5 For purchase of engines, generators, motors, machines, measuring instruments, special apparatus, and materials for the department of engineering and mine defense, $2,000. 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, $2,360: Provided, That section 3648, Revised Statutes, shall not apply to subscriptions for foreign and professional newspapers and periodicals to be paid for from this appropriation. OFFICE OF THE CHIEF SIGNAL OFFICER. SIGNAL SERVICE OF THE ARMY. Telegraph and telephone systems: Purchase, equipment, operation, and repair of military, telegraph, telephone, radio, cable, and signaling systems; signal equipments and stores, field glasses, telescopes, heliographs, signal lanterns, flags, and other necessary instruments; wind vanes, barometers, anemometers, thermometers, and other meteorological instruments; photographic and cinematographic work performed for the Army by the Signal Corps; motor cycles, motor-driven and other vehicles for technical and official purposes in connection with the construction, operation, and maintenance of communication or signaling systems, and supplies for their operation and maintenance; professional and scientific books of reference, pamphlets, periodicals, newspapers, and maps for use in the office of the Chief Signal Officer and the Signal Corps at Camp Alfred Vail, New Jersey; telephone apparatus, including rental and payment for commercial, exchange, message, trunk-line, long-distance, and leased-line telephone service at or connecting any post, camp, cantonment, depot, arsenal, headquarters, hospital, aviation station, or other office or station of the Army, excepting local telephone service for the various bureaus of the War Department in the District of Columbia, and toll messages pertaining to the office of the Secretary of War; electric time service; the rental of commercial telegraph lines and equipment and their operation at or connecting any post, camp, cantonment, depot, arsenal, headquarters, hospital, aviation station, or other office or station of the Army, but not including payment for individual telegraph messages transmitted over commercial lines; electrical installations and maintenance at military posts, cantonments, camps, and stations of the Army; fire control and direction apparatus and matériel for Field Artillery; salaries of civilian employees, including those necessary as instructors at vocational schools; supplies, general repairs, reserve supplies, and other expenses connected with the collecting and transmitting of information for the Army by telegraph or otherwise; experimentation and research for the purpose of developing improvements in apparatus and methods of signaling, including machines, instruments, and other equipment for labora 6 tory and repair purposes; tuition, laboratory fees, and so forth, for Signal Corps officers detailed to civilian technical schools for the purpose of pursuing technical courses of instruction along Signal Corps lines; lease, construction, alteration, and repair of such buildings required for storing or guarding Signal Corps supplies, equipment, and personnel when not otherwise provided for, including the land therefor, the introduction of water, electric light and power, sewerage, grading, roads and walks, and other equipment required, $4,000,000. WASHINGTON-ALASKA MILITARY CABLE AND TELEGRAPH SYSTEM. For defraying the cost of such extensions, betterments, operation, and maintenance of the Washington-Alaska Military Cable and Telegraph System, as may be approved by the Secretary of War, to be available until the close of the fiscal year 1922, from the receipts of the Washington-Alaska Military Cable and Telegraph System which have been covered into the Treasury of the United States, the extent of such extensions and betterments and the cost thereof to be reported to Congress by the Secretary of War, $140,000. AIR SERVICE. 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; for maintenance, repair, storage, and operation of airships, war balloons, and other aerial machines, including instruments, gas plants, hangars, and repair shops, and appliance of every sort and description necessary for the operation, construction, or equipment of all types of aircraft; and all necessary spare parts and equipment connected therewith; for purchase of supplies for securing, developing, printing, and reproducing photographs in connection with aerial photography; improvement, equipment, maintenance, lease, and operation of aviation stations, balloon schools, plants for testing and experimental work; procuring and introducing water, electric light and power, telephones, telegraphs, and sewerage, including maintenance, operation, and repair of such utilities; for the acquisition of land or interest in land by purchase, lease, or condemnation where necessary to explore for, procure, or reserve helium gas, and also for the purchase, manufacture, construction, maintenance, and operation of plants for the production thereof and experimentation therewith; salaries and wages of civilian employees within the District of Columbia and elsewhere as may be necessary, and payment of their traveling and other necessary expenses as authorized by existing law; experimental investigation and purchase and development of new types of aircraft, accessories thereto, and aviation engines, in 7 cluding patents and other rights thereto, and plans, drawings, and specifications thereof; for the purchase, manufacture, and construction of airships, balloons, and other aerial machines, including instruments, gas plants, hangars, and repair shops, and appliances of every sort and description, necessary for the operation, construction, or equipment of all types of aircraft, and all necessary spare parts and equipment connected therewith; for the purchase, manufacture, and issue of special clothing, wearing apparel, and similar equipment for aviation purposes; for all necessary expenses connected with the sale or disposal of surplus or obsolete aeronautical equipment, and the rental of buildings, and other facilities for the handling or storage of such equipment; for the services of such consulting engineers at experimental stations of the Air Service as the Secretary of War may deem necessary, including necessary traveling expenses; purchase of special apparatus and appliances, repairs, and replacements of same used in connection with special scientific medical research of the Air Service; for printing and binding, including supplies, equipment, and repairs for such Air Service printing plants at stations outside of the District of Columbia, as may be authorized in accordance with law; for publications, station libraries, special furniture, supplies, and equipment for oflices, shops, and laboratories; for special services, including the salvaging of wrecked planes, $33,000,000: Provided, That not less than $5,250,000 thereof shall be expended for experimental and research work with airplanes or lighter than air craft and their equipment: Provided further, That not less than $6,000,000 shall be expended for the production and purchase of new airplanes and their equipment, spare parts, and accessories: Provided further, That claims not exceeding $250 in amount for damages to persons and private property resulting from the operation of aircraft at home and abroad, may be settled out of the funds appropriated hereunder, 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 Director of Air Service: Provided further, That claims so settled and paid from the sum hereby appropriated shall not exceed in the aggregate the sum of $150,000: Provided further, That section 3648, Revised Statutes, shall not apply to subscriptions for foreign and professional newspapers and periodicals to be paid for from this appropriation: And provided further, That hereafter the Army Air Service shall control all aerial operations from land bases, and Naval Aviation shall have control of all aerial operations attached to a fleet, including shore stations whose maintenance is necessary for operation connected with the fleet, for construction and experimentation and for the training of personnel. For the establishment, enlargement, and improvement of public buildings and facilities at aviation stations, schools, and depots, $245,000. That piece of land reclaimed and to be reclaimed now the property of the United States Government known as Bolling 8 Field, Sections A and B, in the District of Columbia on the east side of the Anacostia River extending from the Giesboro Point upstream to the outfall sewer at Poplar Point lying between the Anacostia River sea wall and the original high-water shore line on the east, is hereby set aside for use as a military reservation to be used for aviation purposes: Provided, That funds heretofore appropriated for the reclamation of this area shall remain available for this purpose. For the acquisition by purchase, condemnation or otherwise, of six hundred and forty acres of land more or less, and the appurtenances thereunto belonging, situate in Macomb County, State of Michigan, now occupied by the Air Service of the Army as an aviation station and known as Selfridge Field, not to exceed $190,000. PAY, AND SO FORTH, OF THE ARMY. PAY OF OFFICERS. For pay of officers of the line, $23,000,000. For pay of the officers of staff corps and departments, $17,000,000. For pay of officers, National Guard, $100. For pay of the officers of the Officers' Reserve Corps, $2,751,000. For pay of warrant officers, $1,785,280. For aviation increase, to officers of the Air Service, $1,445,376. For additional pay to officers for length of service, $5,570,708. FAY OF ENLISTED MEN. For pay of enlisted men of the line, $60,000,000. For pay of enlisted men of National Guard, $100. For pay of enlisted men of the staff corps and departments, $18,000,000. For pay of enlisted men of the Enlisted Reserve Corps, $100. For aviation increase, to enlisted men of the Air Service, $192,726. For pay of the enlisted men of the Philippine Scouts, $1,076,430. For additional pay for length of service to enlisted men, $3,500,000. PAY OF PERSONS WITH RETIRED STATUS. For pay of the officers on the retired list, $3,994,577. For increase pay to retired officers on active duty, $225,000. For pay of retired enlisted men, $3,755,496. For pay and allowances of retired enlisted men on active duty, $25,000. For pay of retired Philippine Scout officers, $171,360. For pay of retired pay clerks, $20,250. For pay of retired veterinarians, $3,570. 9 CLERKS, MESSENGERS, AND LABORERS, OFFICE OF THE CHIEF OF STAFF. One chief clerk, at $2,500 per annum, $2,500. One clerk, at $2,250 per annum, $2,250. CLERKS, MESSENGERS, AND LABORERS, GENERAL STAFF COLLEGE. One chief clerk, at $2,000 per annum, $2,000. Five messengers, at $720 each per annum, $3,600. One laborer, at $600 per annum, $600. One gardener, at $720 per annum, $720. Five charwomen, at $240 each per annum, $1,200. PAY OF ARMY FIELD CLERKS AND CIVIL-SERVICE MESSENGERS AT HEADQUARTERS OF THE SEVERAL TERRITORIAL DEPARTMENTS, ARMY AND CORPS HEADQUARTERS, TERRITORIAL DISTRICTS, TACTICAL DIVISIONS AND BRIGADES, SERVICE SCHOOLS, CAMPS AND PORTS OF EMBARKATION AND DEBARKATION. Fifteen Army field clerks, at $2,000 each per annum, $30,000. Seventy-three Army field clerks, at $1,800 each per annum, $131,400. One hundred and twenty-nine Army field clerks, at $1,600 each per annum, $206,400. One hundred and seventy-nine Army field clerks, at $1,400 each per annum, $250,600. Two hundred and seventy-nine Army field clerks, at $1,200 each per annum, $334,800. One hundred messengers, at $720 each per annum, $72,000. For additional pay while on foreign service, $7,072. For commutation of quarters and of heat and light, $400,000. For commutation of quarters and of heat and light for field clerks, Quartermaster Corps, $100,000: Provided, That said clerks, messengers, and laborers shall be employed and assigned 187316-20- -2 |