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 1170 FIFTY-NINTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 2511. 1907. equipments and subsistence stores from the places of purchase, and from the places of delivery under contract to such places as the ci1·— cumstances of the service may require them to be sent; of ordnance, ordnance stores, and small arms from the foundries and armories to ‘ the arsenals, fortiiications, frontier posts, and army depots; freights, One estimate !¤r wharfage, tolls, and ferriages: Itomded, That estimates for the next ii§i·l§Z;t$i?°S°°r°m°° iiscal year shall be submitted to the Congress of the United States °"*°’“°m”· covering transportation of the Army and its supplies in one estimate, and additional estimates shall be submitted covering other items heretofore carried in appropriation bills under the head of transportation of the Arm and its supplies; the purchase and hire of draft and pack animals audi harness, and the purchase and repair of wagons, carts, and drays, and of ships and other vessels and boats required for the transportation of troops and supplies and for garrison purposes; for draya e and cartage at the several posts; hire of teamsters and other emplloyees; extra-duty pay of enlisted men driving teams, repairing means of transportation, and employed as train masters, and 1n opening roads and building wharves; transportation of funds of the Arm ; the expenses of sailing public transports on the various rivers, we ¤f ¢¤¤¤#r>¤r¢¤ the Gulf of Mexico, and the Atlantic and Pacific oceans; and herer°°°"°m° after no steamship in the transport service of the United States shall be sold or disposed of without the consent of Congress having been first had or obtained; for procuring water, and introducing the same to buildings at such posts as from their situation require it to be Pu m to wd_ brought from a distance, and for the disposal of sewage and drainage, gmntvlilalilmads. and for constructing roads and wharves; for the payment of army - transportation lawfully due such land-grant railroads as have not received aid in Government bonds (to be adjusted in accordance with the decisions of the Supreme Court in cases decided under such · land—grant acts), but in no case shall more than fifty per centum of ,,§{f"‘ °* °°"‘p°“s"` full amount of service be paid: Ibmrided, That such compensation shall be computed upon the basis of the tariff or lower special rates for like transportation performed for the public at large, and shall my er pcm to be accepted as in full for all demands for such service: /'rm·a`¢led reiusiieimnu mam. _}‘iu·tM>r, That in expending the money appropriated by this Act, a railroad company which has not received aid in bonds of the United States, and which obtained a grant of public land to aid in the construction of its railroad on condition that such railroad should be a post route and military road, subject to the use of the United States for postal, military, naval, and other Government services, and also subjectto such regulations as Congress may impose restricting the charge for such Government transportation, havingclaims against the United States for transportation of troops and munitions of war and military supplies and property over such aided railroads, shall be paid out of the moneys appropriated by the foregoing rovision only on the basis of such rate for the transportation of suclh troops and munitions of war and military supplies and property as the Secretary of WVar shall deem just and reasonable under the foregoing provision. such rate not to exceed fifty per centum of the compensation for such Government transportation as shall at that time be charged to and paid by private parties to any such compiny for like and similar transportation; and D R mm the amount so fixed to I-paid shall be accepted as in‘ full for all "‘ ““ ‘ demands for such service: mz:ided_hn·Mez·, That the number of draft animals purchased from this appropriation, added to those now on hand. R . m _ on u shall be limited to such numbers as are actually required for the service. of f.§,,,§,‘Q,‘?,‘§_ “" fourteen million five hundred thousand dollars: Pr0z·z'ded, That no part of this appropriation shall be applied to the payment of the expenses of using transports in any other Government work than the transportation of the Army, its supplies and employees: and when, in the