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 persons, and to be accounted for monthly on itemized vouchers to the accounting officers of the District of Columbia.


 * For relief of the poor, including pay of physicians to the poor, who shall be appointed by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia on the recommendation of the health officer, thirteen thousand dollars.


 * For transportation of paupers, two thousand dollars.

MILITIA OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.

For the following, to be expended under the authority of the commanding general, who is hereby authorized and empowered to make necessary contracts and leases, and to be accounted for in like manner as the appropriations disbursed for pay of troops, namely:

For rent, fuel, light, heat, care, and repair of armories, practice ships, boats, machinery, and dock, dredging alongside of dock, and for telephone service, eighteen thousand dollars.

For lockers, furniture, and gymnastic apparatus for armories, four hundred dollars.

For printing and stationery, six hundred and fifty dollars.

For cleaning and repairing uniforms, arms, and equipments, and contingent expenses, one thousand two hundred and fifty dollars.

For custodian in charge of United States property and storerooms, nine hundred dollars.

For clerk, office of the Adjutant-General, seven hundred and twenty dollars.

For expenses of drills and parades, one thousand seven hundred dollars.

For expenses of rifle practice and matches, three thousand six hundred dollars.

For expenses of camps, instruction, practice marches, and practice cruises, including fuel for cruising purposes, fifteen thousand two hundred dollars.

For pay of troops, other than Government employees, to be disbursed under the direction of the commanding-general, seventeen thousand six hundred dollars: Provided,

That members of the National Guard of the District of Columbia who receive compensation for their services as such shall not be held or construed to be officers of the United States, or persons holding any place of trust or profit, or discharging any official function under or in connection with any Executive Department of the Government of the United States within the

provisions of section fifty-four hundred and ninety-eight of the Revised Statutes of the United States: Provided further,

That all moneys collected on account of deductions made from the pay of any officer or enlisted man of the National Guard of the District of Columbia on account of Government property lost or destroyed by such individual shall be repaid into the United States Treasury to the credit of the officer of the militia of the District of Columbia who is accountable to the United States Government for such property lost or destroyed: Provided further,

That all moneys collected on account of deductions made from the pay of any officer or enlisted man of the National Guard of the District of Columbia for or on account of any violation of the regulations governing said National Guard shall be held by the commanding general of the militia of the District of Columbia, who is authorized to expend such moneys so collected for necessary clerical and general incidental expenses of the service, including books, or for the pay of troops, other than Government employees; and for all moneys so collected and expended the commanding general shall make