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 490 SIXTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 291. 1924 P";‘*°· . a aratu and roads and walks for the same, $489,500: Provided toigiddw-wustmction Tllrlat no riiart of this appropriation shall be used for the constructicri of new hospitals. e»§%°i>iiar€Si°st°r G°°` OFFICE or mn QUARTERMASTER GENERAL. °“’“‘““ *"“‘°““°‘· Salaries: For personal services in the District of Columbia in Technica, Us accordance with “The Classihcation Act of 1923," $586,280. etc. mm ’ In addition to the foregoing employees appropriated for in the office of the Quartermaster General, the services of technical experts and such other services as the Secretary of War may deem necessary may be employed in the office of the Quartermaster General, to be _ paid from the appropriation for “Incidental Expenses of the Army ": Promkled, That the entire expenditures for this purpose for the fiscal year 1925 shall not exceed $16,300, and there shall be included in the Budget for each fiscal year a statement of the number of persons so employed, their duties, and the amount paid to each. $********1 C°""“‘ SIGNAL Coxrs. S‘“““] S°"'°"‘ SIGNAL smwrcn or mn ARMY. ,,§,$}§§’,l°,‘§§‘m,°?d ***1** Telegraph and telephone systems: Purchase, equipment, opera- ¤v¢¤¤- tion, and repair of military telegraph, telephone, radio, cable, and signaling systems; signal equipment and stores, heliographs, signal lanterns, flags, and other necessary instruments; wind vanes, barom- ‘ eters, anemometers, thermometers, and other meteorological instruments; photographic and cinematographic work performed for the Army by the Signal Corps; motor cycles, motor—driven and other vehicles for technical and official purposes in connection with the construction,_operation, and maintenance of communication or signaling systems, and supplies for their operation and maintenance; professional and scientific books of reference, pamphlets, periodicals, me h newspapers, and maps for use in the office of the Chief Signal Officer D °”°°‘ and the Signal Corps School, Camp Alfred Vail, New J ersey· telephone apparatus, including rental and payment for commercial, exchange, message, trunk—l1ne, long—d1stance, and leased—line telephone service at or connecting any post, camp, cantonment, depot, arsenal Empmu hpaéligbuaxters, hospital, aviation station, or other office or statiori rmy, excepting local telephone service for the various bureaus of the War Department in the District of Columbia, and toll messages perta1n1ng to the office of the Secretary of War; electric time seryice; the rental of commercial telegraph lines and equipment and their operation at or connecting any post, camp, cantonment depot, arsenal, headquarters, hospital, aviation station, or other officei Hmmm, instauw or station of the Army, including payment for official individual ¤.,,.,,,,p,,,e,.,tc_ telegraph messages transm1tted over commercial lines; electrical installations and marntenance thereof at military posts, cantonments mmm gmployem camps, and statronsof the Army, fire control and direction apparatus and mater1al for F 1eld Artillery; salaries of civilian employees including those necessary as instructors at vocational schools; supplies genera repairs, reserve supplies, and other expenses connected with Ex mma, m_ the collecting and transmitting of information for the Army by mfew. telegraph or otherwise; experimental investigation, research, purchase and development or improvements in apparatus, and maintenance of signaling and accessories thereto, including patent rights and other rights thereto, including machines instruments and other equipment for laboratory and repair urpdses; tuition, ilaboratory feesi ani so forth, for Signal Corps otliders detailed to civilian technica sc cols for the purpose of pursu1ng' technical courses of in-