Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 45 Part 1.djvu/398

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SEVENTIETH CONGRESS . SESS. I. CH. 232 . 1928 . MILITIA BU REAU NATIONAL GUARD ARMING, EQUIPPING, AND TRAINING THE NATIONAL GUARD For procurement of forage, bedding, and so forth, for animals used by the N ationa l Guar d, $1, 404,72 0 . For compensation of help for care of materials, animals, and equipm ent, $ 2,328, 553 . For expenses, camps of instruction, field and supplemental training, $9,603,5 32 . For expenses, selected officers and enlisted men, military service schools, $375,000 . For pay of property and disbursing officers for the United States, $79,500 . Fo r gene ral ex penses , equi pment, and i nstruct ion, N ationa l Guar d, $773,6 74 . For travel of officers and noncommissioned officers of the Regular Army in connection with the National Guard, $340,000 : Provided, That not to exceed $2,000 of this sum shall be expended for travel of officers of the IV, ar Department General Staff in connection with the National Guard . For transportation of equipment and supplies, $250,000 . For expenses of enlisted men of the Regular Army on duty with the National Guard, including the hiring of quarters in kind, $488,7 80 . For pay of National Guard (armory drills), $10,700,000 . When approved by the Secretary of War 10 per centum of each of the foregoing amounts under the appropriation for "Arming, equi ppi ng, and trai ning the Na tion al G uard " shall be available interchangeably for expenditure on the objects named, but no one item shall be increased by more than 10 per centum : Provided, That a report of amounts so transferred between appropriations shall be submitted to the Congress at the first regular session after the close of the fiscal year 1929 . ARMS, UNIFORMS, EQUIPMENT, AND SO FORTH, FOR FIELD SERVICE, NATIONAL GUARD To procure by purchase or manufacture and issue from time to time to the National Guard, upon requisition of the governors of the several States and Territories, or the commanding general, National Guard of the District of Columbia, such military equipment and stores of all kinds and a reserve supply thereof, including horses conforming to the Regular Army standards for use of the Cavalry, Field Artillery, and mounted organizations of the National Guard, as are necessary to arm, uniform, and equip for field service the National Guard of the several States, Territories, and the District of Columbia, and to repair such of the aforementioned articles of equipage and military stores as are or may become damaged when, under regulations prescribed by the Secretary of War, such repair may be determined to be an economical measure and as necessary for their proper preservation and use, $5,263,150, of which not less than $734,288 shall be available only for the production and purchase of new airplanes and their equipment, spare parts, and accessories Provided, That the Secretary of War is hereby directed to issue from surplus or reserve stores and material on hand and purchased for the United States Army such articles of clothing and equipment and Field Artillery, Engineer, and Signal material and ammunition 54835•-29-pT 1

26 347 Militia Bureau. National Guard . Arming , etc . Forage, etc. Care of animals . Field training, etc, Service schools in- struction . Property, etc., offi- cers . Equi pme nt and in- struction expenses . Travel, Army offi- cers. Proviso . War Department General Staff . Transporting su p- plies . Army enlisted men . Pay, armory drills . Interchangeable ap- propriations. Proviso . Report thereof to Congress. Field service . Procuring arms, etc ., for issue . Requisitions from governors . New airplanes, etc . Proviso. Clothing, equipment, etc., from Army sur- plus stores .