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 736 SIXTY·FIFTH CONGRESS: Sess. H. Ch. 114. 1918.

Acccounting In all, for pay of civil force, $45,711.28, and the money herein specifically appropriated for pay of the Marine Corps shall be disbursed and accounted for in accordance with existing law as pay of the Marine Corps, and for that purpose shall constitute one fund.

In all, pay, Marine Corps, $50,135,874.14.

Quartermaster's Department

Maintenance, Quatermaster's Department, Marine Corps

Provisions

Provisions, Marine Corps, For enlisted men serving ashore; subsistence and lodging of enlisted men when traveling on duty, or cash in lieu thereof; commutation of rations to enlisted men regularly detailed as clerks and messengers; payments of board and lodging of applicants for enlistment while held under observation, recruits, recruiting parties, and enlisted men where it is impracticable to otherwise furnish subsistence, or in lieu of board, commutation of rations to recruiting parties, and enlisted men traveling on special duty at such rate as the Secretary of the Nag may prescribe; ice machines and their maintenance where required for the health and comfort of the troo ps and for cold storage; ice for offices and preservation of rations, $15,053,500;

Clothing

Clothing, Manurm Coeps: For enlisted men authorized by law, $32,470,480.

Fuel, light, etc.

FUEL, MARINE CORPS: For heat, light, and commutation thereof for the authorized allowance of quarters for officers and enlisted men, and other buildings and grounds pertaining to the Marine Corps; fuel, electricity, and oil for cooking, power, and other purposes; and sales to officers, $1,523,715.

Millitary Stores

MILITARY STORES, MARINE CORPS: Pay of chief armorer, at $4 per diem;

Purchase of equipments, etc

purchase and repair of military equipments, such as rifles, revolvers, cartridge boxes, bayonet scabbards, haversacks, blanket bags, canteens, rifle slings, swords, drums, trumpets, flags, waistbelts, waist plates, cartridge belts, spare parts for repairing rifles, machetes; tents, field cots, field ovens, and stoves for tents, instruments for bands; purchase of music and musical accessories, articles of field sports for enlisted men, signal equipment and stores; purchase and marking of prizes for excellence in gunnery and rifle practice; good-conduct badges; medals and buttons awarded to officers and enlisted men by the Government for conspicuous, gallant, and special service; incidental expenses of schools of application; construction, equipment, and maintenance of school, library, and amusement rooms and gymnasiums for enlisted men, establishment, rental,

and maintenance of camps of instruction, target ranges, and entrance fees in competitions;

procuring, preserving, and handling ammunition and other necessary military supplies; in all, $25,277,750.

TRANSPORTATION AND RECRUITING, MARINE CORPS: For trans- portation of troops, and of applicants for enlistment between recruiting stations and recruit depots or posts, including ferriage and transfers en route, or cash in lieu thereof; toilet kits for issue to recruits upon their first enlistment and the expense of the recruiting service, $2,531,856: Provided, That hereafter authority is hereby granted to employ the services of advertising agencies in advertising for recruits under such terms and conditions as are most advantageous to the Government.

REPAIRS OF BARRACKS, MARINE CORPS: Repairs and improvements to barracks, quarters, and other public buildings at posts and stations; for the renting, leasing, improvement, and erection of buildings in the District of Columbia, and at such other places as the public exigencies require, $4,258,204.

FORAGE, MARINE CORPS: For forage in kind and stabling for public animals of the Quartermaster's Department and the authorized number of officers' horses, $294,930.