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 FIFTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 1027. 1888. 483 all, eighty thousand dollars: Provided, That the maximum sum to P¤>¤z¤¤>·. be allowed paymasters’ clerks and contract surgeons when traveling amgxé? mwumg on duty shall be four cents per mile, and, in addition thereto, when transportation can not be furnished by the Quartermastens Department, the cost of same actually paid by them, exclusive of sleeping or parlor car fare and transfers. For expenses of courts-martial and courts of inquiry, and com- Courts-m¤¤*¤i¤1.otc. pensation of witnesses attending the same, ten thousand dollars. For additional pay to officer in charge of public buildings, and so Wpublic buildings. forth, in \Vashington, District of Columbia, five hundred dollars. ashmgt°°` _ For thepay of a clerk attendant on the collection and classiiica- information from tion of m1 itaig information from abroad, one thousand five hundred abr°°’d‘ dollars ; and the oincers detailed to obtain the same shall be entitled to mileage and transportation and also commutation of quarters while on this duty, as provided when on other duty. _For commutation of quarters to commissioned officers on duty “§;b';*Pg*¤*¤*i°¤ 0* without troops, at places where there are no public quarters, one q ` hundred and nfty-eight thousand dollars. For allowances for travel, retained pay, clothing not drawn, and uSQ‘¥’;‘Q,';,_°°°·°*°··°“‘ for interest on deposits, payable to enlisted men on discharge, in all, eigiht hundred and nfty thousand dollars. or mileage to officers when traveling on duty without troops, Mi!¤¤8¤*<><>¤¤¤¤‘¤- when authorized by law not to exceed one hundred and fifty thousand dollars; Provided, That in disbursing this amount the maxi- mifgfhm an W mum sum to be allowed and paid to a11 officer shall be four cents mm. ° ` per mile, distance to be computed over the shortest usually traveled routes and, in addition thereto, the cost of the 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 officer so traveling shall travel in whole or in part on any railroad °”°“b“**“”°d'°*d°· _ on which the troops and supplies of the United States are entitled to be transported free of charge, or over any of the bond-aided Pacific railroads, he shall be allowed for himself only four cents per mile as a subsistence fund for every mile necessarily traveled over any such _ · railroads : And provided gc riher, That the transportation furnished Qf;§t‘g§g,°;*tQ;?; 1}]; by the Quartermaster’s epartment to officers traveling without parcmont. troops shall be limited to transportation in kind, not including sleeping or parlor car accommodations, over free roads, over bone -aided Pacific railroads, and by conveyance belonging to the said Department; making in all, for pay and genera expenses of the Army, _ twelve million six hundred and seventy-six thousand dollars. All the money hereinbefore appropriated shall be disbursed and T°*°‘ PW °°°°¤¤*¤— accounted for by the Pay Department as pay of the Army, and for that purpose shall constitute one fund. SUBSISTENCE OF THE ARMY. For the purchase of subsistence supplies; for issue as rations to ,S¤b¤i¤¤¤¤¢¤ Snrtroops, civil employees when entitle thereto, contract surgeons, pm' hos ital 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 sixty-eight thousand four hundred and fifty rations; for sales to officers an enlisted men of the Arm ; for authorized extra issue of candles. salt. and vinegar; for public animals: for issues to Indians visiting military posts and to Ihdians 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,