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 772 FIFTYFIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 41. 1899. January 5-1899- CHAP. 41.—An Act Making appropriations to supply urgent deficiencies in the "_’T" appropriations for the support of the military and naval establishments for the last six months of the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety- nine, aud for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United ¥’¤*?¤i¤¤¤i*¤ “PP"‘f‘ States of America in Congress assembled, That out of the balances €£im°m° mr Mum remaining unexpended January first, eighteen hundred and ninety- 69g"‘“· PP- ‘*°°· "3"· nine, of the appropriations made by the deficiency appropriation Acts ` approved May fourth and June eighth, eighteen hundred and ninety- eight, respectively, and by section two of the deficiency appropriation Act approved July seventh, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, for the six months beginning July first, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, on account of war expenses under the titles **War Department," and “Military establishment," there is hereby reappropriated and made available for expenditure during the six months beginning January first, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, for objects hereinafter specified, the following sums, namely: WarDopartm¤¤¢- WAR DEPARTMENT. A}l?i*i<>¤=¤ °€¤*P°· For the employment of such additional temporary force of clerks, my °r°°` messengers, laborers, and other assistants as in the judgment of the Secretary of War may be proper and necessary to the prompt, efficient, and accurate dispatch of official business in the War Department and its bureaus, to be allotted by the Secretary of War to such bureaus and offices as the exigencies of the needs of the service may demand, three hundred thousand dollars. C<>¤¤¤g¤¤#¤¤rp¤¤¤¤¤- For contingent expenses of the War Department and its bureaus, including purchase of professional and scientific books, blank books, pamphlets, newspapers, maps; furniture, and repairs to same; carpets, matting, oilcloth, file cases, towels, ice, brooms, soap, sponges, fuel, gas, and heating apparatus for and repairs to the buildings (outside of the State, WVar, and Navy Department building) occupied by the Adjutant- General’s Office, the Surgeon-Generals Oihce, Office of Records of the Rebellion, and Record and Pension Office of the War Department; expenses of horses and wagons to be used only for official purposes; freight and express charges; the employment of such temporary labor as may be required in moving bureaus and offices of the War Department between its several buildings, and other absolutely necessary expenses, thirty thousand dollars. S*¤¤¤¤¤¤’· For stationery for the War Department and its bureaus and omces, fifteen thousand dollars. R°"*· For rent of buildings for the Wzmr Department and its bureaus and offices, ten thousand dollars. __(T*¤;: _·r;;j;·}j**} ,*° That the time lor the examination of monthly accounts by the bureaus, Illll ( l y ·l|'}· _ Y _ _ _ · earns. and offices of the \\ ar Department after the date of their actual receipt ""·2B·P·2°°· and before transmitting the same to the Auditor for the War Department, as limited by section twelve of the legislative, exetutive, and judirial appropriation Act, approved July thirty-first, eighteen hundred and ninety-fbur, is hereby extended from twenty days to sixty days for the period of one year from the date of the passage of this Act. Army- NIILITARY TISTABLISHIIENT, 0** ·‘·· M **"**¤*Y· orrron on THE sncnrzranv or wnn, 1»;¤¤·~rg•:¤¤y fund. For emergency fund to meet unforeseen contingencies constantly irilsing, to be expended at the discretion of the President, three million t dollars. €¤¤¢¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤r>•¤¤¤~S· For contingencies of the Army. namely: For all contingent expenses of the Army not provided for by other estimates, and embracing all branches of the military service, to be expended under the immediate orders of the Secretary of Wair, two hundred thousand dollars.