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56 Stat. 654. 32 Stat. 282.

60 Stat. 858.

PUBLIC LAW 157-JULY 13, 1955

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barracks; military courts, boards, and commissions; authorized issues of articles for use of applicants for enlistment and persons in military custody; civilian clothing, not to exceed $30 in cost, to be issued each person upon each release from confinement in an Army prison and to each soldier discharged otherwise than honorably, or sentenced by a civil court to confinement in a civil prison, or interned or discharged as an alien enemy; transportation services; communications services, including construction of communication systems; maps and similar data for military purposes; military surveys and engineering planning; contracts for maintenance of reserve tools and facilities for twelve months beginning at any time during the current fiscal year; alteration, extension, and repair of structures and property; acquisition of lands (not exceeding $5,000 for any one parcel), easements, rights-of-way, and similar interests in land, and, in administering the provisions of 43 U.S.C. 315q, rentals may be paid in advance; utility services for buildings erected at private cost, as authorized by law (10 U.S.C. 1346), and buildings on military reservations authorized by Army regulations to be used for a similar purpose; purchase of ambulances; hire of passenger motor vehicles; tuition and fees incident to training of military personnel at civilian institutions; field exercises and maneuvers, including payments in advance for rentals or options to rent land; expenses for the Keserve Officers' Training Corps and other units at educational institutions, as authorized by law; exchange fees, and losses in the accounts of disbursing officers or agents in accordance with law; expenses of inter-American coopera|JQJJ^ ^S authorizcd for the Navy by law (5 U.S.C. 421f) for LatinAmerican cooperation; not to exceed $6,266,000 for emergencies and extraordinary expenses, to be expended on the approval or authority of the Secretary of the Army, and payments may be made on his certificate of necessity for confidential military purposes, and his determination shall be final and conclusive upon the accounting officers of the Government; $2,831,019,000: Provided, That during the fiscal year 1956 the maintenance, operation, and availability of the ArmyNavy Hospital at Hot Springs National Park, Arkansas, and the Murphy General Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts, to meet requirements of the military and naval forces shall be continued. MILITARY CONSTRUCTION, ARMY EESERVE FORCES

For construction, acquisition, expansion, rehabilitation and conversion of facilities for the training and administration of the reserve components, including contributions therefor, as authorized by the 50use 881 note, j ^ ^ ^ ^f September 11, 1950 (64 Stat. 829), without regard to sections use "fgi 267?' *^ 11^^ *^^ 3734, Revised Statutes, as amended, and land and interests therein may be acquired and construction prosecuted, thereon prior to the approval of title by the Attorney General as required by section 33 USC 733. 355 of ^jjg Revised Statutes, as amended; and hire of passenger motor vehicles; $31,611,000, to remain available until expended: Provided, That funds under this head shall be available, without regard to the 75 per centum restriction on contributions contained in section 4(d) 50 USC 883. of the Act of September 11, 1950, for construction, alteration, improvement, and expansion of facilities made necessary by the conversion, redesignation, or reorganization of National Guard units, required for Federal purposes, and in an amount not exceeding $5,000,000 for construction of buildings and facilities other than armories.

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