in case of the transfers herein authorized a reasonable price not to exceed actual cost, and if the same have been used, at a reasonable price based upon length of usage, shall be determined upon and an equivalent amount of each appropriation available for said purchase shall be covered into the Treasury as a miscellaneous receipt, and the appropriation in each case reduced accordingly: Provided further, That it shall be the duty of each official of the Government having such purchases in charge to procure the same from any such unused or surplus stock if possible: Provided further, That hereafter no transfer of motor-propelled vehicles and motor equipment, unless specifically authorized by law, shall be made free of charge to any branch of the Government service. (Act July 19, 1919, c. 24, § 5, 41 Stat. 233.)

§ 212e. Purchase or service by one department or bureau for another.Whenever any Government bureau or department procures, by purchase or manufacture, stores or materials of any kind, or performs any service for another bureau or department, the funds of the bureau or department for which the stores or materials are to be procured or the service performed may be placed subject to the requisitions of the bureau or department making the procurement or performing the service for direct expenditure: Provided, That funds so placed with the procuring bureau shall remain available for a period of two years for the purposes for which the allocation was made unless sooner expended. (Act May 21, 1920, c. 194, § 7, 41 Stat. 613.)

§ 212f. Appropriations for salaries available in case of disability, only where same is temporary. The appropriations herein made for the officers, clerks, and persons employed in the public service shall not be available for the compensation of any persons incapacitated otherwise than temporarily for performing such service. (Act March 1, 1919, c. 86, § 3, 40 Stat. 1265.)

§ 212g. Railroad transportation home furnished to employes discharged from service of government. The heads of the several executive depart ments and other governmental establishments in the District of Columbia are hereby authorized and directed to furnish to such civilian employes, receiving compensation, exclusive of the addition 120, at the rate of not more than $1,400 per annum or less than $100 per annum, under their respective jurisdiction as have come to the District of Columbia since April 6, 1917, whose services are no longer required and whose employment has been or may be terminated by the Government without delinquency or misconduct on their part, or who may resign from their positions, during the period from November 11, 1918, to March 31, 1919, inclusive, their actual railroad transportation, including sleeping-car accommodations from the District of Columbia to the place from which they accepted employment or to their legal residence, or to such other place not a greater distance, as the employee may elect. Such transportation must be applied for within ten days after the termination of service and shall be used within five days after issuance unless an extension of time on account of illness be granted by the proper authority. As to the employees whose services have been terminated during the period between November 11, 1918, and the date of the passage of this Act, inclusive, the time within which transportation shall be applied for shall be twenty days from the date of the passage of this Act. Any person who shall sell, exchange, or transfer such transportation for the use of another shall be punished by a fine of not more than $100. The expenses authorized by this Act shall be paid from the the following appropriations for the fiscal year 1920, which hereby are made available therefor immediately upon approval of this Act:

For the War Department, from "Temporary employees."

For the Navy Department, from "Temporary employees."

For all other executive departments and independent establishments, from the appropriations for the support of the services in which such persons are employed. Any employee who would be entitled to transportation, including sleeping-car accommodation under this Act and who has left the District of Columbia prior to the passage of this Act, but not before December 10, 1918, upon application and presentation within sixty days after the passage of this Act of proper proof shall have refunded the cost of actual railroad transportation, including sleeping-car accommodation, from the District of Columbia to the place from which employment was accepted, or to their legal residence, or to such other place not a greater distance to which the employee may have gone. The provisions made for the transportation of employees shall not apply to those who enter such service after January 7, 1919: Provided, That payment to any employee for leave of absence not earned in proportion to the term of employment shall be deducted from the refund authorized in this section and the provision made in this Act for the transportation of employees shall not be supplemented in any manner by the various services in which they are employed. (Act March 1, 1919, c. 86, § 4, 40 Stat. 1266.)

§ 212h. Transfer of war materials under executive order.-For salaries of employees, office equipment, fuel, light, electric current, telephone service, maintenance of motor trucks, and other necessary expenses for carrying into effect the Executive order of December 3, 1918, regulating the transfer of office material, supplies, and equipment in the District of Columbia falling into disuse because of the cessation of war activities, $120,000: Provided, That no person shall be employed hereunder at a rate of compensation in excess of $2,500 per annum, and not more than three persons shall be employed at a rate in excess of $1,800 per annum each: Provided further, That the said Executive order shall continue in effect until June 30, 1922, without modification, except that proceeds from the transfer of appropriations thereunder shall be covered into the Treasury as miscellaneous receipts: Provided further, That the heads of the executive departments and independent establishments and the Commissioners of the District of Columbia shall cooperate with the Secretary of the Treasury in connection with the storage and delivery of material, supplies, and equipment transferred under the foregoing order: Provided further, That within thirty days after the approval of this Act the Secretary of War is authorized and directed to transfer to the Secretary of the Treasury without payment therefor two light motor trucks for use of the General Supply Committee: Provided further, That typewriters and computing machines transferred to the General Supply Committee as surplus, where such machines have become unfit for further use, may, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Treasury, be issued to other Government departments and establishments at exchange prices quoted in the current general schedule of supplies or sold commercially provided the price obtained is in excess of the exchange prices. (Act March 3, 1921, c. 124, § i, 41 Stat. 1266.)

§ 2121. Repair of typewriters.-Repairs to typewriting machines (except bookkeeping and billing machines) in the Government service in the District of Columbia may be made at cost by the General Supply Committee, payment therefor to be effected by transfer and counter warrant, charging the proper appropriation and crediting the appropriation "General Supply Committee, Transfer of Office Material, Supplics and Equipment.” (Act March 3, 1921, c. 124, § 1, 41 Stat. 1266.)

§ 212j. Subscriptions for publications.-Any journal, magazine, periodical, or similar publication which is now being issued by a department or establishment of the Government may, in the discretion of the head thereof, be continued within the limitation of available appropriations or other Government funds, until December 1, 1921, when, if it shall not have been specifically authorized by Congress before that date, such journal, magazine, periodical, or similar publication shall be discontinued. (Act March 4, 1921, c. 161, § 3, 41 Stat. 1433.)

TITLE VI.

THE DEPARTMENT OF WAR.

§ 233. Assistant Secretary.-Hereafter, in addition to such other duties as may be assigned him by the Secretary of War, the Assistant Secretary of War, under the direction of the Secretary of War, shall be charged with supervision of the procurement of all military supplies and other business of the War Department pertaining thereto and the assurance of adequate provision for the mobilization of matériel and industrial organizations essential to war-time needs. The Assistant Secretary of War shall receive a salary of $10,000 per annum. There shall be detailed to the office of the Assistant Secretary of War from the branches engaged in procurement such number of officers and civilian employees as may be authorized by regulations approved by the Secretary of War. The offices of Second Assistant Secretary of War and Third Assistant Secretary of War are hereby abolished.

Under the direction of the Secretary of War chiefs of branches of the Army charged with the procurement of supplies for the Army shall report direct to the Assistant Secretary of War regarding all matters of procurement. He shall cause to be manufactured or produced at the Government arsenals or Government-owned factories of the United States all such supplies or articles needed by the War Department as said arsenals or Government-owned factories are capable of manufacturing or producing upon an economical basis. And all appropriations for manufacture of materiel pertaining to approved projects, which are placed with arsenals or Government-owned factories or other ordnance establishments shall remain available for such purposes until the close of the next ensuing fiscal year. (Acts March 5, 1890, c. 20, 26 Stat. 17; April 6, 1918, c. 46, 40 Stat. 515; June 3, 1916, c. 134, § 5a, as added by Act June 4, 1920, c. 227, § 5, 41 Stat. 764.)

§ 234a. Employees in office of Chief of Engineers.-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: Provided further, That the expenditures on this account for the fiscal year 1921 shall not exceed $150,000. The Secretary of War shall each year, in the annual estimates, report to Congress the number of persons who are employed, their duties, and the amount paid to each. (Act June 5, 1920, c. 240, 41 Stat. 969.)

Note. See § 260d.

§ 234b. Details in Coast Artillery. Nothing contained in this Act or any other Act shall be construed as precluding the detail upon duties of a technical or military nature of not to exceed eight warrant officers, or enlisted men of the Coast Artillery Corps, in the Office of the Chief of Coast Artillery. (Act March 3, 1921, c. 124, § 1, 41 Stat. 1279.)

§ 237. Detail of employees for other duties.-It shall not hereafter be lawful to detail clerks or other civilian employees authorized for the Office of the General Staff for duty, temporary or otherwise, in any office or bureau of the War Department at Washington, District of Columbia, or to detail clerks or other employees from the War Department for service in the Office of the General Staff.

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 with any bureau in the War Department.

(Acts June 22, 1906, c. 3514, § 1, 34 Stat. 418; Aug. 29, 1916, c. 418, § 1, 39 Stat. 626; July 9, 1918, c. 143, 40 Stat. 845; July 11, 1919, c. 8, § 1; June 5, 1920, c. 240, 41 Stat. 969; June 30, 1921, c. 33, § 1, 42 Stat. 68.)

§ 237a. Temporary employees. For the temporary employment of such additional force of clerks and other employees as in the judgment of the Secretary of War may be proper and necessary to the prompt, efficient, and accurate dispatch of official business in the War Department and its bureaus, to be allotted by the Secretary of War to such bureaus and offices as the exigencies of the existing situation may demand, $4,000,000: Provided, That the Secretary of War shall submit to Congress on the first day of its next regular session a statement showing by bureaus or offices the number and designation of the persons employed hereunder and the annual rate of compensation paid to cach: Provided further, That no person shall be employed hereunder at a rate of compensation in excess of $5,000 per annum, not more than five persons shall be employed hereunder at a rate of compensation in excess of $2,400 per annum each, and not more than twenty-five persons shall be employed at a rate of compensation in excess of $1,800 per annum each: Provided further, That detailed estimates shall be submitted by the War Department in the annual Book of Estimates for the fiscal year 1921 for necessary services of the character provided for in this paragraph. (Act March 1, 1919, c. 86, § 1, 40 Stat. 1237.)

§ 237b. Purchase of vehicles for Army; transportation of civilian employees. None of the funds appropriated or made available under this Act or any of the unexpended balances of any other Act shall be used for the purchase of motor-propelled passenger or freight carrying vehicles for the Army except those that are purchased solely for experimental purposes: And provided further, That hereafter the cost of transportation of civilian employees and of materials in connection with the construction or maintenance of seacoast fortifications, or the acquisition of land therefor, by the Engineer Department, or with the manufacturing and purchase activities of the Ordnance Department and the Chemical Warfare Service, shall be charged to the appropriations for the work in connection with which such transportation charges are incurred. (Act June 30, 1921, c. 33, § 1, 42 Stat.

68.)

§ 251. Damages to private property by military operations.

Note 1.-Act July 11, 1919, c. 8, § 1, provides "for payment of claims for damages to and loss of private property incident to the training, practice, operation, or maintenance of the Army that have accrued, or may hereafter accrue, from time to time, to be immediately available and to remain available until expended: Provided, That settlement of such claims shall be made by the Auditor for the War Department, upon the approval and recommendation of the Secretary of War, where the amount of damages has been ascertained by the War Department, and payment thereof will be accepted by the owners of the property in full satisfaction of such damages, $40,000."

Note 2-Act June 30, 1921, c. 33, § 1, 42 Stat. 68, provides "for payment of claims for damages to and loss of private property incident to the training, practice, operation, or maintenance of the Army that have accrued, or may hereafter accrue, from time to time, to be immediately available and to remain available until expended, $100,000: Provided, That settlement of such claims shall be made by the Auditor for the War Department, upon the approval and recommendation of the Secretary of War, where the amount of damages has been ascertained by the War Department, and payment thereof will be accepted by the owners of the property in full satisfaction of such damages."

§ 259. Employees of Bureau of Insular Affairs.-The officers of the Bureau of Insular Affairs shall be one Chief of the Bureau with the rank of brigadier general, and two officers below the grade of brigadier general: Provided, That during the tenure of office of the present Chief of the Bureau of Insular Affairs he shall have the rank of major general. (Acts June 25, 1906, c. 3528, 34 Stat. 456; June 3, 1916, c. 134, § 14, 39 Stat. 176; June 4, 1920, c. 227, § 14.)

Note. The act first cited provides that the Chief of the Bureau shall be appointed by the President for the term of four years, with the advice and consent of the Senate.

§ 260a. Transfer of explosives to Interior Department.-The Secretary of War is authorized to transfer, without charge, to the Secretary of the Interior for use of the Interior Department, explosives and explosive material for which the War Department has no further use. (Act July 19, 1919, c. 24, § 1.)

§ 260b. Loan of tents to army organizations. Hereafter no loan of tents shall be made except to the Grand Army of the Republic, the United Confederate Veterans, the United Spanish War Veterans, and to recognized organizations of veterans of the late World War by whatever name they may be known. (Res. No. 6, July 26, 1919, c. 28.)

§ 260c. Sale of war materials to States or foreign governments.-The Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, authorized, in his discretion, to sell to any State or foreign government with which the United States is at peace at the time of the passage of this Act, upon such terms as he may deem expedient, any matériel, supplies, or equipment pertaining to the Military Establishment, except foodstuffs, as, or may be hereafter be found to be surplus, which are not needed for military purposes and for which there is no adequate domestic market. (Act June 5, 1920, c. 240.)

§ 260d. Draftsmen and other special services for department.-The services of skilled draftsmen and such other services as the Secretary of War may deem necessary may be employed only in the office of the Chief of Ordnance to carry into effect the various appropriations for the armament of fortifications and for the arming and equipping of the National Guard, to be paid from such appropriations: Provided, That the entire expenditures for this purpose for the fiscal year 1922 shall not exceed $300,000, and the Secretary of War shall each year in the annual estimates report to Congress the number of persons so employed, their dutics, and the amount paid to each.

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 rivers and harbors, surveys, preparation for and the consideration of river and harbor estimates and bills, fortifications, engineer equipment of troops, engineer operations in the field, and other military purposes, to be paid from such appropriations: Provided, That the expenditures on this account for the fiscal year 1922 shall not exceed $150,000; the Secretary of War shall each year, in the annual estimates, report to Congress the number of persons so employed, their duties, and the amount paid to each. (Acts March 3, 1921, c. 124, § 1, 41 Stat. 1279; May 29, 1920, c. 214, § 1, 41 Stat. 659.)

The services of skilled draftsmen and such other services as the Secretary of War may deem necessary may be employed only in the Signal Office to carry into effect the various appropriations for fortifications and other works of defense, and for the Signal Service of the Army, to be paid from such appropriations, in addition to the foregoing employees appropriated for in the Signal Office: Provided, That the entire expenditures for this purpose for the fiscal year 1922 shall not exceed $40,000, and the Secretary of War shall each year in the annual estimates report to Congress the number of persons so employed, their duties, and the amount paid to each.

The services of aeronautical engineers, skilled draftsmen, and such other technical services as the Secretary of War may deem necessary may be employed only in the office of the Chief of Air Service to carry into effect the various appropriations for aeronautical purposes, to be paid from such appropriations, in addition to the foregoing employees appropriated for in the office of the Chief of Air Service: Provided, That the entire expendi