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 FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 571. 1898. 7 (_`)]_ 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 court-martial sentence involving dishonorable`discharge; and for the following expenditures required tor 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 ol’licers’ horses, and for the trains, to wit: Hire of veterinary surgeons, purchase of medicines for horses and mules, picket ropes, b1acksmiths’ tools and materials, horseshoes and black smiths’ 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, for the following periods: ` For the iiscalyear eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. For the six months beginning July iirst, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, five million dollars. For horses for cavalry and artillery, namely: For the purchase of rutnm of im-sa 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, _for the following periods: · d {or the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninetyeight, one million o ars;. For the six months beginning July first, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, three million dollars. For barracks and quarters, namely: For barracks and quarters for mB¤¤¤l¤¤ wd <1¤¤r~ troops, storehouses-for the safekeeping of military stores, for ouices, "‘ — b · 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 established posts: Provided, That no part of the Pmm. _ money so appropriated shall be paid for commutation of fuel, and for w§‘,§u,:{;Q“Q}.° {jg quarters to officers or enlisted men, for the following periods: em, ' For the iiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety~eight, two hundred thousand dollars. For the iiscal year beginning July first, eighteen hundred and ninety- eight, two million two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. For transportation of the Army and its supplies, namely: For trans- Transportationportation 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, and 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 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; ireights, 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 cartn ge at the several posts: hire of teamsters and other employees; 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