BULLETIN

No. 81.

WAR DEPARTMENT, WASHINGTON, September 15, 1919.

Act of Congress-Deficiency appropriations.-The following act of Congress 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, 1919, 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, 1919, and prior fiscal years, and for other purposes, namely:

WAR DEPARTMENT.

CONTINGENT EXPENSES.

For purchase of professional and scientific books, law books, including their exchange, and so forth, including the same obJects specified under this head in the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1919, $150,000.

For postage stamps for the department and its bureaus, as required under the Postal Union, to prepay postage on matters addressed to Postal Union countries, $75.

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 in House Documents Numbered 1756 and 1819 of the Sixty-fifth Congress, third session, $774.31.

ORDNANCE DEPARTMENT.

For the payment of the claims for damage to and loss of private property occasioned by the explosions and fire at the plant of T. A. Gillespie Company, at Morgan, New Jersey, which have

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been determined by the Secretary of War and agreed to by the claimants, and in amounts not exceeding those which are enumerated and scheduled in House Document Numbered 1735, parts 2 and 3, of the Sixty-fifth Congress, third session, $852,106.49.

For the payment of the claims for damage to and loss of private property occasioned by the explosions and fire at the plant of the T. A. Gillespie Company, at Morgan, New Jersey, which have been determined by the Secretary of War from claims submitted by the sufferers and in amounts not exceeding those which are enumerated and scheduled in the final report of the Secretary of War under date of May 31, 1919, in Senate Document Numbered 31, Sixty-sixth Congress, first session, and shown therein as schedules "A," "B," "C,” “ D,” and "I," $463,392.08.

The disbursing authority in paying amounts appropriated herein, or amounts heretofore or hereafter appropriated by Congress for the payment of claims for damage to and loss of private property occasioned by the explosions and fire at the plant of the T. A. Gillespie Company, at Morgan, New Jersey, is hereby directed to make such deductions as is found necessary by any errors or omissions on submission of further evidence.

MILITARY ESTABLISHMENT.

For the payment of lawful obligations of the Military Establishment already incurred during the fiscal years 1918 and 1919 and for which no appropriations are available, the Secretary of War is authorized to use the unexpended balances of the following appropriations for the fiscal years 1918 and 1919 and in sums not to exceed the following amounts, respectively: From appropriations of the Ordnance Department, $770,000,000;

From appropriations of the Quartermaster Corps, $450,000,000; From appropriation, Air Service, Military, $20,000,000; From appropriation, Air Service, Production, $30,000,000; In all, $1,270,000,000: Provided, That the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to make the transfers of appropriations herein authorized: Provided further, That no part of the foregoing sums shall be transferred for the payment of personal services in the District of Columbia: Provided further, That the

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Secretary of War shall transmit to Congress on the first day of its next regular session a statement showing the amounts transferred to or from any appropriation account under the foregoing authorization.

NATIONAL HOME FOR DISABLED VOLUNTEER

SOLDIERS.

For the support of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, including the same objects specified in the Sundry Civil Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1919 for the following branches and under the following heads, respectively:

Northwestern Branch, Milwaukee, Wisconsin: For current expenses, $3,000;

For hospital, $2,000;

For farm, $1,000;

In all, $6,000.

Eastern Branch, Togus, Maine: For household, $21,000;
For hospital, $3,000;

For farm, $1,000;

In all, $25,000.

Western Branch, Leavenworth, Kansas: For household, $26,000;

For current expenses, $2,000;

For hospital, $6,000;

In all, $34,000.

Pacific Branch, Santa Monica, California: For current expenses, $4,000;

For household, $10,000;

For hospital, $9,000;

In all, $23,000.

Marion, Indiana, Branch: For current expenses, $5,000;

For farm, $5,000;

In all, $10,000.

Danville, Illinois, Branch; For current expenses, $7,500;

For household, $12,000;

For hospital, $2,000;

For repairs, $6,000;

In all, $27,500.

Battle Mountain Sanitarium, Hot Springs, South Dakota: For household, $5,000;

For hospital, $3,500,

In all, $8,500.

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Clothing: For clothing for all branches, including the same objects specified under this head in the Sundry Civil Appropriation Acts for the fiscal years that follow:

For, 1917, $258.62;

For 1918, $300.

In all, National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, $134,558.62: 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.

For support, clothing, and treatment in Saint Elizabeths Hospital of the insane from the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Coast Guard, inmates of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, persons charged with or convicted of crimes against the United States who are insane, all persons who have become insane since their entry into the military and naval service of the United States, civilians in the quartermaster's service of the Army, persons, transferred from the Canal Zone, who have been admitted to the hospital and who are indigent, including purchase, exchange, maintenance, repair, and operation of motorpropelled, passenger-carrying vehicles, for the use of the superintendent, purchasing agent, and general hospital business, not exceeding $1,500; not to exceed $45,240 for adjustment of compensation of employees, $100,000, to be available until expended.

JUDGMENTS, COURT OF CLAIMS.

For the payment of the judgments rendered by the Court of Claims and reported to the Sixty-fifth Congress, third session, in House Document Numbered 1700 and Senate Document Numbered 428, namely: