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 srxrY-FoU1rrH ooNeREss. sms. 11. cs. iso. 1917. 1191 racks furniture, cam and rrison ui e and im lements; mess utensils for enlisted linen; gaxcking liadlxegagvrapping gaper, oilcloth, crash, rope, twine, quarantine fees, camphor and carbolized paper, carpenters’ tools, tools for police purposes, safes, purchase, hire, repair, and maintenance of such harness, w ons, motor wagons, armored automobiles, carts, drays, motor- ropililed and horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles, to be used onlly for official purposes, and other_veh1cles as are_ required for the transportation of troo s and supjpihes and for official m.ilitary and garrison purposes; purchase of pu c horses and mules; services of veterinary surgeons, and medicines for public animals, and the authorized number of officers’ horses; piuchase of mounts and horse equipment for all officers below the grade of major required to be moimted; shoeing for public ammals and the authorized number of ofIicers’ horses; purchase and repair of hose, fire extinguishers, hand grenades, carts, wheelbarrows, and lawn mowers; pure ase, installation, and repair of cooking and heating stoves and furnaces; piuchase of towels, soap, combs, and brushes for offices; postage stamps for foreign and registered posta e; books, newspapers, an periodicals; improving arade gI'O'l1D§S; repair of pumps and wharves, water; straw for bedliiug, mattresses; mattress covers, pillows, sheets; furniture for Government quarters and repair of same;  and crating officers’ allowance of baggage on change of station; eodorizers, lubricants, disinfectants; and or all emergencies and extraordinary ex enses arising at home and abroad, but impossible to anticipate or classify, $846,385}; Prmnkied,  0, mm That hereafter no part of the pay and allowances authorized for with par to d•t•¤¤d enlisted men detai ed as clerks and messengers in the office of the mm Ma'or General Commandant and the several staff offices shall be forfeited when granted furlough for not exceeding thirty days in each calendar ear. D. b d In all, fbi- the maintenance of Quartermastefs Department, Marine mismgmlm °° ° Corps, $6,200,385; and the money herein s eciiically appropriated for the maintenance of the Quartermaster’s Igepartment, Eiarine Corps, shall be disbursed and accounted for in accordance with existing law as maintenance, Quartermaster’s Department, Marine Corps, and for that purpose shall constitute one fund. mm P R For the authorized expenses of the Marine Copps Reserve, $25,000. ,,m_ ° °"” °` Total Marine Corps, including Marine Corps eserve, exclusive of public works, $l3,358,l87.78. mcrcnasm or rum rmvr. ‘¤°”°*°°"¤°N°"Y· Of the vessels authorized in the "Act making a propriations for .¤‘l1g$1i°°°eir°:Ji31am'Si the naval service for the fiscal year ending June tgxrtieth, nineteen ’Pj°n‘§,°°;ggjbhundred and seventeen and for other purposes," approved Aufgust ’ twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, the construction o the C°°**¤¤•¤¤*- following vessels shall be begun as soon as practicable at a cost exclusive of armor and armament not to excee the following amounts: Three battleships, $15,500,000 each; one battle cruiser, $19,000,000; three scout cruisers, $6,000,000 each; fifteen destroyers, $1,300,000 each ; one destroyer tender, $2,300,000; one submarine tender, $1 ,900,- 000; eighteen coast submarinestohaveasurface displacement of about hmm, ,,,,,,,,,,_ eight hundred tons each, $1,300,000 each, and the limits of cost for the i=~¤iv¤¤¤•¤s· four battle cruisers and for three scout cruisers authorized and appropriated for in said Act but not yet contracted for, are increased to not to exceed $19,000,000 each for the battle cruisers and $6,000,000 each for the scout cruisers, exclusive of armor and armament, and the construction of said vessels shall be begun as soon as practicable. N Coxsrnocrrox AND uscnmrmr: On account of hulls and outfits  ud and machinery of three battleshrps, one battle cruiser, three scout ¤=•*=*·*¤·¤‘·