Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 25.djvu/874

 FIFTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 372. 1889. 829 QUAR'1’ERMASTER’S DEPARTMENT. m¢.gtu;;;e:m¤mr·¤r»e Regular supplies: _For the regular supplies of the Quartermastefs R¤2¤1¤r¤¤vvii¤¤· Department, consisting of stoves and heating apparatus, and repair an 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 m 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 infantr and scouts as may be mounted, and for the authorized number ofrofficers’ horses, including bedding for the animals; of straw for soldiers’ bedding; and of stationery, including blank-books for the Quartermastefs Department, certificates for discharged soldiers, blank forms for the Pay and Quartermaster’s Departments, and for printing division and department orders and repprts, two million six hun red and seventy-eight thousand dollars: omded, That no part of this appropriation shall be expended on printing unless the same shall be dbne by contract, after due notice P"°°"‘g' and competition, except in such case as the emergency will not admit of the giving notice for competition: Provided further, That P“’°h”“ after advertisement all the sup lies for the use of the various departments and posts of the Army shall be purchased wherethe same can belpurgzhased the cheapest, quality and cost of transportation consi ere. Incidental expenses: For postage; cost of telegrams, on official busi- I¤¤i<l¤¤¤¤!¤¤v¢¤¤¤¤ ness received and and sent y officers of the Army; extra pay to soldiers employed under the direction of the Quartermastefs Department in the erection of barracks, quarters, and store-houses, 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 expense 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 escorts can not 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 officers 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 to the officers of the Quartermastefs Department, compensation of foragp and wagon masters authorized by the act of July fifth, eighteen undred and Vol.¤,p.w. 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  purchase of medicines for horses and mules. picketropes, blacl<smiths’ tools and materials. l1orseshoes and blacksmiths’ tools for the cavalry service, and for the shoeing of horses and mules, and such additional expenditures as are necessary and authorized by law in the movement and operations of the Army, and not expressly assigned to any other department, six hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars; Prm;z'¢le¢l, That two hundred and twenty-five thousand gggsgmy my dollars of the a propriation for incidental expenses, or so much ` thereof as shall he necessary. shall be set aside for the payment of enlisted men on extra duty at constant labor of not less than ten days. in the Quartermastens Department. but no such payment shall be made at any greater rate per day than is fixed by law for the class of persons employed at the work done therein.