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 SIXTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 252. 1909. 745 _ TRANSPORTATION or mm ARMY AND 1rs SUPPLIES! For transports- '*"°¤$P°’°°“°¤· tion of the army and its supplies, including trans ortation of the troops when moving either by land or water, and of their baggage, including the cost of packing and crating; for transportation of recruits and recru1ting parties; of applicants for enlistment between recruiting stations and recruiting depots: Provided, That hereafter one of the  md companies at each recruiting depot shall have the organization of an minion? depots. lt mfantry band, to which recruits showing an aptitude for music may be attached for examination and instruction before assignment to organizations in the Army; of persons on their discharge from the United tates military prison to their homes (or elsewhere as they may elect) ppovided the cost in each case shall not be greater than to the place of ` t enlistment; of supplies furnished to the militia for the permanent equipment thereof; of the necessary agents and other em loyees; of clothing and equgpage and other quartermastefs stores fiom army depots or places 0 purchase or delivery to the several posts and army depots, and from  depots to the troops in the Held ; of horse equg ments and of subsistence stores from places of purchase, and from t places of delivery under contract to such places as the "circumstances of the service mahv require them to be sent; of ordnance and ordnance stores, and sma arms from the foundries and armories to the arsenals, fortifications, frontier Post and army depots; for yment of wharfa§, tolls, and ferriage; or transportation of funds ol): e army; for the 're of employees; or the payment of army transportation law- hmm, ,0 ,,,,,1, fully due such land-grant railroads as have not received aid in gov- ¤{¤¤¢¤¤¤>·<1¤ ernment bonds (to be adfusted in accordance with the decisions 0 the Supreme Court in cases ecided -u.nder such land-grant acts), but in no maximum. ease shall more than fifty per centum of full amount of service be paid: Provided, That such compensation shall he computed upon the asis ,,0*;:* °‘ °°"‘¥"‘*'•‘ of the   or lower special rates for like transportatioplperformed for the public at large,_ and shall be accepted as m full for demands for 1 t m such service: Prcmded further, That m expending the money appro- ,0§`gj{0,P§;u§f§ded_ riated by this Act, a railroad company which has not received aid m honds 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 lpostal, military, naval, and other government services, and also su ject to such regulations as Congress may impose restricting the charge for such government transportation, having claims against the United States for transportation of troops an munitions of war and military supplies and property over such aided railroads, shall be paid out of the moneys approplriated by the foregoing provision only on the basis of such rate for the transportation of such troops and munitions of war and military supplies and property as the Secretary of War shall deem just and reasona le under the foregoing provision, such rate not to exceed fifty per centum of the compensation for such government transportation as shall at that t1me_be charged to and paid by private parties to any such compony for like and similar transportation; and the amount so fixed to paid shall _ be accepted as in full for all demands for such service; for the purchase ,,,§§‘f§,§“° "“"* “'“' and hire of draft and pack animals in such numbers as are actually required fri; the service? inchliding roasonabée provisiqn forilroplacing unservicea e anima s; or the purc ase an re air o suc arness, wagons, carts, and drays as are required for tlhe transportation of troops and supplies and for garrison purposes; for drayage and cartage ‘ at the severa epots; for the hire of teamsters and othenemployees; and for extra-duty pay of enlisted men driving teams, repamng means of transportation, and employed as train masters; for the purchase and ships. boats. ewrepair of ships, boats, and other vessels required for the transportation of troops and supplies and for garrison purposes; for expenses of