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 216 THIRTY-SECOND CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 98. 1853. recorders, members, and witnesses, while on that service, under the act 180z,ch.9· of March sixteenth, eighteen hundred and two; extra pay to soldiers employed, under the direction of the Quarter-master’s 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 Quarter-master’s Department, including hire of interpreters, spies, and guides for the army; compensation of clerk to officers of the Quarter-master’s Department; compensation of forage and wagon- 1988. ¤h· 16% 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 Riflemen, and such companies of Infantry as may be mounted, including the purchase of travelling forges, blacksmitlfs and shoeing tools, horse and mule shoes, iron, hire of veterinary surgeons, and medicines for horses and mules, three hundred thousand dollars; For construetingfrepaiiing, and enlarging barracks, quarters, hospitals, 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 officcrs, 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, three hundred thousand dollars; Barracks,&:c. For erecting barracks and quarters at the Republican Fork of the Kansas River, sixty-five thousand dollars; For erecting barracks and quarters for a military post on Minnesota River, forty thousand dollars ; Mileage ofom- For mileage or allowance made to officers for the transportation of °°*`°· themselves and baggage, when travelling on duty without troops, one hundred and twenty thousand dollars; 8;¤¤¤P<>¤¤Wi¤¤» For transportation of the army, including the baggage of the troops, ' when moving either by land or water; of clothing, camp and garrison t 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 small-arms, from the foundries and armories to the arsenals, fortitications, frontier posts, and army depots; freights, tolls, and ferriages; 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 cartagc at the several posts; hire of teamsters; transportation of funds for the pay and other disbursing departments; the expense of sailing public transports on the various rivers, the Gulf of Mexico, and the Atlantic and Pacific; and for procuring water at such posts as from their situation require that it be brought from a distance, one million Eve hundred thousand dollars ; Hmm- For the purchase of horses required for the first and second regiments of Dragoons, the companies of Light Artillery, the regiment of Mounted Riflemen, and such companies of Infantry as may be mounted, one hundred and eighty thousand dollars;