438 FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 395. 1898. hlgxpgidonary force · EXPEDITIONARY FORCE T0 CUBA. II Bwx coummumi, For machinery and equipment for the construction and repair of °°°‘ roads, twenty-five thousand dollars. For the construction and equipment of military railroads, two hundred andtwenty-tive thousand dollars. T°°‘“·°*°· For additional intrenching tools, electric appliances, photographic and topographic outfit, instruments, maps, manuals, and special and technical services, fifty thousand dollars. ¤·>¤¤i¤¢¤¤¤*¤·· For contingencies involving immediate expenditures of imperative urgency that can not be specified in advance, to be expended under the . direction of the Major-General Commanding the Army, fifty thousand dollars. ssgmi mvice. SIGNAL SERVICE OF TEE ARMY. rzxpemss. For the expenses of the Signal Service of the Army as follows: Purchase, equipment, and repair of field electric telegraphs, signal equipments and stores, binocular glasses, telescopes, heliostats, and other necessary instruments, including necessary meteorological instruments for use on target ranges; war balloons, telephone apparatus (excluding exchange service), and maintenance of the ame; electrical installations and maintenance at military posts; maintenance and repair of military telegraph lines and cables, including salaries of civilian employees, supplies, and general repairs, and other expenses connected with the duty of collecting and transmitting information for the Army by telegraph or otherwise, one hundred and ninety-five thousand dollars. mfsiipsaummpn SUBSISTENCE DEPARTJUDNT. S¤v1>¤¤¤· Purchase of subsistence supplies: For issue, as rations to troops, civil employees when entitled thereto, hospital matrons, general prisoners at posts, prisoners of war (including Indians held by the Army as prisoners, but for whose subsistence appropriation is not otherwise made); 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 nt recruiting stations; of matches for lighting public Hres and lights at posts and stations and in the tield; of flour used for paste in target practice; of salt and vinegar for public animals; of issues to Indians visiting military posts, and to lndians employed with P=u·¤¤¤¤¢¤- the Army, without pay, as guides and scouts. For payments: For meals for recruiting parties and recruits; for hot cotlee, canned beef, and baked beans tbr troops traveling, when it is impracticable to cook their rations; for scales, weights, measures, utensils, tools, stntionery, 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 Il0lZ provided by the Quartermastefs Department); for compensation ol' civilians employed in the Subsistence Department; and for other necessary expenses inci- _ _ _ dent to the purchase, care, preservation, issue, sale, and accounting tor ,,,Q,[;,f""’""‘°"’" "' ‘”"‘ subsistence supplies for the Army. For the payment of the regulation allowances for commutation in lieu of rations: To enlisted men on furlough, 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 ritle competitions while Amount. traveling to and from places of contest; to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War; live million dollars.
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mont. s¤ppm~».·»¤·. For the purchase of medical and hospital supplies, including disinfectants for general post sanitation, expenses of medicalsupply depots,
