Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 25.djvu/873

 828 Firrinrn coivennss. sms. 11. cH. sm. isa;. Muhmm ¤U°“'· to be allowed and paid to an officer shall be four cents per mile, diswm tance 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 w en any officer so traveling shall travel in w ole or in érart on any railroad on which ousubsamzea mus. the troops and supplies of the United tates are entitled to be transorted 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 subsist- ` ence fund forevery mile necessarily tryeled over any such railroads: '1‘¤·¤¤¤¤<>¤¤i9¤ by And provided further, That the transportation furnished by the Quar- S D°` termaster's Department to officers travelingwithout troops shall be limited to transportation in kind, not including sleeping or parlor car accommodations, over free roads, over bond-aided acihc railroads, and by conveyance belonging to the said Department; Making in all, for pay and genera expenses of the Army, twelve million seven hundred and fifty-nine thousand four hundred and fif- _ teen dollars and seventy-three cents. rom pay ummm. All the money hereinbefore appropriated shall be disbursed and accounted for by the Pay Department as pay of the Army, and for that purpose shall constitute one fund. SUBSISTENCE OF THE ARMY. sumsmmmpprn. For thenpurchase of subsistence suplplies; for issue as rations to troops, ciemployees when entitled thereto, contract surgeons, hospgta matrons, military convicts at posts, prisoners of war (including dians held by the Army as prisoners, but for whose subsistence appropriation is not otherwise madeg, estimated for the fiscal year on the asis of nine million nine hun red and sixty-eight thousand four hundred and fifty rations; for sales to officers and enlisted men of the Army; for authorized extra issue of candles, salt, and vinegar; for Ipublic animals; for issues to Indians visiting military posts and to ndians employed with the Army, without pay, as guides and scouts; for payments for cooked rations for recruiting parties or recruits ; for hot codec, baked beans, and canned beef for troops traveling when it is imlpracticable to cook their rations; for scales, weights, measures, utens` s, tools, stationery, blank books and forms, printing, advertising, commercial newspa ers, use of telephones, office furniture; for temporary buildings, cellars, and other means of protecting subsistence sup lies (when not provided by the Quartermaster’s Department); for bake-ovens at posts and in the field, and mxrmducypay. repairs thereof; for extra pay to enlisted men employed on extra duty in the Subsistence Department for periods not less than ten days, at rates fixed by law; for com nsation of civilians employed in the Subsistence Department; and tb; other necessary expenses incident to the purchase, care, preservation, issue, sale, and accountin for subsistence supplies for the Arm ; for the payment of the regihation allowances for commutation in iieu of rations to enlisted men on furlough, to ordnance-sergeants on duty at ungarrisoned posts, to enlisted men stationed at places where rations in kind can not be economically issued, to enlisted men traveling on detached dut when it is impracticable to carry rations of any kind, to enlistedy men selected to ` contest for places or prizes in the department, division and Armv riile competitions, whr e traveling to and from places of contenst; in hmmm:. all, one million seven hundred and forty-five thousand dollars, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War; and not more than one hundred and ten thousand dollars thereof shall be applied ¤M1i¤¤ ¤¤:>1¤y¢¤¤- to the payment of civilian employees of the Subsistence Depart- · men.