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Managers of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, and the War and Navy Departments and transferred to their credit for disbursement by them for the purposes set forth in this paragraph. The allotments to the said Board of Managers shall also include such sums as may be necessary to alter or improve existing facilities in the several branches under its jurisdiction so as to provide adequate accommodations for such beneficiaries of the Bureau of War Risk Insurance as may be committed to its care.

The allotments made to the War and Navy Departments shall be available for expenditure under the various headings of appropriations made to said departments as may be necessary.

WAR DEPARTMENT.

Temporary employees: For personal services in the Office of the Director of Finance, War Department, $183,000, which may be expended notwithstanding the third proviso of the paragraph entitled "Temporary employees, War Department," contained in the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1921.

ARMORIES AND ARSENALS.

Frankford Arsenal, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania:

For completion of the power plant, including the installation of equipment, $270,000;

For extension of water and fire mains, $23,000;

For installation of high-tensioned electrical transmission

lines from the power plant to the shops, $88,000;

In all, $381,000.

Rock Island Arsenal, Rock Island, Illinois:.

For maintenance and operation of power plant, $20,000;

For operating, repair, and preservation of Rock Island bridges and viaduct; and maintenance and repair of the arsenal street connecting the bridges, $30,000 ;

For painting Rock Island Bridge, $12,000;

In all, $62,000.

Watertown Arsenal, Watertown, Massachusetts:

For erecting steel already purchased and installing crane on hand for ingot storage yard, $17,000.

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Watertown Arsenal, testing machines: For necessary professional and skilled labor, purchase of materials, tools, and appliances for operating the testing machines, for investigative test and tests of material in connection with the manufacturing work of the Ordnance Department, and for instruments and materials for operating the chemical laboratory in connection therewith, and for maintenance of the establishment, $35,000.

Watervliet Arsenal, West Troy, New York: For concrete ash bins, $2,000.

Repairs of arsenals: For repairs and improvement of arsenals and depots, and to meet such unforeseen expenditures as accidents or other contingencies during the year may render necessary, including machinery for manufacturing purposes in the arsenals, $1,550,000.

Ordnance reservations, civilian schools: For the maintenance and operation of schools for children on Ordnance reservations, $61,800.

Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland: For the construction of a steel hangar to accommodate one United States Navy type C-2" airship, $150,000.

Storage facilities for ammunition, Ogden, Utah: Section 355 of the Revised Statutes of the United States shall not apply to the expenditure of appropriations for the Ordnance Department of the Army provided for in the Second Deficiency Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1920 for the purchase of land near Ogden, Utah, and for improvements upon such land.

QUARTERMASTER CORPS.

Fort Monroe, Virginia, wharf, roads, and sewer: For repair and maintenance of wharf and apron of wharf, including all necessary labor and material therefor, fuel for waiting rooms, water, brooms, and shovels, $15,000; wharfinger, $900; four laborers, $2,880; in all, $18,780; for one-third of said sum, to be supplied by the United States, $6,260.

For rakes, shovels, and brooms; repairs to roadway, pavements, macadam and asphalt block; repairs to street crossings; repairs to street drains, $2,500; six laborers, cleaning roads, at $720 each; in all, $6,820; for two-thirds of said sum, to be supplied by the United States, $4,546.67.

For waste, oil, motor and pump repairs, sewer pipe, cement, brick, stone, and supplies, $1,200; two engineers, at $1,200 each;

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two laborers, at $720 each; in all, $5,040; for two-thirds of said sum, to be supplied by the United States, $3,360.

NATIONAL CEMETERIES: For maintaining and improving national cemeteries, including fuel for superintendents, pay of laborers and other employees, purchase of tools, and materials, $250,000.

For pay of seventy-six superintendents of national cemeteries, including not to exceed $1,500 for the superintendent at Mexico City, $63,720.

For continuing the work of furnishing headstones of durable stone or other durable material for unmarked graves of Union and Confederate soldiers, sailors, and marines in national, post, city, town, and village cemeteries, naval cemeteries at navy yards and stations of the United States, and other burial places, under the Acts of March 3, 1873, February 3, 1879, and March 9, 1906; continuing the work of furnishing headstones for unmarked graves of civilians interred in post cemeteries under the Acts of April 28, 1904, and June 30, 1906; and furnishing headstones for the unmarked graves of Confederate soldiers, sailors, and marines in national cemeteries, $100,000.

For repairs to roadways to national cemeteries which have been constructed by special authority of Congress, $18,000: Provided, That no railroads shall be permitted upon the right of way which may have been acquired by the United States 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 sum shall be used for repairing any roadway not owned by the United States within the corporate limits of any city, town, or village.

No part of any appropriation for national cemeteries or the repair of roadways thereto shall be expended in the maintenance of more than a single approach to any national cemetery.

For expenses of burying in the Arlington National Cemetery, or in the cemeteries of the District of Columbia, indigent exUnion soldiers, ex-sailors, or ex-marines, of the United States service, either Regular or Volunteer, who have been honorably discharged or retired and who die in the District of Columbia, to be disbursed by the Secretary of War, at a cost not exceeding $45 for such burial expenses in each case, exclusive of cost of grave, $1,000, one-half of which sum shall be paid out of the revenues of the District of Columbia.

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Antietam battle field: For repair and preservation of monuments, tablets, observation tower, roads, and fences, and so forth, made and constructed by the United States upon public lands within the limits of the Antietam battle field, near Sharpsburg, Maryland, $7,500.

For pay of superintendent of Antietam battle field, said superintendent to perform his duties under the direction of the Quartermaster Corps and to be selected and appointed by the Secretary of War, at his discretion, the person selected for this position to be an honorably discharged Union soldier, $1,500.

Disposition of remains of officers, soldiers, and civilian employees: For interment, cremation (only upon request from relatives of the deceased), or preparation and transportation to their homes or to such national cemeteries as may be designated by proper authority, in the discretion of the Secretary of War, of the remains of officers, cadets, United States Military Academy, including acting assistant surgeons and enlisted men in active service, and accepted applicants for enlistment; interment, or preparation and transportation to their homes, of the remains of civil employees of the Army in the employ of the War Department who die abroad, in Alaska, in the Canal Zone, or on Army transports, or who die while on duty in the field or at military posts within the limits of the United States; interment of military prisoners who die at military posts; for the interment and shipment to their homes of remains of enlisted men who are discharged in hospitals in the United States and continue as inmates of said hospitals to the date of their death, and for interment of prisoners of war and interned alien enemies who die at prison camps in the United States; removal of remains from abandoned posts to permanent military posts or national cemeteries, including the remains of Federal soldiers, sailors, or marines, interred in fields or abandoned private and city cemeteries; and in any case where the expenses of burial or shipment of the remains of officers or enlisted men of the Army who die on the active list are borne by individuals, where such expenses would have been lawful claims against the Government, reimbursement to such individuals may be made of the amount allowed by the Government for such services out of this sum, but no reimbursement shall be made of such expenses incurred prior to July 1, 1910; expenses of the segregation of

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bodies in permanent American cemeteries in France; in all, $21,549,000: Provided, That the above provisions shall be applicable in the cases of officers and enlisted men on the retired list of the Army who have died or may hereafter die while on active duty by proper assignment and also to citizens of the United States who may have died while serving in the armies of the Allies associated with the American forces: Provided further, That, in addition to the foregoing sum, the unobligated balance of the appropriation Disposition of Remains of Officers, Soldiers, and Civil Employees," for the fiscal year 1920 is made available during the fiscal year 1921 for the care and maintenance of graves of officers, soldiers, and civilian employees of the Army abroad, and for the preparation and shipment of their remains to their homes, or to national cemeteries: Provided further, That there may be expended from and after the approval of this Act and until June 30, 1921, from this appropriation and the appropriation for this purpose for the fiscal year 1920, a total amount not exceeding $250,000 for personal services in the Cemeterial Division, Office of the Quartermaster General, War Department, for compiling, recording, preparing, and transmitting data incident to the disposition of the remains referred to herein; this sum may be expended notwithstanding the third proviso of the paragraph entitled "Temporary employees, War Department," contained in the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1921.

Confederate Mound, Oakwood Cemetery, Chicago: For care, protection, and maintenance of the plat of ground known as "Confederate Mound" in Oakwood Cemetery, Chicago, $500.

For care, protection, and maintenance of Confederate Stockade Cemetery, Johnstons Island, in Sandusky Bay, Ohio, $350. Confederate burial plats: For care, protection, and maintenance of Confederate burial plats, owned by the United States, located and known by the following designations: Confederate cemetery, North Alton, Illinois; Confederate cemetery, Camp Chase, Columbus, Ohio; Confederate section, Greenlawn Cemetery, Indianapolis, Indiana; Confederate cemetery, Point Lookout, Maryland, and Confederate cemetery, Rock Island, Illinois, $1,250.

Monuments or tablets in Cuba and China: For repairs and preservation of monuments, tablets, roads, fences, and so forth, made and constructed by the United States in Cuba and China to mark the places where American soldiers fell, $1,000.