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 96 FORTY-NINTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 574. 1886. Subsistence Department for periods of not less than ten days, at rates ilxed by law; for compensation of civilians employed in the Subsistence Department ; and for other necessary expenses incident to the purchase, care, preservation, issue, sale and accounting for subsistence supplies for the Army; for the payment of the regulation allowances for commutation in lieu of rations, to enlisted men on furlough, to ordnance sergeants on duty at ungarrisoned posts, to enlisted_ men stationed at places where rations in kind cannot be economically issued, to enlisted men traveling on detached duty when it is impracticable to carry rations of any kind, to enlisted men selected to contest for places or prizes in department, division, and army ritle competitions while traveling to and from places of contest; in all, one million seven hundred and forty-five thousand dollars, to be expended under the direction of the Civilian employ- Secretary of War; and not more than one hundred and five thousand °°$· ’ dollars thereof shall be applied to the payment of civilian employes of the Subsistence Department. ·· Quartermnstefs QUARTEBIXIASTERYS DEPARTMENT. Department. Suppne. Regular supplies: For the regular supplies of the Quartermaster’s Department, consisting of stoves and heating apparatus, and repair and maintenance of the same, for heating barracks and quarters; of ranges and stoves for cooking; of fuel and lights for enlisted men, guards, hospitals, storehouses, and offices, and for sales to officers; of forage in kind for the horses, mules, and oxen of the Quartermaster’s Department at the several posts and stations and with the armies in the field, including its care and protection; 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 ofIicers’ horses, including bedding for the animals; of straw for soldiers’ bedding; and of stationery, including blank-books for the Quar-. termaster’s Department, certificates for discharged soldiers, blank forms for the Pay and Quartermaster’s Departments, and for printing division and department orders and reports, two million six hundred and seventy- Proviao, eight thousand dollars: Provided, That no part of this appropriation Printing. shall be expended on printing unless the same shall be done by contract, after due notice and competition, except in such case as the emergency will not admit of the giving notice for competition. Incidental sx- Incidental expenses: For postage; cost of telegrams on official busipenses. ness received and sent by omcers of the Army; extra pay to soldiers 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, ` and as clerks for post quartermasters at military posts; for 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 traveling under orders, and of non-commissioned ouicers and soldiers; authorized office furniture; hire of laborers in the Quartermastefs Department, including the hire of interpreters, spies, or guides for the Army- compensation of clerks and other employees vo, 5, P_ 25, to the officers of the ¢:}uartermaster’s Department; compensation of forage and wagon masters authorized by the act of July iitth, 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 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 blacksmith’s tools and materials, horseshoes and bIacksmith’s tools,for the cavalry service, and for the shoeing of horses and mules, and such