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 THIRTY-THIRD CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 267. 1854. 577 For pay of the army, one million eight hundred and thirty-nine thousand and seventy-one dollars; For commutation of officers’ subsistence, six hundred and twenty-four thousand three hundred and thirty-six dollars; For commutation of forage for officers’ horses, one hundred and four thousand eight hundred and thirty-two dollars ; For payments in lieu of clothing for officers’ servants, thirty-six thousand three hundred and fifty dollars ; For expenses of recruiting, fifty-five thousand two hundred dollars; For three months’ extra pay for nomcommissioned officers, musicians, and privates, on re-enlistment, ten thousand dollars; For subsistence in kind, one million and twenty-eight thousand four hundred and ninety-seven dollars ; For clothing for the army, camp and garrison cquipage, four hundred and eighty thousand three hundred and iifLy—nine dollars and thirty-eight cents ; For the regular supplies of the Quartcrmastefs Department, consisting of fuel, forage in kind for the horses, mules, and oxen of the Quartermaster’s Department, at the several military posts and stations, and with the armies in the field; for the horses of the iirst and second regiments of dragoons, the companies of light artillery, the regiment of mounted riflemen, and such companies of infantry as may be mounted, and also for the authorized number of officers’ horses, when serving in the iield, 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 the Pay and Quartermasteiis Departments, and for the printing of division and department orders, army regulations, and reports, nine hundred and fifty 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·martia.l and courts of inquiry, including the additional compensation to judgcadvocates, recorders, members, and witnesses, while on that service, under the act of March sixteenth, eighteen hundred and two; extra pay to soldiers em- 1802, 6h_ ,_ ployed, 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 . days, under the act of March second, eighteen hundred and nineteen, in- 1819ch. 46. cluding those employed as clerks at division and department headquarters; 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 non-commissioned 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 clerk to officers of the Quartermastefs Department; compensation of 1888,ch·162- torage and wagonmasters, authorized by the act of July, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight; for the apprehension of deserters, and the ex- 1802cb,9. penses 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 riilemen, and such companies of infantry as may be mounted, viz: horse equipments, the purchase of travelling forges, blacksmiths’ and shoeing tools, horse and mule shoes, iron and steel for shocing, hire of veterinary surgeons, purchase of medi— cines for horses and mules, shocing horses of mounted corps and repairing dragoon and riiie equipments, three hundred and seventy-five thousand three hundred and sixty-eight dollars and thirty-two cents ; For constructing barracks and other buildings at posts, which it may be necessary to occupy during the year, and for repairing, altering, and vox,. x. Pun.- 73