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 FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 423. 1899. 107 ]_ by land or water, and including also the transportation of recruits and recruiting parties heretofore paid from the appropriation fO1' “Expenses for recruiting; " of supplies to the militia furnished by the War Depart-. ment; of the necessary agents and employees; of clothing, camp and garrison equipage, and other quartermaster’s stores, from army depots or places of purchase or delivery to the several posts and army depots, and frourthose depots to the troops in the held; of horse equipments and subsistence stores from the places of purchase, and from the placesof delivery under contract to such places as the circumstances of the service may require them to be sent; of ordnance, ordnance stores, and small arms from the foundries and armories to the arsenals, fortifications, frontier posts, and army depots; freights, wharfage, tolls, and ferriages; 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 seagoing 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 transportation, and employed as trainmasters, and in opening roads and building wharves; transportation of funds of the’Army; the expenses of sailing public transports on the various rivers, the Gulf of Mexico, and the Atlantic and Pacific oceans; for procuring water, and introducing the same to buildings, at such posts as from their situation require it to be brought from a distance, and for the disposal of sewage and - drainage, and for constructing roads and wharves; for the payment Paymentto uma. of army transportations lawfully due such land-grant railroads as gm" *‘*“’°8d¤~ have not received aid in Government bonds (to be adjusted in accordance with the decisions of the Supreme Court in cases decided under such landgrant acts), but in no case shall more than fifty per Mmmm. centnm of full amount of service be paid: Provided, That such compen- P,,,,,,,, sation shall be computed upon the basis of the tariff or lower special C·>¤¤pe¤¤m¤¤, how rates for like transportation performed for the public at large, and shall °°"“’“‘°d‘ be accepted as in full for all demands for such service: Provided further, Fifty per cent to That in expending the money appropriated by this Act, a railroad com- §‘ff§§f"°S “°* "°"d pany 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 other Government services, and also subject to such regulations as Congress may impose restricting the charge for such Government transportation, having claims against the United States for transportation of troops and munitions of war and military supplies and property over such aided railroads, shall be paid out of the moneys appropriated by the foregoing provision only on the basis of such rate for the transportation of such troops and munitions of war and military supplies and property as the Secretary of War shall deem just and reasonable under the foregoing provision, such rate not to exceed fifty per centum of the compensation for such Govern ment transportation as shall at the time be charged to and paid by private parties to any such company for like and similar transportation; and the amount so fixed to be paid shall be accepted as in full for all demands for such service, seventeen million five hundred thousand dollars. CLOTHING, AND CAMP AND GARRISON EQUIPAGE: For cloth, wool- C1g¤¤¤i¤s·ug¤·;¤_i> and ems, materials, and for the manufacture of clothing for the Army, for g"‘" s°“”“ P ¤°‘ issue and for sale at cost price according to the Army Regulations; lor altering and fitting clothing and washing and cleaning, when necessary; for equipage, and for expenses of packing and handling, and similar necessaries; for a suit of citizen’s outer clothing to cost not exceeding ten dollars, to be issued upon release from confinement to each prisoner who has been confined under a court-martial sentence involving dishonorable discharge, five million nine hundred and fifty- two thousand two hundred and forty-six dollars. CONSTRUCTION AND REPAIR OF HOSPITALS: For construction and nwpmxs.