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 THIRTY-FOUR'l`lI CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 29. 1856. 13 For transportation of officers, and for fuel and quarters, the payment Army. of which is no longer made by the quarter·master’s department, two thousand one hundred and twenty-seven dollars and twelve cents. For contingencies of the army, five thousand dollars. U _ For the regular supplies of the quarter-master’s department, consisting Same subjwg 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 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, and also for the authorized number of officers’ horses when serving in the field and at the outposts; of straw for soldiers’ bedding, and of stationery, including company and other blank books for the army, certiticates for discharged soldiers, blank forms for the pay and quarter-master’s departments, and for the printing of division and department orders, army regulations, and reports, four hundred and sixty thousand dollars. For the incidental expenses of the quarter—master's department, consist- gm, subjm ing 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 March six- 1802, ch. 0, teenth, eighteen hundred and two; extra pay to soldiers employed, under llygp lm 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 days, under the acts of 1819, ch. 4t. March second, eighteen hundred and nineteen, and August fourth, eighteen gg}- Nbr- 42 hundred and fifty-four, including those employed as clerks at division and § 6_4’ ° ‘ 2 ’ department headquarters; expenses of expresses to and from the frontier Vol. x. p. ms:. posts and armies in the field; of escorts to paymasters, other disbursing oflicers, and trains, when military escorts cannot be furnished; expenses of the interment of non-commissioned oinoers 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-masters, authorized by the act of July fifth, eighteen £38» °h· I62v hundred and thirty-eight; for the apprehension of deserters, and the §V,,I_v_p_25·;_ 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, viz: for the purchase of horse equipments, as saddles, bridles, saddle blankets, nose-bags, iron combs, currycombs, and spurs and straps; of travelling forges, blacksmiths’ and shoeing tools, horse and mule shoes, iron and steel for shoeing, hire of veterinary surgeons, purchase of medicines for horses and mules, shoeing horses of mounted corps, and repairing dragoon and rille equipments, one hundred and eighty thousand dollars. For transportation of the army, including the baggage of the troops sms subject. 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 small arms, from the foundries and armories to the arsenals, fortifications, frontier posts, and army depots; freights, wharfage, 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 seagoing 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