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 518 FIFTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. SEss. I. Ch. 1328. 1902. mg1$dic¤11>¤1>¤r¢- MEDICAL DEPARTMENT. S¤PP“*· m- MEDICAI» AND Hosrrnn Dmranmmmi For the purchase of medical and hospital supplies, including disinfectants for military posts, camps, hospita, hos ital ships, and transports; for the purchase, installation, operation, and) maintenance of ice-making lants; for expenses of medical supply depots; for medical care and treatment of officers and enliste men of the Army on duty, and of prisoners of war and other persons in military custody or confinement, at posts and stations for which no other provision is made, under such regulations as shall have Fr>id¤¤¤i¢=· ¤¤=-» ¤i=- been or shall be prescribed by the Secretary of War; for the proper um care and treatment of epidemic and contagious diseases in the Army or at military posts or stations, including measures to prevent the spread thereof, and the payment of reasonable damages not otherwise provided for for bedding and clothing injured or estroyed in such N¤&=¤¤¤· ¤*<=· gevention; for the y of male and female nurses, not including the . urse Corps (femalegrand of cooks and other civilians employe for the proper care of sick officers and soldiers, under such regulations fixmgh; eir number, qualifications, assignment, pay, and allowances as shall ve been or shall be prescribed by the becretary of War; for the pay of civilian physicians employed to examine physically applicants or enlistment and enlisted men, and to render other professional services from time to time under proper authority; for the pay of . other employees of itihle MedicalfDepartrrlrpn;;l (rot the lpayrplrerlrtiecéf e ress companies an ocal trans ers em y i y e - ielail Department for the transportation olf medical andy hospital supplies, including bidders’ samfp es and water for analysis; for supplies or use in teac ing the art o cooking to the Hospital Corps; for the supply of the Army and Navy Hospital at Hot Springs, Arkansas; for advertising, laundry, and all other necessary miscellaneous ex nses of the Medical Department, one million dollars, or so much thdreof _,§{l*“°° '°“¥’*"°l”'*’ as may be necessarv, from the balance remaining unexpended on June V6!. 31. v- M thirtieth, nineteen hundred and two, of the appropriation of two million dolllars grade by the Ac;] of March second, nineteen hundred and one, is ere y reappropriat . . mL1mg gg rpgphw Purchase of medicines and medical stores, or the engagement of °°° iirmgs plot perspinaf frrrghe Medical Department of the Alrmy, may e y the e ica epartment in o n mar et in the manner common among business men when thepgggre ate of the amount required does not exceed two hundred dollars, hut ever such purppase or employment shall be promptly reported to the Secretary of ar·. Mmm- Amir Mamcar, Musmum AND Lramuzr: For Army Medical Museum, preservatiop of slpecimepa 2H1d the preparation and purchase of new s imens, ve thousand dollars. l·“"*¤'· plicor the library of the Surgeon-General’s Office, including the purghase of necessary books of reference and periodicals, ten thousand ollars. m§:gl¤•“*=*’ D°¤¤**· ENGINEER DEPARTMENT. I¤°**’°¤**‘°*P°¤¤- UNITED STATES ENGINEER DEPOT : Incidental expenses of the depot, I including fuel, lights, chemicals, stationery, hardware, machinery, pay of civilian clerks, mechanics, and laborers, extra—duty pay to soldiers necessarily employed for periods not less than ten days as artiiicers on work in addition to and not strictly in the line of their military duties, such as carpenters, blacksmiths, draftsmen, printers, lithographers, photographers, engine drivers, telegraph operators, teamsters, wheelwrights, masons, machinists, painters, overseers, laborers; relpairs of, and for materials to repair, public buildings, machinery, an unforeseen expenses, ten thousand ollars.