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 496 THIRTY—EIGHTH CONGRESS. Szss. II. Ch. 81. 1865. 1802, ch. 9, under the act of March sixteenth, eighteen hundred and two, extra. pay to $5 mi ??· 6 soldiers employed, under the direction of the quartermasteris department, V°`u`p'13in the erection of barracks, quarters, storehouses, and hospitals; in the oonstmction of roads, and on other constant labor, for periods of not less 1819, ch.,45. than ten days, under acts of March second, eighteen hundred and nineteen, V°l·m·P·488· and August fourth, eighteen hundred and Efty-four, including those em- § g854· °h·2‘*7· ployed as clerks at division and department headquarters; expenses of v°°|. X. P, 576, expresses to and from the frontier posts and arm1es in the field; of escorts to paymasters and other disbursing officers and to trains where military escorts cannot befurnished; expenses of the interment of ohicers 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 oficcrs 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 quartermastefs department; compensation of 1838, eh. 162, forage and wagon masters, authorized by the act of July fifth, eighteen 9 Q-, 7 hundred and thirty-eight; for the apprehension of deserters, and the °'v'P` 25expenses incident to their pursuit; and for the following expenditures 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, medicines for horses and mules, picket ropes, and for shoeing the horses of the corps named; also, generally, the proper and authorized expenses for the movements and operations of an army not expressly assigned to any other department, ten million dollars. ` h°SS;;¤lry.&¤·, d §`or the purchase of cavalry and artillery horses, twenty-one million ‘, dollars. g,,ggi°°rs b°g` For transportation of oHioers’ baggage, five hundred thousand dollars. 1*1-impm-uuou, For transportation of the army, including the baggage of the troops when moving, either by land or water; of clothing, camp, and garrison equipage, from the depots at Philadelphia, Cincinnati,_and New York to the several posts and army depots, and from those depots to the troops in the field; and of subsistence stores from the places of purchase, and from the places of delivery under contract, to such places as the circumstances of the service may require them to he sent; of ordnance, or ordnance stores, and small arms, from founderies and armories to the arsenals, fortifications, frontier posts, and army depots; freights, wharfage, tolls, and ferriages ; for the purchase and hire of horses, mules, oxen, and harness, and the purchase and repair of wagons, carts, and drays, and of ships, and other sen-going vessels, and boats required For the transportation of supplies and for garrison purposes ; for drayege 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, and the Atlantic and Pacino ; and For procuring water at such posts as, from their situation, require it to be brought from a distance; and for clearing roads, and removing obstructions from roads, harbors, and rivers, to the extent which may be required for the actual operations of the troops in the field, thirty million dollars. Q¤¤1¤€fS- For the hire or commutation of quarters for officers on military duty; hire of quarters for troops; of storehouses for the safekeeping of military stores; of grounds for summer cantonmeuts; for the construction of temporary huts, hospitals, and stables, and for repairing public buildings at established posts, HVG million dollars. Stoves. For heating and cooking stoves, one hundred thousand dollars. Telegraph. For constructing and extending the telegraph for military purposes, and for expenses in operating the same, five hundred thousand dollars. wgrisoners of d m supplies, transportation, and care of prisoners of war, one milli0¤ ‘ 0.