Chapter 232. Making appropriations for the military and nonmilitary activities of the War Department for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1929, for other purposes
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Chap. 232: Making appropriations for the military and nonmilitary activities of the War Department for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1929, for other purposes. 1928-03-23 232 Chapter 45 Stat. 326 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2025-01-24 70 1 public 326 Chapter 232.— An Act Making appropriations for the military and nonmilitary activities of the War Department for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1929, for other purposes.
March 23, 1928.[[H. R. 10286](/us/bill/70/hr/10286).][[Public, No. 181](/us/pl/70/181).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* War Department appropriations. That the following sums are appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the military and nonmilitary activities of the War Department for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1929, and for other purposes, namely: TITLE I.— Military activities.MILITARY ACTIVITIES AND OTHER EXPENSES OF THE WAR DEPARTMENT INCIDENT THERETO Department salaries.salaries, war department Secretary, Assistants.Secretary of War, $15,000;
Assistant Secretary of War, $10,000; Assistant Secretary of War, $7,500. Civilian personnel in specified offices.For compensation for other personal services in the District of Columbia in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, as follows: Secretary of War.Office of Secretary of War, $193,096. Chief of Staff.Office of Chief of Staff, $217,038. Adjutant General.Adjutant General’s office, $1,340,614. Inspector General.Office of the Inspector General, $25,640. Judge Advocate General.*Proviso*.Experts, etc., for patent infringement suits.Office of the Judge Advocate General, $105,000: *Provided*, That not to exceed $39,400 may be used for the employment of such experts, at rates of pay to be fixed by the Secretary of War, and other employees as may be required by the Judge Advocate General of the Army for the preparation of evidence for use in behalf of the Government in claims or suits filed in Federal courts on account of alleged patent infringements and other causes and for like services in connection with other patent matters and other causes and for necessary per diem and traveling expenses in connection therewith, as authorized by law.
Chief of Finance.Office of the Chief of Finance, $351,620. Quartermaster General.Office of the Quartermaster General, $744,076. Chief Signal Officer.Office of the Chief Signal Officer, $94,000. Chief of Air Corps.Office of the Chief of Air Corps, $218,294. Surgeon General.Office of the Surgeon General, $261,347. Insular Affairs Bureau.Office of Chief of Bureau of Insular Affairs, $78,460. Chief of Engineers.*Provisos*.Draftsmen, etc., payable from other appropriations.Office of Chief of Engineers, $116,820: *Provided*, That the services of skilled draftsmen, civil engineers, and such other services as the Secretary of War may deem necessary may be employed only in the office of the Chief of Engineers, to carry into effect the various appropriations for rivers and harbors, surveys, and preparation for and the consideration of river and harbor estimates and bills, to be paid Limitations, etc.*Post*. p. 928.from such appropriations: *Provided*, That the expenditures on this account for the fiscal year 1929 shall not exceed $150,000; the Secretary of War shall each year, in the Budget, report to Congress the number of persons so employed, their duties, and the amount paid to each.
Chief of Ordnance.Office of Chief of Ordnance, $395,685. Chemical Warfare Service.Office of Chief of Chemical Warfare Service, $40,432. Chief of Coast Artillery.Office of Chief of Coast Artillery, $23,520. Militia Bureau.Militia Bureau, War Department, $134,692. In all, salaries, War Department, $4,372,834. Restriction on exceeding average salaries.Vol. 42, p. 1488.In expending appropriations or portions of appropriations, contained in this Act, for the payment for personal services in the District of Columbia in accordance with the Classification Act of3271923, the average of the salaries of the total number of persons under any grade in any bureau, office, or other appropriation unit shall not at any time exceed the average of the compensation rates specified for the grade by such Act, and in grades in which only oneIf only one person in a grade. position is allocated the salary of such position shall not exceed the average of the compensation rates for the grade, except that inAllowance in unusually meritorious cases. unusually meritorious cases of one position in a grade advances may be made to rates higher than the average of the compensation rates of the grade but not more often than once in any fiscal year and then only to the next higher rate: *Provided*, That this restriction*Proviso*.Restriction not applicable to clerical-mechanical service.No reduction in fixed salaries.Vol. 42, p. 1490.Transfers to another position without reduction. 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 was fixed as of July 1, 1924, in accordance with the rules of section 6 of such Act,
(3)to require the reduction in salary of any person who is transferred from one position to another position in the same or different grade in the same or a different bureau, office, or other appropriation unit, or
(4)to prevent theHigher salary rates allowed. 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 expenses, war department For purchase of professional and scientific books, law books, includingDepartment contingent expenses. their exchange; books of reference, pamphlets, periodicals, newspapers, maps; typewriting and adding machines, and other laborsaving 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 Director of Public Buildings and Public Parks of the National Capital) occupied by the War Department and its bureaus; maintenance, repair, and operation of motor trucks and motor cycles, and one motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicle, to be used only for official purposes; freight and express charges; street-car fares, not exceeding $750; and other absolutely necessary expenses, including traveling expenses, $88,470. For stationery for the department and its bureaus and offices,Stationery. $60,000. For postage stamps for the department and its bureaus, as requiredPostage. under the Postal Union, to prepay postage on matters addressed to Postal Union countries, $250. For printing and binding for the War Department, its bureausPrinting and binding. and offices, and for all printing and binding for the field activities under the War Department, except such as may be authorized in accordance with existing law to be done elsewhere than at the Government Printing Office, $475,000: *Provided*, That the sum of $3,000, or*Proviso*.Medical bulletins. so much thereof as may be necessary, may be used for the publication, from time to time, of bulletins prepared under the direction of the Surgeon General of the Army, for the instruction of medical officers, when approved by the Secretary of War, and not exceeding $64,000For Chief of Engineers. shall be available for printing and binding under the direction of the Chief of Engineers. MILITARY ACTIVITIESMilitary activities. contingencies of the army For all contingent expenses of the Army not otherwise providedArmy contingencies. for and embracing all branches of the military service, including the office of the Chief of Staff; for all emergencies and extraordinary328expenses, 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, *Proviso*.Transfer of surplus property to other activities restricted.and for such purposes as he may deem proper, $12,000: *Provided*, That none of the funds appropriated in this Act shall be used for the payment of expenses connected with the transfer of surplus property of the War Department to any other activity of the Government where the articles or lots of articles to be transferred are located at any place at which the total surplus quantities of the same commodity are so small that their transfer would not, in the opinion of the Secretary of War, be economical. General Staff Corps.General Staff Corps Military Intelligence Division.contingencies, military intelligence division Contingent expenses.For contingent expenses of the Military Intelligence Division, 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 maintenance of students and attachés; for the hire of interpreters, special agents, and guides and for such other purposes as the Secretary of War may5 deem proper, including $5,000 for the actual and necessary expenses of Observing military operations of foreign armies.officers of the Army on duty abroad for the purpose of observing operations of armies of foreign states at war, to be paid upon certificates of the Secretary of War that the expenditures were necessary for obtaining military information, $62,480, to be expended under *Proviso*.Periodicals, etc.[R. S., sec. 3648, p. 718](/us/rs/3648/p718).the direction of the Secretary of War: *Provided*, That section 3648, Revised Statutes, shall apply neither to subscriptions for foreign and professional newspapers and periodicals nor to other payments made from appropriations contained in this Act in compliance with the laws of foreign countries under which the military attachés are required to operate. Army War College.Army War College Instruction expenses.For expenses of the Army War College, being for the purchase of the necessary special stationery; textbooks, books of reference, scientific and professional papers and periodicals; maps; police utensils; employment of temporary, technical, or special services and expenses Employees, etc.of special lecturers; for the pay of employees; and for all other absolutely necessary expenses, $73,610. Adjutant General’s Department.Adjutant General’s Department Headquarters of military departments, etc.contingencies, headquarters of military departments, and so forth Contingent expenses.For contingent expenses at the headquarters of the several territorial departments, corps areas, armies, territorial districts, tactical corps, divisions, and brigades, including the Staff Corps serving thereat, being for the purchase of the necessary articles of office toilet, and desk furniture, stationery, ice, and potable water for office use, binding, maps, technical books of reference, professional and technical newspapers and periodicals, payment for which may be made in advance, and police utensils, to be alloted by the Secre-329tary of War, and to be expended in the discretion of the commanding officers of the several military departments, corps areas, districts, armies, and tactical commands, $4,500. command and general staff school, fort leavenworth, kansasFort Leavenworth, Kans. For the purchase of textbooks, books of reference, scientific andCommand and General Stall School. professional papers, instruments, and material for instruction; employment of temporary, technical, special, and clerical services; and for other necessary expenses of instruction, at the Command and General Staff School, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, $40,599. military post exchangesPost exchanges. For the equipment and conduct of the post exchange, school,Equipment, etc. reading, lunch, and amusement rooms, service clubs, chapels, gymnasiums, and libraries, including periodicals and other publications and subscriptions for newspapers for which payment may be made in advance, 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, $69,740. Finance DepartmentFinance department. pay, and so forth, of the armyPay of the Army. For pay of officers of the line and staff, $31,168,426; pay of officers,Officers.Aviation increase. National Guard, $100; pay of warrant officers, $2,156,880; aviation increase to commissioned and warrant officers of the Army, $1,571,326; additional pay to officers for length of service, $7,778,298;Longevity.Enlisted men. pay of enlisted men of the line and staff, not including the Philippine Scouts, $51,022,306; pay of enlisted men of National Guard, $100; aviation increase to enlisted men of the Army, $460,723; payAviation increase.Longevity. of enlisted men of the Philippine Scouts, $976,854; additional pay for length of service to enlisted men, $3,286,620; pay of the officersRetired list.Officers.Enlisted men. on the retired list, $7,349,729; increased pay to retired officers on active duty, $216,638; pay of retired enlisted men, $10,631,858; increased pay and allowances of retired enlisted men on active dutyRetired pay clerks.Retired veterinarians.Civil-service messengers at headquarters. $9,878; pay of retired pay clerks, $6,750; pay of retired veterinarians, $3,570; pay of not to exceed sixty-five civil-service messengers at $1,080 each at headquarters of the several Territorial departments, corps areas, Army and corps headquarters, Territorial districts, tactical divisions and brigades, service schools, camps, and ports of embarkation and debarkation, $70,200; pay and allowances of contractContract surgeons, nurses, etc.Rental and subsistence allowances. surgeons, $44,556; pay of nurses, $823,780; pay of hospital matrons, $600; rental allowances, including allowances for quarters for enlisted men on duty where public quarters are not available, $6,598,579; subsistence allowances, $5,855,602; interest on soldiers’ deposits, $75,000; payment of exchange by officers serving in foreignLoss by exchange. 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, $1,000; additional payOfficers furnishing mounts. to officers below the grade of major required to be mounted and who furnish their own mounts, $225,000; in all, $130,334,373; and theTo be one fund. money herein appropriated for “Pay, and so forth, of the Army” shall be accounted for as one fund. 330 Assignment of Army clerks, etc., 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 Staff shall be assigned to duty in any bureau of the War Department. Pay forbidden to retired officer selling supplies to Army.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, To officer retired before 64 years, 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, and expert accountant, Inspector General’s Department, $740,000. expenses of courts-martial Courts martial, etc., expenses.For expenses of courts-martial, courts of inquiry, military commissions, retiring boards, and compensation of reporters and witnesses attending same, contract stenographic reporting services, and expenses of taking depositions and securing other evidence for use before the same, $90,000. Deserters, etc.apprehension of deserters, and so forth Payment for apprehension, etc., of.For the apprehension, securing, and delivering of soldiers absent without leave and of deserters, including escaped military prisoners, and the expenses incident to their pursuit; and no greater sum than $50 for each deserter or escaped military prisoner shall, in the discretion of the Secretary of War, be paid to any civil officer or citizen Donations to discharged prisoners.for such services and expenses; for a donation of $10 to each prisoner discharged otherwise than honorably upon his release from confinement under court-martial sentence involving dishonorable discharge, $110,000. Finance Service.finance service Pay of clerks, etc.For compensation of clerks and other employees of the Finance Department, $1,050,000. Private property damages, etc.claims for damages to and loss of private property Payment of claims for.For payment of claims not exceeding $500 each in amount for damages to or loss of private property incident to the training, practice, operation, or maintenance of the Army that have accrued, or may *Proviso*.Settlement by General Accounting Office.hereafter accrue, from time to time, $3,000: *Provided*, That settlement of such claims shall be made by the General Accounting Office, upon the approval and recommendation of the Secretary of War, where the amount of damages has been ascertained by the War Department, and payment thereof will be accepted by the owners of the property in full satisfaction of such damages. 331 claims of officers, enlisted men, and nurses of the army for destruction of private propertyDestruction of private property of officers, etc. For the payment of claims of officers, enlisted men, and nurses ofPayment 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, $34,000.Vol. 41, p. 1436. Quartermaster CorpsQuartermaster Corps. Subsistence of the Army: Purchase of subsistence supplies: ForSubsistence.Purchase of supplies, for issue as rations, 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 ofSales 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*Proviso*.To competitors, national rifle match. be expended for supplying meals or furnishing commutation of rations to enlisted men of the Regular Army while competitors in the national rifle match. For payments: Of the regulation allowancesPayments. of commutation in lieu of rations to enlisted men on furlough,Commutation allowances. enlisted men when stationed at places where rations in kind can not be economically issued, including retired enlisted men when ordered to active duty and when traveling on detached duty where it is impracticable to carry rations of any kind, enlisted men selected to contest for places or prizes in department and Army rifle competitions when traveling to and from places of contest, applicants for enlistment, and general prisoners while traveling under orders. For payment of the regulation allowances of commutation in lieu of rations for enlisted men, applicants for enlistment while held under observation, civilian employees who are entitled to subsistence at public expense, and general prisoners while sick in hospitals, to be paid to the surgeon in charge; advertising; for providing prizes toAdvertising.Prizes for bakers and cooks. 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, $24,351,875. None of the funds appropriated in this Act shall be used forUtilities to include overhead costs on sales of services and supplies therefrom. payment of expenses of operating any utility of the War Department selling services or supplies at which the cost of the services or supplies so sold does not include all customary overhead costs of labor, rent, light, heat, and other expenses properly chargeable to the conduct of such utility. Regular supplies of the Army: Regular supplies of the QuartermasterRegular quartermaster supplies. Corps, including their care and protection; stoves 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; authorized issues of candles and matches; for furnishing heat andHeat and light to quarters, etc. light for the authorized allowance of quarters for officers, enlisted332men, and warrant officers, including retired enlisted men when ordered to active duty, contract surgeons when stationed at and occupying public quarters at military posts, officers of the National Guard attending service and garrison schools, and for recruits, Recreation buildings.guards, hospitals, storehouses, offices, the buildings erected at private Vol. 32, p. 282.cost, in the operation of the Act approved May 31, 1902, and buildings for a similar purpose on military reservations authorized by War Department regulations; for sale to officers, and including also fuel and engine supplies required in the operation of modern batteries at Bakeries, ice, etc.established posts; for post bakery and bake-oven equipment and apparatus; 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; authorized issues of soap, toilet paper, and Supplies for schools.towels; for the necessary furniture, textbooks, paper and equipment for the post schools and libraries, and for schools for noncommissioned officers; for the purchase and issue of instruments, office furniture, stationery, and other authorized articles for the use of officers’ schools at the several military posts; for purchase of commercial newspapers, market reports, and so forth; for the tableware and mess furniture for kitchens and mess halls, each and all for Forage, etc., for animals.the enlisted men, including recruits; for forage, salt, and vinegar for the horses, mules, oxen, and other draft and riding animals of the Quartermaster Corps at the several posts and stations and with the armies in the field, 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, Philippine, and Panama Canal Departments, and for labor and expenses incident thereto, including, when specifically authorized by the Secretary of War, the cost of irrigation; for the purchase of implements and hire of labor for harvesting hay on military reservations; for straw for soldiers’ Stationery, printing, etc.bedding, stationery, typewriters and exchange of same, including blank books and blank forms for the Army, certificates for discharged soldiers, and for printing department orders and reports, $10,274,- Amount for fuel immediately available.278.50, of which amount not exceeding $3,000,000 shall be available immediately for the procurement of fuel for the service of the fiscal year 1929. Clothing.Purchase, manufacture, etc.Clothing and equipage: For cloth, woolens, materials, and for the purchase and manufacture of clothing for the Army, including retired enlisted men when ordered to active duty, for issue and for sale; for payment of commutation of clothing due to warrant officers of the Mine Planter Service and to enlisted men; for altering and Laundries, etc.fitting, clothing and washing and cleaning when necessary; for operation of laundries, including purchase and repair of laundry machinery; 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; for Equipage, toilet articles, etc.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 Issue of citizens outer clothing.of packing and handling and similar necessaries; for a suit of citizen’s outer clothing and when necessary an overcoat, the cost of all333not to exceed $30, to be issued to each soldier discharged otherwise than honorably, to each enlisted man convicted by civil court for an offense resulting in confinement in a penitentiary or other civil prison, and to each enlisted man ordered interned by reason of the fact that he is an alien enemy, or, for the same reason, discharged without internment; for indemnity to officers and men of the ArmyIndemnity for destroyed clothing. for clothing and bedding, and so forth, destroyed since April 22, 1898, by order of medical officers of the Army for sanitary reasons, $6,500,000, of which amount not exceeding $36,000 shall be availableAmount for fuel immediately available. immediately for the procurement of fuel for the service of the fiscal year 1929. Incidental expenses of the Army: Postage; hire of laborers inIncidental expenses. the Quartermaster Corps, including the care of officers’ mounts when the same are furnished by the Government; compensation of clerksCivilian employees. 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 operation of coffee-roasting plants; for payment of entrance fees for Army rifle and pistol teams participating in competitions; for tests and experimentalTests, etc., by Bureau of Standards. and development work and scientific research to be performed by the Bureau of Standards for the Quartermaster Corps; for lecture fees at the Army Music School 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, $3,570,640. Army transportation: For transportation of the Army and itsTransportation of troops and supplies. 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 their traveling expenses; of dependents ofTransporting dependents, etc. officers and enlisted men as provided by law; of discharged prisoners, and persons discharged from Saint Elizabeths Hospital after transfer thereto from the military service, to their homes (or elsewhere as they may elect): *Provided*, That the cost in each case*Proviso*.Cost restriction. shall not be greater than to the place of last enlistment; of horse equipment; and of funds for the Army; for the purchase or construction, not exceeding $62,000, alteration, operation, and repair of boats and other vessels; for wharfage, tolls, and ferriages; forBoats, etc. drayage and cartage; for the purchase, manufacture (including both material and labor), maintenance, hire, and repair of pack saddlesVehicles, draft and pack animals, etc. and harness; for the purchase, hire, operation, maintenance, and repair of wagons, carts, drays, other vehicles, and horse-drawn and motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles required for the transportation of troops and supplies and for official military and garrison purposes; for purchase and hire of draft and pack animals, including replacement of unserviceable animals; for travel allowances to officersTravel allowances,, National Guard, etc., on discharge. and enlisted men on discharge; to officers of National Guard on discharge from Federal service as prescribed in the Act of March 2,Vol. 31, p. 902. 1901; to enlisted men of National Guard on discharge from Federal service, as prescribed in amendatory Act of September 22, 1922;Vol. 42, p. 102. and to members of the National Guard who have been mustered into Federal service and discharged on account of physical disability; in all, $17,464,551, of which amount not exceeding $2,000,000 shallAmount for fuel and transportation thereof, immediately available. be available immediately for the procurement and transportation of fuel for the service of the fiscal year 1929. 334 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. Purchase of motor vehicles restricted.None of the funds appropriated or made available in this Act shall be used for the purchase of motor-propelled freight-carrying vehicles for the Army except those that are purchased solely for experimental purposes, nor shall any of such funds be used for the purchase or exchange of more than four hundred and fifty-eight motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles (at a cost not to exceed $1,000 each, including the value of a vehicle exchanged) and ten such vehicles (at a cost not exceeding $2,500 each, including the value of a vehicle exchanged) for the Army in excess of those that are purchased solely for experimental purposes. Horses.horses for cavalry, artillery, engineers, and so forth Purchase, etc.*Ante*, p. 245.For the purchase of horses within limits as to age, sex, and size 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 Encouragement of breeding 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), *Provisos*.Number limited.$529,500: *Provided*, That the number of horses purchased under 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 shall be expended for the purchase of any horse below the Standards required.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, except that not to exceed $100 Native horses in China.of this appropriation shall be available for the purchase of native Chinese horses of specifications to be approved by the Secretary of War for the actual needs of the American forces in China: *And provided further*, That no part of this appropriation shall be Polo ponies limited.expended for polo ponies except for West Point Military Academy, and such ponies shall not be used at any other place. Military posts.military posts Payment of construction, etc., obligations.Vol. 44, pp. 878, 1390.*Ante*, p. 130.Walter Reed Hospital, D. C.Restrictions waived.[R. S., secs. 1136, 3734, pp. 206, 737](/us/rs/s1136/3734/p206/737).For construction and installation at military posts of buildings, utilities, and appurtenances thereto, as authorized by an Act entitled “An Act to authorize appropriations for construction at military posts, and for other purposes,” approved March 3, 1927, as amended by the Act approved February 18, 1928, and including $310,000 for Walter Reed General Hospital as authorized by the Act approved February 18, 1928, without reference to sections 1136 and 3734, Revised Statutes, including also the engagement, by contract or Engagement of architects, etc.otherwise, of the services of architects, or firms, or partnerships thereof, and other technical and professional personnel as may be deemed necessary without regard to civil-service requirements and restrictions of law governing the employment and com-335pensation of employees of the United States, $5,084,000: *Provided*,*Provisos*.Additional authorizations.Vol. 44, p. 1390. That the Secretary of War is authorized to enter into contracts for the purposes specified in the said Act of March 3, 1927, to an amount not to exceed $2,115,000, in addition to the appropriation herein made: *Provided*, That no part of the sums appropriated or authorizedConstruction at Scott Field, Ill., prohibited. to be contracted for in this paragraph shall be available for construction at Scott Field, Illinois. barracks and quarters and other buildings and utilitiesBarracks, quarters, etc. For all expenses incident to the construction, installation, operation,All expenses for construction, repairs, etc., of. and maintenance of buildings, utilities, appurtenances, and accessories necessary for the shelter, protection, and accommodation of the Army and its personnel and property, where not specifically provided for in other appropriations, including personal services, purchase and repair of furniture for quarters for officers, warrant officers, and non-commissioned officers, and officers’ messes and wall lockers and refrigerators for Government-owned buildings as may be approved by the Secretary of War, care and improvement of grounds, flooring and framing for tents, rental of buildings andRentals, etc. grounds for military purposes and lodgings for recruits and applicants for enlistment, water supply, sewer and fire alarm systems,Water, roads, wharves, etc. fire apparatus, roads, walks, wharves, drainage, dredging channels, purchase of water, and disposal of sewage, $12,668,944: *Provided*,*Provisos*.Rent for military attachés.Amounts immediately available for fuel, and barge-office slip, New York City. That this appropriation shall be available for the rental of offices, garages, and stables for military attachés: *Provided further*, That not exceeding $100,000 shall be available immediately for the procurement of fuel for the service of the fiscal year 1929 and not exceeding $80,000 shall be available immediately for making alterations to the barge-office slip, New York City, on Governors Island Ferry: *Provided further*, That not exceeding $15,000 of this appropriation“Castle,” Fort Niagara, N. Y.Repairs. shall be expended for completing work incident to and of repairing the old building known as the “Castle” at Fort Niagara, New York. In addition to this amount, the Secretary of War isAdditional from private contributions. authorized to expend such sums as may be contributed from private sources for the rehabilitation of such old building. shooting galleries and rangesShooting galleries and ranges. For shelter, grounds, observation towers, shooting galleries, rangesExpenses 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, $42,000. rent of buildings, quartermaster corpsRent. For rent of buildings and parts of buildings in the District ofBuildings, D. C.*Proviso*.Restriction. Columbia for military purposes, $15,300: *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, virginiaFort Monroe, Va, For repair and maintenance of wharf and apron of wharf, includingWharf. all necessary labor and material therefor, fuel for waiting rooms; water, brooms, and shovels, $20,280; for one-third of said sum, to be supplied by the United States, $6,760. 336 Roads.For rakes, shovels, and brooms; repairs to roadway, pavements, macadam and asphalt block; repairs to street crossings; repairs to street drains, and labor for cleaning roads, $8,469; for two-thirds of said sum, to be supplied by the United States, $5,646. Sewer.For waste, oil, motor and pump repairs, sewer pipe, cement, brick, stone, supplies, and personal services, $6,699; for two-thirds of said sum, to be supplied by the United States, $4,460. Hospitals.construction and repair of hospitals Construction, repairs, etc.For construction and repair of hospitals at military posts already established and occupied, including all expenditures for construction and repairs required at the Army and Navy Hospital at Hot Springs, Arkansas, and for the construction and repair of general hospitals and expenses incident thereto, and for additions needed to meet the Temporary camp hospitals.requirements of increased garrisons, and for temporary hospitals in standing camps and cantonments; for the alteration of permanent buildings at posts for use as hospitals, construction and repair of temporary hospital buildings at permanent posts, construction and Rentals, etc.repair of temporary general hospitals, rental or purchase of grounds, and rental and alteration of buildings for use for hospital purposes in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, including necessary temporary quarters for hospital personnel, outbuildings, heating and laundry apparatus, plumbing, water and sewers, and electric work, Jefferson Barracks, Mo.Restoring post hospital.cooking apparatus, and roads and walks for the same, $655,000, of which sum $85,000 shall be available immediately and exclusively for restoring the post hospital at Jefferson Barracks, Missouri: *Proviso*.New construction forbidden.*Provided*, That no part of this appropriation shall be used for the construction of new hospitals. Seacoast Defenses.Seacoast Defenses All expenses of fortifications under specified branches.For all expenses properly pertaining to the respective branches below stated as may be incident to the preparation of plans and the construction, purchase, installation, equipment, maintenance, repair, and operation of fortifications and other works of defense, and their accessories, including personal services, maintenance of channels to submarine mine wharves, purchase of lands and rights of way as authorized by law, and experimental, test, and development work, as follows: United States.United States.—Signal Corps, $115,000; Corps of Engineers, $516,000; Ordnance Department, $1,023,000; Chief of Coast Artillery, $304,127; Insular possessions.Insular possessions.—Signal Corps, $35,000; Corps of Engineers, $384,610; Ordnance Department, $332,762; Chief of Coast Artillery, Balance from “Rock Island Arsenal” appropriation.$221,900, and in addition thereto there is hereby reappropriated and made available for this purpose the sum of $54,000 of the unexpended balance of the continuing appropriation for “Rock Island Arsenal”; Panama Canal.Panama Canal.—Signal Corps, $34,120; Corps of Engineers, $609,350; Ordnance Department, $329,000; Chief of Coast Artillery, Balance from “Frankford Arsenal” appropriation.$133,847, and in addition thereto there is hereby reappropriated and made available for this purpose the sum of $68,940 of the unexpended balance of the continuing appropriation for “Frankford Arsenal”; In all, $4,038,716. Signal Corps.Signal Corps Signal Service.signal service of the army Telegraph and telephone systems.Purchase, operation, etc.Telegraph and telephone systems: Purchase, equipment, operation, and repair of military telegraph, telephone, radio, cable, and signaling systems; signal equipment and stores, heliographs, signal337lanterns, 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 of the Signal Corps and in the office of the Chief Signal Officer; telephone apparatus, including rentalTelephones. and payment for commercial, exchange, message, trunk-line, long-distance, and leased-line telephone service at or connecting any. post, camp, cantonment, depot, arsenal, headquarters, hospital, aviation station, or other office or station of the Army, excepting local telephoneLocal exception. 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 telegraph messages transmitted over commercial lines; electrical installations and maintenanceElectrical installations, etc. thereof at military posts, cantonments, camps, and stations of the Army, fire-control and direction apparatus and material for Field Artillery; salaries of civilian employees, including those necessaryCivilian employees. as instructors at vocational schools; supplies, general repairs, reserve supplies, and other expenses connected with the collecting and transmitting of information for the Army by telegraph or otherwise; experimental investigation, research, purchase, and developmentExperimental research, etc. 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; lease, alteration, and repair of suchBuildings for supplies. buildings required for storing or guarding Signal Corps supplies, equipment, and personnel when not otherwise provided for, including the land therefor, the introduction of water, electric light and power, sewerage, grading, roads and walks, and other equipment required, $2,797,790. Air CorpsAir Corps. air corps, army For creating, maintaining, and operating at established flyingDesignated purposes.Vol. 44, p. 780. 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 andLanding, etc., runways. take-off runways; for purchase of supplies for securing, developing, printing, and reproducing photographs in connection with aerial photography; improvement, equipment, maintenance, and operation of plants for testing and experimental work, and procuring and introducing water, electric light and power, gas and sewerage, including338Helium gas.Civilian employees.maintenance, operation, and repair of such utilities at such plants; for the procurement of helium gas; 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 Corps Purchase, manufacture, etc., of aircraft.activities; experimental investigation and purchase and development of new types of aircraft, accessories thereto, and aviation engines, including plans, drawings, and specifications thereof, and the purchase of letters patent, applications for letters patent, licenses under Balloons, etc.letters patent and applications for letters patent; for the purchase, manufacture and construction of balloons, and other aerial machines, including instruments, gas plants, hangars and repair shops, and appliances of every sort and description necessary for the operation, construction, or equipment of all types of aircraft, and all necessary Marking military airways.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 apparel, Disposal of surplus equipment, etc.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 Consulting engineers.for the handling or storage of such equipment; for the services of not more than four consulting engineers at experimental stations of the Air Corps as the Secretary of War may deem necessary, at rates of pay to be fixed by him not to exceed $50 a day for not exceeding fifty days each and 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 Outside printing plants, supplies, etc.Corps; for maintenance and operation of such Air Corps printing plants outside of the District of Columbia as may be authorized in accordance with law; for publications, station libraries, special furniture, Special services.supplies and equipment for offices, shops, and laboratories; for special services, including the salvaging of wrecked aircraft, *Provisos*.Designated allotments.$24,630,268: Provided, That not to exceed $2,794,361 from this appropriation may be expended for pay and expenses of civilian employees Civilian employees, etc.Helium.other than those employed in experimental and research work; not exceeding $200,000 may be expended for the procurement of helium from the Bureau of Mines, which may be transferred in advance, in Experimental and research work.amounts as required, to that bureau; not exceeding $2,200,000 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 $13,000 may be expended for the production of lighter-than-air equipment; not exceeding $1,736,619 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, Balances reappropriated.and in addition to the sum of $1,736,619 there is hereby reappropriated the following unexpended balances of continuing appropriations: “Cantonment construction, Panama Canal,” $204,546.61, and Available for Hawaiian Islands and Albrook Field.“Sites for military purposes,” $241,932.39, in all, $446,479, to be available for the following as authorized by the Act approved February *Ante*, pp. 129, 130.18, 1928: Steel hangar, $39,500, and addition to radio hut, $6,979, Hawaiian Islands; and construction of landing field, Albrook Field, Canal Zone, $400,000; not less than $11,257,445 shall be expended for New airplanes, etc.the production or purchase of new airplanes and their equipment, spare parts, and accessories, of which not to exceed $3,995,000 shall Incurred obligations.Vol. 44, p. 1120.be available for the payment of obligations incurred under the contract authorization for these purposes carried in the War Department Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1928, approved February33923, 1927, and in addition to the sum of $11,257,445, there is herebyReappropriation for bombardment planes, etc., from unexpended balance.Vol. 43, p. 900. reappropriated for expenditure for bombardment planes and their equipment, spare parts and accessories, the sum of $580,000 of the unexpended balance of the appropriation for “Army transportation, 1926”; not more than $6,000 may be expended for settlement ofDamage claims. claims (not exceeding $250 each) for damages to persons and private property resulting from the operation of aircraft at home and abroad when each claim is substantiated by a survey report of a board of officers appointed by the commanding officer of the nearest aviation post and approved by the Chief of Air Corps and the Secretary of War: *Provided further*, That theBalance available for contracts prior to July 1, 1926.Vol. 43, p. 907. sum of $45,000 of the appropriation for Air Service, Army, fiscal year 1926, shall remain available until June 30, 1929, for the payment of obligations incurred under contracts executed prior to July 1, 1926: *Provided further*, That section 3648, Revised Statutes, shallPeriodicals, etc.[R. S. sec., 3648, p. 718](/us/rs/s3648/p718). not apply to subscriptions for foreign and professional newspapers and periodicals to be paid for from this appropriation: *Provided further*, That none of the funds appropriated under this title shallRestriction on exhibition flights. be used for the purpose of giving exhibition flights to the public other than those under the control and direction of the War Department, and if such flights are given by Army personnel upon other than Government fields a bond of indemnity, in such sum as the Secretary of War may require for damages to person or property, shall be furnished the Government by the parties desiring the exhibition: *Provided further*, That in addition to the amount herein appropriatedAdditional amount authorized for new airplanes, etc. and specified for expenditure for the production and purchase of new airplanes and their equipment, spare parts, and accessories, the Chief of the Air Corps, when authorized by the Secretary of War, may enter into contracts prior to July 1, 1930, for the production and purchase of new airplanes and their equipment, spare parts, and accessories to an amount not in excess of $5,000,000, and hisAction of Secretary a contractual obligation. action in so doing shall be deemed a contractual obligation of the Federal Government for the payment of the cost thereof. Medical DepartmentMedical Department. armymedical and hospital department For the manufacture and purchase of medical and hospitalMedical and hospital supplies. 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 carePrivate treatment. and treatment not otherwise provided for, including care and subsistence in private hospitals of officers, enlisted men, and civilian employees of the Army, of applicants for enlistment, and of prisoners of war and other persons in military custody or confinement, when entitled thereto by law, regulation, or contract: *Provided*,*Provisos*.Not applicable if on furlough. That this shall not 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 diseasesContagious diseases expenses. 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 female340nurses, not including the Army Nurse Corps, and of cooks and other civilians employed for the proper care of sick officers and soldiers, under such regulations fixing their number, qualifications, assignments, pay, and allowances as shall have been or shall be prescribed by the Secretary of War; for the pay of civilian physicians employed to examine physically applicants for enlistment and enlisted men and to render other professional services from time to time under proper authority; for the pay of other employees of the Medical Transporting medical supplies, etc.Department; for the payment of express companies and local transfers employed directly by the Medical Department for the transportation of medical and hospital supplies, including bidders’ samples and Hot Springs Hospital, Ark.water for analysis; for supplies for use in teaching the art of cooking to the enlisted force of the Medical Department; for the supply of the Army and Navy Hospital at Hot Springs, Arkansas; for advertising, laundry, and all other necessary miscellaneous expenses of the *Proviso*.Use for Medical, etc., History of War with Germany forbidden.Medical Department, $1,251,197: *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 Hospital.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, $40,000: *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. Army Medical Museum.army medical museum Preservation, etc., of specimens.For Army Medical Museum, preservation of specimens, and the preparation and purchase of new specimens, $8,500. Library.library, surgeon general’s office Purchase of books.For the library of the Surgeon General’s office, including the purchase of the necessary books of reference and periodicals, $19,500. Insular Affairs Bureau.Bureau of Insular AffairsArmy Care of insane soldiers.care of insane filipino soldiers In the Philippines.For care, maintenance, and treatment at asylums in the Philippine Islands of insane natives of the Philippine Islands, conformable to the Act of Congress approved May 11, 1908, $400. 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 Regiment of Infantry, $50. 341 Corps of EngineersEngineer Corps. engineer depotsDepots. 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, $90,000. engineer schoolSchool. For equipment and maintenance of the Engineer School, includingEquipment, 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; forIncidental expenses. incidental expenses of the school, including chemicals, stationery, hardware, machinery, and boats; for pay of civilian clerks, draftsmen, electricians, mechanics, and laborers; for compensation of civilian lecturers; for unforeseen expenses; and for travel expensesTravel expenses of officers. of officers on journeys approved by the Secretary of War and made for the purpose of instruction, $22,410: *Provided*, That the traveling*Provisos*.In lieu of mileage. expenses herein provided for shall be in lieu of mileage and other allowances; and for other absolutely necessary expenses: *ProvidedPeriodicals.[R. S., sec. 3648, p. 718](/us/rs/s3648/p718). *further, That section 3648, Revised Statutes, shall not apply to subscriptions for foreign and professional newspapers and periodicals to be paid for from this appropriation. engineer equipment of troopsEquipment of troops. For pontoon material, tools, instruments, supplies, and appliancesMaterials, 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, $325,000. engineer operations in the fieldField operations. For expenses incident to military engineer operations in the field,Incidental expenses. including the purchase of material and a reserve of material for such operations, the rental of storehouses within and outside of the District of Columbia, the operation, maintenance, and repair of horse-drawn and motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles, for services of surveyors, survey parties, draftsmen, photographers,Surveyors, assistants, etc. master laborers, clerks, and other employees to Engineer officers on the staffs of division, corps area, and department commanders, and such expenses as are ordinarily provided for under appropriations for “Engineer depots” and “Military surveys and maps,” $81,223: *Provided*, That when to the interest of the Government, funds*Provisos*.Purchase of options on materials. appropriated under this head may be used for the purchase of options on materials for use in engineer operations in the field: *Provided further*, That so much of this appropriation as is necessary to provideTemporary construction work for training only. 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. 342 Military maps and surveys.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 and for research and development of surveying by means of aerial photography and in field reproduction methods, to be immediately available *Proviso*.Assistance of other offices.and remain available until December 31, 1929, $80,000: *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. Ordnance Department.Ordnance Department Ordnance service.ordnance service Current expenses.For the current expenses of the Ordnance Department in connection with purchasing, receiving, storing, and issuing ordnance and ordnance stores, comprising police and office duties, rents, tolls, fuel, light, water, and advertising, stationery, 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 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 *Proviso*.Consulting engineers authorized.passenger-carrying vehicles, $1,010,430: *Provided*, That the Ordnance Department is hereby authorized to employ, under its various appropriations, not exceeding four consulting engineers as the Secretary of War may deem necessary at rates of pay to be fixed by him not to exceed $50 a day for not exceeding fifty days each and necessary traveling expenses. Ammunition.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, $4,000,000. Manufacture of arms.manufacture of arms At arsenals for issue.For developing, manufacturing, repairing, procuring, and issuing arms at the national armories, $312,848. Ordnance stores and supplies.ordnance stores and supplies Preserving, etc.Purchase for troops.For overhauling, cleaning, repairing, and preserving ordnance and ordnance stores in the hands of troops and at the arsenals, posts, and depots, for purchase and manufacture of ordnance stores to fill requisitions of troops, including materials for cleaning and preserving ordnance and ordnance stores, $675,310. 343 automatic riflesAutomatic rifles. For the development, purchase, manufacture, test, repair, andPurchase, manufacture, etc. 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, 1930, $344,500. tanksTanks. For the development, purchase, manufacture, test, maintenance,Purchase, etc., of, and other armored vehicles. and repair of tanks and other self-propelled armored vehicles, to remain available until June 30, 1930, $245,000. field artillery armamentField Artillery. For development, purchase, manufacture, and test of mountain,Mountain, field, and siege cannon. field, and siege cannon, including their carriages, sights, implements, equipments, and the machinery necessary for their manufacture, $1,152,750. For purchase, manufacture, maintenance, and test of ammunitionAmmunition for. for mountain, field, and siege cannon, including the necessary experiments in connection therewith, the machinery necessary for its manufacture, and the necessary storage facilities, $823,000. For alteration and maintenance of the mobile artillery, includingAltering, etc., mobile artillery. the purchase and manufacture of machinery, tools, and materials necessary for the work and the expenses of the mechanics engaged thereon, $561,200. For purchase, manufacture, and test of subcaliber guns, ammunition,Ammunition for practice. and other accessories for mountain, field, and siege artillery practice, including the machinery necessary for their manufacture, $496,587. proving grounds, armyProving grounds. For current expenses of the ordnance proving grounds, comprisingCurrent expenses. 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, $169,000. rock island bridge, rock island, illinoisRock Island, Ill. For operating, repair, and preservation of Rock Island bridgesOperating, etc., bridges. and viaduct, and maintenance and repair of the arsenal street connecting the bridges, $35,000. moline-rock island bridgeMoline-Rock Island Bridge. For repairs and alterations, including construction of a draw orRepairs and alterations. lift span in the aid of navigation, of the bridge connecting the city of Moline, Illinois, with Rock Island, Illinois, to be available immediately, $50,000. testing machinesTesting 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, $20,000. 344 Arsenals.repairs of arsenals Repairs, etc.For repairs and improvement of arsenals and depots, and to meet such unforeseen expenditures as accidents or other contingencies during the year may render necessary, including machinery for manufacturing purposes in the arsenals, $800,000. Gauges, dies, and jigs.gauges, dies, and jigs for manufacture Procuring, for armament manufacture.For the development and procurement of gauges, dies, jigs, and other special aids and appliances, including specifications and detailed Vol. 39, p. 215.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, $75,000. 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, fuels, 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 Organizing special gas troops.for in advance; for expenses incidental to the organization, training, and equipment of special gas troops not otherwise provided for, including the training of the Army in chemical warfare, both offensive and defensive, together with the necessary schools, tactical demonstrations, Current expenses.and maneuvers; for current expenses of chemical projectile filling plants and proving grounds, including construction and maintenance of rail transportation, repairs, alterations, accessories, building and repairing butts and targets, clearing and grading ranges, $1,304,780. Chief of Infantry Infantry School, Fort Benning, Ga.infantry school, fort benning, georgia Instruction expenses.For the purchase of textbooks, books of reference, scientific and professional papers; instruments and material for instruction, employment of temporary, technical, special, and clerical services, and for the necessary expenses of instruction at the Infantry School, Fort Benning, Georgia, $37,262. Tank service.tank service Civilian employees.For payment of the necessary civilian employees to assist in handling the clerical work in the office of the tank center, tank schools, and the various tank organization headquarters, including the office of the Chief of Infantry; and for the payment of the necessary mechanics to assist in repairing and preserving tanks in the hands of tank units, $25,113. Tank schools.Incidental expenses in connection with the operation of the tank schools, $1,300. 345 Chief of CavalryCavalry School, Fort Riley, Kans. cavalry school, fort riley, kansas For the purchase of textbooks, books of reference, scientific andInstruction 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, $18,650. Chief of Field Artillery field artillery school, fort sill, oklahomaField Artillery School, Fort Sill, Okla. For the purchase of textbooks, books of reference, scientific andInstruction expenses. professional papers, instruments, and material for instruction; employment of temporary, technical, special, and clerical services; and for other necessary expenses of instruction at the Field Artillery School at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, $20,756. instruction in field artillery activitiesField Artillery activties. To provide means for the theoretical and practical instructionInstruction at brigade firing centers. in Field Artillery activities at the two brigade firing centers at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, and Fort Bragg, North Carolina, by the purchase of modern instruments and material for theoretical and practical instruction, 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, $3,440. Chief of Coast ArtilleryChief of Coast Artillery. coast artillery school, fort monroe, virginiaCoast Artillery School, Fort Monroe, Va. For purchase of engines, generators, motors, machines, measuringInstruction expenses. and nautical instruments, special apparatus, and materials and for experimental purposes for the engineering and artillery and military art departments and enlisted specialists division; for purchase and binding of professional books treating of military and scientific subjects for library, for use of school, and for temporary use in coast defenses; for incidental expenses of the school, including chemicals, stationery, printing and binding; hardware; materials; cost of special instruction of officers detailed as instructors; employment of temporary, technical, or special services; for office furniture and fixtures, machinery, and motor trucks; and unforeseen expenses; in all, $28,720: *Provided*, That section 3648, Revised Statutes, shall not apply to*Provisos*.Publications.[R. S., sec. 3648, p. 718](/us/rs/s3648/p718). subscriptions for foreign and professional newspapers and periodicals to be paid for from this appropriation: *Provided further*, That purchaseSpecial typewriter prices. 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. United States Military AcademyMilitary Academy. pay of military academyPay. Permanent, establishment: For eight professors, $30,500; chaplain,Professors, etc. $4,000; constructing quartermaster, in addition to his regular pay, $1,000; additional pay of professors and officers for length of service, $11,750; subsistence allowance of professors and officers, $3,942; in all, $51,192. 346 Cadets.For cadets, $907,920. Civilians.Civilians: For pay of employees, $237,718. Disbursing and accounting.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. Maintenance.maintenance, united states military academy Designated expenses.For text and reference books for instruction; increase and expense of library (not exceeding $6,000); office equipment and supplies; stationery, blank books, forms, printing and binding, and periodicals; diplomas for graduates (not exceeding $1,100); expense of lectures; apparatus, equipment, supplies, and materials for purposes of instruction and athletics, and maintenance and repair thereof; musical instruments and maintenance of band; care and maintenance of organ; equipment for cadet mess; postage, telephones and telegrams; freight and expressage; transportation of cadets and accepted cadets from their homes to the Military Academy and discharged cadets, including reimbursement of traveling expenses; for payment of commutation of rations for the cadets of the United States Military Academy in lieu of the regular established ration; maintenance of children’s school (not exceeding $11,400); contingencies for superintendent of the academy (not to exceed $3,000); expenses of the members of Board of Visitors.the Board of Visitors (not exceeding $1,500); contingent fund, to be expended under the direction of the Academic Board (not exceeding $500); improvement, repair, and maintenance of buildings and grounds (including roads, walls, and fences); shooting galleries and ranges; cooking, heating, and lighting apparatus and fixtures and operation and maintenance thereof; maintenance of water, sewer, and plumbing systems; maintenance of and repairs to cadet camp; fire extinguishing apparatus; machinery and tools and repair of same; purchase (cost not to exceed $600 each, including the value of a vehicle exchanged), maintenance, repair, and operation of an automobile and one motor truck; policing buildings and grounds; furniture for official purposes at the academy and repair and maintenance thereof; fuel for heat, light, and power; and other necessary incidental expenses in the discretion of the superintendent; in all, $1,110,221. Periodicals, etc.[R. S. sec., 3648, p. 718](/us/rs/s3648/p718).Section 3648, Revised Statutes, shall not apply to subscriptions for foreign, professional, and other newspapers and periodicals to be paid from any of the foregoing appropriations for the Military Academy. Army surplus material, etc., transferred without expense to, for instruction, etc.The Secretary of War is hereby directed to turn over to the United States Military Academy without expense all such surplus material as may be available and necessary for the construction of buildings; also surplus tools and material required for use in the instruction of *Provisos*.Leaves of absence to construction employees.cadets at the academy: *Provided*, That the constructing quartermaster, United States Military Academy, is hereby exempted from all laws and regulations relative to employment and to granting leaves of absence to employees with pay while employed on construction Expenditures without advertising permitted.work at the Military Academy: *Provided further*, That the funds appropriated herein for the United States Military Academy may be expended without advertising when in the opinion of the responsible constructing officer and the superintendent it is more economical and advantageous to the Government to dispense with advertising. 347 Militia BureauMilitia Bureau.National GuardNational Guard. arming, equipping, and training the national guardArming, etc. For procurement of forage, bedding, and so forth, for animalsForage, etc. used by the National Guard, $1,404,720. For compensation of help for care of materials, animals, andCare of animals. equipment, $2,328,553. For expenses, camps of instruction, field and supplemental training,Field training, etc. $9,603,532. For expenses, selected officers and enlisted men, military serviceService schools instruction. schools, $375,000. For pay of property and disbursing officers for the United States,Property, etc., officers. $79,500. For general expenses, equipment, and instruction, National Guard,Equipment and instruction expenses. $773,674. For travel of officers and noncommissioned officers of the RegularTravel, Army officers.*Proviso*.War Department General Staff. Army in connection with the National Guard, $340,000: *Provided*, That not to exceed $2,000 of this sum shall be expended for travel of officers of the War Department General Staff in connection with the National Guard. For transportation of equipment and supplies, $250,000.Transporting supplies. For expenses of enlisted men of the Regular Army on duty withArmy enlisted men. the National Guard, including the hiring of quarters in kind. $488,780. For pay of National Guard (armory drills), $10,700,000.Pay, armory drills. When approved by the Secretary of War 10 per centum of each ofInterchangeable appropriations. the foregoing amounts under the appropriation for “Arming, equipping, and training the National Guard” shall be available interchangeably for expenditure on the objects named, but no one item shall be increased by more than 10 per centum: *Provided*, That*Proviso*.Report thereof to Congress. a report of amounts so transferred between appropriations shall be submitted to the Congress at the first regular session after the close of the fiscal year 1929. arms, uniforms, equipment, and so forth, for field service, national guardField service. To procure by purchase or manufacture and issue from time to timeProcuring arms, etc., for issue.Requisitions from governors. 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, including horses conforming to the Regular Army standards for use of the Cavalry, Field Artillery, and mounted organizations of the National Guard, 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 preservation and use, $5,263,150, of which not less thanNew airplanes, etc. $734,288 shall be available only for the production and purchase of new airplanes and their equipment, spare parts, and accessories: *Provided*, That the Secretary of War is hereby directed to issue*Proviso*.Clothing, equipment, etc., from Army surplus stores. from surplus or reserve stores and material on hand and purchased for the United States Army such articles of clothing and equipment and Field Artillery, Engineer, and Signal material and ammunition348as may be needed by the National Guard organized under the Vol. 39, p. 197.provisions of the Act entitled “An Act for making further and more effectual provision for the national defense, and for other purposes,” Vol. 41, p. 780.approved June 3, 1916, as amended by the Act approved June 4, Without charge to militia appropriations.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 and motor transport, military police, wagon and service companies of the National Guard shall be so reduced that the appropriations made in this Act shall cover the entire cost of maintenance of such units for the National Guard during the fiscal year 1929. Organized Reserves.ORGANIZED RESERVES Officers’ Reserve Corps.Pay, etc., for 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, $2,583,667; For pay and allowances of members of the Officers’ Reserve Corps on active duty for more than fifteen days in accordance with law, $673,552 Mileage, etc., allowances.For mileage, reimbursement of actual traveling expenses, or per diem allowances in lieu thereof as authorized by law, $463,614. *Proviso*.Limit.*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, $3,720,833. Enlisted Reserve Corps.Pay, etc.Enlisted Reserve Corps: For pay, transportation, subsistence, clothing, and medical and hospital treatment, $100. Correspondence courses.Correspondence courses: For conducting correspondence courses for instruction of members of the Reserve Corps, including necessary supplies, procurement of maps and textbooks, and transportation, $23,000. Training manuals.Manuals: For purchase of training manuals, including Government publications and blank forms, $20,000. Headquarters and training camps.Establishment, maintenance of, etc.Headquarters and camps: For establishment, maintenance, and operation of divisional and regimental headquarters and of camps for training of the Organized Reserves; for miscellaneous expenses incident to the administration of the Organized Reserves, including the maintenance and operation of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles; for the actual and necessary expenses, or per diem in lieu thereof, at rates authorized by law, incurred by officers and enlisted men of the Regular Army traveling on duty in connection with the Organized Reserves; for reimbursement for the use, including upkeep and depreciation costs, of supplies, equipment, and materiel furnished in accordance with law from stocks under the control of the War Department, except that not to exceed $194,087 of this appropriation shall be available for expenditure by the Chief of the Air Corps Purchase of new airplanes, etc.for the production and purchase of new airplanes and their equipment, spare parts, and accessories; for transportation of baggage, including packing and crating, of reserve officers on active duty for Medical and hospital treatment, etc., if injured in line of duty.not less than six months; for medical and hospital treatment, continuation of pay and allowances not to exceed six months, and transportation when fit for travel to their homes of members of the Officers’ Reserve Corps and Enlisted Reserve Corps of the Army injured in line of duty while on active duty under proper orders or while voluntarily participating in aerial flights in Government-owned aircraft by proper authority as an incident to their military training, and for the preparation and transportation to their homes Burial expenses.and burial expenses of the remains of members of the Organized349Reserves who die while on active duty, as provided in section 4 ofVol. 43, p. 364.Additional reappropriation. the Act of June 3, 1924, $1,539,650 and in addition thereto there is hereby reappropriated and made available for this purpose the sum of $150,000 of unexpended balances for “Organized Reserves, 1926 and 1927”: *Provided*, That not to exceed $100,000 of this amount*Proviso*.Divisional, etc., headquarters. may be used for establishment and maintenance of divisional and regimental headquarters. None of the funds appropriated elsewhere in this Act except forOther funds not to be used. printing and binding and for pay and allowances of officers and enlisted men of the Regular Army shall be used for expenses in connection with the Organized Reserves, but available supplies and existing facilities at military posts shall be utilized to the fullest extent possible. No portion of the appropriation shall be expended for the pay ofPay period for officers. a reserve officer on active duty for a longer period than fifteen days, except such as may be detailed for duty with the War DepartmentDepartment General Staff duty.Vol. 41, pp. 760, 765.Other details. General Staff under section 3a and section 5
(b)of the Army Reorganization Act approved June 4, 1920, or who may be detailed for courses of instruction at the general or special service schools of the Army, or who may be detailed for duty as instructors at civilian military training camps, appropriated for in this Act, or who may be detailed for duty with tactical units of the Air Corps, as providedAir corps.Vol. 41, p. 776. in section 37a of the Army Reorganization Act approved June 4, 1920: *Provided*, That the pay and allowances of such additional*Proviso*.Medical Reserve Corps for Veterans’ Bureau patients in Army hospitals. 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 WarPayment from Army funds. Department by that bureau under existing law. CITIZENS’ MILITARY TRAININGCitizens’ military training. reserve officers’ training corpsReserve Officers’ Training Corps. For the procurement, maintenance, and issue, under such regulationsQuartermaster supplies for 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 transportingTraining camp expenses. 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 purchase of training manuals, including Government publications and blank forms; for the establishment and maintenance of camps for the further practical instruction of the members of the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps, and for transporting members of such corps to and from such camps, and to subsist them while traveling to and from such camps and while remaining therein so far as appropriations will permit or, in lieu of transporting them to and from such camps andCommutation of travel allowances. 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 reimbursement for the use, including upkeep and depreciation costs, of supplies, equipment, and materiel furnished in350accordance with law from stocks under the control of the War Department; for pay for students attending advanced camps at the rate prescribed for soldiers of the seventh grade of the Regular Subsistence commutation to senior division members.Army; for the payment of commutation of subsistence to members of the senior division of the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps, at a rate not exceeding the cost of the garrison ration prescribed for the Vol. 39, p. 193; Vol. 41, p. 779.Medical and hospital treatment if injured in line of duty.Army, as authorized in the Act approved June 3, 1916, as amended by the Act approved June 4, 1920; for medical and hospital treatment, subsistence until furnished transportation, and transportation when fit for travel to their homes of members of the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps injured in line of duty while at camps of instruction Vol. 41, pp. 778, 779.under the provisions of section 47a and section 47d of the National Defense Act approved June 3, 1916, as amended; and for the cost of Burial expenses.preparation and transportation to their homes and burial expenses of the remains of members of the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps Vol. 43, p. 365.who die while attending camps of instruction as provided in section 4 of the Act approved June 3, 1924; and for the cost of maintenance, repair, and operation of passenger-carrying vehicles, $2,970,000, to *Provisos*.Uniforms, etc., from Army surplus stocks.remain available until December 31, 1929: *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 incurred Price current to govern payments.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 Additional mounted units forbidden.price current at the time the issue is made: *Provided further*, That none of the funds appropriated in this Act shall be used for the organization or maintenance of an additional number of mounted, motor transport, or tank units in the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps: Use of other funds forbidden.*Provided further*, That none of the funds appropriated elsewhere in this Act, except for printing and binding and pay and allowances of officers and enlisted men of the Regular Army, shall be used for expenses in connection with the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps: Transporting students to national rifle match.*Provided further*, That not to exceed $100 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, equipment, etc., to.Vol. 41, p. 780.[R. S., sec. 1225, p. 216](/us/rs/s1225/p216).For the procurement and issue as provided in section 55c of the Act approved June 4, 1920, and in section 1225, Revised Statutes, as amended, under such regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary of War, to schools and colleges, other than those provided Vol. 41, p. 776.for in section 40 of the Act above referred to, of such arms, tentage, and equipment, and of ammunition, targets, and target materials, includ.ng the transporting of same, and the overhauling and repair of articles issued, as the Secretary of War shall deem necessary for proper military training in said schools and colleges, $8,900. Citizens’ Military Training Camps.citizens’ military training camps Uniforms, transportation expenses, etc., 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 47d 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,351subsistence, and transportation, or in lieu of such transportation and of subsistence for travel to and from camps travel allowances at 5 cents per mile, as prescribed in said section 47d; for such expenditures as are authorized by said section 47d as may be necessary for the establishment and maintenance of said camps, including recruitingMaintenance. and advertising therefor, and the cost of maintenance, repair, and operation of passenger-carrying vehicles; for reimbursement for the use, including upkeep and depreciation costs, of supplies, equipment, and materiel furnished in accordance with law from stocks under the control of the War Department; for gymnasium and athletic supplies (not exceeding $15,000); for mileage, reimbursement of traveling expenses, or allowance in lieu thereof as authorized by law, for officers of the Regular Army and Organized Reserves, traveling on duty in connection with citizens’ military training camps; for purchase of training manuals, including Government publications and blank forms; for medical and hospital treatment,Medical and hospital treatment if injured in line of duty.Vol. 41, pp. 778, 779.Vol. 43, p. 365. subsistence until furnished transportation, and when fit for travel, travel allowances at 5 cents per mile to their homes of members of the citizens’ military training camps injured in line of duty while attending camps of instruction under the provisions of section 47a and section 47d of the National Defense Act approved June 3, 1916, as amended, and for the cost of preparation and transportation to their homes and burial expenses of the remains of civilians who die while attending camps of instruction, as provided in section 4 of the Act approved June 3, 1924; in all, $2,801,240, to remain available until December 31, 1929: *Provided*, That the number of trainees*Provisos*.Number of trainees. shall not exceed the number which can be trained by the expenditure of this sum: *And provided*, That the funds herein appropriated shallAge limitation. not be used for the training of any person in the first year, or lowest course, who shall have reached his twenty-fourth birthday before the date of enrollment: *Provided further*, That none ofUse of other funds forbidden. the funds appropriated elsewhere in this Act except for printing and binding and for pay and allowances of officers and enlisted men of the Regular Army shall be used for expenses in connection with citizens’ military training camps: *Provided further*, ThatUniforms, etc., from Army surplus stocks. uniforms and other equipment or materiel 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*,Price current to govern payments. That in no case shall the amount paid from this appropriation for uniforms, equipment, or materiel 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 reserveUse of Army reserve supplies restricted. 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, ArmyPromotion of rifle practice. national matches For every expenditure requisite for and incident to the conductExpenses of national matches and Small Arms Firing School.Vol. 39, p. 211; Vol. 43, p. 510; Vol. 44, p.1095. of the national matches and the maintenance and operation of the Small Arms Firing School held in conjunction therewith as authorized by section 113
(c)of the National Defense Act (Act of June 3, 1916, as amended by the Act of June 7, 1924, and February 14, 1927), except the pay and allowances of officers and of enlisted men352of the Regular Army who are on duty in any capacity in connection with the national matches and the Small Arms Firing School, and except the subsistence of enlisted men of the Regular Army who are not members of authorized teams, which pay, allowances, and subsistence Equipment, supplies, etc.shall be paid from other funds appropriated for that purpose, including procurement and installation of equipment, ammunition, supplies, materials, flooring and frames for tents, construction of shooting galleries, and shelters for rifle practice; nonstructural improvements; repairs and alterations to buildings, water system, sewer and lighting systems; repairs and alterations to equipment Pay and allowances of National Guard, etc., participating in matches.and supplies; communication service; pay and allowance of officers and enlisted men of the National Guard participating in the national matches and the Small Arms Firing School from the date of departure from their homes to the date of return thereto; pay and allowance of reserve officers called to active duty in connection with the national matches and the Small Arms Firing School; personal and Subsistence of teams.nonpersonal services; subsistence, including commutation of rations to authorized teams from the National Guard, Organized Reserve, Reserve Officers’ Training Corps, citizens’ military training camps, and civilian teams representing the States and including the enlisted men of teams from the Regular Army from the date of departure from their homes or stations to the date of return thereto at the rate not exceeding $1.50 per day each; transportation, including repair, operation, and maintenance of motor-propelled and Travel of authorized teams, etc.animal-drawn vehicles; travel of authorized teams representing the Regular Army, National Guard, Organized Reserve, Reserve Officers’ Training Corps, citizens’ military training camps, and civilian teams representing States, including officers and enlisted men of the Regular Army; travel of commissioned and enlisted personnel of the Regular Army; National Guard, and Organized Reserve on duty in connection with the national matches and the Reimbursement of travel expenses to and from matches.Small Arms Firing School, including mileage of officers; reimbursement of travel expenses or allowance in lieu thereof as authorized by law for officers of the Regular Army and Organized Reserve; travel of civilian employees to and from the national matches, including a per diem allowance in lieu of subsistence while traveling Unexpended balances reappropriated.to and from said matches and while on duty thereat; all to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War, there is hereby reappropriated the sum of $500,000 of unexpended balances Vol. 43, pp. 508, 507, 923.of appropriations and in amounts as follows: “Citizens’ Military Training Camps, 1925”, $100,000; “Reserve Officers’ Training Corps, 1925”, $290,000;“Reserve Officers’ Training Corps, 1926”, $110,000; which funds are in full for the conduct, operation, and maintenance of the national matches and the competitions and Small Arms Firing School held in conjunction therewith, except as may be specifically; *Provisos*.Travel allowance for teams by automobile or train.provided for in other appropriations: *Provided*, That members of authorized civilian teams traveling by train or automobile may be paid travel allowance at the rate of 5 cents per mile, which shall include subsistence while traveling, for the distance by the shortest usually traveled route from the places from which they are authortized to proceed to the national matches and for the return travel Advance for return travel.thereto: *Provided further*, That the payment of travel pay for the return journey may be made in advance of the actual performance of the return travel. Civilian instruction.quartermaster supplies and services for rifle ranges for civilian instruction Quartermaster supplies for rifle ranges, etc.To establish and maintain indoor and outdoor rifle ranges for the use of all able-bodied males capable of bearing arms, under reasonable regulations to be prescribed by the National Board for the Pro-353motion of Rifle Practice and approved by the Secretary of War; for the employment of labor in connection with the establishment of outdoor and indoor rifle ranges, including labor in operating targets; for the employment of instructors; for clerical services,Instructors, etc. including not exceeding $20,000 in the District of Columbia; for badges and other insignia; for the transportation of employees, instructors, and civilians to engage in practice; for the purchase of materials, supplies, and services, and for expenses incidental to instruction of citizens of the United States in marksmanship, and their participation in national and international matches, to beParticipation in matches. expended under the direction of the Secretary of War, and to remain available until expended, $6,875. national trophy and medals for rifle contestsRifle contests. For furnishing a national trophy, medals, prizes, and other necessaryFurnishing national trophy, medals, etc. expenses for the promotion of rifle practice throughout the United States in accordance with the provisions of the Act approvedVol. 44, p. 1095. February 14, 1927, $7,500. ordnance equipment for rifle ranges for civilian instructionOrdnance equipment. For arms, ammunition, targets, and other accessories for targetArms, ammunition, etc., for target practice at rifle ranges, etc. practice, for issue and sale in accordance with rules and regulations prescribed by the National Board for the Promotion of Rifle Practice and approved by the Secretary of War, in connection with the encouragement of rifle practice, in pursuance of the provisions of law, $200,000. No part of the appropriations made in this Act shall be availableNo pay to officers, etc., using time measuring devices on work of employees. for the salary or pay of any officer, manager, superintendent, foreman, or other person having charge of the work of any employee of the United States Government while making or causing to be made with a stop watch, or other time-measuring device, a time study of any job of any such employee between the starting and completion thereof, or of the movements of any such employee while engaged upon such work; nor shall any part of the appropriations made inCash rewards restricted. this Act be available to pay any premiums or bonus or cash reward to any employee in addition to his regular wages, except for suggestions resulting in improvements or economy in the operation of any Government plant. TITLE II.— NONMILITARY ACTIVITIES OF THE WARNonmilitary activities. DEPARTMENT Finance DepartmentFinance Department. For amount required to make monthly payments to Jennie Carroll,Jennie Carroll. widow of James Carroll, late major, United States Army, $1,500. 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. For amount required to make monthly payments to Clyde L.Clyde L. West. West, late of Company B, Eighth Infantry, and Hospital Corps, United States Army, $1,200. 354 Quartermaster Corps.Quartermaster Corps National cemeteries.national cemeteries Maintenance.For maintaining and improving national cemeteries, including fuel for superintendents, pay of superintendents, including the superintendent at Mexico City, laborers and other employees, purchase of Arlington, Va.tools and materials, and including care and maintenance of the Arlington Memorial Amphitheater and Chapel and grounds in the Cemeteries abroad.Arlington National Cemetery, Virginia, and permanent American military cemeteries abroad, $520,325. Chalmette, La.Chalmette National Cemetery, Louisiana: For moving and construction Changes authorized.of buildings, preparing new addition for interments, reinterments, and necessary changes and improvements incident to providing a right of way through the Chalmette National Cemetery, Chalmette, Louisiana, for the construction of a new levee by the State of Louisiana, $32,000. Lee Mansion, Arlington, Va.Survey, etc., of, for restoration.Restoration of the Lee Mansion, Arlington National Cemetery, Virginia: For making an investigation and survey to determine the condition of the buildings and the repairs necessary, and for commencing Vol. 43, p. 1356.the restoration of the Lee Mansion, as authorized in Public Resolution Numbered 74, approved March 4, 1925, $10,000. Repairs to roadways.*Provisos*.Encroachments by railroads forbidden.For repairs to roadways to national cemeteries which have been constructed by special authority of Congress, $15,000: *Provided*, That no railroad shall be permitted upon the right of way which may have been acquired by the United States to a national cemetery, or to encroach upon any roads or walks constructed thereon and Repairs restricted.maintained by the United States: *Provided further*, That no part of this sum shall be used for repairing any roadway not owned by the United States within the corporate limits of any city, town, or village. Limited to one approach.No part of any appropriation for national cemeteries or the repair of roadways thereto shall be expended in the maintenance of more than a single approach to any national cemetery. Headstones for soldiers’, etc., graves.For continuing the work of furnishing headstones of durable stone or other durable material for unmarked graves of Union and Confederate soldiers, sailors, and marines, and soldiers, sailors, and marines of all other wars in national, post, city, town, and village cemeteries, naval cemeteries at navy yards and stations of the United [R. S., sec. 4877, p. 944](/us/rs/s4877/p944).Vol. 20, p. 281; Vol. 34, p. 56.Civilians.States, 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 Confederates.furnishing headstones for the unmarked graves of Confederate soldiers, sailors, and marines in national cemeteries, $140,000. Antietam battle field.Preservation, etc.For repair and preservation of monuments, tablets, observation tower, roads, and fences, and so forth, made and constructed by the United States upon public lands within the limits of the Antietam Superintendent.battle field, near Sharpsburg, Maryland, and for pay of superintendent, said superintendent to perform his duties under the direction of the Quartermaster Corps and to be selected and appointed by the Secretary of War, at his discretion, the person selected for this position to have been either a commissioned officer or enlisted man who has been honorably mustered out or discharged from the military service of the United States and who may have been disabled for active field service in line of duty, $6,500. Disposition of remains of officers, etc.Disposition of remains of officers, soldiers, and civilian employees: For interment, cremation (only upon request from relatives *Ante*, p. 251.of the deceased), or of preparation and transportation to their homes or to such national cemeteries as may be designated by proper355authority, 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 theRecovery of bodies.*Ante*, p. 248.Removal from abandoned posts, etc. United States; for recovery of bodies; 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, abandoned graves, or abandoned private and city cemeteries; and in any case where the expenses of burial or shipment of the remains of officers or enlisted men of the Army who die on the active list are borne by individuals, where such expenses would have been lawful claims against the Government, reimbursement to suchReimbursement to individuals. individuals may be made of the amount allowed by the Government for such services out of this sum, but no reimbursement shall be made of such expenses incurred prior to July 1, 1910; for expenses of theAmerican cemeteries in Great Britain and France. segregation of bodies in permanent American cemeteries in Great Britain and France, $100,000: *Provided*, That the above provisions*Proviso*.Retired officers and enlisted men on active duty included. shall be applicable in the cases of officers and enlisted men on the retired list of the Army who have died or may hereafter die while on active duty by proper assignment. Confederate Mound, Oakwood Cemetery, Chicago, Illinois: ForConfederate Mound, Chicago, Ill. care, protection, and maintenance of the plat of ground known as Confederate Mound in Oakwood Cemetery, Chicago, Illinois, $500. For care, protection, and maintenance of Confederate StockadeConfederate Stockade Cemetery, Ohio. Cemetery, Johnstons Island, in Sandusky Bay, Ohio, $350. Confederate burial plats: For care, protection, and maintenanceConfederate burial plats. of Confederate burial plats, owned by the United States, located and known by the following designations: Confederate Cemetery, North Alton, Illinois; Confederate Cemetery, Camp Chase, Columbus, Ohio; Confederate section, Greenlawn Cemetery, Indianapolis, Indiana;*Post*, p. 533. Confederate Cemetery, Point Lookout, Maryland; and Confederate Cemetery, Rock Island, Illinois, $1,250. For repairs and preservation of monuments, tablets, roads, fences,Burial places in Cuba and China. and so forth, made and constructed by the United States in Cuba and China to mark the places where American soldiers fell, $1,000. National Military ParksMilitary Parks. chickamauga and chattanooga national military parkChickamauga and Chattanooga. For continuing the establishment of the park; compensation and,Continuing establishment of. expenses of the superintendent, maps, surveys, clerical and other assistance; maintenance, repair, and operation of one motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicle; maintenance, repair, and operation of 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, including posts and guard rails on highways, $60,000. 356 Gettysburg.gettysburg national military park Continuing establishment of.For continuing the establishment of the park; acquisition of lands, surveys, and maps; constructing, improving, and maintaining avenues, roads, and bridges thereon; fences and gates; marking the lines of battle with tablets and guns, each tablet bearing a brief legend giving historic facts and compiled without censure and without praise; preserving the features of the battle field and the monuments thereon; compensation of superintendent, clerical and other services, expenses, and labor; purchase and preparation of tablets and gun carriages and placing them in position; maintenance, repair, and operation of a motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicle, and all other expenses incident to the foregoing, $53,026. Guilford Courthouse.guilford courthouse national military park Continuing establishment of.Vol. 39, p. 996.For continuing the establishment of a national military park at the battle field of Guilford Courthouse, in accordance with the Act entitled “An Act to establish a national military park at the battle field of Guilford Courthouse,” approved March 2, 1917, $9,250. Moores Creek.moores creek national military park Continuing establishment of.Vol. 44, p. 684.For continuing the establishment of a national military park at the battle field of Moores Creek, North Carolina, in accordance with the Act entitled “An Act to establish a national military park at the battle field of Moores Creek, North Carolina,” approved June 2, 1926, $5,000. Shiloh.shiloh national military park Continuing establishment of.For continuing the establishment of the park; compensation of superintendent of the park; clerical and other services; labor; historical tablets; maps and surveys; roads; purchase and transportation of supplies, implements, and materials; foundations for monuments; office and other necessary expenses, including maintenance, repair, and operation of one motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicle, and replacement by exchange of one such vehicle at a cost not to exceed $600, including the value of the vehicle exchanged, $30,472. Stones River.stones river national military park Commencing establishment of.Vol. 44, p. 1399.For commencing the establishment of a national military park at the battle field of Stones River, Tennessee, as authorized by the Act approved March 3, 1927, including the condemnation, purchase, or lease of the necessary lands, surveys, maps, marking the boundaries of the park, opening, constructing, or repairing necessary roads; pay and expenses of civilian commissioners, salaries for clerical and other service; traveling expenses, purchase (at a cost not to exceed $600), maintenance, repair, and operation of one passenger-carrying vehicle, and other necessary expenses, $95,000, to remain available until expended. Vicksburg.vicksburg national military park Continuing establishment of.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 of357earthworks, purchase of lands, purchase and transportation of supplies and materials; and other necessary expenses, including purchase (not to exceed $600), maintenance, repair, and operation of one motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicle, $23,476. national monumentsNational monuments. For maintaining and improving national monuments established byMaintaining, etc.Vol. 34, p. 225. proclamation of the President under the Act of June 8, 1906 (Thirty-fourth Statutes, page 225), and administered by the Secretary of War, including Fort McHenry, Maryland, including pay of the caretakers,Fort McHenry, Md., included. laborers, and other employees, purchase of tools and materials, light, heat, and power, $23,284, of which not to exceed $300 may be paid to the superintendent of the Shiloh National Military Park,Meriwether Lewis.Superintendent.*Post*, p. 3033. in addition to his salary as such superintendent, for performing the duties of superintendent of the Meriwether Lewis National Monument. Monument on Kill Devil Hill, Kitty Hawk, North Carolina:Kitty Hawk, N. C.Acquiring site, etc., on Kill Devil Hill.*Post*, p. 1666. To commence the work preliminary to the acquisition of a suitable site, surveys, preparation of designs, and all necessary expenses incident to the erection of a monument on Kill Devil Hill at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, in commemoration of the first successful human attempt in all history at power-driven airplane flight, in accordance with the Act entitled “An Act providing for the erectionVol. 44, p. 1264. of a monument on Kill Devil Hill at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, commemorative of the first successful human attempt in history at power-driven airplane flight,” approved March 2, 1927, $25,000: *Provided*, That not to exceed $5,000 of this sum may be expended*Proviso*.Purchase of plans, etc. for the purchase of plans, drawings, and specifications for the erection of this monument by open competition, under such conditions as the commission may prescribe. Chalmette Monument, Chalmette, Louisiana: For the constructionChalmette, La.Roadway, etc., on monument grounds. of a roadway and walk on the grounds owned by the United States, to and around the Chalmette Monument at Chalmette, in accordance with the Act entitled “An Act authorizing an appropriation forVol. 44, p. 1381. the construction of a roadway and walk leading to and around the Chalmette Monument, Chalmette, Louisiana,” approved March 3, 1927, $15,000. Signal CorpsSignal Corps. washington-alaska military cable and telegraph systemWashington-Alaska cable, etc. For defraying the cost of such extensions, betterments, operation,Operation, etc. 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 1930, from the receiptsFrom 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, $159,080. Medical DepartmentMedical Department. Artificial limbs: For furnishing artificial limbs and apparatus,Artificial limbs. or commutation therefor, and necessary transportation, $44,250. Appliances for disabled soldiers: For furnishing surgical appliancesSurgical appliances. to persons disabled in the military or naval service of the United States prior to April 6, 1917, or subsequent to July 1, 1921, and not entitled to artificial limbs or trusses for the same disabilities, $600. 358 Trusses.Trusses for disabled soldiers: For trusses for persons entitled [R. S., sec. 1176, p. 211](/us/rs/s1176/p211).Vol. 20, p. 353.thereto under section 1176, Revised Statutes of the United States, and the Act amendatory thereof, approved March 3, 1879, $300. Medical and Surgical History of World War.medical and surgical history of the world war Preparation of.Toward the preparation for publication under the direction of the Secretary of War of a medical and surgical history of the war with Germany, including personal services, $9,480. Engineer Corps.Corps of Engineers Washington’s birthplace.birthplace of george washington, wakefield, virginia Care of monument, etc.For maintenance, care, and improvement of reservation and monument, $3,500. California Débris Commission.california débris commission Expenses.Vol. 27, p. 507.For defraying the expenses of the commission in carrying on the work authorized by the Act approved March 1, 1893, $15,000. Alaska.construction and maintenance of roads, bridges, and trails, alaska Roads, bridges, trails, etc., in.Construction expenses, etc., under road commissioners.Vol. 34, p. 192.For the construction, repair, and maintenance of roads, tramways, ferries, bridges, and trails, Territory of Alaska, to be expended under the direction of the Board of Road Commissioners described in section 2 of an Act entitled “An Act to provide for the construction and maintenance of roads, the establishment and maintenance of schools, and the care and support of insane persons in the District of Alaska, and for other purposes” approved January 27, 1905, as amended by the Act approved May 14, 1906, and to be expended conformably to the provisions of said Act as amended, $825,000, to be available immediately. Lowell Creek, Alaska.protection of government property adjacent to lowell creek, alaska Protection of Government property.Vol. 44, p. 1066.For every expenditure requisite for and incidental to the regulation of Lowell Creek, Alaska, as authorized by Public Resolution Numbered 52, approved February 9, 1927, to be available immediately, *Proviso*.Local interests to contribute.$100,000: *Provided*, That no part of this appropriation shall be expended or obligated until the sum of $25,000 shall have been contributed by the town of Seward or other local interests to be benefited. Rivers and harbors.rivers and harbors Appropriations immediately available.To be immediately available and to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War and the supervision of the Chief of Engineers: Miami, Fla.Reimbursement to, for loan for harbor improvement.Vol. 43, p. 1187.Harbor reimbursement: To pay the city of Miami, out of any funds available in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for part reimbursement of the $1,605,000 advanced or loaned to the Government by said city for the improvement of Miami Harbor, under the provisions of the River and Harbor Act approved March 3, 1925, $605,000. Preserving, constructing, etc., authorized projects.For the preservation and maintenance of existing river and harbor works, and for the prosecution of such projects heretofore authorized, as may be most desirable in the interests of commerce and Boundary waters, etc., surveys.navigation; for survey of northern and northwestern lakes, Lake of the Woods, and other boundary and connecting waters between the said lake and Lake Superior, Lake Champlain, and the natural navigable waters embraced in the navigation system of the New359York canals, including all necessary expenses for preparing, correcting, extending, printing, binding, and issuing charts and bulletins and of investigating lake levels with a view to their regulation; for examinations, surveys, and contingencies of rivers and harbors,Examinations surveys, etc. provided that no funds shall be expended for any preliminary examination, survey, project, or estimate not authorized by law; and forNew York Harbor deposits. the prevention of obstructive and injurious deposits within the harbor and adjacent waters of New York City, for pay of inspectors, deputy inspectors, crews, and office force, and for maintenance of patrol fleet and expenses of office, $55,886,310. muscle shoalsMuscle Shoals. For operating, maintaining, and keeping in repair the works atOperating, etc., works at Dam No. 2, Tennessee River. Dam Numbered 2, Tennessee River, including the hydroelectrical development, $275,000, to remain available until June 30, 1929, and to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War and the supervision of the Chief of Engineers. flood reliefFlood relief. Flood relief, Mississippi River: For the reimbursement of fundsMississippi River.Reimbursing local interests of funds used for emergency levee work on account of flood of 1927. contributed by local interests to the Mississippi River Commission, and used for emergency levee construction and repair work on the lower Mississippi River on account of the flood of 1927, $1,500,000, to be immediately available and to be expended by the Mississippi River Commission: *Provided*, That the provisions of the Flood*Proviso*.Requirement for contribution by local interests, waived.Vol. 39, p. 948. Control Act approved March 1, 1917, in so far as they forbid expenditures by the Mississippi River Commission for levee work unless local interests contribute one-third the cost thereof, shall not apply to emergency levee work done, or to be done, on account of the flood of 1927. flood controlFlood control. Flood control, Mississippi River: For prosecuting work of floodMississippi River.Vol. 39, p. 948; Vol. 42, p. 1505. control in accordance with the provisions of the Flood Control Acts approved March 1, 1917, and March 4, 1923, $10,000,000. Flood control, Sacramento River, California: For prosecutingSacramento River, Calif.Vol. 39, p. 948. work of flood control in accordance with the provisions of the Flood Control Act approved March 1, 1917, $400,000. National Home for Disabled Volunteer SoldiersNational Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers. For support of the National Home for Disabled VolunteerSupport. Soldiers, as follows: Central Branch, Dayton, Ohio: Current expenses: For pay ofDayton, Ohio.Current expenses. officers and noncommissioned officers of the home, with such exceptions as are hereinafter noted, and their clerks, weighmasters, and orderlies; chaplains, religious instruction, and entertainment for the members of the home, printers, bookbinders, librarians, musicians, telegraph and telephone operators, guards, janitors, watchmen, fire company, and property and materials purchased for their use, including repairs; articles of amusement, library books, magazines, papers, pictures, musical instruments, and repairs not done by the home; stationery, advertising, legal advice, payments due heirs of deceased members: *Provided*, That all receipts on account of the*Proviso*.Receipts from deceased members. effects of deceased members during the fiscal year shall also be available for such payments; and for such other expenditures as can not properly be included under other heads of expenditure, $83,500; 360 Subsistence.Subsistence: For pay of commissary sergeants, commissary clerks, porters, laborers, bakers, cooks, dishwashers, waiters, and others employed in the subsistence department; food supplies purchased for the subsistence of the members of the home and civilian employees regularly employed and residing at the branch, 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, $430,000; Household.Household: For furniture for officers’ quarters; bedsteads, bedding, bedding material, and all other articles, including repairs, required in the quarters of the members and of civilian employees permanently employed and residing at the branch; fuel; water; engineers and firemen, bathhouse keepers, janitors, laundry employees, and for all labor, materials, and appliances required for household use, and repairs, if not repaired by the home, $200,000; Hospital.Hospital: For pay of medical officers and assistant surgeons, 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 repairs to hospital furniture and appliances not done by the home, $370,000; Transportation.Transportation: For transportation of members of the home, $1,000; Repairs.Repairs: For pay of chief engineer, builders, blacksmiths, carpenters, 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 *Proviso*.New buildings forbidden.and other improvements of a permanent character, $85,000: *Provided*, That no part of the appropriation for repairs for any of the branch homes shall be used for the construction of any new building; Farm.Farm: For pay of farmer, chief gardener, harness makers, 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 walks, and repairs not done by the home, $28,000; In all, Central Branch, $1,197,500. Specified expenses at branches.For “Current expenses,” “Subsistence,” “Household,” “Hospital,” “Transportation,” “Repairs,” and “Farm,” at the following branches, including the same objects respectively specified herein under each of such heads for the Central Branch, namely: Milwaukee, Wis.Northwestern Branch, Milwaukee, Wisconsin: Current expenses, $69,000; Subsistence, $290,000; Household, $148,000; Hospital, $290,000; Transportation, $500; Repairs, $65,000; Farm, $17,000; In all, Northwestern Branch, $879,500. 361 Eastern Branch, Togus, Maine: Current expenses, $57,500;Togus, Me. Subsistence, $113,000; Household, $105,000; Hospital, $72,000; Transportation, $500; Repairs, $35,000; Farm, $26,000; In all, Eastern Branch, $409,000. Southern Branch, Hampton, Virginia: Current expenses, $65,000;Hampton, Va. Subsistence, $267,000; Household, $130,000; Hospital, $165,000; Transportation, $1,000; Repairs, $50,000; Farm, $16,500; In all, Southern Branch, $694,500. Western Branch, Leavenworth, Kansas: Current expenses, $71,600;Leavenworth, Kans. Subsistence, $245,000; Household, $145,000 ; Hospital, $150,000; Transportation, $500; Repairs, $66,000; Farm, $25,200; In all, Western Branch, $703,300. Pacific Branch, Santa Monica, California: Current expenses,Santa Monica, Calif. $80,000; Subsistence, $492,000; Household, $145,000; Hospital, $392,000; Transportation, $1,000; Repairs, $70,000; Farm, $30,000; For the construction on land now owned by the National HomeConstruction of sanitary mess hall, etc. for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers of a sanitary, fireproof mess hall of a seating capacity of twelve hundred, including kitchen, bakery, and dormitories for employees; such mess hall shall include all necessary buildings with the appropriate mechanical equipment, including service lines, and equipment for heat, light, fuel, water, sewage, and gas, and kitchen, bakery, and mess-hall furniture and equipment, including tableware, as may be approved by the Board of Managers, National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, $200,000, to be immediately available: *Provided*, That the Secretary of the Treasury,*Proviso*.Work by Architect of the Treasury. upon request of the Board of Managers, may have all architectural and inspection work in connection with such mess hall performed by the Office of the Supervising Architect of the Treasury Department and the proper appropriations of that office may be reimbursed from this appropriation on that account; In all, Pacific Branch, $1,410,000. Marion Branch, Marion, Indiana: Current expenses, $57,000;Marion, Ind. Subsistence, $260,000; Household, $105,000; Hospital, $1,006,000, of which sum there shall be available immediatelyConstruction of additional hospital cottages, etc.Vol. 44, p. 1421. $600,000 for the construction of three cottages, with an aggregate capacity of two hundred beds, and $100,000 for the construction of a sanitary fireproof annex to the present hospital with a capacity of fifty beds, including on account of each of such projects the construction of such necessary approach work, roadways, and other facilities leading thereto, heating and ventilating apparatus, furniture, equipment, and accessories, as may be approved by the Board of Managers362Work by Architect of the Treasury.of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers. The Secretary of the Treasury, upon request of the Board of Managers, may have all architectural and inspection work in connection with the work herein provided for performed by the office of the Supervising Architect of the Treasury Department and the proper appropriations of that office may be reimbursed from this appropriation on that account; Transportation, $1,000; Repairs, $55,000; Farm, $20,000; In all, Marion Branch, $1,504,000. Danville, Ill.Danville Branch, Danville, Illinois: Current expenses, $67,500; Subsistence, $225,000; Household, $124,000; Hospital, $112,000; Transportation, $500; Repairs, $55,000; Farm, $16,000; In all, Danville Branch, $600,000. Johnson City, Tenn.Mountain Branch, Johnson City, Tennessee: Current expenses, $57,000; Subsistence, $220,000; Household, $94,000; Hospital, $230,000; Transportation, $500; Repairs, $50,000; Farm, $31,000; In all, Mountain Branch, $682,500. Hot Springs, S. Dak.Battle Mountain Sanitarium, Hot Springs, South Dakota: Current expenses, $45,000; Subsistence, $115,000; Household, $75,000; Hospital, $115,000; Transportation, $500; Repairs, $24,000; Farm, $6,500; In all, Battle Mountain Sanitarium, $381,000. Interchangeable appropriations.When approved by the Board of Managers, 10 per centum of each of the foregoing amounts for the support of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers shall be available interchangeably for expenditure on the objects named, but the total for each home shall not be increased by more than 10 per centum. Clothing, all branches.For clothing for all branches; labor, materials, machines, tools, and appliances employed and for use in the tailor shops and shoe shops or other home shops in which any kind of clothing is made or repaired, $180,000. Board of Managers.Salaries and expenses.Board of Managers: President, $4,000; secretary, $500; general treasurer, who shall not be a member of the Board of Managers, $5,000; chief surgeon, $4,500; assistant general treasurer, $3,500; inspector general, $3,500; clerical services for the offices of the president, general treasurer, chief surgeon, and inspector general, $19,500; clerical services for managers, $2,700; traveling expenses of the Board of Managers, their officers and employees, including officers of branch homes when detailed on inspection work, $14,000; outside relief, $100; legal services, medical examinations, stationery, telegrams, and other incidental expenses, $1,700; in all, $59,000. Total, National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, $8,700,300. 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 of363disabled volunteer soldiers, in conformity with the Act approved August 27, 1888, as amended, including all classes of soldiers admissibleVol. 25, p. 450. to the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, $560,000: *Provided*, That for any sum or sums collected in any manner*Proviso*.Collections from inmates. from inmates of such State or Territorial homes to be used for the support of said homes a like amount shall be deducted from the aid herein provided for, but this proviso shall not apply to any State or Territorial home into which the wives or widows of soldiers are admitted and maintained. The Panama CanalPanama Canal. The limitations on the expenditure of appropriations hereinbeforeLimitations not applicable to appropriations for. made in this Act shall not apply to the appropriations for the Panama Canal. For every expenditure requisite for and incident to the maintenanceAll expenses. and operation, sanitation, and civil government of the Panama Canal and Canal Zone, including the following: Compensation of allObjects specified. officials and employees; foreign and domestic newspapers and periodicals; law books not exceeding $500; textbooks and books of reference; printing and binding, including printing of annual report; rent and personal services in the District of Columbia; purchase or exchange of typewriting, adding, and other machines; purchase or exchange, maintenance, repair, and operation of motor-propelled and horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles; claims forClaims for damages, etc. damages to vessels passing through the locks of the Panama Canal, as authorized by the Panama Canal Act; claims for losses of or damages to property arising from the conduct of authorized business operations; claims for damages to property arising from the maintenance and operation, sanitation, and civil government of the Panama Canal; acquisition of land and land under water, as authorized in the Panama Canal Act; expenses incurred in assembling,Disposal of unserviceable material, etc. assorting, storing, repairing, and selling material, machinery, and equipment heretofore or hereafter purchased or acquired for the construction of the Panama Canal which are unserviceable or no longer needed, to be reimbursed from the proceeds of such sales; expenses incident to conducting hearings and examining estimates for appropriations on the Isthmus; expenses incident to any emergency arising because of calamity by flood, fire, pestilence, or like character not foreseen or otherwise provided for herein; travelingTraveling expenses. expenses, when prescribed by the Governor of the Panama Canal to persons engaged in field work or traveling on official business; and for such other expenses not in the United States as the Governor of the Panama Canal may deem necessary best to promote the maintenance and operation, sanitation, and civil government of the Panama Canal, all to be expended under the direction of the Governor of the Panama Canal and accounted for as follows: For maintenance and operation of the Panama Canal; salary ofMaintenance, etc.Governor.Purchase of supplies, etc. the governor, $10,000; purchase, inspection, delivery, handling, and storing of materials, 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, paymentPayment to alien cripples.Vol. 39, p. 750. in lump sums of not exceeding the amounts authorized by the Injury Compensation Act approved September 7, 1916, to alien cripples who are now a charge upon the Panama Canal by reason of injuries sustained while employed in the construction of the Panama Canal; in all, $6,832,000, including $250,000 for commencing the constructionConstructing new dam, etc., on Chagres River.*Post*, p. 1386. of a dam across the Chagres River at Alhajuela for the storage of water for use in the maintenance and operation of the Panama364Canal, together with a hydroelectric plant, roadways, and such other work as in the judgment of the Governor of the Panama Canal may be necessary, to cost in the aggregate not to exceed $12,000,000, Additional from receipts.together with all moneys arising from the conduct of business operations authorized by the Panama Canal Act. Sanitation, etc.For sanitation, quarantine, hospitals, and medical aid and support of the insane and of lepers and aid and support of indigent persons legally within the Canal Zone, including expenses of their deportation Artificial limbs, etc., for injured employees.when practicable, and the purchase of artificial limbs or other appliances for 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, $670,000; Civil government expenses.For civil government of the Panama Canal and Canal Zone, including salaries of district judge, $10,000; district attorney, $5,000; marshal, $5,000; and gratuities and necessary clothing for indigent discharged prisoners, $1,158,000; Available until expended.Total, Panama Canal, $8,660,000, to be available until expended. Purchases from Army surplus stocks.The Governor of the Panama Canal, so far as the expenditure of appropriations contained in this Act may be under his direction, shall, when it is more economical, purchase needed materials, supplies, and equipment from available surplus stocks of the War Department. Moneys from designated sources credited to original appropriations.In addition to the foregoing sums there is appropriated for the fiscal year 1929 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. Operation of waterworks 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 1929, the necessary portions of such sums as shall be paid as water rentals or directly by the Government of Panama for such expenses. repeal of appropriationsRepeal of appropriations. Sec. 2.Specified unexpended balances, covered into the Treasury. That the unexpended balances stated after each of the following- described continuing appropriations shall be carried to the surplus fund and covered into the Treasury immediately upon the approval of this Act, namely: Military posts, $200. Military posts, Hawaiian Islands, $213.07. Military posts, Panama Canal, $200. Disciplinary barracks, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, $2,452.08. Army quarters, storehouses, and so forth, Canal Zone and Panama Canal, $51,940.01. 365 Buildings, Infantry School, Fort Benning, Georgia, $2,190.69. Signal Service of the Army, $1,552.38. Buildings and grounds, Military Academy, $480.26. Equipment of Coast Artillery armories, Organized Militia, $488.54. Sites for military purposes, $93,736.92. Ordnance material, proceeds of sales, $160,000. Terminal storage and shipping buildings, $322,381.63. Evacuation of ordnance depots, $122,904.22. Frankford Arsenal, $25,183.44. Rock Island Arsenal, $89,191.48. Vicksburg National Military Park, $3,281.01. Total appropriations to be covered into the Treasury, $876,395.73. Approved, March 23, 1928.
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Chapter 232
Making appropriations for the military and nonmilitary activities of the War Department for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1929, for other purposes
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