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 212. FIFTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. i Sess. I. Ch. 586. 1900. g$,g·`;;§S°*"i°°· Subsistence of the masters, officers, crews, and employees of the vessels of the armdy transport service, two hundred and nineteen thousand four hundre and ninety-two dollars and seventy-five cents. Increase? ccést of Diiference between the cost of the ration at twenty-five cents per §°{,‘Z§§f;i§,'{S?S°"° mm day and the amount of fortyrentsmper day to be expended by commissaries onh requept olf medical o clqrs for special (get to henhsted patients in ospita w 0 are .too sic to be subsiste on the army ration, six hundred and fifty-seven thousand dollars; 0¤¤v¤1<=s¤<·¤tS- Diiference between the cost of the ration at twenty-five cents and E 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 guthority of the Secretary of War, one hundred and eighty thousand 0Hars. c i Amount. Total for the Subsistence Department, ten million five hundred and fifty-six thousand four hundred and ninety-two dollars and seventy- , five cents, to be disbursed and accounted for as “Subsistence of the Army,’? and for that purpose it shall constitute one fund. Quarterma.ster’s De- QUARTERMASTEBFS DEPARTMENT. partment. Regular supplies. REeULgEdsUrrLlrEs: Regular (pupplies of the Quartermaster’s Department including their care an protection consisting of stoves and heatihg apparatus required for heating ofiides, hospitals, barracks, and quarters, and recruiting stations; also ranges and stoves, and appliances for cooking and serving food, and repair and maintenance of such heat- . ing and cookingsapipliancei; of fueiand lights fior piplisted néen, including recruits guar ospita s store ouses an offices an for sale to officers; and including alsd 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 schoolsand libraries; ’for the tableware and mess furniture fo-r kitchens and mess c halls, each and all for the enlisted men, including rurugeew. recruits; -of forage in kind for the horses, mules, and _0xen of the (§£uartermaster;?.1?ie}l>(:;rtm:=>1n; at tlhe lseveral posits and stations and with t e armies in the e an or the orses of the several regiments of cavalry, the. .batteries,of artillery, and such companies of infantry and scouts as may be mounted and for. the authorized number of ofiicersé horsesh including bedding for the animals; of straw for soldiers’ bed ing an of stationery including blank books for the Quartermaster’s,Departmen& certificates fO1‘ discharged soldiers, blank forms for the Pay and uartermaster’s Departments and for printing Amount. ‘ department orde1is and reports, eight million two,hundred and sixty- four thousand do lars. P I¤cide¤f»¤1¤x1>¤¤S€¤- INCIDENTAL EXPENSES: Postage; cost of telegrams on official business received and sent by officers of the Army; extra pay to soldiers employed on extra duty, under the direction of the QuartermaSter’s Department, in the erectionof barracks, quarters, and storehouses, in the ccilnstructign. of rogds, apd lpthpr constant labor for periods of not ess t an ten ays an as c er s or post quartermasters at military posts, and for prisbn overseers at posts designated by the WVar Department fo1' the confinement of general p1'lSOl1B1`S’ for expenses of expresses to and from frontier posts and armies in the field, of escorts to paymasters and other disbursing officers and to trains where mili- Sscorts can not bl? fulrnishlpd; expgnses of time gitc-gment of officers i e in action or w o ie w en on uty in the el or at military posts or on·the frontiers, or when traveling under orders, and of noncommissioned officers and_soldiers;- and- t at in all cases where they would have been lawful claims against the Government reimbursement