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I·`IFTY—EIGHTH CONGRESS. Sess. ll. Ch. 1-185. 1904. 271 and other vessels and boats required for the transportation of troops and 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 trans rtation, and employed as train masters, and in opening roads and building wharves; transportation of funds of the Army; the ex uses of sailing public . traniports on the various rivers, the Gulf of Llildxico, and the Atlantic and aciiic oceans (no steamship in the transport service of the United m§g},;,g ‘¤*”°P°"S States shall be sold or disposed of without the consent of Congress hav- ` ing been first had or obtained); for procuring water, and introducing the same to buildings at such posts as from their situation re uire itto be brought from adistance, and for the disposal of sewage andlllrainage, and for constructing roads and wharves; for the payment of army trans- P¤y¤¤¤¤= w Mdportation lawfully due such land— grant railroads as have not received aid gum mm°°d°‘ in Government bonds (to be adjusted in accordance with the decisions of the Supreme Court in cases decided under such land—grant acts), but M“‘l’”‘"“· in no case shall more than fifty per centum of full amount of service be paid: Prmzided, That such compensation shall be computed upon com nm the basis of the tariff or lower special rates for like transportation mm. V pe performed for the public at large, and shall be accepted as in full for all demands for suc service: Provided fm·ther, That in expending the ,,0£§§10§’°b{,nf,°;;§,€f,° money appropriated by this Act, a railroad company which has not ` received aid in bonds of the United States, and which obtained a grant of public land to aid in the construction of its railroad on con 'tion that such railroad should be a post route and military road, subject to the use of the United States for ppstal, military, naval, and other Government services, and also su ject to such regulations as Congress may impose restricting the charge for such Government transportation, having claims against the United Statesfor tnnsportation of troops and munitions of war and military supplies and property over such aided railroads, shall be pai out of the moneys appro riated 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 centum of the compensation for such Government transportation as shall at that time be charged to and paid by private parties to any such company for like and similar transportation; and the amount so fixed to be pgiil shall be accepted as in full for all demands for such service: rovided further, That the number of D"““'"“'"“"'· draft animals urchased from this appgopriation, added to those now on hand, shalllie limited to such num rs as are actually required for the service., fifteen million dollars. For a survey and estimate of cost of a wagon road from Valdez to +B},';’,;‘“·v_m, ,_, Fort Egbert on the Yukon River, to be made under the direction of Fort Béberr. the Secretary of War, twenty-five thousand dollars, to be immediately available; said survey and estimate, herein provided, shall be submitted to Congress at the earliest practicable clay. T uw Y For surveying and locating a military trail, under the direction of Killer sufficigiieroliiiim the Secretary of lVar, by the shortest and most practicable route, between the Yukon River and Coldfoot, on the Koyukuk River, twenty-five hundred dollars, to be immediately available, and a report and estimate upon said trail to be submitted to Congress at the ear iest · practicable day. Crorurxo, AND CAMP AND onnmsox EQUIPAGE! Forclotlnwoolens, g& ,f§,$g€¤¤¤ materials, and for the manufacture of clothing for the Army. for issue ` and for sale at cost price, according to the Army Regulations; for alterinfg and fitting c othiug, and washing and cleaning, when necessary; or equipage, and for expenses of packing and handling, and similar necessaries; for a suit of citizen`s outer clothing, to cost not