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 106 THIRTY-SECOND CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 110. 1852, the field and at the outposts ; of straw for soldiers’ bedding ; and of stationery, including company and other blank books for the army, certificates for discharged soldiers, blank forms for theohay and Quartermaster’s Departments, and for the printing of division and department orders, army regulations and reports, one million one hundred and sixty thousand dollars. For the incidental expenses of the Quartermastefs Department, consisting of postage on letters and packets received and sent by officers of the army on public service, expenses of courts-martial and courts of inquiry, including the additional compensation to Judge-advocates, recorders, members, and witnesses, while on that service, under the act of 1802, ch. 9. March sixteenth, eighteen hundred and two ; extra pay to soldiers employed under the direction of the Quartermastefs Department in the erection of barracks, quarters, storehouses, and hospitals ; the construction of roads, and other constant labor for periods of not less than ten 1819, ch. 45. days, under the act of March second, eighteen hundred and nineteen; expenses of expresses to and from the frontier posts and armies in the field; of escorts to paymasters, other disbursing officers and trains, when military escorts cannot be furnished ; expenses of the interment of noncommissioned officers and soldiers; authorized office furniture; hire of laborers in the Quartermastefs Department, including hire of interpreters; spies and guides for the army; compensation of clerks to officers of the Quartermaster’s Department ; compensation of forage and wagon- 1886•°h· 162* masters, authorized by the act of July, eighteen hundred and thirty- eight; for the apprehension of deserters, and the expenses incident to their pursuit; the various expenditures required for the first and second regiments of dragoons, the companies of light artillery, the regiment of mounted riiiemen, and such companies of infantry as may be mounted, including the purchase of travelling forges, blacksmith’s and shoeing tools, horses’ and mule shoes, iron, hire of veterinary surgeons and medicines for horses and mules, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. com Sway_ For fuel and quarters for officers of the army serving on the coast survey, the payment of which is no longer made by the Quartermastefs Department, four thousand five hundred dollars. Barracks, For constructing, repairing, and enlarging barracks, quarters, hospigggggafé wg tals, storehouses, stables, wharves, and ways, at the several posts and ’army depots, for temporary cantonments, and the authorized furniture for barrack-rooms of non-commissioned officers and soldiers, gun-houses for the protection of cannon, including the necessary tools and materials for the objects enumerated, and for rent of quarters and offices for officers and barracks, and hospitals for troops, where there are no public buildings for their accommodation; for storehouses for the safe-keeping of military stores, and of grounds for summer cantonments and encampments, four hundred thousand dollars. Mimgs or Or. For mileage or allowance made to officers for the transportation of ¤<=¢1‘¤- themselves and baggage, when travelling on duty without troops, one hundred and twenty thousand dollars. Transportation. For transportation of the army, including the baggage of the troops when moving either by land or water ; of clothing, camp, and garrison equipage, and horse equipments, from the depot at Philadelphia, to the several posts and army depots; of subsistence, from the places of purchase and from the places of delivery, under contract, to such places as the circumstances of the service may require it to be sent; of ordnance, ordnance stores, and smallarms from the founderies and armories to the arsenals, fortifications, frontier posts, and army depots; freights, tolls, and ferriagcs; for the purchase and hire of horses, mules, oxen, wagons, carts, drays, ships, and other sea-going vessels and boats, for the transportation of supplies and for garrison purposes; for drayage and cartage at the several posts; hire of teamsters; transportation of funds for