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 FIFTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. SEss. I. CII. 1368. 1902. 679 Academy and marine barracks, surgeons’ offices and dispensaries at navy-yards and naval stations; washin V for medical de artment at museum of hygiene, naval dispensary, {Nashington; naval) laboratory and department of instruction, sick quarters at Naval Academy and marine barracks, dispensaries at navy-yards and naval stations and ships and rendezvous, and for minor repairs on buildings and grounds of the United States Naval Museum of Hygiene; for the care, maintenance, and treatment of the insane of the Navy and Marine Corps on the Pacific coast, and all other necessary contingent expenses, thirty- five thousand dollars. REPAIRS, BUREAU or MEDICINE AND SURGERY: For necessary repairs Repairsof naval laboratory and department of instruction, naval hospitals and appendages, including roads, wharves, outhouses, sidewalks, fences, gardens, farms, and cemeteries, thirty thousand dollars. NAVAL HOSPITAL, MAKE ISLAND, CALIroRNIA: Repairs and improve- gmlgggmézl ments in fitting up old buildings and building new; for changing otH- ·' cers’ quarters into wards for enlisted men and building quarters for officers outside naval hospital, twenty thousand dollars; for construction of a contagiousdisease hospital, ten thousand dollars; in all, thirty thousand dollars. NAVAL HOSPITAL, CANAcAo, PHILIPPINE ISLANDS; Repairs and °“““°"°* P· L improvements in fitting up old buildings and building new; building wharf, roads, and reparing grounds, and establishing a naval hospital at Canacao, Philippine Islands, to take the place of the present temporary hospital at Cavite, and for the transfer of public property from the old buildings to the new, fifty thousand dollars. SUPPLIES AND ACCOUNTS. ,,,I§‘*,§i°,,‘,§,,f’,f,,*i’“’*’**°“ PROVISIONS, NAVY: For provisions and commuted rations for the P¤>Vi¤*<>¤¤»¤¤=- seamen and marines, which commuted rations may be paid to caterers of messes, in cases of death or desertion, upon orders of the commanding officer; commuted rations for officers on sea duty (other than commissioned officers of the line, medical and pay corps and chief boatswains, chief gunners, chief sailmakers, chief carpenters) and midshipmen, and commuted rations stopped on account of sick in hospital and credited to the naval hospital fund; subsistence of officers and men unavoidably detained or a sent from vessels to which attached under orders (during which subsistence rations to be stopped on board shi and no credit for commutation therefor to be given); labor in general storehouses and paymastersf offices in navy-yards, mcluding naval stations maintained in island plossessions under the control of the United States, and expenses in andling stores dpurchased under the naval-supply fund; one chemist, at two thousan five hundred dollars ¤¤¢¤¤i¤¤ per annum, and two chemists, at two thousand dollars each per annum, three million five hundred thousand dollars.- That section fifteen hundred and eighty of the Revised Statutes of 2,,§·&géu¤§g, 158*% P- the United States be, and the same is hereby, amended so as to read` as follows: "SEo. 1580. The Navy ration shall consist of the following daily m§;gm¤;'i°¤· ¤°¤· allowance of provisions to each person: One pound and a quarter salt ` or smoked meat, with three ounces of dried or six ounces of canned fruit, and three gills of beans or peas, or twelve ounces of ilour; or one pound of preserved meat, with three ounces of dried or six ounces of canned fruit, and twelve ounces of rice or eight ounces of canned vegetables or four ounces of desiccated vegetables; together with one pound of biscuit, two ounces of butter, four ounces of sugar, two ounces of coffee or cocoa or one-half ounce of tea and one ounce of condensed milk or evaporated cream; and a weekly allowance of onehalf pound of macaroni, four ounces of cheese, four ounces of toma-