FIFTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 59. 1896. 65 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 advertisement, all the sup- P¤r¤1¤¤¤¤¤· plies for the use of the various departments and posts of the Army and of the branches of the army service shall hereafter be purchased where the same can be purchased the cheapest, quality and cost ot transportation and the interest of the Government considered, except that purchases may be made in open market, in the manner common among business men, when the aggregate amount required does not exceed two hundred dollars, but every such purchase shall be immediately reported to the Secretary of Wai·. INCIDENTAL EXPENSES: Postage; cost of telegrams on official busi- I¤°i**°¤*°l°*P°¤¤°¤· ness received and sent by officers of the Army; extra pay to soldiers employed on extra duty, under the direction of the Quartermaster’s 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, and for prison overseers at posts, designated by the War Department, for the confinement of general prisoners; for expenses of expresses to and from frontier posts and armies in the field, of escorts to pay- masters and other disbursing officers, 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 iield, or at military posts, or on the frontiers, or when traveling under orders, and of noncommissioned officers and soldiers; authorized office furniture; hire of laborers in the Quartermastefs Department, including the hire of interpreters, spies, or guides for the Army; compensation of clerks and other employees to the officers of the Quartermastens 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 otiicer or citizen for such services and expenses; for a donation of tive dollars to each dishonorably discharged prisoner upon his release from confinement, under courtmartial sentence involving dishonorable discharge; 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, blacksmiths’ tools and materials, horseshoes and blacksmithsf 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 Amount assigned to any other department, six hundred thousand dollars: Pro- mma.` vided, That two hundred thousand dollars of the appropriation for inci- E""“ d“‘Y P°Y· dental expenses, or so much thereof as shall be necessary, shall be set aside for the payment of enlisted men on extra duty at constant labor of not less than ten days in the Quartermaster’s Department; but no such payment shall be made at any greater rate per day than is fixed by law for the class of persons employed at the work done therein. For the purchase of horses for the cavalry and artillery, and for the P‘"°*’“° °‘ *’°”°°· Indian scouts, and for such infantry and members of the hospital corps in field campaigns as may be required to be mounted, and the expenses ‘P _ incident thereto, one hundred and thirty thousand dollars: Provided, Lf,':,?}'?"' That the number of horses purchased under this appropriation, added to the number on hand, shall not at any time exceed the number of enlisted men and Indian scouts in the mounted service, and that no part of this appropriation shall be paid out for horses not purchased by contract after competition duly invited by the Quartermaster’s Department and an inspection by sucl%l)epartment, all under the direction and authorit of the Secretar of ar. . Tnxngronrxrrou or inn ARMY Arm ITS surrrmsz Transporta- T'°““’°"“°‘°"‘ tion of the Army, including baggage of the troops when moving either srxr L-vor. 29-:3
