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 1166 FIFTY-NINTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 2511. 1907. place of contest; to male and female nurses on leaves of absence; to applicants for enlistment while traveling under orders; for dpayment of commutation of rations in lieu of the regular establishe ration for members of the Nurse Corps (female) while on duty in hospital, and for enlisted men, applicants for enlistment held under observation, and general prisoners sick therein, at the rate of thirty cents per ration (except that at the General Hospital at Fort Bayard, New Mexico, fifty cents per ration is authorized for enlisted patients in said hospital) to be paid to the “{’:£§¤*¤ of ¤¤¤“ surgeon in charge: Provided further, That hereafter officers intrusted wit the disbursement of funds for the subsistence of the Army are hereby authorized to keep, at their own risk, in their personal possession for disbursement, such restricted amounts of subsistence funds for facilitating payments of small amounts to public creditors as shall ,,,,$‘,’§‘,,Y "“""’°" from time to time be authorized by the Secretary of War; for subsistence of the masters, officers, crews, and employees of the vessels of the Army transport service; for ice to organizations of enlisted men stationed at such places as the Secretary of War may determine; for providingfprizes to be established by the Secretary of War for enlisted men o the Army who graduate from the Army schools for bakers and cooks, the total amount of such prizes at the various schools not hundred and thirty-two thousand seven hundred and sixt —one dolgirs and fifteen cents, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War, and accounted for as "Subsistence of the Arn1y," and for that purpose to constitute one fund. pugtizlgig-eamuwrsm QUABTERM.ASTER’S DEPARTMENT- R°g"1"’ ”“P*’“°"~ Regular supplies of the Quartermaster’s Department., including their care and protection, consisting of stoves and heating apparatus required for heating offices, hospitals, barracks and quarters, and recruiting stations, and United States military prison; also ranges and stoves, and appliances for cooking and serving food at posts and on transports, and repair and maintenance of such heating and cooking appliances; of fuel and lights for enlisted men, including recruits, guards, hospitals, storehouses, and offices, and for sale to officers, and including also fuel and engine supplies required in the operation of modern batteries at established posts; for post bakeries; for ice machines and their maintenance where required for the health and comfort of the troops and for cold storage; for the construction operation, and maintenance of laundries at military posts in the Suited States and its island possessions; for the necessary furniture, text-books, paper, and equipment for the post schools and libraries; for the tableware and mess furniture for kitchens and mess halls, each and all for the enlisted men, the Quartermastefs Department at the several posts and stations and with the armies in the field, and for the horses of the several regiments of cavalry, the batteries of artillery, and such companies of infantry H I m and scouts as may be mounted, and for the authorized number of officers’ ,,,._ "”‘°" °' ° °““‘· horses, mcluding bedding for the animals; and nothing in the Act mak- "¤l·”3·r·-6*7- ing appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the Government for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eight, or any other Act, shall hereafter be held or construed so as to deprive oflicers of the Army, wherever on duty in the military service of the llnited States, of forage, bedding, shoeing, or shelter for their authorized number of horses, or of any means of transportation or maintenance therefor for which provision is made by the terms of this Act; of straw for soldiers’ bedding, and of stationery, including blank books for the Quartermastefs Department, certificates for discharged soldiers, blank forms for the Pay and Quartermastefs
 * ““°““‘· _ to exceed nine hundred dollars per annum; in all, six million eight
 * `°’°F°- °'° including recruits; of forage in kind for the horses, mules, and oxen of