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 SIXTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 143. 1918. 859 master stores from Army depots or places of purchase or delivery to the several osts and Army depots and from those de ots to the troops in the field; of horse equipment; of ordnance and ordnance stores, and small arms from the foundries and armories to the arsenals, fortifications, frontier posts, and Army depots; for ayment of wharfage, tolls, and ferriages; for transportation of fimds of the Army; for the hire of employees; for the pa rment of Army trans-  *° "“"" portation lawfully due suc land-grant railroads as have not received aid in Government bonds (to be adjusted in accordance with the decisions of the Supreme Court in cases decided under such landgrant acts), but in no case shall more than fifty per centum of full Pr . ` amount of service be paid: Provided, That such compensation shall asiixr amputabe computed upon the basis of the tarif or lower special rates for “°“· like transportation performed for the_ public at largp and shall be accepted as in full for all demands for such service: rmrided further, mw mt to That in explending the money appropriated by this Act a railroad masmtpilrom uma. company w `ch has not received aid in bonds of the United States, and which obtained a grant of jipblic land to aid in the construction of its railroad on conditions t at such railroad should be a post route and military road, subject to the use of the United States for postal, militarg, naval, and other Government services, and also subject to suc regulations as Congress may impose restricting the cha e for such Government transportation, having claims against thelUnited States for transportation of troops and munitions of war and military supplies and property over such aided railroads, shall be paid out of the moneys appropriated by the foregoing provision onl on the basis of such rate for the transportation of such troo and, munitions of war and military supplies and (property as th); Secretary of War shall deem just and reasonable im er the oregoing provision, such rate not to exceed fifty_ per centum of the compensation of such Gove1jnment.transportation as shall at that time be charged to and paid by private parties to any such company for like and similar transportation; and the amount so fixed to be paid shall be accepted as in full_for all demands for such service: And prwakieddfurther, That nothing in the preceding provisos shall be m¤§'§‘P°Y'°°‘"¤*" construe to prevent the accounting officers of the Government from making full payment to land-grant railroads for transportation of ro erty or persons where the courts of the United States have helg that such property or persons do not come within the scope of Dm md the deductions provided for in the land-giant Acts; for the purchase m,,;,,,“y.ea,Y$€.l$ °'”` · and hire of dra t and pack animals in such numbers as are actually required for the service, including reasonable provision for replacing unserviceable animals; for the purchase, hire, operation, maintenance, and repair of such harness, wagons, carts, drays, other vehicles, and motor-profpelled and horse—_rawn passenger—carrying vehicles as are required or the transportation of troops and supplies _ and for official, military and garrison purposes; for gasoline and G°S°"”°‘°' “"°’°“· lubricants for flying machmes; or drayage and cartage at the several depots; for the hire of teamsters an other employees;_for the purchase and repair of ships, boats, and other vessels requ1re_d for S¤*P¤·b°¤*$·°*¤· the transportation of troops and supplies and for _OmC18.l, mihtary and garrison purposes; for expenses of sailing public transports and T“*°’¤°'**· other vessels on the various rivers, the Gulf o Mexico, and the At- lo who lantic and Pacific Oceans, $1 532,606,l03: Provvkled junk", That ,,.3;** ’°°‘°“ ' $75,000 of the appro riation hereby made shall be available for additional pag of empliiyees on harbor boats, qplartermaster service, in lieu of su sistence: And provided véurther, at hereafter, under ,,,§:{ such regulations as the Secretary of ar may direct, the authorized horses of mounted officers ordered for duty over the seas or to Alaska may be  at public expense to remount depots or elsewhere m the mted States for safekeeping during the absence of