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PUBLIC LAW 179—OCT. 18, 1951

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hereafter established, including expenses for the entertainment and officers!'"''"°° °^ instruction of enlisted personnel, $20,000,000: Provided, That this appropriation shall be available for the instruction of officers on the same basis as enlisted men. SUBSISTENCE OF THE A R M Y

For 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 prisoners of war, and general prisoners at posts; ice for issue to organizations of enlisted men and for cooling drinking water and for preservation of stores; Army vessels. subsistence of the masters, officers, crews, and employees of Army vessels; meals for recruiting parties and applicants for enlistment Sales to officers, etc. while under observation; sales to officers, including members of the Officers' Reserve Corps while on active duty, and enlisted men of the Allowances. Army; payment of allowances of commutation in lieu of rations to enlisted men as authorized by law; commuted rations for enlisted men, applicants for enlistment while held under observation, civilian employees who are entitled to subsistence at public expense, and general prisoners while sick in hospitals, to be paid to the surgeon in charge; advertising; for subsistence of supernumeraries necessitated Prizes. by emergent military circumstances; prizes to be established by the Secretary of the Army for enlisted men of the Army who graduate from the Army schools for bakers and cooks; and for other necessary expenses incident to the purchase, testing, care, preservation, issue, sale, and accounting for subsistence supplies for the Army; in all, Payment of sub- $603,309,000: Provided, That none of the funds appropriated in this title shall be used for the payment of any subsidy on agricultural or Procurement of food other products: Provided further, That no part of this or any other duced in'iP. s!° ^"^° appropriation contained in this Act shall be available for the procurement of any article of food or clothing not grown or produced in the United States or its possessions, except to the extent that the Secretary of the Department concerned shall determine that a satisfactory quality and sufficient quantity of any articles of food or clothing grown or produced in the United States or its possessions cannot be procured as and when needed at United States market prices and except procurements by vessels in foreign waters and emergency procurements or procurements of perishable foods by establishments located outside the continental United States, except the Territories of Hawaii and Alaska, for the personnel attached thereto: Provided further, That nothing herein shall preclude the procurement of foods manufactured or processed in the United States or its possessions; REGULAR S U P P L I E S O F THE A R M Y

For supplies, services, and other expenses, not otherwise provided for, incident to the design, development, procurement, manufacture, care, protection, alteration, repair, maintenance, installation, storage and issue of Quartermaster Corps supplies, materials, and equipment (exclusive of fixed installations in buildings otherwise provided for), including petroleum and other products, market reports and personal services; supplies and equipment for troops and general service schools; operation of field printing plants not otherwise provided for and contract printing and binding; purchase, subsistence, and care of animals required in connection with Army training and other activities; expenses incident to raising and harvesting forage on military reservations, including, when specifically authorized by the Secretary of the Army, the cost of irrigation; $465,000,000;

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