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 54 STAT.] 76TH CONG. , 3D SESS.-CH. 437-JUNE 27, 1940 655 GENERAL STAFF CORPS Miscellaneous expenses, military intelligence activities: For an Miscellaneous ex additional amount for miscellaneous expenses, military intelligence telligeneativities. activities, fiscal year 1941, including the same objects specified under this head in the Military Appropriation Act, 1941, to be immedi- A - ,p.i53. ately available, $135,000. QUARTERMASTER CORPS Acquisition of land for radiobeacons, Army: Not to exceed $1,500 Acquisition of land of the unexpended balance of the appropriation for the acquisition orradiobeacons. of land for sites for radiobeacons contained in the Military Appro- priation Act, 1939, is hereby made available until expended for the 2Stat. 852. acquisition of land for sites for radiobeacons in the vicinity of Amarillo, Texas, and Albuquerque, New Mexico, as authorized by the 49 stat 610. Act of August 12, 1935. v,A134 y 3a, 1343d. Acquisition of land, Choctawhatchee National Forest, Florida: Choetawhatchee For the acquisition of title to all privately owned land within the Acquisitionorfland established boundaries of the Choctawhatchee National Forest, Flor. ida, including expenditures necessary to terminate and liquidate existing forest-products contracts, and reimbursement to special-use permittees for the present value of their improvements, $76,750, fiscal year 1940, to remain available until expended: Provided, That all Provso. Government-owned land in the Choctawhatchee National Forest, ment-oedOn land.e Florida, is hereby transferred from the control and jurisdiction of the Forest Service, Department of Agriculture, to the control and jurisdiction of the War Department for use for military purposes: Provided further, That in the event the area hereby transferred, Restoration to na. together with any land hereafter acquired by the War Department ti on alf o res ts tatus. within or adjacent to said national forest, shall cease to be needed for military purposes it may, by proclamation or order of the Presi- dent, be restored to a national-forest status: Provided further, That Discontinuance, the Secretary of War is hereby authorized, under such terms and e of forest activi- conditions as he may prescribe, to discontinue all forest activities within the area hereby transferred, and which may hereafter be acquired, to terminate all existing special-use permits, and to renew such thereof as to which there may be no military objection. Military posts: Of the funds appropriated under the title "Military Miltar land's Posts" in the Supplemental Military Appropriation Act, 1940, not Stat. 4 . to exceed $13,000 may be applied to the satisfaction of claims in con- nection with the extinguishment of private licenses on military lands in the Panama Canal Zone: Provided, That the respective amounts Awards to claim- to be awarded to claimants shall be restricted to the reasonable value ants of improvements placed by them on such lands, as determined by a board of officers appointed by the commanding general, Panama Canal Department, and approved by the Secretary of War. Not to exceed $25,000 of any funds available to the War Depart- Moffett Field,Calf. ment during the fiscal year 1941 for the construction of buildings, of transmission lin. utilities, and appurtenances at military posts may be used for the payment to the owner of the transmission lines on Moffett Field Mili- tary Reservation, California, of excess cost of removing said lines to a new location, as determined by and in accordance with conditions approved by the Secretary of War. All moneys available on July 1, 1940, under the appropriation Person services; "Construction of Buildings, Utilities, and Appurtenances at Military funds. Posts" may be used in connection with the purposes of such appro- priation for the employment of personnel at the seat of Government or elsewhere without regard to civil-service requirements and restric- tions of law relating thereto.

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