FIFTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. 1. Ch. 586. 1900. 211 his judgment the service may reciluire, not to exceed an additional one hundred,· but no more than one ospital steward shall be stationed at ppc post or station without special authority from the Secretary of a1·. For additional twenty per centum increase on pay of enlisted men, Tweuty per eemmfour million five hundred and twenty-four thousand seven hundred and °t°°S°’ °°hS°°d m°°’ fifteen dollars: Provided, That hereafter the pay proper of all officers {redeveand enlisted men serving in Porto Rico, Cuba, the Philippine Islands, in $§i£°0°S1i1is%€Z°€ZYi°° Hawaii, and in the Territory of Alaska, shall be increased ten per centum for officers and twenty per centum for enlisted men over and above the rates of pay proper as Hxed by law in time of peace: Pmoided further, That enlisted men receivin or entitled to the twenty No eme-duty psy- per centum increased pay herein authorized shall not be entitled to or receive any additional increased compensation for what is known as extra or s ecial duty.· - For addlitional·tpay for increased rank when in command by com e- Additional pey. tent authority, a y thousand dollars: Pmsazaz, rim no pm or this ‘“§l$,‘i§s°.$ ‘“°"· sum shall be used for pay of officers assigned to higher command than "°°““““°“‘ S°"*°°- their rank in the Army, unless such service shall be continuous for a period of not less than three months. - All the money hereinbefore appropriated, except the appropriation Aoeouullusfor milea e to officers when authorized by law, shall be disbursed and accountef for by the Pay Department as pay of the Army, Regular and Volunteer, and for that purpose shall constitute one fund. SUBSISTENCE DEPARTMENT. Subsistence Depart- I ment. Smssrstrnncm or rm: ARMY: Purchase of subsistence supplies: For Supplies- , issue, as rations to troops, civil employees when entitled thereto, hos- P°r°hms' pital 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 conHned at military posts without pa or allowances, and recruits at recruitin stations; of matches for 11 liting public Hres and lights at posts and stations and in the Held; 0% Hour 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 Peymeum meals for recruiting parties and recruits; for hot coffee, canned beef, 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 newspa rs, use of telephones, office ·furniture; for temporary buildings, celigrs, and other means of protecting subsistence supplies (when not provided by the Quartermaster’s Department); for commissary chests, complete, and for renewal of their outHts; for Held desks of commissaries; for extra pay to enlisted men employed on extra duty in the Emo-duty pey- Subsistence Department for periods of not less than ten dags, at rates fixed by law; for compensation of civilians employed in the ubsistence Clyllleu employeee- 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 for com- mgglpgumllou of mutation 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 riiie competitions while traveling to . and from places of contest; to be expended under the direction of the Amount- Secretary of War, nine million five hundred thousand dollars. .
