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 PUBLIC LAWS-CH. 477-JULY 2, 1942 Purchase of sub- sistence supplies. Army Transport Service. Sales to officers, etc. Designated pay- ments. Prizes. Prorisos. Butter substitutes, restriction. Procurement of food or clothing not pro- ducedin U.S., restric- tion. Regular supplies of the Army. for these services, rental of films, purchase of slides for and making repairs to moving-picture outfits, and for similar and other recrea- tional purposes at training and mobilization camps now established or which may be hereafter established, including expenses for the entertainment and instruction of enlisted personnel, $16,248,000. Subistence of the Army: Purchase of subsistence supplies: For issue as rations to troops, including retired enlisted men when ordered to active duty, civil employees when entitled thereto, hospital matrons, applicants for enlistment while held under observation, general pris- oners of war, and general prisoners at posts; ice for issue to organ- izations of enlisted men and offices at such places as the Secretary of War may determine, and for preservation of stores; for the sub- sistence of the masters, officers, crews, and employees of the vessels of the Army Transport Service; meals for recruiting parties and applicants for enlistment while under observation; for sales to officers, including members of the Officers' Reserve Corps while on active duty, and enlisted men of the Army. For payments: Of the regulation allowances of commutation in lieu of rations to enlisted men on furlough and to enlisted men when stationed at places where rations in kind cannot be economically issued, including retired enlisted men when ordered to active duty. For payment of the regu- lation allowance of commutation in lieu of rations for enlisted men, applicants for enlistment while held under observation, civilian employees who are entitled to subsistence at public expense, and gen- eral prisoners while sick in hospitals, to be paid to the surgeon in charge; advertising; for providing prizes to be established by the Secretary of War for enlisted men of the Army who graduate from the Army schools for bakers and cooks; and for other necessary expenses incident to the purchase, testing, care, preservation, issue, sale, and accounting for subsistence supplies for the Army; in all, $1,433,299,450: Provided,That none of the money appropriated in this Act shall be used for the purchase of oleomargarine or butter substi- tutes for other than cooking purposes, except to supply an expressed preference therefor or for use where climatic or other conditions render the use of butter impracticable: Provided further, That no part of this or any other appropriation contained in this Act shall be available for the procurement of any article of food or clothing not grown or produced in the United States or its possessions, except to the extent that the Secretary of War shall determine that articles of food or clothing grown or produced in the United States or its possessions cannot be procured of satisfactory quality and in sufficient quantities and at reasonable prices as and when needed, and except procurements by vessels in foreign waters and by establishnents located outside the continental United States, except the Territories of Hawaii and Alaska, for the personnel attached thereto. Regular supplies of the Army: For all supplies, services, and other expenses, not otherwise provided for, incident to the design, develop- ment, procurement, manufacture, care, protection, alteration, repair, maintenance, installation, storage, and issue of Quartermaster Corps supplies, materials, and equipment (exclusive of fixed installations in buildings otherwise provided for), including lawbooks, books of ref- erence, periodicals, newspapers, market reports and personal services; for supplies and equipment for troop and general service schools; for operation of field printing plants under the jurisdiction of the Quar- termaster Corps and contract printing and binding; for subsistence and care of riding and draft animals, for remounts, and for the authorized number of officers' mounts; for straw for soldiers' bed- ding; for expenses incident to raising and harvesting forage on mili- tary reservations, including, when specifically authorized by the Secretary of War, the cost of irrigation, $158,361,730. [56 STAT.

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