FIFIY-EIGHTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 1622. 1904. 349 Royal, South Carolina.; Pensacola, Florida· Dr Tortugas, Florida; New Orleans, Louisiana; Mare Island and San Nrrancisco, California; Bremerton, Washington; and Sitka, Alaska; for the rentin , leasing, improvement, and erection of buildings in Porto Rico, the Dhilippine Islands, at Guam, and at such other places as the public exigencies require; and for per diem to enlisted men em loyed under the direction of the Quartermastefs Department on 510 repair of barracks, uarters, and the other public buildings, sixty-six thousand three hundred and thirty-six dollars. For rent of building used for manufacture of clothing, storing of }§;§}§d°1P*"“·P”· supplies, and ohlce of assistant quartermaste1·, Philadelphia, Pennsyl- ` vama, six thousand dollars. Former, MAHNE Cours: For forage in kind for horses of the Q,uar· "°"*$°· termaster’s Department, and the authorized number of of:licers’ horses, seventeen thousand seven hundred dollars. ` HIRE OF QUAm·mzs, LIARINE Cours: For hire of quarters for officeis mw "* ¤'“"°°'”· serving with troops where there are no public quarters belonging to _ the Government, and where there are not sufficient quarters possessed by the United States to accommodate them; for hire of quarters for enlisted men employed as clerks and messengers in the offices of the commandant, adjutant and inspector, paymaster, and quartermaster, and the omces of the assistant adjutant and inspectors, the assistant paymasters, and the assistant qluartermasters, at twenty-one dollars each per month, and for enliste men employed as messengers in said offices, at ten dollars each per month, thirty—’1ive thousand seven hun- O dred and forty-eight dollars. - . CONTINGBNT, LEARIN1: Cours: For freight, tolls, cartage, advertis- °°“"“‘°““‘ ing, washing of bed sacks, mattress covers, pillowcases, towels, and sheets, funeral expenses of marines, including the transportation of bodies from the place of demise to the homes of the deceased in the United States, stationery and other paper, telegraphing, rent of telephones, purchase and repair of typewriters, apprehension of stragglers and deserters, per diem of enlisted men employed on constant labor 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 equipage and implements, mess utensils for enlisted men, such as bowls, plates, spoons, knives and forks, tin cu as, pans, pots, and so forth; packing boxes, wrapping paper, oilcloth, crash, rope, twine, quarantine fees, campbor and carbolized paper, carpenters’ tools, tools for police purposes, iron safes, urchase and repair of public wagons, purchase and repair of public liarness, purchase of public horses, services of veterinary surgeons, and medicines for public horses; purchase and repair of hose, urchase and repair of fire extinguishers, pprchase of fire hand grenades; urchase and repair of carts, wheelrrows, and lawn mowers; purchase 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 stangps for foreign postage: purchase of books, newspapers, and peri icals; 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 or bedding, mattresses, mattress covers, pillows, sheets; wire bunk bottoms for enlisted men at various posts; urniture for Government quarters and repair of same, and for all emergencies and extraordinary expenses arising at home and abroad, but im sible to anticipate or classify, onplhundred and sixty thousagd dolliiiig cd bl ds h d Cmd] f X ‘ ato cers of the Marine o swit cr ita erecor w oserve . ’ ‘” <“'l “"" during me mu wm- Sha11,¤·he¤Ii-hired, be mmm in like mmm and “°i*3f"3‘6T‘r$?‘f»f·???’°“" under the same conditions as provided for officers of the Navy who served during the civil war.
