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V__Act of Congress-Amendment of the Military Academy appropriation act approved March 30, 1920.-The following act of Congress is published to the Army for the information and guidance of all concerned:

An Act To amend the Act entitled "An Act making appropriations for the support of the Military Academy for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1921, and for other purposes," approved March 30, 1920.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the second proviso of the first paragraph under the head “Miscellaneous" of the Act entitled "An Act making appropriations for the support of the Military Academy for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1921, and for other purposes," approved March 30, 1920 (Forty-first Statutes at Large, page 548), is amended to read as follows:

"Provided further, That any cadet now at the academy may, at his option exercised prior to June 11, 1920, continue at the academy one additional year and postpone thereby his prospective graduation. Any cadet not electing so to prolong his course shall be graduated in the year assigned his class prior to the passage of this Act, except that any such cadet may subsequently, at any time not less than three months prior to his prospective graduation in such year, choose to reexercise such option for the purpose of so prolonging his course." Approved, February 25, 1922.

[A. G. 351.1, West Point, N. Y. (3-31-22.)]

VI__Act of Congress-Amendment of section 90, national defense act. The following act of Congress is published to the Army for the information and guidance of all concerned:

An Act To amend an Act entitled "An Act to amend an Act entitled 'An Act for making further and more effectual provision for the national defense, and for other purposes,' approved June 3, 1916, and to establish military justice," approved June 4, 1920.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 90 of the Act entitled "An Act to amend an Act entitled 'An Act for making further and more effectual provision for the national defense, and for other purposes,' approved June 3, 1916, and to establish military justice," approved June 4, 1920, be amended so as to read as follows:

"SEC. 90. That funds allotted by the Secretary of War for the support of the National Guard shall be available for the purchase and issue of forage, bedding, shoeing, and veterinary services, and supplies for the Government animals issued to any organization, and for the compensation of competent, help for the care of material, animals, and equipment issued mounted and other organizations, including motor drawn and air serv

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ice, under such regulations as the Secretary of War may prescribe: Provided, That the men to be compensated, not to exceed five for each organization, shall be duly enlisted therein and shall be detailed by the organization commander, under such regulations as the Secretary of War may prescribe, and shall be paid by the United States disbursing officer in each State, Territory, and the District of Columbia."

Approved, March 1, 1922.

[A. G. 011.2 (3-14-22).]

VII__Act of Congress-Clothing, and camp and garrison equipage-Amendment to Army appropriation act approved June 30, 1921. The following act of Congress is published to the Army for the information and guidance of all concerned:

An Act To amend an Act entitled "An Act making appropriations for the support of the Army for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1922, and for other purposes," approved June 30, 1921.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Act entitled "An Act making appropriations for the support of the Army for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1922, and for other purposes," approved June 30, 1921, be, and is hereby, amended to read as follows:

That the first paragraph under the heading "Clothing, camp, and garrison equipage," on page 15 of the law, be amended to read as follows:

"For cloth, woolens, materials, and for the purchase and manufacture of clothing for the Army, including enlisted men of the Enlisted Reserve Corps and retired enlisted men when ordered to active duty; for issue and for sale at average current prices to be determined and fixed by the Secretary of War; for payment of commutation of clothing due to warrant officers of the Mine Planters Service and to enlisted men; for altering and fitting clothing and washing and cleaning when necessary; for operation of laundries; for equipment and repair of equipment of dry-cleaning plants, salvage, 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, to cost not exceeding $30, to be issued when necessary 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 98610°-22--2

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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, $12,000,000: Provided, That hereafter the settlement of clothing accounts of enlisted men, including charges for clothing drawn in excess of clothing allowance and payments of amounts due them when they draw less than their allowance, shall be made at such periods and under such regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary of War."

Approved, March 8, 1922.

[A. G. 246.5 (3-31-22).]

VIII__Act of Congress-Acquisition of real estate-Amendment to Army appropriation act approved July 11, 1919.-The following act of Congress is published to the Army for the information and guidance of all concerned:

An Act To amend the Army Appropriation Act, approved July 11, 1919, so as to release appropriations for the completion of the acquisition of real estate in certain cases and making additional appropriations therefor.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the provisions of the Army Appropriation Act, approved July 11, 1919, making unavailable, with certain exceptions, appropriations for the support of the Army or the Military Establishment for the purchase of real estate, as amended by the Act approved February 28, 1920 (Public Numbered 151, Sixty-sixth Congress), be, and the same are hereby, further amended so as to authorize completion of the acquisition of the real estate hereinafter specified in respect whereof requisition notices had been served or given before July 11, 1919, under section 10 of the Act approved August 10, 1917 (Fortieth Statutes at Large, page 276), or in respect whereof agreements had been made for purchase thereof, or proceedings begun for condemnation thereof. AH unexpended balances of any appropriations heretofore made for any of such purposes are hereby directed to be covered into the Treasury. For the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this section the following amounts are hereby authorized to be appropriated, to wit: For Army supply base, New Orleans, Louisiana, $282,000; for Army supply base, Brooklyn, New York, $1,590,675.52; for Army supply base, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, $766,937; for Army supply base, Charleston, South Carolina, $159,020; for Army supply base, Norfolk, Virginia, $190,000; for Army reserve depot, New Cumberland, Pennsylvania, $92,500; for Army reserve depot, Schenectady, New York, $3,000; for quartermaster depot, Jeffersonville, Indiana, $225,000; for quartermaster warehouse, Baltimore, Maryland, $100,000; for quartermaster warehouse, Newport News, Virginia, $223,670; for Artillery range, Tobyhana, Pennsylvania, $7,533.67; General Hospital Numbered 19, Azalea, North Carolina, $58,000; for site for septic tank,

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Southern Field, Americus, Georgia, $750; for ordnance depot, Savanna, Illinois, $500; for ordnance depot, Pedricktown, New Jersey, $215,652.90; for sewer right of way for housing project, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, $275; for ordnance storage depot, Middletown, Pennsylvania, $50,000; for Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland, $174,591.63.

SEC. 2. That the Secretary of War is empowered to carry out agreements for the purchase of said real estate, with power to make, if necessary, new agreements for the purpose and to take such other steps as are or hereafter shall appear to be necessary: Provided, however, That the Secretary of War may in his discretion at any time before final payment for the property and before payment of 75 per centum of the award therefor, as hereinafter authorized, discontinue any steps taken to acquire any such real estate and execute the necessary quitclaim deed to quiet the title thereto of the private owners; and he is hereby authorized and directed to dismiss all actions pending in court for the condemnation of the following-described tracts of real estate: The west half of the northwest quarter of section thirteen, township forty-three north, range one east of the third principal meridian; also the southwest quarter of the southwest quarter of section twelve in the same township and range; also the east half of the northeast quarter of section fourteen, in the township and range aforesaid, excepting therefrom the rights of way of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy and the Chicago, Memphis and Gulf Railroads, the total number of acres to be included within this description being one hundred and ninety-three and nine one-hundreths acres, situated in the county of Winnebago and State of Illinois. The south two hundred and fifty-three and forty-four one-hundredths feet of the southwest quarter lying east of the east bank of the Rock River of section two, township forty-three north, range one east of the third principal meridian; also the northwest quarter lying east of the east bank of the Rock River of section eleven, township forty-three north, range one east of the third principal meridian; also the south half of the northeast quarter (except railroad rights of way) of section eleven, township forty-three north, range one east of the third principal meridian, but including the right or possibility of reverter of the part or portion of said premises conveyed to the Rockford and Interurban Railway Company by deed dated August 20, 1917, and recorded on September 5, 1917, in book of deeds two hundred and fifty-six, on page 491, in the office of the recorder of Winnebago County, Illinois, in the event the premises so conveyed shall cease to be used for railway purposes; also the north fourteen acres of the southwest quarter lying east of the east bank of the Rock River of section eleven, township forty-three north, range one east of the third principal meridian; all in Winnebago County, Illinois, and containing in all two hundred and twenty-nine and fifty-five one-hundredths acres, more

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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, $12,000,000: Provided, That hereafter the settlement of clothing accounts of enlisted men, including charges for clothing drawn in excess of clothing allowance and payments of amounts due them when they draw less than their allowance, shall be made at such periods and under such regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary of War."

Approved, March 8, 1922.

[A. G. 246.5 (3-31-22).]

VIII__Act of Congress-Acquisition of real estate-Amendment to Army appropriation act approved July 11, 1919.-The following act of Congress is published to the Army for the information and guidance of all concerned:

An Act To amend the Army Appropriation Act, approved July 11, 1919, so as to release appropriations for the completion of the acquisition of real estate in certain cases and making additional appropriations therefor.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the provisions of the Army Appropriation Act, approved July 11, 1919, making unavailable, with certain exceptions, appropriations for the support of the Army or the Military Establishment for the purchase of real estate, as amended by the Act approved February 28, 1920 (Public Numbered 151, Sixty-sixth Congress), be, and the same are hereby, further amended so as to authorize completion of the acquisition of the real estate hereinafter specified in respect whereof requisition notices had been served or given before July 11, 1919, under section 10 of the Act approved August 10, 1917 (Fortieth Statutes at Large, page 276), or in respect whereof agreements had been made for purchase thereof, or proceedings begun for condemnation thereof. AH unexpended balances of any appropriations heretofore made for any of such purposes are hereby directed to be covered into the Treasury. For the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this section the following amounts are hereby authorized to be appropriated, to wit: For Army supply base, New Orleans, Louisiana, $282,000; for Army supply base, Brooklyn, New York, $1,590,675.52; for Army supply base, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, $766,937; for Army supply base, Charleston, South Carolina, $159,020; for Army supply base, Norfolk, Virginia, $190,000; for Army reserve depot, New Cumberland, Pennsylvania, $92,500; for Army reserve depot, Schenectady, New York, $3,000; for quartermaster depot, Jeffersonville, Indiana, $225,000; for quartermaster warehouse, Baltimore, Maryland, $100,000; for quartermaster warehouse, Newport News, Virginia, $223.670; for Artillery range, Tobyhana, Pennsylvania, $7,533.67; General Hospital Numbered 19, Azalea, North Carolina, $58,000; for site for septic tank,