instruction for aviation students. Act of July 11, 1919 (41 Stat. 109); U. S. C. 10: 296. At the request of the Secretary of the Treasury the Secretaries of War and Navy are authorized to receive officers and enlisted men of the Coast Guard for instruction in aviation at any aviation school maintained by the Army and Navy, and such officers and enlisted men shall be subject to the regulations governing such schools. Act of Aug. 29, 1916 (39 Stat. 601), making appropriations for the naval service; U. S. C. 14: 28. 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; * Act of Feb. 28, 1929 (45 Stat. 1360), making appropriations for the support of the Army. * A provision similar to third paragraph of this section has appeared in prior appropriation acts. 508. Cavalry School. That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to establish upon the military reservation at Fort Riley a permanent school of instruction for drill and practice for the cavalry and light artillery service of the Army of the United States, and which shall be the depot to which all recruits for such service shall be sent; Jan. 29, 1887 (24 Stat. 372); U. S. C. 10:1171. Act of For the purchase of textbooks, books of reference, scientific and professional papers, instruments, and materials for instruction; employment of temporary, technical, special, and clerical services; and for other necessary expenses of instruction at the Cavalry School, Fort Riley, Kansas, $20,610. Act of Feb. 28, 1929 (45 Stat. 1366), making appropriations for the support of the War Department. A provision similar to second paragraph has appeared in prior appropriation acts. A further provision of the section making an appropriation for construction of quarters, etc., to carry into effect the purposes of the act is omitted here as temporary merely and executed. The Cavalry and Light Artillery School was established in pursuance of the act of Jan. 29, 1887, by General Orders, No. 17, Adjutant General's Office, of Mar. 14, 1892. See also in connection with this school the acts of Oct. 2, 1888 (25 Stat. 534), and Mar. 2, 1889 (id. 966). This school was superseded by the "Mounted Service School at Fort Riley, Kans.," and provision was made therefor under that title from the act of Mar. 3, 1909 (35 Stat. 733), until the act of June 5, 1920 (41 Stat. 950), when the designation" the Cavalry School at Fort Riley, Kansas," was adopted. 509. Coast Artillery School. For purchase of engines, generators, motors, machines, measuring and nautical instruments, special apparatus, and materials and for experimental purposes for the engineering and artillery and military art departments and enlisted specialists division; for purchase and binding of professional books treating of military and scientific subjects for library, for use of school, and for temporary use in coast defenses; for incidental expenses of the school, including chemicals, stationery, printing and binding; hardware; materials; cost of special instruction of officers detailed as instructors; employment of temporary, technical, or special services; for office furniture and fixtures, machinery, and motor trucks; and unforeseen expenses; in all, $29,205. Act of Feb. 28, 1929 (45 Stat. 1366), making appropriations for support of War Department. A similar provision has appeared in prior appropriation acts. The Artillery School was established at Fortress Monroe, Va., in pursuance of General Orders, No. 18, Adjutant General's Office, of Apr. 5, 1824. It ceased to exist in 1835 It was by reason of the transfer of the troops composing the school to other duties. reestablished by General Orders, No. 9. Adjutant General's Office, of Oct. 30, 1856. A code of regulations and plan of instruction was approved by the Secretary of War and published to the Army in General Orders, No. 5, Adjutant General's Office, of May 18, 1838. The school was again discontinued at the outbreak of the War of the Rebellion in 1861. It was reorganized by General Orders, No. 99, Adjutant General's Ofice, of Nov. 13, 1867. Although not created by statute, its existence has been recognized and the courses of study pursued have been sanctioned by Congress in several acts of appropriation. See the various acts of apropriation from that of June 20, 1878 (20 Stat. 223). It was first appropriated for as the "Coast Artillery School" in the act of Mar. 3, 1909 (35 Stat. 733). 510. Engineer School. For equipment and maintenance of the Engineer School, including purchase and repair of instruments, machinery, implements, models, boats, and materials for the use of the school and to provide means for the theoretical and practical instruction of Engineer officers and troops in their special duties as sappers and miners; for land mining, pontoniering, and signalng: for purchase and binding of scientific and professional works, papers, and periodicals treating on military engineering and scientific subjects; for textbooks and books of reference for the library of the United States Engineer School; for incidental expenses of the school, including chemicals, stationery, hardware, machinery, and boats; for pay of civilian clerks, draftsmen, electricians, mechanics, and laborers; for compensation of civilian lecturers; for unforeseen expenses; * * *. Act of Feb. 28, 1929 (45 Stat. 1363), making appropriations for the support of War Department. A similar provision has appeared in prior appropriation acts. The United States Engineer School was established by Executive order, but has been recognized in the several acts of appropriation from the act of Mar. 3, 1873 (17 Stat. 46. It was originally located at Fort Totten, Willets Point, N. Y., but was removed in 1902 to Washington Barracks, D. C., per General Order, 155, A. G. O., Nov. 27, 1901, and in the latter part of 1919 removed therefrom to Fort A. A. Humphreys, Va. (See General Orders No. 7, War Department, Jan. 30, 1920.) 511. Field Artillery schools. To provide means for the theoretical and practical instruction in field artillery activities at the two brigade firing centers at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, and Fort Bragg, North Carolina, by the purchase of modern instruments and material for theoretical and practical instruction, and for sil other necessary expenses, to be allotted in such proportion as may, in the pinion of the Secretary of War, be for the best interests of the service, $3,500. Art of Feb. 28, 1929 (45 Stat. 1366), making appropriations for support of War Department. For the purchase of textbooks, books of reference, scientific and professional japers, instruments, and material for instruction; employment of temporary, technical, special, and clerical services; and for other necessary expenses of struction at the Field Artillery School at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, $22,500. Act Feb. 28, 1929 (45 Stat. 1366), making appropriations for support of War Department. Similar provisions have appeared in prior appropriation acts. In the act of Aug. 24, 1912 (37 Stat. 570), under the appropriation for "United States Service Schools" a. and this provision was continued in later acts. provision is made for a "School of Fire for Field Artillery at Fort Sill, Provision is now made in War Department appropriation acts for the two brigade firing centers at Fort Sill and Fort Bragg only. 512. Command and General Staff School.-For the purchase of textbooks, books of reference, scientific and professional papers, instruments, and material for inand for other necessary expenses of instruction, at the Command and General struction; employment of temporary, technical, special, and clerical services; Staff School, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, $41,439. Act of Feb. 28, 1929 (45 Stat. 1352), making appropriations for the support of the War Department. A similar provision has appeared in prior appropriation acts. 513. Infantry School. For the purchase of textbooks, books of reference, scientific and professional papers; instruments and material for instruction, employment of temporary, technical, special, and clerical services, and for the necessary expenses of instruction at the Infantry School, Fort Benning, Georgia, $38,342. Act of Feb. 28, 1929 (45 Stat. 1366), making appropriations for the support of the War Department. A similar provision has appeared in prior appropriation acts. 514. Tank schools.-Incidental expenses in connection with the operation of the tank schools, $1,300. Act of Feb. 28, 1929 (45 Stat. 1366), making appropriations for the support of the War Department. A similar provision has appeared in prior appropriation acts. 515. Post schools; instruction in common branches.-Schools shall be established at all posts, garrisons, and permanent camps at which troops are stationed, in which the enlisted men may be instructed in the common English branches of education, and especially in the history of the United States; and the Secretary of War may detail such officers and enlisted men as may be necessary to carry out this provision. It shall be the duty of the post or garrison commander to set apart a suitable room or building for school and religious purposes. R. S. 1231; U. S. C. 10: 1172. For provision for instruction in military schools as to the effect of alcohol and narcotics on the human system, see 1210, post. * In addition to military training, 516. Same; vocational instruction.-* soldiers while in the active service shall hereafter be given the opportunity to study and receive instruction upon educational lines of such character as to increase their military efficiency and enable them to return to civil life better equipped for industrial, commercial, and general business occupations. Civilian teachers may be employed to aid the Army officers in giving such instruction, and part of this instruction may consist of vocational education either in agriculture or the mechanic arts. The Secretary of War, with the approval of the President, shall prescribe rules and regulations for conducting the instruction herein provided for, and the Secretary of War shall have the power at all times to suspend, increase, or decrease the amount of such instruction offered as may in his judgment be consistent with the requirements of military instruction and service of the soldier. Sec. 27, act of June 3, 1916 (39 Stat. 186); U. S. C. 10: 1176. 517. Schools for bakers and cooks.-* * for providing prizes to be established by the Secretary of War for enlisted men of the Army who graduate from the Army schools for bakers and cooks, the total amount of such prizes at the various schools not to exceed $900 per annum; * *. Act of Feb. 28, 1929 (45 Stat. 1355), making appropriations for the support of the Army; Quartermaster Corps; Subsistence of the Army. A similar provision has appeared in prior appropriation acts. 518. Government-owned air navigation facilities available for public use.(c) Air navigation facilities owned or operated by the United States may be made available for public use under such conditions and to such extent as the head of the department or other independent establishment having jurisdiction thereof deems advisable and may by regulation prescribe. Sec. 5 (c), act of May 20, 1926 (44 Stat. 571); U. S. C. 49: 175. By sec. 1, resolution of Mar. 4, 1929 (45 Stat. 1698) a "Joint Commission on Airports," to be composed of five Senators and five Representatives, is established, and directed to report to Congress on or before Dec. 15, 1929, on the establishment of an adequate airport for the various services in the District of Columbia. 519. Public airports available for Government use. That the Secretary of the Interior is authorized, in his discretion and under such regulations as he may prescribe, to lease for use as a public airport any contingous public lands, unreserved and unappropriated, not to exceed six hundred and forty acres in area, subject to valid rights in such lands under the public land laws. Sec. 1, act of May 24, 1928 (45 Stat. 728); U. S. C. 49: 211. * Any such lease shall be subject to the following conditions: (d) That all departments and agencies of the United States operating aircraft (1) shall have free and unrestricted use of the airport, and (2) with the approval of the Secretary of the Interior, shall have the right to erect and install therein such structures and improvements as the heads of such departments and agencies deem advisable, including facilities for maintaining supplies of fuel, oil, and other materials for operating aircraft. (e) That whenever the President may deem it necessary for military purposes, the Secretary of War may assume full control of the airport. Sec. 2, act of May 24, 1928 (45 Stat. 728); U. S. C. 49: 212. 520. Designation of airways.-(f) Nothing in this Act shall be construed to prevent the Secretary of War from designating routes in the navigable airspace as military airways and prescribing rules and regulations for the use thereof on routes which do not conform to civil airways established hereunder, or to prevent the Secretary of Commerce from designating any military airway as a civil airway, and when so designated it shall thereupon become a civil airway within the meaning of this Act, and the Secretary of War is hereby authorized to continue the operation of air navigation facilities for any military airway so designated as a civil airway until such time as the Secretary of Commerce can provide for the operation of such facilities. Sec. 5 (f), act of May 20, 1926 (44 Stat. 571); U. S. C. 49: 175. 51109-30- -23 521. National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics; composition.-An Advisory Committee for Aeronautics is hereby established, and the President is authorized to appoint not to exceed twelve members, to consist of two members from the War Department, from the office in charge of military aeronautics; two members from the Navy Department, from the office in charge of naval aeronautics; a representative each of the Smithsonian Institution, of the United States Weather Bureau, and of the United States Bureau of Standards; together with not more than five additional persons who shall be acquainted with the needs of aeronautical science, either civil or military, or skilled in aeronautical engineering or its allied sciences: Provided, That the members of the Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, as such, shall serve without compensation; Act of Mar. 3, 1915 (38 Stat.930); U. S. C. 50: 151. * That the membership of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics is hereby increased from twelve members to fifteen members: Provided, That the three additional members to be appointed by the President shall be acquainted with the needs of aeronautical science, either civil or military, or skilled in aeronautical engineering or its allied sciences, and shall serve as such without compensation. Act of Mar. 2, 1929 (45 Stat. 1451); U. S. C. 50: 151a. 522. Same; duties.-* * * Provided further, That it shall be the duty of the Advisory Committee for Aeronautics to supervise and direct the scientific study of the problems of flight, with a view to their practical solution, and to determine the problems which should be experimentally attacked, and to discuss their solution and their application to practical questions. In the event of a laboratory or laboratories, either in whole or in part, being placed under the direction of the committee, the committee may direct and conduct research and experiment in aeronautics in such laboratory or laboratories: And provided further, That rules and regulations for the conduct of the work of the committee shall be formulated by the committee and approved by the President. * * Provided, That an annual report to the Congress shall be submitted through the President, including an itemized statement of expenditures. Act of Mar. 3, 1915 (38 Stat. 930); U. S. C. 50: 151, 153. 523. Same; offices.-* * Provided, That the Secretary of War is authorized and directed to furnish office space to the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics in governmental buildings occupied by the Signal Corps. Sec. 1, act of July 1, 1918 (40 Stat. 650), making appropriations for sundry civil cxpenses; U. S. C. 50: 152. * 524. Same; purchase of supplies.-* Provided, That hereafter section 3709 of the Revised Statutes of the United States shall not be construed to apply to any purchase or service rendered for the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics when the aggregate amount involved does not exceed the sum of $50. Sec. 1, act of Apr. 22, 1926 (44 Stat. 314) making appropriations for the Executive Office and Independent Establishments; U. S. C. 50: 154. For R. S. 3709, requiring advertising for bids, see 730, post. |