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 rirrinrn ooxeess. sm. 1. os. um. mss. 485 forage and wagon masters authorized by the act of July nfth, eighteen Vol- Ft n W- 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 veter1nary surgeons; purchase of medicine for horses and mules, picket-ropes, blacksmiths’ tools and materials, horseshoes and blacksm1ths’ tools for the cavalry service, and for the shoeing of horses and mules, and such additional expenditures as are necessary and authorized bylaw in the movement and operations of the Army, and not expressly assigned to any other department, six hundred and seventy-five thousan dollars: Provided, That two hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars of the appropriation for incidental ex- mW,' penses, or so much thereof as shall be necessary, shall be set aside or the payment of enlisted men on extra duty at constant labor of not less than ten days, in the Quartermastefs Department, but no such payment shall be made at any greater rate per day than is fixed by law or the class of persons employed at the work done therein. For purchase of horses for the cavalry and artillery, and for the Purchase ot homes Indian scouts, and for such infantry as may be mounted, and the expenses incident thereto, one hundred and thirty thousand dollars: Provided, That the number of horses urchased under this appropri- MM? I- ation, added to the number on hand, sliall not at any time exceed the ‘ number of enlisted men and Indian scouts in the mounted service; and that no part of this apipropriation shall be paid out for horses not purchased lg contract, a ter competition duly invited by the Quartermaster’s epartment, and an ins ection by such de artment, all under the direction and authority of) the Secretary of dar. Army transportation: For transportation of the Army, including T¤>·¤$P°*°°**°¤· baggage of the troops, when moving either by land or water; of the necessary agents and employees; of clothing, camp and garrison equipage and other quartermastefs stores from Army depots or p aces of purchase or elivery to the several posts and Army depots, 4 and from those depots to the troops in the tie d; 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 foundries and armories to the arsenals, fortifications, frontier posts, and Army depots; freights, wharfage, tolls, and ferriages; the purchase and hire of draught and pack animals, and harness, and the purchase and repair of wagons, carts, and dra s, and of ships and other sea-going vessels and boats required for the transportation of supplies and for garrison purposes: for drayave and cartage at the several posts; l1ire of teamsters and other emldoyees; extra·duty pay of enlisted men driving teams, repairing means of transportation, and employed as train—masters, and in opening roads and bui ding wharves; transportation of the funds of the Army. 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 1t to be brought from a distance; and for the disposal of sewage and drainage, and for clearing roads, and for removing obstruction from roads, harbors, and rivers to the extent which may be required for the actual operas tion of troops in the field; for the payment of Army transportation lawfully due such land grant railroads as have not received aid in Government bonds (to be adjusted in accordance with the decisions of the Supreme Court in cases decided under such land-grant acts), but in no case shall more than fifty per centum of the full amount _ of the service be paid; Provided, That such compensation shall be P"'°"~"°’· MM Computed upon the basis of the tariff or lower special rates for like L““d‘g’°"‘° transportation performed for the public at large, and shall be accepted