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 FIFTY-SECOND CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 168. 1893. 481 For additional pay to officer commanding the military prison at Fort Miiimrr 1>ri¤¤¤- Leavenworth, Kansas, hve hundred dollars. For mileage to officers when traveling on duty without troops, when Mimeé *0 0B50m- authorized by law, not to exceed one hundred and sixty thousand dollars; to be allotted by the Secretary of War to the War Department AU¤¤¤¤¤*-¤¢¤- and to the several miltary departments, and not more than three-fifths of I-i¤¤Mti<>¤· said amount shall be expended during the iirst half of the iiscal year and not more than one—half of the remainder during each of the remaining quarters: Provided, That in disbursing this amount the promos. maximum sum to be allowed and paid to an officer shall be four cents per ,,}f,{,’f"‘“‘““ *‘“° w' 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 parlor-car or sleepingcar fare and transfers: And providedjhrthor, That when any officer °¤¤¤b¤idi¤>d¤>¤d¤· so traveling shall travel in whole or in part on any railroad 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 Pacihc 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 further, That the transportation furnished by the Quarter- Q£;l‘;§,¥;fa*;§(fQ9;’ gg master’s Department to officers traveling without troops shall be pmmm. limited to transportation in kind not including sleeping or parlor car accommodations, over free roads, over bond-aided Pacific railroads, and by conveyance belonging to said Department. For traveling expenses and commutation of quarters for civilian Cimm PhY"i°l““S· physicians employed by the Surgeon-General, one thousand dollars. Making, in all, for pay and general expenses of the Army, thirteen A¤¤<>¤¤*· ‘ million two hundred and nfty-six thousand seven hundred and eighty- · nine dollars and seventy-eight cents. All the money hereinbeiore appropriated shall be disbursed and fu';} °°‘””““*° °“° accounted for by_the Pay Department as pay of the Army, and for that purpose shall constitute one fund. smssrsrnxcn nrzrnnrmismrr. m§,;*Qf*i¤*°¤°° D°P**’°· For the purchase of subsistence supplies for issue as rations to troops, S¤v1>¤¢>¤· civil emplo ees when entitled thereto, hospital niatrons, military convicts at prgts, 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 often million seventeen thousand tour hundred and twenty-tive rations; for sales to officers and enlisted men of the Army; for authorized extra issue of candles and salt, and vinegar for public animals; for issue to Indians visiting military posts and to Indians 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 inipracticable to cook their rations; ibr scales, measures, weights, utensils, tools, stationery, blank books and forms, printing, advertising, commercial newspapers, use of telephones, office furniture for temporary buildings, cellars, and other means of protecting subsistence supplies (when not provided by the Quartermaster’s Department); for bake ovens at posts and in the iield and repairs thereof; for extra pay to enlisted men employed on extra duty in E“’°‘l““Y P‘*Y· the Subsistence Department for periods not less than ten days at rates fixed by law; for compensation of civilians employed in the Subsistence Department, and for other necessary expenses incident to the purchase, care, preservation, issue, sale, and accounting for subsistence supplies for the Army; for the payment of the regulation allowances t,g;;¤¤¤mi°¤ °f ”· tor commutation in lieu of rations to enlisted men on furlough, to ord- ` nance sergeants on duty at ungarrisoned posts, to enlisted men stationed at places where rations in kind can not be economically issued, to enhsted men traveling on detached duty when it is impracticable to voL