59 STAT.] 79TH CONG., IST SESS.- CH. 265-JULY 3, 1945 incident to confinement of military prisoners in nonmilitary facilities; for a donation of $10 to each prisoner discharged otherwise than honorably upon his release from confinement under court-martial sentence involving dishonorable discharge; and for a donation of not to exceed $10 to each person discharged for fraudulent enlistment as authorized by law; $174,000; Finance service: For compensation of clerks and other employees of the Finance Department, $41,300,000; Claims for damage to or loss or destruction of property, or per- sonal injury, or death: For payment of claims under the provisions of the Act approved July 3, 1943 (31 U. S . C . 223b), not otherwise provided for, $2,500,000; Claims of military and civilian personnel of the War Department for destruction of private property: For the payment of claims for private property lost, destroyed, captured, abandoned, or damaged in the military service of the United States, under the provisions of the Military Personnel Claims Act of 1945, $1,750,000; In all, Finance Service, Army, $6,853,139,000, to be accounted for as one fund. QUARTERMASTER COBP' QUARTERMASTER SERVICE, ARMY Welfare of enlisted men: For the equipment and conduct of school, reading, lunch, and amusement rooms, service clubs, chapels, gymna- siums, and libraries, including periodicals and other publications and subscriptions for newspapers, salaries of civilians employed in the hostess and library services, transportation of books and equipment for these services, rental of films, purchase of slides for and making repairs to moving-picture outfits, and for similar and other recreational purposes at training and mobilization camps now established or which may be hereafter established, including expenses for the entertainment and instruction of enlisted personnel, $53,000,000: Provided,That this appropriation shall be available for the instruction of officers on the same basis as enlisted men: Provided further, That no appropriation contained in this Act shall be available for payment to or expenditure on account of any civilian personnel employed outside continental United States to paint or otherwise reproduce war scenes except by means of photography, or to paint portraits, or for payment to or expenditure on account of any military personnel within continental United States who engage in decorative art projects or painting portraits to the exclusion of regular military duties; Subsistence of the Army: Purchase of subsistence supplies: For issue as rations to troops, including retired enlisted men when ordered to active duty, civil employees when entitled thereto, hospital matrons, applicants for enlistment while held under observation, general prison- ers of war, and general prisoners at posts; ice for issue to organiza- tions of enlisted men and for cooling drinking water at such places as the Secretary of War may determine, and for preservation of stores; for the subsistence of the masters, officers, crews, and employees of the vessels of the Army Transport Service; meals for recruiting parties and applicants for enlistment while under observation; for sales to officers, including members of the Officers' Reserve Corps while on active duty, and enlisted men of the Army. For payments: Of the regulation allowances of commutation in lieu of rations to enlisted men on furlough and to enlisted men when stationed at places where rations in kind cannot be economically issued, including retired enlisted men when ordered to active duty. For payment of the regu- lation allowance of commutation in lieu of rations for enlisted men, 389 Claims. 57 Stat. 372 . 31 U. S. C., Supp. IV, J§ 215-217 notes, 222a, 222b, 223b, 223c. Ante, p. 225. Ante, p. 225. Recreational facili- ties, etc. Instruction oofficers. Paint ing, etc.,of war scenes or portraits. Purchase of subsist- ence supplies. Army Transport Service. Sales to officers, etc. Payments.
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