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 F1F·rY-s1nvr1Nirr1 cosemzss. sms. 11. os. 975. 1903. 935 to eook their rations; for scales, weights, measures, utensils, tools, stationery, blank books and forms, printing, advertising, commercial newspapers, use of telephones, office furniture; for temporary buildings, cellars, and other means of protecting subsistence su plies (when not provided by the Quartermaster’s Department); for coffee roasters; for commissary chests, complete, and for renewal of their outhtsg for field desks of commissaries; for extra pay to enlisted men employed _ E¤"°·d“*Y P*Y· on extra duty in the Subsistence Department for periods of not less than ten days, at rates fixed b law; for compensation of civilians C“’i“°¤ °mP'°Y°*¤ 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 g§§’,j,‘{Q‘“‘“°“· of commutation of rations to the cadets at the United States Military Academy in lieu of the regular established ration at the rate of thirty cents per ration; and for the payment of the regulation allowances of commutation in lieu of rations to enlisted men on furlough; to ordnance se eants on duty at ungarrisoned posts; to enlisted men and male and female nurses when stationed at places where rations in kind can not be economically issued, and when traveling on detached duty where it is impracticable to carry rations of any kind; to enlisted men seleetedto contest for places or prizes in department and army rifle competitions while traveling to and from places of contest; and to male and female nurses on leaves of absence. For subsistence of Wfwifg **°¤¤P°** the masters, officers, crews, and employees of the vessels of the army ' transport service; for 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 re nest of medical officers for special diet to enlisted patients in hospitgl who are too sick to be subsisted on the army ration; for difference between the cost of the ration at twenty-five cents and the cost of rations differing in whole or in part from the 0l’dlIl&l'y ration, tobe issued to enlisted men in camp in the United States during periods of recovery from low conditions of health consequent upon service in unhealthy re ions or in debilitating climates (to be expended only under special authority of the Secretary of War); and for ice to organizations of enlisted men at such places as the Secreta of War may determine; in all, seven million Am°“°’~ dollars, to be expendeldyunder the direction of the Secretary of \Var, and accounted for as “Subsistence of the Arn1y." and for that purpose to constitute one fund. QUARTERMASTERU3 DEPARTMENT. Quartermastefs De- ‘ partment. REGULAR snrrmnsz Regular supplies of the Quartermasters De- *‘¤P¤“•¤~ artment, including their care and protection, consisting of stoves and heating apparatus required for heating offices, hospitals, barracks and quarters, and recruiting stations; also 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 ice machines and their maintenance where required for the health and comfort of the troops in the insular possessions. and for cold storage; for the necessary furniture, text-books, paper. and equipment for the st schools and libraries; for the tableware and mess furniture for kitchgns and mess halls, each and all for the enlisted men, including recruits; of forage in kind for the horses, mules. and oxen of the rm·¤g»,m. Quartermasters De artment at the several posts and stations and with the armies in the tierld. and for the horses of the several regiments of cavalry, the batteries of artillery. and such companies of infantry and