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240 FIFTY-THIRD CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 228. 1894. as train masters, and in opening roads and buildingwharves; transportation of funds of the Army, the expenses of sailing public transports on the various rivers, the Gulf of Mexico, and the Atlantic and Pacino oceans; for procuring water and introducing 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, and for construct- Pere-<?¤¤ M me- ing roads and wharves; for the payment oi Army transportation law- ‘"“‘” ""‘1”°“d°‘ fully due such land-grant railroads as have not received aid m Government bonds (to be adjusted in accordance with the decisions of the maximum. Supreme Court in cases decided under such land—grant acts), but in no Amen:. case shall more than fifty per centnm of the full amount of service Protest,. be paid; in all, two million dve hundred thousand dollars: Provided, B““‘°· That such compensation shall be computed upon the basis of 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 such service: mtL”{,g;g':1!§°_{°tf,{;; Provided further, That in expending the money appropmated by this mmwper amt. Act, a railroad company which has not received aid 111 bonds of the - United States, and which obtained a grant of public land to aid i11 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 Government transportation, 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 lixed to be paid shall be accepted as in full for all demands for such service. ug¤·¤¢k¤ mi wer- Barracks and quarters: For barracks and quarters for troops, store- ‘ · houses for the safekeeping of military stores, for offices, and for the hire of buildings and grounds for summer cantonmeuts, and for temporary buildings at frontier stations, for the construction of temporary buildings and stables, and for repairing public buildings at established 5;:;% em In m posts, six hundred and fifty thousand dollars: Provided, That no more " ythan one million one hundred thousand dollars of tliesums appropriated by this Act shall be paid outior the services of civilian employees in the (3uartermaster’s Department, including those heretofore paid out of the funds appropriated for regular supplies, incidental expenses, barracks and quarters, Army transportation, clothing, camp and garrison equi- $·¤¤¤¤¤· ¤¤=· page; that no employee paid therefrom shall receive as salary more than one hundred and fifty dollars per month, unless the same shall be specially fixed by law; and no part of the moneys so appropriated shall be paid for commutation of fuel and for quarters to officers or enlisted men. H°“¥’*“°‘“· Construction and repairs of hospitals: For construction and repairs. of hospitals at military posts already established and occupied, including the extra-duty pay of enlisted men employed on the same, and including also all expenditures for construction and repairs required at the Army and Navy Hospital at Hot Springs, Arkansas, except quarters Q for? the officers, forty-tive'thousand dollars. ¤¤¤¤¤ fer ¤¤S1¤· or construction of quarters for hos ital stewards at militar N °t°w°rd°' already established and occupied, ingluding the extra-duty 5p;-?;s$‘ enlisted men employed on same, seven thousand dollars. m§l=<><>¤¤s r¤¤g~=¤. For shelter, shooting galleries, ranges for small arms target practice, repairs, and expenses incident thereto, fifteen thousand dollars, of which sum nve thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary