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952 SIXTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. H. Ch. 240. 1920. c'**°'S*=¤**l °m°°’· OFFICE OF THE CHIEF SIGNAL OFFICER. Si@¤¤lS¤¤’i¤¤- SIGNAL Snnvrcn or mn ARMY. T°]°"`°"" md “’"" Televra hand tel ho es te s: Purchase ui ent 0 eration l’l0l10S EQIDS. ¤ P H ys m I pm 7 P _ 7

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` naling systems; si al equipments and stores, field glasses, telescopes, heliographs, signalllanterns, flags, and other necessary instruments; wind vanes, barometers, anemometers, thermometers, and other meteorolggical instruments; photograghic and cinematographic work pe ormed for the Army by the ignal Corps; motor cycles, motor-driven and other vehicles for technical and official purposes in connection with the construction, operation, and maintenance of communication or signaling systems, and sutptplies for their operation and maintenance; professional and scien c books of reference, pamphlets, periodicals, news a ers, and maps for use in the office of the Chief Signal Officer and) the Signal Corps at Cam Alfred Vail, T°l°P*‘°“°S· New Jersey; telephone apparatus, includin rental and) payment for commercial, exchange, message, trunk-line,Iong-distance, and leasedline telephone service at or connecting any post, camp, cantonment, _ de t, arsenal, headquarters, hospital, aviation station, or other E‘°°P"°““‘ otiiidia or station of the Army, excepting local telephone service for the various bureaus of the War Department in the District of Columbia, and toll messages pertaining to the oi‘Hce of the Secretary of War; electric time service; the rental of commercial telegraph lines and equipment and their pperation at or connecting any post, camp, cantonment, depot, arsen , headquarters, hospital, aviation station, or other office or station of the Army, but not including payment for mcmca, msm,,a_ individual teligraph messages transmitted over commercial lines; uonsem. electrical mst ations and maintenance at military posts, cantonments, camps, and stations of the Army; fire control and direction °“’i”°¤ °mP’°Y€°S· apparatus and_ matériel for Field Artillery; salaries of civilian employees, includrplg those necessary as instructors at vocational schools; supplies, gener repairs, reserve supplies, and other expenses con- Siming m_,,,_ nected with the co ectrng and transmitting of information for the mens. Army by telegraph or otherwise; experimentation and research for the purgplose o developing improvements in apparatus and methods of sign ng, including machines, instruments, and other equipment for laboratory and repair purposes; tuition, laboratory fees, and so _ forth, for Signal Corps officers detailed to civilian technical schools p,}},8°f‘{,‘{{,*}¤S ‘°' ’“*" for the purpose of pursuing technical courses of instruction alone Signal Corps lines; lease, construction, alteration, and repair of such buildings required for storing or guarding Signal Corps su plies, equrlpment, and personnel when not otherwise provided for, including the and therefor, the introduction of water, electric light and power, sewerage, grading, roads and walks, and other equipment required, $4,000,000. ,.,KgEfS§‘§,¥{’¥‘°“‘·""*"“ WASHINGTON*AI·ASKA Mrrrranr Cam.;-z ann Tnnncnarn Srsrmr. ,,,;;,§§,‘f‘§§Y‘“· b°“°" For defraying the cost of such extensions, betterments, operation, and maintenance of the Washington—Alaska Military Cable and Telegraph System, as may be a proved by the Secretary of War, to be available until the close of this fiscal year 1922, from the receipts of the Washington-Alaska Military Cable and Televraph System which have been covered into the Treasurv of the Cnited States, the extent of such extensions and bettermeiits and the cost thereof to be reported to Congress by the Secretary of War, $140,000.