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Price current to govern payments.

Use of Army reserve supplies restricted.

Promotion of rifle

practice.

Civilian instruction.

Quartermaster supplies for rifle ranges, practice, etc.

Instructors, etc.

for actual expense incurred in the manufacture or issue: Provided further, That in no case shall the amount paid from this appropriation for uniforms, equipment, or material furnished in accordance with law for use at citizens' military training camps from stocks under control of the War Department be in excess of the price current at the time the issue is made.

Under the authorizations contained in this Act no issues of reserve supplies or equipment shall be made where such issues would impair the reserves held by the War Department for two field armies or one million men.

NATIONAL BOARD FOR PROMOTION OF RIFLE PRACTICE

QUARTERMASTER SUPPLIES AND SERVICES FOR RIFLE RANGES FOR
CIVILIAN INSTRUCTION

To establish and maintain indoor and outdoor rifle ranges for the use of all able-bodied males capable of bearing_arms under reasonable regulations to be prescribed by the National Board for the Promotion of Rifle Practice and approved by the Secretary of War; for the employment of labor in connection with the establishment of outdoor and indoor rifle ranges, including labor in operating targets; for the employment of instructors; for clerical services, not exceeding $20,000; for badges and other insignia; for the transportation of employees, instructors, and civilians to engage in practice; for the purchase of materials, supplies, and services, and for expenses incidental to instruction of citizens of the United States in marksmanship, and their participation in national and international matches, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War, and to remain available until expended, $40,700: Transportation, Provided, That out of this appropriation there may be expended meals, etc., for rifle not to exceed $100 for the payment of transportation, for supplying meals, or furnishing commutation of subsistence of civilian rifle teams authorized by the Secretary of War to participate in the national matches.

Participation in

matches.

Proviso.

teams.

Rifle contests.

Furnishing national trophy, medals, etc., for annual.

NATIONAL TROPHY AND MEDALS FOR RIFLE CONTESTS

For the purpose of furnishing a national trophy and medals and other prizes to be provided and contested for annually, under such regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary of War, said contest to be open to the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and the National Guard or Organized Militia of the several States, Territories, and of the District of Columbia, members of rifle clubs, and civilians, and for the cost of the trophy, prizes, and medals herein provided for, and for the promotion of rifle practice throughout Reimbursing Na- the United States, including the reimbursement of necessary expense of members of the National Board for the Promotion of Rifle Practice, to be expended for the purposes hereinbefore prescribed, under the direction of the Secretary of War, $7,000.

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ORDNANCE EQUIPMENT FOR RIFLE RANGES FOR CIVILIAN INSTRUCTION

For arms, ammunition, targets, and other accessories for target practice, for issue and sale in accordance with rules and regulations prescribed by the National Board for the Promotion of Rifle Practice and approved by the Secretary of War, in connection with the encouragement of rifle practice, in pursuance of the provisions of law, $9,000.

etc., using time measof employees.

No part of the appropriations made in this Act shall be available No pay to officers, for the salary or pay of any officer, manager, superintendent, uring devices on work foreman, or other person having charge of the work of any employee of the United States Government while making or causing to be made with a stop watch, or other time-measuring device, a time study of any job of any such employee between the starting and completion thereof, or of the movements of any such employee while engaged upon such work; nor shall any part of the appro- stricted. priations made in this Act be available to pay any premiums or bonus or cash reward to any employee in addition to his regular wages, except for suggestions resulting in improvements or economy in the operation of any Government plant.

Cash rewards re

ported equipment, etc.

Equipment or material purchased outside of the United States Free admission of imfrom funds appropriated in this Act shall be admitted free of duty.

Nonmilitary activi

TITLE II.-NONMILITARY ACTIVITIES OF THE WAR ties.

DEPARTMENT

FINANCE DEPARTMENT

For amount required to make monthly payments to Jennie Carroll, widow of James Carroll, late major, United States Army, $1,500. For amount required to make monthly payments to Mabel H. Lazear, widow of Jesse W. Lazear, late acting assistant surgeon, United States Army, $1,500.

For amount required to make monthly payments to John R. Kissinger, late of Company D, One hundred and fifty-seventh Indiana Volunteer Infantry, also late of the Hospital Corps, United States Army, $1,200.

QUARTERMASTER CORPS

NATIONAL CEMETERIES

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Maintenance.

For maintaining and improving national cemeteries, including fuel for superintendents, pay of superintendents, including the superintendent at Mexico City, laborers and other employees, purchase of tools and materials, and including care and maintenance of the Arlington Memorial Amphitheater and Chapel and grounds in the Arlington National Cemetery, Virginia, and permanent abroad. American military cemeteries abroad, $483,160.

Arlington, Va.

Provisos.

by

For repairs to roadways to national cemeteries which have been Repairs to roadways. constructed by special authority of Congress, $15,000: Provided, Encroachment That no railroad shall be permitted upon the right of way which railroads forbidden. may have been acquired by the United States to a national cemetery, or to encroach upon any roads or walks constructed thereon and maintained by the United States: Provided further, That no part of this sum shall be used for repairing any roadway not owned by the United States within the corporate limits of any city, town, or village.

No part of any appropriation for national cemeteries or the repair of roadways thereto shall be expended in the maintenance of more than a single approach to any national cemetery.

Restriction on repairs.

Limited to one approach.

Headstones for soldiers', etc., graves.

For continuing the work of furnishing headstones of durable stone or other durable material for unmarked graves of Union and Confederate soldiers, sailors, and marines, and soldiers, sailors, and marines of all other wars in national, post, city, town, and village cemeteries, naval cemeteries at navy yards and stations of the United States, and other burial places, under the Acts of March 3, 1873, 34, p. 56.

R. S., sec. 4877, p. 944.
Vol. 20, p. 281; Vol.

Civilians.

February 3, 1879, and March 9, 1906; continuing the work of furnishing headstones for unmarked graves of civilians interred in Vol. 33, p. 396; Vol. post cemeteries under the Acts of April 28, 1904, and June 30, 1906; and furnishing headstones for the unmarked graves of Confederate soldiers, sailors, and marines in national cemeteries, $170,000.

34, p. 741.

Confederates.

Antietam battle field,

Md.

Preservation, etc.

Superintendent

Disposition of mains of officers, etc.

re

For repair and preservation of monuments, tablets, observation tower, roads, and fences, and so forth, made and constructed by the United States upon public lands within the limits of the Antietam battle field, near Sharpsburg, Maryland, and for pay of superintendent, said superintendent to perform his duties under the direction of the Quartermaster Corps and to be selected and appointed by the Secretary of War, at his discretion, the person selected for this position to have been either a commissioned officer or enlisted man who has been honorably mustered out or discharged from the military service of the United States and who may have been disabled for active field service in line of duty, $6,500.

DISPOSITION OF REMAINS OF OFFICERS, SOLDIERS, AND CIVILIAN EMPLOYEES: For interment, cremation (only upon request from relatives of the deceased), or of preparation and transportation to their homes or to such national cemeteries as may be designated by proper authority, in the discretion of the Secretary of War, of the remains of officers, cadets, United States Military Academy, acting assistant surgeons, members of the Army Nurse Corps, and enlisted men in active service, and accepted applicants for enlistment; for interment or preparation and transportation to their homes of the remains of civilian employees of the Army in the employ of the War Department who die abroad, in Alaska, in the Canal Zone, or on Army transports, or who die while on duty in the field; for interment of military prisoners who die at military posts; for the interment and shipment to their homes of remains of enlisted men who are discharged in hospitals in the United States and continue as inmates of said hospitals to the date of their death; for interment of prisoners of war and interned alien enemies who die at prison camps in the Removal from aban- United States; for removal of remains from abandoned posts to permanent military posts or national cemeteries, including the remains of Federal soldiers, sailors, or marines interred in fields, abandoned graves, or abandoned private and city cemeteries; and in any case where the expenses of burial or shipment of the remains of officers or enlisted men of the Army who die on the active list, are borne by individuals, where such expenses would have been to lawful claims against the Government, reimbursement to such individuals may be made of the amount allowed by the Government for American cemeteries such services out of this sum, but no reimbursement shall be made of such expenses incurred prior to July 1, 1910; for expenses of the segregation of bodies in permanent American cemeteries in Great Britain and France, $100,000: Provided, That the above provisions enlisted men on active shall be applicable in the cases of officers and enlisted men on the retired list of the Army who have died or may hereafter die while on active duty by proper assignment.

doned posts, etc.

Reimbursement individuals.

in Great Britain and France.

Proviso.

Retired officers and

duty included.

Confederate Mound, Chicago, Ill.

Confederate Stockade, Ohio.

Confederate burial

plats.

CONFEDERATE MOUND, OAKWOOD CEMETERY, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS : For care, protection, and maintenance of the plat of ground known as "Confederate Mound" in Oakwood Cemetery, Chicago, Illinois, $500.

For care, protection, and maintenance of Confederate Stockade Cemetery, Johnstons Island, in Sandusky Bay, Ohio, $350.

CONFEDERATE BURIAL PLATS: For care, protection, and maintenance of Confederate burial plats, owned by the United States, located and known by the following designations: Confederate Cemetery, North Alton, Illinois; Confederate Cemetery, Camp Chase, Columbus, Ohio; Confederate section, Greenlawn Cemetery, Indianapolis,

Indiana; Confederate Cemetery, Point Lookout, Maryland; and
Confederate Cemetery, Rock Island, Illinois, $1,250.

Little Rock, Ark.
Burial of Hot Springs

BURIAL OF DECEASED INDIGENT PATIENTS: For burying in the Little Rock (Arkansas) National Cemetery, including transportation Hospital patients in thereto, indigent, ex-soldiers, ex-sailors, or ex-marines of the United national cemetery at. States service, either Regular or Volunteer, who have been honorably discharged or retired and who die while patients at the Army and Navy General Hospital, Hot Springs, Arkansas, to be disbursed at a cost not exceeding $35 for such burial expenses in each case, exclusive of cost of grave, $100.

Burial places in Cuba

For repairs and preservation of monuments, tablets, roads, fences, and China. and so forth, made and constructed by the United States in Cuba and China to mark the places where American soldiers fell, $1,000.

NATIONAL MILITARY PARKS

CHICKAMAUGA AND CHATTANOOGA NATIONAL MILITARY PARK

Military Parks.

Chickamauga Chattanooga.

and

Continuing estab

For continuing the establishment of the park; compensation and shment of, etc. expenses of the superintendent, maps, surveys, clerical and other assistance; maintenance, repair, and operation of one motor-propelled and one horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicle; office and all other necessary expenses; foundations for State monuments; mowing; historical tablets, iron and bronze; iron gun carriages; roads and their maintenance, including not exceeding $5,000 for posts and guard rails on highways; repair or removal of towers; purchase of small tracts of lands heretofore authorized by law, $78,265. Notwithstanding the restrictive provisions of the Act of February lowed Spanish War 26, 1896 (Twenty-ninth Statutes, page 21), the Secretary of War is authorized in his discretion to permit without cost to the United States the erection of monuments or memorials to commemorate encampments of Spanish War organizations which were encamped in said park during the period of the Spanish-American War.

GETTYSBURG NATIONAL MILITARY PARK

Memorials, etc., al

veterans who were en

camped therein.

Vol. 29, p. 21.

Gettysburg.

Continuing

For continuing the establishment of the park; acquisition of lishment of, etc. lands, surveys, and maps; contructing, improving, and maintaining avenues, roads, and bridges thereon; fences and gates; marking the lines of battle with tablets and guns, each tablet bearing a brief legend giving historic facts and compiled without censure and without praise; preserving the features of the battle field and the monuments thereon; compensation of superintendent, clerical and other services, expenses, and labor; purchase and preparation of tablets and gun carriages and placing them in position; maintenance, repair, and operation of a motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicle, and all other expenses incident to the foregoing, $53,600.

GUILFORD COURTHOUSE NATIONAL MILITARY PARK

estab

Guilford Courthouse.

Continuing
Vol. 39, p. 996.

For continuing the establishment of a national military park at lishment of, etc. the battle field of Guilford Courthouse, in accordance with the Act entitled "An Act to establish a national military park at the battle field of Guilford Courthouse," approved March 2, 1917, $9,115.

SHILOH NATIONAL MILITARY PARK

Shiloh.

Continuing

For continuing the establishment of the park; compensation of lishment of, etc. superintendent of the park; clerical and other services; labor; historical tablets; maps and surveys; roads; purchase and transportation of supplies, implements, and materials; foundations for monuments;

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office and other necessary expenses, including maintenance, repair, and operation of one motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicle; in all, $29,163.

VICKSBURG NATIONAL MILITARY PARK

For continuing the establishment of the park; compensation of civilian commissioners; clerical and other services, labor, iron gun carriages, mounting of siege guns, memorials, monuments, markers, and historical tablets giving historical facts, compiled without praise and without censure; maps, surveys, roads, bridges, restoration of earthworks, purchase of lands, purchase and transportation of supplies and materials; and other necessary expenses, $24,000.

NATIONAL MONUMENTS

For maintaining and improving national monuments established by proclamation of the President under the Act of June 8, 1906 (Thirty-fourth Statutes, page 225), and administered by the Secretary of War, including Fort McHenry, Maryland, including pay of the caretakers, laborers, and other employees, purchase of tools and materials, light, heat, and power, $21,961.

SIGNAL CORPS

WASHINGTON-ALASKA MILITARY CABLE AND TELEGRAPH SYSTEM

For defraying the cost of such extensions, betterments, operation, and maintenance of the Washington-Alaska Military Cable and Telegraph System as may be approved by the Secretary of War, to be available until the close of the fiscal year 1928, from the receipts of the Washington-Alaska Military Cable and Telegraph System which have been covered into the Treasury of the United States, the extent of such extensions and betterments and the cost thereof to be reported to Congress by the Secretary of War, $157,167.

MEDICAL DEPARTMENT

Artificial limbs: For furnishing artificial limbs and apparatus, or commutation therefor, and necessary transportation, $60,000.

Appliances for disabled soldiers: For furnishing surgical appliances to persons disabled in the military or naval service of the United States prior to April 6, 1917, or subsequent to July 1, 1921, and not entitled to artificial limbs or trusses for the same disabilities, $1,000.

Trusses for disabled soldiers: For trusses for persons entitled thereto under section 1176, Revised Statutes of the United States, and the Act amendatory thereof, approved March 3, 1879, $750.

MEDICAL AND SURGICAL HISTORY OF THE WORLD WAR

Toward the preparation for publication under the direction of the Secretary of War of a medical and surgical history of the war with Germany, including personal services, $16,000.

CORPS OF ENGINEERS

BIRTHPLACE OF GEORGE WASHINGTON, WAKEFIELD, VIRGINIA

For watchmen for the care of the monument and dock at Wakefield, Virginia, the birthplace of Washington, $1,120.

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