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 PUBLIC LAWS--CH. 88-APR. 26, 1939 Marking of military airways. Consulting engi- neers. Special apparatus and appliances. Printing plants, etc. Settlement ofclaims. 50 Stat. 455. 52 Stat. 654 . New airplanes, equipment, etc. Promios. Helium. Post, p. 724. Procurement of new airplanes, etc. Combat airplanes. Crissy Field, Calif.. restriction on use of funds for. Bums available for incurred obligations. 48 Stat. 628; 49 Stat. 133; 49 Stat. 1290 . and appliances of every sort and description necessary for the opera- tion, construction (airplanes and balloons), or equipment of all types of aircraft, and all necessary spare parts and equipment connected therewith; or the marking of military airways where the purchase of land is not involved; for the purchase, manufacture, and issue of special clothing, wearing apparel, and similar equipment for aviation urposes; for all necessary expenses connected with the sale or disposal of surplus or obsolete aeronautical equipment, and the rental of buildings, and other facilities for the handling or storage of such equipment; for the services of not more than four consulting engineers at experimental stations of the Air Corps as the Secretary of War may deem necessary, at rates of pay to be fixed by him not to exceed $50 a day for not exceeding fifty days each and necessary traveling expenses; purchase of special apparatus and appliances, repairs, and replacements of same used in connection with special scientific medical research in the Air Corps; for maintenance and operation of such Air Corps printing plants outside of the District of Columbia as may be authorized in accordance with law; for publications, station libraries, special furniture, sup- plies and equipment for offices, shops, and laboratories; for special services, including the salvaging of wrecked aircraft; for settlement of claims (not exceeding $250 each) for damage to persons and private property resulting from the operation of aircraft at home and abroad when each claim is substantiated by a survey report of a board of officers appointed by the commanding officer of the nearest aviation post and approved by the Chief of Air Corps and the Secretary of War, $94,737,281, of which $3,000,000 shall be available under the appropriation "Air Corps, Army, 1938", and $15,826,894 shall be available under the appropriation "Air Corps, Army, 1939", for pay- ments under contracts for the procurement of new airplanes and of equipment, spare parts, and accessories for airplanes, as authorized by said appropriations, and of which $26,936,841 shall be available immediately for the objects embraced by this paragraph, including the employment of persons and means at the seat of government and elsewhere: Provided, That $10,000 shall be transferred to and made available to the Bureau of Mines on July 1, 1939, for supplying helium: Provided further, That in addition to the amounts herein appropriated the Chief of the Air Corps, when authorized by the Secretary of War may enter into contracts between the date of the approval of this Act and July 1, 1940, for the procurement of new airplanes and for the procurement of equipment, spare parts, and accessories for airplanes to an amount not in excess of $32,205,988, and his action in so doing shall be deemed a contractual obligation of the Federal Government for the payment of the cost thereof: Provided further, That of the amount herein appropriated and the amount herein authorized for contractual obligation not less than $57,494,962 (exclusive of $18,826,894 for payment of obligations incurred under the above-mentioned contract authorizations for the fiscal years 1938 and 1939) shall be applied to the procurement of new airplanes and their equipment and accessories, of which amount of $57,494,962 not less than $56,113,200 shall be applied to the procure- ment of combat airplanes and their equipment and accessories: Provided further, That no part of this or any other appropriation contained in this Act shall be available for any expense incident to the use of Crissy Field, California, as an air station: Provided further, That the sum of $22,000 of the appropriation for Air Corps,' Army, fiscal year 1935, the sum of $331,376 of the appropriation for Air Corps, Army, fiscal year 1936, and the sum of $2,703,230 of the 606 [53 STAT.

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