700 FIFT Y-FIFTH CONGRESS. SEss. II. Ch. 571. 1898. lic tires and lights at posts and stations and in the iield; of flour used for paste in target practice; of salt and vinegar for public animals; of issues to Indians visiting military posts, and to Indians employed with P¤yr¤¤¤f¤· the Army, without pay, as guides and scouts. For payments: For meals for recruiting parties and recruits; for hot codec, 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 V Quartermaster’s 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 ,.C°¤!'¤¤°¤°i°¤i¤li¢¤ subsistence supplies for the Army. For the payment of the regulation ° rm°”°‘ allowances for commutation in lieu of rations: To enlisted men on furlough, to ordnance sergeants our 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 riiie competitions while traveling to and from places of contest; to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War; in all, for the six months beginning July first, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, fifteen million three hundred and sixty-seven thousand one hundred and twelve dollars and twenty- eight cents. m*L;,·;=rft;;;_¤€¤¤*¤*'¤ QUARTERMASTEB’S DEPARTMENT. R¤s¤=1¤r¤¤r1>1i¤¤- For regular supplies, namely: For regular supplies of the Quartermaster’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 heatin g and cooking appliances ; of fuel and lights for enlisted men, including recruits, guards, hospitals, storehonses, 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 F¤¤·¤s¤.¤¢<>- halls, each and all for the enlisted men, including recruits; of forage in kind for the horses, mules, and oxen of the Quartermasteus 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 of artillery, and such companies of infantry and scouts as may be mounted, and for the authorized number of ofticcrs’ horses, including bedding for the animals; of straw for soldiers’ bedding, and of stationery, including blank books for the Quarterniastefs Department, certificates for discharged soldiers, blank forms for the Pay and Quartermaster’s departments, and for printing department orders and reports, for the following periods: For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, one million dollars. For the six months beginning July first, eighteen hundred and ninety- eight, eleven million five hundred thousand dollars. ‘ I¤¤i<i¤¤¤¤1¤¤i·¢¤¤¤¤· For incidental expenses, namely: For postage; cost of telegrams on official business received and sent by officers of the Army; for expenses of expresses to and from frontier posts and armies in the field, 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 dutyin the field, or at military posts or on the frontiers, or when traveling under orders, and of noncommissioned officers and soldiers; authorized office furniture; hire of laborers in the Quartermasteis Department, including the hire of interpreters, spies, or guides for the Army; compensation of clerks and other employees to the officers of the Quartermaster’s Department. and
