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FIFTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 859. 1900. 697 BUREAU OF MEDICINE AND SURGERY. Bureau of Medicine and Surgery. MEDICAL DEPARTMENT: For surgeons’ necessaries for vessels in d;P*g¤<>¤$' ¤·•¤<·w¤· commission, navy·yards, naval stations, Marine Corps, and Coast ` Survey, and for the civil establishment at the several naval hospitals, navy-yards, naval laboratory and department of instruction, museum of hygiene, and Naval Academy, ninety-Eve thousand dollars. NAVAL HOSPITAL FUND: For maintenance of the naval hospitals at H<»=p¤¤¤¤r¤¤·¤. the various navy—yards and stations, and for care and maintenance of patients in other hospitals at home and abroad, forty thousand dollars: Provided, That from and after July first, nineteen hundred, all for- grvggvvk d _ I feitures on account of desertion shall be passed to the credit of the ronigmiegr °S°m°° naval hospital fund. _ CoNrmeEN·r, BUREAU or MEDICINE AND SURGERY: For freight. <*<~··¤¤se¤¤- explressage on medical stores, tolls, ferriages, transportation of sick to ospital, transportation of insane patients; care, transportation, and burial of the dead; advertising; telegraphing; rent of telephones; purchase of books and stationery; binding of medical 1'BCO1'dS, unbound ooks and pamphlets; 3)OSl38.§xB and purchase ofstamps for foreign service; expenses atten ing the medical board of examiners; rent of rooms for naval dispensar 7; hygienic and sanitary investigation and illustration; sanitary and hygienic instruction; purchase and repairs of wagons and harness; purchase of and feed for horses and cows; trees, plants, garden tools, and seeds; furniture and incidental articles for the museum of hygiene, naval dispensary, Washington; naval laboratory, sick quarters at Naval Academv and marine barracks, surgeons’ offices and dispensaries at navy-yards and naval stations; washing for medical department at museum of hygiene, naval dis_pensary, Washington; naval laboratory and department of instruction, sick quarters at Naval Academy and marine barracks, dispensaries at navy- yards and naval stations and ships and rendezvous, and for minor ‘ repairs on buildings and grounds of the United States Naval Museum of Hygiene, and all other necessary contingent expenses, thirty thousand dollars. · REPAIRS, BUREAU or MEDICINE AND SURGERY: For necessary repairs R°¤****¤· of naval laboratory and de artment of instruction, naval hospitals and appendages, including roadg, wharfs, outhouses, sidewalks, fences, gardens, farms, and cemeteries, twenty thousand dollars. NAVAL HosrrrAL, NEW Yoax, BEVV Yomt: Removing old boilers, §g§?§.§,?,§P*¥°"‘· condemned as worn-out and worthless, and furnishing and installing ` two new boilers at naval hospital, New York, five thousand dollars. , NAVAL HOSPITAL, NEw1>on·r, RHODE IsLAxD: Addition to the naval ”°""F‘°"· hospital at naval, training station, Newport. Rhode Island, twenty thousand dollars. NAVAL HosrrrAL, LIARE ISLAND, CAL1r?x1A: New boiler house. M*"" I‘“““d· boilers, and equipment for naval hospital, 3 are Island. California, ten thousand dollars. . The active list of surgeons shall hereafter consist of fifty-tive, and §§§,°,§.,‘}?;,,_.,,,.,, 1,,, that ofpassed assistant and assistant surgeons of one hundred and ten. j§{g*¤¤¤ ¤¤*¥¤¤¤¤· Assistant surgeons shall rank with assistant surgeons in the Army: 2 Provided, That the assistant surgeons under the age of fifty years _£§Z§‘f,‘{‘ ,,,,,0,,,, appointed for temporary service durinlg the war with Spain, having ;g;’g;*;g;Q¤‘¤ mde creditable records, who are now in the avy may be given permanent ` commissions. Section thirteen of the Act approved March third. , _ eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, entitled "An Act to reorganize and l °1’3°‘ p" 1°°" increase the efficiency of the personnel of the Navy and Marine Corps of the United States," is hereby so amended as to provide that nothing , _ _ therein contained shall o rate to reduce t.he (pay which, but for the Oiddeighgffgiiiiftiid passage of said Act, would: have been receive by any commissioned otticer at the time of its passage or thereafter.