FIF'1`Y—EIGHTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 1307. 1905. 833 for tinal audit, and the Secretary of War may hereafter authorize the assignment to duty in the office of the Paymaster-General, not to exceed mQ·,sg'Q§,P';}‘f,§{;_" my Eve paymasters’ clerks, now authorized by law. — sussrstrmvon DEPARTMENT.subsistence nepm. _ ment. Purchase of subsistence supplies: For issue, as rations, to troops, supplies civil employees when entitle thereto, hospital matrons and nurses, general prisoners of war (including Indians held by the Army as prisoners, but for whose subsistence apfpropriation is not otherwise made), and to military prisoners at posts; or sales to officers and enlisted men of the Army; for authorize issues of candles; of toilet articles, barbers’, laundry, and tailors’ materials; for use of general prisoners confined at military posts without pay or allowances, and recruits at recruitintg stations; of matches for gghting public tires and lights at jposts an stations and in the field; 0 flour used for paste in target practice; of salt and vinegar for public animals; of issues to Indians emlployed with the Army, without pay, as guides and scouts, and for toi et paper for use by enlisted men at posts, camps, rendezvous, and offices where water-closets are provided with sewer connections. For Payments. payments: For meals for recruiting parties and recruits; for hot coffee, canned meats, 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 new pers, use of telephones, office furniture; for temporary buildings, msmrs, and other means of protecting subsistence supplies (when not provided by the Qnartermastefs Department); for codec masters; for chests, complete; and for renewal of their outfits; for field desks o eommissaries; for extra pay to enlisted men nursery p.,-. employed on extra duty in the Subsistence Department for periods of not less than ten days, at rates fixed by law; for compensation of civil- ugvilian compme. ians employed in the Subsistence Department, and for other necessary ` expenses incident to the purchase, care, preservation, issue, sale, and accounting for subsistence supplies for the Army; for the payment of °°¤¤¤¤*¤¤°¤· commutation of rations to the cadets at the nited States Military Academy in lieu of the re ular established ration at the rate of thirty cents per ration; and for as payment of the regulation allowances of commutation in lieu of rations to enlisted men on furlough; to ordnance sergeants on duty at ungarrisoned posts; to enlisted men and male and female nurses when stationed at p aces where rations in kind can not be economically issued, and when travelin(g on detached duty where it is impracticable to carry rations of any kin ; to enlisted men selected to contest for laces or rizes in department and army rifle competitions while traveling to and from places of contest; and to male an female nurses on leaves of absence; for subsistence of the masters, officers, Magus n-•¤¤p¤¤ crews, and employees of the vessels of the army transport service; for °°” difference between the cost of the ration at twentygthree cents per day and the amount of thirty-eight cents per day to expended by commissaries on request of medical officers for special diet to enlisted tients in hospital (except that at the general hospital at Fort Bayard, Kaw Mexico, the difference between e cost of the ration at twenty- three 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-three cents and the cost of rations driferrng in whole or in part from the ordinary ration, to be issued to enlisted men in camp in the United States during periods of recovery from low conditions of health consequent upon service in unhealthy 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 stationed at such places as the Secretary of War may determine; in Amount. vox. xxxur, Pr 1-53
