268 F IFTY-EIGHTH LONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 1485. 1904. crews, and employees of the vessels_ of the army transport service; for difference between the cost of the ration at twenty-five cents per day and the amount of forty cents per day to be expended by commissaries on request of medical officers for special diet to enlisted patients in hospital (except that at the genera hospital at Fort Bayard, New Mexico, the diiierence between the cost of the ration at twentydive cents and fifty cents per day, is authorized) who are too sick to be subsisted on the army ration; 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 ordinar ration, to be issued to enlisted men in camp m the United States diiring periods of recovery from low conditions of health consequent upon service in unhealt y regions or in debilitating climates (to be expended only under special authority of the Secretary of War); and for ice to organizations of enlisted men
- ‘“°“"*· spationed at sluch plqlqles as th:cSecreta(;·`y;1ofnV‘:’art.l1:1ay dettelrminpqlin
al,sevenmil'on 0 rs,t0 e n u er e¢b·ec` 'ono e Secretary of War, and accounted fdiilas "Subsistence¤nf the Army," and for that purpose to constitute one fund._ :.¤= _
°D°` QUnu‘m¤nscma’s DEPARTMENT.
“"””"· Rmmaa surruns: Regular supplies of the Quartermastefs Department, including their care and protection, consisting of stoves and heating apparatus required for heating offices, hoslpita s, barracks and quarters, and recruiting stations; also ranges an stoves, and appliances for cooking and serving food, and repair and maintenance of such heating and cooking ap iances; of fue and lights for enlisted men, including recruits, guardb, hospitals, storehouses, and offices, and for sale to officers, and includingalso fuel and engine supplies required in the operation of modern batteries at established posts; for post bakeries; for 1ce machines and their maintenance where required for the health and comfort of the troops, and for cold storage; for the necessary furniture, text-books paper, and equipment for the it schools and libraries; forthe tableware and mess furniture for kitchbhs and mess halls, each and all for the enlisted men, including recruits; F·>¤·&¢-¤¤=· of forage in kind for the horses, mules, and oxen of the Quartermaster’s Department at the several posts and stations and with the armies in the field, and for the horses of the several regiments of cavalry, the batteries of artillery, and such companies of infantry and scouts as may be mounted, and for the authorized number of oii1cers’ horses, including bedding for the animals, and nothing in —4·*•··P- 1**- the_ Act making appropriations or the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses o the Government for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and 've shall hereafter be held or construed so as to deprive officers of the Army, wherever on duty in the military service of the l.'mted States, of forage, bedding, shoemg, or shelter for their authorized number of horses, or of any means of transportation or maintenance therefor for_whnch provision IS made by the terms of this Act; of straw for S0ldl0l’S, be dmgieand of stationery, including blank books for the Qnartermastefs partment, certificates for discharged Mmm soldiers, blank forms for the Pay and Quartermastefs departments, _ ‘ and forapnntnng department ordersand reports, five million dollars:
Provide , That no part of the appropriations for the Quartermastefs
Department shall be expended on printing unless the same shall be done by contract after due notice and competition, except in such
as the emergency npt_adm1t of the giving notice of competition and in cases w ere it is impracticablc to have the necessarv
printing done by contract the same may bedone, with the approval df Mama the Secretary o Vi ar, by the hire of the necessary labor for the purpose: Pmmdedfurther, That hereafter, except in cases of emergency
