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 SIXTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 29. 1917. 193 and materials, horseshoes and blacksmith’s tools for the Cavalry ser·vice, and for the shoeing of horses and mules; chests and issue outfits; and such additional expenditures as are necessary and authorized by law in the movements and operations of the Army, and at military posts, and not expressly assigned to any other department, $8,000,000. Tr — um TRANSPORTATION or THE ARMY AND rrs SUPPLIES: For transpor- U tation of the Army and its sup lies, including transdportation of the troops when moving either by l)and or water, inclu 'ng members of the Officers’ Reserve Copps, enlisted men of the Enlisted Reserve Corps, and retired enliste men when ordered to active dutiy, and of their baggage, including the cost of packing and crating; or transportation 0 recruits and recruiting parties; of applicants for enlistment between recruiting stations and recruiting depots; for travel ,,,Q’?'“Q,’,$‘d,S*,§‘,{‘,§}i’g,*¥‘}°°°· allowance to officers an enlisted men on discharge; for payment of Vi>1·39»P· 217- travel allowance as rovided in section one hundred and twenty-six of the Act approved June third, nineteen hundred and sixteen, to enlisted men 0 the National Guard on their discharge from the service of the United States, and to members of the National Guard who have been mustered into the service of the United States and dis- Nmml Gum m_ char ed on account of ph ical disability; for payment of travel pay etmnasaimge. ° to oécers of the N ationailiuard on their disc arge from the service V°1·3‘·*’·°°“· of the United States, as prescribed in the Act approved March second, nineteen hundred and one; for travel allowance to persons on their discharge from the United States disciplinary barracks or from any place in which they have been held un er a sentence of dishonorable discharge and confinement for more than six months, or from the Government Hospital for the Insane after transfer thereto from such barracks or place, to their homes (or elsewhere as they mpg elect), provided the cost in each case shall not be greater than to e place of last enlistment; of the necessary agents and other employees, Mmmm .l including per diem allowances in lieu of subsistence not exceedirgglfl for those authorized to receive the per diem allowance; of clo g and equipage and other quartermaster stores from Army depots or places of purchase or delivery to the several posts and Army depots and from those depots to the troops in the fie d; of horse equipment; of ordnance and ordnance stores, and small arms from the foundries and armpries to the arienepllsagortihcalfigons, grpntier pestis, and Army epotsg or payment 0 w e, to, an erri. ; or trans r- tation of funds of the Army; fini the hire of empldygezs; for the gy-  t° Im ment of Army trans rtation lawfully due such land-grant railroads as have not receivego aid in Government bonds (to e adjusted in accordance with the decisions of the Supreme Court in cases decided under such land-grant Acts), but in no case shall more than fifty per centum of full amount of service be paid: Provided, That such com- {,°§,';,,°‘{g}';¤mpm,,m_ pensation shall be computed upon the basis of the tariff or lower special rates for like transportation performed for the public at large and shall be acce ted as in full for all demands for such service: Fm t M Pro·v·idedi£urther, 'lihat in expending the money appropriated by this mas gD¢§.l¤ic:i1dBd. Act a ra oad company which has not received aid in bonds 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, subjipct to the use of the United States for postal, military, naval, and other Government services, and also subject to such regulations as Congrms may impose restricting the charge for such Government transportation, having claims against ’ the United States for transportation of troops and munitions of war and military supplies and property over such aided railroads, shall be paid out of e moneys appropriated by the foregoing provisnon only on the basis of such rate iior the transportation of such troops an munitions of war and military supplies and property as the Sec- 112460°—vor. 40-—-rr 1—-13