62 STAT.] 80TH CONG., 2D SESS.-CH. 632-JUNE 24, 1948 available for travel and transportation may be used for this purpose, the decision of the Secretary of the Army to be final as to the depend- ency of any individual sought to be affected by this provision except as to travel performed subsequent to arrival in the United States; Expenses of courts martial: For expenses of courts martial, courts of inquiry, military commissions, retiring boards, and compensation of reporters and witnesses attending same, contract stenographic reporting services, and expenses of taking depositions and securing other evidence for use before the same, $100,000; Apprehension of deserters: For the apprehension, securing, and delivering of soldiers absent without leave and of deserters, including escaped military prisoners, and the expenses incident to their pursuit; and no greater sum than $25 for each deserter or escaped military prisoner shall, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Army, be paid to any civil officer or citizen for such services and expenses; for expenses incident to confinement of military prisoners in nonmilitary facilities; for a donation of $10 to each civilian prisoner discharged from an Army prison and each soldier discharged otherwise than honorably upon his release from confinement under court-martial sentence involv- ing dishonorable discharge; and for a donation of not to exceed $10 to each person discharged for fraudulent enlistment as authorized by law, $200,000; Finance service: For compensation of clerks and other employees of the Finance Department, $28,500,000; Claims for damage to or loss or destruction of property, or personal injury, or death: For payment of claims under the Act approved July 3, 1943 (31 U. S . C . 223b), as amended, and under section 403 of the Federal Tort Claims Act (28 U. S . C. 921), not otherwise provided for, $3.500,000; Claims of military and civilian personnel of the Department of the Army for destruction of private property: For the payment of claims for private property lost, destroyed, captured, abandoned, or damaged in the military service of the United States, under the provisions of the Military Personnel Claims Act of 1945, $2,000,000; In all, Finance Service, Army, $2,493,642,000 to be accounted for as one fund. RETIRED PAY, ARMY Retired pay, Army: For pay, as authorized by law and not other- wise provided for, of military personnel, including nurses, on the retired list of the Army; $84,000,000. QUARTERMASTER CORPS QUARTERMASTER SERVICE, ARMY Welfare of enlisted men: For the equipment and conduct of school, reading, lunch, and amusement rooms, service clubs, chapels, gym- nasiuns, and libraries, including periodicals and other publications and subscriptions for newspapers, transportation of books and equip- ment for these services, rental of films, purchase of slides for and making repairs to moving-picture outfits, and for similar and other recreational purposes at training and mobilization camps now estab- lished or which may be hereafter established, including expenses for the entertainment and instruction of enlisted personnel, $8,250,000: Provided, That this appropriation shall be available for the instruc- tion of officers on the same basis as enlisted men: Provided further, That no appropriation contained in this Act shall be available for payment to or expenditure on account of any civilian personnel employed outside continental United States to paint or otherwise reproduce war scenes except by means of photography, or to paint 653 Dishonorable dis- charge. Discharge for fraud- ulent enlistment. 57 Stat. 372. 60 Stat. 843. Post, p. 1008. 59 Stat. 225. 31U.S. . §§222c, 222d, 223b. Recreational facili- ties, etc. Instruction of offi- cers. Painting, etc. , of war scenes or por- traits.
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