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 PUBLIC LAWS-CH. 583 -JULY 16, 1946 Claims. 57 Stat. 372. 31 U. S. C., Supp. V, J§ 215-217 notes, 222a. 222b, 223b, 223c. Ante, p. 332; post, pp. 846, 847. 59 Stat. 225. Sl U. . C., Snpp. V. § 222c, 222d, 223b. Ante, p. 332; post, p. 847. Recreational facili- ties, etc. Instruction of oll- cers. Painting, etc., (rf war scenes or portraits. Purchase of subsist- ence supplies. Army Transport Service. Sales to officers, etc. Apprehension of deserters: For the apprehension, securing, and delivering of soldiers absent without leave and of deserters, including escaped military prisoners, and the expenses incident to their pursuit; and no greater sum than $25 for each deserter or escaped military prisoner shall, in the discretion of the Secretary of War, be paid to any civil officer or citizen for such services and expenses; for expenses incident to confinement of military prisoners in nonmilitary facili- ties; for a donation of $10 to each prisoner discharged otherwise than honorably upon his release from confinement under court-martial sentence involving dishonorable discharge; and for a donation of not to exceed $10 to each person discharged for fraudulent enlistment as authorized by law; $50,000; Finance service: For compensation of clerks and other employees of the Finance Department, $31,000,000; Claims for damage to or loss or destruction of property, or personal injury, or death: For payment of claims under the provisions of the Act approved July 3, 1943 (31 U. S . C. 223b), not otherwise pro- vided for, $600,000; Claims of military and civilian personnel of the War Department for destruction of private property: For the payment of claims for private property lost, destroyed, captured, abandoned, or damaged in the military service of the United States, under the provisions of the Military Personnel Claims Act of 1945, $4,000,000; In all, Finance Service, Army, $2,585,800,000, to be accounted for as one fund. QUARTERMASTER CORPS QUARTERMASTER SERVICE, ARMY Welfare of enlisted men: For the equipment and conduct of school, reading, lunch, and amusement rooms, service clubs, chapels, gymna- siums, and libraries, including periodicals and other publications and subscriptions for newspapers, salaries of civilians employed in the hostess and library services, transportation of books and equipment for these services, rental of films, purchase of slides for and making repairs to moving-picture outfits, and for similar and other recrea- tional purposes at training and mobilization camps now established or which may be hereafter established, including expenses for the entertainment and instruction of enlisted personnel, $19,000,000: Provided, That this appropriation shall be available for the instruc- tion of officers on the same basis as enlisted men: Provided further, That no appropriation contained in this Act shall be available for payment to or expenditure on account of any civilian personnel employed outside continental United States to paint or otherwise reproduce war scenes except by means of photography, or to paint portraits, or for payment to or expenditure on account of any mili- tary personnel within continental United States who engage in decorative art projects or painting portraits to the exclusion of regular military duties; Subsistence of the Army: Purchase of subsistence supplies: For issue as rations to troops, including retired enlisted men when ordered to active duty, civil employees when entitled thereto, hospital matrons, applicants for enlistment while held under observation, general pris- oners of war, and general prisoners at posts; ice for issue to organi- zations of enlisted men and for cooling drinking water at such places as the Secretary of War may determine, and for preservation of stores; for the subsistence of the masters, officers, crews, and employees of the vessels of the Army Transport Service; meals for recruiting parties and applicants for enlistment while under observation; for sales to officers, including members of the Officers' Reserve Corps while 546 [60 STAT.

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