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 202 THIRTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 106. 1857. be mounted, viz: the purchase of travelling forges, blacksm.iths’ and shoeing tools, horse and mules shoes and nails, iron and steel for shoeing, hire of veterinary surgeons, medicines for horses and mules, picket ropes, and shoeing the horses of those corps, four hundred and forty thousand dollars. B¤¥¤¤k¤· &°· For constructing barracks and other buildings at posts which it may be necessary to occupy during the year; and for repairing, altering, and enlarging buildings at the established posts, including hire or commutation of quarters for officers on military duty; hire of quarters for troops, of storehouses for the safe keeping of military stores, and of grounds for summer cantonments; for encampments and temporary frontier stations, six hundred thousand dollars. Mil¤¤z¤ of ¢>6’r For mileage or allowance made to officers of the army for the trans- °°"' portation of themselves and their baggage, when travelling on duty without troops or escorts, one hundred and twenty thousand dollars. Transportation. For transportation of the army, including baggage of the troops when moving either by land or water; of clothing, camp and garrison equipage from the depot at Philadelphia to the several posts and army depots ; horse equipments and 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, fortifications, frontier posts, and army depots ; freights, wliarfage, tolls, and ferriages ; for the purchase and hire of horses, mules, and oxen, and the purchase and repair of 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 the pay and other disbursing departments ; the expense of sailing public transports on the various rivers, the Gulf of Mexico, W“°"· and the Atlantic and Pacific; and for procuring water at such posts as from their situation require that it be brought from a distance; and for B°“d" clearing roads, and removing obstructions from roads, harbors, and rivers, to the extent which may be required for the actual operations of the troops on the frontier, one million eight hundred thousand dollars. Horses. For the purchase of horses for the two regiments of dragoons, the two regiments of cavalry, the regiment of mounted riflemen, the companies of light artillery, and such infantry as it may be found necessary to mount at the frontier posts, one hundred and ninety thousand dollars. Contingencies. For contingencies of the army, thirteen thousand dollars. dcgifgigzlhfvc- 12105 tpe medical and hospital departments, one hundred and five thousan dollars. M‘·¤‘=<·>U¤¤¤0¤¤· For contingent expenses of the adjutant-genera1’s department, at division and department headquarters, four hundred dollars. For compensation of the clerk and messenger in the office of the commanding general, two thousand dollars. For contingent expenses of the office of the commanding genera], three hundred dollars. F¤rtifi¤=¤»i=i<>¤¤· For armament of fortifications, three hundred thousand dollars. Ordnance. &<>- For ordnance, ordnance stores, and supplies, including horse equipments for the mounted regiments, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. For the current expenses of the ordnance service, one hundred and nfty thousand dollars. 41‘S¤¤¤lS, iP· For arsenals, including fifty thousand dollars for arsenal in California, °g;°;}§§u,a?“° m one hundred and thirty-seven thousand two hundred and fifty dollars. purchase of To enable the Secretary of War to purchase, not exceeding seven hunmnd adjacent to dred and fifty-two thousand seven hundred and fifty-one square feet of g::,]"“g°°“ A" ground adjacent to the Washington Arsenal, and for the use thereof, at a ` price not exceeding ten cents per foot, and for the purchase of the improvements upon said ground, and for the necessary draining of a