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 398 FORTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. Szss. II. Ch. 127. 1887. military escorts cannot be furnished; expenses of the interment of officers killed in notion, or who die when on duty in the iicld, or at military posts and on the frontiers, or when traveling under orders, and ot: uoucommissioned officers and soldiers; authorized officc furmture; lure of laborers in the Quartcrmaster’s Department, including the hire of interpreters, spies, or guides for the Army; compensation of clerks and . other employees to the officers of the Quartermastcfs Department; compensation of forage and wagon masters authorized by the act of V0!. 5, p. 257- July fifth, gighteeqhundred and thirty-eight; for the apprcbeusiolg, securing, and delivering of desartcrs, and the expenses incident to their pursuit; and for the ibllowing expenditures reqmred 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 tbr horses uml mules, picketropes, blacksmitlfs tools and materials, horseshoas and blacksmith’s tools for the cavalry service, and for the shocing of horses and mules, and such additional expenditures as are necessary and authorized by law in tho movement and operations of the Army, and not expressly assigned to uu y other department, sixhundred and seventy-tive thousand proviso. dollars: Provided, That two hundred and twénty-five thousand dollars of the appropriation for incidental expenses, orso much theroofas shall be necessary, shall be set aside for tho payment of enlisted men on extra duty at constant labor of not less than tcu days; but no such pay- Extra.-duty pay. ments shall be made at any greater rate per day than is iixcd by law for the class of persons employed and the work done. P urch no of For purchase of horses for the cavalry and artillery, and for the Iub°¤·>°¤· diau scouts, and for such infantry as may be mounted, one hundred Pmmo. and thirty thousand dollars : Provided, That the number of horses pur- Limitation. chased under this appropriation, added to the number on hand, shall not at any time exceed the number of enlisted men and Indian scouts in the mounted service ; Amd that no part: of this appropriation shall be paid out for horses. not purchased by contract, after competition duly invited by the Quartcrmastefs Department, and an inspection by such ggpartmeut, all under the direction and authority of the Secretary of Transportation. Army transportation: For transportation of tho Army, including baggage of the troops, when moving either by land or water; of clothing, 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 tho places of purchase aud from the places of delivery, uuder contract, to such places as the circumstances of the service may rcquirc them to be sent.; of ordnance, ordnance stores, and smallarms ik0m the foundries and armories to the arsenals, fortifications, frontier posts, and Army depots; freights, wharfagqtolls, und ferriangcs; the purchase and hire of draught and puck animals, and harness, and the purchase and repair of wagons, carts, and dmys, and of ships and other sca-going vessels and boats required for the transportation of supplies and for garrison purposes ; for dmyagc and cartagc at the several posts ; hire of taamsters; extmaluty pay of enlisted men driving teams, repairing means of transportation, aud employed as train-masters and in opening roads and building wharvcs; transportation of the funds of the Pay and other disbursiug 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 simation require it to be brought from a distance; and for the disposal of sewage and drainage, and for clearing roads, and for removing obstructions frcm roads, harbors, and rivers to the extent which may be required for the actual operation of troops in the Held, in all two million Promo. eight hundred thousand dollam : Pmuided, That no part of this appro- Limitcfdrnugbt prinaion shall be expended in the purchase for the Army of draught; ¤¤¤¤¤¤Y¤- nununnls until the number cn lmud shall be reduced to five thousand,