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SIXTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Crr. 139. 1918. 829 as may be mormted; for remounts and for the authorized number of ofEicers’ horses, including bedding for the animals; for seeds and implements 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 by 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, certincates for discharged soldiers, and for printing de artment P¤‘i¤*¤i¤&· orders and regprts, including $69,955.83 on account of the iigcal year nineteen hun ed and seventeen, $90,971,072.06. _ . _ Transportation: For transportation of the Army and its supplies, T'““Sp°“““°“· mcluding the same objects specified under this head in the Army Appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen, being for the iiscal years nineteen hundred and fifteen, nineteen hundred and sixteen, and nineteen hundred and seventeen, $4,113.87. All the money hereinbefore appro riated under the titles Subsist- .,,E,‘{,“ui§§f“d ‘““d ence of the Army; Regular supp `es, guartermaster Corps; Incidental expenses, gnartermaster Corps; Transportation of the Army and its supplies; ater and sewer at military posts; and Clothing and camp and garrison equip e shall be disbursed and accounted for by officers and agents of thealguartermaster Corps as "Supplies, services, and transportation, Quartermaster Corps," and for that purpose shall constitute one fund. Barracks and quarters: For barracks, rggrters, stables, storehouses, m]:_‘"'°° ‘“° q"“` mualgazines, administration and office buil gs, sheds, shops, and other b dings necessary for the shelter of troops, public animals, and store;) andAf·<;rli1admi1;istration purposes,dexcept those lp1erti1)i11p]ing to the ast ery; or constructing an rep ` pu 'c dings R I I. at military posts; construction of reclamation plants; for hire of °°pl°°°°° employees; for rental of the authorized allowance of quarters for · officers, including members of the Officers’ Reserve Corps when ordered to active uty, on duty with the troops at posts and stations where no public quarters are available; of barracks or authorized allowance of quarters for noncommissioned officers and enlisted men on dugy where public quarters are not available, including enlisted men o the Regular Army Reserve, retired enlisted men, and members of the Enlisted Reserve Corps when ordered to active duty; of grounds for cantonments, camp sites, and other military purposes, and of buildings or portions 0 buildirkgls for occupation by troops, for use as stables, storehouses, and offices, and for other military purposes; for the hire of recruiting stations and lodgings for recruits; for such furniture for the public rooms of officers’ messes and for ofiicers’ quarters at milita posts as may be approved by the Secretary of War; for wall lobhers in permanent barracks and refrigerators in barracks and quarters; for screen doors, window screens, storm doors and sash, and window shades for barracks, omces, and Nm l C d _ uarters, and for iiooring and framing for tents, and for the National s.,m.,,‘?”” '“" ’ "’ guard when called or drafted into the service of the United States, S H t P including $150,166.82 for services rendered and supplies furnished on “” “ ° “”°m“‘ the Isthmus of Panama for the fiscal years nineteen hundred and seventeen and nineteen hundred and eighteen, $27,767,860.32. P _ Provided, That no art of the moneys so appropriated shall be plaid NL°§§’§"utumu0¤,m, for commutation of iiiel or quarters to officers or enlisted men: ro- _ __ I vided further, That the number of and total sum paid for civilian C'“h°°°mp °’°°5‘ employees in the Quartermaster Corps shall be limited to the actual requirements of the service, and t at no emplloyee therein shall . receive a. salary of more than $150 per mont , except upon the approval of the Secretary of War. A .mmm,,_ The agpropriations made herein for "Re$€lar supplies, Qlrxrarter- strep until mmm master orps,” "Barracks and quarters," " oads, walks, W 8·I'V€5, 31*mS*