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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 43 STAT. · June 30, 1926 · Chapter 225

Chapter 225. Making appropriations for the military and nonmilitary activities of the War Department for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1926, and for other purposes

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CHAP. 225.— An Act Making appropriations for the military and nonmilitary activities of the War Department for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1926, and for other purposes. February 12, 1925.[[H. R. 11248](/us/bill/68/hr/11248).][[Public, No. 413](/us/pl/68/413).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * War Department appropriations. That the following sums are appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the military and nonmilitary activities of the War Department for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1926, and for other purposes, namely:
TITLE I. —Department military activities. MILITARY ACTIVITIES AND OTHER EXPENSES OF THE WAR DEPARTMENT INCIDENT THERETO Secretary’s Office.office of secretary of war Secretary, Assistant, and civilian personnel.Salaries: Secretary of War, $12,000; Assistant Secretary, $10,000, and for other personal services in the District of Columbia in accordance with “The Classification Act of 1923,” $202,174; in all, $224,174:*Provisos*.Restriction on exceeding average salaries.Vol. 42, p. 1488.*Provided*, That in expending appropriations or portions of appropriations, contained in this Act, for the payment for personal services in the District of Columbia in accordance with “The Classification Act of 1923,” the average of the salaries of the total number of persons under any grade in any bureau, office, or other appropriation unit shall not at any time exceed the average of the compensation If only one position in a grade.rates specified for the grade by such Act, and in grades in which only one position is allocated the salary of such position Not applicable to clerical-mechanical service.shall not exceed the average of the compensation rates for the grade: *Provided*, That this restriction shall not apply
(1)to grades 1. 2, 3,No reduction in fixed salaries required.and 4 of the clerical-mechanical service, or
(2)to require the reduction in salary of any person whose compensation was fixed as 893of July 1, 1924, in accordance with the rules of section 6 of such Vol. 42, p. 1490.Transfers to another position without reduction.Act,
(3)to require the reduction in salary of any person who is transferred from one position to another position in the same or different grade in the same or a different bureau, office, or other appropriation unit, or
(4)to prevent the payment of a salary under Higher salary rates allowed.any grade at a rate higher than the maximum rate of the grade when such higher rate is permitted by “The Classification Act of 1923,” and is specifically authorized by other law. contingent expenses, war department For purchase of professional and scientific books, law books, including Department contingent expenses.their exchange; books of reference, blank books, pamphlets, periodicals, newspapers, maps; typewriting and adding machines, and other labor-saving devices, including their repair and exchange; furniture and repairs to same; carpets, matting, linoleum, filing equipment, photo supplies, towels, ice, brooms, soap, sponges, fuel, gas, and heating apparatus for buildings, electric power, electric light; repairs to, alterations and installations in Government-owned buildings (other than those under the supervision of the Superintendent of the State, War. and Navy Department Buildings) occupied by the War Department and its bureaus; maintenance, repair, and operation of motor trucks and motor cycles, and one motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicle, to be used only for official purposes; freight and express charges; street-car fares, not exceeding $750; and other absolutely necessary expenses, including a per diem allowance not to exceed $4 in lieu of subsistence, $99,685. For stationery for the department and its bureaus and offices, Stationery.$69,000. For postage stamps for the department and its bureaus, as required Postage.under the Postal Union, to prepay postage on matters addressed to Postal Union countries, $250. For printing and binding for the War Department, its bureaus Printing and binding.and offices, and for all printing and binding for the field activities under the War Department, except such as may be authorized in accordance with existing law to be done elsewhere than at the Government Printing Office, $600,000: *Provided*, That the sum of $3,000, *Proviso*.Medical bulletins.or so much thereof as may be necessary, may be used for the publication, from time to time, of bulletins prepared under the direction of the Surgeon General of the Army, for the instruction of medical officers, when approved by the Secretary of War, and notFor Chief of Engineers. exceeding $70,000 shall be available for printing and binding under the direction of the Chief of Engineers. contingencies of the army For all contingent expenses of the Army not otherwise provided Army contingencies.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 in the District of Columbia, or in the Army at large, but impossible to be anticipated or classified; to be expended on the approval or authority of the Secretary of War, and for such purposes as he may deem proper, $48,960: *Provided*, That *Provisos*.Sale of war supplies, adjusting claims, etc.not to exceed $29,960 of the money herein appropriated shall be expended for the payment of salaries of civilian employees connected with the sale of war supplies and the adjustment of war contracts 894Transfer of surplus property to other activities restricted.and claims: *Provided further*, That none of the funds appropriated in this Act shall be used for the payment of expenses connected with the transfer of surplus property of the War Department to any other activity of the Government where the articles or lots of articles to be transferred are located at any place at which the total surplus quantities of the same commodity are so small that their transfer would not, in the opinion of the Secretary of War, be economical. General Staff Corps.General Staff Corps Intelligence Division.contingencies, military intelligence division Contingent expenses.For contingent expenses of the Military Intelligence Division, General Staff Corps, and of the military attaches at the United States embassies and legations abroad, including the purchase of law books, professional books of reference, and subscriptions to newspapers and periodicals; for cost of special instruction at home and abroad, and in maintenance of students and attaches; for the hire of interpreters, special agents, and guides, and for such other purposes Observing military operations of foreign armies.as the Secretary of War may deem proper, including $5,000 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, $65,500, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of*Proviso*.Periodicals, etc.[R. S., sec. 3648, p. 718](/us/rs/s3648/p718).War: *Provided*, That section 3648, Revised Statutes, shall apply neither to subscriptions for foreign and professional newspapers and periodicals nor to other payments made from appropriations contained in this Act in compliance with the laws of foreign countries under which the military attaches are required to operate. Civilian personnel, Office of Chief of Staff.Salaries, Office of Chief of Staff: For personal services in the District of Columbia in accordance with “The Classification Act of 1923,” $213,801. Adjutant General’s Department.Adjutant General’s Department Headquarters of military departments, etc.contigencies, headquarters of military departments, and so forth Contingent expenses.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, 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, $4,500. Army War College.army war college Instruction expenses.For expenses of the Army War College, being for the purchase of the necessary special stationery; textbooks, books of reference, scientific and professional papers and periodicals: maps; police utensils; employment of temporary, technical, or special services and expenses Employees, etc.of special lecturers; for the pay of employees; and for all other absolutely necessary expenses, $70,570. 895 the command and general staff school, fort leaveworth, Fort Leavenworth, Kans.kansas For the purchase of textbooks, books of reference, scientific and Instruction expenses. Command and General Staff School.professional papers, instruments, and material for instruction; employment of temporary, technical, special, and clerical services; and for other necessary expenses of instruction, at the Command and General Staff School, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, $45,680. military post exchangesPost exchanges. For continuing the construction, equipment, and maintenance of Maintenance, etc.suitable buildings at military posts and stations, for the conduct of the post exchange, school, reading, lunch, and amusement rooms; for the conduct and maintenance of libraries, service clubs, chapels, and gymnasiums, including repairs to buildings erected at private Recreation buildings.cost, in the operation of the Act approved May 31, 1902, and including Vol. 32, p. 282.salaries and travel for civilians employed in the hostess and library services, and for transportation of books and equipment for these services; for the rental of films, purchase of slides for and making repairs to moving-picture outfits and for similar and other recreational purposes at training and mobilization camps now established, or which may be hereafter established, $87,800. adjutant general’s officeAdjutant General’s Office. Salaries: For personal services in the District of Columbia in accordance Civilian personnel.with “The Classification Act of 1923,” $1,395,000; all employees provided for by this paragraph for The Adjutant General’s Office of the War Department shall be exclusively engaged on work of that office. office of the inspector generalInspector General’s Office. Salaries: For personal services in the District of Columbia in accordance Civilian personnel.with “The Classification Act of 1923,” $25,180. office of the judge advocate generalJudge Advocate General’s Office. Salaries: For personal services in the District of Columbia in accordance Civilian personnel.with “The Classification Act of 1923,” $87,820: *Provided*, *Proviso.*.Experts for patent infringement suits.That not to exceed $25,000 shall be used for the employment of such experts and other employees as may be required by the Judge Advocate General of the Army for the preparation of evidence for use in behalf of the Government in claims or suits filed in Federal courts on account of alleged patent infringements and for like services in connection with other patent matters and for necessary per diem and traveling expenses in connection therewith, as authorized by law. Finance DepartmentFinance Department. pay, and so forth, of the wayPay of Array, etc. Pay of officers: For pay of officers of the line and staff, $29,Officers.809,300. Hereafter no commissioned officer of the Army, Navy, or Marine No Army, Navy, or Marine Corps officer deprived of pay while on duty in coordination of Government business.Corps shall be deprived of his right to pay and allowances while serving on such duty as the President may direct in the coordination of the business of the Government, as now being conducted by him under the general supervision of the Director of the Bureau 896 *Proviso*..Number limited.of the Budget: *Provided*, That the number of officers detailed to this duty shall not at any time exceed twenty-six. National Guard.For pay of officers, National Guard, $100. Warrant officers.For pay of warrant officers, $1,801,680. Aviation increase.For aviation increase to commissioned and warrant officers of the Army, $1,100,000. Longevity.*Provisos*.Time at Military or Naval Academy after August 24, 1912, not counted for.For additional pay to officers for length of service, $5,529,998: *Provided*, That in computing for any purpose the length of service of any officer of the Army who was appointed to the United States Military Academy or the United States Naval Academy after August 24, 1912, the time spent at either academy shall not be counted. Enlisted men.Pay of enlisted men: For pay of enlisted men of the line and *Provisos*..Authorized numerical strength.staff, not including the Philippine Scouts, $51,090,846: *Provided*, That the total authorized number of enlisted men, not including the Philippine Scouts, shall be one hundred and twenty-five thousand: Discharge of minors enlisting after July 1, 1925, without consent of parents, etc.*Provided further*, That hereafter upon the presentation of satisfactory evidence as to his age and upon application for discharge by his parent or guardian presented to the Secretary of War within six months after the date of his enlistment, any man enlisted after July 1, 1925, in the Army under twenty-one years of age who has enlisted without the written consent of his parent or guardian, if any, shall be discharged with the form of discharge certificate and the travel and other allowances to which his service after enlistment shall entitle him. National Guard.For pay of enlisted men of National Guard, $100. Aviation increase.For aviation increase to enlisted men of the Army, $275,000: *Proviso*..Number limited.*Provided*, That this appropriation shall not be available for increased pay on flying status to more than seven hundred enlisted men. Philippine Scouts.For pay of the enlisted men of the Philippine Scouts, $1,151,232. Longevity.For additional pay for length of service to enlisted men, $2,500,000. Retired list.Officers.Pay of persons with retired status: For pay of the officers on the retired list, $6,600,000. On active duty.For increased pay to retired officers on active duty, $214,470. Enlisted men.For pay of retired enlisted men, $8,028,926. On active duty.For increased pay and allowances of retired enlisted men on active duty, $10,080. Pay clerks.For pay of retired pay clerks, $10,125. Veterinarians.For pay of retired veterinarians, $3,570. Headquarters of territorial departments, corps areas, etc.Pay of Army field clerks and civil service messengers at headquarters of the several territorial departments, Army and corps headquarters, territorial districts, tactical divisions and brigades, service schools, camps and ports of emField clerks and messengers.barkation and debarkation: Army field clerks—seven at $2,000 each, thirty-two at $1,800 each, fifty-three at $1,600 each, seventy at $1,400 each, sixty-two at $1,200 each; sixty-five messengers at $960 each; in all, $391,200. Assignments to Department duty for bidden.No clerk, messenger, or laborer at headquarters of tactical divisions, military departments, brigades, service schools, and office of the Chief of Staff shall be assigned to duty in any bureau of the War Department. Contract surgeons.For pay and allowances of contract surgeons, $41,100. Nurses.For pay of nurses, $722,380. Hospital matrons.For pay of hospital matrons, $960. Courts martial, etc.For expenses of courts-martial, courts of inquiry, military commissions, retiring boards, and compensation of reporters and witnesses attending same, and expenses of taking depositions and securing other evidence for use before the same, $70,000. 897 For rental allowances, including allowances for quarters for enlisted Rental allowances.men on duty where public quarters are not available, $6,200,000. For subsistence allowances, $5,550,000.Subsistence allowances. For interest on soldiers’ deposits, $100,000.Soldiers’ interest. For payment of exchange by officers serving in foreign countries,Loss by exchange.and when specially authorized by the Secretary of War, by officers disbursing funds pertaining to the War Department when serving in Alaska and all foreign money received shall be charged to and paid out by disbursing officers of the Army at the legal valuation fixed by the Secretary of the Treasury, $3,000. For additional pay to officers below the grade of major required Officers furnishing mounts.to be mounted and who furnish their own mounts, $100,000. All the money hereinbefore appropriated for pay of the Army Disbursing and accounting as one fund.shall be disbursed and accounted for as pay of the Army, and for that purpose shall constitute one fund: *Provided*, That under this *Proviso*.Restriction on employing additional persons.provision no amount shall be used for the employment of any additional persons over the number for which the specific appropriations herein provide. None of the money appropriated in this Act shall be used to pay Pay forbidden to retired officer selling supplies to Army, etc. any officer on the retired list of the Army who for himself or for others engages in the selling, contracting for the sale of, negotiating for the sale of, or furnishing to the Army or the War Department any supplies, materials, equipment, lands, buildings, plants, vessels, or munitions. None of the money appropriated in this Act shall be To officer retired before age of 64 employed by parties making direct sales to Department or Army.paid to any officer on the retired list of the Army who, having been retired before reaching the age of sixty-four, is employed in the United States or its possessions by any individual, partnership, corporation, or association regularly or frequently engaged in making direct sales of any merchandise or material to the War Department or the Army. mileage of the armyMileage. For mileage, reimbursement of actual traveling expenses, or per Officers, etc.diem allowances in lieu thereof, as authorized by law, to commissioned officers, warrant officers, contract surgeons, expert accountant, Inspector General’s Department, Army field clerks and field clerks of the Quartermaster Corps, when authorized by law, $800,000; and Limitation when on Government-owned vessels not charging fare.officers and other members of the military establishment named in this paragraph performing travel on Government-owned vessels for which no transportation fare is charged shall be entitled only to reimbursement of actual and necessary expenses incurred. finance serviceFinance Service. For compensation of clerks and other employees of the Finance Pay of clerks, etc.Department, $1,406,849: *Provided*, That $250,000 of this amount *Proviso*.Auditing World War contracts accounts.shall be available only for the compensation and traveling expenses of clerks and other employees engaged on work pertaining to the audit of World War contracts, and of this amount not to exceedPersonal services in the Department. $25,000 shall be available for personal services in the office of the Chief of Finance, War Department. claims for damages to and loss of private propertyPrivate property damages, etc. For payment of claims not exceeding $500 each in amount for Payment of claims tor.damages to or 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, $25,000: *Provided*, *Proviso*.Settlement throughGeneral Accounting Office.That settlement of such claims shall be made by the General Ac-898counting Office, upon the approval and recommendation of the Secretary of War, where the amount of damages has been ascertained by the War Department, and payment thereof will be accepted by the owners of the property in full satisfaction of such damages. Destruction of private property of officers, etc.claims of officers, enlisted men, and nurses of the army for destruction of private property. Payment of claims for, in the service.For the payment of claims of officers, enlisted men, and nurses of Vol 41, p. 1436.the Army for private property lost, destroyed, captured, abandoned, or damaged in the military service of the United States, under the provisions of an Act approved March 4, 1921, $75,000. Office of Chief of Finance.office of the chief of finance Civilian personnel.Salaries: For personal services in the District of Columbia in accordance with “The Classification Act of 1923,” $316,280. Quartermaster CorpsQuartermaster Corps. Subsistence of the Army: Purchase of subsistence supplies: For issue as rations to troops, including retired enlisted men when ordered to active duty, civil employees when entitled thereto, hospital matrons, applicants for enlistment while held under observation, general prisoners of war (including Indians held by the Army as prisoners, but for whose subsistence appropriation is not otherwise made), Indians employed by the Army as guides and scouts, and general prisoners at posts; for the subsistence of the masters, officers, crews, and employees of the vessels of the Army Transport Service; hot coffee for troops traveling when supplied with cooked or travel rations; meals for recruiting parties and applicants for enlistment Sales to officers, etc. while under observation; for sales to officers, including members of the Officers’ Reserve Corps while on active duty, and enlisted men *Provisos*.Competitors in national rifle match.of the Army: *Provided*, That the sum of $12,000 is authorized to be expended for supplying meals or furnishing commutation of rations to enlisted men of the Regular Army and the National Guard Ration restrictions.while competitors in the national rifle match: *Provided further*, That no competitor shall be entitled to commutation of rations in excess of $1.50 per day, and when meals are furnished no greater expense than that sum per man per day for the period the contest is Payments.Commutation of rations, etc.in progress shall be incurred. For payments: Of the regulation allowances of commutation in lieu of rations to enlisted men on furlough, enlisted men when stationed at places where rations in kind can not be economically issued, including retired enlisted men when ordered to active duty and when traveling on detached duty where it is impracticable to carry rations of any kind, enlisted men selected to contest for places or prizes in department and Army rifle competitions when traveling to and from places of contest, applicants for enlistment and general prisoners while traveling under orders. For payment of the regulation allowances of commutation in lieu of rations for enlisted men, applicants for enlistment while held under observation, civilian employees who are entitled to subsistence at public expense, and general prisoners while sick in hospitals, to be Advertising; prizes for bakers and cooks, etc.paid to the surgeon in charge; advertising; for providing prizes to be established by the Secretary of War for enlisted men of the Army who graduate from the Army schools for bakers and cooks, the total amount of such prizes at the various schools not to exceed $900 per annum; and for other necessary expenses incident to the purchase, 899testing, care, preservation, issue, sale, and accounting for subsistence supplies for the Army; in all, $12,935,000. None of the funds appropriated in this Act shall be used for the Restriction on prices at sales commissaries.payment of expenses of operating sales commissaries other than in Alaska, Philippine Islands, and China, at which the prices charged do not include the customary overhead costs of freight, handling, storage, and delivery, notwithstanding the provisions of the Act of Vol. 23 p. 103.July 5, 1884. None of the funds appropriated in this Act shall be used for payment Utilities to include overhead costs on sale of services or supplies.of expenses of operating any utility of the War Department selling services or supplies at which the cost of the services or supplies so sold does not include all customary overhead costs of labor, rent, light, heat, and other expenses properly chargeable to the conduct of such utility. Regular supplies of the Army: Regular supplies of the Quarter-master Regular quartermaster supplies.Corps, including their care and protection; construction and repair of military reservation fences; stoves and heating apparatus required for the use of the Army for heating offices, hospitals, barracks and quarters, and recruiting stations, and United States disciplinary barracks; also ranges, stoves, coffee roasters, and appliances for cooking and serving food at posts in the field and when traveling, and repair and maintenance of such heating and cooking appliances; and the necessary power for the operation of moving-picture machines; authorized issues of candles and matches; for Heat and light to quarters.furnishing heat and light for the authorized allowance of quarters for officers, enlisted men, warrant officers, and field clerics, including retired enlisted men when ordered to active duty, contract surgeons when stationed at and occupying public quarters at military posts, officers of the National Guard attending service and garrison schools, and for recruits, guards, hospitals, storehouses, offices, the buildings erected at private cost, in the operation of the Act approved MayRecreation buildings.Vol. 32. p. 282. 31, 1902, and buildings for a similar purpose on military reservations authorized by War Department regulations; for sale to officers, and including also fuel and engine supplies required in the operation of modern batteries at established posts; for post bakeries, including Bakeries, ice machines, and laundries.bake ovens and apparatus pertaining thereto and the repair thereof; for ice machines and their maintenance where required for the health and comfort of the troops and for ice for issue to organizations of enlisted men and offices at such places as the Secretary of War may determine, and for preservation of stores; materials for cleaning and preserving ordnance and ordnance stores except at establishments under the direct control of the Chief of Ordnance; for cold storage; for the construction and maintenance of laundries at military posts in the United States and its island possessions; authorized issues of soap, toilet paper, and towels; for the necessary furniture, textbooks, Supplies for schools, etc.paper, and equipment for the post schools and libraries, and for schools for noncommissioned officers; for the purchase and issue of instruments, office furniture, stationery, and other authorized articles for the use of officers’ schools at the several military posts; for purchase of commercial newspapers, market reports, and so forth; for the tableware and mess furniture for kitchens and mess halls, each and all for the enlisted men. including recruits; for forage, salt, Forage, etc., for animals.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, for the horses of the several regiments of Cavalry and batteries of Artillery and such companies of Infantry and Scouts as may be mounted, and 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 900and Philippine Islands, and for labor and expenses incident thereto, including, when specifically, authorized by the Secretary of War, Stationery, printing, etc.the cost of irrigation; for straw for soldiers’ bedding, stationery, typewriters and exchange of same, including blank books and blank forms for the Army, certificates for discharged soldiers, and for printing department orders and reports, $12,626,965. Clothing.Purchase, manufacture, etc.Clothing and equipage: For cloth, woolens, materials, and for the purchase and manufacture of clothing for the Army, including retired enlisted men when ordered to active duty, for issue and for sale; for payment of commutation of clothing due to warrant officers of the Mine Planter Service and to enlisted men; for altering and fitting clothing and washing and cleaning when necessary; for operation of laundries; for the authorized issues of laundry materials for use of general prisoners confined at military posts without pay or allowances, and for applicants for enlistment while held under observation; for equipment and repair of equipment of dry-cleaning plants, salvage and sorting storehouses, hat repairing shops, shoe repair Equipage, toilet articles, etc.shops, clothing repair shops, and garbage reduction works; for equipage, including authorized issues of toilet articles, barbers’ and tailors’ materials, for use of general prisoners confined at military posts without pay or allowances and applicants for enlistment while held under observation; issue of toilet kits to recruits upon their first enlistment, and issue of housewives to the Army; for expenses of packing and Issue of citizen’s outer clothing.handling and similar necessaries; for a suit of citizen’s outer clothing and when necessary an overcoat, the cost of all not to exceed $30, to be issued to each soldier discharged otherwise than honorably, to each enlisted man convicted by civil court for an offense resulting in confinement in a penitentiary or other civil prison, and to each enlisted man ordered interned by reason of the fact that he is an alien enemy, or, for the same reason, discharged without internment; Indemnity for destroyed clothing, etc.for indemnity to officers and men of the Army for clothing and bedding, and so forth, destroyed since April 22, 1898. by order of medical officers of the Army for sanitary reasons, $6,093,186. Incidental expenses.Incidental expenses of the Army: Postage; hire of laborers in the Quartermaster Corps, including the care or officers’ mounts when Civilian employees.the same are furnished by the Government; compensation of clerks and other employees of the Quartermaster Corps, and clerks, foremen, watchmen, and organist for the United States disciplinary barracks. and incidental expenses of recruiting; for the apprehension, securing, and delivering of deserters, including escaped military prisoners, and the expenses incident to their pursuit; and no greater sum than $50 for each deserter or escaped military prisoner shall, in the discretion of the Secretary of War, be paid to any civil officer or citizen for such services and expenses; for a donation of $10 to each prisoner discharged otherwise than honorably upon his release from confinement under court-martial sentence involving dishonorable discharge; Entrance fees in rifle, etc., competitions.for the operation of coffee-roasting plants; for payment of entrance fees for Army rifle and pistol teams participating in competitions; 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, *Proviso*.Former payments validated.$4,100,891: *Provided*, That expenditures heretofore made from, and obligations incurred against, appropriations for incidental expenses of the Army for entrance fees of Army rifle and pistol teams participating in small arms competitions are hereby authorized and validated. Transportation.Army transportation: For transportation of the Army and its supplies, including retired enlisted men when ordered to active duty; of authorized baggage, including that of retired officers, warrant officers, and enlisted men when ordered to active duty and upon relief 901therefrom, and including packing and crating; of recruits and recruiting parties; of applicants for enlistment between recruiting stations and recruiting depots; of necessary agents and other employees, including per diem allowances in lieu of subsistence, not exceeding $4 for those authorized to receive the per diem allowances; of dependents Transporting dependents, etc.of officers and enlisted men as provided by law; of discharged prisoners, and persons discharged from Saint Elizabeths Hospital after transfer thereto from the military service, to their homes (or elsewhere as they may elect): *Provided*, That the cost *Proviso*Cost restriction.in each case shall not be greater than to the place of last enlistment: of horse equipment; and of funds for the Army; for the operation Boats, etc.and repair of boats and other vessels; for wharfage, tolls, and ferriages: for drayage and cartage; for the purchase, hire, operation, Vehicles, draft and pack animals, etc.maintenance, and repair of harness, wagons, carts, drays, other vehicles, and horse-drawn and motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles required for the transportation of troops and supplies and for official military and garrison purposes; for purchase and hire of draft and pack animals, including replacement of unserviceable animals: for travel allowances to officers and enlisted men on discharge; to Travel allowances.officers of National Guard on discharge from Federal service as prescribed National Guard on discharge.Vol. 31, p. 902Vol. 42, p. 1021.in the Act of March 2, 1901; to enlisted men of National Guard on discharge from Federal service, as prescribed in amendatory Act of September 22, 1922; and to members of the National Guard who have been mustered into Federal service and discharged on account of physical disability; in all $15,814,000. No money appropriated by this Act shall be expended for the hire, Motor vehicle restrictionoperation, maintenance, or repair of any motor-propelled vehicle which shall be employed wholly or in part for personal, social, or similar use, except such use as is prescribed by order for the transportation of Army personnel in connection with the recreational activities of the Army. Not to exceed $175,000 from the funds appropriated or made available Amount for purchase or exchange of motor vehicles.in this Act or from the unexpended balances of any other Act may be used for the purchase or exchange of motor-propelled passenger or freight carrying vehicles for the Army other than those that are purchased solely for experimental purposes: *Provided*, That the *Proviso*.Limit for passenger vehicles.sum paid for any passenger-carrying vehicle hereunder shall not exceed $1,050, including the amount allowed on any vehicle exchanged in part payment therefor. horses for cavalry, artillery, engineers and so forthHorses. For the purchase of horses within limits as to age, sex, and size to Purchase, etc.be prescribed by the Secretary of War for remounts for officers entitled to public mounts, for the United States Military Academy, and for such organizations and members of the military service as may be required to be mounted, and for all expenses incident to such purchases (including $150,000 for encouragement of the breeding Encouraging breeding of riding horses.of riding horses suitable for the Army, in cooperation with the Bureau of Animal Industry, Department of Agriculture, including the purchase of animals for breeding purposes and their maintenance), $500,000: *Provided*, That the number of horses purchased under this *Provisos*.Number limited.appropriation shall be limited to the actual needs of the mounted service, including reasonable provision for remounts. When practicable, Open-market pur chases.horses shall be purchased in open market at all military posts of stations, when needed, within a maximum price to be fixed by the Secretary of War: *Provided further*, That no part of this appropriation Standard required.shall be expended for the purchase of any horse below the standard set by Army Regulations for Cavalry and Artillery horses, 902except when purchased as remounts or for instruction of cadets at Native horses in China.the United States Military Academy, except that not to exceed $3,000 of this appropriation shall be available for the purchase of native Chinese horses of specifications to be approved by the Secretary of Polo ponies limited.War for the actual needs of the American Forces in China: *And provided further*, That no part of this appropriation shall be expended for polo ponies except for West Point Military Academy, and such ponies shall not be used at any other place: *And provided Acceptance of donated breeding animals.further*, That the Secretary of War may, in his discretion, and under such rules and regulations as he may prescribe, accept donations of animals for breeding and donations of money or other property to be used as prizes or awards at agricultural fairs, horse shows, and similar exhibitions, in order to encourage the breeding of riding Report of expenditures for breeding, etc.horses suitable for Army purposes: *And provided further*, That the Secretary of War shall report annually to Congress, at the commencement of each session, a statement of all expenditures under this appropriation, and full particulars of means adopted and carried into effect for the encouragement of the breeding of riding horses suitable for the military service. military post For the construction and enlargement at military posts of such buildings as in the judgment of the Secretary of War may be necessary, including all appurtenances thereto, $100. Fort Porter, N. Y.fort porter, new york, military post or reservation Sale of site, etc., of military post at, authorized.Whenever in the opinion of the President, the lands and improvements or any portion of them of the military post or reservation at Fort Porter, New York, are no longer necessary for military purposes, he may, in his discretion, cause to be appraised and sold in one or more parts that portion of such real property to which the United Deposit of proceeds.States holds a fee simple title, under such regulations as to public *Provisos*.Amount from proceeds for constructing Infantry barracks, etc.notice and terms and conditions of sale as he may prescribe and the proceeds to be deposited in the Treasury: *Provided*, That not exceeding $400,000 of the proceeds of such sale or sales is hereby appropriated for the construction of barracks and quarters or other buildings and utilities to accommodate a battalion of Infantry upon another Government-owned military post or reservation within the Estimates, etc., not required.[R. S., sec. 1136, p. 206](/us/rs/s1136/p206).Second Corps Area: *Provided further*, That the provisions of section 1136 of the Revised Statutes shall not apply to the structures authorized Reconveyance to New York of land originally donated by.herein: *Provided further*, That the President is authorized to reconvey to the State of New York such portions of the military post at Fort Porter that were originally donated by the State of New York, when, in his opinion, such land is no longer needed for military purposes. Military posts.military posts, hawaiian islands Construction, etc., of buildings.For the construction and enlargement at military posts of such buildings as in the judgment of the Secretary of War may be necessary, including all appurtenances thereto, $100. Panama Canal.military posts, panama canal Construction, etc., of buildings at posts.For the construction and enlargement at military posts of such buildings as in the judgment of the Secretary of War may be necessary, including all appurtenances thereto, $100. 903 barracks and quartersBarracks and quarters. For construction, repair, and rental of barracks, quarters, Construction, repairs, etc.stables, storehouses, magazines, administration and office buildings, sheds, shops, garages, reclamation plants, and other buildings necessary for the shelter of the Army and its property, including retired officers and enlisted men when ordered to active duty; Rentals.for rental of grounds for military purposes, of recruiting stations, and of lodgings for recruits and applicants for enlistment; for repair of such furniture for Government-owned officers’ quarters and officers’ messes as may be approved by the Secretary of War; tor wall lockers, refrigerators, screen doors, window screens, storm doors and sash, window shades, and flooring and framing for tents, $4,250,000: *Provided*, That this appropriation shall be available *Provisos.*Rent for military attaches.for rental of offices, garages, and stables for military attaches: *Provided further*, That $29,500, or so much thereof as may be Fort Ontario, N.Y.Repairs of buildings at old.necessary, shall be used for repairing buildings within the old fort at Fort Ontario, New York, and placing them in habitable condition: *Provided further*, That $3,500 of this appropriation shall be available Fort Reno, Okla.Purchase of additional land opposite.for the purchase of approximately forty-three and six-tenths acres of land opposite the Fort Reno, Oklahoma, pumping plant, to be used in an effort to straighten the course of the North Canadian River. Barracks and Quarters, Philippine IslandsPhilippine Islands. Continuing the work of providing for the proper shelter and protectionShelter of troops in.of officers and enlisted men of the Army of the United States lawfully on duty in the. Philippine Islands, including repairs and payment of rents, the acquisition of title to building sites, and such additions to existing military reservations as may be necessary, and including also shelter for the animals and supplies and all other buildings necessary for post administration purposes, and for shelter and repair thereof, and rentals for UnitedRentals in China.States troops in China, $250,000: *Provided*, That no part of the *Proviso*.Construction of officers’ quarters limited.said sum shall be expended for the construction of quarters for officers of the Army except in case of emergency with the approval of the Secretary of War, in which case the total cost, including the heating and plumbing apparatus, wiring, and fixtures, shall not exceed in the case of quarters of a general officer the sum of $8,000, of a colonel or officer above the rank of captain, $6,000, and an officer of and below the rank of captain, $4,000. water and sewers at military posts For procuring and introducing Water, sewers, etc., at posts.water to buildings and premises at military posts and stations; for the installation and extension of plumbing within buildings where the same is not specifically provided for in other appropriations; for the purchase and repair of fire apparatus, including fire-alarm systems; for the disposal of sewage, and expenses incident thereto; for repairs to water and sewer systems and plumbing; and for hire of employees, $2,450,000: *Provided*, That *Proviso*.New construction limited.not to exceed $50,000 of this appropriation shall be expended for new construction work. roads, walks, wharves, and drainageRoads, wharves, etc. For the construction and repair by the Quartermaster Corps Construction, repairs, etc.of roads, walks, and wharves; for the pay of employees; for the disposal of drainage; for dredging channels; and for care and improvement of grounds at military posts and stations, $849,381: *Provided*, That none of the funds appropriated or made available *Proviso*.Cantonments, etc., excluded.under this Act shall be used for the permanent construction of 904any new roads, walks, or wharves connected with any of the National Army cantonments or National Guard camps. Shooting galleries and ranges.shooting galleries and ranges Expenses of.For shelter, grounds, observation towers, shooting galleries, ranges for small-arms target practice, machine-gun practice, field, mobile, and railway artillery practice, repairs, and expenses incident thereto, including flour for paste for marking targets, hire of employees, such ranges and galleries to be open as far as practicable to the National Guard and organized rifle clubs under regulations to be prescribed by the Secretary of War, $36,900. Rent.rent of buildings, quartermaster corps Buildings in the District.*Proviso*.Restriction.For rent of buildings and parts of buildings in the District of Columbia for military purposes, $32,982: *Provided*, That this appropriation shall not be available if space is provided by the Public Buildings Commission in Government-owned buildings. Fort Monroe, Va.sewerage system, fort monroe, virginia Wharf.For repair and maintenance of wharf and apron of wharf, including all necessary labor and material therefor, fuel for waiting rooms; water, brooms, and shovels, $20,280; for one-third of said sum, to be supplied by the United States, $6,760. Roads.For rakes, shovels, and brooms; repairs to roadway, pavements, macadam and asphalt block; repairs to street crossings; repairs to street drains, and labor for cleaning roads, $8,469; for two-thirds of said sum, to be supplied by the United States, $5,646. Sewers, etc.For waste, oil, motor and pump repairs, sewer pipe, cement, brick, stone, supplies, and personal services, $6,690; for two-thirds of said sum, to be supplied by the United States, $4,460. 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 Temporary camp hospitals.needed to meet the requirements of increased garrisons, and for temporary hospitals in standing camps and cantonments; for the alteration of permanent buildings at posts for use as hospitals, construction and repair of temporary hospital buildings at permanent posts, Rentals, etc.construction and repair of temporary general hospitals, rental or purchase of grounds, and rental and alteration of buildings for use for hospital purposes in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, including necessary temporary quarters for hospital personnel, out-buildings, heating and laundry apparatus, plumbing, water and sewers, and electric work, cooking apparatus, and roads and walks *Proviso*..New construction work forbidden.for the same, $440,000: *Provided*, That no part of this appropriation shall be used for the construction of new hospitals. Quartermaster General’s Office.Office of the Quartermaster General Civilian personnel.Salaries: For personal services in the District of Columbia in accordance with “The Classification Act of 1923,” $584,520. Technical experts, etc.In addition to the foregoing employees appropriated for in the office of the Quartermaster General, the services of technical ex-905perts and such other services as the Secretary of War may deem necessary may be employed in the office of the Quartermaster General, to be paid from the appropriation for “Incidental Expenses of the Army ”: *Provided*, That the entire expenditures for this purpose *Proviso*.Limit.for the fiscal year 1926 shall not exceed $16,300, and there shall be included in the Budget for each fiscal year a statement of the number of persons so employed, their duties, and the amount paid to each. Signal CorpsSignal Corps. signal service of the armySignal 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, flags, and other necessary instruments; wind vanes, barometers, anemometers, thermometers, and other meteorological instruments; photographic and cinematographic work performed for the Army by the Signal Corps; motor cycles, motor-driven and other vehicles for technical and official purposes in connection with the construction, operation, and maintenance of communication or signaling systems, and supplies for their operation and maintenance; professional and scientific books of reference, pamphlets, periodicals, newspapers, and maps for use in the office of the Chief Signal Officer and the Signal Corps School, Camp Alfred Vail, New Jersey; telephone Telephones.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 Exception.of the War Department in the District of Columbia, and toll messages pertaining to the office of the Secretary of War; electric time service; the rental of commercial telegraph lines and equipment and their operation at or connecting any post, camp, cantonment, depot, arsenal, headquarters, hospital, aviation station, or other office or station of the Army, including payment for official individual telegraph messages transmitted over commercial lines; electrical installations Electrical installations at posts, etc.and maintenance thereof at military posts, cantonments, camps, and stations of the Army, fire control and direction apparatus and material for Field Artillery; salaries of civilian employees, including Civilian employees.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, Experimental research, etc.and development or improvements in apparatus, and maintenance of signaling and accessories thereto, including patent rights and other rights thereto, including machines, instruments, and other equipment for laboratory and repair purposes; tuition, laboratory fees, and so forth, for Signal Corps officers detailed to civilian technical schools for the purpose of pursuing technical courses of instruction along Signal Corps lines; lease, alteration, and repair of such buildings Buildings for sup plies.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, $1,927,970. seacoast defenses, united statesFire-control operation.Seacoast defenses. For operation and maintenance of fire-control installations at seacoastUnited States.defenses, $144,576. 906 seacoat defenses, insular possessions Insular possessions.For operation and maintenance of fire-control installations at seacoast defenses, insular possessions, $26,000. seacoast defenses, panama canal Panama Canal.For operation and maintenance of fire-control installations at seacoast defenses, Panama Canal, $10,000. Chief Signal Officer’s Office.office of the chief signal officer Civilian personnel.Salaries: For personal services in the District of Columbia in accordance with “The Classification Act of 1923,” $57,000. Draftsmen, etc., paid from other appropriations.The services of skilled draftsmen and such other services as the Secretary of War may deem necessary may be employed only in the Signal Office to carry into effect the various appropriations for fortifications and other works of defense, and for the Signal Service of the Army, to be paid from such appropriations, in addition to the foregoing *Proviso*.Limit, etc.employees appropriated for in the Signal Office: *Provided*, That the entire expenditures for this purpose for the fiscal year 1926 shall not exceed $35,000, and the Secretary of War shall each year in the Budget report to Congress the number of persons so employed, their duties, and the amount paid to each. Air Service.Air Service air service, army Designated purposes.For creating, maintaining, and operating at established flying Flying and balloon schools, etc.schools and balloon schools courses of instruction for officers, students, and enlisted men, including cost of equipment and supplies necessary for instruction, purchase of tools, equipment, materials, machines, textbooks, books of reference, scientific and professional papers, instruments and materials for theoretical and practical Aircraft operation, construction, etc.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 Landing, etc., run-ways.spare parts and equipment connected therewith and the establishment of landing and take-off runways; 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 sewerage, including maintenance, operation, and repair of such Helium gas production.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 production Civilian employees, etc.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; transportation of materials in connection with consolidation of Air Service activities; experimental investigation and purchase and development of new types of aircraft, accessories thereto, and aviation engines, including licenses for patents and design rights thereto, and Purchase, manufacture, etc., of aircraft, etc.plans, drawings, and specifications thereof; for the purchase, manufacture, and construction of airships, balloons, and other aerial ma-907chines, including instruments, gas plants, hangars, and repair shops, and appliances of every sort and description necessary for the operation, construction, or equipment of all types of aircraft, and all necessary spare parts and equipment connected therewith; for the Marking military airways, etc.marking of military airways where the purchase of land is not involved; for the purchase, manufacture, and issue of special clothing, wearing apparel, and similar equipment for aviation purposes; for Disposal of surplus equipment, etc.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 of such equipment; for Consulting engineers.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 the Air Service; for maintenance Outside printing, supplies, etc.and operation of such Air Service printing plants outside of the District of Columbia as may be authorized in accordance with law; for publications, station libraries, special furniture, supplies and equipment for offices, shops, and laboratories; for special services, Special services.including the salvaging of wrecked aircraft, $14,700,000: *Provided*, *Provisos*.Allotment for designated purposes.That not to exceed $2,690,000 from this appropriation may be expended for pay and expenses of civilian employees other than those employed in experimental and research work; not exceeding $500,000 may be expended for experimentation, conservation, and production of helium; not exceeding $2,730,000 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 $400,000 New airplanes, etc.may be expended for the production of lighter-than-air equipment; not exceeding $300,000 may be expended for improvement of stations, hangars, and gas plants for the Regular Army and for such other markings and fuel supply stations and temporary shelter as may be necessary; not less than $4,400,000 shall be expended for the production and purchase of new airplanes and their equipment, spare parts, and accessories; not more than $4,000 may be expended for settlement of claims (not exceeding $250 each) for damages to persons and private property resulting from the operation of aircraft at home and abroad 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; not less than Airplane bombing tests.$50,000 of this amount shall be used for the conduct of airplane bombing tests against obsolete vessels moving under their own power: *Provided*, That the Secretary of the Navy and the United Transfer for, of obsolete Navy and Shipping Board vessels. States Shipping Board or the United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation are hereby directed to transfer to the War Department for this purpose not to exceed two obsolete naval craft and two obsolete Shipping Board or United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation vessels, respectively, of such types as may be designated by the President, for the purpose set forth herein; and not exceeding $500,000 shall be available immediately McCook Field, Day-ton, Ohio.toward the transfer of the testing and experimental plant of the Air Service now located at McCook Field, Dayton, Ohio, and Expenses transferring, to new site.the reestablishment thereof on a permanent site in the same vicinity, including the preparation of grounds, construction of buildings, installation of roadways and utilities, and all other expenses of whatever character connected with this project, provided that such a site, satisfactory to the Secretary of War and on terms approved by him, is provided for this purpose without cost to the Government:Building restrictions not applicable. *Provided further*, That the limitations contained in sections 1136 [R. S., secs. 1136, 3734, pp. 206, 737](/us/rs/s1136/3734/p206/737).and 3734 of the Revised Statutes shall not apply to the work con-908Fee simple required.nected with this project: *And provided further*, That no part of said sum of $500,000 shall be expended for buildings or improvements on Periodicals, etc.[R. S., sec. 3648, p. 718](/us/rs/s3648/).land not owned in fee simple by the United States: *Provided further, *That section 3648, Revised Statutes, shall not apply to subscriptions for foreign and professional newspapers and periodicals to be paid Restriction on exhibition flights.for from this appropriation: *Provided further*, That none of the funds appropriated under this title shall be used for the purpose of giving exhibition flights to the public other than those under the control and direction of the War Department, and if such flights are given by Army personnel upon other than Government fields a bond of indemnity, in such sum as the Secretary of War may require for damages to person or property, shall be furnished the Government Additional amount authorized for new air-planes, etc.by the parties desiring the exhibition: *Provided further*, That in addition to the amount herein appropriated and specified for expenditure for the production and purchase of new airplanes and their equipment, spare parts and accessories, the Chief of the Air Service, when authorized by the Secretary of War, may enter into contracts for the production and purchase of new airplanes and their equipment, spare parts, and accessories to an amount not in excess Action of Secretary a contractual Federal obligation.Authorization for helium gas production, etc., extended to Navy.*Post*, p. 1110.of $2,150,000, and his action in so doing shall be deemed a contractual obligation of the Federal Government for the payment of the cost thereof. Authorization as herein granted 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 production thereof and experiments therewith is likewise hereby granted to the Navy Department. Incurred obligations.Balances of former appropriations continued until June 30, 1926.Vol. 42, p. 736.The sum of $203,255.95 of the appropriation for the Air Service for the fiscal year 1923 contained in the “Act making appropriations for the military and nonmilitary activities of the War Department for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1923, and for other purposes,” approved June 30, 1922, shall remain available until June 30, 1926, for the payment of obligations incurred under contracts executed prior to July 1, 1923. Office of Chief of Air Service.office of the chief of air service Civilian personnel.Salaries: For personal services in the District of Columbia in accordance with “The Classification Act of 1923,” $211,191. Legal assistant, aero-nautical engineers, etc., in Department Office.The services of legal assistant, aeronautical engineers, skilled draftsmen, and such technical and other services as the Secretary of War may deem necessary, may be employed only in the office of the Chief of Air Service to carry into effect the various appropriations for aeronautical purposes, to be paid from such appropriations, in addition to the foregoing employees appropriated for in the office of *Proviso*.Limitation, etc.the Chief of Air Service: *Provided*, That the entire expenditure for this purpose for the fiscal year 1926 shall not exceed $80,000, and the Secretary of War shall each year in the Budget report to Congress the number of persons so employed, their duties, and the amount paid to each. Medical Department.Medical Department medical and hospital department Medical and hospital supplies.For the manufacture and purchase of medical and hospital supplies, including disinfectants, for military posts, camps, hospitals, hospital ships and transports, for laundry work for enlisted men and Army nurses while patients in a hospital, and supplies required for mosquito destruction in and about military posts in the Canal 909Zone; for the purchase of veterinary supplies and hire of veterinary surgeons; for expenses of medical supply depots; for medical care Private treatment.and treatment not otherwise provided for, including care and subsistence in private hospitals of officers, enlisted men, and civilian employees of the Army, of applicants for enlistment, and of prisoners of war and other persons in military custody or confinement, when entitled thereto by law, regulation, or contract: *Provided*, That this *Provisos*.Not applicable if on furlough.shall not apply to officers and enlisted men who are treated in private hospitals or by civilian physicians while on furlough; for the proper Contagious diseases expenses.care and treatment of epidemic and contagious diseases in the Army or at military posts or stations, including measures to prevent the spread thereof, and the payment of reasonable damages not otherwise provided for for bedding and clothing injured or destroyed in such prevention; for the pay of male and female nurses, not including the Army Nurse Corps, and of cooks and other civilians employed for the proper care of sick officers and soldiers, under such regulations fixing their number, qualifications, assignments, pay, and allowances as shall have been or shall be prescribed by the Secretary of War; for the pay of civilian physicians employed to examine physically applicants for enlistment and enlisted men and to render other professional services from time to time under proper authority; for the pay of other employees of the Medical Department; for Tuition of officers and Nurse Corps.Vol. 41, p. 786. tuition of officers of the Medical Department, including the Army Nurse Corps, under section 127-a of the Army Reorganization Act approved June 4, 1920; for the payment of express companies and local transfers employed directly by the Medical Department for the transportation of medical and hospital supplies, including bidders’ samples and water for analysis; for supplies for use in teaching the art of cooking to the enlisted force of the Medical Department; for Hot Springs Hospital, Ark.the supply of the Army and Navy Hospital at Hot Springs, Arkansas; for advertising, laundry, and all other necessary miscellaneous expenses of the Medical Department, $1,033,633: *Provided*, Use for Medical and Surgical History of War with Germany, forbidden.That no part of this appropriation shall be used for payment of any expense connected with the publication of the Medical and Surgical History of the War with Germany. hospital care, canal zone garrisonsCanal Zone. For paying the Panama Canal such reasonable charges, exclusiveCare of troops at Panama Canal hospitals.of subsistence, as may be approved by the Secretary of War for caring in its hospitals for officers, enlisted men, military prisoners, and civilian employees of the Army admitted thereto upon the request of proper military authority, $40,000: *Provided*, That the *Proviso*.Subsistence payments.subsistence of the said patients, except commissioned officers, shall be paid to said hospitals out of the appropriation for subsistence of the Army at the rates provided therein for commutation of rations for enlisted patients in general hospitals. army medical museumArmy Medical Museum. For Army Medical Museum, preservation of specimens, and the Preserving, etc., specimens.preparation and purchase of new specimens, $7,500. library, surgeon general’s officeLibrary. For the library of the Surgeon General’s Office, including Purchase of books, etc.the purchase of the necessary books of reference and periodicals, $20,000. 910 Surgeon General’s Office.Office of the Surgeon General Civilian personnel.Salaries: For personal services in the District of Columbia in accordance with “The Classification Act of 1923,” $268,284. Insular Affairs Bureau.Bureau of Insular Affairs Care of insane soldiers.care of insane filipino soldiers In the Philippines.For care, maintenance, and treatment at asylums in the Philippine Islands of insane natives of the Philippine Islands, conformable to the Act of Congress approved May 11, 1908, $900. care of insance porto rican soldiers In Porto Rico.For care, maintenance, and treatment at asylums in Porto Rico of insane Porto Rican soldiers of the Forty-second and Sixty-fifth Regiments of Infantry, $50. Office of Chief of Insular Affairs.office of chief of bureau of insular affairs Civilian personnel.Salaries: For personal services in the District of Columbia in accordance with “The Classification Act of 1923,” $80,280. Engineer Department.Corps of Engineers 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, $97,210. School.engineer school Equipment, maintenance, etc.For equipment and maintenance of the Engineer School, including purchase and repair of instruments, machinery, implements, models, boats, and materials for the use of the school and to provide means for the theoretical and practical instruction of Engineer officers and troops in their special duties as sappers and miners; for land mining, pontoniering, and signaling; for purchase and binding of scientific and professional works, papers, and periodicals treating on military engineering and scientific subjects; for textbooks and books of reference for the library of the United States Engineer Incidental expenses.School; for incidental expenses of the school, including chemicals, stationery, hardware, machinery, and boats; for pay of civilian clerks, draftsmen, electricians, mechanics, and laborers; for compensation Tuition at civil institutions.of civilian lecturers and for 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 other educational institutions as provided Vol. 41, p. 786.for in section 127a of the National Defense Act of June 3, 1916, as Travel expenses of officers.amended by the Act of June 4, 1920; for unforeseen expenses; and for travel expenses of officers on journeys approved by the Secretary*Provisos*.In lieu of mileage.of War and made for the purpose of instruction: *Provided*, That the traveling expenses herein provided for shall be in lieu of mileage and other allowances; and for other absolutely necessary expenses: 911*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, $26,000. engineer equipment of troopsEquipment of troops. For pontoon material, tools, instruments, supplies, and appliances Material, supplies, etc.required for use in the engineer equipment of troops, for military surveys, and for engineer operations in the field, including the purchase, maintenance, operation, and repair of the necessary motor cycles; the purchase and preparation of engineer manuals and for a reserve supply of above equipment, $62,305. civilian assistants to engineer officersCivilian assistants. For services of surveyors, survey parties, draftsmen, photographers, Surveyors, etc.master laborers, clerks, and other employees to Engineer officers on the staffs of division, corps, and department commanders, $46,620. engineer operations in the fieldField operations. For expenses incident to military engineer operations in the field, Incidental expenses.including the purchase of material and a reserve of material for such operations, the rental of storehouses within and outside of the District of Columbia, the operation, maintenance, and repair of horse-drawn and motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles, and such expenses as are ordinarily provided for under appropriations for “Engineer depots,” “Civilian assistants to Engineer officers,” and “Military surveys and maps,” $75,735: *Provided*, That when *Provisos*.Purchase of options on materials.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 much Temporary construction work for training.of this appropriation as is necessary to provide facilities for engineer training of troops may be expended for military construction work of a temporary character at camps and cantonments and at training areas, for training purposes only. military surveys and mapsMilitary surveys and maps. For the execution of topographic and other surveys, the securing Expenses of executing.of such extra topographic data as may be required, and the preparation and printing of maps required for military purposes, to be immediately available and remain available until December 31, 1926, $52,600: *Provided*, That the Secretary of War is authorized to secure *Proviso*.Assistance of other offices. 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. seacoast defenses, united statesFortifications.Seacost fortifications, United States. For the preparation of plans for fortifications and other work of Plans, etc.defense, $10,000. For construction of gun and mortar batteries, $25,000.Gun and mortar batteries. For the installation and replacement of electric light and power Installing electric plants and search-lights.plants at seacoast fortifications in the United States and the purchase and installation of searchlights for seacoast defenses in the United States, $33,100. For construction and repair of sea walls, embankments, and bulkheads, Sea walls, etc.$525. 912 Preservation, etc.For protection, preservation, and repair of fortifications for which there may be no special appropriation available, and of structures Submarine mine defense.for the submarine mine defense of the United States and for maintaining channels for access to submarine mine wharves, $273,744. Maintaining search-lights, electric plants, etc.For maintenance and repair of searchlights and electric light and power equipment for seacoast fortifications, and for tools, electrical and other supplies, and appliances to be used in their operation, including the purchase of reserve lights, $68,655. Insular possessions.seacost defenses, insular possessions Plans, etc.For preparation of plans for fortifications and other works of defense in the insular possessions, $2,000. Installing electric plants and search-lights, Hawaii.For the installation and replacement of electric light and power plants and the purchase and installation of searchlights at the seacoast fortifications of the Hawaiian Islands, $24,000. Preservation, etc.For protection, preservation, and repair of fortifications, including Submarine mine defense.structures for submarine mine defense, for which there may be no special appropriation available, and for maintaining channels for access to submarine mine wharves, in the insular possessions, $73,595. Maintaining search-lights, electric plants, etc.For maintenance and repair of searchlights and electric light and power equipment for seacoast fortifications and for tools, electrical and other supplies, and appliances to be used in their operation in the insular possessions, $34,000. Panama Canal.seacoast defenses, panama canal Plans, etc.For preparation of plans for fortifications and other works of defense, including surveys for roads, Canal Zone, $4,400. Seacoast batteries.For the construction of seacoast batteries on the Canal Zone for defense of the Panama Canal, $133,950. Installing electric plants and search-lights For the installation and replacement of electric light and power plants, and the purchase and installation of searchlights for the seacoast fortifications on the Canal Zone, $24,000. Preservation, etc.For protection, preservation, and repair of fortifications of the Panama Canal, for which there may be no special appropriation Submarine mine defense.available, including structures erected for submarine mine defense, and for maintaining channels for access to submarine mine wharves, $50,770. Maintaining search-lights, electric plants, etc.For maintenance and repair of searchlights and electric light and power equipment for fortifications and for tools, electrical and other supplies, and appliances to be used in their operation, $30,000. Office of Chief of Engineers.office of chief of engineers Civilian personnel.Salaries: For personal services in the District of Columbia in accordance with “the Classification Act of 1923,” $118,000. Draftsmen, etc., payable from other appropriations.The services of skilled draftsmen, civil engineers, and such other services as the Secretary of War may deem necessary, may be employed only in the office of the Chief of Engineers, to carry into effect the various appropriations for rivers and harbors, surveys, preparation for and the consideration of river and harbor estimates and bills, fortifications, engineer equipment of troops, engineer operations in the field, and other military purposes, to be paid from such appropriations: *Provided*, That the expenditures on *Proviso*.Limit, etc.this account for the fiscal year 1926 shall not exceed $160,000; the Secretary of War shall each year, in the Budget, report to Congress the number of persons so employed, their duties, and the amount paid to each. 913 Ordnance DepartmentOrdnance Department. ordinance servicesOrdnance Service. For the current expenses of the Ordnance Department in connection Current expenses.with purchasing, receiving, storing, and issuing ordnance and ordnance stores, comprising police and office duties, rents, tolls, fuel, light, water, and advertising, stationery, typewriting and adding machines, including their exchange, and office furniture, tools, and instruments of service; for incidental expenses of the Ordnance Service and those attending practical trials and tests of ordnance small arms, and other ordnance stores; for instruction purposes; for publications for libraries of the Ordnance Department, including the Ordnance Office; subscriptions to periodicals, which may be paid for in advance; and payment for mechanical labor in the office of the Chief of Ordnance; and for maintenance, repair, and operation of motor-propelled or horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles, $1,185,000. ordinance stores, ammunitionAmmunition. For the development, manufacture, purchase, and maintenance Manufacture of air-plane bombs, ammunition for small arms, etc.of airplane bombs, pyrotechnics, grenades, ammunition for small arms, targets, and accessories for bomb, small arms, and machine gun target practice; and ammunition for military salutes at Government establishments and institutions to which the issues of arms for salutes are authorized, $1,000,000. manufacture of armsManufacture of arms. For manufacturing, repairing, procuring, and issuing arms at At arsenals for issue.the national armories, $389,000. ordinance stores and suppliesOrdnance stores and supplies. For overhauling, cleaning, repairing, and preserving ordnance and Preserving, etc.ordnance stores in the hands of troops and at the arsenals, posts, and depots, except material for cleaning and preserving at places other than establishments under the direct control of the Chief of Ordnance; for purchase and manufacture of ordnance stores to fill Purchase, etc., for issue.requisitions of troops, $120,000. automatic riflesAutomatic 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 equipments, and the machinery necessary for their manufacture, to remain available until June 30, 1927, $188,000. tanksTanks. 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, 1927, $214,400. field artillery armamentField Artillery. For purchase, manufacture, and test of mountain, field, and siege Mountain, field, and siege cannon.cannon, including their carriages, sights, implements, equipments, and the machinery necessary for their manufacture, $635,000. 914 Ammunition for.For purchase, manufacture, maintenance, and test of ammunition for mountain, field, and siege cannon, including the necessary experiments in connection therewith, the machinery necessary for its manufacture, and the necessary storage facilities, $386,000. Altering, etc., mobile artillery.For alteration and maintenance of the mobile artillery, including the purchase and manufacture of machinery, tools, and materials necessary for the work and the expenses of the mechanics engaged thereon, $600,000. Ammunition, etc., for practice.For purchase, manufacture, and test of subcaliber guns, ammunition, and other accessories for mountain, field, and siege artillery practice, including the machinery necessary for their manufacture, $70,000. Proving grounds.providing grounds, army Current expenses.For current expenses of the ordnance proving grounds, comprising the maintenance of rail and water transportation, repairs, alterations, accessories, and service of employees incidental to testing and proving ordnance and ordnance material, hire of assistants for the Ordnance Board, purchase of instruments and articles required for testing and experimental work, building and repairing butts and targets, clearing and grading ranges, $190,000. Rock Island Arsenal, Ill.rock island bridge, rock island, illinois Bridges expenses.For operating, repair, and preservation of Rock Island bridges and viaduct, and maintenance and repair of the arsenal street connecting the bridges, $43,150. Testing machines.testing machines Operating expenses.For necessary professional and skilled labor, purchase of materials, tools, and appliances for operating the testing machines, for investigative test and tests of material in connection with the manufacturing work of the Ordnance Department and for instruments and materials for operating the chemical laboratory in connection therewith, and for maintenance of the establishment, $25,000. Arsenals.repairs of arsenals Repairs, etc.For repairs and improvements of arsenals and depots, and to meet such unforeseen expenditures as accidents or other contingencies during the year may render necessary, including machinery for manufacturing purposes in the arsenals, $675,000. Gauges, dies, and jigs.gauges, dies and jigs for manufacture Procuring, for armament manufacture.For the development and procurement of gauges, dies, jigs, and other special aids and appliances, including specifications and detailed drawings, to carry out the purpose of section 123 of the National Vol. 39, p. 215.Defense Act, approved June 3, 1916, as amended by the Act approved June 4, 1920. $50,000. Armament.seacoast defenses, united states.armament of fortifications Seacoast cannon.For purchase, manufacture, and test of seacoast cannon for coast defense, including their carriages, sights, implements, equipments, and the machinery necessary for their manufacture, $407,000. Ammunition for.For purchase, manufacture, and test of ammunition for seacoast cannon, and for modernizing projectiles on hand, including the 915necessary experiments in connection therewith, and the machinery necessary for its manufacture, $180,000. For purchase, manufacture, and test of subcaliber guns, ammunition, Ammunition, etc., for practice.and other accessories for Seacoast Artillery practice, including the machinery necessary for their manufacture, $50,000. For alteration and maintenance of Seacoast Artillery, including Altering, etc., seacoast artillery.the purchase and manufacture of machinery, tools, materials necessary for the work, and expenses of civilian mechanics, $300,000. seacoast defenses, insular possessionsInsular possessions. For purchase, manufacture, and test of ammunition for seacoast Ammunition for seacoast cannon.cannon, including the necessary experiments in connection therewith, and the machinery necessary for its manufacture, $236,600. For alteration and maintenance of the seacoast artillery, including Altering, etc., seacoast artillerythe purchase and manufacture of machinery, tools, and materials necessary for the work, and expenses of the civilian mechanics. $80,000. seacoat defenses, panama canalPanama Canal. For purchase, manufacture, and test of seacoast cannon for coast Seacoast cannon.defense, including their carriages, sights, implements, equipments, and the machinery necessary for their manufacture, $100,000. For the purchase, manufacture, and test of ammunition for seacoast Ammunition for.and land defense cannon, including the necessary experiments in connection therewith, and the machinery necessary for its manufacture, $200,000. For the alteration and maintenance and installation of the Seacoast Altering, etc., seacoast artillery.Artillery, including the purchase and manufacture of machinery, tools, and materials necessary for the work, and expenses of civilian mechanics, $60,000. office of chief of ordnanceOffice of Chief of Ordnance. Salaries: For personal services in the District of Columbia in Civilian personnel.accordance with “The Classification Act of 1923,” $159,652. The services of skilled draftsmen and such other services as the Draftsmen, etc., from other appropriations.Secretary of War may deem necessary may be employed only in the office of the Chief of Ordnance to carry into effect the various appropriations for the armament of fortifications and for the arming and equipping of the National Guard, to be paid from *Proviso*.Limit, etc.such appropriations: *Provided*, That the entire expenditures for this purpose for the fiscal year 1926 shall not exceed $260,000, and the Secretary of War shall each year, in the Budget, report to Congress the number of persons so employed, their duties, and the amount paid to each. Chemical Warfare ServiceChemical Warfare Service Army. For purchase, manufacture, and test of chemical warfare gases Purchase, manufacture, etc., of gases.or other toxic substances, gas masks, or other offensive or defensive materials or appliances required for gas-warfare purposes, including all necessary investigations, research, design, experimentation, and operations connected therewith; purchase of chemicals, special scientific Plants, 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, sta-916tionery, typewriting and adding machines, including their exchange, office furniture, tools, and instruments; for incidental expenses; for civilian employees; for libraries of the Chemical Warfare Service and subscriptions to periodicals which may be paid for in advance; Organizing special gas troops.for expenses incidental to the organization, training, and equipment of special gas troops not otherwise provided for, including the training of the Army in chemical warfare, both offensive and defensive, together with the necessary schools, tactical demonstrations, and Current expenses.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, $907,980. Office, Chief of Chemical Warfare Service.office of chief of chemical warfare service Civilian personnel.Salaries: For personal services in the District of Columbia in accordance with “The Classification Act of 1923,” $21,420. Chemists, etc., for office in the Department.Chemists, etc., for office in the Department.The services of chemists and such other services as the Secretary of War may deem necessary may be employed only in the office of the Chief of the Chemical Warfare Service to carry into effect the appropriation for Chemical Warfare Service, to be paid from such appropriation: *Provided*, That the total expenditures for this purpose *Proviso*.Limit, etc. for the fiscal year 1926 shall not exceed $19,160, and the Secretary of War shall each year in the Budget report to Congress the number of persons so employed, their duties, and the amount paid to each. Chief of Infantry Army Army Infantry School, Fort Benning, Ga.infantry school, fort benning, georgia Instruction expenses.For the purchase of textbooks, books of reference, scientific and professional papers; instruments and material for instruction, employment of temporary, technical, special, and clerical services, and for the necessary expenses of instruction at the Infantry School, Fort Benning, Georgia, $37,620. Tank Service.tank service Civilian employees.For payment of the necessary civilian employees to assist in handling the clerical work in the office of the tank center, tank schools, and the various tank organization headquarters, including the office of the chief of Infantry; and for the payment of the necessary mechanics to assist in repairing and preserving tanks in the hands of tank units, $26,840. Incidental expenses in connection with the operation of the tank schools, $1,000. Chief of Cavalry Cavalry School, Fort Riley, Kans.cavalry school, fort riley, kansas Tank schools.Instruction expenses.For the purchase of textbooks, books of reference, scientific and professional papers, instruments, and materials for instruction; employment of temporary, technical, special, and clerical services; and for other necessary expenses of instruction at the Cavalry School, Fort Riley, Kansas, $19,080. 917 Chief of Field Artillery field artillery school, for still, oklahomaField Artillery School, Fort Sill, Okla. For the purchase of textbooks, books of reference, scientific and Instruction expenses.professional papers, instruments, and material for instruction; employment of temporary, technical, special, and clerical services; and for other necessary expenses of instruction at the Field Artillery School at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, $18,820. instruction in field artillery activitiesField Artillery activities. To provide means for the theoretical and practical instruction Instruction at brigade firing centers.in Field Artillery activities at the two brigade firing centers at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, and Fort Bragg, North Carolina, by the purchase of modern instruments and material for theoretical and practical instruction, for the tuition of officers detailed as students at civil educational institutions, and for all other necessary expenses, to be allotted in such proportion as may, in the opinion of the Secretary of War, be for the best interests of the service, $4,000. Chief of Coast ArtilleryChief of Coast Artillery. coast artillery school, fort monroe, virginiaCoast Artillery School, Fort Monroe, Va. For purchase of engines, generators, motors, machines, measuring Instruction expenses.and nautical instruments, special apparatus, and materials and for experimental purposes for the engineering and artillery and military art departments and enlisted specialists division; for purchase and binding of professional books treating of military and scientific subjects for library, for use of school, and for temporary use in coast defenses; 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, and motor trucks; and unforeseen expenses; in all $27,740: *Provided*, That section 3648, Revised Statutes, shall not *Provisos*.Periodicals, etc.[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: *Provided further*, That purchase and exchange of typewriting machines, to be paid for Special typewriters, etc.from this appropriation, may be made at the special price allowed to schools teaching stenography and typewriting without obligating typewriter companies to supply these machines to all departments of the Government at the same price. seacoast defenses, united statesFortifications.Seacoast defenses, United States.Constructing fire control stations, etc. For construction of fire-control stations and accessories, including purchase of lands and rights of way, purchase and installation of necessary lines and means of electrical communication, including telephones, dial and other telegraphs, wiring and all special instruments, apparatus, and materials, coast-signal apparatus, subaqueous, sound, and flash ranging appartus, including their development, and salaries of electrical experts, engineers, and other necessary employees connected with the use of coast artillery; purchase, manufacture, and Range finders, etc.test of range finders and other instruments for fire control at the fortifications, and the machinery necessary for their manufacture at the arsenals, $80,800. For purchase, manufacture, and test of submarine-mine material, Accessories for sub-marine mine practice.and other accessories for submarine-mine practice, including the machinery necessary for their manufacture, $3,000. 918 Submarine supplies, Fort Totten, N. Y.For maintenance of submarine-mine material within the limits of continental United States; purchase of necessary machinery, tools, and implements for the repair shop of the torpedo depot, United States Army, at Fort Totten, New York, and for torpedo depot administration and experimental work, $31,100. War instruction material.For maintenance of Coast Artillery war-instruction material at Coast Artillery posts, including necessary material and labor therefor, $1,000. Insular possessions.seacoast defenses, insular possessions Constructing fire control stations, Hawaii.For construction of fire-control stations and accessories, including purchase of lands and rights of way, purchase and installation of necessary lines and means of electrical communication, including telephones, dial and other telegraphs, wiring and all special instruments, apparatus and materials, coast-signal apparatus, subaqueous, sound, and flash ranging apparatus, including their development, and salaries of electrical experts, engineers, and other necessary Range finders, etc.employees connected with the use of Coast Artillery; purchase, manufacture, and test of range finders and other instruments for fire control at the fortifications, and the machinery necessary for their manufacture in the Hawaiian Islands, $40,000. Submarine mine supplies.For maintenance of the submarine mine material in the insular possessions, $10,000. Panama Canal.seacoast defenses, panama canal Constructing fire control stations, etc.For the construction of fire-control stations and accessories, including purchase of lands and rights of way, purchase and installation of necessary lines and means of electrical communication, including telephones, dial and other telegraphs, wiring and all special instruments, apparatus and materials, coast-signal apparatus, subaqueous, sound, and flash ranging apparatus, including their development, and salaries of electrical experts, engineers, and other necessary Range finders, etc.employees connected with the use of coast artillery, purchase, manufacture, and test of range finders and other instruments for fire control at the fortifications, and the machinery necessary for their manufacture, $85,000. Submarine mine supplies.For alteration, maintenance, and repair of submarine mine material, $3,000. Purchase of mines, etc.For purchase of submarine mines and necessary appliances to operate them, $2,000. Office of Chief of Coast Artillery.office of chief of coast artillery Civilian personnel.Salaries: For personal services in the District of Columbia in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $23,880. Military Academy.United States Military Academy Pay.pay of military academy Professors, etc.Permanent Establishment: For eight professors, $30,500; chaplain, $2,750; constructing quartermaster, in addition to his regular pay, $1,000; additional pay of professors and officers for length of service, $12,600; subsistence allowance of professors and officers, Cadets.$4,161; in all, $51,011. For one thousand two hundred cadets, $936,000. Civilian employees.Precise.Pay of organist.Civilians: For pay of employees, $240,000: *Provided*, That not to exceed $3,000 of this amount shall be used for pay of the organist, in addition to his present allowances. 919 All of the money hereinbefore appropriated for pay of the Military Disbursing and accounting as one fund.Academy shall be disbursed and accounted for as pay of the Military Academy, and for that purpose shall constitute one fund. The civilian instructors employed in the departments of modern Quarters, etc., for civilian instructors.languages and tactics shall be entitled to public quarters, fuel, and light. maintenance, united states military academyMaintenance. For text and reference books for instruction; increase and expenseDesignated expenses.of library (not exceeding $7,000); office equipment and supplies; stationery, blank books, forms, printing and binding, and periodicals; diplomas for graduates (not exceeding $1,100), to be immediately available; expenses of lectures; apparatus, equipment, supplies, and materials for purposes of instruction and athletics, and maintenance and repair thereof; musical instruments and maintenance of band; care and maintenance of organ; equipment for cadet mess; postage, telephones and telegrams; freight and expressage; transportation of cadets and accepted cadets from their homes to the Military Academy and discharged cadets, including reimbursement of traveling expenses; for payment of commutation of rations for the cadets of the United States Military Academy in lieu of the regular established ration; maintenance of children’s school (not exceeding $8,800); contingencies for superintendent of the academy (not to exceed $3,000); expenses of the members of the Board of Visitors (not Board of Visitors.exceeding $750); contingent fund, to be expended under the direction of the Academic Board (not exceeding $500); improvement, repair, and maintenance of buildings and grounds (including roads, walls, and fences); shooting galleries and ranges; cooking, heating, and lighting apparatus and fixtures and operation and maintenance thereof; maintenance of water, sewer, and plumbing systems; maintenance of and repairs to cadet camp; fire extinguishing apparatus; machinery and tools and repair of same; maintenance, repair, and operation of an automobile and one motor truck; policing buildings and grounds; furniture for official purposes at the academy, and repair and maintenance thereof: fuel for heat, light, and power; and other necessary incidental expenses in the discretion of the superintendent; in all, $1,006,920. public works, united states military academyPublic works. For continuing the construction of a new mess hall, cadet store, Constructing designated buildings.dormitories, and drawing academy, $350,000. Section 3648, Revised Statutes, shall not apply to subscriptions for Periodicals, etc. foreign, professional, and other newspapers and periodicals to be [R. S., sec. 3648, p. 718](/us/rs/s3648/p718).paid from any of the foregoing appropriations for the Military Academy. The Secretary of War is hereby directed to turn over to the United Army surplus material, etc., transferred without expense, for construction, etc.States Military Academy without expense all such surplus material as may be available and necessary for the construction of buildings; also surplus tools and material required for use in the instruction of cadets at the academy: *Provided*, That the constructing quartermaster,*Provisos*.Leaves of absence to employees.United States Military Academy, is hereby exempted from all laws and regulations relative to employment and to granting leaves of absence to employees with pay while employed on construction work at the Military Academy: *Provided further*, That theExpenditures without advertising permitted.funds appropriated herein for the United States Military Academy may be expended without advertising when in the opinion of the responsible constructing officer and the superintendent it is more economical and advantageous to the Government to dispense with advertising. 920 Militia Bureau.National Guard, arming, etc.Militia Bureau National Guard arming, equipping, and training the national guard Forage, etc. for animals.Use of balances.Vol. 42, p. 1410.For procurement of forage, bedding, and so forth, for animals used by the National Guard, $1,444,905, and in addition thereto the sum of $16,000 from the unexpended balances of the appropriations for “Arming, equipping, and training the National Guard, 1924,” is continued and made available for this purpose during the fiscal year 1926. Care of animals.For compensation of help for care of materials, animals, and equipment, $2,760,000. Instruction camps.For expenses, camps of instruction, $9,900,000, and in addition Use of balances.thereto the sum of $635,000 from the unexpended balances of the Vol. 42, p. 1410.appropriation for “Arming, equipping, and training the National Guard, 1924,” is continued and made available for this purpose during the fiscal year 1926. Service school instruction.Use of balances.Vol. 42, p. 1410.For expenses, selected officers and enlisted men, military service schools, $325,000, and in addition thereto the sum of $15,500 from the unexpended balances of the appropriation for “Arming, equipping, and training the National Guard, 1924,” is continued and made available for this purpose during the fiscal year 1926. Property, etc., officers.Use of balances.Vol. 42, p. 1410.For pay of property and disbursing officers for the United States, $72,000, and in addition thereto the sum of $1,800 from the unexpended balances of the appropriation for “Arming, equipping, and training the National Guard, 1924,” is continued and made available for this purpose during the fiscal year 1926. Equipment and instruction expenses.For general expenses, equipment and instruction, National Guard, $900,000. Travel, Army officers.For travel of officers and noncommissioned officers of the Regular Army in connection with the National Guard, $375,000. Transporting supplies.Use of balances.For transportation of equipment and supplies, $350,000, and in addition thereto the sum of $31,250 from the unexpended balances of Vol. 42, p. 1410.the appropriation for “Arming, equipping, and training the National Guard, 1924,” is continued and made available for this purpose during the fiscal year 1926. Army enlisted men.For expenses of enlisted men of the Regular Army on duty with the National Guard, including the hiring of quarters in kind, $500,000. Pay, armory drills.For pay of National Guard (armory drills), $9,990,000, and in Use of balances.addition thereto the sum of $968,750 from the unexpended balances Vol. 42, p. 1410.of the appropriation for “Arming, equipping, and training the National Guard, 1924,” is continued and made available for this purpose. Field service.arms, uniforms, equipment, and so forth, for field service, national guard Procuring arms, equipments, etc., for issue.To procure by purchase or manufacture and issue from time to time to the National Guard, upon requisition of the governors of Requests from governors, etc.the several States and Territories, or the commanding general, National Guard of the District of Columbia, such military equipment and stores of all kinds and a reserve supply thereof as are necessary to arm, uniform, and equip for field service the National Guard of the several States, Territories, and the District of Columbia, and to repair such of the aforementioned articles of equipage and military stores as are or may become damaged when, under regulations prescribed by the Secretary of War, such repair may be 921determined to be an economical measure and as necessary for their proper preservation and use, $3,119,281, and in addition thereto the Use of balances.sum of $62,500 from the unexpended balances of the appropriation Vol. 42, p. 1410.for “Arming, equipping, and training the National Guard, 1924,” is continued and made available for this purpose during the fiscal year 1926: *Provided*, That the Secretary of War is hereby directed to *Proviso*.Clothing, equipments, etc., from surplus Army stores.issue from surplus or reserve stores and material on hand and purchased for the United States Army such articles of clothing and equipment and Field Artillery, Engineer, and Signal material and ammunition as may be needed by the National Guard organized under the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act for making further Vol. 39, p. 197.and more effectual provision for the national defense, and for other purposes,” approved June 3, 1916, as amended by the Act approved Vol. 41, p. 780.Without charge to militia appropriations.June 4, 1920. This issue shall be made without charge against militia appropriations except for actual expenses incident to such issue. The mounted, motorized, air, medical, and tank units and motor Reduction of mounted, etc., units.transport, military police, wagon and service companies of the National Guard shall be so reduced that the appropriations made in this Act shall cover the entire cost of maintenance of such units for the National Guard during the fiscal year 1926. Militia Bureau, War DepartmentMilitia Bureau. Salaries: For personal services in the District of Columbia in Civilian personnel.accordance with “the Classification Act of 1923,” $127,560, and in Balances continued. Vol. 42, p. 1410.addition thereto the sum of $12,000 from the unexpended balances of the appropriation for “Arming, equipping, and training the National Guard, 1924,” is continued and made available for this purpose during the fiscal year 1926. The appropriations herein made for “Arming, equipping, and Appropriations available until December 31, 1926.training the National Guard” shall be available until December 31, 1926. The unexpended balances of the appropriations for “Arming, Unexpended balances for 1925 continued available until December 31, 1925.*Ante*, p. 505.equipping, and training the National Guard” for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1925, are continued and made available until December 31, 1925. ORGANIZED RESERVESOrganized Reserves. Officers’ Reserve Corps: For pay and allowances of members of Officers’ Reserve Corps.Pay, etc., for active duty.the Officers’ Reserve Corps on active duty for not exceeding fifteen days’ training, $2,293,500; for pay and allowances of members of the Officers’ Reserve Corps on active duty for more than fifteen days in accordance with law, $400,000; for mileage, reimbursement of actual traveling expenses, or per diem allowances in lieu thereof as authorized by law, $449,300: *Provided*, That the mileage allowance *Provisos*.Mileage when training.to members of the Officers’ Reserve Corps when called into active service for training for fifteen days or less shall not exceed 4 cents per mile: *Provided further*, That officers performing travelLimit when Government transports used.on Government-owned transports shall be entitled only to reimbursement of actual and necessary expenses incurred; in all, $3,142,800. Enlisted Reserve Corps: For pay, transportation, subsistence, Enlisted Reserve Corps.Pay, etc.>and clothing, $50,000. Correspondence courses: For conducting correspondence courses Correspondence instruction courses.for instruction of members of the Reserve Corps, including necessary supplies, procurement of maps and textbooks, and transportation. $17,000. Manuals: For purchase of training manuals, $15,000.Training manuals. 922 Headquarters and training camps.Establishment, maintenance, etc.Headquarters and camps: For establishment, maintenance, and operation of divisional and regimental headquarters and of camps for training of the Organized Reserves; for miscellaneous expenses incident to the administration of the Organized Reserves, including the maintenance and operation of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles; for transportation of baggage, including packing and crating, of reserve officers on active duty for not less than six Medical and hospital treatment, etc., if injured in line of duty.months; for medical and hospital treatment, continuation of pay and allowances not to exceed six months, and transportation when fit for travel to their homes of members of the Officers’ Reserve Corps and Enlisted Reserve Corps of the Army injured in line of duty while on active duty under proper orders or while voluntarily participating in aerial flights in Government-owned aircraft by proper authority as an incident to their military training, and for Burial expenses, etc.the preparation and transportation to their homes and burial expenses Public Laws, 1st sess., p. 364.of the remains of members of the Organized Reserves who die while on active duty, as provided in section 4 of the Act of June *Proviso*.Divisional, etc., headquarters.3, 1924, $450,000: *Provided*, That not to exceed $100,000 of this amount may be used for establishment and maintenance of divisional and regimental headquarters. Other funds not to be used.None of the funds appropriated elsewhere in this Act except for printing and binding shall be used for expenses in connection with the Organized Reserves, but available supplies and existing facilities at military posts shall be utilized to the fullest extent possible. Period of pay for officers.No portion of this appropriation shall be expended for the pay of a reserve officer on active duty for a longer period than fifteen General Staff duty.days, except such as may be detailed for duty with the War Department Vol. 41, pp. 760, 765.General Staff under section 3a and section 5
(b)of the Army Other details.Reorganization Act approved June 4, 1920, or who may be detailed for courses of instruction at the general or special service schools of the Army, or who may be detailed for duty as instructors at civilian military training camps, appropriated for in this Act, or who may be detailed for duty with tactical units of the Air Service,Vol. 41, p. 776.as provided in section 37a of the Army Reorganization Act approved June *Proviso*.Medical Reserve Corps for Veterans’ Bureau patients in Army hospitals.4, 1920: *Provided*, That the 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 United States Veterans’ Bureau treated in Army hospitals may be paid from the funds allotted to the War Department by that bureau under existing law. Reserve Officers’ Training Corps.reserve officers’ training corps Quartermaster supplies, etc., to units of.For the procurement, maintenance, 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, including cleaning and laundering of uniforms and clothing at camps; 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 Expenses of training camps.of same to place of issue 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 remain-923ing therein so far as appropriations will permit or, in lieu of transportingCommutation of travel allowance. them to and from such camps and subsisting them while en route, to pay them travel allowance at the rate of 5 cents per mile for the distance by the shortest usually traveled route from the places from which they are authorized to proceed to the camp and for the return travel thereto, and to pay the return travel pay in advance of the actual performance of the travel; for pay for students attending advanced camps at the rate prescribed for soldiers of the seventh grade of the Regular Army; for the payment of commutation Subsistence commutation to senior division members.of subsistence to members of the senior division of the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps, at a rate not exceeding the cost of the garrison ration prescribed for the Army, as authorized in the Act approved Vol. 39, p. 193; Vol. 41, p. 776.June 3, 1916, as amended by the Act approved June 4, 1920; for medical and hospital treatment, subsistence until furnished Medical treatment, etc., if injured in line of duty.transportation, and transportation when fit for travel to their homes of members of the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps injured in line of Vol. 41, pp. 778, 779.duty while at camps of instruction under the provisions of section 47a and section 47d of the National Defense Act approved June 3, Public Laws, 1st sess., p. 364.1916, as amended; and for the cost of preparation and transportation Burial expenses, etc.to their homes and burial expenses of the remains of members of the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps who die while attending camps of instruction as provided in section 4 of the Act approved June 3, 1924; and for the cost of maintenance, repair, and operation of passenger-carrying vehicles, $3,828,020, to remain available until December 31, 1926: *Provided*, That uniforms and other equipment *Provisos*.Uniforms, etc., from Army surplus stocks. or material issued to the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps in accordance with law shall be furnished from surplus or reserve stocks of the War Department without payment from this appropriation, except for actual expense incurred in the manufacture or issue: *Provided further*, That in no case shall the amount paid fromPrice current to govern payments.this appropriation for uniforms, equipment, or material furnished to the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps from stocks under the control of the War Department be in excess of the price current at the time the issue is made: *Provided further*, That none of the funds appropriated Additional mounted, etc., units forbidden.in this Act shall be used for the organization or maintenance of additional mounted, motor transport, or tank units in the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps: *Provided further*, That none of Use of other funds forbidden. the funds appropriated elsewhere in this Act, except for printing and binding, shall be used for expenses in connection with the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps: *Provided further*, That not to exceedTransporting, etc., students to national rifle match.$10,000 of the total appropriated by this Act may be expended for the transportation of authorized Reserve Officers’ Training Corps students who may be competitors in the national rifle match, and to subsist them while traveling to and from said match and while remaining thereat. Other schools and colleges.military supplies and equipment for schools and colleges For the procurement and issue as provided in section 55-c Issue of military supplies, equipments, etc., to.Vol. 41, p. 780.[R. S., sec. 1225, p. 216](/us/rs/s1225/).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 providedVol. 41, p. 776.for in section 40 of the Act above referred to, of such arms, tentage, and equipment, including the transporting of same, and the overhauling and repair of personal equipments, machine-gun outfits, and horse equipments, as the Secretary of War shall deem necessary for proper military training in said schools and colleges, $3,000 *Provided*, *Proviso*.Ordnance purchases excluded.That no part of this appropriation shall be expended for the purchase of arms or other ordnance equipment. 924 Civilian training camps.citizens’ military training camps Uniforms, transportation, etc., expenses for attendance.Vol. 39, p. 193; Vol. 41, p. 779.For furnishing, at the expense of the United States, to warrant officers, enlisted men, and civilians attending training camps maintained under the provisions of section 47-d of the National Defense Act of June 3, 1916, as amended by the Act of June 4, 1920, uniforms, including altering, fitting, washing, and cleaning when necessary, subsistence, and transportation, or in lieu of such transportation and of subsistence for travel to and from camps travel allowances Maintenance, etc.at 5 cents per mile, as prescribed in said section 47-d; for such expenditures as are authorized by said section 47-d as may be necessary for the establishment and maintenance of said camps, including recruiting and advertising therefor, and the cost of maintenance, repair, and operation of passenger-carrying vehicles; for gymnasium and athletic supplies (not exceeding $15,000); for mileage, reimbursement of traveling expenses, or allowance in lieu thereof as authorized by law, for officers of the Regular Army and Organized Reserves, traveling on duty in connection with citizens’ Medical, etc., treatment if injured in line of duty.military training camps; for medical and hospital treatment, subsistence until furnished transportation, and transportation when fit for travel to their homes of members of the citizens’ military training camps injured in line of duty while attending camps of instruction Vol. 41, pp. 778, 779.under the provisions of section 47—a and section 47-d of the National Defense Act approved June 3, 1916, as amended, and Burial expenses, etc.for the cost of preparation and transportation to their homes and Public Laws, 1st sess., p. 364.burial expenses of the remains of civilians who die while attending camps of instruction, as provided in section 4 of the Act approved June 3, 1924; in all, $2,807,471, to remain available until December *Provisos*.Age limitation.31, 1926: *Provided*, That the funds herein appropriated shall not be used for the training of any person in the first year, or lowest course, who shall have reached his twenty-fourth birthday before Use of other funds forbidden.the date of enrollment: *Provided further*, That none of the funds appropriated elsewhere in this Act except for printing and binding shall be used for expenses in connection with citizens’ military training Uniforms, etc., from Army surplus stocks. camps: *Provided further*, That uniforms and other equipment or material furnished in accordance with law for use at citizens’ military training camps shall be furnished from surplus or reserve stocks of the War Department without payment from this appropriation, except for actual expense incurred in the manufacture Price current to govern payments.or issue: *Provided further*, That in no case shall the amount paid from this appropriation for uniforms, equipment, or material furnished in accordance with law for use at citizens’ military training camps from stocks under control of the War Department be in excess of the price current at the time the issue is made. Use of reserve supplies restricted.Under the authorizations contained in this Act no issues of reserve supplies or equipment shall be made where such issues would impair the reserves held by the War Department for two field armies or one million men. Promotion of rifle practice.National Board for Promotion of Rifle Practice Civilian instruction.quartermaster supplies and services for rifle ranges for civilian instruction Quartermaster supplies for rifle ranges, practice, etc.To establish and maintain indoor and outdoor rifle ranges for the use of all able-bodied males capable of bearing arms under reasonable regulations to be prescribed by the National Board for the Promotion of Rifle Practice and approved by the Secretary of War; for the employment of labor in connection with the establishment of outdoor and indoor rifle ranges, including labor in 925operating targets; for the employment of instructors; for clerical Instructors, etc.services not exceeding $20,000; for badges and other insignia; for the transportation of employees, instructors, and civilians to engage in practice; for the purchase of materials, supplies, and services, and for expenses incidental to instruction of citizens of the United States in marksmanship, and their participation in Participation in matches.national and international matches, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War, and to remain available until expended, $85,000: *Provided*, That out of this appropriation there may be*Proviso*.Transportation, meals, etc., for rifle teams. expended not to exceed $80,000 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. national trophy and medals for rifle contentsRifle contests. For the purpose of furnishing a national trophy and medals and Furnishing national trophy, medals, etc., for annual.other prizes to be provided and contested for annually, under such regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary of War, said contest to be open to the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and the National Guard or Organized Militia of the several States, Territories, and of the District of Columbia, members of rifle clubs, and civilians, and for the cost of the trophy, prizes, and medals herein provided for, and for the promotion of rifle practice throughout the United States, including the reimbursement of necessary expense of members Reimbursing National Board.of the National Board for the Promotion of Rifle Practice, to be expended for the purposes hereinbefore prescribed, under the direction of the Secretary of War, $7,500. ordnance equipment for rifle ranges for civilian instructionOrdnance equipment. For arms, ammunition, targets, and other accessories for target Arms, etc., for target practice at rifle ranges, etc.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. $10,000. No part of the appropriations made in this Act shall be available No pay to officers, etc., using time-measuring devices on work of employees.for the salary or pay of any officer, manager, superintendent, foreman, or other person having charge of the work of any employee of the United States Government while making or causing to be made with a stop watch, or other time-measuring device, a time study of any job of any such employee between the starting and completion thereof, or of the movements of any such employee while engaged upon such work; nor shall any part of the appropriations made in Cash rewards restricted.this Act be available to pay any premiums or bonus or cash reward to any employee in addition to his regular wages, except for suggestions resulting in improvements or economy in the operation of any Government plant. Equipment or material purchased outside of the United States Free admission of imported equipment, etc.from funds appropriated in this Act shall be admitted free of duty. TITLE II.—Nonmilitary activities. NONMILITARY ACTIVITIES OF THE WAR DEPARTMENT Finance DepartmentFinance Department. For amount required to make monthly payments to Jennie Carroll, Jennie Carroll.widow of James Carroll, late major, United States Army, $1,500. 926 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, One hundred and fifty-seventh Indiana Volunteer Infantry, also late of the Hospital Corps, United States Army, $1,200. Quartermaster Corps.Quartermaster Corps National cemeteries.national cemeteries Maintenance.For maintaining and improving national cemeteries, including fuel for superintendents, pay of laborers and other employees, purchase of tools and materials, and including care and maintenance of the Arlington, Va.Arlington Memorial Amphitheater and Chapel and grounds in American cemeteries abroad.the Arlington National Cemetery, Virginia, and permanent American military cemeteries abroad, $400,000. Superintendents.For pay of seventy-six superintendents of national cemeteries, including the superintendent at Mexico City, $83,025. Repairs to roadways.For repairs to roadways to national cemeteries which have been constructed by special authority of Congress, $15,000: *Provided*, That no railroad shall be permitted upon the right of way which may have been acquired by the United States to a national cemetery, or to encroach upon any roads or walks constructed thereon and Restriction on repairs.maintained by the United States: *Provided further*, *Provisos*.Encroachment by railroads forbidden.That no part of this sum shall be used for repairing any roadway not owned by the United States within the corporate limits of any city, town, or village. Limited to one approach.No part of any appropriation for national cemeteries or the repair of roadways thereto shall be expended in the maintenance Headstones for soldiers’, etc., graves.of more than a single approach to any national cemetery. For continuing the work of furnishing headstones of durable stone or other durable material for unmarked graves of Union and Confederate soldiers, sailors, and marines, and soldiers, sailors, and [R. S., sec. 4877, p. 944](/us/rs/s4877/p944)Vol. 20, p. 281; Vol.34, p. 56.marines of all other wars in national, post, city, town, and village cemeteries, naval cemeteries at navy yards and stations of the United States, and other burial places, under the Acts of March 3, 1873, Civilians.February 3, 1879, and March 9, 1906; continuing the work of furnishing Vol. 33, p. 396; Vol. 34, p. 741.headstones for unmarked graves of civilians interred in post cemeteries under the Acts of April 28, 1904, and June 30, 1906; Confederates.and furnishing headstones for the unmarked graves of Confederate soldiers, sailors, and marines in national cemeteries, $85,000, of which Marking burial place of Lt. John Fitch.amount $15,000 shall be expended by the Secretary of War toward erecting a fitting marking of the burial place, at Bardstown, Kentucky, of Lieutenant John Fitch, soldier and inventor. Antietam battlefield, Md.For repair and preservation of monuments, tablets, observation Preservation, etc.tower, roads, and fences, and so forth, made and constructed by the United States upon public lands within the limits of the Superintendent.Antietam battle field, near Sharpsburg, Maryland, and for pay of superintendent, said superintendent to perform his duties under the direction of the Quartermaster Corps and to be selected and appointed by the Secretary of War, at his discretion, the person selected for this position to be an honorably discharged Union soldier, $6,500. Disposition of remains of officers, etc.Disposition of remains of officers, soldiers, and civilian employees: For interment, cremation (only upon request from relatives of the deceased), or of preparation and transportation to their homes or to such national cemeteries as may be designated by proper authority, in the discretion of the Secretary of War, of the remains of officers, cadets, United States Military Academy, acting assistant surgeons, members of the Army Nurse Corps, and enlisted men in 927active service, and accepted applicants for enlistment; for interment or preparation and transportation to their homes of the remains of civilian employees of the Army in the employ of the War Department who die abroad, in Alaska, in the Canal Zone, or on Army transports, or who die while on duty in the field; for interment of military prisoners who die at military posts; for the interment and shipment to their homes of remains of enlisted men who are discharged in hospitals in the United States and continue as inmates of said hospitals to the date of their death; for interment of prisoners of war and interned alien enemies who die at prison camps in the United States; for removal of remains from abandoned posts to Removal from abandoned posts, etc.permanent military posts or national cemeteries, including the remains of Federal soldiers, sailors, or marines interred in fields, abandoned graves, or abandoned private and city cemeteries; and in Reimbursement to individuals.any case where the expenses of burial or shipment of the remains of officers or enlisted men of the Army who die on the active list, are borne by individuals, where such expenses would have been lawful claims against the Government, reimbursement to such individuals may be made of the amount allowed by the Government for such services out of this sum, but no reimbursement shall be made of such expenses incurred prior to July 1, 1910; for expenses of the American cemeteries in Great Britain and France.*Proviso*.Retired officers and enlisted men on active duty included.segregation of bodies in permanent American cemeteries in Great Britain and France, $90,000: *Provided*, That the above provisions shall be applicable in the cases of officers and enlisted men on the retired list of the Army who have died or may hereafter die while on active duty by proper assignment. Confederate Mound, Oakwood Cemetery, Chicago, Illinois:Confederate Mound, Chicago, 111.For care, protection, and maintenance of the plat of ground known as “Confederate Mound ” in Oakwood Cemetery, Chicago, Illinois, $500. For care, protection, and maintenance of Confederate Stockade Confederate Stockade, Ohio.Cemetery, Johnstons Island, in Sandusky Bay, Ohio, $350. Confederate burial plats: For care, protection, and maintenance Confederate burial plats.of Confederate burial plats, owned by the United States, located and known by the following designations: Confederate Cemetery, North Alton, Illinois; Confederate Cemetery, Camp Chase, Columbus, Ohio; Confederate section, Greenlawn Cemetery, Indianapolis, Indiana; Confederate Cemetery, Point Lookout, Maryland; and Confederate Cemetery, Rock Island, Illinois, $1,250.Little Rock, Ark. Burial of deceased indigent patients: For burying in the Burial of Hot Springs Hospital patients in national cemetery at.Little Rock (Arkansas) National Cemetery, including transportation thereto, indigent ex-soldiers, ex-sailors, or ex-marines of the United States service, either Regular or Volunteer, who have been honorably discharged or retired and who die while patients at the Army and Navy General Hospital, Hot Springs, Arkansas, to be disbursed at a cost not exceeding $35 for such burial expenses in each case, exclusive of cost of grave, $100. For repairs and preservation of monuments, tablets, roads, fences, Burial places in Cuba and China.and so forth, made and constructed by the United States in Cuba and China to mark the places where American soldiers fell, $1,000. National Military ParksMilitary Parks. chickamauga and chattanooga national military parkChickamauga and Chattanooga. For continuing the establishment of the park; compensation and Continuing establishment of, etc.expenses of the superintendent, maps, surveys, clerical and other assistance; maintenance, repair, and operation of one motor-propelled and one horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicle; office and all other necessary expenses; foundations for State monuments; mowing; historical tablets, iron and bronze; iron gun carriages; roads 928and their maintenance; purchase of small tracts of lands heretofore authorized by law, $58,265. Memorials, etc., allowed Spanish War veterans who were encamped therein.Vol. 29, p. 21.Notwithstanding the restrictive provisions of the Act of February 26, 1896 (Twenty-ninth Statutes, page 21), the Secretary of War is authorized in his discretion to permit without cost to the United States the erection of monuments or memorials to commemorate encampments of Spanish War organizations which were encamped in said park during the period of the Spanish-American War. Gettysburg.gettysburg national military park Continuing establishment of, etc.For continuing the establishment of the park; acquisition of lands, surveys, and maps; constructing, improving, and maintaining avenues, roads, and bridges thereon; fences and gates; marking the lines of battle with tablets and guns, each tablet bearing a brief legend giving historic facts and compiled without censure and without praise; preserving the features of the battle field and the monuments thereon; compensation of superintendent, clerical and other services, expenses, and labor; purchase and preparation of tablets and gun carriages and placing them in position; maintenance, repair, and operation of a motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicle, and all other expenses incident to the foregoing, $53,600. Guilford Courthouse.guilford courthouse national military park Continuing establishment of, etc.Vol. 39, p. 996.For continuing the establishment of a national military park at the battle field of Guilford Courthouse, in accordance with the Act entitled “An Act to establish a national military park at the battle field of Guilford Courthouse,” approved March 2, 1917, $9,640. Shiloh.shiloh national military park Continuing establishment of, etc.For continuing the establishment of the park; compensation of superintendent of the park; clerical and other services; labor; historical tablets; maps and surveys; roads; purchase and transportation of supplies, implements, and materials; foundations for monuments; office and other necessary expenses, including maintenance, repair, and operation of one motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicle; in all, $24,000. Vicksburg.vicksburg national military park Continuing establishment of, etc.For continuing the establishment of the park; compensation of civilian commissioners; clerical and other services, labor, iron gun carriages, mounting of siege guns, memorials, monuments, markers, and historical tablets giving historical facts, compiled without praise and without censure; maps, surveys, roads, bridges, restoration of earthworks, purchase of lands, purchase and transportation of supplies and materials; and other necessary expenses, $24,000. Signal Corps.SIGNAL CORPS Washington-Alaska cable, etc.washington-alaska military cable and telegraph system Operation, etc.For defraying the cost of such extensions, betterments, operation, and maintenance of the Washington-Alaska Military Cable and Telegraph System as may be approved by the Secretary of War, to be available until the close of the fiscal year 1927, from the receipts of the Washington-Alaska Military Cable and Telegraph System which have been covered into the Treasury of the United States, the 929extent of such extensions and betterments and the cost thereof to be reported to Congress by the Secretary of War, $150,900. Medical DepartmentMedical Department. Artificial limbs: For furnishing artificial limbs and apparatus, Artificial limbs.or commutation therefor, and necessary transportation, $30,000. Appliances for disabled soldiers: For furnishing surgical appliances Surgical appliances.to persons disabled in the military or naval service of the United States prior to April 6, 1917, and not entitled to artificial limbs or trusses for the same disabilities, $750.Trusses. Trusses for disabled soldiers: For trusses for persons entitled[R. S., sec. 1176, p. 211](/us/rs/s1176/p211).thereto under section 1176, Revised Statutes of the United States, and the Act amendatory thereof, approved March 3, 1879, $1,000.Vol. 20, p. 353. medical and surgical history of the world warMedical and Surgical History of World War.Preparation of. Toward the preparation for publication under the direction of the Secretary of War of a medical and surgical history of the war with Germany, including personal services, $19,700. Corps of EngineersEngineer Corps. building and grounds in and around the district of columbiaBuildings and grounds, D. C. For improvement, care, and maintenance of grounds of executive Care, etc., executive departments.departments, $1,000.Washington Monument. Washington Monument: For pay of employees, $8,780.Employees.Operating expenses. For power, fuel, lights, oil, waste, packing, tools, matches, paints, brushes, brooms, lanterns, rope, nails, screws, lead, electric lights, heating apparatus, oil stoves for elevator car and upper and lower floors; repairs of all kinds connected with the Monument and machinery; and purchase of all necessary articles for keeping the Monument, machinery, and elevator in good order, $6,000.Sunday opening. For extra services of employees and for additional supplies and materials, to provide for the opening of the Monument to the public on Sundays and legal holidays, $2,500. For purchasing and supplying uniforms to the three watchmen, Uniforms.two floormen, and the elevator conductor at the Washington Monument, $480. Lincoln Memorial: For pay of employees, $7,140; heat, light, repairs, Lincoln Memorial.Operating expenses.miscellaneous labor, and supplies, $3,910; extra services of employees and additional supplies and materials to provide for opening the Lincoln Memorial to the public on Sundays and legal holidays, $1,750; for purchasing and supplying uniforms to the three Lincoln Memorial watchmen, $240; in all, $13,040. Building where Abraham Lincoln died: For painting and miscellaneous Lincoln’s deathplace.repairs, $240. Birthplace of George Washington, Wakefield, Virginia: For Washington’s birth-place.Watchmen.watchmen for the care of the monument and dock at Wakefield, Virginia, the birthplace of Washington, $480. For construction of a road and improvement and maintenance of Road construction, etc.reservation and monument at Wakefield. Virginia, the birthplace of Washington, $12,600. california debris commissionCalifornia Debris Commission. For defraying the expenses of the commission in carrying on the Expenses.Vol. 27, p. 507.work authorized by the Act approved March 1, 1893, $15,565. 930 Alaska.construction and maintenance of road, bridge, and trails, alaska Roads, bridges, trails, etc., in.For the construction, repair, and maintenance of roads, tramways, ferries, bridges, and trails, Territory of Alaska, to be expended underConstruction, etc., expenses under road commissioners.Vol. 34, p. 192.the direction of the Board of Road Commissioners described in section 2 of an Act entitled “An Act to provide for the construction and maintenance of roads, the establishment and maintenance of schools, and the care and support of insane persons in the District of Alaska, and for other purposes,” approved January 27, 1905, as amended by the Act approved May 14, 1906, and to be expended conformably to the provisions of said Act as amended, $900,000, to be immediately Incurring obligations authorized for fiscal years prior to appropriations.available. Hereafter when an appropriation for this purpose for any fiscal year shall not have been made prior to the 1st day of March preceding the beginning of such fiscal year, the Secretary of War may authorize the Board of Road Commissioners to incur obligations for this purpose of not to exceed 75 per centum of the appropriation for this purpose for the fiscal year then current, payment of these obligations to be made from the appropriation for the new fiscal year when it becomes available. Rivers and harbors.rivers and harbors Appropriations immediately available.To be immediately available and to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War and the supervision of the Chief of Engineers: Preserving, constructing, etc., authorized projects.For the preservation and maintenance of existing river and harbor works, and for the prosecution of such projects heretofore authorized as may be most desirable in the interests of commerce and navigation; Boundary waters survey.for survey of northern and northwestern lakes, Lake of the Woods, and other boundary and connecting waters between the said lake and Lake Superior, Lake Champlain, and the natural navigable waters embraced in the navigation system of the New York canals, including all necessary expenses for preparing, correcting, extending, printing, binding, and issuing charts and bulletins and of investigating New York Harbor deposits.lake levels with a view to their regulation; and for the prevention of obstructive and injurious deposits within the harbor and adjacent waters of New York City, for pay of inspectors, deputy inspectors, crews, and office force, and for maintenance of patrol fleet and expenses of office, $40,000,000. Examinations, etc.For examinations, surveys, and contingencies of rivers and harbors *Proviso*.Limited to authorizations.for which there may be no special appropriation, $275,000: *Provided*, That no part of this sum shall be expended for any preliminary examination, survey, project, or estimate not authorized by law. Muscle Shoals.muscle shoals Continuing work on Dam No. 2, Tennessee River.Vol. 42, p. 1421.*Ante*, p. 516.For the continuation of the work on Dam Numbered 2 on the Tennessee River at Muscle Shoals, Alabama, $3,040,390, to be immediately available, and to apply on the contract authorization for this project carried in the War Department Appropriation Acts for the fiscal years 1924 and 1925. Flood control.flood control Mississippi River.Vol. 39, p. 948; Vol. 42, p. 1505.Flood control, Mississippi River: For prosecuting work of flood control in accordance with the provisions of the Flood Control Acts approved March 1, 1917, and March 4, 1923, $10,000,000. Sacramento River, Calif.Vol. 39, p. 948.Flood control, Sacramento River, California: For prosecuting work of flood control in accordance with the provisions of the Flood Control Act approved March 1, 1917, $500,000. 931 National Home for Disabled Volunteer SoldiersNational Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers.Support. For support of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, as follows: Central Branch, Dayton, Ohio: Current expenses: For pay Dayton, Ohio.Current expenses.of officers and noncommissioned officers of the home, with such exceptions as are hereinafter noted, and their clerks, weighmasters, and orderlies; chaplains, religious instruction, and entertainment for the members of the home, printers, bookbinders, librarians, musicians, telegraph and telephone operators, guards, janitors, watchmen, fire company, and property and materials purchased for their use, including repairs; articles of amusement, library books, magazines, papers, pictures, musical instruments, and repairs not done by the home; stationery, advertising, legal advice, payments due heirs of deceased members: *Provided*, That all receipts on account of the *Proviso*.Receipts from deceased members.effects of deceased members during the fiscal year shall also be available for such payments; and for such other expenditures as can not properly be included under other heads of expenditure, $85,000. Subsistence: For pay of commissary sergeants, commissary clerks, Subsistence.porters, laborers, bakers, cooks, dishwashers, waiters, and others em-ployed in the subsistence department; food supplies purchased for the subsistence of the members of the home and civilian employees regularly employed and residing at the branch, freight, preparation, and serving; aprons, caps, and jackets for kitchen and dining-room employees; tobacco; dining-room and kitchen furniture and utensils; bakers’ and butchers’ tools and appliances, and their repair not dona by the home, $435,000. Household: For furniture for officers’ quarters; bedsteads, bedding, Household.bedding material, and all other articles, including repairs, required in the quarters of the members and of civilian employees permanently employed and residing at the branch; fuel; water; engineers and firemen, bathhouse keepers, janitors, laundry employees, and for all labor, materials, and appliances required for household use, and repairs, if not repaired by the home, $199,800. Hospital: For pay of medical officers and assistant surgeons, matrons, Hospitals.druggists, hospital clerks and stewards, ward masters, nurses, cooks, waiters, readers, drivers, funeral escort, janitors, and for such other services as may be necessary for the care of the sick; burial of the dead; surgical instruments and appliances, medical books, medicine, liquors, fruits, and other necessaries for the sick not purchased under subsistence; bedsteads, bedding, and all other special articles necessary for the wards; hospital furniture, including special articles and appliances for hospital kitchen and dining room; carriage, hearse, stretchers, coffins; and for all repairs to hospital furniture and appliances not done by the home, $360,700. Transportation: For transportation of members of the home,Transportation. $1,000. Repairs: For pay of chief engineer, builders, blacksmiths, carpenters, Repairs.painters, gas fitters, electrical workers, plumbers, tinsmiths, steam fitters, stone and brick masons, and laborers, and for all appliances and materials used under this head; and repairs of roads and other improvements of a permanent character, $85,000: *Provided*, *Proviso*.New buildings forbidden.That no part of the appropriation for repairs for any of the branch homes shall be used for the construction of any new building. Farm: For pay of farmer, chief gardener, harness makers, farm Farm.hands, gardeners, horseshoers, stablemen, teamsters, dairymen, herders, and laborers; tools, appliances, and materials required for farm, garden, and dairy work; grain and grain products, hay, straw, fertilizers, seed, carriages, wagons, carts, and other conveyances; animals purchased for stock or work (including animals in the park); 932gasoline; materials, tools, and labor for flower garden, lawn, park, and cemetery; and construction of roads and walks, and repairs not done by the home, $28,000. In all, Central Branch, $1,194,500. Specified expenses at branches.For “Current Expenses,” “Subsistence,” “Household,” “Hospital,” “Transportation,” “Repairs,” and “Farm,” at the following branches, including the same objects respectively specified herein under each of such heads for the Central Branch, namely: Milwaukee, Wis.Northwestern Branch, Milwaukee, Wisconsin: Current expenses, $71,000; subsistence, $300,000; household, $152,000; hospital, $289,000; transportation, $500; repairs, $52,000; farm, $15,000; in all, Northwestern Branch, $879,500. Togus, Me.Eastern Branch, Togus, Maine: Current expenses, $58,500; subsistence, $105,000; household, $101,000; hospital, $65,000; transportation, $500; repairs, $31,000; farm, $25,000; in all, Eastern Branch, $386,000. Hampton, Va.Southern Branch, Hampton, Virginia: Current expenses, $66,000; subsistence, $250,000; household, $127,000; hospital, $155,000; transportation, $1,000; repairs, $50,000; farm, $15,000; in all, Southern Branch, $664,000. Leavenworth, Kans.Western Branch, Leavenworth, Kansas: Current expenses, $71,800; subsistence, $230,000; household, $140,000; hospital, $140,000; transportation, $500; repairs, $50,500; farm, $26,200; in all, Western Branch, $659,000. Santa Monica, Calif.Pacific Branch, Santa Monica, California: Current expenses, $83,000; subsistence, $469,000; household, $131,000; hospital, $352,800; transportation, $1,000; repairs, $67,000; farm, $32,200; in all, Pacific Branch, $1,136,000. Marion, Ind.Marion Branch, Marion, Indiana: Current expenses, $57,000; subsistence, $252,000; household, $103,000; hospital, $304,500; transportation, $1,000; repairs, $52,000; farm, $19,000; in all, Marion Branch, $788,500. Danville, Ill.Danville Branch, Danville, Illinois: Current expenses, $67,500; subsistence, $209,770; household, $114,500; hospital, $107,450; transportation, $500; repairs, $51,000; farm, $14,780; in all, Danville Branch, $565,500. Johnson City, Tenn.Mountain Branch, Johnson City, Tennessee: Current expenses, $57,000; subsistence, $280,000; household, $100,000; hospital, $275,200; transportation, $500; repairs, $50,000; farm, $34,300; in all, Mountain Branch, $797,000. Hot Springs, S. Dak.Battle Mountain Sanitarium, Hot Springs, South Dakota: Current expenses, $41,000; subsistence, $81,550; household, $62,200; hospitals, $82,650; transportation, $500; repairs, $19,100; farm, $5,200; in all, Battle Mountain Sanitarium, $292,200. Clothing, all branches.For clothing for all branches; labor, materials, machines, tools, and appliances employed and for use in the tailor shops and shoe shops, or other home shops in which any kind of clothing is made or repaired, $160,000. Board of managers.Salaries and expenses.Board of managers: President, $4,000; secretary, $500; general treasurer, who shall not be a member of the board of managers, $5,000; chief surgeon, $4,500; assistant general treasurer, $3,500; inspector general, $3,500; clerical services for the offices of the president, general treasurer, chief surgeon, and inspector general, $19,500; clerical services for managers, $2,700; traveling expenses of the board of managers, their officers and employees, including officers of branch homes when detailed on inspection work, $14,000; outside relief, $100; legal services, medical examinations, stationery, telegrams and other incidental expenses, $1,700; in all. $59,000. Total, National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, $7,581,200. 933 State and Territorial homes for disabled soldiers and sailors: For State or Territorial homes.continuing aid to State or Territorial homes for the support of disabled Continuing aid to.volunteer soldiers, in conformity with the Act approved August 27, 1888, as amended, including all classes of soldiers admissible to the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, $640,000: *Provided*, *Proviso*.Collections from inmates.That for any sum or sums collected in any manner from inmates of such State or Territorial homes to be used for the support of said homes a like amount shall be deducted from the aid herein provided for, but this proviso shall not apply to any State or Territorial home into which the wives or widows of soldiers are admitted and maintained. The Panama CanalPanama Canal. The limitations on the expenditure of appropriations hereinbeforeLimitations not applicable to appropriations for.made in this Act shall not apply to the appropriations for the Panama Canal. For every expenditure requisite for and incident to the maintenance All expenses.and operation, sanitation, and civil government of the Panama Objects specified.Canal and Canal Zone, including the following: Compensation of all officials and employees, foreign and domestic newspapers and periodicals; law books not exceeding $500; textbooks and books of reference; printing and binding, including printing of annual report; rent and personal services in the District of Columbia; purchase or exchange of typewriting, adding, and other machines; purchase or exchange, maintenance, repair, and operation of motor-propelled and horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles; claims for Claims for damages, etc.damages to vessels passing through the locks of the Panama Canal, as authorized by the Panama Canal Act; claims for losses of or damages to property arising from the conduct of authorized business operations; claims for damages to property arising from the maintenance and operation, sanitation, and civil government of the Panama Canal; acquisition of land and land under water, as authorized in the Panama Canal Act; expenses incurred in assembling, Disposal of unserviceable materials, etc.assorting, storing, repairing, and selling material, machinery, and equipment heretofore or hereafter purchased or acquired for the construction of the Panama Canal which are unserviceable or no longer needed, to be reimbursed from the proceeds of such sales; expenses incident to conducting hearings and examining estimates for appropriations on the Isthmus; expenses incident to any emergency arising because of calamity by flood, fire, pestilence, or like character not foreseen or otherwise provided for herein; per diem allowance in lieu of subsistence when prescribed by the Governor of Per diem subsistence.the Panama Canal to persons engaged in field work or traveling on official business, pursuant to section 13 of the Sundry Civil Appropriation Vol. 38, p. 680.Act approved August 1, 1914; and for such other expenses not in the United States as the Governor of the Panama Canal may deem necessary best to promote the maintenance and operation, sanitation, and civil government of the Panama Canal, all to be expended under the direction of the Governor of the Panama Canal and accounted for as follows: For maintenance and operation of the Panama Canal: Salary Maintenance and operation.Governor.of the governor, $10,000; purchase, inspection, delivery, handling, and storing of material, supplies, and equipment for issue to all departments Purchase of supplies, etc.of the Panama Canal, the Panama Railroad, other branches of the United States Government, and for authorized sales, payment Payment to alien cripples.Vol. 39, p. 750.in lump sums of not exceeding the amounts authorized by the Injury Compensation Act approved September 7, 1916, to alien cripples who are now a charge upon the Panama Canal by reason of injuries sustained while employed in the construction of the Panama Canal; 934Power plant, Miraflores.Additional from receipts.and including $710,000 for the completion of new power plant at Miraflores; in all, $7,140,000, together with all moneys arising from the conduct of business operations authorized by the Panama Canal Sanitation, etc.For sanitation, quarantine, hospitals, and medical aid and support of the insane and of lepers and aid and support of indigent persons legally within the Canal Zone, including expenses of their deportation Artificial limbs for injured employees.when practicable, and the purchase of artificial limbs or other appliances for indigent persons who were injured in the service of the Isthmian Canal Commission or the Panama Canal prior to September 7, 1916, and including additional compensation to any officer of the United States Public Health Service detailed with the Panama Canal as chief quarantine officer, $653,216. Civil government expenses.For civil government of the Panama Canal and Canal Zone, including salaries of district judge, $7,500; district attorney, $5,000; marshal, $5,000; and gratuities and necessary clothing for indigent discharged prisoners, $942,150. Available until expended.Purchases from Army surplus stocks.Total, Panama Canal, $8,735,366, to be available until expended. The Governor of the Panama Canal, so far as the expenditure of appropriations contained in this Act may be under his direction, shall, when it is more economical, purchase needed materials, supplies, and equipment from available surplus stocks of the War Department. Money from designated sources, credited to original appropriations.In addition to the foregoing sums there is appropriated for the fiscal year 1926 for expenditures and reinvestment under the several heads of appropriation aforesaid, without being covered into the Treasury of the United States, all moneys received by the Panama Canal from services rendered or materials and supplies furnished to the United States, the Panama Railroad Company, the Canal Zone government, or to their employees, respectively, or to the Panama Government, from hotel and hospital supplies and services; from rentals, wharfage, and like service; from labor, materials, and supplies and other services furnished to vessels other than those passing through the canal, and to others unable to obtain the same elsewhere; from the sale of scrap and other byproducts of manufacturing and shop operations; from the sale of obsolete and unserviceable materials, supplies, and equipment purchased or acquired for the operation, maintenance, protection, sanitation.Net profits to be covered into the Treasury. and government of the canal and Canal Zone; and any net profits accruing from such business to the Panama Canal shall annually be covered into the Treasury of the United States. Operating waterworks, etc., for Panama and Colon.In addition there is appropriated for the operation, maintenance, and extension of waterworks, sewers, and pavements in the cities of Panama and Colon, during the fiscal year 1926, the necessary portions of such sums as shall be paid as water rentals or directly by the Government of Panama for such expenses. Repeal of appropriations.repeal of appropriations Designated unexpended balances covered into the Treasury.The following unexpended balances or portions of unexpended balances or combined unexpended balances or combined portions of unexpended balances of appropriations for the support of the military and nonmilitary activities of the War Department and for other purposes shall be carried to the surplus fund and be covered into the Treasury immediately upon the approval of this Act: Medals of honor for distinguished services, $825.86; reimbursement to military police, expenses incurred under Draft Act, $38,389.39; inland and port storage and shipping facilities, $8,391,750.22; temporary office buildings, War Department, $33,319.67; temporary office buildings, War and Navy Departments, $12,523.49; claims for damages to and loss of private property by explosion and 935fire, plant of T. A. Gillespie Company, Morgan, New Jersey, $5,863.65; evacuation of ordnance depots, $152,893.11; ordnance material (proceeds of sale), $500,000; field artillery for Organized Militia, $3,248.30; encampments and maneuvers, Organized Militia, Act July 8, 1912, $38,050.19; memorial archway at Vicksburg, Mississippi, $54.33; national memorial celebration and peace jubilee, Vicksburg, Mississippi, $5,583.04; reimbursement to officers and men of the Army for losses fighting fires on national forests, $2,257.91; transportation for refugee American citizens from Mexico, $1,640.70; monument in memory of Francis Scott Key and others, Fort McHenry, Baltimore, Maryland, $97.57; re-erection of statue of Abraham Lincoln, $1,010.51; total appropriations recovered, $9,187,507.94. Approved, February 12, 1925.
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