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 FIFTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 586. 1900. 213 may be- made of expenses heretofore or hereafter incurred by individuals of burial and transportation of remains of officers, including acting assistant surgeons, not to exceed what isnow allowed in the cases of officers, an for the reimbursement in the cases of enlisted men of what is now allowed in their cases may be paid out of the pro er funds appropriated by this Act, and that the disbursing officers shail be credited with such reimbursement heretofore made; 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-employees to the officers of the Quartermaster’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 fifty dollars for each deserter shall, in the discretion of the Secretary of War, be paid to any civil officer or citizen for such services and e enses; for a donation of five dollars to each dishonorably discharg§ prisoner upon his release from confinement under court-martial sentence involving dishonorable discharge; 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 numberof officers’ horses, and for the trains, to wit: hire of veterinary surgeons, purchase of medicines for horses and mules, picket ropes, blacksmit s’ tools and materials, horseshoes and ’blacksmiths’ 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 operations of the Army and at military posts, and not expressly assigned to any other degartment, two million A¤¤<>¤¤t· four hundred thousand dollars. To enable the ecretary-of War, in T!¤¤¤;><>¤i¤igs M- his discretion, to cause to be transported to their homes the Z remains $$2; céiéymrfouii of civilian employees of- the Army, who have died, ormay hereafter G“"“· °‘°· die, while in_ the emplo of the War Department;-in Cuba, Puerto Rico, Hawaii, and the Pliilip ines, including the remains of any honorably discharged soldiers who are entitled} e under the terms of their discharge to return transportation on Government transport and who die while on said transport, the sum of oneohundred thousand dollars, ` which is hereby appropriated and made immediately available for the above purpose as long as may be required. · Houses Fon GAVALRY AND ARTILLERY: iFor the purchase of horses P¤r¤¤¤¤¤ of ¤<>¤¢¤- for the cavalry and artillery, and for the Indian. scouts, and for such infantry and members of the Hospital Corps in iield campaigns as may be required to be mounted,and‘ the expenses incident thereto, seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars. ‘ ` BARRACKS AND QUARTERS! Fonbarracks and quarters for troops, Barracks and qom. storehouses for the safe-keeping of military stores, for offices,recrnit- W"` ing stations, and for the hireiof 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, including the extra-dug payrof enlisted men employedon the same, three mi lion dollars: mmfded, ,{,‘g<{”8;;a,,ab,e fm, That no part of the moneys so appropriated shall be paid for commu- commutation or moi, tation of fuel or for quarters to officers or enlisted men. . °°°‘ TRANSPORTATION or THE ARMY AND ITS surrmnsz Transportation 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 ‘»‘Ex- Eenses for recruiting;" of supplies to the militia· furnished by the Wa1· epartment; of the necessary agents and employees; of clothing, camp and garrison equipage, and other quartermaster’s stores, from army depots or laces of purchase or delivery to the several posts and army depots, ang from those depots to the troops in the field; of horse