FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 235. 1898. 39] men ts and stores, binocular glasses, telescopes, heliostats, and other necessary instruments, including necessary meteorological instruments for use in target ranges; war balloons; telephone apparatus (excluding exchange service) and maintenance of the same; electrical installations and maintenance at military posts; maintenance and repair of military telegraph lines and cables, including salaries of civilian employees, supplies, and general repairs, and other expenses connected with the duty of collecting and transmitting information for the Army by telegraph or otherwise, twenty-one thousand dollars. YAY DEPARTMENT. PW For pay of volunteers under Act approved April twenty-second, eight- Xdywgt een hundred and ninetyeight, namely: " 'p' For fifteen light batteries of artillery, one hundred thousand eight hundred and ten dollars; For twenty heavy batteries of artillery, one hundred and fifty-two thousand one hundred and eighty-nine dollars and thirty-three cents; For two regiments of cavalry, one hundred and eight thousand six hundred dollars; For twenty-eight troops of cavalry, one hundred and fifteen thousand - eight hundred and sixty-four dollars; 1 For two squadrons of cavalry, thirty-three thousand one hundred I and six dollars; For one hundred and nine regiments of infantry, four million eight huindred and seventy-nine thousand one hundred and thirty-eight do Iars; ` For eight battalions of infantry, one hundred and twenty-seven thousand eight hundred and twenty-nve dollars; For pay of regimental staff for one hundred and ten separate companies, thirty-eight thousand four hundred and ninety-six dollars; For pay of officers of the line (staff), one hundred and thirty-three thousand one hundred and thirty-three dollars and thirty-three cents; For pay of contract surgeons, five thousand dollars; For mileage to officers, twenty-tive thousand dollars; Milssgc- For fifty paymasters, additional, maior , twenty thousand eight hundred and thirty-three dollars and thirty-three cents; For fifty paymasters’ clerks, additional, at the rate of one thousand four hundred dollars per annum each, eleven thousand six hundred and _ sixty-six dollars and sixty-six cents; For traveling expenses of pay1nasters’ clerks, fifteen thousand dollars; in all, live million seven hundred and sixty-six thousand six hundred and sixty-one dollars and sixtyilve cents. For pay of the Army under Act approved April twenty-sixth, eight- gf; ‘;f“,°g{*· een hundred and ninety-eight, as follows: -` ' For pay of officers of the line, namely: ‘For fifty majors, twenty thousand eight hundred and thirty-three dollars and thirty-three cents; For fifty captains, not mounted, fifteen thousand dollars; d For fifty first lieutenants, not mountexl, twelve thousand five hundred ollars · · · For fifty second lieutenants, not mounted, eleven thousand six hundred and sixty-six dollars and sixty-six cents; ‘ For twenty-eight second lieutenants, mounted, seven thousand dollars ; For fifty-six second lieutenants, not mounted, thirteen thousand and sixty-six dollars and sixty-six cents; in all, eighty thousand and sixty- six dollars and sixty-five cents. For pay of the line, including recruits, namely: E¤”·*°‘* ¤*°¤- For two sergeantmajors, ninety-two dollars; . For two quartermaster-sergeants, ninety-two dollars; For two chief musicians, two hundred and forty dollars; For four trumpeters and principal musicians, one hundred and seventy-six dollars; For seventy-six first sergeants, three thousand eight hundred dollars;
