43 VOCATIONAL TRAINING. *(Detail of instructors in vocational training:) Provided, That whenever possible officers, warrant officers, noncommissioned officers, or other enlisted men shall be detailed as instructors in vocational training in the most important trades in lieu of civilian instructors. (Printed also on page 22, Part I.) (Sale of products incidental to vocational training:) Provided further, That farm products and the increase in live stock (including fowls) which accrue as incidental to vocational training in agriculture and animal husbandry, may be sold under such regulations as the Secretary of War may prescribe and the proceeds of such sales shall be deposited in the Treasury of the United States to the credit of miscellaneous receipts. (Printed also on page 22, Part I.) QUARTERMASTER SUPPLIES AND SERVICES FOR RIFLE RANGES FOR CIVILIAN INSTRUCTION: To establish and maintain indoor and outdoor rifle ranges for the use of all able-bodied males capable of bearing arms, under reasonable regulations to be prescribed by the National Board for the Promotion of Rifle Practice and approved by the Secretary of War; **** *Provided, That out of the said sum of $100,000 there may be expended for the payment of transportation, for supplying meals, or furnishing commutation of subsistence of civilian rifle teams authorized by the Secretary of War to participate in the national matches, not to exceed $80,000: Provided further, That hereafter members of civilian rifle teams may, in the discretion of the Secretary of War, be paid, as commutation of traveling expenses at the rate of 5 cents per mile for the shortest usually traveled route from their homes to national matches, when authorized to participate therein by the Secretary of War and for the return travel thereto: Provided further, That the payment of travel pay for the return journey may be made in advance of the actual performance of travel. (Printed also on page 23, Part I.) QUARTERMASTER SUPPLIES, EQUIPMENT, AND SO FORTH, RESERVE OFFICERS' TRAINING CORPS. *** (Travel allowances for members of the Reserve Officers Training Corps attending summer camps:) Provided, That so much of section 48 of the Act of June 3. 1916 [as amended by act of June 4, 1920 (Bul. No. 25, W. D., 1920), sections 47 and 47a], entitled "An Act for making further and more effectual provisions for the national defense, and for other purposes," as relates to the transportation of members of the Reserve Officers' Training Corps attending summer camps be, and the same is hereby amended so as to provide that such members of the Reserve Officers' Training Corps shall be paid as traveling allowances 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: Prorided further, That the payment of travel pay for the return journey may be made in advance of the actual performance of travel. (Printed also on page 24, Part I.) 44 (Uniforms for institutions maintaining units of Reserve Offi cers' Training Corps:) Provided further, That the Secretary of War may, in his discretion and under such regulations as he may prescribe, permit such institutions to furnish their own uniforms and receive as commutation therefor the sum allotted by the Secretary of War to such institutions for uniforms. (Printed also on page 24, Part I.) MEDICAL AND HOSPITAL DEPARTMENT. (Selection and purchase of motor ambulances:) Provided, That the Secretary of War may, in his discretion, select types and makes of motor ambulances for the Army and authorize their purchase without regard to the laws prescribing advertisement for proposals for supplies and materials for the Army. (Printed also on page 24, Part I.) Medical care and treatment for certain purposes:) for medical care and treatment not otherwise provided for, including care and subsistence in private hospitals, of officers, enlisted men. and civilian employees of the Army, of applicants for enlistment, and of prisoners of war and other persons in military custody or confinement, when entitled thereto by law, regulation, or contract: Provided further, That this shall not apply to officers and enlisted men who are treated in private hospitals or by civilian physicians while on furlough. (Printed also on page 25, Part I.) HOSPITAL CARE, CANAL ZONE GARRISONS. * * * (Subsistence of patients in hospitals, Canal Zone:) Provided, That the subsistence of the said patients, except commissioned officers, shall be paid to said hospitals out of the appropriation for subsistence of the Army at the rates provided therein for commutation of rations for enlisted patients in general hospitals. (Printed also on page 25, Part I.) ENGINEER SCHOOL. (Traveling expenses of officers on journeys for the purpose of instruction:) Provided, That the traveling expenses herein provided for shall be in lieu of mileage and other allowances, and for other absolutely necessary expenses. (Printed also on page 27, Part I.) (Subscriptions for foreign and professional newspapers:) 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. (Printed also on page 27, Part I.) ENGINEER EQUIPMENT OF TROOPS. 伞 (Employment of skilled draftsmen, etc.:) 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 "Engineer equipment of troops," "Engineer operations in the field," and other military appropriations to be paid from such appropriations. The Secretary of War shall each year, in the annual estimates, report * 45 to Congress the number of persons who are employed, their duties, and amount paid to each. (Printed also on page 27, Part I.) ENGINEER OPERATIONS IN THE FIELD. * * * (Use of funds appropriated for engineer operations in the field:) Provided, That when to the interest of the Government funds appropriated under this head may be used for the purchase of options on materials for use in engineer operations in the field: Provided further, That so much of this appropriation as is necessary to provide facilities for Engineer training of troops may be expended for military construction work of a temporary character at camps and cantonments and in training areas, for training purposes only. (Printed also on page 27, Part I.) MILITARY SURVEYS AND MAPS. # (Assistance of Government mapping agencies:) Provided, That the Secretary of War is authorized to secure the assistance, wherever practicable, of the United States Geological Survey, the Coast and Geodetic Survey, or other mapping agencies of the Government in this work and to allot funds therefor to them from this appropriation. (Printed also on page 28, Part I.) ORDNANCE SERVICE. * (Restriction in expenditures for maintenance, etc., of motor-propelled vehicles:) Provided, That no money appropriated herein shall be expended for maintenance, repair, or operation of any motor-propelled passengercarrying vehicle employed wholly or in part for personal, social or other similar use or for any use except for military and official business. (Printed also on page 28, Part I.) (Ordnance Department material to be preferably of American manufacture:) Provided further, That all material purchased under the appropriations in this Act for the Ordnance Department of the United States Army shall be of American manufacture, except in cases when, in the judgment of the Secretary of War, it is to the manifest interest of the United States to make purchases abroad, which material shall be admitted free of duty. (Printed also on page 28, Part I.) NATIONAL TROPHY AND MEDALS FOR RIFLE CONTEST: For the purpose of furnishing a national trophy and medals and other prizes to be provided and contested for annually, under such regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary of War, said contest to be open to the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and the National Guard or Organized Militia of the several States, Territories, and of the District of Columbia, members of rifle clubs, and civilians, and for the cost of the trophy, prizes, and medals herein provided for, and for the promotion of rifle practice throughout the United States, including the reimbursement of necessary expenses of members of the National Board for the Promotion of Rifle Practice, to be expended for the purposes hereinbefore prescribed, under the direction of the Secretary of War, $10,000. (Printed also on page 30, Part I.) ARMS, UNIFORMS, EQUIPMENT, ETC., FOR FIELD SERVICE, NATIONAL GUARD. ** * * (Issue of Mexican border medal and ribbons:) Provided, That the Mexican border medal and ribbon issued 46 to National Guard officers and enlisted men under the provisions of the Act entitled "An Act making appropriations for the support of the Army for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1919," approved July 9, 1918, shall be issued to National Guard officers and enlisted men who at the same time served as such in the field under the call of the National Guard to such Mexican border service but were stationed for service at points other than on the Mexican border: Provided further, That such medals shall not be issued to men who have subsequent to such service been dishonorably discharged from the service or deserted. (Printed also on page 31, Part I.) (Federal pay of members of the National Guard for a continuous period of less than one month:) Provided further, That members of the National Guard who have or shall become entitled for a continuous period of less than one month to Federal pay at the rates fixed for the Regular Army, whether by virtue of a call by the President, of attendance at school or maneuver, or of any other cause, and whose accounts have not yet been settled, shall receive such pay for each day of such period; and the thirty-first day of a calendar month shall not be excluded from the computation. (Printed also on page 31, Part I.) (Free issue of articles of clothing and equipment, etc., to the National Guard from surplus stores:) And provided further, That the Secretary of War is hereby directed to issue from surplus stores and matériel now on hand and purchased for the United States Army such articles of clothing and equipment and Field Artillery matériel and ammunition as may be needed by the National Guard organized under the provisions of the Act entitled "An Act for making further and more effectual provisions for the national defense, and for other purposes," approved June 3, 1916 [as amended by act of June 4, 1920 (Bul. No. 25, W. D., 1920)]. This issue shall be made without charge against militia appropriations. (Printed also on page 32, Part I.) FIELD ARTILLERY MATÉRIEL, NATIONAL GUARD: * ** For the purpose of manufacturing and procuring Field Artillery matériel for the National Guard of the several States, Territories, and the District of Columbia, but to remain the property of the United States and to be accounted for in the manner now prescribed by law, the Secretary of War is hereby authorized, under such regulations as he may prescribe, on the requisitions of the governors of the several States and Territories or the commanding general of the National Guard of the District of Columbia, to issue said artillery matériel to the National Guard, $100. (Printed also on page 32, Part I.) CIVILIAN MILITARY TRAINING CAMPS: For the expense of maintaining upon military reservations, camps for military instruction and training of such citizens as may be selected and under such regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary of War pursuant to section 54 of the Act of June 3, 1916, as amended by the Act of May 12, 1917 [as further amended by act of June 4, 1920 (Bul. No. 25, W. D., 1920), section 47d], and for fur 47 nishing said citizens at the expense of the United States, uniforms, subsistence, and transportation by the most usual and direct routes within such limits as to territory as may be prescribed; for such expenditures as are authorized by said section and may be necessary for the establishment and maintenance of said camps; for furnishing such equipment, tentage, field equipage, and transportation belonging to the United States as may be necessary; for arms and ordnance equipment, including overhauling and repairing of personal equipment, machine-gun outfits, horse equipment, ammunition, targets and their accessories for target practice, and for overhauling and repairing arms for issue and use in connection with said camps, $250,000 : Provided, That the funds herein appropriated shall not be used for the training of any person who is over forty-five years of age. (Printed also on page 33, Part I.) ORDNANCE SUPPLIES FOR MILITARY EQUIPMENT OF SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES: For arms and ordnance equipment, including overhauling and repairing of personal equipments, machine-gun outfits, and horse equipments for issue to schools and colleges in pursuance of the provisions of section 56 of the Act entitled “An Act for making further and more effectual provision for the national defense, and for other purposes," approved June 3, 1916 [as amended by act of June 4, 1920 (Bul. No. 25, W. D., 1920), section 55a], $100. (Printed also on page 33, Part I.) ADVANCES TO DISBURSING OFFICERS: That the Secretary of War be, and he hereby is, authorized to issue his requisitions for advances to disbursing officers and agents of the Army, under an "Army account of advances," not to exceed the total appropriation for the Army, the amount so advanced to be exclusively used to pay, upon proper vouchers, obligations lawfully payable under the respective appropriations. That the amount so advanced be charged to the proper appropriations and returned to "Army account of advances" by pay and counterwarrant. The said charge, however, to particular appropriations shall be limited to the amount appropriated to each. That the Auditor for the War Department shall declare the sums due from the several special appropriations upon complete vouchers, as heretofore, according to law; and he shall adjust the said liabilities with the "Army account of advances." That any balances of existing Army appropriations now available for withdrawal from the Treasury, together with any unexpended balances now charged to disbursing officers or agents of the Army which, under existing law, are available for disbursement, shall at such time as may be designated by the Secretary of War, be transferred on the books of the Treasury Department to "Army account of advances" and shall be disbursed and accounted for as such. (Printed also on page 34, Part I.) TIME-MEASURING DEVICES: That 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 |