FIFTY-THIRD CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 83. 1895. 659 quarters, including recruiting stations; of ranges and stoves, and appliances for cooking and serving food; of fuel and lights for enlisted men, including recruits, guards, hospitals, storehouses, and offices, and for sale to officers; for post bal.eries; for the~necessary furniture, textbooks, paper, and equipments for the post schools and libraries; for the tableware and mess furniture for kitchens and mess halls, each and all for the enlisted men, including recruits; of forage in kind for the Fvreseew horses, mules, and oxen of the Quartermastefs Department at the several posts and stations and with the armies in the iield, including its care and protection, and 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 oiHcers’ horses, including bedding for the animals; of straw for soldiers’ bedding, and of stationery, including blank books for the Qnartermaster’s Department; certificates for discharged soldiers, blank forms for the Pay and Quartermastefs Department, and for printing department orders and reports, two million three hundred thousand dollars: Pro- Amount. vided, That hereafter no part of the appropriations for the Quarter- Previous. master’s Department shall be expended on printing unless the same P"‘““"g· shall be done by contract, after due notice and competition, except in such cases as the emergency will not admit of the giving notice for competition: Provided further, That after advertisementallthesupplies rumimm. for the use of the various departments and posts of the Army and of all branches of the Army service shall, hereafter, be purchased where the same can be purchased the cheapest, quality, cost of transportation, and the interests of the Government considered, except that purchases may be made in open market, in the manner common among business 1¤¤1>¤¤m¤k¤r~ men, when the aggregate amount required does not exceed two hundred dollars, but every such purchase shall be immediately reported to the Secretary of War. Incidental expenses: Postage; cost of telegrams on official business I¤°***°¤**l°¤P¤¤¤¤•· received and sent by ohicers of the Army; extra pay to soldiers employed on extra duty, under the direction of the Quartermastefs Department, in the erection of barracks, quarters, and storehouses, in the construction of roads and other constant labor for periods of not less than ten days, and as clerks for post quartermasters at military posts; for expenses of expresses to and from the frontier posts and armies in the field, of escorts to paymasters and other disbursing oiii- · cers, and to trains where military escorts can not be furnished; expenses of the interment of officers killed in action or who die when on duty in the held, or at military posts or on the frontiers, or when traveling under orders, and of noncommissioned officers and soldiers; authorized ottice furniture; hire of laborers in the Qnartermasteus Department, including the hire of interpreters, spies, or guides for the Army; compensation of clerks and other employees to the officers of the Quartermaster’s Department, and incidental expenses of recruiting; for the apprehension, securing, and delivering of deserters, and the expenses incident to their pursuit, and no greater sum than ten dollars for each deserter shall be paid to any officer or citizen for such services and expenses; and for the following expenditures required for the several regiments of cavalry, the batteries of light artillery, and such companies of infantry and scouts-as may be mounted, the authorized number of officers’ horses, and for the trains, to wit, hire of veterinary surgeons, purchase of medicines for horses and mules, picket ropes, blacksmith’s tools and materials, horseshoes and blacksmith’s tools for the cavalry service, and for the shoeing of horses and mules, and such additional expenditures as are necessary and authorized by law in the movements and operation of the Army, and at military posts, and not expressly assigned to any other department six hundred thousand A“‘°“"'· dollars: Provided, That two hundred thousand dollars of the appro- !E’;*;;;{*:my psy priation for incidental expenses, or so much thereof as shall be necessary. shall be set aside for the payment of enlisted men on extra duty
