FORTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 226. 1876. 99 sent; of ordnance, ordnance-stores, and small-arms from the founderies and armories to the arsenals, fortihcations, frontier posts, and Army depot ; 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 pur- _poses; 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 ; for procuring water at such posts as, from their situation, require it to be brought from a distance; and for clearing roads, and for removing obstructions from roads, harbors, and rivers, to the extent which may be required for the actual operations of the troops in the field, three million five hundred thousand dollars. For hire of quarters for officers on military duty, hire of quarters for Q¤¤·rf¤¤r¤- troops, of storehouses for the safe-keeping of military stores, of offices, and of grounds for camp and summer cantonments, and for temporary frontier stations; for the construction of temporary huts and stables; and for repairing public buildings at established posts, one million one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. _ For hire of quarters for officers on military duty, hire of quarters for Q“°·"’°"» d°6°’° troops; of store houses; for the safe keeping of military stores, offices, °“°y‘ and of grounds for camps and summer cantonments, and for temporary frontier stations; for the construction of temporary huts and stables; and for repairing public buildings at established posts, being a deficiency for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-one and prior years seventy-three thousand three hundred and forty-four dollars and eighty· _ two cents. For purchase of horses for the cavalry and artillery, and for Indian H<>r¤¤¤. deficiscouts, and for such infantry as may be mounted, being a deiiciency for °“°Y· the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-one and prior years; twentyeight thousand three hundred and ninety-seven dollars and nfty- eight cents. 1 For construction and repair of hospital, one hundred thousand dol- H08PM1S- ars. For purchase and manufacture of clothing and camp and garrison Clothingequipage, and for preserving and repacking stock of clothing and camp and garrison equipage and materials on hand at the Philadelphia, Jeffersonville and other depots of the Quartermastefs Department, four hundred thousand dollars. _ For the pay of seventy superintendents of national cemeteries, ’dfty· $¤P<*¤¤'*°¤<l°¤*¤ seven thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars. 1‘},ig’°““1 °°m°°°' For maintaining and improving national military cemeteries, one hun- Maintenance nn. ` dred and twenty-five thousand dollars: Provided, The Secretary of tional cemeteries. War shall provide for the care and maintainance of the National Mili· P*°"¤¤°· tary Cemeteries and for this purpose shall submit an estimate with his R. s. 4876, p. 951. annual estimates to Congress and Section four thousand eight hundred _ and seventy-six of the Revised Statutes is hereby repealed. _ For all contingent expenses of -the Army not provided for by other 0**1* t 1¤S°¤*» estimates, and embracing all branches of the military service, to be ex- Arm}" pended under the immediate orders of the Secretary of War, fifty thousand dollars. MEDICAL zomrsnriimnm. ‘ For purchase of medical and hospital supplies, medical care and treat- _M*>di°¤l *%*1*] h°¤· ment of officers and soldiers on detached duty, expenses of purveying- ¥“°“’1 ““PPh°“· depots, advertising, and other miscellaneous expenses of the Medical Department, one hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars. For the Army Medical Museum, and for medical and other works for Army M¤di<>¤l
the library of the Surgeon-General’s office, ten thousand dollars M““°“"‘·