57 STAT.] 78TH CONG., 1ST SESS.-CH. 185 -JULY 1, 1943 tion of remains, and acquisition by lease or otherwise of temporary burial sites, $262,965,473; Army transportation: For transportation of Army supplies, includ- Army transporta- ing packing, crating, and unpacking; of horse equipment; and of tion. funds for the Army; for transportation on Army vessels, notwith- Privatelyowneda- standing the provisions of other law, of privately owned automobiles of Army personnel upon change of station; for maintenance and operation of transportation facilities and installations; for conduct- ing instruction in Army transportation activities; for railroad opera- tion, including purchase, lease, maintenance, and repair of equipment, materials, railroad motive power and rolling stock; for the purchase Prchase, em eet c ., or construction, alteration, operation, and repair, and for the lease . or procurement from the Maritime Commission or the War Shipping Administration or others, of boats and other vessels; research and development; for wharfage, tolls, and ferriage; for drayage and cartage; for the purchase, manufacture (including both material and labor), maintenance, hire, and repair of pack saddles and harness; for the purchase, exchange, hire, operation, maintenance, and repair Vehicte. of wagons, carts, drays, other vehicles, and horse-drawn and motor- propelled passenger-carrying vehicles; for hire of draft and pack animals, $1,552,583,000: Provided,That during the fiscal year 1944 the Charges against cost of transportation from point of origin to the first point of storage other approtions. or consumption of supplies, equipment, and material in connection with the manufacturing and purchasing activities of the Quarter- master Corps may be charged to the appropriations from which such supplies, equipment, and material are procured; Horses, draft and pack animals: For the purchase of draft and porses, draft and pack animals and horses within limits as to age, sex, and size to be ani prescribed by the Secretary of War for remounts for officers entitled to public mounts, for the United States Military Academy, and for such organizations and members of the military service as may be required to be mounted, and for all expenses incident to such pur- chases (including expenses for encouragement of the breeding of Boeed i gofddg riding horses suitable for the Army, in cooperation with the Bureau of Animal Industry, Department of Agriculture, including the pur- chase of animals for breeding purposes and their maintenance), $3,786,000; In all, supplies and transportation, $6,411,549,008, to be accounted for as one fund. SIGNAL CORPS SIONAL SRVICE OF THE ARMU Purchase, equipment, operation, and repair of military telegraph, telephone radio, cable, and signaling systems; signal equipment and stores, heliographs, signal lanterns, flags, and other necessary instru- ments; wind vanes, barometers, anemometers, thermometers, and other meteorological instruments; photographic and cinematographic work performed for tthe Army by the Sigal Corps; motorcycles, motor- driven and other vehicles for technical and official purposes in con- nection with the construction, operation, and maintenance of com- munication or signaling systems, and supplies for their operation and maintenance; professional and scientific books of reference, pamphlets, periodicals, newspapers, and maps for use of the Signal Corps and in the office of the Chief Signal Officer; telephone apparatus, including rental and payment for commercial, exchange, message, trunk-line, long-distance, and leased-line telephone service at or connecting any post, camp, cantonment, depot, arsenal, headquarters, hospital, avia- tion station, or other office or station of the Army, exepting the local Telegraph, etc., syg- tems. Vehicles. Telephoa apps- tus. 355
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