BULLETIN

No. 26.

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WAR DEPARTMENT,

WASHINGTON, August 1, 1919.

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

An Act Making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1920, 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, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1920, namely:

BUREAU OF WAR RISK INSURANCE.

For expenses of the Bureau of War Risk Insurance under the act approved October 6, 1917, as amended:

Military and naval family allowance: For the payment of military and naval family allowances as authorized by law, $48,000,000.

Military and naval compensation: For the payment of military and naval compensation, funeral expenses, services and supplies, as authorized by law, $50,000,000.

For rent of quarters in the District of Columbia, $10,000. Provided, That none of appropriations made herein for the Bureau of War Risk Insurance shall be expended to reimburse any expenses incurred by any Government owned hospital or hospital under contract with the Public Health Service for examination, care, or treatment of beneficiaries of the Bureau of War Risk Insurance.

WAR DEPARTMENT.

ARMORIES AND ARSENALS.

Benicia Arsenal, Benicia, California:

For hospital and dispensary building, $20,000. 130818-19--1

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Frankford Arsenal, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania:

For extension and expansion of heating mains, $40,000;

For construction of roads, railroad sidings, and other facilities to improve transportation, $50,000;

For drinking-water fountains, $15,000;

For one set of double quarters for noncommmissioned officers, $12,000;

In all, $117,000.

Honolulu, Hawaii, Ordnance Depot: For one black-powder magazine, $8,000;

For additional roads, $5,000;

In all, $13,000.

Rock Island Arsenal, Rock Island, Illinois:

For construction of sidewalks, $10,000;

For road and sidewalk repairs, $15,000;

For repairs to cornices, gables, and slate roofs on shops, $15,000;

For maintenance and operation of power plant, $20,000;

For operating, repair and preservation of Rock Island bridges and viaduct; and maintenance and repair of the arsenal street connecting the bridges, $30,000;

In all, $90,000.

Springfield Arsenal, Springfield, Massachusetts: The unexpended balance of the appropriation of $200,000 “for enlarging the boiler room at the water shops, and so forth," contained in the sundry civil appropriation act for the fiscal year 1919, is made available for the improvement of the electric power plant.

Watertown Arsenal, Watertown, Massachusetts: For remodeling paint shop, providing necessary machinery, and converting it Into a woodworking shop, $20,000;

For bar-stock storage shed with necessary facilities, $50,000; In all, $70,000.

Watertown Arsenal, testing machines: For necessary professional and skilled labor, purchase of materials, tools, and appliances for operating the testing machines, for investigative tests and tests of material in connection with the manufacturing work of the Ordnance Department, and for instruments and materials of operating the chemical laboratory in connection therewith, and for maintenance of the establishment, $50,000. Watervliet Arsenal, West Troy, New York:

For wood block floor in old gun shop and small shop, $60,000.

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Repairs of arsenals: For repairs and improvement of arsenals. and to meet such unforseen expenditures as accidents or other contingencies during the year may render necessary, including machinery for manufacturing purposes in the arsenals, $1,550,000.

QUARTERMASTER CORPS.

Fort Monroe, Virginia, wharf, roads, and sewer: For repair and maintenance of wharf and apron of wharf, including all neces sary labor and material therefor, fuel for waiting rooms, water, brooms, and shovels, $40,000; wharfinger, $900; four laborers, $2,880; in all $43,780; for one-third of said sum, to be supplied by the United States, $14,593.33.

For rakes, shovels, and brooms; repairs to roadway, pavements, macadam and asphalt block; repairs to street crossings; repairs to street drains, $10,000; six laborers cleaning roads, at $720 each; in all, for two-thirds of said sum, to be supplied by the United States, $9,546.67.

For waste, oil, boiler repairs, sewer pipe, cement, brick, and supplies, $1,725; two engineers, at $1,200 each; two laborers, at $720 each; in all, $5,565; for two-thirds of said sum, to be supplied by the United States, $3,710.

National cemeteries: For maintaining and improving national cemeteries, including fuel for superintendents, pay of laborers and other employees, purchase of tools, and materials, $150,000. For pay of seventy-six superintendents of national cemeteries, including not to exceed $1,500 for the superintendent at Mexico City, $63,720.

For continuing the work of furnishing headstones of durable stone or other durable material for unmarked graves of Union and Confederate soldiers, sailors, and marines in national, post, city, town, and village cemeteries, naval cemeteries at navy yards and stations of the United States, and other burial places, under the acts of March 3, 1873, February 3, 1879, and March 9, 1906; continuing the work of furnishing headstones for unmarked graves of civilians interred in post cemeteries under the acts of April 28, 1904, and June 30, 1906; and furnishing headstones for the unmarked graves of Confederate soldiers, sallors, and marines in national cemeteries, $100,000.

For repairs to roadways to national cemeteries which have been constructed by special authority of Congress, $12,000: Provided, That no railroads shall be permitted upon the right of

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way which may have been acquired by the United States to a national cemetery, or to encroach upon any roads or walks constructed thereon and maintained by the United States: Provided further, That no part of this sum shall be used for repairing any roadway not owned by the United States within the corporate limits of any city, town, or village.

No part of any appropriation for national cemeteries or the repair of roadways thereto shall be expended in the maintenance of more than a single approach to any national cemetery.

For expenses of burying in the Arlington National Cemetery, or in the cemeteries of the District of Columbia, indigent exUnion soldiers, ex-sailors, or ex-marines of the United States service, either Regular or Volunteer, who have been honorably discharged or retired and who die in the District of Columbia, to be disbursed by the Secretary of War, at a cost not exceeding $45 for such burial expenses in each case, exclusive of cost of grave, $2,000, one-half of which sum shall be paid out of the revenues of the District of Columbia.

Antietam battle field: For repair and preservation of monuments, tablets, observation tower, roads, and fences, and so forth, made and constructed by the United States upon public lands within the limits of the Antietam battle field, near Sharpsburg, Maryland, $7,500.

For pay of superintendent of Antietam battle field, said superintendent to perform his duties under the direction of the Quartermaster Corps and to be selected and appointed by the Secretary of War, at his discretion, the person selected and appointed to this position to be an honorably discharged Union soldier, $1,500.

Disposition of remains of officers, soldiers, and civilian employees: For interment, or of preparation and transportation to their homes or to such national cemeteries as may be designated by proper authority, in the discretion of the Secretary of War, of the remains of officers, cadets, United States Military Academy, including acting assistant surgeons and enlisted men in active service; interment, or of preparation and transportation to their homes, of the remains of civil employees of the Army in the employ of the War Department who die abroad, in Alaska, in the Canal Zone, or on Army transports, or who die while on duty in the field or at military posts within the limits of the United States; interment of military prisoners who die at.

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military posts; for the interment and shipment to their homes of remains of enlisted men who are discharged in hospitals in the United States and continue as inmates of said hospitals to the date of their death, and for interment of prisoners of war and interned alien enemies who die at prison camps in the United States; removal of remains from abandoned posts to permanent military posts or national cemeteries, including the remains of Federal soldiers, sailors, or marines, interred in fields or abandoned private and city cemeteries; and in any case where the expenses of burial or shipment of the remains of officers or enlisted men of the Army who die on the active list are borne by individuals, where such expenses would have been lawful claims against the Government, reimbursement to such individuals may be made of the amount allowed by the Government for such services out of this sum, but no reimbursement shall be made of such expenses incurred prior to July 1, 1910, $8,451,000: Provided, That during the continuance of the present war the above provisions shall be applicable in the cases of officers and enlisted men on the retired list of the Army who have died or may hereafter die while on active duty by proper assignment.

Confederate Mound, Oakwood Cemetery, Chicago: For care, protection, and maintenance of the plat of ground known as "Confederate Mound" in Oakwood Cemetery, Chicago, $500.

For care, protection, and maintenance of Confederate Stockade Cemetery, Johnstons Island, in Sandusky Bay, Ohio, $350.

Confederate burial plats: For care, protection, and maintenance of Confederate burial plats, owned by the United States, located and known by the following designations: Confederate cemetery, North Alton, Illinois; Confederate cemetery, Camp Chase, Columbus, Ohio; Confederate section, Greenlawn Cemetery, Indianapolis, Indiana; Confederate cemetery, Point Lookout, Maryland, and Confederate cemetery, Rock Island, Illinois, $1,250.

Monuments or tablets in Cuba and China: For repairs and preservation of monuments, tablets, roads, fences, and so forth, made and constructed by the United States in Cuba and China to mark the places where American soldiers fell, $1,000.

Burial of deceased indigent patients: For burying in the Little Rock (Arkansas) National Cemetery, including transportation thereto, indigent ex-soldiers, ex-sailors, or ex-marines of the United States service, either Regular or Volunteer, who have