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Inspection of material, Field Artillery, Coast Artillery, and Signal Corps, $2,500.

Transportation of supplies, $200,000.

Expenses, sergeant-instructors, $50,000.

Office rent, inspector-instructors, $9,000.

Pay of National Guard (armory drill), $5,000,000: Provided, That all the moneys hereinbefore appropriated for the arming, equipping, and training of the National Guard shall be disbursed and accounted for as one fund. * (Omission printed on pages 35-36, Part II.)

ORDNANCE EQUIPMENT FOR RIFLE RANGES FOR CIVILIAN INSTRUCTION.

For arms, ammunition, targets, and other accessories for target practice for issue in connection with the encouragement of rifle practice in pursuance of the provisions of law, $100,000.

CIVILIAN MILITARY TRAINING CAMPS.

For arms and ordnance equipment, including overhauling and repairing of personal equipments, machine-gun outfits, horse equipment; ammunition, targets, and other accessories for target practice; and for overhauling and repairing arms for issue and use in connection with training camps for civilians in pursuance of the provisions of section 54 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, $100.

RESERVE CORPS.

ORDNANCE STORES, EQUIPMENT, AND SO FORTH, RESERVE OFFICERS' TRAINING CORPS: For arms and ordnance equipment, including overhauling and repairing of personal equipments, machine-gun outfits, and horse equipments for, use in connection with the Reserve Officers' Training Corps, established by the act entitled "An act for making further and more effectual provision for the national defense, and for other purposes," approved June 3, 1916, $100.

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, $100.

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(Omission printed on page 36, Part II.)

CHAPTER I. (Printed on pages 37-38, Part II.)
CHAPTER II. (Printed on page 38, Part II.)

CHAPTER III. (Printed on page 39, Part II.)

CHAPTER IV.

(Printed on pages 39-40, Part II.)

Approved July 11, 1919.

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PART II.-GENERAT LEGISLATION.

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CONTINGENCIES OF THE ARMY. (Sale of war supplies:) Provided, That the restrictions herein above recited concerning personal services and the amount allowable for per diem allowance shall not apply to so much of the funds herein appropriated as may be required to carry out the purpose of existing laws relating to the sale of war supplies. (Printed also on page 1, Part I.)

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(Restriction in use of funds for salaries of civilian employees:) Provided further, That none of the funds appropriated or made available under this act shall be used for the payment of any salary in excess of $12,000 per annum to any civilian employee in the War Department. (Printed also on page 1, Part I.)

(Sale of certain surplus supplies:) Provided further, That in addition to the delivery of the property heretofore authorized to be delivered to the Public Health Service, the Department of Agriculture and the Post Office Department of the Government, the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, authorized to sell any surplus supplies, including motor trucks and automobiles now owned by and in the possession of the Government for the use of the War Department, to any State or municipal subdivision thereof, or to any corporation or individual upon such terms as may be deemed best. (Printed also on page 1, Part I.) UNITED STATES SERVICE SCHOOLS. * ** (Translators:) Not exceeding $300 per month may be used for the payment of $100 per month to a translator at the Army Service Schools, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, $100 per month to a translator at the School of Fire for Field Artillery, and $100 per month to a translator at the Infantry School of Arms, Fort Sill, Oklahoma, to be appointed by the commandants of the schools named, with the approval of the Secretary of War. (Printed also on page 2, Part I.)

COAST ARTILLERY SCHOOL, FORT MONROE, VIRGINIA. * * ** (Subscriptions for foreign and professional newspapers:) 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. (Printed also on page 3, Part I.)

PURCHASE OF TYPEWRITING MACHINES.-That no part of any money appropriated by this act shall be used during the fiscal year 1920 for the purchase of any typewriting machine at a price in excess of the lowest price paid by the Government of the United States for the same make and substantially the same model of machine during the fiscal year 1918; such price shall include the value of any typewriting machine or machine given in exchange, but shall not apply to special prices granted on typewriting machines used in schools of the District of Columbia or of the Indian Service, the lowest of which special prices paid for typewriting machines shall not be exceeded in future pur

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chases for such schools: Provided, That in construing this section the Commissioner of Patents shall advise the Comptroller of the Treasury as to whether the changes in any typewriter are of such structural character as to constitute a new machine not within the limitation of this section.

AIR SERVICE.

(Helium gas:) The acquisition of land, or any interest in laid by purchase, lease, or condemnation, where necessary to procure helium gas. (Printed also on page 5, Part I.)

(Aviation stations in the Philippine Islands:) For the establishment of aviation stations in the Philippine Islands, including the lease of land or any interest in land for landing fields only and the preparation of land now owned by the Government necessary to make the same suitable for the purpose intended, buildings, heating, lighting, plumbing, water, sewer, roads, and walks, at a total cost not to exceed $350,000. (Printed also on page 6 Part I.)

(Settlement of claims not exceeding $250 for damages from operation of aircraft:) Provided, 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. (Printed also on page 6, Part I.)

(Expenses allowed to officers traveling by air:) Provided further, That hereafter actual and necessary expenses only, not to exceed $8 per day, shall be paid to officers of the Army and contract surgeons when traveling by air on duty without troops, under competent orders. (Printed also on page 6, Part I.)

(Subscriptions for foreign and professional newspapers:) And 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 6, Part I.)

(Courses of instruction for aviation students-Grade, pay, etc., of flying cadet, Air Service, established:) The Secretary of War is hereby authorized and directed to establish and maintain at one or more established flying schools courses of instruction for aviation students.

Aviation students shall be enlisted in or appointed to the grade of flying cadet, Air Service, which grade is hereby established: Provided, That the total number of flying cadets shall not at any time exceed one thousand three hundred. The base pay of a flying cadet shall be $75 per month, including extra pay for

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flying risk as provided by law. The ration allowance of a flying cadet shall not exceed $1 per day, and his other allowances shall be those of a private, first class, Air Service.

Upon completion of a source prescribed for flying cadets, each flying cadet, if he so desires, may be discharged and commissioned as a second lieutenant in the Officers' Reserve Corps: Provided, That the Secretary of War is authorized to discharge at any time any flying cadet whose discharge shall have been recommended by a board of not less than three officers. (Printed also on page 6, Part I.)

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PROVOST MARSHAL GENERAL'S OFFICE. * (Employment of clerical help-Disbursement of appropriation:) Provided, That such part of this appropriation as may be necessary shall be available for the employment of clerical help required to furnish to the adjutants general of the several States statements of service of all persons from those States who entered the military service during the war with Germany: Provided further, That this appropriation shall be disbursed by such officer as may be designated by the Secretary of War for the purpose. also on page 7, Part I.)

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(Pay of enlisted men with service records missing:) Provided, That the pay due enlisted men of the Army shall not be withheld from them by reason of the fact that their service records or other official papers showing the status of their accounts with respect to pay have been lost or not returned from overseas and, under such regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary of War, these men may be paid upon their personal affidavit as to date of last payment and condition of their accounts: Provided further, That payments made in accordance with such regulations (or which have already been made upon the affidavit of the soldier) shall be passed by the accounting officers of the Treasury to the credit of the disbursing officers making them. (Printed also on page 7, Part I.)

(Increase in pay of enlisted men continued in force:) Provided, That the provisions of section 10 of an act entitled "An act to authorize the President to increase temporarily the Military Establishment of the United States," approved May 18, 1917, in so far as it increases the pay of the enlisted men of the Army, be, and the same hereby are, continued in force and effect from and after the date and approval of this act. (Printed also on page 8, Part I.)

(Pay and allowances of Army field clerks:) Provided, That Army field clerks shall have the same allowances and benefits as heretofore allowed by law to pay clerks, Quartermaster Corps, not including retirement: Provided, however, That the minimum or entrance pay, exclusive of said allowances, of said Army field clerks shall be $1,200 per annum: Provided further, That Army field clerks shall receive the same increase of pay for service beyond the continental limits of the United States as is allowed by law to commissioned officers of the Army: And provided further, That the Secretary of War is authorized to employ,

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during the present emergency and for a period not exceeding four months thereafter, such additional Army field clerks as may be necessary, not exceeding 4,272. (Printed also on page 9, Part I.)

(Assignment of field clerks, Q. M. C., messengers and laborers:) Provided, That said clerks [field clerks, Quartermaster Corps], messengers, and laborers shall be employed and assigned by the Secretary of War to the offices and positions in which they are to serve: Provided further, That no clerk, messenger, or laborer at headquarters of tactical divisions, military departments, brigades, service schools, and office of the Chief of Staff shall be assigned to duty in any bureau of the War Department. (Printed also on page 9, Part I.)

(Increase of pay for warrant officers:) Provided, That hereafter warrant officers shall receive the same increase of pay for service beyond the continental limits of the United States as is allowed to commissioned officers of the Army. (Printed also on page 10, Part I.)

(Payment of foreign exchange in connection with pay of the Army:) All foreign money received shall be charged to and paid out by disbursing officers of the Quartermaster Corps at the legal valuation fixed by the Secretary of the Treasury. (Printed also on page 10, Part I.)

(Money appropriated for pay of the Army to constitute one fund:) All the money hereinbefore appropriated for pay of the Army and miscellaneous, except the appropriation for mileage to commissioned officers, contract surgeons, expert accountant, Inspector General's Department, Army field clerks, and field clerks of the Quartermaster Corps, when authorized by law, shall be (Printed also on page 10, disbursed and accounted for as pay of the Army, and for that purpose shall constitute one fund. Part I.)

(Commutation of rations or meals for enlisted competitors in the national rifle match:) Provided, That the sum of $12,000 is authorized to be expended for supplying meals or furnishing commutation of rations to enlisted men of the Regular Army and the National Guard who may be competitors in the national rifle match: Provided further, That no competitor shall be entitled to commutation of rations in excess of $1.50 per day, and when meals are furnished no greater expense than that sum per man per day for the period the contest is in progress shall be incurred. (Printed also on page 11, Part I.)

(Care of peach orchard on Poole Island, Aberdeen Proving Ground-Disposal of crops raised on reservations:) Provided, That not to exceed $22,500 of this sum be made available for the care of the peach orchard on Poole Island, Aberdeen Proving Ground, and the grain now growing at this and other reservations and the harvest and disposal of the crops; and such disposal by sale or otherwise shall be made pursuant to such regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary of War: Provided further, That all moneys received by the United States as the

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