FIFTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 386. 1897. 663 In the office of the quartermaster: One chief clerk, at one thousand five hundred and forty dollars and eighty cents; one clerk, at one thousand four hundred and ninety-six dollars and iitty-two cents; one clerk, at one thousand two hundred and fifty-seven dollars and twelve cents; In the office of the assistant quartermaster, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: One clerk, at one thousand four hundred dollars; one Inessenger, at one dollar and seventy-five cents per diem; In the ofdce of the assistant quartermaster, Wasliingtoii, District of Columbia, or San Francisco, California: One clerk, at one thousand four hundred dollars; In all, for pay of civil force, seventeen thousand six hundred and thirty-six dollars and twenty-three cents; and the money herein specifically appropriated for pay of the Marine Corps shall be disbursed and accounted for in accordance with existing law as pay of the Marine Corps, and for that purpose shall constitute one fund. PROvIsIoNs, MARINE CORI>s: For one thousand five hundred non- *"°"**°¤* commissioned officers, musician , and privates, and for commutation of rations to twelve enlisted men detailed as clerks and messengers; also for payment of board and lodging of recruiting parties, said payment for board not to exceed two thousand five hundred dollars, one hundred I, thousand dollars; and no law shall be construed to entitle marines on shore duty to any rations or commutation therefor other than such as now are or may hereafter be allowed to enlisted men in the Army. C, CLOTHING MARINE CORPS: For two thousand six hundred non- "°' commissioned officers, musicians, and privates, ninety-seven thousand two hundred and fifty-five dollars. FUEL, MARINE CORPs: For heating barracks and quarters, for F'"' ranges and stoves for cooking, fuel for enlisted men, for sales to officers, maintaining electric lights, and for hot-air closets, nineteen thousand five hundred dollars, MILITARY stronrzs, MARINE Conrs: For pay of chief armorer, at Hm°“"'""°* three dollars per day; three mechanics, at two dollars and nity cents each per day; for purchase of military equipments, such as cartridge boxes, bayonet scabbards, haver acks, blanket bags, knapsncks, canteens, musket slings, swords, drums, trumpets, ilags, waist belts, waist plates, cartridge belts, 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 gunnery and ritle practice, good-conduct badges, incidental expenses in connection with the school of application, signal equipment and stores, binocular glasses, for the establish- Inent and maintenance of targets and ranges, for l1iI·ing established ranges, and for procuring, preserving, and handling ammunition, ten thousand dollars; in all, thirteen thousand two hundred and ninety- seven dollars. T rt H d TRANSPORTATION AND RECRUITING, DIAEINE Cones: For transpor- ,.,.,,Y.‘$‘{2‘.§',§_ “ °“ “" tation of troops, including ierriage, and the expense of recruiting service, _ nftcen thousand dollars: Provided, That the provisions of the clause {.°,§§}’;,°,,,1,,,d,,,, contained in the Act of Congress approved March third, eighteen hun- cvgnieiw no dred and seventy-nine, authorizing the Secretaryof the Treasury to make ° ’°` ` such entries upon the books of the Department as will carry to the credit of certain railroad companies named in said Act amounts earned or to be earned by them during each fiscal year on account of transportation of the Army and transportation of the mails »be, and the same are hereby, extended and made applicable to the transportation ot' the Navy and the Marine Corps. _ Foa RE1>AIRs or RAnRAoxs, MARINE CORPS: At Portsmouth, New “"*""“°"""’”°"‘· Hampshire; Boston,Massachusetts; Newport, Rhode Island; Brooklyn, New York; League Island, Pennsylvania; Annapolis, Maryland; headquarters and navy-yard, District of Columbia; Nortolk,Virginia; Pensacola, Florida; Mare Island, California; Port Orchard, Washington; Port Royal, South Carolina; and Sitka, Alaska; and per diem for enlisted men employed under the direction of the Quartermastefs
