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 18 FIFTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. 1. Ch. 14. 1900. postal, military, naval, and other Government services, and also subject to such regulations as Congress may impose restricting the char e for such Government transportation, having claims against the gnited 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 appro riated by the foregoing provision only on the basis of such rate for the transportation of suc troops and munitions of war and military supplies and property as the Secretary of War 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 transportation; and the amount so fixed to be paid shall be accepted as in full for all demands for such service, twenty million seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars. G1_9¢¤i¤a¢;i¤¤p we CLOTH1NG, AND CAMP AND GARRISON EQUIPAGE, NAMELY: For cloth, gamsw °qmpag€` 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 altering and fitting clothing and washing and cleanin, when necessary; for equipage, and for expenses of packing and ghandling, and similar necessaries; for a suit of citizen’s outer clothing to cost not exceeding ten dollars, to be issued upon release from confinement to each prisoner who has been confined under a court-martial sentence involving dishonorable dischar e, two million dollars. dggznggoglingg sol - To enable the Secretary of iililar, in his discretion, to cause to be ` transported to their homes the remains of officers and soldiers who die at mi itary camps or who are killed in action or who die in the field at places outside of the limits of the United States, one hundred thousand dollars.. Medical Depart- MEDICAL DEPARTMENT. ment. · Supplies- For the purchase of medical and hospital su plies, and all other necessary miscellaneous expenses of the Medical) Department of the Army, five hundred thousand dollars. mg§;1nanceDepart— ORDNANCE DEPARTMENT. M ¤¤¤f¤cr¤ri¤s For manufacturing, repairing, procuring, and issuing arms at the °mS‘ em national armories, includin machinery, tools, and fixtures for thei1· manufacture, two hundred thousand dollars. For infantry, cavalry, and artillery equipments, including horse equipments for cavalry and artillery, including tools and fixtures fo1· their manufacture at the arsenals, two hundred thousand dollars. For purchase and manufacture of ordnance stores to fill requisitions of troops, one hundred thousand dollars. _ — A For repairing and preserving ordnance and ordnance stores in the hands of troops, and for issue at the arsenals and depots, thirty thousand dollars. Thirrwfourth En- The Secretary of War is hereby authorized to deliver to the order "°°ii2ii$$l`;’l%_fi)kl%0¤- of J. H. Wood, chairman of the general committee of the Thirty-fourth §§§{;‘;‘}, °*’¤“°“ *‘·“‘ National Encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic, to be held ` at Chicago next summer; two dismounted condemned cannon, used in the late civil war, to be used for the purpose of furnishing memorial P»·<>vi¤<»s. badges commemorativeof the holding of such encampment: Provided, Uri: degjijense to That no expense shall be caused to the United States through the m e a °S‘ delivery of said condemned cannon.