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 FORTY-THIRD CONGRESS. Sess. 1I. C11. 133. 1875 453 beginning of the year for the purchase of such supplies as it may ·be found to the advantage of the Government to purchase immediately. For incidental expenses, to wit: For postage and telegrams or dis- l¤°1*1°¤*¤1 °x· patches; extra pay to soldiers employed, under the direction of the 1"’°““ Quartermaster’s Department, in the erection of- barracks, quarters, storehouses, and hospitals, in the construction of roads, and other constant labor, for periods of not less than ten days, under the acts of March 1819. ¢· 45. V- 3» second, eighteen hundred and nineteen, and August fourth, eighteen 1’·488· hundred and iii'ty-four, including those employed as clerks at division i,?,54· gg,?47*“· 6* and department headquarters; expenses of expresses to and from the v' ’p' ` 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 when traveling on orders, and of non-commissioned officers and soldiers; authorized office-furniture; hire of laborers in the Quartermastews Department, including the hire of interpreter, spies, and guides for the Army; compensation of clerks to olhcers of the Quartermastews Department; compensation of forage and wagon-masters authorized by the act of July nfth, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight; for the appre- 1838, c.162, s. 10, hension of deserters, and the expense incident to their pursuit; and for V- EM P~ 25* the following expenditures required for the several regiments of cavalry, the batteries of light artillery, and such companies of infantry and scouts as may be mounted, to wit, hire of veterinary surgeons, medicine for horses and mules, picketropes, and for shooing the horses of the corps named; also, generally, the proper and authorized expenses for the movement and operations of the Army not expressly assigned · to any other department, one million two hundred thousand dollars. · For purchase of horses for the cavalry and artillery, and for the In- P“’°h“° °“’°"°°· dian scouts, and for such infantry as may be mounted, three hundred thousand dollars. For transportation of the Army, including baggage of the troops T1ZM1¤P0”${71°¤· when moving either by land or water; of clothing and camp and garrison equipage from the depots of Philadelphia and J eifersonville to the several posts and armydepots, and from those depots to the troops in the Held; 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, ordnance-stores, and small-arms from the founderies and armories to the arsenals, fortifications, frontier-posts, and army-depots; freights, wharfage, 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 seagoing vessels and boat required for the transportation of supplies and for garrisompurposes; for dray- age and caartage at the several posts; hire of teamsters, transportation of funds for the Pay and otherdlsbursin-g departments- the expense of _. sailing public transports on the various rivers, the Gulf! of Mexico, and P¤1>1wtry»¤¤p<>rt¤· the Atlantic and Pacific; for procuring water at such posts as from Weis} their situation require it to be brought from a_distanoe; and for clear- _¤1w¤¤g roads, ing roads, and for removing obstructions from roads, harbors,_a-nd rivers ’“’°”· “” h”b°*`°· to the extent which may be required for the actual- operations oi the troops in the Held, four niillion dollars: Provided, That no money shall mg; ggyrqent fo; hereafter be paid to any railroad company for the transportation of any troopg 8;;**,; QJ, properly or troops of the United Statesover any railroad which in whole ,,,,,,1,, {,8 aé i vi ,, g or in' part was constructed by the aid of a grant of public land on the and-gm¤t¤,&c. condition that such railroad should be a public highway for the use of the Government of the United States free from toll or other charge, or _ _ upon any other conditions for the use of such road, for such transportation; nor shall any allowance be made for the transportation of No allowaince fo; officers of the Army over any such road when on duty and under g',,;g:,?s°,ff1°1;,u‘;y? ° orders as military officersbf the United States. But 'nothing herein, ` contained shall be construed as preventing any such railroad from bring- mgm; or 6 0 m-