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(/us/pl/73/176).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * War Department appropriations, fiscal year 1935. That the following sums are appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the military and nonmilitary activities of the War Department for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1935, and for other purposes, namely: TITLE I— MILITARY ACTIVITIES AND OTHER EXPENSES OF THE WAR DEPARTMENT INCIDENT THERETOMilitary, etc., activities. salaries, war departmentDepartment salaries.
Personal services.For compensation for personal services in the District of Columbia, as follows: Secretary, Assistants, and other personal services.Use of field service funds restricted.Designated offices.Office of Secretary of War: Secretary of War, two Assistant Secretaries of War, and other personal services, $256,611: *Provided*, That no field-service appropriation shall be available for personal services in the War Department except as may be expressly authorized herein.
Office of Chief of Staff, $196,609. Adjutant General’s office, $1,221,777. For personal services in and without the District of Columbia, to be employed exclusively in assembling, classifying, and indexing the military personnel records of the World War, and for the purchase of necessary supplies and materials used in such work, $86,340. Office of the Inspector General, $24,005. Office of the Judge Advocate General, $95,095. Office of the Chief of Finance, $325,877. Office of the Quartermaster General, $697,739.
Office of the Chief Signal Officer, $91,523. Office of the Chief of Air Corps, $195,340. Office of the Surgeon General, $240,763. Office of Chief of Bureau of Insular Affairs, $72,035. *Proviso*.Draftsmen, etc., payable from other appropriations.Office of Chief of Engineers, $108,296: *Provided*, That the services of skilled draftsmen, civil engineers, and such other services as the Secretary of War may deem necessary may be employed only in the Office of the Chief of Engineers, to carry into effect the various appropriations for rivers and harbors, surveys, and preparation for and the consideration of river and harbor estimates and bills, to be 615paid from such appropriations: *Provided further*, That the expendituresExpenditures limited. on this account for the fiscal year 1935 shall not exceed $199,242; 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.
Office of Chief of Ordnance, $377,037. Office of Chief of Chemical Warfare Service, $45,312. Office of Chief of Coast Artillery, $22,417. National Guard Bureau, War Department, $127,604. In all, salaries, War Department, $4,184,380: *Provided*, That the*Proviso*.Detail of enlisted men not to be increased. number of enlisted men on duty in the offices of the Chiefs of Ordnance, Engineers, Coast Artillery, Field Artillery, Cavalry, and Infantry on March 5, 1934, shall1 not be increased, and in lieu of enlisted men whose services in such offices shall be terminated forCivilians to fill vacancies. any cause prior to July 1, 1935, their places may be filled by civilians, for the pay of whom, in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, as amended, subject to such reduction as may be required by other law, the appropriation “Pay, and so forth, of the Army”,Fund available. shall be available.
In expending appropriations or portions of appropriations, containedRestriction on exceeding average salaries.Vol. 42, p. 1488; Vol. 45, p. 776; Vol. 46, p. 1003.[U.S.C., p. 65; Supp. VII, p. 34](/us/usc/p65/34). in this Act, for the payment for personal services in the District 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 for the grade by such Act, as amended: *Provided*, That this restriction*Proviso*.Restriction not applicable to clerical-mechanical service.No reduction in fixed salaries.Vol. 42, p. 1490; [U.S.C., p. 66](/us/usc/p66).Transfer to another position without reduction. shall not apply
(1)to grades 1, 2, 3, and 4 of the clerical-mechanical service, or
(2)to require the reduction in salary of any person whose compensation was fixed as of July 1, 1924, in accordance with the rules of section 6 of such Act,
(3)to require the reduction in salary of any person who is transferred from one position to another position in the same or different grade in the same or a different bureau, office, or other appropriation unit,
(4)to prevent the paymentHigher 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 byIf only one position in a grade. other law, or
(5)to reduce the compensation of any person in a grade in which only one position is allocated. contingent expenses, war department For stationery; purchase of professional and scientific books,Department contingent expenses. 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, linoleum, filing equipment, photo supplies, towels, ice, brooms, soap, sponges; for the purchase of a passenger-carrying automobile for the official use of the Secretary of War at not to exceed $2,500, including the value of a vehicle exchanged; maintenance, repair, and operation of motor trucks and one motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicle, to be used only for official purposes; freight and express charges; street-car fares, not exceeding $750; postage to Postal Union countries; and other absolutely necessary expenses, $181,631, of which sum $8,000 shall be available exclusively for the several objects embraced by the appropriation contained in this Act entitled “Contingencies, Military Intelligence Division”, and it shall not be lawful to expend, unless otherwise specifically provided herein, for any bureau, office, or 616branch of the War Department or of the Army having or maintaining an office in the War Department proper, at Washington, District of Columbia, any sum out of appropriations contained in this Act (or accruing thereto) made for the Military Establishment for any of the purposes mentioned or authorized in this paragraph. Printing and binding.For printing and binding for the War Department, its bureaus and offices, and for all printing and binding for the field activities under the War Department, except such as may be authorized in accordance with existing law to be done elsewhere than at the Government *Proviso*.Medical bulletins.Printing Office, $400,000: *Provided*, That the sum of $3,000, 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 For Chief of Engineers.$69,827 shall be available for printing and binding under the direction of the Chief of Engineers. MILITARY ACTIVITIESMilitary activities. contingencies of the army Army contingencies.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, $11,650. General Staff CorpsGeneral Staff Corps. contingencies, military intelligence divisionMilitary Intelligence Division. Contingent expenses.For contingent expenses of the Military Intelligence Division, General Staff Corps, and of the military attaches 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 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 Observing operations of foreign armies.of officers of the Army on duty abroad for the purpose of observing operations of armies of foreign states at war, to be paid upon certificates of the Secretary of War that the expenditures were necessary for obtaining military information, $27,500, to be expended under *Proviso*.Conditions waived.[R.S., sec. 3648, p. 718](/us/rs/s3648/p718).[U.S.C., p. 1009](/us/usc/p1009).the direction of the Secretary 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 or their ministerial regulations under which the military attaches are required to operate. army war collegeArmy 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, newspapers, and periodicals; Employees, etc.maps; police utensils; employment of temporary, technical, or special services, and expenses of special lecturers; for the pay of employees; and all 11 So in original. for all other absolutely necessary expenses, $57,903. 617 Adjutant General’s DepartmentAdjutant General’s Department. command and general staff school, fort leavenworth, kansas For the purchase of textbooks, books of reference, scientific andCommand and General Staff School, Fort Leavenworth, Kans. 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, $32,809. field exercises For all expenses required for the conduct of special field exercises,Field exercises. including participation therein by the National Guard and the Organized Reserves, comprising allowances for enlisted men for quarters and rations, movement of materiel, maintenance, and operation of structures and utilities, and any other requisite supplies and services, $156,375. welfare of enlisted menWelfare of enlisted men. For the equipment and conduct of school, reading, lunch, andEquipment, etc., of post exchange. amusement rooms, service clubs, chapels, gymnasiums, and libraries, including periodicals and other publications and subscriptions for newspapers, salaries and travel of 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, $31,372. travel, military and civil personnel For mileage, reimbursement of actual traveling expenses, or perTravel, military and civil personnel. diem allowance in lieu thereof, as authorized by law for official travel on military and nonmilitary duty under the War Department, to commissioned officers (including discharged officers to their homes), warrant officers, contract surgeons, and expert accountant, Inspector General’s Department; for transportation of troops, Philippine Scouts, nurses, flying cadets, enlisted men (including discharged enlisted men to their homes or places of enlistment); for transportation of recruits and recruiting parties and of applicants for enlistment between recruiting stations and recruiting depots; and rejected applicants for enlistment; for transportationDependents, etc. of dependents of officers, warrant officers, and enlisted men as provided by law; for transportation of general, paroled, escaped, and 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, the cost in each case not to be greater than to the place of last enlistment; transportation of cadets and accepted cadets from their homes to the Military Academy and discharged cadets, including reimbursement of traveling expenses; for traveling expenses of civilian witnesses before courts-martial ; for traveling expenses of attendants accompanying remains of military personnel and civilian employees; and for travelingCivilian employees, etc. expenses of civilian employees and other persons under the War Department authorized by law to travel on departmental, military, and nonmilitary duty, $2,522,897, and no other appropriation in this Act shall be available for any expense for or incident to travel of personnel of the Regular Army or civilian employees under the WarRestriction on use of funds. Department, except the appropriation “Contingencies of the Army” 618and the appropriations for the National Guard, the Organized Reserves, the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps, citizens’ military training camps, the nonmilitary activities of the Corps of Engineers, and the Panama Canal, and except as may be provided for in the *Proviso*.Transportation rate.appropriation “Air Corps, Army”: *Provided*, That no appropriation contained in this Act shall be available for the payment of passenger transportation at a rate in excess of the lowest through rate or combination of rates available for the type of transportation used. Finance DepartmentFinance Department. pay, and so forth, of the armyPay, etc., of the Army. Officers.For pay of not to exceed an average of twelve thousand commissioned officers, $28,617,645, no part of which sum shall be available Limitation.after September 30, 1934, for the pay of more than eleven thousand seven hundred and fifty commissioned officers whose original commissionsNational Guard. are dated prior to June 1, 1934; pay of officers, National Aviation increase.Guard, $100; pay of warrant officers, $1,336,407; aviation increase to commissioned and warrant officers of the Army not to exceed Flights by nonflying officers.$1,579,410, none of which shall be available for increased pay for making aerial flights by nonflying officers above the grade of captain at a rate in excess of $1,440 per annum, which shall be the legal Longevity.maximum rate as to such nonflying officers above the grade of captain; additional pay to officers for length of service, $7,039,844; pay of enlisted men of the line and staff, not including the PhilippineEnlisted men. Scouts, $45,946,153; pay of enlisted men of National Guard, Aviation increase.$100; aviation increase to enlisted men of the Army, $457,904; pay of enlisted men of the Philippine Scouts, $945,401; additional pay Retired officers, etc.for length of service to enlisted men, $3,453,300; pay of the officers on the retired list, $9,188,436; increased pay to not to exceed five retired officers on active duty, $5,775; pay of retired enlisted men, Civil service messengers at headquarters.$11,610,000; pay of retired pay clerks, $1,519; pay not to exceed sixty civil-service messengers at not to exceed $1,200 each at headquarters of the several Territorial departments, corps areas, Army and corps headquarters, Territorial districts, tactical divisions and brigades, Contract surgeons, nurses, etc.service schools, camps, and ports of embarkation and debarkation, $64,800; pay and allowances of contract surgeons, $46,148; pay of Rental allowances.nurses, $759,204; pay of hospital matrons, $540; rental allowances, including allowances for quarters for enlisted men on duty where *Proviso*.No allowance, occupying quarters at permanent station.public quarters are not available, $5,386,786: *Provided*, That during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1935, no rental allowance shall accrue to any officer of the Government in consequence of the provisions [U.S.C., p. 1187](/us/usc/p1187).found in section 10, title 37, United States Code, while occupying quarters at his permanent station not under the jurisdiction of the service in which serving but which belong to the Government of the United States, or to a corporation the majority of the stock of which is owned by the United States, in excess of the rental rate charged for Subsistence allowances.Loss by exchange.such quarters on March 5, 1934; subsistence allowances, $5,290,521; interest on soldiers’ deposits, $30,000; 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,Deducting sums from purchase of discharges. $100; in all, $121,760,093, less $285,000 to be supplied by the Secretary of War for this purpose from funds received during the fiscal year 1935 from the purchase by enlisted men of the Army of 619their discharges, $121,475,093; and the money herein appropriated for “Pay, and so forth, of the Army” shall be accounted for as oneAccounted for, as one fund. fund except that no amount in this paragraph specifically limited may be increased: *Provided*, That no part of this appropriation*Provisos*.Detail as military aide restricted. shall be available to pay any officer detailed as a military aide to any civil officer of the United States outside of the War Department except the President: *Provided further*, That no appropriationNumber of military attaches limited. contained in this Act shall be available for or on account of the maintenance of more than thirty-two military attaches: *Provided further*, That no appropriation contained in this Act shall be availableMaximum number of bands. for or on account of the maintenance of more than eighty-three bands: *Provided further*, That during the fiscal year ending JuneNo addition for furnishing mounts or service as aide.Vol. 35, p. 108.[R.S., sec. 1261, p. 220](/us/rs//s1261/p220); [U.S.C., pp. 196, 198](/us/usc/p196/198). 30, 1935, no officer of the Army shall be entitled to receive an addition to his pay in consequence of the provisions of the Act approved May 11, 1908 (U.S.C., title 10, sec. 803), or of section 1261 of the Revised Statutes (U.S.C., title 10, sec. 692). None of the money appropriated in this Act shall be used to payPay forbidden to a 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 shallTo officer retired before 64, employed by parties making sales to Department. be paid to any officer on the retired list of the Army who, having been retired before reaching the age of sixty-four, is employed in the United States or its possessions by any individual, partnership, corporation, or association regularly or frequently engaged in making direct sales of any merchandise or material to the War Department or the Army. No appropriation for the pay of the Army shall be available forEngaged 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 War Department: *Provided*, *however*, That nothing herein contained*Proviso*.Exemption. shall be construed to prohibit officers from writing or disseminating articles in accordance with regulations issued by the Secretary of War. expenses of courts-martial For expenses of courts-martial, courts of inquiry, military commissions,Courts-martial, etc. 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, $55,000. apprehension of deserters, and so forthDeserters, etc., apprehension of. For the apprehension, securing, and delivering of soldiers absent without leave and of deserters, including escaped military prisoners, and the expenses incident to their pursuit; and no greater sum than $25 for each deserter or escaped military prisoner shall, in the discretion of the Secretary of War, be paid to any civil officer or citizen for such services and expenses; for a donation of $10 to prisoner discharged otherwise than honorably upon his release from confinement under court-martial sentence involving dishonorable discharge, $20,000. 620 finance serviceFinance Service. Pay of clerks, etc.Vol. 46, p. 818.[U.S.C., Supp. VII, p. 20](/us/usc/p20).For compensation of clerks and other employees of the Finance Department, including not to exceed $450 for allowances for living quarters, including heat, fuel, and light, as authorized by the Act approved June 26, 1930 (U.S.C., Supp. VI, title 5, sec. 118a), $966,114. claims for damages to and loss of private propertyPrivate property damages. Payment of claims.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, $10,000: *Provided*, That settlement of such claims shall be made by the General Accounting Office, upon the approval and recommendation of the Secretary of War, where the amount of damages has been ascertained by the War Department, and payment thereof will be accepted by the owners of the property in full satisfaction of such damages. claims of officers, enlisted men, and nurses of the army for destruction of private propertyDestruction of private property of officers, etc. Payment of claims for.For the payment of claims of officers, enlisted men, and nurses of the Army for private property lost, destroyed, captured, abandoned, or damaged in the military services of the United States, Vol. 41, p. 1436.[U.S.C., p. 989](/us/usc/p989).under the provisions of an Act approved March 4, 1921 (U.S.C.. title 31, secs. 218–222), $15,000. Quartermaster CorpsQuartermaster 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 Sales to officers, etc.rations; meals for recruiting parties and applicants for enlistment 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 cannot be economically issued, including retired enlisted men when ordered to active duty and when traveling on detached duty where it is impracticable to carry rations of any kind, enlisted men selected to contest for places or prizes in department and Army rifle competitions when traveling to and from places of contest, applicants for enlistment, and general prisoners while traveling under orders. For payment of the regulation allowances of commutation in lieu of rations for enlisted men, applicants for enlistment while held under observation, civilian employees who are entitled to subsistence at public expense, and general prisoners while sick in hospitals, to be paid to the surgeon Advertising.Prizes for bakers and cooks.in charge; advertising; for providing prizes to be established by the Secretary of War for enlisted men of the Army who graduate from the Army schools for bakers and cooks, the total amount of such 621prizes at the various schools not to exceed $900 per annum; and for other necessary expenses incident to the purchase, testing, care,Subsistence supplies. preservation, issue, sale, and accounting for subsistence supplies for the Army; in all, $16,000,000: *Provided*, That none of the money*Proviso*.Oleomargarine restriction. 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 QuartermasterRegular quartermaster supplies. Corps, including their care and protection; stoves required for the use of the Army for heating offices, hospitals, barracks, and quarters, and recruiting stations, and United States disciplinary barracks; also ranges, stoves, coffee roasters, and appliances for cooking and serving food at posts in the field and when traveling, and repair and maintenance of such heating and cooking appliances; authorized issues of candles and matches; for post bakery and bake-ovenBakeries, 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, andForage, etc. 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, $2,576,880. Clothing and equipage: For cloth, woolens, materials, and forClothing, etc.Purchase, manufacture, etc. the purchase and manufacture of clothing for the Army, including retired enlisted men when ordered to active duty, for issue and for sale; for payment of commutation of clothing due to warrant officers of the mine planter service and to enlisted men; for altering and fitting clothing and washing and cleaning when necessary; forLaundries, etc. operation of laundries, existing or now under construction, including purchase and repair of laundry machinery therefor; 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 existing dry-cleaning plants, salvage and sorting storehouses, hat repairing shops, shoe repair shops, clothing repair shops, and garbage reduction works; for equipage, including authorizedEquipage, toilet kits, etc. issues of toilet articles, barbers’ and tailors’ material, for use of general prisoners confined at military posts without pay or allow-622ances and applicants for enlistment while held under observation; issue of toilet kits to recruits upon their first enlistment, and issue of housewives to the Army; for expenses of packing and handling Citizen’s outer clothing.and similar necessaries; for a suit of citizen’s outer clothing and when necessary an overcoat, the cost of all not to exceed $30, to be issued to each soldier discharged otherwise than honorably, to each enlisted man convicted by civil court for an offense resulting in confinement in a penitentiary or other civil prison, and to each enlisted man ordered interned by reason of the fact that he is an Indemnity for destroyed clothing, etc.alien enemy, or, for the same reason, discharged 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, $4,207,112, of Fuel.which amount not exceeding $60,000 shall be available immediately for the procurement and transportation of fuel for the service of the fiscal year 1935. Incidental expenses.Incidental expenses of the Army: Postage; hire of laborers in the Quartermaster Corps, including the care of officers’ mounts when Civilian personnel.the same are furnished by the Government; compensation of clerks Living quarters.and other employees of the Quartermaster Corps, including not to exceed $9,325 in the aggregate or $450 for any one person for allowances for living quarters, including heat, fuel, and light, as Vol. 46, p. 818.[U.S.C., Supp. VII, p. 20](/us/usc/p20).authorized by the Act of June 26, 1930 (U.S.C., Supp. VI, title 5, sec. 118a), and clerks, foremen, watchmen, and organist for the Recruiting.United States Disciplinary Barracks, and incidental expenses of Tests, etc.recruiting; for the operation of coffee-roasting plants; for tests and experimental and development work and scientific research to be performed by the Bureau of Standards for the Quartermaster Inspection service.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*.Average number employed.$3,218,307: *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 materiel and industrial organizations essential to war-time needs. Transportation of troops and supplies.Army transportation: For transportation of Army supplies; of authorized baggage, including packing and crating; of horse equipment; and of funds for the Army; for the purchase or construction, not to exceed $10,000, alteration, operation, and repair of boats and Drayage, etc.other vessels; for wharfage, tolls, and ferriage; for drayage and cartage; for the purchase, manufacture (including both material and labor), maintenance, hire, and repair of pack saddles and Vehicles.harness; for the purchase, hire, operation, maintenance, and repair of wagons, carts, drays, other vehicles, and horse-drawn and motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles required for the transportation of troops and supplies and for official military and garrison purposes, maintenance and repair expenditures on motor-propelled vehicles not Travel allowances, National Guard.to exceed $461,812, exclusive of labor; for hire of draft and pack animals; for travel allowances to officers of National Guard on Vol. 31, p. 902; Vol. 42, n. 1021.[U.S.C., p. 197](/us/usc/p197).discharge from Federal service as prescribed in the Act of March 2, 1901 (U.S.C., title 10, sec. 751), and 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 623members of the National Guard who have been mustered into Federal service and discharged on account of physical disability; in all, $7,702,359, of which amount not exceeding $250,000 shall beFuel. available immediately for the procurement and transportation of fuel for the service of the fiscal year 1935: *Provided*, That no part*Provisos*.Purchase of motor vehicles restricted. of this appropriation shall be available for the purchase or exchange of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles except that completely assembled and equipped motor-propelled trucks, including station wagon types, to cost not to exceed $750 each, including the value of any vehicle exchanged, may be purchased out of savings that would accrue to this appropriation and to other appropriations for the fiscal year 1935 under the Quartermaster Corps, and to the appropriation “Travel, Military and Civil Personnel”, from a lessened expense on account of the maintenance of animals, for or on account of the purchase, maintenance, and operation of animal-drawn equipment, or for or on account of rail transportation of persons and materials, owing to the employment of such vehicles: *Provided further*,Not available except for salvaging, etc. That, effective January 1, 1935, no appropriation contained in this Act shall be available for any expense of any character, other than as may be incident to salvaging or scrapping, on account of any motor-propelled vehicle procured prior to January 1, 1920, exceptExceptions. tractors, ambulances, fire trucks, and vehicles now in use by Reserve Officers’ Training Corps units: *Provided further*, That no appropriationTransporting private cars at public expense restricted. contained in this Act shall be available for any expense for or incident to the transportation of privately owned automobiles except on account of the return to the United States of such privately owned automobiles as may have been transported to points outside of the continental limits of the United States at public expense prior to July 14, 1932: *Provided further*, That during the fiscal year 1935Transportation costs charged to appropriation 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, etc. For the purchase of draft and pack animals and horses withinPurchase, etc. limits as to age, sex, and size to be prescribed by the Secretary of War for remounts for officers entitled to public mounts, for theEncouraging breeding of riding horses. 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 $69,789 for encouragement of the breeding of riding horses suitable for the Army, in cooperation with the Bureau of Animal Industry, Department of Agriculture, including the purchase of animals for breeding purposes and their maintenance), $219,789. barracks and quarters and other buildings and utilitiesBarracks, quarters, etc. For all expenses incident to the construction, installation, operation,All expenses for construction, maintenance, etc. 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 mayRentals. be approved by the Secretary of War, care and improvement of 624grounds, flooring and framing for tents, rental of buildings, including not to exceed $900 in the District of Columbia, provided space is not available in Government-owned buildings, and grounds for militaryWater, roads, etc. purposes and lodgings for recruits and applicants for enlistments, water supply, 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, etc.target practice, field, mobile, 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 Heat and light for quarters, etc.furnishing heat and light for the authorized allowance of quarters for officers, enlisted men, and warrant officers, including retired enlisted men when ordered to active duty, contract surgeons when stationed at and occupying public quarters at military posts, officers of the National Guard attending service and garrison schools, and Recreation buildings.Vol. 32, p. 282.[U.S.C., p. 219](/us/usc/p219).for recruits, guards, hospitals, storehouses, offices, the buildings erected at private cost, in the operation of the 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, $9,155,695, and $2,500,000 of this appropriation shall be available immediately for Fuel.the procurement and transportation of fuel for the service of the *Provisos*.Rent outside District.fiscal year 1935: *Provided*, That not more than $16,000 of the appropriations contained in this Act shall be available for rent of offices outside the District of Columbia in connection with work incident to the assurance of adequate provision for the mobilization of materiel and industrial organizations essential to war-time needs: *Provided further*,Rentals for military attaches. That this appropriation shall be available for the rental of offices, garages, and stables for military attaches: *Provided further*, Limitation on additional construction.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 Stable rent.in any case exceeds $20,000: *Provided further*, That the monthly rental rate to be paid out of this appropriation for stabling any animal shall not exceed $10. sewerage system, fort monroe, virginiaFort Monroe, Va. Wharf, etc.For repair and maintenance of wharf and apron of wharf, including 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. Roads, etc.For rakes, shovels, and brooms; repairs to roadway, pavements, macadam, and asphalt block; repairs to street crossings; repairs to street drains, and labor for cleaning roads, $8,469; for two thirds of said sum, to be supplied by the United States, $5,646. Sewers, supplies.For waste, oil, motor and pump repairs, sewer pipe, cement, brick, stone, supplies, and personal services, $6,690; for two thirds of said sum, to be supplied by the United States, $4,460. construction and repair of hospitalsHospitals. Construction, repair, 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 625requirements of increased garrisons, and for temporary hospitals inTemporary camp hospitals, etc. standing camps and cantonments; for the alteration of permanent buildings at posts for use as hospitals, construction and repair of temporary hospital buildings at permanent posts, construction and repair of temporary general hospitals, rental or purchase of grounds, and rental and alteration of buildings for use for hospital purposes in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, including necessary temporary quarters for hospital personnel, outbuildings, heating and laundry apparatus, plumbing, water and sewers, and electric work, cooking apparatus, and roads and walks for the same, $429,521. Signal CorpsSignal Corps. signal service of the armySignal Service. Telegraph and telephone systems: Purchase, equipment, operation,Telegraph and telephone systems.Purchase, operation, etc. 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; motorcycles, motor-driven and other vehicles for technical and official purposes in connection with the construction, operation, and maintenance of communication or signaling systems, and supplies for their operation and maintenance; professional and scientific books of reference, pamphlets, periodicals, newspapers, and maps for use of the Signal Corps and in the office of the Chief Signal Officer; telephone apparatus, including rental and payment for commercial, exchange, message, trunk-line, long-distance, and leased-line telephone service at or connecting any post, camp, cantonment, depot, arsenal, headquarters, hospital, aviation station, or other office or station of the Army, excepting the local telephone serviceLocal exemption. for the various bureaus of the War Department in the District of Columbia, and toll messages pertaining to the office of the Secretary of War; electric time service; the rental of commercial telegraph lines and equipment, and their operation at or connecting any post, camp, cantonment, depot, arsenal, headquarters, hospital, aviation station, or other office or station of the Army, including payment for official individual telegraph messages transmitted over commercial lines; electrical installations and maintenance thereof at militaryElectrical installations. posts, cantonments, camps, and stations of the Army, fire control, and direction apparatus, and material for Field Artillery; salaries ofCivilian employees. civilian employees, including those necessary as instructors at vocational schools; supplies, general repairs, reserve supplies, and other expenses connected with the collecting and transmitting of information for the Army by telegraph or otherwise; experimental investigation,Experimental research, etc. research, purchase, and development or improvements in apparatus, and maintenance of signaling and accessories thereto, including patent rights and other rights thereto, including machines, instruments, and other equipment for laboratory and repair purposes; lease, alteration, and repair of such buildings required for storing or guarding Signal Corps supplies, equipment, and personnel when not otherwise provided for, including the land therefor, the introduction of water, electric light and power, sewerage, grading, roads and walks, and other equipment required, $1,948,997, of which amountMicro-ray investigations. not to exceed $255,796 shall be available immediately and not to exceed $45,000 shall be available exclusively for experimental investigation of the micro-ray. 626 Air CorpsAir Corps. air corps, army Designated purposes.For creating, maintaining, and operating at established flying schools and balloon schools courses of instruction for officers, students, and enlisted men, including cost of equipment and supplies necessary for instruction, purchase of tools, equipment, materials, machines, textbooks, books of reference, scientific and professional papers, instruments, and materials for theoretical and practical Aircraft operation, etc.instruction; for maintenance, repair, storage, and operation of airships, 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 Landing, etc., runways.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 of such utilities at such plants; Helium gas.for the procurement of helium gas; for travel of officers of the Air Corps by air in connection with the administration of this appropriation, including the transportation of new aircraft from factory Civilian employees.to first destination; salaries and wages of civilian employees as may be necessary; transportation of materials in connection with consolidation of Air Corps activities; experimental investigations and purchasePurchase, development, etc., of aircraft. and development of new types of airplanes, helicopters and balloons, 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 Balloons.construction of airplanes and balloons, including instruments and appliances of every sort and description necessary for the operation, construction (airplanes and balloons), or equipment of all types of aircraft, and all necessary spare parts and equipment connected therewith, and during the fiscal year 1935, subject to the approval of the Chief of the Air Corps, transfers may be made from this appropriation to the appropriations contained in this Act, entitled “Signal Service of the Army” and “Ordnance Service and Supplies, Army,” for the procurement of aircraft radio equipment and aircraftMarking military airways. armament, respectively; for the marking of military airways where the purchase of land is not involved; for the purchase, manufacture,Special clothing, etc. and issue of special clothing, wearing apparel, and similar equipment for aviation purposes; for all necessary expenses connected with the sale or disposal of surplus or obsolete aeronautical equipment, and the rental of buildings, and other facilities Consulting engineers.for the handling or storage of such equipment; for the services of not more than four consulting engineers at experimental stations of the Air Corps as the Secretary of War may deem necessary, at rates of pay to be fixed by him not to exceed $50 a day for not exceeding fifty days each and necessary traveling expenses; purchase of special apparatus and appliances, repairs and replacements of same used in connection with special scientific medical research in the Air Outside printing plants, etc.Corps; for maintenance and operation of such Air Corps printing plants outside of the District of Columbia as may be authorized in accordance with law; for publications, station libraries, special furniture, supplies and equipment for offices, shops, and laboratories; for special services, including the salvaging of wrecked aircraft, 627$22,396,453: *Provided*, That from the amount herein appropriated*Provisos*.Designated allotments.Civilian employees. and the amount herein authorized for obligation not to exceed $3,150,206 may be expended for pay of civilian employees other than those employed in experimental and research work; not exceeding $10,000 may be expended for the procurement of helium fromProcurement of helium.*Ante*, p. 564. the Bureau of Mines, of which sum such amounts as may be required may be transferred in advance to that Bureau; not exceeding $3,848,824 may be expended for experimental and research work with airplanesExperimental and research work. or balloons and their equipment, including the pay of necessary civilian employees; not less than $8,486,600, which shall be available immediately, shall be expended for the production or purchaseNew airplanes, etc. of new airplanes and their equipment, and accessories, of which $6,365,100 shall be available exclusively for combat airplanes, their equipment and accessories; not less than $8,091,089 shall be expended, other than for pay of civilian employees, for aviation fuel and oilFuel and oil, repairs, etc. and for the repair and maintenance of airplanes and their equipment, spare parts, and accessories, and of such sum not exceeding $155,582, for expenditure for like objects, shall be transferred to theTransfer of funds to National Guard. National Guard subappropriation contained in this Act, entitled “Arms, Uniforms, Equipment, and so forth, for Field Service, National Guard”, on account of seventy-six airplanes of the observation type, which shall be transferred from the Regular Army to the National Guard during the fiscal year 1935; and not more thanSettlement of 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 the Chief of Air Corps and the Secretary of War: *Provided further*,Contracts authorized for purchase of airplanes, etc. That in addition to the amounts herein provided for the procurement of new airplanes and for the procurement of equipment, spare parts, and accessories for airplanes, the Chief of the Air Corps when authorized by the Secretary of War, may enter into contracts prior to July 1, 1935, for the procurement of new airplanes and for the procurement of equipment, spare parts, and accessories for airplanes to an amount not in excess of $3,000,000, and his action in so doing shall be deemed a contractual obligation of the Federal Government for the payment of the cost thereof: *Provided further*,Sums for incurred obligations. That the sum of $101,560 of the appropriation for Air Corps, Army, fiscal year 1932, shall remain available until June 30, 1935, for the payment of obligations incurred under contracts executed prior to July 1, 1932. For an additional amount for the improvement, development, andAdditional sums for improvement, etc., of military aviation materiel, etc. augmentation of aviation materiel, and for the training of military aviation personnel, to be immediately available, $5,000,000, of which not less than $3,000,000 shall be expended for the procurement of airplanes and their equipment, spare parts, and accessories for the Regular Army and the National Guard; not to exceed $1,000,000Aviation fuel and oil, repairs, etc. shall be expended for aviation fuel and oil and for the repair and maintenance of airplanes and their equipment and accessories forOther designated expenditures. the training of military aviation pilots; and not to exceed $1,000,000 shall be available for expenditure in the discretion and under the direction of the President, as follows: For airplane accessories for the Regular Army and National Guard; for the investigation and development of a national aviation program, including the employmentPersonal services, without regard to Classification Act.[U.S.C., p. 65; Supp. VII, p. 34](/us/usc/p65/34). of personal services without regard to the Classification Act of 1923, as amended, and all other necessary expenses incident thereto; for the encouragement of development of types of airplanes, airplane engines, and aviation equipment, including the 628Technical, etc., information.granting of awards; for compensation (not exceeding $10,000) for information to be obtained from an authoritative source in such form and manner as the President may desire as to geographic, meteorologic and weather conditions in northern latitudes, and for such other purposes related to civil and military aviation as the President may deem proper. Medical DepartmentMedical Department. army medical and hospital department 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; for expenses of medical supply depots; for medical care Private treatment.and treatment not otherwise provided for, including care and subsistence in private hospitals of officers, enlisted men, and civilian employees of the Army, of applicants for enlistment, and of prisoners of war and other persons in military custody or confinement, when *Proviso*.Not applicable, if on furlough.entitled thereto by law, regulation, or contract: *Provided*, That this shall not apply to officers and enlisted men who are treated in private hospitals or by civilian physicians while on furlough; for Contagious, etc., diseases, expenses.the proper care and treatment of epidemic and contagious diseases in the Army or at military posts or stations, including measures to prevent the spread thereof, and the payment of reasonable damages not otherwise provided for for bedding and clothing injured or Insane Filipino soldiers.Vol. 35, p. 122.[U.S.C., p. 681](/us/usc/p681).destroyed in such prevention; for the care of insane Filipino soldiers in conformity with the Act of Congress approved May 11, 1908, (U.S.C., title 24, sec. 198); 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;Transporting supplies, etc. for the payment of express companies and local transfers employed directly by the Medical Department for the transportation of medical and hospital supplies, including bidders’ samples and water for analysis; for supplies for use in teaching the art of cooking Hot Springs, Ark., hospital.to the enlisted force of the Medical Department; for the supply of Army and Navy Hospital at Hot Springs, Arkansas; for advertising, laundry, and all other necessary miscellaneous expenses of the Medical Department, $1,105,038. hospital care, canal zone garrisonsCanal Zone. Care of troops at hospitals in.For paying the Panama Canal such reasonable charges, exclusive of subsistence, as may be approved by the Secretary of War for caring in its hospitals for officers, enlisted men, military prisoners, and civilian employees of the Army admitted thereto upon the request *Proviso*.Subsistence payments.of proper military authority, $40,000: *Provided*, That the subsistence of the said patients, except commissioned officers, shall be paid to said hospitals out of the appropriation for subsistence of the Army at the rates provided therein for commutation of rations for enlisted patients in general hospitals. 629 army medical museumArmy Medical Museum. For Army Medical Museum, preservation of specimers, and thePreservation, etc., of specimens. preparation and purchase of new specimens, $6,232. library, surgeon general’s officeLibrary. For the library of the Surgeon General’s office, including the purchasePurchase of books, etc. of the necessary books of reference and periodicals, $14,300. Corps of EngineersEngineer Corps. engineer service, army For the design, development, procurement, maintenance, alteration,Equipment, instruments, etc. repair, installation, storage, and issue of engineer equipment, instruments, appliances, supplies, materials, tools, and machinery required in the equipment and training of troops and in military operations,Engineer School.Maintenance, etc. including military surveys and the Engineer School; for the operation and maintenance of the Engineer School, including
(a)compensation of civilian lecturers, and
(b)purchase and binding of scientific and professional books, pamphlets, papers, and periodicals; for the procurement, preparation, and reproduction of maps and similarMilitary maps. data for military purposes; for expenses incident to the Engineer service in military operations, including military surveys, and including
(a)research and development of improved methods in such operations,
(b)the rental of storehouses and grounds within andRent. outside of the District of Columbia, and
(c)repair and alterationOperating, etc., expenses. of buildings; for heat, light, power, water, and communication service, not otherwise provided for; and for the compensation of employees required in these activities, $332,988. Ordnance DepartmentOrdnance Department. ordnance service and supplies, armyOrdnance service and supplies. For manufacture, procurement, storage and issue, includingManufacture, issue, etc. research, planning, design, development, inspection, test, alteration, maintenance, repair, and handling of ordnance material together with the machinery, supplies, and services necessary thereto; forCurrent expenses. supplies and services in connection with the general work of the Ordnance Department, comprising police and office duties, rents, tolls, fuel, light, water, advertising, stationery, typewriting, and computing machines, including their exchange, and furniture, tools, and instruments of service; to provide for training and other incidental expenses of the ordnance service; for instruction purposes, other than tuition; for the purchase, completely equipped, of trucks, and for maintenance, repair, and operation of motor-propelled and horse-drawn freight and passenger-carrying vehicles; for ammunitionAmmunition for military salutes. for military salutes at Government establishments and institutions to which the issues of arms for salutes are authorized; for services, material, tools, and appliances for operation of the testing machines and chemical laboratory in connection therewith; for publicationsPublications. for libraries of the Ordnance Department, including the Ordnance Office, including subscriptions to periodicals; for services of not more than four consulting engineers as the Secretary of WarConsulting engineers. 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 for their necessary traveling expenses, $8,983,936: *Provided*, That of such sum $2,790,000*Proviso*.Armored tanks, rifles, etc. shall be available exclusively for the procurement of complete combat cars and medium and light tanks, and for the procurement of auto-630matic rifles, including the purchase or manufacture of gauges, dies, and jigs for use in connection with the production of such rifles, all in addition to such types of procurement as may be made in connection with research and development. rock island bridge, rock island, illinoisRock Island, Ill. Operating bridges, etc.For operating, repair, and preservation of Rock Island bridges and viaduct, and maintenance and repair of the arsenal street connecting the bridges, $27,300. repairs of arsenalsArsenals. Repairs, etc.For repairs and improvements of ordnance establishments, and to meet such unforeseen expenditures as accidents or other contingencies may require, $694,831. gauges, dies, and jigs for manufactureGauges, dies, and jigs. Procuring, for armament manufacture.Vol. 39, p. 215.[U.S.C., p. 1694](/us/usc/p1694).For the development and procurement of gauges, dies, jigs, and other special aids and appliances, including specifications and detailed drawings, to carry out the purpose of section 123 of the National Defense Act, approved June 3, 1916 (U.S.C., title 50, sec. 78), $70,100. chemical warfare serviceChemical Warfare Service. Purchase, manufacture, etc., of gases.For purchase, manufacture, and test of chemical warfare gases or other toxic substances, gas masks, or other offensive or defensive materials or appliances required for gas-warfare purposes, including all necessary investigations, research, design, experimentation, and operation connected therewith; purchase of chemicals, special scientificPlants, buildings, machinery, etc. and technical apparatus and instruments; construction, maintenance, and repair of plants, buildings, and equipment, and the machinery therefor; receiving, storing, and issuing of supplies, comprising police and office duties, rents, tolls, fuels, gasoline, lubricants, paints and oils, rope and cordage, light, water, advertising, stationery, typewriting and adding machines, including their exchange, office furniture, tools, and instruments; for incidental expenses; for civilian employees; for libraries of the Chemical Organizing, etc., special gas troops.Warfare 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 necessary schools, tactical demonstrations, and maneuvers, and ten thousand gas masks, appropriate for training purposes, may be transferred, without reimbursement, to the National Guard for distribution as may be determined by the Chief of the National Current expenses.Guard Bureau; 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, $1,257,369. Chief of Infantry infantry school, fort benning, georgiaInfantry school, Fort Benning, Ga. Instruction expenses.For the procurement of books, publications, instruments, and materials, and other necessary expenses for instruction at the Infantry School, and for pay of employees at the Infantry School and in the office of the Chief of Infantry, $59,805. 631 Chief of Cavalry cavalry school, fort riley, kansasCavalry School, Fort Riley, Kans. For the purchase of textbooks, books of reference, scientific andInstruction expenses. professional papers, instruments, and materials for instruction; employment of temporary, technical, special, and clerical services; and for other necessary expenses of instruction at the Cavalry School, Fort Riley, Kansas, $19,432. Chief of Field Artillery field artillery instruction activitiesField Artillery activities. For the pay of employees, the purchase of books, pamphlets,Instruction expenses. 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, $23,718. Chief of Coast Artillery coast artillery school, fort monroe, virginiaCoast Artillery School, Fort Monroe, Va. For purchase of engines, generators, motors, machines, measuringInstruction expenses. and nautical instruments, special apparatus, and materials for experimental purposes for the engineering and artillery and military art departments and enlisted specialists division; for purchase and binding of professional books treating of military and scientific subjects for library, for use of school, and for temporary use in coast 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; for machinery; for maintenance, operation, and repair of motor trucks; and unforeseen expenses; in all, $27,262. Seacoast DefensesSeacoast defenses. For all expenses incident to the preparation of plans and theAll expenses of, etc., under specified branches. 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, $668,766; Insular departments, $222,648; Panama Canal, $270,391; In all, $1,161,805. United States Military AcademyMilitary Academy. pay of military academyPay, etc. Cadets: For pay of cadets, $867,672: *Provided*, That during theCadets.*Provisos*.Army detail, pay restriction. fiscal year ending June 30, 1935, no officer of the Army shall be entitled to receive any increase in pay or allowances because of detail or assignment to duty in any capacity at the Military Academy: *Provided*, That the duties of librarian of the United States MilitaryRetired Army officer as librarian.[R.S., sec. 1251,p. 218](/us/rs/s1251/p218). Academy may be performed by an officer of the Regular Army 632[U.S.C., p. 204](/us/usc/p204).retired from active service under the provisions of section 1251, Revised Statutes, and detailed on active duty for that purpose. Civilians: For pay of employees, $235,706. maintenance, united states military academyMaintenance. Designated expenses.For text and reference books for instruction; increase and expense of library (not exceeding $6,000); office equipment and supplies; stationery, blank books, forms, printing and binding, and periodicals; diplomas for graduates (not exceeding $1,100); expense of lectures; apparatus, equipment, supplies, and materials for purpose 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; 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 Board of Visitors.academy, to be expended in his discretion (not to exceed $3,500); expenses of the members of the Board of Visitors (not exceeding $1,500); contingent fund, to be expended under the direction of the Academic Board (not exceeding $500); improvement, repair, and maintenance of buildings and grounds (including roads, walls, and fences); shooting galleries and ranges; cooking, heating, and lighting apparatus and fixtures and operation and maintenance thereof; maintenance of water, sewer, and plumbing systems; maintenance of and repairs to cadet camp; fire-extinguishing apparatus; machinery and tools and repairs 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, $1,089,882. National GuardNational Guard. arming, equipping, and training the national guardArming, etc. Forage, etc.For procurement of forage, bedding, and so forth, for animals used by the National Guard, $585,537. Care of animals, etc.For compensation of help for care of materials, animals, and equipment, $1,810,263. Instruction expenses, etc.For expenses, camps of instruction, field and supplemental training, 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, $8,888,440. Service schools, instruction, etc.For expenses, selected officers and enlisted men, military service, schools, including medical and hospital treatment authorized by law, $187,011. Property, etc., officers.For pay of property and disbursing officers for the United States, $73,170. Equipment, etc.For general expenses, equipment, and instruction, National Guard, including medical and hospital treatment authorized by law, and the hire (at a rate not to exceed $1 per diem), repair, maintenance, and operation of motor-propelled passenger- and non-passenger-carrying vehicles, $660,869. Travel, Army officers, etc.For travel of officers, warrant officers, and enlisted men of the Regular Army in connection with the National Guard, $171,880: 633*Provided*, That not to exceed $2,000 of this sum shall be expended for*Proviso*.War Department General Staff. travel of officers of the War Department General Staff in connection with the National Guard. For transportation of equipment and supplies, $175,000.Transporting supplies. For expenses of enlisted men of the Regular Army on duty withArmy enlisted men, detail. the National Guard, including the hiring of quarters in kind, $283,498. For pay of National Guard (armory drills), $11,756,221: *Provided*,Pay, armory drills.*Proviso*.Use of naval fund.*Ante*, p. 407. That the appropriations contained in the Naval Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1935 for drills for members of the Naval and Marine Corps reserve forces shall be available for the conduct of 48 drills for each of such forces. No part of the appropriations made in this Act shall be availableNo pay to National Guard officer, etc., drawing pension. for pay, allowances, or traveling or other expenses of any officer or enlisted man of the National Guard who may be drawing a pension, disability allowance, disability compensation, or retired pay (where retirement has been made on account of physical disability or age) from the Government of the United States: *Provided*,*Proviso*.Provisions waived if pension surrendered. That nothing in this provision shall be so construed as to prevent the application of funds herein contained to the pay, allowances, or traveling expenses of any officer or enlisted man of the National Guard who may surrender said pension, disability allowance, disability compensation, or retired pay for the period of his service in the National Guard: *Provided further*, That presentAdjutants general continued in present status without pay. adjutants general who may be drawing such emoluments may be continued in a federally recognized status without pay under this Act. arms, uniforms, equipment, and so forth, for field service, national guardField service. To procure by purchase or manufacture and issue from time toProcuring arms, etc., for issue.Requisitions from governors, etc. time to the National Guard, upon requisition of the governors of the several States and Territories or the commanding general, National Guard of the District of Columbia, such military equipment and stores of all kinds and reserve supply thereof as are necessary to arm, uniform, and equip for field service the National Guard of the several States, Territories, and the District of Columbia, and to repair such of the aforementioned articles of equipage and military stores as are or may become damaged when, under regulations prescribed by the Secretary of War, such repair may be determined to be an economical measure and as necessary for their proper preservation and use, $3,355,541, and all of the sums appropriated in this ActAccounting. on account of the National Guard shall be accounted for as one fund and of the total of such sums $3,000,000 shall be available immediately: *Provided*, That funds now and herein made available to*Provisos*.Purchase of motor trucks, etc. through competitive bidding. the National Guard Bureau may be used for the purchase of motor-propelled trucks and station wagons, and trailers, at a cost per vehicle not to exceed $800, $700, and $525, respectively, and the specifications for such vehicles, which shall be so drawn as to admit of competition, shall to the extent otherwise practicable conform with the requirements of the National Guard as determined by the Chief of the National Guard Bureau: *Provided further*, That the SecretaryClothing, equipment, etc., from Army surplus stores. of War is hereby authorized to issue surplus or reserve stores and material on hand and purchased for the United States Army such articles of clothing and equipment and Field Artillery, Engineer, and Signal material and ammunition as may be needed by the National Guard organized under the provisions of the Act entitledVol. 39, p. 199; Vol. 45, p. 406.[U.S.C., p. 1034; Supp. VII, p. 773](/us/usc/p1034/773). “An Act for making further and more effectual provision for the national defense, and for other purposes”, approved June 3, 1916 634Issue without charge to appropriations.(U.S.C., title 32, sec. 21), as amended. This issue shall be made without charge against militia appropriations except for actual expenses incident to such issue. No increase of mounted, etc., units.No appropriation contained in this Act shall be available for any expense for or on account of a larger number of mounted and medical units, and military police, wagon and service companies of the National Guard than were in existence on June 30, 1932. ORGANIZED RESERVESOrganized Reserves. Officers’ Reserve Corps.For pay and allowances of members of the Officers’ Reserve Corps on active duty in accordance with law; mileage, reimbursement of actual traveling expenses, or per diem allowances in lieu thereof, as *Provisos*.Mileage allowance.authorized by law: *Provided*, That the mileage allowance to members of the Officers’ Reserve Corps when called into active service for training for fifteen days or less shall not exceed 4 cents per mile; Enlisted Reserve Corps.pay, transportation, subsistence, clothing, and medical and hospital treatment of members of the Enlisted Reserve Corps; conducting Correspondence, etc., 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 Training manuals.employees; purchase of training manuals, including Government publications and blank forms, subscriptions to magazines and periodicalsEstablishment, etc., headquarters and training camps. of a professional or technical nature; establishment, maintenance, and operation of divisional and regimental headquarters and of camps for training of the Organized Reserves; for miscellaneous expenses incident to the administration of the Organized Reserves, Vehicles.including the maintenance and operation of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles; for the actual and necessary expenses, or per diem in lieu thereof, at rates authorized by law, incurred by officers Travel expenses.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 materiel furnished in accordance with law from stocks under the control of the War Department, except that not to exceed $308,400 Purchase, etc., airplanes.of this appropriation shall be available for expenditure by the Chief of the Air Corps for the production and purchase of new airplanes and their equipment, spare parts, and accessories; for transportation of baggage, including packing and crating, of reserve officers Medical and hospital treatment, etc., incurred in line of duty.ordered to active duty for not less than six months; for the medical and hospital treatment of members of the Officers’ Reserve Corps and of the Enlisted Reserve Corps, who suffer personal injury or contract Vol. 45, p. 461.[U.S.C., Supp. VII, p. 109](/us/usc/p109).disease in line of duty, as provided by the Act of April 26, 1928 (U.S.C., Supp. VI, title 10, secs. 451, 455), and for such other purposes in connection therewith as are authorized by the said Act, Burial expenses.including pay and allowances, subsistence, transportation, and burial expenses; in all, $4,278,859; and no part of such total sum shall be Flight training restrictions.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 service as an aviation pilot, by such agency as the Secretary of War may designate: *Proviso*.Divisional, etc., headquarters.*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, field exercises, 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 635in 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. No appropriation made in this Act shall be available for pay,No pay to officer drawing pension, etc. allowances, or traveling or other expenses of any officer of the Organized Reserves who may be drawing a pension, disability allowance, disability compensation, or retired pay from the Government of the United States. No appropriation made in this Act shall be expended for the pay ofReserve officer on active duty, pay restriction. a reserve officer on active duty for a longer period than fifteen days, except such as may be detailed for duty with the War DepartmentGeneral Staff detail.Vol. 41, pp. 760, 765. General Staff under section 3a and section 5
(b)of the Army Reorganization Act approved June 4, 1920 (U.S.C., title 10, secs. 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 detailed forOther details. duty as instructors at civilian military training camps, appropriated for in this Act, or who may be detailed for duty with tactical units ofAir Corps.Vol. 41, p. 776; [U.S.C., p. 183](/us/usc/p183). the Air Corps, as provided in section 37a of the Army Reorganization Act approved June 4, 1920 (U.S.C., title 10, sec. 369): *Provided*, That*Proviso*.Medical Reserve Corps for Veterans’ Administration patients in Army hospitals. 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’ Administration treated in Army hospitals may be paid from the funds allotted to the War Department by thatPayments) from Army funds. administration under existing law. CITIZENS’ MILITARY TRAININGCitizens’ Military Training. reserve officers’ training corpsReserve Officers, Training Corps. For the procurement, maintenance, and issue, under such regulationsQuartermaster supplies for units of. as may be prescribed by the Secretary of War, to institutions at which one or more units of the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps are maintained, of such public animals, means of transportation, supplies, tentage, equipment, and uniforms as he may deem necessary, including cleaning and laundering of uniforms and clothing at camps; and to forage, at the expense of the United States, public animals so issued, and to pay commutation in lieu of uniforms at a rate to be fixed annually by the Secretary of War; for transporting said animals and other authorized .supplies and equipment from place of issue to the several institutions and training camps and return of same to place of issue when necessary; for purchase of training manuals, including Government publications and blank forms; for the establishment and maintenance of camps for theTraining Camps. further practical instruction of the members of the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps, and for transporting members of such corps to and from such camps, and to subsist them while traveling to and from such camps and while remaining therein so far as appropriations will permit, or, in lieu of transporting them to and from such camps and subsisting them while en route, to pay them travel allowance atTravel allowance. 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 materiel furnished in accordance with law from stocks under the control of the War Department; for pay for students attending advanced camps at the 636Subsistence commutation to senior division members.rate prescribed for soldiers of the seventh grade of the Regular Vol. 39, p. 193; Vol. 41, p. 779.[U.S.C., p. 184](/us/usc/p184).Medical, etc., treatment, injured in line of duty.Army; for the payment of commutation of subsistence to members of the senior division of the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps, at a rate not exceeding the cost of the garrison ration prescribed for the 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 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 or contract disease in line of duty while en route to or from and while Vol. 41, p. 778.[U.S.C., p. 185](/us/usc/p185).at camps of instruction under the provisions of section 47a of the National Defense Act approved June 3, 1916 (U.S.C., title 10, ,sec. 441), as amended; and for the cost of preparation and transportationBurial expenses. to their homes and burial expenses of the remains of members of the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps who die while attending Vol. 43, p. 365; Vol. 45, p. 462.[U.S.C., p. 186; Supp. VII, p. 109](/us/usc/p186/109).Transporting dependents, etc.camps of instruction as provided in the Act approved April 26, 1928 (U.S.C., Supp. VI, title 10, sec. 455); for mileage, traveling expenses, or transportation, for transportation of dependents, and for packing 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, $3,108,701; of which $400,000 shall be *Provisos*.Issue of Army horses.available immediately: *Provided*, That the Secretary of War is authorized to issue, without charge, in lieu of purchase, for the use of the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps, ,so many horses now belonging Uniforms, etc., from Army surplus stock.to the Regular Army as he may consider desirable: *Provided*, That uniforms and other equipment or material issued to the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps in accordance with law shall be furnished from surplus or reserve stocks of the War Department without payment from this appropriation, except for actual expense incurred in Current price to govern.the manufacture or issue: *Provided further*, That in no case shall the amount paid from this appropriation for uniforms, equipment, or material furnished to the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps from stocks under the control of the War Department be in excess of Additional units forbidden.the price current at the time the issue is made: *Provided further*, That none of the funds appropriated in this Act shall be used for the organization or maintenance of an additional number of mounted, motor transport, or tank units in the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps in excess of the number in existence on January 1, 1928: *Provided further*,No additional students in designated units. That none of the funds appropriated in this Act shall be available for any expense on account of any student in Air Corps, Medical Corps, Dental Corps, or Veterinary units not a member of such units on May 5, 1932, but such stoppage of further enrollments shall not interfere with the maintenance of existing units: *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. Issue of military supplies, etc., to.Vol. 41, p. 780.[R.S., sec. 1225, p. 216](/us/rs/s1225/p216).For the procurement and issue as provided in section 55c of the Act approved June 4, 1920 (U.S.C., title 10, sec. 1180), and in section 1225, Revised Statutes, as amended, under such regulations as may 637be prescribed by the Secretary of War, to schools and colleges, other[U.S.C., p. 213](/us/usc/p213).Vol. 41, p. 776. than those provided for in section 40 of the Act above referred to, of such arms, tentage, and equipment, and of ammunition, targets, and target materials, including the transporting of same, and the overhauling and repair of articles issued, as the Secretary of War shall deem necessary for proper military training in said schools and colleges, $8,900. citizens’ military training campsCitizens’ military training camps. For furnishing, at the expense of the United States, to warrantUniforms, transportation expenses, etc., for attending.Vol. 39, p. 193; Vol. 41, p. 779.[U.S.C., p. 185](/us/usc/p185). officers, enlisted men, and civilians attending training camps maintained under the provisions of section 47d of the National Defense Act of June 3, 1916, as amended (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 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,Maintenance. repair, and operation of passenger-carrying vehicles; for expenses incident to the use, including upkeep and depreciation costs, of supplies, equipment, and materiel furnished in accordance with law from stocks under the control of the War Department; for gymnasium and athletic supplies (not exceeding $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, and for the travel expenses of enlisted men of the Regular Army, traveling on duty in connection with citizens’ military training camps; for purchase of training manuals, including Government publications and blank forms; for medical and hospitalTreatment, etc., in line of duty. treatment, subsistence, and transportation, in case of injury or disease contracted in line of duty, of members of the citizens’ military 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. VI,Vol. 45, p. 461.[U.S.C., Supp. VII, p. 109](/us/usc/p109).*Provisos*.Age limitation. title 10, secs. 454, 455); in all $1,000,000: *Provided*, That the funds herein appropriated shall not be used for the training of any person in the first year or lowest course, who shall have reached his twenty-fourth birthday before the date of enrollment: *Provided further*,Use of other funds forbidden. 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 materiel furnished in accordance with law for use at citizens’ military training camps shall be furnished from surplus or reserve stocks of the War Department without payment from this appropriation, except for actual expense incurred in the manufacture or issue: *Provided further*, That in noCurrent price to govern. case shall the amount paid from this appropriation for uniforms, equipment, or materiel furnished in accordance with law for use at citizens’ military training camps from stocks under control of the War Department be in excess of the price current at the time the issue is made. Under the authorizations contained in this Act no issues of reserveRestriction on use of Army reserve supplies. 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. 638 National Board for Promotion of Rifle Practice , ArmyPromotion of rifle practice. quartermaster supplies and services for rifle ranges for civilian instructionCivilian instruction. Quartermaster supplies, etc., for rifle ranges, etc.To establish and maintain indoor and outdoor rifle ranges for the use of all able-bodied males capable of bearing arms, under reasonable regulations to be prescribed by the National Board for the Promotion of Rifle Practice and approved by the Secretary of War; for the Instructors, etc.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 $15,000 in the District of Columbia; for badges and other insignia; for the purchase of materials, supplies, and services, and for expenses incidental to instruction of citizens of the United States in Participation in matches.marksmanship, and their participation in national and international matches, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War, $17,178. national trophy and medals for rifle contestsRifle contests. Furnishing national trophy medals, etc.Vol. 45, p. 786; [U.S.C., Supp. VII, p. 780](/us/usc/p780).For incidental expenses of the National Board for the Promotion of Rifle Practice in accordance with the provisions of the Act approved May 28, 1928 (U.S.C., Supp. VI, title 32, sec. 181c), $3,000. ordnance equipment for rifle ranges for civilian instructionOrdnance equipment, civilian instruction. Arms, ammunition, etc.For arms, ammunition, targets, and other accessories for target practice, for issue and sale in accordance with rules and regulations prescribed by the National Board for the Promotion of Rifle Practice and approved by the Secretary of War, in connection with the encouragement of rifle practice, in pursuance of the provisions of law, $125,000. No pay to officer, etc., using time-measuring device.No part of the appropriations made in this Act shall be available for the salary or pay of any officer, manager, superintendent, foreman, or other person having charge of the work of any employee of the United States Government while making or causing to be made with a stop watch, or other time-measuring device, a time study of any job of any such employee between the starting and completion thereof, or of the movements of any such employee while engaged upon such work; nor shall any part of the appropriations made in Cash reward restricted.this Act be available to pay any premiums or bonus or cash reward to any employee in addition to his regular wages, except for suggestions resulting in improvements or economy in the operation of any Government plant. TITLE II— NONMILITARY ACTIVITIES OF THE WAR DEPARTMENTNonmilitary activities. Quartermaster CorpsQuartermaster Corps. cemeterial expenses National cemeteries.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; and for the repair, maintenance, and operation of motor vehicles; care and maintenance of the Arlington Memorial Amphitheater,Arlington, Va. chapel, and grounds in the Arlington National Cemetery, 639and permanent American cemeteries abroad, including not to exceedCemeteries abroad. $2,250 in the aggregate or $450 for any one person for allowancesLiving quarters, etc.Vol. 46, p. 818.[U.S.C., Supp. VII, p. 20](/us/usc/p20). for living quarters, including heat, fuel, and light, as authorized by the Act approved June 26, 1930 (U.S.C., Supp. VI, title 5, sec. 118a); for repair to roadways but not to more than a single approach roadRoadways, repair, etc. to any national cemetery constructed under special Act of Congress; for headstones for unmarked graves of soldiers, sailors, andHeadstones for graves.Vol. 20, p. 281; Vol. 34, p. 56; Vol. 38, p. 768; Vol. 45, p. 1307.[U.S.C., p. 687; Supp. VII, p. 488](/us/usc/p687/488). 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. VI, title 24, sec. 280a), and civilians interred in post cemeteries; for recovery of bodies and the disposition of remainsRecovery of remains.Vol, 45, p. 251; [U.S.C., Supp. VII, p. 118](/us/usc/p118). of military personnel and civilian employees of the Army under Act approved March 9, 1928 (U.S.C., Supp. VI, title 10, sec. 916); for the care, protection, and maintenance of the Confederate Mound inConfederate cemeteries, etc. 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, $715,229: *Provided*, That no railroad shall be permitted upon any*Provisos*.Encroachments forbidden. 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: *Provided further*, That no part of this appropriation shall be usedRepairs restricted. for repairing any roadway not owned by the United States within the corporate limits of any city, town, or village. For repairs and preservation of monuments, tablets, roads, fences,Burial plots in Cuba and China. and so forth, made and constructed by the United States in Cuba and China to mark the places where American soldiers fell, $698. SIGNAL CORPSSignal Corps. washington-alaska military cable and telegraph systemWashington-Alaska cable, etc. For defraying the cost of such extensions, betterments, operation,Operation, extension, 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 1936, from the receiptsFrom receipts. of the Washington-Alaska Military Cable and Telegraph System which have been covered into the Treasury of the United States, the extent of such extensions and betterments and the cost thereof to be reported to Congress by the Secretary of War, $146,055. CORPS OF ENGINEERSEngineer Corps. rivers and harborsRivers and harbors. To be immediately available and to be expended under the directionImmediately available. of the Secretary of War and the supervision of the Chief of Engineers: For the preservation and maintenance of existing river and harborPreservation, construction, etc., of authorized projects. works, and for the prosecution of such projects heretofore authorized as may be most desirable in the interests of commerce and navigation; for survey of northern and northwestern lakes, and otherBoundary waters, etc., survey. boundary and connecting waters as heretofore authorized, including the preparation, correction, printing, and issuing of charts and bulletins and the investigation of lake levels; for prevention of obstructive and injurious deposits within the harbor and adjacent watersNew York harbor. 640California D 6 b r i s Commission.Vol. 27, p. 507.[U.S.C., p. 1086](/us/usc/p1086).of New York City; for expenses of the California Debris Commission in carrying on the work authorized by the Act approved March 1, 1893 (U.S.C., title 33, sec. 661); for examinations, surveys, and Printing.contingencies of rivers and harbors; and for printing, including illustrations, as may be authorized by the Committee on Printing of the House of Representatives, either during a recess or session of Congress,Vol. 45, p. 538.[U.S.C., Supp. VII, p. 786](/us/usc/p786). of surveys under House Document Numbered 308, Sixty-ninth Congress, first session, and section 10 of the Flood Control Act, approved May 15, 1928 (U.S.C., Supp. VI, title 33, sec. 702j), and such surveys as may be printed during a recess of Congress shall be printed as documents of the next succeeding session of Congress, and for the purchase of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles and *Provisos*.Unauthorized projects forbidden.Survey of Governors Island as an airport.motor boats, for official use, not to exceed $122,417: *Provided*, That no funds shall be expended for any preliminary examination, survey, project, or estimate not authorized by law, $23,966,645, of which sum $50,000 shall be available, under the direction of the President, for conducting a survey of Governors Island, New York, to determine its usefulness and adaptability as an airport and the cost of Power-driven boat restriction.accomplishing all work incidental to effecting the change: *Provided further*, That no appropriation under the Corps of Engineers for the fiscal year 1935 shall be available for any expense incident to operating any power-driven boat or vessel on other than Government Purchase of motor vehicles.Vol. 38, p. 508.[U.S.C., p. 33](/us/usc/p33).business: *Provided further*, That authority is granted for the purchase of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles and motor boats, not to exceed $52,900, to be paid from available funds for “Flood control, Mississippi River and tributaries”, and not to exceed $2,250 to be paid from available funds for “Flood control, Sacramento River, California”, for official use in connection with such works. Flood control.Mississippi River, etc.Vol. 45, p. 534, [U.S.C., Supp. VII, p. 784](/us/usc/p784).Flood control, Mississippi River and tributaries: For prosecuting work of flood control in accordance with the provisions of the Flood Control Act, approved May 15, 1928 (U.S.C., Supp. VII, title 33, sec. 702a), $29,000,000. Emergency fund for tributaries.Vol. 45, p. 537; Vol. 46, p. 787.[U.S.C., Supp. VII, p. 786](/us/usc/p786).Emergency fund for flood control on tributaries of Mississippi River: For rescue work and for repair or maintenance of any flood-control work on any tributaries of the Mississippi River threatened or destroyed by flood, in accordance with section 7 of Flood Control Act, approved May 15, 1928 (U.S.C., Supp. VI, title 33, sec. 702g), $341,291. The Panama CanalPanama Canal. Limitations not applicable to appropriations for.The limitations on the expenditure of appropriations hereinbefore made in this Act shall not apply to the appropriations for the Panama Canal. All expenses.Objects specified.For every expenditure requisite for and incident to the maintenance 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 Claims for damages.vessels passing through the locks of the Panama Canal, as authorized by the Panama Canal Act; claims for losses of or damages to property arising from the conduct of authorized business operations; claims for damages to property arising from the maintenance and 641operation, sanitation, and civil government of the Panama Canal; acquisition of land and land under water, as authorized in theAcquisition of land. Panama Canal Act; expenses incurred in assembling, assorting, storing, repairing, and selling material, machinery, and equipment heretofore or hereafter purchased or acquired for the construction of the Panama Canal which are unserviceable or no longer needed, to be reimbursed from the proceeds of such sales; expenses incident to conducting hearings and examining estimates for appropriations on the Isthmus; expenses incident to any emergency arising becauseEmergencies. of calamity by flood, fire, pestilence, or like character not foreseen or otherwise provided for herein; traveling expenses, when prescribed by the Governor of the Panama Canal to persons engaged in field work or traveling on official business; and for such other expenses not in the United States as the Governor of the Panama Canal may deem necessary best to promote the maintenance and operation, sanitation, and civil government of the Panama Canal, all to be expended under the direction of the Governor of the Panama Canal and accounted for as follows: For maintenance and operation of the Panama Canal: Salary ofOperation, etc.Governor’s salary.Purchase of supplies, etc. the Governor, $10,000; purchase, inspection, delivery, handling, and storing of materials, supplies, and equipment for issue to all departments of the Panama Canal, the Panama Railroad, other branches of the United States Government, and for authorized sales; paymentPayment to alien cripples.Vol. 39, p. 750.[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 construction of the Panama Canal; for continuing the construction of the MaddenMadden Dam.Vol. 45, p. 363. Dam across the Chagres River at Alhajuela for the storage of water for use in the maintenance and operation of the Panama Canal, together with a hydroelectric plant, roadways, and such other work as in the judgment of the Governor of the Panama Canal may be necessary, to cost in the aggregate not to exceed $15,500,000; in all, $4,971,490, together with all moneys arising from the conduct of business operations authorized by the Panama Canal Act. For sanitation, quarantine, hospitals, and medical aid and supportSanitation, etc.Lepers, etc. 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 of theChief quarantine officers. United States Public Health Service detailed with the Panama Canal as chief quarantine officer, $768,501. For civil government of the Panama Canal and Canal Zone,Civil government, expenses. including gratuities and necessary clothing for indigent discharged prisoners, $792,935. Total, Panama Canal, $6,532,926, to be available until expended.Availability. In addition to the foregoing sums there is appropriated for theCredits allowed. fiscal year 1935 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; 642from 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.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 1935, the necessary portions of such sums as shall be paid as water rentals or directly by the Government of Panama for such expenses. Sec. 2. Use of Government-owned automobiles for private purposes prohibited. No part of any money appropriated by this Act shall be used for maintaining, driving, or operating any Government-owmed motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicle assigned for the exclusive use of persons other than the Secretary of War and medical officers on out-patient medical service. Sec. 3. Limitation on use of funds for post exchanges. No part of any appropriation made by this Act shall be used in any way to pay any expense in connection with the conduct, operation, or management of any post exchange, branch exchange, or subexchange within any State, Territory, or the District of Columbia, save and except for real assistance and convenience to military personnel and civilians employed or serving at military posts in supplying them with articles of ordinary use, wear, and consumption not furnished by the Government. Approved, April 26, 1934. Granting and confirming to the East Bay Municipal Utility District, a municipal utility district of the State of California and a body corporate and politic, of said State, and a political subdivision thereof, certain lands, and for other purposes. 1934-04-27 167 Chapter 48 Stat. 642 73 2 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2024-12-11 public [CHAPTER 167.] AN ACT Granting and confirming to the East Bay Municipal Utility District, a municipal utility district of the State of California and a body corporate and politic, of said State, and a political subdivision thereof, certain lands, and for other purposes.April 27, 1934.[[S. 2084](/us/bill/73/s/2084).][[Public, No. 177](/us/pl/73/177).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * East Bay Municipal District, Calif.Certain lands grantad to. That there is hereby granted to the East Bay Municipal Utility District, a municipal utility district of the State of California and a body corporate and politic of said State and a political subdivision thereof, the following described lands of the United States situate in the counties of Amador and Calaveras, State of California, to wit: Description.The southeast quarter southeast quarter section 22; the northeast quarter southwest quarter, and the south half southeast quarter section 23; the northwest quarter northeast quarter, and the north half southeast quarter section 24; the southwest quarter, the south half northwest quarter, and the northwest quarter northwest quarter section 26, all in township 5 north, range 10 east, Mount Diablo base and meridian. All the unpatented land in the east half northwest quarter section 15, containing approximately forty-seven and thirty-six one hundredths acres; the south half northeast quarter, and the north half southeast quarter section 17; and all the unpatented land in section 18 (the same being a fractional portion of the southeast quarter northeast quarter, and a fractional portion of the northeast quarter southeast quarter, and containing approximately fifteen and fifty-eight one hundredths acres), all in township 5 north, range 11 east, Mount Diablo base and meridian; and the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to issue patent to the said district for the same. 643 All of the above-described land is now held by said district byLicense terminated. virtue of that certain license numbered 567, heretofore issued to said district by the Federal Power Commission. Upon this grant becoming effective said license is terminated and the parties thereto relieved of all obligation by reason thereof, and the fee title of theFee title to structures, etc., confirmed. district to its dams, spillways, conduits, tunnels, power house, power lines, and other structures now constructed in whole or in part on said lands and the right to maintain and operate the same is fully confirmed. Sec. 2. That the grant of the said lands hereinbefore describedGrant made in aid of water supply. is made in aid of the water supply of said district for itself and its inhabitants, and the said district shall pay for the said lands the sum of $5 per acre. Sec. 3. That the rights hereby granted shall revert to the UnitedReversionary provision. States if abandoned or transferred to any person, association, or corporation other than to the State or to another municipal corporation. Approved, April 27, 1934. To guarantee the bonds of the Home Owners’ Loan Corporation, to amend the Home Owners’ Loan Act of 1933, and for other purposes. 1934-04-27 168 Chapter 48 Stat. 643 73 2 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2024-12-11 public [CHAPTER 168.] AN ACT To guarantee the bonds of the Home Owners’ Loan Corporation, to amend the Home Owners’ Loan Act of 1933, and for other purposes.April 27, 1934.[[S. 2999](/us/bill/73/s/2999).][
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