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 658 FIFTYJIPHIRD CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 83. 1895. Amnesty. All the money hereinbefore appropriated except the appropriation "t'or mileage to officers when traveling on duty without troops when authorized by law” shall be disbursed and accounted for by the Pay Department as pay of the Army, and for that purpose shall constitute one fund. . mg¤g·¤¤¤¤¤•¤¤r·** sunsisrmrcn DEPARTMENT. · S¤m¤i¤•· Subsistence of the Army: Purchase of subsistence supplies: For issue, as rations to troops, civil employees when entitled thereto, hospital 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 eight hundred and seventy-one thousand and twenty rations; for sales to officers and enlisted men of the Army; for authorized issues of candles; for matches for lighting public tires and lights at posts and stations and in the field; for salt and vinegar for public animals; for issues to Indians visiting military posts, and to Indians employed with the Army, without pay, as guides and scouts; For pay- ments: For meals for recruiting parties and recruits; for hot coffee, canned beet and baked beans for troops traveling, when it is impracti- · _ Armyewkmek. cable to cook their rations; for a new edition of the Manual for Army _ - Cooks; for scales, weights, measures, 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 Exc-www my- Quartermastefs Department); for extra pay to enlisted men employed on extra duty in the Subsistence D_epartment for periods of not less than ten days, at rates iixed 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 _c¤mm¤mam or ra- the regulation allowances for commutation in lieu 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 duty when it is impracticable to carry- rations of any kind, to enlisted men selected to contest for places or prizes in department and Army rifle competitions while traveling to and from places of contest, for flour used for paste in target practice, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary Amman. of War; in all, one million six hundred and fifty thousand dollars. And not more than one hundred thousand dollars thereof shall be applied cmusn mpisym. to the payment of civilian employees of the Subsistence Department. ’ Exceptional up- And hereafter exceptional articles of subsistence stores for officers and ’“°" enlisted men, which are to be paid for by them, regardless of condition upon arrival at posts, may, under regulations to be prescribed by the Secretary of War, be obtained by open purchase without advertising. ApncheIndinpr’i¤· Maintenance and support of the Apache Indian prisoners of war, °"§f,';;,,,,,,_ ,,,c_ removed from Mount Vernon Barracks, Alabama, to military reservations in compliance with the provisions of the Army Act, approved August sixth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, and for the purposes of the erection of buildings, purchase of draft animals, stock, necessary farming tools, seeds, household utensils, and all other necessary articles absolutely needed for their support and civilization, in addition to the sums herein appropriated, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War, ten thousand dollars. . Pa<\3`·;13;g_¤€¤¤¤¢¤’¤¤¤· ‘ QUARTEBMASTER’S nnrknrrrnnr. Rvgvlsr •¤pp1i·»¤- Regular supplies; Regular supplies of the Quartermastefs Department, consisting of stoves and heating apparatus, and repair and maintenance of the same; for heating offices, hospitals, and barracks and
 * accounting for subsistence supplies for the Army. For the payment of