FIFTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 852. 1901. 113]. TRANSPORTATION AND RECRUITING, MARINE CoRPS: Fortransporta- m§{gg§gg"°“°¤ we tion of troops, including ferriage,`and the expense of the recruiting ` service, seventy thousand dollars. . FoR REPAIRS OF BARRACKS, MARINE CORPS: Repairs and improve- R¢1>¤ir¤<>fb¤¤¤¢k¤- ments to barracks and quarters at Portsmouth, New Hampshire; Boston, Massachusetts; Newport, Rhode Island;. New York, New York; League Island, Pennsylvania; Annapolis, Mar land; headquarters and navy-yard, District of Columbia; Norfolk, Virginia; Port Royal, South Carolina; Pensacola, Florida; Mare Island, California; Bremerton, Washington; and Sitka, Alaska; for the rentin , leasing, improvement, and erection of buildings in Porto Rico, thegPhilippine Islands, at Guam, and at such other places as the public exigencies require; and for per diem to enlisted 111en employed under the direction of the Quartermaster’s Department on the repair of barracks, quarters, and other public buildings, twenty thousand dollars. For rent of building used for manufacture of clothing, storing of ,,§€¤¤·P¤i1¤¤€1¤*¤¤» supplies, and office of assistant quartermaster, Philadelphia, Pennsyl- ` vania, four thousand dollars. . FORAGE, MARINE CoRPs: For forage in kind for horses of the quar- F¤¤*g<=· termasters’ department, and the authorized number of officers’ horses, six thousand dollars. . HIRE OF QUARTERS, MARINE CoRPs: For hire of quarters for officers Hm °f¤“““*’S· serving with troops where there are no public quarters belonging to the Government, and where there are not sufficient quarters possessed by the United States to accommodate them; for hire of quarters for enlisted men employed as clerks and messengers in the offices of the commandant, adjutant and inspector, paymaster, and quartermaster, and the offices of the assistant adjutant and inspector, the assistant paymaster, and the assistant quartermasters, at twenty-one dollars each per month, and for enlisted men employed as messengers in said offices, at ten dollars each per month, fourteen thousand seven hundred and forty-eight dollars. __ COXTINGENT, MARINE CoRPS: For freight, tolls, cartage, advertis- C°“““g€“”‘*"p““$‘*S· ing, washing of bed sacks, mattress covers, pillowcases, towels, and sheets, funeral expenses of H1H.l'l1’1BS, stationery and other paper, telegraphing, rent of telephones, purchase and repair of typewriters, apprehension of Stragglers and deserters, per diem of enlisted men employed on constant labor for a period of not less than ten days, employment of civilian labor, re air of gas and water fixtures, office and barracks furniture, camp ancf) garrison equipage and implements, mess utensils for enlisted men, such as bowls, plates, spoons, knives, and forks, tin cups, pans, and pots, and so forth; packing boxes, wrapping paper. oilcloth, crash, rope, twine, quarantine fees, camphor and carbolized pa er, carpenters’ tools, tools for police purposes, iron safes, purchase andp repair of public wagons, purchase and repair of public arness, purchase of public horses, services of veterinary surgeons and medicines for public horses, purchase and repair of hose, purchase and repair of tire extinguishers, purchase of fire hand grenades, purchase and 1'€p&l1‘ of carts, wheelbarrows, and lawn mowers; pu,rc ase and repair of cooking stoves, ranges, stoves, and furnaces where there are no grates; purchase of ice, towels, soap, combs, and brushes for offices; postage stamps for foreign postage; purchase of books, newspapers, and_periodicals; improving parade grounds, repair of pumps and wharves, laying drain, water, and gas ipes, water, introducing glas, and for gas, gas oil, and introduction and) maintenance of electric lig ts; straw for bedding, mattresses, mattress covers, pillows, sheets; wire bunk bottoms for enlisted men at various posts; furniture for Government quarters and repair of same, and for all emergencies and extraordinary expenses arising at home and abroad, but impossible to anticipate or classify, sixty-one thousand seven hundred dollars.
