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 FORTY—SECOND CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 228. 1873. 535 harness, and the purchase and repair of wagons, carts, and drays, and of ships and other sea-going vessels, and of boats required for the transportation of supplies and for garrison purposes ; for drayage 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, the Atlantic, and the Pacific; for procuring water at such posts as from their situation require that it be brought from a distance; and for cleaning roads, and for removing obstructions from roads, harbors, and rivers, to the extent which may be required for the actual operations of troops in the field, for fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-two, six hundred thousand dollars. For transportation of the army, including the items as above set forth, for fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-three, five hundred thousand dollars. Barracks and quarters: For rent or hire of quarters for troops, and for Barracks and officers on military duty; of store-houses for safe-keeping of military q“"i°"" stores; of ohices; of grounds for camps and cantonments, and for temporary frontier stations; for construction and repair of temporary huts, of stables and other military buildings at established posts, and for repairs of buildings occupied by the army, for fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-three, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Clothing and equipage: For purchase and manufacture of clothing, Clothing am camp and garrison equipage, and for preserving and repacking stock of °q“‘P”€°· clothing, camp and garrison equipage, and materials on hand at the Schuylkill arsenal and other depots, for fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-three, one hundred and thirty thousand dollars. Pay Department. — General expenses. of paymastergen eral’s office: Pay depart- For postage on letters and packages, and telegrams received and sent m‘;{‘;;,mMm__ by officers of the army on public business ; the additional compensation of ggngpavg 055%, judge-advocates, recorders, members, and witnesses, while on court-martial Y<>¤*¤8°· service, and the traveling expenses of paymastcrs’ clerks, for fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-two, six thousand dollars. For postage on letters and packages received and sent by officers of the army on public service; cost of telegrams; compensation of citizen witnesses attending upon courts-martial, military commissions, courts of inquiry, and traveling expenses of paymasters’ clerks, for fiscal year eighteen _ hundred and seventy-three, seventy-five thousand dollars. Mileage, paymaster-general’s office: For allowances made to officers of Mileagethe army for transportation of themselves and their baggage when traveling on duty without troops, escort, or supplies, for fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-three, seventy-five thousand dollars. To enable the Secretary of War to pay certain indebtedness incurred by _ Public buildthe officer in charge of public buildings and grounds in the city of Wash- "‘gs‘ ington during the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and _ seventy, in furnishing the executive mansion, one thousand four hundred hglfagfuéohava and ninety-five dollars and thirty-six cents; and the officer in charge of fvhagraup, pH_ the public buildings and grounds shall have the rank, pay, and emolument &c. of a colonel. To enable the Secretary of War to pay W. H. Shirley, for additional W. H. Shirlevclerical services, heretofore employed by him in the investigation and settlement of accounts for abandoned and captured property, one thousand dollars. Signal Service.- Observation and report of storms : For expenses of ‘§;¤j*¤l #2}**06 the manufacture, purchase, or repair of meteorological and other necessary and QYQ gn instruments for telegraphing reports; for expenses of storm—signals, storms. announcing the probable approach and force of storms; for instrumentshelters ; for hire, furniture, and expenses of offices maintained for publie use, in cities or posts receiving reports ; for maps, bulletins, and so forth, to be displayed in chambers of commerce and boards of trade rooms, and