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 776 FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 284. 1891. and su lies when ordered by ro er authorit for military u oses onl ; tliiiights, wharfage, tolls? anld ferriages;ythe purchase gnldphire of draught and pack animals, and harness, and the purchase and repair of wagons, carts, and drays, and of ships and other sea-going vessels and boats required for the transportation of supplies and for garrison purposes; for drayage and cartage at the several osts;. ire of teamsters and other employees; extra—duty pay of enlisted men driving teams, repairing means of transportation, and employed as train-masters, and in opening roads and building wharves; transportation of the funds of the Army, the expenses of sailing publictransports on the various rivers, the Gulf of Mexico, and the Atlantic and Pacific; for procuring and introduction of water at such posts as from their situation require it to be brought from a distance; and for the disposal of sewage and drainage; for the transportation of discharged military prisoners to their laces of enlist- Compensation er ment; for the dpayment of Army transportation lawfully due such f,,f’u,""§,*:,f,_““""’““' land-grant ra` roads as have not received aid in Government bonds (to be adjusted in accordance with the decisions of the Supreme Court mmm in cases decided under such land-grant acts), but in no case shall more than fift per centum of the full amount of the service be paid: MMM- Provided fwrtllier, That such compensation shall be computed upon of wmpuw- the basis of the tariff or lower special rates for like transportation °°§°’.,,,,L,..,,.,_ performed for the public at large, and shall be acce ted as in full for oompeggszigiér all demands for such service: _ ovided further, T}l)at in expending g,.,,,°"“'“,,02d,_ °‘ ‘ the money appropriated by this act, a railroad company which has not received aid in bonds of the United States, and which obtained a grant of public land. to aid in the construction of its railroad on condition t at such railroad shouldbe apost route and military road subject to the use of the United States for postal, militar, naval, and all other Government service, and also, subject to such regilations as Congress may impose restricting the charges for such overnment transportation, having claims against the United States for transportation of troo s and munitions of war and military supplies and property over S110g aided railroad, shall only be paid out of the missingé or computw moneys appropriated by the foregoing provision on_the basis of such "* ‘ rate for the transportation of such troo s and munitions of war and military supplies and property as the Secretary of War shall deem Maximum me, w just and reasonable under the foregoing provision, such rate not to ’°"°°"‘ exceed sixty per centum of the compensation for such Government transportation as shall at the time be charged to and paid by private parties to any such company for like and similar transportation- and A¤¤¤¤¤=¤· tmlands fgrlsuph service; in all, two million seven hundred and fifty ousan c dollars. mgvrucks and qw- Barracks and quarters: For barracks and quarters for troo s, store- ° houses for the safe-keeping of military stores, for omces, and for the hire of buildings and of grounds for summer cantonments and for temporary buildings at frontier stations, for the construction of tem'- porary buildings and stables, and for repairing public buildin at Aimum. established sts, seven hundred and twenty-nve thousand do£rs: P"'*"'°f'· Provided, Tlidt no expenditures exceeding five hundred dollars shall w*§fP°°°**‘”°’ °'°*' be made upon any building or military post, or grounds about the . same,without the approval of the Secretary of War for the same, upon detailed estimates by the Quartermastefs Department: and the erection, construction, and repair of all buildings and other public structures in the Quartermastefs Department shall, as far as may be- _ practicable. be made by contract, after due legal advertisement: m§°§~C;;f·§l:*“ ’r0videdIfiirther, That not less than fifty thousand dollars of said _ H sums sh be used to begin the repair and reconstruction of J eifer- C=*¤¤¤¤ ¤¤v1<>y¤<-·s· son Barracks, Missouri; And provided further. That no more than one million three hundred thousand dollars of the sums appropriated by this act shall be paid out for the services of civilian employees in
 * °°°P°¤¤¤¤· the amount so fixed to be paid shall be accepted as in full for all de-