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 _ FIFTY—NINTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 3078. 1906. 253 seventeen thousand acres of land lying near San Antonio, Texas, for San A¤m¤i<•. military purposes at a cost not exceeding one hundred and twelve thousand dollars. DTILITARY POST EXCHANGE.: For continuing the construction, equip- PM ¤¤¤i·¤¤s¤~· ment, and maintenance of suitable buildings at military posts and stations for the conduct of the post exchange, school, library, reading, lunch, amusement rooms, and gymnasium, to be expended in the discretion and under the direction of the Secretary of War, three hundred and fifty thousand dollars: Provided, That twenty thousand Prw·isps._ _ dollars of the sum herein appropriated shall be used for the construc- p§,§2iZ$3`éQf’f b"" tion of a post exchange and amusement hall for the use of patients of _ the general hospital, Presidio of San Francisco, California: Provided further, That not more than forty thousand dollars of the above Limitappropriation shall be expended at any one post or station. 'IRANSPORTATION or THE ARMY AND rrs sorrmrzs: Transportation Ti¤¤Swri¤¢i<>¤- of the Army, including baggage of the troops when moving either by land or water, and including also the transportation of recruits and recruiting parties heretofore paid from the appropriation for “‘ Expenses of recruiting" and the transportation of applicants for enlistment between recruiting stations and recruiting depots; of supplies to the militia furnished by the War Department; of the necessary agents and employees; of clothing, camp and garrison equipage, and other quartermaster’s stores, from army depots or places of purchase or delivery to the several osts and army depots, and from those depots to the troops in the field; of horse equipments and subsistence stores from the places of purchase, and from the places of delivery under contract to such places as the circumstances of the service may require them to be sent; of ordnance, ordnance stores, and smal arms from the foundries and aunories to the arsenals, fortifications, frontier posts, and army depots; freights., wharfage, tolls, and ferriages; the purchase and hire of draft and pack animals and 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 drayage and cartage at the several posts; hire of teamsters and other employees; extraduty pay of enlisted men driving teams, repairing means of transportation, and employed as train masters, and in opening roads and buil ing wharves; transportation of funds of the Army; the exppnses of sailing public transports on the various rivers, the Gulf of exico, and the Atlantic and Pacific oceans; and hereafter no steamship in the trans- r=:¤ii¤_t;:{ ¤r¤m~i·<·r¤~ port service of the United States shall he sold or disposed of with- r”s "` ' out 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 brought from a distance, and for the disposal of sewage and drainage, and for constructing ' roads and wharves; for the payment of army transportation lawfully g,f,’;{',Ej§{}§,,,},‘g_ ‘*‘"d‘ 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 M¤¤=i¤¤¤¤¤- in no case shall more than fifty per centum of full amount of service be paid: 1’rm··éde»¢l, That such compensation shall be computed wmp_mm_ upon the basis of the tariff or lower special rates for like transpcr- mm. tation performed for the public at large, and shall be accepted as in o full for all demands for such service: I’r0z~z'deel_fi4rthér, hat in ex- FAM PH ****1* *0, . . . ron. snot bond aided. pending 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 subject to