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520 FORTY—FIR.ST CONGRESS Sess. III. Ch. 1].5. 1871. Extmgny to erection of barracks, quarters, storehouscs, and liospitals; in the construe; °°ldl°”» °· tion of roads and other constant labor for pounds of not less than tm days, including those employed as clerks as division and department Expmseu. headquarters; expenses of expresses to and from tho fi·0nt1ci· posts and Escorts. armies in the field; of escorts to paymustcrs and other disbursing officers, Interment of aud to trains where military escorts cannot be furnished ; expenses of me °m°°"# &"· interment of officers killed in action or who die when on duty in the field or at posts on aha frontier or other places where ordered by tho Secretary of War, and of non-commissioned officers and soldiers; authorized office furniture; hire of laborers in tho quartcrmastofs department, including $xi¤¤ wd the hire of interpreters, spies, and guides for the army; compensation m K'" °" clerks to officers of the quaz·tcrmaster’s department;‘compensation of Desmm- forage and wagon masters ; foigtho apprehension, securing, and delivery E¤P¤¤¤<·>¤<>f of doscrtcrs, and the expenses incident to their pursuit; and for the §°"°l'y fwd followinv expenditures required for the several regiments of cavalry, the ight artillery. ¤ _ . . batteries of light artillery, and such companies of infantry as may be mounted, namely, the purchase of travelling forges, blacksmi1h’s and shoeing tools, horse and mule shoes, and nails, iron, and steel for shocing, hire of veterinary surgeons, medicines for horses and mules, picket ropes, and for shoeing the horses of tho corps above ¤amod;'a.ls0, generally, the proper and authorized expenses for the movement and operations of the army not expressly assigned to any other department, three hundred and fifty thousand dollars. HM ¤fq¤¤·¤- F or hire of quarters for officers 0n military duty; hire of quarters for °°"' troops, of storehouses for the safe-keeping of· military stores, and of grounds for summer cantonments; construction of temporary huts, hospitals, and stables; and for repairing public buildings at established posts, three hundred thousand dollars. For tho contingent expenses of the oiicc of the quartermastor-general, two thousand fivc hundred dollars. ggnal olfico Signal offico. -- Observation and report of storms: For expenses of the nd x,:?;,: gz." manufacture, purchase, or repair of meteorological and other necessary storms. instruments; For mlcgruphing reports; for expenses of storm-signals announcing probable approach and force of storms; for instrument shelters; for hire and expense of officcs maintained for public use in cities or ports receiving reports; for maps, bulletins, to be displayed in chambers of commerce and board-ofitradc rooms; for books and stationery and for incidental expenses not otherwise provided for, twenty-nine No pm for thousand two hundred dollars_: Provided, That no part of this appro- °°r§t‘:_p::&§°° priation shall be expended for telcgraphing at greater rates than those 5pm_ sw. which ure or may be fixed by the Postmaster-General, in pursuance of the

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L adm 22L ECD un PC an sixt 'Slx• Qlhiof eiiigimer O/ziqfE’1zgineer of ge Army.—For annual repairs of the Pnesidenfs °r1§hr;'?5’:'5 ;s house, three thousand nine hundred and four dollars and eighty-four house. cents.

 For rcfurnishing the Presidenfs house, clcvcn thousand four hundred and

sixty-four dollars and cighpy-nine cents. Capitol police. To make up deficiency in appropriation for Capitol police for the fiscal your ending J uno thirty, eighteen hundred and seventy-ono, eleven thousand five hundred and forty-four dollars, as follows: For one captain, two hundred and eighty-eight dollars; for two licutenants, at three hundred dollars each, six hundred dollars; for twenty-iivo privatos for twelve months, at three hundred and oighty-four dollars each per annum, nine

 thousand and six hundred dollars; for three privates for eleven m0¤¢hS,

M8dn g mm ogfargo gong15G; Qand mghty-four dollars each pér annum, one thousand cas, an abnn- "` - §°§;%l“;:f:m 3u?'¢¢W» of Ffévdmvn, Rqfugecs, and Abandoned Lands. - For pay Of. cm md mdk mcdncol officers and attendants in Freedmexfs Hospital and Assylum, at cine. Waslxxngton, District of Columbia, five thousand dollars.