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 1390 sixrY-s1·:vE1~rrH oonensss. Sess. 1v. oe. 178. ieee. V¤1·¤1»1>·¤¤· service of the United States, as prescribed in the Act approved · March 2, 1901; for travel allowance to discharged prisoners and persons discharged from the Government 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 the necessary agents and other employees, including per diem allowances in lieu of subsistence not exceeding $4 for those authorized to mT ¤ d°‘ receive the per diem allowance; for payment of transportation costs for dependents of officers and enlisted men as provided by law; of clothing 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 Held; of horse equipment- of ordnance and ordnance stores, and small arms from the foundries and armorics to the arsenals, fortifications, ' frontier posts, and Army depots; for payment of wharfage, tolls, Pa t to md alpd ferriagesg for trgnsportaitiqn of fplpgs (pf thehqrmg; foil; °“ the a ent o ra. roaion aw ue suc an ·gran not md railrliwaydlsll as have 111% reclgiltled aid in Govelimment bonds (to be adjusted in accordance with the decisions of the Supreme Court in cases decided under such land grant Acts), but in no case shall Pcqrynyw- mmm more than 50 per centum of full amount of service be paid: Pro-_ vided, That such compensation 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 m§§§‘{0,'{;',§,d°§,“,{,df° demands for such service: Provided furtlger, That in expending the money appropriated by this Act a railroad 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 conditions that such railroad should be a post route and military road, subject to the use of the United States for postal, military, naval, and other Government services, and also subject to such regulations as Congress 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 oyer such aided railroads, shall be paid out o the moneys apprognriated by the foregoing provisions onl on the basis of such rate or the transportation of such troo s ang munitions of war and military supplies and pro rty as the Secretary of War shall deem just and reasonable und; the foregoing provision, such rate not to exceed 50 per centum of the compensation of such Government 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 Fu,,p·y,0amp,“, paid shall be accepted as in full for all demands for such service: was rovided further, That nothing in the precedin provisos shall be construed to prevent the accounting officers 0% the Government from making full payment to land- nt railroads for transportation of property or persons where thldlcourts of the United States _ have held that such property or rsons do not come within the ,,,f,’j"”,d?£¤{’:§,f °'”‘ scope of the deductions provided gr in the land grant Acts; for the purchase and hire of draft and pack animals in such numbers as are actually required for the service, including reasonable prov1sion_for rep acing unserviceable animals; for the purchase, hire. operation, maintenance, and repair of such harness, wagons, carts, drays, other vehicles, and horse—drawn passengencarrying vehicles as are required for the transportation of troops and supplies and _ for official, military, and garrison purposes; for drayage and S'“”·"°“‘“·°"”~ cartage at the several depots; for the repair of ships, boats, and other vessels required for the transportation of troops and supplies