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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 42 STAT. · June 30, 1924 · Chapter 178

Chapter 178. Making appropriations for the military and nonmilitary activities of the War Department for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1924, and for other purposes

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CHAP. 178.— An Act Making appropriations for the military and nonmilitary activities of the War Department for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1924, and for other purposes. March 2, 1923. [[H. R. 13793](/us/bill/67/hr/13793).] [[Public, No. 465](/us/bill/67/pl/465).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the followingWar Department appropriations. sums are appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the military and nonmilitary activities of the War Department for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1924, and for other purposes, namely:
TITLE I.—MILITARY ACTIVITIES AND OTHER EXPENSES OF THE WAR DEPARTMENT INCIDENT THERETO.Department military activities, etc. office of secretary of war.Secretary’s Office Salaries: Secretary of War, $12,000; Assistant Secretary, $10,000;Secretary, Assistant, assistant and chief clerk, clerks, etc. Assistant and Chief Clerk, who shall sign such official papers and documents as the Secretary may direct, $4,000; private secretary to the Secretary, $2,500; clerk to the Secretary, $2,000; stenographer to the Secretary, $2,000; clerk to the Assistant Secretary, $2,400; assistant chief clerk, $2,400; disbursing clerk, $2,750; deputy disbursing clerk, $2,000; principal clerks—one $2,500, one $2,250, one $2,000; chiefs of divisions—two at $2,500 each, two at $2,200 each, 1378one $2,000; chief telegrapher, $1,800; clerks—ten of class four, ten of class three, two at $1,500 each, nineteen of class two, twenty-six of class one, four at $1,000 each; foreman, $1,400; carpenter, $1,200; engineer $900; skilled laborers—one $1,080, one $900; chief messenger, $1,000; messengers—two at $1,000 each, six at $840 each; four assistant messengers at $720 each; telephone supervisor, $1,020; thirteen telephone switchboard operators at $840 each; five laborers at $660 each; chauffeurs—one $1,000, one $840; six watchmen at $720 each; messenger boy, $480; charwoman, $240; in all, $199,320. contingent expenses, war department.
For purchase of professional and scientific books, law books, including their exchange; books of reference, blank books, pamphlets, periodicals, newspapers, maps; typewriters and adding machines, and other labor-saving devices, including their repair and exchange; furniture and repairs to same; carpets, matting, linoleum, filing equipment, photo supplies, towels, ice, brooms, soap, sponges, fuel, gas, and heating apparatus for buildings, electric power, electric light; repairs to, alterations and installations in Government-owned buildings (other than those under the supervision of the Superintendent of the State, War, and Navy Department Buildings) occupied by the War department and its bureaus; maintenance, repair, and operation of motor trucks and motor cycles, and one motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicle, to be used only for official purposes; freight and express charges; street car fares, not exceeding $750; and other absolutely necessary expenses, including a per diem allowance not to exceed $4 in lieu of subsistence, $99,810.
Stationery.For stationery for the department and its bureaus and offices, $60,000. Postage.For postage stamps for the department and its bureaus, as required under the Postal Union, to prepay postage on matters addressed to Postal Union countries, $375. Printing and binding.For printing and binding for the War Department, its bureaus and offices, and for all printing and binding for the field activities under the War Department, except such as may be authorized in *Proviso*. Medical bulletins.accordance with existing law to be done elsewhere than at the Government Printing Office, $600,000: *Provided*, That the sum of $3,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, may be used for the publication, from time to time, of bulletins prepared under the direction of the Surgeon General of the Army, for the instruction of medical officers, when approved by the Secretary of War, and not For Chief of Engineers.exceeding $75,000 shall lie available for printing and binding under the direction of the Chief of Engineers. contingencies of the army.
Army contingencies.For all contingent expenses of the Army not otherwise provided for and embracing all branches of the military service, including the office of the Chief of Staff; for all emergencies and extraordinary expenses, including the employment of translators and exclusive of all other personal services in the War Department or any of its subordinate bureaus or offices at Washington, District of Columbia, or in the Army at large, but impossible to be anticipated or classified: to be expended on the approval or authority or the Secretary of War, and for such purposes as he may deem proper, including the payment of a per diem allowance not to exceed $4, in lieu of subsistence, to employees of the War Department traveling on official business outside of the District of Columbia and away from their 1379designated posts, $70,480: *Provided*, That not to exceed $42,480 of*Provisos.* Sale of war supplies, adjusting claims etc. the money herein appropriated shall be expended for the payment of salaries of civilian employees connected with the sale of war supplies and the adjustment of war contracts and claims: *Provided further*, That none of the funds appropriated in this Act shall beTransfer of surplus property to other activities restricted. used for the payment of expenses connected with the transfer of surplus property of the War Department to any other activity of the Government where the articles or lots of articles to be transferred are located at any place at which the total surplus quantities of the same commodity are so small that their transfer would not, in the opinion of the Secretary of War, be economical: *Provided further*, That none of the funds appropriated or made availableCivilian pay restriction. under this Act shall be used for the payment of any salary in excess of $5,000 per annum to any civilian employee in the War Department, unless otherwise specifically provided by law.
General Staff Corps.General Staff Corps. contingencies, military intelligence division.Military Intelligence Division. For contingent expenses of the Military Intelligence Division,Contingent expenses. General Staff Corps, including the purchase of law books, professional books of reference; subscriptions to newspapers and periodicals; drafting, clerical, and messenger services in the Military Intelligence Division in Washington, District of Columbia; and of theMilitary attachés abroad. military attachés at the United States embassies and legations abroad and rental of offices and garages for such military attachés; the cost of special instruction at home and abroad, and in maintenance of students and attachés; for the hire of interpreters, special agents, and guides and for such other purposes as the Secretary of War may deem proper, including $5,000 for the actualObserving military operations of foreign armies. and necessary expenses of officers of the Army on duty abroad for the purpose of observing operations of armies of foreign States at war, to be paid upon certificates of the Secretary of War that the expenditures were necessary for obtaining military information, $149,000; to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War: *Provided*, That not more than $75,000 shall be expended for drafting,*Provisos.* Drafting, etc., in the District. clerical and messenger services in the Military Intelligence Division, General Staff Corps, in Washington, District of Columbia: *Provided further*, That section 3648, Revised Statutes, shall not applyPeriodicals. [R.
S., sec. 3648, p. 718](/us/rs/s3648/p718). to subscriptions to foreign and professional newspapers and periodicals to be paid for from this appropriation. Clerks, messengers, and laborers, office of the Chief of Staff:Office personnel, Chief of Staff. Chief clerk, $2,500; clerks—one $2,250, four at $2,000 each, six at $1,800 each, ten at $1,600 each, twenty at $1,400 each, twenty at $1,200 each, eighteen at $1,000 each; chief messenger, $1,000; messengers—two at $840 each, six at $720 each; laborer, $720; in all, $117,270.
Adjutant General’s DepartmentAdjutant General’s Department. contingencies, headquarters of military departments, and so forth.Headquarters of military departments, etc. For contingent expenses at the headquarters of the several territorialContingent expenses. departments, corps areas, armies, territorial districts, tactical corps, divisions, and brigades, including the Staff Corps serving thereat, being for the purchase of the necessary articles of office, toilet, and desk furniture, stationery, ice, and potable water for office use when necessary, binding, maps, technical books of reference, professional and technical newspapers and periodicals, pay-1380ment 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, corps areas, districts, armies, and tactical commands, $6,000.
Army War College.army war college. Instruction expenses, etc.For expenses of the Army War College, being for the purchase of the necessary special stationery; textbooks, books of reference, scientific and professional papers and periodicals; maps; police utensils; employment of temporary, technical, or special services and expenses of special lecturers; and for all other absolutely necessary expenses, including $25 per month additional to regular compensation to chief Civilian personnel.clerk for superintendence of the Army War College Building; also for pay of the following:
Chief clerk, $2,000; clerks—two at $1,800 each, seven at $1,600 each, six at $1,400 each, six at $1,200 each, three at $1,000 each; chief engineer, $1,400; assistant engineer, $1,000; captain of the watch, $900; four watchmen, at $720 each; four firemen, at $720 each; packer, $840; three messengers, at $720 each, laborers—one $720, one $600; gardener, $720; five charwomen, at $240 each; in all, $60,540. Fort Leavenworth, Kans.general service schools, fort leavenworth, kansas.
Instruction expenses. School of the Line and General Staff School.For the purchase of textbooks, books of reference, scientific and professional papers, instruments, and material for instruction; employment of temporary, technical, special and clerical services, including the services of one translator at the rate of $150 per month; and for other necessary expenses of instruction, at the School of the Line and the General Staff School, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, $45,000. Post exchanges.military post exchanges.
Maintenance, etc.For continuing the construction, equipment, and maintenance of suitable buildings at military posts and stations, for the conduct of the post exchange, school, reading, lunch, amusement rooms; for the conduct and maintenance of libraries, service clubs, chapels, and Recreation buildings. Vol. 32, p. 282.gymnasiums, including repairs to buildings erected at private cost, in the operation of the Act approved May 31, 1902, and including salaries and travel for civilians employed in the hostess and library services, and for transportation of books and equipment for these services; for the rental of films, purchase of slides, 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 hereafter established. $75,000: *Provided*, That not to exceed $30,000 from this appropriation may be expended for *Provisos*.Libraries and hostess houses.the conduct and maintenance of libraries and not to exceed $30,000 may be expended for the conduct and maintenance of hostess Pay restriction.houses: *Provided further*, That no person paid from this appropriation shall receive a total salary at a rate exceeding $3,500 per annum and not more than two may be employed at $3,500 Appointments excepted from civil service rules, etc.per annum each: *Provided further*, That hereafter civilians employed in the hostess and library services and paid from the appropriation for military post exchanges may be appointed by the Secretary of War without reference to civil-service rules and Children schools prohibition.regulations: *Provided further*, That no part of the $75,000 herein appropriated shall be used for payment of teachers or for equipment of schools for children at military posts. 1381 ORGANIZED RESERVES.Organized Reserves.
Officers’ Reserve Corps: For pay and allowances of reserve officersOfficers’ Reserve Corps. Pay, allowances, and mileage, on active duty. *Provisos.* Mileage allowance for training. called to active duty for fifteen days’ training, $900,000; for pay of reserve officers called to active duty for more than fifteen days in accordance with law, $250,000; for mileage, $250,000: *Provided*, That the mileage allowance to members of the Officers’ Reserve Corps when called into active service for training for fifteen days or less shall not exceed 4 cents per mile: *Provided further*, ThatLand grant deductions not applicable. *Ante*, p. 725. the laws providing for land-grant deductions shall not apply to travel at 4 cents per mile heretofore performed by members of the Officers’ Reserve Corps under the 44 ar Department appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1923, approved June 30, 1922; in all, $1400,000.
Enlisted Reserve Corps: For pay, $5,000.Enlisted Reserve Corps. For divisional and regimental headquarters (*Provided*, That notHeadquarters, training camps, etc. Limit for headquarters. exceeding $60,000 of the funds appropriated in this Act shall be used for the maintenance of divisional and regimental headquarters of the Organized Reserves) and the establishment and maintenance of camps for training of the Organized Reserves, including transportation, operation of motor cars, water and disposal of sewage, preparation of camp sites, and incidental expenses, $350,000.
None of the funds appropriated elsewhere in this Act shall beOther funds not to be used. used for expenses in connection with the Organized Reserves but available supplies and existing facilities at military posts shall be utilized to the fullest extent possible. No portion of this appropriation shall be expended for the pay ofPeriod of pay of officers. a reserve officer on active duty for a longer period than fifteen days, except such as may be detailed for duty with the War DepartmentGeneral Staff duty.
Vol. 41, pp. 760, 765. Other details. General Staff under section 3a and section 5
(b)of the Army Reorganization Act approvedVoL 41, p. 776. June 4, 1920, or who may be detailed for courses of instruction at the general or special service schools of the Army, or who may be detailed for duty as instructors at civilian military training camps appropriated for in this Act, or who may be detailed for duty with tactical units of the Air Service, as provided in section 37a of the Army Reorganization Act approved June 4, 1920, or except one officer of the Medical Reserve Corps: *Provided further*, That pay and allowances of such additional officers*Proviso*. Medical Reserve Corps. Care of Veterans’ Bureau patients by, at Army Hospitals and nurses of the Medical Reserve Corps as are required to supplement the like officers and nurses of the Regular Army in the care of beneficiaries of the United States Veterans’ Bureau treated in Army hospitals may be paid from the funds allotted to the War Department by that bureau under existing law. reserve officers’ training corps.Reserve Officers’ Training Corps. For the procurement, maintenance, and issue, under such regulationsQuartermaster supplies, etc., to units of. as may be prescribed by the Secretary of War, to institutions at which one or more units of the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps are maintained, of such public animals, means of transportations, supplies, tentage, equipment, and uniforms as he may deem necessary, and to forage at the expense of the United States public animals so issued, and to pay commutation in lieu of uniforms at a rate to be fixed annually by the Secretary of War; for transporting said animals and other authorized supplies and equipment from place of issue to the several institutions and training camps and return of same to place of issue when necessary; for the establishmentExpenses of training camps. and 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 1382camps, and to subsist them while traveling to and from such camps and while remaining therein so far as appropriations will permit; Commutation of travel allowance.or in lieu of transporting them to and from such camps and subsisting them while en route, to pay them travel allowance at the rate of 5 cents per mile for the distance by the shortest usually traveled route from the places from which they are authorized to proceed to the camp and for the return travel thereto, and to pay the return travel pay in advance of the actual performance of the travel: for pay for students attending advanced camps at the rate prescribed for soldiers of the seventh grade of the Subsistence, senior division. Vol. 39, p. 193; Vol. 41, p. 776.Regular Army; for the payment of commutation of subsistence to members of the senior division of the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps, at a rate not exceeding the cost of the garrison ration prescribed for the Army, as authorized in the Act approved June 3, *Provisos.* Uniforms, etc., from Army surplus stocks.1916, as amended by the Act approved June 4, 1920, $3,500,000, to remain available until December 31, 1924: *Provided*, That uniforms and other equipment or material issued to the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps in accordance with law shall lie furnished from surplus or reserve stocks of the War Department without payment from this appropriation, except for actual expense incurred in the Price current at time of issue to govern payments for.manufacture or issue: *Provided further*, That in no case shall the amount paid from this appropriation for uniforms, equipment, or material furnished to the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps from stocks under the control of the War Department be in excess of the Additional mounted, etc., units, forbidden.price current at the time the issue is made: *Provided further*, That none of the funds appropriated in this Act shall be used for the organization or maintenance of additional mounted, motor transport, tank, or air units in the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps: Transportation, etc., of students to national rifle match.*Provided further*, That not to exceed $10,000 of the total appropriated by this Act may be expended for the transportation of authorized Reserve Officers’ Training Corps, students, who may be competitors in the national rifle match, and to subsist them while traveling to and from said match and while remaining thereat. Other schools and colleges.military supplies and equipment for schools and colleges. Military supplies, equipments, etc., for. Vol. 41, p. 780. [R. S., sec. 1225, p. 215](/us/rs/s1225/p215).For the procurement and issue as provided in section 55–c of the Act approved June 4, 1920, and in section 1225, Revised Statutes, as amended, under such regulations as may be prescribed by the Vol. 41, p. 776.Secretary of War, to schools and colleges, other than those provided for in section 40 of the Act above referred to, of such arms, tentage, and equipment, including the transporting of same, and the overhauling and repair of personal equipments, machine-gun outfits, and horse equipments, as the Secretary of War shall deem *Proviso.* Ordnance purchases excluded.necessary for proper military training in said schools and colleges, $1,000: *Provided*, That no part of this appropriation shall be expended for the purchase of arms or other ordnance equipment. Civilian training camps.civilian military training camps. Uniforms, transportation, etc., expenses on attending. Vol. 39, p. 193; Vol. 41, p. 779.For furnishing, at the expense of the United States, to warrant officers, enlisted men, and civilians attending training camps maintained under the provisions of section 47–d of the National Defense Act of June 3, 1916, as amended by the Act of June 4, 1920, uniforms, including altering, fitting, washing, and cleaning when necessary, subsistence, and transportation, or in lieu of such transportation and of subsistence for travel to and from camps, travel allowances Maintenance.at 5 cents per mile, as prescribed in said section 47–d; for such expenditures as are authorized by said section 47–d as may be necessary for the establishment and maintenance of said camps, $2,000,1383000, together with the unexpended balance of the appropriationBalance available, etc. *Ante*, p. 720. for this purpose for the fiscal year 1923, to remain available until December 31, 1924: *Provided*, That the funds herein appropriated*Provisos.* Age limitation reduced. shall not be used for the training of any person who is over twenty-four years of age except those who have received training in either of the training camps held during the calendar years 1921 and 1922: *Provided further*, That uniforms and other equipment or materialUniforms, etc., from Army surplus stocks. furnished in accordance with law for use at civilian military training camps shall be furnished from surplus or reserve stocks of the War Department without payment from this appropriation, except for actual expense incurred in the manufacture or issue: *Provided further*,Price current at time of issue to govern payments for. That in no case shall the amount paid from this appropriation for uniforms, equipment, or material furnished in accordance with law for use at civilian military training camps from stocks under control of the War Department be in excess of the price current at the time the issue is made. adjutant general’s office.Adjutant General’s Office. Salaries: Chief clerk, $2,750; assistant chief clerk. $2,400; fiveCivilian personnel in. chiefs of divisions at $2,400 each; twelve principal clerks at $2,000 each; clerks—eighty-nine of class four, ninety of class three, one hundred and fifty-four of class two, three hundred and eighty-eight of class one, forty-seven at $1,000 each; engineer, $1,400; firemen— one $1,000, one $720; skilled mechanic, $1,200; typewriter repairer, $1,100; eighteen messengers at $840 each; thirty-five assistant messenger’s at $720 each; four watchmen at $720 each; five skilled laborers at $840 each; twenty laborers at $660 each; eleven messenger boys at $480 each; two charwomen at $240 each; in all, $1,145,330; all employees provided for by this paragraph for The Adjutant General’sEmployees restricted to work of office. Office of the War Department shall be exclusively engaged on work of this office for the fiscal year 1924. office of the inspector general.Inspectors General’s Office. Salaries: Chief clerk, $2,000; clerks—two of class four, two ofCivilian personnel in. class three, three of class two, four of class one; messenger, $840; in all, $18,640. office of the judge advocate general.Judge Advocate General’s Office. Salaries: Chief clerk and solicitor, $2,500; patent expert, $3,600;Civilian personnel in. clerks—two of class four, four of class three, six of class two, twenty of class one, two at $1,000 each; messenger, $840; assistant messenger, $720; in all, $52,060. Finance Department.Finance Department. pay, and so forth, of the army.Pay of the Army, etc. Pay of officers: For pay of officers of the line and staff,Line and staff officers. $31,214,358: *Provided*, That no part of the money herein appropriated*Proviso.* Limitation on pay of officers on Promotion List promoted to captains hereafter. shall be used for the pay and allowance of officers on the “Promotion List” who shall be promoted to the grade of captain after the passage of this Act, unless said promotion shall have been made in the following manner, which is hereby established as the method of promotion to the grade of captain of officers on said Promotion List, to wit: 1384 Promotions first of lieutenants discharged from grade of captain. *Ante*, pp. 722, 840.“So long as there shall remain in the grade of first lieutenant any officer discharged in the grade of captain and recommissioned in the grade of first lieutenant in accordance with the provisions of the Act of June 30, 1922, as amended by the Act of September 14, 1922, who was appointed in the grade or captain in the Regular Vol. 41, p. 774.Army under the provisions of section 24 of the Act of June 4, 1920 (Public Numbered 242, Sixty-sixth Congress), promotions of officers on the Promotion List to the grade of captain shall be made *Proviso.* Enlistment of boys under twenty-one restricted.solely from such officers”: *Provided*, That no part of the funds herein appropriated shall be utilized for the recruiting or enlistment of boys under the age of twenty-one years without the written consent of the parents or guardians, if any, of such boys, or unless the applicant furnishes a birth certificate or the affidavit of two disinterested witnesses showing such applicant for enlistment to be twenty-one years of age. National Guard.For pay of officers, National Guard, $100. Warrant officers.For pay of warrant officers, $1,846,080. Aviation increase.For aviation increase, to commissioned and warrant officers of the Army, $950,000. Longevity, officers.For additional pay to officers for length of service, $5,306,778. Enlisted men.Pay of enlisted men: For pay of enlisted men of the line and *Proviso.* Authorized number.staff, not including the Philippine Scouts, $53,494,207: *Provided*, That the total authorized number of enlisted men, not including the Philippine Scouts, shall be one hundred and twenty-five thousand. National Guard.For pay of enlisted men of National Guard, $100. Aviation increase.For aviation increase to enlisted men of the Army, $200,000: *Proviso.* Limitation.*Provided*, That this appropriation shall not be available for increased pay on flying status to more than six hundred enlisted men. Philippine Scouts.For pay of the enlisted men of the Philippine Scouts, $1,060,140. Longevity.For additional pay for length of service to enlisted men, $2,122,327. Retired list. Officers.Pay of persons with retired status: For pay of the officers on the retired list, $7,000,000. On active duty.For increased pay to retired officers on active duty, $207,560. Enlisted men.For pay of retired enlisted men, $7,000,000. Validation of pay of retired enlisted men in civil offices.Payments heretofore made to retired enlisted men of the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, or Coast Guard, under appointments to civil offices with a compensation of $2,500 or more per annum, are hereby validated. Enlisted men on active service.For increased pay and allowances of retired enlisted men on active duty, $15,750. Pay clerks.For pay of retired pay clerks, $13,500. Veterinarians.For pay of retired veterinarians, $3,570. Headquarters, of territorial departments, Corps areas, etc.Pay of Army field clerks and civil service messengers at headquarters of the several territorial departments, corps areas, Army and corps headquarters, territorial districts, tactical divisions and brigades, service schools, camps and ports of Army field clerks, etc., at.embarkation and debarkation:Army field clerks—seven at $2,000 each, thirty-two at $1,800 each, fifty-three at $1,600 each, seventy at $1,400 each, eighty-eight at $1,200 each; sixty-five messengers at $720 each; in all, $406,800. Increase of pay for serving in the Philippines, repealed. Vol. 38, p. 353, repealed.The provision in the Act approved April 27, 1914, making appropriations for the support of the Army for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1915, that the pay of clerks and messengers at headquarters of territorial departments, tactical divisions, brigades and service schools, who are citizens of the United States, shall be increased $200 each per annum while serving in the Philippine Islands, is hereby repealed. Assignment to Department duty forbidden.No clerk, messenger, or laborer at headquarters of tactical divisions, military departments, brigades, service schools, and office of 1385the Chief of Staff shall be assigned to duty in any bureau of the War Department. Miscellaneous: For pay and allowances of contract surgeons,Contract surgeons. $41,100. For pay of nurses, $660,000.Nurses. For pay of hospital matrons, $2,200.Hospital matrons. For expenses of courts-martial, courts of inquiry, military commissions,Courts martial, etc. retiring boards, and compensation of reporters and witnesses attending same, and expenses of taking depositions and securing other evidence for use before the same, $70,000. For rental allowances, including allowances for quarters for enlistedRental allowances. men on duty where public quarters are not available, $6,097,644. Nothing contained in any existing laws, or regulations or orders Issue of beat and light to persons while receiving rental allowances, forbidden.promulgated in pursuance of law, shall authorize on or after July 1, 1922, the issue of heat or light in kind to any person in the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Coast Guard, Coast and Geodetic Survey, and Public Health Service while such person is receiving an allowance*Ante*, p. 628. for rental of quarters under the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to readjust the pay and allowances of the commissioned and enlisted personnel of the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Coast Guard, Coast and Geodetic Survey, and Public Health Service,” approved June 10, 1922. For subsistence allowances, $5,069,800.Subsistence allowances. For interest on soldiers’ deposits, $100,000.Soldiers’ interest. For pay of expert accountant for the Inspector General’s Department,Expert accountant. $2,500. For payment of exchange by officers serving in foreign countriesLoss by exchange. and when specially authorized by the Secretary of War, by officers disbursing funds pertaining to the War Department when serving in Alaska and all foreign money received shall be charged to and paid out by disbursing officers of the Army at the legal valuation fixed by the Secretary of the Treasury, $5,000. For additional pay to officers below the grade of major requiredOfficers furnishing mounts. to be mounted and who furnish their own mounts, $50,000. All the money hereinbefore appropriated for pay of the ArmyAccounting and disbursing as one fund. and miscellaneous shall be disbursed and accounted for as pay of the Army, and for that purpose shall constitute one fund: *Provided*,*Proviso.* Restriction on employing additional persons. That under this provision no amount shall be used for the employment of any additional persons over the number for which the specific appropriations herein provide. None of the funds herein, heretofore, or hereafter appropriatedDeath gratuities. Payment to nondependent married child, etc., forbidden. shall be used for payment of the six months’ pay (authorized by the Act of December 17, 1919, to be paid to certain specified beneficiaries of officers or enlisted men of the Regular Army who died from wounds or disease not the result of their own misconduct) to any married child or unmarried child over twenty-one years of age of a deceased officer or enlisted man who is not actually a dependent of such deceased officer or enlisted man. None of the money appropriated in this Act shall be used toPay forbidden any retired officer employed asagent to sell supplies, etc., to Department. pay any officer on the retired list of the Army who is employed by any individual, partnership, corporation, or association as a sales or contract agent or as the manager or directing head of sales or contracts for the purpose of selling, contracting for the sale of, negotiating for the sale of, or furnishing to the Army or the War Department any supplies, materials, equipment, lands, buildings, plants, vessels, or munitions. And none of the money appropriatedRetired officer employed by parties making direct sales to Department or Army. in this Act shall be used to pay any officer on the retired list of the Army who is employed by any individual, partnership, corporation, 1386or association regularly or frequently engaged in making direct sales of any merchandise or material to the War Department or the Army. Mileage.mileage of the army. Officers, etc.For mileage, reimbursement of actual traveling expenses, or per diem allowances in lieu thereof, as authorized by law, to commissioned officers, warrant officers, contract surgeons, expert accountant, Inspector General’s Department, Army field clerks and field clerks of the Quartermaster Corps, when authorized by law, $1,000,000. Finance Service.finance service. Pay of clerks, etc. *Proviso.* Auditing World War contracts.For compensation of clerks and other employees of the Finance Department, $1,460,000: *Provided*, That $500,000 of this amount shall be available only for the compensation and traveling expenses of clerks and other employees engaged on work pertaining to the audit Personal services in War Department office.of World War contracts, and of this amount not to exceed $25,000 shall be available for personal services, at salaries not in excess of $3,000 per annum, in the office of the Chief of Finance, War Department. Private property damages, etc.claims for damages to and loss of private property. Payment of claims for.For payment of claims of not to exceed $500 in amount for damages to and loss of private property incident to the training, practice, operation, or maintenance of the Army that have accrued, or may *Proviso*. Settlement through General Accounting Office.hereafter accrue, from time to time, $40,000: *Provided*, That settlement of such claims shall be made by the General Accounting Office, 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. Destruction of private property.claims of officers, enlisted men, and nurses of the army for destruction of private property. Paying claims of officers, etc., for, in the service. Vol. 41, p. 1436.For the payment of claims of officers, enlisted men, and nurses of the Army for private property lost, destroyed, captured, abandoned, or damaged in the military service of the United States, under the provisions of an Act approved March 4, 1921, $23,000. Chief of Finance Office.Office of the Chief of Finance. Civilian personnel in.Salaries: Assistant to Chief of Finance, $5,000; chief clerk, $2,750; chiefs of divisions—one $3,000, one $2,750; principal clerks— one $2,400, one $2,250, four at $2,000 each; clerks—thirty-two of class four, twenty of class three, forty-four of class two, sixteen at $1,300 each; fifty-seven of class one; two messengers, at $840 each; two assistant messengers, at $720 each; auditors for Bed Cross accounts—one $3,500, one $3,000, two at $2,750 each; in all, $281,670. Quartermaster Corps.Quartermaster Corps. Subsistence. Purchase of supplies for issue, etc.Subsistence of the Army: Purchase of subsistence supplies: For issue as rations to troops, including enlisted men of the Enlisted Reserve Corps, retired enlisted men when ordered to active duty, civil employees when entitled thereto, hospital matrons, applicants for enlistment while held under observation, general prisoners of 1387war (including Indians held by the Army as prisoners, but for whose subsistence appropriation is not otherwise made), Indians employed by the Army as guides and scouts, and general prisoners at posts; for the subsistence of the masters, officers, crews, and employees of the vessels of the Army Transport Service; hot coffee for troops traveling when supplied with cooked or travel rations; meals for recruiting parties and applicants for enlistment while under observation; for sales to officers, including members of theSales to officers, etc. Officers’ Reserve Corps while on active duty, and enlisted men of the Army: *Provided*, That the sum of $12,000 is authorized to be*Provisos*. Competitors in national rifle match. expended for supplying meals or furnishing commutation of rations to enlisted men of the Regular Army and the National Guard who may be competitors in the national rifle match: *Provided further*,Ration restrictions. That no competitor shall be entitled to commutation of rations in excess of $1.50 per day, and when meals are furnished no greater expense than that sum per man per day for the period the contest is in progress shall be incurred. For payments: Of commutationPayments. Commutation of rations, etc. of rations to the cadets of the United States Military Academy in lieu of the regular established ration; of the regulation allowances of commutation in lieu of rations to enlisted men on furlough, enlisted men when stationed at places where rations in kind can not be economically issued, including enlisted men of the Enlisted Reserve Corps and retired enlisted men when ordered to active duty, and when traveling on detached duty where it is impracticable to carry rations of any kind, enlisted men selected to contest for places or prizes in department and Army rifle competitions when traveling to and from places of contest, applicants for enlistment and general prisoners while traveling under orders. For payment of the regulation allowances of commutation in lieu of rations for enlisted men, applicants for enlistment while held under observation, civilian employees who are entitled to subsistence at public expense, and general prisoners sick therein, to be paid to the surgeon in charge; advertising: for providing prizes to be established byAdvertising, prizes for bakers, cooks, etc. 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 schools not to exceed $900 per annum; and for other necessary expenses incident to the purchase, testing, care, preservation, issue, sale, and accounting for subsistence supplies for the Army; in all, $14,350,000. None of the funds appropriated in this Act shall be used forRestriction on prices at sales commissaries. the payment of expenses of operating sales commissaries other than in Alaska, Philippine Islands, and China, at which the prices charged do not include the customary overhead costs of freight, handling, storage, and delivery, notwithstanding the provisions ofVol. 23, p. 103. the Act of July 5, 1884. None of the funds appropriated in this Act shall be used forUtilities to include overhead costs of sales of services and supplies. payment of expenses of operating any utility of the War Department selling services or supplies at which the cost of the services or supplies so sold does not include all customary overhead costs of labor, rent, light, heat, and other expenses properly chargeable to the conduct of such utility. Regular supplies of the Army: Regular supplies of the QuartermasterRegular quartermaster supplies. 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 1388Heat and light to officers’ quarters, etc.picture machines; authorized issues of candles and matches; for furnishing heat and light for the authorized allowance of quarters for officers, enlisted men, warrant officers, and field clerks, including enlisted men of the Enlisted Reserve Corps, 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 Recreation buildings, etc. Vol. 32, p. 282.recruits, guards, hospitals, storehouses, offices, the buildings erected at private cost, in the operation of the Act approved May 31, 1902, and buildings for a similar purpose on military reservations authorized by War Department regulations; for sale to officers, and including also fuel and engine supplies required in the operation of modern Bakeries, ice machines, and laundries.batteries at established posts; for post bakeries, including bake ovens and apparatus pertaining thereto and the repair thereof; for ice machines and their maintenance where required for the health and comfort of the troops and for 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; materials for cleaning and preserving ordnance and ordnance stores except at establishments under the direct control of the Chief of Ordnance; for cold storage; for the construction and maintenance of laundries at military posts in the United States and its island possessions; authorized Supplies for schools.issues of soap, toilet paper, and towels; for the necessary furniture, textbooks, paper, and equipment for the post schools and libraries, and for schools for noncommissioned officers; for the purchase and issue of instruments, office furniture, stationery, and other authorized articles for the use of officers’ schools at the several military posts; for purchase of relief maps for issue to organizations, commercial newspapers, market reports, and so forth; for the tableware and mess furniture for kitchens and mess halls, each and all for Forage, etc., for animals.the enlisted men, including recruits; for forage, salt, and vinegar for the horses, mules, 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, Stationery, printing, etc.the cost of irrigation; for straw for soldiers’ bedding, stationery, typewriters and exchange of same, including blank books and blank forms for the Army, certificates for discharged soldiers, and for *Proviso*. Allotments to designated objects.printing department orders and reports, $11,500,000: *Provided*, That from this appropriation, not to exceed $710,000 shall be expended for the pay of civilian employees; not to exceed $1,250,000 shall be expended for power, heat, and electric current; not to exceed $40,000 shall be expended for maintenance and repair of buildings (including repair of machinery) for laundries; not to exceed $200,000 shall be expended for the maintenance and repair of heating apparatus (other than stoves); not to exceed $150,000 for maintenance and repair of electric wiring and fixtures; not to exceed $10,000 for the repair and exchange of typewriters; not to exceed $3,750,000 for fuel; not to exceed $4,900,000 for forage, including salt and vinegar and bedding for animals, and straw for soldiers’ wedding; not to exceed $200,000 for ice; and not to exceed $100,000 shall be expended for stationery. 1389 Clothing and equipage: For cloth, woolens, materials, and forClothing, etc. Purchase, manufacture, etc. the purchase and manufacture of clothing for the Army, including enlisted men of the Enlisted Reserve Corps and retired enlisted men when ordered to active duty, for issue and for sale; for payment of commutation of clothing due to warrant officers of the Mine Planter Service and to enlisted men; for altering and fitting clothing and washing and cleaning when necessary; for operation of laundries; for the authorized issues of laundry materials for use of general prisoners confined at military posts without pay or allowances, and tor applicants for enlistment while held under observation; for equipment and repair of equipment of dry-cleaning plants, salvage and sorting storehouses, hat repairing shops, shoe repair shops, clothing repair shops, and garbage reduction works; for equipage,Equipage, toilet articles, etc. 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 citizen’sIssue of citizen’s outer clothing, etc. outer clothing, to cost not exceeding $30, to be issued when necessary to each soldier discharged otherwise than honorably; to each enlisted man convicted by civil court for an offense resulting in confinement in a penitentiary or other civil prison; and to each enlisted man ordered interned by reason of the fact that he is an alien enemy, or, for the same reason, discharged without internment; for indemnity to officers and men of the Army for clothing andIndemnity for destroyed clothing, etc. bedding, and so forth, destroyed since April 22, 1898, by order of medical officers of the Army for sanitary reasons, $4,655,000. Incidental expenses of the Army: Postage; hire of laborersIncidental expenses. in the Quartermaster Corps, including the care of officers’ mounts when the same are furnished by the Government; compensationCivilian employees, etc. 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, $4,400,000. Transportation of the Army and its supplies: For transportationTransportation. of the Army and its supplies, including transportation of the troops when moving either by land or water, and of their baggage, including warrant officers, enlisted men of the Enlisted Reserve Corps, and retired enlisted men when ordered to active duty, including the cost of packing and crating; for transportation of recruits and recruiting parties, of applicants for enlistment between recruiting stations and recruiting depots; for travel allowance to officersTravel allowance, National Guard. and enlisted men on discharge; for payment of travel allowance as provided in section 3 of the Act approved February 28, 1919, toVol. 40, p. 1203. enlisted men of the National Guard on their discharge from the service of the United States, and to members of the National Guard who have been mustered into the service of the United States, and discharged on acount of physical disability; for payment of travelNational Guard officers on discharge. pay to officers of the National Guard on their discharge from the 1390Vol. 31, p. 902.service of the United States, as prescribed in the Act approved March 2, 1901; for travel allowance to discharged prisoners and persons discharged from the Government Hospital for the Insane after transfer thereto from such barracks or place to their homes (or elsewhere, as they may elect), provided the cost in each case shall not be greater than to the place of last enlistment; of the necessary agents and other employees, including per diem allowances in lieu of subsistence not exceeding $4 for those authorized to Transporting dependents.receive the per diem allowance; for payment of transportation costs for dependents of officers and enlisted men as provided by law; 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 of funds of the Army; for Payment to land grant roads not bond aided.the payment of Army transprotation lawfully due such land-grant railroads as have not received aid in Government bonds (to be adjusted in accordance with the decisions of the Supreme Court in cases decided under such land grant Acts), but in no case shall *Provisos*. Compensation rates.more than 50 per centum 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 for all Fifty per cent to roads not bond aided.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 demands for such service: Full pay to excepted roads.*Provided further*, That nothing in the preceding provisos shall be construed to prevent the accounting officers of the Government from making full payment to land-grant railroads for transportation of property or persons where the courts of the United States have held that such property or persons do not come within the Draft and pack animals, vehicles, etc.scope of the deductions provided for in the land grant Acts; for the purchase and hire of draft and pack animals in such numbers as are actually required for the service, including reasonable provision for replacing unserviceable animals; for the purchase, hire, operation, maintenance, and repair of such harness, wagons, carts, drays, other vehicles, and horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles as are required for the transportation of troops and supplies and for official, military, and garrison purposes; for drayage and Ships, boats, etc.cartage at the several depots; for the repair of ships, boats, and other vessels required for the transportation of troops and supplies 1391and for official, military, and garrison purposes; for expenses ofTransports. sailing public transports and other vessels on the various rivers, the Gulf of Mexico, and the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, $15,850,000: *Provided*, That not more than $10,000 of this appropriation shallLimit for animals. be expended for the purchase of draft or pack animals or animal-drawn vehicles: *Provided further*, That no money appropriated byMotor vehicle restriction. this Act shall be expended for the hire, operation, maintenance, or repair of any motor-propelled vehicle which shall be employed wholly or in part for personal, social, or similar use, except such use as is prescribed by order for the transportation of Army personnel in connection with the recreational activities of the Army: *Provided, further*, That $100,000 of the appropriation hereby madeHarbor boat employees. shall be available for additional pay for employees on harbor boats, quartermaster service, in lieu of subsistence: *And provided further*, That none of the funds appropriated or made available under thisPurchase of motor vehicles restricted. Act or any of the unexpended balances of any other Act shall be used for the purchase of motor-propelled passenger or freight carrying vehicles for the Army except those that are purchased solely for experimental purposes. On and after July 1, 1923, the cost of transportation of materialTransporting materials for designated activities payable from their appropriations. in connection with the manufacturing and purchasing activities of the Signal Corps, Ordnance Department, Chemical Warfare Service, Air Service, Medical Department, Engineer Department, and the Coast Artillery Corps, and in connection with the construction and installation of fire-control projects at seacoast fortifications by the Coast Artillery Corps may be charged to the appropriations for the work in connection with which such transportation charges are required; and the Budget estimates for each or such appropriationsEstimates to include amounts. shall hereafter carry separately the amounts required for such transportation costs. Water and sewers at military posts: For procuring and introducingWater, sewers, etc., at posts. water to buildings and premises at such military posts and stations as from their situations require to be brought from a distance; for the installation and extension of plumbing within buildings where the same is not specifically provided for in other appropriations; for the purchase and repair of fire apparatus, including fire-alarm systems; for the disposal of sewage, and expenses incident thereto; for repairs to water and sewer systems and plumbing; for hire of employees, $2,025,000: *Provided*,*Proviso.* New construction work limited. That not to exceed $50,000 of this appropriation shall be expended for new construction work. horses for cavalry, artillery, engineers, and so forth.Horses. For the purchase of horses of ages, sex, and size as may be prescribedPurchases, etc. by the Secretary of War for remounts for officers entitled to public mounts for the Cavalry, Artillery, Signal Corps, and Engineers, the United States Military Academy, service schools, and staff colleges, and for the Indian scouts, and for such Infantry and members of the Medical Department in field campaigns as may be required to be mounted, and the expenses incident thereto (including $25,000 for purchase of remounts and $150,000 for encouragementEncouraging breeding of riding horses. of the breeding of riding horses suitable for the Army, including cooperation with the Bureau of Animal Industry, Department of Agriculture, and for the purchase of animals for breeding purposes and their maintenance), $210,000: *Provided*,*Provisos.* Number limited. That the number of horses purchased under this appropriation, 1392added 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 Open market purchases.of the Secretary of War. When practicable, horses shall be purchased in open market at all military posts or stations, when needed, within a maximum price to be fixed by the Secretary of War: Standard required.*Provided further*, That no part of this appropriation shall be expended for the purchase of any horse below the standard set by Army Regulations for Cavalry and Artillery horses, except when purchased as remounts or for instruction of cadets at the United States Polo ponies restricted.Military Academy: *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 Acceptance of donated breeding animals, etc.other place: *And provided further*, That the Secretary of War may, in his discretion, and under such rules and regulations as he may prescribe, accept donations of animals for breeding and donations of money or other property to be used as prizes or awards at agricultural fairs, horse shows, and similar exhibitions, in order to encourage the breeding of riding horses suitable for Army Report of expenditures.purposes: *And provided further*, That the Secretary of War shall report annually to Congress, at the commencement of each session, a statement of all expenditures under this appropriation, and full particulars of means adopted and carried into effect for the encouragement of the breeding of riding horses suitable for the military service. Military posts.military posts. Construction, etc., of buildings.For the construction and enlargement at military posts of such buildings as in the judgment of the Secretary of War may be necessary, including all appurtenances thereto, $239,875, including Designated works.$124,875 for continuation of construction at Fort Benning, Georgia, $85,000 for barracks at Langley Field, Virginia, and $30,000 for an addition to the hospital at Fort Sill, Oklahoma. Hawaiian Islands.military posts, hawaiian islands. Schofield Barracks. Constructing buildings, etc.For completion of refrigerating plant, Schofield Barracks, including ice-making machinery and equipment therefor, $81,500; for continuation of construction of the Ku Tree Reservoir, $200,000; for construction of magazines for storage of ammunition, $32,000; for construction of six standard storehouses, $54,000; for one shop for care and preservation of ordnance material, $18,000; in all, $385,500. Barracks and quarters.barracks and quarters. Construction, repairs, etc.For barracks, quarters, stables, storehouses, magazines, administration and office buildings, sheds, shops, and other buildings necessary for the shelter of troops, public animals, and stores, and for administration purposes, except those pertaining to the Coast Artillery; for construction of reclamation plants; for constructing and repairing public buildings at Rental allowances.military posts; for hire of employees; for rental of the authorized allowance of quarters for officers on duty with the troops at posts and stations where no public quarters are available; of barracks or authorized allowance of quarters for noncommissioned officers and enlisted men, men on duty where public quarters are not available, including retired enlisted men, and members of the enlisted 1393Reserve Corps when ordered to active duty; for grounds for cantonments,Grounds for camp sites, etc. 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 wall lockersFurnishings, etc. in permanent barracks and refrigerators in barracks and quarters; for screen doors, window screens, storm doors and sash, and window shades for barracks and officers’ quarters, and for flooring and framing for tents, and for the National Guard when called or drafted into the service of the United States, $3,116,203: *Provided*, That this*Provisos.* Rent for military attachés excluded. appropriation shall not be available for rent for military attachés: *Provided further*, That the appropriation for barracks and quartersRent for garages but not for offices of military attachés, allowed. *Ante*, p. 732. for the fiscal year 1923 made in the War Department appropriation Act approved June 30, 1922, shall be available for the rental of garages and stables for military attachés and for rental of garages for motor-propelled vehicles when Government-owned garages are not available, but shall not be available for rental of offices for military attachés. Barracks and Quarters, Philippine Islands.Philippine Islands. Continuing the work of providing for the proper shelter and protectionShelter of troops 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 United States troops in China,Rentals in China. $300,000: *Provided*, That no part of the said sum shall be expended*Proviso.* Construction of others’ quarters restricted. for the construction of quarters for officers of the Army except in case of emergency with the approval of the Secretary of War, in which case the total cost, including the heating and plumbing apparatus, wiring, and fixtures, shall not exceed in the case of quarters of a general officer the sum of $8,000, of a colonel or officer above the rank of a captain, $6,000, and of an officer of and below the rank of captain, $4,000. roads, walks, wharves, and drainage.Roads, wharves, etc. For the construction and repair by the Quartermaster Corps ofConstruction, 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, $650,000: *Provided*, That*Proviso.* Camps, etc., excluded. none of the funds appropriated or made available under this Act shall be used for the permanent construction of any new roads, walks, or wharves connected with any of the National Army cantonments or National Guard camps. shooting galleries and ranges.Shooting galleries and ranges. For shelter, grounds, observation towers, shooting galleries,Expenses of. ranges for small-arms target practice, machine-gun practice, field, mobile, and railway 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, $24,800. 1394 Rent.rent of buildings, quartermaster corps. 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 1924, $89,102:*Proviso.* Restriction. *Provided*, That this appropriation shall not be available if space is provided by the Public Buildings Commission in Government-owned buildings. Fort Monroe, Va.sewerage system, fort monroe, virginia, wharf, roads, and sewer. Wharf.For repair and maintenance of wharf and apron of wharf, including all necessary labor and material therefor, fuel for waiting rooms; water, brooms, and shovels, $15,000; wharfinger, $900; four laborers, $2,880; in all, $18,780; for one-third of said sum, to be supplied by the United States, $6,260. Roads, etc.For rakes, shovels, and brooms; repairs to roadway, pavements, macadam and asphalt block; repairs to street crossings; repairs to street drains, $2,499; six laborers cleaning roads, at $720 each; in all, $6,819; for two-thirds of said sum to be supplied by the United States, $4,546. Sewers, etc.For waste, oil, motor and pump repairs, sewer pipe, cement, brick, stone, and supplies, $1,200; two engineers, at $1,200 each; two laborers, at $720 each; in all, $5,040; for two-thirds of said sum, to be supplied by the United States, $3,360. Hospitals.construction and repair of hospitals. Construction, repairs, etc.For construction and repair of hospitals at military posts already established and occupied, including 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 hospitals in standing camps and cantonments; for the alteration of permanent buildings at posts for use as hospitals, construction and Temporary camp hospitals, etc.repair of temporary hospital buildings at permanent posts, construction and repair of temporary general hospitals, rental or purchase of grounds, and rental and alteration of buildings for use for hospital purposes in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, including necessary temporary quarters for hospital personnel, out buildings, heating and laundry apparatus, plumbing, water and sewers, and electric work, cooking apparatus, and roads and walks *Proviso.* New construction forbidden except at Fort Benning, Ga.for the same, $772,000: *Provided*, That no part of this appropriation shall be used for the construction of new hospitals except that not electric work, cooking apparatus, and roads and walks $772,000: *Provided*, That no part of this appropriation exceeding $275,000 may be used for the construction and completion of a hospital at Fort Benning, Georgia. Quarters for hospital stewards.quarters for hospital stewards. Maintenance.For maintenance and repair of quarters for hospital stewards at military posts already established and occupied, $10,000. Quartermaster General’s Office.Office of the Quartermaster General. Civilian personnel in.Salaries: Chief clerk, $2,750; principal clerks—two at $2,400 each, five at $2,250 each, four at $2,000 each; clerks—twenty-two of class four, thirty of class three, sixty-eight of class two, one hundred and eighty-three of class one, eighteen at $1,000 each; draftsmen—one $2,400, one $2,000, one $1,800, four at $1,600 each, four at $1,400 each; electrical engineer, $3,200; marine engineer, $3,500; execu1395tive assistant, $4,000; architect, $3,600; structural engineer, $3,600; mechanical engineer, $3,600; civil engineers—one $3,600, one $3,000; traffic clerks—two at $2,000 each, one $1,800; textile expert, $2,000; carpenter, $1,200; mimeograph operator, $1,200; two multigraph operators at $1,200 each; four photostat operators at $1,200 each; blueprint operator, $1,000; four blueprinters at $900 each; five messengers at $840 each; twelve assistant messengers at $720 each; four laborer’s at $720 each; in all, $531,220. The sum of $25,000 of the appropriation available for the fiscalCemeterial division. To compile data, etc., of disposition of remains from abroad. *Post*, p. 1417. year 1924 for the “Disposition of remains of officers, soldiers, and civilian employees” may be expended for personal services in the Cemeterial Division, office of the Quartermaster General, for compiling, recording, preparing, and transmitting data incident to bringing home and disposition of remains from abroad: *Provided*,*Proviso*. Pay restriction. That no person shall be employed under this allotment at a rate of compensation exceeding $1,800 per annum except one person at $3,000. Signal Corps.Signal Corps. 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 equipment and stores, heliographs, signal lanterns, nags, and other necessary instruments; wind vanes, barometers, anemometers, thermometers, and other meteorological instruments; photographic and cinematographic work performed for the Army by the Signal Corps; motor cycles, motor-driven and other vehicles for technical and official purposes in connection with the construction, operation, and maintenance of communication or signaling systems, and supplies for their operation and maintenance; professional and scientific books of reference, pamphlets, periodicals, newspapers, and maps for use in the office of the Chief Signal Officer and the Signal Corps School, Camp Alfred Vail, New Jersey; telephone apparatus, including rental and payment forTelephones. 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 serviceExceptions. for the various bureaus of the War Department in the District of Columbia, and toll messages pertaining to the office of the Secretary of War; electric time service; the rental of commercial telegraph lines and equipment and their operation at or connecting any post, camp, cantonment, depot, arsenal, headquarters, hospital, aviation station, or other office or station of the Army, including payment for individual telegraph messages transmitted over commercial lines; electrical installations and maintenance at military Electrical installation at posts, etc.posts, cantonments, camps, and stations of the Army, fire control and direction apparatus and matériel for Field Artillery; salariesCivilian employees. of civilian employees, including those necessary as instructors at vocational schools; supplies, general repairs, reserve supplies, and other expenses connected with the collecting and transmitting of information for the Army by telegraph or otherwise; experimentalExperimental research, etc. investigation, research, purchase and development or improvements in apparatus, and maintenance of signaling and accessories thereto, including patent rights and other rights thereto, including machines, instruments, and other equipment for laboratory and repair purposes; tuition, laboratory fees, and so forth, for Signal Corps officers detailed to civilian technical schools for the purpose of pursuing technical courses of instruction along Signal Corps lines; 1396Buildings for supplies, etc.lease, alteration, and repair of such buildings required for storing or guarding Signal Corps supplies, equipment, and personnel when not otherwise provided for, including the land therefor, the introduction of water, electric light and power, sewerage, grading, roads *Proviso*. Allotments for designated purposes.and walks, and other equipment required, $1,875,000: *Provided*, That not to exceed $475,000 from this appropriation may be expended for salaries and wages of civilian employees, the foregoing imitation not to apply to temporary labor necessary in carrying out authorized construction or repair projects nor mechanics or labor employed on the manufacture or repair of Signal Corps apparatus in Signal Corps shops or laboratories; not to exceed $475,000 may be expended for commercial and existing Government-owned telephone and telegraph service; not to exceed $500,000 may be expended for signal equipment for organizations; not to exceed $5,000 may be expended for pigeon service; not to exceed $75,000 may be Camp Alfred Vail, N. J.expended for photographic and cinematographic service; and not to exceed $75,000 may be expended for the operation and maintenance of Camp Alfred Vail. Fire-control installations.seacoast defenses, united states. Seacoast defenses. United States.For operation and maintenance of fire-control installations at seacoast defenses, $140,000. seacoast defenses, insular possessions. Insular possessions.For operation and maintenance of fire-control installations at seacoast defenses, insular possessions, $25,000. seacoast defenses, panama canal. Panama Canal.For operation and maintenance of fire-control installations at seacoast defenses, Panama Canal, $10,000. Chief Signal Officer’s Office.Office of the Chief Signal Officer. Civilian personnel in.Salaries: Chief clerk, $2,000; clerks—four of class four, four of class three, seven of class two, eight of class one, two at $1,000 each; two messengers, at $840 each; one assistant messenger, $720; Draftsmen, etc., paid from other appropriations.laborer, $660; in all, $40,060. The services of skilled draftsmen and such other services as the Secretary of War may deem necessary may be employed only in the Signal Office to carry into effect the various appropriations for fortifications and other works of defense, and for the Signal Service of the Army, to be paid from such appropriations, in addition to the foregoing employees appropriated *Proviso*. Limit, etc.for in the Signal Office: *Provided*, That the entire expenditures for this purpose for the fiscal year 1924 shall not exceed $35,000, and the Secretary of War shall each year in the Budget report to Congress the number of persons so employed, their duties, and the amount paid to each. Air Service.Air Service. air service, army. Designated purposes. Flying and balloon schools, aviation stations, etc.For creating, maintaining, and operating at established flying schools and balloon schools courses of instruction for officers, students, and enlisted men, including cost of equipment and supplies necessary for instruction, purchase of tools, equipment, materials, machines, textbooks, books of references, scientific and professional papers, instruments and materials for theoretical and practical 1397instruction; for maintenance, repair, storage, and operation of air-ships,Aircraft operation, construction, etc. war balloons, and other aerial machines, including instruments, materials, 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 the establishment of landing and take-off runways; for purchase of suppliesLanding, etc., runways. for securing, developing, printing, and reproducing photographs in connection with aerial photography; improvement, equipment, maintenance, and operation of plants for testing and experimental work, and procuring and introducing water, electric light and power, gas and sewerage, including maintenance, operation, and repair of such utilities at such plants; for the acquisition of land or interestHelium gas production. in land by purchase, lease, or condemnation where necessary to explore for, procure, or reserve helium gas, and also for the purchase, manufacture, construction, maintenance, and operation of plants for the production thereof and experimentation therewith; salaries and wages of civilian employees as may be necessary, andCivilian employees, etc. payment of their traveling and other necessary expenses as authorized by existing law; transportation of materials in connection with consolidation of Air Service activities; experimental investigation and purchase and development of new types of aircraft, accessories thereto, and aviation engines, including patents and other rights thereto, and plans, drawings, and specifications thereof; for the purchase,Purchase, manufacture, etc., of aircraft, etc. manufacture, and construction of airships, balloons, and other aerial machines, including instruments, gas plants, hangars, and repair shops, and appliances of every sort and description necessary for the operation, construction, or equipment of all types of aircraft, and all necessary spare parts and equipment connected therewith; for the marking of military airways where the purchase of land is not involved; for the purchase, manufacture, and issue ofMilitary airways. special clothing, wearing apparel, and similar equipment for aviation purposes; for all necessary expenses connected with the sale or disposal of surplus or obsolete aeronautical equipment, and theDisposal of surplus equipment, etc. rental of buildings, and other facilities for the handling or storage of such equipment; for the services of such consulting engineers atConsulting engineers, etc. experimental stations of the Air Service as the Secretary of War may deem necessary, including necessary traveling expenses; purchase of special apparatus and appliances, repairs and replacements of same used in connection with special scientific medical research in the Air Service; for maintenance and operation of such Air Service printing plants outside of the District of Columbia as may be authorized in accordance with law; for publications, station libraries,Printing, office supplies, etc. special furniture, supplies and equipment for offices, shops, and laboratories; for special services, including the salvaging of wrecked aircraft, $12,426,000: *Provided*, That not to exceed $2,500,000 from*Provisos.* Allotments for designated purposes. this appropriation may be expended for pay and expenses of civilian employees other than those employed in experimental and research work; not exceeding $500,000 may be expended for experimentation, conservation, and production of helium; not exceeding $3,000,-000 may be expended for experimental and research work with airplanes or lighter-than-air craft and their equipment, including the pay of necessary civilian employees: *Provided*, That not less thanAirplane bombing tests, etc. $50,000 of this amount shall be used for continuation of airplane bombing tests against obsolete naval craft; not exceeding $500,000 may be expended for the production of lighter-than-air equipment; and not exceeding $300,000 may be expended for improvement of stations, hangars, and gas plants for the Regular Army and for such other markings and fuel supply stations and temporary shelter as may be necessary: *Provided further*, That not less than $2,646, 1398New airplanes, etc.000 shall be expended for the production and purchase of new airplanes and their equipment, spare parts, and accessories: Paying damage claim.*Provided further*, That claims not exceeding $250 in amount for damages to persons and private property resulting from the operation of air-craft 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 Aggregate limited.nearest aviation post and approved by the Chief of Air Service and the Secretary of War: *Provided further*, That claims so settled and paid from the sum hereby appropriated shall not exceed in the Periodicals. [R. S., sec., 3648. p. 7l8](/us/rs/s3648/p7l8).aggregate the sum of $4,000: *Provided further*, That section 3648, Revised Statutes, shall not apply to subscriptions for foreign and professional newspapers and periodicals to be paid for from this Restriction on giving exhibition flights.appropriation: *Provided further*, That none of the funds appropriated under this title shall be used for the purpose of giving exhibition flights to the public other than those under the control and direction of the War Department and if such flights are given by Army personnel upon other than Government fields, a bond of indemnity, in such sum as the Secretary of War may require for damages to person or property, shall be furnished the Government by the parties desiring the exhibition. Incurred obligations. Former appropriation available until June 30, 1924. Vol. 41, p. 953.The sum of $400,000 of the appropriation for the Air Service for the fiscal year 1921 contained in the “Act making appropriations for the support of the Army for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1921, and for other purposes,” approved June 5, 1920, shall remain available until June 30, 1924, for the payment of obligations incurred under contracts executed prior to June 30, 1921. Hawaiian Islands.seacoast defenses, insular possessions. Machine shop.For completion of a machine shop in the Hawaiian Islands, $10,000. Office of Chief of Air service.office of the chief of air service. Civilian personnel in.Salaries: Chief clerk, $2,400; principal clerks—one $2,400, two at $2,250 each, two at $2,000 each; clerks—six of class four, ten of class three, thirty-eight of class two, seventy-six of class one; addressograph operator, $900; messengers—two at $840 each, one $720; two messenger boys, at $480 each; two laborers, at $720 each; in all, $190,200. Aeronautical engineers, etc., in Department office.The services of aeronautical engineers, skilled draftsmen, and such technical and other services as the Secretary of War may deem necessary may be employed only in the office of the Chief of Air Service to carry into effect the various appropriations for aeronautical purposes, to be paid from such appropriations, in addition to the foregoing employees appropriated for in the office of the Proviso. Limitation.Chief of Air Service: *Provided*, That the entire expenditure for this purpose for the fiscal year 1924 shall not exceed $90,000, and the Secretary of War shall each year in the Budget report to Congress the number of persons so employed, their duties, and the amount paid to each. Medical Department.Medical Department. medical and hospital department. Medical and hospital supplies.For the manufacture and purchase of medical and hospital supplies, 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 1399required for mosquito destruction, in and about military posts in the Canal Zone; for the purchase of veterinary supplies and hire of veterinary surgeons; for expenses of medical supply depots; forPrivate treatment. medical care and treatment not otherwise provided for, including care and subsistence in private hospitals, of officers, enlisted men, and civilian employees of the Army, of applicants for enlistment, and of prisoners of war and other persons in military custody or confinement, when entitled thereto by law, regulation, or contract; *Provided*, That this shall not apply to officers and enlisted men who*Proviso.* Not applicable if on furlough, etc. Contagious diseases expenses. are treated in private hospitals 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 Army Nurse Corps, 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 tuition of officers of theTuition of officers and Nurse Corps. Vol. 41, p. 786. Medical Department, including the Army Nurse Corps, under section 127–a of the Army Reorganization Act approved June 4, 1920; for the payment of express companies and local transfers employed directly by the Medical Department for the transportation of medical and hospital supplies, including bidders’ samples and water for analysis; for supplies for use in teaching the art of cooking to the enlisted force of the Medical Department; for the supplyHot Springs Hospital, Ark. of the Army and Navy Hospital at Hot Springs, Arkansas; for advertising, laundry, and all other necessary miscellaneous expenses of the Medical Department, $975,000: *Provided*, That no part of*Proviso.* Use for Medical and Surgical History of War with Germany forbidden. this appropriation shall be used for payment of any expense connected with the publication of the Medical and Surgical History of the War with Germany. hospital care, canal zone garrisons.Canal Zone. For paying the Panama Canal such reasonable charges, exclusiveCare of troops at hospitals of Panama Canal. 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 proper military authority, $40,000: *Provided*, That the*Proviso*. Subsistence payments. 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. army medical museum.Army Medical Museum. For Army Medical Museum, preservation of specimens, and thePreserving etc., specimens. preparation and purchase of new specimens, $7,500. library, surgeon general’s office.Library. For the library of the Surgeon General’s Office, including the purchasePurchase of books, etc. of the necessary books of reference and periodicals, $15,000. 1400 Surgeon General’s Office.Office of the Surgeon General. Civilian personnel in.Salaries: Chief clerk, $2,250; principal assistant librarian, $2,250; principal clerk, $2,000; pathologist, $1,800; microscopist, $1,800; two assistant librarians, at $1,800 each; anatomist, $1,600; entomologist, $1,600; photographer, $1,500; translator, $1,800; clerks— fifteen of class four, fifteen of class three, thirty-five of class two, fifty-seven of class one, nine at $1,000 each, two at $900 each; multigraph operator, $1,200; engineer, $1,400; skilled mechanic, $1,000; two messengers, at $840 each; six assistant messengers, at $720 each; chauffeur, $840; three firemen, at $720 each; three watchmen, at $720 each; superintendent of building (Army Medical Museum and Library), $200; six laborers, at $660 each; four charwomen, at $240 each; in all, $219,280. Insular Adairs Bureau.Bureau of Insular Affairs. care of insane filipino soldiers. In the Philippines. Vol. 35, p. 122.For care, maintenance, and treatment at asylums in the Philippine Islands of insane natives of the Philippine Islands cared for in such institutions conformable to the Act of Congress approved May 11, 1908, $1,900. care of insane soldiers of sixty-fifth regiment of infantry. In Porto Rico.For care, maintenance, and treatment at asylums in Porto Rico of insane soldiers of the Sixty-fifth Infantry formerly known as the Porto Rico Regiment of Infantry, $50. Office of Chief of Insular Bureau.office of chief of bureau of insular affairs. Civilian personnel in.Salaries: Chief clerk, $2,250; clerks—ten of class four, six of class three, nine of class two, twelve of class one, six at $1,000 each; three messengers at $840 each; laborer, $660; in all $66,030. Engineer Corps.Corps of Engineers. Engineer depots.engineer depots. Incidental expenses.For incidental expenses for the depots, including fuel, lights, chemicals, stationery, hardware, machinery, pay of civilian clerks, mechanics, laborers, and other employees; 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, $100,000. School D. C.engineer school. Equipment, maintenance, etc.For equipment and maintenance of the Engineer School, including purchase and repair of instruments, machinery, implements, models, boats, and materials for the use of the school and to provide means for the theoretical and practical instruction of Engineer officers and troops in their special duties as sappers and miners; for land mining, pontoniering, and signaling; for purchase and binding of scientific and professional works, papers, and periodicals treating on military engineering and scientific subjects; for textbooks and books of reference for the library of the United States Engineer School; Incidental expenses.for incidental expenses of the school, including chemicals, stationery, hardware, machinery, and boats; for pay of civilian clerks, drafts 1401 men, electricians, mechanics, and laborers; for compensation of civilian lecturers and for payment of tuition fees of not to exceedTuition at civil institutions. fifty student officers at civil technical institutions in addition to the 2 per centum of commissioned officers authorized to attend technical, professional, and other educational institutions as provided for in section 127a of the National Defense Act of June 3, 1916, as amendedVol. 41, p. 756. by the Act of June 4, 1920; for unforeseen expenses; and for travelTravel expenses of officers. expenses of officers on journeys approved by the Secretary of War and made for the purpose of instruction: *Provided*, That the traveling expenses*Provisos*. In lieu of mileage. herein provided for shall be in lieu of mileage and other allowances; and for other absolutely necessary expenses: *Provided further*, That section 3648, Revised Statutes, shall not apply to subscriptionsPeriodicals. [R. S., sec. 3345, p. 718](/us/rs/s3345/p718). for foreign and professional newspapers and periodicals to be paid for from this appropriation, $30,000. engineer equipment of troops.Equipment of troops. For pontoon material, tools, instruments, supplies, and appliancesMaterial, 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 motor cycles; the purchase and preparation of engineer manuals and for a reserve supply of above equipment, $70,000. civilian assistants to engineer officers.Civilian assistants. For services of surveyors, survey parties, draftsmen, photographers,Services of surveyors, etc. master laborers, clerks, and other employees to Engineer officers on the staffs of division, corps, and department commanders, $40,000. engineer operations in the field.Field operations. For expenses incident to military engineer operations in the field,Incidental expenses, etc. including the purchase of material and a reserve of material for such operations, the rental of storehouses within and outside of 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 “Military Surveys and Maps,” $90,000: *Provided*,*Proviso*. Purchase of options on materials. That when to the interest of the Government funds appropriated under this head may be used for the purchase of options on materials for use in engineer operations in the field: *Provided further*, ThatTemporary construction work for training. so much of this appropriation as is necessary to provide facilities for Engineer training of troops may be expended for military construction work of a temporary character at camps and cantonments and at training areas, for training purposes only. contingencies, engineer department, philippine islands.Philippine Islands. For contingent expenses incident to the operations of the EngineerEngineer contingencies. Department in the Philippine Islands, to be expended at the discretion of the Secretary of War, $2,000. military surveys and maps.Military surveys and maps. For the execution of topographic and other surveys, the securingExpenses of executing. of such extra topographic data as may be required, and the preparation and printing of maps required for military purposes, to be immediately available and remain available until December 31, 1402*Proviso*. Assistance of other offices.1924, $25,000: *Provided*, That the Secretary of War is authorized to secure the assistance, wherever practicable, of the United States Geological Survey, the Coast and Geodetic Survey, or other mapping agencies of the Government in this work and to allot funds therefor to them from this appropriation. Fortifications. Seacoast defenses, United States. Plans, etc.seacoast defenses. united states. For the preparation of plans for fortifications and other work of defense, $10,000. Gun and mortar batteries.For construction of gun and mortar batteries, $57,000. Installation of electric plants, etc.For the installation and replacement of electric light and power plants at seacoast fortifications in the United States, and the purchase and installation of searchlights for seacoast defenses in the United States, $26,500. Sea walls, etc.For construction of sea walls and embankments, $4,500. Preservation, etc.For protection, preservation, and repair of fortifications for which there may be no special appropriation available, and of structures Submarine mine defense.for the submarine mine defense of the United States and for maintaining channels for access to submarine mine wharves, $274,880. Maintaining searchlights, electric plants, etc.For maintenance and repair of searchlights and electric light and power equipment for seacoast fortifications, and for tools, electrical and other supplies, and appliances to be used in their operation, including the purchase of reserve lights, $75,000. Construction expenses.For contingent expenses incident to the construction of seacoast fortifications and their accessories, under the Engineer Department, $20,000. Constructing submarine mine structures, etc.For construction of mining casemates, cable galleries, submarine-mine storehouses, cable tanks, and other structures necessary for the operation, preservation, and care of submarine mines and their accessories, and for providing channels for access to submarine-mine wharves, $4,500. Insular possessions.seacoast defenses, insular possessions. Plans, etc.For preparation of plans for fortifications and other works of defense in the insular possessions, $4,000. Seacoast batteries, Hawaii.For construction of seacoast batteries in the Hawaiian Islands, $44,000. Installing electric plants, Hawaii.For the installation and replacement of electric light and power plants at the defenses of the Hawaiian Islands, $12,500. Philippines.For the installation and replacement of electric light and power plants at the defenses of the Philippine Islands, $200,000. Preservation, etc.For promotion, preservation, and repair of fortifications, Submarine mine defense.including structures for submarine mine defense, for which there may be no special appropriation available, and for maintaining channels for access to submarine mine wharves, in the insular possessions, $50,000. Searchlights and electric plants.For maintenance and repair of searchlights and electric light and power equipment for seacoast fortifications and for tools, electrical and other supplies, and appliances to be used in their operation in the insular possessions, $35,000. Panama Canal.seacoast defenses, panama canal. Plans, etc.For preparation of plans for fortifications and other works of defense, including surveys for roads, Canal Zone, $3,000. Preservation, etc.For protection, preservation, and repair of fortifications of the Panama Canal, for which there may be no special appropriation 1403available, including structures erected for submarine mine defense,Submarine mine defense. and for maintaining channels for access to submarine mine wharves. $40,000. For maintenance and repair of searchlights and electric light andSearchlights and electric plants. power equipment for fortifications and for tools, electrical and other supplies, and appliances to be used in their operation, $30,000. office of chief of engineers.Office of Chief of Engineers. Salaries: Chief clerk, $2,250; two chiefs of divisions at $2,000Civilian personnel in. each; clerks—eight of class four, twelve of class three, seventeen of class two, twenty-six of class one, six at $1,000 each; three messengers at $840 each; two assistant messengers, at $720 each; laborer, $660; in all, $105,470. The services of skilled draftsmen, civil engineers, and such otherDraftsmen, etc., payable from other appropriations. 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 rivers and harbors, surveys, preparation for and the consideration of river and harbor estimates and bills, fortifications, engineer equipment of troops, engineer operations in the field, and other military purposes, to be paid from such appropriations: *Provided*, That the expenditures on this account*Proviso.* Limitation. for the fiscal year 1924 shall not exceed $150,000; the Secretary of War shall each year, in the Budget, report to Congress the number of persons so employed, their duties, and the amount paid to each. Ordnance Department.Ordnance Department. ordnance service. For the current expenses of the Ordnance Department in connectionCurrent expenses. with purchasing, receiving, storing, and issuing, ordnance and ordnance stores, comprising police and office duties, rents, tolls, fuel, light, water, and advertising, stationery, typewriters, and adding machines, including their exchange, and office furniture, tools, and instruments of service; for incidental expenses of the Ordnance Service and those attending practical trials and tests of ordnance small arms, and other ordnance stores; for instruction purposes; for publications for libraries of the Ordnance Department, including the Ordnance Office; subscriptions to periodicals, which may be paid for in advance; and payment for mechanical labor in the office of the Chief of Ordnance; and for maintenance, repair, and operation of motor-propelled or horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles, $1,044,000. ordnance stores, ammunition.Ordnance stores. For the development, manufacture, purchase, and maintenance ofManufacture of airplane bombs, ammunition for small arms, etc. airplane bombs; of ammunition for small arms and for hand use for reserve supply; of ammunition for burials at the National Soldiers’ Home in Washington, District of Columbia, and of ammunition for firing the morning and evening gun at military posts prescribed by General Orders, Numbered 70, Headquarters of the Army, dated July 23, 1867, and at National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers and its several branches, including National Soldiers’ Home at Washington, District of Columbia, and Soldiers’ and Sailors’ State homes; for manufacture and purchase of ammunition, For small arms, etc., target practice.targets, and other accessories for small arms, hand and machine gun target practice and instruction: and ammunition, targets, target materials, and other accessories which may be issued for small-arms target practice and instruction at the educational institutions and 1404State soldiers’ and sailors’ orphans’ homes to which issues of small arms are lawfully made, under such regulations as the Secretary of War may prescribe, $574,000. Manufacture of arms.manufacture of arms. At arsenals for issue.For manufacturing, repairing, procuring, and issuing arms at the national armories, $374,000. Stores and supplies.ordnance stores and supplies. Preserving, etc.For overhauling, cleaning, repairing, and preserving ordnance and ordnance stores in the hands of troops and at the arsenals, posts, and depots, except material for cleaning and preserving at places other than establishments under the direct control of the Chief of Purchase, etc., for troops.Ordnance; for purchase and manufacture of ordnance stores to fill requisitions of troops, $120,000. Automatic machine rifles.automatic rifles. Purchase, manufacture, etc.For the purchase, manufacture, test, repair, and maintenance of automatic machine rifles, or other automatic or semiautomatic guns, including their mounts, sights, and equipments, and the machinery necessary for their manufacture, to remain available until June 30, 1925, $224,000. Tanks.tanks. Purchase, etc., of, and other armored vehicles.For the purchase, manufacture, test, maintenance, and repair of tanks and other self-propelled armored vehicles, to remain available until June 30, 1925, $169,000. Armament.field artillery armament. Mountain, field, and siege cannon.For purchase, manufacture, and test of mountain, field, and siege cannon, including their carriages, sights, implements, equipments, and the machinery necessary tor their manufacture, $400,000. Ammunition for.For purchase, manufacture, maintenance, and test of ammunition for mountain, field, and siege cannon, including the necessary experiments in connection therewith, the machinery necessary for its manufacture, and the necessary storage facilities, $250,000. Altering, etc., mobile artillery.For alteration and maintenance of the mobile artillery, including the purchase and manufacture of machinery, tools, and materials necessary for the work and the expenses of the mechanics engaged thereon, $448,500. Ammunition, etc., for practice.For purchase, manufacture, and test of ammunition, subcaliber guns, and other accessories for mountain, field, and siege artillery practice, including the machinery necessary for their manufacture, $65,000. Proving grounds.proving grounds, army. Current expenses.For current expenses of the ordnance proving grounds, comprising the maintenance of rail and water transportation, repairs, alterations, accessories, and service of employees incidental to testing and proving ordnance and ordnance matériel, hire of assistants for the Ordnance Board, purchase of instruments and articles required for testing and experimental work, building and repairing butts and targets, clearing and grading ranges, $200,000. 1405 rock island bridge, rock island, illinois.Rock Island Arsenal. III. For operating, repair, and preservation of Rock Island bridgesBridges, etc., expenses. and viaduct, and maintenance and repair of the arsenal street connecting the bridges, $25,000. testing machines.Testing machines. For necessary professional and skilled labor, purchase of materials,Operating expenses. tools, and apliances for operating the testing machines, for investigative test and tests of material in connection with the manufacturing work of the Ordnance Department, and for instruments and materials for operating the chemical laboratory in connection therewith, and for maintenance of the establishment, $26,250. repairs of arsenals.Arsenals. For repairs and improvements of arsenals and depots, and toRepairs. meet such unforeseen expenditures as accidents or other contingencies during the year may render necessary, including machinery for manufacturing purposes in the arsenals, $550,000. seacoast defenses, united states.Seacoast defenses. United States. armament of fortifications.Armament. For purchase, manufacture, and test of seacoast cannon for coastSeacoast cannon. defense, including their carriages, sights, implements, equipments, and the machinery necessary for their manufacture, $403,500. For purchase, manufacture, and test of ammunition for seacoast Ammunition for.cannon, and for modernizing projectiles on hand, including the necessary experiments in connection therewith, and the machinery necessary for its manufacture, $141,750. For purchase, manufacture, and test of ammunition, subcaliber Ammunition, etc., for practice.guns, and other accessories for seacoast artillery practice, including the machinery necessary for their manufacture, $50,000. For alteration and maintenance of seacoast artillery, includingAltering, etc., seacoast artillery. the purchase and manufacture of machinery, tools, materials necessary for the work, and expenses of civilian mechanics, $319,000. seacoast defenses, insular possessions.Insular possessions. For purchase, manufacture, and test of ammunition for seacoastAmmunition for sear coast cannon. cannon, including the necessary experiments in connection therewith, and the machinery necessary for its manufacture, $62,700. For alteration and maintenance of the seacoast artillery, includingAltering, etc., seacoast artillery. the purchase and manufacture of machinery, tools, and materials necessary for the work, and expenses of the civilian mechanics, $80,000. seacoast defenses, panama canal.Panama Canal. For the purchase, manufacture, and test of ammunition for seacoastAmmunition for seacoast, etc., cannon. and land defense cannon, including the necessary experiments in conection therewith, and the machinery necessary for its manufacture, $80,000. For the alteration and maintenance and installation of the seacoastAltering, etc., seacoast artillery. artillery, including the purchase and manufacture of machinery, tools, and materials necessary for the work, and expenses of civilian mechanics, $60,000. 1406 Office of Chief of Ordnance.office of chief of ordnance. Civilian personnel in.Salaries: Chief clerk, $2,500; chief of division, $2,000; principal clerk, $2,000; clerks—nine of class four, twelve of class three, twenty-five of class two, forty-four of class one, twelve at $1,000 each; two messengers at $840 each; two assistant messengers at $720 each; laborer, $660; in all, $145,480. Draftsmen, etc., from other appropriations.The services of skilled draftsmen and such other services as the Secretary of War may deem necessary may be employed only in the office of the Chief of Ordnance to carry into effect the various appropriations for the armament of fortifications and for the arming and equipping of the National Guard, to be paid from such *Proviso.* Limit.appropriations: *Provided*, That the entire expenditures for this purpose for the fiscal year 1924 shall not exceed $250,000, and the Secretary of War shall each year in the Budget report to Congress the number of persons so employed, their duties, and the amount paid to each. Chemical Warfare Service.Chemical Warfare Service. Purchase, manufacture, etc., of gases, etc.For the purchase, manufacture, and test of chemical warfare gases or other toxic substances, gas masks, or other offensive or defensive materials or appliances required for gas warfare purposes, including all necessary investigations, research, design, experimentation, and operations connected therewith; purchase of chemicals, special Buildings, machinery, etc.scientific and technical apparatus and instruments; construction, maintenance, and repair of plants, buildings, and equipment, and the machinery therefor; receiving, storing, and issuing of supplies, comprising police and office duties, rents, tolls, fuel, gasoline, lubricants, paints and oils, rope and cordage, light, water, advertising, stationery, typewriters and adding machines, including their exchange, office furniture, tools, and instruments; for incidental expenses; for civilian employees; for libraries of the Chemical Warfare Service and subscriptions to periodicals which may be paid Organizing special gas troops, etc.for in advance; for expenses incidental to the organization, training, and equipment of special gas troops not otherwise provided for, including the training of the Army in chemical warfare, both offensive and defensive, together with the necessary schools, tactical Current expenses.demonstrations, and maneuvers; for current expenses of chemical projectile filling plants and proving grounds, including construction and maintenance of rail transportation, repairs, alterations, accessories, building and repairing butts and targets, clearing and grading ranges, $700,000. Office, Chief of Chemical Warfare Service.office of chief of chemical warfare service. Civilian personnel in.Salaries: Clerks—one of class four, one of class three, five of class two, five of class one; messenger, $840; in all; $17,240. Chemists, etc., for office.The services of chemists and such other services as the Secretary of War may deem necessary may be employed only in the office of the Chief of the Chemical Warfare Service to carry into effect the appropriation for Chemical Warfare Service, to be paid from such *Proviso*. Limit.appropriation: *Provided*, That the total expenditures for this purpose for the fiscal year 1924 shall not exceed $15,000, and the Secretary of War shall each year in the Budget report to Congress the number of persons so employed, their duties, and the amount paid to each. 1407 National Board for Promotion of Rifle Practice.Promotion of rifle practice. quartermaster supplies and services for rifle ranges for civilian instruction.Civilian instruction. To establish and maintain indoor and outdoor rifle ranges for theQuartermaster supplies for rifle ranges, etc. use of all able-bodied males capable of bearing arms, under reasonable regulations to be prescribed by the National Board for the Promotion of Rifle Practice and approved by the Secretary of War; for the employment of labor in connection with the establishment of outdoor and indoor rifle ranges, including labor in operating targets; for the employment of instructors; for clerical services;Instructors, etc. 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, andParticipation in matches. their participation in national and international matches, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War, and to remain available until expended, $89,900: *Provided*, That out of the said*Proviso*. Transportation, etc., of rifle teams. sum of $89,900 there may be expended for the payment of transportation, for supplying meals, or furnishing commutation of subsistence of civilian rifle teams authorized by the Secretary of War to participate in the national matches, not to exceed $80,000. national trophy and medals for rifle contests.Rifle contests. For the purpose of furnishing a national trophy and medals andFurnishing national trophy, medals, etc., for annual. other prizes to be provided and contested for annually, under such regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary of War, said contest to be open to the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and the National Guard or Organized Militia of the several States, Territories, and of the District of Columbia, members of rifle clubs, and civilians, and for the cost of the trophy, prizes, and medals herein provided for, and for the promotion of rifle practice throughout the United States, including the reimbursement of necessary expensesReimbursing members of National Board. of members of the National Board for the Promotion of Rifle Practice, to be expended for the purposes hereinbefore prescribed, under the direction of the Secretary of War, $7,500. ordnance equipment for rifle ranges for civilian instruction.Ordnance equipment. For arms, ammunition, targets, and other accessories, for targetArms, etc., for target practice at rifle ranges. practice for issue and sale in accordance with rules and regulations prescribed by the National Board for the Promotion of Rifle Practice and approved by the Secretary of War, in connection with the encouragement of rifle practice, in pursuance of the provisions of law, $100. Chief of Infantry. infantry school, fort benning, georgia.Infantry School, Fort Benning, Ga. For the purchase of textbooks, books of reference, scientific andInstruction expenses. professional papers; instruments and material for instruction, employment of temporary, technical, special, and clerical services, including the services of one translator at the rate of $150 per month, and for the necessary expenses of instruction at the Infantry School, Fort Benning, Georgia, $35,000. 1408 Tank Service.tank service. Civilian employees.For payment of the necessary civilian employees to assist in handling the clerical work in the office of the tank center, tank schools, and the various tank organization headquarters, including the Office of the Chief of Infantry; and for the payment of the necessary mechanics to assist in repairing and preserving tanks in the hands of tank units, $25,000. Tank schools.Incidental expenses in connection with the operation of the tank schools, $2,000. Cavalry school, Fort Riley, Kans.Chief of Cavalry. cavalry school, fort riley, kansas. Instruction expenses.For the purchase of textbooks, books of reference, scientific and professional papers, instruments, and material for instruction; employment of temporary, technical^ special, and clerical services; and for other necessary expenses of instruction at the Cavalry School, Fort Riley, Kansas, $17,600. Field Artillery School, Fort Sill, Okla.Chief of Field Artillery. field artillery schools. Instruction expenses.For the purchase of textbooks, books of reference, scientific and professional papers, instruments, and material for instruction; employment of temporary, technical, special, and clerical services; and for other necessary expenses of instruction, at the Field Artillery School at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, $18,000. Field Artillery activities.instruction in field artillery activities. Instruction at brigade firing centers.To provide means for the theoretical and practical instruction in Field Artillery activities at the two brigade firing centers at Font Sill, Oklahoma, and Camp Bragg, North Carolina, by the purchase of modern instruments and material for theoretical and practical instruction, for the tuition of officers detailed as students at civil educational institutions, and for all other necessary expenses, to be allotted in such proportion as may, in the opinion of the Secretary of War, be for the best interests of the service, $5,000. Chief of Coast Artillery. Coast Artillery School, Fort Monroe, 7a.coast artillery school, fort monroe, virginia. Instruction 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, for office furniture and fixtures, machinery, motor trucks, and unforeseen expenses, $11,900. Special apparatus, etc.For purchase of engines, generators, motors, machines, measuring and nautical instruments, special apparatus, and materials for the enlisted specialists division, $9,540. For purchase of special apparatus and materials and for experimental purposes for the artillery and military art department, $1,200. For purchase of engines, generators, motors, machines, measuring instruments, special apparatus, and materials for the engineering department, $2,000. 1409 For purchase and binding of professional books treating of militaryBooks, etc. and scientific subjects for library, for use of school, and for temporary use in coast defenses, $2,360: *Provided*, That section 3648,*Provisos*.Periodicals.[R. S., sec. 3648, p. 718](/us/rs/s3648/p718). Revised Statutes, shall not apply to subscriptions for foreign and professional newspapers and periodicals to be paid for from this appropriation: *Provided further*, That purchase and exchange ofSpecial typewriters, etc. typewriting machines, to be paid for from this appropriation, may be made at the special price allowed to schools teaching stenography and typewriting without obligating typewriter companies to supply these machines to all departments of the Government at the same price. seacoast defenses, united states.Fortifications. Seacoast defenses, United States. For construction of fire-control stations and accessories, includingConstructing fire control stations. purchase of lands and rights of way, purchase and installation of necessary lines and means of electrical communication, including telephones, dial and other telegraphs, wiring and all special instruments, apparatus, and materials, coast-signal apparatus, subaqueous, sound, and flash ranging apparatus, including their development, and salaries of electrical experts, engineers, and other necessary employees connected with the use of coast artillery; purchase,Range finders, etc. manufacture, and test of range finders and other instruments for fire control at the fortifications, and the machinery necessary for their manufacture at the arsenals, $128,000. For purchase, manufacture, and test of submarine-mine matériel,Accessories for submarine-mine practice, etc. and other accessories for submarine-mine practice, including the machinery necessary for their manufacture, $3,000. For maintenance of submarine-mine matériel within the limits ofSubmarine mine supplies, etc. continental United States; purchase of necessary machinery, tools, and implements for the repair shop of the torpedo depot, United States Army, at Fort Totten, New York, and for torpedo depot Fort Totten torpedo depot.administration and experimental work, $20,000. For maintenance of Coast Artillery war-instruction matériel atWar-instruction supplies. Coast Artillery posts, including necessary material and labor therefor, $1,000. seacoast defenses, insular possessions.Insular possessions. For construction of fire-control stations and accessories, includingConstructing fire control stations, etc. purchase of lands and rights of way, purchase and installation or necessary lines and means of electrical communication, including telephones, dial and other telegraphs, wiring and all special instruments, apparatus and materials, coast signal apparatus, subaqueous, sound and flash ranging apparatus, including their development, and salaries of electrical experts, engineers, and other necessary employees connected with the use of coast artillery; purchase, manufacture, and test of range finders and other instruments for fireRange finders, etc. control at the fortifications, and the machinery necessary for their manufacture, in the Hawaiian Islands, $37,000. For maintenance of the submarine mine matériel in the insularSubmarine mine supplies. possessions, $3,000. seacoast defenses, panama canal.Panama Canal. For the construction of fire-control stations and accessories, includingConstructing fire control stations, etc. purchase of lands and rights of way, purchase and installations of necessary lines and means of electrical communication, including telephones, dial and other telegraphs, wiring and all special instruments, apparatus and materials, coast-signal apparatus, subaqueous, sound and flash ranging apparatus, including their development, 1410 and salaries of electrical experts, engineers, and other necessary employees connected with the use of coast artillery, purchase, Range finders.manufacture, and test of range finders and other instruments for fire control at the fortifications, and the machinery necessary for their manufacture, $25,000. Submarine mine supplies.For alteration, maintenance, and repair of submarine mine matériel, $3,000. Office, Chief of Coast Artillery.office of chief of coast artillery. Civilian personnel in.Salaries: Chief clerk, $2,000; clerks—one of class four, two of class three, three of class two, four of class one, two at $1,000 each; messenger, $720; in all, $18,720. Militia Bureau.Militia Bureau. National Guard, arming, etc.arming, equipping, and training the national guard. Forage, etc., for animals.For procurement of forage, bedding, and so forth, for animals, $1,400,000. Care of equipment, etc.For compensation of help for care of matériel, animals, and equipment, $2,100,000. Instruction camps.For expenses, camps of instruction, $10,200,000. Service schools instruction.For expenses, selected officers and enlisted men, military service schools, $325,000. Property, etc., officers.For pay of property and disbursing officers for the United States, $70,000. Equipment and instruction expenses.For general expenses, equipment and instruction, National Guard, $800,000. Travel, Army officers.For travel of officers and noncommissioned officers of the Regular Army in connection with the National Guard, $450,000. Property repairs.For repair of Federal property issued to the National Guard, $50,000. Transporting supplies.For transportation of equipment and supplies, $375,000. Sergeant instructors.For expenses, sergeant-instructors, $500,000. For office rent, and so forth, instructors, $5,000. Pay, armory drills.For pay of National Guard (armory drills), $11,039,140. Field service.arms, uniforms, equipment, and so forth, for field service, national guard. Purchase or manufacture of arms, equipment. etc., for issue. Requisitions from governors, etc.To procure by purchase or manufacture and issue from time to time to the National Guard upon requisition of the governors of the several States and Territories, or the commanding general, National Guard of the District of Columbia, such number of United States service arms with all accessories, Field Artillery and Coast Artillery materiel, Engineer, Signal, and sanitary matériel, accouterments, field uniforms, clothing, equipage, publications, and military stores of all kinds, and a reserve supply of such arms, materiel, accouterments, field uniforms, clothing, equipage, and military stores of all kinds, as are necessary to arm, uniform, and equip for field service the National Guard of the several States, Territories, and the District *Proviso*. Clothing, equipments, etc., from surplus Army stores.of Columbia, $2,500,000: *Provided*, That the Secretary of War is hereby directed to issue from surplus or reserve stores and matériel now on hand and purchased for the United States Army such articles of clothing and equipment and Field Artillery, Engineer, and Signal matériel and ammunition as may be needed by the National Guard Vol. 39, p. 197. Vol. 41, p. 780organized under the provisions 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, as amended by the 1411Act approved June 4, 1920. This issue shall be made without chargeNot charged to militia funds. against militia appropriations, except for actual expenses incident to such issue, which shall be charged against militia funds for bothPurchases excluded. the fiscal years 1923 and 1924. None of the funds appropriated in this paragraph shall be used for purchase of arms, Field Artillery, Engineer, or Signal materiel, public animals, or chevrons. The mounted, motorized, air, medical, and tank units of the Reduction of mounted, etc., units.National Guard shall be so reduced that the appropriations made in this Act shall cover the entire cost of maintenance of such units for the National Guard during the fiscal year 1924. Militia Bureau, War Department.Militia Bureau. Salaries: Chief clerk, $2,250; clerks—three of class four, five ofCivilian personnel in. class three, ten of class two, twenty-six of class one, eighteen at $1,000 each; messenger, $840; two assistant messengers, at $720 each; two laborers, at $660 each; in all, $82,450. United States Military Academy.Military Academy. pay of military academy.Pay. Permanent Establishment: For eight professors, $30,000; chaplain,Professors, etc. *Proviso*. Status of master of the sword. $2,750; master of the sword, $3,500: *Provided*, That the present incumbent, upon the completion of his service, shall be entitled to be placed upon the retired list of the United States Army (with the rank of lieutenant colonel) under the same conditions as are prescribed by law for other officers of the Army; constructing quartermaster,Longevity. in addition to his regular pay, $1,000; additional pay of professors and officers for length of service., $13,900; subsistence allowance of professors and officers, $4,818; in all, $55,968. For one thousand two hundred cadets, $936,000.Cadets Military Academy Band: Master sergeant; fifteen staff sergeants; Academy Band.fifteen privates, first class; twenty privates; specialists—fifteen, second class, twenty, third class; additional pay for length of service; in all, $39,212. Field Musicians: Staff sergeant; two corporals; seven privates,Field musicians. first class; twenty-one privates; twenty-eight specialists, sixth class; additional pay for length of service; in all, $11,692. Service Detachment: First sergeant; forty-seven sergeants; twentyService detachment. corporals; fifty-five privates, first class; one hundred and fifty-three privates; specialists—forty, third class, fifty, fourth class, eighty, fifth class; additional pay for length of service; in all, $135,660. Cavalry Detachment: First sergeant; fourteen sergeants; sixteen Cavalry detachment.corporals; sixty-five privates, first class; one hundred and twenty-four privates; specialists—ten, fourth class, thirteen, fifth class, two, sixth class; additional pay for length of service; in all, $92,600. Artillery Detachment: First sergeant; twenty-three sergeants:;Artillery detachment.twenty-one corporals; seventy-five privates, first class; one hundred and eighteen privates; specialists—eight, fourth class, fifteen, fifth class, three, sixth class; additional pay for qualification in gunnery; additional pay for length of service; in all, $96,860. Engineer Detachment: First sergeant; three staff sergeants; nineEngineer detachment. sergeants; twelve corporals; thirty-nine privates, first class; fifty-two privates; specialists—two, third class, three, fourth class, two, sixth class; additional pay for length of service; additional pay for qualification in marksmanship; in all, $53,433. Signal Corps Detachment: Master sergeant; technical sergeant,Signal Corps detachment. staff sergeant; two sergeants; two corporals; three privates, first 1412class; two privates; specialist, fifth class (chauffeur); additional pay for length of service; in all, $8,127. Coast Artillery detachment.Coast Artillery Detachment: First sergeant; master sergeant; technical sergeant; staff sergeant; five sergeants; twenty-one privates, first class; nine specialists, fifth class; additional pay for qualification in gunnery; additional pay for length of service; in all, $18,285. Travel allowance, interest on deposits, etc.Miscellaneous: Travel allowance due enlisted men on discharge; interest on deposits due enlisted men; warrant officers and two staff sergeants, for duty in the Cadet Corps headquarters; two master sergeants; staff sergeants; additional pay for length of service; in all, $15,418. Civilians. Pay of designated employees.Civilians: Teacher of music, $2,000; two chief clerks at $1,800 each; clerks—one $1,500, six at $1,400 each, two at $1,200 each, six at $1,000 each; four clerks and stenographers at $1,200 each; clerk and stenographer to superintendent, $1,500; clerk to the treasurer, $1,800; expert architectural draftsman, $2,500; clerk in the office of the commandant of cadets, $900; two civilian instructors of French and two civilian instructors of Spanish, to be employed under the rules prescribed by the Secretary of War, at $2,000 each; expert civilian instructors in military gymnastics, fencing, boxing, wrestling, and swimming—two at $2,000 each and one at $1,800; librarian, $3,000; assistant librarian, $1,500; custodian of gymnasium, $1,200; superintendent of gas works, $1,500; chief engineer of power plant, $2,700; assistant chief engineer of power plant, $1,100; three assistant engineers of power plant at $1,200 each; eight firemen at $780 each; two oilers at $720 each; draftsman, $1,200; mechanic and attendant, $1,200; mechanic assistant, $840; custodian of academy buildings, $1,000; electrician, $1,600; chief plumber, $1,600; assistant plumber, $900; plumber’s helper, $600; scavenger, $720; chapel organist and choirmaster, $2,000; superintendent of post cemetery, $1,200; engineer and janitor of Memorial Hall, $900; printer, $1,600; assistant printer, $1,100; janitress, Memorial Hall, $600; master mechanic, $1,800; clerk and photographer, $1,300; stenographers, typewriters, attendants, copyists, clerks, librarians, or multigraph operators—one $1,040, two at $1,000 each, one $900, two at $840 each; clerk in the department of economics, government, and history, $840; overseer of waterworks, $720; engineer of steam, electric, and refrigerating apparatus, $1,200; mechanic and attendant, $720; janitor, $600; bookbinder, -$1,200; two book sewers at $540 each; skilled pressman, $1,100; charwoman, $480; messenger, $720; in all, $105,920. Disbursing and accounting as one fund.All of the money hereinbefore appropriated for pay of the Military Academy shall be disbursed and accounted for as pay of the Military Academy, and for that purpose shall constitute one fund. Extra help for cadet mess, etc.For pay of help in preparing and serving the food in the cadet mess, United States Military Academy, a portion of the help in the cadet laundry, and for four clerks in the treasurer’s office, $95,411. In all, pay of civilians, $201,331. *Proviso*. Quarters for civilian instructors.*Provided*, That the civilian instructors employed in the departments of modern languages and tactics shall be entitled to public quarters, fuel, and light. In all, pay, Military Academy, $1,664,586. Maintenance.maintenance, united states military academy. Current expenses. Board of Visitors.Current and ordinary expenses: For the expenses of the members of the Board of Visitors, or so much thereof as may be necessary, $750. Superintendent.Contingencies for superintendent of the academy, $3,000. 1413 Repairs and improvements, namely: Timber, plank, boards, joists,Repairs and improvements. wall strips, laths, shingles, slate, tin, sheet lead, zinc, screws, nails, locks, hinges, glass, paints, turpentine, oils, labor, and so forth, $55,000. For fuel and apparatus, namely: Coal, wood, and so forth, includingFuel, light, etc. labor, $75,000, of which $5,000 shall be immediately available. For gas pipe, gas and electric fixtures, and so forth, $10,000. For fuel for cadets’ mess hall, shops, and laundry, $15,000. For postage and telegrams, $1,200.Postage, stationery, etc For stationery, namely: Blank books, paper, and so forth, $3,500. For transportation of materials, cadets, discharged cadets, andTransportation. so forth, $12,500. Printing and binding, and so forth, $3,000.Printing, etc. For department of Cavalry, Artillery, and Infantry tactics: TanDepartment of Cavalry, Artillery, and Infantry tactics. bark or other proper covering for riding hall, to be purchased in open market upon written order of the superintendent, $1,200. For camp stools, office furniture, and so forth, $4,000. For gymnasium and athletic supplies, and so forth, $10,000. For the supply, maintenance, and upkeep of athletic grounds and stands, $20,640. For the maintenance of one automobile, $300. For repairs to saddles, bridles, and so forth, $250. For the purchase of carbons and for repairs and maintenance of searchlights, and so forth, $250. For the purchase of stationery and office supplies for the office of senior instructor of Coast Artillery tactics, $75. For the purchase of machines, tools, textbooks, and material for the practical instruction of cadets in maintenance, repair, and operation of all classes of motor transportation and automobile or internal combustion engines, $1,000. For repair of mattresses, machines, and so forth, in gymnasium of Cavalry barracks, $100. For material for hurdles, and so forth, riding hall, $600. For general maintenance and repairs to the cadet camp, $10,000.Cadet camp maintenance. For repair of obstacles on mounted drill ground, and for constructing other obstacles, and so forth, $100. For the purchase of thread, wax, needles, and so forth, in the Cavalry stables, $100. For the purchase of thread, wax, needles, and so forth, in the Artillery stables, $200. For material for preserving floors, and so forth, Artillery barracks and stables, $150. For the purchase of tools, machines, and so forth, Artillery gun shed, $500. For repair to mattresses, machines, and so forth, in drill hall and gymnasium of Artillery barracks, $100. For the purchase of new and upkeep of worn-out rubber matting in squad rooms of Artillery barracks, $150. For purchase of stationery and office furniture in office of senior assistant instructor of Field Artillery tactics, $100. For material for preserving floors, and so forth, Cavalry barracks and stables, $100. For repair of mattresses, machines, and so forth, in drill hall and gymnasium of Engineer barracks, $100. For department of civil and military engineering: Textbooks, stationery,Instruction materials, etc., tor specified departments. and so forth, $1,500. For department of natural and experimental philosophy: Textbooks, apparatus, and so forth, $3,500. For department of instruction in mathematics: Textbooks, stationery, and so forth, $1,250. 1414 For department of chemistry, mineralogy, and geology, $2,500. For department of drawing: Drawing materials, and so forth, $2,000. For department of modern languages: Stationery, and so forth, $1,500. For department of law : Books, stationery, and so forth, $2,000. For department of practical military engineering: Models, books, stationery, and so forth, $4,000. For department of ordnance and gunnery: Models, instruments, books, and so forth, $2,150. For the purchase of machines, tools, and so forth, for practical instruction of cadets in wood and metal working, $1,000. For department of military hygiene, $500. For department of English and history: For purchase of stationery, books, and so forth, $1,000. For department of economics and government and political history: Purchase of textbooks, stationery, and so forth, $1,000. Lectures.For a course of lectures for the more complete instruction of cadets, $1,200. For the maintenance of one automobile truck, $300. Miscellaneous. Treasurer’s office.Miscellaneous items and incidental expenses: For commercial periodicals, stationery, and so forth, for the office of the treasurer United States Military Academy, $300. Lighting, plumbing, etc.For gas, coal, oil, candles, and so forth, for operating the gas plant, $18,000. For water pipe, plumbing, and repairs, $8,000. For material and labor for cleaning and policing public buildings, $6,620. Supplies, etc.For supplies for recitation rooms not otherwise provided for and for renewing and repairing furniture in same, $2,000. For chairs and desks in room 416, West Academic Building, $3,000. For furnishing slate boards for six recitation rooms in West and East Academy Buildings, $2,100. For purchase of 150 chairs for cadet chapel, $1,200. Library.Increase and expense of library, $7,200. Academic board.For contingent funds, to be expended under the direction of the academic board: For instruments, books, repairs to apparatus, and *Proviso*. Purchases.other incidental expenses not otherwise provided for, $500: *Provided*, That all technical and scientific supplies for the departments of instruction of the Military Academy shall be purchased by contract or otherwise, as the Secretary of War may deem best. Band expenses.For the purchase and repair of instruments and maintenance of the band, $1,500. For the repair and purchase of cooking utensils, chairs, and so forth, cadet mess, which may be expended without advertising, to be immediately available, $3,000. Policing.For the policing of barracks and bathhouses, $25,000. Cadet barracks.For supplying materials, repairing, painting, and cleaning furniture in cadet barracks, $3,500. For the purchase and repair of cocoa matting for the aisleways in the stables of the riding hall, $300. Children’s school.For maintaining the children’s school, and so forth, $6,500. Fire protection.For purchase and repair of fire-extinguishing apparatus, $1,000. Buildings and grounds.Buildings and Grounds: For cases, materials, and so forth, ordnance museum in headquarters building, $1,500. Ordnance museum, etc.For repairs to ordnance laboratory and other buildings pertaining to department of ordnance and gunnery, $250. For general repairs to cadet laundry building, and so forth, to be expended without advertising, $400. 1415 For general incidental repairs and improvements to the cadet store building, including storerooms, office, tailor shops, shoe-repairing shops, $1,500 For labor and material for repairing and repainting porch roofs and all other tin roofs of main building and annex, repairs and repainting of gutters and leaders; repainting all exterior woodwork, comprising windows, doors, cornices, screen doors, storm doors, ceilings of porches and floors of porches, columns, balustrades, rails, and so forth, at enlisted men’s hospital, $1,500. For materials and labor for repairs, and so forth, soldiers’ hospital, $165. For repair and upkeep of quarters of the staff sergeant, Medical Department, at soldiers’ hospital, $50. For waterworks, $3,000.Waterworks. For the repair and restoration of retaining walls along the line ofWalls, roads, etc. the Poplopen pipe line, $3,000. For carrying on the development of the general plan for improve ments to roads and grounds, $3,000. For repairs and necessary alterations and additions to the cadet hospital, as follows: For materials for radiators, piping, furniture, and so forth, $120. For purchase of flowers and shrubs for hospital grounds, $100. For repairing the cadet exchange, $1,000. For necessary repairs and replacements in steam-heating systemCadets’ mess, etc. and line in cadets’ mess, which may be expended without advertising, $1,300. For repairs to quarters of steward of cadet mess, to be expended without advertising, $50. For repairs to the cadet mess building, which may be expended without advertising and to be immediately available, $2,000. For repairs and improvements to the West Point Army mess building,Army mess building. including supplying and renewing furniture and fittings, $2,500. For repair and maintenance of the cadet boathouse and the purchase and maintenance of boats and canoes for the instruction of cadets in rowing, $750. For the repair and upkeep of quarters of the master sergeant, Medical Department, at the cadet hospital, $50. For repairs to the cadet barracks, to be immediately available, Cadet barracks.$15,000. For maintaining and improving grounds of post cemetery, $2,000.Cemetery. For continuing the construction of breast-high wall in dangerous places, $1,000. For broken stone and gravel for roads, $10,000.Road repairs. For repairs of boilers, engines, dynamos, motors, and so forth, Repairs of boilers, etc.cadet mess, which may be expended without advertising, to be immediately available, $3,350. For the repair and improvement of cadet polo field, $600. For waterproofing the post headquarters, bachelor, gymnasium, and other large buildings, $2,000. For care and maintenance of organ in cadet chapel, $500. For general repairs to the buildings of the Coast Artillery fire-control system, $100. For material and labor for repair of Field Artillery target range, $500. For repair and upkeep of stable numbered 4, and corral, for purchase of paint, nails, and so forth, $200. For labor and material for repairing roofs, painting and varnishingRepairing roofs, etc. exterior woodwork of east and west academy buildings, headquarters, library and cadet chapel buildings, $13,500. For general repair in the riding hall, $10,500.Riding hall. 1416 New cadet hospital.For completion of new cadet hospital and nurses’ quarters, to be immediately available, $52,000. Army surplus material, etc., transferred without expense, for construction, etc.The Secretary of War is hereby directed to turn over to the United States Military Academy without expense all such surplus material as may be available and necessary for the construction of buildings; also surplus tools and matériel required for use in the *Provisos*. Leaves of absence to construction employees.instruction of cadets at the academy: *Provided*, That the constructing quartermaster, United States Military Academy, is hereby exempted from all laws and regulations relative to employment and to granting leaves of absence to employees with pay while employed Expenditures without advertising.on construction work at the Military Academy: *Provided further*, That the funds appropriated herein for the United States Military Academy may be expended without advertising when in the opinion of the responsible constructing officer and the superintendent it is more economical and advantageous to the Government to dispense with advertising. Issue of Army reserve supplies, etc., restricted.Under the authorizations contained in this Act no issues of reserve supplies or equipment shall be made where such issues would impair the reserves held by the War Department for two field armies or one million men. Limit of purchases from private manufacturers.Except as expressly otherwise authorized herein, no part of the sums appropriated by this Act for military purposes shall be expended in the purchase from private manufacturers of ordnance and ordnance supplies at a price in excess of the cost of manufacturing such material by the Government, or, where such material is not or has not been manufactured by the Government, at a price in excess of the estimated cost of manufacture by the Government. No pay to officers, etc., using time measuring devices on work of employees.That no part of the appropriations made in this Act 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 completion thereof, or of the movements of any such employee while engaged upon such work; nor shall any part of the appropriations made in this Act be available to pay any premiums or bonus or cash reward to any employee in addition to his regular wages, except for suggestions resulting in improvements or economy in the operation of any Government plant. Athletic grounds. Maintenance, etc., of, forbidden unless admission charged st public athletic contest thereon.No part of the funds appropriated in this Act for the supply, maintenance, and upkeep of athletic grounds and stands at the United States Military Academy shall be used for such purposes, unless the authorities at the Military Academy charge an admission to the principal public athletic contests on such grounds in which the cadets take part, and the funds so received shall be used solely for the improvement of athletic facilities at the said Academy. TITLE II—Nonmilitary activities.NONMILITARY ACTIVITIES OF THE WAR DEPARTMENT. Finance Department.Finance Department. Jennie Carroll.For amount required to make monthly payments to Jennie Carroll, widow of James Carroll, late major, United States Army, $1,500. Mabel H. Lazear.For amount required to make monthly payments to Mabel H. Lazear, widow of Jesse W. Lazear, late acting assistant surgeon, United States Army, $1,500. 1417 For amount required to make monthly payments to John R. Kissinger,John R. Kissinger. late of Company D, One hundred and fifty-seventh Indiana Volunteer Infantry, also late of the Hospital Corps, United States Army, $1,200, but one half of each monthly payment shall be deductedDeductions of pension payments. *Post*, p. 1550. until an amount equal to the aggregate of the amount of the pension which has been paid to him by the Pension Office contrary to law shall have been reached. Quartermaster Corps.Quartermaster Corps. national cemeteries.National cemeteries. For maintaining and improving national cemeteries, including fuelMaintenance. for superintendents, pay of laborers and other employees, purchase of tools, and materials, and including care and maintenance of the Arlington Memorial Amphitheater and Chapel and grounds in theArlington Memorial Amphitheater, etc. Arlington National Cemetery, Virginia, $370,220. For pay of seventy-six superintendents of national cemeteries, includingSuperintendents. not to exceed $1,500 for the superintendent at Mexico City, $63,720. For repairs to roadways to national cemeteries which have beenRepairs to roadways. constructed by special authority of Congress, $24,000: *Provided*,*Provisos.* Encroachments by railroads forbidden. That no railroad shall be permitted upon the right of way which may have been acquired by the United States to a national cemetery, or to encroach upon any roads or walks constructed thereon and maintained by the United States: *Provided further*, That no part ofRestriction on repairs. this sum shall be used for repairing any roadway not owned by the United States within the corporate limits of any city, town, or village. No part of any appropriation for national cemeteries or the repairLimited to one approach. of roadways thereto shall be expended in the maintenance of more than a single approach to any national cemetery. For continuing the work of furnishing headstones of durable stone Headstones for soldiers’ graves, etc.or other durable material for unmarked graves of Union and Confederate soldiers, sailors, and marines and soldiers, sailors, and marines of all other wars, in national, post, city, town, and village cemeteries, naval cemeteries at navy yards and stations of the United States, and other burial places, under the Acts of March 3, 1873,[R. S., sec. 4877, p. 944](/us/rs/s4877/p944). Vol. 20, p. 281; Vol. 34, p. 56. Civilians. Vol. 33, p. 396; Vol. 34, p. 741. Confederates. February 3, 1879, and March 9, 1906; continuing the work of furnishing headstones for unmarked graves of civilians interred in post cemeteries under the Acts of April 28, 1904, and June 30, 1906; and furnishing headstones for the unmarked graves of Confederate soldiers, sailors, and marines in national cemeteries, $70,000. For repair and preservation of monuments, tablets, observation Antietam battle field. Md. Preserving, etc.tower, roads, and fences, and so forth, made and constructed by the United States upon public lands within the limits of the Antietam battle field, near Sharpsburg, Maryland, $5,000. For pay of superintendent of Antietam battle field, said superintendentSuperintendent. to perform his duties under the direction of the Quartermaster Corps and to be selected and appointed by the Secretary of War, at his discretion, the person selected for this position to be an honorably discharged Union soldier, $1,500. Disposition of remains of officers, soldiers, and civilian employees:Disposition of remains of officers, soldiers, etc. *Ante*, p. 1395. For interment, cremation (only upon request from relatives of the deceased), or of preparation and transportation to their homes or to such national cemeteries as may be designated by proper authority, in the discretion of the Secretary of War, of the remains of officers, cadets, United States Military Academy, acting assistant surgeons, members of the Army Nurse Corps, and enlisted men in 1418active service, and accepted applicants for enlistment; for interment or preparation and transportation to their homes of the remains of civilian employees of the Army in the employ of the War Department who die abroad, in Alaska, in the Canal Zone, or on Army transports, or who die while on duty in the field; interment of military prisoners who die at military posts; for the interment and shipment to their homes of remains of enlisted men who are discharged in hospitals in the United States and continue as inmates of said hospitals to the date of their death; for interment of prisoner’s of war and interned alien enemies who die at prison camps in the United Removal from abandoned posts, etc.States; for removal of remains from abandoned posts to permanent military posts or national cemeteries, including the remains of Federal soldiers, sailors, or marines interred in fields or abandoned Reimbursement to individuals.private and city cemeteries; and in any case where the expenses of burial or shipment of the remains of officers or enlisted men of the Army who die on the active list, are borne by individuals, where such expenses would have been lawful claims against the Government, reimbursement to such individuals may be made of the amount allowed by the Government for such services out of this sum, but no reimbursement shall be made of such expenses incurred prior to American cemeteries in Great Britain and France. *Proviso*. Retired officers, etc., on active duty included.July 1, 1910; expenses of the segregation of bodies in permanent American cemeteries in Great Britain and France, $160,000: *Provided*, That the above provisions shall be applicable in the case of officers and enlisted men on the retired list of the Army who have died or may hereafter die while on active duty by proper assignment. Confederate Mound, Chicago, Ill.Confederate Mound, Oakwood Cemetery, Chicago, Illinois: For care, protection, and maintenance of the plat of ground known as “Confederate Mound” in Oakwood Cemetery, Chicago, $500. Confederate Stockade, Ohio.For care, protection, and maintenance of Confederate Stockade Cemetery, Johnstons Island, in Sandusky Bay, Ohio, $350. Confederate burial platsConfederate burial plats: For care, protection, and maintenance of Confederate burial plats, owned by the United States, located and known by the following designations: Confederate Cemetery, North Alton, Illinois; Confederate Cemetery, Camp Chase, Columbus, Ohio; Confederate section, Greenlawn Cemetery, Indianapolis, Indiana; Confederate Cemetery, Point Lookout, Maryland, and Confederate Cemetery, Rock Island, Illinois, $1,250. Little Rock, Ark. Burial of Hot Springs Hospital patients in national cemetery at.Burial of deceased indigent patients: For burying in the Little Rock (Arkansas) National Cemetery, including transportation thereto, indigent ex-soldiers, ex-sailors, or ex-marines of the United States service, either Regular or Volunteer, who have been honorably discharged or retired and who die while patients at the Army and Navy General Hospital, Hot Springs, Arkansas, to be disbursed at a cost not exceeding $35 for such burial expenses in each case, exclusive of cost of grave, $100. Burial places in Cuba and China.For repairs and preservation of monuments, tablets, roads, fences, and so forth, made and constructed by the United States in Cuba and China to mark the places where American soldiers fell, $1,000. Washington-Alaska table, etc.washington alaska military cable and telegraph system. Operation, 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 1925, 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. 1419 For replacing the worn-out portions of the Washington-Alaska Replacing worn-out cable.submarine cable system, $750,000, to remain available until expended: *Provided*, That the Secretary of War is authorized to enter*Proviso*. Contracts authorized. into contracts or otherwise incur obligations for the purpose above mentioned in this item, not to exceed $750,000, in addition to the appropriation herein made. Medical Department.Medical Department. Artificial limbs: For furnishing artificial limbs and apparatus,Artificial limbs. or commutation therefor, and necessary transportation, $95,500. Appliances for disabled soldiers: For furnishing surgical appliancesSurgical appliances. to persons disabled in the military or naval service of the United States prior to April 6, 1917, and not entitled to artificial limbs or trusses for the same disabilities, $750. Trusses for disabled soldiers: For trusses for persons entitled Trusses. [R. S., sec. 1176, p. 211](/us/rs/s1176/p211).thereto under section 1176, Revised Statutes of the United States, and the Act amendatory thereof, approved March 3, 1879, $1,000.Vol. 20, p. 353. medical and surgical history of the world war.World War Medical and Surgical History. Toward the preparation for publication under the direction ofPreparation of. the Secretary of War of a medical and surgical history of the war with Germany, including personal services, $16,600. Corps of Engineers.Engineer Corps. buildings and grounds in and around washington.Buildings and grounds, D. C. For improvement, care, and maintenance of grounds of executive Care, etc., executive departments.departments, $1,000. Washington Monument: For custodian, $1,200; for steam engineer, Washington Monument. Operating force.$960; for conductor of elevator car, $900; for attendants—one on floor $720, one on top floor $720; for three night and day watchmen, at $720 each; in all, $6,660. For power, fuel, lights, oil, waste, packing, tools, matches, paints,Operating supplies. brushes, brooms, lanterns, rope, nails, screws, lead, electric lights, heating apparatus, oil stoves for elevator car and upper and lower floors; repairs of all kinds connected with the Monument and machinery; and purchase of all necessary articles for keeping the Monument, machinery and elevator, in good order, $6,000. For extra services of employees and for additional supplies andSunday opening. materials, to provide for the opening of the Monument to the public on Sundays and legal holidays, $2,500. For purchasing and supplying uniforms to the three watchmen,Uniforms. two floormen, and the elevator conductor at the Washington Monument, $480. Building where Abraham Lincoln died: For painting and miscellaneousLincoln’s death place. repairs, $200. Birthplace of George Washington, Wakefield, Virginia: For repairsWashington’s birth place. Repairs, etc. to fences and cleaning up and maintaining grounds about the monument, $100. For watchmen for the care of the monument and dock at Wakefield, Watchmen.Virginia, the birthplace of Washington, $300. Lincoln Memorial: Custodian, $1,200; three watchmen, at $720Lincoln Memorial. Maintenance expenses. each; three laborers, at $660 each; heat, light, miscellaneous labor, and supplies, $3,910; extra services of employees and additional supplies and materials to provide for opening the Lincoln Memorial to the public on Sundays and legal holidays, $1,750; for purchasing and supplying uniforms to the four Lincoln Memorial watchmen, $320; in all, $11,320. 1420 Northern and northwestern lakes.survey of northern and northwestern lakes. Survey of, and connecting waters.For survey of northern and northwestern lakes, Lake of the Woods, and other boundary and connecting waters between said lake and Lake Superior, Lake Champlain, and the natural navigable waters embraced in the navigation system of the New York canals, including all necessary expenses for preparing, correcting, extending, printing, binding, and issuing charts and bulletins, and of investigating lake levels with a view to their regulation, $75,000. California Débris Commission.california débris commission. Expenses. Vol. 27, p. 507.For defraying the expenses of the commission in carrying on the work authorized by the Act approved March 1, 1893, $14,950. New York Harbor.prevention of deposits, harbor of new york. Preventing injurious deposits in.For the prevention of obstructive and injurious deposits within the harbor and adjacent waters of New York City: For pay of inspectors, deputy inspectors, crews, and office force, and for maintenance of patrol fleet, and expenses of office, $175,000. Alaska.construction and maintenance of military and post roads, bridges, and trails, alaska. Roads, bridges, and trails in. Construction, etc., expenses under road commissioners. Vol. 34, p. 192.For the construction, repair, and maintenance of roads, tramways, ferries, bridges, and trails, Territory of Alaska, to be expended under the direction of the Board of Road Commissioners described in section 2 of an Act entitled “An Act to provide for the construction and maintenance of roads, the establishment and maintenance of schools, and the care and support of insane persons in the District of Alaska, and for other purposes,” approved January 27, 1905, as amended by the Act approved May 14, 1906, and to be expended conformably to the provisions of said Act as *Proviso*. Incurring obligations for fiscal year 1925, authorized, prior to appropriation.amended, to be immediately available: *Provided*, That if an appropriation for this purpose for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1925, shall not have been made prior to March 1, 1924, the Secretary of War may authorize the Board of Road Commissioners to incur obligations for this purpose of not to exceed 75 per centum of the appropriation for this purpose for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1924, payment of these obligations to be made from the appropriation for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1925, $650,000. Juneau.dock, juneau, alaska. Survey, etc., for dock at.For cost of survey and the preparation of plans and estimates for a Government dock at Juneau, Alaska, $600. Rivers end harbors.rivers and harbors. Appropriation immediately available.To be immediately available and to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War and the supervision of the Chief of Engineers: Preserving, maintaining, etc., authorized projects. *Ante*, p. 1038.For the preservation and maintenance of existing river and harbor works, and for the prosecution of such projects heretofore authorized as may be most desirable in the interests of commerce and navigation, $56,589,910. Examinations, surveys, etc.For examinations, surveys, and contingencies for rivers and harbors for which there may be no special appropriation, $456,850: *Proviso*. Limited to authorizations.*Provided*, That no part of this sum shall be expended for any preliminary examination, survey, project, or estimate not authorized by law. 1421 muscle shoals.Muscle Shoals, Tennessee River. For the continuation of the work on Dam Numbered 2 on theContinuing work on Dam No. 2. *Proviso*. Contracts authorized. Tennessee River at Muscle Shoals, Alabama, $6,998,800: *Provided*, That the Secretary of War may enter into a contract or contracts for sucli machinery, gates, or other metal parts and for such materials to be used in the construction of the locks, dam, and power-house as may be necessary to prosecute the said project, to be paid for as appropriations may from time to time be made by law, not to exceed in the aggregate $10,501,200, exclusive of the amountsAmount limited. herein and heretofore appropriated. flood control.Flood control. Flood control, Mississippi River: For prosecuting work of flood Mississippi River. Vol. 39, p. 948.control in accordance with the provisions of the Flood Control Act approved March 1, 1917, $5,986,600. Flood control, Sacramento River, California: For prosecutingSacramento River, Calif. Vol. 39, p. 948. work of flood control in accordance with the provisions or the Flood Control Act approved March 1, 1917, $499,900. Transportation Facilities, Inland and Coastwise Waterways.Waterways transportation. For additional expense incurred in the operation of boats, barges,Expenses, operating inland, canal, and coastwise facilities. tugs, and other transportation facilities on the inland, canal, and coastwise waterways required by the United States in pursuance of the fourth paragraph of section 6 of the Federal Control Act ofVol. 40, p. 456. March 21, 1918, and operated in pursuance of section 201 of theVol. 41, p. 458. Transportation Act approved February 28, 1920, $29,650: *Provided*,*Proviso*. Services of experts, etc. That not to exceed $18,000 of this appropriation may be used for the payment of experts, clerks, and other employees in the War Department in accordance with the provisions of section 201
(e)of theVol. 41, p. 458. Transportation Act, 1920, approved February 28, 1920, but no personPay restriction. shall be employed hereunder at a rate of compensation in excess of $3,000 per annum except one at $4,000. National Military Parks.Military parks. chickamauga and chattanooga national military park.Chickamauga and Chattanooga. For continuing the establishment of the park; compensation andContinuing establishment, etc. expenses of the superintendent, maps, surveys, clerical and other assistance; maintenance, repair, and operation of one motor-propelled and one horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicle; office and all other necessary expenses; foundations for State monuments; mowing; historical tablets, iron and bronze; iron gun carriages; roads and their maintenance; purchase of small tracts of lands heretofore authorized by law, $50,000. Notwithstanding the restrictive provisions of the Act of FebruaryMemorials, etc., allowed Spanish War veterans who were encamped therein. Vol. 29, p. 21. 26, 1896 (Twenty-ninth Statutes, page 21), the Secretary of War is authorized in his discretion to permit without cost to the United States the erection of monuments or memorials to commemorate encampments of Spanish War organizations which were encamped in said park during the period of the Spanish-American War. gettysburg national military park.Gettysburg. For continuing the establishment of the park; acquisition ofContinuing establishment, etc. lands, surveys, and maps; constructing, improving, and maintaining avenues, roads, and bridges thereon; fences and gates; marking the lines of battle with tablets and guns, each tablet bearing a brief 1422 legend giving historic facts and compiled without censure and without praise; preserving the features of the battle field and the monuments thereon; compensation of superintendent, clerical, and other services, expenses and labor; purchase and preparation of tablets and gun carriages and placing them in position; maintenance, repair, and operation of a motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicle, and all other expenses incident to the foregoing, $45,000. Guilford Courthouse.guilford courthouse national military park. Continuing establishment, etc.For continuing the establishment of a national military park at the battle field of Guilford Courthouse, in accordance with the Act entitled “An Act to establish a national military park at the battle field of Guilford Courthouse,” approved March 2, 1917, $7,840. Shiloh.shiloh national military park. Continuing establishment, etc.For continuing the establishment of the park; compensation of superintendent; clerical and other services; labor; historical tablets; maps and surveys; roads; purchase and transportation of supplies, implements, and materials; foundations for monuments; office and other necessary expenses, including maintenance, repair, and operation of one motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicle, $20,000. Vicksburg.vicksburg national military park. Continuing establishment, etc.For continuing the establishment of the park; compensation of civilian commissioners; clerical and other services, labor, iron gun carriages, mounting of siege guns, memorials, monuments, markers, and historical tablets giving historical facts, compiled without praise and without censure; maps, surveys, roads, bridges, restoration of earthworks, purchase of lands, purchase and transportation of supplies and materials; and other necessary expenses, $23,440. National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers.National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers. Support.For support of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, as follows: Dayton, Ohio. Current expenses.Central Branch, Dayton, Ohio: Current expenses: For pay of officers and noncommissioned officers of the home, with such exceptions as are hereinafter noted, and their clerks, weighmasters, and orderlies; chaplains, religious instruction, and entertainment for the members of the home, printers, bookbinders, librarians, musicians, telegraph and telephone operators, guards, janitors, watchmen, fire company, and property and materials purchased for their use, including repairs not done by home; articles of amusement, library books, magazines, papers, pictures, and musical instruments, and repairs not done by the home; stationery, advertising, legal advice, payments due heirs of deceased members: *Provided*, That all receipts on account of the effects of deceased members during the fiscal year shall also be available for such payments; and for such other expenditures, as can not properly be included under other heads of expenditure, $52,000. Subsistence.Subsistence: For pay of commissary sergeants, commissary clerks, porters, laborers, bakers, cooks, dishwashers, waiters, and others employed in the subsistence department; food supplies purchased for the subsistence of the members of the home and civilian employees regularly employed and residing at the branch, their freight, preparation, and serving; aprons, caps, and jackets for kitchen and 1423dining-room employees; tobacco; dining-room and kitchen furniture and utensils, bakers’ and butchers’ tools and appliances, and their repair not done by the home, $220,000. Household: For furniture for officer’s’ quarters; bedsteads, bedding,Household. bedding material, and all other articles required in the quarters of the members and of civilian employees permanently employed and residing at the branch, and their repair, if not repaired by the home; fuel, including fuel for cooking, heat, and light; water; engineers and firemen, bathhouse keepers, janitors, laundry employees, and for all labor, materials, and appliances required for household use, and repairs, if not repaired by the home, $120,000. Hospital: For pay of medical officers and assistant surgeons, Hospital.matrons, druggists, hospital clerks and stewards, ward masters, nurses, cooks, waiters, readers, drivers, funeral escort, janitors, and for such other services as may be necessary for the care of the sick; burial of the dead; surgical instruments and appliances, medical books, medicine, liquors, fruits, and other necessaries for the sick not purchased under subsistence; bedsteads, bedding, and bedding materials, and all other special articles necessary for the wards; hospital furniture, including special articles and appliances for hospital kitchen and dining room; carriage, hearse, stretchers, coffins: and for all repair to hospital furniture and appliance not done by the home, $180,000; Transportation: For transportation of members of the home, Transportation.$1,000; Repairs: For pay of chief engineer, builders, blacksmiths, carpenters,Repairs. painters, gas fitters, electrical workers, plumber’s, tinsmiths, steam fitter’s, stone and brick masons, and laborers, and for all appliances and materials used under this head; and repairs of roads and other improvements of a permanent character, $58,000: *Provided*,*Proviso*. New buildings forbidden. That no part of the appropriation for repairs for any of the branch homes shall be used for the construction of any new building; Farm: For pay of farmer, chief gardener, harness makers, farm Farm.hands, gardeners, horseshoers, stablemen, teamster’s, dairymen, herders, and laborer’s; tools, appliances, and materials required for farm, garden, and dairy work; grain, and grain products, hay, straw, fertilizers, seed, carriages, wagons, carts, and other conveyances; animals purchased for stock or work (including animals in the park); gasoline; materials, tools, and labor for flower garden, lawn, park, and cemetery; and construction of roads and walks, and repairs not done by the home, $15,000; In all, Central Branch, $646,000. For “Current Expenses,” “Subsistence,” “Household,” “Hospital,”Specified objects at branches. “Transportation,” “Repairs,” and “Farm,” at the following branches, including the same objects respectively specified herein under each of such heads for the Central Branch, namely: Northwestern Branch, Wilwaukee, Wisconsin: Current expenses, Milwaukee, Wis.$25,500; subsistence, $116,000; household, $58,500; hospital, $106,000; transportation, $500; repairs, $28,000; farm, $5,000; in all, Northwestern Branch, $339,500. Eastern Branch, Togus, Maine: Current expenses, $48,000; subsistence,Togus, Me. $95,000; housemold, $110,000; hospital, $55,000; transportation, $500; repairs, $35,000; farm, $20,000: in all, Eastern Branch, $363,500. Southern Branch, Hampton, Virginia: Current expenses, $53,500; Hampton, Va.subsistence, $220,000; household, $133,000; for hospital, $108,000: transportation, $1,000; repairs, $60,000; farm, $12,000; in all, Southern Branch, $587,500. Western Branch, Leavenworth, Kansas: Current expenses, $58,000;Leavenworth, Kans. subsistence, $205,000; household, $135,000; hospital, $95,000; trans-1424portation, $500; repairs, $47,000; farm, $20,000; in all, Western Branch, $560,500. Santa Monica, Calif.Pacific Branch, Santa Monica, California: Current expenses, $50,000; subsistence, $305,000; household, $114,000; hospital, $180,-000; transportation, $2,500; repairs, $47,500; farm, $19,000; in all, Pacific Branch, $718,000. Marion, Ind.Marion Branch, Marion, Indiana: Current expenses, $5,000; subsistence, $24,000; household, $11,500; hospital, $28,000; transportation, $300; repairs, $4,500; farm, $1,700; in all, Marion Branch, $75,000. Danville, Ill.Danville Branch, Danville, Illinois: Current expenses, $55,000; subsistence, $210,000; household, $115,000; hospital, $85,000; transgortation, $500; repairs, $50,000; farm, $12,000; in all, Danville Branch, $527,500. Johnson City, Tenn.Mountain Branch, Johnson City, Tennessee: Current expenses, $4,500; subsistence, $28,000; household, $8,500; hospital, $26,000; transportation, $1,500; repairs, $3,500; farm, $3,000; in all, Mountain Branch, $75,000. Hot Springs, S. Dak.Battle Mountain Sanitarium, Hot Springs, South Dakota: Current expenses, $24,000; subsistence, $57,000; household, $52,000; hospital, $45,000; transportation, $2,000; repairs, $15,000; farm, $5,000; in all, Battle Mountain Sanitarium, $200,000. *Proviso.* Allot meats from Veterans’ Bureau not to augment specified appropriations.*Provided*, That moneys allotted to the Board of Managers of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers by the United States Veterans’ Bureau for support, maintenance, and care of World War veterans shall not be used to augment the appropriations made herein under the heads of “Current Expenses,” “Repairs,” and “Farm” in an amount which will make the total expenditures for Limitation of former appropriation applicable. *Ante*, p. 763.these respective purposes at the several branches exceed the amounts expended for such purposes during the fiscal year 1922. And the limitation in the War Department Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1923, which reads: “For the fiscal year 1924 and annually thereafter moneys allotted to the Board of Managers of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers by the Veterans’ Bureau for support, maintenance, and care of World War veterans shall not be used to augment the appropriations made for the support of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers” shall not be applicable for the fiscal year 1924 other than as specifically provided in this paragraph. Restriction on use of Veterans’ Bureau allotments hereafter.For the fiscal year 1925 and annually thereafter moneys allotted to the Board of Managers of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers by the Veterans’ Bureau for support, maintenance, and care of World War veterans shall not be used to augment or reimburse the appropriations made for the support of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, but shall be covered into the Estimates of cost of Veterans’ Bureau beneficiaries to be submitted.surplus fund of the Treasury, and the Budget for the fiscal year 1925 and thereafter shall contain itemized estimates covering the entire cost of the operation and maintenance of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, including the cost of the maintenance, support, and care of beneficiaries of the United States Veterans’ Bureau in such homes. Clothing for all branches.Clothing for all branches: For clothing, underclothing, hats, caps, boots, shoes, socks, and overalls; labor, materials, machines, tools, and appliances employed and for use in the tailor shops and shoe shops, or other home shops in which any kind of clothing is made or repaired, $200,000. Board of managers.Board of managers: President, $4,000; secretary, $500; general Salaries, etc.treasurer, who shall not be a member of the board of managers, $5,000; chief surgeon, $4,500; assistant general treasurer, $3,500; 1425inspector general, $3,500; assistant chief surgeon, $3,500; clerical services for the offices of the president, general treasurer, chief surgeon, and inspector general, $19,000; clerical services for managers, $2,700; traveling expenses of the board of managers, their officers and employees, including officers of branch homes when detailed on inspection work, $14,000; outside relief, $100; legal services, medical examinations, stationery, telegrams, and other incidental expenses, $1,700; in all, $62,000. Total, National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, $4,354,500. State and Territorial homes for disabled soldiers and sailors: For State or Territorial homes. Aid to. Vol. 25, p. 450; Vol. 41, p. 399.continuing aid to State or Territorial homes for the support of disabled volunteer soldiers, in conformity with the Act approved August 27, 1888, as amended, including all classes of soldiers admissible to the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, $800,000: *Provided*, That for any sum or sums collected in any manner*Proviso*. Collections from inmates. from inmates of such State or Territorial homes to be used for the support of said homes a like amount shall be deducted from the aid herein provided for, but this proviso shall not apply to any State or Territorial home into which the wives or widows of soldiers are admitted and maintained. The Panama Canal.Panama Canal. The limitations on the expenditure of appropriations hereinbeforeLimitations not applicable to appropriations for. made in this Act shall not apply to the appropriations for the Panama Canal. For every expenditure requisite for and incident to the maintenanceAll expenses. and operation, sanitation, and civil government of the Panama Canal and Canal Zone, including the following: Compensation of allObjects specified. officials and employees; foreign and domestic newspapers and periodicals; law books not exceeding $500; textbooks and books of reference; printing and binding, including printing of annual report; rent and personal services in the District of Columbia; purchase or exchange of typewriting, adding, and other machines; purchase or exchange, maintenance, repair, and operation of motor-propelled and horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles; claims for damages to vesselsClaims for damages. passing through the locks of the Panama Canal, as authorized by the Panama Canal Act; claims for losses of or damages to property arising from the conduct of authorized business operations; claims for damages to property arising from the maintenance and operation, sanitation, and civil government of the Panama Canal; acquisition of land and land under water, as authorized in the Panama Canal Act; expenses incurred in assembling, assorting, storing,Disposal of unserviceable material, etc. repairing, and selling material, machinery, and equipment heretofore or hereafter purchased or acquired for the construction of the Panama Canal which are unserviceable or no longer needed, to be reimbursed from the proceeds of such sales; expenses incident to conducting hearings and examining estimates for appropriations on the Isthmus; expenses incident to any emergency arising because of calamity by flood, fire, pestilence, or like character not foreseen or otherwise provided for herein; per diem allowance in lieu of subsistencePer diem subsistence. when prescribed by the Governor of the Panama Canal to persons engaged in field work or traveling on official business, pursuant to section 13 of the Sundry Civil Appropriation Act approvedVol. 38, p. 580. August 1, 1914; and for such other expenses not in the United States as the Governor of the Panama Canal may deem necessary best to promote the maintenance and operation, sanitation, and civil government of the Panama Canal, all to be expended under the direction of the Governor of the Panama Canal and accounted for as follows: 1426 Maintenance and operation.Governor.Purchase of supplies, etc.For maintenance and operation of the Panama Canal: Salary of the governor, $10,000; purchase, inspection, delivery, handling, and storing of material, supplies, and equipment for issue to all departments of the Panama Canal, the Panama railroad, other branches Payment to alien cripples. Vol. 39, p. 750.of the United States Government, and for authorized sales, payment in lump sums of not exceeding the amounts authorized by the Injury Compensation Act approved September 7, 1916, to alien cripples who are now a charge upon the Panama Canal by reason of injuries sustained while employed in the construction of the Panama Canal, Additional from receipts.$5,079,683, together with all moneys arising from the conduct of business operations authorized by the Panama Canal Act; and the Governor of the Panama Canal is authorized, in addition to the New power plant, Miraflores.amount herein appropriated, to incur obligations in an amount not exceeding $850,000 for the construction, at a total cost of not exceeding $1,520,000, of a new power plant at Miraflores. Sanitation, etc.For sanitation, quarantine, hospitals, and medical aid and support of the insane and of lepers and aid and support of indigent persons legally within the Canal Zone, including expenses, of their Artificial limbs to injured employees.deportation when practicable, and the purchase of artificial limbs or other appliances for indigent persons who were injured in the service of the Isthmian Canal Commission or the Panama Canal prior to September 7, 1916, and including additional compensation to any officer of the United States Public Health Service detailed with the Panama Canal as chief quarantine officer, $575,000; Civil government expenses.For civil government of the Panama Canal and Canal Zone; district judge, $7,500; district attorney, $5,000; marshal, $5,000; and for gratuities and necessary clothing for indigent discharged prisoners, $930,000. Total, Panama Canal, $6,584,683, to be available until expended. Purchases from Army surplus stocks.The Governor of the Panama Canal, so far as the expenditure of appropriations contained in this Act may be under his direction, shall, when it is more economical, purchase needed materials, supplies. and equipment from available surplus stocks of the War Department. Number of employees limited to estimates. Exceptions. Construction employees, etc.Except in cases of emergency or conditions arising subsequent to and unforseen at the time of submitting the annual estimates to Congress, and except for those employed in connection with the construction of permanent quarters, offices and other necssary buildings, dry docks, repair shops, yards, docks, wharves, warehouses, storehouses, and other necessary facilities and appurtenances for the purpose of providing coal and other materials, labor, repairs, and supplies, there shall not be employed at any time during the fiscal year 1924, under any of the foregoing appropriations for the Panama Canal, any greater number of persons than are specified in the notes submitted, respectively, in connection with the estimates for Rates of pay restricted.each of said appropriations in the Budget for said year, nor shall there be paid to any such person during that fiscal year any greater rate of compensation than was authorized to be paid to persons Report of emergency employees, etc.occupying the same or like positions on July 1, 1922; and all employments made or compensation increased because of emergencies or conditions so arising shall be specifically set forth, with the reasons therefor, by the governor in his report for the fiscal year 1924. Money from designated sources to credit of original appropriations.In addition to the foregoing sums there is appropriated for the fiscal year 1924 for expenditures and reinvestment under the several heads of appropriation aforesaid, without being covered into the Treasury of the United States, all moneys received by the Panama Canal from services rendered or materials and supplies furnished to the United States, the Panama Railroad Company, the Canal Zone government, or to their employees, respectively, or to the Panama 1427Government, from hotel and hospital supplies, and services; from rentals, wharfage, and like service; from labor, materials, and supplies and other services furnished to vessels other than those passing through the canal, and to others unable to obtain the same elsewhere; from the sale of scrap and other by-products of manufacturing and shop operations; from the sale of obsolete and unserviceable materials, supplies, and equipment purchased or acquired for the operation, maintenance, protection, sanitation, and government of the canal and Canal Zone; and any net profits accruing from suchNet profits to be covered into the Treasury. business to the Panama Canal shall annually be covered into the Treasury of the United States. In addition there is appropriated for the operation, maintenance,Operating waterworks, etc., for Panama and Colon. and extension of waterworks, sewers, and pavements in the cities of Panama and Colon, during the fiscal year 1924, the necessary portions of such sums as shall be paid as water rentals or directly by the Government of Panama for such expenses. Approved, March 2, 1923.
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