Volume 50 · 858
Public Law 75–834
To authorize appropriations for construction and rehabilitation at military posts, and for other purposes.
Approved August 26, 1937
Statutory text
AN ACT
To authorize appropriations for construction and rehabilitation at military posts, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That there is
Military posts.
Construction, rehabilitation, etc.
hereby authorized to be appropriated not to exceed $25,587,456, to be expended for the construction, rehabilitation, and installation at military posts of such buildings and utilities and appurtenances thereto as may be necessary, as follows:
| Station | Description of construction | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| Army and Navy General | Quarters | $34, 000 |
| Hospital, Hot Springs, | Telephone | 1, 000 |
| Ark. | ||
| Total | 35, 000 | |
| Air Corps Technical | Barracks | 935, 000 |
| School, Denver, Colo. | Hospital headquarters and administration | 200, 000 |
| building. | ||
| School building | 540, 000 | |
| Runways | 300, 000 | |
| Grading and improving landing field | 300, 000 | |
| Total | 2, 275, 000 | |
| Fort Benning, Ga | Water system, improvements to pumping | 85, 000 |
| and filtration plants; reservoir | 2, 000 | |
| storage. | ||
| Total | 87, 000 | |
| Fort Benning, Ga | Water system, improvements to pumping | 180, 000 |
| and filtration plants; reservoir | ||
| storage. |
| Station | Description of construction | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| Fort Bliss, Tex | Barracks | $275, 000 |
| Quarters (warrant officers and noncommissioned | 170, 000 | |
| officers, 20). | ||
| Radio station, including towers (Biggs | 17, 000 | |
| Field). | ||
| Telephone construction | 1, 000 | |
| Total | 463, 000 | |
| Fort Bragg, N. C | Barracks | 412, 500 |
| Telephone construction | 1, 000 | |
| Total | 413, 500 | |
| Carlisle Barracks, Pa | Quarters | 238, 000 |
| Telephone construction | 3, 000 | |
| Quarters | 348, 000 | |
| Sterilizing plant, etc | 35, 000 | |
| Barracks (125 men) | 137, 500 | |
| Total | 761, 000 | |
| Chanute Field, III | Barracks, including mess facilities | 1, 035, 000 |
| Quarters, noncommissioned officers | 505, 000 | |
| Hospital | 300, 000 | |
| Central heating plant, beginning | 500, 000 | |
| School building | 540, 000 | |
| Total | 2, 880, 000 | |
| Fort Crook, Nebr | Barracks (addition to) | 55, 000 |
| Barracks | 137, 500 | |
| Telephone construction | 500 | |
| Total | 193, 000 | |
| Fort Devens, Mass | Quarters, officers | 107, 400 |
| Quarters, noncommissioned officers | 42, 500 | |
| Telephone, telegraph, and radio station | 45, 000 | |
| Telephone construction | 6, 000 | |
| Total | 200, 900 | |
| Fort Douglas, Utah | Medical detachment barracks | 42, 000 |
| Fort DuPont, Del | Barracks | 412, 500 |
| Telephone construction | 1, 000 | |
| Total | 413, 500 | |
| Fort Ethan Allen, Vt | Quarters (30 noncommissioned officers) | 255, 000 |
| Telephone | 2, 500 | |
| Total | 257, 500 |
| Station | Description of construction | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| Fitzsimons General Hospital, | Hospital | $1, 750, 000 |
| Colo. | Telephone construction | 20, 000 |
| Total | 1, 770, 000 | |
| Frankford Arsenal, Philadelphia, | Office building | 225, 000 |
| Pa. | Extension building no. 127 acoustic | 23, 000 |
| laboratory. | ||
| Extension of annealing room building | 7, 000 | |
| no. 215. | ||
| Total | 255, 000 | |
| Fort Sam Houston, Tex | Hospital (addition) | 235, 000 |
| Basement in transmitter building | 4, 000 | |
| Barracks | 550, 000 | |
| Telephone construction | 4, 000 | |
| Total | 793, 000 | |
| Fort Huachuca, Ariz | Hospital (50 beds, 32 Medical Detachment). | 225, 000 |
| Barracks (250 men) | 275, 000 | |
| Telephone construction | 500 | |
| Total | 500, 500 | |
| Fort Humphreys, D. C | Reproduction plant | 74, 880 |
| Telephone construction | 3, 500 | |
| Total | 78, 380 | |
| Jefferson Barracks, Mo | Barracks (medical and other detachment) | 82,500 |
| Mess and kitchen addition to barracks | 60, 000 | |
| Nurses quarters | 63, 000 | |
| Total | 205, 500 | |
| Fort Knox, Ky | Hospital | 200, 000 |
| Barracks | 550, 000 | |
| Quarters | 277, 200 | |
| Telephone construction | 10, 000 | |
| Total | 1, 037, 200 | |
| Fort Leavenworth, Kans | Auditorium and production plant | 600, 000 |
| Madison Barracks, N. Y | Barracks | 137, 500 |
| Quarters, noncommissioned officers | 136,000 | |
| Telephone construction | 1, 000 | |
| Water supply | 85, 000 | |
| Total | 359, 500 |
| Station | Description of construction | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| Fort McArthur, Calif | Barracks and utilities | $137, 500 |
| Telephone construction | 1, 000 | |
| Total | 138, 500 | |
| Fort McPherson, Ga | Radio station | 23, 000 |
| Dental clinic | 85, 000 | |
| Total | 108, 000 | |
| Fort Monmouth, N. J | Barracks | 137, 500 |
| Signal Corps laboratory | 220, 000 | |
| Telephone construction | 20, 000 | |
| Total | 377, 500 | |
| Fort Monroe, Va | Barracks, quartermaster detachment | 110, 000 |
| Barracks (addition to) | 225, 000 | |
| Enlisted Specialists' School | 69, 500 | |
| Telephone construction | 12, 000 | |
| Total | 416, 500 | |
| Fort Myer, Va | Hospital addition | 9, 000 |
| Barracks Building No. 104 | 55, 000 | |
| Barracks (addition to) | 220, 000 | |
| Telephone construction | 500 | |
| Total | 284, 500 | |
| Presidio of San Francisco, | Barracks (250 men) | 275, 000 |
| Calif. | Barracks, Quartermaster and detachments | 275, 000 |
| Telephone construction | 5,000 | |
| Quarters (noncommissioned officers) | 38, 870 | |
| telephone construction and utilities. | ||
| Total | 593, 870 | |
| Fort Riley, Kans | Academic building | 400, 000 |
| Telephone construction | 5, 000 | |
| Total | 405, 000 | |
| Fort D. A. Russell, Tex | Motor shop, truck, and gun shed | 77, 818 |
| Fort Sill, Okla | Barracks | 330, 000 |
| Telephone construction | 1, 000 | |
| Total | 331, 000 | |
| Fort Thomas, Ky | Barracks | 412, 500 |
| Telephone construction | 2, 500 | |
| Total | 415, 000 | |
| Fort Francis E. Warren, | Barracks, medical detachment | 137, 500 |
| Wyo. | Gymnasium | 140, 000 |
| Total | 277, 500 |
| Station | Description of construction | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| Headquarters Provisional | Barracks | $1, 320, 000 |
| Brigade and Washington | Land, purchase of | 573, 188 |
| Quartermaster Depot, D. C. | ||
| Total | 1, 893, 188 | |
| Fort Washington, Md | Quarters (officers' double) | 30, 000 |
| Fort Wayne, Mich | Quarters (8 noncommissioned officers) | 68, 000 |
| Total for the United | 19, 217, 356 | |
| States. | ||
| HAWAII | ||
| Schofield Barracks | Barracks, Eleventh Field Artillery | 1, 256, 200 |
| Barracks, detachments | 498, 300 | |
| Telephone construction | 11, 000 | |
| Barracks, detachments | 283, 800 | |
| Total | 2, 049, 300 | |
| Fort Shafter | Barracks | 825, 000 |
| Telephone construction | 2, 500 | |
| Total | 827, 500 | |
| Department Headquarters, | Quarters | 246, 500 |
| Fort Shafter. | ||
| Tripler General Hospital | Barracks, medical detachment | 176, 000 |
| Telephone construction | 3, 000 | |
| Total | 179, 000 | |
| Total, Hawaii | 3, 302, 300 | |
| PANAMA | ||
| Fort Clayton | Barracks | 825, 000 |
| Telephone | 3, 000 | |
| Barracks | 687, 500 | |
| Telephone construction | 2, 000 | |
| Total | 1, 517, 500 | |
| Corozal General Depot | Barracks | 454, 300 |
| Telephone construction | 5, 000 | |
| Total | 459, 300 | |
| Fort Davis | Barracks | 550, 000 |
| Telephone construction | 3, 000 | |
| Total | 553, 000 |
| Station | Description of construction | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| Panama—continued | ||
| Fort de Lesseps | Barracks | $120, 000 |
| Fort Kobbe | Barracks | 55, 000 |
| Warehouse and shops | 20, 000 | |
| Special project | 7, 000 | |
| Water tank | 8, 000 | |
| Total | 90, 000 | |
| Panama Canal Zone | Rehabilitation | 328, 000 |
| Total Panama | 3, 067, 800 | |
| Grand total | 25, 587, 456 |
Sec. 2.
The Secretary of War is hereby authorized to establish in or near Denver, Colorado, a branch of the Air Corps Technical School at Chanute Field, Illinois, and to accept on behalf of the United States, free from encumbrance or conditions and without cost to the United States, for use as a site for the extension to such school, the title in fee simple to nine hundred and sixty acres of land, more or less, within and without the city limits of the city of Denver, Colorado, including the property known as the “Agnes (Phipps) Memorial Sanitarium”, together with existing buildings and equipment located thereon; and, also, a tract of land, within the State of Colorado, suitable for use as an aerial gunnery and bombing range
Proviso.
Acquisition of site.
by the Army Air Corps: Provided, That in the event a donor is unable to perfect title to any land tendered as a donation, condemnation of such land is authorized in the name of the United States, and payment of any and all awards for title to such land as is condemned, together with the cost of suit, shall be made by the donor.
Sec. 3.
That the military reservation near Little Rock, Arkansas, now known as Camp Pike, shall be designated, and hereafter be known as “Camp Joseph T. Robinson.”