Post, pp. 670, 812. Instruction, etc., expenses. etc. plies. Helium gas. Civilian employees. Development of new types of aircraft. AIR CORPS AIR CORPS, ARMY For creating, maintaining, and operating at established flying schools and balloon schools courses of instruction for officers, students, and enlisted men, including cost of equipment and supplies necessary for instruction, purchase of tools, equipment, materials, machines, textbooks, books of reference, scientific and professional papers, instruments, and materials for theoretical and practical instruction; Aircraft operation, for maintenance, repair, storage, and operation of airships, war balloons, and other aerial machines, including instruments, materials, gas plants, hangars, and repair shops, and appliances of every sort and description necessary for the operation, construction, or equipment of all types of aircraft, and all necessary spare parts and equipment connected therewith and the establishment of landing and takePhotographic sup- off runways; for purchase of supplies for securing, developing, printing, and reproducing photographs in connection with aerial photography; improvement, equipment, maintenance, and operation of plants for testing and experimental work, and procuring and introducing water, electric light and power, gas, and sewerage, including maintenance, operation, and repair of such utilities at such plants, for the procurement of helium gas; for travel of officers and enlisted men of the Air Corps by air in connection with the administration of this appropriation, including travel by air or rail required in connection with the transportation of new aircraft from factory to first destination; salaries and wages of civilian employees as may be necessary; transportation of materials in connection with consolidation of Air Corps activities; experimental investigations and purchase and development of new types of airplanes, autogiros, and balloons, accessories thereto, and aviation engines, including plans, drawings, and speciPurchase, construc- fications thereof; for the purchase, manufacture, and construction of airplanes and balloons, including instruments and appliances of every sort and description necessary for the operation, construction (airplanes and balloons), or equipment of all types of aircraft, and all Marking of military necessary spare parts and equipment connected therewith; or the marking of military airways where the purchase of land is not involved; for the purchase, manufacture, and issue of special clothing, wearing apparel, and similar equipment for aviation purposes; for all necessary expenses connected with the sale or disposal of surplus or obsolete aeronautical equipment, and the rental of buildings, and other facilities for the handling or storage of such equipment; for the rental of office space and other facilities in connection with Air engi Corps procurement activities; for the services of not more than four consulting engineers at experimental stations of the Air Corps as the Secretary of War may deem necessary, at rates of pay to be fixed by him not to exceed $50 a day for not exceeding fifty days each and necessary traveling expenses; purchase of special apparatus and appliances, repairs, and replacements of same used in connection with special scientific medical research in the Air Corps; for maintenance and operation of such Air Corps printing plants outside of the District of Columbia as may be authorized in accordance with law; for publications, station libraries, special furniture, supplies and equipment for offices, shops, and laboratories; for special services, including the Settlement of claims. salvaging of wrecked aircraft; for settlement of claims (not exceeding $250 each) for damage to persons and private property resulting from the operation of aircraft at home and abroad 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 tion, etc. airways. Consulting neers. Printing plants. Payments under contracts. 54 Stat. 365. Contracts executed Provisos. the Chief of Air Corps and the Secretary of War, $4,341,735,322, of which $2,506,868,000 shall be immediately available, and not to exceed $1,201,159,597 shall be available for payments under contracts for the procurement of Air Corps supplies and equipment, as authorized by appropriation Acts for the fiscal year 1941, and not to exceed prior to July 1, 1939. $792,381 shall be for the payment of obligations incurred under contracts executed prior to July 1, 1939: Provided, That in addition to the amounts herein appropriated the Chief of the Air Corps, when limitation. authorized by the Secretary of War, may enter into contracts between the date of the approval of this Act and July 1, 1942, for the procurement of Air Corps supplies and equipment to an amount not in excess of $104,258,995: Provided further, That this appropriation may be expended without reference to the limitation contained in planes. section 1 of the Act approved April 3, 1939 (Public, Numbered 18, Seventy-sixth Congress), as to the number of airplanes to be procured and maintained: Provided further, That the provisions of the Act to facilitate the procurement of aircraft for the national defense, approved March 5, 1940, as amended by section 401 of the Second 34 U. S. C. 4963. Revenue Act of 1940, approved October 8, 1940, shall be effective during the fiscal year 1942. MEDICAL DEPARTMENT ARMY MEDICAL AND HOSPITAL DEPARTMENT Waiver of limitation as to number of air 53 Stat. 555. 10 U. S. C. § 292b. Facilitation of procurement of aircraft. 54 Stat. 45, 1003. 10 U.S. C. § 310 note; Post, pp. 670, 812. Supplies. Care, etc., in private hospitals. Proviso. If on furlough, etc. Epidemic and contagious diseases. For the manufacture and purchase of medical and hospital supplies, including disinfectants, for military posts, camps, hospitals, hospital ships and transports, for laundry work for enlisted men and Army nurses while patients in a hospital, and supplies required for mosquito destruction in and about military posts in the Canal Zone; for the purchase of veterinary supplies and hire of veterinary surgeons; for expenses of medical supply depots; for medical care and treatment of patients, including supernumeraries, not otherwise provided for, including care and subsistence in private hospitals of officers, enlisted men, and civilian employees of the Army, of applicants for enlistment, and of prisoners of war and other persons in military custody or confinement, when entitled thereto by law, regulation, or contract: Provided, That this shall not apply to officers and enlisted men who are treated in private hospitals or by civilian physicians while on furloughs or leaves of absence in excess of twenty-four hours; for the proper care and treatment of epidemic and contagious diseases in the Army or at military posts or stations, including measures to prevent the spread thereof, and the payment of reasonable damages not otherwise provided for for bedding and clothing injured or destroyed in such prevention; for the care of insane Filipino soldiers in conformity with the Act of Congress approved May 11, 1908 (24 U. S. C. 198); for the pay of male and female nurses, not including the Army Nurse Corps, and of cooks and other civilians. and other civilians employed for the proper care of sick officers and soldiers, under such regulations fixing their number, qualifications, assignments, pay, and allowances as shall have been or shall be prescribed by the Secretary of War; for the pay of internes who are graduates of or have successfully completed at least four years professional training in reputable schools of medicine or osteopathy at not to exceed $720 per annum each; for the pay of civilian physicians employed to examine physically applicants for enlistment and enlisted men and to render other professional services from time to Insane Filipino soldiers. 35 Stat. 122. Civilian physicians. time under proper authority; for the pay of other employees of the Medical Department; for the payment of express companies and local transfers employed directly by the Medical Department for the transportation of medical and hospital supplies, including bidders' samples and water for analysis; for supplies for use in teaching the art of cooking to the enlisted force of the Medical Department; Army and Navy for the supply of Army and Navy Hospital at Hot Springs, Arkansas; for advertising, laundry, and all other necessary miscellaneous expenses of the Medical Department, $60,865,000, of which amount not to exceed $6,526,819 shall be for payment of obligations incurred under contract authorizations under this head in Appropriation Acts for the fiscal year 1941. Hospital, Hot Springs, Payment of con tract obligations. 54 Stat. 366. Proviso. Subsistence pay ments. Post, pp. 670, 812. Equipment, instruments, etc. maintenance, etc. HOSPITAL CARE, CANAL ZONE GARRISONS For paying the Panama Canal such reasonable charges, exclusive of subsistence, as may be approved by the Secretary of War for caring in its hospitals for officers, enlisted men, military prisoners, and civilian employees of the Army admitted thereto upon the request of proper military authority, $415,000: Provided, That the subsistence of the said patients, except commissioned officers, shall be paid to said hospitals out of the appropriation for subsistence of the Army at the rates provided therein for commutation of rations for enlisted patients in general hospitals. CORPS OF ENGINEERS ENGINEER SERVICE, ARMY For the design, development, procurement, manufacture, mainte nance, alteration, repair, installation, storage, and issue of engineer equipment, instruments, appliances, supplies, materials, tools and machinery required in the equipment and training of troops and in military operations, including military surveys and the Engineer School, and including the purchase, maintenance, repair, and operaEngineer School, tion of passenger-carrying vehicles; for the operation and maintenance of the Engineer School, including (a) compensation of civilian lecturers, and (b) purchase and binding of scientific and professional Maps, surveys, etc. books, pamphlets, papers, and periodicals; for the procurement, preparation, and reproduction of maps and similar data for military purposes; for expenses incident to the Engineer service in military operations, including military surveys, and including (a) research and development of improved methods in such operations, (b) the rental of storehouses and grounds and (c) repair and alteration of buildings; for heat, light, power, water, and communication service, not otherwise provided for; and for the compensation of employees under required in these activities, $42,434,000, of which amount not to exceed $25,993,500 shall be for payments under contracts for the procurement of Engineer equipment under the authorization contained in appropriation Acts for the fiscal year 1941: Provided, That this appropriation shall be available for expenses of railroad operation, including purchase or lease of equipment and materials and the acquisition of lands, rights-of-way thereon, and other interests therein and temporary use thereof. Heat, light, etc. Payments contracts. etc. 54 Stat. 367. Proviso. Railroad operation, Military construction, defense installations: For construction, installation, maintenance, and repair of facilities required for military use at locations to be approved by the President, and for each and every object and expense connected therewith, in the discretion of the Secretary of War, including housing, storage, fortifications, airdromes, Leasehold, etc., interests. 50 U. S. C. § 175. Supplies and services. Proviso. piers, roads, railroads, and communication, water, sewerage, and electric systems, and other utilities connected therewith, and also including the acquisition of leasehold and other interests in land, and temporary use thereof, without regard to sections 1136 and 3734, Revised Statutes, as amended (10 U. S. C. 1339; 40 U. S. C. 267), and the land, and interests therein, including the temporary use thereof, may be acquired and construction may be prosecuted thereon prior to the approval of the title by the Attorney General as required by section 355 of the Revised Statutes, as amended; the purchase, hire, operation, maintenance, and repair of passenger-carrying vehicles; the employment of persons and the procurement of supplies and services, printing and binding, and communication service, at the seat of government and elsewhere, $51,000,000, to remain available until June 30, 1943: Provided, That under this appropriation the Secretary of War is authorized to effect appointments of employees in the side United States. United States, or to effect the transfer of employees in the Federal service in the United States, for duty at any point outside the continental limits of the United States at which it may be found necessary to assign such civilian employees, and to pay the costs of transportation of such employees from place of engagement in the United States, or from present post of duty in the United States, in the case of those employees already in the service of the United States, to the post of duty outside the United States, and return upon completion of assignment or after such period of service as may be prescribed by the head of the Department; to provide for the shipment of household goods and personal effects of persons so appointed or transferred from place of engagement or from present post of duty in the United States to the post of duty outside the continental United States; and to provide for the transportation of the dependents of such appointees or employees, either by commercial or Government-operated vessels, as may be found expedient. ORDNANCE DEPARTMENT ORDNANCE SERVICE AND SUPPLIES, ARMY out Payment of transportation costs. Shipment of household, etc., effects. etc. Post, pp. 670, 812. Manufacture, issue, Contingent ex Vehicles. For manufacture, procurement, storage, and issue, including research, planning, design, development, inspection, test, alteration, maintenance, repair, and handling of ordnance material, together with the machinery, supplies, and services necessary thereto; for sup- penses. plies and services in connection with the general work of the Ordnance Department, comprising police and office duties, rents, tolls, fuel, light, water, advertising, stationery, typewriting and computing machines, including their exchange, and furniture, tools, and instruments of service; to provide for training and other incidental expenses of the ordnance service; for instruction purposes, other than tuition; for the purchase, completely equipped, of plant vehicles, including trucks, ambulances, and station wagons, and for maintenance, repair, and operation of motor-propelled and horse-drawn freight and passenger-carrying vehicles; for ammunition for military salutes at Government establishments and institutions to which the issues of arms for salutes are authorized; for services, material, tools, and appliances for operation of the testing machines and chemical laboratory in connection therewith; for publications for libraries of the Ordnance Department, including the Ordnance Office, including subscriptions to periodicals; not to exceed $150,000 for services of such consultants as the Secretary of War may deem necessary, at rates of pay to be fixed by him not to exceed $50 per day and for their necessary traveling expenses; in all, $1,339,390,595, of which $76,085,595 shall be Ammunition for military salutes. Libraries of Ordnance Department. Consultants. contracts. 53 Stat. 608; 54 Stat. Contract authoriza 367. tions. Provisos. Time extension. Payments under immediately available, and not to exceed $1,103,925,950 shall be available for payments under contracts for the procurement or production of ordnance matériel, machinery, and supplies under authorizations under this head contained in Appropriation Acts for the fiscal years 1940 and 1941; also, in addition, the Chief of Ordnance, when authorized by the Secretary of War, may enter into contracts prior to July 1, 1942, for the procurement or production of ordnance matériel, machinery, and supplies to an amount not in excess of $57,000,000, and his action in so doing shall be deemed a contractual obligation of the Federal Government for the payment of the cost thereof: Provided, That the period of the contract authorization of $831,065,751 under this head in the Fifth Supplemental National Defense Appropriation Act, 1941, is extended to July 1, 1942: Provided further, Armored Force di- That the Chief of Ordnance and the chiefs of any other branches concerned shall enter into contracts prior to July 1, 1942, for the procurement of such equipment, spare parts, and accessories as may be required for such additional Armored Force divisions and/or other units of such Armored Force as may be directed by the Chief of Staff: Provided further, That pay and allowances of Ordnance Reserve Officers and Specialist Reserve Officers assigned to the Ordnance Department to active duty to carry out the purposes of this appropriation, while so assigned, shall be charged to this appropriation. visions, etc., contracts. Post, p. 670. Reserve officers, active duty. Post, pp. 670, 812. Gases, etc. ment etc. of scientists, Construction buildings, etc. of ROCK ISLAND BRIDGE, ROCK ISLAND, ILLINOIS For operating, repair, and preservation of Rock Island bridges and viaduct, and maintenance and repair of the arsenal street connecting the bridges, $33,000. REPAIRS OF ARSENALS For repairs and improvements of ordnance establishments, and to meet such unforeseen expenditures as accidents or other contingencies may require, $2,776,500. CHEMICAL WARFARE SERVICE For purchase, manufacture, and test of chemical warfare gases or other toxic substances, gas masks, or other offensive or defensive materials or appliances required for gas-warfare purposes, investigations, research, design, experimentation, and operation, purchase of chemicals, special scientific and technical apparatus and instruments, Part-time employ including services connected therewith; for the payment of part-time or intermittent employment of such scientists and technicists as may be contracted for by the Secretary of War, in his discretion, at a rate of pay not exceeding $20 per diem for any person so employed; for the purchase, maintenance, repair, and operation of freight- and passenger-carrying motor vehicles; construction, maintenance, and repair of plants, buildings, and equipment, and the machinery therefor; receiving, storing, and issuing of supplies, comprising police and office duties, rents, tolls, fuels, gasoline, lubricants, paints and oils, rope and cordage, light, water, advertising, stationery, typewriting and computing machines including their exchange, office furniture, tools, and instruments; for incidental expenses; for civilian employees; for libraries of the Chemical Warfare Service and subscriptions to periodicals; for expenses incidental to the organization, training, and equipment of special gas troops not otherwise provided for, Chemical warfare, including the training of the Army in chemical warfare, both offensive and defensive, together with the necessary schools, tactical dem Special gas troops. training. |