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 FIFTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 97 5. 1903. 937 expenses; for a donation of five dollars to each dishonorably discharged prisoner upon his release from confinement, under courtmartial sentence, involving dishonorable discharge; for the following H°"°°°’P°“‘?““'°°· 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 officers’ horses, and for the trains, to wit: Hire of veterinary surgeons, purchase of medicines for horses and mules, picket ropes, blacksmith’s tools and materials, horseshoes and blacksmith’s 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 Amount. other department, two million two hundred thousand dollars. _ Houses FOR cavamzr AND ABTILLEBY2 For the purchase of horses Home. ew. forthe cavalry and artillery, and for the Indian scouts, and for such infantry and members of the Hospital Corps in field campaigns asmay be required to be mounted, and the expenses incident thereto, four hundred thousand dollars: Bwidad That the number of horses pur- mmm. chased under this appropriation, added to the number now on hand, u""'" shall be limited to the actual needs of the mounted service, and, unless otherwise orderedbyrthe Secretary of War, no, rt of this appropriation shall be paid out for horses not purchased by contract, after competition duly invited by the Qua.rtermaster’s De rtment, and an injpection under the direction and authority of the gcretary of War: rovédedfurther, That when a moimted officer of the line is Purchase or mmm ordered to duty beyond the seas or to make a change of station in the f'°"‘ °m°°”‘ United States in which the cost of transportation for the private horses which he is re uired to keep exceeds the sum allowed for that purpose in the Army Tegulations, the Secretary of War is authorized, under such regulations in respect to inspection and valuation as he may prescribe, to permit the purchase of said horses by the Quartermaster’s Department at a price not exceeding the average contract price paid or horses during the precedin hscal year, from which sum s all be deducted one—sevent of such contract price for each year, or major fraction of a year, which may have elapsed since date of purchase by said officer. Bnmcxs AND ouaarmzsz For barracks and quarters for troops, wB•¤·r¤¢\=¤ MM ¤¤··¤‘· storehouses for the safe-keeping of military stores, for offices, recruit- ”° ing 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, including the extrwduty pay of enlisted men employed on the same: Pzwvided, That no part of the g;<;mt_t,0l_ 0, moneys so appropriated shall be paid for commutation of fuel or for mei. qc. quarters to officers or enlisted men: Provided fart/wr. That the num— “"’“‘““ °"""’Y"°`“· ber of and total sum paid for civilian employees in the Quartermaster’s Department, including those paid from the funds appropriated for regular supplies, incidental expenses, barracks and quarters, army transportation, clothing, camp and garrison eguipage, shall be limited to the actual requirements of the service, an that no employee paid therefrom shall receive a salary of more than one hundred and fifty dollars r month, except upon the aplproval of the Secretary of War, four million seven hundlied and fifty thousand dollars, and two million dollars of said sum shall be immediately available: l'r0·z·z'ded, That of ggigelgijgbf- nd the above amount the sum of nine thousand dollars, to be immediately mu ' available, or so much thereof as may be necessary, may be used by the Secretary of War to purchase additional ground adjacent to the present Omaha Quartermastefs Depot Reservation in Omaha, Nebraska. for the pu se of enlarging said reservation to admit the erection thereon of ther5)uartermaster’s warehouse building: ltwzvfded further, For Pusrexcmnzes. mc.