No. 29.

ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE,

Washington, March 11, 1901.

The following act of Congress is published for the information and government of all concerned:

An Act Making appropriations to supply deficiencies in the appropriations for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and one, and for prior years, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to supply deficiencies in the appropriations for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and one, and for prior years, and for other objects hereinafter stated, namely:

For subsistence of two prisoners on United States transport George W. Elder from Nagasaki, Japan, to San Francisco, California, sixty-six dollars.

For payment of the account of the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railway Company, for transportation from Chicago, Illinois, to Rush Springs, Indian Territory, of one Deering corn' binder for use of the Apache prisoners of war at Fort Sill, Indian Territory, sixteen dollars and sixty-three cents.

ADJUTANT-GENERAL'S DEPARTMENT.

To reimburse amount due Major George P. Scriven, Signal Corps, for expenses incurred by him while serving as military attaché at Rome, Italy, fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, fifty dollars and one cent.

To reimburse amount due Captain Henry T. Allen, Sixth Cavalry, for expenses incurred by him while serving as mili

tary attaché at Berlin, Germany, fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, one hundred and thirty six dollars and sixtythree cents.

To reimburse amount due First Lieutenant Charles G. Dwyer, Third Infantry, for expenses incurred by him while serving as military attaché at Mexico, fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, fifty-two dollars and eighty-six cents.

UNDER THE CHIEF SIGNAL OFFICER.

For expenses of the Signal Service of the Army, as follows: Purchase, equipment, and repair of field electric telegraphs, signal equipments and stores, binocular glasses, telescopes, heliostats, and other necessary instruments, including necessary meteorological instruments for use on target ranges; war balloons; telephone apparatus (exclusive of exchange service) and maintenance of the same; electrical installations and maintenance at military posts; maintenance and repair of military telegraph lines and cables, including salaries of civilian employees, supplies, and general repairs, and other expenses connected with the duty of collecting and transmitting information for the Army by telegraph or otherwise, four hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars.

MILITARY POSTS.

For the construction of buildings at the military post at Des Moines, Iowa, and for grading, for water system, roads, walks, gutters, and reservation fence, two hundred thousand dollars, to be available until expended.

Out of the aggregate balances remaining unexpended July first, nineteen hundred, of the appropriations made by the deficiency appropriation Acts approved May fourth and June eighth, eighteen hundred and ninety eight, respectively, and by section two of the deficiency appropriation Act approved July seventh, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, for the six months beginning July first, eighteen hundred and ninetyeight, on account of war expenses under the titles "War Department" and "Military establishment," reappropriated by the Acts approved January fifth, eighteen hundred and ninetynine, for the last six months of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, and February ninth, nineteen hundred, for the fiscal year nineteen hundred, there is hereby reappro

priated and made available for expenditure during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and one, for objects hereinafter specified under the title "Military establishment," the following sums, namely:

PAY DEPARTMENT.

For pay of officers and enlisted men, three million dollars. For mileage to officers and to contract surgeons, when authorized by law, two hundred thousand dollars.

For the reimbursement of traveling expenses on account of travel from their homes or the places of original acceptance of offer of employment, and for salary, when on leaves of absence, of contract or acting assistant surgeons employed by the Medical Department of the Army since April twenty-first, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, where such traveling expenses or salary may have heretofore been disallowed or deducted on the ground that the terms of the written contracts made with the contract surgeons did not entitle them to the allowances in question, ten thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary therefor: Provided, That all such claims now pending or that may hereafter be presented for payment shall be settled and allowed, where such claims relate to salary, in accordance with the leave privileges governing in the case of commissioned officers of the Army, and where such claims relate to traveling allowances, as in the case of assistant surgeons of the Army on their first appointment, but the amounts so allowed shall in no case exceed the amounts authorized by the War Department in regulations governing the matter: And provided further, That disbursing officers of the Paymaster's Department of the Army who have already paid or shall hereafter pay accounts for such traveling expenses or for salary during leaves of absence, as above provided, shall be given credit in the settlement of their accounts at the Treasury for all such payments upon the presentation of proper vouchers: And provided further, That the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized and directed to make settlement of the claims growing out of Government transportation over non-bond-aided lines of the Southern Pacific Company and Central Pacific Railroad Company by crediting against the notes of the Central Pacific Railroad Company held in the Treasury of the United States interest on all of said judgment and allowed claims at four per centum per

annum, as set forth in his letter to the chairman of the Committee on Appropriations of the Senate, dated May twelfth, nineteen hundred.

SUBSISTENCE DEPARTMENT.

PURCHASE OF SUBSISTENCE SUPPLIES: For issue as rations to troops, civil employees when entitled thereto, hospital matrons and nurses, general prisoners of war (including Indians held by the Army as prisoners, but for whose subsistence appropriation is not otherwise made); for sales to officers and enlisted men of the Army; for authorized issues of candles; of toilet articles, barbers', laundry, and tailors' materials for use of general prisoners confined at military posts without pay or allowances and recruits at recruiting stations; for matches for lighting public fires and lights at posts and stations and in the field; of flour used for paste in target practice; of salt and vinegar for public animals, of issues to Indians employed with the Army, without pay, as guides and scouts; for payments for meals for recruiting parties and recruits; for hot coffee, canned meats, and baked beans for troops traveling, when it is impracticable to cook their rations; for scales, weights, measures, utensils, tools, stationery, blank books and forms, printing, advertising, commercial newspapers, use of telephones, office furniture; for temporary buildings, cellars, and other means of protecting subsistence supplies (when not provided by the Quartermaster's Department); for commissary chests complete, and for the renewal of their outfits; for field desks of commissaries; for extra pay to enlisted men employed on extra duty in the Subsistence Department for periods of not less than ten days, at rates fixed by law; for compensation of civilians employed in the Subsistence Department, and for other necessary expenses incident to the purchase, care, preservation, issue, sale, and accounting for subsistence supplies for the Army; for the payment of the regulation allowances of commutation in lieu of rations to enlisted men on furlough, to ordnance sergeants on duty at ungarrisoned posts, to enlisted men stationed at places where rations in kind can not be economically issued, to enlisted men traveling on detached duty when it is impracticable to carry rations of any kind, to enlisted men selected to contest for places or prizes in department and army rifle competitions while

traveling to and from places of contest; to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War; subsistence of the masters, officers, crews, and employees of the vessels of the army transport service; difference between the cost of the ration at twenty-five cents per day and the amount of forty cents per day, to be expended by commissaries on request of medical officers for special diet to enlisted patients in hospital who are too sick to be subsisted on the army ration; difference between the cost of the ration at twenty-five cents and the cost of rations differing in whole or in part from the ordinary ration to be issued to enlisted men in camp during periods of recovery from low conditions of health consequent upon service in unhealthy regions or in debilitating climates, to be expended only under special authority of the Secretary of War; five million three hundred thousand dollars.

QUARTERMASTER'S DEPARTMENT.

REGULAR SUPPLIES: For regular supplies of the Quartermaster's Department, including their care and protection, consisting of stoves and heating apparatus required for heating offices, hospitals, barracks and quarters, and recruiting stations; also ranges and stoves, and appliances for cooking and serving food, and repair and maintenance of such heating and cooking appliances; of fuel and lights for enlisted men, including recruits, guards, hospitals, storehouses, and offices, and for sale to officers; and including also fuel and engine supplies required in the operation of modern batteries at established posts; for post bakeries; for the necessary furniture, text-books, paper, and equipment for the post schools and libraries; for the tableware and mess furniture for kitchens and mess halls, each and all for the enlisted men, including recruits; of forage in kind for the horses, mules, and oxen of the Quartermaster's Department at the several posts and stations and with the armies in the field, and for the horses of the several regiments of cavalry, the batteries of artillery, and such companies of infantry and scouts as may be mounted, and for the authorized number of officers' horses, including bedding for the animals; of straw for soldiers' bedding, and of stationery, including blank books for the Quartermaster's Department, certificates for discharged soldiers, blank forms for the Pay and Quartermaster's Departments, and for printing