FIFTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 1307. 1905. 837 and small arms from the foundries and armories to the arsenals, fortifications, frontier posts, and army depots; freights, wharfage, tolls, and ferriages; the purchase and hire of draft and pack animals and harness, and the purchase and repair of wagons, carts, and drays, and of ships and other vessels and boats required for the transportation of troops and supplies and for garrison purposes; for drayage and cartage at the several posts; hire of teamsters and other employees; extra·duty pay of enlisted men driving teams repairing means of transportation, and employed as train masters, and in opening roads and ` building wharves; transportation of funds of the Arm ; the ex enses Sale of transports of sailingpublic trangports on the various rivers, the Gulf of Liexico, ’°°m°°°d' and the tlantic and a iiic oceans, and hereafter no steamship in the traniport service of the {lnited States shall be sold or disposed of with- · out e consent of Congress having been first had or obtained; for procuring water, and introducing the same to buildings at such posts as from their situation require it to be brou ht from a distance, and for the disposal of sewage and drainage, ang for constructing roads and wharves; for the payment of army transportation lawfully due P•{':_*$:0uf,° l•¤d· such 1and—grant railroads as have not received aid in Government gum . l` bonds (to be adjusted in accordance with the decisions of the Supreme Court in cases decided under such land-grant acts), but in no case Mmmmshall more than fifty per centum of full amount of service D8 id: Provided, That such compensation shall be computed upon the basis com of the tariff or lower special rates for like transportation performed mm. mm for the lpublic at lar , and shall be accepted as in full for a demands · for suc service: jin ther, That in expending the money £{,°{°b;ng¢¤_,j,£
this Act, a railroad company which has not received
a1 in bonds the United States, and which obtained a‘grant of public land to aidin the construction of its railroad on con tion thatnsuch - railroad should be a post route and military road, subject to the use of the United States for postal, military, naval, and other Government services, and also subject to such regulations as Congress may impose restricting the char e for such Government transportation, havin claims against the Suited States for transportation of troolps and munitions of war and military supplies and property over suc aided railroads, shall be paid out of the mone Ys appropriated by the foregoing provision on y on the basis of such rate for the transportation of such troops and munitions of war and militar supplies and property as the Secretary of War shall deem just andy reasonable under the foregoing provision, such rate not to exceed fifty per centum of the compensation for such Government transportation as shall at that time he charged to and paid by private rries to any such company for like and similar trans rtation· and tlildamount so fixed to be paid shall be accepted as in fulllior all demands for such service: Promded furtlaer, That the number of draft animals lpurchased from this app°ro· ”’°“°”*’°•*¤· priation, added to those now on hand, shal be limited to such num rs as are actually required for the service, twelve million dollars. That no rt of the sums appropriated for the support of the Regu- m,·[g§`,£°*”*P'°°¤ lar Army shin} be used to pariy any part of the expenses of the orgpn- ngimua expense m- ized militia of any State, erritory, or District of Columbia w ile °"°"‘ enga d in joint encampment maneuvers, and field instruction of the Regixr Army and militia as provided by section fifteen of the Act of V°‘-3* P- "”· January twentydirst, nineteen hundred and three, entitled "Au Act to romote the eiiiciency of the militia, and for other purposes." Cmrnrmo, mn came no eaamsou mourmcn: For cloth, woolens, gl•f,}·,g0h,{¤€¤§iuq$’¤3_?g¤¤d materials, and for the manufacture of clothing for the Army, for issue ` and for sale at cost rice, according to the Army Regulations; for alterin and fitting clldthing, and washing and cleaning when nece - sary; fir equipage, and for expenses of packing and handling, and similar neccssaries; for a suit of citizen’s outer clothing, to cost not
