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 FORTY-NINTH CONGRESS. Sess. I1. C11. 127. 1887. 397 matrons, military convicts at posts, prisoners of war (including Indians held by the Army as prisoners, but for whose subsistence appropriation is not otherwise made), estimated for the fiscal year on the basis of nine million nine hundred and sixtyeight thousand four hundred and fifty rations; for sales to officers and enlisted men of the Army; for authorized extra issue of candles and salt and vinegar; for public animals; for issues to Indians visiting military posts and to Indians employed with the Army, without pay, as guides and scouts; for payments for cooked rations for recruiting parties or recruits; for hot coffee, baked beans, and canned beef for troops traveling when it; is impracticable to cook their rations; for scales, weights, measures, utensils, tools, stationery, blank books and forms, printing, advertising, commercial newspapers, use of telephones, office furniture; for temporary buildings, cellars, and other means of protecting subsistence supplies (when act provided by the Quartermastefs Department); for bake-ovens at posts and in the Held, and repairs thereof; for extra. pay to enlisted men employed on extra duty in the Subsistence Department for periods of not less than ten days, at rates iixed by law; for compensation of civilians employed in the Subsistence Department; and for other necessary expenses incident to the purchase, care, preservation, issue, sale, and accounting for subsistence supplies for the Army; for the payment of the regulation ~ allowances for commutation in lieu of rations to enlisted men on furlough, to ordnanee·sergeants on duty at ungarrisnned posts, to enlisted men stationed at places where rations in kind cannot be economically issued, to enlisted men traveling on detached duty when it is impracticable to carrymtious 0tZ any kind, to enlisted men selected to contest for places or prizes in the department, division, and Army ride competitions, while traveling to and from places of contest, in all one million seven hundred A¤¤°¤¤*· and forty-five th0usa.ud*d0llm·s, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War ; and not more than one hundred  ten thousand _ _ _ dollars thereof shall be applied to the payment of civilian employees wg"“1"*“ °“‘P1°Y° of the Subsistence Department. 4 ' QUARTEBMASTER’S DEPARTMENT. Q¤¤rt¤¤¤¤·¤¤¤r¤’ Department. Regular supplies: For the regular supplies of the Qua.rtermastcr’s R¢·g¤i=¤¤¤vPU¢¤~ Department, consisting of stoves and heating apparatus, and repair and maintenance of the same, for heating barracks and quzxrters; of ranges and stoves for cooking; of fuel and lights for enlisted men, guards, hospitals, storebouses, and offices, and for sales to officers ; of ibmge in kind ibr the horses, mules, and oxen of the Quartermaste1·’s Deparmneut at the several posts and stations and with the armies in the field, including its care and protection; for the horses of the several regiments of cavalry, the batteries of artillery, and such companies of iuthutry and scouts as may be mounted, and {br the authorized number of 0ti·lcers’ horses, including bedding for the animals; ofstraw for soldiers bedding; and of stationery, including blank-books for the Quznrtermastefs Department, certiiieatcs for discharged soldiers. blank forms for the Pay and Quartermastefs Departments, and for printing division und department orders and reports, two million six hundred and seventyeight thousand dollars: Provided, That no part of this appropriation shall P'f'”*f°· be expended on printing unless the same shall be done by contract, P¤¤“¤8· after due notice and competition, except in such case as the emergency will not admit of the giving notice for competition. Incidental expenses: For postage; cost of telegmms ou official busi- Incidental exness received and sem by emcers of the Army; extra pay to soldiers P°¤°°°· employed under the direction of the Quartermasterk Department in the erection of barracks, quarters, and storehonses, in the construction of roads, ami other constant labor, for periods of not less than ten days, and as clerks for pmt quartermastevs at military posts; for exsense of expresses to and from the frontier posts and armies in the Hel, of escorts to paymasters and ether disbursiug officers, and to trains, where