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 328 SEVENTIETH CONGRESS. SESS. I. CH. 232. 1928 . expenses, including the employment of translators and exclusive of all other personal services in the War Department or any of its subordinate bureaus or offices in the District of Columbia, or in the Army at large, but impossible to be anticipated or classified; to be expended on the approval or authority of the Secretary of War, and for such purposes as he may deem proper, $12,000 : Prov ided, That none of the funds appropriated in this Act shall be used for the payment of expenses connected with the transfer of surplus property of the War Department to any other activity of the Govern- ment where the articles or lots of articles to be transferred are located at any place at which the total surplus quantities of the same commodity are so small that their transfer would not, in the opinion of the Secretary of War, be economical. GENERAL STAFF CORPS Proviso. Tra nsf er of sur plu s property to other activ- ities restricted. General Sta ff Corps. Military Intelligence Division. Contingent expenses. Observing military operations of foreign armies. Proviso. Periodicals, etc. R. S., sec. 11648, p. 718. Army War College . Instruction expenses. For expenses of the Army War College, being for the purchase of the necessary special stationery; textbooks, books of reference, scien- tific and professional papers and periodicals; maps; police utensils; employ ment o f temp orary, techn ical, or spec ial se rvices and e xpense s Emp loy ees, etc . of special lecturers; for the pay of employees; and for all other abso- lutely necessary expenses, $73,610. ADJUTANT GENERALS DEPARTMENT Adjutant General's Department. Headq uarte rs o f mil i- tary departme nts, etc. CONTINGENCIES, MILITARY INTELLIGENCE DIVISION For c ontin gent expe nses of th e Mi litar y Int ellig ence Divi sion, General Staff Corps, and of the military attaches at the United States embassies and legations abroad, including the purchase of law books, professional books of reference, and subscriptions to news- papers and periodicals; for cost of maintenance of students and attach es and for such other purposes as the Secretary of War may deem proper, including $5,000 for the actual and necessary expenses of officers of the Army on duty abroad for the purpose of observing operatio ns of arm ies of fo reign sta tes at w ar, to be paid upo n certifi - cates of the Secretary of War that the expenditures were necessary for obtaining military information, $62,480, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War : Provided, That section 3648, Revised Statutes, shall apply neither to subscriptions for foreign and professional newspapers and periodicals nor to other payments made from appropriations contained in this Act in compliance with the laws of foreign countries under which the military attaches are required to operate. ARMY WAR COLLEGE CONTINGENCIES, HEADQUARTERS OF MILITARY DEPARTMENTS, AND SO FORTH Contingent ex penses. Fo r cont ingent expen ses at the h eadqua rters of the severa l terr i- torial de partments, corps a reas, arm ies, terr itorial d istricts, tactical corps, divisions, and brigades, including the Staff Corps serving thereat, being for the purchase of the necessary articles of office, toilet, and desk furniture, stationery, ice, and potable water for office use, binding, maps, technical books of reference, professional and technical newspapers and periodicals, payment for which may be made in advance, and police utensils, to be alloted by the Secre-
 * fo r the hire o f inte rprete rs, sp ecial a gents, and g uides,

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