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 FIFTY·FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 423. 1890. 153 _ eighteen hundred and thirty-eight ; for the apprehension, securing, and delivering of deserters, and the expenses incident to their pursu1t,_but no money hereby appropriated shall be used for the appre- Limitation as to dehension or delivery of deserters who deserted prior to the first day of “"'“”· January, eighteen hundred and eighty-four ; 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; purchase of medicine for horses and mules, picket-ropes, blacksmiths’ tools and materials, horseshoes and blacksmiths’ tools for the cavalry service, and for the shoeing of horses and mules, and such additional expenditures as are necessary and authorized b law in the movement and operations of the Army, and not expressly assigned to any other department, six hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars: Provided, That two hundred and twenty-five thousand Pwvivodollars of the appropriation for incidental expenses, or so much Extrwdury pay;. thereof as shall be necessary, shall be set aside for the payment of i enlisted men on extra duty at constant labor of not less than ten days, in the Quartermaster’s Department, but no such payment shall be made at any greater rate per day than is nxed by law for the class of lpersons employed at the work done therein. _ or the purchase of horses for the cavalry and artillery, and for Purclvmeor horses the Indian scouts, and for such infantry as may be mounted, and the expenses incident thereto, one hundred and thirty-two thousand dollars; Provided, That the number of horses plurchased under this appropriation, added to the number on hand, s all not at any time ' excee the number of enlisted men and Indian scouts in the mounted service; and that no gart of this appropriation shall be paid out for horses not purchased y contract, a ter competition duly invited by the Quartermaster’s Department, and an inspection by such dwinment, all under the direction and authority o the Secretary of ar. Army transportation: For transportation of the Army, including rmuspomuou, baggage of the troops, when moving either by land or water; of supplies to the militia furnished by the War Department; of the necessary agents and employees; of clothing, camp and garrison equipage, and other (guartermastefs stores rom Army depots or places of purchase or elivery to the several lposts and Army depots and from those depots to the troops in the tie d; of horse epuipments ' 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 re uire 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; for transportation of signal officers or parties and their equiplments, instruments, stores, and su plies, when ordered by proper authority, for military puiéposes only; fieights, wharfage, to ls, and fermages; the purchase an hire of drau ht 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 en isted men driving teams, re airing means of- transportation, and employed as train—masters, and) in opening roads an building wharves; transportation of the funds of the Army, the exppnses of sailing public transports on the various rivers, the Gulf of exico, 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, fgllld 1‘1V9I‘S to the extent which may · { be required for the actual operation of troops in the field; for the m¤3%t¤;g;d; payment of Army transportation lawfully due such land grant rail- ‘ roads as have not received aid H1 Government bonds (to be adgusted X