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 FOBTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Gu. 35. 1879. 33 nance, ordnance stores, and small—arms from the founderies and armories to the arsenals, fortincations, 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 drayage and cartage 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 Paciiic; 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 troops in the field, four million two hundred thousand dollars. For hire of quarters for troops, oi' storehouses for the safe keeping of Quarters. 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: Provided, That Meeise. of said sum thirty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as shall be neces Buildings at sary, in the discretion of the Secretary of \Var, be expended i11 the 0¤¤~h=·-· construction of a necessary storehouse and depot building at the city of Omaha, in the State of Nebraska: And provided further, That no part of l’Mv£so. said sum shall be used in the purchase of the ground required for such purchase. The Secretary of War is hereby authorized to receive, by ‘D¢mamm oflotc. donation of citizens or others, the title for any lots or tracts of land necessary to the proper location of the building or buildings hereinbefore provided for. · For the construction of a military post near the Niobrara River in Northern Nebraska or Dakota, at a point to be selected by the General of the Army, with the approval of the Secretary of War, fifty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. For construction and repair of hospitals, as repoited by the Surgeon- Hospitals. General of the Army, seventyfive thousand dollars. For purchase and manufacture of clothing and camp and garrison Clothing. equipage, and for preserving and repacking the stock of clothing and camp and garrison equipage and materials on hand at the Philadelphia, Jeffersonville, and other depots of the Quartermastens Department, nine hundred thousand dollars. For maintaining and improving national cemeteries, one hundred Cemeteries. thousand dollars. And the Board of Managers of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers may charge the regulation stone to be used in the Central Branch at a cost not exceeding one dollar and fifty cents additional for each one. For pay of seventy-one superintendents of the same, nfty-nine thousand dollars. _ For all contingent expenses of the Army not provided for by other Contingent. estimates, and embracing all branches of the military service, to be ex- Army pended under the immediate orders of the Secretary of War, forty thousand dollars. _ Mnnionn DEPARiThl]}NT.—Fof purchase of medical and hospital sup- _Medica1ans- plies, medical care and treatment of officers and soldiers on detached P*“*lS“PPh°°· duty, expenses of purveying-depots, advertising, and other miscellaneous expenses of the Medical Department, two hundred thousand dollars. e For the Army Medical Museum, and for medical and other works for Museum. the library of the Surgeon-General’s Ofhce, ten thousand dollars. ENGINEER DEPARTMENT.-FOI' engineer depot at Willets Point, New Engineer depot. York, namely: For purchase of engineering materials to continue the present course of instruction of the engineer battalion in field engmeering, one thousand dollars. _ _ For incidental expenses of the depot, remodeling ponton-trains, repairing instruments, purchasing fuel, forage, stationery, chemicals, extraxxi--3