FOBTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. OH. 79. 1881. . 341 pay to enlisted men for service in hospitals; pay of fifty-four paymas— ters’ 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; and for commutation of quarters for officers on duty without troops at places where there are no public quarters, live hundred and forty-seven thousand one hundred and ninety-eight dollars and forty-five cents: Provided, That the Prwiso. allowance for commutation of quarters to the Lieutenant-General of the Army shall be one hundred dollars per month. Sunsiscrnnon DEPARTh[ENT.—FOP subsistence of twenty-five thou- Subsistence. sand enlisted men, one hundred and twenty additional half-rations for sergeants and corporals of ordnance, enlisted men of the Signal Service, women to companies (laundresses), two thousand and sixty/tive civilian employees, one hundred and twenty-five contract-surgeons two hundred hospital-matrons, seventy-five military convicts, and five hundred prisoners of war (Indians), in all ten million six hundred and sixty-eight thousand two hundred and twenty rations, at twenty cents each; for Ramona, dilference 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 manual for Army cooks; for subsistence stores for Indians visiting tary posts, and Indians employed without pay as scouts and guides, two million two hundred and fifty 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-one : Provided, That to the cost of all stores and other articles sold Promo. to officers and men, except tobacco, as provided for in section eleven hun- R. S. i149. dred and forty-nine of the Revised Statutes, ten per centum shall be added to cover wastage, transportation, and other incidental charges, save that subsistence supplies may be sold to companies, detachments, and hospitals at cost prices, not including cost of transportation, upon the certiiicate of an officer 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 hospital: And provided further, That P"°"“°· the cost price of each a.rticle shall be understood in all cases of sales to COS? _PFi¤¤» how be the invoice price of the last lot of that article received by the officer d°"”`"‘"“°d‘ by whom the sale is made. Quanrnmzmsrnws DEPABTMENT.—FOI the regular supplies of Q¤¤¢’¤¤rmw¤1’¤ the Quartermasteids Department, consisting of stoves for beating and '°§;;‘,;““PPh“· cooking; of fuel and lights for officers, enlisted men, guards, hospitals, ` storehouses, and offices; of forage in kind for the horses, mules, and oxen of the Quartermasteris 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 Quartermaster’s Department, certilicates for discharged soldiers, blank forms for the Pay and Quartermaster’s Departments, and for printing of division and department orders and reports, three million five hundred thousand dollars: Provided, Prrwisc That there shall be no discrimination in the issue of forage against officers serving east of the Mississippi River, provided they are required by law to be mounted, and actually keep and own their animals. _ For incidental expenses, to wit: For postage and telegrams or dis- I“‘;;d°”*“] °*' patches; extra pay to soldiers employed under the direction of the p°Qz,,,S_ Quartermastefs 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
