THIRTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 25. 1858. 267 third December, eighteen hundred and fifty-seven, three thousand nine hundred and thirteen dollars. For folding documents, including pay of folders, wrapping paper, twine, and paste, twenty thousand dollars. For fumiture for speakers room, and committee rooms, elerk’s offices, sergeant-at-ar·ms’ office, door-keeper’s room, and carpenters work, thirty thousand dollars. For newspapers, three thousand dollars. _ For laborers, by resolution of the House of Representatives, twenty- third December, eighteen hundred and fifty-seven, two thousand dollars. For stationery, four thousand dollars. For horses, carriages, and saddle horses, one thousand five hundred dollars. To enable John C. Rives to pay to the reporters of the House for report- Reporters of ing the debates of the present session of congress, the usual additional H°“S°· compensation of eight hundred dollars each, four thousand dollars. Armg.—For the regular supplies of the quartermaster’s department, qum·mm¤,sm·s consisting of fuel for the officers, enlisted men, guard, hospitals, store- D°P*’*miP*’ ’°§· houses, and offices ; forage in kind for the horses, mules, and oxen of the um Supp ws' quartermasters 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 riilemen, 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, certineates 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, seven hundred and seventy-eight thousand dollars. For the purchase of horses for the two regiments of dragoons, the two Purchase or regiments of cavalry, the regiment of mounted rifiemen, the companies IMS69- of light artillery, and such infantry as it may be found necessary to mount at the frontier posts, two hundred and fifty-two thousand dollars. For the incidental expenses of the quartermaster’s department, consist- Incidental exing of postage on letters and packages received and sent by officers of the P°”$°¤- army on public service; expenses of courts-martial and courts of inquiry, including the additional compensation to judge advocates, recorders, members, and witnesses, while on that service, under the act of March sixteenth, eighteen hundred and two; extra pay to soldiers employed under 1802, ch. 9, §§ the direction of the quarterma.ster’s department, in the erection of bar- 2h,?},, 136 racks, quarters, storehouses, and hospitals; the construction of roads, and` p` ' other constant labor, for periods of not less than ten days, under the acts of March second, eighteen hundred and nineteen, and August fourth, 1819 ch 45 eighteen hundred and fifty-four, including those employed as clerks at VOL ;i;_,§_4§g_ division and department head-quarters; expenses of expresses to and 1854i ¤l1·2·1’7»§6· from the frontier posts and armies in the field; of escorts to paygnasters, V°x' p` M6' other disbursing officers, and trains, when military escorts cannot be furnished; expenses of the interment of non-commissioned officers and soldiers; authorized ofiiee furniture; hire of laborers in the quartermaster’s department, including hire of interpreters, spies, and guides, for the army; compensation of clerk[s] to officers of the quartermastefs department; compensation of forage and wagon masters, authorized by the act of July fifth, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight; for the apprehension of 1888, ,,,,_ 162, deserters, and the expenses incident to their pursuit; the following expen- § 10. ditures required for the two regiments of dragoons, the two regiments of V°]· "· P" 257* cavalry, the regiment of mounted riilemen, and such companies of infantry as may be mounted, viz: the purchase of travelling forges, blacksmiths’ and shoeing tools, horse and mule shoes and nails, iron and steel for shoeing, hire of veterinary surgeons, medicines for horses and mules, picket
