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54 STAT.] 76TH CONG. , 3D SESS.-CH. 343 -JUNE 13, 1940 necessary; $90,310,785, to remain available until expended, and, in addition, authority is hereby given to enter into contracts, prior to July 1, 1941, for the same purposes to an amount not in excess of $6,000,000: Provided,That the foregoing appropriation and contract authorization shall be applied as follows: For work authorized by the Act of July 14, 1939 (53 Stat. 1003), Carlisle Barracks, Pennsyl- vania, $375,000; for work authorized by the Act of June 20, 1939 (53 Stat. 842-843), at Fort Niagara, New York, $60,000; for work authorized by the Act of August 26, 1937 (50 Stat. 857-862) : At Fort Shafter, Hawaii, $890,000; Schofield Barracks, Hawaii, $1,264,200; Fort MacArthur, California, $134,500; Corozal General Depot, Canal Zone, $427,300; Fort Crook, Nebraska, $55,000; Fort Huachuca, Arizona, $225,000; for work authorized by the Act of June 4, 1936 (49 Stat. 1462), at Edgewood Arsenal, Mary- land, $918,988; for work authorized by the Act of August 12, 1935 (49 Stat. 610-611): At Albrook Field, Canal Zone, $350,000; Chanute Field, Illinois, $669,400; Brooks Field, Texas, $708,000; Eglin Field, Florida, $250,000: Marshall Field, Kansas, $249,400; Godman Field, Kentucky, $740,000; Pope Field, North Carolina, $90,000; Lowry Field, Colorado, $350,000; Kelly Field, Texas, $990,000; Langley Field, Virginia, $220,000; Hamilton Field, California, $150,000; Pat- terson Field, Ohio, $193,000; Barksdale Field, Louisiana, $204,400; McChord Field, Washington, $134,000; Mitchel Field, New York, $57,000; Bolling Field, District of Columbia, $100,000; Selfridge Field, Michigan, $50,300; March Field, California, $86,000; Southeast Air Base, Florida, $848,400; Wright Field, Ohio, $1,840,000; Patterson Field, Ohio, $130,000; Alaska Air Base, $12,104,060; Albrook Field, Panama Canal Zone, $1,000,000; aircraft warning service, Panama Canal Zone, $134,375; and gasoline and bomb storage at Panama Canal Zone, $1,050,000, Puerto Rico, $1,201,500, Alaska, $630,000, and Hawaii, $454,000; emergency construction, $47,976,962, including the acquisition of necessary land therefor, without regard to the provi- sions of sections 355 and 1136, Revised Statutes, as amended (10 U. S . C . 1339; 40 U. S. C . 255); and for payments under contracts authorized in the Supplemental Military Appropriation Act, 1940, and the Third Deficiency Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1939, $19,000,000. ACQUISITION OF LAND Acquisition of land, Mojave Desert, California: For the acquisi- tion of land for an antiaircraft firing range, Mojave Desert, north of Barstow and Baker, California, seven hundred and forty-nine thou- sand four hundred and forty acres, more or less, as authorized by the Act of July 26, 1939 (53 Stat. 1123), $249,000, to remain available until July 1, 1942. For the acquisition of land, as authorized by the Act of August 12, 1935 (49 Stat. 610), as follows: Wright Field, Ohio, $392,000; Puerto Rican Department, $140,000; in vicinity of Anchorage, Alaska, $85,000; in all, $617,000, to remain available until July 1, 1942. Toward the acquisition of land, as authorized by the Act of July 26, 1939 (53 Stat. 1123), as follows: Fort Bliss, Texas (estimated to cost $800,000), $500,000; Fort Meade, South Dakota, $30,720; Fort Dix, New Jersey, $21,000; in all, $551,720, to remain available until July 1, 1942. Toward the acquisition of land at Fort Devens, Massachusetts, $386,667; Fort Ethan Allen, Vermont, $120,000, as authorized by the Act of July 26, 1939 (53 Stat. 1123), to remain available until July 1, 1942. 361 Availability. Contracts authors ized. Proviso. Applicationof funds to designated works. 10 U. B. 0., Supp. V, §§ 1343a-1343d. 53 Stat. 994, 1327. Post, pp. 612, 706, 873, 968. Acquisition of land; availability of funds. 10 U. S. C., Supp. V, J§ 1343a-1343d.