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 PUBLIC LAWS-CH. 477-JULY 2, 1942 NATIONAL BOARD FOR PROMOTION OF RIFLE PRACTICE, ARMY Promotion of rifle practice: For construction, equipment, and main- tenance of rifle ranges, the instruction of citizens in marksmanship, and promotion of practice in the use of rifled arms, for arms, ammuni- tion, targets, and other accessories for target practice, for issue and sale in accordance with rules and regulations prescribed by the National Board for the Promotion of Rifle Practice and approved by the Secretary of War; for clerical services, including not exceeding Supplies, etc. $30,000 in the District of Columbia; for procurement of materials, supplies, trophies, prizes, badges, services, and such other items as are 39 Stat. 211; 43 Stat. authorized in section 113, Act of June 3, 1916, and under this head in 32 U. . C. §§ 183, War Department Appropriation Act of June 7, 1924; for the conduct National matches. of the national matches, including incidental travel of rifle teams and of individuals and of Marine Corps and other detachments required in the operation of the matches and including incidental travel of rifle teams and individuals attending regional, national, and inter- national competitions, and for the purchase of medals and badges for use in National Rifle Association competitions, including those fired Mileage for Bo ar d as a part of the national matches; for mileage at 8 cents per mile for members of the National Board for the Promotion of Rifle Prac- tice when authorized by the Secretary of War, any provision of law oMarintenance of to the contrary notwithstanding; and for maintenance of the National Board for the Promotion of Rifle Practice, including not to exceed $4,500 for incidental expenses in addition to the amount authorized by 3 Sta. .l8lc. Act of May 28, 1928; to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War, $102,000. INTER-AMERICAN RELATIONS, WAR DEPARTMENT For all expenses necessary to enable the Secretary of War to adopt such measures, appropriate to the functions and activities of the War Department, as he may deem advisable, to promote better rela- tions with the other American republics, including transportation and subsistence expenses, while traveling in the Western Hemisphere, of army officers and military students of the other American republics and Army officers of the United States, $500,000. ARMY OF TIIE PHILIPPINES Mobilization, etc., expenses. Availability. Provso. Transfer of fnids. For all expenses necessary for the mobilization, operation, and maintenance of the Army of the Philippines, including expenses con- nected with calling into the service of the armed forces of the United States the organized military forces of the Government of the Com- monwealth of the Philippines, and expenditures incident to pay. allowances, operation, maintenance, and other activities of units and personnel of said organized military forces, and for the emergent mobilization and training of such forces, may be made without regard to the provisions of law regulating the expenditure of or accounting for funds of the United States but shall be expended and accounted for in a manner prescribed by the President of the United States, $28,313,000, which shall be available for payment to the Government of the Commonwealth of the Philippines upon its written request, either in advance of or in reimbursement for all or any part of the estimated or actual cost, as authorized by the Commanding General, United States Army Forces in the Far East, of necessary expenses for the purposes aforesaid: Provided, That any appropriation for the Military Establishment may be applied to the purposes aforesaid 51 I1 n m 628 [56 STAT.

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