120 FOBTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. C11. 254. 1882. patches; extra pay to soldiers employed under the direction of the Quartermasteis Department in the erection of barracks, quarters, storehouses, and hospitals, in the construction of roads, and other constant labor, for periods of not less than ten days, including those employed as clerks at division and department headquarters and Signal Service sergeants; expenses of expresses to and hom the frontier posts and armies in the field ; of escorts to paymasters and other disbursing officers, and to trains where military escort 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 frontiers, or when traveling on orders, and of non-commissioned officers and soldiers; authorized office furniture; altering soldiers’ clothing; hire of laborers in the Quarterm aster’s Department, including the hire of interpreters, spies, and guides for the Army; compensation of clerks to officers of the Quartermaster’s Department; compensation of forage and wagonmasters authorized by 5 85%, 957- the act of July litth, eighteen hundred and thirty-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, medicine for horses and mules, picketropes, and for shoeing the horses and mules; also, generally, the proper and authorized expenses for the movement and operations of the Army ppt exprgssly assigned toany other department, nine hundred and eleven usan ollars. '1'¤¤•1¤¤*¤**°¤-, For transportation of the Army, including baggage of the troops, when moving either by land or water; of clothing and camp and garrison equipage hom the depots of Philadelphia and J eifersonville to the several posts and Army depots, and from them depots to the troops in the iield; 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 sentof ordnance, ordnance stores, and small-arms from the founderies and armories to the arsenals, fornication, frontier posts, and Army depots; heights, 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 seagoing vessels and boats for the transportation of supplies, and for garrison purposes; for dray- . ageand cartageat the severalposts; hireofteamsters; transportation _ of fnrnds for thepsy md other disbursing departments; the expenses P¤l>l¤= *¤¤¤· sailing public transports on the various rivers, the Gulf of Mex- P"§§:m_ rco, and Atlantic and Paciiic; for procuring water at such posts as, ii·om_theu· situation, require it to be brought from a distance · and for Clearin g on- clearing roads and for removing obstructions from roads har bers, and ¤*r¤¤:;:·¤¤ f¤¤¤ rivers, to the extent which may be required for the actual, ope ations of ""°'· shslggops ur the held, four million one hundred and sixty-four thousand Payment for For the payment for Army transportation lawfully due such landtranspqatatrou grant railroads as have not received aid in government bonds, to be ad-
‘ !"“‘* Justed by the proper accounting officers in accordance with the decisions
of the Supreme Court in eases decided under such land-grant acts, but in no ease shall more than any per centnm of the full amount of the servmum. ree be paid, one hundred and twenty-tive thousand dollars: Provided, That suchcompensatron shall be computed upon the basis of the taritf rates for hke transportation performed for- the public at large, and shall be acceptedasm full for alldemands for said services: And provided farther That any such land·grant roads as shall tile with the Secretary of the their written acceptance of this provision shall hereafter be paid for like services as herein provided; and all accounts of such railroads for services heretofore rendered shsdl be audited and paid as herein provided upon application of such roads and their acceptance of
