570 FIFTY—NINTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 3590. 1906. and seeds; furniture and incidental articles for the museum of hygiene and department of instruction, naval dispensary, Washington, naval laboratory, sick quarters at Naval Academy and marine barracks, surgeons’ officesand dispensaries at navy-yards and naval stations, Snrge0ns’ quarters at naval hospitals; washing for medical department at museumvof hygiene and department of instruction, naval dispensary, Washington; naval laboratory, sick quarters at Naval Academy and marine barracks, dispensaries at navy-yards and naval stations, and ships and rendezvous; and for minor repairs on buildinggs and grounds of the United States Naval Museum of Hygiene and epartment of Instruction; for the care, maintenance, and treatment of the insane of the Navy and Marine Corps on the Paciiic coast, and all other neces- 4 sar contingent expenses; in all, fifty-tive thousand dollars. '1‘¤,¤¤f¤¤i¤z Mme SFRANSPORTATION or REMAINS! To enable the Secretary of the Navy, "m°mS°f°m°°m'°t°' in his discretion, to cause to be transferred to their homes the remains of officers and enlisted men of the Navy and Marine Corps who die or are killed in action ashore or afloat, and also to enable the Secretary of the Navy, in his discretion, to cause to be transported to their homes the remains of civilian employees who die outside of the continental Pr<¤a3¤o.¤ mma. limits of the United States, ten thousand dollars: Provided, That the APP ma °°° sum herein appropriated shall be available for payment for trans r- tation of the remains of officers and men who have died while on diity at any time since April twenty—lirst, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, and shall be available until used, and applicable to past as well as future obligations. Repairs. REPAIRS, BUREAU or Mnmcmn AND SURGERY: For necessary repairs of naval laboratory, naval hospitals, and a pendages, including roads, wharves, onthouses, sidewalks, fences, gardens, farms, and cemeteries, forty-five thousand dollars. Bureau of Supplies BUREAU OF SUPPLIES AND ACCOUNTS. and Accounts. · Provisions, ccc. Pnovisroxs, NA\'YZ For provisions and commuted rations for the seamen and marines, which commuted rations may be paid to caterers of messes, in case of death or desertion, upon orders of the commanding officers, commuted rations for officers on sea duty (other than commissioned officers of the line, Medical and Pay corps, and chief boatswains, chief gunners, chief sailmakers, chief carpenters), and midshipmen, and commuted rations sto ped 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 winch attached under orders (during which subsistence rations to be stopped on board ship and no credit for commutation therefor to be given): labor in general storehouses and aymasters’ offices in navy—yards, including naval stations maintained) in island possessions under the control of the United States, and expenses in handling stores purchased under the naval—supply fund; one chemist, at two thousand five hundred dollars per annum, and two chemists, at two thousand dollars each er {*r~··i»·~··., __ annum, five million two hundred and twentv thousand dollars: lhabale to UIVIIIBD FIH- • V " . . . p;..,·.,€g, wzded, That pay department stores may be sold to civilian emplovees at naval stations beyond the continental limits of the United States and in Alaska, under such regulations as the Secretary of the Navy mav prescribe. N·¤‘>‘¤¤<>¤*· Provided, That sections fifteen hundred and eighty and fifteen hundred and eighty-one, Revised Statutes, be amended to read as follows: Mgg¤¤8¤ i¤ ¤¤<~‘- "Sec. 1580. The navy ration shall consist of the following daily R.s.,m.1aso,p.21n, allowance of provisions to each person: One pound and a quarter of ’”“""'l°°‘ salt or smoked meat, with three ounces of dried or six ouncesof canned or preserved fruit, and three gills of beans or pease, or twelve ounces of flour; or one pound of preserved meat, with three ounces of dried or
