360 FORTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 339. 1885. the grade of sixth-class clerk in the Quartermastefs Department is hereby abolished ‘ Pay m cnt for For the pay for Army transportation lawfully due such laudtgrant
- '°¤¤l]’°’*°“°¤ railroads as have not received aid in Government bonds, to be adjusted
m03dmnt by the proper accounting oiilcers in accordance with the decisions of ' the Supreme Court in cases decided under such land-grant acts, but in no case shall more than nity per centum of the full amount of the serv- P'°°*¤°· ice be paid, one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars: Provided, That such compensation shall be computed upon the basis of the tariff rates for like transportation performed for the public at large, and shall be accepted as in full for all demands for said services. Quarters. For barracks and quarters for troops, storehouses for the safe-keeping of military stores, for offices, and for grounds for camp and summer cantonments, and for temporary buildings at frontgeir stations; for Sie construction of tem rary buildings and stables an or repairing pu ic buildings at established posts, six hundred and seventy-tive thousand Proven. dollars: Provided, That no expenditure exceeding ilve hundred dollars shall be made upon any building or military post without the approval of the Secretary of War for the same, upon detailed estimates of the Constmcticn and Quartermaster’s Department; and the erection, construction, and re- 2z13E8c, m*d° by pairs of all buildipgs and other pulbilic structures i1l::he’Qual1;termaster’s ‘ Department shal , so far as may practicab e, made y contrac P"°”“°· after due legal advertisement: And provided further, That not moiije _ _ than one million five hundred thousand dollars of the sums appropri- P**¥ °f °i‘¤1**¤ ated by this act shall be paid out for the services of civilian employees °mp]°’6°' in the Quartermasteis Department, including those heretofore paid out of the funds appropriated for regular supplie , incidental expenses, barracks and quarters, Army transportation, clothing, and camp and garrison equipaglci; and that rméixiplogegiping ltiherefrom shall] recrfive as salary more t an one hun an t dollars per mont , un ess the same shall be specially iixed by law. y Uo1}¤*¤1‘¤¤*i¤¤ ood For construction and repair of hospitals, as reported by the Surgeon- ‘ xx °f h"' General of the Army, including the pay of enlisted men employed on extra duty in the same, one hundred thousand dollars. Clothing ond For cloth, woolens, materials, and for the manufacture of clothing °“'“P °‘1‘“P°€°· for the Army; for issue and for sales at cost-price, according to the Army Regulations; for altering and fitting clothing and washing and cleansing when necessary; for equipage, and for expenses of packing agd hangliln;.3 and similar necessaries, one million two hundred and fifty ‘ thousand dollars. Contingent cx- For all contingent expenses of the Army not provided for by other P°“““· estimates, and embracing all branches of the military service, to be exphended ippldgf the immediate orders of the Secretary of War, thirty · thousand dollars. _Modic¤1=5r-¢ho¤- ‘ Mnmcnn Dm>Aa·r1mNr.-For purchase of medical and hospital sup- P'“‘1““PPh°’·°*°· plies, expenses of purveying depots, pay of employees, medical care and treatment of officers and enlisted men of the Army on duty at posts and stations for which no other provision is made, advertising, and other miscellaneous expenses of the Medical Department, two hundred and twentytive thousand dollars. And not over thirty-six thousand dollars of the money appropriated by this paragraph shall be applied to the payment of civilian employees in the Medical Department. 'ngginuy Medical For thi Army Medical Mgsoum, including ordinary repairs of the · museum a I, preservation o specimens and the re eration or urchase of new specimens, five thousand dbllars; forpthld library ofpthe (Sn6geon·Geueral’s Office, ten thousand dollars; in all, nfteen thousand o ars. . Eogiooor oorot Eivcnmrn Dn1>nzrmz1u·.-For en ’neer de tat Wille Point N ‘°w‘““*‘ P°“"‘ York. namely: For porchase of ougilaleering iiiliteriais mtzouomie tl: present course of instruction of the Engineer Battalion in their special duties of sappers, miners, and pontoniers, one thousand dollars. For mcidental expenses of the depot, remodeling ponton-trains, re-
