994 PUBLIC LAWS-CH. 787-OCT. 29, 1949 [63 STAT. Charges against That during the current fiscal year the cost of transportation from point of origin to the first point of storage or consumption of supplies, equipment, and material in connection with the manufacturing and purchasing activities of the Quartermaster Corps may be charged to the appropriations from which such supplies, equipment, and material Transfer of vessels. are procured: Providedfurther, That vessels under the jurisdiction of the Maritime Commission, the Department of the Army, or the Depart- ment of the Navy may be transferred or otherwise made available without reimbursement to any of such agencies upon the request of the head of one agency and the approval of the agency having juris- diction of the vessels concerned. SIGNAL CORPS SIGNAL SERVICE OF THE AR]r Telegraph systems, 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 Vehicles performed for the Army by the Signal 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; maps for use of the Signal Corps and in the office of Telephone appar- 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, can- tonment, depot, arsenal, headquarters, hospitar, aviation station, or other office or station of the Army, excepting telephone service for the various bureaus in the District of Columbia; electric time service; Telegraph nes. the rental of commercial telegraph lines and equipment, and their operation at or connecting any post, camp, cantonment, depot, arsenal, headquarters, hospital, aviation station, or other office or station of the Army, including payment for official individual telegraph mes- Electrical installa- sages transmitted over commercial lines; electrical instaltations and maintenance thereof at military posts, cantonments, camps, and sta- tions of the Army, fire control and direction apparatus, and materiel e is. of civilian for Field Artillery; salaries of civilian employees, including those necessary as instructors at vocational schools; supplies, general repairs, reserve supplies, and other expenses connected with the collection and transmitting of information for the Army by telegraph or otherwise; txperimentalinves experimental investigation, research, purchase, and development, or tgaton e. improvements in apparatus, and maintenance of signaling and acces- sories thereto, including machines, instruments, and other equipment for laboratory and repair purposes; lease, alteration, and repair of such buildings required for storing or guarding Signal Corps supplies, equipment, and personnel when not otherwise provided for, including the introduction of water, electric light and power, sewerage, grading, Aircraft warning roads and walks, and other equipment requiredi for all expenses, not otherwise provided for, incident to the preparation of plans, and con- struction, purchase, installation, equipment, maintenance, repair, and operation of aircraft warning service systems, and their accessories, including purchase of lands and rights-of-way, acquisition of lease- holds and other interests therein, and temporary use thereof; Liquidation of obli $200,000,000, of which $50,000,000 is for liquidation of obligations incurred pursuant to authority granted under this head in the Military Stat.s Functions Appropriations Act, 1949: Provided, That the sum of
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