SIXTY—FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 378. 1910. ‘ 627 Francisco, California; Bremerton, Washington; Sitka, Alaska; and Isthmus of Panama; for the renting, leasing, improvement, and erection of buildings in Porto Rico, the Territory of Hawaii, the Philippine Islands, at Guam, the District of Columbia, and at such other places as the public exigencies require; and for per diem to enlisted ·men employe under the direction of the Quartermastefs Department on the repair of barracks, quarters, and the other public buildi.n¥, one hundred and ten thousand dollars. onaen, Mamma Conrs: For forage in kind and stabling for horses F°’“g"· of the Quartermastefs Department and the authorized number of officers’ horses, twenty-four thousand two hundred dollars. COMMUTATION or quiurmns, Manmn Cours: For commutation of q,§,‘;,“g,';"§,§,§,;§s“,,,§,§ quarters for officers with troops where there are no public www <—f¢¤· quarters belonging to the Government, and where there are not sufficient quarters possessed by the United States to accommodate them; for commutation of uarters for enlisted men employed as clerks and messengers in the ofgces of the commandant, adj utant and ingpector, paymaster and quartermaster, and the offices of the assistant a jutant and inspectors, the assistant paymasters, and the assistant quartermasters, at twenty-one dollars each per month, and for enlisted men employed as messengers in said offices, at ten dollars each per month, eig ty thousand Eve hundred dollars. CONTINGENT, MARINE Cours: For freight, tolls, cartage, advertising, C"°“”€°¤*- washing of bed sacks, mattress covers, pillowcases, towels, and sheets, funeral expenses of officers and marines, including the transportation of bodies and their arms and we a arel from the place of demise to the homes of the deceased in tge lilinited States, stationery and other paper, printing and binding, telegraplhing, rent of telep ones, purchase and repair of typewriters, appre ension of stragglers and deserters, per diem of enlisted men employed on constant abor for a period of not less than ten days, employment of civilian labor, repair of gas and water fixtures, office and barracks furniture, camp and garrison eguipage and implements, mess utensils for enlisted men, such as bow s, plates, spoons, knives and forks, tin cups, pans, pots, and so forth; packing boxes, wrapping paper, oilcloth, crash, rope, twine, quarantine fees, camphor and carbolized paper, carpenters’ tools, tools for police purposes, iron safes, purchase and repair of public wagons, motor wagons, for carrying supplies and freig t only, carts, an drays, purchase and repair of public harness, purchase of public horses, services of veterinary surgeons, and medicines for p)ublic horses; purchase of mounts and horse equipment for all officers elow the ade of major required to be mounted; shoeing for authorized numixer of officers’ horses; purchase and repair of hose, (purchase and repair of fire extinguishers, purchase of fire hand grena es; {purchase and repair of carts, wheelbarrows, and lawn mowers; purc ase and repair of cooking stoves, ranges, stoves, and furnaces where there are no grates; purchase of ice, towels, soap, combs, and brushes for offices; postage stamps for foreign postage; purchase of books, newspapers, and periodicals; improving parade grounds; repair of pumps and wharves; laying drain, water, and gas pipes; water, introducing gas, and for gas, gas oil, and introduction and maintenance of electric lights; straw for bedding, mattresses, mattress covers, pillows, sheets; wire bunk bottoms for enlisted men at various posts; furniture for government guarters and repair of same, packing and crating officers’ allowance of aggage on change of station; and for all emergencies and extraordinary expenses arising at home and abroad, but im ssible to anticipate or classify, four hundred and twenty thousand ggllars. Total under quartermaster Marine Corps, two million eight hundred and Bfty thousand nine hundred dollars. Total Marine Co exclusive of public works, seven million twenty- - seven thousand anliiisthirty-four dollars and fifty cents.
