Chapter 366. Making appropriations for the military and nonmilitary activities of the War Department for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1930, and for other purposes
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Chap. 366: Making appropriations for the military and nonmilitary activities of the War Department for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1930, and for other purposes. Chapter 366 45 Stat. 1349 1929-02-28 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 2 public Chapter 366.— An Act Making appropriations for the military and nonmilitary activities of the War Department for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1930, and for other purposes.
February 28, 1929.[[H. R. 15712](/us/bill/70/hr/15712).][[Public, No. 843](/us/pl/70/843).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the following War Department appropriations, fiscal year 1930.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, 1930, and for other purposes, namely:
TITLE I— MILITARY ACTIVITIES AND OTHER EXPENSES OF THE WAR DEPARTMENT INCIDENT THERETO Military activities. salaries, war department Department salaries. Secretary of War, $15,000; Assistant Secretary of War, $10,000. Secretary, Assistant. For compensation for other personal services in the District of Civilian personnel in specified office.Columbia, as follows: Office of Secretary of War, $262,492: *Provided,* That no field-service Secretary of War. *Proviso.*No field service in Assistant’s office.appropriations shall be available for personal services in the office of the Assistant Secretary of War.
Office of Chief of Staff, $231,000. Chief of Staff. Adjutant General’s office, $1,421,732. Adjutant General. Office of the Inspector General, $27,200. Inspector General. Office of the Judge Advocate General, $112,300: *Provided,* That Judge Advocate General.*Proviso.*Experts, etc., for patent infringement suits.not to exceed $43,300 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.
Office of the Chief of Finance, $372,180. Chief of Finance. Office of the Quartermaster General, $797,000. Quartermaster General. Office of the Chief Signal Officer, $100,000. Chief Signal Officer. Office of the Chief of Air Corps, $219,274. Chief of Air Corps. Office of the Surgeon General, $269,820. Surgeon General. Office of Chief of Bureau of Insular Affairs, $81,885. Insular Affairs Bureau. Office of Chief of Engineers, $121,858: *Provided,* That the services Chief of Engineers.*Provisos.*Draftsmen, etc., payable from other appropriations.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 from such appropriations: *Provided further,* That the expenditures Limitations, etc.on this account for the fiscal year 1930 shall not exceed $191,620; 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. 1350 Chief of Ordnance.
Office of Chief of Ordnance, $434,100. Chemical Warfare Service. Office of Chief of Chemical Warfare Service, $44,000. Chief of Coast Artillery. Office of Chief of Coast Artillery, $24,800. Militia Bureau. Militia Bureau, War Department, $145,000. In all, salaries, War Department, $4,689,641. Restriction on exceeding average salaries.Vol. 42, p. 1488.*Ante,* p. 776.U. S. Code, p. 65. In expending appropriations or portions of appropriations, contained in this Act, for the payment for personal services in tire District of Columbia in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, as amended (U.
S. C., pp. 65–71, secs. 661–673, 45 Stat., pp. 776–785), 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 If only one position in a grade.Allowance in unusually meritorious services.the grade by such Act, as amended, and in grades in which only one position is allocated the salary of such position shall not exceed the average of the compensation rates for the grade, except that in unusually meritorious cases of one position in a grade advances may be made to rates higher than the average of the compensation rates *Proviso.*Restriction not applicable to clerical-mechanical service.No reduction in fixed salaries.Vol. 42, p. 1490.Transfers to another position without reduction.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 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, Higher salary rates allowed.office, or other appropriation unit, or
(4)to prevent the payment of a salary under any grade at a rate higher than the maximum rate of the grade when such higher rate is permitted by the Classification Act of 1923, as amended, and is specifically authorized by other law. Transfers of appropriations between bureaus, etc., to meet increases from reallocations. When specifically approved by the Secretary of War, transfers may be made between the appropriations in this Act under the respective jurisdiction of any bureau, office, corps, or branch, in order to meet increases in compensation resulting from the reallocation by the Personnel Classification Board of positions under any such organization unit. Any such transfers shall be reported to Congress in the annual Budget. contingent expenses, war department Department contingent expenses. For purchase of professional and scientific books, law books, including their exchange; books of reference, pamphlets, periodicals, newspapers, maps; typewriting and adding machines, and other labor-saving devices, including their repair and exchange; furniture and repairs to same; carpets, matting, linoleum, filing equipment, photo supplies, towels, ice, brooms, soap, sponges; 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, $88,000. Stationery. For stationery for the department and its bureaus and offices, $57,000. Postage. For postage stamps for the department and its bureaus, as required under the Postal Union, to prepay postage on matters addressed to Postal Union countries, $250. Printing and binding. For printing and binding for the War Department, its bureaus and offices, and for all printing and binding for the field activities under the War Department, except such as may be authorized in accordance with existing law to be done elsewhere than at the Gov-1351ernment Printing Office, $475,000: *Provided,* That the sum of $3,000, *Proviso.*Medical bulletins.or so much thereof as may be necessary, may be used for the publication, from time to time, of bulletins prepared under the direction of the Surgeon General of the Army, for the instruction of medical officers, when approved by the Secretary of War, and not exceeding $63,522 shall be available for printing and binding under the direction For Chief of Engineers.of the Chief of Engineers. contingencies of the army For all contingent expenses of the Army not otherwise provided Army contingencies.for and embracing all branches of the military service, including the office of the Chief of Staff; for all emergencies and extraordinary expenses, including the employment of translators and exclusive of all other personal services in the War Department or any of its subordinate bureaus or offices in the District of Columbia, or in the Army at large, but impossible to be anticipated or classified, to be expended on the approval or authority of the Secretary of War, and for such purposes as he may deem proper, and for examination of estimates of appropriations in the field, $12,000: *Provided,* *Proviso.*Transfer of surplus property to other activities restricted.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. contingencies, military intelligence division Military Intelligence Division. For contingent expenses of the Military Intelligence Division, Contingent expenses.General Staff Corps, and of the military attachés at the United States embassies and legations abroad, including the purchase of law books, professional books of reference, and subscriptions to newspapers and periodicals; for cost of maintenance of students and attaches; for the hire of interpreters, special agents, and guides, and for such other purposes as the Secretary of War may deem proper, including $5,000 for the actual and necessary expenses of 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, $57,480, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War: *Provided,* That section *Proviso.*Periodicals, etc.R. S., sec. 3648, p. 718.U. S. Code, p. 1009.3648, 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. For expenses of the Army War College, being for the purchase Instruction expenses.of the necessary special stationery; textbooks, books of reference, scientific and professional papers and periodicals; maps; police utensils; employment of temporary, technical, or special services, and expenses of special lecturers; for the pay of employees; and for Employees.all other absolutely necessary expenses, $78,000. 1352 Adjutant General’s Department Adjutant General’s Department. contingencies, headquarters of military departments, and so forth Headquarters of military departments, etc.Contingent expenses. For contingent expenses at the headquarters of the several territorial departments, corps areas, armies, territorial districts, tactical corps, divisions, and brigades, including the Staff Corps serving thereat, being for the purchase of the necessary articles of office, toilet, and desk furniture, stationery, ice, and potable water for office use, binding, maps, technical books of reference, professional and technical newspapers and periodicals, payment for which may be made in advance, and police utensils, to be allotted by the Secretary of War, and to be expended in the discretion of the commanding officers of the several military departments, corps areas, districts, armies, and tactical commands, $4,500. command and general staff school, fort leavenworth, Kansas Fort Leavenworth, Kans.Command and General Staff School. For the purchase of textbooks, books of reference, scientific and professional papers, instruments, and material for instruction; employment of temporary, technical, special, and clerical services; and for other necessary expenses of instruction, at the Command and General Staff School, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, $41,439. military post exchanges Post exchanges.Equipment, etc. For the equipment and conduct of the post exchange, school, 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, $72,000. Judge Advocate General’s Department office of the judge advocate general Expenses incident to settlement of war claims against Germany, Austria, and Hungary.*Ante,* p. 254. Settlement of War Claims, Act of 1928: For every expenditure requisite for and incident to the work of the War Department in connection with the settlement of war claims as authorized by the Act entitled, “An Act to provide for the settlement of certain claims of American nationals against Germany, Austria, and Hungary, and of nationals of Germany, Austria, and Hungary, against the United States and for the ultimate return of all property held by the Alien Property Custodian,” approved March 10, 1928, including the authorized traveling expenses of commissioned officers and other employees, Personal services, etc.rent in the District of Columbia and in foreign countries, the employment of personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, without regard to the civil service laws and regulations or to the Classification Act of 1923, as amended, printing, binding, photographing, stationery, office supplies and equipment, and such other expenses as may be necessary and proper for carrying out the provisions Balance available.*Ante,* p. 926.of the Act herein referred to, $100,000, together with the unexpended balance of the appropriation of $160,000 made for this purpose in the Second Deficiency Act, fiscal year 1928, approved May 29, 1928. 1353 Finance Department Finance Department. pay, and so forth, of the army Pay of the Army. For pay of officers of the line and staff, $32.082,469; pay of officers, Officers.Aviation increase.National Guard, $100; pay of warrant officers, $2,053,872; aviation increase to commissioned and warrant officers of the Army, $1,585,508; additional pay to officers for length of service, $8,626,302; pay Longevity.Enlisted men.of enlisted men of the line and staff, not including the Philippine Scouts, $51,410,547; pay of enlisted men of National Guard, $100; aviation increase to enlisted men of the Army, $528,210; pay of enlisted men of the Philippine Scouts, $1,040,390; additional pay for length of service to enlisted men, $3,049,453; pay of the officers on Retired list.Officers.the retired list, $7,749,121; increased pay to retired officers on active duty, $168,650; pay of retired enlisted men, $11,484,253; increased pay Enlisted men.Retired pay clerks.Retired veterinarians.Civil service messengers at headquarters.and allowances of retired enlisted men on active duty, $6,152; pay of retired pay clerks, $5,062; pay of retired veterinarians, $1,785; pay of not to exceed sixty-five civil-service messengers at $1,200 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, $77,340; pay and allowances of contract surgeons, Contract surgeons, nurses, etc.$51,756; pay of nurses, $850,660; pay of hospital matrons, $600; rental allowances, including allowances for quarters for enlisted men on Rental and subsistence allowances, etc.Loss by exchange.duty where public quarters are not available, $6,636,033; subsistence allowances, $5,881,205; interest on soldiers’ deposits, $75,000; payment of exchange by officers serving in foreign countries, and when specially authorized by the Secretary of War, by officers disbursing funds pertaining to the War Department, when serving in Alaska, and all foreign money received shall be charged to and paid out by disbursing officers of the Army at the legal valuation fixed by the Secretary of the Treasury, $1,000; additional pay to officers below Officers furnishing mounts.the grade of major required to be mounted and who furnish their own mounts, $250,000; in all, $133,615,568; and the money herein To be one fund.appropriated for “Pay, and so forth, of the Army” shall be accounted for as one fund: *Provided,* That the number of horses *Proviso.*Horses limited to officer.owned by any officer of the Army occasioning any public expense, including extra compensation, shall be reduced to one on June 30, 1930. No clerk, messenger, or laborer at headquarters of tactical divisions, Assignment of Army clerks, etc., to Department duty forbidden.military departments, brigades, service schools, and office of the Chief of Staff shall be assigned to duty in any bureau of the War Department. None of the money appropriated in this Act shall be used to pay Pay forbidden to retired officer selling supplies to Army.any officer on the retired list of the Army who for himself or for others engages in the selling, contracting for the sale of, negotiating for the sale of, or furnishing to the Army or the War Department any supplies, materials, equipment, lands, buildings, plants, vessels, or munitions. None of the money appropriated in this Act shall be To officer retired before 64 years, employed by parties making direct sales to Department or Army.paid to any officer on the retired list of the Army who, having been retired before reaching the age of sixty-four, is employed in the United States or its possessions by any individual, partnership, corporation, or association regularly or frequently engaged in making direct sales of any merchandise or material to the War Department or the Army. mileage of the army Mileage. For mileage, reimbursement of actual traveling expenses, or per Officers, etc.diem allowances in lieu thereof, as authorized by law, to commissioned officers, warrant officers, contract surgeons, and expert accountant, Inspector General’s Department, $740,000. 1354 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, $80,000. apprehension of deserters, and so forth Deserters, etc.Payment for apprehension of, etc. 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 Donation 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, $170,000. finance service Finance Service.Pay of clerks, etc. For compensation of clerks and other employees of the Finance Department, $1,110,000. claims for damages to and loss of private property Private property damages.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, *Proviso.*Settlement by General Accounting Office.operation, or maintenance of the Army that have accrued, or may hereafter accrue, from time to time, $16,000: *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. claims of officers, enlisted men, and nurses of the army for destruction of private property Destruction of private property of officers, etc.Payment of claims for, in the service. For the payment of claims of officers, enlisted men, and nurses of the Army for private property lost, destroyed, captured, abandoned, Vol. 41, p. 1436.U. S. Code, p. 989.or damaged in the military service of the United States, under the provisions of an Act approved March 4, 1921 (U. S. C., p. 989, secs. 218–222), $5,000. Quartermaster Corps Quartermaster Corps.Subsistence.Purchase of supplies for issue as rations. Subsistence of the Army: Purchase of subsistence supplies: For issue as rations to troops, including retired enlisted men when ordered to active duty, civil employees when entitled thereto, hospital matrons, applicants for enlistment while held under observation, general prisoners of war (including Indians held by the Army as prisoners, but for whose subsistence appropriation is not otherwise made), Indians employed by the Army as guides and scouts, and general prisoners at posts; for the subsistence of the masters, officers, crews, and employees of the vessels of the Army Transport Service; hot coffee for troops traveling when supplied with cooked or travel rations; meals for recruiting parties and applicants for enlistment Sales to officers, etc.while under observation; for sales to officers, including members of the Officers’ Reserve Corps while on active duty, and enlisted men Payments.Commutation allowances.of the Army. For payments: Of the regulation allowances of commutation in lieu of rations to enlisted men on furlough, enlisted men 1355when 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, Advertising.Prizes for bakers and cooks.and general prisoners while sick in hospitals, to be paid to the surgeon in charge; advertising; for providing prizes to be established by the Secretary of War for enlisted men of the Army who graduate from the Army schools for bakers and cooks, the total amount of such prizes at the various schools not to exceed $900 per annum; and for other necessary expenses incident to the purchase, testing, care, preservation, issue, sale, and accounting for subsistence supplies for the Army; in all, $24,374,552. Regular supplies of the Army: Regular supplies of the Quartermaster Regular 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 and Heat and light to quarters, etc.light for the authorized allowance of quarters for officers, enlisted men, 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, guards, hospitals, storehouses, offices, the buildings erected at private Recreation buildings.Vol. 32, p. 282.U. S. Code, p. 219.cost, in the operation of the Act approved May 31, 1902 (U. S. C., p. 219, sec. 1346), and buildings for a similar purpose on military reservations authorized by War Department regulations; for sale Sales to officers.to officers, and including also fuel and engine supplies required in the operation of modern batteries at established posts; for post Bakeries, ice, etc.bakery anti 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 towels; for the necessary furniture, Supplies for schools.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 Forage, etc., for animals.mess halls, each and all for 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 1356purchase of implements and hire of labor for harvesting hay on Stationery, printing, etc.military reservations; for straw for soldiers’ bedding, stationery, typewriters and exchange of same, including blank books and blank forms for the Army, certificates for discharged soldiers, and for Amount for fuel immediately available.printing department orders and reports, $10,069,129, of which amount not exceeding $3,000,000 shall be available immediately for the procurement of fuel for the service of the fiscal year 1930. Clothing.Purchase, manufacture, etc. 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.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 Equipage, toilet kits, etc.repair shops, and garbage reduction works; for equipage, including authorized issues of toilet articles, barbers’ and tailors’ materials, for use of general prisoners confined at military posts without pay or allowances and applicants for enlistment while held under observation; issue of toilet kits to recruits upon their first enlistment, and issue of housewives to the Army; for expenses of packing and Issue of citizen’s outer clothing.handling and similar necessaries; for a suit of citizen’s outer clothing and when necessary an overcoat, the cost of all not to exceed $30, to be issued to each soldier discharged otherwise than honorably, to each enlisted man convicted by civil court for an offense resulting in confinement in a penitentiary or other civil prison, and to each enlisted man ordered interned by reason of the fact that he is an alien enemy, or, for the same reason, discharged without internment; Indemnity for destroyed clothing, etc.for indemnity to officers and men of the Army for clothing and bedding, and so forth, destroyed since April 22, 1898. by order of medical officers of the Army for sanitary reasons, $5,832,067, of Amount for fuel immediately available.which amount not exceeding $36,000 shall be available immediately for the procurement of fuel for the service of the fiscal year 1930. Incidental expenses. Incidental Expenses of the Army: Postage; hire of laborers in the Quartermaster Corps, including the care of officers’ mounts when Civilian employees.the same are furnished by the Government; compensation of clerks and other employees of the Quartermaster Corps, and clerks, foremen, watchmen, and organist for the United States disciplinary barracks, and incidental expenses of recruiting; for the operation of coffee-roasting plants; for payment of entrance fees for Army rifle and Tests, etc., by Bureau of Standards.pistol teams participating in competitions; for tests and experimental 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 *Proviso.*Limitation on employment of average number of officers, enlisted men, and civilians.any other department, $3,898,496: *Provided,* That no appropriation contained in this Act shall be available for any expense incident to the employment of an average number or officers, enlisted men, or civilian employees greater than the largest number employed during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1929, in connection with work incident to the assurance of adequate provision for the mobilization of matériel and industrial organizations essential to war-time needs. Transportation of troops and supplies. Army transportation: For transportation of the Army and its supplies, including retired enlisted men when ordered to active duty; of authorized baggage, including that of retired officers, warrant officers, 1357and 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 of officers and enlisted men Transporting dependents, etc.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 shall not be greater than to the *Proviso.*Cost restriction.place of last enlistment; of horse equipment; and of funds for the Army; for the purchase or construction, not exceeding $200,000, alteration, operation, and repair of boats and other vessels; for Boats, etc.wharfage, tolls, and ferriages; for drayage and cartage; for the purchase, manufacture (including both material and labor), maintenance, hire, and repair of pack saddles and harness; for the purchase, Vehicles, draft and pack animals, etc.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 officers and enlisted Travel allowances, enlisted men, National Guard, etc.Vol. 31, p. 902; Vol. 42, p. 102.U. S. Code, p. 197.men on discharge; to officers of National Guard on discharge from Federal service as prescribed in the Act of March 2, 1901 (U. S. C., p. 197, sec. 751); to enlisted men of National Guard on discharge from Federal service, as prescribed in amendatory Act of September 22, 1922 (U. S. C., p. 197, sec. 752); and to members of the National Guard who have been mustered into Federal service and discharged on account of physical disability; in all, $16,843,882, of which amount not exceeding $2,000,000 shall be available immediately for the Amount for fuel and transportation thereof immediately available.procurement and transportation of fuel for the service of the fiscal year 1930. No money appropriated by this Act shall be expended for the Motor vehicle restriction.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 transporting Allowance.children of Army personnel to and from school, and Army personnel in connection with the recreational activities of the Army. None of the funds appropriated in this Act, unless expressly made Purchase of motor vehicles restricted.available for the purpose, shall be used for the purchase or exchange of motor-propelled freight-carrying or passenger-carrying vehicles for the Army, except those that are purchased solely for experimental purposes, in excess of the following quantities and costs per vehicle, including the value of a vehicle exchanged: Twenty-four Price limitation.freight-carrying vehicles at $6,000 each, one hundred such vehicles at $3,000 each, fifteen ambulances at $3,000 each, ten passenger-carrying vehicles at $2,500 each, fifty such vehicles at $1,500 each, and sixty solo motor cycles at $325 each. houses for cavalry, artillery, engineers, and so forth Horses. For the purchase of horses within limits as to age, sex, and size Purchase, etc.to be prescribed by the Secretary of War for remounts for officers entitled to public mounts, for the United States Military Academy, and for such organizations and members of the military service as Encouraging breeding of riding horses.may be required to be mounted, and for all expenses incident to such 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), $480,000. 1358 military posts Military posts.Payment of construction, etc., obligations.*Ante,* p. 748.Restrictions waived.R. S. secs. 1136, 3734, pp. 206, 737.U. S. Code, pp. 219, 1302, 1303. 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 May 26, 1928 (45 Stat., p. 748), without reference to sections 1136 and 3734, Revised Statutes (U. S. C., p. 219, sec. 1339; p. 1302, sec. 259; p. 1303, sec. 267), including also the engagement, by contract or 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 compensation of employees of the United States, Incurred obligations.Public Laws, 1st sess., pp. 335, 926.$14,441,950, of which not to exceed $4,800,000 shall be available for the payment of obligations incurred under the contract authorizations for these purposes carried in the War Department Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1929, and in the Second Deficiency Act, *Provisos.*Amounts from construction fund and the Treasury.Vol. 44, p. 206.U. S. Code, p. 1913.Additional contracts authorized.fiscal year 1928: *Provided,* That of the amount herein appropriated, $4,800,000 shall be payable from the military post construction fund created by section 4 of the Act approved March 12, 1926 (U. S. C., p. 1913, sec. 1597), and $9,641,950 shall be payable out of the general fund of the Treasury: *Provided further,* That the Secretary of War is authorized to enter into contracts for the purposes specified in the said Act of May 26, 1928, to an amount not to exceed $3,000,000, in addition to the appropriation herein made. barracks and quarters and other buildings and utilities Barracks, quarters, etc.All expenses for construction, maintenance, repairs, etc. For all expenses incident to the construction, installation, operation, 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 noncommissioned 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 Rentals, etc.grounds, flooring and framing for tents, rental of buildings and Water, roads, wharves, etc.grounds for military purposes and lodgings for recruits and applicants for enlistment, water supply, sewer and fire-alarm systems, fire apparatus, roads, walks, wharves, drainage, dredging channels, purchase *Provisos.*Outside rent for work on mobilization of industrial organizations, etc.of water, and disposal of sewage, $11,650,784: *Provided,* That not more than $16,000 of the appropriations contained in this Act shall be available for rent of offices outside the District of Columbia in connection with work incident to the assurance of adequate provision for the mobilization of matériel and industrial organizations Rent for military attachés.essential to war-time needs: *Provided further,* That this appropriation shall be available for the rental of offices, garages, and stables Amount for fuel immediately available.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 1930. shooting galleries and ranges Shooting galleries and ranges.Expenses of. For shelter, grounds, observation towers, shooting galleries, ranges for small-arms target practice, machine-gun practice, field, mobile, and railway artillery practice, repairs, and expenses incident thereto, including flour for paste for marking targets, hire of employees, such ranges and galleries to be open as far as practicable to the National Guard and organized rifle clubs under regulations to be prescribed by the Secretary of War, $40,000. 1359 rent of buildings, quartermaster corps Rent. For rent of buildings and parts of buildings in the District of Buildings, 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, virginia Fort Monroe, Va. For repair and maintenance of wharf and apron of wharf, including Wharf.all necessary labor and material therefor, fuel for waiting rooms; water, brooms, and shovels, $20,280; for one-third of said sum, to be supplied by the United States, $6,760. For rakes, shovels, and brooms; repairs to roadway, pavements, Roads.macadam and asphalt block; repairs to street crossings; repairs to street drains, and labor for cleaning roads, $8,469; for two-thirds of said sum, to be supplied by the United States, $5,646. For waste, oil, motor and pump repairs, sewer pipe, cement, brick, Sewer.stone, supplies, and personal services, $6,690; for two-thirds of said sum, to be supplied by the United States, $4,460. construction and repair of hospitals Hospitals. For construction and repair of hospitals at military posts already Construction, repairs, etc.established and occupied, including all expenditures for construction and repairs required at the Army and Navy Hospital at Hot Springs, Arkansas, and for the construction and repair of general hospitals and expenses incident thereto, and for additions needed to Temporary camp hospitals.meet the requirements of increased garrisons, and for temporary hospitals in standing camps and cantonments; for the alteration of permanent buildings at posts for use as hospitals, construction and repair of temporary hospital buildings at permanent posts, construction and repair of temporary general hospitals, rental or purchase of Rentals, etc.grounds, and rental and alteration of buildings for use for hospital purposes in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, including necessary temporary quarters for hospital personnel, outbuildings, heating and laundry apparatus, plumbing, water and sewers, and electric work, cooking apparatus, and roads and walks for the same, *Proviso.*New construction forbidden.$578,880: *Provided,* That no part of this appropriation shall be used for the construction of new hospitals. Seacoast Defenses Seacoast Defenses. For all expenses properly pertaining to the respective branches All expenses of fortifications under specified 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.—Signal Corps, $115,000;United States. Corps of Engineers, $390,000; Ordnance Department, $977,690; Chief of Coast Artillery, $145,060; Insular departments: Signal Corps, $93,142;Insular possessions. Corps of Engineers, $359,000; Ordnance Department, $279,050; Chief of Coast Artillery, $215,005; 1360 Panama Canal. Panama Canal.—Signal Corps, $30,220; Corps of Engineers, $479,210; Ordnance Department, $124,625; Chief of Coast Artillery, $200,000; In all, $3,408,002. Signal Corps Signal Corps. signal service of the army Signal Service.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, signal lanterns, flags, and other necessary instruments; wind vanes, barometers, anemometers, thermometers, and other meteorological instruments; photographic and cinematographic work performed for the Army by the Signal Corps; motor cycles, motor-driven and other vehicles for technical and official purposes in connection with the construction, operation, and maintenance of communication or signaling systems, and supplies for their operation and maintenance; professional and scientific books of reference, pamphlets, periodicals, newspapers, and maps for use of the Signal Corps and in the office Telephones.of the Chief Signal Officer; telephone apparatus, including rental and payment for commercial, exchange, message, trunk-line, long-distance, and leased-line telephone service at or connecting any post, camp, cantonment, depot, arsenal, headquarters, hospital, aviation Local exemption.station, or other office or station of the Army, excepting local telephone service for the various bureaus of the War Department in the District of Columbia, and toll messages pertaining to the office of the Secretary of War; electric time service; the rental of commercial telegraph lines and equipment and their operation at or connecting any post, camp, cantonment, depot, arsenal, headquarters, hospital, aviation station, or other office or station of the Army, including payment for official individual telegraph messages transmitted over Electrical installations.commercial lines; electrical installations and maintenance thereof at military posts, cantonments, camps, and stations of the Army, fire-control and direction apparatus and material for Field Artillery; Civilian employees.salaries of civilian employees, including those necessary as instructors at vocational schools; supplies, general repairs, reserve supplies, and other expenses connected with the collecting and transmitting of Experimental research, etc.information for the Army by telegraph or otherwise; experimental investigation, research, purchase, and development or improvements in apparatus, and maintenance of signaling and accessories thereto, Buildings for supplies.including patent rights and other rights thereto, including machines, instruments, and other equipment for laboratory and repair purposes; lease, alteration, and repair of such buildings required for storing or guarding Signal Corps supplies, equipment, and personnel when not otherwise provided for, including the land therefor, the introduction of water, electric light and power, sewerage, grading, roads and walks, and other equipment required, $2,871,226. Air Corps Air Corps. air corps, army Designated purposes.Vol. 44, p. 780. For creating, maintaining, and operating at established flying schools and balloon schools courses of instruction for officers, students, and enlisted men, including cost of equipment and supplies necessary for instruction, purchase of tools, equipment, materials, machines, textbooks, books of reference, scientific and professional papers, instruments and materials for theoretical and practical in-1361struction; for maintenance, repair, storage, and operation of airships, Aircraft operation, construction, etc.war balloons, and other aerial machines, including instruments, materials, gas plants, hangars and repair shops, and appliances of every sort and description necessary for the operation, construction, or equipment of all types of aircraft, and all necessary spare parts and equipment connected therewith and the establishment Landing, etc., runway.of landing and take-off runways; for purchase of supplies for securing, developing, printing, and reproducing photographs in connection with aerial photography; improvement, equipment, maintenance, and operation of plants for testing and experimental work, and procuring and introducing water, electric light and power, gas and sewerage, including maintenance, operation, and repair of such utilities at such plants; for the procurement of helium Helium gas.gas; salaries and wages of civilian employees as may be necessary, Civilian employees.and payment of their traveling and other necessary expenses as authorized by existing law; transportation of materials in connection with consolidation of Air Corps activities; experimental investigation Purchase, manufactures, etc., of aircraft.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 letters patent and applications Balloons, etc.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 spare parts and equipment connected therewith; for the marking of military Marking military air airways.airways where the purchase of land is not involved; for the purchase, manufacture, and issue of special clothing, wearing apparel, and similar equipment for aviation purposes; for all necessary Disposal of surplus equipment, etc.expenses connected with the sale or disposal of surplus or obsolete aeronautical equipment, and the rental of buildings, and other facilities for the handling or storage of such equipment; for the services of not more than four consulting engineers at experimental stations Consulting engineers.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 Corps; for maintenance and operation of such Air Corps printing Outside printing plants, supplies, etc.plants outside of the District of Columbia as may be authorized in accordance with law; for publications, station libraries, special furniture, supplies and equipment for offices, shops, and laboratories; for Special services.special services, including the salvaging of wrecked aircraft, $34,690,785: *Provided,* That not to exceed $3,026,199 from this appropriation *Provisos.*Designated allotments. Civilian employees. Transfers for helium. *Ante,* p. 1133.may be expended for pay and expenses of civilian employees other than those employed in experimental and research work; not exceeding $50,000 may be expended for the procurement of helium, of which sum such amounts as may be required may be transferred in advance to the Bureau of Mines; not exceeding $2,255,930 Experimental and research work, etc.may be expended for experimental and research work with air planes or lighter-than-air craft and their equipment, including the pay of necessary civilian employees; no part thereof may be expended for the production of lighter-than-air equipment; not exceeding $3,598,376 may be expended for improvement of stations, hangars, and gas plants for the Regular Army and for such other markings and fuel supply stations and temporary shelter as may be necessary; not less than $18,439,280 shall be expended for the production New airplanes, etc.or purchase of new airplanes and their equipment, spare parts, 1362Incurred obligations.Vol. 44, p. 1120.and accessories, of which not to exceed $2,250,000 shall be available for the payment of obligations incurred under the contract authorization for these purposes carried in the War Department Appropriation Damages claims.Acts for the fiscal years 1928 and 1929; and not more than $6,000 may be expended for settlement of claims (not exceeding $250 each) for damages to persons and private property resulting from the operation of aircraft at home and abroad when each claim is substantiated by a survey report of a board of officers appointed by the commanding officer of the nearest aviation post and approved by the Incurred obligations prior to July 1, 1927.Balance available.Vol. 44, p. 268.Chief of Air Corps and the Secretary of War: *Provided further,* That the sum of $25,000 of the appropriation for Air Service, Army, fiscal year 1927, shall remain available until June 30, 1930, for the payment of obligations incurred under contracts executed prior to Periodicals, etc.R. S., sec. 3648, p. 718.U. S. Code, p. 1009.Restriction on exhibition flights.July 1, 1927: *Provided further,* That section 3648, Revised Statutes (U. S. C., p. 1009, sec. 529), shall 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 shall be used for the purpose of giving exhibition flights to the public other than those under the control and direction of the War Department, and if such flights are given by Army personnel upon other than Government fields a bond of indemnity, in such sum as the Secretary of War may require for damages to person or property, shall be furnished the Government by the Restriction of engine purchases.parties desiring the exhibition: *Provided further,* That none of the money appropriated in this Act shall be used for the purchase of any airplane ordered after the approval of this Act which is equipped or propelled by a Liberty motor or by any motor or airplane engine purchased or constructed prior to July 1, 1920. Medical Department Medical Department. Army medical and hospital supplies Medical and hospital supplies. For the manufacture and purchase of medical and hospital supplies, including disinfectants, for military posts, camps, hospitals, hospital ships and transports, for laundry work for enlisted men and Army nurses while patients in a hospital, and supplies required for mosquito destruction in and about military posts in the Canal Zone; for the purchase of veterinary supplies and hire of veterinary surgeons; Private treatment.for expenses of medical supply depots; for medical care and treatment not otherwise provided for, including care and subsistence in private hospitals of officers, enlisted men, and civilian employees of the Army, of applicants for enlistment, and of prisoners of war and other persons in military custody or confinement, when entitled *Provisos.*Not applicable if on furlough.Contagious diseases expenses.thereto by law, regulation, or contract: *Provided,* 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 diseases in the Army or at military posts or stations, including measures to prevent the spread thereof, and the payment of reasonable damages not otherwise provided for for bedding and clothing injured or destroyed in such prevention; for the pay of male and female nurses, not including the Army Nurse Corps, and of cooks and other civilians employed for the proper care of sick officers and soldiers, under such regulations fixing their number, qualifications, assignments, pay, and allowances as shall have been or shall be prescribed by the Secretary of War; for the pay of civilian physicians employed to examine physically applicants for enlistment and enlisted men and to render other pro-1363fessional services from time to time under proper authority; for the pay of other employees of the Medical Department; for the payment Transporting medical supplies, etc.of express companies and local transfers employed directly by the Medical Department for the transportation of medical and hospital supplies, including bidders’ samples and water for analysis; for supplies for use in teaching the art of cooking to the enlisted force of the Medical Department; for the supply of the Army and Navy Hospital Hot Springs Hospital, Ark.at Hot Springs, Arkansas; for advertising, laundry, and all other necessary miscellaneous expenses of the Medical Department, *Proviso.*Use for Medical, etc., History of War with Germany forbidden.$1,250,800: *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. hospital care, canal zone garrisons Canal Zone. For paying the Panama Canal such reasonable charges, exclusive Care of troops at Panama Canal hospitals.of subsistence, as may be approved by the Secretary of War for caring in its hospitals for officers, enlisted men, military prisoners, and civilian employees of the Army admitted thereto upon the request of proper military authority, $40,000: *Provided,* That the subsistence *Proviso.*Subsistence payments.of the said patients, except commissioned officers, shall be paid to said hospitals out of the appropriation for subsistence of the Army at the rates provided therein for commutation of rations for enlisted patients in general hospitals. army medical museum Army Medical Museum. For Army Medical Museum, preservation of specimens, and the Preservation, etc., of specimens.preparation and purchase of new specimens, $8,500. library, surgeon general’s office Library. For the library of the Surgeon General’s office, including the purchase Purchase of books, etc.of the necessary books of reference and periodicals, $19,500. Bureau of Insular Affairs Insular Affairs Bureau. Army care of insane filipino soldiers For care, maintenance, and treatment at asylums in the Philippine Care of insane Filipino soldiers.Vol. 35, p. 122.U. S. Code, p. 681.Islands of insane natives of the Philippine Islands, conformable to the Act of Congress approved May 11, 1908 (U. S. C., p. 681, sec. 198), $400. Corps of Engineers Engineer Corps. engineer depots Depots. For incidental expenses for the depots, including fuel, lights, Incidental expenses.chemicals, stationery, hardware, machinery, pay of civilian clerks, mechanics, laborers, and other employees; for lumber and materials and for labor for packing and crating engineer supplies; repairs of, and for materials to repair, public buildings, machinery, and instruments, and for unforeseen expenses, $93,060. engineer school School. For equipment and maintenance of the Engineer School, including Equipment, maintenance, etc.purchase and repair of instruments, machinery, implements, models, boats, and materials for the use of the school and to provide means for the theoretical and practical instruction of Engineer officers 1364and 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 incidental expenses, Incidental expenses.books of reference for the library of the United States Engineer School; for incidental expenses of the school, including chemicals, stationery, hardware, machinery, and boats; for pay of civilian clerks, draftsmen, electricians, mechanics, and laborers; for compensation Travel expenses of officers.of civilian lecturers; for unforeseen expenses; and for travel expenses of officers on journeys approved by the Secretary of War *Provisos.*In lieu of mileage.and made for the purpose of instruction, $23,210: *Provided,* That the traveling expenses herein provided for shall be in lieu of mileage and other allowances; and for other absolutely necessary expenses: Periodicals, etc.R. S., sec. 3648, p. 718.U. S. Code, p. 1009.*Provided further,* That section 3648. Revised Statutes, shall not apply to subscriptions for foreign and professional newspapers and periodicals to be paid for from this appropriation. engineer equipment of troops Equipment of troops.Materials, supplies, etc. For pontoon material, tools, instruments, supplies, and appliances 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, $295,660. engineer operations in the field Field operations.Incidental expenses. For expenses incident to military engineer operations in the field, including the purchase of material and a reserve of material for such operations, the rental of storehouses within and outside of the District of Columbia, the operation, maintenance, and repair of horse-drawn Surveyors, assistants, etc.and motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles, for services of surveyors, survey parties, draftsmen, photographers, 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 Purchase of options *Provisos.*Purchase of options on materials.depots” and “Military surveys and maps,” $88,067: *Provided,* That when to the interest of the Government, funds appropriated under this head may be used for the purchase of options on materials for Temporary construction work for training only.use in engineer operations in the field: *Provided further,* That so much of this appropriation as is necessary to provide facilities for engineer training of troops may be expended for military construction work of a temporary character at camps and cantonments and at training areas, for training purposes only. military surveys and maps Military surveys and maps.Expenses of executing. For the execution of topographic and other surveys, the securing of such extra topographic data as may be required, and the preparation and printing of maps required for military purposes and for research and development of surveying by means of aerial photography and in field reproduction methods, to be available immediately and to remain available until December 31, 1930, $71,940. Ordnance Department Ordnance Department. ordnance service and supplies, army Ordnance service and supplies.Manufacture, issue, etc. For manufacture, procurement, storage and issue, including research, planning, design, development, inspection, test, alteration, maintenance, repair, and handling of ordnance material together 1365with the machinery, supplies, and services necessary thereto; for Current expenses.supplies and services in connection with the general work of the Ordnance Department, comprising police and office duties, rents, tolls, fuel, light, water, advertising, stationery, typewriting, and computing machines, including their exchange, and furniture, tools, and instruments of service; to provide for training and other incidental expenses of the ordnance service; for instruction purposes, other than tuition; for maintenance, repair, and operation of motor-propelled and horse-drawn freight and passenger-carrying vehicles; Ammunition for military salutes.for ammunition for military salutes at Government establishments, and institutions to which the issues of arms for salutes are authorized; for services, material, tools, and appliances for operation of the testing machines and chemical laboratory in connection therewith ; for publications for libraries of the Ordnance Department, including the Ordnance Office, including subscriptions to periodicals which may be paid for in advance; for the services of not more than Consulting engineers.consulting engineers, four consulting engineers as the Secretary of War may deem necessary, at rates of pay to be fixed by him not to exceed $50 per day for not exceeding fifty days each and necessary traveling expenses, $8,322,640. rock island bridge, rock island, Illinois Rock Island, Ill. For operating, repair, and preservation of Rock Island bridges and Operating, etc., bridges.viaduct, and maintenance and repair of the arsenal street connecting the bridges, $35,000. repairs of arsenals Arsenals. For repairs and improvements of Ordnance establishments, and Repairs, etc.to meet such unforeseen expenditures as accidents or other contingencies may require, $769,573. gauges, dies, and jigs for manufacture Gauges, dies, and jigs. For the development and procurement of gauges, dies, jigs, and Procuring, for armament manufacture.Vol. 39, p. 215.U. S. Code, p. 1694.other special aids and appliances, including specifications and detailed drawings, to carry out the purpose of section 123 of the National Defense Act, approved June 3, 1916 (U. S. C., p. 1694, sec. 78), $75,000. Chemical Warfare Service Chemical Warfare Service. For purchase, manufacture, and test of chemical warfare gases Purchase, manufacture, etc., of gases.or other toxic substances, gas masks, or other offensive or defensive materials or appliances required for gas-warfare purposes, including all necessary investigations, research, design, experimentation, and operation connected therewith; purchase of chemicals, special scientific and technical apparatus and instruments; construction, maintenance, Plants, buildings, machinery, etc.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 for in advance; Organizing special gas troops.for expenses incidental to the organization, training, and equipment of special gas troops not otherwise provided for, including the training of the Army in chemical warfare, both offensive and defensive, together with the necessary schools, tactical demonstrations, and maneuvers; for current expenses of chemical projectile filling plants Current expenses.1366and proving grounds, including construction and maintenance of rail transportation, repairs, alterations, accessories, building and repairing butts and targets, clearing and grading ranges, $1,246,776. Chief of Infantry infantry school, fort benning, georgia Infantry School, Fort Benning, Ga.Instruction expenses. For 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, $38,342. tank service Tank Service.Civilian employees. For payment of the necessary civilian employees to assist in handling the clerical work in the office of the tank center, tank schools, and the various tank organization headquarters, including the office of the Chief of Infantry; and for the payment of the necessary mechanics to assist in repairing and preserving tanks in the hands of tank units, $26,313. Tank schools. Incidental expenses in connection with the operation of the tank schools, $1,300. Chief of Cavalry cavalry school, fort riley, kansas Cavalry School, Fort Riley, Kans.Instruction expenses. For purchase of textbooks, books of reference, scientific and professional papers, instruments, and materials for instruction; employment of temporary, technical, special, and clerical services; and for other necessary expenses of instruction at the Cavalry School, Fort Riley, Kansas, $20,610. Chief of Field Artillery field artillery school, fort sill, Oklahoma Field Artillery School, Fort Sill, Okla.Instruction expenses. For the purchase of textbooks, books of reference, scientific and professional papers, instruments, and material for instruction; employment of temporary, technical, special, and clerical services; and for other necessary expenses of instruction at the Field Artillery School at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, $22,500. instruction in field artillery activities Field Artillery activities.Instruction at brigade firing centers. To provide means for the theoretical and practical instruction in Field Artillery activities at the two brigade firing centers at 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 or the service, $3,500. Chief of Coast Artillery coast artillery school, fort monroe, virginia Coast Artillery School, Fort Monroe, Va.Instruction expenses. For purchase of engines, generators, motors, machines, measuring and nautical instruments, special apparatus, and materials and for 1367experimental 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, $29,205: *Provided,* That section 3648, Revised Statutes (U. S. C., p. *Provisos.*Periodicals, etc.R. S., sec. 3648, p. 718.U. S. Code, p. 1009.Special typewriter prices.1009, sec. 529), shall not apply to subscriptions for foreign and professional newspapers and periodicals to be paid for from this appropriation: *Provided further,* That purchase and exchange 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 Academy Military Academy. pay of military academy Pay. Permanent establishment: For eight professors, $30,159; chaplain, Professors, etc.$4,000; constructing quartermaster in addition to his regular pay, $1,000; additional pay of professors for length of service, $11,579; subsistence allowance of professors, $4,092; in all, $50,830. For cadets, $929,828. Cadets. Civilians: For pay of employees, $256,628. Civilians. All of the money hereinbefore appropriated for pay of the Military To constitute one fund.Academy shall be disbursed and accounted for as pay of the Military Academy, and for that purpose shall constitute one fund. maintenance, united states military academy Maintenance. For text and reference books for instruction; increase and expense Designated expenses.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 $12,200); contingencies for superintendent of the academy (not to exceed $3,000); expenses of the members of the Board of Visitors (not exceeding $1,500); contingent Board of Visitors.fund, to be expended under the direction of the Academic Board (not exceeding $500); improvement, repair, and maintenance of buildings and grounds (including roads, walls, and fences); shooting galleries and ranges; cooking, heating, and lighting apparatus and fixtures and operation and maintenance thereof; maintenance of water, sewer, and plumbing systems; maintenance of and repairs to cadet camp; fire extinguishing apparatus; machinery and tools and repair of same; maintenance, repair, and operation of motor-propelled vehicles, and purchase of three such passenger-carrying vehicles for official use (two at a cost not exceeding $2,500 each, and 1368one at a cost not exceeding $600, such costs including the value of a vehicle exchanged); policing buildings and grounds; furniture, refrigerators, and lockers for Government-owned buildings 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, $1,124,048. public works, united states military academy New cadet barracks.*Ante,* p. 300. For construction of new cadet barracks, including razing old cadet mess hall, preparing plans and specifications, excavating, and preparing site, as authorized by Acts approved February 18, 1928 (45 Stat., p. 129), and March 10, 1928 (45 Stat., p. 300), $600,000, to remain available until expended. New cadet mess hall, etc.*Ante,* p. 748.*Ante,* p. 1071. For an additional amount for completing the construction of the new cadet mess hall, cadet store, dormitories, and drawing academy at the United States Military Academy, as authorized by the Act entitled “An Act to authorize an appropriation for completing the Immediately available.new cadet mess hall, United States Military Academy,” approved January 9, 1929, $297,540, to be available immediately. Periodicals, etc.R. S., sec. 3648, p. 718.U. S. Code, p. 1009. Section 3648, Revised Statutes (U. S. C., p. 1009, sec. 529), 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 quarter-master, 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. Militia Bureau Militia Bureau. National Guard National Guard. arming, equipping, and training the national guard Arming, etc.Forage, etc. For procurement of forage, bedding, and so forth, for animals used by the National Guard, $1,202,285. Care of animals, etc. For compensation of help for care of materials, animals, and equipment, $2,428,553. Instruction camps, field training, etc. For expenses, camps of instruction, field and supplemental training, including medical and hospital treatment authorized by law, and the hire (at a rate not to exceed $1 per diem), repair, maintenance and operation of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles, $9,701,800. Service schools instruction, etc. For expenses, selected officers and enlisted men, military service schools, including medical and hospital treatment authorized by law, $317,500. Property, etc., officers. For pay of property and disbursing officers for the United States, $79,500. Equipment, instruction expenses, etc. For general expenses, equipment, and instruction, National Guard, including medical and hospital treatment authorized by law, and the hire (at a rate not to exceed $1 per diem), repair, maintenance, 1369and operation of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles, $840,665. For travel of officers and noncommissioned officers of the Regular Travel, Army officers.*Proviso.*War Department General Staff.Army in connection with the National Guard, $320,000: *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, $225,000. Transporting supplies. For expenses of enlisted men of the Regular Army on duty with Army enlisted men.the National Guard, including the hiring of quarters in kind, $480,000. For pay of National Guard (armory drills), $11,541,168. Pay, armory drills. When approved by the Secretary of War 10 per centum or each of Interchangeable 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 a *Proviso.*Report thereof to Congress.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 1930. arms, uniforms, equipment, and so forth, for field service, national guard Field service. To procure by purchase or manufacture and issue from time to Procuring arms, etc., for Issue.Requisitions from governors, etc.time to the National Guard, upon requisition of the governors of the several States and Territories, or the commanding general, National Guard of the District of Columbia, such military equipment and stores of all kinds and a reserve supply thereof, 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, $5,338,327, of which not less New airplanes, etc.than $300,000 shall be available only for the production and purchase of new airplanes and their equipment, spare parts, and accessories: *Proviso.*Clothing, equipment, etc., from Army surplus stores.*Provided,* That the Secretary of War is hereby directed to issue from surplus or reserve stores and material on hand and purchased for the United States Army such articles of clothing and equipment and Field Artillery, Engineer, and Signal material and ammunition as may be needed by the National Guard organized under Vol. 39, p. 197; Vol. 41, p. 780.the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act for making further and more effectual provision for the national defense, and for other purposes,” approved June 3, 1916 (U. S. C., p. 1034, sec. 21), as U. S. Code, p. 1034.Without charge to militia appropriations.amended. This issue shall be made without charge against militia appropriations except for actual expenses incident to such issue. The mounted, motorized, air, medical, and tank units and motor Reduction of mounted, etc., units.transport, military police, wagon and service companies of the National Guard shall be so reduced that the appropriations made in this Act shall cover the entire cost of maintenance of such units for the National Guard during the fiscal year 1930. organized reserves Organized Reserves. Officers’ Reserve Corps: For pay and allowances of members of Officers’ Reserve Corps.Pay, etc., for active duty.the Officers’ Reserve Corps on active duty for not exceeding fifteen days’ training, $2,710,436; 1370 For pay and allowances of members of the Officers’ Reserve Corps on active duty for more than fifteen days in accordance with law, $729,478; Mileage, etc., allowance. For mileage, reimbursement of actual traveling expenses, or per diem allowances in lieu thereof as authorized by law, $485,307: *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, $3,925,221. 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, $26,000. Training manuals. Manuals: For purchase of training manuals, including Government publications and blank forms, $12,000. Headquarters and training camps.Establishment, maintenance, etc. Headquarters and camps: For establishment, maintenance, and operation of divisional and regimental headquarters and of camps for training of the Organized Reserves; for miscellaneous expenses incident to the administration of the Organized Reserves, including the maintenance and operation of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles; for 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 matériel furnished in accordance with law from stocks under the Purchase of new airplanes, etc.control of the War Department, except that not to exceed $752,757 of this appropriation shall be available for expenditure by the Chief of the Air Corps 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 Medical and hospital treatment, etc., if injured in line of duty.active duty for 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 Burial expenses.Vol. 43, p. 364.U. S. Code, p. 183.to their military training, and for the preparation and transportation to their homes and burial expenses of the remains of members of the Organized Reserves who die while on active duty, as provided in section 4 of the Act of June 3, 1924 (U. S. C., p. 183, sec. 369; p. 185, secs. 451, 452; p. 186, secs. 453–455), $2,147,281, and in Additional from purchases of discharges by enlisted men.addition thereto there is hereby made available for this purpose the sum of $224,750 of funds received during the fiscal year 1930 from the purchase by enlisted men of the Army of their discharges, and the total sum made available in this Act for the Organized Restriction on flight training to officers of Officers’ Reserve Corps.Reserves shall remain available until December 31, 1930, and no part of such total sum shall be available for any expense incident to giving flight training to any officer of the Officers’ Reserve Corps who shall be found by such agency as the Secretary of War may designate not qualified to perform combat service as an aviation *Proviso.*Divisional, etc., headquarters.pilot: *Provided,* That not to exceed $100,000 of this appropriation may be used for establishment and maintenance of divisional and regimental headquarters. Other funds not to be used. None of the funds appropriated elsewhere in this Act, except for printing and binding and for pay and allowances of officers and enlisted men of the Regular Army, shall be used for expenses in 1371connection 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 Pay period for officers.of a reserve officer on active duty for a longer period than fifteen days, except such as may be detailed for duty with the War Department Department General Staff duty., etc.Vol. 41, pp. 760, 765.U. S. Code, p. 171.Other details.General Staff under section 3a and section 5
(b)of the Army Reorganization Act approved June 4, 1920 (U. S. C., p. 172, sec. 37; p. 171, sec. 26), 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 Air Corps.Vol. 41, p. 776.U. S. Code, p. 183.units of the Air Corps, as provided in section 37a of the Army Reorganization Act approved June 4, 1920 (U. S. C., p. 183, sec. 369): *Provided,* That the pay and allowances of such additional officers *Proviso.*Medical Reserve Corps for Veterans’ Bureau patients in Army hospitals.and nurses of the Medical Reserve Corps as are required to supplement the like officers and nurses of the Regular Army in the care of beneficiaries of the United States Veterans’ Bureau treated in Army hospitals may be paid from the funds allotted to the War DepartmentPayment from Army funds.by that bureau under existing law. Citizens’ Military Training Citizens’ military training. reserve officers’ training corps Reserve Officers’ Training Corps. For the procurement, maintenance, and issue, under such regulations Quartermaster 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 transporting Training 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 and subsisting them while en route, to pay them travel allowance at the rate of 5 Commutation of travel allowances.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 in accordance 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 Army; for the payment of commutation Subsistence commutation to senior division members.Vol. 39, p. 193; Vol. 41, p. 779.U. S. Code, p. 184.of subsistence to members of the senior division of the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps, at a rate not exceeding the cost of the garrison ration prescribed for the Army, as authorized in the Act approved June 3, 1916, as amended by the Act approved June 4, 1920 (U. S. C., p. 184, sec. 387); for medical and hospital treatment Medical and hospital treatment, etc., if injured in line of duty.until return to their homes and further medical treatment after 1372arrival at their homes, subsistence during hospitalization and until furnished transportation to their homes, and transportation when fit for travel to their homes of members of the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps who suffer personal injury in line of duty while en route to or from and while at camps of instruction under the provisions of Vol. 41, pp. 778, 779.U. S. Code, p. 185.section 47a of the National Defense Act approved June 3, 1916, as amended (U. S. C., p. 185, sec. 441); and for the cost of preparation Burial expenses.Vol. 43, p. 365.U. S. Code, p. 186.and transportation to their homes and burial expenses of the remains of members of the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps who die while attending camps of instruction as provided in section 4 of the Act approved June 3, 1924 (U. S. C., p. 186, sec. 455); and for the cost of maintenance, repair, and operation of passenger-carrying *Provisos.*Uniforms, etc., from Army surplus stocks.vehicles, $2,667,917: *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 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 material furnished to the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps from stocks under the control of the War Department be in excess of the price current at the Additional mounted units forbidden.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 Use of other funds forbidden.in the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps: *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. military supplies and equipment for schools and colleges Other schools and colleges.Issue of military supplies, equipment, etc., to.Vol. 41, p. 780.R. S., sec. 1225, p. 216.U. S. Code, p. 213.Vol. 41, p. 776. For the procurement and issue as provided in section 55c of the Act approved June 4, 1920 (U. S. C., p. 213, sec. 1180), and in section 1225, Revised Statutes, as amended, under such regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary of War, to schools and colleges, other than those provided for in section 40 of the Act above referred to, of such arms, tentage, and equipment, and of ammunition, targets, and target materials, including 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 attending.Vol. 39, p. 193; Vol. 41, p. 779.U. S. Code, p. 185. 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 (U. S. C., p. 185, sec. 442), uniforms, including altering, fitting, washing, and cleaning when necessary, subsistence, and transportation, or in lieu of such transportation and of subsistence for travel to and from camps travel allowances at 5 cents per mile, as prescribed in said section 47d; for such expenditures as are authorized by said section Maintenance.47d as may be necessary for the establishment and maintenance of said camps, including recruiting and advertising therefor, and the cost of maintenance, repair, and operation of passenger-carrying vehicles; for 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 1373gymnasium 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 Medical and hospital treatment, etc., if injured in line of duty.treatment until return to their homes, further medical treatment after arrival at their homes, subsistence during hospitalization, 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 en route to or from and while at camps of instruction under the provisions of section 47a and section 47d of the National Vol. 41, pp. 778, 779; Vol. 43, p. 365.U. S. Code, p. 186.Defense Act approved June 3, 1916 (U. S. C., 185, secs. 441, 442), as amended, and for the cost of preparation and transportation to Burial expenses.their homes and burial expenses of the remains of civilians who die while attending camps of instruction, as provided in section 4 of the Vol. 43, p. 365.U. S. Code, p. 186.*Provisos.*Age limitation.Act approved June 3, 1924 (43 Stat., p. 365); in all, $2,742,158: *Provided,* That the funds herein appropriated shall not be used for the training of any person in the first year, or lowest course, who shall have reached his twenty-fourth birthday before the date of enrollment: *Provided further,* That none of the funds appropriated Use of other funds forbidden.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,* That uniforms and other equipment or Uniforms, etc., from Army surplus stocks.matériel 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 reserve Use of Army reserve supplies restricted.supplies or equipment shall be made where such issues would impair the reserves field by the War Department for two field armies or one million men. National Board for Promotion of Rifle Practice, Army Promotion of rifle practice. national matches For the national matches and other competitions and the Small Expenses of national matches and Small Arms Firing School.*Ante,* p. 786.Arms Firing School, in accordance with the provisions of the Act approved May 28, 1928 (45 Stat., p. 786), $500,000. quartermaster supplies and services for rifle ranges for civilian instruction Civilian instruction. To establish and maintain indoor and outdoor rifle ranges for Quartermaster supplies, etc., for rifle ranges, etc.the use of all able-bodied males capable of bearing arms, under reasonable regulations to be prescribed by the National Board for the Promotion of Rifle Practice and approved by the Secretary of War; for the employment of labor in connection with the establishment of outdoor and indoor rifle ranges, including labor in operating targets; for the employment of instructors.; for clerical services, including Instructors, etc.not exceeding $22,500 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 1374 Participation in matches.citizens of the United States in marksmanship, and their participation in national and international matches, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War, and to remain available until expended, $30,250. national trophy and medals for rifle contests Rifle contests.Furnishing national trophy medals, etc.*Ante,* p. 786. For incidental expenses of the National Board for the Promotion of Rifle Practice in accordance with the provisions of the Act approved May 28, 1928 (45 Stat., p. 786), $5,500. ordnance equipment for rifle ranges for civilian instruction Ordnance equipment.Arms, ammunition, etc., for target practice at rifle ranges, etc. For arms, ammunition, targets, and other accessories for target practice, for issue and sale in accordance with rules and regulations prescribed by the National Board for the Promotion of Rifle Practice and approved by the Secretary of War, in connection with the encouragement of rifle practice, in pursuance of the provisions of Additional amount from purchases by enlisted men of their discharge.law, $133,750, and, in addition, not to exceed $75,250 of funds received during the fiscal year 1930 from the purchase by enlisted men their discharge. No pay to officers, etc., using time measuring devices on work of employees. No part of the appropriations made in this Act shall be available for the salary or pay of any officer, manager, superintendent, foreman, or other person having charge of the work of any employee of the United States Government while making or causing to be made with a stop watch, or other time-measuring device, a time study of any job of any such employee between the starting and completion thereof, or of the movements of any such employee while engaged Cash rewards restricted.upon such work; nor shall any part of the appropriations made in this Act be available to pay any premiums or bonus or cash reward to any employee in addition to his regular wages, except for suggestions resulting in improvements or economy in the operation of any Government plant. TITLE II.— NONMILITARY ACTIVITIES OF THE WAR DEPARTMENT Finance Department Finance Department.Jennie Carroll. For amount required to make monthly payments to Jennie Carroll, widow of James Carroll, late major, United States Army, $1,500. Mabel H. Lazear. For amount require to make monthly payments to Mabel H. Lazear, widow of Jesse W. Lazear, late acting assistant surgeon, United States Army, $1,500. John R. Kissinger.*Post,* p. 1410. For amount required to make monthly payments to John R. Kissinger, late of Company D, One hundred and fifty-seventh Indiana Volunteer Infantry, also late of the Hospital Corps, United States Army, $1,200. Clyde L. West.*Post,* p. 1410. For amount required to make monthly payments to Clyde L. West, late of Company B, Eighth Infantry, and Hospital Corps, United States Army, $1,200. Quartermaster Corps Quartermaster Corps. national cemeteries National cemeteries.Maintenance, etc. 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 tools and materials, and including care and maintenance of the 1375Arlington Memorial Amphitheater and Chapel and grounds in the Arlington, Va.Cemeteries abroad.Arlington National Cemetery, Virginia, and permanent American military cemeteries abroad; for repairs and maintenance of motor vehicles, including the purchase of one passenger-carrying vehicle at a cost not to exceed $600, $544,339. For repairs to roadways to national cemeteries which have been Repairs to roadways. *Provisos.*Encroachments by railroads forbidden.constructed by special authority of Congress, $10,000: *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 maintained by the United States: *Provided further,* That no part of Repairs restricted.this sum shall be used for repairing any roadway not owned by the United States within the corporate limits of any city, town, or village. No part of any appropriation for national cemeteries or the repair Limited to one approach.of roadways thereto shall be expended in the maintenance of more than a single approach to any national cemetery. For continuing the work of furnishing headstones of durable stone Headstones for soldiers’, etc., graves.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.Vol. 20, p. 281; Vol. 34, p. 56.U. S. Code, p. 687.States, and other burial places, under the Acts of March 3, 1873 (17 Stat., p. 545), February 3, 1879 (U. S. C., p. 687, sec. 280), and March 9, 1906 (34 Stat., p. 56); continuing the work of furnishing Civilians.headstones for unmarked graves of civilians interred in post cemeteries; and furnishing headstones for the unmarked graves of Confederate Confederates.soldiers, sailors, and marines in national cemeteries, $200,000. For repair and preservation of monuments, tablets, observation Antietam battle field.Preservation, etc.tower, roads, and fences, and so forth, made and constructed by the United States upon public lands within the limits of the Antietam battle field, near Sharpsburg, Maryland, and for pay of superintendent, Superintendent.said superintendent to perform his duties under the direction of the Quartermaster Corps and to be selected and appointed by the Secretary of War, at his discretion, the person selected for this position to 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, $7,473. Disposition of remains of officers, soldiers, and civilian employees: Remains of officers.Recovery and disposition of.*Ante,* pp. 248, 251.For the recovery of bodies and the disposition of remains of military personnel and civilian employees of the Army, in accordance with the provisions of the Acts approved March 8 and March 9, 1928 (45 Stat., pp. 248, 251), $94,330. Confederate Mound, Oakwood Cemetery, Chicago, Illinois: For Confederate Mound, Chicago.care, protection, and maintenance of the plat of ground known as Confederate Mound in Oakwood Cemetery, Chicago, Illinois, $500. For care, protection, and maintenance of Confederate Stockade Confederate Cemetery, Ohio.Cemetery, Johnstons Island, in Sandusky Bay, Ohio, $350. Confederate burial plats: For care, protection, and maintenance Confederate burial plats.of Confederate burial plats, owned by the United States, located and known by the following designations: Confederate Cemetery, North Alton, Illinois; Confederate Cemetery, Camp Chase, Columbus, Ohio; Confederate section, Greenlawn Cemetery, Indianapolis, Indiana; Confederate Cemetery, Point Lookout, Maryland; and Confederate Cemetery, Rock Island, Illinois, $1,500. 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, $1,060. 1376 National Military Parks Military Parks. chickamauga and chattanooga national military park Chickamauga and Chattanooga.Continuing establishment of. For continuing the establishment of the park; compensation and 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, $59,500. fredericksburg and spotsylvania county battle fields memorial Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania Memorial.Continuing establishment of.Vol. 44, p. 1091.U. S. Code, Supp. I, p. 88. For continuing the establishment of a national military park to be known as the Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania County Battle Fields Memorial, in accordance with the provisions of the Act approved February 14, 1927 (U. S. C., Supp. I, pp. 88, 89, secs. 425–425J), including the purchase (not to exceed $600), maintenance, repair, and operation of one motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicle, $50,000. gettysburg national military park Gettysburg.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 purchase of one such vehicle at a cost not exceeding $600, including value of a vehicle exchanged, and all other expenses incident to the foregoing, $73,215. guilford courthouse national military park Guilford Courthouse.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 (39 Stat., p. 996), $8,300. moores creek national military park Moores Creek.Continuing establishment of.Vol. 44. p. 684.U. S. Code, p. 1937. For continuing the establishment of a national military park at the battlefield 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, U. S. Code, p. 1937, sec. 422) , $ 3,980. petersburg national military park Petersburg.Continuing establishment of.Vol. 44, p. 822.U. S. Code Supp. I, p. 423. For continuing the establishment of a national military park at the battle fields of the siege of Petersburg, Virginia, in accordance with the provisions of the Act approved July 3, 1926 (U. S. C., Supp. I, p. 87, secs. 423–423h), including surveys, maps, and marking the 1377boundaries of the park; pay and expenses of civilian commissioners from date of appointment, and pay for clerical and other services; mileage and travel expenses; supplies, equipment, and materials; purchase (at a cost not to exceed $600), maintenance, repair, and operation of one motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicle, and all other expenses necessary in establishing that park, $50,000. shiloh national military park Shiloh. For continuing the establishment of the park; compensation of Continuing establishment of.superintendent of the park; clerical and other services; labor; historical tablets; maps and surveys; roads; purchase and transportation of supplies, implements, and materials; foundations for monuments; office and other necessary expenses, including maintenance, repair, and operation of one motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicle, $35,000; for additional repairs to roads, $5,000; in all, $40,000. stones river national military park Stones River. For continuing the establishment of a national military park at Continuing establishment of.Vol. 44, p. 1399.U. S. Code, Supp. I, p. 90.the battle field of Stones River, Tennessee, in accordance with the provisions of the Act approved March 3, 1927 (U. S. C., p. 90, secs. 426–427a), including the maintenance, repair, and operation of motor-propelled passenger and freight carrying vehicles, and other expenses necessary to the establishment of said park, $8,800. vicksburg national military park Vicksburg. For continuing the establishment of the park; compensation of Continuing establishment of.civilian commissioners; clerical and other services, labor, iron gun carriages, mounting of siege guns, memorials, monuments, markers, and historical tablets giving historical facts, compiled without praise and without censure; maps, surveys, roads, bridges, restoration of earthworks, purchase of lands, purchase and transportation of supplies and materials; and other necessary expenses, including maintenance, repair, and operation of one motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicle, $23,148. Any unexpended balances under the appropriations “Paving Atlanta, Ga., and Kenesaw Mountain battle fields.Unexpended balance available for surveys, etc., of.*Ante,* p. 929.Lafayette extension road, 1928 and 1929,” “Paving Ringgold road, 1928 and 1929,” and “Survey of battle fields, 1928 and 1929,” which last named appropriation shall be available for surveys of battle fields around Atlanta, Georgia, including the battle of Kenesaw Mountain, to determine the cost, of adequately marking the battle lines and of a suitable memorial park at Kenesaw Mountain, are continued and made available during the fiscal year 1930 for the same respective purposes except as may be hereby modified. survey of battle fields Battle fields. For continuing the work of survey of battle fields in accordance Survey of.Vol. 44, p. 726.U. S. Code, Supp. I, p. 91.with the provisions of the Act approved June 11, 1926 (U. S. C., Supp. I, p. 91, secs. 455–455c), $6,300. national monuments National monuments. For maintaining and improving national monuments established by National monuments.Maintaining, etc.Vol. 34, p. 225.U. S. Code, p. 416.proclamation of the President under the Act of June 8, 1906 (U. S. C., p. 416, sec. 431), and administered by the Secretary of War, including Fort McHenry, Maryland, including pay of the caretakers, laborers, and other employees, purchase of tools and materials, light, heat, and power, $30,135, of which not to exceed $300 may be paid to 1378the superintendent of the Shiloh National Military Park, in addition Meriwether Lewis.Superintendent.to his salary as such superintendent, for performing the duties of superintendent of the Meriwether Lewis National Monument. Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.Completing design for.Vol. 44, p. 914. Tomb of the Unknown Soldier: For every expenditure requisite for or incident to the payment of the cost of the accepted design, including all working drawings and supervision of erection, and cost of the memorial, for completing the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in the Arlington National Cemetery, as authorized by the public resolution approved July 3, 1926 (44 Stat., pp. 914–915), $47,500, *Proviso.*Authority for construction.to remain available until expended: *Provided,* That in carrying into effect the provisions of said public resolution the Secretary of War is authorized to do all the things necessary to accomplish this purpose, by contract, with or without advertising, under such conditions as he may prescribe, including the engagement, by contract, of services of such architects, sculptors, artists, or firms or partnerships thereof, and other technical and professional personnel as he may deem necessary without regard to civil-service requirements and restrictions of law governing the employment and compensation of employees of the United States, and when an appropriation shall Construction of approaches, roadways, and surroundings.have been made therefor, there may be constructed, in accordance with detailed plans and estimates to be prepared under the direction of the Secretary of War, approaches and surroundings, approximately four hundred and eighty feet by two hundred and twenty feet, together with the necessary adjacent roadways, to the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, in the Arlington National Cemetery, Virginia, all to be in harmony with design for the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier accepted by the Secretary of War and approved by the Arlington Cemetery Commission, the American Battle Monuments Commission, and the Fine Arts Commission. Battle of Kettle Creek, Ga.Tablet on site of.*Ante,* p. 718. Tablet at the site of the Battle of Kettle Creek, Georgia: For every expenditure requisite for or incident to the payment of the cost erecting a tablet or marker on the site of the Battle of Kettle Creek, Georgia, in accordance with the provisions of the Act approved May 23, 1928 (45 Stat., p. 718), $2,500. Perryville, Ky.Tablet on grounds of battle of.*Ante,* p. 160. Monument of Perryville, Kentucky: For every expenditure requisite for or incident to the payment of the cost of erecting a tablet or marker on the grounds of the Battle of Perryville, near Perryville, in Boyle County, Kentucky, in accordance with the provisions of the Act approved March 3, 1928 (45 Stat., p. 160), $5,000. William Rufus King.Payment for erecting tablet in memory of. Monument to William Rufus King: For every expenditure requisite for or incident to the payment of the cost of erecting at Clinton, Sampson County, North Carolina, a tablet or marker in commemoration of William Rufus King, former Vice President of the United *Ante,* p. 719.States, in accordance with the provisions of the Act approved May 23, 1928 (45 Stat., p. 719), $2,500. Old Fort Niagara, N. Y.Rehabilitating, etc. Old Fort Niagara, New York: For repair, restoration, and rehabilitation of the two blockhouses, the bake house, the magazine, and the French barracks, at Old Fort Niagara, New York, including construction of a rest room adjacent to the “castle,” and the restoration Equal local donation required.and construction of the old French drawbridge, $15,000, to be expended only when matched by an equal amount by donation from local interests for the same purpose, which amount the Secretary of War is authorized to expend. SIGNAL CORPS Signal Corps. washington-alaska military cable and telegraph system Washington – Alaska Cable, etc.Operation, etc. For defraying the cost of such extensions, betterments, operation, and maintenance of the Washington-Alaska Military Cable and Telegraph System as may be approved by the Secretary of War, to 1379be available until the close of the fiscal year 1931, from the receipts From 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, $171,930. Medical Department Medical Department. Artificial limbs: For furnishing artificial limbs and apparatus, or Artificial limbs.commutation therefor, and necessary transportation, $75,000. Appliances for disabled soldiers: For furnishing surgical appliances Surgical appliances.to persons disabled in the military or naval service of the United States prior to April 6, 1917, or subsequent to July 1, 1921, and not entitled to artificial limbs or trusses for the same disabilities, $600. Trusses for disabled soldiers: For trusses for persons entitled Trusses.R. S., sec. 1176, p. 211.Vol. 20, p. 353.U. S. Code, p. 1204.thereto under section 1176, Revised Statutes of the United States, and the Act amendatory thereof, approved March 3, 1879 (U. S. C., p. 1204, secs. 247–249), $300. Corps of Engineers Engineer corps. birthplace of george washington, wakefield, virginia Washington’s birthplace. For maintenance, care, and improvement of reservation and monument, Care of monument, etc.$2,500. california debris commission California Débris Commission. For defraying the expenses of the commission in carrying on the Expenses.Vol. 20, p. 507.U. S. Code, p. 1086.work authorized by the Act approved March 1, 1893 (U. S. C., p. 1086, sec. 661), $15,340. construction and maintenance of roads, bridges, and trails, alaska Alaska. For the construction, repair, and maintenance of roads, tramways, Roads, bridges, trails etc., in.Construction expenses, etc., under road commissioners.ferries, bridges, and trails, Territory of Alaska, to be expended under the direction of the Board of Road Commissioners described in section 2 of an Act entitled “An Act to provide for the construction and maintenance of roads, the establishment and maintenance Vol. 34, p. 192.U. S. Code, p. 1584.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 (U. S. C., p. 1584, secs. 321–337), and to be expended conformably to the provisions of said Act as amended, $800,000, to be available immediately, and to include $1,000 compensation President of board of road commissioners.to the president of the Board of Road Commissioners for Alaska, in addition to his regular pay and allowances. rivers and harbors Rivers and harbors. To be immediately available and to be expended under the direction Immediately available.of the Secretary of War and the supervision of the Chief of Engineers: For the preservation and maintenance of existing river and harbor Preserving, constructing, etc., authorized projects.works, and for the prosecution of such projects heretofore authorized as may be most desirable in the interests of commerce and navigation; for survey of northern and northwestern lakes, Boundary waters, etc., surveys.Lake of the Woods, and other boundary and connecting waters between the said lake and Lake Superior, Lake Champlain, and the natural navigable waters embraced in the navigation system of the New York canals, including all necessary expenses for preparing, correcting, extending, printing, binding, and issuing charts and bulletins and of investigating lake levels with a view to their regula-1380Examinations, surveys, etc.tion; for examinations, surveys, and contingencies of rivers and harbors, provided that no funds shall be expended for any preliminary examination, survey, project, or estimate not authorized by New York Harbor deposits.law; and for the prevention of obstructive and injurious deposits within the harbor and adjacent waters of New York City, for pay of inspectors, deputy inspectors, crews, and office force, and for maintenance of patrol fleet and expenses of office, $50,000,000. Missouri River.Bank protection, etc., at Niobrara, Nebr. For bank protection for the control of floods and the prevention of erosion of the Missouri River at and near the town of Niobrara in the State of Nebraska, $85,000, said work to be carried on under the control and supervision of the Chief of Engineers of the War *Proviso.*Local interests to contribute.Department: *Provided,* That the local interests shall contribute two- thirds of the cost of said work. Bank protection, etc., at Yankton, S. Dak. For bank protection for the control of floods and the prevention of erosion of the Missouri River at and near the town of Yankton in the State of South Dakota, $85,000, said work to be carried on under the control and supervision of the Chief of Engineers of the War *Proviso.*Local interests to contribute.Department: *Provided,* That the local interests shall contribute two- thirds of the cost of said work. Arkansas River.Relocation of levee on bank of, in Conway County, Ark.*Ante,* p. 537. That as a contribution in aid from the United States, in view of the unprecedented conditions obtaining in Conway levee district numbered 1, Conway County, Arkansas, in the reconstruction of the levee along the left bank of the Arkansas River in the said Conway levee district numbered 1, as provided under the terms of section 7 of the Flood Control Act, approved May 15, 1928 (45 Stat., p. 537), authority is hereby granted to the Secretary of War, upon the recommendation and approval of the Chief of Engineers, to relocate all or any part of said levee when in the opinion of the Chief of Engineers such relocation shall be deemed practical and feasible: *Proviso.*Expense limited.*Provided,* That the total expense occasioned to the United States by reason of the provisions of this paragraph shall not exceed $20,000. inland waterways corporation Inland Waterways Corporation.Purchase of capital stock.*Ante,* p. 978.Vol. 43, p. 360.U. S. Code, p. 1685. For the purchase of the capital stock of the Inland Waterways Corporation, authorized by section 2 of the Act entitled “An Act to amend the Act entitled ‘An Act to create the Inland Waterways Corporation for the purpose of carrying out the mandate and purpose of Congress, as expressed in sections 201 and 500 of the Transportation Act, and for other purposes,’” approved May 29, 1928, *Proviso.*Use of amounts.$10,000,000, to remain available until expended: *Provided*, That of the amount herein appropriated $2,500,000 shall be available immediately, and of the balance not more than $1,500,000 shall be withdrawn from the Treasury during the fiscal year 1930, not more than $3,000,000 during the fiscal year 1931, and not more than $3,000,000 during the fiscal year 1932. Conduit Road, D. C., etc.Survey, etc., to Great Falls, Md., for widening road, etc. That the Chief of Engineers of the United States Army, under the direction of the Secretary of War, is authorized and directed to make an examination and survey of the Conduit Road from the District of Columbia line to Great Falls, Maryland, of Cabin John Bridge, and of land contiguous to that part of such road and to such bridge, for the purpose of making recommendations for improving and widening that part of such road and such bridge, and, upon the Report with recommendation.completion of such examination and survey, to report to Congress the results thereof, together with estimates of the probable cost of carrying out such recommendations, and together also with recommendations as to the amount, if any, which justly should be advanced therefor by the Government of the United States. There is hereby appropriated the sum of $3,000 to carry out the provisions of this paragraph. 1381 muscle shoals Muscle Shoals. For operating, maintaining, and keeping in repair the works at Operating, etc., works at Dam No. 2, Tennessee River.Dam Numbered 2, Tennessee River, including the hydroelectrical development, $270,000, to remain available until June 30, 1930, and to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War and the supervision of the Chief of Engineers. flood control Flood control. Flood control, Mississippi River and tributaries: For prosecuting Mississippi River, etc.*Ante,* p. 534.work of flood control in accordance with the provisions of the Flood Control Act, approved May 15, 1928 (45 Stat., p. 534), $30,000,000. Emergency fund for flood control on tributaries of Mississippi Emergency fund for tributaries.*Ante,* p. 537.River: For rescue work and for repair or maintenance of any flood-control work on any tributaries of the Mississippi River threatened or destroyed by flood, in accordance with section 7 of Flood Control Act, approved May 15, 1928 (45 Stat., p. 534), $800,000. Flood control, Sacramento River, California: For prosecuting Sacramento River.Vol. 39, p. 949.U. S. Code, p. 1090.*Ante,* p. 539.work of flood control in accordance with the provisions of the Flood Control Act approved March 1, 1917 (U. S. C., p. 1090, sec. 703), as modified by the Flood Control Act approved May 15, 1928 (45 Stat., p. 534), $1,000,000. Return of funds contributed for flood control, Sacramento River, Return to California of funds contributed for flood control.Vol. 39, p. 948.U. S. Code, p. 1090.*Ante,* p. 539.California: For return to the State of California of funds contributed by the State for flood control in the Sacramento River, under the provisions of section 2 of the Flood Control Act approved March 1, 1917 (U. S. C., p. 1090, sec. 703), as authorized by section 13 of the Flood Control Act approved May 15, 1928 (45 Stat., p. 534), $4,370,000. ordnance department Ordnance Department. Upon the filing with the Comptroller General of the United States John W. Stockett.Payment for Government use of gun invention of.of evidence establishing to his satisfaction that John W. Stockett has been released by the other party thereto of all claims and demands whatsoever under a certain agreement dated April 11, 1927, and expressly released of the obligation as therein stipulated for the payment of 40 per centum of the amount involved for assistance and expenses in securing compensation from the United States, the sum of $50,000 is hereby appropriated for the payment as hereinafter specified in full settlement of all claims and demands whatsoever arising out of the use by the United States of the Stockett priming device and/or the Stockett breech mechanism on guns, and thereupon there shall be paid under this appropriation the sum of $45,000 to the said John W. Stockett, and the sum of $5,000 shall be paid to and retained by the other party to said agreement as compensation *Proviso.*Condition. for his services: *Provided,* That if the evidence of release aforesaid is not filed with the Comptroller General of the United States upon his request within the time specified by him this appropriation shall lapse and revert back to the Treasury and be as if no appropriation had been made. For the relief of the following States as a reimbursement or contribution Relief of States for loss of roads and bridges by floods of 1927.in aid from the United States, induced by the extraordinary conditions of necessity and emergency resulting from the unusually serious financial loss to such States through the damage to or destruction of roads and bridges by the floods of 1927, imposing a public charge against the property of said States beyond their reasonable capacity to bear, and without acknowledgement of any liability on the part of the United States in connection with the restoration of States specified.such local improvements, namely: Missouri, $258,418; Mississippi, 1382$628,000: Louisiana, $967,582; Arkansas, $1,800,000; in all, $3,654,000, to be available immediately and to remain available until expended: *Proviso.*Restoration of roads and bridges on approval of Secretary of Agriculture.*Provided,* That such portion of the sums hereby appropriated as will be available for future construction shall be expended by the State highway departments of the respective States with the approval of the Secretary of Agriculture for the restoration, including relocation, of roads and bridges so damaged or destroyed, in such manner as to give the largest measure of permanent relief, under rules and Equal expenditure by the State, required.regulations to be prescribed by the Secretary of Agriculture: *Provided further,* That any sum hereby appropriated for any State shall become available when the State shall have actually expended or shall have made available for expenditure a like sum from State funds for the purposes contained herein: *Provided further,* That If more expensive type used, appropriation not to defray increased cost.where any roads or bridges shall be or shall have been constructed of a more expensive type than those which were damaged or destroyed, the appropriation contained herein shall not be used to defray any part of the increase in cost occasioned thereby. National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers.Support. For support of the National Homo for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, as follows: Dayton, Ohio.Current expenses. Central Branch, Dayton, Ohio: Current expenses: For pay of officers and noncommissioned officers of the home, with such exceptions as are hereinafter noted, and their clerks, weighmasters, and orderlies; chaplains, religious instruction, and entertainment for the members of the home, printers, bookbinders, librarians, musicians, telegraph and telephone operators, guards, janitors, watchmen, fire company, and property and materials purchased for their use, including repairs; articles of amusement, library books, magazines, papers, picture, musical instruments, and repairs not done, by the home; stationery, advertising, legal advice, payments due heirs of deceased *Proviso.*Receipts from deceased members.members: *Provided,* That all receipts on account of the effects of deceased members during the fiscal year shall also be available for such payments; and for such other expenditures as can not properly be included under other heads of expenditures, $104,500; 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, $492,500; 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, $228,000; 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 1383special 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, $500,000; Transportation: For transportation of members of the home, Transportation.$1,000; Repairs: For pay of chief engineer, builders, blacksmiths, carpenters, Repairs.painters, gas fitters, electrical workers, plumbers, tinsmiths, steam fitters, stone and brick masons, and laborers, and for all appliances and materials used under this head; and repairs of roads and other improvements of a permanent character, $103,000: *Provided,* *Proviso.*New buildings forbidden.That no part of the appropriation for repairs for any of the branch homes shall be used for the construction of any new building; Farm: For pay of farmer, chief gardener, harness makers, farm Farm.hands, gardeners, horseshoers, stablemen, teamsters, dairymen, herders, and laborers; tools, appliances, and materials required for farm, garden, and dairy work; grain and grain products, hay, straw, fertilizers, seed, carriages, wagons, carts, and other conveyances; animals purchased for stock or work (including animals in the park); 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, $37,000; In all, Central Branch, $1,466,000. For “Current expenses,” “Subsistence,” “Household,” “Hospital,” Specified expenses at branches.“Transportation,” “Repairs,” and “Farm,” at the following branches, including the same objects respectively specified herein under each of such heads for the Central Branch, namely: Northwestern Branch, Milwaukee, Wisconsin: Current expenses, Milwaukee, Wis.$84,000; Subsistence, $314,000; Household, $165,500; Hospital, $440,000; Transportation, $500; Repairs, $73,000; Farm, $22,000; In all, Northwestern Branch, $1,099,000. Togus, Me. Eastern Branch, Togus, Maine: Current expenses, $73,000; Subsistence, $135,500; Household, $117,500; Hospital, $112,000; Transportation, $500; Repairs, $44,000; Farm, $31,000; In all, Eastern Branch, $513,500; Southern Branch, Hampton, Virginia: Current expenses, $82,000; Hampton, Va. Subsistence, $286,000; Household, $141,000; Hospital, $252,000; Transportation, $1,000; Repairs, $67,000; Farm, $24,000; In all, Southern Branch, $853,000; Western Branch, Leavenworth, Kansas: Current expenses, $89,100; Leavenworth, Kans. Subsistence, $286,000; Household, $168,000; Hospital, $220,000; Transportation, $500; Repairs, $82,700; Farm, $30,000; In all, Western Branch, $876,300. 1384 Santa Monica, Calif. Pacific Branch, Santa Monica, California: Current expenses, $93,000; Subsistence, $509,000; Household, $167,000; Hospital, $535,000; Transportation, $1,000; Repairs, $82,000; Farm, $38,000; In all, Pacific Branch, $1,425,000. Marion, Ind. Marion Branch, Marion, Indiana: Current expenses, $71,400; Subsistence, $271,000; Household, $111,000; Hospital, $394,000; Transportation, $1,000; Repairs, $63,000; Farm, $23,000; In all, Marion Branch, $934,400. Danville, Ill. Danville Branch, Danville, Illinois: Current expenses, $82,600; Subsistence, $252,000; Household, $138,500; Hospital, $162,000; Transportation, $500; Repairs, $60,000; Farm, $20,000; In all, Danville Branch, $715,600. Johnson City. Mountain Branch, Johnson City, Tennessee: Current expenses, $84,000; Subsistence, $291,000; Household, $104,000; Hospital, $311,000; Transportation, $500; Repairs, $60,500; Farm, $35,000; In all, Mountain Branch, $886,000. Hot Springs, S. Dak. Battle Mountain Sanitarium, Hot Springs, South Dakota: Current expenses, $60,000; Subsistence, $124,000; Household, $83,300; Hospital, $180,000; Transportation, $500; Repairs, $26,000; Farm, $8,500; In all, Battle Mountain Sanitarium, $482,300. 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 borne 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, $187,000. 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, $7,000; chief surgeon, $6,000; assistant general treasurer, $5,000; inspector general, $5,000; clerical services for the offices of the president, general treasurer, chief surgeon, and inspector general, $22,320; 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; 1385outside relief, $100; legal services, medical examinations, stationery, telegrams, and other incidental expenses, $1,700; in all, $68,320. Total, National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, $9,506,420. State or Territorial homes. State and Territorial homes for disabled soldiers and sailors: For Continuing aid to.continuing aid to State or Territorial homes for the support of disabled volunteer soldiers, in conformity with the Act approved August Vol. 25, p. 450.U. S. Code, p. 677.27, 1888 (U. S. C., p. 677, sec. 134), as amended, including all classes of soldiers admissible to the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, $560,000: *Provided,* That for any sum or sums collected in *Proviso.*Collections from inmates.any manner from inmates of such State or Territorial homes to be used for the support of said homes a like amount shall be deducted from the aid herein provided for, but this proviso shall not apply to any State or Territorial home into which the wives or widows of soldiers are admitted and maintained. The Panama Canal Panama Canal. The limitations on the expenditure of appropriations hereinbefore Limitations not applicable to appropriations for.made in this Act shall not apply to the appropriations for the Panama Canal. For every expenditure requisite for and incident to the maintenance All expenses.and operation, sanitation, and civil government of the Panama Canal and Canal Zone, including the following: Compensation of all Objects specified.officials and employees; foreign and domestic newspapers and periodicals; law books not exceeding $500; textbooks and books of reference; printing and binding, including printing of annual report; rent and personal services in the District of Columbia; purchase or exchange of typewriting, adding, and other machines, purchase or exchange, maintenance, repair, and operation of motor-propelled and horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles; claims for damages to Claims for damages.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 Acquisition of land.Disposal of unserviceable material, etc.Panama Canal Act; expenses incurred in assembling, 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 Traveling expenses, etc.or otherwise provided for herein; traveling 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 of Maintenance, 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 Payment to alien cripples.Vol. 39, p. 750.U. S. Code, p. 81.the United States Government, and for authorized sales, payment in lump sums of not exceeding the amounts authorized by the Injury Compensation Act approved September 7, 1916 (U. S. C., p. 81, sec. 793), to alien cripples who are now a charge upon the Panama 1386Canal by reason of injuries sustained while employed in the construction of the Panama Canal; in all, $8,000,000, including Dam across Chagres River at Alhajuela.*Ante,* p. 1386.$1,000,000 for continuing the construction of a dam across the Chagres River at Alhajuela for the storage of water for use in the maintenance and operation of the Panama Canal, 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 Additional from revenues.cost in the aggregate not to exceed $12,000,000, together with all moneys arising from the conduct of business operations authorized by the Panama Canal Act; Chagres River dam, etc., to be designated Madden Dam, lake, plant, and road. That in recognition of the exceptionally distinguished services in Congress for nearly twenty-four years of Honorable Martin B. Madden, the late chairman of the Committee on Appropriations, and in appreciation of his active and efficient interest in the Panama Canal throughout its entire construction and operation, and in recently causing the commencement of the construction of said dam across the Chagres River at or near Alhajuela, the said dam and the lake created thereby and the entire plant and the road leading thereto shall hereafter be known and designated on the public records as the Madden Dam, lake, plant, and road; 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, $820,000; Civil government expenses.Codifying laws.*Ante,* p. 596. For civil government of the Panama Canal and Canal Zone, including salaries of district judge, $10,000; district attorney, $5,000; marshal, $5,000; codification of Canal Zone laws as authorized by the Act of May 17, 1928 (45 Stat., p. 596), $10,000; and gratuities and necessary clothing for indigent discharged prisoners. $1,191,000; Available until expended.Purchases from Army surplus stock. Total, Panama Canal, $10,011,000, to be available until expended. The Governor of the Panama Canal, so far as the expenditure of appropriations contained in this Act may be under his direction, shall, when it is more economical, purchase needed materials, supplies, and equipment from available surplus stocks of the War Department. Moneys from designated sources credited to original appropriations. In addition to the foregoing sums there is appropriated for the fiscal year 1930 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 Net profits to be covered into the Treasury.the operation, maintenance, protection, sanitation, and government of the canal and Canal Zone; and any net profits accruing from such business to the Panama Canal shall annually be covered into the Treasury of the United States. Operation of waterworks, etc., in Panama and Colon. In addition there is appropriated for the operation, maintenance, and extension of waterworks, sewers, and pavements in the cities of 1387Panama and Colon, during the fiscal year 1930, the necessary portions of such sums as shall be paid as water rentals or directly by the Government of Panama for such expenses. Approved, February 28, 1929.
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Making appropriations for the military and nonmilitary activities of the War Department for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1930, and for other purposes
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