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1.284 Equipage, toilet kits, et c. Issu e of citizen's outer clothing. Indemnity for de- stroyed clothing, etc. Sum for fue l imme- diately available. Incidental expenses. Civilian employees . All owa nces fo r li ving quarters, etc . Ante, p. 818. Recr uiting . Tests, etc . Inspection service . Proviso. Lim ita tion on em- ployment of average number of officers, etc. Transportation

of troops and supplies . Dependents of offi- cers, etc. Pro viso . Cost restriction . Boats, etc. SEVENTY-FIRST CONGRESS . SEss. III . Cia.279 . 1931 . and sorting storehouses, hat repairing shops, shoe repair shops, clothing repair shops, and garbage reduction works ; for equipage, including authorized issues of toilet articles, barbers' and tailors' materials, 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, and issue of housewives to the Army ; for expenses of packing and handling and similar necessaries ; for a suit of citizen's outer clothing and when necessary an overcoat, the cost of all not to exceed $30, to be issued to 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, $8 ,881,851 , of whic h amount not exc eeding $ 60,000 s hall be a vailable immediately for the procurement and transportation of fuel for the service of the fiscal year 1932 . Incidental expenses of the Army : Postage ; hire of laborers in the Q uarte rmast er C orps, incl udin g the care of offic ers' moun ts wh en the same are furnished by the Government ; compensation of clerks and other employees of the Quartermaster Corps, including not to exceed $15,750 for allowances for living quarters, including heat, fuel, and light, as authorized by the Act approved June 26, 1930 (46 Stat., p. 818), and clerks, foremen, watchmen, and organist for the United States Disciplinary Barracks, and incidental expenses of recruiting ; for the operation of coffee-roasting plants ; for payment of entrance fees for Army rifle and pistol teams participating in competitions ; for tests and experimental and development work and scientific research to be performed by the Bureau of Standards for the Quartermaster Corps ; for inspection service and instruction fur- ni shed by t he De partm ent of Ag ricul ture whic h may be trans ferre d 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 depart- m ent s, $3 ,8 43, 762 : Provided, That no appropriation c ontained in this Act shall be available for any expense incident to the employ- ment of an average number of officers, enlisted men, or civilian employ ees greater than the largest n umber employed during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1929, in connection with work incident to the assurance of adequate provision for the mobilization of materiel and industrial organizations essential to war-time needs . Army transportation : For transportation of the 'Army and its supplies, including retired enlisted men when ordered to active duty ; of authorized baggage, including that of retired officers, warrant officers, and enlisted men when ordered to active duty and upon relief therefrom, and including packing and crating ; of recruits and recruit- ing parties ; of applicants for enlistment between recruiting stations and recruiting depots ; of necessary agents and other employees, including their traveling expenses ; of dependents of officers and enlisted men as provided by law ; of discharged prisoners, and persons di schar ged from Saint Eli zabet hs Ho spit al af ter t rans fer t heret o from the military service, to their homes (or elsewhere as they may elect) : Provided, That the cost in each case shall not be greater than to the place of last enlistment ; of horse equipment ; and of funds for the Army ; for the purchase or construction, not exceeding $100,000, alteration, operation, and repair of boats and other vessels

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wharfage, tolls, and ferriage ; for drayage and cartage ; for the