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FORTY-NINTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 127 . 1887. 399 and thereafter shall only be expended for the purchase of a number sufficient to keep the supply to not exceeding five thousand. Arrears of Army transportation on certain land-grant railroads: For Arreprs of transthe payment of Army transportation lawfully due such land-grant rail- P0'*”·**°” °¤ 0** roads as have not received aid in Government bonds, to be adjusted by g ra ut the proper accounting officers in accordance with the decisions of the ` Supreme Court in cases decided under such landgrant acts, but in no case shall more than tlfty per centum of the full amount of the service be paid, dfty thousand dollars: Provided, That such compensation shall Provico. be computed upon the basis of the tariff rates for like transportation Rates. performed for the public at large, and shall be accepted as in full for all demands for such services. Barracks and quarters: For barracks and quarters for troops, store- Barracks a p r1 houses for the safe-keeping of military stores, for offices, and for the *1“¤"°’¤· hire of buildings and of grounds for summer cantonments and for tem- ‘ porary buildings at frontier stations, for the construction of temporary buildings and stables, and for repairing public buildings at established posts, six hundred and twenty thousand dollars: Provided, That no ex- Provisoe. penditures exceeding five hundred dollars shall be made upon any build- E x p e n di t nres ing or military post, or grounds about the same, without the approval ¤¤¤¤¤di¤g $500- of the Secretary of War for the same, upon detailed estimates by the Quartermaster’s Department; and the erection, construction, and repair of all buildings and other public structures in the Quartermaster’s Department shall, as far as may be practicable, be made by contract, after due legal advertisement: And provided further, That no more than one work to bg by million three hundred thousand dollars of the sums appropriated by contract. this act shall be paid out for the services of civilian employees in the Civilian employ- Quartermastefs Department, including those heretofore paid out of the WS- funds appropriated for regular supplies, incidental expenses, barracks and quarters, Army transportation, clothing, and camp and garrison equipage ; and that no employee paid therefrom shall receive as salary Maximum salamore than one hundred and fifty dollars per month, unless the same W- _ shall be specially fixed bv law; and no part of any of the moneys so appropriated shall be paid for commutation of fuel and for quarters to officers or enlisted men. For shelter and shooting-galleries and ranges, and repairs thereof, snocnngrrmges, ten thousand dollars. _ ***0- _ Construction and repairs of hospitals: For construction and repairs C°9S°'“?*;0¤ **90 of hospitals, including the extra·duty pay of enlisted men employed on ;‘g’“"° ° °SP‘f the same, one hundred thousand dollars. ` Army and Navy Hospital, Hot Springs, Arkansas: For one hydraulic HAM! *0**} NIQIVY passenger elevator for central hospital building, two thousand dollars; 8;,;};: t_f,.k’ °° and for finishing in hard-oil the inside wood-work of all buildings, ° ’ ` painting verandas, and for painting exterior brick·work of all buildings, five thousand five hundred dollars; in all, seven thousand five hundred dollars. For construction and repair of quarters for hospitalstewards, includ- Quurtersxtr nosing the extraduty pay of enlisted men employed on the same, nine Dim-i·¤*¢W¤fo*· thousand six hundred dollars: Provided, That the posts at which such I’*‘•¤‘**°· quarters shall be constructed shall be designated by the Secretary of _ PMS *0 be des- War, and the quarters shall be built by contract, after legal advertise l§“°;°,€Iw}g_ §f§'°‘ ment, whenever the same is practicable; but the cost of construction of ry ’ ' quarters at any one post shall in no case exceed eight hundred dollars. _ Clothing, camp and garrison equipage: For cloth, woolens, material, Cl°**h¤¤gr Pm? and for the manufacture of clothing for the Army; for issue and for ;;‘u?P3§;'""°° sale at cosbprice, 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 neoessaries, one million one hundred and fifty thousand dollars : Provided, That out F~vi¤¢•· of the money hereby appropriated for clothing and equipage of the Army there shall not be expended at the Military Prison at Fort Leav- Limit <>f¤¤13¤¤¤¤ iznworth a sum in excess of one hundred and twenty-five thousand d0l· “M‘h*“"Y P“°”· ars.