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 FIFTY-SECON D CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 168. 1893. 483 pickets 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 movements and operation of the Army and at military posts, and not expressly assigned to any other department, six Amount. hundred and fifty thousand dollars: Provided, That two hundred Proviso. thousand dollars of the appropriation for incidental expenses, or so izmonoty poy. much thereof as shall be necessary, shall be set aside for the payment of enlisted men on extra duty at constant labor of not less than ten days in the Qnartermaster’s Department, but no such payment shall be Limitation. made at any greater rate 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 cavah·y and artillery, and for In- P'¤°h=*¤° °" h°"°* dian scouts, and for such infantry and members of the Hospital Corps as may be mounted, and the expenses incident thereto, one hundred and thirty thousand dollars. Provided, That the number of horses pur- Promo. chased under this appropriation, added to the number on hand, shall not Li¤¤*°· 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 Quartermasterls Department, and an inspection by such Department, all under the direction and authority of the Secretary of War. Army transportation: For transportation of the Army, including Tr¤¤¤1¤>r¢¤tiv¤· 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 eqnipage, and other quartermastens 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 field; of horse equipments and subsistence smres from the places of purchase and from the places of delivery under controct 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; freights, wharfage, tolls, and ferriages; the purchase and hire of draft and pack animals 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 of funds of the Army, the expenses of sailing public transports on the various rivers, the Gulf of Mexico, and the Atlantic and Pacific oceans; for procuring water and introducing same to buildings 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 constructing roads and wharves; for the payment Payment to ioouof army transportation lawfully due such landgrant grant railroads 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 landgrant acts), but in no case shall more than fifty per centum M . of the full amount of service be paid; in all, two million six hundred mmm thousand dollars; Provided, that such compensation shall be computed ,,0,,,,,,, upon the basis of the tariff or lower special rates for like transporta- Basis. ` tion performed for the public at large, and shall be accepted as in full for all demands for such service: Provided further, that in expendin g omyso per ooo: tn the money appropriated by this act, a railroad company which has not "°l’“‘°‘ received aid in bonds of the United States, and which obtained a grant of public land to aid in the construction of its railroad on condition that such railroad should be a post route and military road subject to the use of the United States for postal, military, naval, and other