SIXTY-THIRD CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 72. 1914. 363 for bakers and cooks, and instructor cooks at the schools for bakers and cooks; for expenses of expresses to and from frontier posts and armies in the field, of escorts to officers or agents of the Quartcrmaster Corps and to trains where military escorts can not be furnished; authorized office furniture; authorize issues of towels; hire of laborers in the Quartermaster Corps, includinélfhe care of oH·icers’ mounts when the same are furnished by the vernment, and the hire of interpreters, spies, or guides for the Army; compensation of clerks and other employees to the officers of the Quartermaster Corps, and clerks, foremen, watchmen, and organist for the United States military prison, and incidental expenses of recruitin ; for the apprehension, securing, and delivering of deserters, including escaped military prisoners, and the expenses mcident to their plursrut, an no greater sum $50 for eac deserter or escappd mi `tary prisoner s all, in the discretion of the Secretary of War, e paid to any civil officer or citizen for such services and expenses; for a donation of $5 to each dishonorably discharged prisoner upon his release from confinement, rmder court-martial sentence, involving dishonorable discharge; for the following expenditures required for the several regiments of H°”° °‘*’°“‘m“‘°“· Cavalry, the batteries of Field Artillery, and such companies of Infantry and scouts as may be mormted, the authorized number of officers’ horses and for the trains, to wit: Hire of veterinary surgeons, purchase of medicines for horses and mules, lpicket ropes, lacksmith’s tools and materials, horsoshoes and b acksmiths tools for the Cavalry service, and for the shoeing of horses and mules; chests and issue outfits; and such additional expenditures as are necessary and authorized by law in the movements and operations of the Army, and at military posts, and not expressly assigned to any other degartment, $1,833,127. onsns Fon Cavnnrrr, Anrmnnnr, Erxomnnns, Aim so Fonrn: §,yg,;•g” M For the purchase of horses of ages, sex, and size as may be ’ by the Secretary of War, for remounts, for officers entitle to public · mounts, for the Cavalry Artillery, Signal Corps, and Engineers, the United States Military Academy, service schools, and staff colleges, and for the Indian scouts, and for such Infantry and members of the Hospital Corps in field campaigns as may be required to be mounted, and the ex enses incident thereto, an for the hire of employees: Provided, 'llxat the number of horses plurchased under this appro- Qgggim priation, added to the number now on and, shall be limited to the actual needs of the mounted service, including reasonable provisions for remounts, and, unless otherwise ordered by the Secretary of War, no part of this appropriation shall be (paid out for horses not purchased by contract a ter competition uly invited by the Quartermaster Corps and an inspppltion under the direction and authority of O mnt the Secretaryi of War. en practicable, horses shall be purchased .~;,,,,°.§"m pl"` in open mar et at all military posts or stations, when needed, at a maxunum price to be fixed by the Secretary of War: Prmnkled St rd further, That no art of this appropriation shall be expended for the mm “°q°k°d' purchase of any horses below the standard set by Army Regulations or Cavalry an_ Artillery horses, except when purchased as remounts or for mstruction of ca ets at the United States Military Academy: M _ Ami prcmded further, That no part of this appropriation shall o °p°m°S` expended for_polo ponies except for West Point Military Academy, and such ponies shall not be used at any other place, $565,28§, and the sum of $200,000 of this appropriation is made immedrately available: Avid further, 'Fhat hereafter no part of this or ,h;°;§,'§j‘}§,,”f‘}°,§‘,§.,‘,§,‘j,'_§‘f any other appropriation shall be expended for defraying expenses of officers, enlisted men, or horses in attending or taking Hart in horse shows or horse races; but nothing in this proviso sha. be held to apply to the officers, enhsted men, and horses of any troop, battery,
