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 FIFTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 1368. 1902. 689 serving with troops where there are no public quarters belonging to the Government, and where there are not sufficient quarters possessed by the United States to accommodate them; for hire of quarters for enlisted men employed as clerks and messengers in the offices of the commandant, adjutant and inspector, paymaster, and quartermaster, and the offices of the assistant adjutant and inspector, the assistant paymaster, and the assistant uartermasters, at twenty-one dollars each per month, and for enlisted men employed as messengers in said oflices, at ten dollars each per month, twenty thousand seven hundred and forty-eight dollars. CONTINGENT, MARINE Conrs: For freight, tolls, cartage, advertis- C°¤¤¤8~‘=¤*- ing, washing of bed sacks, mattress covers, pillowcases, towels, and sheets, funeral expenses of marines, stationery and other paper, telegraphing, rent of telephones, purchase and repair of typewriters, apprehension of stragglers and deserters, per diem of enlisted men employed on constant labor for a period of not less than ten days, em(ployment of civilian labor, repair of gas and water fixtures, office an barracks furniture, camp an garrison equipage and implements, mess utensils for enlisted men, such as bowls, lates, spoons, knives, and forks, tin cups, pans, and pots, and so forth; packing boxes, wrapping paper, oilcloth, crash, rope, twine, guarantine fees, camphor and carbolrzed paper, carpenters’ tools, tools or police pur ses, iron safes, purchase and repair of public wagons, purchase andxicpair of public harness, purchase of public horses, services of veterinary surgeons and medicines for public horses, purchase and repair of hose, purchase and re air of fire extinguishers, purchase of fire hand grenades, purchase and) repair of carts, wheclbarrows, and lawn mowers; urchase and repair of cooking stoves, ranges, stoves, and furnaces where there are no grates; purchase of ice, towels, soap, combs, and brushes ‘ for offices;J>ostage stamps for· foreign postage; purchase of books, newspapers, an periodicals; improving parade grounds, repair of pumps an wharves, laying drain, water, and gas pipes, water, introducing gas, and for gas, gas oil, and introduction and maintenance of electric ights; straw for bedding, mattresses, mattress covers, pillows, sheets; wrre bunk bottoms for enlisted men at various posts; furniture for Government quarters and repair of same, and for all emergencies and extraordinary expenses arising at home and abroad, but impossible to anticipate or classify, one hundred and three thousand seven hundred dollars. ` ruamc WORKS-—MARINE cones. P“""° "°"‘“‘ Barracks and Quarters, Marine Corps: Construction of a tireproof m§f”°°” °°° qu'"' marine barracks, navy-yard, Norfolk, Virginia, and necessary sewerage and grading, one undred thousand dollars; construction of a veranda on enlisted men’s uarters, nav ·yard, Pensacola, Florida, three thousand five hundred dollars; installation of an electric lighting plant, marine barracks, navy-yard, New York, New York, three thousand five hundred dollars; installation of electric lights, marine barracks, navy-yard, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, one thousand dollars; improvements, sewers, plumbing, and so forth, marine barracks, navy —yard, Boston, Massachusetts, one thousand five hundred dollars; construction of a marine barracks, naval training station, San Francisco, California, thirty thousand dollars; officers’ quarters, Sitka, Alaska, erection of officers’ quarters at Sitka, Alaska, two thousand five hundred dollars, and the uriex nded appropriations of two thousand five hundred dollars authorizediin Act of June tenth, eighteen hun- Y°r 29· P- 377- dred and ninety-six, and one thousand dollars authorized in Act of June V0]- 3L P- 7**5- seventh, nineteen hundred, respectively, are hereby reappropriated for the erection of officers’ quarters at Sitka, Alaska, two thousand five voL xxxrr, PT 1—44