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SIXTY-SEVENTH oouemass. sm. rv. on. 178. 1923. 1395 tive assistant, $4,000; architect, $3,600; structural engineer, $3,600; mechanical engineer, $3,600; civil engineers—one $3,600, one $3,0m,; traiiic clerks—two at $2,000 each, one $1,800; textile expert, $2,000; carpenter, $1,200; mnneograph operator, $1,200; two multigra li operators at $1,200 each; four yghotostat operators at $1,200 eaclh; blueprint operator, $1,000; four lueprinters at $900 each; Eve messengers at $840 each; twelve assistant messengers at $720 each; four laborers at $720 each; in all, $531,220. The sum of $25,000 of the appropriation available for the fiscal year 1924 for the “Disposition of remains of officers, soldiers, and of dispiticn iii mi civilian em;goyees” mgy be expended for personal services in the miiJ¢,p.1f1iii°°d' Cemeterial ivision, office of the Quartermaster General, for compiling, recording, preparing, and transmitting data incident to ringing home and disposition of remains from abroad: Provided, That no person shall be employed under this allotment at a rate y'°°m°u°°` gg ggornpensation exceeding $1,800 per annum except one person at

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SIGNAL Cours. “g“°’°""P“· SIGNAL smzvice or mn Anmr. Sis¤¤1S¤rvi<>¤- Telegraph and telephone systems: Purchase, equipment opera- ,;*`°*°°="“,,,¥’,",,,,“,f‘d °°“" tion, and repair of military telegraph, telephone, radio, cahle, and Ptg?¤1i$h¤¤¤s.¤p¤¤¤¤¤¤. signaling gystems; signal equipment and_ stores, heliographs, signal ° ` lanterns, ags, and other necessary mstruments; wmd vanes barometers, anemometers, thermometers, and other meteorological instruments; photogrséphic and cinematographic work formed for the Army by the ignal Corps; motor cycles, motor·d)r‘ilyen and other vehicles for technical and official purposes in connection with the construction, operation, and maintenance of communication or signaling systems, and supplies for their operation and maintenance; pro essional and scientific books of reference, amphlets, periodicals, newspapers,_and maps for use in the office otp the Chief Signal Officer and the Signal Corps School, Camp Alfred Vail, New Jersey; telephone apparatus, ineludin rental and payment for '1'¤1¤rh¤¤e¤. commercial, exchange, message, truni-line, long-distance, and leased-line telephone service at or connecting any post, camp, cantonment, depot, arsenal, headguarters, hospital, aviation station, or other office or station of the rmy excepting local telephone serv- E¤•v¤¤¤=· ice for the various bureaus of the lWar Bepartment in the District of Columbia, and toll messages pertaining} to the office of the Secretary of War; electric time service; the rental of commercial telegraph lines and equipment and their operation at or connecting any post, camp, cantonment depot, arsena , headquarterskhospita , aviation station, or other office or station of the Army, including payment for individual telegraph messages transmitted over commercial lines; electrical installations an maintenance at mihtary at¤l6e§sn:;insu11aum posts, cantonments, camps, and stations of the Army, fire control P ’ ' and direction apparatus and materiel for Field Art1_ ery; salaries Civilisnempioym. of civilian employees, including those necessary as instructors at vocational schools; supplies, general repairs, reserve supplies, and other expenses connected with the collecting and transmitting of information for the Army by telegraph or otherwise; experimental m§,’;cgfe{j_¤°¤*•' investigation, research, purchase and development or improvements in ap aratus, and maintenance of signaling and accessories thereto, including patent rights and other rights thereto, including machines, instruments. and other equipment for laboratoigr and repair purposes; tuition, laboratory fees, and so forth, for ignal Corps officers detailed to civilian technical schools for the purpose of pursuing technical courses of instruction along Signal Corps lines;