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 SIXTY-THIRD CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 72. 1914. 353 onion or rim cimzr SIGNAL ormcmz. S*¤¤“S°"*°°- SIGNAL Snnvron or rim Anim: For expenses of the Signal Service E“’°'”°”‘ of the Army, as follows: Purchase, equipment, and repair of ield electric telegraphs, signal equipments an stores, binocular glasses, telescopes, eliostats, and other necessary instruments, including necessary meteorological instruments for use on target ranges; war ,,,,Y_,",g'p_L""“°°"’ W balloons and airships and accessories, including the1r maintenance Pump-480- and repair; telgphone apparatus (exclusive of exchange service) and maintenance o the same; electrical installations and maintenance at military osts; fire control and direction ap aratus and material for iield  ery; maintenance and re air of military telegraph lines and cables, inc uding salaries of civdian employees, splpphes, and general repairs, and other expenses connected with e duty of collecting and transmitting information for the Army by telegraph P _ or otherwise, $500,000: rovided, however, That not more than LW6i·¤¤um¤. $250,000 of said amount shall be used for the purchase, maintenance, °*“'“°· operation, and repair of airships and other aerial machines, of which latter amount $50,000 is made immediately available. rt mm to Prmnkled, That the Act of Congress approved October twelfth, t•P'££»°}i¤y Summeeilglhsteen hundred and hty-eight, enti ed "A.u Act to make "“{;,l_ ,5, P_ 55,, e ted men of the Signed? Corps responsible for public prcgperty/’ amended- ’ be amended so as to read that property returns 0 the Sign Corps shall be rendered semiannually or more often. U d Hereafter all moneys  from the disposition of serviceable ais? ¤r'°°;éii?»i1°¤}*°i»l1`Z Signal Corps supplies and equipment, authorized by law and regu- '°°"°'““* lations, shall constitute one fund on the books of the Treasury Department and be available during the fiscal year in which their disposition was eifected and the year following, or the replacement of ignal Corps supplies and equipment. WAsmNo·roN—A1.as1<A iurnrranr cum arm rnmensrn SYSTEM! .,.¥{$‘°°"'*'“"“ For defraying the cost ot such extensions and betterments of the E**°¤·*°¤·°°°· Washington- laska military cable and telegraph system as may be approved by the Secretary of War, to be availab e until the close o the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fifteen, from the receipts of the Washington-Alaska military cable and telegraph system which have been covered into the Treasury of the United tates, the extent of such extensions and betterments and the cost thereof to be reported e to Congress by the Secretary of War, $50,000. AN1~m*Ncu·r0n nozzmz SYSTEMS AT TARGET nANeEs: Maintenance  N,. of annunciator buzzer systems at target ranges, $3,800. ¤·¤· SIGNALING EQUIPMENT Fon coasr DEFENSE POSTSZ For the pur- m§¤i$:ic°¤i»:el¤°f§i?` chase of mortars, rockets, shells, Very pistols, heliographs acety- lene lanterns, ilag kits, and other signaling equipment to supply coast defense posts for signaling purposes, $12,000. Coamnncmr. TELEPHONE SERVICE ar Coasr ARTHLERY rosrs: For ¤¤E°1°if{°11°1l:yi°°"‘°°’ providing commercial telephone service for omcial purposes at Coast Artillery posts, $6,000. rar or ormcnns or THE Lum. P°’· For pay of omcers of the line, $7,750,000. I‘°“°°°°°”‘ Additional pay for length of service, $1,616,218.27. I‘°“g°""" rar or ENLISTED MEN. For pay of enlisted men of all grades, including recruits, $18,170,884. E““°*°°l “‘°"· Additional Tpay for length of service, $2,325,746.64. L°"g°F"**’· Provided, at hereafter no officer or enlisted man in active service No prim- aww who shall be absent from duty on account of disease resulting from  °' *1***% 91006°—-vox. 3S·-rr 1--23