FORTY-THIRD CONGRESS. Sess. I. C1r.285. 1874. 73 ized number of officers’ horses, including bedding for the animals; of straw for soldiers! bedding; and of stationery, including blank books for the Quarterm aster’s Department, certificates for discharged soldiers, blank forms for the Pay and Quartermastefs Departments, and for printing of division and department orders and reports, four million two _ hundred and fifty thousand dollars: Provided, That three hundred P’°"*S°· thousand dollars thus appropriated may he applied by the Commissary- General of Subsistence prior to the nrst day of July, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, to the purchase of subsistence supplies intended for the posts supplied through the Upper Missouri, and for other distant posts. For incidental expenses, to wit: For postage and telegrams or dis- Incidental ex- , patches; extra pay to soldiers employed under the direction of the PWS88- Quartermastens Department, in the erection of barracks, quarters, storehouses, and hospitals; in the construction of roads and other constant 18,9 h 45 I labor, for periods of not less than ten days, under the acts of March ii, p_ ,g8§_° ’ v°' second, eighteen hundred and nineteen, and August fourth, eighteen iss-1, cn. 247, go, hundred and fiftyfour, including those employed as clerks at division W1- X, 1>· 576- and department headquarters; expenses of expresses to and from the ironticr-posts and armies in the field; of escorts to paymasters and other disbursing ofncers, and to trains where military escorts cannot be furnished; expenses of the interment of officers killed in action, or who die when on duty in the field, or at posts on the frontiers, or when traveling on orders, and of noucommissioned officers and soldiers; authorized office-furniture; hire of laborers in the Quartermasterls Department, including the hire of interpreters, spies, and guides for the Army ; compensation of clerks to officers of the Quartermastens Department; compensation of forage and wagon masters authorized by the act of July fifth, {83}% di- mg: $1*% eighteen hundred and thirty-eight; for the apprehension of deserters, v°" p' 25% and the expense incident to their pursuit; and 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, to wit, hire of veterinary surgeons, medicine for horses and mules, picketropes, and for shoeing the horses of the corps named; also, generally, the proper and authorized expenses for the movement and operations of the Army not expressly assigned to any other department, one million two hundred thousand dollars. For purchase of horses for the cavalry and artillery, and for the Indian Pu r n li n n o n 1" scouts, and for such infantry as may be mounted, three hundred thou- l¤<>FS<=¤· sand dollars. For_ transportation of the Army, including baggage of the troops Tr-nnrpnrtntinn. when moving either by land or water; of clothing, camp and garrison equipage from the depots of Philadelphia and J ciiersonville to the several postsaud army-depots, and from those depots to the troops in the Held; of horse-equipments and of subsistencestores from the places of purchase, and from the places of delivery undcrcontract to such places as the circumstances of the service may require them to be sent; of ordnance, ordnance-stores, and small-arms from the founderies and armories to the arsenals, fortifications, frontier-posts, and armydepots; freights, wharfage, tolls, and ferriages; the purchase and hire of horses, mules, oxen, and harness, and the purchase and repair of wagons, carts, anddrays, and of ships and other sea-going vessels and boats required for the transportation of supplies and for garrison-purposes ; for dray- age and cartage at the several posts; hire of teamsters, transportation of funds for“the pay and other disbursiug departments; the expense ot' sailing public transports on the various rivers, the Gulf of Mexico, and Public transports. the Atlantic and Pacific; for procuring water at such posts as from their Water. situation require it to be brought from a distance; and for clearing roads, _ Cl·¢¤»¤‘¤¤s <>'¤S¤¤¤— and for removing obstructions from roads, harbors, and rivers to the extent which may be required for the, actual operations of the troops ’ ' in the iield,_·four million dollars. ·]0
