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 110 FORTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 217. 1884. quartermasters at military posts; in the construction of roads, and other constant labor, for periods of not less than ten days, including thoss employed as clerks and messengers at division and department headquarters; expenses of expresses to and from the frontier posts and armies in the held; of escorts to paymasters and other disbursing 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 held, or at military posts on the frontiers, or when traveling under orders, and of non-commissioned ohicers and soldiers; authorized office furniture; hire of laborers in the Quartermaster’s Department, including the hire of interpreters, spies, and guides for the Army; compensation of clerks to officers of the Quartermastefs Department; compensation of forage and wagon masters authorized by the act of July hfth, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight; for the apprehension, securing, and delivering of deserters, and the expenses incident to their pursuit; and for the following expendftures, 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, genera.lly,the proper and authorized expenses for the movement and operations of the Army not expressly assigned to any other Department, six hundred and seventy-five Proviao. thousand dollars: Provided, That two hundred and fifty thousand dollars p1_‘:::_;’:t’::n°f8g}fi of this sum, or so much of it as shall be necessary, shall be set aside for nm, 0; pay of ,,,,_ the payment of enlisted men on extra duty at constant labor of not less listed mon on extra than ten days, and such extra duty pay hereafter shall be at the rate of duty. hfty cents per day for mechanics, artisans, schooliteachers, and clerks at Army, division, and department headquarters, and thirty-five cents per day for other clerks, teamsters, laborers, and others. Transportation. 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 Jeffersonville to the several posts and Army depots, and from those depots to the troops in the held; 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; heights, 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 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; pay of enlisted men on extra duty driving teams or repairing means of transportation; transportation of funds for the pay and other disbursing Public trans- departments; the expenses of sailing public transports on the various 1>0¤'¤¤- rivers, the Gulf of Mexico, and the Atlantic and Pacihc; for procuring Water. 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 dollars: Pr<>vi··¤>· Provided, That the whole numberofcivilian employees, including agents, _ Nvmber ¤f civil- superintendents, mechanics, packers, teamsters, traimmasters, and so {$*1:, gan P*°Y°°“ forth, paid from this appropriation for transportation, shall not at any ' one time hereafter exceed one thousand, nor shall any of said employees _ be graded for salary above fourth-class clerks of the Army Regulations; c,£"“:§0,i:gcg"*h and the grade of sixthelass clerk in the Quartermasteis Department P,,,,,,,,,,is hereby abolished: Provirlcdfurther, That hereafter all purchases of P u rc has e or horses, mules, or oxen, wagons, carts, drays, ships and other seagoing homes. Ju:-, to be vessels, also all other means of transportation, shall be made by the 2:** b!` °°“"“°‘· Quartermasteus Department, by contract, after due legal advertisement ' except in cases of extreme emergency; and hereafter all purchases and