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 F IFTY -NINTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 2511. 1907. 1165 by sections fifteen and twenty-one of the Act of January twenty-first, V°l·"*2·P¥’-""’¤`"’- nineteen hundred and three, entitled "An Act to promote the eiiiciency of the militia, and for other purposes," one milhon dollars. For the purchase of ilags for use on Memorial Day in suitably dec- D;}'};, ‘°' ”°”°""** orating the graves of soldiers and sailors of the Union Army buried ` in national cemeteries, two thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may lap necessary, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of ar. For settlement of two hundred and fifty-six a proved claims for { §¤ ¤=l¤¤¤¤*¤f¤¤•¤¤¤ damages to and loss of rivate roperty in the lihited States, Cuba, ° °°' Porto Rico, and the Phiii pine islands, thirty-five thousand two hundred and seventy-one dollgrs and ten cents. suusrsmucm DEPARTMENT. S¤\¤1¤w¤c¤ 1>¤1>•¤~ ment. . ‘ Purchase of subsistence supplies: For issue, as rations to troops, to $¤PP”¤- civil employees when entitled thereto, hospital matrons and nurses, general prisoners of war (including Indians held by the Army as prisoners, but for whose subsistence appropriation IS not otherwise made), to military prisoners at posts: srmzided, That hereafter the Qcynuom emergency ration prescribed for use on emergent occasions shall, when issued, be furnished in addition to the regu ar ration under such regulations asmay be prescribed by the Secretary of War; and for sales to officers and enlisted men of the Army; for authorized issues of candles; of toilet articles, barbers’, laundry, and tailors’ materials, for use of general prisoners confined at military posts without or allowances, and recruits, including applicants for enlistment whiiiilheld under obwrvation at recruiting stations; of matches for lighting public fires and lights at posts and stations and in the field; og Hour used for paste in target practice; of salt and vinegar for public animals; of issues to Indians employed with the Army, without pay, as guides and scouts; and for toilet paper for use by enlisted men 8;})08t8, camps, rendezvous, and offices where water—closets are provid with sewer connections, or where the sanitary conditions require its use. For payments: For meals for recruiting parties and recruits including P•Y¤¤¤¤ applicants for enlistment while held under observation; for hot coffee, canned meats, and baked beans for troops traveling. when it is impracticable to cook their rations; for coffee roasters, for cooking apparatus in the field and when traveling (except on transports), bake ovens and apparatus pertaining thereto; scales, weights, measures, utensils, tools. stationery, blank books and forms, printing. advertising, commercial newspapers, use of telephones, office furniture, commissary chests and outlits, and field des s of commissaries: for temporary buildings, cellars, and other means of protecting subsistence supplies (when not provided by the Quarteru1aster’s Department); for extra E*“`*‘·"“*>`P°F- pay to enlisted men employed on extra duty in the Subsistence Department for periods of not less than ten days, at rates fixed by law: for compensation of civilians employed in the Subsistence Department; and for other necessary expenses incident to the purchase, testing, care, preservation, issue, sale, and accounting for subsistence supplies _ for the Army; for payment of commutation of rations to the ca ets at C°m’”“'°""“· the United States Military Academy in lieu of the regular established ration at the rate of thirty cents per ration: and for the payment of the regulation allowances of commutation in lieu of rations to enlisted men on furlough; to ordnance sergeants on duty at ungarrisoned posts; to enlisted men and male an female nurses when stationed at places where rations in kind can not be economically issued, and when traveling on detached duty where it is impracticable to carry rations of any kind; to enlisted men selected to contest for places or prizes in department and army riile competitions while traveling to and from