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(/us/pl/74/597).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, State of New Jersey, etc.Release from accountability for certain property. That the State of New Jersey and David S. Hill, United States property and disbursing officer for New Jersey, are hereby relieved from accountability for certain property belonging to the United States, of the total value of $4,467.76, which property was loaned to such State for use by the New Jersey National Guard and was unavoidably lost or destroyed when issued for use in connection with the Morro Castle disaster on September 8, 1934, and providing for replacement, without cost to the State of New Jersey, of like articles for reissue to and the use of the National Guard of New Jersey.
Approved, May 15, 1936. Making appropriations for the military and nonmilitary activities of the War Department for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1937, and for other purposes. 1936-05-15 404 Chapter 49 Stat. 1486 74 2 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2025-01-07 public [CHAPTER 404.] JOINT RESOLUTION Making appropriations for the military and nonmilitary activities of the War Department for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1937, and for other purposes.
May 15, 1936.[[H. R. 11035](/us/bill/74/hr/11035).][[Public, No. 598](/us/pl/74/598).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, War Department appropriations, fiscal year 1937. 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, 1937, and for other purposes, namely:
TITLE I—Military activities.MILITARY ACTIVITIES AND OTHER EXPENSES OF THE WAR DEPARTMENT INCIDENT THERETO Department salaries.salaries, war department Personal services.For compensation for personal services in the District of Columbia, as follows: Secretary, Assistant, and other personal services. *Proviso*. Use of field-service funds restricted. Office of Secretary of War: Secretary of War, Assistant Secretary of War, and other personal services, $267,280: *Provided*, That no field-service appropriation shall be available for personal services in the War Department except as may be expressly authorized herein. 1279 Office of Chief of Staff, $221,100.Designated offices.
Adjutant General’s office, $1,366,747. For personal services, to be employed exclusively in assembling,World War personnel records. 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, $27,340. Office of the Judge Advocate General, $108,240. Office of the Chief of Finance, $378,780. Office of the Quartermaster General, $771,387. Office of the Chief Signal Officer, $122,213.
Office of the Chief of Air Corps, $221,980. Office of the Surgeon General, $272,530. Office of Chief of Bureau of Insular Affairs, $66,400. Office of Chief of Engineers, $123,260: *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 expendituresMaximum expenditure, 1937. on this account for the fiscal year 1937 shall not exceed $323,960; 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, $424,160. Office of Chief of Chemical Warfare Service, $50,337. Office of Chief of Coast Artillery, $26,180. National Guard Bureau, War Department, $148,403. In all, salaries, War Department, $4,700,932: *Provided*, That the*Proviso*. Details not to be increased. number of warrant officers and enlisted men on duty in the offices of the Chiefs of Ordnance, Engineers, Coast Artillery, Field Artillery, Cavalry, Infantry, and Chaplains on March 5, 1934, shall not be increased, and in lieu of warrant officers and enlisted men whoseCivilians to fill vacancies.[U.
S. C., p. 85](/us/usc/p85).Funds available.*Post*, p. 1282. services in such offices shall be terminated for any cause prior to July 1, 1937, their places may be filled by civilians, for the pay of whom, in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, as amended, the appropriation “Pay of the Army” shall be available. In expending appropriations or portions of appropriations, containedRestriction on exceeding average salaries. Vol. 42, p. 1488; Vol. 45, p. 776; Vol. 45, p. 1003. [U.
S. C., p. 85](/us/usc/p85). 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 not exceed the average of the compensation rates for the grade, except that inExceptions. unusually meritorious cases of one position in a grade advances may be made to rates higher than the average of the compensation rates of the grade but not more often than once in any fiscal year and then only to the next higher rate: *Provided*, That this restriction shall not*Proviso*.Restriction not applicable to clerical-mechanical service.No reduction in fixed salaries.Vol. 42, p. 1490; [U.
S. C., p. 86](/us/usc/p86).Transfers without reduction. apply
(1)to grades 1, 2, 3, and 4 of the clerical-mechanical service, or
(2)to require the reduction in salary of any person whose compensation was fixed as of July 1, 1924, in accordance with the rules of section 6 of such Act,
(3)to require the reduction in salary of any person who is transferred from one position to another position in the same or different grade in the same or a different bureau, office,1280Higher salary rates allowed.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, If only one position in a grade.as amended, and is specifically authorized by other law, or
(5)to reduce the compensation of any person in a grade in which only one position is allocated. OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY 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, $236,000, 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 mentioned or authorized in this paragraph. Surgeon General’s office.library, surgeon general’s office Library expenses.For the purchase of the necessary books of reference, periodicals, and technical supplies and equipment, $20,660. 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 *Proviso*. Medical bulletins.Government Printing Office, $500,000: *Provided*, That the sum of $3,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, may be used for the publication, from time to time, of bulletins prepared under the direction of the Surgeon General of the Army, for the instruction of medical officers, when approved by the Secretary of War, and For Chief of Engineers.not exceeding $68,200 shall be available for printing and binding under the direction of the Chief of Engineers. Military activities.MILITARY ACTIVITIES contingencies of the army Army contingencies.For all emergencies and extraordinary expenses, including the employment of translators, and exclusive of all other personal services in the War Department or any of its subordinate bureaus or offices in the District of Columbia, or in the Army at large, but impossible to be anticipated or classified, to be expended on the approval or authority of the Secretary of War, and for such purposes as he may deem proper, and for examination of estimates of appropriations and of military activities in the field, $11,650. 1281 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 ofObserving operations of foreign armies. officers of the Army on duty abroad for the purpose of observing operations of armies of foreign states at war, to be paid upon certificates of the Secretary of War that the expenditures were necessary for obtaining military information, $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/s3648/p718).[U. S. C., p. 1395](/us/usc/p1395). 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 purchaseInstruction expenses. of 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 lectures; for the pay ofEmployees. employees; and for all other absolutely necessary expenses, $66,377. Adjutant General’s DepartmentAdjutant General’s Department. command and general staff school, fort leavenworth, kansas For the purchase of textbooks, books of reference, scientific andCommand and General Staff School, Fort Leavenworth, Kans. professional papers, instruments, and material for instruction; employment of temporary technical, special, and clerical services; and for other necessary expenses of instruction, at the Command and General Staff School, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, $35,027. field exercises For all expenses required for the conduct of special field exercises,Field exercises. including participation therein by the National Guard and the Organized Reserves, comprising allowances for enlisted men for quarters and rations, movement of matériel, maintenance, and operation of structures and utilities, and any other requisite supplies and services, and for settlement of claims (not exceeding $500 each) forPrivate property damages. damages to or loss of private property resulting from such exercises that have accrued or may hereafter accrue, when payment thereof will be accepted by the owners of the property in full satisfaction of such damages, and each claim is substantiated by a report of a board of officers appointed by the commanding officer of the troops engaged, and is approved by the Secretary of War, whose action thereon shall be conclusive, $255,321. welfare of enlisted menWelfare of enlisted men. For the equipment and conduct of school, reading, lunch, andEquipment, etc., post exchanges. 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 library1282 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 of the Army.pay of the army Officers.For pay of not to exceed an average of twelve thousand one *Proviso*. Commissioned strength increased.hundred and twenty-five commissioned officers, $34,169,252: *Provided*, That on and after July 1, 1936, there shall be authorized one thousand and thirty-three officers of the Medical Corps and one hundred and eighty-three officers of the Dental Corps, notwithstanding the Vol. 42, p. 721.provisions of the Act of June 30, 1922 (42 Stat. 721), and the authorized commissioned strength of the Regular Army is hereby increased by seventy-five in order to provide for the increases herein authorized in National Guard.the number of officers in the Medical and Dental Corps; pay of officers, National Guard, $100; pay of warrant officers, $1,474,844; Aviation increase.aviation increase to commissioned and warrant officers of the Army, Flights by nonflying officers.including not to exceed five medical officers, $2,224,001, none of which shall be available for increased pay for making aerial flights by nonflying officers at a rate in excess of $1,440 per annum, which shall Longevity.be the legal maximum rate as to such nonflying officers; additional Enlisted men; increase.pay to officers for length of service, $9,706,748; pay of not less than an average of one hundred and sixty-five thousand enlisted men of the line and staff, not including the Philippine Scouts, $61,383,965, Sum reappropriated. *Ante*, p. 124.and, in addition, $2,344,211 of the appropriation “Pay of the Army, 1936”, which sum shall remain available until June 30, 1937, for defraying the cost of increasing the enlisted strength of the Regular Army from an average of one hundred and forty-seven thousand to an average of one hundred and sixty-five thousand enlisted men, and the attainment of such one hundred and sixty-five thousand enlisted men shall be accomplished by recruiting at the rate of one thousand five hundred men per month in addition to recruits necessary to maintain one hundred and forty-seven thousand enlisted National Guard. Aviation increase. Philippine Scouts. Longevity.men; pay of enlisted men of National 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 Retired officers, etc.length of service to enlisted men, $4,759,614; pay of the officers on the retired list, $12,369,850; increased pay to not to exceed seven retired officers on active duty, $9,145; pay of retired enlisted men, Civil-service messengers at headquarters.$13,589,060; 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 Contract surgeons, nurses, etc.ports of embarkation and debarkation, $72,000; pay and allowances of contract surgeons, $53,076; pay of nurses, $899,260; pay of Rent, subsistence, etc.hospital matrons, $600; rental allowances, including allowances for quarters for enlisted men on duty where public quarters are not available, $6,352,574; subsistence allowances, $5,955,042; interest on Loss by exchange.soldiers’ deposits, $30,000; payment of exchange by officers serving in foreign countries, and when specially authorized by the Secretary of War, by officers disbursing funds pertaining to the War Department, when serving in Alaska, and all foreign money received shall be charged to and paid out by disbursing officers of the Army at the legal valuation fixed by the Secretary of the Treasury, $100; in all, $154,608,560, less $285,000 to be supplied by the Secretary of 1283War for this purpose from funds received during the fiscal year 1937 from the purchase by enlisted men of the Army of their discharges, $154,323,560; and the money herein appropriated for “PayAccounted for as one fund.*Proviso*.No additional pay for furnishing mounts or service as aide.Vol. 35, p. 108; [U. S. C., p. 267](/us/usc/p267). of the Army” shall be accounted for as one fund: *Provided*, That during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1937, 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). No payment shall be made from money appropriated in this Act toPay forbidden to a retired officer selling supplies to Army. any officer on the retired list of the Army who, for himself or for others, is engaged in the selling of, contracting for the sale of, or negotiating for the sale of, to the Army or the War Department, any war materials or supplies. No appropriation for the pay of the Army shall be available for Engaging 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 contained*Proviso*. Exemption. 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, forTravel allowances, etc. persons traveling in connection with the military and nonmilitary activities of the War Department, including mileage, transportation, reimbursement of actual expenses, or per diem allowances, to officers and contract surgeons; transportation of troops; transportation, or reimbursement therefor, of nurses, enlisted men, recruits, recruitingRecruiting expenses. 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 rations; commutationCommutation of quarters, rations, etc. 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 in a travel status, to nurses, civilian employees, civilian witnesses before courtsCivilians. martial, and attendants accompanying remains of military personnel and civilian employees, $3,103,527, which may be increased, subjectIncreases, by transfers, allowed. to the approval of the Director of the Bureau of the Budget, by transfers from other appropriations contained in this 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 exception, no other appropriationRestriction. 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 1284Organized Reserves, the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps, citizens’ military training camps, the National Board for the Promotion of Rifle Practice, the United States High Commissioner to the Philippine Islands, the United States Soldiers’ Home, the nonmilitary activities of the Corps of Engineers, and the Panama Canal, and except as may be provided for in the appropriation “Air Corps, *Provisos*. Travel allowance, expert accountant.Army”: *Provided*, That the expert accountant, Inspector General’s Department, shall be entitled to the same travel allowances as other Attendance at meetings.Vol. 39, p. 199; Vol. 42, p. 1034; Vol. 45, p. 406.[U. S. C., p. 1431](/us/usc/p1431).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 $2,500 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 commissions, retiring boards, and compensation of reporters and witnesses attending same, contract stenographic reporting services, and expenses of taking depositions and securing other evidence for use before the same, $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, and the expenses incident to their pursuit; and no greater sum than $25 for each deserter or escaped military prisoner shall, in the discretion of the Secretary of War, be paid to any civil officer or citizen for such services and expenses; for a donation of $10 to prisoner discharged otherwise than honorably upon his release from confinement under court-martial sentence involving dishonorable discharge, $20,000. Finance Service.finance service Clerks, etc.For compensation of clerks and other employees of the Finance Department, including not to exceed $900 for any one person for allowances for living quarters, including heat, fuel, and light, as Vol. 46, p. 818. [U. S. C., p. 45](/us/usc/p45).authorized by the Act approved June 26, 1930 (U. S. C., title 5, sec. 118a), $1,131,410. Private property damages.claims for damages to and loss of private property Payment of claims.For payment of claims, including claims of military and civilian personnel in and under the War Department, not exceeding $500 each in amount for damages to or loss of private property incident to the training, practice, operation, or maintenance of the Army that have accrued, or may hereafter accrue, from time to time, *Proviso*. Settlement by General Accounting Office. $10,000: *Provided*, That settlement of such claims shall be made by the General Accounting Office, upon the approval and recommendation of the Secretary of War, where the amount of damages has been ascertained by the War Department, and payment thereof will be accepted by the owners of the property in full satisfaction of such damages. 1285 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 nursesPayment of claims. of 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.,Vol. 41, p. 1436.[U. S. C., p. 1369](/us/usc/p1369). title 31, secs. 218–222), $15,000. Quartermaster CorpsQuartermaster Corps. Subsistence of the Army: Purchase of subsistence supplies: ForSubsistence of the Army. Purchase of supplies for issue as rations. 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 organizationsIce. of enlisted men and offices1So in original. 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 Transport Service; meals for recruiting parties and applicants for enlistment while under observation; for sales to officers,Sales to officers, etc. including 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 providing prizes to be established byPrizes, etc. the Secretary of War for enlisted men of the Army who graduate from the Army schools for bakers and cooks, the total amount of such prizes at the various schools not to exceed $900 per annum; and for other necessary expenses incident to the purchase, testing, care, preservation, issue, sale, and accounting for subsistence suppliesSubsistence supplies. *Ante*, p. 124. for the Army; in all, $26,887,384, and, in addition, $501,714 of the appropriation “Pay of the Army, 1936”, which shall remain available until June 30, 1937: *Provided*, That none of the money appropriated*Proviso.* Oleomargarine restriction. in this Act shall be used for the purchase of oleomargarine or butter substitutes for other than cooking purposes, except to supply an expressed preference therefor or for use where climatic or other conditions render the use of butter impracticable. Regular supplies of the Army: Regular supplies of the QuartermasterRegular supplies of the Army. Corps, including their care and protection; field ranges, field stoves for cooking food, coffee roasters, field bakery equipment,Field cooking appliances, etc. 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 necessary furniture, textbooks, paper, and equipmentFurniture, school supplies, etc. 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 1286Periodicals, technical books, etc.officers’ schools at the several military posts; for purchase of commercial newspapers, periodicals, market reports, technical books, and so forth; for the tableware and mess furniture for kitchens and mess Forage, etc.halls, each and all for the enlisted men, including recruits; for forage, salt, and vinegar for the horses, mules, oxen, and other draft and riding animals of the Quartermaster Corps at the several posts and stations and with the armies in the field, for the horses of the several regiments of Cavalry and batteries of Artillery and such companies of Infantry and Scouts as may be mounted, and for remounts and for the authorized number of officers’ horses, including bedding for Seeds and implements.the animals; for seeds and implements required for the raising of forage at remount depots and on Bedding, stationery, etc.military reservations in the Hawaiian, Philippine, and Panama Canal Departments, and for labor and expenses incident thereto, including, when specifically authorized by the Secretary of War, the cost of irrigation; for the purchase of implements and hire of labor for harvesting hay on military reservations; for straw for soldiers’ bedding, stationery, typewriters and exchange of same, including blank books and blank forms for the Army, certificates for discharged soldiers, and for printing department orders and reports, $3,069,000. 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 Laundries, etc.fitting clothing and washing and cleaning when necessary; for operation of laundries, existing or now under construction, including purchase and repair of laundry machinery therefor; for the authorized issues of laundry materials for use of general prisoners confined at military posts without pay or allowances, and for Repair shops.applicants for enlistment while held under observation; for equipment and repair of equipment of existing dry-cleaning plants, salvage and sorting storehouses, hat repairing shops, shoe repair shops, clothing repair shops, and garbage reduction works; for equipage, including 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 Toilet kits.under observation; issue of toilet kits to recruits upon their first enlistment, and issue of housewives to the Army; for expenses of Citizen’s outer clothing.packing and handling and similar necessaries; for a suit of citizen’s outer clothing and when necessary an overcoat, the cost of all not to exceed $30, to be issued 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 Indemnity for destroyed clothing, etc.internment; for indemnity to officers and men of the Army for clothing and bedding, and so forth, destroyed since April 22, 1898, by order of medical officers of the Army for sanitary reasons, $6,621,779, of Fuel.which amount not exceeding $60,000 shall be available immediately for the procurement and transportation of fuel for the service of *Proviso*. Laundry charges.the fiscal year 1937: *Provided*, That laundry charges, other than 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.Incidental expenses of the Army: Postage; hire of laborers in the Quartermaster Corps, including the care of officers’ mounts when the same are furnished by the Government; compensation of clerks and 1287other employees of the Quartermaster Corps, including not to exceedLiving quarters. $900 for any one person for allowances for living quarters, including heat, fuel, and light, as authorized by the Act of June 26, 1930Vol. 46, p. 818; [U. S. C., p. 45](/us/usc/p45). (U. S. C., title 5, sec. 118a), and clerks, foremen, watchmen, and organist for the United States Disciplinary Barracks; incidentalRecruiting. expenses of recruiting; for the operation of coffee-roasting plants; for the payment of entrance fees for Army rifle and pistol teamsRifle competitions, fees. Tests, etc. participating in competitions; for tests and experimental and development work and scientific research to be performed by the Bureau of Standards for the Quartermaster Corps; for inspection serviceInspection service, etc. and instruction furnished by the Department of Agriculture which may be transferred in advance; for such additional expendituresOperation expenses. as are necessary and authorized by law in the movements and operation of the Army and at military posts, and not expressly assigned to any other departments, $3,562,929: *Provided*, That no appropriation contained*Proviso*. Average number employed. 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; ofArmy transportation. Supplies. Privately owned automobiles. authorized baggage, including packing and crating; of horse equipment; and of funds for the Army; for transportation on Army vessels, notwithstanding the provisions of other law, of privately owned automobiles of Regular Army personnel upon change of station; for the purchase or construction, not to exceed $786,000, alteration,Boats, etc. operation, and repair of boats and other vessels; for wharfage, tolls, and ferriage; for drayage and cartage; for the purchase, manufacture (including both material and labor), maintenance, hire, and repair of pack saddles and harness; for the purchase, hire, operation,Vehicles. maintenance, and repair of wagons, carts, drays, other vehicles, and horse-drawn and motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles required for the transportation of troops and supplies and for official military and garrison purposes; for hire of draft and pack animals; for travel allowances to officers of National Guard on discharge from Federal service as prescribed in the Act of March 2, 1901 (U. S. C.,Travel allowance, National Guard. Vol. 31, p. 902; [U. S. C., p. 266](/us/usc/p266). title 10, sec. 751), and to enlisted men of National Guard on discharge from Federal service, as prescribed in amendatory Act of SeptemberVol. 42, p. 1021; [U. S. C., p. 266](/us/usc/p266). 22, 1922 (U. S. C., title 10, sec. 752), and to members of the National Guard who have been mustered into Federal service and discharged on account of physical disability; in all, $12,675,819, of which amountFuel. not exceeding $250,000 shall be available immediately for the procurement and transportation of fuel for the service of the fiscal year 1937: *Provided*, That not to exceed $1,000,000 of this appropriation*Provisos*. Motor vehicles, etc. shall be available for the purchase or exchange of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles and motor-propelled trucks, including trucks of the reconnaissance or station wagon type, of which amount not to exceed $146,000 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 vehicle exchanged, and not toAmbulances and motorcycles. exceed $90,000 may be expended for the purchase or exchange of motor-propelled ambulances and motorcycles: *Provided further*, That no appropriation contained in this Act shall be available forNot available for designated vehicles, except for salvaging. any expense of any character, other than as may be incident to salvaging or scrapping, on account of any motor-propelled vehicle procured prior to January 1, 1920, except tanks, tractors, ambulances,Exceptions. fire trucks, searchlight trucks, three hundred and ninety modernized 1288Class B trucks, and vehicles in use by Reserve Officers’ Training Transportation costs chargeable to appropriations from which supplies procured.Corps units on February 19, 1935: *Provided further*, That during the fiscal year 1937 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 Encouraging breeding of riding horses.$72,155 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), $681,337. Barracks, quarters, etc.barracks and quarters and other buildings and utilities Construction, maintenance, etc.For all expenses incident to the construction, installation, operation, and maintenance of buildings, utilities, appurtenances, and accessories necessary for the shelter, protection, and accommodation of the Army and its personnel and property, where not specifically provided for in other appropriations, including personal services, purchase and repair of furniture for quarters for officers, warrant officers, and noncommissioned officers, and officers’ messes and wall lockers and refrigerators for Government-owned buildings as may be approved by the Secretary of War, care and improvement of Rentals.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 for military purposes, lodgings for recruits and applicants for Water, roads, etc.enlistment, water supply, sewer and fire-alarm systems, fire apparatus, roads, walks, wharves, drainage, dredging channels, purchase of Target practice, etc.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 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 Warehouse and fuel handling equipment.War; warehouse and fuel handling equipment; stoves required for use of the Army for heating offices, hospitals, barracks, quarters, Stoves and cooking appliances.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 Heat, light, etc.appliances; for furnishing heat and light for the authorized allowance of quarters for officers, enlisted men, and warrant officers, including retired enlisted men when ordered to active duty, contract surgeons when stationed at and occupying public quarters at military posts, officers of the National Guard attending service and garrison schools, and for recruits, guards, hospitals, storehouses, Recreation buildings. Vol. 32, p. 282. [U. S. C., p. 293](/us/usc/p293).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 1289at established posts, $13,039,668, 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 1937: *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 appropriationRentals for military attachés. shall be available for the rental of offices, garages, and stables for military attaches: *Provided further*, That no part ofAdditional construction limited. the funds herein appropriated shall be available for construction of a permanent nature of an additional building or an extension or addition to an existing building, the cost of which in any case exceeds $20,000: *Provided further*, That the monthly rental rate toStabling rental. be paid out of this appropriation for stabling any animal shall not exceed $15. sewerage system, fort monroe, virginiaFort Monroe, Va. For repair and maintenance of wharf and apron of wharf, includingWharf, etc.all necessary labor and material therefor, fuel for waiting rooms; water, brooms, and shovels, $20,280; for one-third of said sum, to be supplied by the United States, $6,760. For rakes, shovels, and brooms; repairs to roadway, pavements,Roads, 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. In all, to be supplied by the United States, $16,866. construction and repair of hospitalsHospitals. For construction and repair of hospitals at military posts alreadyConstruction, repair, etc. established and occupied, including all expenditures for construction and repairs required at the Army and Navy Hospital at Hot Springs, Arkansas, and for the construction and repair of general hospitals and expenses incident thereto, and for additions needed to meet the requirements of increased garrisons, and for temporary hospitals in standing camps and cantonments; for the alteration of permanent buildings at posts for use as hospitals, construction and repair ofTemporary hospitals, etc. 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, $494,709. acquisition of land For the acquisition of land in the vicinity of West Point, NewWest Point, N. Y. Additional land, etc. York, as authorized by the Act approved March 3, 1931 (46 Stat. 1491), or, in lieu thereof, for such extensions and alterations as mayVol. 46, p. 1491. be necessary in the existing pipe line and intake employed in supplying water to the United States Military Academy, $431,000, to remain available until expended: *Provided*, That no obligation to*Proviso.* Approval by Comptroller General. acquire any parcel of land shall be incurred until the Comptroller General shall have approved the proposed purchase price as being reasonable. 1290 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 station, Exceptions.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 over Electrical installations, etc.commercial lines; electrical installations and maintenance thereof at military posts, cantonments, camps, and stations of the Army, fire control, Civilian employees.and direction apparatus, and material for 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 Experimental Investigation, etc.information for the Army by telegraph or otherwise; experimental investigation, research, purchase, and development, or improvements in apparatus, and maintenance of signaling and accessories thereto, 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, $5,301,806. Air Corps.Air Corps air corps, army Designated purposes.For creating, maintaining, and operating at established flying schools and balloon schools courses of instruction for officers, students, and enlisted men, including cost of equipment and supplies necessary for instruction, purchase of tools, equipment, materials, machines, textbooks, books of reference, scientific and professional papers, instruments, and materials for theoretical and practical instruction; Aircraft operation, etc.for maintenance, repair, storage, and operation of airships, war balloons, and other aerial machines, including instruments, materials, gas plants, hangars, and repair shops, and appliances of every sort 1291and description necessary for the operation, construction, or equipment of all types of aircraft, and all necessary spare parts and equipment connected therewith and the establishment of landing and take-offLanding, etc., runways. 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, autogyros, and balloons, accessories thereto, and aviation engines, including plans, drawings, and specifications thereof, and the purchase of letters patent, applications for letters patent, and licenses under letters patent and applications for letters patent; for the purchase,Purchase, construction, etc., of aircraft. manufacture, 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 airwaysMarking military airways. where the purchase of land is not involved; for the purchase, manufacture, and issue of special clothing, wearing apparel, and similar equipment for aviation purposes; for all necessary 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 moreConsulting engineers. than four consulting engineers at experimental stations of the Air Corps as the Secretary of War may deem necessary, at rates of pay to be fixed by him not to exceed $50 a day for not exceeding fifty days each and necessary traveling expenses; purchase of special apparatus and appliances, repairs, and replacements of same used in connection with special scientific medical research in the Air Corps; for maintenance and operation of such Air Corps printing plantsPrinting plants, etc. 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 settlementSettlement of claims. of claims (not exceeding $250 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 approved by the Chief of Air Corps and the Secretary of War, $59,397,714: *Provided*, That $10,000 shall be transferred*Proviso*. Helium. *Post*, p. 1790. to and made available to the Bureau of Mines on July 1, 1936, for supplying helium; and not less than $41,055,925 (including $7,686,753 for the payment of obligations incurred under the contract authorization for these purposes carried in the War Department Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1936), shall be expendedNew airplanes. *Ante*, p. 134. for the production or purchase of new airplanes and their equipment and accessories, of which $29,322,602 shall be available exclusively for combat airplanes, their equipment and accessories: *Provided further*, That in addition to the amounts herein provided for the Contracts authorized.1292procurement 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, 1937, 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 $10,669,786, 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*, Crissy Field, Calif. Restriction on expenditures incident to use of. Unsafe lighter-than-air craft, restriction.That no part of this or any other appropriation contained in this Act shall be available for any expense incident to the use of Crissy Field, California, as an air station: *Provided further*, That no available appropriation shall be used upon lighter-than-air craft, other than balloons, not in condition for safe operation on June 30, 1936, or that may become in such condition prior to July 1, 1937: *Provided further*,Sums available for incurred obligations. Vol. 47, pp. 676, 1582. That the sum of $30,000 of the appropriation for Air Corps, Army, fiscal year 1933, and the sum of $450,000 of the appropriation for Air Corps, Army, fiscal year 1934, shall remain available until June 30, 1937, for the payment of obligations incurred under contracts executed prior to July 1, 1934. Little Rock, Ark. Conveyance of certain land to, for public purposes.That the Secretary of War is hereby authorized and directed to convey to the city of Little Rock, Arkansas, a municipal corporation of the State of Arkansas, the land described in section 2 hereof, subject to the following conditions:
(1)Conditions.Said property shall be at all times utilized only by the municipality for public purposes, except what is known as building numbered 19 thereon covered by existing lease and any building erected with the consent of the city of Little Rock, Arkansas, on the site of hangar numbered 1.
(2)Federal use in emergency.In time of national emergency, upon request of the Secretary of War, the municipality shall turn over complete control and operation of the entire Little Rock Municipal Airport and the property thereon, without rental or other charge, to the United States of America, for such use and for such length of time as the emergency shall require, in the discretion of the Secretary of War.
(3)Use of airport.That the said municipality shall at all times furnish free use of the said Little Rock Municipal Airport to all Army and Navy aircraft, together with such hangar and necessary service facilities as are available at said airport.
(4)Airport field, hangar, etc.That the said municipality shall furnish free use of the airport field and the squadron hangar now located thereon to the One Hundred and Fifty-fourth Observation Squadron, Arkansas National Guard, or its successor as designated by the War Department, and that the said squadron during periods of intensive training under direction of the War Department, shall have right-of-way or priority in the use of the said field, and that the municipality shall continue to extend to the squadron the same free services of said field as are now extended to the squadron, including free use of the lighting system for night flights.
(5)Improvements.The municipality shall annually expend in new and additional improvements to the airport an amount equal to the amount now paid the United States of America as rental. Sec. 2. Description.The land authorized to be conveyed by the Secretary of War under section 1 hereof is described as follows: Beginning at an iron pin marking the southwest corner of the east half of the northeast quarter section 12, township 1 north, range 12 west fifth principal meridian; thence
(1)South eighty-four degrees forty-five minutes west along the east and west half-section line of said section, said line also being 1293the center line of Seventeenth Street, a distance of one thousand two hundred and forty-one and sixty-five one-hundredths feet to a point in the easterly right-of-way line of the Missouri Pacific Railroad; thence
(2)North thirty-four degrees fifty-six minutes west along said right-of-way line, a distance of one thousandDescription—Contd. five hundred and forty-eight and seventy-eight one-hundredths feet to a point in the center line of Thirteenth Street; thence Along the center line of Thirteenth Street, the following three courses:
(3)North eighty-four degrees forty-six minutes east a distance of nine hundred and forty-one and four one-hundredths feet to a point;
(4)South eighty-four degrees twenty-one minutes east a distance of one hundred and seventy-nine and no hundredths feet to a point;
(5)North eighty-four degrees fifty-four minutes east a distance of eight hundred and eighty-four and thirty one-hundredths feet to a point in the center line of the Harrington Avenue, said center line also being the west line of the east half of the northeast quarter of said section 12; thence
(6)North five degrees thirty-six minutes west along said center line, a distance of one thousand and fifty-eight and eighty one-hundredths feet to a point; said point being two hundred and eighty-six and no hundredths feet from a stone monument marking the northwest corner of the east half of the northeast quarter of said section 12; thence
(7)North thirty-seven degrees thirty-five minutes east a distance of three hundred and ninety-one and sixty one-hundredths feet to a point in the north line of said section 12, distant two hundred and sixty-eight and no hundredths feet from said stone monument; thence
(8)North eighty-four degrees thirty-two minutes east along the north line of section 12, a distance of eight hundred and forty-three and eighty-five one-hundredths feet to an iron pin, said pin being two hundred and eleven and no hundredths feet from a stone monument in the northeast corner of said section 12; thence
(9)South five degrees thirty-one minutes east, a distance of two thousand six hundred and fifty-seven and seventy one-hundredths feet to an iron pin, said pin being two hundred and eleven and no hundredths feet from an iron pin in the southeast corner of the east half of the northeast quarter of section 12; thence
(10)South eighty-four degrees forty-two minutes west along the east and west half-section line of said section 12, said line also being the center line of Seventeenth Street, a distance of nine hundred and thirty-five and eighty one-hundredths feet to a point; thence
(11)North five degrees thirty-six minutes west a distance of seventy-five and ten one-hundredths feet to a point; thence
(12)South eighty-four degrees forty-two minutes west, a distance of one hundred and seventy-two and twenty one-hundredths feet to a point; thence
(13)South five degrees thirty-six minutes east, a distance of seventy-five and ten one-hundredths feet to the point of beginning. Containing, in all, an area of one hundred and fifteen and eight-hundred-and-four one-thousandths acres, more or less, all as shown on map numbered 6490-101, entitled “Reservation Boundary Little Rock, A. I. D., Little Rock, Ark.”, dated March 1928, and filed in the office of the Quartermaster General, Washington, District of Columbia. 1294 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 and treatment of patients, including supernumeraries, not otherwise Private treatment.provided for, including care and subsistence in private hospitals of officers, enlisted men, and civilian employees of the Army, of applicants for enlistment, and of prisoners of war and other persons in military custody or confinement, when entitled thereto by law, *Proviso.* Not applicable, if on furlough. Contagious, etc., diseases, expenses.regulation, or contract: *Provided*, That this shall not apply to officers and enlisted men who are treated in private hospitals or by civilian physicians while on furlough; for the proper care and treatment of epidemic and contagious diseases in the Army or at Military posts or stations, including measures to prevent the spread thereof, and the payment of reasonable damages not otherwise provided for for Insane Filipino soldiers.Vol. 35, p. 122; Vol. 39, p. 309; [U. S. C., p. 988](/us/usc/p988).Nurses.bedding and clothing injured or destroyed in such prevention; for the care of insane Filipino soldiers in conformity with the Act of Congress approved May 11, 1908 (U. S. C., title 24, sec. 198); for the pay of male and female nurses, not including the Army Nurse Corps, and of cooks and other civilians employed for the proper care of sick officers and soldiers, under such regulations fixing their number, qualifications, assignments, pay, and allowances as shall have been or shall Civilian physicians.be prescribed by the Secretary of War; for the pay of civilian physicians employed to examine physically applicants for enlistment and enlisted men and to render other professional services from time to time under proper authority; for the pay of other employees of the Transporting supplies, etc.Medical Department; for the payment of express companies and local transfers employed directly by the Medical Department for the transportation of medical and hospital supplies, including bidders’ samples and water for analysis; for supplies for use in teaching the Hot Springs, Ark., hospital.art of cooking to the enlisted force of the Medical Department; for the supply of Army and Navy Hospital at Hot Springs, Arkansas; for advertising, laundry, and all other necessary miscellaneous expenses of the Medical Department, $1,478,323. Canal Zone garrisons.hospital care, canal zone garrisons Care of troops.For paying the Panama Canal such reasonable charges, exclusive of subsistence, as may be approved by the Secretary of War for caring in its hospitals for officers, enlisted men, military prisoners, and civilian employees of the Army admitted thereto upon the request of *Proviso*. Subsistence payments.proper military authority, $50,000: *Provided*, That the subsistence of the said patients, except commissioned officers, shall be paid to said hospitals out of the appropriation for subsistence of the Army at the rates provided therein for commutation of rations for enlisted patients in general hospitals. Army Medical Museum.army medical museum Preservation, etc., of specimens.For the procurement preparation, and preservation of specimens and the purchase of technical supplies and equipment, $10,000. 1295 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)repairOperating, etc., expenses. and alteration of buildings; for heat, light, power, water, and communication service, not otherwise provided for; and for the compensation of employees required in these activities, $536,427. Ordnance DepartmentOrdnance Department. ordnance service and supplies, armyOrdnance service and supplies. For manufacture, procurement, storage, and issue, includingManufacture, issue, etc. research, planning, design, development, inspection, test, alteration, maintenance, repair, and handling of ordnance material together with the machinery, supplies, and services necessary thereto; forCurrent expenses. supplies and services in connection with the general work of the Ordnance Department, comprising police and office duties, rents, tolls, fuel, light, water, advertising, stationery, typewriting and computing machines, including their exchange, and furniture, tools, and instruments of service; to provide for training and other incidental expenses of the ordnance service; for instruction purposes, other than tuition; for the purchase, completely equipped, of trucks, andVehicles. for maintenance, repair, and operation of motor-propelled and horse-drawn freight and passenger-carrying vehicles; for ammunition forAmmunition for military salutes. military salutes at Government establishments and institutions to which the issues of arms for salutes are authorized; for services, material, tools, and appliances for operation of the testing machines and chemical laboratory in connection therewith; for the developmentGages, dies, and jigs. 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 National Defense Act, asVol. 39, p. 215; [U. S. C., p. 2264](/us/usc/p2264). Publications. amended (U. S. C., title 50, sec. 78); for publications for libraries of the Ordnance Department, including the Ordnance Office, including subscriptions to periodicals; for services of not more than fourConsulting engineers. consulting engineers as the Secretary of War may deem necessary, at rates of pay to he fixed by him not to exceed $50 per day for not exceeding fifty days each, and for their necessary traveling expenses, $16,196,370. rock island bridge, rock island, illinoisRock Island, III. For operating, repair, and preservation of Bock Island bridgesOperating bridges, etc. and viaduct, and maintenance and repair of the arsenal street connecting the bridges, $32,835. 1296 Arsenals.repairs of arsenals Repairs, etc.For repairs and improvements of ordnance establishments, and to meet such unforeseen expenditures as accidents or other contingencies may require, $936,184. 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; investigations, research, design, experimentation, and operation, purchase of chemicals, special scientific and technical apparatus and Part-time employment of scientists, etc.instruments, including services connected therewith; for the payment of part-time or intermittent employment of such scientists and technicists as may be contracted for by the Secretary of War, in his discretion, at a rate of pay not exceeding $20 per diem for any Vehicles.person so employed; for the purchase, maintenance, repair, and Plants, buildings, machinery, etc.operation of freight- and passenger-carrying motor vehicles; construction, maintenance, and repair of plants, buildings, and equipment, and the machinery therefor; receiving, storing, and issuing of supplies, comprising police and office duties, rents, tolls, fuels, gasoline, lubricants, paints and oils, rope and cordage, light, water advertising, stationery, typewriting and adding machines including their exchange, office furniture, tools, and instruments; for Civilian employees.incidental expenses; for civilian employees; for libraries of the Chemical Special gas troops; organization, training, etc.Warfare Service and subscriptions to periodicals; for expenses incidental to the organization, training, and equipment of special gas troops not otherwise provided for, including the training of the Army in chemical warfare, both offensive and defensive, together with the necessary schools, tactical demonstrations, and maneuvers; Current expenses.for current expenses of chemical projectile filling plants and proving grounds, including construction and maintenance of rail transportation, repairs, alterations, accessories, building and repairing butts and targets, clearing and grading ranges, $1,483,608. Chief of Infantry.Chief of Infantry Infantry School, Fort Benning, Ga.infantry school, fort benning, georgia Instruction expenses.For the procurement of books, publications, instruments, and materials, and other necessary expenses for instruction at the Infantry School, and for pay of employees at the Infantry School and in the office of the Chief of Infantry, $63,830. Chief of Cavalry.Chief of Cavalry Cavalry School, Fort Riley, Kans. cavalry school, fort riley, kansas Instruction expenses.For the purchase of textbooks, books of reference, scientific and professional papers, instruments, and materials for instruction; employment of temporary, technical special, and clerical services; and for other necessary expenses of instruction at the Cavalry School, Fort Riley, Kansas, $23,755. Chief of Field Artillery.Chief of Field Artillery Field Artillery activities.instruction in field artillery activities Instruction expenses.For the pay of employees; the purchase of books, pamphlets, periodicals, and newspapers; procurement of supplies, materials, and equipment for instruction purposes; and other expenses necessary in the operation of the Field Artillery School of the Army, and for the instruction of the Army in Field Artillery activities $27,191. 1297 Chief of Coast ArtilleryChief of Coast Artillery. coast artillery school, fort monroe, virginiaCoast Artillery School, Fort Monroe, Va. For purchase of engines, generators, motors, machines, measuringInstruction expenses. and nautical instruments, special apparatus, and materials for experimental purposes for the engineering and artillery and military art departments and enlisted specialists division; for purchase and binding of professional books treating of military and scientific subjects for library, for use of school, and for temporary use in coast defense; for incidental expenses of the school, including chemicals, stationery, printing and binding; hardware; materials; cost of special instruction of officers detailed as instructors; employment of temporary, technical, or special services; for office furniture and fixtures; for machinery; for maintenance, operation, and repair of motor trucks; and unforeseen expenses; in all, $28,000. Seacoast DefensesSeacoast defenses. For all expenses incident to the preparation of plans and the construction,All expenses. purchase, installation, equipment, maintenance, repair, and operation of fortifications and other works of defense, and their accessories, including personal services, ammunition storage, maintenance of channels to submarine-mine wharves, purchase of lands and rights-of-way as authorized by law, and experimental, test, and development work, as follows: United States, $3,915,591, of which not less than $3,150,973 shall be available exclusively toward improving the harbor defenses of the Pacific coast of continental United States; Insular departments, $3,379,511, of which not less than $3,141,780 shall be available exclusively toward defense projects in the Hawaiian department; Panama Canal, $1,223,892; In all, $8,518,994. United States Military AcademyMilitary Academy. pay of military academyPay. Cadets: For pay of cadets, $1,375,920: *Provided*, That during theCadets. *Provisos*. Army detail, pay restriction. fiscal year ending June 30, 1937, no officer of the Army shall be entitled to receive any increase in pay or allowances because of detail or assignment to duty in any capacity at the Military Academy: *Provided*, That the duties of librarian of the United States MilitaryRetired Army officer as librarian. Academy may be performed by an officer of the Regular Army retired from active service under the provisions of section 1251,[R. S., sec. 1251, p. 218](/us/rs/s1251/p218).[U. S. C., p. 274](/us/usc/p274). Revised Statutes, and detailed on active duty for that purpose. Civilians: For pay of employees, $301,350.Civilians. maintenance and operation, united states military academyMaintenance, etc. For text and reference books for instruction; increase and expense Designated expenses.of library (not exceeding $6,000); office equipment and supplies; stationery, blank books, forais, printing and binding, and periodicals; diplomas for graduates; 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 commutation of rations for cadets in lieu of the regular established ration; maintenance of children’s school (not exceeding $12,200); contingencies for superintendent of the academy, to be 1298Board of Visitors.expended in his discretion (not to exceed $4,000); expenses of the members of the Board of Visitors (not exceeding $1,500); contingent fund, to be expended under the direction of the Academic Board (not exceeding $500): improvement, repair, and maintenance of buildings and grounds (including roads, walls, and fences); shooting galleries and ranges; cooking, heating, and lighting apparatus and fixtures and operation and maintenance thereof; maintenance of water, sewer, and plumbing systems; maintenance of and repairs to cadet camp; fire-extinguishing apparatus; machinery and tools and repairs of same; maintenance, repair, and operation of motor-propelled vehicles; policing buildings and grounds; furniture, refrigerators, and lockers for Government-owned buildings at the academy and repair and maintenance thereof; fuel for heat, light, and power; and other necessary incidental expenses in the discretion of the *Proviso*. Liquidating certain debts to cadet store.superintendent; in all, $1,414,834: *Provided*, That not to exceed $3,750 of this amount shall be available to liquidate the indebtedness of cadets separated from the service for any reason during their first year, who at the time of their separation are in debt to the cadet store. National Guard.National Guard Arming, etc.arming, equipping, and training the national guard Forage, etc.For procurernent of forage, bedding, and so forth, for animals used by the National Guard, $512,366. Care of animals, materials, etc.For compensation of help for care of materials, animals, and equipment, $2,705,012. Instruction expenses.For expenses, camps of instruction, field and supplemental training, and including medical and hospital treatment authorized by law, and the hire (at a rate not to exceed $1 per diem), repair, maintenance, and operation of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles, $8,609,071. Service schools, instruction, etc.For expenses, selected officers and enlisted men, military service schools, including medical and hospital treatment authorized by law, $440,209. Property and disbursing officers.For pay of property and disbursing officers for the United States, $81,300. Equipment, etc.For general expenses, equipment, and instruction, National Guard, including medical and hospital treatment authorized by law, and the hire (at a rate not to exceed $1 per diem), repair, maintenance, and operation of motor-propelled passenger- and non-passenger-carrying vehicles, $828,442. Travel, Army officers, etc.For travel of officers, warrant officers, and enlisted men of the Regular Army in connection with the National Guard, $248,500: *Proviso*. War Department General Staff.*Provided*, That not to exceed $2,000 of this sum shall be expended for travel of officers of the War Department General Staff in connection with the National Guard. Transporting supplies, etc.For transportation of equipment and supplies, $195,000. Army enlisted men, details.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. Pay, armory drills.For pay of National Guard (armory drills), $13,955,653. No pay to National Guard officer, etc., drawing pension.No part of the appropriations made in this Act shall be available 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) Provisos. Provisions waived if pension surrendered.from the Government of the United States: *Provided*, 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 1299of any officer or enlisted man of the National Guard who may surrender said pension, disability allowance, disability compensation, or retired pay for the period of his service in the National Guard: *Provided further*, That adjutants general who may be drawing suchAdjutants general continued in present status without pay. 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, includingMotor trucks, field ambulances, etc. motor trucks, field ambulances, and station 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, $10,034,915, of which $500,000 shall be available exclusivelyIncrease in enlisted strength. for defraying the cost of increasing the strength of the National Guard from approximately one hundred and ninety-five thousand to not exceeding an average of two hundred thousand officers and men, and all of the sums appropriated in this Act on account of theAccounting. National Guard shall be accounted for as one fund and of the total of such sums $1,500,000 shall be available immediately: *Provided*,*Provisos*. Specifications of motor vehicles. 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: *Provided further*, That the value of issues made to any State, Territory, orReplacement of damaged property. Vol. 39, p. 204; Vol. 43, p. 1077. [U. S. C., p. 1433](/us/usc/p1433). Vol. 39, p. 199; Vol. 42, p. 1034. [U. S. C., p. 1431](/us/usc/p1431). the District of Columbia 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 Vol. 48, p. 1227; [U. S. C., p. 1412](/us/usc/p1412).section 4
(a)and
(22)of the Permanent Appropriation Repeal Act of June 26, 1934: *Provided further*, That the Secretary of WarClothing, equipment, etc., from Army surplus stores. is hereby authorized to issue surplus or reserve stores and material on hand and purchased for the United States Army such articles of clothing and equipment and Field Artillery, Engineer, and Signal material and ammunition as may be needed by the National Guard organized under the provision of the Act entitled “An Act for makingVol. 39, p. 199; Vol. 45, p. 406. [U. S. C., p. 1431](/us/usc/p1431). 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 amended. This issue shall be made without charge againstIssue without charge against fund. National Guard appropriations except for actual expenses incident to such issue. No appropriation contained in this Act shall be available for anyNo increase of mounted units, etc. expense for or on account of a larger number of mounted units and wagon companies of the National Guard than were in existence on June 30, 1932: *Provided*, That officers, warrant officers, and enlisted*Provisos*. Participation in National Rifle Matches. men of the National Guard and Organized Reserves, who, under regulations prescribed by the Secretary of War, volunteer to participate without pay as competitors or range officers in the national matches to be held during the fiscal year 1937, may attend such matches without pay, notwithstanding any provision of law to the 1300Travel and subsistence.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, but this proviso shall not operate to prohibit the pay of such competitors or range officers, provided funds for *Post*, p. 1304.such payment are available from the appropriation “Promotion of rifle practice, 1937,” nor shall any provision in this Act operate to deprive a reserve officer ordered to active duty incident to the national matches of pay for the full period of such active duty, provided funds for such payment are available from the appropriation “Promotion of rifle Caretakers of ranges.practice, 1937”: *Provided, further*, That officers, warrant officers, and enlisted men of the National Guard and Organized Reserves may be ordered to duty, with their consent, for the care, maintenance, and operation of the ranges used in the conduct of the national matches and such officers, warrant officers, and enlisted men while so engaged shall be entitled to the same pay, subsistence, and transportation as officers, warrant officers, and enlisted men of corresponding grades of the Regular Army are entitled by law, which expense shall be provided by the appropriation “Promotion of rifle practice”; and after being duly mustered may be paid for the period from the date of leaving home rendezvous to date of return thereto as determined in advance, both dates inclusive. 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, as *Proviso.* Mileage allowance.authorized by law: *Provided*, That the mileage allowance to members of the Officers’ Reserve Corps when called into active service for training for fifteen days or less shall not exceed 4 cents per Enlisted Reserve Corps. Correspondence, etc., courses.mile; pay, transportation, subsistence, clothing, and medical and hospital treatment of members of the Enlisted Reserve Corps; conducting correspondence or extension courses for instruction of 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 Headquarters and training camps.magazines and periodicals of a professional or technical nature; establishment, maintenance, and operation of divisional and regimental headquarters and of camps for training of the Vehicles.Organized Reserves; for miscellaneous expenses incident to the administration of the Organized Reserves, including the maintenance and operation of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles and purchase of fifteen Travel, etc., expenses.such vehicles; for the actual and necessary expenses, or per diem in lieu thereof, at rates authorized by law, incurred by officers and enlisted men of the Regular Army traveling on duty in connection with the Organized Reserves, and for travel of dependents, and Maintenance of supplies.packing and transportation of baggage of such personnel; for expenses incident to the use, including upkeep and depreciation costs, of supplies, equipment, and matériel furnished in accordance with New airplanes.law from stocks under the control of the War Department, except that not to exceed $785,775 of this appropriation shall be available for expenditure by the Chief of the Air Corps for the production and purchase of new airplanes and their equipment, spare parts, Baggage transportation.and accessories; for transportation of baggage, including packing and crating, of reserve officers ordered to active duty for not less Medical and hospital treatment.Vol. 46, p. 401.[U. S. C., p. 252](/us/usc/p252).than six months; for the medical and hospital treatment of members of the Officers’ Reserve Corps and of the Enlisted Reserve Corps, who suffer personal injury or contract disease in line of duty, as provided by the Act of April 26, 1928 (U. S. C., title 10, secs. 451,1301455), 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, $8,574,195; and noFlight training restrictions. part of such total sum shall be available for any expense incident to giving flight training to any officer of the Officers’ Reserve Corps unless he shall be found physically and professionally qualified to perform aviation service as an aviation pilot, by such agency as the Secretary of War may designate: *Provided*, That not to exceed*Proviso*. Divisional etc., headquarters $100,000 of this appropriation may be used for establishment and maintenance of divisional and regimental headquarters. None of the funds appropriated elsewhere in this Act, except for Restriction 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 with the Organized Reserves, but available supplies and existing Use of available supplies, etcfacilities 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*Proviso.* Provision waived if pension, etc., surrendered. be so construed as to prevent the application of funds herein contained to the pay, allowances, or traveling expenses of any officer or enlisted man of the 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. General Staff detail excepted. Vol. 41, p. 760. [U. S. C., p. 231](/us/usc/p231). of a reserve officer on active duty for a longer period than fifteen days, except such as may be detailed for duty with the War Department General Staff under section 3a and section 5
(b)of the Army Reorganization Act approved June 4, 1920 (U. S. C., title 10, secs. 26, 37), or who may be detailed for courses of instruction at the generalOther details. or special service schools of the Army, for duty as instructors at civilian military training camps, appropriated for in this Act, or for duty with tactical units of the Air Corps, as provided in section 37aAir Corps. Vol. 41, p. 776; [U. S. C., p. 249](/us/usc/p249). of the Army Reorganization Act approved June 4, 1920 (U. S. C., title 10, sec. 369), or who may be detailed to active duty with the Regular Army under the provisions of Public Law Numbered 408,*Ante*, p. 1028. first session, Seventy-fourth Congress: *Provided*, That the pay and*Proviso*. Medical Reserve Corps for Veterans’ Administration patients in Army hospitals. 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. Citizens’ Military TrainingCitizens’ Military Training. reserve officers’ training corpsReserve Officers’ Training Corps. For the procurement, maintenance, and issue, under such regulationsQuartermaster supplies for units of. as may be prescribed by the Secretary of War, to institutions at which one or more units of the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps are maintained, of such public animals, means of transportation, supplies, tentage, equipment, and uniforms as he may deem necessary, including cleaning and laundering of uniforms and clothing at camps; and to forage, at the expense of the United States, public 1302animals 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 of the Expenses for supplies.travel; 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 pay for students attending advanced camps at the rate prescribed for soldiers of the seventh grade of the Regular Subsistence commutation, senior division members.Army; for the payment of commutation of subsistence to members of the senior division of the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps, at a rate not exceeding the cost of the garrison ration prescribed for the Vol. 39, p. 193; Vol. 41 p. 778. [U. S. C., p. 250](/us/usc/p250).Army, as authorized in the Act approved June 3, 1916, as amended by the Act approved June 4, 1920 (U. S. C., title 10, sec. 387); for Medical treatment, in line of duty.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 section Vol. 41 p. 778. [U. S. C., p. 251](/us/usc/p251).47a of the National Defense Act approved June 3, 1916 (U. S. C., title 10, sec. 441 ), as amended; and for the cost of preparation and Burial expenses.transportation to their homes and burial expenses of the remains of members of the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps who die while attending camps of instruction as provided in the Act approved Vol. 15, p. 46; [U. S. C., p. 252](/us/usc/p252). Transporting dependents, etc.April 26, 1928 (U. S. C., title 10, sec. 455); for mileage, traveling expenses, or transportation, for transportation of dependents, and for packing and transportation of baggage, as authorized by law, for officers, warrant officers, and enlisted men of the Regular Army traveling on duty pertaining to or on detail to or relief from duty Vehicles.with the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps; for the purchase, maintenance, repair, and operation of motor vehicles, including station wagons, $4,585,846; of which $400,000 shall be available Provisos. Issue of Army horses.immediately: *Provided*, That the Secretary of War is authorized to issue, without charge, in lieu of purchase, for the use of the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps, so many horses now belonging to the Regular Uniforms, etc., from Army surplus stock.Army as he may consider desirable: *Provided*, That uniforms and other equipment or material issued to the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps in accordance with law shall be furnished from surplus or reserve stocks of the War Department without payment from this appropriation, except for actual expense incurred in the Current price to govern.manufacture or issue: *Provided further*, That in no case shall the amount paid from this appropriation for uniforms, equipment, or material furnished to the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps from stocks under the control of the War Department be in excess of the price current 1303at 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 transport, or tank units in the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps in excess of the number in existence on January 1, 1928: *Provided further*, ThatNo additional students in designated units. none of the funds appropriated in this Act shall be available for any expense on account of any student in Air Corps, Dental Corps, or Veterinary units not a member of such units on May 5, 1932, but such stoppage of further enrollments shall not interfere with the maintenance of existing units: *Provided further*, That none of theRestriction on use of other funds. 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. 41, p. 780; [U. S. C., p. 285](/us/usc/p285). [R. S., sec. 1225, p. 216](/us/rs/s1225/p216). [U. S. C., p. 1579](/us/usc/p1579). 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 DefenseVol. 41, p. 779. [U. S. C., p. 251](/us/usc/p251). Act of June 3, 1916, as amended (U. S. C., title 10, sec. 442), uniforms, including altering, fitting, washing, and cleaning when necessary, subsistence, or subsistence allowances and transportation, or transportation allowances, as prescribed in said sectionMaintenance. 47d, as amended; for such expenditures as are authorized by said section 47d as may be necessary for the establishment and maintenance of said camps, including recruiting and advertising therefor, and the cost of maintenance, repair, and operation of passenger-carrying vehicles; for expenses incident to the use, including upkeep and depreciation costs, of supplies, equipment, and matériel furnished in accordance with law from stocks under the control of the War Department; for gymnasium and athletic supplies (not exceeding $20,000); for mileage, reimbursement of traveling expenses, or allowance in lieu thereof as authorized by law, for officers of the Regular Army and Organized Reserves, and for the travel expenses of enlisted men of the Regular Army, traveling on duty in connection with citizens’ military training camps; for purchase of training manuals, including Government publications and blank forms; for medicalMedical and hospital treatment. 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 burial ofBurials. remains of any such members who die while undergoing training or hospital treatment, as provided in the Act of April 26, 1928 (U. S. C.,Vol. 45, p. 461.[U. S. C., p. 252](/us/usc/p252).*Provisos*.Age limitation. title 10, secs. 454, 455); in all, $2,275,000: *Provided*, That the funds herein appropriated shall not be used for the training of any person in the first year or lowest course, who shall have reached his twenty-fourth birthday before the date of enrollment: *Provided further*, 1304Restriction on use of other funds.That none of the funds appropriated elsewhere in this Act except for printing and binding and for pay and allowances of officers and enlisted men of the Regular Army shall be used for expenses in connection with citizens’ military training camps: *Provided further*, Uniforms, etc., from Army surplus stocks.That uniforms and other equipment or matériel 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 Current price to govern.incurred in the manufacture 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 of 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. *Post*, p. 1641.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 Supplies, etc.exceeding $25,000 in the District of Columbia; for procurement of materials, supplies, trophies, prizes, badges, and services, as authorized in Vol. 39, p. 211; Vol. 43, p. 510. [U. S. C., p. 1443](/us/usc/p1443).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 Vol. 45, p. 786; [U. S. C., p. 1443](/us/usc/p1443).$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, $545,726. 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 Cash rewards restricted.upon such work; nor shall any part of the appropriations made in this Act be available to pay any premiums or bonus or cash reward to any employee in addition to his regular wages, except for suggestions resulting in improvements or economy in the operation of any Government plant. TITLE II—Nonmilitary activities.NONMILITARY ACTIVITIES OF THE WAR DEPARTMENT Quartermaster Corps.Quartermaster Corps cemetarial expenses National cemeteries. Maintenance, etc.For maintaining and improving national cemeteries, including fuel for and pay of superintendents and the superintendent at Mexico City, and other employees; purchase of land (not to exceed $106,000, of which $100,000 shall be available for expenditure by the Secretary 1305of War for the acquisition, by purchase, condemnation, or otherwise, of such suitable lands as in his judgment are required for enlargement of existing national cemetery facilities); purchase of tools and materials; purchase, including exchange, of one motor-propelled passenger-carryingVehicles. vehicle; and for the repair, maintenance, and operation of motor vehicles; care and maintenance of the Arlington Memorial Amphitheater,Arlington, Va. chapel, and grounds in the Arlington National Cemetery; repair to roadways but not to more than a single approach road to anyRoadway repairs, etc. national cemetery constructed under special Act of Congress; headstonesHeadstones. for unmarked graves of soldiers, sailors, and marines under the Acts approved March 3, 1873 (U. S. C., title 24, sec. 279). February 3,Vol. 20, p. 281; Vol. 34, p. 56; Vol. 38, p. 768; Vol. 45, p. 1307. [U. S. C., p. 992](/us/usc/p992). 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., title 24, sec. 280a), and civilians interred in post cemeteries; recoveryRecovery of remains. of bodies and disposition of remains of military personnel and civilian employees of the Army under Act approved March 9, 1928Vol. 45. p. 251. [U. S. C., p. 273](/us/usc/p273). (U. S. C., title 10, sec. 916); not to exceed $734 for repairs and preservation of monuments, tablets, roads, fences, and so forth, made and constructed by the United States in Cuba and China to mark the places where American soldiers fell; care, protection, andConfederate cemeteries, etc. maintenance of the 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 Cemetery at Point Lookout, and the Confederate Cemetery at Rock Island, $916,990: *Provided*, That no railroad shall be permitted upon any right-of-way*Proviso*. Encroachments forbidden. 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*,Repairs restricted. That no part of this appropriation shall be used for repairing any roadway not owned by the United States within the corporate limits of any city, town, or village. Signal CorpsSignal Corps. alaska communication systemAlaska Communication System. For operation, maintenance, and improvement of the Alaska CommunicationOperation, Improvement, etc. System and for purchase, including exchange, and operation and maintenance of one motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicle, $163,338, to be derived from the receipts of the AlaskaFrom receipts. Communication System which have been covered into the Treasury of the United States, and to remain available until the close of the fiscal year 1938: *Provided*, That the Secretary of War shall*Proviso.* Report to Congress. report to Congress the extent and cost of any extensions and betterments which may be effected under this appropriation. United States High Commissioner to the Philippine IslandsPhilippine Islands. For the maintenance of the office of the United States High CommissionerU. S. High Commissioner’s office. Vol. 48, p. 461; *Ante*, p. 58. [U. S. C., p. 2187](/us/usc/p2187). Salaries, expenses, etc. to the Philippine Islands as authorized by subsection 4 of section 7 of the Act approved March 24, 1934 (48 Stat. 456), including salaries and wages; rental, furnishings, equipment, maintenance, renovation, and repair of office quarters and living quarters for the High Commissioner; supplies and equipment; purchase and exchange of law books and books of reference, periodicals, and newspapers; traveling expenses, including for persons appointed hereunder withinTravel, etc., expenses. the United States and their families, actual expenses of travel and transportation of household effects from their homes in the United States to the Philippine Islands, utilizing Government vessels 1306Vehicles.whenever practicable; operation, maintenance and repair of motor vehicles, and all other necessary expenses, $161,600, of which amount not exceeding $10,000 shall be available for expenditure in the discretion of the High Commissioner for maintenance of his household *Provisos.* Salary of legal adviser and financial expert.and such other purposes as he may deem proper: *Provided*, That the salary of the legal adviser and the financial expert shall not exceed the annual rate of $12,000 and $10,000 each, respectively: *Provided Minor purchases. [R. S., sec. 3709, p. 733](/us/rs/s3709/p733); [U. S. C., p. 1803](/us/usc/p1803).further*, That section 3709 of the Revised Statutes (U. S. C., title 451So in original. sec. 5), shall not apply to any purchase or service rendered under this appropriation when the aggregate amount involved does not exceed the sum of $100. Engineer Corps.Corps of Engineers Rivers and harbors.rivers and harbors Immediately available.To be immediately available and to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War and the supervision of the Chief of Engineers: Maintenance 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 Boundary, etc., waters survey.and navigation; 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 New York Harbor.and bulletins and the investigation of lake levels; for prevention of obstructive and injurious deposits within the harbor and adjacent California Debris Commission.Vol. 27, p. 507.[U. S. C., p. 1484](/us/usc/p1484).Removing sunken vessels.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 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 Student officers at institutions. Vol. 41, p. 785; Vol. 44, p. 705; [U. S. C., p. 256](/us/usc/p256).and benefit of navigation belonging to the United States; for payment annually of tuition fees of not to exceed thirty-five student officers of the Corps of Engineers at civil technical institutions under the provisions of section 127a of the National Defense Act, as Flood control surveys. Printing.amended (U. S. C., title 10, sec. 535); for examinations, surveys, and contingencies of rivers and harbors; and for printing, including illustrations, as may be authorized by the Committee on Printing of the House of Representatives, either during a recess or session of Congress, of surveys under House Document Numbered 308, Sixty-ninth Congress, first session, and section 10 of the Flood Control Vol. 45, p. 538; [U. S. C., p. 1490](/us/usc/p1490).Act, approved May 15, 1928 (U. S. C., 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.$146,050: *Provided*, That no funds shall be expended for any preliminary examination, survey, project, or estimate not authorized by law, $159,427,899, of which not exceeding $6,000,000 may be expended, at the discretion of the Chief of Engineers, upon river and harbor or flood control projects heretofore specifically provided to be proceeded with in any legislative measure heretofore passed by either the Senate or the House of Representatives of the United States: Maintenance of harbor channels, outside harbor lines.*Provided further*, That from this appropriation the Secretary of War may, in his discretion and on the recommendation of the Chief of Engineers based on the recommendation by the Board for Rivers 1307and Harbors in the review of a report or reports authorized by law, expend such sums as may be necessary for the maintenance of harbor channels provided by a State, municipality, or other public agency, outside of harbor lines and serving essential needs or general commerce and navigation, such work to be subject to the conditions recommended by the Chief of Engineers in his report or reports thereon: *Provided further*, That no appropriation under the CorpsPower-driven boat restriction. of Engineers for the fiscal year 1937 shall be available for any expenses incident to operating any power-driven boat or vessel on other than Government business: *Provided further*, That notPermanent International Commission of the Congresses of Navigation. 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: For prosecuting Flood control. Mississippi River and tributaries. Vol. 45, p. 534; [U. S. C., p. 1488](/us/usc/p1488).work of flood control in accordance with the provisions of the Flood Control Act, approved May 15, 1928 (U. S. C., title 33, sec. 702a), and for the purchase of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles and motor boats, for official use, not to exceed $47,325, $15,000,000. Emergency fund for flood control on tributaries of Mississippi Emergency fund for flood control.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 ControlVol. 45, p. 537; Vol. 46, p. 787.[U. S. C., p. 1489](/us/usc/p1489). Act, approved May 15, 1928 (U. S. C., title 33, sec. 702g), $811,309. Flood control, Sacramento River, California: For prosecutingSacramento River, Calif.Vol. 39, p. 949; Vol. 45, p. 539.[U. S. C., p. 1491](/us/usc/p1491). 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., 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, $800,000. Flood control, Lowell Creek, Alaska: For maintenance of flood-controlLowell Creek, Alaska. Vol. 47, p. 802. works in accordance with the Act approved February 14, 1933 (47 Stat., p. 802), $8,000. Flood control, Salmon River, Alaska: For maintenance repairs to Salmon River, Alaska. Vol. 48, p. 991; [U. S. C., p. 1491](/us/usc/p1491).dikes in the flood-control works at the town of Hyder, Alaska, as authorized by the Act approved June 18, 1934 (48 Stat., p. 991), $800. Flood control, Missouri River, Nebraska: For maintenance,Missouri River, Nebr. repairs, and revetment work in the flood-control work now in progress at or near the town of Niobrara, Nebraska, to be immediately available, $130,000. United States Soldiers’ HomeUnited States Soldiers’ Home. For maintenance and operation of the United States Soldiers’Maintenance, etc. Home, including maintenance, repair, and operation of horse-drawn and motor-propelled freight- and passenger-carrying vehicles, to be paid from the Soldiers’ Home Permanent Fund, $799,105. 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 the maintenanceAll expenses. and operation, sanitation, and civil government of the Panama Canal and Canal Zone, including the following: Compensation of allObjects specified. officials and employees; foreign and domestic newspapers and 1308periodicals; law books not exceeding $1,000; textbooks and books Printing and binding.of reference; printing and binding, including printing of annual report; rent and personal services in the District of Columbia; purchase or exchange of typewriting, adding, and other machines; purchase or exchange, maintenance, repair, and operation of Damage claims.motor-propelled and horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles; claims for 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 sale; expenses incident to conducting hearings and examining estimates for appropriations Emergencies.on the Isthmus; expenses incident to any emergency arising 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 Public funds and securities, transportation and insurance.in field work or traveling on official business; transportation, 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: Maintenance and operation. Governor’s salary. Supplies, equipment, etc.For maintenance and operation of the Panama Canal: Salary of 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 Payment to alien cripples.Vol. 39, p. 750.[U. S. C., p. 102](/us/usc/p102).of the United States Government, and for authorized sales; payment in lump sums of not exceeding the amounts authorized by the Injury Compensation Act approved September 7, 1916 (U. S. C., 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; in all, $9,149,201, together with all moneys arising from the conduct of business operations authorized by the Panama Canal Act. Sanitation, etc.Insane, lepers, etc.Deportation expenses.For sanitation, quarantine, hospitals, and medical aid and support of the insane and of lepers and aid and support of indigent persons legally within the Canal Zone, including expenses of their deportation when practicable, and the purchase of artificial limbs or other appliances for persons who were injured in the service of the Isthmian Canal Commission or the Panama Canal prior to Chief quarantine officer.September 7, 1916, and including additional compensation to any officer of the United States Public Health Service detailed with the Panama Canal as chief quarantine officer, $899,793. Civil government expenses.For civil government of the Panama Canal and Canal Zone, including gratuities and necessary clothing for indigent discharged prisoners, $1,073,950. Total; availability.Total, Panama Canal, $11,122,944, to be available until expended. Credits allowed.In addition to the foregoing sums there is appropriated for the fiscal year 1937 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 1309Canal 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. In addition there is appropriated for the operation, maintenance,Water, sewers, pavements, etc. Panama and Colon. and extension of waterworks, sewers, and pavements in the cities of Panama and Colon, during the fiscal year 1937, 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. No part of any money appropriated by this Act shall bePrivate use of Government vehicles. 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. No part of any appropriation made by this Act shall bePost exchanges, restriction. 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 personnelException. 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: *Provided*, That the commanding officer of the post at which*Proviso*. Report required. any such exchange is situated shall certify on the monthly report of the post exchange council that such exchange was, during the period covered by such report, operated in compliance with this section. Approved, May 15, 1936. Making appropriations for the Departments of State and Justice and for the Judiciary, and for the Departments of Commerce and Labor, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1937, and for other purposes. 1936-05-15 405 Chapter 49 Stat. 1486 74 2 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2025-01-07 public [CHAPTER 405.] AN ACT Making appropriations for the Departments of State and Justice and for the Judiciary, and for the Departments of Commerce and Labor, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1937, and for other purposes. May 15, 1936. [[H. R. 12098](/us/bill/74/hr/12098).] [
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