380 FIFTK-FIFTH CONGRESS. SEss. II. Ch. 234. 1898. I H<>¤ri*—¤¤ f¤¤·i· JNAVAL HOSPITAL FUND; For maintenance of the naval hospitals at the various navy-yards and stations, and for care and maintenance of patients in other hospitals at home and abroad, twenty thousand dollars. _N+>wp¤rt. R-I-. hos- HOSPITAL FOR CONTAGIOYS DISEASES: For hospital for contagious
- ’"”° diseases at Newport, Rhode Island, six thousand five hundred dollars.
¤¤¤¤¤z¤¤¤· OONTINGENT, BUREAU or MEn1c1NE AND SURGERY: For freight, expressage on medical stores, tolls, ferriages, transportation of sick to hospital, transportation of insane patients; care, transportation, and burial of the dead; advertising; telegraphing; rent of telephones; purchase of books and stationery; binding of medical records, unbound books, and pamphlets; postage and purchase of stamps for foreign service; expenses attending the medical board of examiners; rent of rooms for naval dispensary; hygienic and sanitary investigation and illustration; sanitary and hygienic instruction; purchase and repairs of wagons and harness; purchase of and feed for horses and cows; trees, plants, garden tools, and seeds; furniture and incidental articles for the museum of hygiene, naval dispensary, Washington; naval laboratory, sick quarters at Naval Academy and marine barracks, surgeons’ offices and dispensaries at navy·yards and naval stations; washing for medical department at museum of hygiene, naval dispensary, Washington; naval laboratory and department of instruction, sick quarters at Naval Academy and marine barracks, dispensaries at navy- yards and naval stations and ships and rendezvous, and for minor repairs on buildings and grounds of the United States Naval Museum of Hygiene, and all other necessary contingent expenses, thirty thousand dollars. R•>v¤i¤— REPAIRS, BUREAU OF MEDICINE AND SURGERY: For necessary repairs of naval laboratory and department of instruction, naval hospitals and appendages, including roads, wharves, outhouses, sidewalks, fences, gardens, farms, and cemeteries, twenty thousand dollars. Auxbulances. . AMBULANCES Fon NAVAL HOSPITALS: For supplying one naval hospital with ambulance of modern construction to replace vehicle condemned as useless, six hundred dollars. t Norfolk. Va-. ~·¤¤¤¤· NAVAL OEMETERY, NAVAL HOSPITAL, NORFOLK, VIRGINIA: Labor "’° and material for widening of approaches, and repairing and painting of all gates and fences; for making graveled roads and paths; building walls where necessary, properly grading the whole area, and planting appropriate shrubbery, one thousand dollars. Age 1imitt?ig<>i¤*— That section thirteen hundred and seventy of the Revised Statutes QQ2f §§‘§3{“ "‘ °`"` of the United States be, and the same is hereby, amended so as to read R. S., sec. 1370, p, 246, as follows: °`m°"d°d' “No person shall be appointed assistant surgeon until he has been examined and approved by a board of naval surgeons designated by the Secretary of the Navy, nor who is under twenty-one or over thirty years of age, inclusive? §{;y;¤i{·1<;lr¤;:jis;j;_;‘;¤<» The President is hereby authorized to appoint for temporary service ` · "' twentyfive acting assistant surgeons, who shall have the relative rank and compensation of assistant surgeon s. 3n1§¤i;·:j:_:‘1·;lft§¤vrli*·¤ BUREAU OF SUPPLIES AND ACCOUNTS. rm~·i»i·»¤¤. PROVISIONS, NAVY: For provisions and commuted rations for the seamen and marines, which commuted rations may be paid to caterers of messes, in cases of death or desertion, upon orders of the commanding officer, commuted rations for officers on sea duty and naval cadets, and commuted rations stopped on account of sick in hospital and credited to the naval hospital fund. subsistence of officers and men unavoidably detained or absent from vessels to which attached under orders (during which subsistence rations to be stopped on board ship and no credit for commutation therefor to be given); fresh water for drinking and cooking purposes; labor in general storebouses and pay- masters’ offices in navy-yards. including expenses in handling stores
