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580 PUBLIC LAWS-CH. 303 -JUNE 28, 1944 [58 STAT. equipment for troops and general service schools; for operation of field printing plants under the jurisdiction of the Quartermaster Corps and contract printing and binding; for subsistence and care of riding and draft animals, for remounts, and for the authorized num- ber of officers' mounts; for straw for soldiers' bedding; for expenses incident to raising and harvesting forage on military reservations, including, when specifically authorized by the Secretary of War, the cost of irrigation; $679,000,000; Olothig and equi- Clothing and equipage: For cloth, woolens, materials, and for the Pa ' purchase and manufacture of clothing for the Army, including retired enlisted men when ordered to active duty, for issue and for sale; for payment of commutation of clothing due to warrant officers of the mine-planter service and to enlisted men; for altering and fitting clothing and washing and cleaning when necessary; for opera- tion of laundries, existing or now under construction, including pur- chase and repair of laundry machinery therefor; for the authorized issues of laundry materials for use of general prisoners confined at military posts without pay or allowances, and for applicants for enlistment while held under observation; for equipment and repair of equipment of existing dry-cleaning plants, salvage and sorting store- houses, hat-repairing shops, shoe-repair shops, clothing-repair shops, and garbage-reduction works; for equipage, including animal-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles, authorized issues of toilet articles, bar- bers' and tailors' material, for use of general prisoners confined at military posts without pay or allowances and applicants for enlist- ment while held under observation; issue of toilet kits to recruits upon their first enlistment; for expenses of packing and handling and similar necessaries; for a suit of citizens' outer clothing and when necessary an overcoat, the cost of all not to exceed $30, to be issued each soldier discharged otherwise than honorably, to each enlisted man convicted by civil court for an offense resulting in confinement in a penitentiary or other civil prison, and to each enlisted man ordered intrned by reason of the fact that he is an alien enemy, or, for the same reason, discharged without internment; for indemnity to officers and men of the Army for clothing and bedding, and so forth, destroyed since April 22, 1898, by order of medical officers of the Army for sanitary reasons; $1,089,600,000. IndetS, expe Incidental expenses of the Army: Postage; hire of laborers in the Quartermaster Corps, including the care of officers' mounts when the same are furnished by the Government: compensation of clerks and other employees of the Quartermaster Corps, including not to exceed $900 for any one person for allowances for living quarters, including 46 Stat. 81. heat, fuel, and light, as authorized by the Act of June 26, 1930 (5 1. S. . 118a), and clerks, foremen, watchmen, and organist for the ecrmit4in. United States Disciplinary Barracks; incidental expenses of recruit- ing; for activities of chaplains (excluding ritual garments and per- sonal services); for the operation of coffee-roasting plants; for Tests, research, etc. maintenance of Quartermaster branch depots, including utilities; for tests and experimental and development work and scientific research to be performed by the Bureau of Standards for the Quartermaster Corps; for inspection service and instruction furnished by the Depart- ment of Agriculture which may be transferred in advance; for such additional expenditures as are necessary and authorized by law in the movements and operation of the Army and at military posts, and not expressly assigned to any other departments; for supplies, services, and other expenses essential in conducting instruction of the Army in tactical or special activities and in the operation of Arm or Service Buralpen. Boards not otherwise provided for; for burial of the dead as authorized 2SMtat.M.. by Acts of May 17, 1938 (10 U. S . C . 916-916d), and July 8, 1940