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 250 FIFTY-NINTH CONGRESS. Sess. l. Ch. 3078. 1906. kind; to enlisted men selected to contest for places or prizes in department and army ride competitions while traveling to and from p aces of contest; to male and female nurses on leaves of absence; for pay- ment of commutation of rations in lieu of the regular established ration for members of the Nurse Corps (female) while on duty in hospital, and for enlisted men sick therein, at the rate of thirty cents per ration (except that at the General Hospital at Fort Bayard, New Mexico, lift cents per ration is authorized for enlisted patients in said hospital) Mm!' "¤“¤P°" to lliepaid to the surgeon in charge; for subsistence of the masters, Mme' - 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 providing prizes to be established by the Secretary of War for enlisted men of the Army who graduate from the Army schools for bakers and cooks, the total amount of such prizes at the various schools not to exceed nine A“‘°““*· hundred dollars per annum; in all, six million two hundred and forty- nine thousand seven hundred and three dollars and seventy cents, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War and accounted for as "Subsistence of the Army," and for that purpose to constitute one fund. ,,.3.“.$Zf{"‘““'°"“'°* oU.u:rnnMAscraa’s DEPARTMENT. Resv1M ¤¤m>1i¤¤- REGULAR SUPPLIESI Regular supplies of the Quartermastefs Department, including their care and protection, consisting of stoves and . heating apparatus required for heating offices, hospitals, barracks and quarters, and recruiting stations; also ranges an stoves, and appliances for cooking and serving food, and relpair and maintenance of such heating and cooking appliances; of fue and lights for enlisted men, including recruits, guar s, 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 necessary furniture, text-books, paper, and equipment for the post schools and libraries; for the tableware and mess furniture for kitchens and F<>r¤z¤.¤t¤· mess halls, each and all for the enlisted men, including recruits; of forage in kind for the horses, mules, and oxen of the Q,uartermaster`s Department at the several posts and stations and with the armies in the iield, and for the horses of the several regiments of cavalry, the batteries of artillery, and such companies of infantry and scouts as ma be mounted, and for. the authorized number of olli<·ers’ horses, Home·•.em..for¤m- including bedding for the animals; and nothing in the Act making "°€;i_m_,_m_ appropriations for the le islative, executive, and judicial expenses of the Government for the tiscal year nineteen hundred and seven, or any other Act, shall hereafter be held or construed so as to deprive officers of the Army, wherever on duty in the military service of the United 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 QU&l't0I'Hl8StB1'iS Department, certiticates for discharged soldiers, blank forms for the Pay and Quartermaster”s _ »·¤¤<>¤¤¤· departments, and for printing department orders and reports, five {ggqigmmcers mi lion dollars: P2·o¢·e`ded, That hereafter fuel may be furnished to ` commissioned officers on the active list by the Quartermastefs Department, for the actual use of such officers only, at the rate of three dollars per cord for standard oak wood, or at an equivalent rate for other kinds of fuel, the amount so furnished to each to be limited to the otl`icer’s actual personal necessities as certified to by him: P1-at-ded “’*¤'i°8- fn-Mw-. That no part of the appropriations for the Quartermastefs