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 1024 FIFTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. Il. Ch. 831. 1901. out pay or allowances and recruits at recruiting stations; for matches for ig ting public fires and lights at posts and stations and in the field; of flour used for paste in target practice; of salt and vinegar for public animals, of issues to Indians employed with the Army, without pay, as guides ,and scouts; for payments for meals for recruiting parties and recruits; for hot coffee, canned meats, and baked beans for troops traveling, when it is impracticable to cook their rations; for scales, weights, measures, utensils, tools, stationery, blank books and forms, printing, advertising, commercial newspapers, use of telephones, ofdce furniture; for temporary buildings, cellars, and other means of protecting subsistence supplies (when not provided by the Quartermaster’s De artment); for commissary chests complete, and for the renewal of their outfits; for field desks of commissaries; for. extra pay to enlisted men employed on extra duty in the Subsistence Department for periods of not less than ten days, at rates fixed 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 accounting for subsistence supplies for the Army; for the payment of the regulation allowances of 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 kin, to enlisted men selected to contest for places or rizes in department and army rifle competitions while traveling to and iirom laces of contest; to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of £Var; subsistence of the n1asters, officers, crews, and emplo vees of the vessels of the army transport service; difference between the cost of the ration at twenty- five cents per day and the amount of forty cents per day, to be expended by commissaries on request of medical officers for gpecial diet to enlisted patients in hospital who are too sick to be subsiste on the army ration; difference between the cost of the ration at twenty-five cents and the cost of rations differing in whole or in part from the ordinary ration to be issued to enlisted men in camp during periods of recovery from low conditions of health consequent upon service in unhealthy regions or in debilitating climates, to be expended only under special authority of the Secretary of War; five million three hundred thousand dollars. Quartenjgggiefs D9- QUA R.TERMASTER’S DEPARTIIENT. PRTUHBDI. n.,g..;,.r,uppm.s_ REGULAR SUPPLIES; For regular supplies of the Quartermaster’s — De artment, including their care and protection, consisting of stoves sand) heating apparatus required for heating offices, hospitals, barracks and quarters, and recruiting stations; a so ranges and stoves, and appliances for cooking and serving food, and repair and maintenance of such heating and cooking appliances; of fuel and lights for enlisted _ men, including recruits, guards, hospitals, storehouses, and offices, and for sale to officers; and including also fuel and engine supplies required in the operation of modern batteries at established posts; for post bakeries; for the necessary furniture, text-books, paper, and equipment for the post schools and libraries· for the tab eware and mess furniture for kitchens and mess halls, each and all for the enlisted men, including recruits; of forage in kind for the horses, mules, and oxen of the Quartermaster’s Department at the several posts and stations and with the armies in the field, and for the horses of the several re iments of cavalry, the batteries of artilleiéy, and such companies of infantry and scouts as may be mounted, an for the authorized number of officers’ horses, including bedding for the animals; of straw for soldiers’ beddin, and of station ry, including blank books for the Q,uartermaster’sgDepartment, certificates for discharged soldiers, blank