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 58 STAT.] 78rH CONG., 2D SESS.-CH. 303-JUNE 28, 1944 including their exchange, office furniture, tools, and instruments; for incidental expenses; for civilian employees; for libraries of the Chemical Warfare Service and subscriptions to periodicals; for ex- penses incidental to the organization, training, and equipment of special gas troops not otherwise provided for, including the training of the Army in chemical warfare, both offensive and defensive, together with the necessary schools, tactical demonstrations, and maneuvers; for current expenses of chemical projectile filling plants and proving grounds, including construction and maintenance of rail transpor- tation, repairs, alterations, accessories, building and repairing butts and targets, clearing and grading ranges; $100. SPECIAL SERVICE SCHOOLS Infantry School: For supplies, services, and other expenses essential in conducting instruction at the Infantry School, $498,000; Cavalry activities: For the purchase of textbooks, books of refer- ence, scientific and professional papers, instruments, and materials for instruction; employment of temporary, technical, special, and clerical services; and for other necessary expenses of instruction at the Cavalry School, Fort Riley, Kansas; and for the instruction of the Army in cavalry activities; $145,000; Field Artillery activities: For the pay of employees; the purchase of books, pamphlets, periodicals, and newspapers; procurement of supplies, materials, and equipment for instruction purposes; and other expenses necessary in the operation of the Field Artillery School of the Army, and for the instruction of the Army in Field Artillery activities; $775,000; Coast Artillery activities: For supplies, services, and other expenses essential in conducting instruction at the Coast Artillery Schools, in- cluding maintenance, operation, and repair of passenger-carrying vehicles, $180,000; In all, special service schools, $1,598,000, to be accounted for as one fund. ARMORED FORCE INSTRUCTION IN ARMORED FORCE ACYIVITIES For supplies, services, and other expenses essential in conducting instruction of the Army in armored-force activities, $164,000. SEACOASr DEFENSES For all expenses incident to the preparation of plans and the con- struction, purchase, installation, equipment, maintenance, repair, and operation of fortifications and other works of defense, and their acces- sories, including personal services, ammunition storage, maintenance of channels to submarine-mine wharves, purchase of lands and rights- of-way as authorized by law, acquisition of leaseholds and other interests therein, and temporary use thereof, and payments for leasehold interests may be made in advance for the entire term notwithstanding the provisions of section 3648, Revised Statutes, and for experimental, test, and development work, $100. 587 Special gas troops. Chemical warfare training. Leaseholds, etc. a31. S.C. 529. UNImT STATES MULARuy ACADEAT PAT OF MILiTARY ACADEMY Cadets: For pay of cadets, $1,895,000: Provided, That during the dP-m7 . fiscal year ending June 30,1945, no officer of the Army shall be entitled to receive any increase in pay or allowances because of detail or assign-

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