FIFTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 14. 1900. 15 For additional twenty per centum increase on pay of enlisted men tour million five hundred and twenty-four thousand seven hundred and fifteen dollars; or ` For additional ipay for increased rank when in command by competent authority, ii- ty thousand dollars; In all, fifteen million one hundred and eighty-eight thousand eight _ hundred and thirty-two dollars and sixty-one cents. ~ All the money hereinbefore reappropriated, except " for mileage to officers traveling without troops and to contract surgeons,” under Pay Department sha 1 be disburse and accounted for by the Pay De artment as pay of the Army, and for that purpose shall constitute one flfind. SUBSISTENCE DEPARTMENT. m§},‘}f“i"°“°° D°P”*’° PURCHASE or SUBSISTENCE surpmns: For issue as rations to troops, Suppliescivil employees when entitled thereto, hospital matrons and nurses, general prisoners of war (including Indians held by the Army as prisoners, but for whose subsistence appropriation is not otherwise , made); for sales to officers and enlisted men of the Army; for authorized issues of candles; of toilet articles, barbers’, laundry, and tailors’ materials for use of general prisoners confined at military osts without lpay or allowances and recruits at recruiting stations; fldr matches for ighting public fires and lights at posts and stations and in the Held; of flour used for paste in target practice; of salt and vine ar for public animals, and to Indians employed with the Army, witgout pay, as . guides and scouts; for payments for meals for recruiting parties and Paymentsrecruits; for hot coffee, canned beef, and baked beans for troops traveling, when it is impracticable to cook their rations; for scales-, weights, measures, utensils, tools, stationery, blank books and forms, printing, advertising, commercial newslpapers, use of telephones, 0Ece furniture; for temporary buildings, ce ars, and other means of proteoting subsistence supplies (when not provided by the Quartermaster’s Dlepgrtlment); ger fcoiigrriiisgrji c gsts complete, and for the renewa o their out ts; or e es <s o commissaries; for com ensation of civilians employed_in the Subsistence Department, and? for other necessary expenses inc1dent to the purchase, care, preservation, issue, sale, an accounting for subsistence sufpplies for the Army; for c¤mmp¤m0¤ m the payment of the regu ation allowances o commutation in lieu of he" °f"‘"°“" rations to enlisted men on furlough, to ordnance sergeants on duty at ungarrisoned posts, to enlisted men stationed at places where rations in ind can not be economically issued, to enlisted men traveling on detached duty when it is impracticable to carry rations of any kind, to enlisted men selected to contest for places or rizes in department and army riiie comdpetitions while trave ing to and) from places of contest; to be expen ed under the direction of the Secretary of War, three million seven hundred and ninety thousand dollars. For difference between the cost of the ration at twenty-five cents increased cost or and the amount of forty cents per day, to be expended by the medical §Z§{’§,§$' °°‘"“l°S’ officers in charge of hospitals for the diet of enlisted men while underglping hgsgital treatment under their charge, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. For difference between the cost of the ration at twenty-five cents and the cost of rations differing in whole or in part from the ordinary ration, to be issued to enlisted inen in camp during periods of recovery . from low conditions of health consequent upon service inunhealthy regions or in debilitating climates, to be expended only under special authority of the Secretary of War, sixty thousand dollars. Total for Subsistence Department, four million dollars; to be disbursed and accounted for as “Subsistence of the Army," and for that purpose shall constitute one fund.
