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 FIFTY-NINTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 3078. 1900. 24%) Encampment of organized militia with troops of the Regular Army: 0'€**¤i“d mmm For paying the expenses of regiments, battalions, squadrons, and cfj,¥;f ‘§m‘;* j,?,; batteries of the organized militia of any State, Territory, or of the Army- District of Columbia, which may be authorized by the Secretary of VVar to participate in such brigade or division encampments as may be established for the Held instruction of the troops of the Regular Army, as provided by sections lifteen and twenty-one of the Act of Vol. 32, pp. vn, m. January twenty-first, nineteen hundred and three, entitled "An Act to promote the etiiciency of the militia, and for other purposes," seven hundred thousand dollars: 1 Mwided, That hereafter when any portion Qmh, ,0, perm of the organized militia of any State, Territory, or the District of vfservice nrnnumer. Columbia participates in the enmmpment, maneuvers, and field instruction of any part of the Regular Army, under the provisions of section fifteen of the Act of January twe*1ty-tirst, nineteen hundred and three, they may, after -being duly mustered by an officer of the Regular Army, be paid at any time after such muster for the period from the date of leaving the home rendezvous to date of return thereto as determined in advance, both dates inclusive, and such payment, if otherwise correct, shall pass to the credit of the paymaster making the same. . snssrsrmom imrnncrinnnr. m§§§f”*“‘°“°° ”°P°"' Pnncmsm or snnsrsrnxcn snrrmns: For issue as rations to troops, S¤v1¤¤¤¤· to civil employees when entitled thereto, hospital matrons and nurses, general prisoners of war (including Indians held by the Army as pris— . oners, but for whose subsistence appropriation is not otherwise made), · and to military prisoners at posts; 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 pay or allowances, and recruits at recruiting stations; of matches for lighting public fires and lights at posts an stations and in the iield; of Hour used for paste in target practice; of salt and vinegar for public animals; of issues to Indians em loyed with the Army, without pay, as guides and scouts, and for toiiet Hpaper for use by enlisted men at posts, camps, rendezvous, _ and offices where water-closets are provided with sewer connections or where the sanitary conditions require its use. For payments: """’“°"“’· For meals for recruiting parties and recruits, including app icants for enlistment while held under observation; for hot coffee, canned meats, and baked beans for troops traveling, when it is imprm-ticable to cook their rations; for coffee masters., scales, weights, measures, utensils, tools, stationery, blank books and forms, {printing, advertising, commercial newspapers, use of telephones, o `ce furniture, commissary chests and outfits, and iield desks of commissaries; for temporary buildings, cellars, and other means of protecting subsistence supplies (when not provided by the Quartermastefs Department); for extra E"°’““‘""· 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 ugv¤i¤¤ <‘¤¤¤P¢¤¤· compensation of civilians employed in the Subsistence Department,. and for other necessary expenses incident to the purchase, care, preservation, issue, sale, and accounting for subsistence supplies for the Army; for the payment of commutation of rations to the cadets at the C°""°°°m°°' 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 sergeauts on duty at ungarrisoned posts; to enlisted men and male and 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