FIFTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. 11. Ch. 831. 1901. 1023 nineteen hundred, of the appropriations made by the deficiency a pro riation Acts approved May fourth and June eighth, eighteen liundiied and ninety-eight, respectively, and by section two of the deficiency appropriation Act approved July seventh, eighteen hundred and ninety- eight, for the six months beginning July. first, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, on account of war expenses under the titles “War Department" and “Military establishment," reappropriated by the Acts approved Januar fifth, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, for the last six months of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, and February ninth, nineteen hundred, fO1' the Hscal year nineteen ' hundred, there is hereby reappropriated and made available for expenditure during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and one, for objects hereinafter specified under the title “Military establishment," the following sums, namely: PAY DEPARTMENT. P”"D°pa"m°”t' For pay of officers and enlisted men, three million dollars. P¤>’°‘ °*"‘°€”- For mileage to officers and to contract surgeons, when authorized by M“€¤g°- law, two hundred thousand dollars. _ For the reimbursement of traveling expenses on account of travel t,§?§E2§,?§§§’$;,,‘}i from their homes or the places of original acceptance of offer of ;<Qj§§ cfg¤¤”¤°* Sur employment, and for salary, when on leaves of absence, of contract " ' or acting assistant surgeons employed by the Medical Department of the Army since A rii twenty-first, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, where such traveling expenses or salary may have heretofore been disallowed or deducted on the ground that the terms of the written contracts made with the contract sur eons did not entitle them to the allowances in question, ten thousand dollars, or so much thereof as , may be necessary therefor: Provided, That all such claims now pend- __P;g§§3· claims bw ing or that may hereafter be resented for payment shall be settled and sid)of scttiemennl allowed, where such claims reliite to salary, in accordance with the leave privileges governing in the case of commissioned officers of the Army, and where such claims relate to traveling allowances, as in the case of assistant surgeons of the Army on their first appointment, but the amounts so allowed shall in no case exceed the amounts authorized by the War Department in regulations governing the matter: Avzdplro- _ _ _ cidcdfarther, That disbursiug officers of the Paymaster’s Department ;§f,'§,§‘ *$,§§”“',§gQ,§ of the Army who have already paid or shall hereafter pay accounts for paid above ¤¤¤<>¤¤¤¤- such traveling expenses or for salary during leaves of absence, as above provided, shall be given credit in the settlement of their accounts at the Treasury for all such pa ments upon the presentation of proper vouchers: Andpr0cidedfurt7ier, That the Secretary of the Treasury is` C (§ uguaglhrggé Cijgfgg hereby authorized and directed to make settlement of the claims grow- paoffic liailroad Coming out of Government transportation over non·bond-aided lines of the p“§,{Q,, of ,,.m€,,,,,,,, Southern Pacific Company and Central Pacific Railroad Company by é‘;Q*é¤$;;l;g*i{<;¤L {gf crediting a ainst the notes of the Central Pacific Railroad Company pommoo. held in the gfreasury of the United States interest on all of said ]udgment and allowed claims at four per centum per annum, as set forth in his letter to the chairman of the Committee on Appropriations of the Senate, dated May twelfth, nineteen hundred. r- sUBs1sTENoE DEPARTMENT. m§;1£¤iS¢¤¤<=¤ D<¢1·¤rt— PURCHASE or SUBSISTENCE SUPPLIESZ For issue as rations to troops, Suppliescivil employees when entitled thereto, hospital matrons and nurses, general prisoners of war (including Indians held by the Army as pris— oners, but for whose subsistence appropriation is not otherwise made); for sales to officers and enlisted men of the Army; for authorized issues of candles; of toilet articles, b2t1‘b€l‘S7, laundry, and tailors’ materials for use of general prisoners confined at military posts with-
