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 SIXTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Cir. 143. 1918. 847 furniture and Hxtures, machinery, motor trucks, and unforeseen exenses, $12,000. P For purchase of engines, generators, motors, machines, measuring ,,,g°°°i°l "”°"°"* 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, measruin m§,'§‘,§§‘,‘l?¤'§,?_“ ""' instruments, special apparatus, and materials for the department 0% engineermgland mine _ efense, $2,000. _ _ _ _ or pure ase  brnding of professional books treating of military and screntriic subjeézctp for hlgarbyg for use of school, and for temraryusemcoast enses,$ ,5 . p0Prmnkled, That section thirty-six hundred and forty-eight, Re- i>,Zl°i%Ea1s. vised Statutes, shall not apply to subscriptions for foreign and pro- R·S··°°°·"“8·P·’“· fessional newspapers and periodicals to be paid for- from this approriatron. P Puncmsn or rrrnwnrrme macnmnsz That plrgrchase and exchange ¤mT£?”m°° m` of typewriting machines, to be paid for from t appropriation, may be made at the special price allowed to schools teacliing stenography and typewriting without obligating typewriter companies to supply these machines to all departments o the Government at the same rice. 8 i P OFFICE or rm: cmnr srervar. orrrcmn. mgm Tmmnnu AND TELEPHONE srsrnus: Purchase, equipment, opera- phnemummiim tion, and repair of  telegraph, telephone, radio, cable, and °t£°'°b°°°s’°p°"°°°· signalingl slystems srgnalapqlmpmentsfiand storées, éileld glasses, tele *’°•*· P- Im sco ,eoa ,s1 antems, ,anoernecess instrriimdfents;  vanes,%arometers, aneilnggmeters, thermometeiigand other meteorological instruments; motorcycles, motor-driven and other vehicles for technical and official purposes in connection with the construction, operation, and maintenance of communication or signaling systems, andsupplies for their operation and maintenance; professional and scientific   of reference, tpamcplhlets, periodicals, newspapers, and maps for use in the office of e `ef Signal Officer; telelp one apparatus, mcluding rental and payment for commercial, exc ange, message, trunk line, long distance, and leased lima telehone service at or connectin any post, camp, cantonment, e t, iirsenal, headquarters, hospital aviation station, or other omcgo or Em um station of the Army, excepting local telephsone service for the various P ‘ bureaus of the War Department in the trict 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, hosprta, aviation station, or o_ther office ` or station of the Army, but not including payment for individual E1 telegraph messages transmitted over commercial lines; electrical in- °°m”]pl°“°“` sta ations 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, includi those necessary as instructors at vocational schools; supplies, g;eueri§ repairs, reserve supplies, and other expenses connects with the collecting and transmitting of information for the Army by tel ph Expmmm m gg or otherwise; experimentation and resegrch fog 1:51: pprposeacffeggiiel- ¤¤¤¤z- o in improvements in a aratus an met o o si `n, incliidgig machines, instrumiiiriits, and other equipment forgilaborgitory and repa1r pu.rposes· purchase, lease, construction, alterations, and repair for such buildings required for storing or guarding Signal Corps supphes, equipment, and personnel when not otherwise pro-