32 FORTYSIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. OH. 35. 1879. tween 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 three hundred 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 lo distant posts in advance of the thirtieth of June, anno _ Stores sold to om- Domini eighteen hundred and seventy-nine: 1’romSded, That to the cost °”"» °‘°- of all stores and other articles sold to officers and men, except tobacco, R. S., 1149. as provided for in section one thousand one hundred and forty-nine of the Revised Statutes, ten per ccntum shall be added to cover wastage, transportation, and other incidental charges. _ RBglll{lI‘Sll]T])ll(\S, Qoaizricmiasrinivs Dnrnucmsmnr.-For the regular supplies of the Q¤=¤¤'¤‘¤‘¤¤=¤S’¤<>1"¤ Quartcrinastens Department, consisting of stoves for heating and cook D°i""°’“"“*· ing; of fuel for officers, enlisted men, guards, hospitals, storehouses, and offices; of forage in kind for the horses, mules, and oxen of the Quartermastens 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, certificates for discharged soldiers, blank forms for the Pay and Quartermaster’s Departments, and for printing of division and department orders and reports, three million six hundred thousand dollars. Imiitlcntal cx- For incidental expenses, to wit: For postage and telcgrams or disl*°¤*;<>*:_, Q6*=**`*<*;f· patches; extra pay to soldiers employed under the direction of the rf;";; “ °]"" l` Quarterniastens Departmentin 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 ser~ geants; 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 officers killed in action, or who die when on duty in the field, or at posts on the frontiers, or when traveling on orders, and of noncominissioned officers and soldiers; authorized ofnce furniture; hire of laborers in the Quartermastens Department, including the hire of interpreters, spies, and guides for the Army; compensation of clerks to officers of the Quartermasteiis Department; compensation of forage 3838, ch.r1G2, and wagon masters authorized by the act of July fifth, eighteen hundred ·’ S*#”**·»1—>°’· and thirty-eight; for the apprehension, securing, and delivering of desertcrs, and the expenses incident to their pursuit; and for the follow ing expenditures, required for the several regiments of cavalry, the batteries of light artillery, and such companies of infantry and scouts as may be mounted, and for the trains, to wit: hire of veterinary surgeons, medicine for horses and mules, picket-ropes, and for shoeing the horses and mules; also, generally, the proper and authorized expenses for the movement and operations of the Army not expressly assigned to any other department, one million dollars. Horses. For purchase of horses for the cavalry and artillery, and for the Epgiap séxmtg, and for such infantry as may be mounted, two hundred us n r dollars. Transportation. For transportation of the Army, including baggage of the troops, when moving either by land or water ; of clothing and camp and garrison equipage from the depots of Philadelphia and Jeffersonville to the several posts and Army depots, and from those depots to the troops in the field; of horse equipments 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 ord-
