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360 SIXTY·FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. C1-1. 79. 1917. for each deserter or esca ed military prisoner shall, in the discretion of the Secretary of War be paid to any civil officer or citizen for such services and expenses; for a donation of $5 to each dishonorably discharged prisoner upon his release from confinement under court- H°*"° °’P°¤‘”*°'°’· martial sentence involving dishonorable discharge; for the following expenditures required for the several regiments of Cavalry, the batteries of Field Artillery, and such companies of Infantry and Scouts as may be mounted, the authorized number of officers horses, and for the trains, to wit, purchase of picket ro es, blacksmith’s tools and materials, horseshoes and blacksmith's tools for the Cavalry service, and for the shoein of horses and mules; chests and issue outhts; and such additionaFexpenditures as are necessary and authorized by law in the movements and operations of the Army, and at military posts, and not expressly assigned to any other department, $9,000,000. T""’*"'°’°°”‘ Tm,Nsro1z·rA·r1oN or mn ARMY AND rrs surrmnsz For transportation of the Army and its supplies, including transportation of the troops when moving either by land or water, and of their baggafgp, including members of the Officers’ Reserve Corps, enlisted men o e Enlisted Reserve Corps, and retired enlisted men when ordered to active duty, including the cost of packing and crating; for transportation of mcruits and recruiting dparties; of applicants for enlistment mm suowmas, between recruiting stations an recrnnting epots; for travel allow- °°‘Q;°f“3,‘“;°h;'f°‘ ance to officers and enlisted men on discharge; for payment of travel ` ’ ' allowance as rovided in section one hundred and_twenty-six of the Act approvedp June third, nineteen hundred and sixteen, to enlisted men of the National Guard on their discharge from the service of the

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Vol.31,p.9tB. mustered into e service o e ni tates an arg on account of physical disability; for payiment of travel pay to officers of the National Guard on their disc arge from the service of the United States, as prescribed in the Act approved March second, nineteen hundred and one; for travel allowance to persons on their discharge from the United States disciplinary barracks or from any place in which thliagnhave been held un er a sentence of dishonorable discharge and co ement for more than six months, or from Saint Elizabeth’s Hospital after transfer thereto from such barracks or place, to their homes (or elsewhere as they may elect), provided the cost in each case shall not be greater than to the place of last enlistment; of the necessary agents and other employees, including per P¤r¢¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤· diem allowances in lieu of subs1stence not exceeding] $4 for those authonzed to receive the per diem allowance; of clot ing and equipage and other quartermaster stores from Army depots or places of purchase or delivery to the several [posts and Army depots and from those depots to the troops in the iiel ;of horse equipment; of ordnance and ordnance stores, and small arms_from the foundries and armories to the arsenals, fortifications, frontier posts, and Army depots; for payment of wharfagp, tolls, and ferriages; for transportation of funds ,,§g§_ “’ **"" of the Army; for e hire of employees; for the payment of Army transportation lawfully due such land·grant railroads as have not received aid in Govemment bonds (to be adjusted in accordance with the decisions of the Supreme Court in cases decided imder such landl grant Acts), but in no case shall_more than fifty per centum of full Bgifgjgmpmthn amount of service be [Land: Provided, That such compensation shall be computed upon the asis of the tariff or lower special rates for like _ transportatxonlperformed for the plublic at la?e and shall be accepted m,f,;§{,0tP,f,{¤d°°a*g,§ed{° as in for demands for suc service E romldedjurther, That in expending the money appropriated by this Act a railroad company which has not received aid m bonds of the United States, and whic obtained a grant of public to aid in the construction of its railroad on condition that such railroad should be a post route and mili-