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 FIFTYZFIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 571. 1898. 7 O3 For pay of three hundred civilian nurses at thirty dollars per month, CMF¤¤ ¤¤¤¤¤ during the six months beginning July first, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, fifty-four thousand dollars. For the purchase of medical and hospital supplies, including disinfectants for general post sanitation, expenses of medical-supply depots, pay of employees, civilian nurses, medical care and treatment of officers and enlisted men of the regular and volunteer armies on duties at posts and stations for which no other provision is made, for the proper care and treatment of cases in the armies suffering from contagious or epidemic diseases, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. OBDNANCE DEPARTMENT. mQl{Q¤*¤°° D°P°*'~ For current expenses of the ordnance service required to defray the <>¤¤¤¤t •¤1>¤¤¤¤¤- current expenses at the arsenals; of receiving stores and issuing arms , and other ordnance supplies; of police and office duties; of rents, tolls, fuel, and lights; of stationery and office furniture; of tools and instruments for use; incidental expenses of the ordnance service, and those attending practical trials and tests of ordnance, small arms, and other ordnance supplies, including payment for mechanical labor in the office of the Chief of Ordnance, all being for the six months beginning July first, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, three hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. · For manufacture of metallic ammunition for small arms and ammu- AH¤;¤¤¤i*i•>¤ M nition for reloading cartridges and tools for the same, including the cost °m° m` of targets and material for target practice; ammunition for burials at National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers and its several branches, and marksmen’s medals and insignia for all arms of the service, aH being for the six months beginning July first, eighteen hundred and ninety- eight, four million two hundred and forty thousand dollars.‘ For ammunition for infantry, cavalry, field and siege artillery, one ——¤ti11¤ry- million one hundred thousand dollars. ‘ _ For purchase and manufacture of ordnance stores to fill requisitions 0¤l¤¤¤·=° **0**- of troops, all being for the six months beginning July first, eighteen _ hundred and ninety-eight, five hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. For infantry, cavalry, and artillery equipments and horse equipments, E*1“iP'”°“‘°· equipments of all kinds for field and siege artillery, and for miscellaneous war material, and articles and implements for war purposes, including machinery, tools, and so forth, for their manufacture at the arsenals, all being for the six months beginning July first, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, three million seven hundred and forty-two thousand six hundred and twenty-five dollars. For repairing and preserving ordnance and ordnance stores in the Pr¤¤¤rvi¤g.¤w·. hands of troops and for issue at the arsenals and depots, all being for "°'°" the six months beginning July first, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, fifty thousand dollars. ` For overhauling, cleaning, and preserving new ordnance and ordnance stores on hand at the arsenals, all being for the six months beginning July first, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, ten thousand dollars. To enable payment to be made for an emergency purchase of ten thou- 1 jVljk¤¤1=¤¤2·¤¤ R;v¤¤¤— sand Winchester repeating infantry rifles, caliber thirty, with knife ”i»,.y;L]$i.t{Tp "' bayonets and bayonet scabbards, which the Chief of Ordnance has . ordered from the Winchester Repeating Arms Company, at twenty dollars and seventy cents each, all being for the six months beginning July first, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, two hundred and seven thousand dollars. For manufacture, repairing, procuring, and issuing arms at the Ma ·uf=•¤tur¤ ¤f national armories, including machinery, tools, and so forth, for their “""‘“‘°*°‘ manufacture, all being for the six months beginning July first, eighteen, ‘ hundred and ninety-eight, two million five hundred thousand dollars.