For reflooring and interior painting of barracks of Company E, Battalion of Engineers, one thousand dollars. For necessary repairs to engineer boathouses, one hundred dollars. For necessary repairs to engineer equipment shed, two hundred dollars. For placing gas pipes and gas fixtures throughout the barracks of Company E, Battalion of Engineers, three hundred dollars. For one steam road roller, four thousand dollars. For completing one platform for new eight-inch rifle, ove platform for new twelve-inch breech-loading mortar, and three frontpintle platforms in the sea-coast battery, one thousand nine hundred and sixty-six dollars. Approved, July 26, 1894. BY COMMAND OF MAJOR GENERAL SCHOFIELD: THOMAS M. VINCENT, Acting Adjutant General. GENERAL ORDERS, ) HEADQUARTERS OF THE ARMY, No. 38. Washington, August 28, 1894. By direction of the Secretary of War the accompanying order of the Postmaster General, fixing the rates of charges for telegraphic communications for the current fiscal year, is published for the information of the Army. BY COMMAND OF MAJOR GENERAL SCHOFIELD: THOMAS M. VINCENT, Acting Adjutant General. RATES OF PAY FOR COMMUNICATIONS BY TELEGRAPH. ORDER No. 239. POST-OFFICE DEPARTMENT, Washington, D. C., July 6, 1894. Pursuant to the authority vested in the Postmaster General by the Act of Congress entitled "An Act to aid in the construction of telegraph lines, and to secure to the Government the use of the same for postal, military, and other purposes," approved July 24, 1866, and by the Revised Statutes of the United States, Title LXV, I hereby fix the rates at which such communications as the said Statutes prescribe (not including those passing over circuits established by the Chief of the Weather Bureau, Department of Agriculture) shall be sent during the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1894, and terminating July 30, 1895, by the several companies within the effect of said statutes as follows: For day messages containing not more than twenty (20) words, exclusive of place from and date, twenty (20) cents, not exceeding one thousand (1,000) miles, and one cent for each additional word. One-quarter of this rate to be added for each five hundred (500) miles, or fraction thereof, but no rate on a message of twenty (20) words to be more than forty (40) cents, nor on an additional word more than two (2) cents. The rate between all points in any State, Territory, or the District of Columbia shall be twenty (20) cents for twenty (20) words, and one cent for each additional word. In cases where the price of a message, determined as herein provided, shall include a fraction of a cent, such fraction, if less than one-half, is to be disregarded; if onehalf or more, it is to be counted as one cent. For night messages not exceeding twenty (20) words, exclusive of place from and date, fifteen (15) cents for any distance within two thousand (2,000) miles, and for greater distances twenty-five (25) cents; in each case one cent for each additional word. Instead of computing the actual distances of transmission, the distance for payment shall in all cases be taken absolutely to be the number of miles between the capital of the State or Territory, or from the city of Washington, if from within the District of Columbia, from within which (whatever the place) the message is sent, and the capital of the State or Territory, or the city of Washington, if within the District of Columbia, within which (whatever the place) the message is received, as shown in the accompanying table, wherein such distances are given as computed upon the shortest practicable route between such capitals, and which is to be taken as part of this order. But it is provided that if, on the 1st day of July, 1894, or at any time during the ensuing year, any such company shall charge the public for a message of ten words or less, exclusive of the date, address, and signature, a less rate than is herein fixed for twenty words, exclusive of place from and date, the rates here prescribed shall, as to such company, thenceforth during the year be reduced to the rates so charged to the public. (2) |