FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 284. 1891. 773 For pay of not exceeding th' -eight aymasters’ clerks, at one 1>¤ym¤.¤m¤· earn, thousand four hundred dollars elddh, not exheeding thirty pa masters’ "‘°“°”g°"'· °“‘· messengers, and traveling expenses of expert accountant of lnspector Genera ’s Department and paymasters’ clerks; in all, eighty-one thousand five hundred and twenty-one dollars and seventy-one cents: Promded, That the maximum sum to be allowed clerks of the Pay mma. Department, the expert accountant for the Inspector General’s Department, and contract surgeons when traveling on duty shall be Mulmum mvellnz our cents {per mile, and, in addition thereto, when trans brtation °u°"”°°‘ can not be urnished by the Quartermaste1·’s Department, the cost of same actually paid by them, exclusive of parlor car fare and transfers. For compensation of reporters and witnesses attending upon courts- onum-mn-u¤1,m. martial, and courts of inquiry, eight thousand four hundred and fifteen dollars and seventy-three cents. For additional pay to officer in charge of public buildin s and WP¤l>¤¢ ¤¤i1<ll¤s¤» grounds in Washington, District of Columbia, one thousand cillars. °°m°g°°"’D‘°‘ For additional pay to officer commanding military prison at Fort Hllitaryphcn. Leavenworth, Kansas, Eve hundred dollars. For the upay of a clerk attendant on the collection and classifica- mmqmmmm . tion of m' itary information from abroad, one thousand Eve hundred """"·*"““*- dollars; and the officers detailed to obtain the same shall be entitled to mileage and transportation and also commutation of quarters while on this duty, as provided when on other duty. For pay of one expert accountant for the Inspector General’s De- mpm-mmuuum. %rtment, to be aplpointed in case of vacancy, y the Secretary of _ • ar, two thousan five hu;1!d;ed dollars. ` For commutation of qu rs to commissioned officers on duty ccmmumm or without troodps, at stations where there are no public quarters, one ‘*“‘"""“* hundred an seventy thousand dollars. For allowances for travel, retained pay, clothing not drawn, and Allowances, whenfor interest on. deposits, payable to enlisted men on dischar , eight ““'°°"‘°"‘ hundred and ninety-nine thousand one hundred and four dohars and eiglity-seven cents. ` or mileage to officers when traveling on duty without troops, Milmscwomccm when authorized b law, one hundred and nfty thousand dollars: Provided, That in disbursing this amount the maximum sum to be mmm. allowed and paid to an officer shall be four cents per mile, distance mmmumau¤w¤¤¤¤.. to be computed over the shortest usually traveled routes, and, in addition thereto, the cost of the transportation actually paid by the officer over said route or routes, exc usive of parlor-car fare and transfers: And provided further, That when any officer so traveling ousuwmmammsz. shall travel in whole or in part on any railroad on which the troops and supplies of the United tates are entitled to be transported free of charge, or over any of the bond-aided Pacific railroa s, he shall be allowed for himself only four cents per mile as a subsistence fund for eve? mile necessarily` traveled over aniy such railroads: And provide further, That the transportation urnished by the Transportation by- qluartermastefs Department to officers traveling without troops D°·· s all be limited to transportation in kind, not inc uding slee ing or ` parlor car accommodations, over free roads, over bond-aidedpPacific railroads, and by conveyance belonging to the said Department; Making in all, for ay and general expenses of the Army, thirteen mum. million two hundred) and twenty-seven thousand six hundred and seventy-nine dollars and nineteen cents. All the money hereinbefore appropriated shall be disbursed and rompqmmm. accounted for by the Pay Department as pay of the Army, and for that purpose shall constitute one fund. SUBSISTENCE or THE ARMY. · For the urchase of subsistence supplies; for issue as rations to sunmm troops, civig employees when entitle thereto, contract surgeons,
