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 262 THIRTY—SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 6. 186I. ninsty-three thousand four hundred and ninety-seven dollars and fifty nts. 08For subsistence in kind for two and three years: volunteers, twenty- three million eighty-four thousand two hundred and eighty-four dollars: Q¤•¤¤¤¤¤¤¤- For the regular supplies of the quartcrmastefs department, consistmg offices; of forage in kind for the horses, mules, and oxen of the quartormastcfs department at the several posts and stations, and with the armws in the field; for the horses of the regiments of dragoons, and for the authorized number of 0iiiccrs’ horses when serving in the Ecld and at the outposts, including bedding fop the animals; of straw for s0ld1ors’ bc->d· ding; and of stationery, including blank-books for the quartermasbor’s department, ccrtiicatcs for discharged soldiers, blank forms for the pay and quartormastefs department, and for printing of division and department orders and reports, fourteen million two hundred and sixty-five thousand fifty-nine dollars and thirty-seven cents. For the incidental expenses of the quam-:rmaster’s department, consisting of postage on letters and packets received and sent by officcrs of the army on public scrvioc; expenses of courts-martial and courts of inquiry, including the additional compensation of judges advocate, recorders, mombers, and witnesses, while on that service, under tho act of [March sixj lm 0h_, tecntlx] eighteen hundred and two; extra pay to soldiers employed under QQ 91 i2. ° tho direction of the quartcrmastc1·’s department in the erection of barracks, V¤l· H- P- 13* quarters, storohousos, and hospitals, in the construction of roads, and other constant labor, for periods of not less than ten days, under the acts of scc— §*i9·.;’P·*5é88_ ond of March, eighteen hundred and nineteen, and of fourth of August, 18%g:,;j_p§4·;' eighteen hundred and fifty-four, including those employed as clerks at 96. division and department headquarters ; expenses of expresses to and from V°l·x' P' 576* the frontier posts and armies in the field; of escorts to pay-masters and other disbursiug officers, and to trains where military escorts cannot be furnished; expenses of the interment of officers killed in action,. or who die when on duty in the Held, or at the posts on the frontiers, or at other posts and places, when ordered by the Secretary of War, and of non—commissioned officers and soldiers ; authorized office furniture; hire of laborers in the quartcrmastcr’s department, includin the hire of interpreters and guides for the army; compensation of clcris to officcrs of the quartermastofs department; compensation of forage and wagon masters, au- 18a8_,h_1”, Lhorizod by tho act of fifth July, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight;. for Q10. the apprehension of descrtsrs and the expenses incident to their pursuit; v°l· '· P· R"' and for the following expenditures required for the regiments of dragoons and light artillery, viz.: the purchase of travelling forges, blacksmitl1s’ and shooing tools, horse and mule shoes and nails, imn and steel for shooing, hire of veterinary surgeons, medicines for horses and mules, picket ropes, and for shooing the horses of the corps named, seven million six hundred and sixty-six thousand six hundred and sixty-six dollars. png,,,,,, md For the purchase of drugoon and artillery horses, ten million Eva hunmillsry horses. drod and fourteen thousand five hundred dollars. mM8s_ For mileage, or the allowance made to officors of the army for the transportation of themselves and their baggage when travelling on duty without troops, escorts or supplies, Eve hundred 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 oquipago, from the depot at Philadelphia to the several posts and army depots, and from those depots to the troops in the field; and subsistence from the places of purchase and from the places of delivery, under coutract, to such places as the circumstances of the service may require them to be sent; of ordnance, ordnance stores, and small arms from the foundries and armorics no tho arsenals, fortifications, frontier posts, and army depots; icroights, wharfags, tolls, and forriagcs; the purchase and hire of
 * °"“ d°P"°m°°°‘ of fuel for the officers, enlisted men, guard, hospntal, sborohouses, and