Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 28.djvu/869

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840 FIFTY-THIRD CONGRESS. Sess. IH. Ch. 186. 1895. than such as now are or may hereafter be allowed to enlisted men in the Army. Clothing- CLOTHING, MARINE CORPs: For two thousand one hundred noncommissioned oilieers, musicians, and privates, eighty thousand dollars. 1'¤¤L FUEL, MARINE C01z1>s: For heating barracks and quarters, for ranges and stoves for cooking, fuel for enlisted men, and for sales to officers, maintaining electric lights, and for hot-air closets, nineteen thousand five hundred dollars. 1¤1i¤¤ry•*¤¤• MILITARY sromcs, MARINE Cours: For pay of chief armorer, at three dollars per day; three mechanics, at two dollars and fifty cents each per day; in all, three thousand two hundred and ninety-seven dollars; for purchase of military equipments, such as cartridge boxes, bayonet seabbards, haversacks, blanket bags, knapsacks, canteens, musket slings, swords, drums, trumpets, flags, waist belts, waist plates, cartridge be ts, sashes for officer of the day, spare parts for repairing muskets, purchase of ammunition, and purchase and repair of instruments for band, purchase of music and musical accessories, medals for excellence in guimery and riile practice, good conduct badges, incidental expenses in connection with the school of application, signal equipment and stores, binocular glasses, for the establishment and ·maintenance of targets and ranges, for hiring established ranges, and . for procuring, preserving, and handling ammunition, ten thousand dollars; in all, thirteen thousand two hundred and ninety-seven dollars. 1‘¤=1¤ei·¤r¤¤¤¤•¤¤ TRANSPORTATION Am) Rnoanrrme, MARINE Conrs: For trans- "°°""°'“' portation of troops, including ferriage, and the expense of recruiting _ service, fifteen thousand dollars. R°P“·i*’ °“*¤'¤°¤· Fon REPAIRS ·oF BABBACKS: At Portsmouth, New Hampshire; Boston, Massachusetts- Newport, Rhode Island; Brooklyn, New York- League Island, Pennsylvania; Annapolis, Maryland; headquarters and navy-yard, District of Columbia; Norfolk,Virginia; Pensacola, Florida; Mare Island, California; Port Royal, South Carolina; and Sitka, Alaska; and per diem for enlisted men employed under the direction of the Quartermastefs Department on the repair of barracks and other public buildings, ten thousand dollars. Bent. For rent of building used for manufacture of clothing, storing supplies, and office of assistant quartermaster, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, two thousand dollars. 1'¤¤s¤- FOBAGE, MARINE Cours: For forage in kind for five horses of the Quartermastefs Department, and the authorized number of officers’ horses, two thousand eight hundred dollars. ¤ir•¤f·1¤¤*·¤·¤~ HIRE or QUARTERS, MARINE Cours: For hire of quarters for onicers 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, four thousand five hundred dollars; for hire of quarters for seven enlisted men employed as clerks and messengers in commandant’s, ad jutant and inspector’s, paymaster’s, and quartermaster’s offices Washington, District of Columbia, and assistant quartermaster’s offices, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, at twenty- one dollars per month each, one thousand seven hundred and sixty— four dollars; for hire of quarters for three enlisted men employed as above, at ten dollars each per month, three hundred and sixty dollars; in all, six thousand six hundred and twenty-four dollars. Cvnfinswk _ CON1*1NGEN1*, MARINE CORPs: For freight, tolls, cartage, advertis- Ing, washing of bed sacks, mattress covers, pillow cases, towels, and sheets, funeral expenses of marines, 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 not less than ten days, repair of gas and water fixtures, office and barracks furniture; mess utensils for enlisted men, such as bowls, plates, spoons, knives, forks; packing boxes, wrapping paper, oilcloth, crash, rope, twine, camphor and carbolized paper, carpenter’s tools, tools for police purposes, iron safes,