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 364 SIXTY-FIF TH CONGRESS. Sess. I. CII. 79. 1917. ' thereto; additions needed to meet the requirements of increased garrisons, temporary hospitals in standing cam s and cantonments; and, during the Hscal year nineteen hundred ang eighteen, for the alteration ozf permanent buildings at posts for use as hospitals, construction and repair of temporary hospital buildings at permanent posts, construction and repair of temporary (general hospitals, rental of grounds and rental and alteration of buil ings for use for hospital purposes in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, including necessary temorary quarters for hospital personnel, outbuildings, heating and l)aundry apparatus, plum ing, water and sewers, and roads and walks R t I mmm for the same, $35,000,000. D. 191%. g' RENT or BUILDINGS: For additional for rent of buildings and parts of buildings in the District of Columbia for military 1-purposes, during ' the fiscal ear nineteen hundred and eighteen, as fo ows: Office o¥ attending surgeon, $1,125 ; Recruiting station, $750; Storehouse for field medical supply depot, from October first, nineteen hundred and seventeen, to ime thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eiglhteen, inclusive, $36,000; In a, $37 ,875. Twgetpmmeuam- CLAIMS ron DAMAGES TO AND Loss OF PRIVATE Pnormnrxz For °‘§$,'$"'“T‘59_ payment of claims for damages to and loss of rivate property incivp . . . . F _ dent to the training, practice, and cgperations 0 the Army that have §,Q°,§“,,,‘gmby _,,,d,_ accrued, or may hereafter accrue, rom time to time, $15,000: Prowr- vided, That settlement of such claims shall be made by the Auditor for the War De artment, upon the approval and recommendation of the Secretary of) War, where the amount of damages has been ascertained by the War Department, and lpayment thereof will be accepted by the owners of the property in fu satisfaction of such damages. um mmmy GIVILIAN MILITARY TRAINING. .E¤v¢¤¤¤¤ ¤* i¤¤¤’¤¤- For the expense of maintaining, u on milit reservations or elsemn °mps’°t°` where, camps for the military instrgction anadstraining of such citizens physically capable of bearing arms as may be selected under such terms of enlistment and under such regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary of War, and for furnishing said citizens, at the expense of the United States, uniforms, subsistence, transportation by the most usual and direct route within said limits as to territory as may be prescribed; for such expenditures as may be deemed necessary for water, fuel, light, temporary structures, not including quarters for officers nor barracks for men, screening, and damages resulting from field exercises, and other expenses incidental to mam- Eqmpmm mw taining! said camps and the theoretical winter instruction in connecp0mm¤¤,¤m.’ tion therewith, including textbooks and stationery; for furnishing such equipments, tentage, field equipage, and transportation be- V I 39 m longing to the United States as may be eemed necessa as author- ° ‘ "‘ ‘ ize by section fifty-four of the Act of Congress approveldy June third, nineteen hundred and sixteen, $1,240,000. Medi<·alDepartment. MEDICAL DEPARTMENT. u§A¤x>p¤i¤S· as ¤¤¤¤k¤· MEDICAL AND Hosrrrar. DEPARTMENTS For the purchase of medipw, p. iw. cal and hospital supplies; gas masks; motor ambulances, and motor- Pm,_m_ cycles for medical service, their maintenance, relpgir, and operation: uomsmbunaas. Provided, That the Secretary of War may in discretion select types and makes of motor ambulances for the Army and authorize t cir purchase without regard to the laws prescribing advertisement for proposals for supplies  material for the Army; disinfectants; typewriting machmes for military posts, camps, hospitals, hospital