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 660 FIFTY-THIRD CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 83. 1895. 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 iixed by law for the class of persons employed at_ the work done therein. =· ‘ _ 1’¤¤=h·¤¤ of ¤·¤¤¤•· For the purchase of horses for the cavalry and artillery, and for the Indian couts, and for such infantry and members of the Hospital Corps in field campaigns as may be required to be mounted, and the expenses hr •·•:**°| · incident thereto, eighty thousand dollars: 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 paid out for horses not purchased by contract, after competition duly invited by the Quartermasteus Department, and an inspection by such Department, all under the direction and authority of the Secretary of War. ’1‘RANSPOB1*Atr10N OF um ARMY AND ITS SUPPLIES. 1‘¤¤¤p¤·r¤¤¤i·>¤- Transportation of the Army, including baggage of the troops when moving either by land or water, and including also the transportation of recruits and recruiting parties heretofore paid from the appropriation for *"Expenses of recruiting;" of supplies to the militia furnished by the War Department; of the necessary agents and employees; of clothing, camp and garrison equipage,  other quartermaster 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 the service may require themto 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 seagoin g 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 the 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 to land- payment of army transportation lawfully due such land-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 Muimnm- such land-gr ant Acts),but in no case shall more than fifty per centum of umu:. the full amount of service be paid, two million four hundred and fifty amp; thousand dollars: Provided, That such compensation shall be computed B‘*°'· upon the basis of the tariif or lower special rates for like transportation performed for the public at large, and shall be accepted as in full for Iéapéljrxiragdrgonjes all demands for such service: Proaridedjbarther, That in expending the {,'§,,,m;,, cou;money appropriated by this Act a railroad company which has not received aid in bonds of the United States, and which obtaineda nt of public land to aid in the construction of its railroad on conthltion 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 Government services, and also subject to such regulations as Congress may impose restricting the charge for such Government transportation, having claims against the United States for transportation of troops and munitions of war and military supplies and property over such aided