THIRTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. OH. 163. 1860. 65 wagonmasters, authorized by the act of July fifth, eighteen hundred and 1888,¤l1~i6‘-A thirty-eight; for the apprehension of deserters, and the expenses incident ldgi v P 25., to their pursuit; and for the following expenditures required for the two i i i 4 regiments of dragoons, the two regiments of cavalry, the regiment of mounted riilemen, and such companies of infantry as may be mounted, viz.: the purchase of travelling forges, blacksmiths’ and shoeing tools, horse and mule shoes and nails, iron and steel for shoeing, hire of veterinary surgeons, medicines for horses and mules, picket ropes, and for shdeing the horses of the corps named, four hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars. For constructing barracks and other buildings at posts which it may be Barracks, &c. necessary to occupy during the year; for repairing, altering, and enlarging buildings at the established posts, including hire or commutation of quarters for officers on military duty; hire of quarters for troops; of storehouses for the keeping of military stores; of grounds for summer cantonments; for temporary frontier stations, including fifteen thousand dollars for the purchase of stoves, three hundred and fifty-nine thousand three hundred and fifty-one dollars and fifty-four cents, to be expended as How expended follows; viz: For rents, including hire or commutation of quarters for officers on military duty, hire of quarters for troops, of storehouses for the safekeeping of military stores, of grounds for summer cantonments, and construction and repairs of barracks at temporary frontier stations, for the purchase of stoves, and six hundred and eight dollars and eighty-seven cents to be paid as back rent for the site of Fort Davis, Texas, one hundred and ninety-tive thousand two hundred and forty-six dollars and twenty-nine cents ;— For repairing, altering and enlarging buildings at established military posts, one hundred and thirty-Eve thousand, five hundred and forty-seven dollars ;—- For constructing barracks and other buildings at the following posts, to wit: At Barrancas barracks, Key West, Fort Mackinac, in the department of the east, twenty thousand five hundred and seventy-eight dollars and fifty cents; at Benicia barracks in the department of California, three hundred and six dollars and seventy-tive cents; at Fort Vancouver in the department of Oregon, seven thousand six hundred and seventy-three dollars. For mileage, or the allowance made to officers of the army for the Milesgeof transportation of themselves and their baggage, when travelling on duty °m°°¤· without troops, escorts, or supplies, one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. For transportation of the army, including the baggage of the troops Tmnsportntion. when moving either by land or water; of clothing, camp, and garrison equipage, from the depot at Philadelphia to the several posts and army depots, and from those depots to the troops in the Held; of horse equipments, and of subsistence from the places of purchase and from the places of delivery under contract, to such places as the circumstances of the service may require them to be sent; of ordnance, ordnance stores, and small arms from founderies and armories to the arsenals, fortifications, frontier posts, and army Aepots; freights, wharfage, tolls, and ferriages; for the purchase and hire of horses, mules, and oxen, and the purchase and repair of wagons, carts, and drays, and of ships, and other sea—g0ing vessels, and boats required for the transportation of supplies and for garrison purposes ; for drayage and cartage at the several posts; hire of teamsters; transportation of funds for the pay and other disbursing departments ; the expense of sailing public transports on the various rivers, the Gulf of Mexico, and the Atlantic and Pacific; and for procuring water at such posts as, from their situation, require that it be brought Water. from a distance; and for clearing roads, and removing obstructions therein Roads. vo:.. xn. Pus.—9
