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FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 427 . 1899. 1225 places outside of the limits of the United States, one hundred thousand 0 ars. - That inall cases where an officer or an enli ted man in either the R*?*¤§=l>¤¤¤¤=•¤¤=. ef _Army, Navy, Marine Corps of the United States, or contract surgeon if.? 1li5.°ii€"§ZLi”:.5l or trained nurse in the employ of the Government, has died while on dimduty away from home since the first day of January, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, and the remains have been taken home and buried at the expense of the family or friends of the deceased, the parties who paid the cost of transportation and burying such remains shall be repaid at the expense of the United States by the Secretary of the Treasury, not to exceed what it would have cost the United States to have transported the remains to their homes. Clothing, and camp and garrison equipage, namely: For cloth, Cllg¤¤i¤s· ¤@•¤·v· ¤¤d woolens, materials, and for the manufacture of clothing for the Army, g" °°" °°`"p°g°' 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 citizen’s outer clothes, to cost not exceeding ten dollars, to be issued upon release from confinement to each prisoner who has been confined under a court—martial sentence involving dishonorable discharge, nine hundred thousand dollars. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury d_¤¤5¤•¤>¤¤¤ fur wlon account of the appropriation “Headstones for graves of soldiers/’ lm g"""` for the uscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, eight hundred and twelve dollars and twenty cents. ` For the transportation of destitute citizens from Saint Michaels, dgywtien ef Alaska, to Seattle, Washingtori, San Francisco, California, and Port rm. slfnldttiizzild Townsend, Washington, two thousand eight hundred and forty dollars. “°°*°· rmnicu. DEPARTMENT. M¤·ii¤¤11>•r•nm¤¤¤ For the purchase of medical and hospital supplies, including disinfect- Suvvlmants for general post sanitation; expenses of medical-supply depots, pay of employees, including civilian nurses, medical care and treatment of officers and enlisted men of the Regular and Volunteer armies on duties at posts and stations for which no other provision is made: for the proper care and treatment of cases in the armies suffering from contagious or epidemic diseases, three hundred and fifty thousand dollars. MISCELLANEOUS, WAR DEPARTMENT. w=;mq_;¤•—¢;r¤:bn"_ mem. Army. The appropriation made in the deficiency appropriation Act, approved P,}§g§§$f,*}§§;{,_j*,}{g;{_gQ January fifth, eighteen hundred and niuety-nine, forservices of sur- ··m=·_r:‘·»rm»··r»··r4n»·¤— veyors, draitsmen, photographers, and clerks to engineer officcrs on ’.In§..f};‘¥.¥.lf‘f,‘2";f,,',’i- the staff of division and corps commanders is hereby made available ;l;_rM¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤- also for civilian employees to engineer officers on the staff of department ,{..»». p. mi. commanders. _ H I I I To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury d,H§_5‘;f,‘{!;';'f °’ "°‘ on account of the appropriation “Headstones for graves of soldiers," fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, one hundred and forty- six dollars and twentythree cents. Morwmniw ·ro SERGEANT Cnmrns From: To enable the Seem. §,¤;g;u§gggtj;F¤¤r¤· tary of War, in cooperation with the Floyd Memorial Association, to cause to be erected over the remains of Sergeant Charles Floyd, a member of the Lewis and Clark expedition, who died and was buried August twentieth, eighteen hundred aud four, near the present site of Sioux City, Iowa, a iitting monument commemorative of that expedition and of the first soldier to lay down his life within the Louisiana _ purchase, five thousand dollars: Provided, That the total cost and I1j;·urg_gmn_ expense-to the United States of erecting said monument shall not exceed five thousand dollars.