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324 FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 69. 1897. tions, 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 seagoing vessels and boats required for the transportation of 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 Army; the expenses of sailing public transports on the various rivers, the Gulf of Mexico, and the Atlantic and Pacific oceans; for procuring water, and introducing the same to buildings, at such posts as from their situation require it to be brought from a distance, and for the disposal of sewage and drainage, Payment it me- and for constructing roads and wharves; for the payment of army ¤""""“'°“"· transportation lawfully due such land-grant railroads as have not received aid in Government bonds (to be adjusted in accordance with the decisions of the Supreme Court in cases decided under such laudmmm grant acts), but in no case shall more than fifty per centum of the full amount of service be paid, two million three hundred thousand dollars; prom. _ Provided, That such compensation shall be computed upon the basis of mf_’_‘;,‘f1{j,,'f°“°“· "°" the tariff or lower special rates for like transportation performed for the public at large, and shall be accepted as in full for all demands for Fiity per cent to such service: Provided further, That in expending the money appro- "°°‘*“ ”°* ”°"“‘“‘“°"· priated by this Act a railroad company which has not received aid in bond of the United State and which obtained a grant of public land · to aid in the construction of! its railroad on condition that such 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 charge for such Governmenttransportation, having claims against the United States for transportation of troops and munitions of war and military supplies and property over such aided railroads, shall be paid out of the moneys appropriated by the foregoing provision only on the basis of such rate for the transportation of such troops and munitions of war and military supplies and property as the Secretary of War shall deem just and reasonable under the foregoing provision, such rate not to exceed fifty per centnm of the compensation for such Government transportation as shall at the time be charged to and paid by private parties to any such company for like and similar transportation; and the amount so dxed to be paid shall be accepted as in full for all demands for such service. nmpims. CoNsTBUo’rroN AND REPAIR OF HOSPITALS: 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, and including also all expenditures for construction and repairs required at the Army and Navy Hospital at Hot Springs, Arkansas, except quarters for the officers, ninety thousand dollars. Quarters ihr h¢·¤pi— QUARTERS Fon HOSPITAL STEWARDS: For construction of quar- """"‘"""" ters for hospital stewards at military posts already established and occupied, including the extra-duty pay of enlisted men employed on the same, seven thousand dollars. s»»·»»»s»»g mug---. Suoormc GALLERIES AND RANGES: For shelter, shooting galleries, “"`· ranges for small-arms target practice, repairs. and expenses incident thereto, ten thousand dollars. Ulptlningz. qnmp Mui CLOTHING, AND CAMP AND GARBISON EQUIPAGE: F 01* cloth, Woul- ’=‘"""""""“"’““"‘ ens, materials, and for the manufacture of clothing for the Army. for is ue and for sale at cost price according to the Army Regulations; for altering and fitting clothing and washing and cleaning, when necessary; for equipage, and for expenses of packing and handling, and similar necessaries; for a suit of citizen`s outer clothing to cost not exceeding ten dollars, to be issued upon release from confinement to each prisoner who has been continecl under a court-martial sentence involving dishonorable discharge, nine hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars.