834 FIFTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. 011. 1307. 1905. all, six million two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War, and accounted for as "Subsistence of the Army," and for that purpose to constitute one fund.
- '“"'$'“’°“°” °." For extraordina ex nse of subsistence of West Point cadets
ivfdngerg oi wm Pom while attending inaluyguralxheremony, to be immediately available, one thousand and eighty dollars. m$t*;1;§{¤¤¤¢¤*¤D* QUABTERMASTEIYS DEPARTMENT. . S“”"°‘ REGULAR SUPPLIES: Regular supplies of the Quartermaster’s Department, including their care and protection, consisting of stoves and heating apparatus required for heating offices, hospita s, barracks and quarters, and recruiting stations; also ranges and stoves, and appliances for cookin and serving food, and repair and maintenance of such. heating and cooking appliances; of fue and lights for enlisted men, including recruits guards, hospitals, storehouses, and offices, and for sale to officers, and including also fuel and engine supplies required in the operation of modern batteries at establis ed posts; for post bakcries; for ice machines and their maintenance where required for the health and comfort of the troops, and for cold storage; or the neces- ` sa furniture text—books, paper, and equipment for the post schools anldylibraries; for the tableware and mess furniture for kitchens and F°”°“°' mess halls, each and all for the enlisted men, including recruits; of forage in kind for the horses, mules, and oxen of the Quartermaster’s Department at the several sts and stations and with the armies in the field, and for the horses ofpthe 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 officers’ horses, including Amr- 687- beddin for the animals; and nothin in the Act making appropriations for thedegislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the Government for the Escal year nineteen hundred and six or any other Act shall hereafter he held or construed so as to deprive officers of the Army, wherever on duty in the military service of the United States, of forage, bedding, shoeing, or shelter for their authorized number of horses, or of any means of transportation or maintenance therefor for which rovision is made by the terms of this Act; of straw for soldiers’beddl)ng, and of stationery, including blank books for the Quartermaster s De artment,ccrt1ticates for scharged soldiers, blank formsfor the Pay A¤w¤¤¤- and)Quartermaster’s departments, and for printing department orders Ifggggk and reports, live million dollars: Provided, That no part of the ap ro- ` priations for the Quartermastefs Department sha] be expended) on printing unless the same shall be done by contract after due notice and competition, except in such cases as the emer ency will not admit of the giving notice of competition and in cases wdnere it is impracticable to have the necessary printing clone by contract the same may be done, with the approval of the Secretary of War, by the hire of the necessaiiy labor or the purpose. _,,,;;; mjjzmfiggfé or the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and six, pmnis. whenever ice machines, steam laundries, and electric lants shall not come in competition with private enterprise for sale to the public and in the opinion of the Secretary of War it becomes necessary to the economical use and administration of such ice machines, steam laundries, and electric plants as have been or may hereafter be established in pursuprlgdeggpletgf surplus ance of aw, surplus ice maly be disposed of, laundry work may be -‘ done for other branches of the Government, and surplus electric light _ and ppwer may be sold on such terms and in accordance with such {_;',§",§‘{",,,w,,,,,,, regu tions as may be prescribed by the Secretary of War: Prewided, That the funds received from such sales and in payment for such laundry work shall be used to defray the cost of operation of said ice,
