FIFTYSEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 1328. 1902. 515 ment reimbursement may be made of expenses heretofore or hereafter incurred by individuals of burial and transportation of remains of officers, including acting assistant surgeons, not to exceed the amount now allowed in the case of officers, and for the reimbursement in the cases of enlisted men not exceeding the amount now allowed in their cases may be paid out of the roper funds appropriated by this Act, and the disbursing officers shall be credited with such reimbursement heretofore made; but hereafter no reimbursement shall be made of such expenses incurred prior to the twenty-first day of April, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight; authorized office furniture; hire og laborers in the Q_uartermaster’s Department, including the hire of interpreters, spies, or guides for the Army; compensation of clerks and other employees to the officers of the Quartermastefs Department, and incidental expenses of recruiting; for the apprehension, securing, and delivering of deserters, including escaped military prisoners, and the expenses incident to their pursuit, and no greater sum than fifty dollars for each deserter or escaped military prisoner shall, in the discretion of the Secretary cf War, be paid to any civil officer or citizen for such services and expenses; for a donation of five dollars to each dishonorably discharged prisoner upon his release from confinement under court- · martial sentence involving dishonorable discharge; for the following H°*¤°*¤P<=¤di¤¤¤¤- expenditures required for the several regiments of cavalry, the batteries of light artillery, and such companies of infantry and scouts as may be mounted, the authorized number of officers’ horses, and for the trains, to wit, hire of veterinary surgeons, purchase of medicines for horses and mules, picket ropes, blacksmiths’ tools and materials, horseshoes and blacksmiths’ tools for the cavalry service, and for the shoeing of horses and mules, and such additional expenditures as are necessary and authorized by law in the movements and operations of the Army and at military posts, and not expressly assigned to any other department, two million three hundred thousand dollars. ;¤¤<>¤¤¢· Honsns ron cavxmzr Aim Anrrrminrz For the purchase of horses Hom- Bwfor the cavalry and artillery, and for the Indian scouts, and for such infantry and members of the Hospital Corps in field campaigns as may be uired to be mounted, and the expenses incident thereto, six hundlizd thousand dollars: Provided, That the number of horses purchased under this appropriation, added to the number now on hand, shall be limited to the actual needs of the mounted service, and unless otherwise ordered by the Secretary of War, no part of this appropriation shall be paid out for horses not purchased by contract after competition duly invited by the Quartermastefs Department, and an ins ction under the direction and authority of the Secretary of War. lgiimxcxs AND qunrruas: For barracks and quarters for troops, mg¤¤¤¤¤ ¤¤<i quustorehouses for the safe-keeping of military stores, for offices, recruit- ` ing stations, and for the hire of buildings and grounds for summer cantonments, and for temporary buildings at frontier stations, for the construction of temporary buildings and stables, and for repairing public buildings at established posts, including the extrasduty pay of enlisted men employed on the same, three mil ion three hun red and _ _ fifty thousand dollars; and whenever in the opinion of the President p0f,’,‘§}‘°““l °f °"’°“"’ the lands and improvements, or any portion o them, of the military {,¤;<{:_$gg>¤3&g¤· sts or reservations at Indianapolis, Indiana, Columbus, Ohio, and n¤mr1o,>:CY. ` Diitialo, New York, have become undesirable for military purposes he may, in his discretion, cause the same to be appraised and sold at public sale at not less than the a praised value, either as a whole or in subdivisions, under such regulations as to public notice and terms and conditions of sale as he may prescribe, and the proceeds to be deposited in the Treasury. And a sum of money not exceeding the proceeds of S,;}”°*‘”° °’ “°“' such sale or sales at each of such places respectively is hereby appro-
