742 SIXTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. II. C11. 252. 1909. dollars; in all, seven million seven hundred and eighty-six thousand five hundred and e` hty-eight dollars and twenynine cents, to be expended under theglirection of the Secretary of ar, and accounted for as “Subsistence of the Arrny," and for that purpose to constitute one fund. Q*¤¢*¤*¤=¤¤*¤*’¤ Ds QUARTERMASTEIYS DEPARTMENT. partment. R*>¤¤*¤*¤¤PP“F¤- REGULAR surrrmsz Regular su plies of the Quartermastefs De artment, including their care and) rotection, consisting of stoves and) heating apparatus required for heating offices, hospitals, barracks, and quarters, and recruiting stations, and United States military prison; also ranges and stoves, and appliances for cooking and serving food at posts, and repair and maintenance of such heating and cooking appliances; for furnishing heat and light for the authorized allowance of quarters for officers and enlisted men, for officers of the National Guard attending service and garrison schools, and for recruits, guards, hospitals, storehouses, offices, the buildings V0!-31v-282 erected at private cost in the operation of the Act approved May thirty-first, nineteen hundred and two, for sale to officers, and including also fuel and ene supplies required in the operation of modern batteries at estahlilhed posts; for post bakeries; for ice machines and their maintenance where required for the health and comfort of the troops and for cold storage; for the construction, o eration, and maintenance of laundries at military posts in the lihited States and its island possessions; for the necessary furniture, text-books, aper, and equipment for the post schools and libraries; for the tablldware and mess furniture for kitchens and mess halls 1·‘¤¤~s¤.¤¢¤· each and all for the enlisted men, including recruits; of forage in for the horses, mules, and oxen of the Quartermaster’ Department at the several posts and stations and with the armies in the Held, 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 H<>r¤¤¤f¤r¤¤i¤¤f¤-¤¤¤· bedding for the animals; and nothing in the Act making appro- V¤¤· 33. v·687 priations for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the Government for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eight, or any other Act, shall hereafter be held or construed so as to de rive officers of the army, wherever on duty in the military service ol) the United States, of forage, bedding, shoeing, or shelter for their authorized number of horses, or of any means of trans ortation or maintenance therefor for which provision is made by the terms of this Act; of straw for soldiers’ bedding, and of stationery, t pewriters and exchange of same, including blank books for the Guartermastefs Department, certificates for discharged soldiers, blank forms for the Pay and Quartermaster’s departments, and for printing depart-
ment orders and reports: Provided, That no art of the appropriations
g' for the Quartermastefs Department shall be e ended on printing, unless the same shall be done by contract afterxilue notice and competition, except in such cases as the emergency will not admit of the giving notice of competition, and in cases where it is impracticable to have the necessary printing done by contract the same ma be done, with the appl-roval of the Secretary of War, by the purchase mice ¤$¤¤i¤¤¤.¤¤¤¤- of material and e,of the necessary labor for the pu cse. For °°’the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred) and ten whenever the ice machines, steam laundries, and electric plants shall not come in competition with private enterprise for sale to the public, and in the opinion of the Secretary of WYar it becomes necessary to the economical use and administration of such ice machines, steam laundries, and electric plants as have been or may hereafter pgggegg ¤¤¤>*¤¤ be estabhshed in pursuance 0 law, surplus rce may be isposed of,
