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 57 STAT.] 78TH CONG. , IST SESS.-CH. 18--JULY 1, 1943 fications thereof; for the purchase, manufacture, and construction of aircraft, including instruments and appliances of every sort and description necessary for the operation, construction, or equipment of all types of aircraft, and all necessary spare parts and equipment connected therewith; for the marking of military airways where the purchase of land is not involved; for the purchase, manufacture, and issue of special clothing, wearing apparel, and similar equipment for aviation purposes; for all necessary expenses connected with the sale or disposal of surplus 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 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 $25 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 with special scientific medical and meteoro- logical research in the Air Corps; for maintenance 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, 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 sub- stantiated 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, $23,655,481,000. 357 Purchase, manufac- ture, and construction of aircraft. Marking of military airways. Consulting engi- neers. Printing plants. Payment of damage claims. MEDICAL DEPARTMENT MEDICAL AND HOSPITAL DEPARTMENT For the manufacture and purchase of medical and hospital sup- suI'ePies plies for military posts, camps, hospitals, hospital ships and trans- ports, for laundry work for enlisted men 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 sur- geons; for expenses of medical supply depots and maintenance of branch depots; for medical care and treatment of patients when ,Cpe and entitled thereto by law, regulation, or contract, including their care, treatment and subsistence in private hospitals, 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; for medical care and treat- ment of authorized personnel of any country whose defense the Pres- ident 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 tEpidemi contagious diseases in the Army or at military posts or stations, including measures to prevent the spread thereof, and the payment of reasonable damages, not otherwise provided for, for bedding and clothing injured or destroyed in such prevention; for the care of ase insane Filipino soldiers in conformity with the Act of Congress treatment e and con- aies. Filipino

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