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 PUBLIC LAWS-CH. 477-JULY 2, 1942 Purchase, lease, etc., of vessels. Vehicles. Provisos. Passenger automo- biles, unit cost. Transportation costs, supplies, etc. Horses, draft and pack animals. Encouragement of breeding of riding horses. Total. Proviso. Merger of funds; ac- counting. Telegraph, etc., sy- tems. Vehicles. Telephone appar- tus, etc. Rental of lines, eta. of Army personnel upon change of station; for maintenance and operation of holding and reconsignment depots; for the purchase or construction, alteration, operation, and repair, and for the lease or procurement from the Maritime Commission or the War Shipping Administration, of boats and other vessels; for wharfage, tolls, and ferriage; for drayage and cartage; for the purchase, manufacture (including both material and labor), maintenance, hire, and repair of pack saddles and harness; for the purchase, exchange, hire, operation, maintenance, and repair of wagons, carts, drays, other vehicles, and horse-drawn and motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles required for the transportation of troops and supplies and for official military and garrison purposes; for hire of draft and pack animals, $3,721,692,958: Provided, That the unit cost of medium-weight pas- senger-carrying automobiles shall not exceed $1,400, including the value of any vehicle exchanged: Provided further, That during the fiscal year 1943 the cost of transportation from point of origin to the first point of storage or consumption of supplies, equipment, and material in connection with the manufacturing and purchasing activi- ties of the Quartermaster Corps may be charged to the appropriations from which such supplies, equipment, and material are procured. Horses, draft and pack animals: For the purchase of draft and pack animals and horses within limits as to age, sex, and size to be prescribed by the Secretary of War for remounts for officers entitled to public mounts, for the United States Military Academy, and for such organizations and members of the military service as may be required to be mounted, and for all expenses incident to such pur- chases (including expenses for encouragement of the breeding of riding horses suitable for the Army, in cooperation with the Bureau of Animal Industry, Department of Agriculture, including the pur- chase of animals for breeding purposes and their maintenance), $42,000. In all, supplies and transportation, $7,494,072,147: Provided, That all funds heretofore made available under the title "Quartermaster Service, Army" shall be merged with and become a part of this appropriation to be disbursed and accounted for as one fund. SIGNAL CORPs SIGNAL SERVICE OF THE ARMY Purchase, equipment, operation, and repair of military telegraph, telephone radio, cable, and signaling systems; signal equipment and stores, heliographs, signal lanterns, fags, and other necessary instru- ments; wind vanes, barometers, anemometers, thermometers, and other meteorological instruments; photographic and cinematographic work performed for the Army by the Signal Corps; motorcycles, motor- driven and other vehicles for technical and official purposes in con- nection with the construction, operation, and maintenance of com- munication or signaling systems, and supplies for their operation and maintenance; professional and scientific books of reference, pamphlets, periodicals, newspapers, and maps for use of the Signal Corps and in the office of the Chief Signal Officer; telephone apparatus, including rental and payment for commercial, exchange, message, trunk-line, long-distance, and leased-line telephone service at or connecting any post, camp, cantonment, depot, arsenal, headquarters, hospital, avia- tion station, or other office or station of the Army, excepting the local telephone service for the various bureaus of the War Department in the District of Columbia, and toll messages pertaining to the office of the Secretary of War; electric time service; the rental of com- mercial telegraph lines and equipment, and their operation at or [56 STAT.

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