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 FORTIETII CONGRESS. Sicss. III. Ch. 124. 1869. 317 hundred and thirty-eight; For the apprehension of doserters and the ex- Q“¤*`§°¤'· pauses incident to their pursuit; and for the following expenditures ggxrs deparf 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, horse 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 movement and operations of an army, not expressly assigned to any other department, one million dollars. For the purchase of horses For cavalry and artillery, two hundred and Horses. fifty thousand dollars. For mileage, or the allowance made to ofi'·icers of the army for the Mileage. transportation of themselves and their baggage, when travelling on duty without troops, escorts, or supplies, one hundred thousand dollars. For transportation of the army, including baggage of the troops when _T*'¤¤$P°*'t°· moving either by land or water, of clothing, camp, and garrison equi- tw"` page, from the depots of 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 be sent ; of ordnance, ordnance stores, and small-arms From the ibumlries and nrmories to the arsenals, fortifications, frontier posts, and army depots; freights, wlmrfage, tolls, and ferriages; 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 sea-going vessels, and boats required for the transportation of supplies and for garrison purposes; For drayage and cartagc at the several posts; hire of teamsters; transportation of Funds For the pay and other disbursing departments; the expense of sniliug public transports on the Public **¤¤¤· various rivers, the Gulf of Mexico, and the Atlantic and Pacific; for pom' procuring water at such posts as from their situation require it to be Water. brought from a distance; and for clearing roads and removing obstrnc- _ tions from roads, harbors, and rivers, to the oxront which may be required roaghsigggfgsv for the actual operations of the troops in the field, six and one-half million and }},.m_ ' dollars. For hire or commutation of quarters for officers on military duty ; hire Hire or comof quarters for troops, of storchouses for the safe-keeping of military gsm stores, and of grounds for summer cantonments ; for the construction of gw_’ temporary huts, hospitals. and stables, and for repairing public buildings at established posts, one million dollars. H M, a d For heating and cook stoves, fifteen thousand dollars. c00:s£i,§,,_n For the ordnance service, required to defray the current expenses at Ordnance the arsenals of receiving stores and issuing arms and other ordnance "°*""°°· supplies; of police and office duties; of rents, tolls, fhel, and lights; of stationery and officc furniture; of tools and instruments for use ; of public animals, forage, and vehicles; incidental expenses of the ordnance service, including those attending practical trials and tests of ordnance, small-arms, and other ordnance supplies, two hundred thousand dollars: foxewzflgzmy Provided, That, no money appropriated by this act shall be used to pur- 0,. Sm,,y,m.m,_ chase any new cannon or small-arms. For Repairs and Improvements of Armorics and Arsenals.-For Armories and arsenal and armory at Rock Island, Illinois, one million dollars: Pro- “'m2IL*ismd vided, That one half of this amount shall be applied to the construction 0,,,, hm- foi- 0f the bridge connecting Rock Island with the cities of Rock Island and bridge- Davenport. For Augusta arsenal, Augusta, Georgia, ono thousand dollars. A¤g¤¤¤•·· For erecting a brick armory and smith shop at the arsenal at Colum— Columbusbu<, Ohio, fifteen thousand dollars.