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For repairs, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $58,000;

For farm, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $17,000;

In all, $542,000.

Pacific Branch, Santa Monica, California: For current expenses, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $47,000;

For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $290,000;

For household, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $110,000;

For hospital, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $68,000;

For transportation of members of the home, $2,500;

For repairs, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $44,000;

For farm, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $17,000;

In all, $578,500.

Marion Branch, Marion, Indiana: For current expenses, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $43,000;

For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $156,000;

For household, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $72,000;

For hospital, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $40,500;

For transportation of members of the home, $300;

For repairs, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $38,000;

For farm, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $15,000;

In all, $364,800.

Danville Branch, Danville, Illinois: For current expenses, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $45,000;

For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $190,000;

For household, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $104,000;

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For hospital, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $41,000;

For transportation of members of the home, $500;

For repairs, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $40,000;

For farm, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $9,500;

In all, $430,000.

Mountain Branch, Johnson City, Tennessee: For current expenses, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $43,000;

For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $140,000;

For household, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $77,000;

For hospital, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $40,000;

For transportation of members of the home, $1,000;

For repairs, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $31,000;

For farm, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $18,000;

In all, $350,000.

Battle Mountain Sanitarium, Hot Springs, South Dakota: For current expenses, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $23,000;

For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $59,000;

For household, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $55,000;

For hospital, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $40,000;

For transportation of members of the home, $3,000;

For repairs, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $15,500;

For farm, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $5,000;

In all, $200,500.

Clothing for all branches: For clothing, underclothing, hats, caps, boots, shoes, socks, and overalls; labor, materials, machines, tools, and appliances employed, and for use in the tailor shops,

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knitting shops, and shoe shops, or other home shops in which any kind of clothing is made or repaired, $275,000.

Board of managers: President, $4,000; secretary, $500; general treasurer, who shall not be a member of the board of managers, $4,500; inspector general and chief surgeon, $4,000; assistant general treasurer and assistant inspector general, $3,000; assistant inspector general, $3,000; clerical services for the offices of the president, general treasurer, and inspector general and chief surgeon, $15,500; clerical services for managers, $2,700; traveling expenses of the board of managers, their officers, and employees, including officers of branch homes when detailed on inspection work, $10,000; outside relief, $100; legal .services, medical examinations, stationery, telegrams, and other incidental expenses, $1,700; in all, $49,000;

In all, National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, $4,716,850.

Provided, That no part of the foregoing appropriations shall be expended for any purpose at any branch of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers that maintains or permits to be maintained on its premises a bar, canteen, or other place where beer, wine, or other intoxicating liquors are sold.

State and Territorial homes for disabled soldiers and sailors: For continuing aid to State or Territorial homes for the support of disabled volunteer soldiers, in conformity with the act approved August 27, 1888, including all classes of soldiers admissible to the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, $900,000: Provided, That no part of this appropriation shall be apportioned to any State or Territorial home that maintains a bar or canteen where intoxicating liquors are sold: Provided further, That for any sum or sums collected in any manner from inmates of such State or Territorial homes to be used for the support of said homes a like amount shall be deducted from the aid herein provided for, but this proviso shall not apply to any State or Territorial home into which the wives or widows of soldiers are admitted and maintained.

BACK PAY AND BOUNTY.

For arrears of pay of two and three year volunteers, for bounty to volunteers and their widows and legal heirs, for bounty under the act of July 28, 1866, and for amounts for commutation of rations to prisoners of war in States of the so-called Confed

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eracy, and to soldiers on furlough, that may be certified to be due by the accounting officers of the Treasury during the fiscal year 1920, $1,000.

For arrears of pay and allowances on account of service of officers and men of the Army during the War with Spain and in the Philippine Islands that may be certified to be due by the accounting officer of the Treasury during the fiscal year 1920 and that are chargeable to the appropriations that have been carried to the surplus fund, $500.

The War Department is authorized to transfer to Saint Elizabeths Hospital the X-ray and dental outfits at present loaned to that hospital by the medical branch of the War Department.

The Secretary of War is authorized and directed to transfer without charge to Saint Elizabeths Hospital one motor ambulance, eight motor trucks, and not to exceed eleven passengercarrying motor vehicles for use in general hospital business.

NATURALIZATION SERVICE.

Any person of foreign birth who served in the military or naval forces of the United States during the present war, after final examination and acceptance by the said military or naval authorities, and shall have been honorably discharged after such acceptance and service, shall have the benefits of the seventh subdivision of section 4 of the act of June 29, 1906, Thirtyfourth Statutes at Large, part 1, page 596, as amended, and shall not be required to pay any fee therefor; and this provision shall continue for the period of one year after all of the American troops are returned to the United States.

GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE.

PUBLIC PRINTING AND BINDING.

For the War Department, $1,000,000: Provided, That the sum of $3,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, may be used for the publication, from time to time, of bulletins prepared under the direction of the Surgeon General of the Army, for the

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instruction of medical officers, when approved by the Secretary of War, and not exceeding $50,000, shall be available for printing and binding under the direction of the Chief of Engineers.

Money appropriated under the foregoing allotments shall not be expended for printing or binding for any of the executive departments or other Government establishments, except such as shall be certified in writing to the Public Printer by the respective heads or chiefs thereof to be necessary to conduct the ordinary and routine business required by law of such executive departments or Government establishments, and except such reports, monographs, bulletins, or other publications as are authorized by law or specifically provided for in appropriations herein; all other printing required or deemed necessary or desirable by heads of executive departments or other Government establishments or offices or bureaus thereof shall be done only as Congress shall from time to time authorize.

THE PANAMA CANAL.

For every expenditure requisite for and incident to the maintenance and operation, sanitation, and civil government of the Panama Canal and Canal Zone, including the following: Compensation of all officials and employees, including $1,000 additional compensation to the Auditor for the War Department for extra services in auditing accounts for the Panama Canal; foreign and domestic newspapers and periodicals; law books not exceeding $500, textbooks and books of reference; printing and binding, including printing of annual reports; rent and personal services in the District of Columbia; purchase or exchange of typewriting, adding, and other machines; purchase or exchange, maintenance, repair, and operation of motor-propelled and horsedrawn passenger-carrying vehicles; claims for damages to vessels passing through the locks of the Panama Canal, as authorized by the Panama Canal act; claims for losses of or damages to property arising from the conduct of authorized business operations; claims for damages to property arising from the maintenance and operation, sanitation, and civil government of the Panama Canal; acquisition of land and land under water, as authorized in the Panama Canal act; expenses incurred in assembling, assorting, storing, repairing, and selling material,

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