138 FORTY-THIRD CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 388. 1874. Cenetrneti e n e f struction of roads and other constant labor, for periods of not less than ’°“d°· &°· ten days, including those employed as clerks at division and department Expenses headquarters, and hospital stewards on clerical duty; expenses of ex- E¤°°’“· presses to and from the frontier posts and armies in the field; of escorts topaymasters and other disbursing officers, and trams, where mili- Intermente tary escorts cannot be furnished; expenses of the interment of officers killed in action, or who die when on duty in the field or at posts on the frontier or other places, when ordered by the Secretary of War, and of Omce furniture- non-commissioned officers and soldiers; authorized office furniture; P°’“°“° mma- hire of labor in the Quartermaster’s Department, including the hire of interpreters, spies, and guides for the Army; compensation of clerks ibr oiilcers of the Quartermastens Department; compensation of forage and wagon masters; for the apprehension, securing, and delivering of D°¤°**°”· deserters, and the expenses incident to their pursuit; and for the following expenditures, required for the several regiments of cavalry, the batteries of light artillery, and such companies of infantry and scouts Traveling ferges, as may be mounted, namely: the purchase of traveling forges, black- &°· smiths’ and shoeing tools, horse and mule shoes and nails, iron and steel Veterinary s u r · for shoein g ; hire of veterinary surgeons ; medicine for horses and mules ; €°°¤¤» &°· picket ropes ;· and for shoeing the horses of the corps named; also G¢¤°*`**l °XP°¤°°”· generally, the proper and authorized expenses for the movement and operations of the Army not expressly assigned to any other department, being a deficiency for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen , hundred and seventy-three, two hundred thousand dollars. T"‘““P°’°“*"°“‘ For transportation of the Army, including the baggage of the troops, when moving either by land or water; of clothing and camp and garrison equipage, from the depots at Philadelphia and J eftcrsonville to the several posts and Army depots, and from these depots to the troops in the field ; of horse-equipments and of subsistencestores from the places of purchase and from the places of delivery, under contract, to such places as the circumstances of the service may require them to be sent; of ordnance, ordnance-stores, and small-arms, from the founderies and armories to the arsenals, fortifications, frontier-posts, and Army-depots; freights, wharfage, tolls and ferriages; the purchase and hire of horses, mules, oxen, and harness, and the purchase and repair of wagons, carts, and drays, and of ships and other sea-going vessels, and of boats required for the transportation of supplies and for garrison-purpose ; for dray- age and cartage at the several posts; hire of teamsters; transportation _ of funds for the Pay and other disbursing Departments · the expense of P¤l•l¤¤*¤¤¤¤P°**·¤- sailing public transports on various rivers, the Gulf of li/Iexico, the At- Procuring water. lnntic, and the Pacific; for procuring water at such posts as from their _ situation require that it be brought from a distance; and for clearing &£Jlen¤nr; ¤‘<>¤d¤» roads, and for removing obstructions from roads, harbors and rivers, to · the extent which may be required for the actual operations of troops in the field, being a deficiency for fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eight- _ een hundred and seventy-three, not including Pacific railroad accounts, Ne vw *0 b9,P¤;¤g one hundred and eventy-nve thousand dollars: Provided, That no part gg ”“‘ ’°" of the sum appropriated by any provision of this act shall be paid to any railroadcompany which has received a grant of land on the condition that its road should be a public highway for the transportation of tple property and troops of the United States free from toll or other c argc. q£:,;"· °k“ ““d Barracks and guarters: For rent or hire of quarters for troops, and ' for officers on military duty; of store-houses for safe-keeping of military stores; of offices; of grounds for camps and cantonments, and for temporary frontier-stations; for construction and repair of temporary huts, of stables and other military buildings at established posts, and for repairs of buildings occupied by the Army, being a deficiency for fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-three,`ninety _ _ thousand dollars. 8*8****1 “°"‘°“· Signal Office: For expenses of the observation and report of storms by telegraph and signals; for the manufacture, purchase, or renair of
