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 458 · FORTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. (lu. 93. 1883. horses, mules and oxen of the Quartermaster’s Department at the several posts and stations and with the armies in the field; for the horses of the several regiments of cavalry, the batteries of artillery, and such companies of infantry and scouts as may be mounted, and for the authorized number of officers’ horses, including bedding for the animals; of straw for soldiers’ bedding; and of stationery, including blank books for the Quartermaster’s Department, certificates for discharged soldiers, blank forms for the Pay and Quartermastefs Department, and for printing of division and department orders and reports, two million nine hundred and forty thousand dollars. Ho:-nes. 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. Incidental ex- For incidental expenses, to wit: For postage; extra pay to soldiers P¤¤•¤¤· employed under the direction of the Quartermaster’s Department in the erection of barracks, quarters, and storehouses, in the construction of roads, and other constant labor, for periods of not less than ten days;' expenses of expresses to and from the frontier posts and armies in the field; of escorts to paymasters and other disbursiug officers, and to trains where military escort 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 nomcommissioned officcrs and soldiers; authorized office furniture; hire of laborers in the Quartermastefs Department, including the hire of interpreters, spies, and guides for the Army; compensation of clerks to officers of the Quartermaster"s Department; compensation of forage and wagon masters authorized by the act of July fifth, eighteen hundred and thirty-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 for the trains, to wit, hire of veteri- ‘ nary 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, six hundred and fifty thou- V sand dollars. . - Tnnspmtacim. For transportation of the Army, including baggage of the troops, 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 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, xiontier posts, and Army depots; freights, wharfsge,. tolls, and ferriages; the purchase and hire of horses, mul oxen, and harness, and the purchase and repair of wagons, carts, ami 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 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 troops in the field, three million four hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars. pqr mmpgmt. For the payment for Army transportation lawfully due such land-grant tim due bud- railroads as have not received aid in government bonds, to be adjusted 8***** m*"’°**”· by the proper accounting officers in accordance with the decisions of the Supreme Court in cases decided under such land- grant acts; but in