1190 SIXTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. sms. 11. ca. 180. 1917. cots, Held ovens, and stoves for tents; purchase and repair of instruments for bands; purchase of music and musical accessories; purchase and marking of (prizes for excellence in gunnery and rifle lpractice; good-conduct ba ges; medals awarded to officers and en isted men by the Govemment for conspicuous, gallant, and special service; incidental expenses of schools of application; construction, equipment, and maintenance of school, library, and amusement rooms and gymnasiums for enlisted men, and the purchase and repair of all articles of Held sports for enlisted men; purchase and repair of signal equipment and stores; establishment and maintenance of targets and raniges, renting ranges, construction of buildings for temporary shelter Ammmmm an preservation of stores, and entrance fees in competitions; procuring, preserving, and handling ammunition and other necessary military supplies; in all, $852,000.
,_°f“‘¥"· Camrs or INSTRUCTION! For the establishment and maintenance
A¤¢¢,1>. 614- of camps of instruction as authorized in the naval apiproprition Act, approved August twenty-ninth, nineteen hundre and sixteen, $31,000.
°“d TRA?l'SI’0RTATION AND RECRUITING, Manmn Conrs: For transportation of troops, and of applicants for enlistment between recruiting stations and recruit depots or posts, including ferriage and transfers en route, or cash in lieu thereof; toilet kits for issue to recruits
upon their first enlistment and the exyipnse of the recruiting service, _{°,.§'{,'l,,£,°‘m,,,,_ $500,000: Promkled, That authority is ereby nted to em loy the services of advertising agencies in advertising gi? recruits unger such terms and conditions as are most advant eous to the Government. _,§~°P·*¤ °' ‘°¤*¤¤¤· Rnrams or naaaacxs, Maanm Conrs: a§epairs and improvements ` to barracks, quarters, and other public buildings at posts and stations; for the renting, leasing, im rovement, and erection of buildinlgs in the District of Columbia, andp at such other places as the pub 10 exigencies require; and for per diem to enlisted men employed under the direction of the %uartermaster’s De artment on the re air of barracks, quarters, an other public buildings on constant labor for periods of not less than ten days, $220,000. ·
- ’°¤¢•- Fomen, Mmmm Cours: For forage in kind and stabling for public
animals of the Quartermastefs Department and the authorized num- Commumm 0, ber of officers’ horses, $68,000. qamm. COMMUTATION or quanrnns, MARINE Cours: Commutation of quarters for enlisted men on recruiting duty, for officers and enlisted men serving with troops where there are no public quarters belonging to the Government, and where there are not sufficient quarters pos- _ sessed by the United States to accommodate them; commutation of quarters for enlisted men employed as clerks and messengers in the oilioes of the commandant, adutant and inspector, paymaster, and quartermaster, and the offices ol the assistant adjutant and inspectors, assistant papmasters, assistant quartermasters, at $21 each per month, and or enlisted men employed as messengers in said offices, at S10 each per month, $167,000. ¤¤¤¤=·¢¤¤*- CONTHVGENT, Mmmm Cours: For freight, expressage, tolls, cartage, advertising, washing of bed sacks, mattress covers, pillowcases, towels, and sheets, funeral e nses of officers and enlisted men and retired enlisted men of the lillizerine Corps, including the transportation of bodies and their arms and wearing ap arel from the pilapp of demige x the homes of the deézetased in thelllnited States; s a ionery an o er paper, rmtin an in ; t hm` g rent of telephones; purchase, repiiir, and exchang(;ud§type6v%l‘nilI1;rs; at prehension of S l€.‘1'S and deserters; per diem of enlisted men empliiyed on constant la r for `ods of not less than ten days; employment of civilian labor; pusrchige, repair, and installation and maintenance of gas, electric, sewer, and water pipes and fixtures; office and bar-
