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 942 FIFTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sicss. II. Ch. 975. 1903. under such regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary of War, said contest to be open to the Army, and the National Guard or organized militia of the several States, Territories, and of the District of Columbia, and for the cost of the trophy, prizes, and medals herein provided for, the sum of two thousand five hundred dollars be, and the same is here by, annually appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be expended for the purposes hereinbefore prescribed under the direction of the Secretary of _VVar: Brougiqggrégg °’8°¤· videdjarzfher, That for the purpose of furnishing the necessary articles Am, p. vw. requisite to fully arm, equip, and supply each regiment, battalion, squadrqin, cpmpany, troop, battery, signaf, eqggneeptqlnd hospigaépoyps and me ica epartment o the organize mi i ia o e severaa es, Territories and the District of Columbia with the same armament and equipment las are now prescribed for corresponding branches of the line or staff in the Regular Army, without cost to said States, Terri- , {cries, or the Disqict of Columbiai put to rlemain the property of lthe ` Inited States an to be accounte or in the manner now prescribe by law, the Secretary of War is hereby authorized, under such regulations as he may prescribe, on the requisitions of the governors of the several States and Territories, or the commanding general of the militia of the District of Columbia, to issue the said armament and equipment to the organized militia; and the sum of two million dollars is hereby appropriated anéi made gmlmediately availablet untillexpended for the rocurement an issue o the artic es constitu ing e same. Se1¥vQn¤é§,f)Km°';‘;cP” P For repairing and preserving ordnance and ordnance stores in the _' hlands of troops and for issue at the arsenals and depots, seventy-five thousand dollars. .P“"°*“·‘°“’°" ’°q“*‘ For urchase and manufacture of ordnance stores to fill requisitions mom. of troops six hundred thousand dollars ¤i¤iv¤¤¤¤¢-¤· For infantry, cavalry, and artillery equipments, including horse equipments for cavalry and artillery, nine hundred and thirty thousand four hundred and twenty-five dollars. · D:’;$?>rvms.ew-.0M- For overhaulmg, cleaning, and preserving new ordnance and ord- Saplce stores on hand at the arsenals, posts, and depots, fifty thousand o ars. iuggfg wd °"°“‘ For tiring the morning and evening gun at military posts prescribed gy Geqeiia Orders, gugnbereld Sevqlntyé Headquarters of the Arény, ated . u y twent Y-t ir, ei teen un red and sixty-seven, an at National Home for Disabid Volunteer Soldiers and its several Branches, including National Soldiers’ Home in lVashington, District of Columbia, and at Soldiers and Sailors’ State Homes, including material for cartridges, bags, reworking obsolete powder, and so forth, twenty-tive thousand dollars. _*“"*“°’Y ‘“'F°‘~”· For targets for artille practice and implements for mechanical maneuvers, forty thousandfdollars. €,§‘§l‘!}!;f“°"*'i“g· Manufacture, repairing, procurin, and issuing arms at the national " " armories, one million seven hundrecI thousand dollars. h0i>·en—m¤rk<+¤ pur- And hereafter urchases of ordnance and ordnance stores and sup- ° °m‘ plies may be made by the Ordnance Department in open market, in the manner common among business men, when the aggregate of the amount required does not exceed two hundred dollars but every such ml;‘s’{QjreQ’Q$)*,,j{{}{°p§ purchase shall be immediately reported to the Secretary of War. All paws. funds received as the value of military stores transferred by the several . stad departments of the Army to the Insular De artment of the Philippines shall be deposited in the Treasury of the Cnited States and remain available during the iiwal year nineteen hundred and four for _ _ the procurement of like military stores to replace those so transferred. ,,,,1§‘§}£),§§,,l}§§‘f;§j And hereafter details for service to the grade of first lieutenant in 1>¤,y£1·=3q¤» 54* the Ordnance Department under the provisions of the Act of February ` ’p" second, nineteen hundred and one, may be made, from the Army at