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 830 FIFTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 372. 1889. P¤*°h¤$*=‘ °f h°*‘¤°S~ For the purchase of horses for the cavalry and artillery. and for · the Indian scouts, and for such infantry as may be mounted, and the expenses incident thereto, one hundred and thirty-two thousand dolrmmo. lars: Provided, That hereafter the number of horses purchased umn. 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; and that no art of this appropriation shall be paid out for horses not purchased) by contract, after competition duly invited by the Quartermaster`s Department, and an inspection by such department, all under the direction and authority of the Secretary of War._ _ _ Trmspcmzinu. Army transportation: For transportation of the Army, including ‘ baggage of the troops, when moving either by land or water; of supplies to the militia furnished by the War Department; of the necessar agents.and employees; of clothing, camp and garrison equipage and, other quartmaster’s stores from Army etpots or places of purchase or delivery to the several posts and Army epots, and from t 1ose depots_ to the troops in the field; of horse eguipments and of subsistence stores from the places of purchase an 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 founderies 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 drays, and of ships and other sea-going vessels and boats required for the transportation of supplies- and for garrison purposes; for drayage and cartage at the several posts; hire of teamsters and other employees; extra-duty pay of enlisted men driving teams, repairing means of transportation, and employed as train-masters, and in opening roads and building wharves; transportation of the funds of the Army, the expptrgses of sailing public transports on the various rivers, the Gulf of xico, and the Atlantic and Pacific; for procuring water at such posts as from their situation require it 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 operation of troops in the field; for the pa ment of Ar1ny transportation lawfully due such land-grant railroaclis 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 mmm. service be paid: Provided, T 1at such compensation shall be comrnuagmnz mus. puted upon the basis of the tariff or lower special rates for like transportation performed for the public at large, and shall be accepte as in ful for all demands for such service; in all, two million seven hundred thousand dollars. ,£Q*'*‘¤°k° am ¤°°’· Barracks and qluarters z FOI' barracks and quarters for troops, store—houses for the safe-keeping of military stores, for offices, and for the hire of buildings an of grounds for summer cantonments . and for temporary buildings at frontier stations, for the con- _ struction of temporary buildings and stables, and for repairing public buildings at established posts, six hundred and twenty thousand ov", dollars : Provided, That no expenditures exceeding five hundred dol- $500. lars shall be made_ upon any building or military post, or grounds about the same, without the approval of the Secretary of War, for the same, upon detailed estimates by the Quartermastefs Department; and the erection, construction, and repair of all buildings and other public structures in the Quartermaster’s Department shall, as far as may be practicable, be made bv contract, after due legal advertisement: And provided fu rther, That no more than one million three hundred thousand dollars of the sums appropriated by this