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 116 SIXTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 163. 1908. toilet articles, barbers’, laundry, and tnilors’ materials, for use of military convicts confined at military posts without pay or allowances, and applicants for enlistment w ile held under obseryatnou; for issues of toilet kits to recruits upon their first enlistment; ice for issue to organizations of enlisted men at such places as the Secretary of war mav determine; matches for lighting public fires and lights at posts and stations and in the field; ilour used for paste in target prwtice; salt and vinegar for public animals`; toilet paper for use > enlisted men at posts, camps, rendezvous, and ofices where watercllosets are provided with sewer connections, or where the sanitary conditions require its use; for sales to officers and enlisted men of Hm Army; cofee masters and cooking apparatus in the Held, and when traveling (except on transports), bake ovens and apparatus pertaini thereto; scale; weights, measures, utensils, tools, stauonery, 'blanlghooks and forms, office furniture, commissary chests and outfits, Prvviwr- and field desks of commissaries: .Prm·ided, That the sum of twelve N°u°°°lm°°“°t°h thousand dollars is authorized to be expended to defray the cost of fumisbin food, and for providiui extraduty pay for cooks, assistant cooks, and waiters, and or peris able~ table equipment in submsting enlisted men of the Regular Army and the organized militia who may ·be\ competitors in the National Riile Match: Ami provided Pudinn. jimtleer, That no competitor who is thus subsisted shall be entitled to commutation of rations, and no greater expense shall be incurred than one dollar and fifty cents per man per day for the period the con- {T{;,’,}{‘,,°,‘}{,?;,,,,L test is in progress. For payments: Of commutations of rations to the cadets at the United States Military Academy in lieu of the regular established ration at the mte of thirty cents per ration; of the regulation allowances of commutation in lieu of rations to enlisted men on furlough, 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 kind, enlisted men selected to contest for places or prizes in - department and army ride competitions while travelin to and from places of contest, male and female nurses on leaves of alsence, applicunts for enlistment and military convicts while traveling under orders; of commutation of rations in lieu of the regular established ration for members of the Nurse Corps (female) while on dut in hospital, and for enlisted men, applicants for enlistment while hell} under observation, and military convicts 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), “°’*‘*‘“’ P'"- to beegaid to the surgeon in charge: of compensation of civilians employ in the Subsistence Department, an of extra pay to enlisted men emlployed on extra duty in the Subsistence Department for periods of not ess than ten days, at rates fixed bfy law; of extra-duty pay at rates to be Exed by the Secretary of War or mess stewards and cooks at recruit depots, who are to be graduates of the schools for bakers and cooks; for iprmtmg, advertising, commercial newspapers, and use of telephones; or temporary buil ings, cellars, and other means of protcctingosuhsistence supp ies (when not provided by the Quartermm an men. maste1·’s Fartment): for providing prizes to be established by the "‘°· Secretary o 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 hundred dollars per annumfor othermecessary expenses incident to the purchase, testin, care,. Mmm preservation, issue, sale. and accounting for subsistence sup lies for ‘, the Armg; in all, seven million three hundred and eighty-two thousand nine hun red and fifty~one dollars and fortv-five cents, to be expended ‘under the direction of the Secretary of lWar, and accounted for as “subs1stence of the Army," and for that purpose to constitute one