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where public quarters are not available, including enlisted men of the Regular Army Reserve, retired enlisted men, and members of the enlisted Reserve Corps when ordered to active duty; for grounds for cantonments, camp sites, and other military purposes, and for buildings or portions of buildings for occupation by troops, for use as stables, storehouses, and offices, and for other military purposes; for the hire of recruiting stations and lodgings for recruits; for such furniture for the public rooms of officers' messes and for officers' quarters at military posts as may be approved by the Secretary of War; for wall lockers in permanent barracks and refrigerators in barracks and quarters; for screen doors, window screens, storm doors and sash, and window shades for barracks, offices and quarters, and for flooring and framing for tents, and for the National Guard when called or drafted into the service of the United States, $8,500,000: Provided, That not to exceed the following sums may be used in the erection and completion of buildings enumerated at the places named-$404,256 for motor training school buildings at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas; $600,000 for construction of officers' and noncommissioned officers' quarters, and the repair and remodeling of such existing buildings as may be available for such quarters at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.

That the Secretary of War may, in his discretion, transfer to the Secretary of the Treasury, for the use of the Public Health Service, the military reservation of Whipple Barracks, Arizona, now occupied by said service for hospital purposes.

BUILDINGS FOR INFANTRY SCHOOL, CAMP BENNING, GEORGIA.

For the construction of the necessary buildings for the Infantry School at Camp Benning, Georgia, including the installation of plumbing, heating, lighting, roads and walks, the sum of $1,000,000, remaining from " General Appropriations, Quartermaster Corps," for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1919, is hereby appropriated and made immediately available and shall be available until expended: Provided, That section 1136, Revised Statutes, and the provision contained in the Sundry Civil Appropriation Act of June 25, 1910 (Thirty-sixth Statutes, page 721), prescribing limitations as to the cost of certain structure, shall not apply to structures to be constructed under this project.

MILITARY POST EXCHANGES.

For continuing the construction, equipment, and maintenance of suitable buildings at military posts and stations for the conduct of the post exchange, school, library, reading, lunch, amusement rooms, and gymnasium, including repairs to buildings erected at private cost, in the operation of the act approved May 31, 1902, for the rental of films, purchase of slides, supplies for and making repairs to moving-picture outfits and for similar

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and other recreational purposes at training and mobilization camps now established, or which may be hereafter established, and for such purposes not enumerated above as the Secretary of War may deem advisable, to be expended in the discretion and under the direction of the Secretary of War, $500,000.

BARRACKS AND QUARTERS, PHILIPPINE ISLANDS.

Continuing the work of providing for the proper shelter and protection of officers and enlisted men of the Army of the United States lawfully on duty in the Philippine Islands, including repairs and payment of rents, the acquisition of title to building sites, and such additions to existing military reservations as may be necessary, and including also shelter for the animals and supplies, and all other buildings necessary for post administration purposes and for shelter and repair thereof, and rentals for the United States troops in China, $300,000: Provided, That no part of said sum shall be expended for the construction of quarters for officers of the Army the total cost of which, including the heating and plumbing apparatus, wiring, and fixtures, shall exceed in the case of quarters of a general officer the sum of $8,000; of a colonel or officer above the rank of captain, $6,000; and of an officer of and below the rank of captain, $4,000.

ROADS, WALKS, WHARVES, AND DRAINAGE.

For the construction and repair by the Quartermaster Corps of roads, walks, and wharves; for the pay of employees; for the disposal of drainage; for dredging channels; and for care and improvement of grounds at military posts and stations, $3,000,000: Provided, That not to exceed $100 may be used for the purchase of land near terminal of bridge at Deer Island, Boston Harbor, Mass.: Provided further, That none of the funds appropriated or made available under this Act shall be used for the permanent construction or repair of any roads, walks, or wharves connected with any of the National Army cantonments or National Guard camps.

CONSTRUCTION AND REPAIR OF HOSPITALS.

For construction and repair of hospitals at military posts already established and occupied, including the extra-duty pay of enlisted men employed on the same, and including also all expenditures for construction and repairs required at the Army and Navy Hospital at Hot Springs, Arkansas, and for the construction and repair of general hospitals and expenses incident thereto, and for additions needed to meet the requirements of increased garrisons, and for temporary hospitals in standing camps and cantonments; for the alteration of permanent buildings at posts for use as hospitals, construction and repairs of

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temporary hospital buildings at permanent posts, construction and repair of temporary general hopitals, rental or purchase of grounds, and rental and alteration of buildings for use for hospital purposes in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, including necessary temporary quarters for hospital personnel, outbuildings, heating and laundry apparatus, plumbing, water and sewers, and electric work, cooking apparatus, and roads and walks for the same, $1,594,900: Provided, That of this amount not to exceed the following sums may be used toward the erection and completing of buildings, structures, or systems enumerated as follows:

Letterman General Hospital, San Francisco, California, one or two hospital wards as the Secretary of War may determine, $94.900.

Walter Reed General Hospital, Washington, District of Columbia, for such building or buildings as may, in the judgment of the Secretary of War, be necessary and suitable for the use of the Army Medical School, including necessary heating apparatus, plumbing, water and sewer systems, electrical work, and roads and walks for the same, $500,000.

QUARTERS FOR HOSPITAL STEWARDS.

For construction and repair of quarters for hospital stewards at military posts already established and occupied, including the extra-pay duty of enlisted men employed on the same, $20.000.

SHOOTING GALLERIES AND RANGES.

For shelter, grounds, shooting galleries, ranges for small-arms target practice, machine-gun practice, field-artillery practice, repairs, and expenses incident thereto, including flour for paste for marking targets, hire of employees, such ranges and galleries to be open as far as practicable to the National Guard and organized rifle clubs under regulations to be prescribed by the Secretary of War, $50,000: Provided, That there is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of $88,880 for the acquisition of land as an addition to the Leon Springs Military Reservation in Texas, heretofore authorized, and now in use as a target range for Camp Travis, Texas.

CLAIMS FOR DAMAGES TO AND LOSS OF PRIVATE PROPERTY.

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, $40,000: 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 ascer

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tained by the War Department, and payment thereof will be accepted by the owners of the property in full satisfaction of such damages.

RENT OF BUILDINGS, QUARTERMASTER Corps.

For rent of buildings and parts of buildings in the District of Columbia for military purposes during the fiscal year 1921, $200,000: Provided, That this appropriation shall not be available if space is provided by the Public Buildings Commission in Government-owned buildings.

VOCATIONAL TRAINING.

For the employment of the necessary civilian instructors in the most important trades, and for the payment of their traveling expenses, as authorized under existing law; for the purchase of carpenter's, machinist's, mason's, electrician's, and such other tools and equipment as may be required, including machines used in connection with the trades; for the purchase of materials, live stock (including fowls), and other supplies necessary for instruction and training purposes and the construction of such buildings needed for vocational training in agriculture; for shops, storage, and shelter of machinery as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of section 27 of the Act approved June 3, 1916 [as amended by act of June 4, 1920 (Bul. No. 25, W. D., 1920)], authorizing, in addition to the military training of soldiers while in the active service, means for securing an 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, part of this instruction to consist of vocational education either in agriculture or the mechanic arts, $3,500,000: Provided, That whenever possible officers, warrant officers, noncommissioned officers, or other enlisted men shall be detailed as instructors in vocational training in the most important trades in lieu of civilian instructors: Provided further, That farm products and the increase in live stock (including fowls) which accrue as incidental to vocational training in agriculture and animal husbandry, may be sold under such regulations as the Secretary of War may prescribe and the proceeds of such sales shall be deposited in the Treasury of the United States to the credit of miscellaneous receipts.

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 Secre