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 968 FIFTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 411. 1889. and seventy five privates, including payment due on discharge, one hundred and twenty-one thousand ve hundred and ninety-five dol- Q·<{v£<>#B€ md for lars and sixty cents ; Prov ided, That no part of this money shall be eiériis mwasmugm. used in payment of. enlisted men of the Signal Corps on clerical or messenger duty at the ofhoe of the Chief Signal Officer; for mileage to officers when traveling on Signal Service duty under orders, two thousand nve hundred dollars: Provided further, That this amount shall be disbursed under the same limitations prescribed for pay- imeage. ment of mileage to officers in the act making a propriations for the support of the Army for the fiscal year ending dune thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine: And providedfurther, That no part of this appropriation shall be used to ·pay the expense of travel per- Mi1i¤¤ry<1¤¢y· formed on strictly military duty; for commutation of quarters to commissioned officers at places where there are no public quarters, _ four thousand seven hundred and nft two dollars; in all, one hundred and sixty thousand four hundredy and forty seven dollars and sixty cents. And the Secretary of War is authorized, in his discre- Demi from Army- tion, to detail for the service in the Signal Corps not to exceed five commissioned officers of the Re ular Army, to be exclusive of the second lieutenants of the Signed Corps authorized by law; and the regular Army officers 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 appropriated mlghrnbjs gfnistglww shall be use for pay and allowances of second lieutenants appointed veil}: p.219. or to be appointed from the ser eants of the Signal Corps, under the provisions of the act approved June twentieth, eighteen hundred and seventy eight, in excess of the number of fourteen, or for the pay and allowances of exceeding three. hundred and twenty enlisted men of the Signal Corps. F<>"·S°- FORAGE: For forage and straw for thirteen horses actually kept by ofncers in the pub ic service, as allowed by paragraphs one thousand eiglht hundred and ninety, and two thousan t ree hundred and eig ty five, Army Regulations, eighteen hundred and eighty one, and the act making appropriations for the support of the Army, VM- 2% P- 847- approved February twenty fourth, eighteen hundred and eighty one, for forage for fourteen public animals (four to be horses), as allowed by paragraph eighteen hundred and eighty-six of the Army Regulations; straw for fourteen public animals, as allowed by paragraph eighteen hundred and ninty-eight, Arm Re ulations, eig teen hundred and eighty-one, two thousand two hundred dollars. “‘°'· FUEI.t: For fuel for the various offices on the United States telegaph lines, and at stations of observation outside of Washington, istrict of Columbia gfor fires the year round when needed) and for sales -of the regular al owance of fuel to officers of the Signal Corps, "¤l·¤°·P·*5°- as allowed by section eight of the act of Congress approved June eighteenth, eighteen hun red and seventy eight (twenty Statutes at Large, page one hundred and fifty) seven thousand dollars. C°“""“‘°°*°“· For commutation of fuel for not exceeding three hundred and twenty enlisted men of the Signal Corps, at eight dollars and fifty cents per month per man, thirty two thousand one hundred and thirty dollars. MEDICAL DEPARTMENT. Mcdicnl ¤¢¢¤¤d¢¤¤¤- For medical attendance and medicines for officers and enlisted men of the Signal Corps, two thousand six hundred dollars: Provided, That all medical accounts of the Signal Service shall go for examination and audit to the same Auditor and Comptroller y whom the other accounts of the Signal Service are examined and audited. _ For interment of officers and men, twenty five dollars. $¤b¤¤S¤°¤°°· SUBSISTENCE: For commutation of rations of not exceeding three hundred and twenty enlisted men of the Signal Corps, and for sales of subsistence stores to officers and enlisted men of said Corps, as