FORTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. GH. 81. 1880. 1]] For miscellaneous expenses, to wit: Hire of one hundred and twenty- Miscellaneous. live contract surgeons and two hundred hospital-matrons; extra-duty pay to enlisted men for service inhospitals; pay of fifty-four paymasters’ clerks and fourteen veterinary surgeons; hire of paymasters’ messengers, not to exceed fifteen thousand dollars; cost of telegrams on official business received and sent by officers of the Army; compensation of citizen clerks and witnesses attending upon military courts and commissions; travel expenses of »paymasters’ clerks; commutation of quarters il >r officers on duty without troops at places where there are no public quarters; and for the payment of any such officers as may bein service, either upon the active or retired list, during the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-one, in excess of the numbers for each class provided for in this act, five hundred and nfty-one thousand one hundred and ninety-eight dollars and forty-five cents. Sunsrsrnnor:. DEPARTMENT. For subsistence of twenty-five thousand gubm4~,m,,,_ enlisted men, one hundred and twenty additional halfrations for sergcants and corporals of ordnance, enlisted men of the Signal Service, women to companies (laundresses), one thousand eight hundred and seventy-five civilian employees, one hundred and twenty-tive contractsurgeons, two hundred hospital-matrons, one hundred and ten military convicts, and five hundred prisoners of war (Indians), in all ten million seven hundred and fifty-five thousand eight hundred and twenty rations, Ratiom. at twenty cents each; for difference between cost of rations and commutation thereof for detailed men, and for enlisted men and recruits at recruiting stations, and for cost of hot coffee and cooked rations for troops traveling on cars; for subsistence stores for Indians visiting military posts, and Indians employed without pay as scouts, and guides, two million two hundred and nfty thousand dollars; of which amount three hundred thousand dollars shall be available from and after the passage of this act for the purchase of stores necessary to be transported to distant posts in advance of the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and eighty: Provided, That to the cost of all stores and other p,,,,,;,,,,_ articles sold to officers and men, except tobacco, as provided for in section one thousand one hundred and forty-nine of the Revised Statutes, R_S_1149, fen per centum shall be added to cover wastage, transportation, and Amended. other incidental charges, save that subsistence supplies may be sold to companies, dctachments, and hospitals at cost prices, not including cost of transportation, upon the certificate of an ofncer commanding a company or detachment, or in charge of a hospital, that the supplies are necessary for the exclusive use of such company, detachment, or hosital. P Qcnnrnnmnsrnivs DEPARTMENT.—FOP the regular supplies of the Quartermastefs Quartermastcfs Department, consisting of stoves for heating and cook— regular ¤¤1>1>li¢¤- ing; of fuel for officers, enlisted men, guards, hospitals, storehouses, and I*’°m“· offices; of forage in kind for the horses, mules, and oxen of the Quartermaster’s Department at the several posts and stations, and with the armies in the field; for the horses of the several regiments of cavalry, the batteries of artillery, mounted men of the Signal Service, and such companies of infantry and scouts as may be mounted, and for the authorized number of officers’ horses, including bedding for the animals; of straw for soldiers’ bedding; and of stationery, including blank books for the Quartermastens Department, certificates for discharged soldiers, blank forms for the Pay and Quarterm aster’s Departments, and for printing of division and department orders and reports, three million six hundred thousand dollars. _ For incidental expenses, to wit: For postage and telegrams or dis- Incidental expatches; extra pay to soldiers employed under the direction of the Quarter- 90;,%**5- master’s Department in the erection of barracks, quarters, storehouses, "'“‘ and hospitals, in the construction of roads, and other constant labor, for periods of not less than ten days, including those employed as clerks at division and department headquarters and Signal Service sergeants ; expenses of expresses to and fromthe frontier posts and armies in the
