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 872 FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 540. 1891. tolls, and ferria es; the purchase and hire of draft 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 posts; hire of teamsters and other employees; extra duty pay of enlisted men driving teams, repairing means of trans ortation and employed as trainmasters, and in opening roads and building wharves; transportation of the funds of the Army; the expense of sailing transports on the various rivers, the _ Gulf of Mexico, and the Atlantic and Pacific; for procuring water and introducing the same into buildings; for the disposal of sewage and drainage; for clearing roads and removing obstructions from roads, harbors, and rivers to the extent which may be required for the actual operation of troops in the Held; for the transportation of discharged military prisoners to their places of enlistment; for Payment or so per the payment of transportation lawfully due such land-grant rail- $Q§;F° l“"°'g"“"° roads as have not received aid in Government bonds (to be adjusted in accordance with the decisions of the Supreme Court in cases decided under such land- rant acts), but 111 no case shall more than rift r centum of the full amount of the service be aid: pmw. Prvvidedlgrllrther, That in expending the money appropriated by P. ,,,,,0,,.;;,0.,.;, 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 that such railroad should be a post route and military road subject to the use of the United States for postal, military, naval, and all other Government service, and also subject to such regulations as Congress may impose restricting the char for such Government transportation, havin claims againstthe  States for transportation of troops and munitions of war and military sugplies and property over suc aided railroad, shall only be paid out 0 the moneys appropriated by the foregoing provision on the basis of such rate for 316 transportation of such troo and munitions of war and military supplies and property as the Slelzretary of War shall deem just and reasonable under the my www w W 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; an the amount so fixed to be aid shall be accepted as in full for all demands for such service: computing m,,_ Ihovided further, That such compensation shall be computed upon the basis of the tariff or lower special rates for like transportation performed for the public at large, and shall be accepted as in full or all demands for such services, nine hundred and thirty-five thousand and sixteen dollars and eighty-six cents. p,cm,,,.,u,,,,d,_ To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of transportation of the Army and its supplies, except for services over the several Pacific railroads, being a enciency for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety, eighty-ive thousand Eve hundred and seven dollars and twenty cents. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of transportation of the Armly and its supplies, except for services over the several Pacific railroa s, being a eficiency for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, thirteen dollars . and sixty cents. windy or umm re- That the accounting officers of the Treasury are hereby directed ,,,,hh‘Z~,Tf°‘“ "°"°“° not to suspend or withhold the pay of any retired officer of the Army whose name was upon the retired list prior to the passa e of V¤l.18.v.51¤. the act of March third, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, anddiaving lost an arm or leg, or having an arm or leg permanently disab ed by reason of resection on account of wounds or having lost both eyes by reason of wounds received in battle has been retained