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 62 STAT.] 80TH CONG. , 2D SESS.-CH. 632 -JUNE 24, 1948 laneous expenses incident to the administration of the Organized Reserves; expenses incident to the use, including upkeep costs, of sup- plies, equipment, and mat6riel furnished from stocks under the control of the Department of the Army; medical and hospital treatment of members of the Officers' Reserve Corps and of the Enlisted Reserve Corps who suffer injury or contract disease in line of duty, as provided by the Act of June 15, 1936 (10 U. S . C. 455), and such other purposes in connection therewith as are authorized by the said Act, including pay and allowances, subsistence, transportation, and burial expenses; in all, $125,000,000: Provided, That $25,000,000 of this appropriation is made contingent upon the enactment into law by the Eightieth Con- gress of S. 2655 or similar authorization for the voluntary enlistment of persons between the ages of eighteen and nineteen years. None of the funds appropriated elsewhere in this Act, except for printing and binding, field exercises, and for pay and allowances of officers and enlisted men of the Army of the United States, and for mileage, reimbursement of actual traveling expenses, or per diem allowances in lieu thereof, and travel of dependents or reimburse- ment therefor, as authorized by law, to Reserve officers on extended active duty, shall be used for expenses in connection with the Organized Reserves, but available supplies and existing facilities at military posts shall be utilized to the fullest extent practicable. No appropriation in this Act shall be available for pay, allowances, or traveling expenses of any officer, warrant officer, or enlisted man of the Organized Reserves for periods of active duty, drills, training, instruction, or other duty for which he may be entitled to receive com- pensation pursuant to the provisions of the Act approved March 25, 1948 (Public Law 460, Eightieth Congress), who may be drawing a pension, disability allowance, disability compensation, or retired pay from the Government of the United States: Provided, That nothing in this provision shall be so construed as to prevent the application of funds herein contained to the pay, allowances, or traveling expenses of any officer, warrant officer, or enlisted man of the Organized Reserves who may waive or relinquish said pension, disability allow- ance, or disability compensation where such disability is of such degree as not to prevent acceptance for active federal duty for the periods of active duty, field training, instruction, or other duty, except drill, for which he may be entitled to receive compensation pursuant to the provisions of the Act approved March 25, 1948 (Public Law 460, Eightieth Congress). The pay and allowances of such additional officers and nurses of the Medical Reserve Corps as are required to supplement the like officers and nurses of the Regular Army in the care of beneficiaries of the United States Veterans' Administration treated in Army hospitals may be paid from the funds allotted to the Department of the Army by that Administration under existing law. RESERVE OFFOERS' TRAINING COBPS For the procurement, maintenance, and issue, under such regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary of the Army to institutions at which one or more units of the Reserve Officers' Training Corps are maintained, of such public animals, means of transportation, supplies, tentage, equipment, and uniforms as he may deem necessary, including cleaning and laundering of uniforms and clothing at camps; and to forage, at the expense of the United States, public animals so issued, and to pay commutation in lieu of uniforms at a rate to be fixed annually by the Secretary of the Army; transporting said animals and other authorized supplies and equipment from place of issue to the several institutions and training camps and return of same to place of issue when necessary; purchase of training manuals, including 663 Medical and hospi- tal treatment. 49 Stat. 1507. Ante, p. 604. Restriction on use of funds. Restriction on pay and expenses. Ante, p. 87. Ante, p. 87. Medical Reserve Corps. Pay, etc., of certain officers and nurses. Supplies, etc.

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