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 THIRTY—EIGHTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 253. 1864. 395 The sixth division shall have `charge of the erection, procurement, g¤”’i5*m¤:*°¥‘”¤ maintenance, disposition, and so forth, of all barracks, hospital buildings, gpm mw ’ storehouses, stables, bridges, (other than railroad bridges,) wharves, and 6th division. other structures composed in whole or in part of lumber, and of all lumber, nails, and hardware for building purposes; and of the hire and commutation of quarters for omcers, the hire of quarters for troops, the hire of grounds for cantonments, or other military purposes, and the repair and care of all buildings and other structures herein mentioned, and of all grounds owned, hired, or occupied for military purposes, except such as are lawfully under the charge of other bureaus of the War Department; and of extra pay to soldiers employed in erecting barracks, or other fatigue duty, under the acts of March second, eighteen hundred and nineteen, and August fourth, eighteen hundred and fifty-four. The seventh division shall have charge of the purchase, procurement, ml division, issue, and disposition of all wagons, ambulances, travelling forges and harness, (except such as are furnished by the ordnance department,) and of all hardware except as hereinbefore provided; and of all fuel for officers and enlisted men, camps, garrisons, hospitals, posts, storehouses, offices, public transports, steam—rams, and army gunboats, and of all transportation by animal power in the Held, at camps, garrisons, posts, depots, and stations; and of the construction and repair of roads other than railroads; and of the compensation of wagon and forage masters, _and of clerks to officers of the quartermaster’s department; and of the purchase of heating and cooking stoves; and of the expenses of courtsmartial, military commissions, and courts of inquiry ; and of mileage and allowances to officers for the transportation of themselves and their baggage when travelling upon duty without troops, escorts, or supplies, and of supplies for prisoners of war and such refugees as the Secretary of War may direct to be temporarily provided for; and of the purchase of stationery, blanks and blank books for the quartermaster’s department; and of the printing of the division and department orders and reports; and of the proper and authorized expenses for the movements and operati•ns of an army not expressly assigned to any other division or department. The eighth division shall have charge of all inspections of the quarter- 8th division. master’s department, and of all reports made by officers assigned to inspection duty, analyzing and preserving the reports as received, and communicating through the quartermaster-general,_to the chiefs of the proper divisions such portions of these reports as may be necessary for their information and use: Provided, That the officers assigned to inspection duty shall have Power 05;,,- power not only to report and to point out any errors or abuses which SP¤¤ti¤s ¤fH¤¤¤· they may discover in the practical operations of the quartermastefs department, but to give, by order of the quartermaster-general, the orders which may be immediately necessary to correct and to prevent a continuance of such abuses or errors: Provided, furtlwr, That all such orders Promo, shall be immediately reported to the chief of the inspection division for the approval, or otherwise, of the quartermaster-general. The ninth division shall have charge of all the correspondence, returns, 9,;, dMS;0,,_ reports, and records received, filed, and preserved in the office of the quartermaster-general, and of the transmission thereof to the several other divisions of this office, and departments of the government. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the heads of the several Heads ofsev. divisions above mentioned shall, under the direction of the quartermaster- ml dlYlSl°¤S *0 · » . · B,dV€I`lZlS€ ff)? pl'0" general, from time to time, advertise for proposals for the supplies neces- ,,,,5,,1, go,. 3,,,, sary for the movements and operations of the several armies, posts, plies. detachments, garrisons, hospitals, and for other military purposes, in newspapers' having general circulation in those parts of the country where such supplies can be most advantageously furnished, having regard also to the places where such supplies are to be delivered and used; and all