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BULLETIN

No. 38.

WAR DEPARTMENT, WASHINGTON, November 13, 1919.

Act of Congress-Deficiency appropriations.-The following act of Congress is published to the Army for the information and guidance of all concerned:

An Act Making appropriations to supply deficiencies in appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1920, and prior fiscal years, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums are appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to supply deficiencies in appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1920, and prior fiscal years, and for other purposes, namely:

SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION.

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To enable the Regents of the Smithsonian to heat, and to fit up for an exhibition of the aircraft and accessories produced by this Government since the declaration of war, the temporary metal structure erected in the Smithsonian Grounds by the War Department under the authority of public resolution numbered 5, approved June 9, 1917, $14,000: Provided, That the Secretary of War is hereby authorized to transfer the custody and control of the said building to the Regents of the Smithsonian Institu tion.

TREASURY DEPARTMENT.

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MISCELLANEOUS.

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CREDIT IN THE ACCOUNTS OF SYDNEY E. SMITH: The accounting officers of the Treasury are directed to allow and credit in the accounts of Sydney E. Smith, disbursing clerk of the War Department, the sum of $550 expended by him from the appropriation for contingent expenses, War Department, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1917, for the removal of certain partitions in the State, War, and Navy Building, and for this purpose the sum of $550 is hereby appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated.

WAR DEPARTMENT.

CONTINGENT EXPENSES.

For purchase of professional and scientific books, law books, including their exchange; books of reference, blank books, pam

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phlets, periodicals, newspapers, maps; typewriters and adding machines; furniture and repairs to same; carpets, matting, oilcloth, file cases, towels, ice, brooms, soap, sponges, fuel, gas, and heating apparatus for and repairs to buildings (outside of the State, War, and Navy Department Building) occupied by the War Department and its bureaus; maintenance, repair, and operation of motor trucks and motor cycles, and one motorpropelled, passenger-carrying vehicle, to be used only for official purposes; freight and express charges; street car fares, not exceeding $1,000; and other absolutely necessary expenses, including a per diem allowance not to exceed $4 in lieu of subsistence, $400,000.

For rent of buildings in the District of Columbia for the use of the War Department, fiscal year 1919, $1,978.72.

ENGINEER DEPARTMENT.

PUBLIC BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS: For construction of walks and service road and the restoration and planting of grounds around the courthouse in Judiciary Park, including the removal of the statue, $23,445, one-half of which shall be paid from the revenues of the District of Columbia and one-half from the Treasury of the United States.

MISCELLANEOUS.

TRANSPORTATION TO CHINA OF CHINESE REFUGEES: For defraying the cost of transportation and subsistence to China of certain Chinese refugees from Mexico who have been under military jurisdiction since 1917, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War, $31,165.

ORDNANCE DEPARTMENT.

ORDNANCE RESERVATION CIVILIAN SCHOOLS: Authority is granted for the expenditure during the fiscal year 1920 of not to exceed $45,000 from appropriations heretofore made for the "purchase, manufacture, and test of ammunition for mountain, field, and siege cannon," for the operation and maintenance on ordnance reservations at Amatol and Mays Landing, New Jersey; Nitro, West Virginia; Jacksonville, Tennessee; Penniman, Virginia; Sheffield and Muscle Shoals, Alabama; and Tullytown, Pennsyl vania, of schools for children of persons employed thereon, where public schools are not conveniently available for such children, including salaries, supplies, stationery, and industrial work, replacement and repair of books and equipment, and all incidental and necessary expenses in connection therewith.

ARMORIES AND ARSENALS.

ROCK ISLAND, ILLINOIS, ARSENAL: The remaining unexpended balances. not to exceed $450,000, of the appropriation of $2,

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965,000 for increasing the facilities for the manufacture of field artillery matériel, including the necessary buildings and equipment, and for providing additional storage space and other storage facilities, either by building and equipping new storehouses or by building and equipping shops for manufacturing purposes and equipping as storehouses shops thereby vacated and made available (act of June 12, 1917) and of the appropriation of $1,295,200 additional for increasing facilities for the manufacture of field artillery matériel, including the necessary buildings and equipment (act of October 6, 1917) are made available for the erection of a shop building for the manufacture of recuperators at Rock Island Arsenal: Provided, That this sum shall not be available until the present plant for the manufacture of recuperators is disposed of.

WATERTOWN, MASSACHUSETTS, ARSENAL: The remaining unexpended balance of the appropriation of $32,000 "For repairing and electrifying five large planers and boring mills" contained in the sundry civil appropriation act for the fiscal year 1919, is reappropriated and made available for the same purpose for the fiscal year 1920.

RIVER AND HARBOR WORK.

For payment of claims adjusted and settled under section 4 of the river and harbor appropriation act approved June 25, 1910, and certified to Congress during the present session in House Documents Numbered 83, 108, and 177, $907.52.

NATIONAL HOME FOR DISABLED VOLUNTEER SOLDIERS.

EASTERN BRANCH: For repairs, including the same objects specified under this head in the sundry civil appropriation act for the fiscal year 1920, $12,000.

PACIFIC BRANCH: For repairs, including the same objects specified under this head in the sundry civil appropriation act for the fiscal year 1920, $10,000.

JUDGMENTS, UNITED STATES COURTS.

For payment of the final judgments and decrees, including costs of suits, which have been rendered under the provisions of the act of March 3, 1887, entitled "An act to provide for the bringing of suits against the Government of the United States," certified to Congress during the present session by the Attorney General in Senate Document Numbered 100, and which have not been appealed, namely:

Under the War Department, $1,578.90.

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JUDGMENTS, COURT OF CLAIMS.

For payment of the judgments rendered by the Court of Claims and reported to Congress during the present session in Senate Documents Numbered 102 and 125, namely:

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None of the judgments contained herein shall be paid until the right of appeal shall have expired.

SEC. 2. That section 7 of the legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation act approved March 1, 1919, is amended by adding at the end of the first paragraph thereof the following additional proviso: "Provided further, That no employee of the Federal Government shall, for services in the Philippine Islands, receive additional compensation under this section at a rate which is more than 20 per centum of the rate of the total annual compensation received by such employee."

SEC. 3. That the Bureau of Efficiency is directed to investigate the scope and character of statistics needed by the Government and the methods of collecting, compiling, and presenting statistical information by the several executive departments and independent Government establishments and submit to Congress a report of its findings, together with such recommendations as it deems proper.

AUDITED CLAIMS.

SEC. 4. That for the payment of the following claims certified to be due by the several accounting officers of the Treasury Department under appropriations the balances of which have been exhausted or carried to the surplus fund under the provisions of section 5 of the act of June 20, 1874, and under appropriations heretofore treated as permanent, being for the service of the fiscal year 1917 and prior years, unless otherwise stated, and which have been certified to Congress under section 2 of the act of July 7, 1884, as fully set forth in Senate Document Numbered 94, reported to Congress at its present session, there is appropriated as follows:

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CLAIMS ALLOWED BY THE AUDITOR FOR THE WAR DEPARTMENT.

For contingencies of the Army, 1918, $5,000.

For Signal Service of the Army, $434.86.

For pay, and so forth, of the Army, $438,866.44.

For extra-duty pay to enlisted men as clerks, and so forth, at Army division and department headquarters. $1,018.70. For mileage to officers and contract surgeons, $121.12.

For supplies, services, and transportation, Quartermaster Corps, $29.629.48.

For transportation of the Army and its supplies, $39.54. For barracks and quarters, $15,346.45.

For regular supplies, Quartermaster's Department, $56.67.

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For roads, wharves, walks, and drainage, $2,541.01.
For quarters for hospital stewards, $5.

For transportation of rifle teams to national matches, $108.88.
For encampments and maneuvers, Organized Militia, $124.80.
For civilian military training camps, $828.44..

For medical and hospital department, $10.

For burial of indigent soldiers, $81.

For disposition of remains of officers, soldiers, and civil employees, $234.38.

For maintenance of channel, South Pass, Mississippi River, 1918, $900.

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AUDITED CLAIMS.

SEC. 5. That for the payment of the following claims, certified to be due by the several accounting officers of the Treasury Department under appropriations the balances of which have been exhausted or carried to the surplus fund under the provisions of section 5 of the act of June 20, 1874, and under appropriations heretofore treated as permanent, being for the service of the fiscal year 1917 and prior years, unless otherwise stated, and which have been certified to Congress under section 2 of the act of July 7, 1884, as fully set forth in Senate Document Numbered 126, reported to Congress at its present session, there is appropriated as follows:

CLAIMS ALLOWED BY THE AUDITOR FOR THE WAR DEPARTMENT.

For pay, and so forth, of the Army, $508.76.

For extra-duty pay to enlisted men as clerks, and so forth, at Army division and department headquarters, $170.50.

For supplies, services, and transportation, Quartermaster Corps, $1,258.53.

For arming, equipping, and training the National Guard, $2.71. For civilian military training camps, $29.17.

For headstones for graves of soldiers, 62 cents.

For disposition of remains of officers, soldiers, and civil employees, $60.96.

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SEC. 6. That this act hereafter may be referred to as the “First deficiency appropriation act, fiscal year 1920.”

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