98 FORTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 226. 1876. officers under the title of “Pay, &c. of the Army,.eighteen hundred and seven ty-seven,” sodthat the total amount appropriated for that purpose V shall not be excee ed. subsisronoo. SUBSISTENCE DEPABTMENT1—FOP subsistence of regular troops, Indian scouts, and Indian prisoners, two million two hundred thousand dollars. — Rogulwrsupplics, QUARTEBMASTEBKS DEPARTMENT :-—For the regular supplies of the Q“°·"°°’ '¤"»**°*"¤ Quartermaster’s Department, consisting of stoves for heating and cook. D°P”°”°”t‘ ing; of fuel for officers, enlisted men, guards, hospitals, storehouses, and ‘ offices; of forage inkind for the horses, mules, and oxen of the Quartermastcr’s Department at the several posts and stations and with the armies in the field; for the horses of the several regiments of cavalry, the batteries of artillery, and such companies of infantry and scouts as may be mounted, and for the authorized number of offlcers’ horses, including bedding for the animals; of straw for soldiers’ bedding; and of stationery, including blank-books for the Quartermastens Department, certificates for discharged soldiers, blank forms for the Pay and Quartermaster’s Departments, and for printing of division and department grders and reports, three million even hundred and fifty thousand ollars. ` 1¤¤¤id<>¤¤w1 ex- For incidental expenses, to wit: For postage and telegrams or dis-
Qgggjggj patches; extra pay to soldiers employed under the direction of the f
,,,L,,,_ 1 Quartermastens Department, in the erection of barracks, quarters, storehouses, aud hospitals, in the construction of roads, and other constant labor, for periods of not less than ten days, under the acts of March ,8,9, ch ,,5 second, eighteen hundred and nineteen, and August fourth, eighteen 3 Sth, gggf hundred and fifty-four, including tho e employed as clerks at division ' and department headquarters; expenses of expresses to and from the frontier-posts and armies in the field; of escorts to paymasters and other disbursing officers, and to trains where military escorts cannot be 18,,;,, c],_o47, furnished; expenses of the interment of officers killed in action, or who .10 Stat., 576. die when on duty in the field, or at posts on the frontiers, or when ' travelling on orders, and of non-commissioned officers and soldiers; authorized oiitlce furniture; hire of laborers in the Quartermastgews Department, including the hire of interpreters, spies, and guides lor the R- S··1287·¥’·222· Army; compensation of clerks to officers of the Quartermastevs Department; compensation of forage and wagon-masters authorized by the act ” 1838, 0h_ 162 of July fifth, eighteen hundred and thirtyeigbt; for the apprehension '· 5 sqm., 257., of deserters, and the expense incident to their pursuit; and for the fol- y lowing expenditures required for the several regiments of cavalry, the batteries of light artillery, and`such companies of infantry and scouts < as may be mounted, to wit : hire of veterinary surgeons, medicine for the horses, and mules, picket-ropes, and for shoeing the horses of the corps named; also, generally, the proper and authorized expenses for the movement and operations of the Army not expressly assigned to any . other department, eight hundred and fifty thousand dollars. `Horses. For purchase of horses for the cavalry and artillery, and for the Indian scouts, and for such infantry as may be mounted, two hundred and g p,,,v;,,,_ fifty thousand dollars: Provided, That cavalry regiments may be recruited to one hundred men in each company, and kept as near as practicable at that number; and a sufficient force of cavalry shall be employed in the defense of the Mexican and Indian frontier of Texas: . Pmvism Provided That such assignment of recruits shall not increase the total aggregate of the Army beyond the number of twenty-five thousand enlisted men, as provided in this act. Transportation. For transportation of the Army, including baggage of the troops, when moving either by land or water; of clothing and camp and gar- * rison equipage from the depots of Philadelphia and Jeffersonville to the several posts and Army depots, and from those depots to the troops in the field; of horse equipments and of subsistence-stores 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
