358 FORTY-EIGHTH ooseunss. snss. 11. cn. 329. 1885. surgeons; hire of paymasters’ messengers, not to exceed fifteen thousand dollars; eighty post quartermater-sergeauts · cost of telegrams on oiheial business received and sent by officers of the Army; compensation of citizen clerks and witnesses attending upon courts-martial, m11- itary commissions, and courts of inquiry; for reimbursement of travelling expenses of paymasters’ clerks actually paid by them; and for commutation of quarters to commissioned officers_ on duty without troops at places where there are no public quarters; rn all, twelve million two hundred and five thousand dollars. gunman., Sonsrsrnnon or mm Aman.-For rations for twenty-ilve thousand enlisted men, one thousand civil employees, seventy-tive contract surgeons, one hundred and sixty hospital-matrons, two hundred and seventy-five military convicts, seven hundred and fifty pr1soner·s_of war (including such Indian prisoners as are captured but whose subsistence is not otherwise appropriated for by Congress), and for additional halti rations for one hundred and twenty sergeants and corporals of ordnance, a total of not exceeding nine million nine hundred and seventy-one thousand eight hundred rations, estimated at twenty cents each; for difference between the cost of the ration and commutation thereof, at rates prescribed by the Secretary of War, for the following enlisted men, namely: Those detailed for clerical and messenger duty at headquarters of the Army, and at headquarters of divisions, departments, districts, and general recruiting service, and for various duties at military posts and stations, those travelling on detached duty where it is impracticable to carry cooked or travel rations, and those ordered to participate in department, division, and Army ride competition; for diiferelhce ·between the cost of the ration and the cost of cooked rations for enlisted men and recruits at recruiting stations; cost in excess of ordinary rations of hot coffee and canned food, or travel—rations, for troops travelling, when it is impracticable to cook rations; for subsistence of Indians visiting military posts and of Indians employed without pay as guides and scouts; in all, one million eight hundred thousand Amount •v•il· dollars - of which amount three hundred thousand dollars shall be •}’l:°£°¤ P¤•¤·8° 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-five. And not more than one hundred and five thousand dollars of the money appropriated by this paragraph shall be applied to the payment of civilian employees in the Subsistence Department of the Armv. · qua-mmasters Qnsm·nmusrnn’s DEPABTIJBNT.—FOX the regular supplies of the ¤¤PPH¤¤- Quartermaster’s Department, consisting of stoves and heating apparatus, and repair and maintenance of the same, for heating barracks and quarters; of ranges and stoves for cooking; of fuel and lights for enlisted men, guards, hospitals, storehonses, and offices, and for sale to onicers; of forage in kind for the horses, mules, and oxen of the Quarterma.ster's Department at the several posts and stations and with the armies in the held, including its care and protection; for the horses of the several regiments of cavalry, the batteries of artillery, and such companies of infantry and scouts as may be mounted, and for the authorized number of oHl¤ers’ 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 Quartermastefs Departments and for printing of division and department orders and reports, two million seven hundred and seventy-one thousand dollars. Pureh s s e or For purchase of horses for the cavalry and artillery, and forthe Indian h¤¤¤•» ¤*¤· scouts, and for such infantry as may be mounted, one hundred and eighty thousand dollars: Provided, That the number of horses pur- Pndn. chased under this appropriation added to the number actually on hand shall not at any time exceed the number of enlisted men and Indian scouts in the mounted service.
