112 FOBTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. Il. GH. 81. 1880. field · of escorts to paymasters and other disbursing officers, and to trams whefe military escorts cannot be furnished; expenses of the mterment of officers killed in action, or who d1e when on duty in the field, or at posts on the frontiers, or when traveling on orders, and of non-co1um1s- sioncd officers and soldiers; authorized office furmture ; hire of laborers in the Quartermastens Department, including the hire of mterpreters, spies, and guides for the Army; compensation of clerks to officers of the Quartermastens Department; compensation of forage and wagon mas- 1838, ch. 162, ters authorized by the act oi July fifth, eighteen hundred and thirty- S¤¤l··. 16, 257- eight; for the apprehension, securing, and delivering of 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 as may be mounted, and for the trains, to wit: hire of veterinary surgeons, med1c1ne for horses and mules, picket-ropes and for shoeing the horses and mules also, generally, the proper and authorized expenses for the movemen and operations of the Army not expressly assigned to any other department, one million dollars. _ _ llorses and other For purchase of horses for the cavalry and artillery, and for the Indian
- ·°“*“· scouts, and for such infantry as may be mounted, two hundred thousand
dollars. · 'Fransportation. For transportation of the Army, including baggage of the troops, when moving either by land or water; of clothing and camp and gamson oquipage from the depots of Philadelpliia and Jeifersonvdle to the several posts and Army depots, and from thosedepots 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 sent; of ordnance, ordnance stores, and small-arms from the founderies and armorics to the arsenals, fortifications, frontier posts, and Army depots; freights, wharfage, tolls, and lerriages; 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 boats required for the transportation of supplies, and for garrison purposes; ior drayage and cartage at the several posts; hire of teamsters; transportation of funds for the pay and other disbursing departments: the expenses of sailing public transports on the various rivers, the Gulf of Mexico, and the Atlantic and Pacific; for procuring water at such posts as, from their situation, require it to be brought from a distance; and for clearing roads and for removing obstructions from roads, harbors, and rivers, to the extent which may be required for the actual operations of the troops in the field, four million dollars. Rcntnudrepairs- For hire of quarters for troops, of storehouses for the safekeeping of military stores, of offices, and of grounds for camp and summer cantonments, and for temporary frontier stations; for the construction of temporary huts and stables; and for repairing public buildings at established posts, eight hundred and eighty thousand dollars. Hospitals. For construction and repair of hospitals, as reported by the Surgeon- General of the Army, seventyfive thousand dollars. clothing. For purchase and manufacture of clothing and camp and garrison equipage, and for preserving and repacking the stock of clothing and camp and garrison equipage and materials on hand at the Philadelphia, Jeiiersonville, and other depots of the Quartermastens Department, one million dollars. Contingent ox- For all contingent expenses of the Army not provided for by other PQ¤¤¤r:m102,*¥:;‘ estimates, and embracing all branches of the military service, to be ex- `"" P ‘ pended under the immediate orders of the Secretary of War, forty Mm 1 dh thimsand do¥)ars. ion up os- EDICAL EPARTMENT.-For urchase of medical and hos ital su - PMI ““PP]-‘°S· plies, medical care a11d treatment? of officers and soldiers onldetaehgi duty, expenses of purveying-depots, advertising, and other miscellaneous expenses of the Medical Department, two hundred thousand dollars.
