burial expenses (not exceeding $100 for any patient dying in hos pital), $2,000,000. Army medical sup The Secretary of War is authorized and directed to transfer to the plies transferred free for Secretary of the Treasury for use of the Public Health Service, and designated hospitals. without payment therefor, such hospital furniture, equipment, and supplies, as may be required for hospitals of the said service at Fort Henry, Fort Bayard, Whipple Barracks, and in Cook County, Illinois. The total value of the material transferred hereunder shall not exceed $1,000,000. BUREAU OF WAR RISK INSURANCE. War Risk Insurance Bureau. Transfer of allot Vol. 40, p. 1227. The sum of $350,000 of the appropriation for stationery and minor ments of appropriaoffice supplies, contained in the First Deficiency Appropriation Act, tions, Public Laws. 1st sess., fiscal year 1920, is made available for the payment of salaries. The p. 331. sums of $1,500 and $35,000 of the appropriation for the fiscal year 1920 for "Salaries and expenses of employees engaged in field investigations and for expenses of branch offices" are made available, respectively, for traveling expenses, and for furniture, equipment, and supplies. WAR DEPARTMENT. OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY. For additional amount required for the salary of the Assistant Secretary of War during the fiscal years 1920 and 1921, in accordance with section 5a of the Act "to amend an Act entitled 'An Act for making further and more effectual provision for the National Defense, and for other purposes' approved June 3, 1916, and to establish military justice," $5,416.67. ORDNANCE DEPARTMENT. For payment of the claims for damage to and loss of private property occasioned by the explosions and fire at the plant of the T. A. Gillespie Company, at Morgan, New Jersey, which have been determined by the Secretary of War from claims submitted by the sufferers and in amounts not exceeding those enumerated and scheduled in House Document Numbered 777 of the present session, $62,867.10. BUREAU OF INSULAR AFFAIRS. War Department. Secretary's Office: Assistant Secretary. Ordnance Department. Morgan, N. J. Payment of claims for losses by explo sions, etc., at. Insular Affairs Bu reau. Philippine Islands. Taxes imposed by legislature of, legal The taxes imposed by the Philippine Legislature in section 1614 of the Act Numbered 2657, enacted by that body on February 24, te 1916, are legalized and ratified, and the collection of all such taxes made under or by authority of such Act of the Philippine Legislature is legalized, ratified, and confirmd as fully to all intents and purposes as if the same had by prior Act of Congress been specifically authorized and directed. NATIONAL CEMETERIES. National cemeteries. Vicksburg, Miss. For the restoration and repair of storm damage to the Vicksburg, Repairing storm damMississippi, National Cemetery and roadway thereto, $7,500, to age. remain available until June 30, 1921. PUBLIC BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS. Buildings and Buildings and grounds in and around Washington: For improve- grounds, D. C. ment and care of public grounds, District of Columbia, as follows: Executive Mansion. Inland, etc., transportation. Operating expenses. River and harbor work. Readjustment of contracts not completed April 6, 1917. Vol. 40, p. 1290. For additional for a new roof for the storehouse at the propagating gardens, $1,340. For heating offices, watchmen's lodges, and greenhouses at the propagating gardens, $417. For fuel for the Executive Mansion and greenhouses, $500. TRANSPORTATION SERVICE. Transportation facilities on inland and coastwise waterways: For payment of expenses of operation of boats, barges, tugs, and other transportation facilities, on the inland, canal, and coastwise waterways acquired by the United States in pursuance of the fourth paragraph of section 6 of the Federal Control Act of March 21, 1918, $270,000. RIVER AND HARBOR WORK. Readjustment of contracts: The sum of $368,978.33 found to be due various contractors under the provisions of section 10 of the River and Harbor Appropriation Act approved March 2, 1919, on certain contracts for work on river and harbor improvements entered into, but not completed prior to April 6, 1917, for work perPayable from bal- formed between April 6, 1917, and July 18, 1918, may be paid by the Secretary of War from any unexpended balances of appropriations heretofore made for the projects on which such work was performed. ances for projects. Army. Pay of the Army. MILITARY ESTABLISHMENT.、 QUARTERMASTER CORPS. Pay of the Army: For pay of the Army, including the same objects, except mileage, specified under this head in the Army ApMileage to officers, propriation Act for the fiscal year 1920, $55,000,000; etc. Reappropriation. Transportation. Wives of soldiers married in Europe. Insular Affairs Bu reau. Care of insane soldiers, Philippine Islands. Vol. 35, p. 122. War contracts. Payment for, sus pended by reason of expended appropria For mileage to commissioned officers, warrant officers, members of the Officers' Reserve Corps when ordered to active duty, contract surgeons, expert accountant, Inspector General's Department, Army field clerks, and field clerks of the Quartermaster Corps, when authorized by law, $1,600,000; In all, $56,600,000, to be paid from the unexpended balance of the appropriation "Pay, and so forth, of the Army," for the fiscal year 1919, which is reappropriated for such purposes. Transportation of the Army: The Secretary of War is authorized to pay for the transportation from Europe to the United States of the wives of soldiers who became such while the soldiers were in Europe. The payment therefor shall be made from funds appropriated for the transportation of the Army and its supplies and at the per capita rates agreed upon for the transportation of the troops. BUREAU OF INSULAR AFFAIRS. For care, maintenance, and treatment at asylums in the Philippine Islands of insane natives of the Philippine Islands cared for in such institutions conformable to the Act of Congress approved May 11, 1908, $1,000. SETTLEMENT OF CONTRACTS. The following unexpended amounts of appropriations for the armistice, from un fiscal year 1918 shall remain upon the books of the Treasury to the credit of the respective appropriations until June 30, 1921, to permit payments for the adjustment and settlement of claims resulting from tions. the suspension or termination of contracts or other procurement obligations of the War Department, consequent upon the suspension of hostilities, and for the adjustment of claims under the Act entitled "An Act to provide relief in cases of contracts connected with the prosecution of the war, and for other purposes," approved March 2, 1919: Armored motor cars, 1918, $2,985,946.53; Armored motor cars, 1917 and 1918, $307,312.80; Automatic rifles, 1917 and 1918, $424,348.86; Barracks and quarters, 1917 and 1918, $11,782.29; Construction and repair of hospitals, 1918, $9,854.52; Field artillery for National Guard, 1917 and 1918, $1,200,000; Ordnance stores-ammunition, 1917 and 1918, $377,820.88; Signal service of the Army, 1918, $761,470.91; Signal service of the Army, 1917 and 1918, $43,159; Supplies, services, and transportation, 1918, $9,625,816.55; Supplies, services, and transportation, 1917 and 1918, $10,744.76. In all, $51,505,158.88: Provided, That no part of this sum shall be used to pay any claim arising out of any contract or other obligation unless such contract or obligation was entered into subsequently to April 6, 1917, and prior to November 12, 1918. Vol. 40, p. 1272. Appropriations designated. Proviso. Unexpended bal The following unexpended amounts of appropriations for the fiscal ances available year 1918 shall remain upon the books of the Treasury Department prior contracts. to the credit of the respective appropriations until June 30, 1921, to permit payments under contracts or obligations entered into Supplies, services, and transportation, 1918, $23,573,117.51; for NATIONAL HOME FOR DISABLED VOLUNTEER SOLDIERS. H Volunteer Soldiers' etc. For support of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, Support of branches, including the same objects specified in the Sundry Civil Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1920 for the following branches and under the following heads, respectively: Central Branch, Dayton, Ohio: For subsistence, $42,000. For hospital, $7,000; For farm, $3,000; In all, $52,000. Northwestern Branch, Milwaukee, Wisconsin: For subsistence, $7,000; For repairs, $2,500; For farm, $2,000; In all, $11,500. Western Branch, Leavenworth, Kansas: For subsistence, $16,000; For farm, $2,000; Dayton, Ohio. Milwaukee, Wis. Leavenworth, Kans. Hot Springs, S. Dak. Navy Department. Naval Academy. in studies. of Pacific Branch, Santa Monica, California: For subsistence, $30,000; For hospital, $3,000; For farm, $1,000; In all, $34,000. Marion Branch, Marion, Indiana: For hospital, $1,000; For farm, $1,000; In all, $2,000. Danville Branch, Danville, Illinois: For hospital, $4,000; For repairs, $2,000; In all, $6,000. Mountain Branch, Johnson City, Tennessee: For subsistence, $50,000; For hospital, $11,000; For repairs, $1,000; For farm, $1,000; In all, $63,000. Battle Mountain Sanitarium, Hot Springs, South Dakota: For subsistence, $30,000; For household, $3,000; For hospital, $20,000; For repairs, $2,500; For farm, $500; In all, $56,000. In all, National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, $242,500. NAVY DEPARTMENT. That until otherwise provided by law no midshipman found demidshipmen deficient ficient at the close of the last and succeeding academic terms shall be involuntarily discontinued at the Naval Academy or in the service unless he shall fail upon reexamination in the subjects in which found deficient at an examination to be held at the beginning of the next and succeeding academic terms, and the Secretary of the Navy shall provide for the special instruction of such midshipmen in the subjects in which found deficient during the period between academic terms. The following additional positions are authorized during the fiscal year 1921 to be paid from the following appropriations for temporary employees, contained in the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1921: Additional temporary employees thorized. Ante, p. 663. au Collision damage claims. Vol. 36, p. 607. Proviso. Amount corrected. Shipping Bulletin. Publication author ized. Office of the Secretary of the Navy: Two positions, at $2,400 each; DAMAGE CLAIMS. Damage claims: To pay the claims adjusted and determined by the Navy Department under the Naval Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1911, on account of damages occasioned to private property by collisions with vessels of the United States Navy and for which naval vessels were responsible, certified to Congress in House Documents Numbered 741 and 757 of the present session, $5,302.44: Provided, That the amount stated in item 18 in Document Numbered 741 shall be $228.79 instead of $288.79. SHIPPING BULLETIN. The Secretary of the Navy is authorized to cause to be prepared in the Office of Communications, Navy Department, a publication known as the Shipping Bulletin, and to publish and furnish the same to the maritime interests of the United States and other interested parties, at the cost of collecting and publishing the information, including the cost of printing and paper and other necessary expenses. The expenses of such bulletin shall be paid from the appropriation "Engineering," Bureau of Steam Engineering, fiscal year 1921. The money received from the sale of such publication shall be covered into the Treasury as miscellaneous receipts. NAVAL ESTABLISHMENT. BUREAU OF NAVIGATION. Transportation: For travel allowance of enlisted men discharged on account of expiration of enlistment, and so forth, including the same objects specified under this head in the Naval Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1917, $3,594.26. Recruiting: Expenses of recruiting for the naval service, and so forth, including the same objects specified under this head in the Naval Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1917, $2,873.24. Transportation. Transportation: For travel allowance of enlisted men discharged on account of expiration of enlistment, and so forth, including the same 1920. objects specified under this head in the Naval Appropriation Acts for the fiscal years that follow: For 1919, $6,735,764.70; For 1920, $3,000,000. Advertising. The recruiting officer, Washington, District of Columbia, is authorized to make payment in the amount of $5.15 for advertising inserted in Washington, District of Columbia, newspapers, said advertising having been inserted without first securing the authority of the Secretary of the Navy, as required by section 3828, Revised Statutes. R.S., sec.3828, p. 749. The accounting officers of the Treasury are authorized and directed to allow in the accounts of the recruiting officer, Cincinnati, Ohio, an item of $56.15, covering advertising in newspapers inserted without first securing the authority of the Secretary of the Navy, as required R. S. sec. 3828, p. 749. by section 3828, Revised Statutes. Cincinnati, Ohio. Gunnery and Gunnery and engineering exercises: Prizes, trophies, and badges gineering exercises. for excellency in gunnery, target practice, and so forth, including the same objects specified under this head in the Naval Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1917, $15. Outfits on first enlistment: Outfits for all enlisted men and apprentice seamen of the Navy on first enlistment, at not to exceed $60 each, fiscal year 1916, $202.77. en Outfits, first enlistments. Fiscal year 1919. Outfits on first enlistment: Outfits for all enlisted men and ap- Clothing gratuity,etc. prentice seamen of the Navy on first enlistment, at not to exceed $100 each; for the clothing gratuity of officers and other members of the Naval Reserve Force, not to exceed $150 each for officers; for civilian clothing not to exceed $15 per man to men given discharges for bad conduct, undesirability, or inaptitude; in all, fiscal year 1919, $856,848.03. BUREAU OF YARDS AND DOCKS. Contingent, Bureau of Yards and Docks: For contingent expenses and minor extensions and improvements of public works at navy yards and stations, $15,825. PUBLIC WORKS, BUREAU OF YARDS AND DOCKS. Bureau of Yards and Docks. Contingent. Public works. Hospital construc Hospital construction: For additional temporary hospital con- tion. struction and repairs as may be necessary at the points named herein. |