FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS- Sess. III. Ch. 427. 1899. 1223 “Contingencies_of the Army," for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, thirty-nine dollars and forty-eight cents. For emergency fund to meet unforeseen contingencies constantly Emmwvy f¤¤•1· arising, to be expended at the discretion of the President, three million dollars. MIIITABY Acnimur. Miiivvr A¤=··1¤¤¤y· For one Superintendent (colonel), in addition to pay as captain, four S¤1¤ri¤¤. ewhundred and_nine dollars and seventy-five cents. For one adjutant, in addition to the pay as second lieutenant (not mounted), six hundred dollars. For twenty per centum increase on pay of enlisted men, twelve thousand five hundred dollars. [TAY OF THE ARMY: For twenty per centum increase on pay of Army- Pwenlisted men, one million and fifty-two thousand eight hundred and sixty four dollars and seventy cents. To supply a deficiency in the appropriation for payment of the Hos· Hupim cms. pital Corps for the six months ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred gud ninety-nine, two hundred and thirty-seven thousand six hundred o ars. QUAnTEnmsTEn’s DEPARTMENT: For incidental expenses,namely: Q¤mmamr·.m For postage; cost of telegrams on official business received and sent ’“I}`,”,,'§‘,{,§',fg,_,,,,,,_,,,._,_ by officers of the Army; extra pay to soldiers employed on extra duty ewin time of peace, under the direction of the Quartermaster’s Department, in the erection of barracks, quarters, and storehouses, in the construction of roads, and other constant labor for periods of not less than ten days, and as clerks for post quartermasters at military posts, and for prison overseers at posts designated by the War Department for the confinement of general prisoners; for expenses of expresses to and from frontier posts and armies in the Held, of escorts to paymasters and other disbursin g 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 field, or at military posts or on the frontiers, or when traveling under orders, and of noncommissioned officers and soldiers; 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 Qnartermastefs 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 ten dollars ior each deserter shall be paid to any officer O1' citizen for such services and expenses; for a donation of five dollars to each dishonorably discharged prisoner upon his release from confinement, under court-martial sentence involving dishonorable discharge; 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, the authorized number of officers’ horses, and lor the trains, to wit: Hire of veterinary surgeons, purchase of medicines for horses and mules, picket ropes, blacksmiths’ tools and materials, horseshoes and blucksmiths’ tools thr 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, two hundred and nfty thousand dollars. For barracks and quarters, namely: For barracks and quarters for t°f_’s*j’*¤°*¤ Mawtroops, storehouses for the safe-keeping of military stores, for offices, recruiting stations, and for the hire of buildin gs and grounds for summer cantonments, and for temporary buildings at frontier stations, tor the construction of temporary buildings and stables, and for repairing public buildings at established posts, including the extra duty pay, in _ time of peace, of enlisted men employed 0H the same: Provided, That *"m*·>-
