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SIXTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Cir. 12. 1917. 51 ex ense of subsistence of West Point cadets while attending inaugural llfst Pam "“d'°*S °* cerilemony not to exceed $4,000, which shall be immediately available; im gmmmi in all, $18,500,000 wm REGULAR surrrms, Quanrnnmsrnn Corars: Regular supplies of u£,gf,'f,’{§,,,'l "ms the Quartermaster C0rps,_including their care and protection; construction and repair of military reservation fences; stoves and heating apparatus required for heating offices, hospitals,_ barracks and quarters, and recruiting stations, and United States disciplinary barracks; also rantges, stoves, coffee roasters, and appliances for cooking and serving ood at posts, in the field, and when traveling, and repair and maintenance of such heating and cooking appliances; and the necessary power for the operation of moving-picture machines; authorized H H t t issues of candles an matches; for furnishing heat and hght for the °"’ gh ’° °’ authorized allowance of quarters for officers, mcluding members of the OiHcers’ Reserve Corps when ordered to active duty, and enlisted men, including enlisted men of the Regular Army Reserve and retired enliste men when ordered to active duty; contract surgeons when stationed at and occupying public uarters at military posts; for officers of the National Guard attenlliing service and garrison schools, and for recruits, guards, hospitals, storehouses, offices, the §g§*g;“g¤;g';{l““¤· buildings erected at private cost, in the operation of the Act approved ’ ` May thirty-first, nineteen hundred and two;_for sale to officers, and inc udingb also fuel and engine supplies required in the operation of modern atteries at estab 'shed posts; for post bakeries, including bake ovens and apparatus pertaining thereto, and the repair thereo ; for ice machines and their maintenance where required for the health and comfort of the troops and for cold storage; ice for issue to organ1— , zations of enlisted men and offices at such places as the Secretary of War may determine, and for preservation of stores; for the construction, qiperation, and maintenance of laundries at military posts m the Unite States and its island {possessions; for the authorized issues of 1aundry_ materials for use o general prisoners connned at military posts withoutdpay or allowances, for applicants for enlistment while held un er observation; authorized issues of soap; for hire_of S M schools employees; for the necessary furniture, textbooks, paper, and equip- setllpphw ' ment or the post schools and libraries; for the purchase and issue of instruments, office furniture, stationery, and other authorized articles for the use of officers’ schools at the several military posts; for purchase of relief maps for issue to organizations, commercial newspapers, market reports, and so forth; for the tableware and mess urmture for kitchens and mess halls, each and all for the enlisted men, including recruits; of forage, salt, and vinegar for the horses, °‘°·· '°' °”* mules, oxen, and other draft and riding animals_of the Quartermaster Coigps at the several posts and stations and with the armies in the fiel , and for the horses of the several regiments of Cavalry, and batteries of Artillery, and such companies of Infantry and Scouts as may be mounted; or remoimts and for the authorized number of oificers’ horses, including bedding for the animals; for seeds and 1mp1e_ments required for the raising of forage at remount depots and on military reservations in the Hawaiian and Philippine Islands and for labor and expenses incident thereto, including, when specifically authorized b the Secretary of War, the cost of irrigation; for straw for soldiers’ beddingésstationery, typewriters and exchange of same, including blank boo and blank forms for the Quartermaster Corps, certihcates for discharged soldiers, and for printing department mmorders and rfiplorts, $13,450,000 Prmnded, at no part of the appropriations for the Quartermaster "’°"”°'B I lim Corgp shall be expended on printing unless the same shall be done at e Government Printing Office, or by contract after due notice and competition, except in such cases as the emergency will not admit of the giving notice of competition, and in cases where it is