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 FORTY-NINTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Un. 362. 1887. 533 ninety privates, including payment due on discharge, one hundred and eighty thousand dollars; for mileage to all officers when traveling on Signal Service duty under orders, four thousand dollars: Provided, That Promos. in disbursing this amount the maximum sum to be allowed and paid to an officer shall be four cents per mile, distance to be computed over the Mileage. shortest usually traveled routes, and, in addition thereto, upon the officer’s certificate that it was not practicable to obtain transportation from the Quartermastefs Department, the cost of transportation actually paid by the officer over said route or routes, exclusive of sleeping or parlor car fare and transfers: And provided further, That when any On land-grunt officer so traveling shall travel in whole or in part on any railroad on ¤¤¤d¤- which the troops and supplies of the United States are entitled to be transported free of charge, he shall be allowed for himself only four · cents per mile as a subsistence fund for every mile necessarily traveled over any such last-named railroad; for commutation of quarters to commissioned officers at places where there are no public quarters, nve thousand five hundred dollars; in all, two hundred and twenty-three thousand six hundred and eighty dollars. And the Secretary of War Detail of emeem is authorized, in his discretion, to detail for the service in the Signal §"t S'¤"°l S*“'*°° Corps not to exceed five commissioned omcers of the Regular Army, u Y' to be exclusive of the second lieutenants of the Signal Corps authorized by law; and the Regular Army omcers herein authorized to be detailed for the Signal Corps shall receive their pay and allowances from the appropriation for the support of the Army; and no money herein appro- ' priated shaH be used for pay and allowances of second lieutenants ap- Nvmbpr of secpointed or to be appointed from the scrgeants of the Signal Corps, ;':i‘:u,l'°"*°””“*’ under the provisions of the act approved June twentieth, eighteen VOL to l,_ em hundred and seventy-eight, in excess of the number of sixteen, or for ' the pay and allowances of exceeding four hundred and seventy enlisted _ men of the Signal Corps. { sunstsrmiczx. For commutation of rations of not exceeding four hundred and seventy Subsistence. Signal Service enlisted men of the Signal Cm and for sales of subsistence stores to officers and enlisted men ofCm as authorized by section eleven hundred and forty-four of the ReStatutes, and R- S-. scc- 1144, paragraph twenty-one hundred and ninety-nine of the Army Regula- 1*-207- tions, eighteen hundred and eighty-one, one hundred and forty-eight thousand dollars. _ REGULAR SUPPLIES. ‘ ' Fum.: For various offices on the United States military-telegraph FMI- lines, and at stations of observation outside of Washington, District of Columbia (for iires the year round when needed), ·nd for sales of the regulation allowance to omcnrs the Signal Corps, as allowed by section eight of the act of Congress approved June eighteenth, eighteen V¤l· ¤l»r·i5°· hundred and seventyeightfitwentieth Statutes at Large, page one hundred and fifty), six thousan dollars. Comwrnuon or rum.: For commutation of fuel for not exceeding Commututien or four hundred and seventy enlisted men of the Signal Corps on duty at fmthe omce of the Chief Signal Officer and at signal-stations throughout ` the United States, forty-seven thousand seven hundred and sixtydollars. Forman. For forage of ten mules and six horses, one thousand eight hundred F¤¤s•· and five dollars and sixtydlve cents; straw for sixteen animals, as al— ,_ Iowed by paragraph eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, Army Regulations, eighteen hundred and eighty-one, one hundred and twelve dollars; for forage for thirteen horses kept by officers in the public service, as allowed by paragraph eighteen hundred and ninety, Army