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SIXTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 29. 1917. 215 Forman, MARINE Cours: For forage in kind and stabling for pub- F°¤*¤°- lic animals of the quartermaster's department and the authorized number of officers’ horses, $60,400. _ I Comwrarron or quarrrnns, Mmmm Cours: Commutation of ,§°§““‘“°“°°°° qu"` 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 possessed by the United States to accommodate them; commutation of quarters for enlisted men employed as clerks and messengers in the offices of the commandant, adjutant and inspector, paymaster, and _ quartermaster, and the offices of the assistant adjutant and inspectors, assistant paymasters, assistant quartermasters, at $21 each per · month, and for enlisted men employed as messengers in said offices, at $10 each per month, $187,552. Concrmennr, Mamrm Cours: For freight, expressage, tolls, cart- "°°**"~g°°t· age, advertising, washing of bed sacks, mattress covers, pillowcases, towels, and sheets, fimeral expenses of officers and enlisted men and retired enlisted men of the Marine Corps, including the transportation of bodies and their arms and wearing a parel from the place of demise · to the homes of the deceased in the limited States; stationery and other paper, printing and binding; telegraphing, rent of telephonespurchase, repair, and exchange of tlggewriters; apprehension of stragglers an deserters ; per diem of e ted men employed on constant labor for periods of not less than ten days; employment of civilian labor; purchase, repair, and installation and maintenance of gas, electric, sewer, and water pipes and Hxtures; office and barracks urniture, cam and garrison equipage and implements; mess utensils for enlisted) men; packing boxes, wrapping paper, oilcloth, crash, rope, twine, quarantine fees, camphor an carbohzed paper, carpenters’ tools, tools for police purposes, safes, purchase, hire, repair, and maintenance of such harness, wagons, motor wagons, armored automobiles, carts, drays, motogpropelled and horse-drawn passengercarrying vehicles, to be us only for official urposes, and other vehicles as are required for the transportation of troops and supplies and for official military and garrison piuposes; purchase of public horses and mules; services of veterinary surgeons, and medicines for public animals, and the authorized number of of’1icers’ horses; purchase of mounts and horse equipment for all officers below the grade of major required to be mounted; shoeing for public animals and the authorized number of officers’ horses; purchase and repair of hose, fire extinguishers, hand grenades, carts, wheelbarrows, and lawn mowers; purchase, installation, and re air of cooking and heating stoves and furnaces; purchase of toweii, soap, combs, and brushes for offices; postafe stamps for foreign and registered postage; books, newspapers, an periodicals; improving dparade groimds; repair of pumps and wharves, water; straw for be ding, mattresses; mattress covers, pillows, sheets; finniture for Government qbuarters and repair of same; packing and crating officers’ allowance of agca e on change of station; deo orizers, lubricants, disinfectants; and Eur all emergencies and extraordinary expenses arising at home and abroad, but rmgossible to anticipate or classify, $2,054,680. _ epot of supplies, Marine Corps, Plnladel hia, Pennsylvania: For *§,l§i,‘}3Z°,'},,ud_ the purchase of a stri of land in rear of the db ot of sup lies, Marine hwg- t m 152 4_ Corps, Philadelphia, Bennsylvania, extending ailvout one hundred and °°’ pp' ’ forty-two feet on Vlfashingfon Avenue and about two hundred and twenty-six feet on Fifteent Street, with all buildings thereon, and for adapting said buildings to uses connected with the depot, $200,000. In all, for the maintenance of Quartermaster’ s Department, Marine md °° Corps, $20,408,161; and the money herein s iiically appro riated for the mamtenance of the Quartermasterisoc Department, gelarine