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 FORTY-SECOND CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 316. 1872. 259 For the expenses of the signal-service of the army, twelve thousand Eve Signal-servics. hundred dollars. For pay of the army, and for payment to discharged soldiers for clothing Pay and clothnot drawn, twelve million one hundred and five thousand five hundred and i"g f" dis'. ninety-one dollars and thirty-two cents. °h"g°d °°ld'°"' For allowances to officers of the army for transportation of themselves T"*“’*P°'***i°“ and their baggage, when travelling on duty, without troops, escorts or sup- fm °m°°”' plies, two hundred and forty thousand dollars. For general expenses, such as the compensation of witnesses while on G°“°”*l °*‘ court-martial service, and travelling expenses of paymasters’ clerks, and pmsw postage on letters and packages, and telegrams received and sent by officers of the army on public business, military commissions and c0urts of inquiry, one hundred thousand dollars. For subsistence of regular troops, engineers, and Indian scouts, two Subsistence. million seven hundred and seventy thousand nine hundred and forty- four dollars. For regular supplies of the quartermastefs department, to wit: For Q¤¤¤¢¤n¤¤- the regular supplies of the quartermaster’s department, consisting of fuel mis d°p“m°°"°‘ for officers, enlisted men, guards, hospitals, storehouses, and offices; of forage in kind for the horses, mules, and oxen of the quartermasteis department, at the several posts and stations, and with the armies in the field; for the horses of the several regiments of cavalry, the batteries of artillery, and such companies of infantry and scouts as may be mounted, and for the authorized number of officers’ horses, including bedding for the animals; of straw for soldiers’ bedding; and of stationery, including blank books for the quartermastefs department, certificates for discharged soldiers, blank forms for the pay and quartermaster’s departments, and for printing of division and department orders and reports, four million dollars. For incidental expenses, viz.: For postage and telegrams or dispatches; Incidental cxextra pay to soldiers employed, under the direction of the quartermastefs Efgmigfgéixiff" department, in the erection of barracks, quarters, storehouses, and hospi- msn;. tals, in the construction of roads, and other constant labor, for periods of §1:l·_$h· 4iSB not less than ten days, under the acts of March second, eighteen hundred 1854(T élxlég § 6: and nineteen, and August fourth, eighteen hundred and fifty-four, includ- Vol. x. p. 676. ing 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 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 posts and other places when ordered by the Secretary of War, and of non-commissioned officers and soldiers; authorized oflice furniture, hire of laborers in the quartermaster’s department, including the hire of interpreters, spies, and guides for the army; compensation of clerks to officers of the quartermastefs department; compensation of forage and wagon masters authorized by the act of July fifth, eighteen 1838, ch. 16*2, hundred and thirty-eight; for the apprehension of deserters, and the ex- §%gi_ v_ p 26.,. pense incident to their pursuit ; and for the following expenditures required for the several regiments of cavalry, the batteries of light artillery, and sueh companies of infantry and scouts as may be mounted, namely: the purchase of travelling forges, blacksmiths’ and shoeing tools, horse aud 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 cxpenses for the movement and operations of an army not expressly assigned to any other department, one million two hundred thousand dollars. Guam and For purchase of horses for the cavalry and artillery, and for Indian mi|1s,·y_}ms,,,, scouts and for such infantry as may be mounted, three hundred thousand :;\0dug¤d¤¤¤ lollars. `