FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 423. 1899. 1069 buildings, cellars, and others means of protecting subsistence supplies (when not provided by the Quartermastefs Department); for commissary chests complete, and for renewal of their outfits; for field desks of commissaries ; for extra pay to enlisted men employed on extra duty E>=*"·#·*¤W Pvin the Subsistence Department for periods of not le s than ten days, at rates fixed by law; for compensation of civilians employed in the °"‘“"‘ "'“P"’>`°"“· Subsistence Department, and for other necessary expenses incident to the purchase, care, preservation, issue, sale, and accounting for subsistence supplies for the Army; for the payment of the regulation tiC°¤¤*¤*·***°¤ °* *=*· allowances for commutation in lieu of rations to enlisted men on fur- (m` lough, to ordnance sergeants on duty at ungarrisoned posts, to enlisted men stationed at places where rations in kind can not be economically issued, to enlisted men traveling on detached duty when it is impracticable to carry rations of any kind, to enlisted men selected to contest for places or prizes in department and army rifle competitions while traveling to and from places of contest; to be expended under *¤¤>¤¤*· the direction of the Secretary of War, eight million seven hundred thousand eight hundred and seventy-one dollars and nine cents. . Difference between the cost of the ration at twenty-tive cents and mf;jg°¤¤•;¢ tgsimgf commutation of rations at one dollar and fifty cents per day to enlisted mv•u¤;°};.m heap; men traveling from hospitals to their homes on furlough, allowed under *“"· General Orders, Number One hundred and fourteen, War Department, Adjutant-General’s Office, August ninth, eighteen hundred and ninety- eiglit, two hundred aud eighty-one thousand two hundred and fifty do BFS. Difference between the cost of the ration at twenty-five cents and ——m¤¤i¤ hospitals. the amount of forty cents per day to be expended by the medical oflicers in charge of hospitals for the diet of enlisted men while undergoing hospitgl treatmentduxhder their charge, four hundred and ninety thousand ve hun ed dollars. Difference between the cost of the ration at twenty-Eve cents and —¤h¤¤z¤<ldi¤~- the cost of rations differing in whole or in part from the ordinary ration, to be issued to enlisted men in camp during periods of recovery from low conditions of health consequent upon service in unhealthy » regions or in debilitating climates, to be expended only under special authority of the Secretary of War, one hundred and eighty thousand dollars. Subsistence supplies to be issued to inhabitants of the island of Cuba S¤m·1i··¤f•>r G¤¤¤¤¤- who are destitute and in imminent danger of perishing unless they receive the same, one hundred thousand dollars. Total for Subsistence Department, nine million seven hundred and Amount. fifty-two thousand six hundred and twenty-one dollars and nine cents, to be disbursed and accounted for as “Subsistence of the Army,” and for that purpose shall constitute one fund. I QUA.R.'1‘EBMASTER’S DEPARTMENT. Q¤nrt•>rm¤¤wr`¤D¤· pertinent. REGULAR surrnms : Regular supplies of the_Quartermaster’s Depart- Rminar ·¤i»pu¤¤. ment, including their care and protection, consisting of stoves and heating apparatus required for heating offices, hospitals, barracks, and quarters, and recruiting stations; also ranges and stoves, and appliances for cooking and serving food, and repair and maintenance of such heating and cooking appliances; of fuel and lights for enlisted men, including recruits, guards, hospitals, storehouses, and oinces, and for sale to officers; for post bakeries; for the necessary furniture. textbooks, paper, and equipment for the post schools and libraries; for the tableware and mess furniture for kitchens and mess halls, each and all for the enlisted men, including recruits; of forage in kind for the horses, Fmze. ••·- mules, and oxen of the Quartermastefs Department at the several posts and stations and with the armies in the field, and_for the horses of the several regiments of cavalry, the batteries of artillery, and such companies of infantry and scouts as may be mounted, and for the authorized number of officers’ horses, including bedding for the animals; of
