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 SIXTY-FIF TH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 27. 1917. 137 NATIONAL norm Fon DISABLED VOLUNTEER SOLDIERS. g01;£§gQ§d§,€;?\;,;g; H. For support of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, I as follows: Central Branch, Dayton, Ohio: Current expenses: For pay of £,‘{{,*,,‘{§·,,(§§‘,,‘};,,,,_ officers and noncommissioned officers of the home, with such exceptions as are hereinafter noted, and their clerks, weighmasters, and orderlies; cha lains, religious instruction, and entertainment for the members of the home, printers, bookbinders, librarians, musicians, telegraph and telephone operators, guards, janitors watchmen, fare company, and property and materials purchased for their use, including repairs not done by the home; articles of amusement, library books, magazines, papers, pictures, and musical instruments, and repairs not done by the home; stationery, advertisigg: legal advice, payments due heirs of deceased members: Provided, at all receipts §§,'{x· 0, dmmd on account of the effects of deceased members durinlg the fiscal year ¤¤¤¤=¤•r¤· shall also be available for such payments; and for suc other expenditures as can not properly be included under other heads of expenditures, $60,000;. Subsistence: For pay of commissarg sergleants, commissarg clerks, Im°m°°°°' porters, laborers, bakers, cooks, dis was ers, waiters, an others emplofyed in the subsistence department; food supplies, except articles o special diet for the sick, purchased for the subsistence of the members of the home and civilian employees regularly employed and residing at the branch, their freight, (preparation, and serving; aprons, caps, and jackets for lntchen and ining—r·oom employees; to acco; dining-room and kitchen furniture and utensils, ba.kers’ and butchers tools and ap liances, and their repair not done by the home, $250,000; B Househo dz For furniture for officers’ quarters; bedsteads, bed- °°°°b°u' din? bedding material, and all other articles required in the quarters of the members, and of civilian employees {permanently employed and residing at the branch, and their repair, not repaired by the home; fuel, including fuel for cooking, heat, and light; engineers and firemen, bathhouse keepers, jérnitors, laundry employees, and for all labor, materials, an app `ances require for household use, and repvpirs, if not repaired by the home, $103,000; ospital: For pay of assistant surgeons, matrons, druggists, hospi- H°°°°°°° tal clerks and stewards, ward masters, nurses cooks, waiters, readers, drivers, funeral escort, janitors, and for such other services as ma be necessary for the care of the sick; burial of the dead; surgicg instruments and appliances, medical books, medicine liquors, fruits, and other necessaries for the sick not purchased under subsistence• bedsteads, bedding, and bedding materials, and all other special articles necessary or the wards; ospital furniture, including special articles and appliances for hospital kitchen and dining room; carriage, hearse, stretc ers, coffins; and for all repairs to hospital furniture and appliances not done by the home, $76,000; Transportation: For transportation of members of the home, T'““sp°"‘°°°“· $1,200. Repairs: For pay of chief engineer, builders, blacksmiths, ca.rpen- R°*'“i”‘ ters, painters, gas fitters, electrical workers, plumbers, tinsmrths, steam iitters, stone and brick masons, and laborers, and for all appliances and materials used under this head; and repairs of roads and p,,,,,,_,,,_ other improvements of a permanent character, $60,000: Provided, I $***1 www °¤ ”°" That no part of the appropriation for repairs for any of the branch ' homes shall be used for the construction of any new building; Fm Farm: For pay of farmer, chief gardener, harness makers, farm hands, gardeners, horseshoers, stablemen, teamsters, dairymen, herders, and laborers; tools, appliances, and materials required for farm, garden, and dairy work; grain, and gr-aindproducts, hay, straw, fertilizers, seed, carriages, wagons, carts, an other conveyances;