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 FIFTY-THIRD CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 228. 1894. 239 under the direction of the Quartermastens 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 frontier posts and armies in the field, 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 or on the frontiers 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 employee to the officers of the Quartermastefs Department; for the apprehension, securing, and delivering of deserters and the expenses incident to their pursuit, and no greater sum than ten R·2W=a¤l¤ f¤>r d¤¤<>rtdollars for each deserter shall be paid to any officer or citizen for such °"1"“""‘°‘ service and expenses; 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 the authorized number of officers’ horses, 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 shoein g 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 hun- Amount dred thousand dollars: Provided, That two hundred thousand dollars Prwiivof the appropriation for incidental expenses, or so much thereof as E‘°"‘°"°’ *"" shall be necessary, shall be set aside, for the payment of enlisted men on extra duly 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 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 P“’°‘°°°° °‘ "°”°°· the Indian scouts, and for such infantry and members of the Hospital Corps in field campaigns as may be required to be mounted and the expenses incident thereto, one hundred thousand dollars: Provided, {_*£#¤- That the number of horses purchased under this appropriation, added ` to the number on hand, shall nof 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 Quartermastens 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 T"“‘°*‘°"“"“°"· 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 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 field; of horse equipments and subsistence stores from the places of purchase and from the places of delivery under contract to such places as the circumstances of theservice may require them to be sent; of ordnance, ordnance stores, and small arms from the foundries and armoriesto the arsenals, fortifications, frontier posts, and Army depots; freights, wharfage, tolls,'and ferriages; the pur- . chase 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 enhsted men driving teams, repairing means of transportation, and employed