FIFTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 785. 1900. 291 than eleven thousand five hundred and eight dollars and seventy- two cents for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-five, two thousand two hundred and twenty-eight dollars and nine cents for the iiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-six, and eleven thousand and fifty-five dollars and sixty-four cents for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-seven. Ymnnowstroun NATIONAL PARK: For the repair and maintenance of m}f1j}Q§’a“{,§'°¤° N°" existing roads and bridges, and improvement and rotection of the ` Yellowstone National Park, to be expended by andp under the direction of the Secretary of War, fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety- eight, one hundred and sixty-two dollars and sixty-two cents. Mrmraar Esrannisummrr. m§}_“*">' °S“’*’“Sh‘ To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treas- Medical m“S°“m· ury on account of the appropriation "Army Medical Museum," for the fiscalyear eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, seventy-five cents. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury M°'“mg· °‘°·~ g““· on account of the appropriation "Ammunition for morning and evenin gun," for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, twelve doIlars and thirty-Eve cents. _ _ _ To pay amounts found due by the accountin officers of the Treasury M}1Y‘°°“"°° R“’°'· on account of the appropriation “Improving%Vicomico River, Mary- land," eighteen dollars. ’ _ _ To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury __§}§§{§{‘,‘;}0§’,‘§kS· on account of the a propriation “Improvement of Yellowstone National Park," six dolliars and ninety-five cents. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officersof the Treasury ·A¤¤¢¤*m· on account of the appropriation "Battle lines and sites for tablets at Antietam,” twenty cents. _ To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury T"mSp°"“°‘°"‘ on account of the appropriation--_"Transportation of the Army and its supplies," for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety~eight, seven hundred and twenty dollars an ninety-six cents. . For the reimbursement of necessary transportation and traveling palft‘},§*;‘*;§i_M€di°“lD°‘ expenses, including railroad fare, sleeping-car fare, transfers, meals, Tmvelingexpenses. and lodgings en route or during necessary delays, of nurses employed °t°` by the Medical Department of the Army since April thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, incurred in traveling upon public business from their homes to the places of service and subsequently on changes of station and return to their homes, whose claims may have heretofore been disallowed by the accounting officers of the Treasury on the ~ ground that the terms of the written contracts made with the nurses id not entitle them to the allowances in question, excepting the two hundred and eighteen claims forwarded by the Quartermaster—General _ to the Auditor for the War Department on or about February twenty- · seventh, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, which have been otherwise _ provided for, four thousand dollars: Provided, That all other such f.°Q§’,'f§§§g claim claims now pending or that may hereafter be presented shall be allowed and paid from the regular appropriations applicable to the payment of transportation and traveling expenses of civi ian employees o the Army, in like manner as if the terms of the written contracts entitled the nurses to such allowances; but the amounts allowed shall in no case exceed the amounts authorized by the War Department in regulations governin the matter, nor the amounts stipulated in the written contracts if time latter expressly provide therefor: Amiprocidedfurifwr, That disbursing officers of the Quartermaster’s Department who have Otggegjg §§ugQ§g$£; paid or shall hereafter pay accounts for such expenses shall be given tersnepunmem. credit for all such payments upon proper vouchers. _
