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 316 FORTYQFIRST CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 294. 1870. $*8***** ‘°"*°?· For expenses of the signal service of the army, five thousand dollars. ,%;:;i'g$2?i°rS For regular supplies of the quartermaster’s department,_to wit: For the regular supplies of the quartermastefs department consisting of fuel for officers, enlisted men, guards, hospitals, storehouses, and offices; of forage in kind for the horses, mules, and oxen of the quartermastefs department at the several posts and stations, and with the armies in the iield, for the horses of the several regiments of cavalry, 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 field, and at the outposts, including bedding for the animaps? of Straw for soldiers’ beddin ; and of stationer, includin¤· blank·boo s ort e quartermastefs departdient, certificates fo); dischargzd soldiers, blank forms for the pay and quartermaster’s departments, and for printing of divisiprg zmd department orders and reports, four million five undred thousan dollars. Incidental ex- For the general and incidental expenses of the quartermasters departmfézggug; ment, consisting of postage on letters and packets received and sent by ,,mm,,,t_ officers of the army on public service; expenses of courts—martial, military commissions, and courts of inquiry, including the additional compensation of judge advocates, recorders, members, and witnesses while on 1802, ch. 0, that service, under the act of March sixteen, eighteen hundred and two; ilgli ?§· 136 extra pay to soldiers employed under the direction of the quartermaster’s °' Ip'department, in the erection of barracks, quarters, storehouses, and hospitals, in the construction of roads, and other constant labor, for periods 1810,_ch. 46. of not less than ten days, under the acts of March two, eighteen hundred 182*- “l· P- *88- and nineteen, and Anrvust four, eighteen hundred and fifty-four, including ch.247,§6. ¤ . .. _ ¤ v,]_x_ P_ H6_ those employed as clerks at division and department headquarters, expenses of expresses to and from the frontier posts and armies in the field; of escorts to paymasters and other disbursing officers, and to trains where militarylescorts cannot be furnished; expenses of the interment of officers kil ed in action, or who die when on dnt in the field, or at osts on the frontiers, or at posts and other places wheh ordered by the Sgcretary of War, and of nomcommissioned officers and soldiers; authorized officefurniture; hire of laborers in the quartermastefs department, including the hire of interpreters, spies, and guides for the army; compensation of clerks to officere of the quartermaster’s department; compensation of 13ag,c1,_16;,t1n_ forage and wagon masters, authorized by the act of July five, eighteen V0i· V- P- 267- hundred and thirty-eight; for the apprehension of deserters, and the expenses gnpaidenti to theirlpursuit; and for the following expenditures require or tie severa rc iments of caval the batteries of light artillery, and such companiesgof infantry as mrtiy be mounted, viz.: fhe 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 lm assigned tp any othepl demirtment, eight hundred thousand dollars. °°·8°• or mi cage, or the a owance made to officers of the arm for the transportation of themselves and their baggage, when travel[l]ing, on duty without troops, escorts, or supplies, fifty thousand dollars. Oblgécigepippgzagsg For taking meteorological observations and giving notice on northern notice of 9mm_ {sakes and seaboard of approach and force of storms, fifty thousand dollars. Transportation. Fpr transportation of the army, including baggage of the troops when moving either by land or water, of clothing, camp, and garrison equipage 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 iield; 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