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 514 FIFTYSEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. C11. 1328. 1902. for as "Subsistence of the Army," and for that purpose to constitute one fund. p3;;*;{m”*°" *1** qunrrmiunsrnrfs ommarmnur. s“l’Pu°"— Rmnan surrrmsz Regular sulpplies of the Quartermaster’s "”'· P· M5- Department, including their care an protection, consisting of stoves an heating apparatus required for heating offices, hospitals, barracks, and quarters, and recruiting stations; also ranges and stoves and appliances for cookin and serving food, and repair and maintenance of such heating and cooking a pliances; 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 dpost bakeries; fofice machines and their maintenance where require for the health and comfort of the troops in the insular possessions; for the necessary furniture, text-books, paper, and equipment for the post schools and libraries; for the tableware and mess furniture for kitc ens and mess balls, each and all for the enlisted men, including recruits; 1"¤¤c¤.¤w· of forage in kind for the horses, mules, and oxen of the Quartermaster’s Department at the several posts and stations and with the armies in the field, and for the horses of the several regiments of cavalry, the batteries of artillery, and such companies of infantry and scouts as macy be mounted, and for the authorized number of officers’ horses, in uding beddin for the animals; of straw for soldiers’ bedding, and of stationeiiy, intguding blank books for the Quartermastefs Department, certi cates for discharged soldiers, blank forms for the Pay and Quartermastefs Departments, and for printing department orders and reports, five million five hundred thousand do lars: Provided, That no Y an of the appropriations for the Quartermaster’s Department shall " expended on printing unless the same shall be done by contract after due notice and competition, except in such cases as the emergency will not admit of the giving notice of competition; and in cases where it is impracticable to have the necessary printing done b contract the same ° may be done, with the approval of the Secretary of dar, by the hire of Purchases. the necessary labor for the purpose: }+0’07:(l€d_]cLL7"¢]t€I‘, That hereafter, except in cases of emergency orwhere it is impracticable to secure competition, the purchase of all supplies for the use of the various departments and gets of the Army and of the branches of the Army service shall only made after advertisement, and shall be purchased where the same can be purchased the cheapest, quality and cost of transportation and the interests of the Government considered; but every openmarket emergency purchase made in the manner common among business men which exceeds in amount two hundred dollars shall be reported for approval to the Secretary of War under such regulations as he may prescribe. 1¤<ride¤r¤1¢xv¤¤¤e¤· INCIDENTAL nxrmnsms: Postage, cost of telegrams on official business received and sent by officers of the Army; extra y to soldiers employed on extra duty, under the direction of the gdartermastefs Department, in the erection of barracks, quarters, and storehouses, in the construction of roads, and other constant labor for periods of not less than ten days, and as clerks for post quartermasters at military posts, and for prison overseers at posts designated by the War Department for the confinement of general dprisoners; for expenses of expresses to and from frontier posts an armies in the field, of escorts to paymasters and other disbursing officers, and to trains where military escorts can not be furnished; expenses of the interment of officers killed in action or who die when on duty in the field, or at military posts or on the frontiers, or when traveling under orders, and of noncommissioned officers and soldiers; and in all cases where such expenses would have been lawful claims against the Govern-