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SUBSISTENCE DEPARTMENT: For pay of officers in the Subsistence Department, one hundred and thirty-nine thousand five hundred dollars.

For additional pay to such officers for length of service, to be paid with their current monthly pay, twenty-eight thousand five hundred dollars.

In all, one hundred and sixty-eight thousand dollars. MEDICAL DEPARTMENT: For pay of officers in the Medical Department, six hundred and thirty-five thousand four

hundred dollars.

For additional pay to such officers for length of service, to be paid with their current monthly pay, one hundred and eight thousand three hundred and seventy-six dollars. In all, seven hundred and forty-three thousand seven hundred and seventy-six dollars.

PAY DEPARTMENT: For pay of officers in the Pay Department, one hundred and twenty-eight thousand dollars.

For additional pay to such officers for length of service, to be paid with their current monthly pay, twenty-four thousand two hundred and sixty dollars.

In all, one hundred and fifty-two thousand two hundred and sixty dollars.

JUDGE-ADVOCATE-GENERAL'S DEPARTMENT: For pay of officers in the Judge-Advocate-General's Department, forty thousand dollars.

For additional pay to such officers for length of service, to be paid with their current monthly pay, five thousand three hundred and fifty dollars.

In all, forty-five thousand three hundred and fifty dollars. SIGNAL CORPS: For pay of the officers of the Signal Corps, ninety-four thousand eight hundred dollars.

For additional pay to such officers for length of service, to be paid with their current monthly pay, eighteen thou sand five hundred and twenty dollars.

In all, one hundred and thirteen thousand three hundred and twenty dollars.

RETIRED OFFICERS.

For pay of officers on the retired list and for officers who may be placed thereon during the current year, two million one hundred and fifty-eight thousand three hundred and

twenty-four dollars and seventy-one cents: Provided, That retired officers of the Army above the grade of major, heretofore or hereafter assigned to active duty, shall hereafter receive their full retired pay and shall receive no further pay or allowances from the United States: Provided further, That a colonel or lieutenant-colonel so assigned shall receive the full pay and allowances of a major on the active list.

For additional pay to such officers for length of service, to be paid with their current monthly pay, five hundred thousand dollars.

In all, two million six hundred and fifty-eight thousand three hundred and twenty-four dollars and seventy-one

cents.

RETIRED ENLISTED MEN.

For pay of the enlisted men of the Army on the retired list, eight hundred and seventy-two thousand five hundred and twenty-three dollars.

MISCELLANEOUS.

For pay of not exceeding one hundred hospital matrons, twelve thousand dollars.

For pay of one Superintendent Nurse Corps, one thousand eight hundred dollars.

For one hundred nurses, fifty-five thousand and twenty dollars.

For pay of forty-two veterinarians, at one thousand five hundred dollars each, sixty-three thousand dollars.

For thirty dental surgeons, fifty-six thousand one hundred and sixty dollars.

For pay of ninety paymasters' clerks, one hundred and thirty-nine thousand nine hundred and seventy-eight dollars and twelve cents.

For pay of paymasters' messengers, fifteen thousand dollars.

For traveling expenses of paymasters' clerks and expert accountant of the Inspector-General's Department, fifteen thousand dollars.

For expenses of courts-martial, courts of inquiry, military commissions, and compensation of reporters and witnesses attending the same, twenty thousand dollars.

For additional pay to officer in charge of public buildings and grounds at Washington, District of Columbia, one thousand dollars.

For commutation of quarters to commissioned officers on duty, without troops, at stations where there are no public quarters, two hundred and ninety thousand dollars.

For travel allowance to enlisted men on discharge, one million five hundred thousand dollars.

For clothing not drawn due to enlisted men on discharge, six hundred thousand dollars.

For interest on soldiers' deposits, one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars, and so much as may be necessary to pay back such deposits.

For pay of translator and librarian of the military information division, General Staff Corps, one thousand eight hundred dollars.

For pay of expert accountant for the Inspector-General's Department, two thousand five hundred dollars.

For mileage to officers and contract surgeons when authorized by law, four hundred thousand dollars.

For pay of contract surgeons, three hundred thousand dollars.

For additional twenty per centum increase on pay of enlisted men serving in the Philippine Islands, the Island of Guam, Alaska, China, and Panama, five hundred and thirty-three thousand four hundred and twelve dollars and fifty-one cents.

For additional ten per centum increase on pay of commissioned officers serving in the Philippine Islands, the Island of Guam, Alaska, China, and Panama, one hundred and sixty-seven thousand four hundred and twenty-six dollars and thirty cents.

For pay of one computer for artillery board, two thousand five hundred dollars.

For Porto Rico Provisional Regiment of Infantry, composed of two battalions of four companies each.

Pay of officers of the line, forty-four thousand four hundred dollars.

For additional pay for length of service, six thousand five hundred dollars.

Pay of enlisted men, ninety-five thousand one hundred and forty-eight dollars.

PHILIPPINE SCOUTS.

Pay of officers of the line: Fifty first lieutenants, eighty thousand dollars.

Fifty second lieutenants, seventy-five thousand dollars. Additional for length of service, thirty-four thousand seven hundred and twenty dollars.

Noncommissioned officers and privates, fifty companies, four hundred and ninety-six thousand four hundred and forty dollars.

All the money hereinbefore appropriated for pay of the Army and miscellaneous shall be disbursed and accounted for by officers of the Pay Department as pay of the Army, and for that purpose shall constitute one fund: Provided, That hereafter all the accounts of individual paymasters shall be analyzed under the several heads of the appropriation and recorded in detail by the Paymaster-General of the Army before said accounts are forwarded to the Treasury Department for final audit, and the Secretary of War may hereafter authorize the assignment to duty in the office of the Paymaster-General, not to exceed five paymasters' clerks, now authorized by law.

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), and to military prisoners at posts; 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; of 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 tó Indians employed with the Army, without pay, as guides

and scouts, and for toilet paper for use by enlisted men at posts, camps, rendezvous, and offices where water-closets are provided with sewer connections. 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 coffee roasters; for commissary chests, complete, and for 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 commutation of rations to the cadets at the United States Military Academy in lieu of the regular established ration at the rate of thirty cents per ration; and 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 and male and female nurses when stationed at places where rations in kind can not be economically issued, and when traveling on detached duty where 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; and to male and female nurses on leaves of absence; for subsistence of the masters, officers, crews, and employees of the vessels of the army transport service; for difference between the cost of the ration at twenty-three cents per day and the amount of thirty-eight cents per day to be expended by commissaries on request of medical officers for special diet to enlisted patients in hospital (except that at the general hospital at Fort Bayard, New Mexico, the difference between the cost

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