F1"FTY-F1FTH conemiss. snss. 11. Gu. 235. 1898. 393 prisoners at posts, estimated for remainder of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight on the basis of ten million nine hundred and fifty-eight thousand five hundred and seventy-four rations; for sales to officers and enlisted men of the Army; for authorized issues of candles; of toilet articles, barbers’, laundry. and tailors* materials, for use of general prisoners confined at military posts without pay or allowances, and recruits at recruiting stations; of matches for lighting public fires and lights at posts and stations and in the iicld; of flour used for paste in target practice; of salt and vinegar for public animals. For P¤r¤=¤¤i¤- payments: For meals for recruiting parties and recruits; for hot coffee, canned beef, and baked beans for troops traveling, when it is impracticable to cook their rations; for scales, weights, measures, utensils, tools, stationery, blank books and forms, printing, advertising, commercial newspapers, use of telephones, office furniture; for temporary · buildings, cellars, and other means of protecting subsistence supplies (when not provided by the Quartermastefs Department); for compensation of civilians employed in the Subsistence Department; and for other necessary expenses incident to the purchase, care, preservation, issue, sale, and accounting for subsistence supplies for the Army. For t, ¤¤¤¤¤¤¤*·¤¤*¤¤ vf ¤¤· the payment of the regulation allowances for commutation in lieu of ’°"‘ rations: To enlisted men on furlough, to ordnance sergeants on duty at nngarrisoned 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 be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War; in all, two million seven hundred and thirty-nine thousand six hundred and forty- three dollars and fifty cents. ` QUAB'1'EBM.ASTEB’S DEPAJLTMEN1'. Quartermaster'sDe- · pnrtment. For regular supplies, namely: For regular supplies of the Quarter- negum suppua. master’s Department, 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 offices, and for sale to officers; for post bakeries; for the necessary furniture, text-books, paper, and equipments 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 F<>r¤zM·¢¤- in kind for the horses, mules, and oxen of the Quartcrmaster’s 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 ot 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 straw for soldiers’ bedding, and of stationery, including blank books for the Quartermastefs Department, certificates for discharged soldiers, blank forms for the Pay and Quartermaster’s departgnepts, and for printing Department orders and reports, one million Amount. o ars. For incidental expenses, namely; For postage; cost of telcgrams on 1¤¤i¤•>¤r¤¤ <=¤1>¤¤¤¤¤ oflicial business received and sent by officers of the Army; extra pay to soldiers employed on extra duty, under the direction of the Quartermaster’s Department, in the erection of barracks, quarters, and storehouses, in the construction of roads, and other constant labor for periods of not less than ten days, and as clerks for post quartermasters at military posts, and for prison overseers at posts designated by the War Department for the coniinement of general prisoners; for expenses of expresses to and from frontier posts and armies in the Held, of escorts to paymasters and other disbursing officers, and to trains where military escorts can not be furnished; expenses of the interment of officers killed in action or who die when on duty in the field, or at military posts or on the frontiers, or when traveling under orders, and of noncommissnoned officers and soldiers; authorized office furniture; hire of laborers
