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 FIFTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. C11. 399. 1896. 369 BUREAU OF IWIEDICINE AND SURGERY. “§1¤£;g°<;£ Me-¥i¤i¤¤ MEDICAL DEPARTMENT: For surgeons’ necessaries for vessels in ,,f,}"'g°°““` “°°"”°‘ commission, navy-yards, naval stations, Marine Corps, and Coast Sur- i vey, and for the civil establishment at the several naval hospitals, navy- yards, naval laboratory and department of instruction, museum of hygiene, and Naval Academy, sixty-five thousand dollars. NAVAL HOSPITAL FUND: For maintenance of the naval hospitals at H°“¥‘“*‘““"“~ the various navy—yards and stations, and for care and maintenance of patients in other hospitals at home and abroad, twenty thousand dollars. That brick material be allowed for construction of ward at naval Brwkiyu hospital. hospital, Brooklyn, New York, authorized by Act approved July ¥di°i§?i3.1z1. twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four. For construction of a similar additional ward to increase needed $_‘}{fi§l,°';,"Q§‘_,‘j"‘· capacity of hospital, twenty-five thousand dollars, which sum shall be Y ` paid from that portion of the naval hospital fund accruing from the sale of naval hospital grounds to the city of Brooklyn, and placed to the credit of the naval hospital fund in pursuance of the provisions of the Act approved July second, eighteen hundred and ninety. CONTINGENT, BUREAU or Munro1NR AND SURGERY: For freight, “°”“°g°”°- expressage on medical sto: es, tolls, ferriages, transportation of sick to hospital, transportation of insane patients; care, transportation, and burial of the dead; advertising; telegraphing; rent of telephones; purchase of books and stationery; binding of medical records, unbound books and pamphlets; postage and purchase of stamps for foreign service; expenses attending the medical board of examiners; rent of rooms for naval dispensary; hygienic and sanitary investigation and illustration; sanitary and hygienic instruction; purchase and repairs of wagons and harness; purchase of and feed for horses and cows; trees, plants, garden tools, and seeds; furniture and incidental articles for the museum of hygiene, naval dispensary, Washington; naval laboratory, sick quarters at Naval Academy and marine barracks, surgeons’ offices and dispensaries at navy-yards and naval stations; washing for medical department at museum of hygiene, naval dispensary, Washington; naval laboratory and department of instruction, sick quarters at Naval Academy and marine barracks, dispensaries at navy—yards and naval stations and ships and rendezvous, and for minor repairs on buildings and grounds of the United States Naval Museum of Hygiene, and all other necessary contingent expenses, thirty thousand dollars. REPAIRS, BUREAU or MEDICINE AND SURGERY: For necessary Repklrs. repairs of naval laboratory and department of instruction, naval hospitals and appendages, including roads, wharves, outhouses, sidewalks, ` iences, gardens, farms, and cemeteries, twenty thousand dollars. AMBULANUES FoR NAVAL HosPI'rALs: For supplying two naval hos- -*-¤¤¤¤¤¤¤<>¤¤- pitals with ambulances of modern construction to replace vehicles condemned as useless, one thousand two hundred dollars. NAVAL cEMETERY, NAVY-YARD, MARE ISLAND, CALIFORNIA: Labor g{g;g,f;f;}*°· and material for widening of approaches, and repairing Rllfl painting all gates and fences; for making graveled roads and paths; building a wall at the foot of the upper terrace, properly grading the whole area, and planting appropriate shrubbery, one thousand dollars. BUREAU OF SUPPLIES AND ACCOUNTS. m£¤£:;u¤:xi; sS¤m>1i¤» PROVISIONS, NAVY: For provisions and Commuted rations for the P¤>vi¤i¤¤¤· seamen and marines, which commuted rations may be paid to caterers of messes, in cases of death or desertion, upon orders of the commanding officer, commuted rations for officers on sea duty and naval cadets, and commuted rations stopped on account of sick in hospital and credited to the naval hospital fund, subsistence of officers and men unavoidably detained or absent from vessels to which attached under orders (during which subsistence rations to be stopped on board ship and no credit for commutation therefor to be given), and fresh water for drink- STAT 1.-v01.. 29-24