Alaska. Roads, bridges, and trails in. Provisos. work, etc. CONSTRUCTION AND MAINTENANCE OF MILITARY AND POST ROADS, For the construction, repair, and maintenance of military and post roads, bridges, and trails, Territory of Alaska, to be immediately Use of contributed available, $425,000: Provided, That the Secretary of War is hereby funds for construction authorized to receive from the Territory of Alaska, or other source, such funds as may be contributed by them to be expended in connection with funds appropriated by the United States for any authorized work of construction, repair, and maintenance of roads, bridges, ferries, trails, and related works in the Territory of Alaska, and to cause such funds to be deposited to the credit of the Treasurer of the United States, and to expend the same in accordance with the purties for road communi- pose for which they were contributed: Provided further, That not cation with designated to exceed $10,000 of the foregoing amount shall be expended for a preliminary investigation and report on the feasibility, desirability, and cost of the best and most practicable connection between the Nome-Shelton system of communications and the coal deposits of the Kugruk River, Chicago Creek, and the Keewalik mining district, whether by wagon road, sled road, tramway, trail, or other means. ORDNANCE DEPARTMENT. Investigating facili coal deposits. Ordnance ment. Depart Current expenses. ORDNANCE SERVICE. For the current expenses of the Ordnance Department in connection with purchasing, receiving, storing, and issuing ordnance and ordnance stores, comprising police and office duties, rents, tolls, fuel, light, water, and advertising, stationery, typewriters, and adding machines, including their exchange, and office furniture, tools, and instruments of service; for incidental expenses of the Ordnance Service and those attending practical trials and tests of ordnance small arms, and other ordnance stores; for instruction purposes; for publications for libraries of the Ordnance Department, including the Ordnance Office; subscriptions to periodicals, which may be paid for in advance; and payment for mechanical labor in the office of the Chief of Ordnance; and for maintenance, repair, and operation of motor-propelled or horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles, Vehicle restriction. $2,900,000: Provided, That no money appropriated herein shall be expended for maintenance, repair, or operation of any motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicle employed wholly or in part for personal, social, or other similar use or for any use except for military manufac and official business: Provided further, That all material purchased under the appropriations in this Act for the Ordnance Department of the United States Army shall be of American manufacture, except in cases when, in the judgment of the Secretary of War, it is to the manifest interest of the United States to make purchases abroad, which material shall be admitted free of duty. Provisos. Material American ture. Ammunition. Manufacture, etc., of, for small arms, airplane bombs, etc. ORDNANCE STORES, AMMUNITION. For the development, manufacture, purchase, and maintenance of airplane bombs; of ammunition for small arms and for hand use for reserve supply; of ammunition for burials at the National Soldiers' Home in Washington, District of Columbia, and of ammunition for firing the morning and evening gun at military posts prescribed by General Orders, Numbered 70, Headquarters of the Army, dated July 23, 1867, and at National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers and its several branches, including National Soldiers' Home at Washington, District of Columbia, and Soldiers' and Sailors' State homes, $675,000. SMALL-ARMS TARGET PRACTICE. For manufacture and purchase of ammunition, targets, and other accessories for small arms, hand and machine gun target practice and instruction; and ammunition, targets, target materials, and other accessories which may be issued for small-arms target practice and instruction at the educational institutions and State soldiers' and sailors' orphans' homes to which issues of small arms are lawfully made, under such regulations as the Secretary of War may prescribe, $250,000. MANUFACTURE OF ARMS. For manufacturing, repairing, procuring, and issuing arms at the national armories, $400,000. ORDNANCE STORES AND SUPPLIES. Small arms target practice. Ammunition, targets, etc. Manufacture of arms. At arsenals. Stores and supplies. Airplane bombs, Preserving, etc. For the manufacture, test, purchase, and maintenance of sighting sighting devices, etc. devices for airplane bombs, of carrying and releasing devices for airplane bombs; for overhauling, cleaning, repairing, and preserving ordnance and ordnance stores in the hands of troops and at the arsenals, posts, and depots; for purchase and manufacture of ord- issue. nance stores to fill requisitions of troops, $150,000. NATIONAL TROPHY AND MEDALS FOR RIFLE CONTESTS. Purchases, etc., for Rifle contests. Furnishing national For the purpose of furnishing a national trophy and medals and trophy, medals, prizes, other prizes to be provided and contested for annually, under such etc. 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 the United States, including the reimbursement of necessary expenses of members Promotion of the National Board for the Promotion of Rifle Practice, to be Practice. expended for the purposes herein before prescribed, under the direction of the Secretary of War, $10,000. AUTOMATIC MACHINE RIFLES. National Board for of Rifle Rifles. Automatic Machine Purchase, manufac For the purchase, manufacture, test, repair, and maintenance of ture, etc. automatic machine rifles, or other automatic or semiautomatic guns, including their mounts, sights, and equipments, and the machinery necessary for their manufacture, to remain available until June 30, 1923, $375,000. For the purchase, manufacture, test, maintenance, and repair of and other armored ve tanks and other self-propelled armored vehicles, to remain available until June 30, 1923, $450,000. CHEMICAL WARFARE SERVICE. Chemical Warfare Service. Purchase, manufac For the purchase, manufacture, and test of chemical warfare gases ture, etc., of gases, etc. or other toxic substances, gas masks, or other offensive or defensive materials or appliances required for gas warfare purposes, including all necessary investigations, research, design, experimentation, and operations connected therewith; purchase of chemicals, special sci ery, etc. Organizing, etc., spe Buildings, machin- entific and technical apparatus and instruments; 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, fuel, gasoline, lubricants, paints and oils, rope and cordage, light, water, advertising, stationery, typewriters and adding 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 which may be paid for in advance; for expenses incidental to the organization, training, and equipment of special gas troops not otherwise provided for, including the training of the Army in chemical warfare, both offensive and defensive, together with the necessary field schools, tactical demonstrations, and maneuvers; for current expenses of chemical projectile filling plants and proving grounds, including construction and maintenance of rail transportation, repairs, alterations, accessories, building and repairing butts and targets, clearing and grading ranges, $1,350,000. cial gas troops. Current expenses. National Guard. Arming, etc. Animals. Care, etc. Instruction camps. Service schools' instruction. Details from Army. Property, etc., offi cers. General expenses, equipment, etc. Travel, Army offi ers. Property repairs. Transporting plies. sup Sergeant instructors. NATIONAL GUARD. ARMING, EQUIPPING, AND TRAINING THE NATIONAL GUARD. For purchase of animals for mounted units, $100. For procurement of forage, bedding, and so forth, for animals, $1,500,000. For compensation of help for care of matériel, animals, and equipment, $1,300,000. For expenses, camps of instruction, $6,000,000. For expenses, selected officers and enlisted men, military service schools, $225,000. For pay and allowances, officers, National Guard, detailed with Army, $100,000. For pay of property and disbursing officers for the United States, $45,000. For general expenses, equipment and instruction, National Guard, $750,000. For travel of officers and noncommissioned officers of the Regular For repair of Federal property issued to the National Guard, $5,000. For office rent, and so forth, inspector-instructors, $9,000. For pay of National Guard (armory drills), $9,750,000: Provided, Interchangeable ex- That 20 per centum of the foregoing amounts for arming, equipping, and training the National Guard shall be available interchangeably for expenditure for the purposes named; but not more than 20 per centum shall be added to the amount appropriated for any one of such purposes. Field service arms, ARMS, UNIFORMS, EQUIPMENT, ETC., FOR FIELD SERVICE, NATIONAL To procure by purchase or manufacture and issue from time to time to the National Guard upon requisition of the governors of the several States and Territories, or the commanding general, National Guard of the District of Columbia, such number of United States service arms with all accessories, Field Artillery and Coast Artillery matériel, Engineer, Signal, and sanitary matériel, accouterments, field uniforms, clothing, equipage, publications, and military stores of all kinds, including public animals, and a reserve supply of such Provisos. Army pay for service of less than one month. arms, matériel, accouterments, field uniforms, clothing, equipage, and military stores of all kinds, as are necessary to arm, uniform, and equip for field service the National Guard of the several States, Territories, and the District of Columbia, $5,500,000: Provided, That members of the National Guard who have or shall become entitled for a continuous period of less than one month to Federal pay at the rates fixed for the Regular Army, whether by virtue of a call by the President, of attendance at school or maneuver, or of any other cause, and whose accounts have not yet been settled, shall receive such pay for each day of such period; and the thirty-first day of a calendar month shall not be excluded from the computation: Provided further, That the Secretary of War is hereby directed to ment, etc., from surissue from surplus or reserve stores and matériel now on hand and plus Army stores. purchased for the United States Army such articles of clothing and equipment and Field Artillery matériel and ammunition as may be needed by the National Guard organized under the provisions of the Act entitled "An Act for making further and more effectual provision for the national defense, and for other purposes," approved June 3, 1916, as amended by the Act approved June 4, 1920. This tia appropriations. issue shall be made without charge against militia appropriations. MISCELLANEOUS. ORDNANCE EQUIPMENT FOR RIFLE RANGES FOR CIVILIAN Clothing, equip Vol. 39, p. 197. Miscellaneous. Civilian military instruction. Arms, etc., for rifle For arms, ammunition, targets, and other accessories for target target practice. 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, $100. CIVILIAN MILITARY TRAINING CAMPS. Civilian training camps. Expenses for uni Vol. 39, p. 194; Vol. For furnishing, at the expense of the United States, to warrant forms, transportation, officers, enlisted men, and civilians attending training camps main- etc., on attending. tained under the provisions of section 47-d of the National Defense 41, p. 779. Act of June 3, 1916, as amended by the Act of June 4, 1920, uniforms, including altering, fitting, washing, and cleaning when necessary, subsistence, and transportation, or in lieu of such transportation and of subsistence for travel to and from camps, travel allowances at 5 cents per mile, as prescribed in said section 47-d, $900,000: Provided, That the funds herein appropriated shall not be used for Proviso. the training of any person who is over thirty-five years of age. ORDNANCE STORES, EQUIPMENT, AND SO FORTH, RESERVE OFFICERS' TRAINING CORPS. Age limitation. Reserve Officers' Training Corps. Arms, ordnance Vol. 39, p. 192. For arms and ordnance equipment, including overhauling and equipments, etc., for repairing of personal equipments, machine-gun outfits, and horse units of. equipments for use in connection with the Reserve Officers' Training Corps, established by the Act entitled "An Act for making further and more effectual provision for the national defense, and for other purposes," approved June 3, 1916, as amended by the Act of June Vol. 41, p. 777. 4, 1920, $100. TANK SERVICE. For payment of the necessary civilian employees to assist in handling the clerical work in the office of the tank center, tank schools, Tank Service. Civilian employees. Tank schools. Incidental expenses. and the various tank organization headquarters; and for the payment of the necessary mechanics to assist in repairing and preserving tanks in the hands of Tank units, $75,000. INCIDENTAL EXPENSES, TANK SCHOOLS. Incidental expenses in connection with the operation of the tank schools, $7,000. Articles made at ar- PURCHASE OF ARTICLES MANUFACTURED AT GOVERNMENT ARSENALs. senals. Restriction on purchases elsewhere. Time measuring devices. etc., using, on work of employees. No part of the moneys appropriated in this Act shall be used or expended for the purchase or acquirement of any article or articles that at the time of the proposed acquirement can be manufactured or produced in each or any of the Government arsenals of the United States for a sum less than it can be purchased or procured otherwise. That no part of the appropriations made in this Act shall be availNo pay to officers, able for the salary or pay of any officer, manager, superintendent, 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 Cash bonuses, etc., thereof, or of the movements of any such employee while engaged upon such work; nor shall any part of the appropriations made in this Act be available to pay any premium 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. restricted. Disabled soldiers, etc., traveling on fur. TRANSPORTATION OF WOUNDED AND OTHERWISE DISABLED SOLDIERS, SAILORS, OR MARINES WHEN TRAVELING ON FURLOUGH. lough. Payment to carriers of difference between one cent a mile. Vol. 41, p. 976. For payment to railroad and steamship companies of the amount scheduled rates and required to pay the difference between 1 cent per mile and the scheduled rate for tickets furnished to wounded or otherwise disabled soldiers, sailors, or marines under treatment at any Army, Navy, or other hospital, who are given furloughs in accordance with the provisions of the Army Appropriation Act of June 5, 1920, $35,000. District of Columbia water supply. Expenses of plans, ing. For the preparation of plans, the initiation of work, including the work, etc., for increas' employment of all necessary engineering, technical, clerical, and other services, and for any and every purpose connected therewith, for an increased water supply for the District of Columbia, in accordance with Potomac project "E" described in the report submitted by Major M. C. Tyler, Corps of Engineers, $200,000, to be immediately Sixty per cent from available and to remain available until expended: Provided, That 60 per centum of this sum shall be paid from the revenues of the District of Columbia and 40 per centum from the Treasury of the United States. Proviso. District revenues. Texas National Guard. leased. The War Department is hereby directed to cancel and abandon Claim against re- the claim in the sum of $18,583.44 for United States property issued to the National Guard of Texas and lost, damaged, and destroyed during and immediately after the storm and flood at Corpus Christi, Texas, and surrounding country in September, 1919, the property having been furnished for relief of the civilian population. Emil Hugli. That the Secretary of War is authorized, in his discretion, to pay to Emil Hugli, an attorney of Berne, Switzerland, the sum of $50 as compensation for services rendered the United States at the request of an officer of the United States. |