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476 SIXTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 28. 1918. S*¤'~*°¤°’>’· P’*¤“°¤» din , station , thewriters and exchange of same, including blank m` boolrs and ligk fiiprms for the Quartermaster Corps, certificates for discharged soldiers, and for printing department orders and reports, $26,358,17G. mm. _ _ Prmnkled, 'I`hat no part of the appropriations for the Quartermaster P”"°”‘"°°"°°°°' Corps shall be ex en ed on rinting unless the same shall be done at the Government grinting 0&ce, or by contract after due notice and competition, except in such cases as the emergency wiH not admit of the giving notice of competition, and in cases where it is impracticable to have the necessary printing done by contract the same may be done, with the approva of the Secretary of War, by the purchase of material and hire of the necessary labor for the purpose. § ;,§{"’PP°“· Henry C. Chappell: The accounting officers of the Treasury are authorized and duected to pay to Henry C. Chap ell, of New London, Connecticut, from pro er appropriations of the Guartermaster Corps the sum of $58.50 paid) by him for advertisements published in newspapers soliciting enlistments in the Quartermaster Reserve Corps of gigs Army for service in a motor-truck company of the Quartermaster - ·¤.¤,p..-hmm, 'llfansportation of the Army and its supplies: For transportation of the Army and its su plies, including transtgortation of the troops when moving either by liind or water, and of eir baggage, inclu%§ members of the Officers’ Reserve Corps, enlisted men of the_Enlis Reserve Corps, and retired enlisted men when ordered to active duty, including the cost of packing and crating; for transportation of recruits and recruiting parties; of applicants for enlistment between recruiting Tn I stigzng and depqts; for travelfa.llowqncp1 to officers an WI., »e` menon 'charge· orpa ento trave aowanoeaspromv’Ji°s<.», p.zr1.' vided in section one hundred ancllilwenty-six of the Act approved June third, nineteen hundred and sixteen, to enlisted men of the National Guard on their discharge from the service of the United States, and to members of the National Guard who have been mus- N H I cmd at- tegredl into {zh; offthe United St1;.tes and dischargegi on acqontrpt I; mr , o p ysrca rsa ty; or ayment 0 trave pay to 0 cers o e ¤°$¤1?fr,p.om. National Guard on their discharge 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 m which they have been held rmdera sentence of dishonorable discharge and confinement for more than six months, or from the Government Hospital for the Insane after transfer thereto from such barracks or- p ace, 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 renuemwtsmem. per diem allowances in lieu of subsistence not exceeding $4 for those authorized to receive the per diem allowance; of clothing 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 fiel ; 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 wharfage, tolls, and ferriages; for transportation of funds

 ‘° l““" of the Army; for the hire of employees; for the payment of Army

transportation lawfully due such land-grant railroads as have not received aid_in Government bonds (to be adjusted in accordance with the decisions of the Supreme Court in cases decided under such land—grant Acts), but in no case shall more than fift per centum of p,,,,,,,,_,_ full amount of service be paid: Provided, That suclli compensation mgjfse °‘ °°¤P¤¤$¤· shall_be computed upon the basis of the tariff or lower special rates for hke transportation performed for the public at large and shall