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 348 ronrv-sixrru concnnss. snss. 111. on. 79. 1881. clerks at division and department headquarters and Signal Service sergeants ; 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 when traveling on orders, and of noncommissioned officers and soldiers; authorized office furniture; hire of laborers in the Quartermastens Department, including the hire of interpreters, spies, and guides for the Army; compensation of clerks to officers of the Quartermastcfs Department; compensation of forage and wagon- 1838, ch. 162, masters authorized by the act of July fifth, eighteen hundred and thirty- St¤#·,5,157- eight; for the apprehension, securing, and delivering of deserters, and the expenses incident to their pursuit; and for 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, and for the trains, to wit, hire of veterinary surgeons, medicine for horses and mules, picket-ropes, and for shoeing the horses and mules; also, generally, the proper and authorized expenses for the movement and operations of the Army not expressly assigned to any other department. one million dollars. H01g9s_ For purchase of horses for the cavalry and artillery, and for the Indian scouts, and for such infantry as may be mounted, two hundred thousand dollars. 'lrunsportation. For transportation of the Army, including baggage of the troops, when moving either by land or water; of clothing and camp and garrison equipa ge from the depots of Philadelphia and Jeffersonville to the several posts and Army depots, and from those depots to the troops in the field; of horse equipments 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 boats required for the transportation of supplies, and for garrison purposes; for dray- age and eartage at the several posts ; hire of teamsters; transportation of funds for the pay and other disbursing departments; the expenses of sailing public transports on the various rivers, the Gulf of Mexico, and the Atlantic and Pacific; for procuring water at such posts as, from their situation, require it to be brought from a distance; and for clearing roads and for removing obstructions from roads, harbors, and rivers, to the extent which may be required for the actual operations of the tlrqpps in the field, four million one hundred and fourteen thousand 0 ars. Payment to cer- For the payment for Army transportation lawfully due such land- N11;] llinfd-agent grant railroads as have not received aid in government bonds, to be €;‘;,;;’l;‘é,?t&‘;§0I1rmY adjusted by the proper accounting officers in accordance with the decis- ` ions of the Supreme Court in cases decided under such land-grant acts, but in no case shall more than fifty per cent of the full amount of the service be paid until a final judicial decision shall be had in respect of each case in dispute, one hundred and twentyfive thousand dollars: Prociao. Provided, That such payment shall be accepted as in full of all demands for said services. ‘ Quarters. For hire of quarters for troops, of storehouses for the safe—keeping of military stores, of offices, and of grounds for camp and summer cantonments, and for temporary frontier stations; for the construction of temporary huts and stables; and for repairing public buildings at established posts, eight hundred and eighty thousand dollars. Hospitals. For construction and repair of hospitals, as reported by the Surgeon- General of the Army, seventy-ive thousand dollars.