FORTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 52. 1868. 65 For the general and incidental expenses of the quartermasters’ depart- I¤•>i<l¤¤*¤l •¤· ment, consisting of postage on letters and packets received and sent by }',,°,{',“,‘j,°,,§l“,;,'f°" officers of the army on public service; expenses of courts-martial, mil- psruncut. itary commissions, and courts of inquiry, including the additional oompensation of judge advocates, recorders, members, and witnesses while on that service, under the act of March sixteen, eighteen hundred and 1802,ch. s, two; extra pay to soldiers employed imder the direction of the quarter- ll,?)}- No masters’ department in the erection of barracks, quarters, storehouses, 18i0,·ch.46.· and hospitals, in the construction of roads, and other constant labor for V¤l· ill- *88- periods of not less than ten days, under the acts of March two, eighteen §:_8“' ° B"' hundred and nineteen, and August four, eighteen hundred and iiity-four, Vol. x. p. B16. including those employed as clerks at division and department headquarters ; expenses of expresses to and from the frontier posts and armies in the field; of escorts to paymasters and other disbursing officers, and to trains where military escorts cannot be furnished; expenses of the interment of ofilcers killed in action, or who die when on duty in the field, or at posts on the frontiers, or at posts and other places, when ordered by the Secretary of War, and of noncommissioned officers and soldiers; authorized office furniture; hire of laborers in the quartermasters’ department, including the hire ofinterpreters, spies, and guides for the army; compensation of clerks to officers of the quartermasters’ department; compensation of forage and wagon-masters authorized by the act of July fifth, eighteen dggsv °l‘· wh hundred and thirty-eight; for the apprehension of deserters and the ex- v0}_ v_ P_ 2;; penses 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 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 shoeing the horses of the corps named; also, generally, the proper and authorized expenses for the movement and operations of an army, not expressly assigned to any other department, two million dollars. For mileage, or the allowance made to officers of the army, for the Mileage. transportation of themselves and their baggage when travelling on duty without troops, escort, or supplies, two hundred thousand dollars. For transportation of the army, including baggage of the troops when __’l‘ramportamoving either by land or water, of clothing, camp and garrison equipagc, °‘°°‘ from the depots of Philadelphia, Cincinnati, and New York to the several posts and army depots, and from those depots to the troops in the field, and of subsistence stores 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 the founderies and armories to the arsenals, fortifications, frontier posts, and army depots; freights, wharfage, tolls, and ferriages; the purchase and hire of horses,. mules, oxen, and harness, and the purchase and repair of wagons, carts and drays, and of ships and other sea-going 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 trans- P¤l>li¤ ¢¤¤¤¤- ports on the various rivers, the Gulf of Mexico, and the Atlantic and P°m' Pacific; for procuring water at such posts as from their situation require Water. it to be brought from a distance; and for clearing roads and removing _ Obstructions obstructions from roads, harbors, and rivers to the extent which may ;';;°£"g:•b;*r:°'% be required for the actual operations of the troops in the field, five million ' dollars. For hire or commutation of quarters for olhcers on military duty; Hg; °*` °t$”¤a hire of quarters for troops, of storehouses for the safe-keeping of mil- m;,m;?§¤u_ itary stores, and of grounds for summer cantonments; for the construc- do. VOL. xv. Pun.- 5
