FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 395. 1898. 439 pay of employees, 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 suifering from contagious or epidemic diseases, fifty thousand dollars. _ TOILPEDOES FOR HARBOR DEFENSE. Torpedoes. For torpedo defense of Manila Harbor, Philippine Islands, to be umn. umm. available until expended, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. - ‘ PUBLIC PRINTING AND BINDING.Public printing and binding. For printing and binding for the War‘ Department and its bureaus, Wa D·p¤-umm. in be executed under the direction of the Public Printer and to remain available until expended, one hundred thousand dollars. ' NAVAL ESTABLISHMENT. NAVY DEPARTMENT EMERGENCY FUND; For special necessities of the various naval squadrons; for the charter Nsvy- or purchase of suitable vessels; for the increase of small craft attached to the various squadrons, and for replacing such as may be lost or destroyed; for maintaining and destroying communication; and for obtaining information, ten million dollars, of which sum not more than ilve hundred thousand dollars may be used to meet contingencies that can not be foreseen, but which constantly arise under existing conditions. BUREAU OF SUPPLIES AND ACCOUNTS. Bumu ¤f S¤m>1i¤¤ and Accounts. For provisions and commuted rations for the seamen and marines, P¤>vi¤i¤¤¤· which commuted rations may be paid to caterers of messes, in cases of death or desertion, upon orders of the commanding officer, commuted rations for officers on sea duty and naval cadets, and commuted rations stopped on account of sick in hospital and credited to the naval hospital fund, subsistence of officers and men unavoidably detained or absent from vessels to which attached under orders (during which subsistence rations to be stopped on board ship and no credit for commutation therefor to be given); fresh water for drinking and cooking purposes; labor in general storehouses and paymasters’ offices in navy- yards, including expenses in handling stores purchased under the naval supply fund, one million dollars. For purchase of clothing and small stores for issue to the naval c1¤~hi¤z.¤¤·» service, the present fund being inadequate to meet the requirements of . the service at this time, to be added to the “Clothing and small stores ' fund,” one million dollars. · ‘ PUBLIC PRINTING AND BINDING. Jig? printing wl For printing and binding for the Navy Department and its bureaus, Mw D¤r=¤·¤¤¤¤f~ to be executed under the direction of the Public Printer, twenty thousand dollars. TREASURY DEPABTMENT. · mglrguurr D¤r¤¤r ENGBAVING AND PRINTING. Pgeilpiggaving and For labor and expenses of engraving and printing: For salaries of S·*¤*°* all necessary clerks and employees other than plate printers and plate printers’ assistants, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, twenty thousand dollars. For wages of plate printers, at piece rates to be iixed by the Secro- w’¥°'· tary of the Treasury, not to exceed the rates usually paid for such
