1224 FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 427. 1899. vagggujgfgmzzi no part of the money so appropriated shall be paid for commutation of Bum ¤mm1,m.fuel, audi for igluarters to officers or enlisted men, seven hundred and fifty thousan dollars. rmspomu . For transportation of the Army and its supplies namely: For transon portation of the Army, including baggage of the,troops when moving either by land or water, and including also fthe txlgansportation of recruits and recruiting parties heretofore paid rom the appropriation for "expenses of recruiting; " of supplies to the militia furnished by the War Department; of the necessary agents and employees; of clothing, camp and garrison equipave and other quartermaster stores from army depots or places of pufchase or delivery to the several posts and army depots, and from those depots to the troops in the iield; of horse equipments and subsistence stores, from the places of purchase and irom the places of delivery under contract to such places as the cirgmmstances of the service may require them to bglsentg of ordnance, or nance stores and small arms from the foun 'es and armories to the arsenals, fortifications, frontier posts, and army depots; freights, wharfage, tolls, and ferriages; the purchase and hire of drait and pie; animals aéid ]l1(fir1;_es?,_;»nd tge plurclgase and rgpag of vgagonp, an ray a o s 1 san o er eagoingv ss san oas
for the transportation of supplies and for garrison purposes;
or yage and cartage at the several posts- hire of teamsters and - other employees; transportation of funds of the ,Army;‘ the expenses of ‘ sailing public transports on the various rivers the Gulf of Mexico and _ _ 7 7 m¥·¤r9t1·¤¤°¢;¤z Sw- the Atlantic and Pacific oceans; for procuring water, and introducing ’“‘°° ‘ 1gl;ebsamel::opruildin§, at such ppsits aslfrpim them sgtuation reqigréa it to roug t om a `stance an or the isposa o ewage an rain- ‘ age, aug for construclt;1 g rbads and wharves, including not exceeding one mi 'on five hund thousand dollars for transportation of Spanish prisoners held by the United States and by the insurgents in the Philrppine Islands, from those islands ‘to Spain, as provided by the Treaty P¤r¤¤~¤¢ ¤> \•¤·i· if lE1’aris;:or_il?.1(pa‘§»aymlent of army trai5spo(;·tati8ns lawfully {due such · n -gran rai s as ave not receive ai in overnment onds (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 more """"‘°’· than fifty per centum of full amount of service be paid: Provided, ··°°¤1’°*-““°”· That such compensation shall be computed upon the basis of the tariff or lower special rates for like transportation performed for the public Fm? W mt to ;tcla;g%v:;l(1;`d1s`l;_zal§’pe aplclppted as in fullfor all demands for such servmd, M, ,,,,,,6 Md6d_ _. I _ er, at in ezrpending the money appropriated by this Act a railroad company which has not received aid in bonds of ge Un1teE1duS§iates,fai;g whfchusbtaineddangraiipl of publlic land to aid ig e cons c on o 1 ran ro on con i 'on at suc railroad shoul be a post route and military road, subject to the use of the United States for postal, military. naval, and other Government services, and ?{.i°ci‘;‘3·;?¥0£°sSélft3‘3£?},1E‘.3I‘i“t?§..S§§£§2?Zn“£’vl‘.§‘§‘Li°- '“°“°*‘“€ _ _ a aims agains the United Statesior transportation of troops and munitions of war and military supplies and property over such aided railroads, shall be paid] ogt of tihe irgoneysfapplimpriated by the foregoing provision only on e asiso suc rate or the transportation of such troo s and munitions of war and military supplies and property as the Secrgtary of War shall deem just and reasonable under the ioregoing provision, such _ sr ionass a cme care toan a` b 2?£°m’;‘I§ £€a§‘i°;°‘%£‘" "°' fi§li“‘é"tBf E}‘° °%2“’§“““‘3“ ‘°’ '3“°" €°'° private parties to any such company for like andgsimilar traiisportai tion; and the amounts so fixed to be paid shall be accepted as in full guilall demands for such service, eight million five hundred thousand o ars. I¤¤¤<>¤·¤¤ r• T bl th Secrta fW ·i h' d' ' p z o cna e e e ry o an n is iscretion to cause to be 8 , . . , '°’“” ° °m°°" °°° transported to their homes the remains of otIicers and ’soldiers who die at military camps or who are killed in action or who die in the field at
