FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 234. 1898. 387 Mileage: For mileage of officers traveling under orders without Mi¤¤¤g¤- troops, eight thousand dollars. For commutation of quarters to officers on duty without troops where qugjgrgu *******0*% Of there are no public quarters, four thousand dollars. i ' PAY on crvrn noncn: In the office of the colonel commandant: For _Q,;;;; fgggm C m_ one chief clerk, at one thousand five hundred and forty dollars and maiden;. ° . eighty cents; one messenger, at nine hundred and seventy-one dollars and twenty-eight cents; ` In the office of the paymaster: One chief clerk, at one thousand six —¥°¤v¤¤¤¤*<¤'¤ OHM- hundred dollars; one clerk, at one thousand four hundred and ninety- six dollars and nfty-two cents; one clerk, at one thousand two hundred and fifty-seven dollars and twelve cents; In the office of the quartermaster: One chief clerk, at one thousand -Q¤¤¤•¤¤¤·=¤¤¤¤· nve hundred and forty dollars and eighty cents; one clerk, at one thousand tour hundred and ninety-six dollars and fifty-two cents; one clerk, at one thousand two hundred and fifty-seven dollars and twelve cents; In the office of the adjutant and inspector: One chief clerk, at one —-adjutant and Inthousand five hundred and forty dollars and eighty cents; one clerk, at “*’°°°°" one thousand four hundred and ninety-Six dollars and fifty-two cents; In the office of the assistant quartermaster, Washington, District of -A$i¤¢¤v¤g 3r¤¤¤¤r- Columbia, or San Francisco, California: One clerk, at one thousand E12? L °`° "°g°°°' four hundred dollars; In the office of the assistant quartermaster, Philadelphia, Pennsyl· —Philadelphia. vania: One clerk, at one thousand four hundred dollars; one messenger, at one dollar and seventy-five cents per diem; . In all, for pay of civil force, seventeen thousand six hundred and thirty-six dollars and twenty-three cents; and the money herein speciti ically appropriated for pay of the Marine Corps shall be disbursed and accounted for in accordance with existing law as pay of the Marine Corps, and for that purpose shall constitute one fund. , PBOVISIONS, MARINE CORPS: For one thousand nine hundred and Pr¤vi¤i¤¤¤· seventy-three noncommissioned officers, musicians, and privates, and for commutation of rations to fourteen enlisted men detailed as clerks and messengers; also for payment of board and lodging of recruiting parties, said payment for board not to exceed two thousand five hun- ·—1imit. dred dollars, one hundred and thirty-one thousand nine hundred and eleven dollars and fifty cents; and no law shall he construed to entitle d 1f$·**¤•>¤ ·>¤ ***0** marines on shore duty to any rations or commutation therefor other ° " _ ` than such as now are or may hereafter be allowed to enlisted men in the Arm . CL%THING, MARINE CORPS: For three thousand and seventy-three cimmng. noncommissioned officers, musicians, and privates, one hundred and thirty thousand eight hundred and ten dollars and forty cents. FUEL, MARINE Cours: For heating barracks and quarters, for Fudranges and stoves for cooking, fuel for enlisted men,»for sales to officers, maintaining electric lights, and for hot-air closets, nineteen thousand five hundred dollars. MILITARY sronns, MA1mvE Cours: For pay of chief armorer, at Mi¤wy¤wr¤¤. three dollars per day; three mechanics, at two dollars and fifty cents each per day; for purchase of military equipments, such as cartridge boxes, bayonet scabbards, haversacks, blanket bags, knapsacks, canteens, musket slings, swords, drums, trumpets, ilags, waist-belts, waistplates, cartridge-belts, sashes for omcer of the day, spare parts for repairing muskets, purchase of ammunition, and purchase and repair of instruments for band, purchase of music and musical accessories, medals for excellence in gunnery and rifle practice, good-conduct badges, incidental expenses in connection with the school of application, signal equipment and stores, binocular glasses, for the establishment and maintenance of targets and ranges, for hiring established ranges, and for procuring, preserving, and handling ammunitiomtwenty- three thousand two hundred and ninety-seven dollars.
