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 394 FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 235. 1898. in the Quartermaster s Department, including the hire of interpreters, spies, or guides for the Army; compensation of clerks and other employ- ees to the officers of the Qnartermaster’s Department, and incidental expenses of recruiting; for the apprehension, securing, and delivering of deserters, and the expenses incident to their pursuit, and no greater sum than ten dollars for each deserter shall be paid to any officer or citizen for such services and expenses; for a donation of five dollars to each dishonorably discharged prisoner upon his release from confinement, under courtmartial sentence involving dishonorable discharge; 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 oiHcers’ horses, and for the trains, to wit: Hire of veterinary surgeons, purchase of medicines for horses and mules, picket ropes, blacksmitl1s’ tools and materials, horseshoes and blacksmiths’ tools for the cavalry service, and for the shoeing of horse 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 Am··¤¤¢-  to any other department, seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars. P¤¤*h¤¤¤ ¤f 1¤¤¤s·>¤- For horses for cavalry and artillery, namely: For the purchase of horses for the cavalry and artillery, and for 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 _ million five hundred thousand dollars. t€;=·¤¤•=k¤ wi <1¤=¤· For barracks and quarters, namely: For barracks and quarters for ' troops, storehouses for the safe-keeping of military stores, for olhces, recruiting stations, and for the hire of buildings and grounds for summer cantonments, and for temporary buildings at frontier stations, for · the construction of temporary buildings and stables, and for repairing public buildings at e tablished posts, including the extra-duty pay of Ijrvviw- _ enlisted men employed on the same: Provided, That no part of the c,,§,‘;{,,,‘§,{§‘,§},‘f‘2{’,,_‘°' money so appropriated shall be paid for commutation of fuel, and for quarters to officers or enlisted men, three hundred thousand dollars. Tr¤¤=¤r<>r¤¤i<¤¤· For transportation of the Army and its supplies, namely: For 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 WVar 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 ot' purchase and from the places of delivery under contract to such places as the circumstances of the service may require them to be sent; of ordinance, 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 bouts 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 trainmasters, 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 construct- ..,.aym..m it iam:. ing roads and wharves; for the payment of army transportatious ¥'“""“"’""‘“· lawfully due such land-grant railroads as have not received aid in