deposited in the Treasury of the United States as “Miscellaneous Receipts.
” Regular Supplies. Regular quartermaster supplies. Regular supplies of the Quartermaster Corps, including their care and protection; construction and repair of military reservation fences; 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 Heat, light, etc., to quarters.Issues of candles and matches; for furnishing heat and light for the authorized allowance of quarters for offices, 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 and garrison schools, and for recruits, guards, Recreation buildings.Vol. 32, p. 282.hospitals, storehouses, offices, the buildings erected at private cost, in the operation of the Act approved May 31, 1902, and buildings for similar purposes on military reservations authorized by War Department regulations; for sale to officers, and including also fuel and engine supplies required in the operation of modern batteries Bakeries, ice machines, and laundries.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 offices 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 issues of soap; toilet paper Supplies for schools.And towels; for the necessary furniture, textbooks, paper, and equipment for the post schools and libraries, and 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 115relief 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, including recruits; for forage, salt, and vinegar for the horses, mules, Forage, etc., for animals.oxen, 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 for soldiers’ bedding, stationery, typewriters and exchange of same, Stationery, printing, etc.including blank books and blank forms for the Army, certificates for discharged soldiers, and for printing department orders and reports, $87,083,334.
Incidental Expenses. Postage; cost of telegrams on official business received and sent by Incidental expenses.officers of the Army, including members of the Officers’ Reserve Corps, when ordered to active duty; extra pay to soldiers employed Extra-duty pay, etc.on extra duty, under the direction of the Quartermaster Corps, in the erection of barracks, quarters, and storehouses, in the construction of roads, and other constant labor for periods of not less than 10 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 clerks and other employees of the Quartermaster Corps, 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, $30,000,000.
Transportation of the Army and its Supplies. For transportation of the Army and its supplies, including transportation Transportation.of the troops when moving either by land or water, and of their baggage, including members of the Officers’ Reserve Corps, enlisted men of the Enlisted Reserve Corps, and retired enlisted men 116when 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 Travel allowance, etc., National Guard.Vol. 39, p. 217.for travel 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 National Guard officers on discharge.United States, and discharged on account of physical disability; for payment of travel pay to officers of the National Guard on their discharge from the service of the United States, as prescribed in the Vol. 31, p. 902.Act approved March 2, 1901; for travel allowance to persons on their discharge from the United States disciplinary barracks or from any place in which they have been held under a sentence of dishonorable discharge and confinement for more than six months, or 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, Per diem subsistence.including per diem 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; for payment of wharfage, tolls, and ferriages; for transportation Payment to land grant roads.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), *Provisos.*Basis of computation.but in no case shall more than 50 per cent of full amount of service be paid: *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 Fifty per cent to roads not bond aided.for all demands for such service: *Provided further,* 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 Full pay to excepted roads.demands for such service: *And 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 117Acts; for the purchase and hire of draft and pack animals in such Draft and pack animals, vehicles, etc.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 motor-propelled and horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles as are required for the transportation of troops and supplies and for official, military, and garrison purposes; for drayage and cartage at the several depots; for the purchase and repair of Ships, boats, etc.ships, boats, and other vessels required for the transportation of troops and supplies and for official, military, and garrison purposes; for expenses of sailing public transports and other vessels on the Transports.various rivers, the Gulf of Mexico, and the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans: *Provided further,* That $225,000 of the appropriation hereby Employees on harbor boats.made shall be available for additional pay of employees on harbor boats, quartermaster service, in lieu of subsistence, $230,000,000.
Water and Sewers at Military Posts. For procuring and introducing water to buildings and premises at Water, sewers, etc.such military posts and stations as from their situations require it 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, $7,000,000.
Clothing and Camp and Garrison Equipage. Clothing. For cloth, woolens, materials, and for the purchase and manufacture Purchase, manufacture, etc.of clothing for the Army, including enlisted men of the Regular Army Reserve and 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 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; for equipage, Equipage.including authorized issues of toilet articles, 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 citizens outer clothing, to cost not exceeding $15, to be issued upon release from confinement to each prisoner who has been confined under a court-martial sentence involving dishonorable discharge; 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, for the same reason, discharged without internment; for indemnity to officers Indemnity for destroyed clothing.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, $20,000,000.
Horses for Cavalry, Artillery, Engineers, and so forth. Horses. For the purchase of horses of ages, sex, and size as may be prescribed Purchase.by the Secretary of War for remounts, for officers entitled to public mounts for the Cavalry, Artillery, Signal Corps, and Engineers, 118the 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 *Provisos.*Limitation.be mounted, and the expenses incident thereto, $2,500,000: *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 and authority of the Open market purchases.Secretary of War.
When practicable, horses shall be purchased in open market at all military posts or stations, when needed, at a maximum price to be fixed by the Secretary of War: *Provided further*, Standard required.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 States Military Academy: Polo ponies.*And 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 other place.
Barracks and Quarters. Barracks and quarters.Construction, repair, 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 Coast Artillery; for construction of reclamation plants; for constructing 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 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 National Guard in service.for flooring and framing for tents, and for the National Guard when called or drafted into the service of the United States, $7,500,000.
Military Post Exchanges. Post exchanges.Construction, equipment, etc. For continuing the construction, equipment, and maintenance of suitable buildings at military posts and stations for the conduct of the post exchange, school, library, reading, lunch, amusement rooms, and Recreation buildings.Vol. 32, p. 282.Camp recreation expenses.gymnasium, including repairs to buildings erected at private 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 purposes at training and mobilization camps now established, or which may be 119hereafter 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, $675,000.
Barracks and Quarters, Philippine Islands. Philippine Islands. Continuing the work of providing for the proper shelter and protection Barracks and quarters for Army in.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 and repair thereof, and rentals for the United States troops in China, Troops in China.$250,000.
Roads, Walks, Wharves, and Drainage. Roads, wharves, etc. For the construction and repair by the Quartermaster Corps, of Construction, repairs, etc.roads, walks, and wharves; for the pay of employees; for the disposal of drainage; for dredging channels; and for care and improvement of grounds at military posts and stations, $4,000,000. Construction and Repair of Hospitals. Hospitals. For construction and repair of hospitals at military posts already Construction, repairs, etc.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 Temporary hospitals at camps, etc.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 Emergency use.of grounds, and rental and alteration of buildings for use for hospital purposes in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, for use during the existing emergency, 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 for the same, $5,000,000.
Quarters for Hospital Stewards. Quarters for hospital stewards. For construction and repair of quarters for hospital stewards at Construction, etc.military posts already established and occupied, including the extra-duty pay 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-arms Expenses.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, $100,000.
Claims for Damages to and Loss of Private Property. Target practice, etc., damages. For payment of claims for damages to and loss of private property Paying claims for, to private property.incident to the training, practice, operation, or maintenance of the 120Army that have accrued, or may hereafter accrue, from time to time, to be immediately available and to remain available until expended: *Proviso.*Settlement, etc.*Provided,* That settlement of such claims shall be made by 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, $40,000.
Maintenance, Army War College. Army War College.Maintenance. For supplying the necessary fuel for heating the Army War College Building at Washington Barracks and for lighting the building and grounds; also for pay of a chief engineer, at $1,400; and assistant engineer, at $1,000; carpenter, at $1,000; four firemen, at $720 each; one elevator conductor, at $720; $14,620. Rent of Buildings, Quartermaster Corps. Rent.Buildings in District of Columbia. For rent of buildings and parts of buildings in the District of Columbia for military purposes during the fiscal year 1920, $75,000: *Proviso.*Not available if space provided in Government buildings.*Provided,* That this appropriation shall not be available if space is provided by the Public Buildings Commission in Government owned buildings.
Vocational Training. Vocational training.Instructors, tools, equipment, etc. For the employment of the necessary civilian instructors in the most important trades, 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 material 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 Vol. 39, p. 186.of machinery 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, $2,000,000.
Quartermaster Supplies and Services for Rifle Ranges for Civilian Instruction. Civilian military 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 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, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War and to remain available until *Proviso.*Designation of State, etc., teams.expended, $100,000: *Provided,* That the governors of the States, Territories, or the Board of Commissioners of the District of Columbia may designate which team shall represent their respective States, Territories, or District of Columbia. 121 Quartermaster Supplies, Equipment, and so forth, Reserve Officers’ Training Corps.
Reserve Officers’ Training Corps. For the procurement and issue, under such regulations as may be Quartermaster supplies, etc., to units having.Vol. 39, p. 191.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 Training camps.institutions and return of same to place of issue 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 Commutation of subsistence.Vol. 39, p. 193.therein so far as appropriations will permit; 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, as authorized in the Act of Congress approved June 3, 1916, $4,000,000.
Quartermaster Supplies for Military Equipment of Schools and Colleges. Schools and colleges. For the procurement and supply as provided in section 56 of the Quartermaster supplies for training in other.Vol. 39, p. 197.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 Vol. 39, p. 192.referred to, $100.
STORAGE AND SHIPPING FACILITIES Storage and ship, ping facilities. For inland and port storage, including all necessary buildings, Inland and port.docks, tracks, handling and other facilities for Government supplies, including rentals and hire of the necessary employees, $30,000,000. That all the money hereinbefore designated under the titles “Subsistence General appropriations, Quartermaster Corps.Appropriations designated as.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.
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 Mosquito destruction.mosquito destruction in and about military posts in the Canal Zone: *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 treatment not Private treatment, etc.otherwise provided for, including care and subsistence in private hos-122pitals, of officers, enlisted men, and civilian employees of the Army of applicants for enlistment, and of prisoners of war and other persons in the military custody or confinement, when entitled thereto Not applicable while on furlough, etc.by law, regulation, or contract: *Provided further,* That this shall not apply to officers and enlisted men who are treated in private hospital Contagious diseases expenses.or by civilian physicians while on furlough; for 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 Nurse Corps (female), and of cooks, and other civilians employed for the proper care of sick officers and 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 Hot Springs, Ark., hospital.the Medical 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, $4,500,000.
Hospital Care, Canal Zone Garrisons. Canal Zone.Care of troops, etc., in. 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 of *Proviso.*Subsistence payments.proper military authority: *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, $50,000.
Walter Reed Hospital, D. C.Additional adjoining land, for museum, etc.*Post,* p. 456. Land for hospital and other purposes: For the purchase of land contiguous to the Walter Reed General Hospital, District of Columbia, twenty-six and nine-tenths acres, more or less, for the final location of the Army Medical Museum, the Surgeon General’s Library, and the Army Medical School, and for the improvements now on the land to be purchased, $350,000. Army Medical Museum and Library. Medical Museum.Preserving specimens, etc.
For Army Medical Museum, preservation of specimens, and the preparation and purchase of new specimens, $10,000. Surgeon General’s Library. Surgeon General’s Library.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. BUREAU OF INSULAR AFFAIRS. Insular Affairs Bureau. Care of Insane Filipino Soldiers. Care of insane soldiers.Philippine Islands. For care, maintenance, and treatment at asylums in the Philippine Islands of insane natives of the Philippine Islands cared for in such 123institutions conformable to the Act of Congress approved May 11, Vol. 35, p. 122.1908, $1,000.
Care of Insane Soldiers, Porto Rico Regiment of Infantry. For care, maintenance, and treatment at asylums in Porto Rico of Porto Rico.insane soldiers of the Porto Rico Regiment of Infantry, $100. ENGINEER DEPARTMENT. Engineer Department. Engineer Depots. Depots. For incidental expenses for the depots, including fuel, lights, Incidental expenses.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 military duties, 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, $100.
Engineer School. School, D. C. Equipment and maintenance of the Engineer School, including Equipment and maintenance.purchase and repair of instruments, machinery, implements, models, and materials for the use of the school and for instruction of engineer troops in their special duties as sappers and miners; for land mining, pontoniering, and signaling; for purchase and binding of professional works and periodicals of recent date treating on military and civil engineering and kindred scientific subjects for the library of the United States Engineer School; for incidental expenses of the school, Incidental expenses.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 officers on journeys approved by the Secretary Travel expenses.*Proviso.*In lieu of mileage, etc.of War and made for the purpose of instruction: *Provided,* That the traveling expenses herein provided for shall be in lieu of mileage and other allowances; and to provide means for the theoretical and practical instruction at the Engineer School by the purchase of textbooks, Textbooks, etc.books of reference, scientific and professional papers, and for other absolutely necessary expenses, $50,000.
Engineer Equipment of Troops. Equipment or troops. For pontoon material, tools, instruments, supplies, and appliances Material, tools, supplies, etc.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 motorcycles, the purchase and preparation of engineer manuals and procurement of special paper for same, and for a reserve supply of above equipment, $300,000: *Provided,* That the services of skilled draftsmen, *Provisos.*Technical service in office of Chief of Engineers.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 appropria-124Limit.Annual report.tions: *Provided further,* That the expenditures on this account for the fiscal year 1920 shall not exceed $225,000.
The Secretary of War shall each year, in 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.Surveyors, etc. For services of surveyors, survey parties, draftsmen, photographers, 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.Expenses.
For expenses incident to military engineer operations in the field, including the purchase of material and a reserve of material for such operations, 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,” and “Maps, War Department,” $3,000,000.
Contingencies, Engineer Department, Philippine Islands. Philippine Islands.Engineer contingencies. 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. Military Surveys and Maps. Surveys and maps.Expenses of preparing. For the execution of topographic or 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 *Proviso.*Other offices to assist.available and remain available until December 31, 1920: *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, $200,000.
Construction and Maintenance of Military and Post Roads, Bridges, and Trails, Alaska. 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, $100,000. ORDNANCE DEPARTMENT. Ordnance Department. Ordnance Service. Current expenses. For 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 publications for libraries of the Ordnance Department, including the Ordnance Office; subscriptions 125to 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 *Provisos.*Material to be of American manufacture.Exception, etc.passenger-carrying vehicles, $7,000,000: *Provided,* That all material purchased under the appropriations for the Ordnance Department in this Act 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 such purchases abroad, which material shall be admitted free of duty: *Provided,* That the Chief of Ordnance Technical services in District of Columbia.of the United States Army is authorized to employ in the District of Columbia, out of the appropriations made in this Act for designing, procuring, caring for, and supplying ordnance and ordnance stores to the Army, such services, other than clerical, as are necessary for carrying out these purposes: *Provided,* That the appropriations Per diem subsistence.hereinbefore made under the heading “Ordnance Department” shall be available for the payment of an allowance not to exceed $4 per day in lieu of subsistence to civilian employees of the Ordnance Department traveling on official business outside of the District of Columbia and away from their designated posts of duty.
Ordnance Stores, Ammunition. Ammunition. Manufacture and purchase of ammunition for small arms and for Manufacture, etc., of, for small arms.hand use for reserve supply, ammunition for burials at the National Soldiers’ Home in Washington, District of Columbia, 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, $1,600,000.
Small-arms target practice. Small arms target practice. For manufacture and purchase of ammunition, targets, and other Ammunition, targets, etc., for.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 To educational institutions, etc.other accessories which may be issued for small-arm 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 regulations as the Secretary of War may prescribe, $50,000.
Manufacture of Arms. Manufacture of arms. For manufacturing, repairing, procuring, and issuing arms at the At armoriee.national armories, $1,000,000. Ordnance Stores and Supplies. Stores and supplies. For overhauling, cleaning, repairing, and preserving ordnance and Preserving, etc.ordnance stores in the hands of troops and at the arsenals, posts, and depots; for Infantry, Cavalry, and Artillery equipments, including Infantry, etc., equipments.horse equipments for Cavalry and Artillery, $2,000,000.
National Trophy and Medals for Rifle Contests. Rifle contests. For the purpose of furnishing a national trophy and medal and Trophy, medals, prizes, etc.other prizes to be provided and contested for annually, under such regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary of War, said con-126test 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, National Board for Promotion of Rifle Practice.including the reimbursement of necessary expenses of members of the National Board for the Promotion of Rifle Practice, to be expended for the purpose hereinbefore prescribed under the direction of the Secretary of War, $10,000.
Automatic Machine Rifles. Automatic machine rifles.Purchases, 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, $1,000,000. Armored Motor Cars. Armored motor cars.Purchases, manufacture, etc. For the purchase, manufacture, test, repair, and maintenance of armored motor cars, to remain available until the end of the fiscal year 1920, $500,000.
NATIONAL GUARD. National Guard. Arming, Equipping, and Training the National Guard. Arming, etc.Animals. Purchase of animals for mounted units, $1,000,000. Forage. Procurement of forage, bedding, and so forth, for animals, $1,000,000. Care, etc. Compensation of help for care of materiel, animals, and equipment, $1,250,000. Instruction camps. Expenses, camps of instruction, $4,000,000. Service schools instruction. Expenses, selected officers and enlisted men, military service schools, $39,000.
Officers, Militia Bureau. Pay and allowances, officers, National Guard, Militia Bureau, $12,000. Property, etc., officers. Pay of property and disbursing officers for the United States, $43,750. General expenses, equipment, etc. General expenses, equipment and instruction, National Guard, $500,000. Travel, Federal officers. Travel of Federal officers and noncommissioned officers making inspections, $25,000. Travel of Federal officers and noncommissioned officers changing stations, $5,000.
Travel of Federal officers and noncommissioned officers on visits of instruction, $30,000. Travel of Federal officers and noncommissioned officers connected with camps of instruction, $10,000. Inspection expenses. Inspection of target ranges, $1,500. Inspection of material, Field Artillery, Coast Artillery, and Signal Corps, $2,500. Transporting supplies. Transportation of supplies, $200,000. Sergeant-instructors. Expenses, sergeant-instructors, $50,000. Office rent, inspector-instructors, $9,000.
Pay of National Guard. *Proviso.*Accounting. Pay of National Guard (Armory drill), $5,000,000: *Provided,* That all the moneys hereinbefore appropriated for the arming, equipping, and training of the National Guard shall be disbursed and accounted for as one fund. Clothing and equipment from Army stores. The Secretary of War is hereby authorized to issue from stores now on hand and purchased for the United States Army such articles of clothing and equipment materiel as may be needed by the National 127Guard organized under the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act Vol. 39, p. 197.for making further and more effectual provision for the national defense, and for other purposes,” approved June 3, 1916.
This issue Without charge, etc.shall be made without charge against militia appropriations and shall be reimbursed in kind for all Federal property brought into service by State troops: *Provided,* That the provisions of section 62 of the *Provisos.*Strength assumed.Vol. 39, p. 198.Act entitled “An Act for making further and more effectual provision for the national defense, and for other purposes,” approved June 3, 1916, shall be considered fulfilled if the first strength mentioned therein be attained by June 30, 1920, and the other increments provided therein be attained by successive years thereafter: *Provided further,* State action.That this shall not prevent any State from compliance with the provisions of said section 62: *Provided further,* That the appropriations Provisions immediately applicable.and provisions of this Act referring to the National Guard shall become applicable and available upon the approval of this Act.
That section 69 of the Act entitled “An Act for making further and Enlistments.Vol. 39, p. 200, amended.more effectual provision for the national defense, and for other purposes,” approved June 3, 1916, be, and is hereby, amended to read as follows: " “Sec. 69. Enlistments in the National Guard: Hereafter the period Period same as Regular Army.Vol. 40, p. 1211.*Provisos.*Enlistment for one year, etc., if honorably discharged from military service since April 6, 1917.of enlistment in the National Guard shall be the same as is, or may be, prescribed for the Regular Army: *Provided,* That all persons who have served as enlisted men in the Army of the United States, or the Organized Militia of the several States, subsequent to April 6, 1917, and who have been honorably discharged from such service, may within six months after such discharge or within six months after the passage of this Act, enlist in the National Guard for a period of one year and may reenlist for like periods, and that such enlistments shall not be counted in computing the proportion authorized to be enlisted for one year to conform to the period of enlistment prescribed for the Regular Army: *Provided further,* That enlisted men Enlisted men serving under six-year period may enlist for one year, etc.in the National Guard of the several States now serving under contracts providing for a six-year period of enlistment—three years in an active organization and the remaining three years in the National Guard Reserve—shall be afforded an opportunity to enlist for the periods specified above, and upon entering into a new contract of enlistment for a period of three years under this authority shall be given credit for the period served under the old enlistment contract and the previous enlistment shall in such cases and with the consent of the enlisted man be canceled.
” " That to comply with the provisions of section 110, of the Act entitled National Guard, D. C.Status of staff officers established.Vol. 39, p. 210.“An Act for making further and more effectual provision for the national defense, and for other purposes,” approved June 3, 1916, it is hereby provided that staff officers, including officers of the Pay, Inspection, Subsistence, and Medical Departments, appointed in the National Guard of the District of Columbia shall have had previous military experience and shall hold their positions until they shall have reached the age of sixty-four years, unless retired prior to that time by reason of resignation, disability, or for cause to be determined by a court-martial legally convened for that purpose, and that vacancies among said officers shall be filled by appointment from the officers of the National Guard of the District of Columbia.
ORDNANCE EQUIPMENT FOR RIFLE RANGES FOR CIVILIAN INSTRUCTION. Civilian military instruction. For arms, ammunition, targets, and other accessories for target Arms, etc., for rifle target practice.Vol. 39, p. 211.practice for issue in connection with the encouragement of rifle practice in pursuance of the provisions of law, $100,000. 128 CIVILIAN MILITARY TRAINING CAMPS. Training camps.Arms, ammunition, etc., for civilian. For arms and ordnance equipment, including overhauling and repairing of personal equipments, machine-gun outfits, horse equipment; ammunition, targets, and other accessories for target practice; and for overhauling and repairing arms for issue and use in connection with training camps for civilians in pursuance of the provisions Vol. 39. p. 194.of section 54 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.
RESERVE CORPS. Reserve Officers’, Training Corps. Ordnance Stores, Equipment, and so forth, Reserve Officers’ Training Corps. Ordnance stores, equipment, etc., to units having.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 tor other purposes,” approved June 3, 1916, $100.
Ordnance Supplies for Military Equipment of Schools and Colleges. Schools and colleges.Ordnance supplies 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.
Printing, binding, etc.Authorized from Army funds. That the appropriations herein made for the support of the Army and the National Guard are available for such printing, binding, and blank books as may be necessary in putting in effect the objects of the appropriations. Restriction on real estate purchases and camp construction.*Post,* pp. 278, 453, 456. That no part of any of the appropriations made herein nor any of the unexpended balances of appropriations heretofore made for the support and maintenance of the Army or the Military Establishment shall be expended for the purchase of real estate of for the construction of Army camps or cantonments except in such cases at National Army or National Guard camps or cantonments which were in use prior to November 11, 1918, where it has been or may be found more economical to the Government for the purpose of salvaging such camps or cantonments to buy real estate than to continue to pay rentals or claims for damages thereon, and except where industrial plants have been constructed or taken over by the Government for war purposes and the purchase of land is necessary in order to protect the interest of the Government.
Time measuring devices.No pay to officer, etc., using, on work of any employee. That no part of the appropriations made in this bill shall be available 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 Government while making or causing to be made with a stop watch or other time measuring device a time study of any job of any such employee between the starting and the completion thereof, or of the movements of any such employee while engaged Cash rewards, etc., restricted.upon such work; nor shall any part of the appropriations made in this bill 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 129any Government plant: *And provided further,* That no part of the *Proviso.*Restriction on purchasing articles which can be produced at arsenals.moneys appropriated in each or any section of 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 they can be purchased or procured otherwise.
That the several organizations of the Army, to wit: The ChemicalSpecified organizations continued to June 30, 1920. Warfare Service, the Air Service, the Construction Division, the Tank Corps, and the Motor Transport Corps, with their powers and duties as defined in orders and regulations in force and effect on November 11, 1918, shall be continued to and until June 30, 1920. That officers of the emergency Army appointed to the Officers’ Officers’ Reserve Corps.Appointments from emergency Army.Reserve Corps may be appointed therein to the grade held by them in the emergency Army or next higher grade, as the Secretary of War may direct.
CHAPTER I. Memorial archway at Vicksburg, Mississippi: That there is hereby Vicksburg, Miss., memorial archway.Payments from balances.Vol. 39, p. 812.appropriated, out of any funds in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the unexpended balance of an appropriation under an Act of Congress approved September 8, 1916, for the National Memorial Reunion and Peace Jubilee, held at Vicksburg, Mississippi, which unexpended balance is understood to be about $35,000, for the following purposes, to wit:
(I)The sum of $3,000 to be paid to Frederick A. Roziene, president Frederick A. Roziene.Reimbursement.of the National Association of Vicksburg Veterans, to reimburse him in part for his personal expenditures in bringing the subject to the attention of Congress and the country.
(II)The sum of $32,000, but not exceeding the sum which may Memorial archway.Plans, construction, etc.remain of said unexpended balance after the said payment to Frederick A. Roziene is made, for the purpose of securing designs and plans for, and the construction of, a memorial archway to be erected at the intersection of Clay Street, extended, in the said city of Vicksburg, within the bounds of the Vicksburg National Military Park. Sec. 2. That the aforesaid memorial archway shall be constructed Vicksburg Memorial Arch Commission.under the supervision and approval of the Secretary of War, and the work shall be committed to a commission, to be known as the “Vicksburg Memorial Arch Commission,” composed of three members who served in the Civil War and participated in the siege and defense of Vicksburg, in eighteen hundred and sixty-three. One of the members Composition.shall be the president of the National Association of Vicksburg Veterans, who served in the Federal Army; one shall be the chairman of the Vicksburg National Park Commission; and one shall be a resident of the State of Mississippi, who served in the Confederate Army, and who shall be designated by the governor of the State of Mississippi. The duties of the commission shall be to secure appropriate Duties, etc.designs and plans for the said archway, to select and employ the architects and sculptors for the erection of the same, and to make contracts therefor not exceeding the available amount herein appropriated. The members of the commission shall receive no compensation. After the dedication thereof, the said structure shall become Structure added to Vicksburg National Park.a part of the National Military Park, at Vicksburg, and be under the control of the Vicksburg National Park Commission. CHAPTER II. Disposal of real property by sale or lease: That the President is Government real estate.Disposal of, acquired for Army storage since April 6, 1917, and no longer needed.hereby authorized, through the head of any executive department, upon terms and conditions considered advisable by him or such head of department, to sell or lease real property or any interest therein or 130appurtenant thereto acquired by the United States of America since April 6, 1917, for storage purposes for the use of the Army, which in the judgment of the President or the head of such department is no longer needed for use by the United States of America, and to execute and deliver in the name of the United States and in its behalf any and all contracts, conveyances, or other instruments necessary to effectuate any such sale or lease. Deposit of proceeds, etc. That all moneys received by the United States as the proceeds of any such sale or lease shall be deposited in the Treasury of the United States to the credit of “Miscellaneous receipts” and a full report of the same shall be submitted annually to Congress. Army cold - storage plant, Chicago, Ill.Exchange authorized for other property, etc. Exchange of Army cold-storage plant, Chicago, Illinois: That the President is hereby authorized, through the Secretary of War, upon terms and conditions considered advisable by the Secretary of War, to dispose of the United States Army cold-storage plant in the city of Chicago, State of Illinois, with machinery and equipment therein contained, and appurtenances thereunto belonging, and to accept in part payment therefor a warehouse adjacent to the Army general supply depot in the city of Chicago, State of Illinois, containing approximately six hundred and fifty thousand square feet of storage *Proviso.*Appropriation for costs of conveyancing.space, together with the land comprising the site of same: *Provided,* That such exchange shall be effected without expenditure for this purpose by the United States, except necessary costs of conveyancing Execution of deeds, etc.not exceeding $500, hereby appropriated for this purpose. The President, through the Secretary of War, is hereby authorized to execute and deliver in the name of the United States of America and in its behalf any and all contracts, conveyances, or other instruments necessary to effect such sale or exchange. Disposal of proceeds, etc. That all moneys received by the United States as the proceeds of such sale or exchange shall be deposited in the Treasury of the United States to the credit of “Miscellaneous receipts,” and a full report of the same shall be submitted to Congress. CHAPTER III. Boughton Memorial Association.May erect building at Fort Leavenworth, Kans. Boughton Memorial Association: That the Boughton Memorial Association, a corporation organized and existing under the laws of the State of Kansas, be, and is hereby, authorized to erect and maintain a suitable building, under such regulations as the Secretary of War may prescribe, in and upon the United States military reservation at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, the plans of such building to be first approved and to be constructed in such location as may be *Proviso.*Use for post office free of charge.prescribed by the Secretary of War: *Provided,* That the use of such portion of the ground floor of said building as may be necessary shall be given to the Post Office Department of the United States, free of charge, for the post-office service of the reservation. CHAPTER IV. Ammunition, explosives, etc.Surplus, etc., may be transferred to other departments.*Post,* p. 193. Transfer of ammunition: That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, authorized to turn over on request from other executive departments of the Government, in his discretion, from time to time, without charge therefor, such ammunition, explosives, and other ammunition components as may prove to be or shall become surplus or unsuitable for the purposes of the War Department and as shall be suitable for use in the proper activities of other executive departments. American Red Cross.Army medical supplies, foodstuffs, etc., may be delivered to, for relief of pressing needs abroad. Medical supplies for the American Red Cross: The Secretary of War is hereby authorized to place at the disposal of the American Red Cross, such medical and surgical supplies, and supplementary and dietary foodstuffs used in the treatment of the sick and injured 131now in Europe and designed for but which are not now essential to the needs of the American Expeditionary Forces, or needed for use in military hospitals in the United States, or as military or hospital stores for the Army of the United States, to be used by said American Red Cross as it shall determine, to relieve and supply the pressing needs of the peoples of countries involved in the late war. The Secretary of War shall prescribe regulations and conditions for Regulations, etc.the selection and delivery of said supplies and foodstuffs to the American Red Cross for the purposes aforesaid. Prosecution of claims by former Government employees: That it Claims against the United States.Prosecution of, by officers, etc., engaged since April 6, 1917, in procuring Army supplies, unlawful.shall be unlawful for any person who, as a commissioned officer of the Army, or officer or employee of the United States, has at any time since April 6, 1917, been employed in any Bureau of the Government and in such employment been engaged on behalf of the United States in procuring or assisting to procure supplies for the Military Establishment, or who has been engaged in the settlement or adjustment of contracts or agreements for the procurement of supplies for the Military Establishment, within two years next after his discharge or other separation from the service of the Government, to solicit employment in the presentation or to aid or assist for compensation in the prosecution of claims against the United States arising out of any contracts or agreements for the procurement of supplies for said Bureau, which were pending or entered into while the said officer or employee was associated therewith. A violation Punishment for.of this provision of this chapter shall be punished by a fine of not more than $10,000 or imprisonment for not more than one year, or *Proviso.*Inconsistent laws repealed.both: *Provided,* That all Acts or parts of Acts inconsistent with any of the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed. Approved, July 11, 1919.
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