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 THIRTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 124. 1864. 127 hundred and seventy-seven million four hundred and sixty-two thousand t Pay Of l’°l¤¤‘ seven hundred and twenty-eight dollars and twenty-five cents: Provided, °m' _ That if any officer in the regular or volunteer forces shall employ a lgfH°°*S “S‘lf*g soldier as a servant, such officer shall not be entitled to any pay or zgnggozixijed allowances for a servant or servants, but shall be subject to the deduction to allowances. from his pay required by the third section of the act entitled "An act to 1862, eh. 200. deline the pay and emoluments of certain officers of the army, and for lim XH 594 other purposes," approved July seventeen, eighteen hundred and sixty-'p' ‘ two: And provided, further, That the second section of the act entitled Construction “ An act giving further compensation to the captains and subalterns of °f1*g’;i"fh“i‘é the army of the United States in certain cases," allowing ten dollars gg, ”’ additional per month to any officer in actual command of a company, as V¤l· il'- P- 227- compensation for his duties and responsibilities with respect to the clothing, arms, and accoutrements of the company, shall be construed to apply only to company officers in actual command as aforesaid. For subsistence in kind for regulars, volunteers, and drafted men, _Subsistencein ninety-one million four hundred and twenty-tive thousand four hundred kmd and twenty-six dollars and thirty cents. For the regular supplies of the quartermaster’s department, consist- Q,,,,_,,,,,.,,,,,S_ ing of fuel for the officers, enlisted men, guard, hospitals, storehouses, ters department. and offices; of forage in kind for the horses, mules, and oxen for the quartermasteis department, at the several posts and stations, and with the armies in the Held; for the horses of the several regiments of cave alry, the batteries of artillery, and such companies of infantry as may be mounted, and for the authorized number of officers’ horses when serving in the Held and at the outposts, including bedding for the animals; of straw for soldiers’ bedding, and of stationery, including blank books for the quartermastens department, certificates for discharged soldiers, blank forms for the pay and quartermasters’ departments ; and for the printing of division and department orders and reports, sixty million dollars. For the incidental expenses of the quartermastefs department, con- Incidental exsisting of postage on letters and packages received and sent by officers of §a’$;*;,:fdg“:;;_ the army on public service; expenses of courts-martial, military com- mgnt, P missions, and courts of inquiry, including the additional compensation of judge-advocates, recorders, members, and witnesses, while on that service ; under the act of March sixteenth, eighteen hundred and two, extra pay 1802, Cb_ 9, ts to soldiers employed, under the direction of the quartermaster’s depart- 21, 22- __ ment, in the erection of barracks, quarters, storebouses, and hospitals; V°1'“'p'136‘ in the construction of roads, and on other constant labor, for periods of not less than ten days, under the acts of March second, eighteen hundred 1819,_gh- 45- and nineteen, and August fouth [fourth,] eighteen hundred and fifty-four, Kxgylgpmggg including those employed as clerks at division and department headquar- 5, ’i ters; expenses of expresses to and from the frontier posts and armies in VOL X- P· 576- the field; of escorts to paymasters and other disbursing 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 field, or at 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 quartermastefs department, including the hire of interpreters, spies, and guides for the army; compensation of clerks to officers of the quartermaster’s department; compensation of forage and wagon-masters, authorized by the act of July Efth, 1838,ch, 162, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight; for the apprehension of deserters, and §10· the expenses incident to their pursuit; and for the following expenditures V°l‘ v' P' 2"' required for the several regiments of cavalry, the batteries of light artillery, and such companies of infantry as may be mounted, viz: the purchase of travelling forges, blacksmiths’ and shoeing tools, horses and mule shoes and nails, iron and steel for shoeing, hire of veterinary surgeons,