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 1 18 SIXTIETH CONGRESS. Sms. I. _Crr. 163. 1908. ”*’°°*l"°"°°‘*'· Provided, That the funds received from such sales and in payment for such laundry work shall be used to defray the cost of operation of said ice, laund, and electric plants; and the sales and expenditures herein ·provided lfbr shall be accounted for in accordance with the methods prescribed by law, and any sums remaining, after such cost of maintenance and operation have been defrayed, shall be deposited ID the Treasury to the credit of the appropriation from wh1c the cost of operation of such plant is paid. ‘ _ _ _ 8c§g:,§_"'*°”* °‘ P°’* For the purchase of the necessary instruments, office furniture, stationery, and other authorized articles reqmred for the equipment and use of the officers’ schools at the several military posts, twelve thousand dollars. _ _ _ I¤°'°°”°" °‘P°"”'· Iucmnmn Exrmusrzsz Postage; cost of telegrams on oihcnal business · received and sent by officers of the Army; extra pay to soldiers employed on extra uty, under the direction of the Quartermaster’s Department, in the erection of barracks, quarters, and storehouses, in the construction of roads and other constant labor for periods of not less than ten days, and as clerks for post quartermasters at military posts, and for prison overseers at posts designated by the War Department for the confinement of genera prisoners, and for noncommissioned officers of the United States military prison guard; for expenses of expresses to and from frontier posts and armies in the Held, of escorts to paymasters and other disbursing officers, and t0_ trains where mili- I°°°"°°°°' tary escorts can not be furnished; expenses of the interment of officers killed in action or who die when on duty in the field, or at military posts or on the frontiers, or when traveling under orders, and of noncommissioned officers and soldiers; and in a lcases where such ex enses would have been lawful claims against the Government, reimbursement may be made of expenses heretofore or hereafter incurred by individuals of burial and transportation of remains of officers, including acting assistant surgeons, not to exceed the amount now allowed in the cases of officers, and for the reimbursement in the cases of enlisted men not exceeding the amount now allowed in their cases, may be paid out of the roper funds appropriated by this Act, and the disbursing oificers shall be credited with such reimbursement heretofore made; ` but hereafter no reimbursement shall be made of such expenses incurred prior to the twenty-first day of April, eighteen hundred and ninety- eight; authorized office furniture, hire of laborers in the Quartermaster’s Department, including the hire of interpreters, s ies, or guides for the Arm ; compensation of clerks and other employees to the officers of the Quartermastefs Department, and clerks, foremen, watchmen, and organist for the United States military prison, and incidental ex enses of recruiting; for the apprehension, securing, and delivering ofpdeserters, including esca d military prisoners, and the expenses incident to their pursuit, audio greater sum than fifty dollars for each deserter or escaped military prisoner shall, in the discretion of the Secretary of War, be paid to any civil officer or citizen for such services and expenses; for a donation of five dollars to each dishonorably discharged prisoner upon his release from continement, “°¤°°*¤°¤‘“'“'°* under court—martial sentence, involving dishonoxable discharge; for the following expenditures required for the several regiments of cavalr *, the batteries of light artillery, and such companies of infantry and scouts as may be mounted, the authorized number of officers’ horses, and for the trains, to wit: Hire of veterinary surgeons, purchase of medicines for horses and mules, picket ropes, blacksmith’s tools and materials. horeshoes and black=smith’s tools for the cavalry service, and for the shoeing of horses and mules, and such additional expenditures as are necessary and authorized by law in the movements and Am t operations of the Army, and at military posts, and not expressly °“° ‘ gssiggned to any other department, two million two hundred thousand o ars.