SIXTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 28. 1918. 477 be accepted as in full for all demands for such service: Provided mfg;¤;0tPggnd°g?d;d*° further. That in explending the money appropriated by this Act a ` railroad compan w `ch has not received ard in bonds of the United States, and whicl,1 obtained a. grant of public land to aid in the construction of its railroad on condition t at such railroad should be a st route and military road, subject to the use of the United States iii; postal, military, naval, and other Government services, and also subject to such regulations as Congress may impose restricting the charge for such Govemment transportation, having claims against the United States for transportation of troops and munitions of war and military supplies and property over such aided railroads, shall be paid out of the moneys appropriated by the foregoing provision onl on the basis of such rate for the transportation of such troops and, munitions of war and military supplies and (property as the ' Secretary of War shall deem just and reasonable un er the oregoing provision, such rate not to exceed fifty per centrim of the compensation for such Government transportation as shall at that time be charged to and paid by private parties to any such company for like and similar transportation· and the amormt so fixed to e aid shall be accepted as in full for all demands for such service: A1ui)prmn2Zed £P°Y*°°‘°°P°°° furclwr, That nothing in the preceding Egovisos shall be construed to prevent the accounting officers of the vemment from making full payment to land—grant railroads for transportation of prplperty or persons where the courts of the United States have hel _ at such property or persons do not come within the scope of the deductions rovided for in the land-grant Acts; for the purchase and hire of P°°* °”*‘ graft and pack animals in such numbers as are actually required for the service, including reasonable provision for replacing unserviceable animals; for the purchase, hire, operation, maintenance, and v°l'i°]°°‘ repair of such harness, wagons, carts, drays, other vehicles, and motor-propelled and horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles, as are rleI<}1uired for ghe transportation of trioopsdgrd suppliels, and for officigl, "tary, an garrison urposes; or yage an cart e at the several depots; for the of teamsters and other emrilgyees; for °h“"’b°“°°’°°°‘ the purchase and repair of ships, boats, and other vessels re uired for the transportation of troops and supplies and for official, mihtary and garrison purposes; for expenses 0 sailing public transports and T“'°’°"" other vessels on the various rivers, the Gulfp of Mexico, and the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, $125,000,000: Provided further, That b°§`gPl°W¤°¤””“' $75,000 of the appropriation hereby made shall be available for ' additional pjay of employees on harbor boats, quartermaster service, in lieu of su srstence. su has swim All the money herein a propriated under the titles Subsistence of me iignsptrmemn. ’ the Arm ; Regular supplies, Qpyanrgzermaster Corps; Incidental ex- ,,,$§$l’,§‘g°L‘}'Lml,‘§§§ penses, Qrvartermaster rps; portaticn of the Army and its ¤¤¤;,M M supplies; ater and sewer at military posts; and Clothing and camp p` and garrison equipage shall be disbursed and accounted for by ofiicers and agents of the Quartermaster Corps as ‘ ‘Supplies, services, and transportation, Quartermaster Corps, and for that p1u·pose shall constitute one fund. sw mm _ Storage and shipping facilities: For inland and port storage names"? ppm: mcluding al1 necessary buildings, docks, tracks, handling; and d°°"’· other facilities for Government supplies, including renta and ' not to exceed $20,000,000 for the purchase of land, $100,000,000, to contmue available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and Pmim nineteen: Provided, That the Secretary of War is authorized to aaameiarmuuamr enter into contracts or otherwise to incur obligations for the pur- POSBS abovejrrentioned not to exceed $50,000,000 in additi011 to Tim etc mtrmiou the appropriations heretofore and herein made: Promkled further, mmui " Tlwli t 8 foregoing sums may be expended without reference to R·s-·S°°-355·P·"°- section three hundred and fifty-five of the Revised Statutes.
