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 SIXTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Crr. 79. 1917. 359 loyees; for the necessa? furniture, textbooks, paper, and equipment Schoolsupplies, sw. For the post schools an libraries and for textbooks for noncommissioned officers’ schools, including subscrgptions for newspapers, periodicals, and magazines for use of enliste men, as may be authorized by the Secretary of War; for the purchase and issue of instruments, office furniture, stationery, and other authorized articles for the use of oH:icers’ schools at the several military posts; for purchase of relief maps for issue to organizations, commercial newspapers, market reports, and so forth; or the tableware and mess furn1tur·e for kitchens and mess halls, each and all for the enlisted men, including recruits; for forage salt, and vinegar for the horses, mules, mggmse. ctc-. for anioxen, and other draft and riding animals of the Quartermaster Corips ` at the several posts and stations and with the armies in the fie d, and for the horses of the several regiments of Cavalry, and batteries of Artillery, and such companies o Infantry and Scouts as may be mounted; for remounts and for the authorized number of officers’ horses, including bedding for the animals; for seeds and implements required for the raising of forage at remount depots and on military reservations in the Hawaiian and Philippine Islands and for labor and expenses incident thereto, including, when specifically authorized by the Secretary of War, the cost of irrigation; or straw for soldiers’ bedding, stationery, typewriters and exchange of same, including blank books and blank forms for the Quartermaster Corps, certificates Pm, for discharged soldiers, and for printing department orders and Provislllgl reports, $125,000,000: Provided, That no part of the appropriations R°“"°“°°· for the Quartermaster Corps shall be expended on printing unless the same shall be done at the Govemment Printing Ofhce, or by contract after due notice and comgtition, except in such cases as the emergencywvill. not admit of e giving notice of competition, and in cases where it is impracticable to have the necessary rinting done by contractthe same may be done, with the approval) of the Secretary of War, by the purchase of material and hire of the necessary labor for the purpose. _ Iircmsnrxr. nxrnnsns, Quanrnnmsrnn Corrs: Postage; cost of I”°‘°°““‘1 °"’°““"" telegrams on official business received and sent by officers of the Army, including members of the OECGISI Reserve Corps, when ordered to active duty · extra pay to soldiers employed on extra duty Em my °°"°°°‘ under the direction of the Quartermaster Corps, in the erection of barracks, quarters, and storehouses in the construction of roads, and other constant labor for periods of not less than ten days· as additional school—teachers during the school term at post schools, and as clerks for post quartermasters at military gate, and for overseers of general prisoners at posts designated by e War De artment for the confinement of general prisoners, and for the Upnited States disci linary barracks ard· of extra·duty¤pay at rates to be fixed by the Secretary of ggar for mess stewa s and cooks at recruit depots, who are graduates of the schools for bakers and cooks, and instructor cooks at the schools for bakers and cooks; for expenses of expresses to and from frontier sts and armies in the Held; of escorts to_ officers or agents of the Szartermaster Corps to trains where military escorts can not be furnished; authorized office furniture, authorized issues of towels; hire of laborers in the Quartermaster Corps including the care of ofdcers’ mounts when the same are furnished by the Government, and the hire of interpreters, spies, or guides for the Arm ; compensation of clerks and other employees to the officers of (lie fguartermaster Corps, and clerks, foreman, watchrnen, and organist or the United States disci linary barracks, and mcrdental eippenses of recruiting; for the ap relllension, securing and delivering o _ deserters, including escaped rngitary prisoners, and the expenses mcident to their pursmt, an no greater sum than $50