Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 29.djvu/645

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¤ FI1•"1‘Y-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 362. 1897. 615 require them to be sent; of ordnance, ordnance stores, and small arms, from the foundries and armories to the arsenals, fortifications, trontier posts, and army depots; freights, wharfage, tolls, and ferriages ; the purchase and hire of draft and pack animals and harness, and the purchase and repair of wagons, carts, and drays, and of ships and other seagoing vessels and boats required for the transportation of supplies and for garrison purposes; for drayage and cartage at the several posts; hire . of teamsters and other employees; extra-duty pay of enlisted men driving teams, repairing means of transportation, and employed as trainmasters, and in opening roads and building wharves; transportation of funds of the Army; the expenses of sailing public transports on the various rivers, the Gulf of Mexico, and the Atlantic and Pacific oceans; for procuring water, and introducing the same to buildings, at such posts as from their situation require it to be brought from a distance, and for the disposal of sewage and drainage, and for constructing roads and wharves; for the payment of army transportation lawfully due such g,f;{'”°¤,, * *°, l·¤¤· land-grant railroads as have not received aid in Government bonds (to be adjusted in accordance with the decisions of the Supreme Court in cases decided under such land-grant acts), but in no case shall more M“‘*"‘°”‘· than fifty per ceutum of the full amount of service be paid, two million four hundred thousand dollars: Provided, That such compensation shall be computed upon the basis of the tariff or lower special rates lor like ' transportation performed for the public at large, and shall be accepted as in full for all demands for such service: Provided further, That in mfjgigofényssx expending the money appropriated by this Act, a railroad company which has not received aid in bonds of the United States, and which obtained a grant of public land to aid in the construction of its railroad on condition that such railroad should be a post route and military road, subject to the use of the United States for postal, military, naval, and other Government services, and also subject to such regulations as Congress may impose restricting the charge for such Government transportation, having claims against the United States for transportation of troops and munitions of war and military supplies and property over such aided railroads, shall be paid out of the moneys appropriated by the foregoing provision only on the basis of such rate for the transportation of such troops and munitions of war and military supplies and property as the Secretary of War shall deem just and reasonable under the foregoing provision, such rate not to exceed nfty per ceutum of the compensation for such Government transportation as shall at the time be charged to and paid by private parties to any such company for like and similar transportation; and the amount so fixed to bepaid shall be accepted as in hill for all demands for such service. CONSTLUCTIUN ANI) REPAIR. OF HOSPITALS: For construction and K°¤vi¤•i•· repairs of hospitals at military posts already established and occupied, including the extra-duty pay of enlisted men employed on the same, and including also all expenditures for construction and repairs required at the Army and Navy llospital at Hot Springs, Arkansas, except quarters for the officers, seventy-five thousand dollars. _ For construction of quarters for hospital stewards at military posts B3;*;‘jj;f*`°’ l*°•P“°' already established and occupied, including the extra-duty pay of enlisted men employed on the same, seven thousand dollars. For shelter, shooting galleries, ranges for small-arms target practice, S1w¤¢i¤g¤¤s¤¤.<»=·=- repairs, and expenses incident thereto, ten thousand dollars. Ummm cm md CLOTHING, AND cAMP AND GARRISON EQUIPAGE: For cloth,woolens, 3,,,,,,,,, §,,,,,,,§,_‘ materials, and for the manufacture of clothing for the Army, for issue and for sale at cost price according to the Army Regulations; for altering and fitting clothing, and washing and cleaning when necessary; for equipage and for expenses of packing and handling and similar necessaries; for a suit of citizens’ outer clothin g, to cost not exceeding ten dollars, to be issued upon release from confinement to each prisoner who has been connned under a court—martial sentence involving dishonorable discharge, one million and fifty thousand dollars.