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FORTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 115. 1871. 519 For preparation of the post-otiice directory for eighteen hundred and Post-otiiee seventy, twelve hundred dollars. *11"°°*°"Y· And so much of the first section of the act approved July twelve, Correction of eighteen hundred and seventy, as states the total sum of the appropria- §§?,0 h 246 1 tions, for compensation of the Postmaster-General, assistants, superin- A¤l;,p.2·i<·i. i tendents, chiefs of division, chief clerks, clerks, messengers, assistants, folders, firemen, watchmen, and laborers, is hereby connected [corrected], and, in lieu of the sum there stated, declared to be three hundred and fifty-four thousand eight hundred dollars, which is the true total sum of the specific appropriations for the above-recited purposes, more fully set forth in said act, and shall be so construed. To supply deficiencies in the revenue of the Post-Oiiice Department Deficiency for for the fiscal year ending June thirty, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, ·1”·¤° 3°• 1871- payable out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, four million six hundred and eighty-five thousand and thirty-two dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary: Provided, That no part of the No part to money hereby appropriated shall be applied to the payment of what is PW YM C}"?" known as the Chorpenning claim. p°}:;2g; was DEPARTMENT. Wpr Depart- HICD . For the purchase of horses for the cavalry and artillery and Indian Horses. scouts, two hundred thousand dollars. For the purchase and manufacture of clothing for the army, and for Clothing. camp and garrison cquipage, two hundred thousand dollars. For contingencies of the army, to enable the Secretary of the Treas- Settlementpf ury to settle the accounts of disbursing officers for expenditures already ;‘)‘;i;;“°f)gc‘;g lawfully made, a transfer of other balances on the books of the treasury g ` to this account is hereby authorized to the amount of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. To pay tees of attorneys at law employed by the War Department; bees ottawexpenses of suits incurred previous to act of June twenty-two, eighteen Y°“· **11*1 °¥‘ . . penses of suits hundred and seventy, creating Department of Justice; the costs and ,,,,,,,,0 8,,, Og charges of State penitentiaries; the care and maintenance of United 1870,¤h·150- States military convicts confined in them; the pay of detectives and "i"“·p‘ m2' scouts; and for compensation of provost marshals employed by the Seeretary of War in eighteen hundred and sixty-two, the appropriation for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and sixty-nine and eighteen hundred and seventy having been exhausted, twenty-five thousand dollars. For the purchase of medical and hospital supplies, pay of private Mtgdicaland physicians employed in emergencies, hire of hospital attendants, expense €g;Q"g1ci“p' of purveying depots, of medical examining boards, and other incidental ’ expenses of the medical department, one hundred thousand dollars. To pay the costs and charges of State penitentiaries for the care, _S}¤¤} p¢¤i_§9¤- clothingQ maintenance, and medical attendance, and like necessaries of United States military convicts confined therein, thirty thousand dollars. For repairing and putting new roof on the cadet quarters at West Cadet quar- Point, recently destroyed by fire, forty thousand dollars, or so much gfginf Wcsi thereof as may be necessary. Pa_ymaster· General`.; Department.——Pay of the army: For pay to offi- Payrnagercers, nine hundred and eight thousand three hundred and thirty-three °' dollars and thirty-three cents. Pay of army. Mileage: For allowance paid to officers of the army while travelling Mileage. on duty without troops, two hundred thousand dollars. Clothing to discharged soldiers: For payment to discharged soldiers Clothing. for clothing not drawn, nine hundred and nine thousand four hundred and eighty-three dollars and twenty cents. Quartermaster- Generals Department.- For extra pay to soldiers em- t Quarterrpas- . . l · er-generals nloyed under the direction of the quartermasters department in the depmmclm