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 FIFTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. C11. 1328. 1902. 513 0FFICERS—\'OLUNTE mas. V<>1¤¤¤¢¤r <>f¤¢€r¤- hMmnrpi,t(p dpmraurmmurz Fifty majors, one hundred and twenty-five m§§,§‘“°°l D°P°"* thousand dollars. ` d Bne hundred and fifty captains (mounted), three hundred thousand o ars. All the mone hereinbefore appropriated for pa of the Army and miscellaneous slrall be disbursed and accountedy for by the Pay Depgrtnirent as pay of the Army, and for that purpose shall constitute one un . · Scnsrsrrmcm or rms Amar: Purchase of subsistence supplies: For ,,,§,‘}}f““'°“°° Dm"' issue, as rations to troops, civil employees when entitled thereto, hos- S¤PP¤<=¤- pital matrons and nurses, general prisoners of war (including Indians eld by the Army as prisoners, but for whose subsistence appropriation is not otherwise made), and to military prisoners at posts; for sales to officers and enlisted men of the Army; for authorized issues of candles; of toilet articles, barbers’, laundry, and tailors’ materials, for use of general prisoners confined at military posts without pay or allowances, and recruits at recruiting stations; of matches for lighting public Eres and lights at posts and stations and in the Held; of flour used for paste in target practice; of salt and vinegar fo1` public animals; of issues to Indians em loyed with the Army, without pay, as guides and scouts, and for toiidt paper for use by enlisted men at posts, camps, rendezvous, and offices where water—closets are provided with sewer connections. For payments: For meals for recruiting rties and recruits; "“Y’”°”“~ for hot coffee, canned meats, and baked beans fbi; troops traveling, when it is impracticable to cook their rations; for scales, weights, measures, utensils, tools, stationery,blank books and forms, printing, advertising, commercial newslpapers, use of telephones, office furniture; for temporary buildings, cel ars, and other means of protecting subsistence supp ies (when not provided by the Quartermaster’s De artment); for coffee roasters; for commissary chests, complete, and) for renewal of their outfits; for Held desks of commissaries; for extra pay mm-¤¤=y purto enlisted men employed on extra duty in the Subsistence Department for periods of not less than ten da s, at rates Hxed by law; for compensa- ¤ivi1i¤¤ empivms tion of civilians employed in the Subsistence Department, and for other necessary expenses incident to the purchase, care, preservation, issue, sale, an accounting for subsistence supplies for the Army. For the C¤¤¤¤=¤¤¤¢i¤¤- payment of the re ulation allowances of commutation in in lieu of _ rations: To enlisted men on furlough; to ordnance sergeants 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 selected to 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 the masters. omcers, crews, and employees of the vessels of the army transport service; for difference Sc;§{;‘_’ “'°“'P°“ between the cost of the ration at thirty cents per day and the amount Specialdiet of fort cents per day to be expended by commissaries on request of medical officers for special diet to enliste patients in hospital who are too sick to be subsisted on the army ration; for difference between the cost of the ration at thirty cents and the cost of rations differing in whole or· in part from the ordinary ration, to be issued to enlisted men in camp in the United States 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 authority of the Secretary of War); and for ice to organizations of enlisted men *°°- smtioned in island possessions; in all, eleven million dollars, to be ·‘“"°““'~ expended under the direction of the Secretary of lVar, and accounted von xxxu. rr 1———-33