838 F IF TY-EIGHTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. C11. 1307. 1905. exceeding ten dollars, to be issued upon release from confinement to each prisoner who has been conlined under a court-martial sentence involving dishonorable discharge; for indemnity to officers and men of the Army for clothing and bedding, and so forth, destroyed since April twenty-second, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, by order of medical officers of the Army for sanitary reasons, four million dollars. H°‘P***"· CONSTRUCTION AND REPAIR or HOSPITALSI For construction and repair of hospitals at military posts already established and occupied, ·' including the extra-duty pay of enlisted men employed on the same, H<>¤$1>=’i¤8¤··¤‘k- and including also all expenditures for construction and repairs re uired at the Army and Navy Hospital at Hot Springs, Arkansas, and for the construction and repair of eneral hospitals and expenses incident thereto, and for additions needed to meet the requirements of increased garrisons, three hundred and ninety thousand dollars: Qftmsm Hmmm Provided, That seventy-five thousand dollars be used in the erection Tex, ’ of a modern sanitary hospital at Fort Sam Houston, Texas. mmhwm QUARTERS 1*01: HOSPITAL STEWABDS: For construction of quarters · for hospital stewards at military posts already established and occu- . pied, includin the extra~duty pay of enlisted men employed on the same, fifteen Tousand dollars. “"°°"”¤‘•”8°'·°*°· SHOOTING oALm·nuEs AND nANoEs: For shelter, shooting galleries, ranges for small-arms target practice, repairs, and expenses incident thereto, such ranges and galleries to be open, as far as practicable, to the National Guard and organized riile clubs under regulations to be , prescribed by the Secretary of War, seventy-five thousand dollars. l[edIca1Department. MEDICAL DEPARTMENT. S“PP"°“· ME1>1oAL AND Hosrnan DEPARTMENT: For the purchase of medical and hospital supplies, including disinfectants for mi itary posts, camps, hospitals, hospital ships, and transports; for expenses of medical supply depots; for medical care and treatment of officers and enlisted men of the Army on duty, and of prisoners of war and other persons in military custody or confinement, at posts and stations for which no other provision is made, under such rempations as shall have been or shall be prescribed by the Secretary of ar; 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 yment of reasonable damages, not otherwise provided for, for bedding and clothin injured or destroyed in such pre- N"”°* vention; for the pay of male andg female nurses, not including the Nurse Corps (female), and of cooks and other civilians employed for the progler care of sick omcers and soldiers, under such re ulations fixing their number, qualifications, assignment, pay, and adowances as shall have been or shall be prescribed by the Secretary of War; for the pay of civilian physicians employed to examine physically applicants for enlistment and enliste men, and to render other professional services from time to time under proper authority; or the pay of other employees of the Medical Department; for the payment of express companies and local transfers employed _ directly by the Medical Department for the transportation of medical and hospital supplies, inclu ing bidders’ samples and water for analysisfor supplies for use in teaching the art of cookin to the Hospital Corps; or the su ply of the Arm and Navy Hospitafl at Hot Springs, Arkansas; for adlirertising, laundyry, and all other necessary miscellaneous expenses of the Medical De rtment, six hundred thousand gggfélarket Pm__ dollars: Provided, That hereafter x purchase of medicines and cum 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
