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 FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 284. 1891. 775 giving notice for competition: Provided further, That after adver- I’“">'¤·¤°¤ _ tisement all the suppl ies for the use of the various departments and posts of the Army s all be purchased where the same can be purchased the cheapest, quality and cost of trans ortation considered. Incidental expenses : For postage; cost ofptelegrams on official nwmmmupeuses business received and sent by officers of the Army; extra pay to · soldiers employed on extra duty under the direction of the Quartermaster’s Department in the erection of barracks, quarters, and storehouses, 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 eld, 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 trave ing under orders, and of non-commissioned omcers and soldiers; authorized office furniture; hire of laborers in the Quartermastefs Department, including the hire of inter reters, spies, or guides for the Army; compensation of clerks and) other employees to the omcers of the Quartermastefs Department, 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 cavalizy, the batteries of light artillery, and such companies of infantry an scouts as may be mounted, and for the trains, to wit: Hire of veterinary surgeons; purchase of medicine for horses and mules, icket-roypes, blacksmit s’ tools and ma- · terials, horseshoes and blacpksmiths 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 de- ' rtment, six hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars: Provided, zmmuty psy. Eat two hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars of the appropriation for incidental expenses, 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 t an ten days in the Quartermas-. ter’s Department, but no such payments shall be made at any greater ummuou. rate per day than is fixed by aw for the class of persons employed at the work done therein. -For the purchase of horses for the cavalry and artillery, and for mennormnu. the Indian scouts, and for such infantry as may be mounted, and the ex nses incident thereto, one hundred and fty thousand dollars: Pirovided, That the number of horses purchased under this mum. appro(priation, added to the number on hand, shall not at any time excee the number of enlisted men and Indian scouts in the mounted umn. service; and that no rt of this appropriation shall be paid out for horses not purchasedpby contract, a ter competition duly invited by the Quartermastefs Department, and an inspection by such depprtment, all under the direction and authority o the Secretary of ar. Army transportation: For transportation of the Army, including T,mWm,,,,,_ 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 (quartermastens 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 fie 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; for transportation of signal officers or parties and their equipments, instruments. stores,