Chapter 291. Making appropriations for the military and nonmilitary activities of the War Department for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1925, and for other purposes
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CHAP. 291.— An Act Making appropriations for the military and nonmilitary activities of the War Department for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1925, and for other purposes. June 7, 1924.[[H. R. 7877](/us/bill/68/hr/7877).][[Public, No. 213](/us/pl/68/213).] *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 478sums 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, 1925, and for other purposes, namely:
TITLE I— MILITARY ACTIVITIES AND OTHER EXPENSES OF THE WAR DEPARTMENT INCIDENT THERETO.Department military activities. Secretary’s Office.office of secretary of war. Secretary, Assistant, and civil personnel.Vol. 42, p. 1488.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,” $204,916; in all, *Provisos*.Restriction on exceeding average salaries.$226,916: *Provided*, That in expending appropriations or portions of appropriations, contained in this Act, tor 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 or class thereof in any bureau, office, or other appropriation unit, shall not at any time exceed the average of the Not applicable to clerical mechanical service.No reduction required.compensation rates specified for the grade by such Act: *Provided*, That this restriction shall not apply
(1)to grades 1, 2, 3, and 4 of the clerical-mechanical service, or
(2)to require the reduction in salary of any person whose compensation is fixed, as of July 1, 1924, Vol. 42, p. 1490.Higher salary rates allowed.in accordance with the rules of section 6 of such Act, or
(3)to prevent the payment of a salary under 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 expeses, war department. Department contingent expenses.For purchase of professional and scientific books, law books, including 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 Automobile for Secretary.purposes; for the purchase or exchange and maintenance and repair of a passenger-carrying automobile for the official use of the Secretary of War (not to exceed $5,000); 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, $109,810. Stationery.For stationery for the department and its bureaus and offices, $72,500. Postage.For postage stamps for the department and its bureaus, as required under the Postal Union, to prepay postage on matters addressed to Postal Union countries, $250. Printing and binding.For printing and binding for the War Department, its bureaus and offices, and for all printing and binding for the field activities under the War Department, except such as may be authorized in accordance with existing law to be done elsewhere than at the *Proviso*.Medical bulletin.Government Printing Office, $600,000: *Provided*, That the sum of $3,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, may be used for the publica-479tion, from time to time, of bulletins prepared under the direction of the Surgeon General of the Army, for the instruction of medical officers, when approved by the Secretary of War, and not exceeding $75,000 shall be available for printing and binding under the direction For Chief of Engineers.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, $68,540: *Provided*, That *Provisos*.Sale of war supplies, adjusting claims, etc.not to exceed $49,040 of the money herein appropriated shall be expended for the payment of salaries of civilian employees connected with the sale of war supplies and the adjustment of war contracts and claims: *Provided further*, That none of the funds Transfer of surplus property to other activities restricted.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: *Provided further*, That the amount expended Advertising sales limited.or obligated for advertising sales of surplus War Department property during the fiscal year 1925 shall not exceed $50,000: *Provided further*, Payments to auctioneers restricted.That no auctioneer shall be paid more than $100 per day out of any money appropriated by this Act for services rendered. General Staff Corps.General Staff Corps. contingencies, military intelligence division.Intelligence Division. For contingent expenses of the Military Intelligence Division, Contingent expenses.General Staff Corps, and of the military attachés 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 attachés; for the hire of interpreters, special agents, and guides, and for such other purposes as the Secretary of War may deem proper, including $5,000 for the actual and necessary expenses of officers of the Army on Observing military operations of foreign armies.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 War: *Provided*, That section 3648, Revised Statutes, *Proviso*.Periodicals, etc.[R. S., sec. 3648, p. 718](/us/rs/s3648/p718).shall apply neither to subscriptions for foreign and professional newspapers and periodicals nor to other payments made from this appropriation in compliance with the laws of foreign countries under which the military attachés are required to operate. Salaries, Office of Chief of Staff: For personal services in the Civil personnel, Office of Chief of Staff.District of Columbia in accordance with “The Classification Act of 1923,” $220,300. 480 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 when necessary, binding, maps, technical books of reference, professional and technical newspapers and periodicals, payment for which may be made in advance, and police utensils, to be allotted by the Secretary of War, and to be expended in the discretion of the commanding officers of the several military departments, corps areas, districts, armies, and tactical commands, $5,000. 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 Employees, etc.expenses of special lecturers; for the pay of employees; and for all other absolutely necessary expenses, $60,540. Fort Leavenworth, Kans.the command and general staff school, fort leavenworth, kansas. Instruction expenses, Command and General Stall School.For the purchase of textbooks, books of reference, scientific and professional papers, instruments, and material for instruction; employment of temporary, technical, special, and clerical services; and for other necessary expenses of instruction, at the Command and General Staff School, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, $45,000. Post exchanges.military post exchanges. Maintenance, etc.For continuing the construction, equipment, and maintenance of suitable buildings at military posts and stations, for the conduct of the post exchange, school, reading, lunch, and amusement rooms; for the conduct and maintenance of libraries, service clubs, chapels, Recreation buildings.and gymnasiums, including repairs to buildings erected at private Vol. 32, p. 282.cost, in the operation of the Act approved May 31, 1902, and including salaries and travel for civilians employed in the hostess and library services, and for transportation of books and equipment for these services; for the rental of films, purchase of slides for and making repairs to moving-picture outfits and for similar and other recreational purposes at training and mobilization camps now established, or which may be hereafter established, $87,800. Adjutant General’s Office.adjutant general’s office. Civilian personnel.Salaries: For personal services in the District of Columbia in accordance with “The Classification Act of 1923,” $1,399,592: 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. Inspector General’s Office.office of the inspector general. Civilian personnel.Salaries: For personal services in the District of Columbia in accordance with “The Classification Act of 1923,” $25,620. 481 office of the judge advocate general.Judge Advocate General’s Office. Salaries: For personal services in the District of Columbia in accordance Civilian personnel.with “The Classification Act of 1923,” $62,820. Finance Department.Finance Department. pay, and so forth, of the army.Pay of Army, etc. Pay of officers: For pay of officers of the line and staff, $30.338,000: Officers.*Provided*, That hereafter upon the presentation of satisfactory *Proviso*.Discharge of minors enlisting after July 1, 1924, without consent of parent, etc.evidence as to his age and upon application for discharge by his parent or guardian presented to the Secretary of War within sixty days after the date of his enlistment, any man enlisted after July 1, 1924, in the Army, under twenty-one years of age who was 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. Nothing contained in this Act, or any other Act, shall be construed No commissioned officer of Army, Navy, or Marine Corps deprived of pay while on duty in coordination of Government business.as depriving any commissioned officer of the Army, Navy, or Marine Corps 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 of the Budget. For pay of officers, National Guard, $100.National Guard. For pay of warrant officers, $1,801,680.Warrant officers. For aviation increase to commissioned and warrant officers of the Aviation increase.Army, $1,000,000. For additional pay to officers for length of service, $5,374,830: Longevity.*Provided*, That in computing for any purpose the length of service *Proviso*.Time at Military or Naval Academy after August 24, 1912, not counted.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. Pay of enlisted men: For pay of enlisted men of the line and Enlisted men.staff, not including the Philippine Scouts, $51,887,415: *Provided*, *Provisos*.Clarence J. Vaughan.That the Secretary of War is authorized in his discretion to make payment from this appropriation of the balance of $12 due as pay to Clarence J. Vaughan, Marquette, Michigan: *Provided further*, Authorized numerical strength.That the total authorized number of enlisted men, not including the Philippine Scouts, shall be one hundred and twenty-five thousand. For pay of enlisted men of National Guard, $100.National Guard. For aviation increase to enlisted men of the Army, $250,000: *Provided*, Aviation increase.*Proviso*.Number limited.That this appropriation shall not be available for increased pay on flying status to more than seven hundred enlisted men. For pay of the enlisted men of the Philippine Scouts, $1,170,432.Philippine Scouts. For additional pay for length of service to enlisted men, $2,130,497.Longevity. Pay of persons with retired status: For pay of the officers on Retired list.the retired list, $7,032,337.Officers. For increased pay to retired officers on active duty, $214,470.Officers on active duty. For pay of retired enlisted men, $7,602,053.Enlisted men. For increased pay and allowances of retired enlisted men on active Enlisted men on active duty.duty, $15,750. For pay of retired pay clerks, $13,500.Pay clerks. For pay of retired veterinarians, $3,570.Veterinarians. Pay of Army field clerks and civil service messengers at head-quarters Headquarters of territorial departments, corps areas, etc.of the several territorial departments, corps areas, Army and corps headquarters, territorial districts, tactical divisions and ports of embarka-482Army field clerks, etc., at.tion 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-eight at $1,200 each; sixty-five messengers at $720 each; in all, $382,800. Assignment to Department duty forbidden.No clerk, messenger, or laborer at headquarters of tactical divisions, military departments, brigades, service schools, and office of the Chief of Stall shall be assigned to duty in any bureau of the War Department. Contract surgeons.Miscellaneous: For pay and allowances of contract surgeons, $41,100. Nurses.For pay of nurses, $720,460. 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. Rental allowances.For rental allowances, including allowances for quartets for enlisted men on duty where public quarters are not available, $6,150,000. Subsistence allowances.Soldiers’ interest.For subsistence allowances, $5,135,966. For interest on soldiers’ deposits, $100,000. Loss by exchange.For payment of exchange by officers serving in foreign countries, and when specially authorized by the Secretary of War, by officers disbursing funds pertaining to the War Department when serving in Alaska and all foreign money received shall be charged to and paid out by disbursing officers of the Army at the legal valuation fixed by the Secretary of the Treasury, $5,000. Officers furnishing mounts.For additional pay to officers below the grade of major required to be mounted and who furnish their own mounts, $75,000. Accounting and disbursing as one fund.All the money hereinbefore appropriated for pay of the Army and miscellaneous shall be disbursed and accounted for as pay of the *Proviso*.Restriction on employing additional per-sons.Army, and for that purpose shall constitute one fund: *Provided*, That under this provision no amount shall be used for the employment of any additional persons over the number for which the specific appropriations herein provide. Pay forbidden to retired officer selling supplies to Army. etc.None of the money appropriated in this Act shall be used to pay 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, Officers retiring before age of 64 employed by parties making direct sales to Department or Army.or munitions. None of the money appropriated in this Act shall be 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.mileage of the army. Officers, etc.For mileage, reimbursement of actual traveling expenses, or per diem allowances in lieu thereof, as authorized by law, to commissioned officers, warrant officers, contract surgeons, expert accountant, Inspector General’s Department, Army field clerks and field clerks of the Quartermaster Corps, when authorized by law, $1,000,000. Finance Service.finance service. Pay of clerks, etc.*Proviso*.For compensation of clerks and other employees of the Finance Department, $1,454,000: *Provided*, That $500,000 of this amount 483shall be available only for the compensation and traveling expenses Auditing World War contracts.of clerks and other employees engaged on work pertaining to the audit of World War contracts, and of this amount not to exceed $25,000 shall be available, for personal services in the office of the Personal services in Department office.Chief of Finance, War Department. claims for damages to and loss of private property.Private property damages, etc. For payment of claims of not to exceed $500 in amount for damages Payment of claims for.to and loss of private property incident to the training, practice, operation, or maintenance of the Army that have accrued, or may hereafter accrue, from time to time, $25,000: *Provided*, That settlement *Proviso*.Settlement through General Accounting Office.of such claims shall be made by the General Accounting Office, upon the approval and recommendation of the Secretary of War, where the amount of damages has been ascertained by the War Department, and payment thereof will be accepted by the owners of the property in full satisfaction of such damages. claims of officers, enlisted men, and nurses of the army for destruction of private property.Destruction of private property of officers, etc. For the payment of claims of officers, enlisted men, and nurses of Payment of claims for, in the service.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, $50,000.Vol. 41, p. 1436. office of the chief of finance.Office of Chief of Finance. Salaries: For personal services in the District of Columbia in Civilian personnel.accordance with “The Classification Act of 1923,” $318,720. Quartermaster Corps.Quartermaster Corps. Subsistence of the Army: Purchase of subsistence supplies: For Subsistence.Purchase of supplies for issue, etc.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 while under observation; for sales to officers, including members of Sales to officers, etc.the Officers’ Reserve Corps while on active duty, and enlisted men of the Army: *Provided*, That the sum of $12,000 is authorized to be *Provisos*.Competitors in national rifle match.expended for supplying meals or furnishing commutation of rations to enlisted men of the Regular Army and the National Guard while competitors in the national rifle match: *Provided further*, That no Ration restrictions.competitor shall be entitled to commutation of rations in excess of $1.50 per day, and when meals are furnished no greater expense than that sum per man per day for the period the contest is in progress shall be incurred. For payments: Of commutation of rations to the Payments.Commutation of rations, etc.cadets of the United States Military Academy in lieu of the regular established ration; of the regulation allowances of commutation in lieu of rations to enlisted men on furlough, enlisted men when stationed at places where rations in kind can not be economically issued, including retired enlisted men when ordered to active duty, and when traveling on detached duty where it is impracticable to carry 484rations 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 paid to the surgeon in charge; Advertising, prizes for bakers, cooks, etc.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, testing, care, preservation, issue, sale, and accounting for subsistence supplies for the Army; in all. $12,975,273. Restriction on prices at sales commissaries.None of the funds appropriated in this Act shall be used for the payment of expenses of operating sales commissaries other than in Alaska, Philippine Islands, and China, at which the prices charged do not include the customary overhead costs of freight, handling, Vol. 23, p. 103.storage, and delivery, notwithstanding the provisions of the Act of July 5, 1884. Utilities to include overhead costs of sales of services or supplies.None of the funds appropriated in this Act shall be used for payment of expenses of operating any utility of the War Department selling services or supplies at which the cost of the services or supplies so sold does not include all customary overhead costs of labor, rent, light, heat, and other expenses properly chargeable to the conduct of such utility. Regular quartermaster supplies.Regular supplies of the Army: Regular supplies of the Quartermaster Corps, including their care and protection; construction and repair of military reservation fences: stoves and heating apparatus required for the use of the Army for heating offices, hospitals, barracks and quarters, and recruiting stations, and United States disciplinary barracks; also ranges, stoves, coffee roasters, and appliances for cooking and serving food at posts in the field and when traveling, and repair and maintenance of such heating and cooking appliances: and the necessary power for the operation of moving-picture Heat and light to quarters.machines; authorized issues of candles and matches; for furnishing heat and light for the authorized allowance of quarters for officers, enlisted men, warrant officers, and field clerks, including 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 Recreation buildings, etc.Vol. 32, p. 282.recruits, guards, hospitals, storehouses, offices, the buildings erected at private cost, in the operation of the Act approved May 31, 1902, and buildings for a similar purpose on military reservations Sales to officers.authorized by War Department regulations; for sale to officers, and including also fuel and engine supplies required in the operation of modern Bakeries, ice machines, laundries, etc.batteries at established posts; for post bakeries, including bake ovens and apparatus pertaining thereto and the repair thereof; for ice machines and their maintenance where required for the health and comfort of the troops and for ice for issue to organizations of enlisted men and offices at such places as the Secretary of War may determine, and for preservation of stores; materials for cleaning and preserving ordnance and ordnance stores except at establishments under the direct control of the Chief of Ordnance; for cold storage; for the construction and maintenance of laundries at military posts in the United States and its island possessions; authorized issues of soap, Supplies for schools, etc.toilet paper, and towels; for the necessary furniture, textbooks, paper, and equipment for the post schools and libraries, and for schools for noncommissioned officers; for the purchase and issue of 485instruments, 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, and Forage, etc., tor animals.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 and Philippine Islands, and for labor and expenses incident thereto, including, when specifically authorized by the Secretary of War, the cost of irrigation; for straw for soldiers’ bedding, stationery, typewriters Stationery, printing, etc.and exchange of same, including blank books and blank forms for the Army, certificates for discharged soldiers, and for printing department orders and reports, $12,250,000: *Provided*, That *Proviso*.Camp John Hay, P. I.May sell electric current to Baguio.the sale of surplus electric current from the Camp John Hay electric plant to the city of Baguio, Philippine Islands, is hereby approved and the continuation of such sale under such terms as have been or may hereafter be agreed upon by the Secretary of War and the city of Baguio is authorized. Clothing and equipage: For cloth, woolens, materials, and for Clothing.Purchase, manufacture, etc.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 shops, clothing repair shops, and garbage reduction works; Equipage; toilet articles, etc.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 handling and similar necessaries; for a suit Issue of citizen’s outer clothing, etc.of citizen’s outer clothing, to cost not exceeding $30, to be issued when necessary to each soldier discharged otherwise than honorably, to each enlisted man convicted by civil court for an offense resulting in confinement in a penitentiary or other civil prison, and to each enlisted man ordered interned by reason of the fact that he is an alien enemy, or, for the same reason, discharged without internment; for indemnity to officers and men of the Army for clothing and bedding, Indemnity for destroyed clothing, etc.and so forth, destroyed since April 22, 1898, by order of medical officers of the Army for sanitary reasons, $4,158,637. Incidental expenses of the Army: Postage; hire of laborers in Incidental expenses.the Quartermaster Corps, including the care of officers’ mounts when the same are furnished by the Government; compensation of clerks Civilian employees, etc.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, 486in the discretion of the Secretary of War, be paid to any civil officer or citizen for such services and expenses; for a donation of $10 to each dishonorably discharged prisoner upon his release from confinement under court-martial sentence involving dishonorable discharge; for the operation of coffee-roasting plants; and such additional expenditures as are necessary and authorized by law in the movements and operation of the Army and at military posts, and not expressly assigned to any other department, $4,157,368. 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 therefrom, 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 Transporting dependents, etc.allowances; of dependents 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 *Provisos*.Cost restriction.their homes (or elsewhere as they may elect): *Provided*, That the cost in each case shall not be greater than to the place of last Boats, etc.enlistment; of horse equipment; and of funds for the Army; for the operation and repair of boats and other vessels; for wharfage, tolls, and Vehicles, draft and pack animals, etc.ferriages; for drayage and cartage; for the purchase, hire, operation, maintenance, and repair of harness, wagons, carts, drays, other vehicles, and horse-drawn 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 Travel allowances.animals, including replacement of unserviceable animals; for travel National Guard officers on discharge.allowances to officers and enlisted men on discharge: to officers of National Guard on discharge from Federal service as prescribed in Vol. 31, p. 902.National Guard.Vol. 42, p. 1021.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 Payment to landgrant railroads.of physical disability; in all, $16,500,000: *Provided*, That hereafter payment shall be made at such rates as the Secretary of War shall deem just and reasonable and shall not exceed 50 per centum of the full amount of compensation, computed on the basis of the tariff or lower special rates for like transportation performed for the public at large, for the transportation of property or troops of the United States over any railroad which under land-grant Acts was aided in its construction by a grant of land on condition that said railroad shall be and remain a public highway for the use of the United States, and for which adjustment of compensation is required in accordance with decisions of the Supreme Court construing such land-grant Acts, or over any railroad which was aided in its construction by a grant of land on condition that such railroad should be a post route and military road, subject to such regulations as Congress may impose restricting the charge for such Government transportation, and such payment shall be accepted as in full for all demands for such service. Motor vehicle restriction.No money appropriated by this Act shall be expended for the hire, operation, maintenance, or repair of any motor-propelled vehicle which shall be employed wholly or in part for personal, social, or similar use, except such use as is prescribed by order for the transportation of Army personnel in connection with the recreational activities of the Army. 487 None of the funds appropriated or made available under this Act Motor vehicle purchases restricted.or any of the unexpended balances of any other Act shall be used for the purchase of motor-propelled passenger or freight carrying vehicles for the Army except those that are purchased solely for experimental purposes, and except one automobile for the official For Secretary of War authorized.Exchanges permitted.use of the Secretary of War, and with the further exception that not to exceed $50,000 may be used as part payment in exchange of motor-propelled passenger or freight carrying vehicles. horses for cavalry, artillery, engineers, and so forth.Horses. For the purchase of horses within limits as to age, sex, and size Purchases, etc.to 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 Encouraging breeding of riding horses.purchases (including $150,000 for encouragement of the breeding 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), $1,000,000: *Provided*, That the number of horses purchased under *Provisos*.Number limited.this appropriation shall be limited to the actual needs of the mounted service, including reasonable provision for remounts. When practicable, Open market purchases.horses shall be purchased in open market at all military posts or stations, when needed, within a maximum price to be fixed by the Secretary of War: *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, except when purchased as remounts or for instruction of cadets at the United States Military Academy: *And provided further*, That no Polo ponies limited.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 further*, That the Secretary of Acceptance of donated breeding animals.War may, in his discretion, and under such rules and regulations as he may prescribe, accept donations of animals for breeding and donations of money or other property to be used as prizes or awards at agricultural fairs, horse shows, and similar exhibitions, in order to encourage the breeding of riding horses suitable for Army purposes: *And provided further*, That the Secretary of War shall report annually Report of expenditures.to Congress, at the commencement of each session, a statement of all expenditures under this appropriation, and full particulars of means adopted and carried into effect for the encouragement of the breeding of riding horses suitable for the military service. military posts.Military posts. For the construction and enlargement at military posts of such Construction, etc., of buildings.buildings as in the judgment of the Secretary of War may be necessary, including all appurtenances thereto, $428,332, including $43,332 for improving the heating system at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, Fort Sill, Okla.and $385,000 toward the construction of a barrack building for one Fort Benning, On.Comprehensive plan for permanent construction, etc., at posts.regiment of Infantry at Fort Benning, Georgia, and the Secretary of War is hereby authorized and directed to submit to the Congress at its next session a comprehensive plan for necessary permanent Camp Lewis, Wash., included.construction at military posts, including Camp Lewis in the State of Washington, based on using funds received from the sale of surplus War Department real estate, and for the sale of such *Ante*, p. 386.property now owned by the War Department as, in the opinion of the Secretary of War, is no longer needed for military purposes. 488 military posts, hawaiian islands.Hawaii. Schofield Barracks, Pearl Harbor, etc.For completion of the Ku Tree Reservoir, $150,000; and for completion of joint Army and Navy water supply project, Pearl Harbor Naval Station, Fort Kamehameha, and Ford Island, $74,000; in all $224,000. Panama Canal.military posts, panama canal. Gatun storehouse.For beginning the construction of a storehouse at Gatun, including appurtenances thereto, $557,850. Barracks and quarters.barracks and quarters. Construction, repairs, etc.For construction, repair, and rental of barracks, quarters, 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 Rentals.officers and enlisted men when ordered to active duty; 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; for wall lockers, refrigerators, screen doors, window screens, storm doors and sash, window shades, and flooring and framing for tents, $3,376,014: *Proviso*.Rent for military attachés.*Provided*, That this appropriation shall be available for rental of offices, garages, and stables for military attaches. Philippine Islands.barracks and quarters, philippine islands. Shelter of troops in.Continuing the work of providing for the proper shelter and protection of officers and enlisted men of the Army of the United States lawfully on duty in the Philippine Islands, including repairs and payment of rents, the acquisition of title to building sites, and such additions to existing military reservations as may be necessary, and including also shelter for the animals and supplies and all other buildings necessary for post administration purposes, and for shelter Rentals in China.and repair thereof, and rentals for United States troops in China, *Proviso*.Construction of officers’ quarters limited.$300,000: *Provided*, That no part of the 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, sewers, etc., at posts.Water and sewers at military posts: For procuring and introducing 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 *Proviso*.New construction work limited.thereto; for repairs to water and sewer systems and plumbing; and for hire of employees, $2,109,950: *Provided*, That not to exceed $50,000 of this appropriation shall be expended for new construction work. Roads, wharves, etc.roads, walks, wharves, and drainage Construction, repairs, etc.For the construction and repair by the Quartermaster Corps of roads, walks, and wharves; for the pay of employees; for the disposal of drainage; for dredging channels; and for care and 489improvement of grounds at military posts and stations, $801,942.13: *Provided*, That not to exceed $46,203.13 from this appropriation *Provisos*.Repair, etc., Now Dixie Highway, Camp Knox, Ky.*Post*, p. 695.shall be immediately available for repair it and completion of the New Dixie Highway of approximately nine and three-fourths miles at Camp Knox, Kentucky, constructed by the War Department to divert traffic from the old Dixie Highway, the funds to be expended by the department of public roads of Kentucky: *Provided further*, That none of the funds appropriated or made Cantonments, etc., excluded.available under this Act shall be used for the permanent construction of any new roads, walks, or wharves connected with any of the National Army contonments or National Guard camps. shooting galleries and ranges.Shooting galleries and ranges. For shelter, grounds, observation towers, shooting galleries, ranges Expenses of.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, $37,400. rent of buildings, quartermaster corps.Rent. For rent of buildings and parts of buildings in the District of Buildings in the District.*Proviso*.Restriction.Columbia for military purposes, $58,702: *Provided*, That this appropriation shall not be available if space is provided by the Public Buildings Commission in Government-owned buildings. sewerage system, fort monroe, virginia.Fort Monroe, Va. For repair and maintenance of wharf and apron of wharf, including Wharf.all necessary labor and material therefor, fuel for waiting rooms; water, brooms, and shovels, $18,780; for one-third of said sum, to be supplied by the United States, $6,260. For rakes, shovels, and brooms; repairs to roadway, pavements, Roads.macadam and asphalt block; repairs to street crossings; repairs to street drains, and labor for cleaning roads, $6,819; for two-thirds of said sum to be supplied by the United States, $4,546. For waste, oil, motor and pump repairs, sewer pipe, cement, brick, Sewers, etc.stone, supplies, and personal services, $5,040; for two-thirds of said sum, to be supplied by the United States, $3,360. construction and repair of hospitals.Hospitals. For construction and repair of hospitals at military posts already Construction, repairs, etc.established and occupied, including all expenditures for construction and repairs required at the Army and Navy Hospital at Hot Springs, Arkansas, and for the construction and repair of general hospitals and expenses incident thereto, and for additions needed to meet the requirements of increased garrisons, and for temporary hospitals in Temporary camp hospitals.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, construction and repair of temporary general hospitals, rental or purchase of grounds, and rental and alteration of buildings for use for hospital purposes in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, including necessary temporary quarters for hospital personnel, outbuildings, beating and laundry apparatus, plumbing, water and sewers, and electric work, cooking 490*Proviso*.New construction forbidden.apparatus, and roads and walks for the same, $489,500: *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,” $586,280. Technical experts, etc.In addition to the foregoing employees appropriated for in the office of the Quartermaster General, the services of technical experts 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 *Proviso*.Limit.Army”: *Provided*, That the entire expenditures for this purpose for the fiscal year 1925 shall not exceed $16,300, and there shall lie 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 Corps.Signal Corps. Signal Service.signal service of the army. Telegraph and telephone systems.Purchases, operations, etc.Telegraph and telephone systems: Purchase, equipment, operation, 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 Telephones.and the Signal Corps School, Camp Alfred Vail, New Jersey; telephone apparatus, including rental and payment for commercial, exchange, message, trunk-line, long-distance, and leased-line telephone service at or connecting any post, camp, cantonment, depot, arsenal, headquarters, hospital, aviation station, or other office or station Exception.of the Army, excepting local telephone service for the various bureaus of the War Department in the District of Columbia, and toll messages pertaining to the office of the Secretary of War; electric time service; the rental of commercial telegraph lines and equipment and their operation at or connecting any post, camp, cantonment, depot, arsenal, headquarters, hospital, aviation station, or other office or station of the Army, including payment for official individual Electrical installations at pasts, etc.telegraph messages transmitted over commercial lines; electrical installations and maintenance thereof at military posts, cantonments, camps, and stations of the Army, fire control and direction apparatus and Civilian employees.material for Field Artillery; salaries of civilian employees, including those necessary as instructors at vocational schools; supplies, general repairs, reserve supplies, and other expenses connected with the collecting and transmitting of information for the Army by Experimental research, etc.telegraph or otherwise; experimental investigation, research, purchase and development or improvements in apparatus, and maintenance of signaling and accessories thereto, including patent rights and other rights thereto, including machines, instruments, and other equipment for laboratory and repair purposes; tuition, laboratory fees, and so forth, for Signal Corps officers detailed to civilian technical schools for the purpose, of pursuing technical courses of in-491struction along Signal Corps lines; lease, alteration, and repair of Buildings for supplies, etc. such buildings required for storing or guarding Signal Corps supplies, equipment, and personnel when not otherwise provided for, including the land therefor, the introduction of water, electric light and power, sewerage, grading, roads and walks, and other equipment required. $1,845,970. seacoast defenses, united states.Fire-control operation.Seacoast defenses. For operation and maintenance of fire-control installations at seacoast United States.defenses, $140,000. seacoast defenses, insular possessions. For operation and maintenance of fire-control installations at seacoast Insular possessions.defenses, insular possessions, $25,000. seacoast defenses, panama canal. For operation and maintenance of fire-control installations at seacoast Panama Canal.defenses, Panama Canal, $10,000. office of the chief signal officer.Chief Signal Officer’s Office. Salaries: For personal services in the District of Columbia in Civilian personnel.accordance with “The Classification Act of 1923,” $57,540. The services of skilled draftsmen and such other services as the Draftsmen, etc., paid from other appropriations.Secretary of War may deem necessary may be employed only in the Signal Office to carry into effect the various appropriations for fortifications and other works of defense, and for the Signal Service of the Army, to be paid from such appropriations, in addition to the foregoing employees appropriated for in the Signal Office: *Provided*, *Proviso*.Limit, etc.That the entire expenditures for this purpose for the fiscal year 1925 shall not exceed $40,000, 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. For creating, maintaining, and operating at established flying Designated purposes.Flying and balloon schools, aviation stations, etc.schools and balloon schools courses of instruction for officers, students, and enlisted men, including cost of equipment and supplies necessary for instruction, purchase of tools, equipment, materials, machines, textbooks, books of reference, scientific and professional papers, instruments and materials for theoretical and practical instruction; for maintenance, repair, storage, and operation of airships, war balloons, Aircraft operation, construction, etc.and other aerial machines, including instruments, materials, gas plants, hangars, and repair shops, and appliances of every sort and description necessary for the operation, construction, or equipment of all types of aircraft, and all necessary spare parts and equipment connected therewith and the establishment of landing and take-off Landing, etc., runways.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 utilities at such plants; for the acquisition of land or interest in land by purchase, lease, or 492Helium gas production.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 Civilian employees, etc.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 plans, drawings, Purchase, manufacture, etc., of aircraft, etc.and specifications thereof; for the purchase, manufacture, and construction of airships, balloons, and other aerial machines, including instruments, gas plants hangars, and repair shops, and appliances of every sort and description necessary for the operation, Marking military air-ways.construction, or equipment of all types of aircraft, and all necessary spare parts and equipment connected therewith; for the marking of military airways where the purchase of land is not involved; for the purchase, manufacture, and issue of special clothing, wearing Disposal of surplus equipment, etc.apparel, and similar equipment for aviation purposes; for all necessary expenses connected with the sale or disposal of surplus or obsolete aeronautical equipment, and the rental of buildings, and other facilities for the handling or storage of such equipment; for the services Consulting engineers.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, *Provisos*.Allotments to designated purposes.including the salvaging of wrecked aircraft, $12,435,000: *Provided*, That not to exceed $2,500,000 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 $2,850,000 may be expended for experimental and research work with airplanes or lighter-than-air craft and their equipment, including the pay of necessary civilian employees; not exceeding $500,000 may be expended for the production of lighter-than-air equipment; 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 $2,646,000 New airplanes, etc.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 World aerial flights.by the Chief of Air Service and the Secretary of War; and not exceeding $50,000 may be used for all contingent expenses in connection with an aerial flight around the world, for such purposes as may be approved or authorized by the Secretary of War, Periodicals.[R. S., sec. 3648, p. 718](/us/rs/s3648/p718).to be immediately available: *Provided further*, That section 3648, Revised Statutes, shall not apply to subscriptions for foreign and professional newspapers and periodicals to be paid for Restriction on exhibition flights.from this appropriation: *Provided further*, That none of the funds appropriated under this title shall be used for the purpose of giving 493exhibition flights to the public other than those under the control and direction of the War Department and if such flights are given by Army personnel upon other than Government fields, a bond of indemnity, in such sum as the Secretary of War may require for damages to person or property, shall be furnished the Government by the parties desiring the exhibition. The sum of $1,399,001.65 of the unexpended balance of the appropriation Incurred obligations.Former appropriations available for, and new airplanes, until June 30, 1925.Vol. 41, p. 953.for the Air Service for the fiscal year 1922 contained in the “Act making appropriations for the support of the Army for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1922, and for other purposes,” approved June 30, 1921, shall remain available until June 30, 1925, $399,001.65 of this amount to be used for the payment of obligations incurred under contracts executed prior to June 30, 1922, and the balance for the purchase of new airplanes and their equipment, spare parts, and accessories, in addition to the amount expended for the latter purpose from the above appropriation of $12,435,000. aviation, seacoast defenses, panama canal.Panama Canal. For the improvement of landing field, France Field, to remain France Field, landing field.available until expended, $145,000. office of the chief of air service.Office of Chief of Air Service. Salaries: For personal services in the District of Columbia in Civilian personnel.accordance with “The Classification Act of 1923,” $218,576. The services of legal assistant, aeronautical engineers, skilled Legal assistant, aeronautical engineers, etc., in Department office.draftsmen, and such technical and other services as the Secretary of War may deem necessary may be employed only in the office of the Chief of Air Service to carry into effect the various appropriations for aeronautical purposes, to be paid from such appropriations, in addition to the foregoing employees appropriated for in the office of the Chief of Air Service: *Provided*, That the entire expenditure for *Proviso*.Limitation, etc.this purpose for the fiscal year 1925 shall not exceed $90,000 and the Secretary of War shall each year in the Budget report to Congress the number of persons so employed, their duties, and the amount paid to each. Medical Department.Medical Department. medical and hospital department. For the manufacture and purchase of medical and hospital supplies, 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 Zone; for the purchase of veterinary supplies and hire of veterinary surgeons; for expenses of medical supply depots; for medical care and Private treatment.treatment not otherwise provided for, including care and subsistence in private hospitals, of officers, enlisted men, and civilian employees of the Army, of applicants for enlistment, and of prisoners of war and other persons in military custody or confinement, when entitled thereto by law, regulation, or contract: *Provided*, That this shall not *Provisos*.Not applicable if on furlough.Contagious diseases expenses.apply to officers and enlisted men who are treated in private hospitals or by civilian physicians while on furlough; for the proper care and treatment of epidemic and contagious diseases in the 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 494Army 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; Tuition of officers and Nurse Corps.Vol. 41, p. 786.for the pay of civilian physicians employed to examine physically applicants for enlistment and enlisted men and to render other professional services from time to time under proper authority; for the pay of other employees of the Medical Department; for tuition of officers of 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 Hot Springs Hospital. Ark.Department; for the supply of the Army and Navy Hospital at Hot Springs, Arkansas; for advertising, laundry, and all other necessary Use for medical and surgical history of War with Germany forbidden.miscellaneous expenses of the Medical Department, $942,610: *Provided*, 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. Canal Zone.hospital care, canal zone garrisons. Care of troops at Panama Canal Hospitals.For paying the Panama Canal such reasonable charges, exclusive of subsistence, as may be approved by the Secretary of War for caring in its hospitals for officers, enlisted men, military prisoners, and civilian employees of the Army admitted thereto upon the *Proviso*.Subsistence payments.request of proper military authority, $35,000: *Provided*, That the subsistence of the said patients, except commissioned officers, shall be paid to said hospitals out of the appropriation for subsistence of the Army at the rates provided therein for commutation of rations for enlisted patients in general hospitals. Medical Museum.army medical museum. Preserving, etc., specimens.For Army Medical Museum, preservation of specimens, and the preparation and purchase of new specimens, $7,500. Library.library, surgeon general’s office. Purchase of books, etc.For the library of the Surgeon General’s Office, including the purchase of the necessary books of reference and periodicals, $20,000. 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,” $267,804. 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, Vol. 35, p. 122.conformable to the Act approved May 11, 1908, $1,900. care of insane 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. 495 office of chief of bureau of insular affairs.Office of Chief of Bureau. Salaries: For personal services in the District of Columbia in Civilian personnel.accordance with “The Classification Act of 1923,” $81,600. Corps of Engineers.Corps of Engineers. engineer depots.Depots. For incidental expenses for the depots, including fuel, lights, Incidental expenses.chemicals, stationery, hardware, machinery, pay of civilian clerks, mechanics, laborers, and other employees; 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, $89,010. engineer school.School, D. C. For equipment and maintenance of the Engineer School, including Equipment, maintenance, etc.purchase and repair of instruments, machinery, implements, models, boats, and materials for the use of the school and to provide means for the theoretical and practical instruction of Engineer officers and troops in their special duties as sappers and miners; for land mining, pontoniering, and signaling; for purchase and binding of scientific and professional works, papers, and periodicals treating on military engineering and scientific subjects; for textbooks and books of reference for the library of the United States Engineer School; for incidental expenses of the school, including chemicals, Incidental expenses.stationery, hardware, machinery, and boats; for pay of civilian clerks, draftsmen, electricians, mechanics, and laborers; for compensation of civilian lecturers and for payment of tuition fees of Tuition at civil institutions.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 for in section 127a of the National Defense Act of June Vol. 41, p. 786.3, 1916, as amended by the Act of June 4, 1920; for unforeseen expenses; and for travel expenses of officers on journeys approved Travel expenses of officers.by the Secretary of War and made for the purpose of instruction: *Provided*, That the traveling expenses herein provided for shall be *Proviso*.In lieu of mileage.in lieu of mileage and other allowances: and for other absolutely necessary expenses: *Provided further*, That section 3648, Revised Periodicals.[R. S., sec. 3648, p. 718](/us/rs/s3648/p718).Statutes, shall not apply to subscriptions for foreign and professional newspapers and periodicals to be paid for from this appropriation, $25,000. engineer equipment of troops.Equipment 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, $60,270. civilian assistants to engineer officers.Civilian 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, $38,800. 496 Field operations.engineer operations in the field. Incidental expenses.For expenses incident to military engineer operations in the field, including the purchase of material and a reserve of material for such operations, the 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 *Provisos*.Purchase of options on materials.officers,” and “Military Surveys and Maps,” $84,760: *Provided*, That when to the interest of the Government, funds appropriated under this head may be used for the purchase of options on materials Temporary construction work for training.for use in engineer operations in the field: *Provided further*, That so much of this appropriation as is necessary to provide facilities for Engineer training of troops may be expended for military construction work of a temporary character at camps and cantonments and at training areas, for training purposes only. Military surveys and maps.military surveys and maps. Expenses of executing.For the execution of topographic and other surveys, the securing of such extra topographic data as may be required, and the preparation and printing of maps required for military purposes, to be immediately available and remain available until December 31, 1925, *Proviso*.Assistance of other offices.$25,000: *Provided*, That the Secretary of War is authorized to secure the assistance, wherever practicable, of the United States Geological Survey, the Coast and Geodetic Survey, or other mapping agencies of the Government in this work and to allot funds therefor to them from this appropriation. Fortifications.Seacoast defenses.United States.Plans, etc.seacoast defenses, united states. For the preparation of plans for fortifications and other works of defense, $10,000. Gun and mortar batteries.Modernizing emplacements.Installing electric plants, searchlights, etc.For construction of gun and mortar batteries, $350. For modernizing older emplacements, $2,240. For the installation and replacement of electric light and power plants at seacoast fortifications in the United States, and the purchase and installation of searchlights for seacoast defenses in the United States, $31,000. Fort Tilden, N. Y.For repair of bulkhead at Fort Tilden, New York, $12,000. Preservation, etc.For protection, preservation, and repair of fortifications for which there may be no special appropriation available, and of Submarine mine defense.structures for the submarine mine defense of the United States and for maintaining channels for access to submarine mine wharves, $250,089. Protecting, etc., historical fortifications.For the protection, preservation, repair, and maintenance of historical fortifications at Fort Niagara, New York, Fort Marion, Florida, and San Juan. Porto Rico, $50,000. 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, $65,000. Contingent expenses.For contingent expenses incident to the construction of seacoast fortifications and their accessories, under the Engineer Department, $20,000. Insular possessions.seacoast defenses, insular possessions. Plans, etc.For preparation of plans for fortifications and other works of defense in the insular possessions, $4,000. Installing searchlights, etc., Hawaiian IslandsFor 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, $11,000. 497 For protection, preservation, and repair of fortifications, including Preservation, etc.structures for submarine mine defense, for which there may be no special appropriation available, and for maintaining channels for Submarine mine defense.access to submarine mine wharves, in the insular possessions, $50,000. For maintenance and repair of searchlights and electric light and Maintaining, etc., searchlights, etc.power equipment for seacoast fortifications and for tools, electrical and other supplies, and appliances to be used in their operation in the insular possessions, $34,450. seacoast defenses, panama canal.Panama Canal. For preparation of plans for fortifications and other works of Plans, etc.defense, including surveys for roads. Canal Zone, $3,000. For the construction of seacoast batteries on the Canal Zone for Seacoast batteries.defense of the Panama. Canal, $272,460. For the installation and replacement of electric light and power Installing searchlights, etc.plants, and the purchase and installation of searchlights for the seacoast fortifications on the Canal Zone, $50,000. For protection, preservation, and repair of fortifications of the Preservation, etc.Panama Canal, for which there may be no special appropriation available, including structures erected for submarine mine defense, Submarine mine defense.and for maintaining channels for access to submarine mine wharves, $40,000. For maintenance and repair of searchlights and electric light and Maintaining, etc., searchlights, etc.power equipment for fortifications and for tools, electrical and other supplies, and appliances to be used in their operation, $30,000. office of chief of engineers.Office of Chief of Engineers. Salaries: For personal services in the District of Columbia in Civilian personnel.accordance with ‘‘The Classification Act of 1923,” $120,593. The services of skilled draftsmen, civil engineers, and such other Draftsmen, etc., payable from other appropriations.services as the Secretary of War may deem necessary, may be employed only in the office of the Chief of Engineers, to carry into effect the various appropriations for rivers and harbors, surveys, preparation for and the consideration of river and harbor estimates and bills, fortifications, engineer equipment of troops, engineer operations in the field, and other military purposes, to be paid from such appropriations: *Provided*, That the expenditures on this account for *Proviso*.Limitation, etc.the fiscal year 1925 shall not exceed $170,000; the Secretary of War shall each year, in the Budget, report to Congress the number of persons so employed, their duties, and the amount paid to each. Ordnance Department.Ordnance Department. ordnance service.Ordnance service. For the current expenses of the Ordnance Department in connection Current expenseswith 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, $1,200,000. 498 Ordnance stores.ordnance stores—ammunition. Manufacture of airplane bombs, ammunition for small arms, etc.For the development, manufacture, purchase, and maintenance 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 arms.manufacture of arms. At arsenals for issue.For manufacturing, repairing, procuring, and issuing arms at the national armories, $389,000. Stores and supplies.ordnance stores and supplies. Preserving, etc.For overhauling, cleaning, repairing, and preserving ordnance and ordnance stores in the hands of troops and at the arsenals, posts, and depots, except material for cleaning and preserving at places other than establishments under the direct control of the Chief of Purchase, etc., for troops. Ordnance; for purchase and manufacture of ordnance stores to fill requisitions of troops, $120,000. Automatic rifles.automatic rifles. Purchase, manufacture, etc.For purchase, manufacture, test, repair, and maintenance of automatic machine rifles, or other automatic or semiautomatic guns, including their mounts, sights, and equipments, and the machinery necessary for their manufacture, to remain available until June 30, 1926, $208,000. Tanks.tanks. Purchase, etc., of, and other armored vehicles.For purchase, manufacture, test, maintenance, and repair of tanks and other self-propelled armored vehicles, to remain available until June 30, 1926, $176,000. Armament.field artillery armament. Mountain, field, and siege cannon.For purchase, manufacture, and test of mountain, field, and siege cannon, including their carriages, sights, implements, equipments, and the machinery necessary for their manufacture, $645,000. Ammunition for.For purchase, manufacture, maintenance, and test of ammunition for mountain, field, and siege cannon, including the necessary experiments in connection therewith, the machinery necessary for its manufacture, and the necessary storage facilities, $366,000. 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. Ammuntion, 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, $60,000. Proving grounds.proving grounds, army. Current expenses.For current expenses of the ordnance proving grounds, comprising the maintenance of rail and water transportation, repairs, alterations, accessories, and service of employees incidental to testing and proving ordnance and ordnance 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. 499 rock island bridge, rock island, illinois.Rock Island Arsenal, Ill. For operating, repair, and preservation of Rock Island bridges Bridges, etc., expenses.and viaduct, and maintenance and repair of the arsenal street connecting the bridges, $30,000. testing machines.Testing machines. For necessary professional and skilled labor, purchase of materials, Operating expenses.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. repairs of arsenals.Arsenals. For repairs and improvements of arsenals and depots, and to meet Repairs, etc.such unforeseen expenditures as accidents or other contingencies during the year may render necessary, including machinery for manufacturing purposes in the arsenals, $600,000. gauges, dies, and jigs for manufacture.Gauges, Jigs, etc. For the procurement of gauges, dies, jigs, and other special aids Procuring, for armament manufacture.Vol. 39, p. 215.and appliances, including specifications and detailed drawings, to carry out the purpose of section 123 of the National Defense Act, approved June 3, 1916, as amended by the Act approved June 4, 1920, $50,000. seacoast defenses, united states.Seacoast defenses.United States. armament of fortifications.Armament. 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, $407,000. For purchase, manufacture, and test of ammunition for seacoast Ammunition for.cannon, and for modernizing projectiles on hand, including the necessary experiments in connection therewith, and the machinery necessary for its manufacture, $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 possessions.Insular possessions. For purchase, manufacture, and test of ammunition for seacoast Ammunition for sea-coast cannon.cannon, including the necessary experiments in connection therewith, and the machinery necessary for its manufacture, $500,000. For alteration and maintenance of the seacoast artillery, including Altering, etc., seacoast artillery.the purchase and manufacture of machinery, tools, and materials necessary for the work, and expenses of the civilian mechanics, $80,000. seacoast defenses, panama canal.Panama Canal. For 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, $150,000. 500 Ammunition for.For purchase, manufacture, and test of ammunition for seacoast and land defense cannon, including the necessary experiments in connection therewith, and the machinery necessary for its manufacture, $200,000. Altering, etc., seacoast artillery.For the alteration and maintenance and installation of the seacoast 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 Ordnance.office of chief of ordnance. Civilian personnel.Salaries: For personal services in the District of Columbia in accordance with “The Classification Act of 1923,” $165,272. Draftsmen, etc., from other appropriations.The services of skilled draftsmen and such other services as the Secretary of War may deem necessary may be employed only in the office of the Chief of Ordnance to carry into effect the various appropriations for the armament of fortifications and for the arming and equipping of the National Guard, to be paid from such *Proviso*.Limitation, etc.appropriations: *Provided*, That the entire expenditures for this purpose for the fiscal year 1925 shall not exceed $267,000, and the Secretary of War shall each year, in the Budget, report to Congress the number of persons so employed, their duties, and the amount paid to each. Chemical Warfare Service.Chemical Warfare Service. Purchase, manufacture, etc., of gases.For purchase, manufacture, and test of chemical warfare gases or other toxic substances, gas masks, or other offensive or defensive materials or appliances required for gas warfare purposes, including all necessary investigations, research, design, experimentation, and operations connected therewith; purchase of chemicals, special Plants, buildings, machinery, etc.scientific and technical apparatus and instruments; construction, maintenance, and repair of plants, buildings, and equipment, and the machinery therefor; receiving, storing, and issuing of supplies, comprising police and office duties, rents, tolls, fuel, gasoline, lubricants, paints and oils, rope and cordage, light, water advertising, stationery, 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 Organizing special gas troops.advance; for expenses incidental to the organization, training, and equipment of special gas troops not otherwise provided for, including the training of the Army in chemical warfare, both offensive and defensive, together with the necessary schools, tactical Current expenses.demonstrations, and maneuvers; for current expenses of chemical projectile filling plants and proving grounds, including construction and maintenance of rail transportation, repairs, alterations, accessories, building and repairing butts and targets, clearing and grading ranges, Boll weevil extermination.$700,000, of which sum not more than $25,000 may be used in agricultural experiments in exterminating the cotton boll weevil. 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,” $20,760. Chemists, etc., for office in 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 *Proviso*.Limitation, etc.appropriation: *Provided*, That the total expenditures for this purpose for the fiscal year 1925 shall not exceed $19,160, and the Secretary 501of 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. infantry school, fort benning, georgia.Infantry School, Fort Benning, Ga. 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 the necessary expenses of instruction at the Infantry School, Fort Benning, Georgia, $35,000. tank service.Tank Service. For payment of the necessary civilian employees to assist in handling Civilian employees.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, $23,000. Incidental expenses in connection with the operation of the tank Tank schools.schools, $1,000. Chief of Cavalry. cavalry school, fort riley, kansas.Cavalry School, Fort Riley, Kans. For the purchase of textbooks, books of reference, scientific and Instruction expenses.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, $17,600. Chief of Field Artillery. field artillery school, fort sill, oklahoma.Field 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, $18,000. instruction in field artillery activities.Field Artillery activities. To provide means for the theoretical and practical instruction in Instruction at brigade firing centers.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, $5,000. Chief of Coast Artillery. coast artillery school, fort monroe, virginia.Coast Artillery School, Fort Monroe, Va. For incidental expenses of the school, including chemicals, stationery, Instruction expenses.printing, and binding; hardware; materials; cost of special 502instruction of officers detailed as instructors; employment of temporary, technical, or special services; for office furniture and fixtures, machinery, motor trucks, and unforeseen expenses, $13,100. For purchase of engines, generators, motors, machines, measuring and nautical instruments, special apparatus, and materials for the enlisted specialists division, $7,700. Special apparatus, etc.For purchase of special apparatus and materials and for experimental purposes for the artillery and military art department, $1,240. For purchase of engines, generators, motors, machines, measuring instruments, special apparatus, and materials for the engineering department, $2,600. Books, etc.For purchase and binding of professional books treating of military and scientific subjects for library, for use of school, and for *Provisos*.Periodicals.[R. S., sec. 3648, p. 718](/us/rs/s3648/p718).temporary use in coast defenses, $2,360: *Provided*, That section 3648, Revised Statutes, shall not apply to subscriptions for foreign and professional newspapers and periodicals to lie paid for from this Special typewriters, etc.appropriation: *Provided further*, That purchase and exchange of typewriting machines, to be paid for from this appropriation, may be made at the special price allowed to schools teaching stenography and typewriting without obligating typewriter companies to supply these machines to all departments of the Government at the same price. Fortifications.Seacoast defenses, United States.Constructing fire control stations, etc.seacoast defenses, united states. 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 employees connected with the use of coast artillery; purchase, Range finders, etc.manufacture, and test of range finders and other instruments for fire control at the fortifications, and the machinery necessary for their manufacture at the arsenals, $128,000. Accessories for sub-marine mine practice, etc.For purchase, manufacture, and test of submarine-mine, material, and other accessories fox submarine-mine practice, including the machinery necessary fox their manufacture, $3,000. Submarine mine sup-plies, etc.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 Fort Totten, N. Y.States Army, at Fort Totten, New York, and for torpedo depot administration and experimental work, $20,000. War instruction sup-plies.For maintenance of Coast Artillery war-instruction material at Coast Artillery posts, including necessary material and labor-there-for, $1,000. Insular possessions.seacoast defenses, insular possessions. Constructing fire control stations, Hawaiian Islands.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 fox fire control at the fortifications, and the machinery necessary fox their manufacture, in the Hawaiian Islands, $180,500. Submarine mine supplies.For maintenance of the submarine-mine material in the insular possessions, $3,000. 503 seacoast defenses, panama canal.Panama Canal. For the construction of fire-control stations and accessories, including Constructing fire control stations, etc.purchase of lands and rights of way, purchase and installation of necessary lines and means of electrical communication, including telephones, dial and other telegraphs, wiring and all special instruments, apparatus and materials, coast-signal apparatus, subaqueous, sound, and flash ranging apparatus, including their development, and salaries of electrical experts, engineers, and other necessary employees connected with the use of coast artillery, purchase, manufacture, Range finders, etc.and test of range finders and other instillments for fire control at the fortifications, and the machinery necessary for their manufacture, $35,000. For alteration, maintenance, and repair of submarine-mine material, Submarine mine supplies.$3,000. 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. Salaries: For personal services in the District of Columbia in Civilian personnel.accordance with the classification Act of 1923, $22,620. United States Military Academy.Military Academy. pay of military academy.Pay. Permanent Establishment: For eight professors, $30,000; chaplain, Professors, etc.$2,750; constructing quartermaster, in addition to his regular pay, $1,000; additional pay of professors and officers for length of service, $12,415; subsistence allowance of professors and officers, $4,599; in all, $50,764. For one thousand two hundred cadets, $936,000.Cadets. Military Academy Band: Master sergeant; Academy band.fifteen staff sergeants; fifteen privates, first class; twenty privates; specialists—fifteen, second class; twenty, third class; additional pay for length of service; in all, $39,212. Field Musicians: Staff sergeant; two corporals; seven privates, Field musicians.first class: twenty-one privates; twenty-eight specialists, sixth class; additional pay for length of service; in all, $11,292. Service Detachment: First sergeant; forty-seven sergeants; Service detachment.twenty corporals; fifty-five privates, first class; one hundred and fifty-three privates; specialists—forty, third class, fifty, fourth class, eighty, fifth class; additional pay for length of service; in all, $120,000 Cavalry Detachment: First sergeant; fourteen sergeants; sixteen Cavalry detachment.corporals; sixty-five privates, first class; one hundred and twenty-four privates; specialists—ten, fourth class, thirteen, fifth class, two, sixth class: additional pay for length of service; in all, $92,600. Artillery Detachment: First sergeant; twenty-three sergeants; Artillery detachment.twenty-one corporals; seventy-five privates, first class; one hundred and eighteen privates; specialists—eight, fourth class, fifteen, fifth class, three, sixth class; additional pay for qualification in gunnery; additional pay for length of service; in all, $90,860. Engineer Detachment: First sergeant; three staff sergeants; nine Engineer detachment.sergeants; twelve corporals; thirty-nine privates, first class; fifty-two privates; specialists—two, third class, three, fourth class, two, sixth class; additional pay for length of service; additional pay for qualification in marksmanship; in all, $45,000. Signal Corps Detachment: Master sergeant; technical sergeant; Signal Corps detachment.staff sergeant; two sergeants; two corporals; three privates, first 504class; two privates; specialist, fifth class (chauffeur); additional pay for length of service; in all, $8,127. Coast Artillery detachment.Coast Artillery Detachment: First sergeant; master sergeant; technical sergeant; staff sergeant; five sergeants; twenty-one privates, first class; nine specialists, fifth class; additional pay for qualification in gunnery; additional pay for length of service; in all, $18,285. Miscellaneous, enlisted men.Miscellaneous: Travel allowance due enlisted men on discharge; interest on deposits due enlisted men; warrant officer and two staff sergeants, for duty in the Cadet Corps headquarters; two master sergeants; staff sergeant; additional pay for length of service; in all, $15,418. Civilian employees.Civilians: For pay of employees, $201,331. Disbursing and accounting as one fund.All of the money hereinbefore appropriated for pay of the Military Academy shall be disbursed and accounted for as pay of the Military Academy, and for that purpose shall constitute one fund. The civilian instructors employed in the departments of modern languages and tactics shall be entitled to public quarters, fuel, and light. Maintenance.maintenance, united states military academy. Designated expenses.For text and reference books for instruction; increase and expense of library (not exceeding $7,200); 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 discharged cadets; maintenance of children’s school (not exceeding $8,800); contingencies for superintendent of the academy Board of visitors.(not to exceed $3,000); expenses of the members of the board of visitors (not 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); 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, $357,660. Quarters, enlisted men.For installing kitchen range, boilers and bath tubs in quarters of enlisted men, $5,000. Repairing roofs, etc.For renewing tiles of roof of bachelor building and repairing tiles of roofs of Memorial Hall and officers’ mess and repairing and renewing leaders and gutters connected with these buildings, $15,000. Storm windows.For providing storm windows on public buildings now not so protected from the weather, $8,000. Public works.public works, united states military academy. Magazine.For magazine for storage of explosives, $12,000. New cadet hospital.For completion of new cadet hospital, including painting interior, $13,500. Old cadet hospital.For completion of remodeling of old cadet hospital, $2,500. 505 For preparation of drawings, plans, and specifications for mess Plans, etc., for extension of buildings.Vol. 39, p. 503.hall, cadet store, dormitories, and drawing academy, in general accordance with the plans submitted by the board of officers convened under authority of the Act approved August 11, 1916, and for construction equipment, $83,310, to remain available until expended. The sum of $93,753.81 remaining from the appropriation “Pay of Balance available for excavations for new buildings, etc.Vol. 42, p. 99.the Military Academy, 1922,” is made available for razing three buildings and preparing excavation for new cadet mess hall and drawing academy, and tor this purpose shall remain available until expended. The sum of $150,000, appropriated in the Deficiency Act, approved Working fund for cadet store, etc.November 4, 1918, for a working fund to keep stock in the cadet store, cadet mess, and cadet laundry, is reappropriated and made immediately Reappropriated for athletic field, etc.Vol. 40, p. 1032.available, and shall remain available until expended, for improving the athletic field, including the erection of a stadium, at the United States Military Academy: *Provided*, That the amount of *Proviso*.Unused balance covered into the Treasury.this reappropriation not used in the improvements specified herein shall be carried to the surplus fund and covered into the Treasury upon completion of the work, and the United States shall be reimbursed Reimbursement for expenses on athletic field, etc.for the amount expended on the said improvements from the receipts of the Army Athletic Association, the time of reimbursement to be in the discretion of the Superintendent of the United States Military Academy, subject to the limitation that it shall be completed on or before January 1, 1930. The Secretary of War is hereby directed to turn over to the United Army surplus materials, 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*.Loaves 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 the Expenditures 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. Militia Bureau.Militia Bureau. arming, equipping, and training the national guard.National Guard, arming, etc.*Post*, p. 921.Forage, etc., for animals. For procurement of forage, bedding, and so forth, for animals used by the National Guard, $1,607,642. For compensation of help for care of material, animals, and equipment, Care of equipment, etc.$2,350,000. For expenses, camps of instruction, $10,200,000.Instruction camps. For expenses selected officers and enlisted men, military service Service schools instruction.schools, $325,000. For pay of property and disbursing officers for the United States, Property, etc., officers.$72,000. For general expenses equipment and instruction, National Guard, Equipment and instruction expenses.$800,000. For travel of officers and noncommissioned officers of the Regular Travel, Army officers.Army in connection with the National Guard, $450,000. For transportation of equipment and supplies, $415,000.Transporting supplies.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. 506 Office rent.For office rent, and so forth, instructors, $3,000. Pay, armory drills.For pay of National Guard (armory drills), $10,200,000. Field service.arms, uniforms, equipment, and so forth, for field service, national guard. Procuring arms, equipment, etc., for issue.Requisitions from governors, etc.To procure by purchase or manufacture and issue from time to time to the National Guard, upon requisition of the governors of the several States and Territories or the commanding general National Guard of the District of Columbia, such 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 determined to be an economical measure and as necessary for their proper *Proviso*.Clothing, equipments, etc., from surplus Army stores.preservation and use, $2,850,000: *Provided*, That the Secretary of War is hereby directed to 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 matériel and ammunition as may be needed by the National Guard organized under the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act for making further and more effectual provision for the national defense, Vol. 41, p. 780.and for other purposes,” approved June 3, 1916, as amended by the Without charge to militia appropriation.Act approved June 4, 1920. This issue shall be made without charge against militia appropriations except for actual expenses incident to such issue. Reduction of mounted, etc., units.The mounted, motorized, air, medical, and tank units 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 1925. Office of Chief of Militia Bureau.office of chief of militia bureau. Civilian personnel.Salaries: For personal services in the District of Columbia in accordance with “The Classification Act of 1923,” $127,560. Organized Reserves.organized reserves. Officers’ Reserve Corps.Pay, etc., on active duty.Officers’ Reserve Corps: For pay and allowances of members of the Officers’ Reserve Corps on active duty for not exceeding fifteen days’ training, $2,000,000; for pay and allowances of members of the Officers’ Reserve Corps on active duty for more than fifteen days in accordance with law, $400,466; for mileage, reimbursement of actual traveling expenses, or per diem allowances in lieu thereof as *Proviso*.Mileage, when training.authorized by law, $397,666: *Provided*, That the mileage allowance to members of the Officers’ Reserve Corps when called into active service for training for fifteen days or less shall not exceed 4 cents per mile; in all, $2,798,132. Enlisted Reserve Corps.Pay, etc.Correspondence instruction courses.Enlisted Reserve Corps: For pay, transportation, subsistence, and clothing, $50,000. Correspondence courses: For conducting correspondence courses for instruction of members of the Reserve Corps, including necessary supplies, procurement of maps and textbooks, and transportation, $17,000. Training manuals.Headquarters and training camps.Establishing, maintenance, etc.Manuals: For purchase of training manuals, $15,000. 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 507incident 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 months; and for the preparation and transportation to their homes of the remains of members of the Organized Reserves who die while on active duty, $400,000: *Provided*, That not to exceed $100,000 of *Proviso*.Division and regiment headquarters.this amount may be used for establishment and maintenance of divisional and regimental headquarters. None of the funds appropriated elsewhere in this Act shall be Other funds not to be used.used for expenses in connection with the Organized Reserves but available supplies and existing facilities at military posts shall be utilized to the fullest extent possible. No portion of this appropriation shall be expended for the pay Period of pay for officers.of a reserve officer on active duty for a longer period than fifteen days, except such as may be detailed for duty with the War Department General staff duty.Vol. 41, pp. 760, 765.General Staff under section 3a and section 5
(b)of the Army Reorganization Act approved June 4, 1920, or who may be Other details.detailed for courses of instruction at the general or special service schools of the Army, or who may be detailed for duty as instructors at civilian military training camps, appropriated for in this Act, or who may be detailed for duty with tactical units of the Air Service, as provided in section 37a of the Army Reorganization Act Vol. 41, p. 776.approved June 4, 1920: *Provided further*, That the pay and allowances *Provino*.Medical Reserve Corps for Veterans’ Bureau patients.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. For the procurement, maintenance, and issue, under such regulations Quartermaster supplies, etc., to units of.as may be prescribed by the Secretary of War, to institutions at which one or more units of the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps are maintained, of such public animals, means of 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 of same to place of issue when necessary; for the establishment Expenses of training camps.and maintenance of camps for the further practical instruction of the members of the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps, and for transporting members of such corps to and from such camps, and to subsist them while traveling to and from such camps and while remaining therein so far as appropriations will permit; or in Commutation of travel allowance.lieu of transporting them to and from such camps and subsisting them while en route, to pay them travel allowance at the rate of 5 cents per mile for the distance by the shortest usually traveled route from the places from which they are authorized to proceed to the camp and for the return travel thereto, and to pay the return travel pay in advance of the actual performance of the travel; for pay for students attending advanced camps at the rate prescribed for soldiers of the seventh grade of the Regular Army; for the payment of commutation Subsistence, senior division.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 Vol. 39, p. 193; Vol. 41, p. 776.508Act approved June 3, 1916, as amended by the Act approved June Funeral expenses.4, 1920; for the cost of preparation and transportation to their homes of the remains of members of the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps who die while attending camps of instruction; and for the cost of maintenance, repair, and operation of passenger-carrying vehicles, $3,818,020, to remain available until December 31, 1925: *Provisos*.Uniforms, etc., from Army surplus stocks.*Provided*, That uniforms and other equipment 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 Price current to govern payments.incurred in the manufacture or issue: *Provided further*, That in no case shall the amount paid from this appropriation for uniforms, equipment, or material furnished to the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps from stocks under the control of the War Department be in excess of the price current at the time the issue is made: Additional mounted units, etc., forbidden.*Provided further*, That none of the funds appropriated in this Act shall be used for the organization or maintenance of additional mounted, motor transport, or tank units in the Reserve Officers’ Training Use of other funds forbidden.Corps: *Provided further*, That none of the funds appropriated elsewhere in this Act shall be used for expenses in connection with the Reserve Officers’ Training Transporting, etc., students to national rifle match.Corps: *Provided further*, That not to exceed $10,000 of the total appropriated by this Act may be expended for the transportation of authorized Reserve Officers’ Training Corps students who may be competitors in the national rifle match, and to subsist them while traveling to and from said match and while remaining thereat. Other schools and colleges.military supplies and equipment for schools and colleges. Issue of military supplies, equipments, etc., to.Vol. 41, p. 780.[R., S., sec. 1225, p. 216](/us/rs/s1225/p216).Vol. 41, p. 776.For the procurement and issue as provided in section 55-c of the Act approved June 4, 1920, and in section 1225, Revised Statutes, us amended, under such regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary of War, to schools and colleges, other than those provided for in section 40 of the Act above referred to, of such arms, tentage, and equipment, including the transporting of same, and the over-hauling and repair of personal equipments, machine-gun outfits, and horse equipments, as the Secretary of War shall deem necessary for *Proviso*.Ordnance purchases excluded.proper military training in said schools and colleges, $5,000: *Provided*, That no part of this appropriation shall be expended for the purchase of arms or other ordnance equipment. 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 at 5 Maintenance, etc.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) and expenditures heretofore made for similar supplies and equipment from appropriations for citizens’ military training camps are hereby validated; for mileage, reimbursement of traveling expenses, or allowance in lieu thereof as authorized by law, for officers of the Regular Army and Organized 509Reserves, traveling on duty in connection with citizens’ military training camps; for the cost of preparation and transportation to Funeral expenses.their homes of the remains of civilians who die while attending camps of instruction; in all, $2,330,000, to remain available until December 31, 1925: *Provided*, That the funds herein appropriated shall not be *Provisos*.Age limitation.used for the training of any person in the first year, or lowest course, who shall have reached his twenty-fourth birthday before the date of enrollment: *Provided further*, That none of the funds appropriated Use of other funds forbidden.elsewhere in this Act shall be used for expenses in connection with citizens’ military training camps: *Provided further*, That uniforms Uniforms, etc., from Army surplus stocks.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 or issue: *Provided further*, That in no case shall the Price current to govern payments.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. Under the authorizations contained in this Act no issues of reserve Restriction in use of reserve supplies, etc.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. National Board for Promotion of Rifle Practice.Promotion of rifle practice. quartermaster sufflies and services for rifle ranges for civilian Civilian instruction.instruction. To establish and maintain indoor and outdoor rifle ranges for the Quartermaster supplies for rifle ranges, practice, etc.use of all able-bodied males capable of bearing arms under reasonable regulations to be prescribed by the National Board for the Promotion of Rifle Practice and approved by the Secretary of War; for the employment of labor in connection with the establishment of outdoor and indoor rifle ranges, including labor in operating targets; for the employment of instructors; for clerical services; for Instructors, etc.badges and other insignia; for the transportation of employees, instructors, and civilians to engage in practice; for the purchase of materials, supplies, and services, and for expenses incidental to instruction of citizens of the United States in marksmanship, and their Participation in national, etc., matches.participation in national and international matches, to lie expended under the direction of the Secretary of War, and to remain available until expended, $89,900: *Provided*, That out of this appropriation *Proviso*.Transportation, meals, etc., for rifle teams.there may be 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 contests.Rifle 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 expenses of members Reimbursing National Board.of the National Board for the Promotion of Rifle Practice, to 510be expended for the purposes hereinbefore prescribed, under the direction of the Secretary of War, $7,500. Ordnance equipment.ordnance equipment for rifle ranges for civilian instruction. Arms, etc., for target practice at rifle ranges, etc.For arms, ammunition, targets, and other accessories, for target 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. Provisions for encouraging rifle instruction authorized.Hereafter the Secretary of War shall, within the limits of appropriations made from time to time by Congress and in accordance with reasonable rules and regulations approved by him upon the recommendation of the National Board for the Promotion of Rifle Practice, authorize and provide for—
(a)Construction, operating, etc., ranges. Construction, equipment, maintenance, and operation of indoor and outdoor rifle ranges and their accessories and appliances;
(b)Marksmanship instruction. Instruction of able-bodied citizens of the United States in marksmanship and, in connection therewith, the employment of necessary instructors;
(c)Maintenance of matches, expenses, etc., for promotion of practice. Promotion of practice in the use of rifled arms, the maintenance and management of matches or competitions in the use of such arms, and the issuance in connection therewith of the necessary arms, ammunition, targets, and other necessary supplies and appliances, and the award to competitors of trophies, prizes, badges, and other insignia;
(d)Sales at cost, of arms, etc., to National Rifle Association members, issue to organized clubs, etc. Sale to members of the National Rifle Association, at cost to the Government, and issue to clubs organized, for practice with rifled arms, under the direction of the National Board for the Promotion of Rifle Practice, of arms, ammunition, targets, and other supplies and appliances necessary for target practice;
(e)Maintenance of National Board. Maintenance of the National Board for the Promotion of Rifle Practice, including provision for the necessary expenses thereof and of its members;
(f)Procuring necessary materials, supplies, etc. Procurement of necessary materials, supplies, appliances, trophies, prizes, badges, and other insignia, clerical and other services, and labor;
(g)Transportation, etc., to participate in matches, etc. Transportation of employees, instructors, and civilians to give or undergo instruction or to assist or engage in practice in the use of rifled arms, and the transportation and subsistence, or commutations in lieu of subsistence, of members of teams especially authorized by the Secretary of War to participate in matches or competitions in the use of rifled arms, making a full report of all things done hereunder annually to Congress. No pay to officers, etc., using time measuring devices on work of employees.No part of the appropriations made in this Act shall be available for the salary or pay of any officer, manager, superintendent, foreman, or other person having charge of the work of any employee of the United States Government while making or causing to be made with a stop watch, or other time-measuring device, a time study of any job of any such employee between the starting and completion thereof, or of the movements of any such employee while Cash rewards restricted.engaged upon such work; nor shall any part of the appropriations made in this Act be available to pay any premiums or bonus or cash reward to any employee in addition to his regular wages, except for suggestions resulting in improvements or economy in the operation of any Government plant. Free admission of purchases from abroad.Equipment or material purchased outside of the United States from funds appropriated in this Act shall be admitted free of duty. 511 TITLE II.— NONMILITARY ACTIVITIES OF THE WAR DEPARTMENT.Nonmilitary activities. Finance Department.Finance Department. For amount required to make monthly payments to Jennie Carroll, Jennie Carroll.widow of James Carroll, late major, United States Army, $1,500. For amount required to make monthly payments to Mabel H. Mabel H. Lazear.Lazear, widow of Jesse W. Lazear, late acting assistant surgeon, United States Army $1,500. For amount required to make monthly payments to John R. John R. Kissinger.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. For maintaining and improving national cemeteries, including fuel Maintenance.for superintendents, pay of laborers and other employees, purchase of tools and materials, and including care and maintenance of the Arlington Memorial Amphitheater and Chapel and grounds in the Arlington, Va.Arlington National Cemetery, Virginia, and permanent American American cemeteries abroad.military cemeteries abroad, $360,000. For pay of seventy-six superintendents of national cemeteries, Superintendents.including the superintendent at Mexico City, $63,720. For repairs to roadways to national cemeteries which have been Repairs to roadways.constructed by special authority of Congress, $16,000: *Provided*, *Provisos.*Encroachments by railroads forbidden.That no railroad shall be permitted upon the right of way which may have been acquired by the United States to a national cemetery, or to encroach upon any roads or walks constructed thereon and maintained by the United States: *Provided further*, That no part of this Restriction on repairs.sum shall be used for repairing any roadway not owned by the United States within the corporate limits of any city, town, or village. No part of any appropriation for national cemeteries or the repair Limited to one approach.of roadways thereto shall be expended in the maintenance of more than a single approach to any national cemetery. For continuing the work of furnishing headstones of durable stone Headstones for soldiers’ graves, etc.or other durable material for unmarked graves of Union and Confederate soldiers, sailors, and marines, and soldiers, sailors, and marines of all other wars in national, post, city, town, and village cemeteries, naval cemeteries at navy yards and stations of the United States, [R. S., sec. 4877, p. 944](/us/rs/s4877/p944).Vol. 20, p. 281; Vol 34, p. 56.Civilians.Vol. 33, p. 396; Vol. 34, p. 741.Confederates.and other burial places, under the Acts of March 3, 1873, February 3, 1879, and March 9, 1906; continuing the work of furnishing headstones for unmarked graves of civilians interred in post cemeteries under the Acts of April 28, 1904, and June 30, 1906; and furnishing headstones for the unmarked graves of Confederate soldiers, sailors, and marines in national cemeteries, $70,000. For repair and preservation of monuments, tablets, observation Antietam battlefield, Md.Preservation, etc.tower, roads, and fences, and so forth, made and constructed by the United States upon public lands within the limits of the Antietam battle field, near Sharpsburg, Maryland, and for pay of superintendent 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, soldiers, and civilian employees:Disposition of remains of officers, soldiers, etc. For interment, cremation (only upon request from relatives of the deceased), or of preparation and transportation to their homes 512or 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 active 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; Removal from abandoned posts, etc.for removal of remains from abandoned posts to permanent military posts or national cemeteries, including the remains of Federal soldiers, sailors, or marines interred in fields or abandoned private and Reimbursements to individuals.city cemeteries; and in any case where the expenses of burial or shipment of the remains of officers or enlisted men of the Army who die on the active list, are borne by individuals, where such expenses would have been lawful claims against the Government, reimbursement to such individuals may be made of the amount allowed by the Government for such services out of this sum, but no reimbursement shall be made of such expenses incurred prior to July 1, 1910; for American cemeteries in Great Britain and Franco.*Proviso*.Retired officers on active duty included.expenses of the segregation of bodies in permanent American cemeteries in Great Britain and France, $93,654: *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, Chicago, Ill.Confederate Mound, Oakwood Cemetery, Chicago, Illinois: For care, protection, and maintenance of the plat of ground known as “Confederate Mound” in Oakwood Cemetery, Chicago, Illinois, $500. Confederate Stockade, Ohio.For care, protection, and maintenance of Confederate Stockade Cemetery, Johnstons Island, in Sandusky Bay, Ohio. $350. Confederate burial plats.Confederate burial plats: For care, protection, and maintenance of Confederate burial plats, owned by the United States, located and known by the following designations: Confederate Cemetery, North Alton, Illinois; Confederate Cemetery, Camp Chase, Columbus, Ohio; Confederate section, Greenlawn Cemetery, Indianapolis, Indiana; Confederate Cemetery, Point Lookout, Maryland; and Confederate Cemetery, Rock Island, Illinois, $1,250. Little Rock, Ark.Burial of Hot Springs Hospital patients in national cemetery at.Burial of deceased indigent patients: For burying in the Little Rock (Arkansas) National Cemetery, including transportation thereto, indigent ex-soldiers, ex-sailors, or ex-marines of the United States service, either Regular or Volunteer, who have been honorably discharged or retired and who die while patients at the Army and Navy General Hospital. Hot Springs, Arkansas, to be disbursed at a cost not exceeding $35 for such burial expenses in each case, exclusive of cost of grave, $100. Burial places in Cuba and China.For repairs and preservation of monuments, tablets, roads, fences, and so forth, made and constructed by the United States in Cuba and China to mark the places where American soldiers fell, $1,000. Military Parks.National Military Parks. Chickamauga and Chattanooga.chickamauga and chattanooga national military park. Continuing establishment of.For continuing the. establishment of the park; compensation and expenses of the superintendent, maps, surveys, clerical and other 513assistance; maintenance, repair, and operation of one motor-propelled and one horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicle; office and all other necessary expenses; foundations for State monuments; mowing; historical tablets, iron and bronze; iron gun carriages; roads and their maintenance; purchase of small tracts of lands heretofore authorized by law, $50,000. Notwithstanding the restrictive provisions of the Act of February Memorials, etc., allowed Spanish war veterans who were encamped therein.Vol. 29, p. 21.26, 1896 (Twenty-ninth Statutes, page 21), the Secretary of War is authorized in his discretion to permit without cost to the United States the erection of monuments or memorials to commemorate encampments of Spanish War organizations which were encamped in said park during the period of the Spanish-American War. gettysburg national military park.Gettysburg. For continuing the establishment of the park; acquisition of lands, Continuing establishment of.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, $45,000. guilford courthouse national military park.Guilford Courthouse. For continuing the establishment of a national military park at Continuing establishment of.Vol. 39, p. 996.the battle field of Guilford Courthouse, in accordance with the Act entitled “An Act to establish a national military park at the battle field of Guilford Courthouse,” approved March 2, 1917, $7,840. shiloh national military park.Shiloh. For continuing the establishment of the park; compensation of Continuing establishment 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; and for the extension of the park through the Extension of, authorized to Corinth National Cemetery.acquisition, by purchase or otherwise, of a strip of land, contiguous to the park, sixty-six feet wide, to connect the Shiloh National Military Park and the Corinth, Mississippi, National Cemetery; such land to be acquired along or near the present main read from the Shiloh National Military Park to the Corinth National Cemetery located on the battle field of Corinth, the center of such strip to follow as nearly as practicable along the survey heretofore made by Park Engineer Thompson: and for the construction of a hard-surface road and necessary bridges along the center line of such strip from the park to the Corinth National Cemetery; and for the erection of historical markers along such strip to show the movements of troops and other matters of historical interest in connection with the Civil War battles of Shiloh and Corinth; in all $70,000: *Provided*, That no part of this appropriation shall be *Proviso*.Expenditures restricted.expended within the incorporated limits of the city of Corinth. 514 Vicksburg.vicksburg national military park. Continuing establishment.For continuing the establishment of the park; compensation of civilian commissioners; clerical and other services, labor, iron gun carriages, mounting of siege guns, memorials, monuments, markers, and historical tablets giving historical facts, compiled without praise and without censure; maps, surveys, roads, bridges, restoration of earthworks, purchase of lands, purchase and transportation of supplies and materials; and other necessary expenses, $23,440. 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 1926, from the receipts of the Washington-Alaska Military Cable and Telegraph System which have been covered into the Treasury of the United States, the extent of such extensions and betterments and the cost thereof to be reported to Congress by the Secretary of War, $140,000. Replacing worn-out cables, etc.Vol. 42, p. 149.For replacing the worn-out portions of the Washington-Alaska submarine cable system, $750,000, to remain available until expended, and to cover liquidation of all obligations incurred under the contract authority of $750,000 contained in the War Department *Proviso*.Expenses included.Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1924: *Provided*, That this sum together with the $750,000 heretofore appropriated for the fiscal year 1924, shall be applicable to all travel and transportation charges and expenses connected with the purchase and installation of the said cable. Medical Department.Medical Department. Artificial limbs.Artificial limbs: For furnishing artificial limbs and apparatus, or commutation therefor, and neccessary transportation, $36,100. Surgical appliances.Appliances for disabled soldiers: For furnishing 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.[R. S., sec. 1176, p. 211](/us/rs/s1176/p211).Vol. 20, p. 353.Trusses for disabled soldiers: For trusses for persons entitled thereto under section 1176, Revised Statutes of the United States, and the Act amendatory thereof, approved March 3, 1879, $1,000. Medical and Surgical History of World War.medical and surgical history of the world avar. 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, $16,600. Engineer Corps.Corps of Engineers. Buildings and grounds, D. C.buildings and grounds in and around the district of columbia. Care, etc., executive departments.For improvement, care, and maintenance of grounds of executive departments, $1,000. Washington Monument.Washington Monument: For pay of employees, $6,660. Operating supplies.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 machin-515ery; and purchase of all necessary articles for keeping the Monument, machinery and elevator in good order, $6,000. For extra services of employees and for additional supplies and Sunday openingmaterials, to provide for the opening of the Monument to the public on Sundays and legal holidays, $2,500. For purchasing and supplying uniforms to the three watchmen, Uniforms.two floormen, and the elevator conductor at the Washington Monument, $480. Building where Abraham Lincoln died: For painting and miscellaneous Lincoln’s death place.repairs, $1,500. Birthplace of George Washington, Wakefield, Virginia: For repairs Washington’s birth-place.to fences and cleaning up and maintaining grounds about the monument, and for watchmen for the care of the monument and dock at Wakefield, Virginia, the birthplace of Washington, $400. Lincoln Memorial: For pay of employees, $5,340; heat, light, Lincoln Memorial.All 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 four Lincoln Memorial watchmen, $320; in all, $11,320. california debris commission.California Débris 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, $14,950. construction and maintenance of roads, bridges, and trails, alaska.Alaska. For the construction, repair, and maintenance of roads, tramways, Roads, bridges, trails, etc., in.Construction, etc., expenses under Road Commissioners.ferries, bridges, and trails. Territory of Alaska, to be expended under the direction of the Board of Road Commissioners described in section 2 of an Act entitled “An Act to provide for the construction and maintenance of roads, the establishment and maintenance of schools, and the care and support of insane persons in the District of Alaska, and for other purposes,” approved January 27, 1905. as amended by the Act approved May 14, 1906, and to be expended Vol. 34, p. 192.conformably to the provisions of said Act as amended. $725,000, to be immediately available. macdonough memorial.Macdonough Memorial. For the completion of the erection of the memorial of the State Erection of, for victory on Lake Champlain.of Vermont in commemoration of the victory of Commodore Thomas Macdonough on Lake Champlain in September, 1814, as authorized in the Sundry Civil Appropriation Act of August 1, 1914. to remain Vol. 38. p. 669.available until expended, $3,000. rivers and harbors.Rivers and harbors. To be immediately available and to be expended under the direction Appropriations immediately available.of the Secretary of War and the supervision of the Chief of Engineers: For the preservation and maintenance of existing river and harbor Preserving, construtting, etc., authorized projects.works, and for the prosecution of such projects heretofore authorized as may be most desirable in the interests of commerce and navigation; for survey of Northern and Northwestern Lakes, Lake of the Woods, Boundary waters survey.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, 516including all necessary expenses for preparing, correcting, extending, printing, binding, and issuing charts and bulletins and of New York Harbor, deposits.investigating 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 Examinations, etc.patrol fleet and expenses of office, $37,250,000. *Proviso*.Limited to authorizations.For examinations, surveys, and contingencies of rivers and harbors for which there may be no special appropriation, $350,000: *Provided*, That no part of this sum shall be expended for any preliminary examination, survey, project, or estimate not authorized by law. Muscle Shoals, Ala.muscle shoals. Continuing work on Dam No. 2.For the continuation of the work on Dam Numbered 2 on the Tennessee River at Muscle Shoals, Alabama, $7,000,000, to be immediately available, and to apply on the contract authorization for Vol. 42, p. 1421.this project carried in the War Department Appropriation Act for *Proviso*.Contracts for machinery, gates, etc., authorized.the fiscal year 1924: *Provided*, That the Secretary of War may enter into a contract or contracts for such machinery, gates, or other metal parts and for such materials to be used in the construction of the locks, dam, and powerhouse as may be necessary to prosecute the said project, to be paid for as appropriations may from time to time Amount limited.be made by law, not to exceed in the aggregate $3,040,390, exclusive of the amounts herein and heretofore appropriated. 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.Flood control, Sacramento River, Calif.: For prosecuting work of flood control in accordance with the provisions of the Flood Control Vol. 39, p. 948.Act approved March 1, 1917, $500,000. Waterways transportation.Transportation Facilities, Inland and Coastwise Waterways. Expenses, operating inland, canal, and coastwise facilities.*Ante*, p. 360.For additional expense incurred in the operation of boats, barges, tugs, and other transportation facilities on the inland, canal, and coastwise waterways acquired by the United States in pursuance of Vol. 40, p. 456.Vol. 41, p. 458.the fourth paragraph of section 6 of the Federal Control Act of March 21, 1918, and operated in pursuance of section 201 of the *Proviso*.Service of experts, etc.Transportation Act approved February 28, 1920, $29,650: *Provided*, That not to exceed $20,000 of this appropriation may be used for the payment of experts, clerks, and other employees in the War Department in accordance with the provisions of section 201
(e)of the Vol. 41, p. 458.Transportation Act, 1920, approved February 28, 1920. National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers.Support.National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers. For support of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, as follows: Dayton, Ohio.Current expenses.Central Branch, Dayton, Ohio: Current expenses: For pay of officers and noncommissioned officers of the home, with such exceptions as are hereinafter noted, and their clerks, weighmasters, and orderlies; chaplains, religious instruction, and entertainment for the members of the home, printers, bookbinders, librarians, musicians, telegraph and telephone operators, guards, janitors, watchmen, fire company, and property and materials purchased for their use, including repairs; articles of amusement, library books, magazines, 517papers, 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, $70,600. Subsistence: For pay of commissary sergeants, commissary clerks, Subsistence.porters, laborers, bakers, cooks, dishwashers, waiters, and others employed in the subsistence department; food supplies purchased for the subsistence of the members of the home and civilian employees regularly employed and residing at the branch, 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 done by the home, $382,000. Household: For furniture for officers’ quarters; bedsteads, bedding, Householdbedding 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, $205,000. Hospital: For pay of medical officers and assistant surgeons, Hospital.matrons, druggists, hospital clerks and stewards, ward masters, nurses, cooks, waiters, readers, drivers, funeral escort, janitors, and for such other services as may be necessary for the care of the sick; burial of the dead; surgical instruments and appliances, medical books, medicine, liquors, fruits, and other necessaries for the sick not purchased under subsistence; bedsteads, bedding, and all other special articles necessary for the wards; hospital furniture, including special articles and appliances for hospital kitchen and dining room; carriage, hearse, stretchers, coffins; and for all repair’s to hospital furniture and appliances not done by the home, $290,000. Transportation: For transportation of members of the home, Transportation.$1,000. Repairs: For pay of chief engineer, builders, blacksmiths, carpenters, Repairs.painters, gas fitters, electrical workers, 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, $81,000: *Provided*, That no part of the appropriation for repairs for any *Proviso*.New buildings forbidden.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); gasoline; materials, tools, and labor for flower garden, lawn, park, and cemetery; and construction of roads and walls, and repairs not done by the home, $22,350. In all, Central Branch, $1,051,950. For “Current expenses,” “Subsistence,” “Household,” “Hospital,” Specified expenses at branches.“Transportation,” “Repairs,” and “Farm,” at the following branches, including the same objects respectively specified herein under each of such heads for the Central Branch, namely: Northwestern Branch, Milwaukee, Wisconsin: Current expenses, Milwaukee, Wis.$59,300; subsistence, $287,000; household, $150,000; hospital, $236,-518000; transportation, $500; repairs, $50,000; farm, $13,790; in all, Northwestern Branch, $796,590. Togus, Me.Eastern Branch, Togus, Maine: Current expenses, $48,500; subsistence, $90,000; household, $100,000; hospital, $59,000; transportation, $500; repairs, $27,000; farm, $19,772; in all, Eastern Branch, $344,772. Hampton, Va.Southern Branch, Hampton, Virginia: Current expenses, $55,400; subsistence, $215,000; household, $129,000; hospital, $122,000; transportation, $1,000; repairs, $50,000; farm, $11,500; in all, Southern Branch, $583,900. Leavenworth, Kans.Western Branch, Leavenworth Kansas: Current expenses, $59,160; subsistence, $204,340; household, $134,940; hospital, $94,500; transportation, $500; repairs, $49,640: farm, $19,500; in all, Western Branch, $562,580. Santa Monica, Calif.Pacific Branch, Santa Monica, California: Current expenses, $69,600; subsistence, $420,000; household, $125,000; hospital, $294,000; transportation, $1,000; repairs, $70,000; farm, $25,000; in all, Pacific Branch, $1,004,600. Sale of surplus land and use proceeds for new building.*Post*, p. 534.The Board of Managers are authorized to sell surplus land at the Pacific Branch, to wit, a strip of land lying west of the traction line that runs parallel to the Home fence on the west side and to use the proceeds therefrom for the erection of a fireproof building for housing the members of the Home at said Branch. Marion, Ind.Marion Branch, Marion, Indiana: Current expenses. $49,500; subsistence, $230,000; household, $107,000; hospital, $270,000; transportation, $1,000; repairs, $46,500; farm, $18,650; in all, Marion Branch, $722,650. Danville, Ill.Danville Branch, Danville, Illinois: Current expenses, $56,250; subsistence, $204,000; household, $109,000; hospital, $85,000; transportation, $500; repairs, $45,000; farm, $11,000; in all, Danville Branch, $510,750. Johnson City, Tenn.Mountain Branch, Johnson City, Tennessee: Current expenses, $49,400; subsistence, $225,000; household, $99,800; hospital, $240,000; transportation, $500; repairs, $43,500; farm, $28,800; in all, Mountain Branch, $687,000. Hot Springs, S. Dak.Battle Mountain Sanitarium, Hot Springs, South Dakota: Current expenses, $34,950; subsistence, $80,500; household, $59,920; hospital, $65,000; transportation, $500; repairs, $20,000; farm, $6,000; in all, Battle Mountain Sanitarium, $266,870. Clothing, all brunches.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, $161,200. Board of Managers.Salaries, etc.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; assistant chief surgeon, $3,500; clerical services for the offices of the president, general treasurer, chief surgeon, and inspector general, $18,700; 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, $61,700. [R. S., sec. 4826, p. 936, amended](/us/rs/s4826/p936).That section 4826 of the Revised Statutes, as amended, is hereby amended to read as follows: Sec. 4826. Managers.Number and eligibility modified. Seven Managers of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers shall be elected from time to time, as vacancies occur, by joint resolution of Congress. They shall all be citizens of the United States and no two of them shall be residents of the same 519State. The terms of office of these managers shall be for six years and until a successor is elected. The following persons shall be entitled to the benefits of the National Additional veterans entitled to benefits.Vol. 41, p. 405, amended.Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, and may be admitted thereto upon the order of a member of the Board of Managers, namely: Honorably discharged officers, soldiers, sailors, or marines who served in the regular, volunteer, or other forces of the United States, or in the Organized Militia or National Guard when called into Federal service, and who are disabled by diseases or wounds and who have no adequate means of support and by reason of such disability are either temporarily or permanently incapacitated from earning a living. Total, National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, $6,754,562.State or Territorial homes.Continuing aid to. State and Territorial homes for disabled soldiers and sailors: For continuing aid to State or Territorial homes for the support of disabled volunteer soldiers, in conformity with the Act approved Vol. 25, p. 450; Vol. 41, p. 399.August 27, 1888, as amended, including all classes of soldiers admissible to the National Home, for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, $700,000: *Provided*, That for any sum or sums collected in any manner *Proviso*.Collection from inmates.from inmates of such State or Territorial homes to be used for the support of said homes a like amount shall be deducted from the aid herein provided for, but this proviso shall not apply to any State or Territorial home into which the wives or widows of soldiers are admitted and maintained. The Panama Canal.Panama Canal. The limitations on the expenditure of appropriations hereinbefore Limitations 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 Canal and Canal Zone, including the following: Compensation of Objects specified.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 Claims for damages.and horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles; claims for 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, assorting, storing, Disposal of unserviceable material, etc.repairing, and selling material, machinery, and equipment heretofore or hereafter purchased or acquired for the construction of the Panama Canal which are unserviceable or no longer needed, to be reimbursed from the proceeds of such sales; expenses incident to con-ducting 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 Per diem subsistence.when prescribed by the Governor of the Panama Canal to persons engaged in field work or traveling on official business, pursuant Vol. 38, p. 680.to section 13 of the Sundry Civil Appropriation 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 govern-520ment of the Panama Canal, all to be expended under the direction of the Governor of the Panama Canal and accounted for as follows: Maintenance and operation.Governor.Purchase of supplies, etc.For maintenance and operation of the Panama Canal: Salary of the governor, $10,000; purchase, inspection, delivery, handling, and storing of material, supplies, and equipment for issue to all departments of the Panama Canal, the Panama Railroad, other branches of the United States Government, and for authorized sales, Payment to alien cripples.Vol. 39, p. 750.payment in lump sums of not exceeding the amounts authorized by the Injury Compensation Act approved September 7, 1916, to alien cripples who are now a charge upon the Panama Canal by reason of injuries sustained while employed in the construction of the Power plant, Miraflores.Additional from receipts.Panama Canal; and including $1,000,000 for the construction of new power plant at Miraflores; in all, $5,748,160, together with all moneys arising from the conduct of business operations authorized by the Additional obligations authorized for Miraflores power plant.Panama Canal Act; and the Governor of the Panama Canal is authorized, in addition to the amount herein appropriated, to incur obligations in an amount not exceeding $710,000 for the completion, at a total cost of not exceeding $1,710,000, of the new power plant at Miraflores. Sanitation, etc.For sanitation, quarantine, hospitals, and medical aid and support of the insane and of lepers and aid and support of indigent persons legally within the Canal Zone, including expenses of their Artificial limbs, etc., fur injured employees.deportation when practicable, and the purchase of artificial limbs or other appliances for indigent persons who were injured in the service of the Isthmian Canal Commission or the Panama Canal prior to September 7, 1916, and including additional compensation to any officer of the United States Public Health Service detailed with the Panama Canal as chief quarantine officer, $580,000. 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, $912,000. Total, Panama Canal, $7,240,160, to be available until expended. Purchases from Army surplus stock.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 to credit of original appropriations.In addition to the foregoing sums there is appropriated for the fiscal year 1925 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 by-products of manufacturing and shop operations; from the sale of obsolete and unserviceable materials, supplies, and equipment purchased or acquired for the operation. maintenance, protection, sanitation, and government of the Net profits to be covered into the Treasury.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 1925, the necessary portions of such sums as shall be paid as water rentals or directly by the Government of Panama for such expenses. Approved, June 7, 1924.