BULLETIN

No. 8.

WAR DEPARTMENT, WASHINGTON, March 16, 1920.

Act of Congress-Deficiency appropriations.-The following act is published to the Army for the information and guidance of all concerned:

An Act Making appropriations to supply deficiencies in appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1920, and prior fiscal years, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums are appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to supply deficiencies in appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1920, and prior fiscal years, and for other purposes, namely:

FEDERAL BOARD FOR VOCATIONAL EDUCATION.

Vocational rehabilitation: For an additional amount for carrying out the provisions of the Act entitled "An Act to provide for the vocational rehabilitation and return to civil employment of disabled persons discharged from the military or naval forces of the United States, and for other purposes," approved June 27, 1918, as amended, including personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, funeral and other incidental expenses (including transportation of remains) of deceased trainees of the board, printing and binding to be done at the Government Printing Office, law books, books of reference, and periodicals, $11,000,000: Provided, That the salary limitation placed upon the appropriation for vocational rehabilitation by the Sundry Civil Appropriation Act approved July 19, 1919, shall apply to the appropriation herein made.

The Secretary of War shall have authority to transfer to the Federal Board for Vocational Education, without compensation therefor, certain surplus machine tools and other equipment belonging to the War Department and now in possession of the Federal board and being used by that board as equipment in schools for vocational education controlled by the board. Property so transferred shall be dropped from the records of the War Department on the filing with the War Department of an itemized receipt for the articles thus transferred. An itemized statement of the articles transferred hereunder and the cost price thereof shall be reported to Congress by the Secretary of War.

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TREASURY DEPARTMENT.

PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE.

For medical, surgical, and hospital services and supplies for war-risk insurance patients and other beneficiaries of the Public Health Service, including necessary personnel, regular and reserve commissioned officers of the Public Health Service, clerical help in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, maintenance, equipment, leases, fuel, lights, water, printing, freight, transportation and travel, maintenance and operation of passenger motor vehicles, and reasonable burial expenses (not exceeding $100 for any patient dying in hospital), $3,500,000: Provided, That the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to make regulations governing the disposal of articles produced by patients in the course of their curative treatment, either by allowing the patient to retain same or by selling the articles and depositing the money received to the credit of the appropriation from which the materials for making the articles were purchased.

Hereafter officers of the Public Health Service may purchase quartermaster supplies from the Army, Navy, and Marine Corps at the same price as is charged officers of the Army, Navy, and Marine Corps.

Officers of the Public Health Service shall be credited with service in the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and the Coast Guard in computing longevity pay.

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To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to continue in effect the provisions of section 2 of the Act entitled "An Act to authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to provide hospital and sanatorium facilities for discharged sick and disabled soldiers, sailors, and marines," approved March 3, 1919, $500,000, to be expended at the following hospitals and in not to exceed the following amounts, respectively: Alexandria, Louisiana, $25,000; Deming, New Mexico, $20,000; Houston, Texas, $10,000; Perryville, Maryland, $75,000; Greenville, South Carolina, $75,000; Cape May, New Jersey, $10,000; Hoboken, Pennsylvania, $10,000; Dansville, New York, $10,000; Saint Louis, Missouri, $5,000; New Haven, Connecticut, $25,000; West Roxbury, Massachusetts, $50,000; Helena, Montana, $100,000; Boise, Idaho, $75,000; East Norfolk, Massachusetts, $10,000: Provided further, That the sum of $20,000 of the appropriation of $150,000 contained in section 6 of the above-named Act is made available for such repair work and remodeling as may be necessary to adapt the hospital at Corpus Christi, Texas, to the needs of the Public Health Service.

To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to carry out at once the provisions of paragraphs A and B of section 7 of the Act

entitled "An Act to authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to provide hospital and sanatorium facilities for discharged sick and disabled soldiers, sailors, and marines," approved March 3, 1919, the limit of cost of the acquisition of the site and uncompleted building and the completion of the construction of hospital buildings in Cook County, Illinois, authorized by said Act, is hereby increased from $3,000,000 to $3,400,000, and the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to enter into contracts therefor within the total limit of cost hereby fixed: Provided, That no part of said sum so authorized shall be used to pay any profit to either the owners of the land and present uncompleted building, Edward Hines and the Shank Company, or to the contractor for the completion of the work.

Appropriations herein or hereafter made for the Public Health Service shall not be expended for advertising in newspapers, magazines, or periodicals for any purpose other than the procurement of bids for necessary services, supplies, materials, and equipment.

BUREAU OF WAR RISK INSURANCE.

Military and naval compensation: For the payment of military and naval compensation, funeral expenses, services and supplies, as authorized by law, $55,000,000.

WAR DEPARTMENT.

CONTINGENT EXPENSES.

For rent of buildings in the District of Columbia for the use of the War Department and its bureaus and offices, fiscal year 1919, $620.42.

ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE.

Not exceeding $500,000 of the appropriation of $3,500,000 for the care and custody of the draft records and for the employment of clerical assistance for the purpose of furnishing to adjutants general of States statements of service of soldiers who served in the war with Germany shall be available for the employment of clerical assistance necessary for the purpose of furnishing such information from the records of the demobilized army as may be properly furnished to public officials, former soldiers, and other persons entitled to receive it: Provided, That the Secretary of War shall reallot the appropriation of $4,000,000 for temporary employees in the War Department in such manner as will provide an allotment of $174,000 for the office of The Adjutant General in addition to the allotments already made for that office for the current fiscal year for work in connection with records of the demobilized army.

ENGINEER DEPARTMENT.

Aqueduct Bridge: For continuing the construction of the bridge authorized in section 1 of an Act entitled "An Act to

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provide for the removal of what is now known as the Aqueduct Bridge, across the Potomac River, and for the building of a bridge in place thereof," approved May 18, 1916, $150,000, onehalf to be payable out of the Treasury of the United States and the other half out of the revenues of the District of Columbia.

PUBLIC BUILDINGS AND GRounds.

The appropriation contained in section 4 of the Act approved December 5, 1919, entitled “An Act to amend an Act entitled 'An Act relating to the Metropolitan police of the District of Columbia,' approved February 28, 1901, and for other purposes," shall be paid one-half out of the Treasury of the United States and one-half out of the revenues of the District of Columbia.

RIVER AND HARBOR WORK.

For payment of claims adjusted and settled under section 4 of the River and Harbor Appropriation Act approved June 25, 1910, and certified to Congress during the present session in Senate Document Numbered 214, $956.63.

MILITARY ESTABLISHMENT.

SIGNAL SERVICE OF THE ARMY.

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Telegraph and telephone systems: For the same purposes as specified under this title in the Act entitled "An Act making appropriations for the support of the Army for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1920, and for other purposes," approved July 11, 1919, the sum of $300,000 is hereby made available until June 30, 1920, from the appropriation Signal Service of the Army" for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1919: Provided, That not to exceed $3,000 may be expended from the appropriation for Signal Service of the Army for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1920, for 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.

Washington-Alaska military cable and telegraph system: For defraying the cost of such extensions, betterments, operations. and maintenance of the Washington-Alaska military cable and telegraph system, including the same objects specified under this head in the Army Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1920, the sum of $95,000 is made available from the appropriation for the "Signal Service of the Army," for the fiscal year 1919, to continue available during the fiscal year 1921.

MEDICAL DEPARTMENT.

For the medical and hospital department, including the same objects specified under this head in the Army Appropriation

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Act for the fiscal year 1920, the sum of $1,500,000 is made available from the appropriation "Medical and Hospital Department" for the fiscal year 1919.

MISCELLANEOUS.

For bridge across the Missouri River connecting the two tracts of land composing the military reservation at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, $35,000: Provided, That in case said bridge is thrown open for public use one-half the cost of the maintenance thereof shall be paid by local interests.

ORDNANCE DEPARTMENT.

Not to exceed $3,000,000 derived from the sale of surplus ordnance and ordnance stores shall be credited to the appropriation of the Ordnance Department for the fiscal year 1920 which is available for the payment of expenses incurred outside of the District of Columbia in maintaining salvage activities, including necessary protection, handling and storage charges, and other incidental expenses in connection with the preparation for sale of surplus war supplies.

The Chief of Ordnance, United States Army, is authorized to expend from the unexpended balance of appropriations heretofore made under the title "Armament of fortifications" for the construction of storage facilities, including necessary appurtenances, for ammunition and components thereof, for cannon, small arms, machine guns, and trench warfare, and for other ordnance material, not exceeding $5,000,000, which amount shall remain available during the fiscal year 1921: Provided, That the Chief of Ordnance, United States Army, is hereby authorized to expend such part, not exceeding $98,000, of the amount herein authorized as may be necessary for the purchase of land in the vicinity of Ogden, Utah, to be used as a site for an ammunition storage depot: Provided further, That no part of the construction work hereunder shall be done on a cost-plus percentage basis: Provided further, That no part of the appropriations herein made or made available shall be used for the construction of permanent high explosive storage facilities at or near Sparta, Wisconsin: Provided further, That the construction work hereunder shall be done by contract, let to the lowest responsible bidder, and no bid shall be accepted for any building to cost in excess of $2.45 per square foot for an unlined building or $2.90 for a lined building.

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JUDGMENTS, UNITED STATES COURTS.

For payment of the final judgments and decrees, including costs of suits, which have been rendered under the provisions of the Act of March 3, 1887, entitled "An Act to provide for the bringing of suits against the Government of the United States,"