Chapter 24. To amend an Act entitled “An Act to amend an Act to suspend the operation of certain provisions of law relating to the War Department, and for other purposes.” February 24, 1900. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Army
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CHAP. 24.— An Act To amend an Act entitled “An Act to amend an Act to suspend the operation of certain provisions of law relating to the War Department, and for other purposes.” February 24, 1900. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Army. Suspension of certain provisions of law. Vol. 30, p. 1350. That an Act entitled “An Act to amend an Act entitled ‘An Act to suspend the operation of certain provisions of law relating to the War Department, and for other purposes,’” approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, is hereby amended so as to read as follows:
" “That the operation of the following provisions of law be, and is hereby, continued suspended for such further time as, in the discretion of the Secretary of War, may be found necessary, or until otherwise provided by Congress, not longer, however, than June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and one: “First. The provision of the first section of the Act entitled ‘An Act making appropriations for the support of the Army for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, and for other purposes,’ in the following words: *Provisos*.
Limit of draft animals. Vol. 25, p. 486. “‘*Provided*, That hereafter no part of this appropriation shall be expended in the purchase for the Army of draft animals until the number on hand shall be reduced to five thousand, and thereafter shall only be expended for the purchase of a number sufficient to keep the supply up to five thousand.’ “Second. Vol. 30, p. 323. The provisions of the first section of the Act entitled ‘An Act making appropriations for the support of the Army for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, and for other purposes,’ in the following words:
Quartermaster’s Department. —printing for, etc. “‘*Provided*, That hereafter no part of the appropriations for the Quartermaster’s Department shall be expended on printing unless the same shall be done by contract, after due notice and competition, except in such cases as the emergency will not admit of the giving —purchases where cheapest, etc. notice for competition: *Provided further*, That after advertisement, all the supplies for the use of the various departments and posts of the Army and of the branches of the army service shall hereafter be purchased where the same can be purchased the cheapest in the markets of the United States, quality and cost of transportation and the interest of the Government considered, except that purchases may be made in open market, in the manner common among business men, when the aggregate amount required does not exceed two hundred dollars, but every such purchase shall be immediately reported to the Secretary of War.’ “And the words: —purchase of horses; limit, etc.
“‘*Provided*, That the number of horses purchased under this appropriation, added to the number on hand, shall not at any time exceed the number of enlisted men and Indian scouts in the mounted service, and that no part of this appropriation shall be paid out for horses not purchased by contract, after competition duly invited by the Quarter-33master’s Department and an inspection by such department, all under the direction and authority of the Secretary of War.’ “And the words:
“‘*Provided*, That not more than one million dollars of the sums —civilian employees; limit. appropriated by this Act shall be paid out for the services of civilian employees in the Quartermaster’s Department, including those heretofore paid out of the funds appropriated for regular supplies, incidental expenses, barracks and quarters, army transportation, clothing, camp and garrison equipage; that no employee paid therefrom shall receive a salary more than one hundred and fifty dollars per month unless the same be specially fixed by law.’ “Third.
So much of the Act approved March fifteenth, eighteen hundred Ordnance Department. Civilian clerks; limit. and ninety-eight, entitled ‘An Act making appropriations for the support of the Army for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine,’ under the heading ‘Ordnance Department,’ as provides that not more than sixty-five thousand dollars of the money appropriated for the Ordnance Department in all its branches shall be applied to the payment of civilian clerks in said department.
” " Sec. 2. That during the time the operation of the foregoing provisions Admission free of duty of war materials. of law shall remain so suspended pursuant to this Act, materials required by the War Department may, in the discretion of the Secretary of War, be purchased abroad and shall be admitted free of duty. Sec. 3. That during the same time the Bureau of Ordnance of the Purchases without advertisement. War Department is authorized to purchase, without advertisement, such ordnance and ordnance stores as are needed for immediate use; and when such ordnance and ordnance stores are to be manufactured, then to make contracts without advertisement for such stores, to be delivered as rapidly as manufactured.
Approved, February 24, 1900.