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Mr. Knabushue


(This is the law concerning the approval of the expenditure of two million dollars for rotary wing type aircraft).

AN ACT

To authorize the appropriation of funds for the development of rotary-wing and other aircraft. 

BE IT ENACTED BY THE SENATE AND HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA IN CONGRESS ASSEMBLED, That in the interest of adequate national defense and the further interest of the needs of other governmental activities and of American commercial and civil aeronautics for rotary-wing and other aircraft development there is hereby authorized to be appropriated, out of any funds in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of $2,000,000 to remain available until expended for the purpose of rotary-wing and other aircraft research, development, procurement, experimentation, and operation for service testing. 

The Secretary of War is authorized and directed to proceed immediately with said research, development, procurement, experimentation, and operation for service testing and further to allot such sums from this fund to other Federal departments or agencies as be, in his judgement and discretion and within the limits herein prescribed, may deem advisable for the furtherance of these purposes. 

The following agencies of the Federal Government are hereby authorized and directed to submit to the Secretary of War plans for research, development, procurement, experimentation, and operation for service testing of rotary-wing and other aircraft. Upon presentation of plans, together with estimates of requirements, the Secretary of War will approve, apportion, and allot the necessary funds which in his discretion may appear proper for each respectively. 

The agencies referred to are: 

(a) In the United Sates Army, the Office of the Chief of Cavalry, the Office of the Chief of Field Artillery, the Office of the Chief of Coast Artillery, the Office of the Chief of Infantry, the Office of the Chief Signal Officer, the Office of the Chief of Air Corps, the Office of the Chief of Medical Corps, the Office of the Quartermaster General, and the National Guard Bureau.

(b) In the Department of Agriculture, the Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine, the Bureau of Biological Survey, and the Forest Service. 

(c) In the Department of the Interior, the National Park Service. 

(d)In the Treasury Department, the Coast Guard. 

(e) In the Department of Commerce, the Bureau of Air Commerce. 

(f) In the Department of the Navy, the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, the Bureau of Aeronautics, and the Office of the Chief of Marine Corps. 

(g) The National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics. 

(h) In the Post Office Department, the Postmaster General. 

Such of these agencies as are approved by the Secretary of War for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this Act and to whom the Secretary