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Field Artillery, and $100 per month to a translator at the Infantry School of Arms, Fort Sill, Oklahoma, to be appointed by the commandants of the schools named, with the approval of the Secretary of War, $75,000.

THE ADJUTANT GENERAL'S DEPARTMENT.

CONTINGENCIES, HEADQUARTERS OF MILITARY DEPARTMENTS, DISTRICTS, AND TACTICAL COMMANDS: For contingent expenses at the headquarters of the several territorial departments, territorial districts, tactical divisions, and brigades, including the staff corps serving thereat, being for the purchase of the necessary articles of office, toilet, and desk furniture, stationery, ice, and potable water for office use when necessary, binding, maps, technical books of reference, professional and technical newspapers and periodicals, payment for which may be made in advance, and police utensils, to be allotted by the Secretary of War, and to be expended in the discretion of the commanding officers of the several military departments, districts, and tactical commands, $12,000.

CHIEF OF COAST ARTILLERY.

COAST ARTILLERY SCHOOL, FORT MONROE, VIRGINIA: 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; extra-duty pay to soldiers necessarily employed for periods not less than ten days as artificers on work in addition to and not strictly in line with their military duties, such as carpenters, blacksmiths, draftsmen, printers, lithographers, photographers, engine drivers, telegraph operators, teamsters, wheelwrights, masons, machinists, painters, overseers, laborers; for office furniture and fixtures, machinery, motor trucks, and unforeseen expenses, $12,000.

For purchase of engines, generators, motors, machines, measuring instruments, special apparatus, and materials for the division of enlisted specialists, $10,000.

For purchase of special apparatus and materials and for experimental purposes for the department of artillery and land defense, $1,500.

For purchase of engines, generators, motors, machines, measuring instruments, special apparatus, and materials for the department of engineering and mine defense, $2,000.

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, $2,500: Provided, That section 3648, Revised Statutes, shall not apply to subscriptions for foreign and professional newspapers and periodicals to be paid for from this appropriation.

PURCHASE OF TYPEWRITING MACHINES (printed on page 27, Part II).

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OFFICE OF THE CHIEF SIGNAL OFFICER.

SIGNAL SERVICE OF THE ARMY: Telegraph and telephone systems: Purchase, equipment, operation, and repair of military, telegraph, telephone, radio, cable, and signaling systems; signal equipments and stores, field glasses, telescopes, heliographs, signal lanterns, flags, and other necessary instruments; wind vanes, barometers, anemometers, thermometers, and other meteorological instruments, photographic and cinematographic work performed for the Army by the Signal Corps, motorcycles, motor-driven and other vehicles for technical and official purposes in connection with the construction, operation, and maintenance of communication or signaling systems, and supplies for their operation and maintenance; professional and scientific books of reference, pamphlets, periodicals, newspapers, and maps for use in the office of the Chief Signal Officer; telephone apparatus, including rental and payment for commercial, exchange, message, trunk line, long-distance, and leased-line telephone service at or connecting any post, camp, cantonment, depot, arsenal, headquarters, hospital, aviation station, or other office or station of the Army, excepting local telephone service for the various bureaus of the War Department in the District of Columbia and toll messages pertaining to the office of the Secretary of War; electric time service; the rental of commercial telegraph lines and equipment and their operation at or connecting any post, camp, cantonment, depot, arsenal, headquarters, hospital, aviation station, or other office or station of the Army, but not including payment for individual telegraph messages transmitted over commercial lines; electrical installations and maintenance at military posts, cantonments, camps, and stations of the Army; fire control and direction apparatus and matériel for Field Artillery; salaries of civilian employees, including those necessary as instructors at vocational schools; supplies, general repairs, reserve supplies, and other expenses connected with the collecting and transmitting of information for the Army by telegraph or otherwise; experimentation and research for the purpose of developing improvements in apparatus and methods of signaling, including machines, instruments, and other equipment for laboratory and repair purposes; lease, construction, alterations, and repair for such buildings required for storing or guarding Signal Corps supplies, equipment, and personnel when not otherwise provided for, including the land therefor, the introduction of water, electric light and power, sewerage, grading; roads and walks, and other equipment required, $3,250,000.

COMMERCIAL TELEPHONE SERVICE AT COAST ARTILLERY POSTS: For providing commercial telephone service for official purposes at Coast Artillery posts, $10,000.

WASHINGTON-ALASKA MILITARY CABLE AND TELEGRAPH SYSTEM: For defraying the cost of such extensions, betterments, operation, and maintenance of the Washington-Alaska military cable and telegraph system, as may be approved by the Secretary of

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War, to be available until the close of the fiscal year 1921, from the receipts of the Washington-Alaska military cable and telegraph system which have been covered into the Treasury of the United States, the extent of such extensions and betterments and the cost thereof to be reported to Congress by the Secretary of War, $140,000.

AIR SERVICE.

APPROPRIATIONS, AIR SERVICE: Creating, maintaining, and operating at established flying schools courses of instruction for aviation students and enlisted men, including cost of equipment and supplies necessary for instruction and subsistence of students, purchase of tools, equipment, materials, machines, textbooks, books of reference, scientific and professional papers, and instruments and material for theoretical and practical instruction at aviation schools; purchase of supplies for securing, developing, printing, and reproducing photographs made by aerial observers; to maintain and replace the equipment of organizations already in service; improvement, equipment, maintenance, lease, and operation of aviation stations, balloon schools, plants for testing and experimental work, including the acquisition of land, or any interest in land by purchase, lease, or condemnation, where necessary to procure helium gas; procuring and introducing water, electric light and power, telephones, telegraphs, and sewerage, including maintenance, operation, and repair of such utilities; salaries and wages of civilian employees in the District of Columbia or elsewhere as may be necessary, and payment of their traveling and other necessary expenses as authorized by existing law; experimental investigation and purchase and development of new types of aircraft, accessories thereto, including helium gas rights and aviation engines, including patents and other rights thereto, and plans, drawings, and specifications thereof; purchase, manufacture, construction, maintenance, repair, storage, and operation of airships, war balloons, and other aerial machines, including instruments, 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 also for the purchase or manufacture and the 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, including the hire of civilian employees, and the rental of buildings, and other facilities for the handling or storage of such equipment; for the services of such consulting engineers at experimental stations of the Air Service as the Secretary of War may deem necessary, including necessary traveling expenses: Provided, That the entire expenditures for the services of consulting engineers for the fiscal year 1920 shall not exceed $100,000; purchase of special apparatus

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and appliances, repairs, and replacements of same used in connection with special scientific medical research in the Air Service; for the establishment of aviation stations in the Philippine Islands, including the lease of land or any interest in land for landing fields only and the preparation of land now owned by the Government necessary to make the same suitable for the purpose intended, buildings, heating, lighting, plumbing, water, sewer, roads, and walks, at a total cost not to exceed $350,000; in all, $25,000,000: Provided, That claims not exceeding $250 in amount for damages to persons and private property resulting from the operation of aircraft at home and abroad may be settled out of the funds appropriated hereunder, 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 the Director of Air Service: Provided further, That claims so settled and paid from the sum hereby appropriated shall not exceed in the aggregate the sum of $150,000: Provided further, That hereafter actual and necessary expenses only, not to exceed $8 per day, shall be paid to officers of the Army and contract surgeons when traveling by air on duty without troops, under competent orders: And provided further, That section 3648, Revised Statutes, shall not apply to subscriptions for foreign and professional newspapers and periodicals to be paid for from this appropriation.

The Secretary of War is hereby authorized and directed to establish and maintain at one or more established flying schools courses of instruction for aviation students.

Aviation students shall be enlisted in or appointed to the grade of flying cadet, Air Service, which grade is hereby established: Provided, That the total number of flying cadets shall not at any time exceed one thousand three hundred. The base pay of a flying cadet shall be $75 per month, including extra pay for flying risk as provided by law. The ration allowance of a flying cadet shall not exceed $1 per day, and his other allowances shall be those of a private, first class, Air Service.

Upon completion of a course prescribed for flying cadets, each flying cadet, if he so desire, may be discharged and commissioned as a second lieutenant in the Officers' Reserve Corps: Provided, That the Secretary of War is authorized to discharge at any time any flying cadet whose discharge shall have been recommended by a board of not less than three officers.

PROVOST MARSHAL GENERAL'S OFFICE.

COMPLETION, PRESERVATION, AND TRANSPORTATION OF THE RECORDS: That not to exceed $3,500,000 of the unexpended balances on June 30, 1919, of the appropriations "Registration and selection for military service, fiscal year 1919," contained in the Army appropriation act for 1919, approved July 9, 1918, and the deficiency appropriation act for 1919, approved November 4, 1918, are reappropriated and made available for the fiscal year

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1920, for all expenses necessary for the completion, preservation, and transportation of the records pertaining to the draft under the act entitled "An act to authorize the President to increase temporarily the Military Establishment of the United States," approved May 18, 1917, including the employment of the neces sary clerical and other help for duty in the office of The Adju tant General of the Army in connection with the arrangement, operation, and maintenance of the files of those records: Provided, That such part of this appropriation as may be necessary shall be available for the employment of clerical help required to furnish to the adjutants general of the several States statements of service of all persons from those States who entered the military service during the war with Germany: Provided further, That this appropriation shall be disbursed by such officer as may be designated by the Secretary of War for the purpose.

QUARTERMASTER CORPS.

PAY, AND SO FORTH, OF THE ARMY.

Pay of officers: For pay of officers of the line, $20,300,000. For pay of the officers of staff corps and departments, $19,429,367.

Pay of officers, National Guard, $100.

For pay of the officers of the Officers' Reserve Corps, $2.325,000. For pay of warrant officers, Mine Planter Service, $83,700. For pay of the officers, Bureau of Insular Affairs, $15,000. Aviation increase, to officers of the Signal Corps, $775,000. For pay of the officers, Philippine Scouts, $483.600. Additional pay to officers for length of service, $2,892,925. Pay of enlisted men: For pay of enlisted men of the line, $92,728,230: Provided, That the pay due enlisted men of the Army shall not be withheld from them by reason of the fact that their service records or other official papers showing the status of their accounts with respect to pay have been lost or not returned from overseas and, under such regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary of War, these men may be paid upon their personal affidavit as to date of last payment and condition of their accounts: Provided further, That payments made in accordance with such regulations (or which have already been made upon the affidavit of the soldier) shall be passed by the accounting officers of the Treasury to the credit of the disbursing officers making them.

For pay of enlisted men of National Guard, $100.

For pay of enlisted men of the staff corps and departments, $48,162.500.

For pay of enlisted men of the Regular Army Reserves, $224,750.

For pay of enlisted men of the Enlisted Reserve Corps, $77,500. Aviation increase, to enlisted men of the Signal Corps, $7,750. For pay of the enlisted men of the Philippine Scouts, $1,007,500.