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SEVENTY-FIRST C ONGRESS . SESS. III . CH. 279. 1931 .

1293 Ordnance Department, comprising police and office duties, rents, tolls, fuel, light, water, advertising, stationery, typewriting, and computing machines, including their exchange, and furniture, tools, and instruments of service ; to provide for training and other inci- dental expenses of the ordnance service ; for instruction purposes, other than tuition ; for maintenance, repair, and operation of motor- propelled and horse-drawn freight and passenger-carrying vehicles ; for ammunition for military salutes at G overnment esta blishments, tarymaal l tion formil l- and institutions to which the issues of arms for salutes are author- ized ; for services, material, tools, and appliances for operation of the testing machines and chemical laboratory in connection there- wi th ; for publications for libraries of the Ordna nce Departmen t, including the Ordnance Office, including subscriptions to periodi- cals ; for ser vices of not snore than fou r consulting engineers as the Secretary of War may deem necessary, at rates of pay to be fixed by him not to exceed $50 per day for not exceeding fifty days Proviso. each and necessary traveling expenses, $9,247,584 : Provided, That Pa rt of former appro- ~~

priation available until $250 ,000 of the appropriation Ordnance Service and Supplies, June 30, 1932 . Army, 1930," shall remain available for obligation until June 30, Vol. 45, p. 1364. 1932 .


Rock Island, Ill. ROCK ISLAND BRIDGE. ROC K ISLAND, ILLIN OIS For operating, repair, and preservation of Rock Island bridges et Operating bridges, and viaduct, and maintenance and repair of the arsenal street con- necting the bridges, $35,000. REPAIRS OF ARSENALS For repairs and improvements of ordnance establishments, and to meet such unforeseen expenditures as accidents or other contin- gencies may re quire, $1,012,281, of which amount there shall be available immediately not to exceed $105,000 for the replacement and im provem ent of stea m powe r plan t equi pment at Sp ringfi eld Armory, Spring field, Massac husetts, and not to exceed $65,000 for the im provem ent of the water distri buting syst em at Watert own Arsenal, Watertown, Massachusetts . GAUGES, DIES, AND JIG S FOR MANUFACTURE CHE MICA L W ARFA RE SERV ICE Consulting engineers . Arsenals . Repairs , etc. Springfield, Mass . Watertown, Mass . Gauges, dies, and jigs . Procuring, for arma- For the development and procurement of gauges, dies, jigs, and went manufacture . other special aids and appliances, including specifications and detailed drawings, to carry out the purpose of section 123 of the National Defense Act, approved June 3, 1916 (U. S . C ., title 50, se c . 78), $75,00 0. Vol 39, p.215. U.S. C.,p. 1694. Chemical Warfare Service . For purchase, manufacture, and test of chemical warfare gases to P re, t .,ofgases nufac- or other toxic substances, gas masks, or other offensive or defensive materials or appliances required for gas-warfare purposes, including all necessary investigations, research, design, experimentation, and operation connected therewith ; purchase of chemicals, special scien- tific and technical apparatus and instruments ; con stru ctio n, m ain- Plants, buildings, tenance, and repair of plants, buildings, and equipment, and the machinery, etc . mac hin ery th ere for ; recei ving, s toring, and i ssuing of supp lies, com- prising police and of fice d uties, rents, tolls, fuels, gasoli ne, lu bri- cants, paints and oils, rope and cordage, light, water, advertising, stationery, typewriting and adding machines, including their exchange, office furniture, tools, and instruments ; for incidental expenses ; for civilian employees ; for libraries of the Chemical War-