Roads. For rakes, shovels, and brooms; repairs to roadway, pavements, macadam and asphalt block; repairs to street crossings; repairs to street drains, and labor for cleaning roads, $8,469; for two-thirds of said sum, to be supplied by the United States, $5,646.
Sewer. For waste, oil, motor and pump repairs, sewer pipe, cement, brick, stone, supplies, and personal services, $6,690; for two-thirds of said sum, to be supplied by the United States, $4,460.
Hospitals.CONSTRUCTION AND REPAIR OF HOSPITALS
Construction, repairs, etc.For construction and repair of hospitals at military posts already established and occupied, including all expenditures for construction and repairs required at the Army and Navy Hospital at Hot Springs, Arkansas, and for the construction and repair of general hospitals and expenses incident thereto, and for additions needed to meet the requirements of increased garrisons, and for temporary hospitals in standing camps and cantonments; Temporary camp hospitals, etc. for the alteration of permanent buildings at posts for use as hospitals, construction and repair of temporary, hospital buildings at permanent posts, construction and repair of temporary general hospitals Rentals, etc. rental or purchase of grounds, and rental and alteration of buildings for use for hospital purposes in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, including necessary temporary quarters, for hospital personnel, outbuildings, heating and laundry apparatus, plumbing, water and sewers, and electric work, cooking apparatus, and roads and walks for the same, $571,434;
Proviso.
New construction forbidden. Provided, That no part of this appropriation shall be used for the construction of new hospitals.
Quartermaster General's Office.
OFFICE OF THE QUARTERMASTER GENERAL
Civilian personnal. Salaries: For personal services in the District of Columbia in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $683,878.
Technical experts, etc.
In addition to the foregoing employees appropriated for in the
office of the Quartermaster General, the services of technical and such other services as the Secretary of War may deem necessary may be employed in the office of the Quartermaster General, to be paid from the appropriation for "Incidental expenses of the Army";Proviso.
Limit, etc. Provided, That the entire expenditures for this purpose for the fiscal year 1928 shall not exceed $15,000, and there shall be included in the Budget for each fiscal year a statement of the number of persons so employed, their duties, and the amount paid to each.
SIGNAL CORPS
SIGNAL SERVICE OF THE ARMY
Purchase, operation, etc.Telegraph and telephone systems. Telegraph and telephone systems: Purchase, equipment, operation, and repair of military telegraph, telephone, radio, cable, and signaling systems; signal equipment and stores, heliographs, signal lanterns, flags, and other necessary instruments; wind vanes, barometers, anemometers, thermometers, and other meteorological instruments; photographic and cinematographic work performed far the Army by the Signal 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 supplies for their operation and maintenance; professional and scientific books of reference, pamphlets, periodicals, newspapers, and maps for use of the Signal Corps and in the office of the Chief Signal Officer; Telephones. telephone apparatus, including rental and payment for commercial, exchange, message, trunk-line, long-
