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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 42 STAT. · June 30, 1922 · Chapter 33

Chapter 33. Making appropriations for the support of the Army for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1922, and for other purposes

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CHAP. 33.— An Act Making appropriations for the support of the Army for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1922, and for other purposes. June 30, 1921.[[H. R. 5010](/us/bill/67/hr/5010).][[Public, No. 27](/us/pl/67/27).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of Africa in Congress assembled*,Army appropriations. That the following sums are appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the support of the Army for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1922, namely:
Secretary of War. SECRETARY OF WAR. Army contingencies. Contingencies of the Army. Expenses designated. For all contingent expenses of the Army not otherwise provided for and embracing all branches of the military service, including 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 Per diem subsistence.be expended on the approval and authority of the Secretary of War, and for such purposes as he may deem proper, including the payment of a per diem allowance not to exceed $4, in lieu of subsistence, to employees of the War Department traveling on official business *Provisos*.Civilian employees on sales of war supplies, etc.outside of the District of Columbia and away from their designated posts, 3110,000: *Provided*, That not to exceed $80,000 of the money herein appropriated shall be expended for the payment of salaries of civilian employees connected with the sale of war supplies and the Surplus foodstuffs may be sold to friendly foreign States, etc.adjustment of war contracts and claims: *Provided further*, That the Secretary of War is hereby authorized, in his discretion, to sell to any foreign State or Government with which the United States is at peace, upon such terms as he may deem expedient, any foodstuffs, now on hand and found to be surplus, which are not needed for military purposes, or which are likely to spoil, and for which there is no Civilian pay restriction.adequate domestic market: *Provided further*, That none of the funds appropriated or made available under this Act shall be used for the 69payment of any salary in excess of $5,000 per annum to any civilian employee in the War Department.
General Staff College. General Staff College. For expenses of the General Staff College, being for the purchase of Expenses.the necessary stationery; typewriters and exchange of same; office, toilet, and desk furniture; textbooks, books of reference, scientific and professional papers and periodicals; printing and binding; maps; police utensils; for lighting the General Staff College Building and grounds; employment of temporary technical or special services and expenses of special lectures; and for all other absolutely necessary Maintenance of building.expenses, including $25 per month additional to regular compensation to chief clerk for superintendence of the General Staff College Building; also for pay of a chief engineer at $1,400, and assistant engineer at $1,000, a carpenter at $1,000, four firemen at $720 each, an elevator conductor at $720; in all, $22,000.
Office of Chief of Staff. Office of Chief of Staff. Contingencies, Military Intelligence Division. Military Intelligence Division. For contingent expenses of the Military Intelligence Division, Contingencies.General Staff Corps, including the purchase of law books, professional books of reference; subscription to newspapers and periodicals; drafting and messenger service; and of the military attachés at the United States embassies and legations abroad and rental of offices 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 $10, 000 Military observers abroad.for the actual 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, $225,000; to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War: *Provided*, That section 3648, Revised Statutes, shall not apply *Proviso*.Periodicals.[R.S., Sec. 3648, p. 718](/us/rs/s3648/p718).to subscription for foreign and professional newspapers and periodicals to be paid for from this appropriation.
General Service Schools. Service schools. Fort Leavenworth, Kansas: For the purchase of textbooks, Fort Leaven worth, Kans.School of the Lines and General Staff School.books of reference, scientific and professional papers, instruments, and material for instruction; employment of temporary, technical, or special 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, $35,000.
Infantry School, Camp Benning, Georgia: For the purchase Camp Benning, Ga. Infantry School.of textbooks, books of reference, scientific and professional papers; instruments and material for instruction, employment of technical and special 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, Camp Benning, Georgia, $35,000. Cavalry School, Fort Riley, Kansas: For the purchase of Fort Riley, Kans.Cavalry school.textbooks, books of reference, scientific and professional papers, instruments, and material for instruction; employment of temporary, technical, or special services; and for other necessary expenses of instruction at the Cavalry School, Fort Riley, Kansas, $10,000. 70 Field Artillery Schools.Fort Sill, Okla., Camp Knox, Ky., and Camp Bragg, N.
C. Field Artillery Schools: For the purchase of textbooks, books of reference, scientific and professional papers, instruments, and material for instruction; employment of temporary, technical, or special services, including the services of one translator at the rate of $150 per month; and for other necessary expenses of instruction, at the Field Artillery Schools at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, Camp Knox, Kentucky, and Camp Bragg, North Carolina, $35,000. Field Artillery activities.
Field Artillery Activities. Instruction at firing centers. To provide means for the theoretical and practical instruction in Field Artillery activities at the three brigade firing centers at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, Camp Bragg, North Carolina, and Camp Knox, Kentucky, by the purchase of modern instruments and material for theoretical and practical instruction, for the tuition of officers detailed as students at civil educational institutions, and for all other necessary expenses, to be allotted in such proportion as may, in the opinion of the Secretary of War, be for the best interests of the service, $5,000.
Adjutant General’s Department. THE ADJUTANT GENERAL’S DEPARTMENT. Contingencies, Headquarters of Military Departments, and so forth. Contingencies at headquarters of departments, etc.For contingent expenses at the headquarters of the several territorial 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, payment for which may be made in advance, and police utensils, to be allotted by the Secretary of War, and to be expended in the discretion of the commanding officers of the several military departments, corps areas, districts, armies, and tactical commands, $9,000.
Chief of Coast Artillery. CHIEF OF COAST ARTILLERY. School, Fort Monroe. Va. Coast Artillery School, Fort Monroe, Virginia. Incidental expenses. For incidental expenses of the school, including chemicals, stationery, printing, and binding; hardware; materials; cost of special instruction of officers detailed as instructors; employment of temporary, technical, or special services; for office furniture and fixtures, machinery, motor trucks, and unforeseen expenses, $12,000. Special apparatus, etc.For purchase of engines, generators, motors, machines, measuring and nautical instruments, special apparatus, and materials for the enlisted specialists’ division, $10,000.
For purchase of special apparatus and materials and for experimental purposes for the artillery and military art departments, $1,500. For purchase of engines, generators, motors, machines, measuring instruments, special apparatus, and materials for the engineering department, $2,000. Books, etc. For purchase and binding of professional books treating of military and scientific subjects for library, for use of school, and for temporary *Proviso*.[R. S., sec. 3648, p. 718](/us/rs/s3648/p718).use in coast defense, $2,500: *Provided*, That section 3648, Revised Statutes, shall not apply to subscriptions for foreign and professional newspapers and periodicals to be paid for from this appropriation: 71 *Provided further*, That purchase and exchange of typewriting machines, Special price for typewriters.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.
In all, Coast Artillery School, 328,000. OFFICE OF THE CHIEF SIGNAL OFFICER. Chief Signal Officer. Signal Service of the Army. Signal Service. Telegraph and telephone systems: Purchase, equipment, operation, Telegraph and telephone systems.Purchase, 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 Camp Alfred Vail, N.
J., school.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 Telephones, etc.apparatus, including rental and payment for commercial, exchange, message, trunk-line, long-distance, and leased-line telephone service at or connecting any post, camp, cantonment, depot, arsenal, headquarters, hospital, aviation station, or other office or station of the Army, excepting local telephone service for the various bureaus of Exception.the War Department in the District of Columbia, and toll messages pertaining to the office of the Secretary of War; electric time service; the rental of commercial telegraph lines and equipment and their operation at or connecting any post, camp, cantonment, depot, arsenal, headquarters, hospital, aviation station, or other office or station of the Army, but not including payment for individual telegraph messages transmitted over commercial lines; electrical installations Electrical installations.and maintenance at military posts, cantonments, camps, and stations of the Army; fire control and direction apparatus and materiel for Field Artillery; salaries of civilian employees, including Civilian employees, supplies, etc.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; experimental investigation, research, purchase and Signaling experiments, etc.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; lease, alteration, and repair of such Buildings for supplies, etc.buildings required for storing or guarding Signal Corps supplies, equipment, and personnel when not otherwise provided for, including the land therefor, the introduction of water, electric light and power, sewerage, grading, roads and walks, and other equipment required, $2,835,000: *Provided*, That not to exceed $600,000 from this appropriation *Proviso*.Amounts for civilian employees, telephone and telegraph service, etc.may be expended for salaries and wages of civilian employees; not to exceed $450,000 may be expended for commercial and existing Government-owned telephone and telegraph service; not to exceed $1,000,000 may be expended for signal equipment for organizations; not to exceed $7,500 may be expended for pigeon service; not to 72exceed 8100,000 may be expended for photographic and cinematographic Camp Alfred Vail.service; and not to exceed $100,000 may be expended for the operation and maintenance of Camp Alfred Vail.
Washington-Alaska cables, etc. Washington-Alaska Military Cable and Telegraph System. Operation, etc., expenses. 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 1923, from the receipts of the Washington-Alaska Military Cable and Telegraph System which have been covered into the Treasury of the United States, the extent of such extensions and betterments and the cost thereof to be reported to Congress by the Secretary of War, $140,000.
Air Service. AIR SERVICE. Designated expenses for flying 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 reference, scientific and professional papers, instruments, and materials for theoretical and practical instruction; for maintenance, repair, storage, and operation of airships, war balloons, and other aerial machines, including instruments, 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; for purchase of supplies 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 Helium production.sewerage, including maintenance, operation, and repair of such utilities at such plants; for the acquisition of land or interest 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 Civilian employees.production thereof and experimentation therewith; salaries and wages of civilian employees as may be necessary, and payment of their traveling and other necessary expenses as authorized by existing law; experimental investigation and purchase and development of new types of aircraft, accessories thereto, and aviation engines, including patents and other rights thereto, and plans, drawings, and Purchase, manufacture, etc., of aerial machines, etc.specifications thereof; for the purchase, 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 tor the operation, construction, or equipment of all types of aircraft, and all necessary spare parts and equipment connected therewith; for the purchase, manufacture, and issue of special clothing, wearing apparel, and similar equipment Disposal of surplus equipment, etc.for aviation purposes; for all necessary expenses connected with the sale or disposal of surplus or obsolete aeronautical equipment, and the rental of buildings, and other facilities for the handling or storage Consulting engineers, etc.of such equipment; for the services of such consulting engineers at 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 Printing, office supplies, etc.the Air Service; for printing and binding, including supplies, equip-73ment, and repairs for such Air Service printing plants outside of the District of Columbia as may be authorized in accordance with law; for publications, station libraries, special furniture, supplies, and equipment for offices, shops, and laboratories; for special services, including the salvaging of wrecked aircraft, $19,200,000: *Provided*, That not to *Provisos*.Allotment to designated expenses.exceed $4,000,000 from this appropriation may be expended for pay and expenses of civilian employees other than those employed in experimental and research work; not exceeding $250,000 may be expended for experimentation, conservation, and production of helium; not exceeding $4,300,000 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; not exceeding $500,000 may be expended for the production of lighter-than-air equipment; and not exceeding $350,000 may be expended for improvement of stations, hangars, and gas plants: *Provided further*, New airplanes.That not less than $5,500,000 shall be expended for the production and purchase of new airplanes and their equipment, spare parts, and accessories: *Provided further*, That claims not Paying damage claims.exceeding $250 in amount for damages to persons and private property resulting from the operation of aircraft at home and abroad may be settled out of the funds appropriated hereunder, when each claim is substantiated by a survey report of a board of officers appointed by the commanding officer of the nearest aviation post, and approved by the Chief of Air Service and the Secretary of War: *Provided further*, Aggregate limit.That claims so settled and paid from the sum hereby appropriated shall not exceed in the aggregate the sum of $10,000: *Provided further*, That section 3648, Revised Statutes, shall not Periodicals.[R.
S., sec. 3648, p. 718](/us/rs/s3648/p718).apply to subscriptions for foreign and professional newspapers and periodicals to be paid for from this appropriation: *And provided further*, Frank D. Kohn.That the Secretary of War is authorized to pay out of funds appropriated for the Air Service of the Army for the fiscal year 1920, the sum of $1,079.02 to Frank D. Kohn for the use and occupation, for the period from July 1, 1919, to January 9, 1920, of the lands upon which the Air Service engine and plane repair depot is now located near the city of Montgomery, Alabama.
That payments heretofore made by disbursing officers of the Lonoke Chamber of Commerce, Ark.Payments to, for lease of lands, ratified.United States to the Lonoke Chamber of Commerce, Lonoke, Arkansas, under and pursuant to a lease dated March 20, 1919, providing for the use and occupation by the United States of certain lands near Lonoke, Arkansas, for aeronautical purposes and providing for an increased rental from and after January 1, 1919, are hereby ratified and confirmed.
FINANCE DEPARTMENT. Finance Department. Pay, and so forth, of the Army. Pay of the Army. pay of officers.Officers. For pay of officers of the line and staff, $46,000,000. Line and staff. For pay of officers, National Guard, $100. National Guard. For pay of the officers of the Officers’ Reserve Corps, $250,000: Officers’ Reserve Corps.*Provisos*.General Staff duty limited.*Provided*, That no portion of this appropriation shall be expended for the pay of a reserve officer on active duty for a longer period than fifteen days, except such as may be detailed for duty with the War Department General Staff under section 3a and section 5
(b)Vol. 41, pp. 760, 763.of the Army Reorganization Act approved June 4, 1920, or who Other details.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 74this Act, or who may be detailed for duty with tactical units of the Vol. 41, p. 776.Air Service, as provided in section 37a of the Army Reorganization Act approved June 4, 1920, or not to exceed three reserve officers in the Judge Advocate General’s Department, or except one officer Medical Reserve Corps.Service to war risk patients in Army hospitals.of the Medical Reserve Corps: *Provided further*, That pay and allowances of such additional officers 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 Bureau of the War Risk Insurance treated in Army hospitals may be paid from the funds allotted to the War Department by that bureau under existing law. Warrant officers. For pay of warrant officers, $1,413,000. Aviation increase, Air Service. For aviation increase, to officers of the Air Service, $1,000,000. Longevity. For additional pay to officers for length of service, $4,000,000. Enlisted men. pay of enlisted men. Line and staff. For pay of enlisted men of the line and staff, $77,741,370. The Discharge, etc., of minors.Secretary of War shall discharge from the military service with pay and with the form of discharge certificate to which the service of each, after enlistment, shall entitle him, all enlisted men under the age of eighteen on the application of either of their parents or legal guardian, and shall also furnish to each transportation in kind from the place of discharge to the railroad station at or nearest to the place of acceptance for enlistment, or to his home if the distance thereto is no greater than from the place of discharge to the place of acceptance for enlistment, but if the distance be greater he may be furnished with transportation in kind for a distance equal to that from place Applications for discharge to be accepted, until strength reduced to 150,000 men.of discharge to place of acceptance for enlistment: and the Secretary of War is directed under such reasonable regulations as he may prescribe to grant applications for discharge of enlisted men serving in the continental United States without regard to the provisions of existing law respecting discharges until the number in the Army has been reduced to 150,000 enlisted men, not including the Philippine Scouts. The provisions of this paragraph shall take effect immediately upon the approval of this Act. Reenlistment allowance repealed.Vol. 41, p. 775. The provisions of section 27 of the Army Reorganization Act, approved June 4, 1920, providing an enlistment allowance, are hereby repealed. National Guard. For pay of enlisted men of National Guard, $100. Enlisted Reserve Corps. For pay of enlisted men of the Enlisted Reserve Corps, $100. Aviation increase.*Proviso*.Limitation. For aviation increase, to enlisted men of the Air Service, $150,000: *Provided*, That this appropriation shall not be available for increased pay on flying status to more than five hundred enlisted men. Flying cadets.Vol. 41, p. 1098. Nothing contained in Public Resolution Numbered 59 of the Sixty-sixth Congress shall be held to prohibit the enlistment of flying cadets to the number of five hundred. Philippine Scouts. For pay of the enlisted men of the Philippine Scouts, $1,600,000. Longevity. For additional pay for length of service to enlisted men, $4,600,000. Retired list. pay of persons with retired status. Officers. For pay of the officers on the retired list, $5,000,000. On active duty. For increase pay to retired officers on active duty, $275,000. Enlisted men. For pay of retired enlisted men; $4,180,167. On active duty. For pay and allowances of retired enlisted men on active duty, $17,817. Philippine Scout officers. For pay of retired Philippine Scout officers, $185,640. Pay clerks. For pay of retired pay clerks, $18,562. Veterinarians. For pay of retired veterinarians, $3,570. 75 clerks, messengers, and laborers, office of the chief of staff. Office of Chief of Staff. Chief clerk, $2,500; clerks—one $2,250, six at $2,000 each, eight Clerks, messengers, etc.at $1,800 each, thirteen at $1,600 each, twenty-one at $1,400 each, twenty-four at $1,200 each, twenty-six at $1,000 each; chief messenger, $1,000; messengers—three at $840 each, ten at $720 each; laborer, $720; in all, $147,590. clerks, messengers, and laborers, general staff college. General Staff College. Chief clerk, $2,000; clerks—two at $1,800 each, six at $1,600 each, Clerks, messengers, etc.seven at $1,400 each, six at $1,200 each, three at $1,000 each; captain of the watch, $900; six watchmen, at $720 each; packer, $840; five messengers, at $720 each; laborers—one $720, one $600; gardener, $720; five charwomen, at $240 each; in all, $48,100. 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 embarkation and debarkation. Headquarters of departments, areas, districts, divisions, etc. Army field clerks—nine at $2,000 each, forty-three at $1,800 each, Army field clerks, etc.seventy-seven at $1,600 each, one hundred and six at $1,400 each, one hundred and sixty-five at $1,200 each; one hundred messengers at $720 each; increased pay for four hundred Army field clerks as Increased pay.Vol. 41, p. 602.provided by the Act of May 18, 1920, $96,000; in all, $733,000. For additional pay while on foreign service, $5,000. Foreign service pay. For commutation of quarters and of heat and light, $198,000. Commutation of quarters, etc. For commutation of quarters and of heat and light for field clerks, Quartermaster Corps field clerks.*Provisos*.Assignments.Quartermaster Corps, $75,000: *Provided*, That said clerks, messengers, and laborers shall be employed and assigned by the Secretary of War to the offices and positions in which they are to serve: *Provided further*, That no clerk, messenger, or laborer at headquarters of Department duty forbidden.tactical divisions, military departments, brigades, service schools, and office of the Chief of Staff shall be assigned to duty in any bureau of the War Department. miscellaneous. Miscellaneous. For pay of contract surgeons, $56,801. Contract surgeons. For pay of nurses, $800,000. Nurses. For pay of hospital matrons, $3,000. 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, $87,500. For commutation of quarters and heat and light to commissioned Commutation of quarters, etc.officers, warrant officers, members of the Nurse Corps, and enlisted men on duty at places where no public quarters are available, including enlisted men of the Enlisted Reserve Corps and retired enlisted men when ordered to active duty, $5,000,000. For interest on soldiers’ deposits, $100,000. Interest, soldiers’ deposits. For pay of expert accountant for the Inspector General’s Department, Expert accountant.$2,500. For mileage to commissioned officers, warrant officers, members of Mileage, officers, etc.the Officers’ Reserve Corps when ordered to active duty, contract surgeons, expert accountant, Inspector General’s Department, Army field clerks and field clerks of the Quartermaster Corps, when authorized by law, $1,875,000. 76 Foreign pay.Officers. For additional 10 per centum increase of pay of officers on foreign service, $325,000. Enlisted men. For additional 20 per centum increase of pay of enlisted men on foreign service, $1,750,000. Computer. For pay of one computer for Artillery Board, $2,500. Loss by exchange. For payment of exchange by officers serving in foreign countries and when specially authorized by the Secretary of War, by officers disbursing funds pertaining to the War Department when serving in Alaska, and all foreign money received shall be charged to and paid out by disbursing officers of the Army at the legal valuation fixed by the Secretary of the Treasury, $5,000. Officers furnishing mounts. For additional pay to officers below the grade of major required to be mounted and who furnish their own mounts, $200,000. Jennie Carroll. For amount required to make monthly payments to Jennie Carroll, widow of James Carroll, late major, United States Army, $1,500. Mabel H. Lazear. For amount required to make monthly payments to Mabel H. Lazear, widow of Jesse W. Lazear, late acting assistant surgeon, United States Army, $1,500. John R. Kissinger. For amount required to make monthly payments to John R. Kissinger, late of Company D, Ono hundred and fifty-seventh Indians Volunteer Infantry, also late of the Hospital Corps, United States Army, $1,200. Finance Department clerks, etc. For compensation of clerks and other employees of the Finance Department, $1,420,000. Advanced course training camps.Pay for attending, fiscal year 1921.Vol. 41, p. 956. The appropriation for “Pay, and so forth, of the Army,” for the fiscal year 1921 shall be available for the authorized pay of members of the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps or other persons authorize by the Secretary of War to attend the advanced course training camps during such fiscal year. Accounts consolidated.*Post*, p. 456. All the money hereinbefore appropriated for pay of the Army and miscellaneous, except the appropriation for mileage to commissioned officers, warrant officers, members of the Officers’ Reserve Corps when ordered to active duty, contract surgeons, expert accountant, Inspector General’s Department, Army field clerks, am field clerks of the Quartermaster Corps, when authorized by law, shall be disbursed and accounted for as pay of the Army, and for that purpose *Provisos*.Payment for World War service from prior appropriation.Vol. 40, p. 851.shall constitute one fund: *Provided*, That so much of the unexpended amount of the appropriation for pay, and so forth, of the Army for the fiscal year 1919 as may be necessary to permit payment for the adjustment and settlement of claims of officers, members of the Nurse Corps, and enlisted men for pay and allowances grower out of service in the World War from April 6, 1917, to June 30, 1919inclusive, shall remain upon the books of the Treasury to the credit Army to be reduced to meet appropriation for current year.of that appropriation until June 30, 1922: *Provided further*, That the Army shall be reduced by the Secretary of War so that the sum here in appropriated shall defray the entire cost of the pay of the officers an enlisted men of the line and staff during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1922. Quartermaster Corps. Quartermaster Corps. Subsistence. subsistence of the army. Purchase of supplies for issue. Purchase of subsistence supplies: For issue as rations to troops, including warrant officers of the Mine Planter Service, enlisted men of the Enlisted Reserve Corps and retired enlisted men when ordered to active duty, civil employees when entitled thereto, hospital matrons, nurses, applicants for enlistment while held under observation, general prisoners of war (including Indians held by the Army as prisoners, but for whose subsistence appropriation is not otherwise made), Indians employed with the Army as guides and scouts, and 77general 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 Sales to officers, etc.the Officers’ Reserve Corps while on active duty, and enlisted men of the Army: *Provided*, That the sum of $12,000 is authorized to be expended *Provisos*.Competitors to national rifle match.for supplying meals or furnishing commutation of rations to enlisted men of the Regular Army and the National Guard who may be competitors in the national rifle match: *Provided further*, That no Ration restriction.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 commutation of rations to the Payments.Commutation of rations.cadets of the United States Military Academy in lieu of the regular established ration, at the rate of $1.08 per ration; of the regulation allowances of commutation Army Nurse Corps, etc.in lieu of rations to enlisted men on furlough, enlisted men and male and female nurses when stationed at places where rations in kind can not be economically issued, including warrant officers of the Mine Planter Service, enlisted men of the 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 while traveling to and from places of contest, male and female nurses on leave of absence, applicants for enlistment, and general prisoners while traveling under orders. For payment of the regulation allowances of commutation in lieu of rations for members of the Army Nurse Corps while on duty in hospital, and for enlisted men, applicants for enlistment while held under observation, civilian employees who are entitled to subsistence at public expense, and general prisoners sick therein, to be paid to the surgeon in charge; advertising; for providing prizes Prizes for bakers and cooks.to be established by the Secretary of War for enlisted men of the Army who graduate from the Army schools for bakers and cooks, the total amount of such prizes at the various schools not to exceed $900 per annum; and for other necessary expenses incident to the Expenses of purchasing, etc., supplies.purchase, testing, care, preservation, issue, sale, and accounting for subsistence supplies for the Army; in all, $29,350,000. regular supplies. Regular supplies of the Quartermaster Corps, including their care Regular supplies.and protection, construction and repair of military reservation fences; stoves and heating apparatus required for the use of the Army for heating offices, hospitals, barracks and quarters, and recruiting stations, and United States disciplinary barracks; also ranges, stoves, coffee roasters, and appliances for cooking and serving food at posts in the field and when traveling, and repair and maintenance of such heating and cooking appliances; and the necessary power for the operation of moving-picture machines; authorized issues of candles and matches; for furnishing heat and Heat and light to quarters, etc.light for the authorized allowance of quarters for officers, including members of the Officers’ Reserve Corps when ordered to active duty, and enlisted men, warrant officers, and field clerks, including enlisted men of the 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 recruits, guards, hospitals, storehouses, offices, the buildings erected Recreation buildings.at private cost, in the operation of the Act approved May 31, 1902, and buildings for a similar purpose on military reservations Vol. 32, p. 282.author-78ized by War Department regulations; for sale to officers, and including also fuel and engine supplies required in the operation of modem Bakeries; ice machines; 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 officers at such places as the Secretary of War may determine, and for preservation of stores; for the construction and maintenance of laundries at military posts in the United States and its island possessions; for the authorized issues of laundry materials for use of general prisoners confined at military posts without pay or allowances, and for applicants for enlistment while held under observation; authorized issues of soap, toilet paper, and Supplies for schools, etc.towels; for the necessary furniture, textbooks, paper, and equipment for the post schools and libraries, and for schools for non-commissioned officers; for the purchase and issue of instruments, office furniture, stationery, and other authorized articles for the use of officers’ schools at the several military posts; for purchase of relief maps for issue to organizations, commercial newspapers, market reports, and so forth; for the tableware and mess furniture for kitchens and mess halls, each and all for the enlisted men, including Forage, etc., for animals.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, the cost of irrigation; for straw for soldiers’ Stationery, printing, etc.bedding, stationery, typewriters and exchange of same, including blank books and blank forms for the Army, certificates for discharged soldiers, and for printing department orders and reports, *Provisos*.Allotments designated.$16,500,000: *Provided*, That from this appropriation, not to exceed $1,750,000 shall be expended for the pay of civilian employees; not to exceed $1,750,000 shall be expended for power, heat, and electric current, of which not exceeding $42,300 may be used for improvement of electric power supply system at Governors Island, New York; not to exceed $100,000 shall be expended for maintenance and repair of buildings (including repair of machinery) for laundries; not to exceed $300,000 shall be expended for the maintenance and repair of heating apparatus (other than stoves); not to exceed $200,000 for maintenance and repair of electric wiring and fixtures; not to exceed $10,000 for the repair and exchange of typewriters; not to exceed 35,225,000 for fuel; not to exceed $6,265,000 for forage, including salt and vinegar and bedding for animals, and straw for soldiers’ bedding; not to exceed $350,000 for ice; and not to exceed $550,000 Sale of horses and mules notion actual use.shall be expended for stationery: *Provided*, That the Secretary of War is authorized and directed to sell as soon as possible after the approval of this Act, upon such terms and under such conditions as he may deem most advantageous to the best interests of the Government, such horses and mules now being held at remount Fuel contracts authorized regardless of fiscal year.stations and posts as are not in actual use: *Provided further*, That hereafter when, in the opinion of the Secretary of War, it is in the interest of the United States so to do, he is authorized to enter into contracts and to incur obligations for fuel in sufficient quantities to meet the requirements for one year without regard to the current Payments.fiscal year, and payments for supplies delivered under such contracts 79may be made from funds appropriated for the fiscal year in which the contract is made, or from funds appropriated or which may be appropriated for such supplies for the ensuing fiscal year. incidental expenses. Postage; cost of telegrams on official business received and sent by Incidental expenses.officers of the Army, including members of the Officers’ Reserve Corps, when ordered to active duty; for expenses of expresses to and from frontier posts and armies in the field; hire of laborers in the Quartermaster Corps, including the care of officers’ mounts when the same are furnished by the Government; compensation of clerks and Civilian employees.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, $5,500,000: *Provided*, *Proviso*.Allotments designated.That from this appropriation not exceeding $2,450,000 shall be expended for the hire of labor; not exceeding $2,825,000 shall be expended for the pay of civilian employees other than laborers; not exceeding $100,000 shall be expended for telegrams, cablegrams, and postage; and not exceeding $25,000 shall be expended for experimental and development work. transportation of the army and its supplies. For transportation of the Army and its supplies, including transportation Transportation.of the troops when moving either by land or water, and of their baggage, including warrant officers, members of the Officers’ Reserve Corps, enlisted men of the Enlisted Reserve Corps, and retired enlisted men when ordered to active duty, including the cost of packing and crating; for transportation of recruits and recruiting parties, of applicants for enlistment between recruiting stations and recruiting depots; for travel allowance to officers and enlisted men on discharge; for payment of travel allowance as provided in section 3 of the Act Travel allowance, National Guard.Vol. 39, p. 217.approved February 28, 1919, to enlisted men of the National Guard on their National Guard officers on discharge.Vol. 31, p. 902.discharge from the service of the United States, and to members of the National Guard who have been mustered into the service of the United States, and discharged on account of physical disability; for payment of travel pay to officers of the National Guard on their discharge from the service of the United States, as prescribed in the 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 Per diem subsistence.in lieu of subsistence not exceeding $4 for those authorized to receive the per diem allowance; of clothing and equipage and other quartermaster stores from Army depots or places of purchase or delivery to the several posts and Army depots and from those depots to the troops in the field; of horse equipment; of ordnance and ordnance 80stores, 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; Payment to land-grant railroads.for the payment of Army transportation lawfully due such land-grant railroads as have not received aid in Government bonds (to be adjusted in accordance with the decisions of the Supreme Court in cases decided under such land-grant Acts), but in no case shall more than 50 per *Provisos*.Compensation rates.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, Fifty per cent to roads not bond aided.and shall be Full payment to excepted roads.accepted as in full for all demands for such service: *Provided further*, That in expending the money appropriated by this Act a railroad company which has not received aid in bonds of the United States and which obtained a grant of public land to aid in the construction of its railroad on conditions that such railroad should be a post route and military road subject to the use of the United States or 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: *Provided further*, That nothing in the preceding provisos shall be construed to prevent the accounting officers of the Government from making full payment to land-grant railroads for transportation of property or persons where the courts of the United States have held that such property or persons do not come within the scope of the deductions provided Draft and pack animals, vehicles, etc.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 home-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles as are required for the transportation of troops and supplies and for official, military, and garrison purposes; for Ships, boats, etc.drayage and cartage at the several depots; for the repair of ships, boats, and other vessels required for the transportation of troops and supplies Transports.and for official, military, and garrison purposes; for expenses of sailing public transports and other vessels on the various rivers, the Gulf of Mexico, and the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, $28,725,000: Allotments to animal drawn, water, rail, and motor.*Post*, p. 455.*Provided*, That the amounts to be expended from this appropriation for the objects hereinbefore set forth shall not exceed the following respective sums: Animal-drawn transportation, $1,530,000; transportation by water, $10,620,000; rail transportation, $10,200,000; Purchase of animals, etc., limited.and motor transportation, $6,375,000: *Provided further*, That not more than $ 10,000 of this appropriation shall be expended for the purchase of draft or pack animals or animal-drawn vehicles: *Provided further*, Motor vehicle restriction.That no money appropriated by 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 81activities of the Army: *And provided further*, That the Secretary of Disposal of additional motor vehicles directed.War is authorized and directed to sell or to dispose of by transfer to the Department of Agriculture under existing laws, for its own use and the use of the several States, in road work and maintenance of roads so many motor trucks and passenger-carrying automobiles as will, in addition to such trucks and automobiles as have been sold or transferred since January 1, 1921, aggregate during the first nine Aggregate number.months of the calendar year, ten thousand motor trucks and two thousand passenger-carrying automobiles: *And provided further*, Porto Rican officials, etc., on transports.That hereafter when, in the opinion of the Secretary of War, accommodations are available, transportation on Army transports may be provided for the members and employees of the Porto Rican Government and their families on official business without expense to United States: *And provided further*, That $250,000 of the appropriation Employees on harbor boats.hereby made shall be available for additional pay for employees on harbor boats, quartermaster service, in lieu of subsistence: Motor vehicle purchases restricted.*And provided further*, That none of the funds appropriated or made available under this Act or any of the unexpended balances of any other Act shall be used for the purchase of motor-propelled passenger or freight carrying vehicles for the Army except those that are purchased solely for experimental purposes: *And provided further*, That hereafter the Transportation of civilian employees on designated activities to be paid therefrom.cost of transportation of civilian employees and of materials in connection with the construction or maintenance of seacoast fortifications, or the acquisition of land therefor, by the Engineer Department, or with the manufacturing and purchase activities of the Ordnance Department and the Chemical Warfare Service, shall be charged to the appropriations for the work in connection with which such transportation charges are incurred. water and sewers at military posts. For procuring and introducing water to buildings and premises at Water, sewers, etc., at posts.such military posts and stations as from their situations require to be brought from a distance; for the installation and extension of plumbing within buildings where the same is not specifically provided or 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, $2,000,000: *Provided*, That *Proviso*.New construction limited.not to exceed $ 10,000 of this appropriation shall be expended for new construction work. clothing, and camp and garrison equipage. Clothing, and camp and garrison equippage. For cloth, woolens, materials, and for the purchase and manufacture Purchase, manufacture, etc.*Post*, p. 417.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 at cost price according to the Army regulations: for payment of commutation of clothing due to warrant officers of the Mine Planters Service and to enlisted men; for altering and fitting clothing and washing and cleaning when necessary; for operation of laundries; 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, including authorized issues of toilet articles, barbers’ Equipage, etc.and tailors materials, for use of general prisoners confined at military posts without pay or allowances and applicants for enlistment while held under observation; issue of toilet kits to recruits upon their first enlistment, and issue of housewives to the Army; for expenses of packing and handling and similar necessaries; for a suit of citizen’s 82outer 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, Indemnity for destroyed clothing, etc.for the same reason, discharged without internment; for indemnity to officers and men of the Army for clothing and bedding, and so forth, destroyed since April 22, 1898, by order of medical officers of *Proviso*.Settlement of clothing accounts.the Army for sanitary reasons, $I2,000,000: *Provided*, That hereafter the settlement of clothing accounts of enlisted men, including charges for clothing drawn in excess of clothing allowance and payments of amounts due them when they draw less than their allowance, shall be made at such periods and under such regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary of War. Uniforms.Issue to discharged enlisted men, repealed.Vol. 40, p. 1202.*Provisos*.Applications allowed to June 1, 1921. That portion of the Act of February 28, 1919, relating to the issuance of uniforms to discharged enlisted men is hereby repealed: *Provided*, That such uniforms shall of issued in accordance with the provisions of said Act to those enlisted men who served in the Army of the United States at any time between April 6, 1917, and January 1, 1920, whose applications therefor shall have been received at the Amounts for transportation allowed from specified appropriations.War Department prior to June 1, 1921: *Provided further*, That there may be transferred during the fiscal year 1922 from the appropriations contained herein for “Subsistence of the Army,” “Regular Supplies, Quartermaster Corps,” “Incidental Expenses, Quartermaster Corps,” “Water and sewers at military posts,” and “Clothing and camp and garrison equipage,” to the appropriation for “Transportation of the Army and its supplies,” such amounts as may be necessary. Horses. Horses for Cavalry, Artillery, Engineers, and so forth. Purchase. For the purchase of horses of ages, sex, and size as may be prescribed by the Secretary of War for remounts for officers entitled to public mounts for the Cavalry, Artillery, Signal Corps, and Engineers, the United States Military Academy, service schools, and staff colleges, and for the Indian Scouts, and for such Infantry and members of the Medical Department in field campaigns as may be required to be mounted, and the expenses incident thereto (including $50,000 Encouraging breeding of riding horses.for purchase of remounts, and 8150,000 for encouragement of the breeding of riding horses suitable for the Army, including cooperation with the Bureau of Animal Industry, Department of Agriculture, and for the purchase of animals for breeding purposes and their *Provisos*.Number limited.maintenance), $200,100: *Provided*, That the number of horses purchased under this appropriation, added to the number now on hand, shall be limited to the actual needs of the mounted service, including reasonable provisions for remounts, and unless otherwise ordered by the Secretary of War no part of this appropriation shall be paid out for horses not purchased by contract after competition duly invited by the Quartermaster Corps and an inspection under the Open market purchases.direction and authority of the Secretary of War. When practicable, horses shall be purchased in open market at all military posts or stations, when needed, within a maximum price to be fixed by the Standard required.Secretary of War: *Provided further*, That no part of this appropriation shall be expended for the purchase of any horse below the standard set by Army Regulations for Cavalry and Artillery horses, except when purchased as remounts or for instruction of cadets at Polo ponies.the United States Military Academy: *Provided further*, That no part of this appropriation shall be expended for polo ponies except for West Point Military Academy, and such ponies shall not be used at 83any other place: *Provided further*, That the Secretary of War may, Acceptance of donated breeding animals, etc.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 purposes: *And provided further*, Report of expenditures.That the Secretary of War shall report annually to Congress, at the commencement of each session, a statement of all expenditures under this appropriation, and full particulars of means adopted and carried into effect for the encouragement of the breeding of riding horses suitable for the military service. Barracks and Quarters. Barracks and quarters. For barracks, quarters, stables, storehouses, magazines, administration Construction, repairs, etc.and office buildings, sheds, shops, and other Buildings necessary for the shelter of troops, public animals, and stores, and for administration purposes, except those pertaining to the Coast Artillery; for construction of reclamation plants; for constructing and repairing public buildings at military posts; for hire of employees; for rental Rentals.of the authorized allowance of quarters for officers, including members of the Officers’ Reserve Corps when ordered to active duty, on duty with the troops at posts and stations where no public quarters are available; of barracks or authorized allowance of quarters for non-commissioned officers and enlisted men, men on duty where public quarter are not available, including enlisted men of the Regular Army Reserve, retired enlisted men, and members of the enlisted Reserve Corps when ordered to active duty; for grounds for cantonments, Grounds, 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 such furniture for Furniture, etc.the public rooms of officers’ messes and for officers’ quarters at military posts as may be approved by the Secretary of War: for wall lockers in permanent barracks and refrigerators in barracks and quarters; for screen doors, window screens, storm doors and sash, and window shades for barracks arid officers’ quarters, and for flooring and framing for tents, and for the National Guard when called or National Guard in service.*Proviso*.Office rent, military attaches, excluded.drafted into the service of the United States, $6,860,000: *Provided*, That this appropriation shall not be available for the rent of offices for military attachés. Military Post Exchanges. Post exchanges. For continuing the construction, equipment, arid maintenance of Construction, equipment, etc.suitable buildings at military posts and stations for the conduct of the post exchange, school, library, reading, lunch, amusement rooms, for the conduct and maintenance of hostess houses, chapels, and Hostess houses, recreation buildings, etc.,gymnasium, including repairs to buildings erected at private cost, Vol. 32, p. 232.in the operation of the Act approved May 31, 1902, for the rental of films, purchase of slides, supplies for and making repairs to moving-picture outfits and for similar and other recreational purposes at training and mobilization camps now established, or which may be hereafter established, $150,000. Barracks and Quarters, Philippine Islands. Philippine Islands. Continuing the work of providing for the proper shelter and protection Shelter for troops in.of officers and enlisted men of the Army of the United States lawfully on duty in the Philippine Islands, including repairs and payments of rents, the acquisition of title to building sites, and such addi-84tions 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 Troops in China.thereof, and rentals for the United States troops in China, $300,000: *Proviso*.Limit, quarters for officers.*Provided*, That no part of said sum shall be expended for the construction of quarters for officers of the Army the total cost of which, including the heating and plumbing apparatus, wiring, and fixtures, shall exceed in the case of quarters of a general officer the sum of $8,000; of a colonel or officer above the rank of captain, $6,000; and of an officer of and below the rank of captain, $4,000. Roads, wharves, etc. Roads, Walks, Wharves, and Drainage. Construction, repairs, etc. For the construction and repair by the Quartermaster Corps of roads, walks, and wharves; for the pay of employees; for the disposal of drainage; for dredging channels; and for care and improvement of *Proviso*.Camps, etc., excluded.grounds at military posts and stations, $900,000: *Provided*, That none of the funds appropriated or made available under this Act shall be used for the permanent construction of any roads, walks, or wharves connected with any of the National Army cantonments or National Guard camps. Hospitals. Construction and Repair of Hospitals. Construction, repairs, etc. For construction and repair of hospitals at military posts already established and occupied, including 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 Temporary camp hospitals, etc.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 repairs of temporary hospital buildings at permanent posts, construction and repair of temporary general hospitals, rental or purchase of grounds, and rental and alteration of buildings for use for hospital purposes in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, including necessary temporary quarters for hospital personnel, outbuildings, heating and laundry apparatus, plumbing, water and sewers and electric work, cooking apparatus, and roads and walks for the same, $900,000. Quarters for hospital stewards. Quarters for Hospital Stewards. Construction and repair. For construction and repair of quarters for hospital stewards at military posts already established and occupied, $15,000. Shooting galleries and ranges. Shooting Galleries and Ranges. Expenses. For shelter, grounds, shooting galleries, ranges for small-arms target practice, machine-gun practice, field artillery practice, repairs, and expenses incident thereto, including flour for paste for marking targets, hire of employees, such ranges and galleries to be open, as far as practicable, to the National Guard and organized rifle clubs, under regulations to be prescribed by the Secretary of War, $50,000. Target practice, etc., damages. Claims for Damages to and Loss of Private Property. Payment of claims. For payment of claims for damages to and loss of private property incident to the training, practice, operation, or maintenance of the Army that have accrued, or may hereafter accrue, from time to time, to be immediately available and to remain available until expended, 85$100,000: *Provided*, That settlement of such claims shall be made by *Proviso*.Settlement, etc.the Auditor for the War Department, upon the approval and recommendation of the Secretary of War, where the amount of damages has been ascertained by the War Department, and payment thereof will be accepted by the owners of the property in full satisfaction of such damages. Rent of Buildings, Quartermaster Corps. Rent. For rent of buildings and parts of buildings in the District of Building in District of Columbia.Columbia for military purposes during the fiscal year 1922, $150,000: *Provided*, That this appropriation shall not of available if space is *Proviso*.Restriction.provided by the Public Buildings Commission in Government-owned buildings. Vocational Training. For the employment of the necessary civilian instructors in the Vocational training.most important trades, and for the payment of their traveling expenses, as authorized under existing law; for the purchase of carpenter’s, machinist’s, mason’s, electrician’s, and such other tools and equipment as may be required, including machines used in connection with the trades; for the purchase of materials, live stock (including fowls), and other supplies necessary for instruction and training purposes, and the construction, repair, or alteration of such buildings needed for vocational training in agriculture; for shops, storage, and shelter of machinery as may be necessary to carry out Vol. 38, p. 188.the provisions of section 27 of the Act approved June 3, 1916, authorizing, in addition to the military training of soldiers while in the active service, means for securing an opportunity to study and receive instruction upon educational lines of such character as to increase their military efficiency and enable them to return to civil life better equipped for industrial, commercial, and general business occupations, part of this instruction to consist of vocational education either in agriculture or the mechanic arts, $1,200,000: *Provided*, That whenever *Provisos*.Use of Army instructors.possible officers, warrant officers, noncommissioned officers, or other enlisted men shall be detailed as instructors: *Provided further*, Civilian employees restricted.That no part of this appropriation shall be available for salaries of civilian instructors other than in technical branches: *And provided further*, Pay restriction.That not more than $100,000 shall be expended for salaries and no person shall be employed hereunder at a rate of compensation exceeding $3,000 per annum: *And provided further*, That farm products Disposal of farm products, etc.and the increase in live stock (including fowls) which accrue as incidental to vocational training in agriculture and animal husbandry shall be sold under such regulations as the Secretary of War may prescribe, and the proceeds of such sales shall be deposited in the Treasury of the United States to the credit of miscellaneous receipts. Quartermaster Supplies and Services for Rifle Ranges fob Civilian Instruction. Civilian military instruction. To establish and maintain indoor and outdoor rifle ranges for the Expenses of rifle ranges, etc., for.use of all able-bodied males capable of bearing arms, under reasonable regulations to be prescribed by the National Board for the Promotion of Rifle Practice and approved by the Secretary of War; for the employment of labor in connection with the establishment of outdoor and indoor rifle ranges, including labor in operating targets; for the employment of instructors; for clerical services; for badges and other insignia; for the transportation of employees, instructors, and civilians to engage in practice; for the purchase of materials, supplies, and services, and for expenses incidental to instruction of citi-86zens of the United States in marksmanship, and their participation in national and international matches, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War, and to remain available until *Proviso*.Civilian rifle teams at national matches.expended, $100,000: *Provided*, That out of the said sum of 8100,000 there may be expended for the payment of transportation, for supplying meals, or furnishing commutation of subsistence of civilian rifle teams authorized by the Secretary of War to participate in the national matches, not to exceed 880,000. Reserve Officers’ Training Corps. Quartermaster Supplies, Equipment, and so forth, Reserve Officers’ Training Corps. Quartermaster supplies, etc., to units of. For the procurement and issue, under such regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary of War, to institutions at which one or more units of the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps are maintained, of such public animals, means of transportation, 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 Training camps.when necessary; for the establishment 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 camps, and to subsist them while traveling to and from such camps and while remaining therein so far as appropriations Commutation of traveling expenses.will permit; 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 Return pay in advance.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 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 Vol. 39, p. 193.Vol. 41, p. 777.the Act approved June 3, 1916, as amended by the Act approved June 4, 1920, $2,896,553, to remain available until December 31, 1922. Other schools and colleges. Military Supplies and Equipment for Schools and Colleges. Military supplies and equipment for.Vol. 41, p. 780.[R.S., sec. 1225, p. 216](/us/rs/s1225/p216).Vol. 41: p. 776. 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 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 equipment, machine-gun outfits, and horse equipment, as the Secretary of War shall deem necessary for proper *Proviso*.Ordnance equipment excluded.military training in said schools and colleges, $10,000: *Provided*, That no part of this appropriation shall be expended for the purchase of arms or other ordnance equipment. Storage and shipping facilities. Inland and Port Storage and Shipping Facilities. Expenses of inland and port. For inland and port storage, including all necessary buildings, docks, tracks, handling, and other facilities for Government supplies, including rentals and hire of the necessary employees, and for cold 87storage, $100: *Provided*, That not to exceed $7,000,000 of the funds *Provisos*.Funds available after July 1, 1921.heretofore appropriated for inland and Payment from, for clerical services in the District forbidden.port storage and shipping facilities shall be available for obligation on and after July 1, 1921: *Provided further*. That no part of the appropriations for inland and port storage and shipping facilities available for the fiscal year 1922, shall be available for the payment of clerical services pertaining to the activities of the Quartermaster Corps in the District of Columbia or elsewhere: *Provided further*, That not to exceed $93,000 from Philadelphia, Pa., warehouse.funds heretofore appropriated for this purpose may be used in the erection and completion of a power house in connection with quartermaster warehouse numbered five at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. MEDICAL DEPARTMENT. Medical Department. Medical and Hospital Department. For the manufacture and purchase of medical and hospital supplies, Medical and hospital supplies, etc.including disinfectants, for military posts, camps, hospitals, hospital ships and transports, for laundry work for enlisted men and Army nurses while patients in a hospital, and supplies required for mosquito Mosquito destruction.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; for medical care and treatment Private treatment, etc.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 m military custody or confinement, when entitled thereto by law, regulation, or contract: *Provided*, That this shall not *Proviso*.Not applicable if on furlough, etc.apply to officers and enlisted men who 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 Array or at Contagious diseases expenses.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; or the pay of other employees of the Medical Department, for tuition Tuition of officers.of officers of the Medical Department, including the Army Nurse Corps, under section 127–a of the Army Reorganization Act approved Vol. 41, p. 786.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 supply of the Army and Navy Hospital at Hot Springs, Arkansas; for advertising, Hot Springs Hospital, Ark.printing, binding, laundry, and all other necessary miscellaneous expenses of the Medical Department, $2,000,000. Hospital Care, Canal Zone Garrisons. Canal Zone. For paying the Panama Canal such reasonable charges, exclusive of Care of troops, etc., at hospitals in.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 88*Proviso*.Subsistence payment. of proper military authority, $60,000: *Provided*, That the subsistence of the said patients, except commissioned officers, shall be paid to said hospitals out of the appropriation for subsistence of the Army at the rates provided therein for commutation of rations for enlisted patients in general hospitals. Medical Museum. Army Medical Museum. Preserving specimens, etc. For Army Medical Museum, preservation of specimens, and the preparation and purchase of new specimens, $10,000. Library. Library, Surgeon General’s Office. Purchase of books, etc. For the library of the Surgeon General’s Office, including the purchase of the necessary books of reference and periodicals, $15,000. Insular Affairs Bureau. BUREAU OF INSULAR AFFAIRS. Care of insane soldiers. Care of Insane Filipino Soldiers. In Philippine Islands.Vol. 35, p. 122. For care, maintenance, and treatment at asylums in the Philippine Islands of insane natives of the Philippine Islands cared for in such institutions conformable to the Act of Congress approved May 11, 1908, $2,000. Care of Insane Soldiers of Porto Rico Regiment of Infantry. In Porto Rico. For care, maintenance, and treatment at asylums in Porto Rico of insane soldiers of the Porto Rico Regiment of Infantry, $100. Engineer Department. ENGINEER DEPARTMENT. 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, $20,000. School, D. C. Engineer School. Equipment and maintenance. 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, textbooks and books of reference Incidental expenses.for the library of the United States Engineer School; for incidental expenses of the school, including chemicals, stationery, hardware, machinery, and boats; for pay of civilian clerks, draftsmen, electricians, Tuition at civil technical institutions.mechanics, and laborers; compensation of civilian lecturers and payment of tuition fees of not to exceed fifty student officers at civil technical institutions in addition to the 2 per centum of commissioned officers authorized to attend technical, professional, and Vol. 41, p. 786.other educational institutions as provided for in section 127a of the National Defense Act of June 3, 1916, as amended by the Act of June 894, 1920; for unforeseen expenses; for travel expenses of officers on Travel expenses of officers.journeys approved by the Secretary of War and made for the purpose of instruction: *Provided*, That the traveling expenses herein provided *Provisos*.In lieu of mileage.for shall be in lieu of mileage and other allowances; and for other absolutely necessary expenses: *Provided further*, That section 3648, Periodicals.[R.S., sec. 3848, p. 718](/us/rs/s3848/p718).Revised Statutes, shall not apply to subscriptions for foreign and professional newspapers and periodicals to be paid for from this appropriation, $45,000. Engineer Equipment of Troops. Equipment of troops. For pontoon material, tools, instruments, supplies, and appliances Materials, tools, supplies, etc.required for use in the engineer equipment of troops, for military surveys, and for engineer operations in the field, including the purchase, maintenance, operation, and repair of the necessary motor cycles; the purchase and preparation of engineer manuals and procurement of special paper for same, and for a reserve supply of above equipment, $145,000. Civilian Assistants to Engineer Officers. Civilian assistants. For services of surveyors, survey parties, draftsmen, photographers, Surveyors, etc.master laborers, and clerks to Engineer officers on the staffs of division, corps, and department commanders, $40,000. Engineer Operations in the Field. Field operations. Expenses. For expenses incident to military engineer operations in the field, including the purchase of material and a reserve of material for such operations, the construction or rental of storehouses within and outside of the District of Columbia, the purchase, operation, maintenance, and repair of horse-drawn and motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles, and such expenses as are ordinarily provided for under appropriations for “Engineer Depots,” “Civilian assistants to engineer officers,” and “Maps, War Department,” $220,000: *Provided*, *Provisos*.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*, That so Temporary construction for training.much of this appropriation as is necessary to provide facilities for Engineer training of troops may be expended for military construction work of a temporary character at camps and cantonments and in training areas, for training purposes only. Contingencies, Engineer Department, Philippine Islands. Philippine Islands. For contingent expenses incident to the operations of the Engineer Engineer contingencies.Department in the Philippine Islands, to be expended at the discretion of the Secretary of War, $2,500. Military Surveys and Maps. Military surveys and maps. For the execution of topographic and other surveys, the securing Expenses of procuring, etc.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, 1922, $25,000: *Provided*, That the Secretary of War is authorized to secure *Proviso*.Assistance of other offices.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. 90 Alaska. Construction and Maintenance of Military and Post Roads, Bridges, and Trails, Alaska. Roads, bridges, and trails m. For the construction, repair, and maintenance of military and post roads, bridges, and trails, Territory of Alaska, to be immediately *Provisos*.Use of contributed funds for construction work, etc.available, $425,000: *Provided*, That the Secretary of War is hereby authorized to receive from the Territory of Alaska, or other source, such funds as may be contributed by them to be expended in connection with funds appropriated by the United States for any authorized work of construction, repair and maintenance of roads, bridges, ferries, trails, and related works in the Territory of Alaska, and to cause such funds to be deposited to the credit of the Treasurer of the United States, and to expend the same in accordance with the purpose Investigating facilities for road communication with designated coal deposits.for which they were contributed: *Provided further*, That not to exceed $10,000 of the foregoing amount shall be expended for a preliminary investigation and report on the feasibility, desirability, and cost of the best and most practicable connection between the Nome-Shelton system of communications and the coal deposits of the Kugruk River, Chicago Creek, and the Keewalik mining district, whether by wagon road, sled road, tramway, trail, or other means. Ordnance Department. ORDNANCE DEPARTMENT. Ordnance Service. Current expenses. For the current expenses of the Ordnance Department in connection with purchasing, receiving, storing, and issuing ordnance and ordnance stores, comprising police and office duties, rents, tolls, fuel, light, water, and advertising, stationery, typewriters, and adding machines, including their exchange, and office furniture, tools, and instruments of service; for incidental expenses of the Ordnance Service and those attending practical trials and tests of ordnance small arms, and other ordnance stores; for instruction purposes; for publications for libraries of the Ordnance Department, including the Ordinance Office; subscriptions to periodicals, which may be paid for hi advance; and payment for mechanical labor in the office of the Chief of Ordnance; and for maintenance, repair, and operation of motor-propelled or horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles, *Provisos*.Vehicle restriction.$2,900,000: *Provided*, That no money appropriated herein shall be expended for maintenance, repair, or operation of any motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicle employed wholly or in part for personal, social, or other similar use or for any use except for military Material to be of American manufacture.and official business: *Provided further*, That all material purchased under the appropriations in this Act for the Ordnance Department of the United States Army shall be of American manufacture, except in cases when, in the judgment of the Secretary of War, it is to the manifest interest of the United States to make purchases abroad, which material shall be admitted free of duty. Ammunition. Ordnance Stores, Ammunition. Manufacture, etc., or, for small arms, airplane bombs, etc. For the development, manufacture, purchase, and maintenance of 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, $675,000. 91 Small-Arms Target Practice. Small arms target practice. For manufacture and purchase of ammunition, targets, and other Ammunition, targets, etc.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 State soldiers’ and sailors’ orphans’ homes to which issues of small arms are lawfully made, under such regulations as the Secretary of War may prescribe, $250,000. Manufacture of Arms. Manufacture of arms. For manufacturing, repairing, procuring, and issuing arms at the At arsenals.national armories, $400,000. Ordnance Stores and Supplies. Stores and supplies. For the manufacture, test, purchase, and maintenance of sighting Airplane bombs, sighting devices, etc.devices for airplane bombs, of carrying and releasing devices for airplane bombs; for overhauling, cleaning, repairing, and preserving Preserving, etc.ordnance and ordnance stores in the hands of troops and at the arsenals, posts, and depots; for purchase and manufacture of ordnance Purchases, etc., for issue.stores to fill requisitions of troops, $150,000. National Trophy and Medals for Rifle Contests. Rifle contests. For the purpose of furnishing a national trophy and medals and Furnishing national trophy, medals, prices, etc.other prizes to be provided and contested for annually, under such regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary of War, said contest to be open to the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and the National Guard or Organized Militia of the several States, Territories, and of the District of Columbia, members of rifle clubs, and civilians, and for the cost of the trophy, prizes, and medals herein provided for, and for the promotion of rifle practice throughout the United States, including the reimbursement of necessary expenses of members National Board for Promotion of Rifle Practice.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, $10,000. Automatic Machine Rifles. Automatic Machine Rifles. For the purchase, manufacture, test, repair, and maintenance of Purchase, manufacture, etc.automatic machine rifles, or other automatic or semiautomatic guns, including their mounts, sights, and equipment, and the machinery necessary for their manufacture, to remain available until June 30, 1923, $375,000. Tanks. Tanks. For the purchase, manufacture, test, maintenance, and repair of Purchase, etc., of, and other armored vehicles.tanks and other self-propelled armored vehicles, to remain available until June 30, 1923, $450,000. CHEMICAL WARFARE SERVICE. Chemical Warfare Service. For the purchase, manufacture, and test of chemical warfare gases Purchase, manufacture, etc., of gases, etc.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 sci-92entific Buildings, machinery, etc.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 Organizing, etc., special gas troops.to periodicals which may be paid 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 field schools, tactical demonstrations, Current expenses.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, $1,350,000. Nation Guard. NATIONAL GUARD. Arming, etc. Arming, Equipping, and Training the National Guard. Animals. For purchase of animals for mounted units, $100. Forage, etc. For procurement of forage, bedding, and so forth, for animals, $1,500,000. Care, etc. For compensation of help for care of matériel, animals, and equipment, $1,300,000. Instruction camps. For expenses, camps of instruction, $6,000,000. Service schools’ instruction. For expenses, selected officers and enlisted men, military service schools, $225,000. Details from Army. For pay and allowances, officers, National Guard, detailed with Army, $100,000. Property, etc., officers. For pay of property and disbursing officers for the United States, $45,000. General expenses, equipment, etc. For general expenses, equipment and instruction, National Guard, $750,000. Travel, Army officers. For travel of officers and noncommissioned officers of the Regular Army in connection with the National Guard, $85,000. Property repairs. For repair of Federal property issued to the National Guard, $5,000. Transporting supplies. For transportation of equipment and supplies, $175,000. Sergeant instructors.For expenses, sergeant-instructors, $110,000. For office rent, and so forth, inspector-instructors, $9,000. Armory drill pay. *Proviso*.Interchangeable expenses: For pay of National Guard (armory drills), $9,750,000: *Provided*, That 20 per centum of the foregoing amounts for arming, equipping, and training the National Guard shall be available interchangeably for expenditure for the purposes named; but not more than 20 per centum shall be added to the amount appropriated for any one of such purposes. Field service arms, equipment, etc. Arms, Uniforms, Equipment, etc., for Field Service, National Guard. Purchase or manufacture of, for issue. 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 matériel, Engineer, Signal, and sanitary matériel, accouterments, field uniforms, clothing, equipage, publications, and military stores of all kinds, including public animals, and a reserve supply of such 93arms, matériel, accouterments, field uniforms, clothing, equipage, and military stores of all kinds, as are necessary to arm, uniform, and equip for field service the National Guard of the several States, Territories, and the District of Columbia, $5,500,000: *Provided*, *Provisos*.Army pay for service of less than one month.That members of the National Guard who have or shall become entitled for a continuous period of less than one month to Federal pay at the rates fixed for the Regular Army, whether by virtue of a call by the President, of attendance at school or maneuver, or of any other cause, and whose accounts have not yet been settled, shall receive such pay for each day of such period; and the thirty-first day of a calendar month shall not be excluded from the computation: *Provided further*, That the Secretary of War is hereby directed to Clothing, equipment, etc., from surplus Army stores.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 matériel and ammunition as may be needed by the National Guard organized under the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act for making further and more effectual provision Vol. 39, p. 197.Vol. 41, p. 780.for the national defense, and for other purposes,” approved June 3, 1916, as amended by the Act approved June 4, 1920. This Not charged to militia appropriations.issue shall be made without charge against militia appropriations. MISCELLANEOUS. Miscellaneous. Ordnance Equipment for Rifle Ranges for Civilian Instruction. Civilian military instruction. For arms, ammunition, targets, and other accessories for target Arms, etc., for rifle target practice.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. Civilian Military Training Camps. Civilian training camps. For furnishing, at the expense of the United States, to warrant Expenses for uniforms, transportation, etc., on attending.Vol. 39, p. 194; Vol 41, p. 779.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 at 5 cents per mile, as prescribed in said section 47–d, $900,000: *Provided*, That the funds herein appropriated shall not be used for *Proviso*.Age limitation.the training of any person who is over thirty-five years of age. Ordnance Stores, Equipment, and so forth, Reserve Officers’ Training Corps. Reserve Officers’ Training Corps. For arms and ordnance equipment, including overhauling and Arms, ordnance equipments, etc., for units of.Vol. 39, p. 192.repairing of personal equipments, machine-gun outfits, and horse equipments for use in connection with the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps, established by the Act entitled “An Act for making further and more effectual provision for the national defense, and for other purposes,” approved June 3, 1916, as amended by the Act of June Vol. 41, p. 777.4, 1920, $100. Tank Service. Tank Service. For payment of the necessary civilian employees to assist Civilian employees.in handling the clerical work in the office of the tank center, tank schools, 94and the various tank organization headquarters; and for the payment of the necessary mechanics to assist in repairing and preserving tanks in the hands of Tank units, $75,000. Tank schools. Incidental Expenses, Tank Schools. Incidental expenses. Incidental expenses in connection with the operation of the tank schools, $7,000. Articles made at arsenals. Purchase of Articles Manufactured at Government Arsenals. Restriction on purchases elsewhere. No part of the moneys appropriated in this Act shall be used or expended for the purchase or acquirement of any article or articles that at the time of the proposed acquirement can be manufactured or produced in each or any of the Government arsenals of the United States for a sum less than it can be purchased or procured otherwise. Time measuring devices.No pay to officers, etc., using, on work or 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 Cash bonuses, etc., restricted.upon such work; nor shall any part of the appropriations made in this Act be available to pay any premium or bonus or cash reward to any employee in addition to his regular wages, except for suggestions resulting in improvements or economy in the operation of any Government plant. Disabled soldiers, etc., traveling on furlough. Transportation of Wounded and Otherwise Disabled Soldiers, Sailors, or Marines when Traveling on Furlough. Payment to carriers of difference between scheduled rates and one cent a mile.Vol. 41, p. 976. For payment to railroad and steamship companies of the amount required to pay the difference between 1 cent per mile and the scheduled rate for tickets furnished to wounded or otherwise disabled soldiers, sailors, or marines under treatment at any Army, Navy, or other hospital, who are given furloughs in accordance with the provisions of the Army Appropriation Act of June 5, 1920, $35,000. District of Columbia water supply.Expenses of plans, work, etc., for increasing.*Post*, pp. 709, 1367. For the preparation of plans, the initiation of work, including the employment of all necessary engineering, technical, clerical, and other services, and for any and every purpose connected therewith, for an increased water supply for the District of Columbia, in accordance with Potomac project “E” described in the report submitted by *Proviso*.Sixty per cent from District revenues.Major M. C. Tyler, Corps of Engineers, $200,000, to be immediately available and to remain available until expended: *Provided*, That 60 per centum of this sum shall be paid from the revenues of the District of Columbia and 40 per centum from the Treasury of the United States. Texas National Guard.Claim against released. The War Department is hereby directed to cancel and abandon the claim in the sum of $18,583.44 for United States property issued to the National Guard of Texas and lost, damaged, and destroyed during and immediately after the storm and flood at Corpus Christi, Texas, and surrounding country in September, 1919, the property having been furnished for relief of the civilian population. Emil Hugh.Pay for services. That the Secretary of War is authorized, in his discretion, to pay to Emil Hugh, an attorney of Berne, Switzerland, the sum of $50 as compensation for services rendered the United States at the request of an officer of the United States. 95 Military Academy. UNITED STATES MILITARY ACADEMY. permanent establishment. Permanent establishment. For pay of seven professors, $26,500. Professors. For pay of one chaplain, $2,400. Chaplain. For pay of master of the sword, $3,500, and the present incumbent Master of the sword.shall have the relative rank and be entitled to the pay, allowances, and emoluments of a lieutenant colonel. For pay of cadets, $1,200,000. Cadets. The pay of cadets for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1922, shall be Pay for 1922 established.Vol. 40, p. 1336.fixed at $780 per annum and one ration per day or commutation thereof at the rate of $1.08 per ration, to be paid from the appropriation for the subsistence of the Army: *Provided*, That the sum of $250 *Provisos*.Credit for clothing equipment.shall be credited to each cadet who entered the academy since June 15, 1920, and to each such cadet discharged since that date, to the extent of paying any balance duo by any such cadet to the academy on account of initial clothing and equipment issued to him: *Provided further*, New cadets credited for initial clothing, etc., issues.That hereafter each new cadet shall, upon admission to the United States Military Academy, be credited with the sum of $250 to cover the cost of his initial clothing and equipment issue, to be deducted subsequently from his pay. For increased pay of seven professors, $4,200. Increased pay, professors. For additional pay of professors and officers for length of service, Longevity.$12,000. For pay of one constructing quartermaster, in addition to his Constructing quartermaster.regular pay, $1,000. military academy band. Enlisted men. For pay of Military Academy Band: Military Academy Band.Pay. One master sergeant, at $88.80 per month, $1,065.60. Fifteen staff sergeants, at $54 each per month, $9,720. Fifteen privates, first class, at $35 each per month, $6,300. Twenty privates, at $30 each per month, $7,200. Fifteen specialists, second class, at $20 each per month, $3,600. Twenty specialists, third class, at $15 each per month, $3,600. Additional pay for length of service, $4,500. Longevity. In all, Military Academy Band, $35,985.60. field musicians. Field musicians. For pay of field musicians: Pay. One staff sergeant, at $54 per month, $648. Two corporals, at $44.40 each per month, $1,065.60. Seven privates, first class, at $35 each per month, $2,940. Twenty-one privates, at $30 each per month, $7,560. Twenty-eight specialists, sixth class, at $3 each per month, $1,008. Additional pay for length of service, $990. Longevity. In all, field musicians, $14,211.60. service detachment. Service detachment. For pay of Service Detachment: Pay. One first sergeant, at $63.60 per month, $763.20. Forty-seven sergeants, at $54 each per month, $30,456. Twenty corporals, at $44.40 each per month, $10,656. Fifty-five privates, first class, at $35 each per month, $23,100 One hundred and fifty-three privates, at $30 each per month $55,080. 96 Forty specialists, third class, at $15 each per month, $7,200. Fifty specialists, fourth class, at $12 each per month, $7,200. Eighty specialists, fifth class, at $8 each per month, $7,680. Longevity. Additional pay for length of service, $25,000. In all, Service Detachment, $167,135.20. Cavalry detachment. cavalry detachment. Pay. For pay of Cavalry Detachment: One first sergeant, at $63.60 per month, $763.20. Fourteen sergeants, at $54 each per month, $9,072. Sixteen corporals, at $44.40 each per month, $8,524.80. Sixty-five privates, first class, at $35 each per month, $27,300. One hundred and twenty-four privates, at $30 each per month, $44,640. Ten specialists, fourth class, at $12 each per month, $1,440. Thirteen specialists, fifth class, at $8 each per month, $1,248. Two specialists, sixth class, at $3 each per month, $72. Longevity. For additional pay for length of service, $17,000. In all, Cavalry Detachment, $110,060. Artillery detachment. artillery detachment. Pay. For pay of Artillery Detachment: One first sergeant, at $63.60 per month, $763.20. Twenty-three sergeants, at $54 each per month, $14,904. Twenty-one corporals, at $44.40 each per month, $11,188.80. Seventy-five privates, first class, at $35 each per month, $31,500. One hundred and eighteen privates, at $30 each per month, $42,480. Eight specialists, fourth class, at $12 each per month, $1,152. Fifteen specialists, fifth class, at $8 each per month, $1,440. Three specialists, sixth class, at $3 each per month, $108. For additional pay for expert first-class gunners at $5 each per month, first-class gunners at $3 each per month, and second-class gunners at $2 each per month, $6,000. Longevity. Additional pay for length of service, $9,000. In all, Artillery Detachment, $118,536. Engineer detachment. engineer detachment. Pay. For pay of Engineer Detachment: One first sergeant, at $63.60 per month, $763.20. Three staff sergeants, at $54 each per month, $1,944. Nine sergeants, at $54 each per month, $5,832. Twelve corporals, at $44.40 each per month, $6,393.60. Thirty-nine privates, first class, at $35 each per month, $16,380. Fifty-two privates, at $30 each per month, $18,720. Longevity. Additional pay for length of service, $5,000. Additional pay for marksmen, sharpshooters, and expert riflemen, $2,400. Two specialists, third class, at $15 each per month, $360. Three specialists, fourth class, at $12 each per month, $432. Two specialists, sixth class, at $3 each per month, $72. In all, Engineer Detachment, $58,296.80. Signal Corps detachment. signal corps detachment. Pay. For pay of Signal Corps Detachment: One master sergeant, at $88.80 per month, $1,065.60. One technical sergeant, at $63.60 per month, $763.20. 97 One staff sergeant, at $54 per month, $648. Two sergeants, at $54 each per month, $1,296. Two corporals, at $44.40 each per month, $1,065.60. Three privates, first class, at $35 each per month, $1,260. Two privates, at $30 each per month, $720. One specialist, fifth class (chauffeur), at $8 per month, $96. Additional pay for length of service, $848.40. Longevity. Additional pay for expert military telegrapher, first-class military telegrapher, and military telegrapher, $324. In all, Signal Corps Detachment, $8,086.80. coast artillery detachment. Coast Artillery detachment. For pay of Coast Artillery Detachment: Pay. One first sergeant, at $63.60 per month, $763.20. One master sergeant, at $88.80 per month, $1,065.60. One technical sergeant, at $63.60 per month, $763.20. One staff sergeant, at $54 per month, $648. Five sergeants, at $54 each per month, $3,240. Twenty-one privates, first class, at $35 each per month, $8,820. Nine specialists, fifth class, at $8 each per month, $864. For additional pay for first-class gunners, at $3 each per month, and second-class gunners, at $2 each per month, $1,080. Additional pay for length of service, $3,000. Longevity. For additional pay of rated men (two plotters, one observer, first class, one observer, second class, and four gun commanders), $744. In all, Coast Artillery Detachment, $20,988. miscellaneous. Miscellaneous. Travel allowance due enlisted men on discharge, $5,000. Travel on discharge. Interest on deposits due enlisted men, $2,000. Interest on deposits. Additional pay of enlisted men under the last proviso of section 4b Additional pay.Vol. 41, p. 762.of the Army Reorganization Act of June 4, 1920, $5,000. For pay of one warrant officer, to be on duty in the headquarters, Special duty pay.United States Corps of Cadets, $1,320. For pay of two staff sergeants, to be on duty in the headquarters, United States Corps of Cadets, at $45 each per month, and additional pay for length of service, $1,296. For pay of one master sergeant, $1,420.80. For pay of one master sergeant, $1,332. For pay of one staff sergeant, $756. pay of civilians Civilians. For pay of civilians: Pay. For pay of one teacher of music, $2,000. For pay of nine clerks in the office of the quartermaster, as follows: One chief clerk, $1,800. One clerk, $1,500. Two clerks, at $1,400 each, $2,800. Two clerks, at $1,200 each, $2,400. Three clerks and stenographers, at $1,200 each, $3,600. For pay of one expert architectural draftsman in office of constructing quartermaster, $2,500. For pay of twelve clerks and stenographers employed at headquarters, United States Military Academy, in the offices of the superintendent and adjutant, as follows: One chief clerk, $1,800. One clerk and stenographer to superintendent, $1,500. Three clerks, at $1,400 each, $4,200. 98 One clerk, $1,400. Six clerks, at $1,000 each, $6,000. For pay of one clerk to the treasurer, $1,800. For pay of one clerk and stenographer in the office of the commandant of cadets, $1,200. Instructors. For pay of two civilian instructors of French, to be employed under the rules prescribed by the Secretary of War, at $2,000 each, $4,000. For pay of two civilian instructors of Spanish, to be employed under the rules prescribed by the Secretary of War, at $2,000 each, $4,000. For pay of two expert civilian instructors in fencing, broadsword exercises, and other military gymnastics as may be required to perfect this part of the training of cadets, $3,000. For pay of one professional civilian instructor in military gymnastics, fencing, boxing, wrestling, and swimming, $1,500. For pay of two expert assistant civilian instructors in military gymnastics, fencing, boxing, wrestling, and swimming, $4,000: *Proviso*.Quarters, etc.*Provided*, That these civilian instructors employed in the department of modem languages and the department of tactics shall be entitled to public quarters and fuel and light. For pay of one librarian, $3,000. For pay of one assistant librarian, $1,500. For pay of one custodian of gymnasium, $1,200. For pay of one superintendent of gas works, $1,500. For pay of one chief engineer of power plant, whose duties will include those of engineer of heating and ventilating apparatus, $2,700. For pay of one assistant chief engineer of same, $1,100. For pay of three assistant engineers of same, $3,600. For pay of eight firemen, $6,240. For pay of two oilers for power plant, $ 1,440. For pay of one draftsman in the department of civil and military engineering, $1,200. For pay of mechanic and attendant skilled in the technical preparation necessary to chemical and electrical lectures and to the instruction in mineralogy and geology, $1,200. For pay of mechanic assistant in department of natural and experimental philosophy (to be appointed by the Superintendent of the United States Military Academy), $840. For pay of one custodian of academy buildings, $1,000. For pay of one electrician, $1,600. For pay of one chief plumber, $1,600. For pay of one assistant plumber, $900. For pay of one plumber’s helper, $600. For pay of one scavenger, at $60 a month, $720. For pay of chapel organist and choirmaster, $1,500. For pay of superintendent of post cemetery, $1,200. For pay of engineer and janitor of Memorial Hall, $900. For pay of printer at headquarters, United States Military Academy, $1,600. For pay of assistant printer at headquarters, United States Military Academy, $1,100. For pay of one janitress, Memorial Hall, $600. For pay of one master mechanic, $l,800. For pay of clerk and photographer in the department of drawing, $1,300. For pay of one stenographer, typewriter, and attendant in charge of the library in the department of law, to be appointed by the Superintendent of the United States Military Academy, $900. For pay of one overseer of the waterworks, $720. 99 For pay of one engineer of steam, electric, and refrigerating apparatus for the cadets’ mess, $I,200. For pay of one copyist, stenographer, clerk, librarian, typewriter, and attendant in the department of modern languages, to be appointed by the Superintendent of the United States Military Academy, $1,040. For pay of one mechanic and attendant skilled in the operation necessary for the preparation of lectures and of material in the department of drawing, to be appointed by the superintendent, $720. For pay of janitor for bachelor officers’ quarters, $600. For pay of one stenographer, typewriter, and attendant in the department of English and history, to be appointed by the superintendent, $840. For pay of one bookbinder at headquarters, United States Military Academy, $1,200. For pay of two book sewers in bindery, $1,080. For pay of one skilled pressman in the printing office, headquarters, United States Military Academy, $1,100. For pay of one chairwoman, headquarters, United States Military Academy, $480. For pay of one messenger for the Superintendent of the United States Military Academy, $720. For pay of one skilled copyist, confidential stenographer, librarian, typewriter, and attendant in the department of mathematics, to be appointed by the Superintendent of the United States Military Academy, $1,000. For pay of one stenographer, typewriter, and clerk in the medical Stenographer, etc., medical department.department and department of military hygiene, to be appointed by the Superintendent of the United States Military Academy, authorized Vol. 37, p. 860.by the Military Academy Appropriation Act for 1914, approved March 4, 1913 (Thirty-seventh Statutes at Large, page 860), $840. For pay of one confidential stenographer, copyist, librarian, typewriter, and multigraph operator in the department of natural and experimental philosophy, to be appointed by the Superintendent of the United States Military Academy, $1,000. In all, pay of civilians, $106,380. All the money hereinbefore appropriated for pay of the Military Accounting, etc.Academy shall be disbursed and accounted for as pay of the Military Academy, and for that purpose shall constitute one fund. In all, pay, Military Academy, $1,907,404.80. current and ordinary expenses. Current expenses. For the expenses of the members of the Board of Visitors, or so Board of Visitors.much thereof as may be necessary, $750. Contingencies for superintendent of the academy, $3,000. Contingencies, superintendent. 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, and so forth, $55,000. For fuel and apparatus, namely: Coal, wood, and so forth, $70,000, Fuel, light, etc.of which $10,000 shall be immediately available. For gas pipes, 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, etc. For stationery, namely: Blank books, paper, and so forth, $3,500. Stationery. For transportation of materials, cadets, discharged cadets, and so Transportation.forth, $20,000. Printing and binding, and so Printing, etc.forth, $3,000. For department of Cavalry, Artillery, and Infantry tactics: Tan Department 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, $1,500. 100 For camp stools, office furniture, and so forth, $4,000. For gymnasium and athletic supplies, and so forth, $7,500. For the maintenance of one automobile, $300. For repairs to saddles, bridles, and so forth, $500. 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 the senior instructor of Coast Artillery tactics, $75. For purchase of machines, tools, textbooks, and material for the practical instruction of cadets in the 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. Cadet camp maintenance. For general maintenance and repairs to the site of the cadet camp, $10,000. 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, $200. 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, $2,000. 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 the senior 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. Instruction materials, etc., for specified departments. For department of civil and military engineering: Textbooks, stationery, and so forth, $1,200. 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. For department of chemistry, mineralogy, and geology, $2,500. For department of drawing: Drawing materials, and so forth, $2,000. For department of modem languages: Stationery, and so forth, $1,900. For department of law: Books, stationery, and so forth, $2,000. For department of practical military engineering: For models, books, stationery, and so forth, $4,500. 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, $500. For department of military hygiene, $500. For department of English and history: For purchase of stationery, books, and so forth, $1,500. Lectures. For a course of lectures for the more complete instruction of cadets, $1,200. 101 For the maintenance of one automobile truck, $300. In all, current and ordinary expenses, $235,475. miscellaneous items and incidental expenses. Miscellaneous. For commercial periodicals, stationery, and so forth, for the office Treasurer’s office.of the treasurer United States Military Academy, $300. For gas coal, oil, candles, and so forth, for operating the gas plant, Lighting, plumbing, etc.$25,000. For water pipe, plumbing, and repairs, $8,000. For material and labor for cleaning and policing public buildings, $6,620. For supplies for recitation rooms not otherwise provided for and for renewing and repairing furniture in same, $1,000. Increase and expense of library, $7,200. Library. For contingent funds, to be expended under the direction of the Academic board.academic board: For instruments, books, repairs to apparatus, and other incidental expenses not otherwise provided for, $500: *Provided*, *Proviso*.Purchases.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. For the purchase and repair of instruments and maintenance of the Band expenses.band, $1,500. For repairs and improvements to the laundry machinery, and so Laundry.forth, which may be expended without advertising, and to he immediately available, $15,325. For the repair and purchase of cooking utensils, chairs, and so Cadet mess.forth, cadet mess, which may be expended without advertising, to be immediately available, $3,000. For the policing of barracks and bathhouses, $25,000. Policing. For supplying light and plain furniture to cadets’ barracks, $15,000. Cadet barracks. For the purchase and repair of cocoa matting for the aisleways in the stables of the riding hall, $300. For maintaining the children’s school, and so forth, $6,500. Children’s school. For new wooden steps, with handrail, from sidewalk to entrance to Cadet hospital.cadet hospital, $250. For painting, two coats, walls, doors, and ceilings of rooms, third floor, cadet hospital, kitchen, dining room, hallway, and three squad rooms, $600. For repair of paint and calcimine ceiling of ward Wheaton, cadet hospital, damaged by leak in roof, $250. For removing old air ducts in basement and repairing floor in cadet hospital, $200. For repairing and renewing rain conductors around building at cadet hospital, $150. For painting walls, ceilings, and woodwork of interior of main and Soldiers’ hospital.annex buildings; ceilings and walls of operating and dressing rooms to be white enamel or other durable substance at soldiers’ hospital, $2,500. For care, upkeep, and mounting of trophies at the United States Care of trophies.Military Academy, $1,000. For purchase and repair of fire-extinguishing apparatus, $2,000. Fire protection. In all, miscellaneous items and incidental expenses, $122,195. buildings and grounds. Buildings and grounds. For cases, materials, and so forth, ordnance museum in headquarters Ordnance museum, etc.building, $1,500. For repairs to ordnance laboratory and other buildings pertaining to department of ordnance and gunnery, $150. 102 For general repairs to cadet laundry building, and so forth, to be expended without advertising, $400. For general incidental repairs and improvements to the cadet store building, including storerooms, office, tailor shops, and shoe-repairing shops, $1,000. Tor 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. Waterworks. For waterworks, $3,000. For repairs to quarters of steward of cadet mess, which may be expended without advertising, $150. Walls, roads, etc. For the repair and restoration of retaining walls along the line of the Poplopen pipe line, $3,000. For carrying on the development of the general plan for improvements to roads and grounds, $3,000. Cadet hospital. 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. Cadet mess building. For necessary repairs and replacements in steam-heating system and steam line in cadet mess, which may be expended without advertising, $650. For repairs to the cadet mess building, which may be expended without advertising and to be immediately available, $1,000. Army mess building. For repairs and improvements to the West Point Army mess building, including supplying and renewing furniture and fittings, $2,500. For the repair and maintenance of the cadet boathouse and the purchase and maintenance of boats and canoes for the instruction of cadets in rowing, $750. South cadet barracks. For grading and paving the area of south cadet barracks, $15,000. For the restoration and repair of the Poplopen intake to the Poplopen pipe line, $500. For the repair and upkeep of quarters of the master sergeant, Medical Department, at the cadet hospital, $50. Cadet barracks, repairs. For repairs to the cadet barracks, to be immediately available, $15,000. Cemetery. For maintaining and improving grounds of post cemetery, $2,000. For continuing the construction of breast-high wall in dangerous places, $1,000. Road material. For broken stone and gravel for roads, $10,000. For repairs of boilers, engines, dynamos, motors, and so forth, cadet mess, which may be expended without advertising, to be immediately available, $3,350. For the repair and improvement of cadet polo field, $600. Waterproofing. For waterproofing the post headquarters, bachelor, gymnasium, and other large buildings, $2,000. For care and maintenance of organ in cadet chapel, $250. 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 four, and corral, for purchase of paint, nails, and so forth, $300. Army surplus material, etc., transferred for temporary construction.Tools, etc., for instruction. 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 temporary buildings; also surplus tools and matériel for use in the instruction of cadets at the academy. 103 For subdividing rooms 401 and 402, fourth floor, east academic Changes east academic building.building, including new partitions, new entrances from corridor, new lights, additional slate blackboards, and incidental work, $4,000. For extension of water, sewer, gas, and electric systems to new New bachelor building.bachelor building, to be immediately available, $20,000. *Provided*, That the constructing quartermaster, United States *Proviso*.Leaves of absence, construction employees.Military Academy, is hereby exempted from all laws and regulations relative to granting leaves of absence to employees with pay while employed on construction work at the Military Academy. In all, buildings and grounds, $92,185. In all, Military Academy, $2,357,259.80. Sec. 2. No part of the moneys appropriated in this Act shall be Pay of civilians limited to local rates.used for paying to any civilian employee of the United States Government an hourly wage or salary larger than that customarily paid by private individuals for corresponding work in the same locality. Approved, June 30, 1921.
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