Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 32 Part 1.djvu/1005

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940 FIFTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 975. 1903. ‘and stations for which no other rovision is made, under such regulations as shall have been or shall be prescribed by the Secretary of “§gd°¤¤i°· °*°·· di' War; for the proper care and treatment of epidemic and contagious ` diseases in the Army or at military posts or stations, including measures to prevent the spread thereof, and the payment of reasonable damages not otherwise provided for, for bedding and clothing injured N“”°*· or destroyed in such prevention; for the pay of male an female nurses, not including the Nurse Corps (female), and of cooks and other civilians employed for the pro r care of sick officers and soldiers, under such regulations fixing thdir number, qualifications, assignment, y, and allowances as shall have been or shall be prescribed by the Sédcretary of War; for the pay of civilian physicians employed to examine hysically applicants for enlistment and enlisted men, and to render other professional services from time to time under proper authority; for the y of other employees of the Medical Department; for the payment ogxinxpress companies and local transfers employed directly by the Medical De rtment for the transportation of medical and hospital supplies, includiiig bidders’ samples and water for analysis; for supplies for use in teaching the art of cooking to the Hospital Corps; for the supply of the Army and Navy Hospital at Hot Springs, Arkansas; for advertisin , laundry, and all other necessar misce a- neous expenses of the Ldedical Department four hundredy and fifty Prwm m thousand dollars: Provided, That hereafter the purchase of medicines cnmilm P"` and medical stores or the engagement of services not personal for the . Medical Department of the Army may be made by the Medical Department in open market in the manner common among business men when the aggregate of the amount required does not exceed two hundred dollars, but every such purchase or employment shall be promptly _ reported to the Secretary of War. mmeum. Amar Mmmcn. Mnsmm AND LIBRARYI For Army Medical Museum, preservation of specimens and the preparation and purchase of new specimens, five thousand dollars. L“"*'Y· For the library of the Surgeon-General’s Oihce, including the purchase of necessary books of reference and periodicals, ten thousand dollars. m§,{;§*"°°' ”°P°“‘ muomman nnranmnsr. I“°"’°°““°*P°“’°*‘· Euemnsa nnrors: For incidental expenses of the depots, includin fuel, lights, chemicals, stationery, hardware, machinery, ay of civig ian clerks, mechanics, and laborers, extra-duty pay to sol)diers necessarilv employed for periods not less than ten days as artiticers on work in addition to and not strictly in the line of their military duties, such as carpenters, blacksmiths, draftsmen, printers, lithographers, photographers, engine drivers, telegraph operators, teamsters, wheelwrights, masons, machinists, painters, overseers, laborers; repairs of, and for materials to repair, public buildin s, machinery, and unforeseen expenses, eleven thousand five hundred dollars. m;"fn§n"g;°g_ °°°-· °‘ For purchase and repair of instruments, to be issued to officers of the Corps of Engineers and to officers detailed and on duty as actin Engineer officers for use on public works and surveys, five thousand o lars. E" “°°" S°h°°l· Engineer School lVashin ton District of Columbia: E ui ment Was n · 7 F DEEMO Bamtn and maintenance of the En `heer School of Application at lbaghing- Eq °m°°°’ °°°' ton Barracks, District of Coliimbia, including purchase of instruments, machinery, implements, models. and materials. for the use of the school and for instruction of engineer troops in their special duties as sappers and miners; for land and submarine mines, pontoniers, torpedo drill, and signaling; for purchase and binding of professional works of recent ` date treating of military and civil engineering and kindred scientific “‘°“’°““’°‘P°°’°S· subjects, for the library of the United States Engineer School; for_