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 [6 FIFTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 14. 1900. m§g;;§{m¤S*€"S Dr QUARTERMASTER’S DEPARTMENT. Regular supplies- REGULAR SUPPLIES: For regular supplies of the Quartermaster’s Department, including their care and protection, consisting of stoves and heating apparatus required for heating offices, hospitals, barracks and quarters, and recruiting stations; also ranges and stoves, and appliances for cooking- and serving food, and repair and maintenance of such heating and cooking appliances; of fuel and lights for enlisted men, including recruits, guards, hospitals, storehouses, and offices, and for sale to officers; for post bakeries; for the necessary furniture, text-books, paper, and equi ment for the post schools and libraries; for the tableware and mess fjurniture for kitchens and mess halls, each rmgeem. and all for the enlisted men, including recruits; of forage in kind for the horses, mules, and oxen of the Quartermaster’s Department at the several posts and stations and with the armies in the Held, and for the horses of the several regiments of cavalry, the batteries of artillery, and such companies of infantry and scouts as may be mounted, and for _ the authorized number of officers’ horses, including bedding for the animals; of straw for soldiers’ bedding, and of stationery, including blank books for the Quartermaster’s Department, certificates for discharged soldiers, blank forms for the Pay and Quartermaster’s Deplartments, and for printing Department orders and reports, seven undred and fifty thousand dollars. 8{]¤;eiid¢¤t¤1 GX- INCIDENTAL EXPENSES: For postage; cost of telegrams on official ` business received and sent by officers of the Army; for expenses of expresses to and from frontier posts and armies in the Held, 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 Held, or at military posts, or on the frontiers, or when traveling under orders, and of noncommissioned officers and soldiers; and that in all cases where they would have been lawful claims against the Government, reimbursement 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 is now allowed in the cases of officers, and for the reimbursement in the cases of enlisted men of what is now allowed in their cases, may be paid out of the proper funds appropriated by this Act, and that the disbursing officers shall be credited with such reimbursements heretofore made; authorized office furniture; hire of laborers in the Quartermaster’s Department, including the hire of inter reters, spies, or guides for the Arm ; compensation of clerks and other employees to the officers of tfire 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 officer or citizen for such services and expenses; for a donation of five dollars to each dishonorably discharged prisoner upon his release from conHnement, 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 inay be mounted, the authorized number of officers’ horses, and for the trains, to wit: Hire of veterinary sur cons, purchase of medicines for horses and mules, picket ropes, b%acksmiths’ 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 operation of the Army and at military posts, and not expressly assigned to any other department, five hundred thousand dollars.