Public Law 591.
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(/us/pl/75/590)] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House, of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled*, Military Appropriation Act, 1939. That the following sums are appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the Military Establishment for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1939, and for other purposes, namely: salaries, war department War Department. Personal services, D. C.For compensation for personal services in the District of Columbia, as follows:
Office of Secretary of War.*Proviso*.Use of field-service appropriations restricted.Office of Secretary of War: Secretary of War, Assistant Secretary of War, and other personal services, $280,200: *Provided*, That no field-service appropriation shall be available for personal services in the War Department except as may be expressly authorized herein. Designated offices.Office of Chief of Staff, $231,980. Adjutant General’s office, $1,385,340. World War personnel records.For personal services, to be employed exclusively in assembling, classifying, and indexing the military personnel records of the World War, and for the purchase of necessary supplies and materials used in such work, $80,000.
Office of the Inspector General, $27,220. Office of the Judge Advocate General, $109,410. Office of the Chief of Finance, $392,340. Office of the Quartermaster General, $781,900. Office of the Chief Signal Officer, $140,140. Office of the Chief of Air Corps, $242,500. Office of the Surgeon General, $278,290. Office of Chief of Bureau of Insular Affairs, $66,400. Office of Chief of Engineers.*Provisos*.Draftsmen, etc., payable from other appropriations.Office of Chief of Engineers, $131,300: *Provided*, That the services of skilled draftsmen, civil engineers, and such other services as the Secretary of War may deem necessary may be employed only in the office of the Chief of Engineers, to carry into effect the various appropriations for rivers and harbors and flood control, surveys, and preparation for and the consideration of river and harbor and flood control estimates and bills, to be paid from such appropriations:
Maximum expenditures, 1939.Report to Congress. *Provided further*, That the expenditures on this account for the fiscal year 1939 shall not exceed $413,840; the Secretary of War shall each year, in the Budget, report to Congress the number of persons so employed, their duties, and the amount paid to each. Office of Chief of Ordnance.*Provisos*.Technical, etc., services.Office of Chief of Ordnance, $428,350: *Provided*, That the services of such additional technical and clerical personnel as the Secretary of War may deem necessary may be employed only in the office of the Chief of Ordnance, to carry into effect the various appropriations for development, manufacture, storage, and issue of ordnance and ordnance stores, to be paid from such appropriations:
Maximum expenditures, 1939.Report to Congress. *Provided further*, That the expenditures on this account for the fiscal year 1939 shall not exceed $70,000, and the Secretary of War shall each year, in the Budget, report to Congress the number of persons so employed, their duties, and the amount paid to each. Office of Chief of Chemical Warfare Service, $50,337. Office of Chief of Coast Artillery, $31,220. National Guard Bureau, War Department, $152,400. *Proviso*.No increase in certain details.In all, salaries, War Department, $4,809,387: *Provided*, That the number of warrant officers and enlisted men on duty in the offices of the Chiefs of Ordnance, Engineers, Coast Artillery, Field Artillery,52 Stat. 643Cavalry, Infantry, and Chaplains on March 5, 1934, shall not be increased, and in lieu of warrant officers and enlisted men whoseCivilians to fill vacancies. services in such offices shall have been terminated for any cause prior to July 1, 1939, their places may be filled by civilians, for the pay of whom, in accordance with the Classification Act of[5 U. S. C. §§ 661–674;
Supp. III, §§ 673, 673c](/us/usc/t5/s661–674/673/673c).Funds available. 1923, as amended, the appropriation “Pay of the Army” shall be available. In expending appropriations or portions of appropriations containedRestriction on exceeding average salaries.[42 Stat. 1488](/us/stat/42/1488).[5 U. S. C. §§ 661–674; Supp. III, §§ 673, 673c](/us/usc/t5/s661–674/673/673c). 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 inException. 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*Proviso*.Restriction not applicable to clerical-mechanical service.No reduction in fixed salaries.[42 Stat. 1490](/us/stat/42/1490).[5 U. S. C. § 666](/us/usc/t5/s666).Transfers without reduction. not apply
(1)to grades 1, 2, 3, and 4 of the clerical-mechanical service, or
(2)to require the reduction in salary of any person whose compensation was fixed as of July 1, 1924, in accordance with the rules of section 6 of such Act,
(3)to require the reduction in salary of any person who is transferred from one position to another position in the same or different grade in the same or a different bureau, office, or other appropriation unit,
(4)to prevent the paymentHigher rates permitted. of a salary under any grade at a rate higher than the maximum rate of the grade when such higher rate is permitted by the Classification Act of 1923, as amended, and is specifically authorized by other law, or
(5)to reduce the compensation of any person in aIf only one position in a grade. grade in which only one position is allocated. OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY Office of the Secretary. contingent expenses, war department For stationery; purchase of professional and scientific books, lawDepartment contingent expenses. 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; purchase and exchange of two motor trucks, and 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; postage to Postal Union countries; and other absolutely necessary expenses, $261,000, 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. library, surgeon general's office Surgeon General's office.Library expenses. For the purchase of the necessary books of reference, periodicals, and technical supplies and equipment, $25,000.52 Stat. 644 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. printing and binding, war department Printing and binding.For printing and binding for the War Department, its bureaus and offices, and for all printing and binding for the field activities under the War Department, except such as may be authorized in accordance with existing law to be done elsewhere than at the Government*Proviso*.Medical bulletins. Printing Office, $495,000: *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. 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, and for examination of estimates of appropriations and of military activities in the field, to be expended on the approval or authority of the Secretary of War, and for such purposes as he may deem proper, and his determination thereon shall be final and conclusive upon the accounting officers of the Government, $17,500. General Staff Corps General Staff Corps. contingencies, military intelligence division Military Intelligence Division.Contingent expenses. For contingent expenses of the Military Intelligence Division, General Staff Corps, and maintenance of the military attaches at the United States embassies and legations abroad, including the purchase of law books, professional books of reference, and subscriptions to newspapers and periodicals; for the hire of interpreters, special agents, and guides, and for such other purposes as the Secretary of Observing operations of foreign armies.War may deem proper, including not to exceed $5,000 for the actual and necessary expenses of officers of the Army on duty abroad for the purpose of observing operations of armies of foreign states at war, to be paid upon certificates of the Secretary of War that the expenditures were necessary for obtaining military information, $89,450, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War, *Proviso*.Provisions waived.[R. S. § 3648](/us/rs/3648).[31 U. S. C. § 529](/us/usc/t31/s529).and $10,000 of such sum shall be available immediately: *Provided, *That section 3648, Revised Statutes (31 U. S. C. 529), shall not apply to payments made from appropriations contained in this Act in compliance with the laws of foreign countries or their ministerial regulations under which the military attaches are required to operate. field exercises Field exercises. Participation by National Guard, etc.For expenses required for the conduct of special field exercises, including participation therein by the National Guard and the Organized Reserves, comprising allowances for enlisted men for quarters and rations, movement of materiel, maintenance and operationSupplies and services.Private property damage claims. of structures and utilities, and any other requisite supplies and services, and for settlement of claims (not exceeding $500 each) for damages to or loss of private property resulting from such exercises 52 Stat. 645that 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, $370,248. Army War College Army War College. For expenses of the Army War College, being for the purchase ofExpenses. 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 of employees; and for all other absolutely necessary expenses, $74,318. Adjutant General's Department Adjutant 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, $45,100. welfare of enlisted men Welfare of enlisted men. For the equipment and conduct of school, reading, lunch, andEquipment and conduct of clubs, libraries, etc. amusement rooms, service clubs, chapels, gymnasiums, and libraries, including periodicals and other publications and subscriptions for newspapers, salaries of civilians employed in the hostess and library services, transportation of books and equipment for these services, rental of films, purchase of slides for and making repairs to moving-picture outfits, and for similar and other recreational purposes at training and mobilization camps now established or which may be hereafter established, $34,940. Finance Department Finance Department. pay of the army Pay of the Army. For pay of not to exceed an average of twelve thousand fiveOfficers. hundred and seventy-five commissioned officers, $35,162,068; pay of officers, National Guard, $100; pay of warrant officers, $1,371,836; aviation increase to commissioned and warrant officers of the Army, including not to exceed five medical officers, $2,531,537, none ofFlights by nonflying officers. 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 be the legal maximum rate as to such nonflying officers; additional pay to officers for length of service, $10,275,191; pay ofLongevity.Enlisted men. an average of not to exceed one hundred and sixty-five thousand enlisted men of the line and staff, not including the Philippine Scouts, $68,764,504; Regular Army Reserve, $400,000; pay ofRegular Army Reserve.National Guard.Aviation increase.Philippine Scouts.Longevity. enlisted men of National Guard, $100; aviation increase to enlisted men of the, Army, $660,128; pay of enlisted men of the Philippine Scouts, $1,050,447; additional pay for length of service to enlisted men, $5,437,353; pay of the officers on the retired list,Retired officers, etc. $13,123,676; increased pay to not to exceed seven retired officers on active duty, $8,213; pay of retired enlisted men, $13,725,080; payCivil-service messengers at headquarters, etc. not to exceed sixty civil-service messengers at not to exceed $1,200 each at headquarters of the several Territorial departments, corps 52 Stat. 646areas, Army and corps headquarters, Territorial districts, tactical divisions and brigades, service schools, camps, and ports of embarkationContract surgeons, nurses, etc.Rent, subsistence, etc. and debarkation, $72,000; pay and allowances of contract surgeons, $42,276; pay of nurses, $949,720; rental allowances, including allowances for quarters for enlisted men on duty where public quarters are not available, $6,765,280; subsistence allowances, $6,659,228; Payment of exchange by officers serving in foreign countries.interest on soldiers’ deposits, $45,000; 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 or the Treasury,Accounting.*Provisos*.No allowance to officer owning mount. $100; in all, $167,043,837; and the money herein appropriated for “Pay of the Army” shall be accounted for as one fund: *Provided*, That during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1939, no officer of the Army shall be entitled to receive an addition to his pay in consequence[35 Stat. 108](/us/stat/35/108).[10 U.S. C. § 803](/us/usc/t10/s803).Citizenship requirements. of the provisions of the Act approved May 11, 1908 (10 U. S. C. 803): *Provided further*, That no part of this or any other appropriation contained m this Act shall be available for the pay of any person, civil or military, not a citizen of the United States, unless in the employ of the Government or in a pay status on July 1, No pay beyond enlistment period, etc.1937, under appropriations for the War Department, nor for the pay of any such person beyond the period of enlistment or terminationForeign language instructors. of employment, but nothing herein shall be construed as applying to instructors of foreign languages at the Military Academy, Filipinos in Army Transport Service, etc.or to Filipinos in the Army Transport Service, or to persons employed outside of the continental limits of the United States except enlisted men of the Regular Army, other than Philippine Reenlistment of aliens.Scouts, upon expiration of enlistment and this provision shall be subject to the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act for the protection[50 Stat. 696](/us/stat/50/696).Receipts of public moneys, use of. of certain enlisted men of the Army”, approved August 19, 1937: *Provided further*, That, without deposit to the credit of the Treasurer of the United States and withdrawal on money requisitions, receipts of public moneys from sales or other sources by officers of the Army on disbursing duty and charged in their official accounts, except receipts to be credited to river and harbor and flood-control appropriations and retirement deductions, may be used by them as required for current expenditures, all necessary bookkeeping adjustments of appropriations, funds, and accounts to be made in the settlement of their disbursing accounts. Pay forbidden to a retired officer selling supplies to Army.No payment shall be made from money appropriated in this Act to 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. Engaging in issuing certain service publications.No appropriation for the pay of the Army shall be available for 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 *Proviso*.Exemption.with the War Department: *Provided*, *however*, That nothing herein contained shall be construed to prohibit officers from writing or disseminating articles in accordance with regulations issued by the Secretary of War. travel of the army Travel allowances, etc.For travel allowances and travel in kind, as authorized by law, for persons traveling in connection with the military activities of 52 Stat. 647the 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, and dependents of military personnel; travel pay to dis-charged military personnel; transportation of discharged prisoners and persons discharged from Saint Elizabeths Hospital after trans-fer 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 sup-plied with cooked or travel rations; commutation of quarters andCommutation of quarters, rations, etc. 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,Civilians. and civilian witnesses before courts martial, $2,720,850, and, in addition $77,644 of the appropriation “Travel of the Army, 1938”, such amount of such appropriation being hereby reappropriated, and of the total of such amounts $286,702 shall be available immediately, and such total amount may he increased, subject to the approvalIncreases, by transfers from other appropriations. 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, noRestriction. other appropriation in this Act shall be available for any expense for or incident to travel of personnel of the Regular Army or civilian employees under the War Department, except the appropriation “Contingencies of the Army” and the appropriations for the National Guard, the Organized Reserves, the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps, citizens’ military training camps, and the National Board for the Promotion of Rifle Practice, and except as may be provided for in the appropriation “Air Corps, Army”: *Provided*, That the expert accountant,*Provisos*.Travel allowance, expert accountant. Inspector General’s Department, shall be entitled to the same travel allowances as other employees of the War Department: *Provided further*, That, in addition to the authority contained in section 67, National Defense Act of June 3, 1916, as amended, a total of not toAttendance at meetings.[39 Stat. 199](/us/stat/39/199).[32 U. S. C. § 22](/us/usc/t32/s22). 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: *Provided further*, That the appropriation“Travel of the Army” to include dependents. “Travel of the Army” current at the date of relief from duty station of personnel traveling under orders shall be charged with all expenses properly chargeable to such appropriation in connection with the travel enjoined, including travel expenses of dependents, regardless of the dates of arrival at destination of the persons so traveling. expenses of courts martial For expenses of courts martial, courts of inquiry, military commissions,Courts martial, expenses. retiring boards, and compensation of reporters and witnesses attending same, contract stenographic reporting services, and expenses of taking depositions and securing other evidence for use before the same, $40,000.52 Stat. 648 apprehension of deserters, and so forth Deserters, etc. Apprehension, etc.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, $15,000. 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 [46 Stat. 818](/us/stat/46/818).[5 U. S. C. § 118a](/us/usc/t5/s118a).authorized by the Act approved June 26, 1930 (5 U. S. C. 118a), $1,167,410. claims for damages to and loss of private property Private property damages. 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, $10,000: *Proviso*.Settlement by General Accounting Office, etc. *Provided*, That settlement of such claims shall be made by the General Accounting Office, upon the approval and recommendation of the Secretary of War, where the amount of damages has been ascertained by the War Department, and payment thereof will be accepted by the owners of the property in full satisfaction of such damages. claims of officers, enlisted men, and nurses of the army for destruction of private property Destruction of private property of officers, etc. Payment of claims.For the payment of claims of officers, enlisted men, and nurses of the Army for private property lost, destroyed, captured, abandoned, or damaged in the military service of the United States, under the [41 Stat. 1436](/us/stat/41/1436).[31 U. S. C. §§ 21a–222](/us/usc/t31/s21a–222/21a–222).Quarter master Corps.Subsistence of the Army.provisions of an Act approved March 4, 1921 (31 U. S. C. 218–222), $18,500. quarter master corps Subsistence of the Army: Purchase of subsistence supplies: For issue as rations to troops, including retired enlisted men when ordered to active duty, civil employees when entitled thereto, hospital matrons, applicants for enlistment while held under observation, general prisoners of war, and general prisoners at posts; ice for issue to organizations of enlisted men and officers at such places as the Secretary of War may determine, and for preservation of stores; Army Transport Service.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, etc.sales to officers, including members of the Officers’ Reserve Corps while on active duty, and enlisted men of the Army. For payments: Commutation allowances.Of the regulation 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 sur52 Stat. 649geon in charge; advertising; for providing prizes to be establishedPrizes, etc. by the Secretary of War for enlisted men of the Army who graduate from the Army schools for bakers and cooks, the total amount of such prizes at the various schools not to exceed $900 per annum; and for other necessary expenses incident to the purchase, testing, care,Subsistence supplies. preservation, issue, sale, and accounting for subsistence supplies for the Army; in all, $30,022,750: *Provided*, That none of the money*Proviso*.Butter substitutes, restriction. appropriated in this Act shall be used for the purchase of oleomargarine or butter substitutes for other than cooking purposes, except to supply an expressed preference therefor or for use where climatic or other conditions render the use of butter impracticable. Regular supplies of the Army: Regular supplies of the Quarter-masterRegular supplies of the Army.Field cooking appliances, etc. Corps, including their care and protection; field ranges, field stoves for cooking food, coffee roasters, field bakery equipment, and appliances for cooking and serving food at posts (except fixed installations in buildings), in the field and when traveling, and repair and maintenance of such equipment; authorized issues of candles and matches; authorized issues of soap, toilet paper, and towels; for theFurniture, school supplies, etc. necessary furniture, textbooks, paper, and equipment for the post schools and libraries, and for schools for noncommissioned officers; for the purchase and issue of instruments, office furniture, stationery, and other authorized articles for the use of officers’ schools at the several military posts; for purchase of commercial newspapers,Periodicals, technical books, etc. periodicals, market reports, technical books, and so forth; for equipment and furniture for kitchens and mess halls, each and all for the enlisted men, including recruits; for forage, salt, and vinegar forForage, etc. the horses, mules, oxen, and other draft and riding animals of the Quartermaster Corps at the several posts and stations and with the armies in the field, for the horses of the several regiments of Cavalry and batteries of Artillery and such companies of Infantry and Scouts as may be mounted, and for remounts and for the authorized number of officers’ horses, including bedding for the animals; for seeds andSeeds and implements. implements required for the raising of forage at remount depots and on military reservations in the Hawaiian, Philippine, and Panama Canal Departments, and for labor and expenses incident thereto, including, when specifically authorized by the Secretary of War, the cost of irrigation; for the purchase of implements and hire of labor for harvesting hay on military reservations; for straw for soldiers’Bedding, stationery, etc. bedding, stationery, typewriters and exchange of same, including blankbooks and blank forms for the Army, certificates for discharged soldiers, and for printing department orders and reports, $3,581,170, including not to exceed $5,000 for the procurement without regard to section 3709, Revised Statutes (41 U. S. C. 5), of portable stoves or[R. S. § 3709](/us/rs/3709).[41 U. S. C. § 5](/us/usc/t41/s5). ranges for experimental purposes and tests. Clothing and equipage: For cloth, woolens, materials, and for theClothing and equipage.Purchase, manufacture, etc. purchase and manufacture of clothing for the Army, including retired enlisted men when ordered to active duty for issue and for sale; for payment of commutation of clothing due to warrant officers of the mine-planter service and to enlisted men; for altering and fitting clothing and washing and cleaning when necessary; for operationLaundries, etc. of laundries, existing or now under construction, including purchase and repair of laundry machinery therefor; for the authorized issues of laundry materials for use of general prisoners confined at military posts without pay or allowances, and for applicants 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-repairRepair shops. 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 52 Stat. 650 Toilet kits.and applicants for enlistment while held under observation; issue of toilet kits to recruits upon their first enlistment, and issue of housewives to the Army: for expenses of packing and handling and Citizen’s outer clothing.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, Indemnity for destroyed clothing, etc.for the same reason, discharged without internment; for indemnity to officers and men of the Army for clothing and bedding, and so forth, destroyed since April 22, 1898, by order of medical officers of Fuel.the Army for sanitary reasons, $13,420,900, of which amount not exceeding $60,000 shall be available immediately for the procurement and transportation of fuel for the service of the fiscal year 1939: *Proviso*.Laundry charges. *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 not less than $50,000 below 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 Living quarters.other employees of the Quartermaster Corps, including not to exceed $900 for any one person for allowances for living quarters, including [46 Stat. 818](/us/stat/46/818).[5 U. S. C. § 118a](/us/usc/t5/s118a).heat, fuel, and light, as authorized by the Act of June 26, 1930 (5 U. S. C. 118a), and clerks, foremen, watchmen, and organist for Recruiting.the United States Disciplinary Barracks; incidental expenses of Rifle competition, fees, tests, etc.recruiting; for the operation of coffee-roasting plants; for the payment of entrance fees for Army rifle and pistol teams participating in competitions; for tests and experimental and development work and scientific research to be performed by the Bureau of Standards Inspection service, etc.for the Quartermaster Corps; for inspection service and instruction furnished by the Department of Agriculture which may be transferredOperating expenses. in advance; for such additional expenditures as are necessary and authorized by law in the movements and operation of the Army and at military posts, and not expressly assigned to any other departments, $3,623,000. Army transportation.Supplies.Army transportation: For transportation of Army supplies; of authorized baggage, including packing and crating; of horse equipment; and of funds for the Army; for transportation on Army Privately owned automobiles.vessels, notwithstanding the provisions of other law, of privately owned automobiles of Regular Army personnel upon change of Boats, etc.station; for the purchase or construction, not to exceed $242,000, alteration, 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), Vehicles.maintenance, hire, and repair of pack saddles and harness; for the purchase, hire, operation, maintenance, and repair of wagons, carts, drays, other vehicles, and horse-drawn and motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles required for the transportation of troops and supplies and for official military and garrison purposes; for hire of Travel allowances. National Guard.draft and pack animals; for travel allowances to officers of National Guard on discharge from Federal service as prescribed in the Act of [31 Stat. 902](/us/stat/31/902).[10 U. S. C. § 751](/us/usc/t10/s751).March 2, 1901 (10 U. S. C. 751), and to enlisted men of National Guard on discharge from Federal service, as prescribed in amendatory[42 Stat. 1021](/us/stat/42/1021).[10 U. S. C. § 752](/us/usc/t10/s752). Act of September 22, 1922 (10 U. S. C. 752), and to members of the National Guard who have been mustered into Federal service Fuel and vehicles, amount immediately available for purchase.and discharged on account of disability; in all, $12,922,590, of which amount not exceeding $250,000 for the procurement and transporta52 Stat. 651tion of fuel for the service of the fiscal year 1939, and. not exceeding $1,000,000 for the procurement of motor vehicles, shall be available immediately: *Provided*, That not to exceed $225,000 may be expended*Provisos*.Motor vehicles, etc. 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 to exceed $275,000 may be expended for the purchaseAmbulances, motorcycles, etc. or exchange of motor-propelled ambulances, motorcycles, and trucks of station-wagon type: *Provided further*, That no appropriationNot available for designated vehicles except for salvaging. contained in this Act shall be available for any expense of any character, other than as may be incident to salvaging or scrapping, on account of any motor-propelled vehicle procured prior to January 1, 1920, except tanks, tractors, ambulances, fire trucks, search-lightExceptions. trucks, three hundred and ninety modernized Class B trucks, and vehicles in use by Reserve Officers’ Training Corps units on February 19, 1935: *Provided further*, That during the fiscal yearTransportation costs, supplies, equipment, etc. 1939 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 For the purchase of draft and pack animals and horses withinPurchase. 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 $81,750Encouraging breeding of riding horses. for encouragement of the breeding of riding horses suitable for the Army, in cooperation with the Bureau of Animal Industry, Department of Agriculture, including the purchase of animals for breeding purposes and their maintenance), $540,600. military posts Military posts. For construction and installation of buildings, flying fields, andConstruction, maintenance, etc. appurtenances thereto, including interior facilities, fixed equipment, necessary services, roads, connections to water, sewer, gas, and electric mains, purchase and installation of telephone and radio equipment, and similar improvements, and procurement of transportation incident thereto, without reference to sections 1136 and 3734, Revised[R. S. §§ 1136, 3734](/us/rs/1136).[10 U. S.C. § 1339](/us/usc/t10/s1339): [40 U. S. C. § 267](/us/usc/t40/s267). Statutes (10 U. S. C. 1339; 40 U. S. C. 267); general overhead expenses of transportation, engineering, supplies, inspection and supervision, and such services as may be necessary in the office of the Quartermaster General; and the engagement by contract or otherwise without regard to section 3709, Revised Statutes (41 U. S. C. 5), and[R. S. § 3709](/us/rs/3709).[41 U. S. C. § 6](/us/usc/t41/s6). at such rates of compensation as the Secretary of War may determine, of the services of architects or firms or corporations thereof andTechnical, etc., services.Public works.Fort Niagara, N. Y.*Ante*, p. 354. other technical and professional personnel as may be necessary; to remain available until expended and to be applied as follows: For reconstructing at Fort Niagara, New York, the barracks buildings known as 50N and 50S which were destroyed by fire March 4, 1938, to be available immediately, $75,000; for work authorized by the ActAmmunition storage facilities.[50 Stat. 166](/us/stat/50/166). approved May 14, 1937 (50 Stat. 166): At Savanna Ordnance Depot, Illinois, $341,137; at Camp Stanley, Texas, $218,118; for work authorized by the Act of August 12, 1935 (49 Stat. 610–611): At HickamAir Corps stations.[49 Stat. 610](/us/stat/49/610).Navigation aids at various stations. Field, Hawaii, $786,000; navigation aids at various stations, $270,025; runway at Hamilton Field, California, $350,000; and at Kelly Field, Texas, $1,747,000, and authority is hereby given to enter into contractsContracts. 52 Stat. 652and otherwise to incur obligations in excess of such amount to the Military posts, construction, etc.[50 Stat. 857–862](/us/stat/50/857–862).extent of $748,300; for work authorized by the Act of August 26, 1937 (50 Stat. 857–862): At Fort Benning, Georgia, including an additional amount for the completion of the water system project, $450,000; Chanute Field, Illinois, $1,500,000; Fort Clayton, Canal Zone, $650,000; Air Corps Technical School, Denver, Colorado, $1,385,000; Fort Knox, Kentucky $850,000; Fort Monroe. Virginia, $81,500; Panama Canal Zone, $328,000; Schofield Barracks, Hawaii, $785,100; Fort Barrancas, Florida. $87,000; Fort Sill, Oklahoma, $331,000; and Army and Navy General Hospital, Hot Springs, Arkansas, *Proviso*.increase in amounts.$35,000; in all, $10,269,880: *Provided*, That contracts are hereby authorized to be entered into and obligations otherwise incurred in excess of the preceding stipulated amounts, as follows: Chanute Field, Illinois, $575,000; Fort Clayton, Canal Zone, $178,000; Air Corps Technical School, Denver, Colorado, $150,000; and Fort Knox, Kentucky, $187,200. acquisition of land Acquisition of land. Air Corps, radiobeacon sites.[49 Stat. 610](/us/stat/49/610).[10 U. S. C., Supp. III, 1343a, 1343b](/us/usc/t10/s1343a/1343b).For the acquisition of land, as authorized by the Act of August 12, 1935 (49 Stat. 610), to remain available until expended, and to be applied as follows: Sites for radiobeacons as aids to air navigation in the vicinity of Chanute Field, Illinois; Hamilton Field, California; March Field, California; Maxwell Field, Alabama; Mitchel Field, New York; Randolph Field, Texas; Scott Field, Illinois; and Selfridge Field, Michigan, $61,698. barracks and quarters and other buildings and utilities Barracks, quarters, etc. 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 War; Warehouse and fuel handling equipment.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 appliances; for Heat, light, etc.furnishing heat and light for the authorized allowance of quarters for officers, enlisted men, and warrant officers, including retired enlisted men when ordered to active duty, contract surgeons when stationed at and occupying public quarters at military posts, officers of the National Guard attending service and garrison schools, and 52 Stat. 653for recruits, guards, hospitals, storehouses, offices, the buildingsRecreation buildings. erected at private cost, in the operation of the Act approved May 31, 1902 (10 U. S. C. 1346), and buildings for a similar purpose on[32 Stat. 282](/us/stat/32/282).[10 U. S. C. § 1346](/us/usc/t10/s1346). military reservations authorized by War Department regulations; for sale of fuel to officers; fuel and engine supplies required in theFuel, engine supplies, etc. operation of modern batteries at established posts, $13,551,280, and, in addition, $447,182 of the appropriation “Barracks and Quarters,Additional amount; reappropriation.[50 Stat. 453](/us/stat/50/453). Army, 1938”, such amount of such appropriation being hereby reappropriated, and of the total of such amounts $2,500,000 shall be available immediately for the procurement and transportation of fuel for the service of the fiscal year 1939: *Provided*, That the*Provisos*.Fort Monroe, Va., wharf, etc. amounts to be assessed and collected by the Secretary of War for expenditure for maintenance purposes at Fort Monroe, Virginia, under the provisions of the Act of August 1, 1894 (28 Stat. 212),[28 Stat. 212](/us/stat/28/212). shall be $13,520 for wharf and $5,053 for roads and sewerage system: *Provided further*, That this appropriation shall be available for theMilitary attaches, rentals. rental of offices, garages, and stables for military attachés: *Provided further*, That no part of the funds herein appropriated shall beConstruction restricted. 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*, ThatStabling rental. the monthly rental rate to be paid out of this appropriation for stabling any animal shall not exceed $15. construction and repair of hospitals Hospitals. 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 hospitalsTemporary hospitals, etc. in standing camps and cantonments; for the alteration of permanent buildings at posts for use as hospitals, construction and repair of temporary hospital buildings at permanent posts, construction and 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. The appropriations made in this Act for the purchase or manufacturePurchase of letters patent, etc., for certain equipment or material. of equipment or material or of a particular class of equipment or material shall be available for the purchase of letters patent, applications for letters patent, and licenses under letters patent and applications for letters patent that pertain to such equipment or material for which the appropriations are made. Signal Corps Signal Corps. signal service of the army Signal Service. Telegraph and telephone systems: Purchase, equipment, operation,Telegraph and telephone systems. 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 52 Stat. 654construction, operation, and maintenance of communication or signaling systems, and supplies for their operation and maintenance: professional and scientific books of reference, pamphlets, periodicals, newspapers, and maps for use of the Signal Corps and in the office of the Chief Signal Officer; telephone apparatus, including rental and payment for commercial, exchange, message, trunk-line, long-distance, and leased-line telephone service at or connecting any post, camp, cantonment, depot, arsenal, headquarters, hospital, aviation Exceptions.station, or other office or station of the Army, excepting the local telephone service for the various bureaus of the War Department in the District of Columbia, and toll messages pertaining to the office Rental of lines.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 transmittedElectrical installations. over commercial lines; electrical installations and maintenance thereof at military posts, cantonments, camps, and stations of the Army, fire control, and direction apparatus, and material for Civilian employees.Field Artillery; salaries of civilian employees, including those necessary as instructors at vocational schools; supplies, general repairs, reserve supplies, and other expenses connected with the collecting and transmitting of information for the Army by telegraph or Experimental investigation, etc.otherwise; experimental investigation, research, purchase, and development, or improvements in apparatus, and maintenance of signaling and accessories 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, $8,035,200, and, in addition, $189,700 of Amount reappropriated.[50 Stat. 454](/us/stat/50/454).Radio equipment for airplanes.the appropriation “Signal Service of the Army, 1938”, such amount of such appropriation being hereby reappropriated, and of the total of such amounts not to exceed $1,102,500 shall be available for pay-ments under contracts for the procurement of radio equipment for airplanes under the authorization contained in the Appropriation Act for the Military Establishment for the fiscal year 1938. 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, mate-rials, gas plants, hangars, and repair shops, and appliances of every sort and description necessary for the operation, construction, or equipment of all types of aircraft, and all necessary spare parts and Landing, etc., runways.equipment connected therewith and the establishment of landing and take-off runways; for purchase of supplies for securing, developing, printing, and reproducing photographs in connection with aerial photography; improvement, equipment, maintenance, and operation of plants for testing and experimental work, and procuring and introducing water, electric light and power, gas, and sewerage, including maintenance, operation, and repair of such utilities at 52 Stat. 655such plants, for the procurement of helium gas; for travel of officersHelium gas. of 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 civilianCivilian employees. employees as may be necessary; transportation of materials in connection with consolidation of Air Corps activities; experimentalDevelopment of new types. investigations and purchase and development of new types of air-planes, autogyros, and balloons, accessories thereto, and aviation engines, including plans, drawings, and specifications thereof; forPurchase, construction, etc., of aircraft. the purchase, 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 ofMarking of military airways. 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 theConsulting engineers. services of not more than four consulting engineers at experimental stations of the Air Corps as the Secretary of War may deem necessary, at rates of pay to be fixed by him not to exceed $50 a day for not exceeding fifty days each and necessary traveling expenses; purchaseSpecial appliances. 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 CorpsPrinting plants, etc. printing plants outside of the District of Columbia as may be authorized in accordance with law; for publications, station libraries, special furniture, supplies and equipment for offices, shops, and laboratories; for special services, including the salvaging of wrecked aircraft; for settlement of claims (not exceeding $250 each) for damageSettlement of claims. 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, $70,556,972, of which $16,126,894[50 Stat. 455](/us/stat/50/455). shall be available under the appropriation “Air Corps, Army, 1938”, for payments under contracts for the procurement of new airplanesNew airplanes, equipment, etc. and of equipment, spare parts, and accessories for airplanes, as authorized by said appropriation: *Provided*, That $10,000 shall be*Provisos*.Helium.*Ante*, p. 329.New airplanes, etc. transferred to and made available to the Bureau of Mines on July 1, 1938, for supplying helium: *Provided further*, That in addition to the amounts herein appropriated the Chief of the Air Corps, when authorized by the Secretary of War, may enter into contracts prior to July 1, 1939, 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 $19,126,894, 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*, That of theContracts authorized. amount herein appropriated and the amount herein authorized for contractual obligation not less than $33,150,646 (exclusive of $16,126,894 for payment of obligations incurred under the above-mentioned contract authorization for the fiscal year 1938) shall be applied to the procurement of new combat airplanes and their equipment and accessories, including not more than $1,691,044 for the procurement of spare engines and spare parts for airplanes procured pursuant to the provisions of the appropriation “Air Corps, Army,[50 Stat. 455](/us/stat/50/455). 1938”: *Provided further*, That no part, of this or any other appropriationCrissy Field, Calif. contained in this Act shall be available for any expense 52 Stat. 656incident to the use of Crissy Field, California, as an air station: Sums available for incurred obligations.[48 Stat. 626](/us/stat/48/626); [49 Stat. 133](/us/stat/49/133). *Provided further*, That the sum of $70,000 of the appropriation for Air Corps, Army, fiscal year 1935, and the sum of $807,980 of the appropriation for Air Corps, Army, fiscal year 1936, shall remain available until June 30, 1939, for the payment of obligations incurred under contracts executed prior to July 1, 1936. 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, regulation,*Proviso*.If on furlough, etc. 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 furloughs or leaves of absence in excess of Epidemic and contagious diseases.twenty-four hours; 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 bedding and Insane Filipino soldiers.[35 Stat. 122](/us/stat/35/122).[24 U. S. C. § 198](/us/usc/t24/s198).Nurses.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 (24 U. S. C. 198); for the pay of male and female nurses, not including the Army Nurse Corps, and of cooks and other Civilian physicians.civilians employed for the proper care of sick officers and soldiers, under such regulations fixing their number, qualifications, assignments, pay, and allowances as shall have been or shall be prescribed by the Secretary of War; for the pay of civilian physicians employed to examine physically applicants for enlistment and enlisted men and to render other professional services from time to time under proper authority; for the pay of other employees of the Medical Department; for the payment of express companies and local transfers employed directly by the Medical Department for the transportation of medical and hospital supplies, including bidders’ samples and water for analysis; for supplies for use in teaching the art of cooking to the enlisted force of the Medical Department; Hot Springs, Ark., hospital.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, $1,551,072. hospital care, canal zone garrisons Canal Zone garrisons. Hospital care.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 *Proviso*.Subsistence payments.request of 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 52 Stat. 657of the Army at the rates provided therein for commutation of rations for enlisted patients in general hospitals. Corps of Engineers Engineer 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; for the operationEngineer School, maintenance, etc. and maintenance of the Engineer School, including
(a)compensation of civilian lecturers, and
(b)purchase and binding of scientific and professional books, pamphlets, papers, and periodicals; for the procurement, preparation, and reproduction of maps andMaps, surveys, etc. 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 and grounds withinRent. and outside the District of Columbia, and
(c)repair and alteration of buildings; for heat, light, power, water, and communicationOperating, etc., expenses. service, not otherwise provided for; and for the compensation of employees required in these activities, $1,458,380, and, in addition, the Chief of Engineers, when authorized by the Secretary of War, may enter into contracts prior to July 1, 1939, for the procurementProcurement of engineer equipment. of engineer equipment to an amount not in excess of $180,000, and his action in so doing shall be deemed a contractual obligation of the Federal Government for the payment of the cost thereof. Ordnance Department Ordnance Department. ordnance service and supplies, army Ordnance 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; for suppliesContingent expenses. and services in connection with the general work of the Ordnance Department, comprising police and office duties, rents, tolls, fuel, light, water, advertising, stationery, typewriting and computing machines, including their exchange, and furniture, tools, and instruments of service; to provide for training and other incidental expenses of the ordnance service; for instruction purposes, other than tuition; for the purchase, completely equipped, of trucks, and forVehicles. 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, as[39 Stat. 215](/us/stat/39/215).[50 U. S. C. § 78](/us/usc/t50/s78).Publications. amended (50 U. S. C. 78); for publications for libraries of the Ordnance Department, including the Ordnance Office, including subscriptions to periodicals; for services of not more than four consultingConsulting engineers. engineers as the Secretary of War may deem necessary, at rates of pay to be fixed by him not to exceed $50 per day for not exceeding fifty days each, and for their necessary traveling expenses, $38,232,034, and, in addition, $1,249,000 of the appropriation “Ordnance Service 52 Stat. 658and Supplies, Army, 1938”, such amount of such appropriation being hereby reappropriated; also, in addition, the Chief of Ordnance, when authorized by the Secretary of War may enter into contracts prior to July 1, 1939, for the procurement or production of ordnance material, machinery, and supplies to an amount not in excess of $12,900,000. and his action in so doing shall be deemed a contractual obligation of the Federal Government for the payment of the cost thereof. Of the total sum hereby appropriated $100,000 shall be available exclusively for equipping seventy-five-millimeter guns with high-speed adapter’s. rock island bridge, rock island, illinois Rock Island, III. Operating bridges, etc.For operating, repair, and preservation of Rock Island bridges and viaduct, and maintenance and repair of the arsenal street connecting the bridges, $44,835. repairs of arsenals Arsenals. Repairs, etc.For repairs and improvements of ordnance establishments, and to meet such unforeseen expenditures as accidents or other contingencies may require, $914,855. 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 person Vehicles.so employed; for the purchase, maintenance, repair, and operation of Plants, buildings, machinery, etc.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 Civilian employees.furniture, tools, and instruments; for incidental expenses; for civilian employees; for libraries of the Chemical Warfare Service and Special gas troops.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, Current expenses.tactical demonstrations, and maneuvers; for current expenses of chemical projectile filling plants and proving grounds, including construction and maintenance of rail transportation, repairs, alterations, accessories, building and repairing butts and targets, clearing and grading ranges, $1,757,300. Chief of Infantry Chief of Infantry. infantry school, fort benning, georgia Infantry School, Fort Benning, Ga. Instruction expenses.For the procurement of books, publications, instruments, and mate-rials, 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, $83,340, including $19,500 for installing an air-conditioning system in the reproduction plant.52 Stat. 659 Chief of Cavalry Chief of Cavalry. cavalry school, fort riley, kansas Cavalry School, Fort Riley, Kans. For the purchase of textbooks, books of reference, scientific andInstruction expenses. professional papers, instruments, and materials for instruction; employment of temporary, technical, special, and clerical services; and for other necessary expenses of instruction at the Cavalry School, Fort Riley, Kansas, $25,715. Chief of Field Artillery Chief of Field Artillery. instruction in field artillery activities Field Artillery activities. For the pay of employees; the purchase of books, pamphlets,Instruction expenses. periodicals, and newspapers; procurement of supplies, materials, and equipment for instruction purposes; and other expenses necessaryField Artillery School. in the operation of the Field Artillery School of the Army, and for the instruction of the Army in Field Artillery activities, $26,750. Chief of Coast Artillery Chief of Coast Artillery. coast artillery school, fort monroe, virginia Coast 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 newspapers and periodicals; for incidental expenses of the school, including chemicals, stationery, printing and binding; hardware;Printing and binding. 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 motortrucks; and unforeseen expenses; in all, $28,260. Seacoast Defenses Seacoast defenses. For all expenses incident to the preparation of plans and theAll expenses. construction, purchase, installation, equipment, maintenance, repair, and operation of fortifications and other works of defense, and their accessories, including personal services, 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, $3,485,816; Insular departments, $1,496,340; Panama Canal, $1,766,402; In all, $6,748,558. United States Military Academy Military Academy. pay of military academy Pay. Cadets: For pay of cadets, $1,325,920: *Provided*, That during theCadets.*Provisos*.Army detail, pay restriction. fiscal year ending June 30, 1939, 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 further*, That the duties of librarian of the United StatesRetired Army officer as librarian. Military Academy may be performed by an officer of the Regular 52 Stat. 660 [R. S. § 1251](/us/rs/1251).[10 U.S. C. § 933](/us/usc/t10/s933).Army retired from active service under the provisions of section 1251, Revised Statutes, and detailed on active duty for that purpose. Civilians.Civilians: For pay of employees, $306,570. maintenance and operation, united states military academy Maintenance, etc. Designated expenses.For text and reference books for instruction; increase and expense of library (not exceeding $6,000); office equipment and supplies; stationery, blank books, forms, printing and binding, and periodicals; diplomas for graduates; 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 Board 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 $1,000); 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*.Liquidation of certain debts to cadet store.superintendent; in all, $1,490,340: *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, equipping, and training the national guard Arming, etc. Forage, etc.For procurement of forage, bedding, and so forth, for animals used by the National Guard, $579,886. Care of animals, materials, etc.For compensation of help for care of materials, animals, and equipment, $2,706,948. Instruction expenses.For expenses, camps of instruction, field and supplemental training, and the hire (at a rate not to exceed $1 per diem), repair, maintenance, and operation of motor-propelled passenger-carrying *Proviso*.Settlement of claims.vehicles, $9,126,100: *Provided*, That not to exceed $25,000 of this appropriation shall be available for the settlement of claims (not exceeding $500) for damages to or loss of private property incident to the operation of camps of instruction, either during the stay of National Guard units in such camps or while thereto or therefrom en route. Service schools, instruction, etc.For expenses, selected officers and enlisted men, military service schools, $439,890. Property and disbursing officers.For pay of property and disbursing officers for the United States, at a rate not less than $2,400 per annum, $126,300. Equipment, etc.For general expenses, equipment, and instruction, National Guard, the hire (at a rate not to exceed $1 per diem), repair, maintenance, and operation of motor-propelled passenger- and non-passenger-carryingMedical, etc., treatment. vehicles, and the medical and hospital treatment, of members of the National Guard who suffer personal injury or contract disease 52 Stat. 661in line of duty, and other expenses in connection therewith, including pay and allowances, subsistence, transportation, and burial expenses,Burial expenses.[49 Stat. 1507](/us/stat/49/1507).[10 U. S. C., Supp. III, §§ 455a-d](/us/usc/t10/s455a-d).Travel, Army officers, etc. as authorized by the Act of June 15, 1936 (49 Stat. 1507), $911,453. For travel of officers, warrant officers, and enlisted men of the Regular Army in connection with the National Guard, $248,500: *Provided*, That not to exceed $2,000 of this sum shall be expended*Proviso*.War Department General Staff. for travel of officers of the War Department General Staff in connection with the National Guard. For transportation of equipment and supplies, $217,000.Transportation of equipment, etc.Army enlisted men, details. For expenses of enlisted men of the Regular Army on duty with the National Guard, including payment of an allowance for quarters at the rate of $35 per month to each man not furnished quarters in kind, $306,250. For pay of National Guard (armory drills), $14,637,934.Pay, armory drills.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) from the Government of the United States: *Provided*, That nothing*Provisos*.Surrender of pension. in this provision shall lie so construed as to prevent the application of funds herein contained to the pay, allowances, or traveling expenses of any officer or enlisted man of the National Guard who may surrender said pension, disability allowance, disability compensation, or retired pay for the period of his service in the National Guard: *Provided further*, That adjutants general who may be drawingAdjutants general continued in present status without pay. such emoluments may be continued in a federally recognized status without pay under this Act. arms, uniforms. equipment, and so forth, for field service, national guard Field Service. To procure by purchase or manufacture and issue from time to time toProcuring arms and equipment.Requisitions from Governors, etc. 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, etc. animals, motor trucks, motorcycles, 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, $12,753,321, and, in addition, $1,271,151 of the appropriation “National Guard, 1938”, such amount of such[50 Stat. 461](/us/stat/50/461). appropriation being hereby reappropriated and of the total of such amounts $500,000 shall be available exclusively for defraying theIncrease in strength. cost of increasing the strength of the National Guard from approximately two hundred thousand to not exceeding an average of two hundred and five thousand officers and men, and all of the sums appropriated in this Act on account of the National Guard shall be accounted for as one fund, and of the total of all sumsAccounting. appropriated in this Act on account of the National Guard, $1,500,000 shall be. available immediately: *Provided*, That specifications for motor vehicles,*Provisos*.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 madeReplacement of damaged property.[39 Stat. 204](/us/stat/39/204).[32 U. S. C. § 47](/us/usc/t32/s47). to any State, Territory, or the District of Columbia to replace property surveyed in accordance with section 87. National Defense Act 52 Stat. 662of June 3, 1916, as amended, shall not be charged to the [39 Stat. 199](/us/stat/39/199).[32 U. S. C. § 22](/us/usc/t32/s22).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 [48 Stat. 1227](/us/stat/48/1227).[31 U. S. C. § 725c](/us/usc/t31/s725c).Clothing, equipment, etc,, from Army surplus stores.section 87, as amended, and section 4
(a)and
(22)of the Permanent Appropriation Repeal Act of June 26, 1934: *Provided further*, That the Secretary of War is hereby authorized to issue from surplus stores and material on hand and purchased for the United States Army such articles of clothing and equipment and Field Artillery, Engineer, and Signal material and ammunition as may be needed by the National Guard organized under the provisions of the Act [39 Stat. 199](/us/stat/39/199).[32 U. S. C. § 21](/us/usc/t32/s21).entitled “An Act for making further and more effectual provision for the national defense, and for other purposes”, approved June 3, Issue withoutcharge against fund.1916 (32 U. S. C. 21), as amended. This issue shall be made without charge against National Guard appropriations except for actual expenses incident to such issue. No Increase of mounted units, etc.No appropriation contained in this Act shall be available for any expense for or on account of a larger number of mounted units and wagon companies of the National Guard than were in existence on *Provisos*.Participation in national matches.June 30, 1932: *Provided*, That officers, warrant officer’s, and enlisted men of the National Guard and Organized Reserves, who, under regulations prescribed by the Secretary of War, volunteer to participate without pay as competitors or range officers in the national matches to be held during the fiscal year 1939, may attend such matches without pay, notwithstanding any provision of law to the Travel and subsistence allowances.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 *Post*, p. 666.Reserve officers.for such payment are available from the appropriation “Promotion of rifle practice, 1939”, 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 Caretakers of ranges.appropriation “Promotion of rifle practice, 1939”: *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 *Provisos*.Mileage allowance.authorized by law: *Provided*, That the mileage allowance to members of the Officers’ Reserve Corps when called into active service for training for fifteen days or less shall not exceed 4 cents per mile: for travel in kind, or reimbursement in lieu thereof, as now authorized by law for officers of the Regular Army, of dependents of Reserve officers who have been ordered to active duty for periods in excess Enlisted Reserve Corps.of fifteen days; pay, transportation, subsistence, clothing, and medical and hospital treatment of members of the Enlisted Reserve Corps; 52 Stat. 663conducting correspondence or extension courses for instruction ofCorrespondence, etc., courses. members of the Reserve Corps, including necessary supplies, procurement of maps and textbooks, and transportation and traveling expenses of employees; purchase of training manuals, includingTraining manuals. Government publications and blank forms, subscriptions to 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 Organized Reserves;Headquarters and training camps. for miscellaneous expenses incident to the administration of the Organized Reserves, including the maintenance and operation ofVehicles. motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles and purchase of thirty 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 and Reserve officers ordered to active duty for periods in excess of fifteen days traveling on duty in connection with the Organized Reserves, and for travel of dependents, and packing and transportation of baggage of such personnel; for expenses incident to the use, including upkeep and epreciation costs, of supplies, equipment, and matérielfurnished in accordance with law from stocks under the control of the War Department, except that not to exceed $1,615,102 of this appropriationNew airplanes. shall be available for expenditure by the Chief of the Air Corps for the production and purchase of new airplanes and their equipment, spare parts, and accessories; for transportation of baggage, including packing and crating, of reserve officers ordered to active duty for not less than six months; for the medical and hospital treatment ofMedical and hospital treatment. 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 June 15, 1936 (49 Stat. 1507), and for such[49 Stat. 1507](/us/stat/49/1507).[10 U. S. C., Supp. III, § 455b](/us/usc/t10/s455b). other purposes in connection therewith as are authorized by the said Act, including pay and allowances, subsistence, transportation, and burial expenses; in all, $11,722,340, and, in addition, $513,443 of the appropriation “Organized Reserves, 1938”, such amount of such[50 Stat. 463](/us/stat/50/463). appropriation being hereby reappropriated; and no part of the totalFlight training restriction. of such amounts 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 $100,000 of this*Proviso*.Divisional, etc., headquarters. appropriation may be used for establishment and maintenance of divisional and regimental headquarters. None of the funds appropriated elsewhere in this Act, except forRestriction on use of other funds. printing and binding, field exercises, and for pay and allowances of officers and enlisted men of the Regular Army, and for mileage, reimbursement of actual traveling expenses, or per-diem allowances in lieu thereof, as authorized by law, to Air Corps Reserve officer's on extended active duty, shall be used for expenses in connection with the Organized Reserves, but available supplies and existing facilitiesUse of available supplies, etc. at military posts shall be utilized to the fullest extent practicable. 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*.Surrender of pension. 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. 52 Stat. 664 Reserve officer on active duty: pay restriction.General Staff detail excepted.[41 Stat. 760](/us/stat/41/760).[10 U. S. C. §§ 26, 37](/us/usc/t10/s26/37).Other details.No appropriation made in this Act shall be expended for the pay of a Reserve officer on active duty for a longer period than fifteen days, except such as may be detailed for duty with the War Department General Staff under section 3a and section 5
(b)of the National Defense Act, as amended (10 U. S. C. 26, 37), or who may be detailed for courses of instruction at the general or special service schools of the Army, or for duty as instructors at civilian military training camps, appropriated for in this Act, or for duty with the Air Corps, [49 Stat. 1524](/us/stat/49/1524).[10 U. S. C., Supp. Ill, §§ 292b-2, 300a, 291c, 202a-1–3](/us/usc/t10/s292b-2/300a/291c/202a-1–3).[49 Stat. 1028](/us/stat/49/1028).[10 U. S. C., Supp. III, § 369a](/us/usc/t10/s369a).*Proviso*.Medical Reserve Corps, Veterans’ Administration patients in Army hospitals.under the provisions of section 1 of the Act of June 16, 1936 (49 Stat. 1524). or who may be detailed to active duty with the Regular Army under the provisions of the Act of August 30, 1935 (10 U. S. C- 369a): *Provided*, That the pay and allowances of such additional officers and nurses of the Medical Reserve Corps as are required to supplement the like officers and nurses of the Regular Army in the care of beneficiaries of the United States Veterans’ Administration treated in Army hospitals may be paid from the funds allotted to the War Department by that Administration under existing law. CITIZENS’ MILITARY TRAINING Citizens’ military training. reserve officers’ training corps Reserve Officers’ Training Corps.Supplies for units of. For the procurement, maintenance, and issue, under such regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary of War, to institutions at which one or more units of the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps are maintained, of such public animals, means of transportation, supplies, tentage, equipment, and uniforms as he may deem necessary, including cleaning and laundering of uniforms and clothing at camps; and to forage, at the expense of the United States, public animals so issued, and to pay commutation in lieu of uniforms at a rate to be fixed annually by the Secretary of War; for transporting said animals and other authorized supplies and equipment from place of issue to the several institutions and training camps and return of some to place of issue when necessary; for purchase of training manuals, including Government publications and blank Training camps, etc.forms; for the establishment and maintenance of camps for the further practical instruction of the members of the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps, and for transporting members of such corps to and from such camps, and to subsist them while traveling to and from such camps and while remaining therein so far as appropriations will permit, or, in lieu of transporting them to and from such camps Travel allowance.and subsisting them while en route, to pay them travel allowance at the rate of 5 cents per mile for the distance by the shortest usually traveled route from the places from which they are authorized to proceed to the camp and for the return travel thereto, and to pay the return travel pay in advance of the actual performance of the Expenses of supplies, etc.travel; for expenses incident to the use, including upkeep and depreciation costs, of supplies, equipment, and matérielfurnished 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.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 [39 Stat. 194](/us/stat/39/194); [41 Stat. 778](/us/stat/41/778).[10 U. S. C. § 387](/us/usc/t10/s387).Medical, etc., treatment.Army, as authorized in the Act approved June 3, 1916. as amended by the Act approved June 4, 1920 (10 U. S. C. 387); for the medical and hospital treatment of members of the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps, who suffer personal injury or contract disease in line of duty, and for other expenses in connection therewith, including pay and allowances, subsistence, transportation, and burial expenses, as author52 Stat. 665ized by the Act of June 15, 1936 (49 Stat. 1507); for mileage, traveling[49 Stat. 1507](/us/stat/49/1507). expenses, or transportation, for transportation of dependents, and for packing and transportation of baggage, as authorized byBaggage transportation. law, for officers, warrant officers, and enlisted men of the Regular Army traveling on duty pertaining to or on detail to or relief from duty with the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps; for the purchase,Vehicles. maintenance, repair, and operation of motor vehicles, including station wagons, $4,323,488, and, in addition, $502,354 of the appropriation “Reserve Officers’ Training Corps, 1938”, such amount[50 Stat. 465](/us/stat/50/465). of such appropriation being hereby reappropriated for the purpose ofAdvanced course students. increasing the number of advanced course students at existing institutions, of which amount $400,000 shall be available immediately: *Provided*, That the Secretary of War is authorized to issue,*Provisos*.Issue of Army horses. without charge, in lieu of purchase, for the use of the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps, so many horses now belonging to the Regular Army as he may consider desirable: *Provided*, That uniforms andUniforms, etc., from Army surplus stock. other equipment or material issued to the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps in accordance with law shall be furnished from surplus stocks of the War Department without payment from this appropriation, except for actual expense incurred in the manufacture or issue: *Provided further*, That in no case shall the amount paid from thisCurrent price to govern. appropriation for uniforms, equipment, or material furnished to the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps from stocks under the control of the War Department be in excess of the price current at the time the issue is made: *Provided further*, That none of the funds appropriatedLimitation on number of mounted, etc., units. 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*, That none of theNo additional students in designated units. 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 the funds appropriated Restriction on use of other funds.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 colleges Schools and colleges. For the procurement and issue as provided in section 55c of theMilitary supplies and equipment.[41 Stat. 780](/us/stat/41/780).[10 U. S. C. § 1180](/us/usc/t10/s1180).[R. S. § 1225](/us/rs/1225).[34 U. S. C. § 1129](/us/usc/t34/s1129). Act approved June 4, 1920 (10 U. S. C. 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 camps Citizens’ military training camps. For furnishing, at the expense of the United States, to warrantUniforms, transportation expenses, etc. officers, enlisted men, and civilians attending training camps maintained under the provisions of section 47d of the National Defense[41 Stat. 779](/us/stat/41/779).[10 U. S. C. § 442](/us/usc/t10/s442). Act of June 3, 1916, as amended (10 U. S. C. 442), uniforms including altering, fitting, washing, and cleaning when necessary, subsistence, or subsistence allowances and transportation, or transportation 52 Stat. 666allowances, as prescribed in said section 47d, as amended; for such expenditures as are authorized by said section 47d as may be necessary for the establishment and maintenance of said camps, including Maintenance.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 matérielfurnished 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 Purchase of training manuals.Medical and hospital treatment.camps; for purchase of training manuals, including Government publications and blank forms; for medical and hospital treatment of members of the citizens’ military training camps, who suffer personal injury or contract disease in line of duty, and for other expenses in connection therewith, including subsistence, transportation, and Burials.[49 Stat. 1507](/us/stat/49/1507).burial expenses, as authorized by the Act of June 15, 1936 (49 Stat. 1507); in all, $2,275,000, of which $200,000 shall be immediately *Provisos*.Age limitation.available: *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 Restriction on use of other funds.date of enrollment: *Provided further*, That none of the funds appropriated elsewhere in this Act except for printing and binding and for pay and allowances of officers and enlisted men of the Regular Army shall be used for expenses in connection with citizens’ Uniforms, etc., from Army surplus stock.military training camps: *Provided further*, That uniforms and other equipment or matérielfurnished in accordance with law for use at citizens’ military training camps shall be furnished from surplus stocks of the War Department without payment from this appropriation, except for actual expense incurred in the manufacture or Current price to govern.issue: *Provided further*, That in no case shall the amount paid from this appropriation for uniforms, equipment, or matérielfurnished 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. National Board for Promotion of Rifle Practice, Army Promotion of rifle practice. Instruction expenses.Promotion of rifle practice: For construction, equipment, and maintenance of rifle ranges, the instruction of citizens in marksman-ship, 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 Supplies, etc.not exceeding $25,000 in the District of Columbia; for procurement of materials, supplies, trophies, prizes, badges, and services, as [39 Stat. 211](/us/stat/39/211); [43 Stat. 510](/us/stat/43/510).[32 U. S.C. § 181](/us/usc/t32/s181).authorized in section 113, Act of June 3, 1916, and in War Department Appropriation Act of June 7, 1924; for the conduct of the National Matches, including incidental travel, and for maintenance of the National Board for the Promotion of Rifle Practice, including not to exceed $7,500 for its incidental expenses as authorized by [45 Stat. 786](/us/stat/45/786).[32 U. S. C. § 181c](/us/usc/t32/s181c).Act of May 28, 1928; to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War, $645,726. No pay to officer, etc., using time-meassuring 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 52 Stat. 667with a stop watch, or other time-measuring device, a time study of any job of any such employee between the starting and completion thereof, or of the movements of any such employee while engaged upon such work; nor shall any part of the appropriations made inLimitation on cash rewards. 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. 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 beLimitation on use of funds for post exchanges. used in any way to pay any expense in connection with the conduct, operation, or management of any post exchange, branch exchange, or subexchange within any State, Territory, or the District of Columbia, save and except for real assistance and convenience to military personnel and civilians employed or serving at military posts and to retired enlisted naval personnel in supplying them with articles of small personal needs, not similar to those furnished by the Government: *Provided*, That the commanding officer of the post at which*Provisos*.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: *Provided further*, That at posts isolated from a convenientIsolated posts. market the Secretary of War may broaden the nature of the articles to be sold. Sec. 4. This Act may be cited as the “Military Appropriation Act,Short title. 1939”. Approved, June 11, 1938. Making appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1939, for civil functions administered by the War Department, and for other purposes. 1938-06-11 348 Chapter 52 Stat. 667 75 3 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2024-11-15 public [CHAPTER 348] AN ACT Making appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1939, for civil functions administered by the War Department, and for other purposes. June 11, 1938[[H. R. 10291](/us/bill/75/hr/10291)][[Public, No. 591](/us/pl/75/591)] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the followingWar Department Civil Appropriation Act, 1939. sums are appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1939, for civil functions administered by the War Department, and for other purposes, namely: QUARTERMASTER CORPS Quartermaster Corps. cemeterial expenses National cemeteries. For maintaining and improving national cemeteries, includingMaintenance, improvement, etc. fuel for and pay of superintendents and the superintendent at Mexico City, and other employees; purchase of land; purchase of tools and materials; and for the repair, maintenance, and operationVehicles.Arlington, Va. of motor vehicles; care and maintenance of the Arlington Memorial Amphitheater, chapel, and grounds in the Arlington National Cemetery, and that portion of Congressional Cemetery to which thePlot in Congressional Cemetery, D. C. United States has title and the graves of those buried therein, including Confederate graves, and including the burial site of Pushmataha, a Choctaw Indian chief; repair to roadways but not to more thanRoadways; limitation. a single approach road to any national cemetery constructed under52 Stat. 668 Headstones.[20 Stat. 281](/us/stat/20/281); [34 Stat. 56](/us/stat/34/56); [38 Stat. 768](/us/stat/38/768); [45 Stat. 1307](/us/stat/45/1307).[24 U. S. C. §§ 279, 280, 280a](/us/usc/t24/s279/280/280a).special Act of Congress; headstones for unmarked graves of soldiers, sailors, and marines under the Acts approved March 3, 1873 (24 U. S. C. 279), February 3, 1879 (24 U. S. C. 280), March 9, 1906 (34 Stat. 56). March 14, 1914 (38 Stat. 768), and February 26, 1929 Recovery of bodies, etc.(24 U. S. C. 280a), and civilians interred in post cemeteries; recovery of bodies and disposition of remains of military personnel and civilian [45 Stat. 251](/us/stat/45/251).[10 U. S. C. § 916](/us/usc/t10/s916).employees of the Army under Act approved March 9, 1928 (10 U. S. C. 916); travel allowances of attendants accompanying remains Monuments, etc., in Cuba and China.of military personnel and civilian employees; 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 Confederate cemeteries, etc.places where American soldiers fell; care, protection, and 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; and for care and maintenance of graves used by the Army for burials in commercial cemeteries, $1,719,840, and in addition, $25,000 of the appropriation “Cemeterial Expenses, [50 Stat. 515](/us/stat/50/515).War Department, 1938”, such amount of such appropriation being hereby reappropriated, and of the total of such sums, $53,450 shall be Fort Bliss National Cemetery, Tex.[49 Stat. 1514](/us/stat/49/1514).Acquisition of land, San Francisco, Calif.available for the development of the Fort Bliss National Cemetery, as authorized by the Act of June 15, 1936 (49 Stat. 1514), and not in excess of $170,000 shall be available for the acquisition of land in the vicinity of San Francisco, California, at an average cost of not to *Provisos*.Encroachments forbidden.exceed $1,000 per acre: *Provided*, That, no railroad shall be permitted upon any right-of-way which may have been acquired by the United States leading to a national cemetery, or to encroach upon any roads or walks constructed thereon and maintained by the United States: *Provided further*, That no part of this appropriation shall be used for repairing any roadway not owned by the United States within the corporate limits of any city, town, or village. Conveyance to State, etc., of U. S. interest in any approach road, national cemetery.The Secretary of War is authorized to convey to any State, county, municipality, or proper agency thereof, in which the same is located, all the right, title, and interest of the United States in and to any Government owned or controlled approach road in any national *Provisos*.Acceptance and maintenance provisions.cemetery: *Provided*, That prior to the delivery of any instrument of conveyance hereunder, the State, county, municipality, or agency to which the conveyance herein authorized is to be made, shall notify the Secretary of War in writing of its willingness to accept and maintain the road included in such conveyance: Roadway repairs restricted. *Provided further*, Transfer of jurisdiction.That upon the execution and delivery of any conveyance herein authorized, the jurisdiction of the United States of America over the road conveyed, shall cease and determine and shall thereafter vest in the State in which said road is located. SIGNAL CORPS Signal Corps. alaska communication system Alaska Communication System. Operation, improvement, etc.For operation, maintenance, and improvement of the Alaska Communication System, including travel allowances and travel in kind as authorized by law, and operation and maintenance of passenger-carrying vehicles, $187,600, to be derived from the receipts of the Alaska Communication System which have been covered into the Treasury of the United States, and to remain available until *Proviso*.Report to Congress.the close of the fiscal year 1940: *Provided*, That the Secretary of War shall report to Congress the extent and cost of any extensions and betterments which may be effected under this appropriation. 52 Stat. 669 BUREAU OF INSULAR AFFAIRS Bureau of Insular Affairs. United States High Commissioner to the Philippine Islands Philippine Islands. For the maintenance of the office of the United States High CommissionerUnited States High Commissioner’s office.[48 Stat. 456](/us/stat/48/456).[48 U. S. C. § 1237 (4)](/us/usc/t48/s1237).Salaries and expenses. to the Philippine Islands as authorized by subsection 4 of section 7 of the Act. approved March 24, 1934 (48 Stat., p. 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 lawbooks and books of reference, periodicals, and news-papers; traveling expenses, including for persons appointed hereunderTraveling, etc., expenses. within 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, and return, utilizing Government vessels whenever practicable; operation, maintenance,Vehicles. and repair of motor vehicles, purchase and exchange of three automobiles at prices not to exceed $2,600 for one and $1,200 each for two, and all other necessary expenses, $181,930, of which amount $2,500 shall be available as of April 1, 1938, and of which amount notHousehold, etc., expenses. exceeding $10,000 shall be available for expenditure in the discretion of the High Commissioner for maintenance of his household and such other purposes as he may deem proper: *Provided*, That the salary of*Provisos*.Legal adviser and financial expert. the legal adviser and the financial expert shall not exceed the annual rate of $10,000 and $9,000 each, respectively: *Provided further*, ThatMinor purchases.[R. S. § 3709](/us/rs/3709).[41 U. S. C. § 5](/us/usc/t41/s5). section 3709 of the Revised Statutes (41 U. S. C. 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. CORPS OF ENGINEERS Corps of Engineers. To be immediately available and to be expended under the directionAvailability. of the Secretary of War and the supervision of the Chief of Engineers, and to remain available until expended: river and harbors Rivers and harbors. For the preservation and maintenance of existing river and harborMaintenance of existing works. works, and for the prosecution of such projects heretofore authorized as may be most desirable in the interests of commerce and navigation; for survey of northern and northwestern lakes and otherSurvey of boundary, etc., waters. boundary and connecting waters as heretofore authorized, including the preparation, correction, printing, and issuing of charts and bulletins and the investigation of lake levels; for prevention ofNew York harbor. obstructive and injurious deposits within the harbor and adjacent water’s of New York City; for expenses of the California DébrisCalifornia Débris Commission.[27 Stat. 507](/us/stat/27/507).[33 U. S. C. § 661](/us/usc/t33/s661).Removal of navigation obstructions. Commission in carrying on the work authorized by the Act approved March 1, 1893 (33 U. S. C. 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 and benefit of navigation belonging to the United States: for payment annuallyStudent officers at civil technical institutions. of tuition fees of not to exceed forty-five student officers of the Corps of Engineers at civil technical institutions under the provisions of section 127a of the National Defense Act, as amended (10 U. S. C.[41 Stat. 785](/us/stat/41/785); [44 Stat. 705](/us/stat/44/705).[10 U. S. C. § 535](/us/usc/t10/s535).Surveys, etc.Printing and binding. 535); for examinations, surveys, and contingencies of rivers and harbors; for printing and binding, and office supplies and equipment required in the Office of the Chief of Engineers to carry out the purposes of this appropriation, including such printing as may be authorized by the Committee on Printing of the House of Representa52 Stat. 670tives, either during a recess or session of Congress, of surveys authorized by law, and such surveys as may be printed during a recess of Congress shall be printed, with illustrations, as documents of the next Vehicles, etc.succeeding session of Congress, and for the purchase (not to exceed $173,340) of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles and motor-boats,*Provisos*.Unauthorized surveys, etc. forbidden.Extending channel of Mississippi River above Saint Anthony Falls. for official use.: *Provided*, That no part of this appropriation shall be expended for any preliminary examination, survey, project, or estimate not authorized by law, nor for any work upon or incident to the project to extend the channel of the Mississippi River above Saint Anthony Falls, $70,020,000, and, in augmentation of the foregoing appropriation of $70,020,000, $18,000,000 of the amount named for public projects in the second limitation under
(d)in subsection 1 *Post*, p. 809.of section 1, Title I, of the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1938. shall be available exclusively for the objects embraced by this Operation of certain types of projects.*Post*, p. 811.Allocation provisions waived.*Post*, p, 811.paragraph: *Provided*, That nothing herein shall be construed as amending or modifying the provisions of section 3 of Title I of such Act: *Provided further*, That the requirement in section 5 of Title I of such Act that no Federal construction project, with certain exceptions, shall be undertaken unless and until there have been allocated and irrevocably set aside sufficient funds for its completion is hereby Further augmentation.waived as to this appropriation; and further in augmentation of the foregoing appropriation of $70,020,000, there is hereby reappropriated for the objects embraced by this paragraph $24,000,000, or such lesser sum as may remain unobligated on April 21, 1938, or which subsequently may be ascertained to have been unobligated on such date of the appropriations “Emergency Relief, War, Corps of Engineers, [50 Stat. 517, 518](/us/stat/t50/517/518).Flood Control, General (Act July 19, 1937), 1938”, and “Emergency Relief, War, Corps of Engineers, Flood Control, Mississippi River and Reduction in general flood control appropriation; transfer of amounts.Tributaries (Act July 19, 1937), 1938”: *Provided further*, That to the extent that the foregoing sum of $24,000,000 may be reduced by obligations for flood control made prior to April 21, 1938, the appropriation for genera! flood control contained in the next succeeding paragraph shall be reduced by a like amount and such amount shall then be transferred from the appropriation for general flood control to the appropriationMaintenance of harbor channels. made in this paragraph: *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 of Rivers and 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 Conditions imposed.needs of general commerce and navigation, such work to be subject to the conditions recommended by the Chief of Engineers in his report Power-driven boats, restriction on use.or reports thereon: *Provided further*, That no appropriation under the Corps of Engineers for the fiscal year 1939 shall be available for any expenses incident to operating any power-driven boat or vessel Permanent International Commission of the Congresses of Navigation.on other than Government business: *Provided further*, That not to exceed $3,000 of the amount herein appropriated shall be available for the support and maintenance of the Permanent International Commission of the Congresses of Navigation and for the payment of the actual expenses of the properly accredited delegates of the United States to the meeting of the congresses and of the commission. flood control Flood control. Public works on rivers and harbors.Flood control: For the construction of certain public works on rivers and harbors for flood control, and for other purposes, in accordance[40 Stat. 1570](/us/stat/40/1570); [50 Stat. 517, 876. 806](/us/stat/t50/517/876/806).[33 U. S. C., Supp. III, ch. 15](/us/usc/t33/s15).Printing and binding. with the provisions of the Flood Control Act, approved June 22, 1936, as amended (49 Stat. 1570-1595; 50 Stat. 517–518, 876–881), and the Act of August 25, 1937 (50 Stat. 806), including printing and binding, and office supplies and equipment required in the Office52 Stat. 671of the Chief of Engineers to carry out the purposes of this appropriation, the purchase (not to exceed $33,250) of motor-propelledVehicles. passenger-carrying vehicles and motorboats for official use, and notPreliminary examinations, etc. to exceed $3,000,000 for preliminary examinations and surveys of flood-control projects authorized by law, $82,000,000: *Provided*, That*Provisos*.Run-off retardation, etc., surveys. $7,000,000 of this appropriation shall be transferred and made avail-able to the Secretary of Agriculture, and of such sum not to exceed $3,000,000 shall be available for preliminary examinations and surveys, as authorized by law, for run-off and water-flow retardation and soil-erosion prevention on the watersheds of flood-control projects, and not to exceed $4,000,000 shall be available for the prosecution,Prosecution of run-off, etc., retardation mensures on water-sheds of flood-control projects. under plans to be approved by the Secretary of Agriculture of works of improvement for measures of run-off and waterflow retardation and soil erosion prevention upon the watersheds of waterways for which works of improvement for the benefit of navigation and the control of destructive floodwaters and other provisions have been or hereafter may be adopted or authorized by law, including the employment ofPersonal services. persons in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, purchase of books and periodicals, printing and binding, rent in the District of Columbia, the purchase (not to exceed $75,000) of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles and motorboats, and for other necessary expenses. Flood control, Mississippi River and tributaries: For prosecutingMississippi River and tributaries. work of flood control in accordance with the provisions of the Flood Control Act, approved May 15, 1928 (33 U. S. C. 702a), as at present[45 Stat. 534](/us/stat/45/534); [49 Stat. 1508](/us/stat/t48/1508).[33 U. S. C. § 702a; Supp. III, § 702a–1](/us/usc/t33/s702a/702a–1). or subsequently amended and supplemented, including printing and binding, and office supplies and equipment required in the office of the Chief of Engineers to carry out the purposes of this appropriation, and for the purchase (not to exceed $53,450) of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles and motorboats for official use, $31,000,000. Emergency fund for flood control on tributaries of MississippiEmergency 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 9 of the Flood[49 Stat. 1511](/us/stat/49/1511).[33 U. S. C., Supp. III, §§ 702g-1](/us/usc/t33/s702g-1).Lowell Creek, Alaska.[47 Stat. 802](/us/stat/47/802). Control Act, approved June 15, 1936 (49 Stat. 1508), $800,000. Flood control, Lowell Creek, Alaska: For maintenance of flood-control works in accordance with the Act approved February 14, 1933 (47 Stat. 802), $1,000. Flood control, Salmon River, Alaska: For maintenance repairs toSalmon River, Alaska.[48 Stat. 991](/us/stat/48/991).[33 U. S. C. § 705](/us/usc/t33/s705). dikes in the flood-control works at the town of Hyder, Alaska, as authorized by the Act approved June 18, 1934 (48 Stat. 991), $800. UNITED STATES SOLDIERS' HOME United States Soldiers’ Home. For maintenance and operation of the United States Soldiers’Maintenance, etc. Home, to be paid from the Soldiers’ Home Permanent Fund, $801,572. THE PANAMA CANAL 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 periodicals; law books not. exceeding $1,000; textbooks and books of reference; printing and binding, including printing of annual report;Printing and binding. rent and personal services in the District of Columbia; purchase orVehicles. exchange of typewriting, adding, and other, machines; purchase or exchange, maintenance, repair, and operation of motor-propelled and horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles; claims for damagesDamage claims. 52 Stat. 672to 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 on Emergencies.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 in field work or traveling on official business; not to exceed $2,000 for travel and subsistence expenses of members of the police and fire forces of the Panama Canal incident to their special training in the United Public funds and securities, transportation and insurance.States; 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 my11So In original. 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; contingencies of the Governor, to be expended in his discretion, not exceeding $3,000: purchase, inspection, delivery, handling, and storing of materials, supplies, and equipment for issue to all departments of the Panama Canal, the Panama Railroad, other branches of the United States Government, and for authorized sales; Payment to alien cripples.[39 Stat. 750](/us/stat/39/750).[5 U. S. C. § 793](/us/usc/t5/s793).payment in lump sums of not exceeding the amounts authorized by the Injury Compensation Act approved September 7, 1916 (5 U. S. C. 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; and relief payments authorized by the Act approved July 8, 1937 (50 Stat. 478); in all, $8,149,000, together with all moneys arising from the conduct of business operations authorized by the Panama Canal Act. Sanitation, etc.Support of the 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 September 7, 1916, Chief quarantine officer.and including additional compensation to any officer of the United States Public Health Service detailed with the Panama Canal as chief quarantine officer, $933,800. Civil government expenses.For civil government of the Panama Canal and Canal Zone, including gratuities and necessary clothing for indigent discharged prisoners, $1,167,325. Availability.Total, Panama Canal, $10,250,125, to be available until expended. In addition to the foregoing sums there is appropriated for the fiscal year 1939 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 52 Stat. 673Canal 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 anti 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 theDisposition of net profits. Panama Canal shall annually be covered into the Treasury of the United States. Additional sums.In addition there is appropriated for the operation, maintenance,Waterworks, sewers, and pavements, Panama and Colon. and extension of waterworks, sewers, and pavements in the cities of Panama and Colon, during the fiscal year 1939, 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. This Act may be cited as the “War Department CivilShort title. Appropriation Act, 1939”. Approved, June 11, 1938. To provide for holding terms of the district court of the United States at Hutchinson, Kansas. 1938-06-13 349 Chapter 52 Stat. 673 75 3 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. 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