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-
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