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 SIXTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 12. 1917. 53 oflicers’ horses, and for the trains, to wit, purchase of picket ropes, blacksmith’s tools and materials, horseshoes and blacksmith’s tools for the Cavalry service, 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 de artment, $2,000,000. Emi, _ Promkgled, That section eleven hundred and twenty of the Revised re§a|ed}mg pmmmm Statutes of the United States be, and the same is hereby, repealed. mp6§g;,§°°·‘1’°·P·”‘*5· Provided further, That the roper accounting officers of the Treasury E _ be, and the are hereby, autihorized and directed to pay the account Lagi-§n1l1i€,0(:;?rv8r’ of the La (grande Evening Observer, of La Grande, Oregon, in the P“Y“‘°““°· sum of $51.35 for 8.(lV6I’li1S. and other services rendered in connection with recruitment ofuiiie Oregon National Guard, called into the Federal service b the President under date of June eigliteenth, nineteen hundred andy sixteen, and ordered by Captain Lee . Clark, Ordnance D§>artment, Oregon National Guard, a properly detailed recruiting officer. TRANSPORTATION or THE ARMY AND rrs surrunsz For transporta- T""p°"°“°“' tion of the Army and its supplies, including transportation of the troops when moving either land or water, and of their baggage including members of the cers’ Reserve Corps, enlisted men of the Enlisted Reserve Corps, and retired enlisted men when ordered to active duty, including the cost of packing and crating; for transportation of recruits an recruiting parties; of applicants for enlist- mw, am) ment between recruiting stations and recruiting depots; for travel tm. ’ allowance to enlisted men on discharge; for payment of travel allow- v°l‘3°·P‘2"‘ ance as {provided  section one hundred and twenty-six of the Act a prove Jime third, nineteen hundred and sixteen, to enhsted men oi) 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 discharged on mmm, G d tm account of ph sical disability; for payment of travel pay to officers of tm on a1s&. the National Guard on their discharge from the service of the United V°'·‘“· P·”"“· 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 m which they have been held un er a sentence of dishonorable discharge and confinement for more than six months, or from the Govemment Hospital for the Insane after transfer thereto from such barracks or place, to their homes (or elsewhere as they may elect), provided the cost in each case shall not be greater than to the place of last enlistment; of supplies furnished to the militia for the permanent equipment thereo ; of the necessary agents and other employees, including Pom wm per diem allowances in lieu o subsistence not exceedintilgi for mm °°°' those authorized to receive the per diem allowance; of clo g and e uipage and other quartermaster stores from Army depots or places oil purchase or delivery to the several sts and Army depots and from those depots to the troops in the field; of horse e uipment; of ordnance and ordnance stores, and small arms from the foundries and armories to the arsenals, fortifications, frontier posts, and Army ` depots; for payment of wharfage, tolls, and ferriages; for transportation of funds of the Army· for the hire of employees; for the payment  t° mm of Army transportation lawfully due such land- t railroads as have not received aid in Government bonds (to Re 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 fift Pm,_,,,,_ per oentum of fu amount of service be rgaidz Provided, That such B¤as¤f¤¤¤1>¤¢¤¤¤¤- compensation shall be computed upon the asis of the tariff or lower special rates for like transportation performed for the public at large and shall be accepted as in full for all demands for such service: