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 FORTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 339. 1885. 359 For incidental expenses, to wit: For postage; extra pay to soldiers Incidental cxemployed under the direction of the Quartei·master’s Department in the P°”°“· erection of barracks, quarters, and storehouses, and as clerks for post qnartermasters at military posts; 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 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 military posts and on the frontiers, or when travelling under orders, and of noncommissioned officers 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 and other employees to officers of the Quartermastefs Department ; compensation of forage and wagon masters authorized by the act of July fifth, 1838. Wl- 5. D- eighteen hundred and thirty-eight; for the apprehension,"securing, and 251 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, picketropes 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 ninety thousand dollars: Provided, That two hundred and fifty thousand dol- Provho. lars of the appropriation for incidental expenses, or so much of the same as shall be necessary, shall be set aside for the payment of enlisted men on extra duty, at constant labor of not less than ten days; and such extra-duty pay hereafter shall be at the rate of fifty cents per day for mechanics, artisans, school-teachers, and clerks at Army, division, and department headquarters, and thirty-five cents per day for other clerks, teamsters, laborers, and other enlisted men on extra duty. For transportation of the Army, including baggage of the troops, hmspemum 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 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 foundcries and armories to the arsenals, fortifications, frontier posts, and Army depots; freights, wharfage, tolls, and terriages; 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 transportion 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, repairing means of transportation, and employed as train masters, and in opening roads, and building wharves ; transportation of funds for the Pay and other disbursing Departments; the expenses of  public trans- Public *1-,,,,- ports on the various rivers, the Gulf of Mexico, and the Atlantic and ports. Pacific; for procuring water at such posts as, from their situation, re- w.m_ quire it to be brought from a distance; and for clearing roads, and for gi, ,,;,,3 ub.` removing obstructions from roads, harbors, and rivers, to the extent structions from which may be required for the actual operations of the troops in the ;x_°?"’"°”» md field, two million nine hundred thousand dollars: Provided, That the P,,M;°_ whole number of civilian employees, including agents, superintendents, mechanics, packerqteamsters, and train-masters, paid from appropriations for transportation of the Army, shall not at any one time hereafter cxceed one thousand, nor shall any of said employees be graded for salary above fourth-class clerks of the Army Regulations; and _