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 874 FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 540. 1891. tools for the cavalr service, and for the shoeing of horses and mules, and such additional expenditures as are necessary and authorized by law in the movement and operation of the Army, and at military osts not expressly assigned to any other department; Provided, 'lphat two hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars of the a propriation for incidental exfpenses, or so much thereof as shall he 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 aw for the class of persons em loyed at the work done therein, nine thousand three hundred and twelve dollars and fifteen cents. Horses. Honsns ron CAVALRY Ann Anrrnnnnvz Purchase of horses for the cavalry and artillery, and for the Indian scouts, and for such infantry as may be mounted, and the ex enses incident thereto: Provided, That the number of horses purchased 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 part of this appropriation shall be aid out for horses not purchased by contract after competition dully invited by the Quartermastefs Department and an inspection by such department, all under·the direction and authority of the Secretary of War, seventy thousand dollars. ¤1.,a¤¤g,e,mp,md CLo·rmNo, CAMP AND Gmuusou Equirxonz Cloth, wolens, mate- ¤"""°°°‘¥‘“P°€°- rials, and for the manufacture of clothing for the Army, for issue and for sale at cost price according to the Army Regulations; for altering and fitting clothing, and washing and cleaning when necessary; for equipage, and for expenses of packing and handling, and similar mm. necessaries: Provided, hat out of the money hereby and heretofore appropriated for clothing and equipage of the Army for the uma for mmtary fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-one, there shall not be ex- 1*****0**- pended at the military prison at Fort Leavenworth a sum in excess of one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars, one hundred and eighty-seven thousand seven hundred and two dollars and eighteen cents., Bu,-in of indigent BURIAL or Innronnr Sonmmnsz For expense of burying in the •°‘*“°”~ Arlington National Cemetery, or in the cemeteries of the District of Columbia, indi ent ex-Union soldiers, sailors, and marines of the late civil war who die in the District of Columbia, to be disbursed by the Secretary of War at a cost not exceeding fifty dollars for such burial expenses in each case, exclusive of cost of grave, five hundred dollars. _ mgpweuee Depm- SUBSISTENCE DEPARTMENT. guwnu, PURCHASE OF SUBSISTENCE SUPPLIES: For issue, as rations to troops, civil employees when entitled thereto, contract surgeons, hospital matrons, military convicts at posts, prisoners of war (inclu ing Indians held by the Army as prisoners, but for whose subsistence appropriation IS not otherwise made), estimated for the iiscal year on the basis of ten million two hundred and thirty-eight thousand nine hundred and eighty rations; for sales to officers and enlisted men of the Army; for authorized extra issues of candles, and salt and vinegar for public animals ; for issues to Indians visiting military posts, and to Indians employed with the Army, without pay, as guides and scouts. For payments: For cooked rations for recruiting parties and recruits; for ot coffee, canned beef, and baked beans for troops traveling, when it is impracticable to cook their rations; for scales, weights, measures, utensils, tools, stationery, blank books and forms, printing, advertising, commercial newspalpers, use of telephones, office furniture ; for temporary buildings, ce ars, and other means of protecting subsistence supplies (when not provided by the Quartermastefs Department); for bake-ovens