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 FOR'I`Y—SECOND CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 229Q 1873. 545 For purchase of horses for the cavalry and artillery, and for Indian Horses for eavseouts, and for such infantry as may be mounted, three hundred and fifty ”l’g'·I“Ql“°’Y¤ thousand dollars. gout; um For transportation of the army, including baggage of the troops when Transportation, moving either by land or water; of clothing, camp and garrison equipage from the depots of Philadelphia and J effersonville to the several posts and army depots, and from those depots to the troops in the field; of horseequipments 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, ordnances stores, and small—arms from the fonnderies and armories to the arsenals, fortifications, frontier posts, and army depots; freights, wharfage, tolls and ferriages; the purchase and hire of horses, mules, oxcn, 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 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 r·ivers, Public transthe Gulf of Mexico, and the Atlantic and Pacific; for procuring water l°°§,i;m_ at such posts as, from their situation, require it to be brought from a dis- l tance; and for clearing roads and removing obstructions from roads, Clearing obharbors, and rivers to the extent which may be required for the actual i;;‘§_°";;‘*‘,€’°“‘ operations of the troops in the field, four million five hundred thousand and ;}v;;_0rS’ dollars. For hire of quarters for officers on military duty, hire of quarters for Hire, &o.,ol troops, of store-houses for the safe-keeping of military stores, offices, ;_is“£If2`Sk;;“tS· and of grounds for camps and for summer cantonrnents, and for temporary P ’ ` frontier stations; for the construction of temporary huts and stables; and for repairing public buildings at established posts, and for establishing two new posts between the Missouri river and Fort Ellis, one million seven hundred thousand dollars. For construction and repairs of hospitals, one hundred thousand Hospitals. dollars. For purchase and manufacture of clothing, camp and garrison equipage, Clothing and and for preserving and repacking stock of clothing, camp and garrison °‘*’“P "‘1“‘P”€feequipage, and materials on hand at the Schuylkill arsenal and other depots, one million five hundred and twenty-three thousand five hundred and eight dollars and eighty-one cents: Provided, That when the new uniform Wherrnew is distributed to the troops, the clothing of the old style no longer to be *;,32agm issued, incapable of alteration, shall be sold by the Secretary of \Var at of the 01listy;,,iZ public auction after due public notice by advertisement; and the gross gS<>ld¤t¤¤¤¤i<>¤. proceeds of such sales shall be covered into the treasury. °° For establishing and mairtaining national military cemeteries, two National rnilihundred and seventy-five thousand dollars: Provided, That the head-  stones required by an act entitled "An act to establish and protect be of WL, mm,. national cenreteries," approved February twenty-second, eighteen hundred riul, design, and and sixty-seven, and the act amendatory thereof'. approved June eighth, “'°f§€;‘ 6h_ GL eighteen lrundrcd and seventy-two, shall be of durable stone, and of such Vol. xiv. P. sys design and weight as shall keep them in place when set; and the contract lgfi °l>·33j8· for supplying the same shall be awarded by the Secretary of War, after C0,,`;},Q',,b;)' sixty days’ advertisement in ten newspapers of general circulation, to some supplying, how responsible person or persons whose samples and bids shall in the greatest i° be "‘W‘"d°d‘ measure, combine the elements of durability, decency, and cheapness; and the sum of onerrnillion dollars is hereby appropriated for said purpose out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated; and the Secre- `VS00\‘9i§\‘)"$*f, tary of lVar shall first determine for the various cemeteries the size and mia; ;‘;Zc“*:;‘O‘d8, 2 model for such headstones, and the standards of quality and color of the &c, ° i; stone to be used, and bids shall be made and decided with reference thereto; l and contracts may be made for separate quantities of such headstones ; and voL. xvrr. PUB.- 35