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62 STAT.] 80TH CONG. , 2D SESS.-CH. 632-JUNE 24, 1948 ized by the Secretary of the Army, the cost of irrigation; $100,000,000; Clothing and equipage: For cloth, woolens, materials, and for the 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, including laundry work for enlisted men while patients in a hospital; for operation of laundries, existing or now under construction, including purchase 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 storehouses, hat- repairing shops, shoe-repair shops, clothing-repair shops, and gar- bage-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 enlistment 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 w en necessary an overcoat, the cost of all not to exceed $30, to be issued each person discharged from an Army prison, 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 interned 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; $210,000,000, and in addition to this appropriation the Secretary of the Army may, prior to July 1, 1949, enter into contracts in an amount not in excess of $25,000,000; 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, and clerks, foremen, watchmen, and organist for the United States Disciplinary Barracks; incidental expenses of recruiting; for activities of chaplains (exclud- ing ritual garments and personal services); for the operation of coffee-roasting plants; for maintenance of Quartermaster branch depots, including utilities; for tests and experimental and develop- ment work and scientific research, not otherwise provided for, includ- ing that to be performed by the Bureau of Standards for the Quarter- master Corps; for inspection service and instruction furnished by the Department 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 sup- plies, services, and other expenses essential in conducting instruction of the Army in tactical or special activities and in the operation of Arm and Service Boards not otherwise provided for; for burial of the dead as authorized by Acts of May 17, 1938 (10 U. S . C . 916-916d), and July 8, 1940 (5 U. S . C . 103a), including remains of personnel of the Army of the United States who die while on active duty, including travel allowances of attendants accompanying remains, communica- tion service, transportation of remains, and acquisition by lease or otherwise of temporary burial sites; $113,000,000; 655 Recruiting. Tests, research, etc. Burial expenses. 52 Stat. 398. 54 Stat. 743.