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 FIFTY-SECOND CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 195. 1892. 179 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 expenses of expresses to and from the irontier posts and armies in the iield, of escorts to pay- masters and other disbursin g 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 iield or at military posts or on the irontiers or when traveling under orders, and of noncommissioned officers and soldiers; authorized office furniture; hire of laborers in the Quartermaster’s 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; 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, members of the Hospital Corps, 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, blacksmith’s tools and materials, horseshoes and blacksmith’s 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 operation of the Army and at military posts, and not expressly assigned to any other department, six hundred and iitty thousand dollars: Providgi That two hundred thousand dollars of the rmm. appropriation for inciden expenses,or so much thereof as shall be necessary, shall be set aside for the payment of enlisted men on extra Extraduty pay. duty at constant labor of not less than ten days in the Qnartermaster’s Department, but no such payment shall be made at any greater rate Limitation. per day than is fixed by law for the class of persons employed at the work done therein. For the purchase of horses for the cavalry and artillery, and for the Purchasc of mn-ses Indian scouts, and for such infantry and members of the Hospital Corps as may be mounted, and the expenses incident thereto, one hundred and thirty-nve thousand dollars: Pro/vided, That the number of horses mom. purchased under the appropriation, added to the number on hand, shall Limitnot 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 paid out for horses not purchased by contract, after competition duly invited by the Quartermastefs Department, and an inspection by such department, all under the direction and authority of the Secretary ot War. Army Transportation: For transportation of the Army, including Tr¤¤¤»<>r¤¤¤¤· baggage of the troops, when movingeither by land or water; of supplies to the militia furnished by the ’ar Department; of the necessary agents and employees; of clothing, camp and garrison equipage, and other quartermaster’s stores from army depots or places of purchase or delivery to the several posts and army depots, and from those depots to the troops in the iield; of horse equipments and of subsistence stores from the places of purchase and irom 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; treights, whariage, tolls, and ferriages; the purchase and hire of draft and pack annuals and harness, and the purchase and repair of wagons, carts, and drays, and of ships and other seagoing 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 ot the funds of the Army, the expenses of sailing public transports