59 STAT.] 79TH CONG. , 1ST SESS.-CH. 265-JULY 3, 1945 CORPS OF ENGINEERS ENGINEER SERVICE, ARMY Engineer Service: For the design, development, procurement, manufacture, maintenance, alteration, repair, installation, storage, and issue of engineer equipment, instruments, appliances, supplies, materials, tools and machinery required in the equipment and training of troops and in military operations, including military surveys, and including the purchase, maintenance, repair, and operation of pas- senger-carrying vehicles; for the operation and maintenance of the Engineer School, including (a) compensation of civilian lecturers, and (b) purchase and binding of scientific and professional books, pamphlets, papers, and periodicals; for the procurement, preparation, and reproduction of maps and similar data for military purposes; for expenses incident to the Engineer Service in military and training operations, including military surveys, and including (a) research and development of improved methods in such operations, (b) the rental of storehouses and grounds, (c) repair and alteration of buildings, including heat, light, power, water, and communication service, not otherwise provided for, and (d) expenses of railroad construction, including purchase or lease of equipment and materials, and the acqui- sition of lands, rights-of-way thereon, and other interests therein and temporary use thereof; $2,332,304,000; Military posts: For construction and installation of buildings, utilities, flying fields, fortifications, and appurtenances thereto, or other facilities required for military use and for each and every object and expense connected therewith, including (a) housing, stor- age, interior facilities, fixed equipment, piers, roads, railroads, com- munications, water, sewerage, and electric systems, (b) expenses incident to the preparation of plans, the purchase and installation of equipment, (c) the employment of persons and the procurement of supplies, equipment, printing, binding, communication service newspapers, lawbooks, books of reference, periodicals, at the seat of government and elsewhere, (d) the purchase, maintenance, repair, and operation of passenger-carrying vehicles, (e) the acquisition of land, rights pertaining thereto, leasehold, and other interests therein and temporary use thereof, and the land and interests therein, including the temporary use thereof, may be acquired and construc- tion may be prosecuted thereon prior to the approval of the title by the Attorney General as required by section 355, Revised Statutes, as amended, and without regard to sections 1136, 3648, and 3734, Revised Statutes, as amended, (f) the settlement of claims resulting from the use and occupancy of real estate under the provisions of the Act approved July 3, 1943 (31 U. S. C . 223b), (g) the payment of deficiency judgments and interests thereon arising out of con- demnation proceedings heretofore instituted pursuant to specific Acts authorizing particular projects, notwithstanding limitations of amounts contained in such Acts, and (h) the salvage and conversion of military facilities, $158,497,630: Provided, That no appropriation contained in this Act shall be available for the acquisition of land without the specific approval of the Secretary of War, and then only when it would be more economical to purchase than lease, if leasing be possible, in cases where doubt prevails as to the land desired being permanently needed for military purposes; 395 Equipment, instr- ments, etc. Engineer School. Map, etc. Military and train- ing operations. Acquisition of land. 40 U.. C. . .68. 10U.S. o. 1339;31 U.S.C. . 529;40U. 8.0 . if 269, 267 . 57 Stat. 372 . 31 U. S. C., Supp. IV, i§ 215-217 notes, 222a, 222b, 223b , 223c, Ante, p. 226.
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