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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 46 STAT. · June 30, 1932 · Chapter 279

Chapter 279. Making appropriations for the military and nonmilitary activities of the War Department for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1932, and for other purposes

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CHAP. 279.— An Act Making appropriations for the military and nonmilitary activities of the War Department for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1932, and for other purposes. February 23, 1931.[[H. R. 15593](/us/bill/71/hr/15593).][[Public, No. 718](/us/pl/71/718).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, War Department appropriations, fiscal year 1932. That the following sums are appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not other-wise appropriated, for the military and nonmilitary activities of the War Department for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1932, and for other purposes, namely:
TITLE I— MILITARY ACTIVITIES AND OTHER EXPENSES OF THE WAR DEPARTMENT INCIDENT THERETOMilitary activities. salaries, war departmentDepartment salaries. Secretary of War, $15,000; Assistant Secretary of War, $10,000.Secretary, Assistant.Civilian personnel in offices designated. For compensation for other personal services in the District of Columbia, as follows: Office of Secretary of War, $271,907: *Provided*, That no field-service Secretary of War.*Proviso*.No field service unless expressly authorized.Chief of Staff.Adjutant General.World War records.appropriation shall be available for personal services in the War Department except as may be expressly authorized herein.
Office of Chief of Staff, $232,034. Adjutant General’s office, $1,461,402. For assembling, classifying, and indexing the military personnel records of the World War, including personal services in the District of Columbia and the purchase of necessary supplies and materials, $250,000. Office of the Inspector General, $28,345.Inspector General.Judge Advocate General.*Proviso*.Experts, etc., for patent infringements. Office of the Judge Advocate General, $114,149: *Provided*, That not to exceed $31,529 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, $379,867.Chief of Finance.Quartermaster General.Chief Signal Officer.Chief of Air Corps.Surgeon General.Insular Affairs Bureau.Chief of Engineers.*Provisos*.Services of draftsmen, etc. Office of the Quartermaster General, $832,275. Office of the Chief Signal Officer, $107,709. Office of the Chief of Air Corps, $236,105. Office of the Surgeon General, $282,594. Office of Chief of Bureau of Insular Affairs, $85,413. Office of Chief of Engineers, $124,526: *Provided*, That the services of skilled draftsmen, civil engineers, and such other services as the Secretary of War may deem necessary may be employed only in the office of the Chief of Engineers, to carry into effect the various appropriations for rivers and harbors, surveys, and preparation for and the consideration of river and harbor estimates and 1278Limitation on expenditure.bills, to be paid from such appropriations: *Provided further*, That the expenditures on this account for the fiscal year 1932 shall not exceed $218,830; the Secretary of War shall each year, in the Budget, report to Congress the number of persons so employed, their duties and the amount paid to each.
Chief of Ordnance.Office of Chief of Ordnance, $446,618. Chemical Warfare Service.Chief of Coast Artillery.Militia Bureau.Office of Chief of Chemical Warfare Service, $52,429. Office of Chief of Coast Artillery, $25,720. Militia Bureau, War Department, $149,804. In all, salaries, War Department, $5,105,897. Restriction on exceeding average salaries.In expending appropriations or portions of appropriations, contained in this Act, for the payment for personal services in the District Vol. 42, p, 1488;
Vol. 45, p. 776.*Ante*, p. 1003.[U. S. C., p. 65; Supp. IV, p. 25](/us/usc/p65).Exception.of Columbia in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, as amended, with the exception of the Assistant Secretaries of War 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 If only one position in a grade.for 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 Allowance in unusually meritorious cases.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 of the grade but not more often than once in any fiscal year and *Proviso*.Restriction not applicable to clerical-mechanical service.No reduction in fixed salary.Vol. 42, p. 1490.[U.
S. C., p. 66; Supp. IV. p. 25](/us/usc/p66/25).Transfers to another position without reduction.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, office, or other appropriation unit, or
(4)to prevent the payment Higher salary rates allowed.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 reallocation increases.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 deparatment Department contingent expenses.For stationery; 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; freight and express charges; street-car fares, not exceeding $750; postage to Postal Union countries; and other absolutely necessary expenses, including traveling expenses, $155,000. Printing and binding.For printing and binding for the War Department, its bureau and offices, and for all printing and binding for the field activities under the War Department, except such as may be authorized in accordance with existing law to be done elsewhere than at the Government 1279Printing Office, $500,000: *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 $65,000 Under Chief of Engineers.shall be available for printing and binding under the direction of the Chief of Engineers. MILITARY ACTIVITIESMilitary activities. Money solely for use of economic surveys.No money appropriated by this Act for objects which the economic survey which has been conducted by the War Department may show as not being wholly or partly required shall be available for obligation for any other object. contingencies of the armyArmy contingencies. For all contingent expenses of the War Department and of the Army not otherwise provided 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 and of military activities in the field, $12,000. yorktown sesquicentennial celebrationYorktown Sesquicen tennial Celebration.Participation expenses. For the expenses of the United States Army, which is hereby authorized to participate on October 16, 17, 18, and 19, 1931, in the sesquicentennial celebration at Yorktown, Virginia, to be held pursuant to Public Resolution, Numbered 89, Seventy-first Congress, approved June 17, 1930, entitled “Joint resolution providing for *Ante*, pp. 333, 776, 887.*Post*, p. 2175.the participation of the United States in the celebration of the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the siege of Yorktown, Virginia, and the surrender of Lord Cornwallis, on October 19, 1781, and authorizing an appropriation to be used in connection with such celebration, and for other purposes,” including transportation to and from Yorktown, of troops, tentage, supplies, equipment, and all other expense incident to a proper participation in said celebration, including Army band.the expenses of the Army Band, which is hereby authorized to participate in said celebration, $30,000. General Staff CorpsGeneral Staff Corps contingencies, military intelligence divisionMilitary Intelligence Division. For contingent expenses of the Military Intelligence Division, General Contingent expenses.Staff Corps, and of the military attachés at the United States embassies and legations abroad, including the purchase of law books, professional books of reference, and subscriptions to newspapers and periodicals; for cost of maintenance of students and attachés; for the hire of interpreters, special agents, and guides, and for such other purposes as the Secretary of War may deem proper, including $5,000 for the actual and necessary expenses of officers of the Army on duty abroad for the purpose of observing operations of armies Observing operations of foreign armies.of foreign states at war, to be paid upon certificates of the Secretary 1280of War that the expenditures were necessary for obtaining military information, $57,480, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary *Proviso.*Conditions waived.[R. S., sec. 3648, p. 718](/us/rs/s3648/p718).[U. S. C., p. 1009](/us/usc/p1009).of War: *Provided*, That section 3648, Revised Statutes (U. S. C., title 31, sec. 529), shall not apply to payments made from appropriations contained in this Act in compliance with the laws of foreign countries under which the military attachés are required to operate. Army War College.army war college Instruction expenses.For expenses of the Army War College, being for the purchase of the necessary special stationery; textbooks, books of reference, scientific and professional papers, and periodicals; maps; police Employees, etc.utensils; employment of temporary, technical, or special services, and expenses of special lecturers; for the pay of employees; and for all other absolutely necessary expenses, $81,880. Adjutant General’s DepartmentAdjutant General’s Department. command and general staff school, fort leavenworth, kansas Command and General Staff School.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 Command and General Staff School, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, $42,999. Welfare of enlisted men.Post exchanges, equipment, etc.welfare of enlisted men For the equipment and conduct of school, reading, lunch, and amusement rooms, service clubs, chapels, gymnasiums, and libraries, including periodicals and other publications and subscriptions for newspapers, salaries and travel for civilians employed in the hostess and library services, transportation of books and equipment for these services, 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, $72.640. Finance DepartmentFinance Department. Pay, etc., of the Army.pay, and so forth, of the army Officers. For pay of not to exceed an average of twelve thousand commissioned officers of the line and staff, $31,066,500; pay of officers, Aviation increase.National Guard, $100; pay of warrant officers, $1,734,656; aviation increase to commissioned and warrant officers of the Army, $1,693,-Longevity.Enlisted men.512; additional pay to officers for length of service, $7,694,796; pay of enlisted men of the line and staff, not including the Philippine Scouts, $53,183,975; pay of enlisted men of National Guard, $100; aviation increase to enlisted men of the Army, $543.279; pay of Longevity.Retired list.Officers.Enlisted men.Pay clerks.Civil service messengers at headquarters.enlisted men of the Philippine Scouts, $1,124.182; additional pay for length of service to enlisted men, $3,338,336; pay of the officers on the retired list, $9,358,393; increased pay to retired officers on active duty, $131,132; pay of retired enlisted men, $12,302,416; increased pay and allowances of retired enlisted men on active duty, $5,940; pay of retired pay clerks, $3,375; pay not to exceed sixty 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, 1281camps, and ports of embarkation and debarkation, $72,000; pay and allowances of contract surgeons, $51,276; pay of nurses, $873,400;Contract surgeons, nurses, etc.Rental and subsistence allowances, etc. pay of hospital matrons, $720; rental allowances, including allowances for quarters for enlisted men on duty where public quarters are not available, $6,140,735; subsistence allowances, $5,869,841; interest on soldiers’ deposits, $50,000; 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, $500; additional pay to officers below the grade of major required to be Officers furnishing mounts.mounted and who furnish their own mounts, $225,000; in all, $135,-464,164, less $800,000 to be supplied by the Secretary of War for this purpose from funds received during the fiscal year 1932 from the Deduction of sums from purchases of discharges by enlisted men.Accounted as one fund.purchase by enlisted men of the Array of their discharges, $134,664,-164; and the money herein appropriated for “Pay, and so forth, of the Army” shall be accounted for as one fund. 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. No appropriation for the pay of the Army shall be available for Engaged in issuing certain service publications.the pay of any officer or enlisted man on active list of the Army who is engaged in any manner with any publication which is or may be issued by or for any branch or organization of the Army or military association in which officers or enlisted men have membership and which carries paid advertising of firms doing business with the Government: *Provided, however*, That nothing herein contained *Proviso*.Exception.shall be construed to prohibit officers from writing or disseminating articles in accordance with regulations issued by the Secretary of War. mileage of the armyMileage. For mileage, reimbursement of actual traveling expenses, or perOfficers, etc.diem allowances in lieu thereof, as authorized by law, to commissioned officers, warrant officers, contract surgeons, and expert accountant, Inspector General’s Department, $695,692. expenses of courts-martial For expenses of courts-martial, courts of inquiry, military commissions, Courts martial, etc., expenses.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, $75,000. apprehension of deserters, and so forthDeserters, etc. For the apprehension, securing, and delivering of soldiers absent Apprehension of, etc.without leave and of deserters, including escaped military prisoners, and the expenses incident to their pursuit; and no greater sum than 1282$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, $140,000. Finance Service.finance service Pay of clerks, etc.Allowances, living abroad.*Ante*, p. 818.For compensation of clerks and other employees of the Finance Department, including not to exceed $750 for allowances for living quarters, including heat, fuel, and light, as authorized by the Act approved June 26, 1930 (46 Stat., p. 818), $1,126,290. Private property damages.claims for damages to and loss of private property Payment of claims for.For payment of claims not exceeding $500 each in amount for damages to or loss of private property incident to the training, practice, operation, or maintenance of the Army that have accrued, or *Proviso*.Settlement by General Accounting Office.may hereafter accrue, from time to time, $100: *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. Private property of officers, etc.claims of officers, enlisted men, and nurses of the army for destruction of private property Payment of claims for losses, 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. C., p. 989](/us/usc/p989).or damaged in the military service of the United States, under the provisions of an Act approved March 4, 1921 (U. S. C., title 31, secs, 218–222), $30,000. 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 when stationed at places where rations in kind can not be economically issued, including retired enlisted men when ordered to active duty and when traveling on detached duty where it is impracticable to carry rations of any kind, enlisted men selected to contest for places or prizes in department and Army rifle competitions when traveling to and from places of contest, applicants for enlistment, and general prisoners while traveling under orders. For payment of the regulation allowances of commutation in lieu of rations for enlisted men, applicants for enlistment while held under observa1283tion, civilian employees who are entitled to subsistence at public expense, and general prisoners while sick in hospitals, to be paid to the surgeon in charge; advertising; for providing prizes to be established Advertising.by the Secretary of War for enlisted men of the Army who graduate from the Army schools for bakers and cooks, the total Prizes for bakers and cooks.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, $21,237,708: *Provided*, That none of *Proviso*.Oleomargarine restrictions.the money appropriated in this Act shall be used for the purchase of oleomargarine or butter substitutes for other than cooking purposes, except to supply an expressed preference therefor or for use where climatic or other conditions render the use of butter impracticable. 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 post bakery and bake-oven Bakeries, ice, etc.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, textbooks, Furniture, school supplies, etc.paper, and equipment for the post schools and libraries, and for schools for noncommissioned officers; for the purchase and issue of instruments, office furniture, stationery, and other authorized articles for the use of officers’ schools at the several military posts; for purchase of commercial newspapers, market reports, and so forth; for the tableware and mess furniture for kitchens and mess halls, each and all for the enlisted men, including recruits; for forage, salt, and Forage etc., for ani mals.vinegar for the horses, mules, oxen, and other draft and riding animals of the Quartermaster Corps at the several posts and stations and with the armies in the field, for the horses of the several regiments of Cavalry and batteries of Artillery and such companies of Infantry and Scouts as may be mounted, and for remounts and for the authorized number of officers’ horses, including bedding for the animals; for seeds and implements required for the raising of forage at remount depots and on military reservations in the Hawaiian, Philippine, and Panama Canal Departments, and for labor and expenses incident thereto, including, when specifically authorized by the Secretary of War, the cost of irrigation; for the purchase of implements and hire of labor for harvesting hay on military reservations; for straw for soldiers’ bedding, stationery, typewriters andStationery, etc. exchange of same, including blank books and blank forms for the Army, certificates for discharged soldiers, and for printing department orders and reports, $5,403,711. Clothing and equipage: For cloth, woolens, materials, and for the Clothing, etc.Purchase, manufacture, etc.purchase and manufacture of clothing for the Army, including retired enlisted men when ordered to active duty, for issue and for sale; for payment of commutation of clothing due to warrant officers of the Mine Planter Service and to enlisted men; for altering and fitting clothing and washing and cleaning when necessary; for operation Laundries.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 1284and sorting storehouses, hat repairing shops, shoe repair shops, clothing repair shops, and garbage reduction works; for equipage, Equipage, toilet kits, etc.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 Array; for expenses of packing and handling and similar necessaries; for a suit of citizen’s Issue of citizens outer clothing.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 Indemnity for destroyed clothing, etc.without internment; 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, $8,881,851, of which amount not exceeding $60,000 shall be available Sum for fuel immediately available.immediately for the procurement and transportation of fuel for the service of the fiscal year 1932. 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 Quarternraster Corps, including not to Allowances for living quarters, etc.*Ante*, p. 818.exceed $15,750 for allowances for living quarters, including heat, fuel, and light, as authorized by the Act approved June 26, 1930 (46 Stat., p. 818), and clerks, foremen, watchmen, and organist for the United States Disciplinary Barracks, and incidental expenses of Recruiting.recruiting; for the operation of coffee-roasting plants; for payment Tests, etc.of entrance fees for Army rifle and pistol teams participating in competitions; for tests and experimental and development work and scientific research to be performed by the Bureau of Standards for Inspection service.the Quartermaster Corps; for inspection service and instruction furnished by the Department of Agriculture which may be transferred in advance; for such additional expenditures as are necessary and authorized by law in the movements and operation of the Army and at military posts, and not expressly assigned to any other departments, *Proviso*.Limitation on em ployment of average number of officers, etc.$3,843,762: *Provided*, That no appropriation contained in this Act shall be available for any expense incident to the employment of an average number of officers, enlisted men, or civilian employees greater than the largest number employed during the fiscal year ended 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, and enlisted men when ordered to active duty and upon relief therefrom, and including packing and crating; of recruits and recruiting parties; of applicants for enlistment between recruiting stationsDependents of officers, etc.and recruiting depots; of necessary agents and other employees, including their traveling expenses; of dependents of officers and enlisted men as provided by law; of discharged prisoners, and persons discharged from Saint Elizabeths Hospital after transfer thereto from the military service, to their homes (or elsewhere as they may elect):*Proviso*.Cost restriction. *Provided*, That the cost in each case shall not be greater than to the place of last enlistment; of horse equipment; and of funds for the Army; for the purchase or construction, not exceeding $100,000, Boats. etc.alteration, operation, and repair of boats and other vessels; for wharfage, tolls, and ferriage; for drayage and cartage; for the 1285purchase, manufacture (including both material and labor), maintenance, hire, and repair of packsaddles 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 hire of draft and pack animals; for travel allowances to officers and Travel allowances, enlisted men, National Guard, etc.Vol. 31, p. 902; Vol. 42, p. 102.[U. S. C., p. 197](/us/usc/p197).enlisted 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., title 10 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., title 10, 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, $14,472,585, of which amount not exceeding $696,600 shall be available immediately, Amount for fuel and transportation thereof immediately available.not exceeding $250,000 being for the procurement and transportation of fuel for the service of the fiscal year 1932. No money appropriated by this Act shall be expended for the hire, Motor vehicle restriction.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 delivered and completely equipped, including the value of a vehicle exchanged: Fourteen truck chassis at $7,200, twenty-two Price limitation.truck chassis at $4,250, seventy-six truck chassis at $2,800, twenty-seven truck chassis at $1,750, twenty-four passenger-carrying vehicles at $2,000, seven such vehicles at $600, and one hundred and ten motor cycles at $300: *Provided*, That during the fiscal year 1932 *Proviso*.Cost of transportation charged to appropriations from which supplies procured.the cost of transportation from point of origin to the first point of storage or consumption of supplies, equipment, and material in connection with the manufacturing and purchasing activities of the Quartermaster Corps may be charged to the appropriations from which such supplies, equipment, and material are procured. horses, draft and pack animalsHorses. For the purchase Purchase, etc.of draft and pack animals, $82,500; for the purchase of horses within limits as to age, sex, and size to be prescribed by the Secretary of War for remounts for officers entitled to public mounts, for the United States Military Academy, and for such organizations and members of the military service as may be required to be mounted, and for all expenses incident to such purchases (including $132,500 for encouragement of the breeding of Encouraging breeding of riding horses.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), $248,120; in all, $330,620. military postsMilitary posts. For construction and installation at military posts, including Construction, etc., obligations.the United States Military Academy, of buildings, utilities, and appurtenances thereto, including interior facilities, necessary service connections to water, sewer, gas, and electric mains, and similar improvements, all within the authorized limits of cost of such buildings, as 1286Vol. 45, pp. 129, 748. 781, 1258, 1301, 1425.*Ante*, p. 1014.Restrictions waived.[R. S., secs. 1136, 3734, pp. 206, 737](/us/rs/s1136/3734/p206/737).[U. S. C., pp. 219, 1302, 1303](/us/usc/219/1302/1303).authorized by the Acts approved February 18, 1928 (45 Stat., p. 129), May 26, 1928 (45 Stat., p. 748), February 25, 1929 (45 Stat., p. 1301), June 18, 1930 (46 Stat., p. 781), and July 3, 1930 (46 Stat., p. 1014), without reference to sections 1136 and 3734, Revised Statutes (U. S. C., title 10, sec. 1339; title 40, secs. 259, 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 requirements and restrictions of law governing the employment and compensation of employees of the United States, to be available immediately, $20,695,990, of which $95,000 shall be Night flying lighting systems.available for the construction of night flying lighting systems and $109,173 for transportation expenses incident to construction herein provided for on account of the Air Corps, and of which not to Incurred obligations.exceed $2,773,000 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 *Provisos.*Military Academy, construction.*Ante*, p. 1172.Walter Reed General Hospital. D. C.Chapel.1931: *Provided*, That of the amount herein appropriated not to exceed $45,000 shall be available for completing the construction of the new officers’ apartment building at the United States Military Academy, West Point, New York: *Provided further*, That of the amount herein appropriated $12,000 shall be made available for reimbursing the Gray Ladies of the Red Cross for expenditures already made in connection with the construction of tha nonsectarian chapel at Walter Reed General Hospital, District of Columbia, Vol. 45, p. 1301.Vol. 45, p. 156.authorized by the Acts of February 25, 1929 (45 Stat., p. 1301), and February 28, 1928 (45 Stat., p. 156): *Provided further*, That of the Amounts from construction fund and the Treasury.Vol. 44, p. 206.[U. S. C., p. 1913](/us/usc/p1913).amount herein appropriated, $1,500,000 shall be payable from the military post construction fund created by section 4 of the Act approved March 12, 1926 (U. S. C., title 10, sec. 1597), and $19, 195,990 shall be payable out of the general fund of the Treasury: *Provided further*, Additional contracts authorized.That the Secretary of War is authorized to enter into contracts for the purposes specified in the foregoing Acts, to an amount not to exceed $3,000,000, in addition to the appropriation herein Fort Lewis, Wash.Officers’quarters.Sums available.Vol. 45, pp. 748, 1349, 1358.*Ante*, p. 1172.made: *Provided further*, That the sum of $343,784 out of funds authorized for barracks at Fort Lewis by the Act of May 26, 1928 (45 Stat., p. 748), and appropriated for construction at military posts by the Act of February 28, 1929 (45 Stat., pp. 1349, 1358), is hereby reappropriated and made available for the construction and installation at Fort Lewis, Washington, of noncommissioned officers’ quarters to cost not more than $119,000 and officers’ quarters to cost not more than $224,784, and the sum of $75,000 out of funds authorized Fort Benning, Ga.New barracks.Funds available.Vol. 45, pp. 130, 326, 334.*Ante*, p. 1172. for hospital at Fort Benning, Georgia, by the Act of February 18, 1928 (45 Stat., p. 130), and appropriated for construction at Fort Benning by the Act of March 23, 1928 (45 Stat., pp. 326, 334), is hereby reappropriated and made available for construction and installation at Fort Benning, Georgia, of a barracks for the medical detachment to cost not more than $75,000. Barracks, quarters, etc.All expenses for construction, maintenance, repairs, etc.barracks and quarters and other building and utilities 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 grounds, flooring 1287and framing for tents, rental of buildings, including not to exceed Rentals, etc.$900 in the District of Columbia, provided space is not available in Government-owned buildings, and grounds for military purposes and lodgings for recruits and applicants for enlistments, water supply, Water, roads, wharves, etc.sewer and fire-alarm systems, fire apparatus, roads, walks, wharves, drainage, dredging channels, purchase of water, disposal of sewage, shooting galleries ranges for small-arms target practice, field, mobile, Shooting galleries, ranges, etc.and railway artillery practice, including flour for paste for marking targets, 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, for furnishing heat and light Heat and light to quarters, etc.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 cost, in the operation of the Recreation buildings.Vol. 32, p, 282.[U. S. C., p. 219](/us/usc/219).Act approved May 31, 1902 (U. S. C., title 10, sec. 1346), and buildings for a similar purpose on military reservations authorized by War Department regulations; for sale of fuel to officers; fuel and engine supplies required in the operation of modern batteries at established posts, $15,865,913, of which $1,414,292 shall be available immediately: *Provided*, That not more than $16,000 of the appropriations contained *Provisos*.Outside rent.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 materiel and industrial organizations essential to war-time needs: *Provided further*, That Rentals for military attachés.this appropriation shall be available for the rental of offices, garages, and stables for military attaches: *Provided further*, That not exceeding Fuel and transportation thereof.$4,100,000 shall be available immediately for the procurement and transportation of fuel for the service of the fiscal year 1932: *Provided Additional construction limitation. further*, That no part of the funds herein appropriated shall be available for construction of a permanent nature of an additional building or an extension or addition to an existing building, the cost of which in any case exceeds $20,000: *Provided further*, That the monthly Stable rent.rental rate to be paid out of this appropriation for stabling any animal shall not exceed $15. That in the expenditure of appropriations in this Act the Secretary Products of United States.Purchases of, prescribed.of War shall, unless in his discretion the interest of the Government will not permit, purchase or contract for, within the limits of the United States, only articles of the growth, production, or manufacture of the United States, notwithstanding that such articles of the growth, production, or manufacture of the United States may cost more, if such excess of cost be not unreasonable. sewerage system, fort monroe, virginiaFort Monroe, Va. For repair and maintenance of wharf and apron of wharf, including Wharf, etc. 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. 1288 Hospitals.construction and repair of hospitals Construction, repairs, etc.For construction and repair of hospitals at military posts already established and occupied, including all expenditures for construction and repairs required at the Army and Navy Hospital at Hot Springs, Arkansas, and for the construction and repair of general hospitals and expenses incident thereto, and for additions needed to meet the 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 Temporary camp hospitals, etc.repair of temporary general hospitals, rental or purchase of grounds, and rental and alteration of buildings for use for hospital purposes in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, including necessary temporary quarters for hospital personnel, outbuildings, heating and laundry apparatus, plumbing, water and sewers, and electric work, cooking apparatus, and roads and walks for the same, $580,180. Seacoast defenses.Seacoast Defenses All expenses of, etc., under specified branches. For all expenses as may be incident to the preparation of plans and the construction, purchase, installation, equipment, maintenance, repair, and operation of fortifications and other works of defense, and their accessories, including personal services, maintenance of channels to submarine mine wharves, purchase of lands and rights of way as authorized by law, and experimental, test, and development work, as follows: United States.United States, $1,127,858, of which $86,724 shall be available immediately; Insular possessions.Insular departments, $962,516, of which $72,990 shall be available immediately; Panama Canal.Panama Canal, $648,632, of which $121,627 shall be available immediately; In all, $2,739,006. Signal Corps.Signal Corps Signal Service.signal service of the army Telegraph and telephone systems.Purchase, operation, etc.Telegraph and telephone systems: Purchase, equipment, operation, and repair of military telegraph, telephone, radio, cable, and signaling systems; signal equipment and stores, heliographs, 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, longdistance, 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 the 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 1289Army, including payment for official individual telegraph messages transmitted over commercial lines; electrical installations and maintenance Electric installations.thereof at military posts, cantonments, camps, and stations of the Army, fire-control and direction apparatus and material for Field Artillery; salaries of civilian employees, including those Civilian employees.necessary as instructors at vocational schools; supplies, general repairs, reserve supplies, and other expenses connected with the collecting and transmitting of information for the Army by telegraph or otherwise; experimental investigation, research, purchase, and Experimental research, etc.development or improvements in apparatus, and maintenance of signaling and accessories thereto, including patent rights and other rights thereto, including machines, instruments, and other equipment for laboratory and repair purposes; lease, alteration, and repair of such buildings required for storing or guarding Signal Corps Buildings for supplies.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, $3,087,640, of which amount $304,342 shall be available immediately and not to exceed $150,000 shall remain available until June 30, 1933, for the construction and rehabilitation of Signal Corps telephone systems. Air CorpsAir Corps. air corps, army For creating, maintaining, and operating at established flying Designated purposes.schools and balloon schools courses of instruction for officers, students, and enlisted men, including cost of equipment and supplies necessary for instruction, purchase of tools, equipment, materials, machines, textbooks, books of reference, scientific and professional papers, instruments, and materials for theoretical and practical instruction; for maintenance, repair, storage, and operation of airships, Aircraft operation, construction, etc.Landing, etc., runways.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 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 or such utilities at such plants; for the procurement of helium gas; salaries and wages of Helium gas.Civilian employees.civilian employees as may be necessary, and payment of their traveling and other necessary expenses as authorized by existing laws; transportation of materials in connection with consolidation of Air Corps activities; experimental investigation and purchase and Purchase, manufacture, etc., of aircraft.development of new types of aircraft, accessories thereto, and aviation engines, including plans, drawings, and specifications thereof, and the purchase of letters patent, application for letters patent, licenses under letters patent and applications for letters patent; for the purchase, manufacture, and construction of airships, balloons, Balloons, etc.and other aerial machines, including instruments, gas plants, 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 Marking military airways.military airways where the purchase of land is not involved; for the 1290purchase, manufacture, and issue of special clothing, wearing apparel, and similar equipment for aviation purposes; for all necessaryDisposal 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 Consulting engineers.the services of not more than four consulting engineers at experimental stations of the Air Corps as the Secretary of War may deem necessary, at rates of pay to be fixed by him not to exceed $50 a day for not exceeding fifty days each and necessary traveling expenses; purchase of special apparatus and appliances, repairs and replacements of same used in connection with special scientific medical research in the Air Corps; for maintenance and operation of such Outside printing plants, etc.Air Corps printing plants outside of the District of Columbia as may be authorized in accordance with law; for publications, station Special services.libraries, special furniture, supplies and equipment for offices, shops, and laboratories; for special services, including the salvaging of *Provisos*.Designated allotments.wrecked aircraft, $31,479,635: *Provided*, That not to exceed $3,806,-211 from this appropriation may be expended for pay and expenses of Civilian employees.civilian employees other than those employed in experimental and research work; not exceeding $2,310,377 may be expended for Experimental and research work.experimental and research work with airplanes or lighter-than-air craft and their equipment, including the pay of necessary civilian employees; not exceeding $300,000 may New airplanes, etc.be expended for the production of lighter-than-air equipment; not less than $15,296,231 shall be expended for the production or purchase of new airplanes and their equipment, spare parts, and accessories; and not more than Damages claims.$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 Sums available for incurred obligations.Vol. 45, p. 1361. the Chief of Air Corps and the Secretary of War: *Provided further*, That the sum of $240,800 of the appropriation for Air Corps, Army, fiscal year 1929, shall remain available until June 30, 1932, for the payment of obligations incurred under contracts executed prior to Engine equipment restricted.July 1, 1929: *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 department Medical and hospital supplies.For the manufacture and purchase of medical and hospital supplies, including disinfectants, for military posts, camps, hospitals, hospital ships and transports, for laundry work for enlisted men and Army nurses while patients in a hospital, and supplies required for mosquito destruction in and about military posts in the Canal Zone; for the purchase of veterinary supplies and hire of veterinary surgeons; Services, etc., for Agricultural Department.for inspection service and instruction furnished by the Department of Agriculture which may be transferred in advance; for expenses of medical supply depots; for medical care and treatment not otherwise provided for, including care and subsistence in Private treatment.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 1291thereto by law, regulation, or contract: *Provided*, That this shall not *Proviso*.Not applicable, if on furlough.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 Contagious diseases expenses.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 care of insane Filipino soldiers in conformity Insane Filipino soldiers.Vol. 35. p. 122.[U. S. C. p. 681](/us/usc/p681).with the Act of Congress approved May 11, 1908; for the pay of male and female nurses, not including the Army Nurse Corps, and of cooks and other civilians employed for the proper care of sick officers and soldiers, under such regulations fixing their number, qualifications, assignments, pay, and allowances as shall have been or shall be prescribed by the Secretary of War; for the pay of civilian physicians employed to examine physically applicants for enlistment and enlisted men and to render other professional services from time to time under proper authority; for the pay of other employees of the Medical Department; for the payment of express Transporting medi cal supplies, etc.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 at Hot Hot Springs, Ark., hospital.Springs, Arkansas; for advertising, laundry, and all other necessary miscellaneous expenses of the Medical Department, $1,302,868. hospital care, canal zone garrisonsCanal 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 or the appropriation for subsistence of the Army at the rates provided therein for commutation of rations for enlisted patients in general hospitals. army medical museumArmy Medical Museum.Preservation, etc., of specimens. For Army Medical Museum, preservation of specimens, and the preparation and purchase of new specimens, $8,500. library, surgeon general’s officeLibrary. 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. Corps of EngineersEngineer Corps. engineer depotsDepots. For incidental expenses for the depots, including fuel, lights, Incidental expenses.chemicals, stationery, hardware, machinery, pay of civilian clerks, mechanics, laborers, and other employees; for lumber and materials and for labor for packing and crating engineer supplies; repairs of, and for materials to repair public buildings, machinery, and instruments, and for unforeseen expenses, $93,260. 1292 School.engineer school Equipment, maintenance, etc.For equipment and maintenance of the Engineer School, including purchase and repair of instruments, machinery, implements, models, boats, and materials for the use of the school and to provide means for the theoretical and practical instruction of Engineer officers and troops in their special duties as sappers and miners; for land mining, pontoniering, and signaling; for purchase and binding of scientific and professional works, papers, and periodicals treating on military engineering and scientific subjects; for textbooks and 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 of Travel expenses of officers.civilan lecturers; for unforeseen expenses; and for travel expenses of officers on journeys approved by the Secretary of War and made *Proviso.*In lieu of mileage.for the purpose of instruction, $22,820: *Provided*, That the traveling expenses herein provided for shall be in lieu of mileage and other allowances; and for other absolutely necessary expenses. Equipment of troops.engineer equipment for 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, $203,870. Field operations.engineer opertions in the field Incidental expenses.For expenses incident to military engineer operations in the field, including the purchase of material and a reserve of material for such operations, the rental of storehouses within and outside of the District of Columbia, the operation, maintenance, and repair of horse-drawn and motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles; for the execution of topographic and other surveys and preparation and reproduction of maps for military purposes, and for research Surveyors, assistants, etc.and development of surveying by means of aerial photography and in field reproduction methods; 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 the appropriation for “Engineer depots, 216,752, of which $117,580 shall be available immediately and *Proviso*.Temporary construction work for training only.remain available until December 31, 1932: *Provided*, That so muchof 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. Ordnance Department.Ordnance service and supplies.Manufacture, issue, etc.Currant expenses.Ordnance Department ordinance service and supplies, army For manufacture, procurement, storage and issue, including research, planning, design, development, inspection, test, alteration, maintenance, repair, and handling of ordnance material together with the machinery, supplies, and services necessary thereto; for supplies and services in connection with the general work of the 1293Ordnance 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; for ammunition for military salutes at Government establishments, Aminunition for military salutes.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; for services of not more than four consulting engineers as Consulting engineers.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, $9,247,584: *Provided*, That*Proviso*.Part of former appropriation available until June 30, 1932.Vol. 45, p. 1364.$250,000 of the appropriation “Ordnance Service and Supplies, Army, 1930,” shall remain available for obligation until June 30, 1932. rock island bridge, rock island, illinoisRock Island, Ill. For operating, repair, and preservation of Rock Island bridges Operating bridges, etc.and viaduct, and maintenance and repair of the arsenal street connecting the bridges, $35,000. repairs of arsenalsArsenals. For repairs and improvements of ordnance establishments, and Repairs, etc.to meet such unforeseen expenditures as accidents or other contingencies may require, $1,012,281, of which amount there shall be available immediately not to exceed $105,000 for the replacement and improvement of steam power plant equipment at Springfield Springfield, Mass.Armory, Springfield, Massachusetts, and not to exceed $65,000 for the improvement of the water distributing system at Watertown Watertown, Mass.Arsenal, Watertown, Massachusetts. gauges, dies, and jigs for manufactureGauges, dies, and figs. For the development and procurement of gauges, dies, jigs, and Procuring, for armament manufacture.other special aids and appliances, including specifications and detailed drawings, to carry out the purpose of section 123 of the Vol. 39, p. 215.[U. S. C., p. 1694](/us/usc/p1694).National Defense Act, approved June 3, 1916 (U. S. C., title 50, sec. 78), $75,000. Chemical Warfare ServiceChemical 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, and repair of plants, buildings, and equipment, and the Plants, buildings, machinery, etc.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 War1294Organizing special gas troops.fare Service and subscriptions to periodicals; 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 Current expenses.necessary schools, tactical demonstrations, and maneuvers; for current expenses of chemical projectile filling plants and proving grounds, including construction and maintenance of rail transportation, repairs, alterations, accessories, building and repairing butts and targets, clearing and grading ranges, $1,252,099, of which $53,727 shall be available immediately. Chief of Infantry Infantry School, Fort Benning, Ga.infantry school, fort benning, georgia Instruction expenses.For the purchase of textbooks, books of reference, scientific and professional papers; instruments and material for instruction, employment of temporary, technical, special, and clerical services, and for the necessary expenses of instruction at the Infantry School, Fort Benning, Georgia, $42,243. Tank Service.tank service Civilian employees.For payment of the necessary civilian employees to assist in handling the clerical work in the office of the tank center, tank schools, and the various tank organization headquarters, including the office of the Chief of Infantry; and for the payment of the necessary mechanics to assist in repairing and preserving tanks in the hands of tank units, $25,740. Tank schools.Incidental expenses in connection with the operation of the tank schools, $1,870. Chief of Cavalry Cavalry School, Fort Riley, Kans.cavalry schook, fort riley, kansas For the purchase of textbooks, books of reference, scientific and professional papers, instruments, and materials for instruction; employment of temporary, technical, special, and clerical services; Instruction expenses.and for other necessary expenses of instruction at the Cavalry School, Fort Riley, Kansas, $21,310. Chief of Field Artillery Field Artillery activities.field artillery instruction activities Instruction expenses.For the pay of employees, the purchase of books, pamphlets, periodicals, and newspapers, procurement of supplies, materials, and equipment for instruction purposes, and other expenses necessary in the operation of the Field Artillery School of the Army, and for the instruction of the Army in Field Artillery activities, $26,805. Chief of Coast Artillery Coast Artillery School, Fort Monroe, Va.Instruction expenses.coast artillery schook, fort monroe, virginia For purchase of engines, generators, motors, machines, measuring and nautical instruments, special apparatus, and materials and for experimental purposes for the engineering and artillery and military art departments and enlisted specialists division; for purchase and binding of professional books treating of military and scientific 1295subjects for library, for use of school, and for temporary use in coast defense; 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, $29,445. United States Military AcademyMilitary Academy. pay of military academyPay, etc. Permanent establishment: For eight professors, $30,500.04; additional Professors.pay of professors for length of service, $12,109.27; subsistence allowance of professors, $3,951.69; in all, $46,561. For cadets, $964,080.Cadets Civilians: For pay of employees, $276,139.Civilians. All of the money hereinbefore appropriated for pay of the Military 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 reimbursements 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, to be expended in his discretion (not to exceed $4,000); expenses of the members of the Board of Visitors Board of Visitors.(not exceeding $1,500); contingent fund, to be expended under the direction of the Academic Board (not exceeding $500); improvement, repair, and maintenance of buildings and grounds (including roads, walls, and fences); shooting galleries and ranges; cooking, heating, and lighting apparatus and fixtures and operation and maintenance thereof; maintenance of water, sewer, and plumbing systems; maintenance of and repairs to cadet camp; fire-extinguishing apparatus; machinery and tools and repair of same; maintenance, repair, and operation of motor-propelled vehicles; 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, $1,379,903. Militia BureauMilitia Bureau. National GuardNational Guard. arming, equipping, and training the national guardArming, etc. For procurement of forage, bedding, and so forth, for animals Forage, etc.used by the National Guard, $1,255,707. 1296 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 not to exceed $166,667 for construction at camps, and 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, $9,462,132, of which $20,730 shall be available immediately. Service schools, instruction, etc.For expenses, selected officers and enlisted men, military service schools, including medical and hospital treatment authorized by law, $375,000. Property, etc., officers.For pay of property and disbursing officers for the United States, $79,800. Equipment, instruction expenses.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, and operation of motor-propelled passenger and nonpassenger carrying vehicles, $695,969. Travel, Army officers, etc.*Proviso.*War DepartmentGeneral Staff.For travel of officers, warrant officers, and enlisted men of the Regular Army in connection with the National Guard, $337,469: *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. Transporting supplies.Army enlisted men.For transportation of equipment and supplies, $225,000. For expenses of enlisted men of the Regular Army on duty with the National Guard, including the hiring of quarters in kind, $480,000. Pay, armors’ drills.For pay of National Guard (armory drills), $11,632,368. Interchangeable appropriations.When approved by the Secretary of War 10 per centum of each of 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 *Proviso.*Report thereof to Congress.shall be increased by more than 10 per centum: *Provided*, That any such transfers shall be reported to Congress in the annual Budget. Field service.arms, uniforms, equipment, and so forth, for field service, national guard Procuring arms, etc., for issue.Requisitions from Governors, etc.To procure by purchase or manufacture and issue from time to time to the National Guard, upon requisition of the governors of the several States and Territories, or the commanding general, National Guard of the District of Columbia, such military equipment and stores of all kinds and 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, $5,937,144, of which $884,185 shall be available immediately and exclusively for the production and purchase New airplanes, etc.*Proviso.*Clothing, equipment, etc., from Army surplus stores.of new airplanes and their equipment, spare parts and accessories: *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 1297under the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act for making further Vol. 39, p. 197; Vol. 41, p. 780.[U. S. C., p. 1034](/us/usc/p1034).and more effectual provision for the national defense, and for other purposes,” approved June 3, 1916 (U. S. C., title 32, sec. 21), as amended. This issue shall be made without charge against militia Without charge to militia appropriations.appropriations except for actual expenses incident to such issue: *Provided further*, That the Secretary of War is authorized to issue *Proviso*.Issue of Army horses to.without charge, in lieu of purchase, for use of the National Guard, five hundred horses now belonging to the Regular Army. 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 1932. ORGANIZED RESERVES Organized Reserves. For pay and allowances of members of the Officers’ Reserve Corps Officers’ Reserve Corps.on active duty in accordance with law; mileage, reimbursement of actual traveling expenses, or per diem allowances in lieu thereof, as authorized by law: *Provided*, That the mileage allowance to members *Provisos*.Mileage allowance.of the Officers’ Reserve Corps when called into active service for training for fifteen days or less shall not exceed 4 cents per mile; pay, transportation, subsistence, clothing, and medical and hospital treatment of members of the Enlisted Reserve Corps; conducting Enlisted Reserve Corps.Correspondence courses.correspondence or extension courses for instruction of members of the Reserve Corps, including necessary supplies, procurement of maps and textbooks, and transportation and traveling expenses of employees; purchase of training manuals, including Training manuals.Government publications and blank forms, subscriptions to magazines and periodicals of a professional or technical nature; establishment, Establishment, etc., headquarters and training camps.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 and purchase of thirty Vehicles.such vehicles (at a cost not exceeding $625 each including the value of a vehicle exchanged); 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 expenses incident to the use, including upkeep and depreciation costs of supplies, equipment, and material furnished in accordance with law from stocks under the control of the War Department, except that not to exceed $440,842 of this appropriation shall be available for expenditure Purchase of new airplanes, etc.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 active duty for not less than six months; for the medical and hospital treatment of members of the Officers’ Reserve Medical and hospital treatment, etc., if injured in line of duty.Vol. 45, p. 461.[U. S. C., supp. IV, p. 82](/us/usc/p82).Corps and of the Enlisted Reserve Corps, who suffer personal injury or contract disease in line of duty, as provided by the Act of April 26, 1928 (U. S. C., Supp. III, title 10, secs. 451, 455), and for such other purposes in connection therewith as are authorized by the said Act, including pay and allowances, subsistence, transportation, and burial expenses, in all, $6,537,785, and no part of such total Burial expenses.Restriction on flight training to officers of Officers’ Reserve Corps.sum shall be available for any expense incident to giving flight training to any officer of the Officers’ Reserve Corps unless he shall be found physically and professionally qualified to perform aviation 1298service as an aviation pilot, by such agency as the Secretary of War Divisional and regimental headquarters.may designate: *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, and for mileage, reimbursement of actual traveling expenses, or per diem allowances in lieu thereof, as authorized by law, to Air Corps reserve officers on extended active duty, shall be used for expenses in connection with the Organized Reserves, but available supplies and existing facilities at military posts shall be utilized to the fullest extent possible. Pay period for officers.Department General Staff duty, etc.Vol. 41, pp. 760, 765.[U. S. C., p. 171](/us/usc/p171).No portion of the appropriation shall be expended for the pay of a reserve officer on active duty for a longer period than fifteen days, except such as may be detailed for duty with the War Department General Staff under section 3a and section 5
(b)of the Army Reorganization Act approved June 4, 1920 (U. S. C., title 10, secs. Other details.26, 37), or who may be detailed for courses of instruction at the general or special service schools of the Army, or who may be etailed for duty as instructors at civilian military training camps, Air Corps.appropriated for in this Act, or who may be detailed for duty with Vol. 41, p. 776.[U. S. C., p. 183](/us/usc/p183).tactical units of the Air Corps, as provided in section 37a of the Army Reorganization Act approved June 4, 1920 (U. S. C., title 10, *Proviso*.Medical Reserve Corps for Veterans’ Administration patients in Army hospitals.Payment from Army funds.sec. 369): *Provided*, That the pay and allowances of such additional officers and nurses of the Medical Reserve Corps as are required to supplement the like officers and nurses of the Regular Army in the care of beneficiaries of the United States Veterans’ Bureau treated in Army hospitals may be paid from the funds allotted to the War Department by that bureau under existing law. Citizens military training.CITIZENS’ MILITARY TRAINING Reserve Officers’ Training Corps.reserve officers’ training corps Quartermaster supplies for units of.For the procurement, maintenance, and issue, under such regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary of War, to institutions at which one or more units of the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps are maintained, of such public animals, means of transportation, supplies, tentage, equipment, and uniforms as he may deem necessary, including cleaning and laundering of uniforms and clothing at camps; and to forage, at the expense of the United States, public animals so issued, and to pay commutation in lieu of uniforms at a rate to be fixed annually by the Secretary of War; for transporting said animals and other authorized supplies and equipment from Training camp expenses.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 Commutation of travel allowance.and subsisting them while en route, to pay them travel allowance at the rate of 5 cents per mile for the distance by the shortest usually traveled route from the places from which they are authorized to proceed to the camp and for the return travel thereto, and to pay the return travel pay in advance of the actual performance of the travel; for expenses incident to the use, including upkeep and depreciation costs, of supplies, equipment, and matériel furnished in 1299accordance 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 of subsistence to members Subsistence commutation to senior division members.of the senior division of the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps, at a rate not exceeding the cost of the garrison ration prescribed for Vol. 39, p. 193; Vol. 41, p. 779.[U. S. C., p. 184](/us/usc/p184).the Army, as authorized in the Act approved June 3, 1916, as amended by the Act approved June 4, 1920 (U. S. C., title 10, sec. 387); for medical and hospital treatment until return to their Medical and hospital treatment, etc., if injured in line of duty.homes and further medical treatment after arrival 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 section 47a of the Vol. 41, pp. 778, 779.[U. S. C., p. 185](/us/usc/p185).National Defense Act approved June 3, 1916 (U. S. C., title 10, sec. 441), as amended; and for the cost of preparation and transportation Burial expenses.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 the Act approved April 26, 1928 (U. S. Vol. 43, p. 365.[U. S. C., p. 186](/us/usc/p186).C., Supp. III, title 10, sec. 455); for mileage, traveling expenses, or transportation, for transportation of dependents, and for packing Transporting dependents, etc.and transportation of baggage, as authorized by law, for officers, warrant officers, and enlisted men of the Regular Army traveling on duty pertaining to or on detail to or relief from duty with the Vehicles.Reserve Officers’ Training Corps; for the maintenance, repair, and operation of motor vehicles, and for the purchase of seven motor-propelled trucks, four at a cost not exceeding $2,000 each, and three at a cost not exceeding $750 each, including for both types the value of a vehicle exchanged, $3,970,000, of which $368,047 shall be available immediately: *Provided*, That the Secretary of War is authorized *Provisos*.Issue of Army horses.to issue, without charge, in lieu of purchase, for the use of the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps, so many horses now belonging to the Regular Army as he may consider desirable: *Provided*, That uniforms Uniforms, etc., from Army surplus stocks.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 Price current to govern.or issue: *Provided further*, That in no case shall the amount paid from this appropriation for uniforms, equipment, or material furnished to the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps from stocks under the control of the War Department be in excess of the price current Additional mounted units forbidden.at the time the issue is made: *Provided further*, That none of the funds appropriated in this Act shall be used for the organization or maintenance of an additional number of mounted, motor transport, or tank units in the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps in excess of the number in existence on January 1, 1928: *Provided further*, Use of other funds forbidden.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 collegesOther, schools and colleges. For the procurement and issue as provided in section 55c of the Issue of military supplies, equipment, ammunition, etc., to.Vol. 41, p. 780.[R. S., sec. 1225, p. 216](/us/rs/s1225/p216).Act approved June 4, 1920 (U. S. C., title 10, 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, [U. S. C., p. 213](/us/usc/p213).Vol. 41, p. 776.other than those provided for in section 40 of the Act above referred 1300to, 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.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 Vol. 39, p. 193; Vol. 41, p. 779.[U. S. C., p. 185](/us/usc/p185).Act of June 3, 1916, as amended (U. S. C., title 10, sec. 442), uniforms, including altering, fitting, washing, and cleaning when necessary, subsistence, or subsistence allowances, and transportation, or transportation allowances, as prescribed in said section Maintenance.47d, as amended; for such expenditures as are authorized by said section 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 expenses incident to the use, including upkeep and depreciation costs, of supplies, equipment, and matériel furnished in accordance with law from stocks under the control of the War Department; for gymnasium and athletic supplies (not exceeding $20,000); 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 Medical and hospital treatment, etc., if injured in line of duty.manuals, including Government publications and blank forms; for medical and hospital treatment, subsistence, and transportation, in case of injury in line of duty, of members of the citizens’ military Vol. 41, pp. 778, 779; Vol. 43, p. 365.[U. S. C., p. 186](/us/usc/p186).Vol. 45, pp. 251, 461.[U. S. C., Supp. IV, p. 82](/us/usc/p82).*Provisos*.Age limitation.training camps and for transportation and burial of remains of any such members who die while undergoing training or hospital treatment, as provided in the Act of April 26, 1928 (U. S. C., Supp. III, title 10, secs. 454, 455 ); in all, $2,779,129: *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-Use of other funds forbidden.fourth birthday before the date of enrollment: *Provided further*, That 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 connection with citizens’ military training camps: *Provided further*, Uniforms, etc., from Army surplus stocks.That uniforms and other equipment or matériel furnishe 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 Price current to govern payments.incurred in the manufacture or issue: *Provided further*, That in no case shall the amount paid from this appropriation for uniforms, equipment, or 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. Use of Army reserve supplies restricted.Under the authorizations contained in this Act no issues of reserve supplies or equipment shall be made where such issues would impair the reserves held by the War Department for two field armies or one million men. 1301 National Board for Promotion of Rifle Practice, ArmyPromotion of rifle practice. national matches For the national matches and other competitions and the Small Expenses of national matches and of Small Arms Firing School.Vol. 43, p. 786.[U. S. C., Supp. IV, p. 471](/us/usc/p471).Arms Firing School, in accordance with the provisions of the Act approved May 28, 1928 (U. S. C., Supp. III, title 32. secs. 181a, 181b), $500,000. quartermaster supplies and services for rifle ranges for civilian instructionCivilian instruction. To establish and maintain indoor and outdoor rifle ranges for the Quartermaster supplies, etc., for rifle ranges, etc.use of all able-bodied males capable of bearing arms, under reasonable regulations to be prescribed by the National Board for the Promotion of Rifle Practice and approved by the Secretary of War; for the employment of labor in connection with the establishment of outdoor and indoor rifle ranges, including labor in operating targets; for the employment of instructors; for clerical services, including not exceeding $25,000 in the District of Columbia; for badges and other insignia; for the transportation of employees, instructors, and Instructors, etc.civilians to engage in practice; for the purchase of materials, supplies, and services, and for expenses incidental to instruction of citizens of the United States in markmanship, and their participation Participation in matches.in national and international matches, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War, $27,270. national trophy and medals for rifle contestsRifle contests. For incidental expenses of the National Board for the Promotion Furnishing national trophy medals, etc.Vol. 45, p. 756.[U. S. C., Supp. IV, p. 471](/us/usc/p471).of Rifle Practice in accordance with the provisions of the Act approved May 28, 1928 (U. S. C., Supp. III, title 32, sec. 181c), $5,500. ordinance equipment for rifle ranges for civilian instructionOrdnance equipment. For arms, ammunition, targets, and other accessories for target Arms, ammunition, etc., for target practice at rifle ranges, etc.practice, for issue and sale in accordance with rules and regulations prescribed by the National Board for the Promotion of Rifle Practice and approved by the Secretary of War, in connection with the encouragement of rifle practice, in pursuance of the provisions of law, $200,000. No part of the appropriations made in this Act shall be available No pay to officers, etc., using time measuring devices on work of employees.for the salary or pay of any officer, manager, superintendent, foreman, or other person having charge of the work of any employee of the United States Government while making or causing to be made with a stop watch, or other time-measuring device, a time study of any job of any such employee between the starting and completion thereof, or of the movements of any such employee while engaged upon such work; nor shall any part of the appropriations made in this Act be available to pay any premiums or bonus or cash reward Cash rewards restricted.to any employee in addition to his regular wages, except for suggestions resulting in improvements or economy in the operation of any Government plant. 1302 TITLE II.—Nonmilitary activities. NONMILITARY ACTIVITIES OF THE WAR DEPARTMENT Quartermaster Corps.quartermaster corps. National cemeteries.cemeterial expenses Maintenance, etc.For maintaining and improving national cemeteries, including fuel for and pay of superintendents and the superintendent at Mexico City, laborers and other employees, purchase of tools and materials; purchase of one motor-drawn hearse at a cost not to exceed Arlington, Va.$2,100, and for the repair, maintenance, and operation of motor vehicles; care and maintenance of the Arlington Memorial Amphitheater, chapel, and grounds in the Arlington National Cemetery, Cemeteries abroad.and permanent American cemeteries abroad, including not to exceed Living quarters, etc. *Ante*, p. 818.$2,250 for allowances for living quarters, including heat, fuel, and Repairs to roadways.Headstones for graves of soldiers, etc.[U. S. C., p. 687](/us/usc/p687).Vol. 20, p. 281; Vol. 34, p. 56; Vol. 38, p. 768; Vol. 45, p. 1307.[U. S. C., Supp. IV, p. 316](/us/usc/p316).light, as authorized by the Act approved June 26, 1930 (46 Stat., p. 818); for repair to roadways but not to more than a single approach road to any national cemetery constructed under special Act of Congress; for headstones for unmarked graves of soldiers, sailors, and marines under the Acts approved March 3, 1873 (U. S. C., title 24, sec. 279), February 3, 1879 (U. S. C., title 24, sec. 280), March 9, 1906 (34 Stat., p. 56), March 14, 1914 (38 Stat., p. 768), and February 26, 1929 (U. S. C., Supp. III, title 24, sec. 280a), and civilians Recovery of remains.Vol. 45, p. 251.[U. S. C., Supp. IV, p. 87](/us/usc/87).interred in post cemeteries; for recovery of bodies and the disposition of remains of military personnel and civilian employees of the Army under Act approved March 9, 1928 (U. S. C., Supp. III, title 10, sec. 916); for the care, protection, and maintenance of the Confederate Confederate Mound, Chicago, Ill.Confederate Cemetery, Ohio.*Ante*, p. 1060.Confederate burial plats.Mound in Oakwood Cemetery at Chicago, the Confederate Stockade Cemetery at Johnstons Island, the Confederate burial plats owned by the United States in Confederate Cemetery at North Alton, the Confederate Cemetery, Camp Chase, at Columbus, the Confederate section in Greenlawn Cemetery at Indianapolis, the Confederate Cemetery at Point Lookout, and the Confederate Cemetery at Rock Island, $1,152,658, of which $187,843 shall be available *Provisos*.Encroachments forbidden.immediately: *Provided*, That no railroad shall be permitted upon any right of way which may have been acquired by the United States leading to a national cemetery, or to encroach upon any roads or walks constructed thereon and maintained by the United States:Repairs restricted. *Provided further*, That no part of this appropriation shall be used for repairing any roadway not owned by the United States within the corporate limits of any city, town, or village. Antietam battlefield, Md.For repair and preservation of monuments, tablets, observation tower, roads, fences, and so forth, made and constructed by the United States upon public lands within the limits of the Antietam battlefield, near Sharpsburg, Maryland; for maintenance, repair, Superintendent.and operation of motor vehicles, and for pay of superintendent, said superintendent to perform his duties under the direction of the Quartermaster Corps and to be selected and appointed by the Secretary of War, at his discretion, the person selected for this position to have been either a commissioned officer or enlisted man who has been honorably mustered out or discharged from the military service of the United States and who may have been disabled for active field service in line of duty, $7,680. Burial places in Cuba and China.For repairs and preservation of monuments, tablets, roads, fences, and so forth, made and constructed by the United States in Cuba and China to mark the places where American soldiers fell, $820. 1303 chickamauga and chattanooga national military parkMilitary parks. For continuing the establishment of the park; compensation Chickamauga and Chattanooga.Continuing establishment.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, $54,560. fort donelson national military parkFort Donelson. For care and maintenance of the Fort Donelson National Military Care and maintenance.Park established on the battlefield of Fort Donelson, Tennessee, in accordance with the provisions of the Act approved March 26, 1928 Vol. 45, p. 368.[U. S. C., Supp. IV, p. 166](/us/usc/166).(U. S. C., Supp. III, title 16, secs. 428–428j), including personal services, procurement of supplies and equipment, and all other expenses incident to the care and maintenance of the park, $7,320. fredericksburg and spotsylvania county battle fields memoerial Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania Memorial. For continuing the establishment of a national military park to Continuing establishment of.Vol. 44, p. 1091.[U. S. C., Supp. IV, p. 163](/us/usc/163).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. III, title 16, secs. 425—425j), including the maintenance, repair, and operation of one motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicle, $215,970, of which $115,-300 shall be available immediately for the construction of roads. gettysburg national military parkGettysburg. For continuing the establishment of the park; acquisition of lands, Maintenance.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 battlefield 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; purchase of one freight-carrying automobile, at a cost not to exceed $900; maintenance, repair, and operation of motor-propelled freight and passenger-carrying vehicles, and all other expenses incident to the foregoing, $72,015, of which $36,079 shall be available immediately. guilford courthouse national military parkGuilford Courthouse. For continuing the establishment of a national military park at Maintenance, etc.Vol. 39, p. 996.the battlefield of Guilford Courthouse, in accordance with the Act entitled “An Act to establish a national military park at the battlefield of Guilford Courthouse,” approved March 2, 1917 (39 Stat., p. 996), $8,360. moores creek national military parkMoores Creek. For continuing the establishment of a national military park at Maintenance, etc.the battlefield of Moores Creek, North Carolina, in accordance with the Act entitled “An Act to establish a national military park at Vol. 44, p. 684.[U. S. C., Supp. IV, p. 161](/us/usc/p161).the battlefield of Moores Creek, North Carolina,” approved June 2, 1926 (U. S. C., title 16, sec. 422), $5,120. 1304 Petersburg.petersburg national military park Maintenance.Vol. 44, p. 822.[U. S. C., Supp. IV, p. 162](/us/usc/p162).For continuing the establishment of a national military park at the battlefields of the siege of Petersburg, Virginia, in accordance with the provisions of the Act approved July 3, 1926 (U. S. C., Supp. III, title 16, secs. 423–423h), including surveys, maps, and marking the boundaries of the park; pay and expenses of civilian commissioners, and pay for clerical and other services; mileage and travel expenses; supplies, equipment, and materials; maintenance, repair, and operation of one motor-propel led passenger-carrying vehicle, and all other expenses necessary in establishing that park, $5,000. Shiloh.shiloh national military park Maintenance.For continuing the establishment of the park; compensation of superintendent of the park; clerical and other services; labor; historical tablets; maps and surveys: roads; purchase and transportation of supplies, implements, and materials; foundations for monuments; office and other necessary expenses, including maintenance, repair, and operation of one motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicle, $40,120. Stones River.stones river national military park Maintenance.Vol. 44, p. 1399.[U. S. C., Supp. IV, p. 165](/us/usc/p165).For continuing the establishment of a national military park at the battlefield of Stones River, Tennessee, in accordance with the provisions of the Act approved March 3, 1927 (U. S. C., Supp. III, title 16, 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, $6,120. Vicksburg.vicksburg national military park Maintenance.For continuing the establishment of the park; compensation of civilian commissioners; clerical and other services, labor, iron gun carriages, mounting of siege guns, memorials, monuments, markers, and historical tablets giving historical facts, compiled without praise and without censure; maps, surveys, roads, bridges, restoration of earthworks, purchase of lands, purchase and transportation of supplies and materials; and other necessary expenses, including maintenance, repair, and operation of one motor-propelled passengercarrying vehicle, $53,280, of which $30,000 shall be available immediately. Battlefields.survey of battlefields Surveys, etc.Vol. 44, p. 7215.[U. S. C., Supp. IV, p. 169](/us/usc/p19).For continuing the work of survey of battlefields in accordance with the provisions of the Act approved June 11, 1926 (U. S. C., Supp. III, title 16, secs. 455–455c), $6,300. Balances of designated appropriations reappropriated.*Ante*, p. 910.The unexpended balances of the appropriations for survey of battlefields in the vicinity of Richmond, Virginia, including the battlefield of Cold Harbor, Virginia, and the battlefield of Saratoga, New York, contained in the Second Deficiency Act, fiscal year 1930, are hereby continued and made available until June 30, 1932. National monuments.national monuments Maintenance, etc.Vol. 34, p. 225.[U. S. C., p. 416](/us/usc/p416).For maintaining and improving national monuments established by proclamation of the President under the Act of June 8, 1906 (U. S. C., title 16, sec. 431), and administered by the Secretary of War, including Fort McHenry, Maryland, the Kenesaw Mountain, Georgia, Brices Cross Roads, Mississippi, and Tupelo, Mississippi, Chalmette, La.*Ante*, p. 1045.battlefield sites, Chalmette, Louisiana, monument and grounds, including pay of the caretakers, laborers, and other employees, purchase of tools and materials, light, heat, and power, $90,971, of 1305which not to exceed $300 may be paid to the superintendent of the Shiloh National Military Park, in addition to his salary as such Shiloh,Additional pay to superintendent.superintendent, for performing the duties of superintendent of the Meriwether Lewis National Monument, and $58,466 of this appro priation shall be available immediately. Monument, Appomattox Court House, Virginia: For every Appomattox Court House, Va.Memorial, etc.expenditure requisite for or incident to the work of securing a design and the preparation of plans and estimate of cost for a monument at Appomattox Court House, Virginia, to commemorate the termination of the War between the States, in accordance with the Act *Ante*, p. 777.entitled “An Act to provide for the commemoration of the termination of the War between the States at Appomattox Court House, Virginia,” approved June 18, 1930 (46 Stat., p. 777), $2,500: *Provided*, That the plan and design of such monument shall be *Proviso*.Subject to approval.subject to the approval of the National Commission of Fine Arts. Lincoln Birthplace Memorial: For the preservation of the birth-place Abraham Lincoln National Park, Ky.Lincoln Birthplace Memorial.Vol. 45, p. 1162.[U. S. C., Supp. IV, 151](/us/usc/p151).Salaries and expenses.of Abraham Lincoln, near Hodgenville, Larue County, Kentucky, in accordance with the provisions of the Act approved February 11, 1929 (U. S. C., Supp. III, title 16, secs. 215–216), including the purchase of necessary supplies, and equipment, the salary of the caretaker and other necessary employees, and all other necessary expenses incident to the foregoing, $7,140. Old Fort Niagara, New York: For the completion of repair, Old Fort Niagara, N. Y.Rehabilitation, etc.*Ante*, p. 462.restoration, and rehabilitation of the French castle, the French powder magazine, the French storehouse, the early American hot-shot oven and battery emplacements and gun mounts, the casemates of 1861, and the outer French breastworks, and for the repair and building of roadways and the improvement of grounds at Old Fort Niagara, New York, to be available until expended, $35,000, to be Equal local donation required.expended only when matched by an equal amount by donation from local interests for the same purpose, such equal amount to be expended by the Secretary of War: *Provided*, That all work of *Proviso*.Supervision, etc.repair, restorations, rehabilitation, construction, and maintenance shall be carried out by the Secretary of War in accordance with plans approved by him. Signal CorpsSignal Corps. washington-alaska military cable and telegraph systemWashington-Alaska cable, etc. For defraying the cost of such extensions, betterments, operation, Operation expenses, etc.and maintenance of the Washington-Alaska Military Cable and Telegraph System as may be approved by the Secretary of War, to be available until the close of the fiscal year 1933, 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, $298,560. Corps of EngineersEngineer Corps. california débris commissionCalifornia Débris Commission. For defraying the expenses of the commission in carrying on the Expenses.Vol. 27. p. 507.[U. S. C., p. 1086](/us/usc/p1086). work authorized by the Act approved March 1, 1893 (U. S. C., title 33, sec. 661), $17,350. construction and maintenance of roads, bridges, and trails, alaskaAlaska. For the construction, repair, and maintenance of roads, tramways, Roads, bridges, trails, etc., in.Construction, etc., under Board of Road Commissioners.ferries, bridges, and trails, Territory of Alaska, to be expended under the direction of the Board of Road Commissioners described 1306Vol. 34, p. 192.[U. S. C., p. 1684](/us/usc/p1684).in section 2 of an Act entitled “An Act to provide for the construction and maintenance of roads, the establishment and maintenance of schools, and the care and support of insane persons in the District of Alaska, and for other purposes,” approved January 27, 1905, as amended (U. S. C., title 48, secs. 321337), 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 to President, Board of Road Commissioners.the president of the Board of Road Commissioners for Alaska, in addition to his regular pay and allowances. preservation and repair of historical fortifications San Juan, P. R.Preservation of historical fortifications.For the protection, preservation, repair, and maintenance of historical fortifications at San Juan, Porto Rico, $17,000. Rivers and harbors.rivers and harbors Immediately available.To be immediately available and to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War and the supervision of the Chief of Engineers: Preservation, construction, etc., of authorized projects.For the preservation and maintenance of existing river and harbor works, and for the prosecution of such projects heretofore authorized as may be most desirable in the interests of commerce andBoundary waters, etc., surveys.navigation; for survey of northern and northwestern lakes, Lake of the Woods, and other boundary and connecting waters between the said lake and Lake Superior, Lake Champlain, and the natural navigable waters embraced in the navigation system of the New York canals, including all necessary expenses for preparing, correcting, extending, printing, binding, and issuing charts and bulletins Examinations, surveys, etc.and of investigating lake levels with a view to their regulation; for examinations, surveys, and contingencies of rivers and harbors: *Provisos*.Use for unauthorized projects forbidden.New York Harbor, deposits. *Provided*, That no funds shall be expended for any preliminary examination, survey, project, or estimate not authorized by 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, $60,000,000:Biloxi harbor, Miss.Improvements modified. *Provided further*, That the conditions imposed upon the improvement of Biloxi Harbor, Mississippi, authorized to be carried out in accordance with the report submitted in House Document numbered 754, Sixty-ninth Congress, second session, may, in the discretion of the Chief of Engineers of the Army and the Secretary of War, be modified Terminal construction by local interests.so as to provide that the local interests shall give assurances that they will construct a public terminal adequate for coastwise traffic, under plans to be approved by the Chief of Engineers of the Army, whenever in his opinion such construction is necessary, and that such local interests, in the event of modification of such conditions, shall contribute therefor at least $5,000 toward the first cost of the improvement and at least $5,100 annually thereafter for five successive years. Muscle Shoals.muscle shoals Operating, etc., works at Dam No. 2, Tennessee River.For operating, maintaining, and keeping in repair the works at Dam Numbered 2, Tennessee River, including the hydroelectrical development, $254,740, to remain available until June 30, 1932, and to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War and the supervision of the Chief of Engineers. Flood control.flood control Mississippi River, etc.Flood control, Mississippi River and tributaries: For prosecuting work of flood control in accordance with the provisions of the Flood 1307Control Act, approved May 15, 1928 (U. S. C., Supp. III, title 33, Vol. 45, p. 534.[U. S. C., Supp. IV, p. 475](/us/usc/p475).Emergency funds for tributaries.Vol. 45, p. 537.[U. S. C., Supp. IV. p. 477](/us/usc/p477).sec. 702a), $35,000,000. Emergency fund for flood control on tributaries of Mississippi River: For rescue work and for repair or maintenance of any floodcontrol 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 (U. S. C., Supp. III, title 33, sec. 702g), $400,000. Flood control, Sacramento River, California: For prosecuting Sacramento River.Vol. 39, p. 948; Vol. 45, p. 539.[U. S. C., Supp. IV, p. 478](/us/usc/p478).work of flood control in accordance with the provisions of the Flood Control Act approved March 1, 1917 (U. S. C., title 33, sec. 703), as modified by the Flood Control Act approved May 15, 1928 (U. S. C., Supp. III, title 33, sec. 704), $1,000,000. The Panama CanalPanama 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.Objects specified.and operation, sanitation, and civil government of the Panama Canal and Canal Zone, including the following: Compensation of all officials and employees; foreign and domestic newspapers and periodicals; law books not exceeding $1,000; 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 vessels Claims for damages.passing through the locks of the Panama Canal, as authorized by the Panama Canal Act; claims for losses of or damages to property arising from the conduct of authorized business operations; claims for damages to property arising from the maintenance and operation, sanitation, and civil government of the Panama Canal; acquisition of land and land under water, as authorized in the Panama Acquisition of land.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 Emergencies.calamity by flood, fire, pestilence, or like character not foreseen or otherwise provided for herein; traveling expenses, when prescribed Traveling expenses, etc.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, Maintenance, etc.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 Operation, etc.Governor.Purchase of supplies, etc.the governor, $10,000; purchase, inspection, delivery, handling, and storing of materials, supplies, and equipment for issue to all departments of the Panama Canal, the Panama Railroad, other branches of the United States Government, and for authorized sales; payment Payment to alien cripples.Vol. 39, p. 750.[U. S. C., p. 81](/us/usc/p81).in lump sums of not exceeding the amounts authorized by the Injury Compensation Act approved September 7, 1916 (U. S. C., title 5, sec. 793), to alien cripples who are now a charge upon the Panama Canal by reason of injuries sustained while employed in the construc1308Madden Dam.Vol. 45, p. 363.tion of the Panama Canal; in all, $9.359,808, including $1,000,000 for continuing the construction of the Madden 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 hydro-electric plant, roadways, and such other work as in the judgment of the Governor of the Panama Canal may be necessary, to cost in the Ferry, etc., Balboa entrance.*Ante*, p. 388.aggregate not to exceed $15,500,000, and including $500,000 for completing the construction of a ferry and highway near the Pacific entrance of the Panama Canal as authorized by the Act approved May 27, 1930; together with all moneys arising from the conduct of *Proviso*.Additional contracts authorized.business operations authorized by the Panama Canal Act: *Provided*, That in addition to the amount herein appropriated, the Governor of the Panama Canal is authorized to enter into contracts for continuing the construction of the Madden Dam and accessories, as herein specified, to an amount not to exceed $11,250,000. Sanitation, etc.Lepers, etc.Artificial limbs, etc., to injured employees.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 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 Chief quarantine officer.of the United States Public Health Service detailed with the Panama Canal as chief quarantine officer, $782,189. Civil government expenses.For civil government of the Panama Canal and Canal Zone, including salaries of district judge, $10,000; district attorney, $5,000; marshal, $5,000; and gratuities and necessary clothing for indigent discharged prisoners, $1,351,689.Availability.Credits allowed.Total Panama Canal, $11,493,686, to be available until expended. In addition to the foregoing sums there is appropriated for the fiscal year 1932 for expenditures and reinvestment under the several heads of appropriation aforesaid, without being covered into the Treasury of the United States, all moneys received by the Panama Canal from services rendered or materials and supplies furnished to the United States, the Panama Railroad Company, the Canal Zone government, or to their employees, respectively, or to the Panama Government, from hotel and hospital supplies and services; from rentals, wharfage, and like service; from labor, materials, and supplies and other services furnished to vessels other than those passing through the canal, and to others unable to obtain the same elsewhere; from the sale of scrap and other by-products of manufacturing and shop operations; from the sale of obsolete and unserviceable materials, supplies, and equipment purchased or acquired for the operation, maintenance, protection, sanitation, and government of the 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. Water, sewers, pavements, 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 Panama and Colon, during the fiscal year 1932, the necessary portions of such sums as shall be paid as water rentals or directly by the Government of Panama for such expenses. Confederate Veterans’ Reunion.Army Band, expenses.*Ante*, p. 1056.To defray the expenses of The Army Band in attending the Confederate Veterans’ Reunion at Montgomery, Alabama, in June, 1931, including transportation and Pullman accommodations and not to exceed $5 per day each for actual living and incidental expenses for the leaders and members of said band while en route to, in attendance at, and returning from said reunion, $7,500, to be available immediately. Approved, February 23, 1931.
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