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 FIFTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS. SEss. III. Ch. 1481. 1905. 1115 tation of troops, including ferriage and the expense of the recruiting sleriyice, one hundred and thirty-six thousand six hundred and twenty o ars. · Fon REPAIRS or nARRAoxs, MARINE Comes: Repairs and improve—· R°P°*” °“*”'“°k¤· ments to barracks and quarters at Portsmouth, New Hampshire; Boston. Massachusetts; Narragansett Station, Rhode Island; New York, New York; League Island, Pennsylvania; Annapolis, Mary- land; headquarters and navy-yard, District of Columbia; Norfolk, Virginia; Port Royal and Charleston, South Carolina; Pensacola, Florida; Dry Tortugas, Florida; New Orleans, Louisiana; Mare Island and San Francisco, California; Bremerton, Washington; and Sitka. Alaska; for the renting, leasing, im rovement, and erection of buildings in Porto Rico, the Territory of) Hawaii, the Philippine Islands, at Guam, and at such other places as the public exigencies require; and for per diem to enlisted men em loyed under the direc- _, tion of the Quartermaster’s Department on tlhe repair of barracks, quarters, and the other public buildings, sixty-six thousand three hundred and thirty-six dollars. F oRAoE, MARINE CoR1>s: For forage in kind for horses of the F°“‘¥°· ` Quartermaster’s Department, and the authorized number of oiIicers’ horses, seventeen thousand seven hundred dollars. ' HIRE or QUARTERS, MARINE Cours: For hire of quarters for officers Hirwf qnmrrm 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 commutation 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 inspectors, the assistant paymasters, and the assistant quartermasters, at twenty- one dollars each per month, and for enlisted men employed as messengers in said offices, at ten dollars each per month, thirty-tive thousand seven hundred and forty-eight dollars. _ CONTINGENT, LIARINE Cones: For freight, tolls, cartage, advertis— C°““°8°“‘· ing, washing of bed sacks, mattress covers, pillowcases, towels, and sheets, funeral expenses of marines, including the transportation of bodies from the place of demise to the homes of the deceased in the United States, 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 and garrison equipage and implements, mess utensils for enlisted men, such as bowls, plates, spoons, knives and forks, tin cups, pans, pots, and so forth; packing boxes, wrapping paper, oilclot, crash. rope, twine, quarantine fees, camphor and carbolized paper, carpenters tools, tools for police purposes, iron safes, purchase and repair of public wagons, purchase and repair of public harness, purchase of public horses, services of veterinary surgeons, and medicines for public horses; purchase and repair of hose, purchase and repair of tire extinguishers, purchase of tire hand grenades: purchase and repair of carts, wheelbarrows, and lawn mowers; purchase and repair of cooking stoves, ranges, stoves. and furnaces where there are no grates; purchase of ice, towels, soap, combs, and brushes for offices; postage stamps for foreign postage; purchase of books, newspapers, and periodicals; improving parade grounds. repair of pumps and wharves: laying drain, water, and gas pipes: water. introducing gas. and for gas, gas oil, and introduction and maintenance of electric lights: straw for bedding, mattresses, mattress covers. pillows. sheets: wire bunk bottoms for enlisted men at various posts: furniture for Government quarters and