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(/us/bill/74/pl/28).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That theTrinity College, Washington, D. C.Incorporation approved. incorporation of Trinity College of Washington, District of Columbia, under chapter 18 of the Code of Laws of the District of Columbia, be, and the same is hereby, approved and confirmed, except as herein specifically altered. Sec. 2. That the trustees constituting and managing the saidTrustees. corporation shall number not less than eight nor more than fifteen, each of whom, except the Archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Baltimore, shall be a member of the religious congregation ofQualifications. the Sisters of Notre Dame of Namur; that Julia Schumacher, Mary114 Funke, Alma Hummel, Rose Larkin, Margaret Sweeney, Edith Stowell, Julia Chisholm, Angela Keenan, known in the above-named religious order under and by the names respectively of Sister Berchmans Original board; chairman, etc.Julia, Sister Odilia, Sister Marie Louis, Sister Julitta, Sister Margaret of the Trinity.
Sister Mary Agnes of the Infant Jesus, Sister Julie, and Sister Angela Elizabeth, shall constitute the original board of trustees under this Act; that the person holding the office and title of Archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Baltimore shall be ex officio a member of the board of trustees and chairman thereof, and the person holding the office of Provincial Superior of the congregation of the Sisters of Notre Dame of Namur of the Baltimore Province shall be ex officio a member of Election of successors.the board and vice chairman thereof; that the successors to the trustees other than the aforesaid ex officio members shall be elected at suitable intervals by the members of the congregation of the Sisters of Notre Dame of Namur from among their number in accordance with the rules and practices of the said religious congregation now Quorum.or hereafter established and obtaining: that a majority of the board of trustees shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business and for all purposes; that at the first meeting of the board of trustees, held subsequent to this Act, the board shall elect from among themselves Officers.one member to be president, one member to be vice president, one member to be treasurer, one member to be secretary; the board of trustees shall fix the term for which the officers shall serve, their duties and authority, and shall elect their successors at such regular intervals thereafter as they may determine; and the board may elect, appoint, or employ such further minor or assistant officers and agents as they may deem necessary and expedient for the purposes or the corporation, it not being necessary that such officers or agents be members or the board.
Sec. 3. Powers and authority of trustees. The board of trustees shall have the power to establish bylaws and ordinances for the conduct of the business of the corporation and to alter, repeal, or amend the same; to frame laws and regulations for the government of the faculty and students; to offer and prescribe courses in undergraduate and in graduate work; to confer the customary undergraduate and graduate degrees; to determine the subjects and branches of learning to be taught and to establish chairs, professorships, courses, schools, and departments therein.
The board of trustees may create and establish a board of regents, an endowment board and such other auxiliary boards of an academic or advisory nature as may be deemed necessary and proper; and they shall have all the powers and authority heretofore granted to or invested in the trustees of the said Trinity College by chapter 18 of the Revised Statutes of the United States relating to the District of Columbia. Sec. 4. Affiliation with other institutions of learning. The said Trinity College may enter into affiliated agreements with any institutions of learning within or outside of the District of Columbia, for the purpose of giving students of such institutions the educational facilities of said college upon such terms as are mutually agreed upon.
Sec. 5. Acceptance and investment of gifts, etc. The said Trinity College may receive, invest, and administer endowments and gifts of money and property absolute or subject to payments by way of annuities during the life of the donor, for the maintenance of the educational work of the institution and of any departments, school, or chair thereof, now established or which may hereafter be created or established. Sec. 6. Seal to be adopted. The said Trinity College shall adopt a common seal, under and by which all deeds, diplomas, and acts of the said corporation115 shall pass and be authenticated, the same seal at their pleasure to break, alter, or devise a new one.
Sec. 7. No institution of learning hereafter incorporated in Exclusive right to name. District of Columbia shall use in or as its title, in whole or in part the words “Trinity College.” Sec. 8. Nothing in this Act contained shall be so construed as toRights reserved. prevent Congress from altering, amending, or repealing the same. Approved, April 8, 1935. Making appropriations for relief purposes. 1935-04-08 49 Stat. 115 48 Chapter 74 1 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.
Digitization Vendor 2025-01-07 public [CHAPTER 48.] JOINT RESOLUTION Making appropriations for relief purposes. April 8, 1935.[[H. J. Res. 117](/us/bill/74/hjres/117).][[Pub. Res., No. 11](/us/bill/74/pubres/11).] Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That in order to provideEmergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1935.*Post*, p. 1134.Purpose.Use and availability. relief, work relief and to increase employment by providing for useful projects, there is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be used in the discretion and under the direction of the President, to be immediately available and to remain available until June 30, 1937, theAmount. sum of $4,000,000,000, together with the separate funds established for particular areas by proclamation of the President pursuant to section 15 (f ) of the Agricultural Adjustment Act (but any amountsVol. 48, p. 675. thereof shall be available for use only for the area for which the fund was established); not exceeding $500,000,000 in the aggregate of any savings or unexpended balances in funds of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation; and not exceeding a total of $380,000,000 of such unexpended balances as the President may determine are not required for the purposes for which authorized, of the followingFunds specified. appropriations, namely:
The appropriation of $3,300,000,000 for national industrial recovery contained in the Fourth Deficiency Act,Vol. 48, p. 275. fiscal year 1933, approved June 16, 1933 (48 Stat. 274); the appropriation of $950,000,000 for emergency relief and civil works contained in the Act approved February 15, 1934 (48 Stat. 351); theVol. 48, p. 351. appropriation of $899,675,000 for emergency relief and public works, and the appropriation of $525,000,000 to meet the emergency and necessity for relief in stricken agricultural areas, contained in the Emergency Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1935, approved JuneVol. 48, p. 1056. 19, 1934 (48 Stat. 1055); and any remainder of the unobligatedVol. 48, p. 23. moneys referred to in section 4 of the Act approved March 31, 1933 (48 Stat. 22): *Provided*, That except as to such part of the*Provisos*.Allocation of appropriation. appropriation made herein as the President may deem necessary for continuing relief as authorized under the Federal Emergency Relief Act of 1933, as amended, or for restoring to the Federal Emergency Administration of Public Works any sums which after December 28, 1934, were, by order of the President impounded or transferred to the Federal Emergency Relief Administration from appropriations heretofore made available to such Federal Emergency Administration of Public Works (which restoration is hereby authorized), this appropriation shall be available for the following classes ofProjects designated.Limitation on amount for each class. projects, and the amounts to be used for each class shall not, except as hereinafter provided, exceed the respective amounts stated, namely:
(a)Highways, roads, streets, and grade-crossing elimination, $800,000,000;
(b)rural rehabilitation and relief in stricken agricultural areas, and water conservation, trans-mountain water diversion and irrigation and reclamation, $500,000,000;
(c)rural electrification, $100,000,000;
(d)housing, $450,000,000;
(e)assistance for educational, professional and clerical persons, $300,000,000;
(f)Civilian Conservation Corps, $600,000,000;
(g)loans or grants,*Post*, p. 596.116 or both, for projects of States, Territories, Possessions, including subdivisions and agencies thereof, municipalities, and the District of Columbia, and self-liquidating projects of public bodies thereof, where, in the determination of the President, not less than twenty-five per centum of the loan or the grant, or the aggregate thereof, is to be expended for work under each particular project, $900,000,000;
(h)sanitation, prevention of soil erosion, prevention of stream pollution, sea coast erosion, reforestation, forestation, flood control, rivers and Increased amount authorized.harbors and miscellaneous projects, $350,000,000: *Provided further*, That not to exceed 20 per centum of the amount herein appropriated may be used by the President to increase any one or more of the Expenditure for munitions, warships, etc., prohibited.foregoing limitations if he finds it necessary to do so in order to effectuate the purpose of this joint resolution: *Provided further*, That no part of the appropriation made by this joint resolution shall be expended for munitions, warships, or military or naval matériel; but this proviso shall not be construed to prevent the use of such appropriation for new buildings, reconstruction of buildings and other improvements in military or naval reservations, posts, forts, camps, cemeteries, or fortified areas, or for projects for nonmilitary or nonnaval purposes in such places. Public highways and related projects.Apportionment of allocations.Except as hereinafter provided, alt sums allocated from the appropriation made herein for the construction of public highways and other related projects (except within or adjacent to national forests, national parks, national parkways, or other Federal reservations) Vol. 48, p. 203.shall be apportioned by the Secretary of Agriculture in the Expenditure by State highway departments.Vol. 42, p. 212; Vol. 48, p. 993.[U. S. C., p. 969](/us/usc/p960).manner provided by section 204
(b)of the National Industrial Recovery Act for expenditure by the State highway departments under the provisions of the Federal Highway Act of November 9, 1921, as amended and supplemented, and subject to the provisions *Provisos*.Amounts for grade crossing elimination.of section 1 of the Act of June 18, 1934 (48 Stat. 993): *Provided*, That any amounts allocated from the appropriation made herein for the elimination of existing hazards to life at railroad grade crossings, including the separation or protection of grades at crossings, the reconstruction of existing railroad grade crossing structures, and Apportionment provisions. *Post*, p. 1134.the relocation of highways to eliminate grade crossings, shall be apportioned by the Secretary of Agriculture to the several States (including the Territory of Hawaii and the District of Columbia), one-half on population as shown by the latest decennial census, one-fourth on the mileage of the Federal-aid highway system as determined by the Secretary of Agriculture, and one-fourth on the railroad mileage as determined by the Interstate Commerce Commission, Expenditure.Vol. 42, p. 212; Vol. 48, p. 993.[U. S. C., p. 969](/us/usc/p969).Matching funds not required.to be expended by the State highway departments under the provisions of the Federal Highway Act of November 9, 1921, as amended and supplemented, and subject to the provisions of section 1 of such Act of June 18, 1934 (48 Stat. 993); but no part of the funds apportioned to any State or Territory under this joint resolution for public highways and grade crossings need be matched Alaska. Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands.by the State or Territory: *And provided further*, That the President may also allot funds made available by this joint resolution for the Allotments for highways.construction, repair, and improvement of public highways in Alaska, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands, and money allocated under this joint resolution to relief agencies may be expended by such agencies Rules and regulations.for the construction and improvement of roads and streets: *Provided, however*, That the expenditure of funds from the appropriation made herein for the construction of public highways and other related projects shall be subject to such rules and regulations as Preference in labor employment.the President may prescribe for carrying out this paragraph and preference in the employment of labor shall be given (except in executive, administrative, supervisory, and highly skilled positions)117 to persons receiving relief, where they are qualified, and theHours of work; rates of wages. President is hereby authorized to predetermine for each State the hours of work and the rates of wages to be paid to skilled, intermediate, and unskilled labor engaged in such construction therein: *Provided further*,Government direction of certain public works. That rivers and harbors projects, reclamation projects (except the drilling of wells, development of springs and subsurface waters), and public buildings projects undertaken pursuant to the provisions of this joint resolution shall be carried out under the direction of the respective permanent Government departments or agencies now having jurisdiction of similar projects. Funds made available by this joint resolution may be used, in theLoans to finance purchase of farms, equipment. discretion of the President, for the purpose of making loans to finance, in whole or in part, the purchase of farm lands and necessary equipment by farmers, farm tenants, croppers, or farm laborers.Terms; repayment. Such loans shall be made on such terms as the President shall prescribe and shall be repaid in equal annual installments, or in such other manner as the President may determine. Funds made available by this joint resolution may be used, in theAgricultural Adjustment Act.Funds available for administration of. discretion of the President for the administration of the Agricultural Adjustment Act, as amended, during the period of twelve months after the effective date of this joint resolution. Sec. 2. The appropriation made herein shall be available for useAvailability limited. only in the United States and its Territories and possessions. TheDisability or death compensation.Vol. 48, p. 351.Benefits of, extended.*Post*, p. 1601. provisions of the Act of February 15, 1934 (48 Stat. 351), relating to disability or death compensation and benefits shall apply to those persons receiving from the appropriation made herein, for services rendered as employees of the United States, security payments in accordance with schedules established by the President: *Provided*,*Proviso*.Special fund created. That so much of the sum herein appropriated as the United States Employees’ Compensation Commission, with the approval of the President, estimates and certifies to the Secretary of the Treasury will be necessary for the payment of such compensation andAdministration. administrative expenses shall be set aside in a special fund to be administered by the Commission for such purposes; and after June 30,Availability. 1936, such special fund shall be available for these purposes annually in such amounts as may be specified therefor in the annual appropriation Acts. The provisions of section 3709 of the Revised StatutesPurchases without advertising.[R.S., sec. 3709, p. 733](/us/rs/s3709p/733);[U. S. C., p. 1803](/us/usc/p1803). (U. S. C., title 41, sec. 5) shall not apply to any purchase made or service procured in carrying out the provisions of this joint resolution when the aggregate amount involved is less than $300. Sec. 3. In carrying out the provisions of this joint resolution theContingent expenses. President may
(a)authorize expenditures for contract stenographic reporting services; supplies and equipment; purchase and exchange of law books, books of reference, directories, periodicals, newspapers and press clippings; travel expenses, including the expense of attendance at meetings when specifically authorized; rental at the seat ofRent. government and elsewhere; purchase, operation, and maintenance of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles; printing and binding;Printing and binding. and such other expenses as he may determine necessary to the accomplishment of the objectives of this joint resolution; and
(b)acceptPersonal services. and utilize such voluntary and uncompensated services, appoint, without regard to the provisions of the civil-service laws, such officers and employees, and utilize such Federal officers and employees, and, with the consent of the State, such State and local officers and employees, as may be necessary, prescribe their authorities, duties, responsibilities, and tenure, and, without regard to the ClassificationClassification Act not to apply. Act of 1923, as amended, fix the compensation of any officers and employees so appointed. 118 Administrator, officers.Appointment.Any Administrator or other officer, or the members of any central board, or other agency, named to have general supervision at the seat of Government over the program and work contemplated under the appropriation made in section 1 of this joint resolution and receiving a salary of $5,000 or more per annum from such appropriation, and any State or regional administrator receiving a salary of Confirmation.$5,000 or more per annum from such appropriation (except persons now serving as such under other law), shall be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate: *Provided*, *Proviso*.Salary restriction.[R. S., sec. 1761. p, 313](/us/rs/s1761/p313). [U. S. C., p. 38](/us/usc/p38).President to prescribe duties, etc., of necessary agencies.That the provisions of section 1761 of the Revised Statutes shall not apply to any such appointee and the salary of any person so appointed shall not be increased for a period of six months after confirmation. Sec. 4. In carrying out the provisions of this joint resolution the President is authorized to establish and prescribe the duties and functions of necessary agencies within the Government. Sec. 5. Real property; right to acquire, etc. In carrying out the provisions of this joint resolution the President is authorized (within the limits of the appropriation made in section 1) to acquire, by purchase or by the power of eminent domain, any real property or any interest therein, and improve, develop, grant, sell, lease (with or without the privilege of purchasing), or otherwise dispose of any such property or interest therein. Sec. 6. Rules, etc., to be prescribed. The President is authorized to prescribe such rules and regulations as may be necessary to carry out this joint resolution, Punishment for violation.and any willful violation of any such rule or regulation shall be punishable by fine of not to exceed $1,000. Sec. 7. Rates of pay. The President shall require to be paid such rates of pay for all persons engaged upon any project financed in whole or in part, through loans or otherwise, by funds appropriated by this joint resolution, as will in the discretion of the President accomplish the purposes of this joint resolution, and not affect adversely or otherwise tend to decrease the going rates of wages paid for work of a similar nature. The President may fix different rates of wages for various types of work on any project, which rates need not be uniform throughout *Proviso*.Government building construction.the United States: *Provided, however*, That whenever permanent buildings for the use of any department of the Government of the United States, or the District of Columbia, are to be constructed by funds appropriated by this joint resolution, the provisions of Vol. 46, p. 1494; [U. S. C., p. 1788](/us/usc/p1788).the Act of March 3, 1931 (U. S. C., Supp. VII, title 40, sec. 276a), shall apply but the rates of wages shall be determined in advance of any bidding thereon. Sec. 8. Private enterprise facilities. Wherever practicable in the carrying out of the provisions of this joint resolution, full advantage shall be taken of the facilities of private enterprise. Sec. 9. Fraud, etc.Punishment for. Any person who knowingly and with intent to defraud the United States makes any false statement in connection with any application for any project, employment, or relief aid under the provisions of this joint resolution, or diverts, or attempts to divert, or assists in diverting for the benefit of any person or persons not entitled thereto, any moneys appropriated by this joint resolution, or any services or real or personal property acquired thereunder? or who knowingly, by means of any fraud, force, threat, intimidation, or boycott, deprives any person of any of the benefits to which he may be entitled under the provisions of this joint resolution, or attempts so to do, or assists in so doing, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be fined not more than $2,000 or imprisoned not more than one year, or both. 119 Sec. 10. Until June 30, 1936, or such earlier date as the PresidentFederal Emergency Relief Act of 1933.Vol. 48, p. 55. by proclamation may fix, the Federal Emergency Relief Act of 1933, as amended, is continued in full force and effect. Sec. 11. No part of the funds herein appropriated shall beAdministrative expenses, restriction. expended for the administrative expenses of any department, bureau, board, commission, or independent agency of the Government if such administrative expenses are ordinarily financed from annual appropriations, unless additional work is imposed thereupon by reason of this joint resolution. Sec. 12. The Federal Emergency Administration of Public WorksPublic Works Administration.Continuance, functions, etc.Vol. 48, p. 200. established under title II of the National Industrial Recovery Act is hereby continued until June 30, 1937, and is authorized to perform such of its functions under said Act and such functions under this joint resolution as may be authorized by the President. All sumsAvailability of sums appropriated. appropriated to carry out the purposes of said Act shall be available until June 30, 1937. The President is authorized to sell anySale of securities. securities acquired under said Act or under this joint resolution and all moneys realized from such sales shall be available to the President,Proceeds. in addition to the sums heretofore appropriated under this joint resolution, for the making of further loans under said Act or under this joint resolution. Sec. 13.
(a)The acquisition of articles, materials, and suppliesArticles, etc., of American manufacture. Contracts, etc., subject to existing provisions.Vol. 47, p. 1520. for the public use, with funds appropriated by this joint resolution, shall be subject to the provisions of section 2 of title III of the Treasury and Post Office Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1934 ; and all contracts let pursuant to the provisions of this joint resolution shall be subject to the provisions of section 3 of title III of such Act.
(b)Any allocation, grant, or other distribution of funds for any project, Federal or non-Federal, from the appropriation made by this joint resolution, shall contain stipulations which will provide for the application of title III of such Act to the acquisition of articles, materials and supplies for use in carrying out such project. Sec. 14. The authority of the President under the provisions ofUnemployment Relief Act; continuance.Vol. 48, p. 22, amended. the Act entitled “An Act for the relief of unemployment through the performance of useful public work, and for other purposes”, approved March 31, 1933, as amended, is hereby continued to and including March 31, 1937. Sec. 15. A report of the operations under this joint resolutionAnnual reports to Congress. shall be submitted to Congress before the 10th day of January in each of the next three regular sessions of Congress, which report shall include a statement of the expenditures made and obligations incurred, by classes and amounts. Sec. 16. This joint resolution may be cited as the “EmergencyShort title. Relief Appropriation Act of 1935.” Approved, April 8, 1935, 4 p. m. To permit articles imported from foreign countries for the purpose of exhibition at the California Pacific International Exposition, San Diego, California, to be admitted without payment of tariff, and for other purposes. 1935-04-08 49 Stat. 119 49 Chapter 74 1 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2025-01-07 public [CHAPTER 49.] JOINT RESOLUTION To permit articles imported from foreign countries for the purpose of exhibition at the California Pacific International Exposition, San Diego, California, to be admitted without payment of tariff, and for other purposes. April 8, 1935.[[H. J. Res. 174](/us/bill/74/hjres/174).][[Pub. Res., No. 12](/us/bill/74/pubres/12).] Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That all articlesCalifornia Pacific International Exposition, San Diego, Calif. Dutiable articles imported for exhibition, etc., purposes, admitted free, under regulations.*Ante*, pp. 40, 50. which shall be imported from foreign countries for the purpose of exhibition at the international exposition to be held at San Diego, California, beginning in May 1935, by the California Pacific International Exposition Company, or for use in constructing, installing, or maintaining foreign buildings or exhibits at the said exhibition,120 upon which articles there shall be a tariff or customs duty shall be admitted without payment of such tariff, customs duty, fees, or charges under such regulations as the Secretary of the Treasury shall Sales permitted.prescribe; but it shall be lawful at any time during or within three months after the close of the said exposition, to sell within the area of the exposition any articles provided for herein, subject to such regulations for the security of the revenue and for the collection of *Provisos*.Paying duty on articles withdrawn.import duties as the Secretary of the Treasury shall prescribe: *Provided*, That all such articles, when withdrawn for consumption or use in the United States, shall be subject to the duties, if any, imposed upon such articles by the revenue laws in force at the date of their withdrawal; and on such articles, which shall have suffered diminution Deterioration allowance.or deterioration from incidental handling or exposure, the duties, if payable, shall be assessed according to the appraised value at the time of withdrawal from entry hereunder for consumption or Marking requirements.entry under the general tariff law: *Provided further*, That imported articles provided for herein shall not be subject to any marking requirements of the general tariff laws, except when such articles are withdrawn for consumption or use in the United States, in which case they shall not be released from customs custody until properly marked, but no additional duty shall be assessed because such articles were not sufficiently marked when imported into the United States:Articles abandoned. *Provided further*, That at any time during or within three months after the close of the exposition, any article entered hereunder may be abandoned to the Government or destroyed under customs supervision, whereupon any duties on such article shall be remitted: *Provided further*, Transfer privileges.That articles, which have been admitted without payment of duty for exhibition under any tariff law and which have remained in continuous customs custody or under a customs exhibition bond, and imported articles in bonded warehouses under the general tariff law may be accorded the privilege of transfer to and entry for exhibition at the said exposition under such regulations as Exposition Company deemed sole consignee of merchandise.the Secretary of the Treasury shall prescribe: *And provided further*, That the California Pacific International Exposition Company shall be deemed, for customs purposes only, to be the sole consignee of all merchandise imported under the provisions of this Act, and that Incurred Federal expenses reimbursable.the actual and necessary customs charges for labor, services, and other expenses in connection with the entry, examination, appraisement, release, or custody, together with the necessary charges for salaries of customs officers and employees in connection with the supervision, custody of, and accounting for, articles imported under the provisions of this Act, shall be reimbursed by the California Pacific International Exposition Company to the Government of Deposit of, as receipts.Vol. 46, p. 741.[U. S. C., p. 894](/us/usc/p894).the United States under regulations to be prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury, and that receipts from such reimbursements shall be deposited as refunds to the appropriation from which paid, in the manner provided for in section 524, Tariff Act of 1930. Approved, April 8, 1935. Making appropriations for the military and nonmilitary activities of the War Department for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1936, and for other purposes. 1935-04-09 49 Stat. 120 54 Chapter 74 1 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2025-01-07 public [CHAPTER 54.] AN ACT Making appropriations for the military and nonmilitary activities of the War Department for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1936, and for other purposes. April 9, 1935.[[H. R. 5913](/us/bill/74/hr/5913).][[Public, No. 29](/us/pl/74/29).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, War Department appropriations, fiscal year 1936. 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, 1936, and for other purposes, namely: 121 TITLE I— MILITARY ACTIVITIES AND OTHER EXPENSES OF THE WAR DEPARTMENT INCIDENT THERETOMilitary activities. sales war departmentDepartment salaries. For compensation for personal services in the District of Columbia,Personal services. as follows: Office of Secretary of War: Secretary of War, Assistant SecretarySecretary, Assistant, and other personal services.*Proviso*.Use of field service funds restricted.Designated offices. of War, and other personal services, $264,490: *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, $217,200. Adjutant General’s office, $1,336,147. 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, $104,595. Office of the Inspector General, $27,220. Office of the Judge Advocate General, $107,280. Office of the Chief of Finance, $361,200. Office of the Quartermaster General, $771,387. Office of the Chief Signal Officer, $109,493. Office of the Chief of Air Corps, $217,044. Office of the Surgeon General, $195,953. Office of Chief or Bureau of Insular Affairs, $66,300. Office of Chief of Engineers, $119,592: *Provided*, That the services*Proviso*.Draftsmen, etc., payable from other appropriations. of skilled draftsmen, civil engineers, and such other services as the Secretary of War may deem necessary may be employed only in the office of the Chief of Engineers, to carry into effect the various appropriations for rivers and harbors, surveys, and preparation for and the consideration of river and harbor estimates and bills, to be paid from such appropriations: *Provided further*, That the Maximum expenditure, 1936.expenditures on this account for the fiscal year 1936 shall not exceed $222,280; the Secretary of War shall each year, in the Budget, reportReport to Congress. to Congress the number of persons so employed, their duties, and the amount paid to each. Office of Chief of Ordnance, $412,405. Office of Chief of Chemical Warfare Service, $50,337. Office of Chief of Coast Artillery, $25,680. National Guard Bureau, War Department, $143,543. In all, salaries, War Department, $4,529,866: *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, shall not be increased, and in lieu ofCivilians to fill vacancies. enlisted men whose services in such offices shall be terminated for any cause prior to July 1, 1936, 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 byFund available. other law, the appropriation “Pay, and so forth, of the Army”, shall be available. In expending appropriations or portions of appropriations,Restriction on exceeding average salaries.Vol. 42, p. 1488; Vol. 45, p. 776; Vol. 46, p. 1003.[U. S. C., p. 85](/us/usc/85). contained 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 Secretary 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, and in grades in which only one position is allocated the salary of such position shall not122exceed the average of the compensation rates for the grade, except that in unusually meritorious cases of one position in a grade advances may be made to rates higher than the average or the compensation rates of the grade but not more often than once in any *Proviso*.Restriction not applicable to clerical-mechanical service.No reduction in fixed salaries.Vol. 42, p. 1490; U. S. C., p. 8B.Transfer to another position without reduction.fiscal year and then only to the next higher rate: *Provided*, That this restriction shall not apply
(1)to grades 1, 2, 3, and 4 of the clerical-mechanical service, or
(2)to require the reduction in salary of any person whose compensation was fixed as of July 1, 1924, in accordance with the rules of section 6 of such Act,
(3)to require the reduction in salary of any person who is transferred from one position to another position in the same or different grade in the same or a Higher salary rates allowed.different bureau, office, or other appropriation unit,
(4)to prevent the payment of a salary under any grade at a rate higher than the maximum rate of the grade when such higher rate is permitted by the Classification Act of 1923, as amended, and is specifically authorized If only one position in a grade.by 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 Department contingent expenses.For stationery; purchase of professional and scientific books, law books, including their exchange ; books of reference, pamphlets, periodicals, newspapers, maps; typewriting and adding machines, and other labor-saving devices, including their repair and exchange; furniture and repairs to same; carpets, linoleum, filing equipment, photo supplies, towels, ice, brooms, soap, sponges; 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, $200,000, and it shall not be lawful to expend, unless otherwise specifically provided herein, for any bureau, office, or branch 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 *Proviso*.Minor purchases.[R. S., sec. 3709, p. 733](/us/usc/3709/733).[U. S. C., p. 1803](/us/usc/1803).mentioned or authorized in this paragraph: *Provided*, That hereafter section 3709, Revised Statutes (U. S. C., title 41, sec. 5), shall not apply to any procurement under this appropriation which does not exceed $25 in amount. Surgeon General’s office.Library expenses.library, surgeon general’s office For the library of the Surgeon General’s Office, including the pay of employees and the purchase of the necessary books of reference and periodicals, $70,000. printing and binding, war department 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, $435,888: *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, $37,000 shall be available exclusively for printing the Index Catalog of the Army Medical Library, and not exceeding $68,050 shall be available for printing and binding under the direction of the Chief of Engineers. 123 MILITARY ACTIVITIESMilitary activities. contingencies of the army For all emergencies and extraordinary expenses, including theArmy contingencies. 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. For contingent expenses of the Military Intelligence Division,Contingent expenses. General Staff Corps, and of the military attachés at the United States embassies and legations abroad, including the purchase of law books, professional books of reference, and subscriptions to newspapers and periodicals; for the hire of interpreters, special agents, and guides, and for such other purposes as the Secretary of War may deem proper, including $5,000 for the actual and necessary expenses of officers of the Army on duty abroad for the purpose of observingObserving operations of foreign armies. 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, $87,000, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War: *Provided*, That section 3648,*Proviso*.Conditions waived.[R. S., sec, 3648, p. 718](/us/rs/3648/718).[U. S. C., p. 1395](/us/usc/1395). 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 attachés are required to operate. army war collegeArmy War College. For expenses of the Army War College, being for the purchase ofInstruction expenses. the necessary special stationery; textbooks, books of reference, scientific and professional papers, newspapers, and periodicals; maps; police utensils; employment of temporary, technical, or special services, and expenses of special lecturers; for the pay of employees; andEmployees. for all other absolutely necessary expenses, $63,861, and, in addition, not to exceed $35,000 may be transferred to this appropriation from other appropriations contained in this Act, to be used exclusively for or on account of preserving Government-owned moving-picture films having historical value. Adjutant General’s DepartmentAdjutant General’s Department. command and general staff school, fort leavensworth, 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, $34,027. field exercises For all expenses required for the conduct of special field exercises,Field exercises.*Post*, p. 1640. including participation therein by the National Guard and the Organized Reserves, comprising allowances for enlisted men for124quarters and rations, movement of matériel, maintenance, and operation of structures and utilities, and any other requisite supplies and services, $446,774. Welfare of enlisted men.Equipment, etc., post exchanges.welfare of enlisted men For the equipment and conduct of school, reading, lunch, and amusement rooms, service clubs, chapels, gymnasiums, and libraries, including periodicals and other publications and subscriptions for newspapers, salaries 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, $34,940. Finance Department.Finance Department Pay, etc., of the Army.pay, and so forth, of the army Officers.For pay of not to exceed an average of twelve thousand commissioned Limitation.officers, $33,307,100, no part of which sum shall be available after September 30, 1935, for the pay of more than eleven thousand seven hundred and fifty commissioned officers whose original commissions National Guard.are dated prior to June 1, 1935; pay of officers, National Aviation increase.Guard, $100; pay of warrant officers, $1,479,568; aviation increase to commissioned and warrant officers of the Army, including not to exceed five medical officers, $2,033,029, none of which shall be Flights for nonflying officers.available for increased pay for making aerial flights by nonflying officers at a rate in excess of $1,440 per annum, which shall be the Longevity.legal maximum rate as to such nonflying officers; additional pay Enlisted men.*Post*, p. 1282.to officers for length of service, $9,257,465; pay of enlisted men of the line and staff, not including the Philippine Scouts, $51,069,333, together with such additional sums as may be necessary, not exceeding $20,000,000, to defray the cost of increasing the enlisted strength of the Regular Army from an average of one hundred and eighteen thousand seven hundred and fifty to an average of one hundred and sixty-five thousand enlisted men, such additional sums to be available for the objects embraced by and in addition to other appropriations contained in this Act; pay of enlisted men of National Aviation increase.Guard, $100; aviation increase to enlisted men of the Army, $508,782; pay of enlisted men of the Philippine Scouts, $1,050,447; additional pay for length of service to enlisted men, $4,480,400; pay of the officers on the Retired officers, etc.retired list, $11,538,900; increased pay to not to exceed seven retired officers on active duty, $9,600; pay of retired enlisted Civil-service messengers at headquarters.men, $13,201,160; 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, service schools, camps, and ports of embarkation and debarkation, $72,000; pay and Contract surgeons, nurses, etc.Rental allowance.allowances of contract surgeons, $51,576; pay of nurses, $893,560; pay of hospital matrons, $600; rental allowances, including allowances for quarters for enlisted men on duty where public quarters *Provisos*.No allowance if occupying quarters at permanent station.[U. S. C., p. 1619](/us/usc/1619).are not available, $6,238,656: *Provided*, That during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1936, no rental allowance shall accrue to any officer of the Government in consequence of the provisions found in section 10, title 37, United States Code, while occupying quarter's 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 the125United States, in excess of the rental rate charged for such quarters on March 5, 1934; subsistence allowances, $5,841,118: Value of a subsistence allowance.*Provided further*, That, effective from, and after July 1, 1935, the value of one subsistence allowance, as that term is used in section 5 of the Pay Vol. 42, p. 628.[U. S. C., p. 1619](/us/usc/1619).Readjustment Act of June 10, 1922 (42 Stat. 628), as amended, shall be and remain fixed at 60 cents per day; and the rate for one roomRate for one room. for the purpose of computing the money allowance for rental of quarters authorized in section 6 of said Act shall be and remain fixed at $20 per month; interest on soldiers’ deposits, $30,000;Loss by exchange. 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, $100: in all, $161,063,594, less $285,000 to be supplied by the Secretary or War for this purpose from funds received during the fiscal year 1936 from the purchase by enlisted men of the Army of their discharges, $160,778,594; and the moneyAccounted for as one fund. herein appropriated for “Pay, and so forth, of the Army” shall be accounted for as one fund: *Provided*, That no part of this*Provisos*.Detail as military aide restricted. appropriation 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 attachés limited. contained in this Act shall be available for or on account of the maintenance of more than thirty-two military attachés: *Provided further*, That no appropriation contained in this Act shall beMaximum number of bands. available for or on account of the maintenance of more than eighty-three bands: *Provided further*, That during the fiscal year endingNo additional pay for furnishing mounts or service as side.Vol. 35, p. 108.[R. S., sec. 1261, p. 220](/us/rs/1261/220); [U. S. C., pp. 264, 267](/us/usc/264/267). June 30, 1936, 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 the 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 *Proviso*.Exemption.contained shall be construed to prohibit officers from writing or disseminating articles in accordance with regulations issued by the Secretary of War. travel of the army For travel allowances and travel in kind, as authorized by law,Travel allowances, etc. for persons traveling in connection with the military and nonmilitary activities of the War Department, including mileage, transpor-126tation, reimbursement of actual expenses, or per diem allowances, to officers and contract surgeons; transportation of troops; transportation, Recruiting expenses.or reimbursement therefor, of nurses, enlisted men, recruits, recruiting parties, applicants for enlistment between recruiting stations and recruiting depots, rejected applicants for enlistment, general prisoners, cadets and accepted cadets from their homes to the Military Academy, discharged cadets, civilian employees, civilian witnesses before courts martial, dependents of military personnel, and attendants accompanying remains of military personnel and civilian employees; travel pay to discharged military personnel; transportation of discharged prisoners and persons discharged from Saint Elizabeths Hospital after transfer thereto from the military service, to their homes, or elsewhere as they may elect, the cost in each case not to be greater than to the place of last enlistment; hot coffee for troops traveling when supplied with cooked or travel Commutation of quarters, etc.rations; commutation of quarters and rations to enlisted men traveling on detached duty when it is impracticable to carry rations, and to applicants for enlistment and general prisoners traveling under orders; per diem allowances or actual cost of subsistence while Civilians.in a travel status, to nurses, civilian employees, civilian witnesses before courts martial, and attendants accompanying remains of Increases, by transfers, allowed.military personnel and civilian employees, $2,999,321, which may be increased, subject to the approval of the Director of the Bureau of the Budget, by transfers from other appropriations contained in this Construction activities.Act of such amounts as may be required in addition to those herein provided for travel in connection with development, procurement, production, maintenance, or construction activities; and, with such Restriction.exception, 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 War Department, except the appropriation “Contingencies of the Army” and the appropriations for the National Guard, the Organized Reserves, the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps, citizens’ military training camps, the National Board for the Promotion of Rifle Practice, the nonmilitary activities of the Corps of Engineers, and the Panama Canal, and except as may be provided for in the appropriation “Air Corps, Army”: *Provisos*.Travel allowance, expert accountant.Attendance at meetings.Vol. 39, p. 199; Vol. 42, p. 1034; Vol. 45, p. 406.[U. S. C., p. 1431](/us/usc/1431).*Provided*, That the expert accountant, Inspector General s Department, shall be entitled to the same travel allowances as other employees of the War Department: *Provided further*, That, in addition to the authority contained in section 67, National Defense Act of June 3, 1916, as amended, a total of not to exceed $1,000 of the appropriations available to the War Department chargeable with expenses of travel shall be available for expenses incident to attendance at meetings of technical, professional, scientific, and other similar organizations, when, in the judgment of the Secretary of War, such attendance would be of benefit in the conduct of the work of the War Department. expenses of courts martial Courts martial expenses.For expenses of courts martial, courts of inquiry, military com-missions, 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, $50,000. Deserters, etc.apprehension of deserters, and so forth Apprehension of.For the apprehension, securing, and delivering of soldiers absent without leave and of deserters, including escaped military prisoners,127and 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. finance serviceFinance Service. For compensation of clerks and other employees of the FinancePay of clerks, etc.Vol. 46, p. 818.[U. S. C., p. 45](/us/usc/45). 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. VII, title 5, sec. 118a), $1,068,960. claims for damages to and loss of private propertyPrivate property damages. For payment of claims not exceeding $500 each in amount forPayment of claims. damages to or loss of private property incident to the training, practice, operation, or maintenance of the Army that have accrued, or may hereafter accrue, from time to time, $10,000: *Provided*, That*Proviso*.Settlement by General Accounting Office. 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. For the payment of claims of officers, enlisted men, and nurses ofPayment of claims.Vol. 41, p. 1436.[U. S. C., p. 1369](/us/usc/1369). the Army for private property lost, destroyed, captured, abandoned, or damaged in the military service of the United States, under the provisions of an Act approved March 4, 1921 (U. S. C., title 31, secs. 218-222), $15,000. Quartermaster CorpsQuartermaster Corps. Subsistence of the Army: Purchase of subsistence supplies: ForSubsistence of Army.Purchase of supplies, for issue as rations.*Post*, p. 1640. 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; ice for issue to organizations of enlistedIce. men and officers at such places as the Secretary of War may determine, and for preservation of stores; for the subsistence of the masters, officers, crews, and employees of the vessels of the Army Tranport11So in original. Service; meals for recruiting parties and applicants for enlistment while under observation; for sales to officers, includingSales to officers. members of the Officers’ Reserve Corps while on active duty, and enlisted men of the Army. For payments: Of the regulationPayments.Commutation allowances. allowances of commutation in lieu of rations to enlisted men on furlough, and to enlisted men when stationed at places where rations in kind cannot be economically issued, including retired enlisted men when ordered to active duty. For payment of the regulation allowance of commutation in lieu of rations for enlisted men, applicants for enlistment while held under observation, civilian employees who are entitled to subsistence at public expense, and general prisoners while sick in hospitals, to be paid to the surgeon in charge; advertising; for providing128prizes to be established by the Secretary of War for enlisted men of the Army who graduate from the Army schools for bakers and cooks, the total amount of such prizes at the various schools not to exceed $900 per annum; and for other necessary expenses incident Subsistence supplies.to the purchase, testing, care, preservation, issue, sale, and accounting *Proviso*.Oleomargarine restriction.for subsistence supplies for the Army; in a11, $18,601,297: *Provided*, That none of the money appropriated in this Act shall be used for the purchase of oleomargarine or butter substitutes for other than cooking purposes, except to supply an expressed preference therefor or for use where climatic or other conditions render the use of butter impracticable. Regular supplies of the Army.Regular supplies of the Army: Regular supplies of the Quartermaster Corps, including their care and protection; field ranges, field Field cooking equipment, etc.stoves for cooking; food, coffee roasters, field bakery equipment, and appliances for cooking and serving food at posts (except fixed installations in buildings), in the field and when traveling, and repair and maintenance of such equipment; authorized issues of candles and matches; authorized issues of soap, toilet paper, and towels; for the Furniture, school supplies, etc.necessary furniture, textbooks, paper, and equipment for the post schools and libraries, and for schools for noncommissioned officers; for the purchase and issue of instruments, office furniture, stationery, and other authorized articles for the use of officers’ schools at the several military posts; for purchase of commercial newspapers, Periodicals; technical books.periodicals, market reports, technical books, and so forth; for the tableware and mess furniture for kitchens and mess halls, each and Forage, etc.all for the enlisted men, including recruits; for forage, salt, and vinegar for the horses, mules, oxen, and other draft and riding animals of the Quartermaster Corps at the several posts and stations and with the armies in the field, for the horses of the several regiments of Cavalry and batteries of Artillery and such companies of Infantry and Scouts as may be mounted, and for remounts and for the authorized number of officers’ horses, including bedding for the Seeds and impiemeats; irrigation costs.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 nay on military reservations; Bedding, stationery, etc.for straw for soldiers’ bedding stationery, typewriters and exchange of same, including blank books and blank forms for the Army, certificates for discharged soldiers, and for printing department orders and reports, $2,673,848. Clothing and equipage.Purchase, manufacture, etc.Clothing and equipage: For cloth, woolens, materials, and for the purchase and manufacture of clothing for the Army, including retired enlisted men when ordered to active duty, for issue and for sale; for payment of commutation of clothing due to warrant officers of the mine planter service and to enlisted men; for altering and fitting clothing and washing and cleaning when necesary; for operation Laundries, etc.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 Repair shops.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 Toilet kits, etc.repair shops, and garbage reduction works; for equipage, including authorized issues of toilet articles, barbers’ and tailors’ material, for use of general prisoners confined at military posts without pay or allowances and applicants for enlistment while held under obser-129vation; issue of toilet kits to recruits upon their first enlistment, and issue of housewives to the Army; for expenses of packing and handling and similar necessaries; for a suit of citizen’s outerCitizen’s outer clothing. clothing and when necessary an overcoat, the cost of all not to exceed $30, to be issued each soldier discharged otherwise than honorably, to each enlisted man convicted by civil court for an offense resulting in confinement in a penitentiary or other civil prison, and to each enlisted man ordered interned by reason of the fact that he is an alien enemy, or, for the same reason, discharged without internment; for indemnity to officers and men of the Army for clothing and bedding, and so forth, destroyed since April 22, 1898, by orderIndemnity for destroyed clothing, etc. of medical officers of the Army for sanitary reasons, $4,450,221, of which amount not exceeding $60,000 shall be available immediately for the procurement and transportation of fuel for the serviceFuel. of the fiscal year 1936: *Provided*, That laundry charges, other than*Proviso*.Laundry charges. for service now rendered without charge, shall be so adjusted that earnings in conjunction with the value placed upon service rendered without charge shall aggregate an amount at least equal to the cost of maintaining and operating laundries and dry-cleaning plants. Incidental expenses of the Army: Postage; hire of laborers inIncidental expenses.Postage; laborers. the Quartermaster Corps, including the care of officers’ mounts when the same are furnished by the Government; compensation of clerksCivilian personnel. 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, asLiving quarters.Vol. 46, p. 818.[U. S. C., p. 45](/us/usc/45). authorized by the Act of June 26, 1930 (U. S. C., Supp. VII, title 5, sec. 118a), and clerks, foremen, watchmen, and organist for the United States Disciplinary Barracks, and incidental expenses of recruiting;Recruiting. for the operation of coffee-roasting plants; for tests andTests, etc. experimental and development work and scientific research to be performed by the Bureau of Standards for the Quartermaster Corps; for inspection service and instruction furnished by the DepartmentInspection service. of Agriculture which may be transferred in advance; for such additional expenditures as are necessary and authorized by law in theOperation expenses. movements and operation of the Army and at military posts, and not expressly assigned to any other departments, $3,539,188: *Proviso*.Average number employed.*Provided*, That no appropriation contained in this Act shall be available for any expense incident to the employment of an average number of officers, enlisted men, or civilian employees greater than the largest number employed during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1929, in connection with work incident to the assurance of adequate provision for the mobilization of matériel and industrial organizations essential to war-time needs. Army transportation: For transportation of Army supplies; ofTransportation of supplies.*Post*, p. 1640. 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 other vessels; for wharfage, tolls, and ferriage; for drayageDrayage; pack saddles. and cartage; for the purchase, manufacture (including both material and labor), maintenance, hire, and repair of pack saddles and harness; for the purchase, hire, operation, maintenance, and repair ofVehicles. wagons, carts, drays, other vehicles, and horse-drawn and motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles required for the transportation of troops and supplies and for official military and garrison purposes; for hire of draft and pack animals; for travel allowancesTravel allowance, National Guard.Vol. 31, p. 902; Vol. 42, p. 1021.[U. S. C., p. 266](/us/usc/266). to officers of National Guard on discharge from Federal service as prescribed in the Act of March 2, 1901 (U. S. C., title 10, sec. 751), and to enlisted men of National Guard on discharge from Federal service, as prescribed in amendatory Act of September 22, 1922130Vol. 42, p. 1021.U. S. C., p. 266.(U. S. C., title 10, sec. 752), and to members of the National Guard who have been mustered into Federal service and discharged on account of physical disability; in all, $9, 191,981, of which amount not exceeding $250,000 shall be available immediately for the procurement Fuel.and transportation of fuel for the service of the fiscal year 1936: *Provisos*.Motor vehicles, etc.*Provided*, That not to exceed $1,000,000 of this appropriation shall be available for the purchase or exchange of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles and trucks, of which amount not to exceed $40,000 may be expended for the purchase of light and medium passenger-carrying automobiles at a unit cost of not to exceed $750 for light automobiles and $1,200 for medium automobiles, including the value of any vehicles exchanged, and not to exceed $75,000 may Ambulances.be expended for the purchase or exchange of motor-propelled ambulances Not available except for salvaging, etc.and motorcycles: *Provided further*, That 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 Exceptions.1, 1920, except tractors, ambulances, fire trucks, three hundred and ninety modernized Class B trucks, and vehicles in use by Reserve Officers’ Training Corps units on February 19, 1935: *Provided further*, Transporting private ears at public expense restricted.That no appropriation 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 Transportation costs charged to appropriation from which supplies procured.States at public expense prior to July 14, 1932: *Provided further*, That during the fiscal year 1936 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 animals.horses, draft and pack animals Purchase.For the purchase of draft and pack animals and horses within limits as to age, sex, and size to be prescribed by the Secretary of War for remounts for officers entitled to public mounts, for the United States Military Academy, and for such organizations and members of the military service as may be required to be mounted, and for all expenses incident to such purchases (including $72,155 Encouraging breeding of riding horses.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), $297,155. Barracks, quarters, etc.Construction, maintenance, etc.barracks and quarters and other buildings and utilities For all expenses incident to the construction, installation, operation, and maintenance of buildings, utilities, appurtenances, and accessories necessary for the shelter, protection, and accommodation of the Army and its personnel and property, where not specifically provided for in other appropriations, including personal services, purchase and repair of furniture for quarters for officers, warrant officers, and noncommissioned officers, and officers’ messes and wall lockers and refrigerators for Government-owned buildings as may be approved by the Secretary of War, care and improvement of Rentals.grounds, 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 for131military purposes and lodgings for recruits and applicants for enlistments, water supply, sewer and fire-alarm systems, fireWater, roads, etc. apparatus, roads, walks, wharves, drainage, dredging channels, purchase of water, disposal of sewage, shooting galleries, ranges for small-arms target practice, field, mobile, and railway artillery practice, including flour for paste for marking targets, such ranges and Target practice, etc.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; warehouse and fuel handling equipment; stovesWarehouse and fuel handling equipment.Stoves and cooking appliances. required for use of the Army for heating offices, hospitals, barracks, quarters, recruiting stations, and United States disciplinary barracks, also ranges and stoves for cooking food at posts, for post bakery and bake-oven equipment and apparatus and appliances for cooking and serving food when constituting fixed installations in buildings, including maintenance and repair of such heating and cooking appliances; for furnishing heat and light for the authorizedHeat, light, etc. allowance of quarters for officers, enlisted men, and warrant officers, including retired enlisted men when ordered to active duty, contract surgeons when stationed at and occupying public quarters at military posts, officers of the National Guard attending service and garrison schools, and for recruits, guards, hospitals, storehouses,Recreation buildings.Vol. 32, p. 282.[U. S. C., p. 293](/us/usc/293). 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, $10,549,104, and $2,500,000 of this appropriationFuel. shall be available immediately for the procurement and transportation of fuel for the service of the fiscal year 1936: *Provided*, That*Provisos*.Rent outside District. not more than $16,000 of the appropriations contained in this Act shall be available for rent of offices outside the District of Columbia in connection with work incident to the assurance of adequate provision for the mobilization of matériel and industrial organizations essential to war-time needs: *Provided further*, That this Rentals for military attachés.appropriation shall be available for the rental of offices, garages, and stables for military attachés: *Provided further*, That no part of the fundsAdditional construction limited. herein appropriated shall be available for construction of a permanent nature of an additional building or an extension or addition to an existing building, the cost of which in any case exceeds $20,000: *Provided further*, That the monthly rental rate to be paid out of thisStabling rental. appropriation for stabling any animal shall not exceed $10. sewerage system, fort monroe, virginiaFort Monroe, Va. For repair and maintenance of wharf and apron of wharf,Wharf, etc. 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. For rakes, shovels, and brooms; repairs to roadway, pavements,Roads, etc. macadam, and asphalt block; repairs to street crossings; repairs to street drains, and labor for cleaning roads, $8,469; for two-thirds of said sum, to be supplied by the United States, $5,646. For waste; oil, motor and pump repairs, sewer pipe, cement, brick,Sewers, supplies, etc. 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. For construction and repair of hospitals at military posts alreadyConstruction, repair, etc. established and occupied, including all expenditures for construction132and repairs required at the Army and Navy Hospital at Hot Springs, Arkansas, and for the construction and repair of general hospitals and expenses incident thereto, and for additions needed to meet the requirements of increased garrisons, and for temporary hospitals in standing camps and cantonments; for the alteration of permanent buildings at posts for use as hospitals, construction and Temporary camp hospitals, etc.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, $452,909. Signal Corps.Signal Corps Signal Service.signal service of the army Telegraph and telephone systems.Purchase, operation, etc.Telegraph and telephone systems: Purchase, equipment, operation, and repair of military telegraph, telephone, radio, cable, and signaling systems; signal equipment and stores, heliographs, signal lanterns, flags, and other necessary instruments; wind vanes, barometers, anemometers, thermometers, and other meteorological instruments; photographic and cinematographic work performed for the Army by the Signal Corps; 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 Exceptions.station, or other office or station of the Army, excepting the local telephone service for the various bureaus of the War Department in the District of Columbia, and toll messages pertaining to the office of the Secretary of War; electric time service; the rental of commercial telegraph lines and equipment, and their operation at or connecting any post, camp, cantonment, depot, arsenal, headquarters, hospital, aviation station, or other office or station of the Army, including payment for official individual telegraph messages transmitted Electrical installations.over commercial lines; electrical installations and maintenance thereof at military posts, cantonments, camps, and stations of the Army, fire control, and direction apparatus, and material for Civilian employees.Field Artillery; salaries of civilian employees, including those necessary as instructors at vocational schools; supplies, general repairs, reserve supplies, and other expenses connected with the collecting and transmitting of information for the Army by telegraph or otherwise; Experimental research, etc.experimental investigation, 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, $4,827,917. 133 Air CorpsAir Corps. air corps, army For creating, maintaining, and operating at established flyingDesignated purposes. schools and balloon schools courses of instruction for officers, students, and enlisted men, including cost of equipment and supplies necessary for instruction, purchase of tools, equipment, materials, machines, textbooks, books of reference, scientific and professional papers, instruments, and materials for theoretical and practical instruction; for maintenance, repair, storage, and operation of airships, warOperation, etc. balloons, and other aerial machines, including instruments, materials, gas plants, hangars, and repair shops, and appliances of every sort and description necessary for the operation, construction, or equipment of all types of aircraft, and all necessary spare parts and equipment connected therewith and the establishment of landing andLanding, etc., runways. take-off runways; for purchase of supplies for securing, developing, printing, and reproducing photographs in connection with aerial photography; improvement, equipment, maintenance, and operation of plants for testing and experimental work, and procuring and introducing water, electric light and power, gas, and sewerage, including maintenance, operation, and repair of such utilities at such plants; for the procurement of helium gas; for travel of officers ofHelium gas. the Air Corps by air in connection with the administration of this appropriation, including the transportation of new aircraft from factory to first destination; salaries and wages of civilian employeesCivilian employees. as may be necessary; transportation of materials in connection with consolidation of Air Corps activities; experimental investigations and purchase and development of new types of airplanes, autogiros, and balloons, accessories thereto, and aviation engines, including plans, drawings, and specifications thereof, and the purchase of letters patent, applications for letters patent, licenses under letters patent and applications for letters patent; for the purchase, manufacture,Purchase, development, etc., of aircraft. and 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; for the marking of military airways where the purchase of land is not involved; for the purchase, manufacture, and issue of specialSpecial clothing, etc. 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 for the handling or storage of such equipment; for the services of not more than four consulting engineers atConsulting engineers. experimental stations of the Air Corps as the Secretary of War may deem necessary, at rates of pay to be fixed by him not to exceed $50 a day for not exceeding fifty days each and necessary traveling expenses; purchase of special apparatus and appliances, repairs, and replacements of same used in connection with special scientific medical research in the Air Corps; for maintenance and operation ofPrinting plants, etc. 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; for settlement of claims (not exceeding $250Settlement of claims. each) for damage 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 approved134by the Chief of Air Corps and the Secretary of War, $45,383,400: *Provided*, *Provisos*.Procurement of airplane parts.That from the amount herein appropriated $2,500,000 shall be available immediately for the procurement of spare engines and spare parts for airplanes and engines; $10,000 shall be transferred to and made available to the Bureau of Mines on July 1, 1935, for Helium; amount, availability.*Post*, p. 204.supplying helium; and not less than $19,138,000 (including $3,000,000 for the payment of obligations incurred under the contract authorization for these purposes carried in the War Department Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1935), to be available immediately, shall New airplanes, etc.*Post*, p. 1291.be expended for the production or purchase of new airplanes and their equipment and accessories, of which $13,666,000 shall be available exclusively for combat airplanes, their equipment and accessories: *Provided further*, Provisions for certain National Guard funds transfer modified.Vol. 48, p. 627.That “thirty-two” shall be substituted for “seventy-six” and “$65,000” shall be substituted for “$155,582” in the proviso in the appropriation “Air Corps, Army, 1935”, requiring the transfer from the Regular Army to the National Guard of airplanes of the observation type and money for their maintenance Contracts authorized for purchase of airplanes, etc.and operation: *Provided further*, 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, 1936, 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 $7,686,753, 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*, Unsafe lighter-than-air craft, restriction.That no available appropriation shall be used upon lighter-than-air craft, other than balloons, not in condition for safe operation on February 19, 1935 or that may become in such Sums for incurred obligations.condition prior to July 1, 1936: *Provided further*, That the sum of $406,275 of the appropriation for Air Corps, Army, fiscal year 1933, and the sum of $1,170,000 of the appropriation for Air Corps, Army, fiscal year 1935 shall remain available until June 30, 1936, the former, however, only for the payment of obligations incurred under contracts executed prior to July 1, 1933. Medical Department.Medical 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, *Proviso*.Not applicable, if on furlough.when 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; Contagions, etc., diseases expenses.for the proper care and treatment of epidemic and contagious diseases in the Army or at military posts or stations, including measures to prevent the spread thereof, and the payment of reason135able damages not otherwise provided for for bedding and clothing injured or destroyed in such prevention; for the care of insaneInsane Filipino soldiers.Vol. 35, p. 122; Vol. 39, p. 309. [U. S. C., p. 988](/us/usc/988).Nurses. 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 Civilian physicians.physicians employed to examine physically applicants for enlistment and enlisted men and to render other professional services from time to time under proper authority; for the pay of other employees of the Medical Department; for the payment of express companies andTransporting supplies, ate. local transfers employed directly by the Medical Department for the transportation of medical and hospital supplies, including bidders’ samples and water for analysis; for supplies for use in teaching the art of cooking to the enlisted force of the Medical Department; for the supply of Army and Navy Hospital at HotHot Springs, Ark., hospital. Springs, Arkansas; for advertising, laundry, and all other necessary miscellaneous expenses of the Medical Department, $1,218,843. hospital care, canal zone garrisonsCanal Zone garrisons. For paying the Panama Canal such reasonable charges, exclusiveCare of troops. of subsistence, as may be approved by the Secretary of War for caring in its hospitals for officers, enlisted men, military prisoners, and civilian employees of the Army admitted thereto upon the request of proper military authority, $40,000: *Provided*, That the*Proviso*.Subsistence payments. subsistence of the said patients, except commissioned officers, shall be paid to said hospitals out of the appropriation for subsistence of the Army at the rates provided therein for commutation of rations for enlisted patients in general hospitals. army medical museumArmy Medical Museum. For Army Medical Museum, including pay of employees and thePersonnel; specimens. procurement, preparation, and preservation of specimens, $28,380. 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, including military surveys and the Engineer School; forEngineer School.Maintenance, etc. 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 ofMaps, surveys, etc. maps and similar 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 andRent. grounds within and outside the District of Columbia, and
(c)repair and alteration of buildings; for heat, light, power, water, andOperating, etc., expenses. communication service, not otherwise provided for; and for the compensation of employees required in these activities, $409,242. 136 Ordnance Department.Ordnance Department Ordnance service and supplies.Manufacture, issue, etc.ordnance service and supplies, army For manufacture, procurement, storage, and issue, including research, planning, design, development, inspection, test, alteration, maintenance, repair, and handling of ordnance material together Current expenses.with the machinery, supplies, and services necessary thereto; for 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, Vehicles.other than tuition; for the purchase, completely equipped, of trucks, and for maintenance, repair, and operation of motor-propelled and Ammunition for military salutes.horse-drawn freight and passenger-carrying vehicles; for ammunition for military salutes at Government establishments and institutions to which the issues of arms for salutes are authorized; Machine testing.for services, material, tools, and appliances for operation of the testing machines and chemical laboratory in connection therewith; Publications.for publications for libraries of the Ordnance Department, including Consulting engineers.the Ordnance Office, including subscriptions to periodicals; for services of not more than four consulting engineers as the Secretary of War may deem necessary, at rates of pay to be fixed by him not to exceed $50 per day for not exceeding fifty days each, and for their necessary traveling expenses, $15,151,622. Rock Island, Ill.rock island bridge, rock island, illinois 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, $32,835. Arsenals.repairs of arsenals Repairs, etc.*Post*, p. 1641.For repairs and improvements of ordnance establishments, and to meet such unforeseen expenditures as accidents or other contingencies Raritan Arsenal.may require, $1,068,186, of which amount there shall be available immediately $265,368 for the restoration of roofs to magazines at Raritan Arsenal. Gages, dies, and jigs.gages, dies, and jigs for manufacture Procuring, for armament manufacture.For the development and procurement of gages, dies, jigs, and other special aids and appliances, including specifications and detailed drawings, to carry out the purpose of section 123 of the Vol. 39, p. 215.[U. S. C., p. 2254](/us/usc/2254).National Defense Act, approved June 3, 1916 (U. S. C.. title 50, sec. 78), $79,530. Chemical Warfare Service.chemical warfare service Purchase, manufacture, etc., of gases.For purchase, manufacture, and test of chemical warfare gases or other toxic substances, gas masks, or other offensive or defensive materials or appliances required for gas-warfare purposes, including all necessary investigations, research, design, experimentation, and operation connected therewith; purchase of chemicals, special scientific and technical apparatus and instruments; construction, Plants, buildings, machinery, etc.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,137office furniture, tools, and instruments; for incidental expenses; forCivilian employees. civilian employees; for libraries of the Chemical Warfare Service and subscriptions to periodicals; for expenses incidental to theSpecial gas troops; organizing, etc. organization, training, and equipment of special gas troops not otherwise provided for, including the training of the Army in chemical warfare, both offensive and defensive, together with the necessary schools, tactical demonstrations, and maneuvers; for current expensesCurrent 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, $1,388,330. Chief of InfantryChief of Infantry. infantry school, fort benning, georgiaInfantry School, Fort Benning, Ga. For the procurement of books, publications, instruments, andInstruction expenses. 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, $63,830. Chief of CavalryChief of Cavalry. calvary 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, $21,000. Chief of Field ArtilleryChief of Field Artillery. instruction in field artillery 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, $24,654. Chief of Coast ArtilleryChief of Coast Artillery. coast artillery school, fort monroe, virginiaCoast Artillery School, Fort Monroe, Va. Instruction expenses. For purchase of engines, generators, motors, machines, measuring 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 ofPrinting and binding. 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, $28,000. Seacoast DefensesSeacoast defenses. For all expenses incident to the preparation of plans and theAll expenses. construction, purchase, installation, equipment, maintenance, repair, and operation of fortifications and other works of defense, and their accessories, including personal services, maintenance of channels to138submarine-mine wharves, purchase of lands and rights-of-way as authorized by law, and experimental, test, and development work, as follows: United States, $718,821; Insular departments, $226,981; Panama Canal, $339,168; In all, $1,284,970. Military Academy.United States Military Academy Pay.pay of military academy Cadets.*Proviso*.Army detail, pay restriction.*Post*, p. 1641.Cadets: For pay of cadets, $964,080: *Provided*, That during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1936, 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*, Retired Army officer as librarian.[R. S., sec. 1251, p. 218](/us/rs/1251/218).[U. S. C., p. 274](/us/usc/274).That the duties of librarian of the United States Military Academy may be performed by an officer of the Regular Army 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, $265,437. Maintenance.maintenance united states military academy Designated expenses.For text and reference books for instruction; increase and expense of library (not exceeding $6,000); office equipment and supplies; stationery, blank books, forms, printing and binding, and periodicals; diplomas for graduates (not exceeding $1,100); expense of lectures; apparatus, equipment, supplies, and materials for 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 academy, to be expended in his discretion (not to exceed $4,000); Board of Visitors.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-prop el led 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, $1,127,739. National Guard.National Guard Arming, etc.arming, equipping, and training the national guard Forage, etc.For procurement of forage, bedding, and so forth, for animals used by the National Guard, $602,317. Care of animals, materials, etc.For compensation of help for care of materials, animals, and equipment, $2,375,040. Instruction expenses.For expenses, camps of instruction, field and supplemental training, and including medical and hospital treatment authorized by law,139and the hire (at a rate not to exceed $1 per diem), repair, maintenance, and operation of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles, $8,362,003. For expenses, selected officers and enlisted men, military serviceService schools, instruction, etc. schools, including medical and hospital treatment authorized by law, $450,209. For pay of property and disbursing officers for the United States,Property and disbursing officers. $81,300. For general expenses, equipment, and instruction, National Guard,Equipment, etc. 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, $747,238. For travel of officers, warrant officers, and enlisted men of theTravel, Army officers, etc. Regular Army in connection with the National Guard, $235,000: *Provided*, That not to exceed $2,000 of this sum shall be expended*Proviso*.War Department General Stall. for travel of officers of the War Department General Staff in connection with the National Guard. For transportation of equipment and supplies, $172,864.Transporting supplies.Army enlisted men, detail. For expenses of enlisted men of the Regular Army on duty with the National Guard, including allowances for quarters and the hiring of quarters in kind, $245,688. For pay of National Guard (armory drills), $13,828,026.Pay, armory drills. 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*,*Provisos*.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 or 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 adjutants general whoAdjutants general continued in present status without pay. 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 and equipment.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, including motor trucks, field ambulances, and stationMotor trucks, field ambulances. wagons 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, $6,387,638, together with such additional sums as may be necessary, not to exceed $500,000, to defray the cost of increasing the present appropriated 11So in original. for enlistedIncrease in enlisted strength. strength of the National Guard by 5,000, and all of the sums appropriated in this Act on account or the National GuardAccounting. shall be accounted for as one fund and of the total of such sums140*Provisos*.Specifications for motor vehicles.$1,500,000 shall be available immediately: *Provided*, That specifications for motor 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 Replacement of damaged property, etc.of the National Guard Bureau: *Provided further*, That the value of issues made to any State, Territory, or the District of Columbia Vol. 39, p. 204; Vol. 43. p. 1077.[U. S. C., p. 1433](/us/usc/1433).Vol. 39, p. 199; Vol. 42, p. 1034.[U. S. C., p. 1431](/us/usc/1431).Restriction. Balances covered in.Vol. 48, p. 1227.to replace property surveyed in accordance with section 87, National Defense Act of June 3, 1916, as amended, shall not be charged to the apportionments required by section 67 of that Act, but no such replacement issue shall be made in excess of receipts theretofore collected and covered into the Treasury as miscellaneous receipts pursuant to said section 87, as amended, and section 4
(a)and
(22)of the Permanent Appropriation Repeal Act of June 26, 1934: *Provided further*, Clothing, equipment, etc., from Army surplus stores.That the Secretary 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 Vol. 39, p. 199; Vol. 45, p. 406.[U. S. C., p. 1431](/us/usc/1431).under the provision of the Act entitled “An Act for making further and more effectual provision for the national defense, and for other purposes”, approved June 3, 1916 (U. S. C., title 32, sec. 21), as Issue without charge against fund.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 units and wagon and service companies of the National Guard than *Proviso*.Participation in National Rifle Matches.were in existence on June 30, 1932: *Provided*, That officers, warrant officers, and enlisted men of the National Guard and Organized Reserves, who, under regulations prescribed by the Secretary of War, volunteer to participate without pay as competitors in the National Rifle Matches to be held during the fiscal year 1936, may attend such matches without pay, notwithstanding any provision Allowances.of law to the contrary, but shall be entitled to travel and subsistence allowances at the same rates as are provided for civilians who attend and participate in said matches. Organized Reserves.organized 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, *Provisos*.Mileage allowance.as 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 Enlisted Reserve Corps.per mile; pay, transportation, subsistence, clothing, and medical and hospital treatment of members of the Enlisted Reserve Corps; Correspondence, etc., courses.conducting correspondence or extension courses for instruction or members of the Reserve Corps, including necessary supplies, procurement of maps and textbooks, and transportation and traveling Training manuals.expenses of employees; purchase of training manuals, including Government publications and blank forms, subscriptions to magazines Establishment, etc., headquarters and training camps.and periodicals 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 Vehicles.Organized Reserves, including the maintenance and operation of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles; for the actual and Travel expenses.necessary expenses, or per diem in lieu thereof, at rates authorized by law, incurred by officers and enlisted men of the Regular Army traveling on duty in connection with the Organized Reserves, and141for travel of dependents, and packing and transportation of baggage of such personnel; for expenses incident to the use, including upkeepMaintenance of supplies. 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 $845,725 of this appropriation shall be available for expenditure by the Chief of the Air Corps for the production and purchase of new airplanes and theirPurchase, etc., airplanes.Baggage transportation. equipment, spare parts, and accessories; for transportation of baggage, including packing and crating, of reserve officers ordered to active duty for not less than six months; for the medical and hospitalMedical and hospital treatment. treatment of members of the Officers’ Reserve Corps and of the Enlisted Reserve Corps, who suffer personal injury or contract disease in line of duty, as provided by the Act of April 26, 1928Vol. 45, p. 461.[U. S. C., p. 252](/us/usc/252). (U. S. C., Supp. VII, title 10, secs. 451, 455), and for such other purposes in connection therewith as are authorized by the said Act, including pay and allowances, subsistence, transportation, and burial expenses; in all, $6,372,178; and no part of such total sum shallFlight training restrictions. be available for any expense incident to giving flight training to any officer of the Officers’ Reserve Corps unless he shall be found physically and professionally qualified to perform aviation service as an aviation pilot, by such agency as the Secretary of War may designate: *Provided*, That not to exceed $100,000 of this appropriation*Proviso*.Divisional headquarters, etc. may be used for establishment and maintenance of divisional and regimental headquarters. None of the funds appropriated elsewhere in this Act, except forRestriction on use of other funds. 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 in lieu thereof, as authorized by law, to Air Corps reserve officers on extended active duty, shall be used for expenses in connection withUse of available supplies. 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: *Provided*, That nothing in this provision shall be so *Proviso*.Provisions waived if pension surrendered.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 Reserve Corps who may surrender said pension, disability allowance, disability compensation, or retired pay for the period of his active duty in the Reserve Corps. No appropriation made in this Act shall be expended for the payReserve officer on active duty; pay restriction. of a reserve officer on active duty for a longer period than fifteen days, except such as may be detailed for duty with the War Department General Staff under section 3a and section 5
(b)of the ArmyGeneral Staff detail.Vol. 41, pp. 760, 703.[U. S. C., pp. 231, 232](/us/usc/231/232). 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 for duty as instructors at civilian military training camps,Other details. appropriated for in this Act, or who may be detailed for duty with tactical units of the Air Corps, as provided in section 37a of the ArmyAir Corps.Vol. 41, p. 776; [U. S. C., p. 249](/us/usc/249).*Proviso*.Medical Reserve Corps for Veterans’ Administration patients in Army hospitals.Reorganization Act approved June 4, 1920 (U. S. C., title 10, sec. 369): *Provided*, That the pay and allowances of such additional officers and nurses of the Medical Reserve Corps as are required to supplement the like officers and nurses of the Regular Army in the care of beneficiaries of the United States Veterans’ Administration treated in Army hospitals may be paid from the funds allotted to the War Department by that administration under existing law. 142 Citizens’ military training.citizen’ military training Reserve officers’ training corps.reserve officers’ training corps Quartermaster supplies for units of.For the procurement, maintenance, and issue, under such regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary of War, to institutions at which one or more units of the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps are maintained, of such public animals, means of transportation, supplies, tentage, equipment, and uniforms as he may deem necessary, including cleaning and laundering of uniforms and clothing at camps; and to forage, at the expense of the United States, public animals so issued, and to pay commutation in lieu of uniforms at a rate to be fixed annually by the Secretary of War; for transporting said animals and other authorized supplies and equipment from 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 Training camps.forms; for the establishment and maintenance of camps for the further practical instruction of the members of the Reserve Officers’ Travel allowance.Training Corps, and for transporting members of such corps to and from such camps, and to subsist them while traveling to and from such camps and while remaining therein so far as appropriations will permit, or, in lieu of transporting them to and from such camps and subsisting them while en route, to pay them travel allowance at the rate of 5 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 Expenses for supplies.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 Subsistence commutation to senior division members.War Department; for pay for students attending advanced camps at the rate prescribed for soldiers of the seventh grade of the Regular Army; for the payment of commutation of subsistence to members of the senior division of the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps, Vol. 39, p. 193; Vol. 41, p. 778.[U. S. C., p. 250](/us/usc/250).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. Medical, etc., treatment, in line of duty.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 at camps of instruction under the provisions of Vol. 41, p. 778. [U. S. C., p. 251](/us/usc/251).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 Burial expenses.and transportation to their homes and burial expenses of the remains of members of the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps Vol. 43, p. 305; Vol. 45, p. 462.[U. S. C., p. 252](/us/usc/252).Transporting dependents, etc.who die while attending camps of instruction as provided in the Act approved April 26, 1928 (U. S. C., Supp. VII, title 10, see. 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 Reserve Officers’ Training Corps; Vehicles.for the maintenance, repair, and operation of motor vehicles, *Provisos*.Issue of Army horses.$4,452,304; of which $400,000 shall be 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’ Train143ing Corps, so many horses now belonging to the Regular Army as he may consider desirable: *Provided*, That uniforms and otherUniforms, etc., from Army surplus stock. equipment or material issued to the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps in accordance with law shall be furnished from surplus or reserve stocks of the War Department without payment from this appropriation, except for actual expense incurred in the manufacture or issue: *Provided further*, That in no case shall the amount paidCurrent price to govern. from this appropriation for uniforms, equipment, or material furnished to the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps from stocks under the control of the War Department be in excess of the price current at the time the issue is made: *Provided further*, That none of theAdditional units forbidden. funds appropriated in this Act shall be used for the organization or maintenance of an additional number of mounted, motor trans-port, 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 o, 1932, but such stoppage of further enrollments shall not interfere with the maintenance of existing units: *Provided further*,Restriction on use of other funds. 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 collegesSchools and colleges. For the procurement and issue as provided in section 55c of theMilitary supplies and equipment.Vol. p. 780.[U. S. C., p. 285](/us/usc/285).[R. S., sec. 1225, p. 216](/us/rs/1225/216).[U. S. C., p. 1579](/us/usc/1579). Act approved June 4, 1920 (U. S. C., title 10, sec. 1180), and in section 1225, Revised Statutes, as amended, under such regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary of War, to schools and colleges, other than those provided for in section 40 of the Act above referred to, of such arms, tentage, and equipment, and of ammunition, targets, and target materials, including the transporting of same, and the overhauling and repair of articles issued, as the Secretary of War shall deem necessary for proper military training in said schools and colleges, $8,900. citizens’ military training campsCitizens’ military training camps. For furnishing, at the expense of the United States, to warrantUniforms, transportation expenses, etc. 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),Vol. 41, p, 779.[U. S. C., p. 251](/us/usc/251). 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 ofMaintenance. said camps, including recruiting and advertising therefor, and the cost of maintenance, repair, and operation of passenger-carrying vehicles; for expenses incident to the use, including upkeep and depreciation costs, of supplies, equipment, and matériel furnished in accordance with law from stocks under the control of the War Department; for gymnasium and athletic supplies (not exceeding $20,000); for mileage, reimbursement of traveling expenses, or allowance in lieu thereof as authorized by law, for officers of the Regular Army and Organized Reserves, 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 training144manuals, including Government publications and blank forms; for Medical and hospital treatment.medical and hospital 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 Burials.burial of remains or any such members who die while undergoing Vol. 45, p. 461.[U. S. C., p. 252](/us/usc/252).training or hospital treatment, as provided in the Act of April 26, 1928 (U. S. C., Supp. VII, title 10, secs. 454, 455); in all, $2,000,000: *Provided*, *Proviso*.Age limitation.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 Restriction on use of other funds.enrollment: *Provided further*, That none of the funds appropriated elsewhere in this Act except for printing and binding and for pay and allowances of officers and enlisted men of the Regular Army shall be used for expenses in connection with citizens’ military Uniforms, etc., from Army surplus stocks.training camps: *Provided further*, That uniforms and other equipment or matériel furnished in accordance with law for use at citizens’ military training camps shall be furnished from surplus or reserve stocks of the War Department without payment from this appropriation, except for actual expense incurred in the manufacture Current price to govern.or issue: *Provided further*, That in no case shall the amount paid from this appropriation for uniforms, equipment, or matériel furnished in accordance with law for use at citizens’ military training camps from stocks under the control of the War Department be in excess of the price current at the time the issue is made. Restriction on use of Army reserve supplies.Under the authorizations contained in this Act no issues of reserve supplies or equipment shall be made where such issues would impair the reserves held by the War Department for two field armies or one million men. Promotion of rifle practice.National Board for Promotion of Rifle Practice, Army Instruction expenses.Promotion of rifle practice: For construction, equipment, and maintenance of rifle ranges, the instruction of citizens in marksmanship, and promotion of practice in the use of rifled arms; 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: for clerical services, including not exceeding $25.000 in the District of Columbia; for procurement Supplies, etc.of materials, supplies, trophies, prizes, badges and services, as Vol. 39, p. 211; Vol. 43, p. 510; Vol. 44, p. 1095; Vol. 45, p. 786.[U. S. C., p. 1443](/us/usc/1443).authorized in Section 113, Act of June 3, 1916, and in War Department Appropriation Act of June 7, 1924; for the conduct of the National Matches, including incidental travel and for maintenance of the National Board for the Promotion of Rifle Practice, including not to exceed $7,500 for its incidental expenses as authorized by Act of May 28, 1928; to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War, $491,054. 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 Cush rewards restricted.made in this Act be available to pay any premiums or bonus or cash reward to any employee in addition to his regular wages, except for suggestions resulting in improvements or economy in the operation of any Government plant. 145 TITLE II—Nonmilitary activities. NONMILITARY ACTIVITIES OF THE WAR DEPARTMENT Quartermaster CorpsQuartermaster Corps. cemeterial expensesNational cemeteries. For maintaining and improving national cemeteries, including fuelMaintenance, etc. for and pay of superintendents and the superintendent at MexicoMotor vehicle purchase. City, laborers and other employees, purchase of tools and materials; purchase, including exchange, of one motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicle; and for the repair, maintenance, and operation of motor vehicles; care and maintenance of the Arlington MemorialArlington, Va. Amphitheater, chapel, and grounds in the Arlington National Cemetery; for repair to roadways but not to more than a single approachRoadways, repair, etc. road 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. 992](/us/usc/992). marines under the Acts approved March 3, 1873 (U. 8. 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. VII, title 24, sec. 280a), and civilians interred in post cemeteries; for recovery of bodies and dispositionRecovery of remains.Vol. 45, p. 251; [U. S. C., p, 273](/us/usc/273). of remains of military personnel and civilian employees of the Army under Act approved March 9, 1928 (U. S. C., Supp. VII, title 10, sec. 916); for the care, protection, and maintenance of theConfederate cemeteries, etc. Confederate Mound in Oakwood Cemetery at Chicago, the Confederate Stockade Cemetery at Johnstons Island, the Confederate burial plats owned by the United States in Confederate Cemetery at North Alton, the Confederate Cemetery, Camp Chase, at Columbus, the Confederate section in Greenlawn Cemetery at Indianapolis, the Confederate Cemetery at Point Lookout, and the Confederate Cemetery at Rock Island, $677,607: *Provided*, That no railroad shall be permitted*Provisos*.Encroachments forbidden. upon any right-of-way which may have been acquired by the United States leading to a national cemetery, or to encroach upon any roads or walks constructed thereon and maintained by the United States: *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 purchase of additional land for the extension of the VicksburgVicksburg, extension. National Cemetery, $82,000. 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, $734. Signal CorpsSignal Corps. alaskan communication systemAlaskan Communication system.Operation, extension, etc. For defraying the cost of such extensions, betterments, operation, and maintenance of the Washington-Alaska Military Cable and Telegraph System as may be approved by the Secretary of War, to be available until the close of the fiscal year 1937, from the receipts From receipts.of the Washington-Alaska Military Cable and Telegraph System which have been covered into the Treasury of the United States, the extent of such extensions and betterments and the cost thereof to be reported to Congress by the Secretary of War, $156,753. Corps of EngineersEngineer Corps. rivers and harbosRivers and harbors. To be immediately available and to be expended under theImmediately available. direction of the Secretary of War and the supervision of the Chief of Engineers: 146 Maintenance and improvement of existing works.For the preservation and maintenance of existing river and harbor works, and for the prosecution of such projects heretofore authorized as may be most desirable in the interests of commerce and navigation; Boundary waters, survey.for survey of northern and northwestern lakes and other 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 New York Harbor, injurious deposits. California Débris Commission.Vol. 27, p. 507.[U. S. C., p. 1484](/us/usc/1484).and injurious deposits within the harbor and adjacent waters of New York City: for expenses of the California Débris Commission in carrying on the work authorized by the Act approved March 1, 1893 (U. S. C., title 33, sec. 661); for removing sunken vessels or Removing sunken vessels.craft obstructing or endangering navigation as authorized by law; for operating and maintaining, keeping in repair, and continuing in use without interruption any lock, canal (except the Panama Canal), canalized river or other public works for the use and benefit of navigation belonging to the United States; 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 Vol. 45, p. 538.[U. S. C., p. 1490](/us/usc/1490).of Congress, 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. VII, title 33, sec. 702j), and such surveys as may be printed during a recess of Congress shall be printed, with illustrations, as documents of the next succeeding session of Congress, and for the purchase of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles and motor boats, for official use, not to exceed *Proviso*.Unauthorized projects forbidden.Powerdriven boat restriction.$155,150: *Provided*, That no funds shall be expended for any preliminary examination, survey, project, or estimate not authorized by law, $34,057,270: *Provided further*, That no appropriation under the Corps of Engineers for the fiscal year 1936 shall be available for any expenses incident to operating any power-driven boat or vessel Permanent International Commission of the Congresses of Navigation.on other than Government business: *Provided further*, That not to exceed $3,000 of the amount herein appropriated shall be available for the support and maintenance of the Permanent International Commission of the Congresses of Navigation and for the payment of the actual expenses of the properly accredited delegates of the United States to the meeting of the congresses and of the commission. Flood control.Mississippi River and tributaries.Vol. 45, p, 534: [U. S. C., p. 1488](/us/usc/1488).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), and for the purchase of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles and motor boats, for official use, not to exceed $45,750, $15,000,000. Emergency fund for flood control.Vol. 45, p. 537; Vol. 46, p. 787.[U. S. C., p, 1489](/us/usc/1489).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. VII, title 33, sec. 702g), $499,400. Sacramento River, Calif.; flood control.Vol. 39, p. 949; Vol. 45, p. 539.[U. S. C., p. 1491](/us/usc/1491).Flood control, Sacramento River, California: For prosecuting work of flood control in accordance with the provisions of the Flood Control Act approved March 1, 1917 (U. S. C., title 33, sec. 703), as modified by the Flood Control Act approved May 15, 1928 (U. S. C., Supp. VII, title 33, sec. 704), including not to exceed $1,500 for the purchase of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles and motor boats, for official use, $577,256. Lowell Greek, Alaska; flood control.Vol. 47, p. 802.Flood control, Lowell Creek, Alaska: For maintenance of flood-control works in accordance with the Act approved February 14, 1933 (47 Stat., p. 802), $2,000. 147 united states soldiers’ homeUnited States Soldiers’ Home. For maintenance and operation of the United States Soldiers’Maintenance, etc. Home, to be paid from the Soldiers’ Home, Permanent Fund, $799,349: *Provided*, That, effective July 1, 1935, interest earned*Proviso*.Soldiers’ Home Permanent Fund; interest account. pursuant to law on funds of the Home deposited in the Treasury of the United States shall be credited to the trust fund “Soldiers’ Home, Permanent Fund”, and shall not be expendable except in consequence of an appropriation made by Congress. the panama canalThe Panama Canal. The limitations on the expenditure of appropriations hereinbeforeLimitations not applicable to appropriations for. made in this Act shall not apply to the appropriations for the Panama Canal. For every expenditure requisite for and incident to theAll expenses. maintenance and operation, sanitation, and civil government of the Panama Canal and Canal Zone, including the following: Compensation ofObjects specified. 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 annualPrinting and binding. report; rent and personal services in the District of Columbia; purchase or exchange of typewriting, adding, and other machines; purchase or exchange, maintenance, repair, and operation of motor-propelled and horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles; claims forClaims for damages to vessels. damages to vessels passing through the locks of the Panama Canal, as authorized by the Panama Canal Act; claims for losses of or damages to property arising from the conduct of authorized business operations ; claims for damages to property arising from the maintenance and operation, sanitation, and civil government of the Panama Canal; acquisition of land and land under water, as authorized in the Panama Canal Act; expenses incurred in assembling, 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 arisingEmergencies. because 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; transportation,Public funds and securities, transportation and insurance. including insurance, of public funds and securities between the United States and the Canal Zone; 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, etc., of supplies.*Post*, p. 1641. the Governor, $10,000; purchase, inspection, delivery, handling, and storing of materials, supplies, and equipment for issue to all departments of the Panama Canal, the Panama Railroad, other branches of the United States Government, and for authorized sales; payment in lump sums of not exceeding the amounts authorized by the InjuryPayment to alien cripples.Vol. 39, p. 750.[U. S. C., p. 102](/us/usc/102). 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 148Madden Dam.Vol. 45, p. 303.Madden Dam across the Chagres River at Alhajuela for the storage of water for use in the maintenance and operation of the Panama Canal, together with a 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, $6,900,000, together with all moneys arising from the conduct of business operations authorized by the Panama Canal Act. Sanitation, etc.For sanitation, quarantine, hospitals, and medical aid and support Lepers and the insane.Deportation expenses.of the insane and of lepers and aid and support of indigent persons legally within the Canal Zone, including expenses of their deportation when practicable, and the purchase of artificial limbs or other appliances for persons who were injured in the service of the Isthmian Canal Commission or the Panama Canal prior to September 7, 1916, and including additional compensation to any officer Chief quarantine officer.of the United States Public Health Service detailed with the Panama Canal as chief quarantine officer, $874,616. Civil government, expenses.For civil government of the Panama Canal and Canal Zone, including gratuities and necessary clothing for indigent discharged prisoners, $1,022,981. Availability.Total, Panama Canal, $8,797,597, to be available until expended. Credits allowed.In addition to the foregoing sums there is appropriated for the fiscal year 1936 for expenditures and reinvestment under the several heads of appropriation aforesaid, without being covered into the Treasury of the United States, all moneys received by the Panama Canal from services rendered or materials and supplies furnished to the United States, the Panama Railroad Company, the Canal Zone government, or to their employees, respectively, or to the Panama government, from hotel and hospital supplies and services; from rentals, wharfage, and like service; from labor, materials, and supplies and other services furnished to vessels other than those passing through the canal, and to others unable to obtain the same elsewhere ; from the sale of scrap and other byproducts of manufacturing and shop operations; from the sale of obsolete and unserviceable materials, supplies, and equipment purchased or acquired for the operation, maintenance, protection, sanitation, and government of the Canal and Canal Zone; and any net profits accruing from such business to the Panama Canal shall annually be covered into the Treasury of the United States. Water, sewers, pavements, etc.In addition there is appropriated for the operation, maintenance, and extension of waterworks, sewers, and pavements in the cities or Panama and Colon.Panama and Colon, during the fiscal year 1936, 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 profited. No part of any money appropriated by this Act shall be used for maintaining, driving, or operating any Government-owned 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 and to retired enlisted naval personnel in supplying them with articles of ordinary use, wear, and consumption not furnished by the Government. Approved, April 9, 1935. To establish a commission for the settlement of the special claims comprehended within the terms of the convention between the United States of America and the United Mexican States concluded April 24, 1934. 1935-04-10 55 Chapter 49 Stat. 149 74 1 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2025-01-07 public 149 [CHAPTER 55.] AN ACT To establish a commission for the settlement of the special claims comprehended within the terms of the convention between the United States of America and the United Mexican States concluded April 24, 1934. April 10, 1935.[[S. 1068](/us/bill/74/s/1068).][
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