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 [59 STAT. PUBLIC LAWS-CH. 265 -JULY 3, 1945 TRANSPORTATION CORPS 56 Stat. 214 . 46 U. S. C., 8upp. IV, 5§ 112B-1128g. Charges against other appropriations. TRANSPORTATION SERVICE, ARMY For expenses necessary for the transportation of Army supplies, equipment, funds of the Army, including packing, crating, and un- packing; maintenance and operation of transportation facilities and installations, including the purchase, construction, alteration, opera- tion, lease, repair, development, and maintenance of and research in transportation equipment, including boats, vessels, motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles and railroad equipment; personal serv- ices in the District of Columbia and elsewhere; procurement of sup- plies and equipment; printing and binding; communication service; maps; lawbooks and books of reference; subscriptions to newspapers and periodicals; wharfage, tolls, ferriage, drayage and cartage; pre- miums and indemnification for risks insured pursuant to the Act of April 11, 1942 (46 U. S. C. 1128-1128g); conducting instructions in Army transportation activities; transportation on Army vessels of privately owned automobiles of Army personnel upon change of station; $1,785,000,000: Provided, That during the fiscal year 1946 the cost of transportation from point of origin to the first point of storage or consumption of supplies, equipment, and material in con- nection with the manufacturing and purchasing activities of the Quartermaster Corps may be charged to the appropriations from which such supplies, equipment, and material are procured. SIGNAL CORPS SIGNAL SERVICE OF THE ARMY Telegraph, etc., s- Purchase, equipment, operation, and repair of military telegraph, tems telephone, radio, cable, and signaling systems; signal equipment and stores, heliographs, signal lanterns, flags, and other necessary instru- ments; wind vanes, barometers, anemometers, thermometers, and other meteorological instruments; photographic and cinematographic work Vehicles. 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 Telephone appara- 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 Telegraph In. the Secretary of War; electric time service; the rental of commercial telegraph lines and equipment, and their operation at or connecting any post, camp, cantonment, depot, arsenal, headquarters, hospital, aviation station, or other office or station of the Army, including pay- ment for official individual telegraph messages transmitted over com- Electrcal instala- mercial lines; electrical installations and maintenance thereof at mili- tions. tary posts, cantonments, camps, and stations of the Army, fire control Salaries of dvlan and direction apparatus, and materiel for Field Artillery; salaries of empoyeescivilian employees, including those necessary as instructors at voca- tional schools; supplies, general repairs, reserve supplies, and other expenses connected with the collecting and transmitting of information tperimntveal- for the Army by telegraph or otherwise; experimental investigation, research, purchase, and development, or improvements in apparatus, 392

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