FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 41. 1899. oners at posts, prisoners of war (including Indians held by the Army as prisoners, but for whose subsistence appropriation is notlotherwise made); for sales to officers and enlisted men of the Army; for authorized issues of candles; of toilet articles, barbers’, laundry, and ta1lors’ materials, for use of general prisoners confined at military posts without pay or allowances, and recruits at recruiting stations; of matches for lighting public iires and lights at posts and stations and in the field; of flour used for paste in target practice; of salt and vinegar for public animals; of issues to lndians visiting military posts, and to lndians P¤y¤¤¤¤t¤· employed with the Army, without pay, as guides and scouts. For 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 telephone, office furniture; for temporary buildings, cellars, and other means of protecting subsistence supplies (when not provided by the Quartermasteus Department); for compensation of civilians employed in the Subsistence Department; and for other necessary expenses incident to the purchase, care, preservation, issue, Commumicuinlwu sale, and accounting for subsistence supplies for the Army. For the °f"°‘°"°‘ payment of the regulation allowances for commutation in lieu of rations: To enlisted men on furlough, to ordnance sergeants on duty at ungar— risoned 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 rifle competitions while traveling to and from places of contest; to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War; in all, eleven million eight hundred and seventy-six thousand and twenty-five dollars. Q¤¤rt¤r¤¤=¤t¤’¤D·*- QUARTERMASTERYS DEPARTMENT. partment. R¤g¤1¤r¤¤i>1>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 heating and cooking appliances; of fuel and light 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 F<>r¤e¤···*·>· halls, each and all for the enlisted men. including recruits; of forage in kind for the horses, mules, and oxen of the Quarteruiastefs 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 officers’ horses, including bedding for the animals; of straw for soldiers’ bedding, and of stationery, including blank books, for the Quarterinastefs Department, certificates for discharged soldiers, blank forms for the Pay and Quartermaster’s departments, and tbr printing department orders and reports, five million six hundred and forty-six thousand two hundred dollars. Inci·l·¢¤t¤¤1e¤¤1»+~¤~—>·*=¤— For itlcldelltzll expenses, 11am9i)'! For ]l0St2lg€; cost of telegtams 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 ran not be furnished; expenses of the interment of officers killed in action orwho die when on duty in the field, or at military posts or on the frontiers, or when traveling under orders, and of noncommissioued officers and soldiers; authorized office furniture; hire of laborers in the Quartermasteus Department, including the hire of interpreters, spies or guides for the Army; compensation of clerks and other employees td
