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 252 SIXTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. II. C11. 115. 1910. ` of contest, male and female nurses on leaves of absence, applicants 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 duty in hospital, and for enlisted men, applicants for enlistment while held under observation, and military convicts sick therein, at the rate of thirty cents per ration (except that at the general hoiprtal at Fort Bayar, New Mexico, fifty cents per ration is authorize for enlisted patients Compenution ¤! ¤i· in said hospital), to be paid to the surgeon in charge; of com usavillans. - . . . _ fpo gm. pay, mw tron of civilians employed in the Subsistence Department, o_ extra ¤°¤· °‘°- Bay to enlisted men employed on extra duty m the Subsistence epartment for periods of not less than ten dayls, at rates fixed by law; of extra-duty pay at rates to be fixed by the Secretary of War for messstewards and cooks at recruit depots, who are to be lgsraduates at the schools for bakers and cooks, and instructor coo at the schools for bakers and cooks; for printing, advertising,_commerc1al newspapers, and use of telephones; for temporarly buildings, cellars, and other means of protecting subsistence supp ies (when not prom*f,'*£,,{_°* **•*°” vided by the guartermastefs Department); or providing prizes to be establish by the Secretary of War for enlisted men of the 81711 who graduate from the army schools for bakers and cooks, the totaf amount of such prizes at the various schools not to exceed nine hundred dollars per annum; for other necessary expenses incident to the purchase, testing, care, preservation, issue, sale, and Amount- accounting for subsistence supplies for the army; in all, eight million seven hundred thousand dollars, 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. P8<}yI=;¤;§{¤¤¤¢¤r'• Ds- QUARTERMASTEB]S DEPARTMENT. Res¤l¤r¤¤pr>¤i¤¤- REGULAR surrnms: Regular supplies of the Quartermaster’s Department, including their care and protection, consisting of stoves and heating apparatus required for heating offices, hos itals, barracks and quarters, and recruiting stations, and United States military prison; also ranges and stoves, and appliances for cooking and serving food at posts, and repair and maintenance of such heating and cooking app iances; for furnishing heat and light for the authorized allowance of Zuarters for officers and enlisted men for officers of the national guar attending service and garrison schools, and for recruits, guards, hospitals, storehouses, offices, the buildings erected v¤1.z2, p. zsz. at private cost in the operation of the Act approved May thirty-first, nineteen hundred and two; 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 w cre required for the health and comfort of the troops _ and for cold storage; for the construction, o eration, and maintenance of laundries at military posts in the flfnitcd States and its island possessions; for the necessary furniture, text-books, aper, and equipment for the ost schools and libraries; for the tableware and mess furniture for liiitchens and mess halls, each and all for the Forage, em, enlisted men, including recruits; of forage in kind for the horses, mules, and oxen of the Quartermaster’s Department at the several posts and stations and with the armies in the field, 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 officers’ horses, incfiiding bedding for the sé¤;;·;p;;g1¤ir;<;>f$g$§; animals; and hereafter, when an officer is separated from his authoracres. ized number of owned horses through the nature of the military service upon which employed, the shall not be de rived of forage, bedding, shelter, shoeing, or medicines therefor, liecause of such