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 60 STAT.] 79TH CONG. , 2D SESS.-CH. 583-JULY 16, 1946 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 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 $40 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 meteorological 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 resulting from the operation of aircraft, under the provisions of the Act of July 3, 1943 (31 U. S. C. 223b); $1,199,500,000. MEDICAL DEPARTMENT 551 Consulting engi- neers. Printing plants. Payment of claims. 57 Stat. 372. 31 U. S. C., Supp. V, §§ 215-217 notes, 222a, 222b, 223b, 223c. Ante, p. 332; post, pp. 846 ,847. MEDICAL AND HOSPITAL DEPARTMENT For the manufacture and purchase of medical and hospital supplies Supplies. for military posts, camps, hospitals, hospital ships and transports, 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 ofCpetr e at met 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 treat- ment has been obtained by such personnel in civilian hospitals or from civilian physicians or dentists; for medical care and treatment of authorized personnel of any country whose defense the President deems vital to the defense of the United States when such care and treatment cannot be obtained from medical units of their own coun- try; for the proper care and treatment of epidemic and contagious tEpiddiseasn c on- diseases in the Army or at military posts or stations, including meas- ures 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 insane Filipino sol- Insane Fiipino sol- diers in conformity with the Act of Congress approved May 11, 1908 diers (24 U. S. C. 198); for the pay of male and female nurses, not includ- Nurses, cooks, and ing the Army Nurse Corps, and of cooks and other civilians employed other civilians. for the proper care of patients, under such regulations fixing their number, qualifications, assignments, pay, and allowances as shall have been or shall be prescribed by the Secretary of War; for the pay In te nes of internes; for the pay of civilian physicians employed to examine Civilianphysicians. physically applicants for enlistment and enlisted men and to render other professional services from time to time under proper author- ity; for the pay of other employees of the Medical Department; for the payment of express companies and local transfers employed directly by the Medical Department for the transportation of medi- cal and hospital supplies, including bidders' samples and water for analysis; for the supply of Army and Navy Hospital at Hot Springs, Hospital Hotdpringss Arkansas; for advertising, and all other necessary miscellaneous Ark. expenses of the Medical Department; $68,000,000.

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