Chapter 88. To authorize appropriations for construction at military posts, and for other purposes
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Chap. 88: To authorize appropriations for construction at military posts, and for other purposes. Chapter 88 45 Stat. 129 1928-02-18 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2025-01-24 70 1 public 129 Chapter 88.— An Act To authorize appropriations for construction at military posts, and for other purposes.
February 18, 1928.[[H. R. 7009](/us/bill/70/hr/7009).][[Public, No. 61](/us/pl/70/61).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * Army.Construction of buildings, etc., authorized at military posts. That there is hereby authorized to be appropriated not to exceed $6,695,691, to be expended for the construction and installation at military posts of such technical buildings and utilities and appurtenances thereto as, in the judgment of the Secretary of War, may be necessary, as follows:
Bolling Field, District of Columbia, supply warehouse, $38,000;Designated posts, etc. administration building, $42,000; Chanute Field, Illinois, heating system in hangars, $5,629; Fort Crockett, Texas, machine shop and*Post, * pp. 334, 1304. aero repair building, $19,869; dope and paint house and lean-to for boiler room, $10,775; Fort Sam Houston, Texas, macadamizing hangar line and construction of storm sewer and surface drainage for hangars, $3,858; Hawaiian Department (for the Air Corps), steel hangar, $39,500; addition to radio hut, $6,979;
New Primary FlyingPrimary Flying Field, Tex.*Post, * p. 926. Field, San Antonio, Texas, hangars, $440,000; field shop, $81,000; field warehouse, $45,000; headquarters and operations buildings, $40,000; radio, parachute, and photographic buildings, and armament building, $61,000; school building, $40,000; gasoline and oil storage, $16,900; paint, oil, and dope storage, $5,000; night flying lighting system, $15,000; improvement of landing field, $81,000; New PrimaryPrimary Flying School, Tex.
Flying School, San Antonio, Texas, barracks, $700,000; noncommissioned officers’quarters, $540,000; officers’quarters, $1,020,000; hospital, $150,000; magazine (for explosive), $15,000; quartermaster warehouse, $90,000; garage, $80,000; quartermaster maintenance building, $20,000; fire house, $15,000; guard house, $30,000; post exchange, $45,000; theater and gymnasium, $60,000; incinerator, $5,000; railroad spur tracks, $39,700; telephone and telegraph lines in conduit, $68,375; bakery, $10,000; chapel and school, $50,000; enlisted men’s club, $60,000; officers’ mess, $60,000: *Provided, *That the Secretary*Provisos.*Acceptance of site, near San Antonio. of War is hereby authorized, when directed by the President, to accept on behalf of the United States, free from encumbrances and without cost to the United States, the title in fee simple to such lands as he may deem necessary or desirable, in the vicinity of San Antonio, Texas, approximately two thousand four hundred acres, as a site for an Army primary flying school and flying field: *Provided further,*Brooks Field and Kelly Field, Tex., authorizations transferred.
That upon the acceptance of the lands as herein provided there is hereby authorized to be made available or appropriated for the construction thereon of barracks and officers’ quarters and utilities and appurtenances thereto such amounts as may have been appropriated or authorized for appropriation for barracks and officers’ quarters and utilities and appurtenances thereto at Brooks Field and Kelly Field, Texas, pursuant to the authority contained in the Acts approved February 25, 1927 (Forty-fourth Statutes at Large, pageVol. 44, p. 1235.Vol. 44, p. 1391. 1235), and March 3, 1927 (Forty-fourth Statutes at Large, page 1390): *Provided further, *That, upon the acceptance of the lands asTransfer of buildings, etc., to primary flying school and field. herein provided, the Secretary of War is hereby authorized to prepare the grounds and construct the necessary roadways and utilities at said primary flying school and flying field and to transfer thereto and reestablish thereon such buildings, utilities and equipment then located at Brooks Field and Kelly Field, Texas, as he may determine to be necessary and desirable: *And provided further, *That theSale of Brooks Field and Kelly Field, authorized.Vol. 44, p. 204.*Post, * p. 926.
Secretary of War be, and he is hereby authorized to sell, or cause to be sold, under the provisions of the Act of March 12, 1926, the tracts or parcels of real property comprising Brooks Field and Kelly Field, Texas, or any portion thereof, upon determination by him that said tracts or parcels are no longer needed for military purposes, and to execute and deliver in the name of the United States and in its130 behalf any and all contracts, conveyances, or other instruments necessary to effectuate such sale and conveyance;
Langley Field, Virginia, heating plant for hangar, $6,068; Middletown Air Depot,*Post, * pp. 334, 1304. Middletown, Pennsylvania, hangars, $79,000; concrete floors in warehouse, $38,597; San Antonio Air Depot, San Antonio, Texas, rock asphalt apron for hangars, $7,316; instrument house and engine repair and cleaning building, $6,861; Scott Field, Illinois, gas holder, $49,500; Fairfield Air Depot, Fairfield, Ohio, gasoline and oil tanks, $36,000; March Field, California, radio, photographic*Post, * pp. 334, 1305. and school buildings, $86,000; night-flying lighting system, $15,000;
Maxwell Field, Alabama, hangar, $39,500; field shop, $81,000; headquarters and operations buildings, $40,000; radio, parachute, and photographic buildings, $56,000; night-flying lighting system, $15,000; Mitchel Field, Long Island, New York, hangars, $79,000; field shop, $81,000; field warehouse, $38,000; headquarters and operations buildings, $40,000; radio, parachute, and photographic buildings, $56,000; Selfridge Field, Michigan, hangars, $237,000; field shop, $81,000; headquarters and operations buildings, $40,000; radio and parachute buildings, $20,000; ceiling and walling hangars, $3,264;
Albrook Field, Canal Zone, construction of landing field, $400,000; Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, one hangar, $40,000; field warehouse and shop, $45,000; headquarters building, $20,000; gasoline and oil storage, $5,000; night-flying lighting system, $10,000; Walter Reed General Hospital, in the District of Columbia, for the construction of a three-story ward building, for conversion of the fourth story of the present administration building of said hospital into an operating suite, including the construction of the necessary corridors, roads, walks, grading utilities, and appurtenances thereto, $310,000; the United States Military Academy, West Point, NewMilitary Academy.New cadet barracks, etc.*Post, * p. 300.
York, for the purpose of razing the old cadet mess hall, and of preparing the plans and specifications and of excavating the ground and otherwise preparing the site for the construction of a new cadet barracks at the United States Military Academy (the total cost of which is not to exceed $825,000), $185,000: *Provided, *That the superintendentArchitects authorized, for plans, etc. of the United States Military Academy, West Point, New York, with the approval of the Secretary of War, is authorized to employ architects to draw the necessary plans and specifications from funds herein authorized, when appropriated;
Fort Benjamin Harrison, barracks and motion picture theatre, $400,000. There is hereby authorized to be constructed from current fundsSchofield Barracks, Hawaii, and Fort Sill, Okla.Buildings at, authorized from current funds. in possession of the Secretary of War, 96 sets of bachelor officers’ quarters at Schofield Barracks, Hawaii, $108,000; an addition to ward building (hospital), Fort Sill, Oklahoma, $30,000. The Act entitled “An Act to authorize appropriations for constructionFort Benning, Ga.
Authorization for, modified. at military posts, and for other purposes,” approved March 3, 1927, is hereby amended so as to strike out the authorization thereinVol. 44, p. 1391, amended. for $500,000 for barracks at Fort Benning, Georgia, and to substitute therefor the following: “For Fort Benning, Georgia, barracks, $300,000; to complete the hospital, $135,000; to construct nurses’ quarters, $65,000.” Approved, February 18, 1928.
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