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 214 FIFTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 586. 1900. _ equipments and subsistence stores from the places of purchase, and from the places of 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 vessels and boats required for the transportation of troops and supplies and for garrison purposes; for draya e and cartage at the several posts; hire· of teamsters and other empioyees; extra-duty pag of enlisted men driving teams, repairing means of transportation, an employed as trainmasters, and in opening roads and buil ing 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 Payment to land- sewage and drainage, and for constructing roads and wharves; for the g'“““‘“"°“dS‘ payment of army transportations lawfu ly due such land—grant railroads as have not received aid in Government bonds (to be adjusted in accordance with the decisions of the Supreme Court in cases decided _··mXim“m· under such land—grant acts), but in no case shall more than fifty per §*)·£;§gjlémOu_ how centum of full amount of service be paid: Provided, That such comeompumd.pensation shall be computed upon the basis of the tariff or lower special rates for like transportation performed for the public at large, and f shalkbe alclgepted as in full forhall demands for such sgrvice Prgvided Fi W PH °°“* '° hurt er, at in ex endin the money appropriate by t is ct, a §.¥é3T‘“s not b0¤d.i*pailroad company which hags. not received   iii 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 a ainst 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 militar supplies and property as the Secretary-of VVar shall deem just and reasonable under the foregoing provision, such rate not to exceed fifty per centum of the compensation for such Government transportation as shall at the time be charged to and paid by private parties to any such company for like and similar transpor- ·‘““°““‘· tation; and the amount so iixed to be paid shall be accepted as in full _ _ for all demands for such service, thirty million dollars: Provided, b,l{,‘é;‘Q'X1Q§@gs wd That one hundred thousand dollars of this sum may be used in Alaska, and shall be immediately available, for the construction of military _ roads and bridges in Alaska. . g,(,i}.?§§‘,§‘{,€;,§*},’§‘,§’€?“d CLOTHING, AND cAMP AND GARRISON EQUIPAGE: For cloth, woolens, materials, and for the manufacture of clothing for the Army, for issue and for sale at cost price according to the Army Regulations; for alte1·- ing and fitting clothing and washing and cleanin, when necessary; for equipage, and for expenses of packing and handiing, and similar necessaries; for a suit of citizen’s outer clothing, to cost not exceeding ten dollars, to be issued upon release from condnement to each prisoner who has been confined under a court-martial sentence involving dishonorable discharge, for indemnity to officers and men of the Army for clothing and bedding, and so forth, destroyed by order of medical ofii- A¤¤¤¤¤¢- cers of the Army for sanitary reasons, eight million five hundred