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SIXTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. C11. 114. 1918. 737 COMMUTATION or QUARTERS, MARINE Cours: (`Jommutation of °<>¤¤¤*!*¤*i°¤ °* quarters for enlisted men on recruiting duty, for officers and enlisted q mmtmm men serv ing with troops where there are no public quarters belonging to the Government, and where there are not sumcient quarters possessed by the United States to accommodate them, 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 ay- masters, assistant quartermasters, at $21 eac per month, andp for enlisted men employed as messengers in said offices, at $10 each per - month, $1,215,467. CONTINGENT, Manmn Cours: For freight, expresslalge, tolls, cart e, °°“""g°‘“°‘ advertising, washing of bed saclm, mattress covers, p` owcases towags, and sheets, funeral expenses of officers and enlisted men, and retired officers on active dnt during the war, and retired enlisted men of the Marine Corps, including the transportation of bodies and their arms and wearing apparel from the place of demise to the homes of the deceased in the United States; stationery and other paper, printin and binding; telegraphing, rent of telephones; purchase, repair, and exchange o typewriters; apprehension of stragglers and 6SB!`t6lS' per diem of enlisted men employed on constant abor for periods of not less than ten days; employment of civilian labor; purchase, repair, and installation and maintenance of gas, electric, sewer, and water pipes and fixtures; office and barracks furniture,_camp and garrison equipage and implements; mess utensils for enlisted men; packing boxes, wrap ing paper, oilcoth, crash, rope, twine, quarantine fees, camphor angcarbolized paper, carpenters tools, tools for plolice purposes, safes, purchase, hire, repair, and maintenance of suc harness, wqgons, motor wagons, armored automobiles, carts, drays, motor—prope ed and horse-drawntpassenger-canying vehicles, to be used only for official purposes, and o er vehicles as are required for the transportation of troops and supplies and for oHicial military and garrison purposes; purc asc of pu lic horses and mules; services of veterinary surgeons and medicmes for public animals, and the authorized number of 0$GBI'S’ horses; purchase of mounts and horse equi ment for all officers below the grade of major required to be moimted); shoeing for public animals an the authorized number of.oiHcers’ horses; pu.r- chase and repair of hose, fire extinguishers, hand grenades carts, wheelbarrows, and lawn mowers; purchase, installation, and repair of cooking and heatiqg stoves and furnaces; purchase of towels, soap, combs and brushes or offices; postagle stamps for foreign and 1:5- istered postage; books, newspapers, an period1cals;improving8]:1ar e grounds; repair of pumps an wharves, water; straw for ding, mattresses; mattress covers, pillows, sheets; furniture for Government uarters and re air of same; packing and crating oiElicers’ allowance Jl bagga e on change of station; deodorizers, lubricants, disinfectants; and tier all emergencies and extraordinary expenses a.rising at home and abroad, but impossible to anticipate or classify, $10,577,780. In all, for the maintenance of Quartermaster’s Department, Marine ,,,,§,}’,_g"'Q‘*°€ md °°‘ Co1'pS, $93,203,682; and the money herein specifically appro riated for the maintenance of the Quartermasters Department, grlarine Corps, shall be disbursed and accounted for in accordance with the existing law as maintenance, Quartermastefs Department, Marine Coliips, and for that purpose shall constitute one fund. W Pm ESEIBVE surxmms, Mamma Cours: Toward the rocurement of a p,.;,,:u%_ reserve stock of clothing, arms, and equipment, and, other necessarv _ military supplies, to be immediately available and to remain available until expended, $16,677,200. Total Marme Corps, including reserve supplies, Marine Corps, exclusive of public works, $160, 016, 756.14. · 112460°—·-von 40—1>·r 1—47