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 906 FIFTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 803. 1901. 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 officers’ horse, and for the trains, to wit: hire of veterinary surgeons, purchase of medicines for horses and mules, picket ropes, blacksmiths’ 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 A*¤°¤¤'=- 4 de artment, two million four hundre thousand dollars. ' P¤¤=¤¤¤°°**=¤m¤· lilonsns ron CAVALRY AND ARr1LLERY: 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 Held campaigns as may be required to be mounted, and the egenses incident thereto, seven _,{"m,°’{’”gi& hundred and fifty thousand dollars: wided, That the number of horses urchased under this a propriation, added to the number now on hand; shall be limited to the actual needs of the mounted service, and, unless otherwise ordered by the Secretary of War, no part of this appropriation shall be paid out for horses not purchased by contract a r competition duly invited by the Quartermaster’s Department, and an inspection by such D`$e`partment, all under the direction and authority of the Secretary of ar. - Munch md qw- BARRACKS AND QUARTERS: For barracks and quarters for troops, ` storehouses for the safe-keeping of military stores, for otHces, 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 bui dings and stables, and for repairing public buildings at established posts, includinge the extra-duty pay of mgmablc for enlisted men employed on the same: Prom' d, That no part of the commutation ot mi, moneys so appropriated shall be paid for commutation of uel, or for °‘°· quarters to officers or enlisted men, three million dollars: Provided u mmfggigég. further, That the number of and total sum said for civilian employees ’ "in the Quartermasteifs Department, inclu ing those paid from the funds appropriated for regular supplies, incidental exipenses, barracks _ · and quarters, army transportation, clothing, camp an garrison equip- that no employee aid therefrom shall receive a salary of more than one hundred and fifty dollars per month, except upon the approval of the Secretary of ‘War. '*`*°·¤¤P°¤¤**°¤· TRANSPORTATION or THE ARMY AND irs SUPPLIES! 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 for recruiting;" of supplies to the militia furnished by the War Department; of the necessary agents and employees; of clothing, camp an garrison equipage, and other quartermaster’s stores, from army depots or places of purchase or delivery to the several posts and army depots, an from those depots to the troops in the Held; of horse equép- ments and subsistence stores from the places of purchase, and from e places of delivery under contract to such places as the circumstances of the service may re uire them to be sent; of ordnance, ordnance stores, and small arms gpm the foundries and armories to the arsenals, fortifications, frontier posts, and armly depots; freights, wharfage, tolls, and ferriages; the purchase and ire of draft and pack animals and harness, an the purchase and repair of wagons, carts, and drays, and of ships and other vessels and boats required for the transportation of troops and Supplies and for garrison purposes; for drayage and cartage at the severa 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
 * 1§f,’°‘;_’”d*'i°““* age, shall be limited to the actual requirements of the service, and