322 FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 69. 1898. on duty at ungarrisoned posts, to enlisted men stationed at places where rations in kind can not be economically issued, to enlisted men traveling on detached duty when it is impracticable to carry rations of any kind, to enlisted men selected to contest for places or prizes in department and Army rifle competitions while traveling to and from places of contest; to be expended under the direction of the Secretary Amour:. of War; in all. one million five hundred and fifty thousand dollars. ,,,,‘;f,‘;f,$Y’“““*°"°1°°‘ QUARTEHMASTEIYS DEPARTMENT. R°g“‘“‘ ““PP“°°· REGULAR SUPPLIES: Regular supplies of the Quartermastens Department, including their care and protection, consisting of stoves and heating apparatus, required for heating onices, hospitals, barracks, and quarters, and recruiting stations; also ranges and stoves, and appliances for cooking aud serving food, and repair and maintenance of such heating and cooking appliances; of fuel and lights for enlisted men, including recruits, guards, hospitals, storehouses, and oinces, and for sale to officers; for post bakeries; for the necessary furniture, textbooks, paper, and equipment for the post schools and libraries; for the tableware and mess furniture for kitchens and mess halls, each and all F°’°g°~°*°· for the enlisted men, including recruits; of forage in kind for the horses, mules, and oxen of the Quartermastens Department at the several posts and stations and with the armies in the iield,and for the horses of the 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 olHcers’ horses, including bedding for the animals; of straw for soldiers’ bedding, and of stationery, including blank books for the Quartermaster’s Department, certificates for discharged soldiers, blank fbrms for the Pay and Quartermaster’s Depart- A¤¤°¤¤*°· ments, and for printing department orders and reports, one million {>’;;·m·· eight hundred thousand dollars: Provided, That hereafter no part oi pm, Digg the appropriations for the Quartermaster’s Department shall be P<>~¢»r-1350 expended on printing unless the same shall be done by contract, after due notice and competition, except in such cases as the emergency will chggiigyzggs uhm not admit of the giving notice for competition: Provirlcd further, That I ’after advertisement all the supplies for the use of the various depart- 1nents and posts of the Army and of the branches of the Army service shall hereafter be purchased where the same can be purchased the cheapest, in the markets of the linited States, quality and cost of transportation and the interest of the Government considered, except that purchases may be made in open market, in the manner common among business men, when the aggregate amount required does not exceed two hundred dollars, but every such purchase shall be immediately reported to the Secretary of War.
- ¤·¤*·*¤¤*¤*·=¤v—·¤~~¤· INCIDENTAL EXPENSES: Postage; cost of telegrams on official business received and sent by officers of the Army; extra pay to soldiers
employed on extra duty, under the direction of the Quartermasters Department, in the erection of barracks, quarters, and storehouses. in the construction of roads and other constant labor for periods of not less than ten days, and as clerks for post quartermasters at military posts, and for prison overseers at posts designated by the \’\’ar Department for the connnement of general prisoners; for expenses of expresses to and from frontier posts and armies in the field, of escorts to paymasters and other disbursing officers, and to trains where military escorts can not be furnished; expenses of the interment of officers killed in action or who die when on duty in the field, or at military posts or ou the frontiers, or when traveling under orders, and of noncommissioned officers and soldiers; authorized office furniture; hire of laborers in the Quartermasteus Department, including the hire of interpreters, spies, or guides for the Army; compensation of clerks and other employees to the officers of the'Quart€I`lll8;St€I‘7S l)epartment, and incidental expenses of recruiting; for the apprehension, securing, and delivering of deserters, and the
