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 PUBLIC LAWS-CH. 477-JULY 2, 1942 Marking of military marking of military airways where the purchase of land is not rs. involved; for the purchase, manufacture, and issue of special cloth- ing, wearing apparel, and similar equipment for aviation purposes; for all necessary expenses connected with the sale or disposal of sur- plus or obsolete aeronautical equipment, and the rental of buildings and other facilities for the handling or storage of such equipment; for the rental of office space and other facilities in connection with Oonsulting engi- Air Corps procurement activities; 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 Printing plants with special scientific medical research in the Air Corps; for main- tenance 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, supplies and equipment for offices, shops, and laboratories; for special services, Pymet of damage including the salvaging of wrecked aircraft; for payment of claims (not exceeding $500 each) for damage to private property including claims of military and civilian personnel in and under the War Department, and for injury to persons other than military personnel 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, Payments under $11,316,898,910, of which amount not to exceed $702,283,995 shall be at at - for payment of obligations incurred under contract authorizations at.36; 5 tat. under this head in appropriation Acts for the fiscal years 1941 and MEDIC 1942. MEDICAL DEPARTMENT Supplies Oare, etc., in private hospitals. Prlmnersowarea. Epidemic and n- tosm disea MEDICAL AND HOSPITAL DEPARTMENT For the manufacture and purchase of medical and hospital supplies for military posts, camps, hospitals, hospital ships and transports, for laundry work for enlisted men and Army nurses while patients in a hospital, and supplies required for mosquito destruction in and about military posts in the Canal Zone; for operation of the Army Medical Library and Museum under the direct supervision of the Surgeon General; for the purchase of veterinary supplies and hire of veterinary surgeons; for expenses of medical supply depots and maintenance of branch depots; for medical care and treatment of patients, including supernumeraries, not otherwise provided for, including care, treat- ment and subsistence in private hospitals of military personnel and members of the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps, whether on duty or on furlough or on leave of absence except when elective medical treatment has been obtained by such personnel in civilian hospitals or from civilian physicians or dentists, civilian employees of the Army, of applicants for enlistment, and of prisoners of war and other persons in military custody or confinement, when entitled thereto by law, regulation, or contract; for medical care and treatment of author- ized personnel of an country whose defense the President deems vital to the defense of the United States when such care and treatment cannot be obtained from medical units of their own country; for the proper care and treatment of epidemic and contagious diseases in the rmy or at military posts or stations, including measures to prevent the spread thereof, and the payment of reasonable damages not other- wie provided for for bedding and clothing injured or destroyed in 620 [56 STAT.

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