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_ SIXTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 378. 1910. 619 CONTINGENT, BUREAU or Mmnrcmn AND SURGERY: For tolls and C°¤“¤g°¤*— ferriages; care, transpprtation, and burial of the dead; purchase of _ books and stationery, inding of medical records, unbound books, and pamphlets; hygienic and sanitary investigation and illustration; sanitary and hygienic instruction; purchase and repairs of wagons, automobile am ulances, and hamess; purchase of and feed for horses and cows; trees, plants, garden tools and seeds; incidental articles for the museum o hygiene and department of instruction, naval displensary, Washington, naval medical supply depots, sick quarters at aval Academy and marine barracks; washing for medical department at museum of hygiene and department of instruction, naval dis nsary, Washington, naval medical su ply depots, sick quarters at giiaval Academy and marine barracks, ciispensaries at navy—yards and naval stations, and ships; and for minor repairs on buildings and grounds of the United States Naval Museum of H giene and Department of Instruction; for the care, maintenance, and7 treatment of the insane of the Navy and Marine Corps on the Pacific coast, and all other necessary contingent expenses; in all, seventy-six thousand five hundred dollars. _ TnANsr>o1z·rA·rroN or 1mMArNs: To enable the Secretary of the Navy, ,§,’,§’“,§‘,if°'.§}“gO,,¥,‘§’,§}.‘,‘f in his discretion, to cause to be transferred to their homes the remains °°¤· of officers and enlisted men of the Navy and Marine Corps who die or are killed in action ashore or afloat, and also to enable the Secretary of the Navy, in his discretion, to cause to be trans orted to their homes the remains of civilian employees who die outside of the continental P I limits of the United States, ten thousand dollars: Provided, That the Appueéacuouuua. sum herein appropriated shall be available for payment for transportation of the remains of omcers and men who have died while on uty at any time since April twenty—first, eighteen hundred and ninety- e` t. · {gin all, Bureau of _Medicine and Surgery, four hundred and one thousand five hundred dollars. ummm or- svrrrms Aim Acconms. .¤ii“Xi”L‘3¤‘}fai’“""” Paovrsroivs, NAVY: For provisions and commuted rations for the "‘°""‘°"’·°“°· seamen and marines, which commuted rations may be paid to caterers of messes, in case of death or desertion, upon orders o the commanding officers, commuted rations for officers on sea duty (other than commissioned officers of the line, Medical and Pay Corps, cha lains, chief boatswains, chief gumiers, chief machinists, and chic}; sailmakers) and midshipmen, and commuted rations stopped on account of sick in hospital and credited to the naval hospita fund; subsistence of officers and men unavoidably detained or absent from vessels to which attached under orders (during which subsistence rations to be stopped on board ship and no credit for commutation therefor to be given); and for subsistence of female nurses, and navy and marine corps general courtsrmartial prisoners undergoing imprisonment with sentences of dishonorable discha e from the service at the expiration _ of such confinement: Pro»vided,r§’hat the Secretary of the Navy is g,,,,,,,, pm, authorized to commute rations for such general courts-martial pris— ¤¤¤*¤- oners 111 such amounts as seem to him roper, which may va:37 in accordance with the location of the navall) prison, but which sh I in no case exceed thirty cents per diem for each ration so commuted; labor in general storehouses and paymasters’ offices in navy-yards, including naval stations maintained in island possessions under the control of the United States, and expenses in handling stores purchased under the naval supply fund; and for the purchase of United States Army emergency rations, as required: Provided, That here- SE; °' "°°” °“' after a profit not to exceed fifteen per centum may be charged on sales