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'I`HIR'1`Y-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 106. 1857. 201 extra pay to non-commissioned officers, musicians, and privates on reenlistment, one hundred and ten thousand dollars. For pay of the army, three million five hundred and fifty thousand Pay. and two dollars. For commutation of officers’ subsistence, nine hundred and ninety-nine Commutatiou of thousand two hundred and one dollars. *“bSl“°”°°· For pay of onicers of the Military Academy, one thousand six hundred Military Acadand eighty dollars. em)" For commutation of subsistence of officers of the Military Academy, one thousand and twenty-two dollars. For commutation of forage for officers’ horses, one hundred and twenty- Commutatiou of three thousand nine hundred and thirty-six dollars. f°mS°· For payments to discharged soldiers for clothing not drawn, fifty thou- 01<>¤¤i¤g- sand dollars. For payments in lieu of clothing for o&icers’ servants, thirty-nine thousand eight hundred and sixty dollars. _ For subsistence in kind, one million nine hundred and eighty-nine thou- _$¤l>SiSt¤¤¢¢ i¤ sand eight hundred and thirty-four dollars. k'"d` For clothing for the army, camp, and garrison equipage, eight hundred Cl°thl“%> &°· and ninety-five thousand six hundred and seven dollars and seventy-three cents, and that hereafter all the accounts and vouchers of the disbursing mg§gg““tfi MW . an set— officers of the quartermaster’s department of the army shall be audited ned_ and settled by the third auditor of the treasury. For the regular supplies of the quartermaster’s department, consisting Q¤¤¤*¢¤¤¤$Wf'¤ of fuel for the officers, enlisted men, guard, hospitals, storehouses, and d€p°mu°"f offices; forage in kind for the horses, mules, and oxen of the quartermaster’s department at the several posts and stations, and with the armies in the field; for the horses of the two regiments of dragoons, the two regiments of cavalry, the regiment of mounted riflemen, the companies of light artillery, and such companies of infantry as may be mounted, and for the authorized number of officers’ horses when serving in the field and at the outposts ; of straw for soldiers’ bedding, and of stationery, including company and other blank books for the army, certificates for discharged soldiers, blank forms for the pay and quartermaster’s departments; and for the printing of division and department orders, army regulations, and reports, one million two hundred thousand dollars. For the incidental expenses of the quartermaster’s department, consisting of postage on letters and packages received and sent by officers of the army on public service ; expenses of courts-martial and courts of inquiry, including the additional compensation to judge advocates, recorders, 1802, ch.·9, members, and witnesses, while on that service, under the act of March ii ?]· 22* sixteenth, eighteen hundred and two ; extra pay to soldiers employed v°1' "‘ P' 13G" under the direction of the quartermaster’s department, in the erection of barracks, quarters, storehouses, and hospitals; the construction of roads and other constant labor, for periods of not less than ten days, under the acts of March second, eighteen hundred and nineteen, and August fourth, eighteen hundred and fifty-four, including those employed as clerks at `}§,1°z·H°h· 28 division and department headquarters ; expenses of expresses to and from 1854; chféijyy § g_ the frontier posts and armies in the Held ; of escorts to paymasters, other Vol. x. p. 576. disbursing officers and trains, when military escorts cannot be furnished; expenses of the interment of non-commissioned officers and soldiers ; authorized office furniture; hire of laborers in the quartermastefs department, including hire of interpreters, spies, and guides, for the army ; compensation of clerk to oflticers of the quartermaster’s department; compensation of forage and wagon-masters, authorized by the act of July fifth, 1838, ch_1G2`§m eighteen hundred and thirty-eight; for the apprehension of deserters, and Vol. v. p. 257. the expenses incident to their pursuit ; the following expenditures required for the two regiments of dragoons, the two regiments of cavalry, the regiment of mounted riflemen, and such companies of infantry as may vox,. xr. Pins.-26