1168 FIFTY-NINTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 251]. 1907. 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 of laborers in the Quartermaster’s Department, including the hire of interpreters, spies, or guides for the Army; compensation of clerks and other employees to the officers of the Quartermaster’s Department, and clerks, foremen, watchmen, and organist for the United States military prison, 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 of 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- H°”° °""°"°““‘°“· martial sentence, involving dishonorable discharge; for the following expenditures required for the several regiments of cavalry, the batteries of light artillery, and such companies of infantr 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 ro s, blacksmith’s tools and materials, horseshoes and blacksmith’s toolffor 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 notexpressly assigned to any other department, one million nine hundred and forty-four thousand and ‘““°“"" sixteen dollars and seventy-two cents, ¤¤¤¢¤· ew- Honsns Fon CAVALRY, ARTILLERY, AND ENGINEERS: For the purchase of horses for the cavalry, artillery, and engineers, service sc ool and staff colleges, and for the Indian scouts, and for such infantry and members of the Hospital Corps in field campaigns as may be required to be mounted, and the expenses incident thereto, four hundred and ninety-three thousand seven hundred and twenty-three dollars and
thirty-seven cents: Pr0*va'rled, That the number of horses purchased
munder 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 a propriation shall be paid out for horses not purchased by contract aiiter competition duly invited by the Quartermaster`s Department and an inspection under the direction and authority of the Secretary of War. When practicable, horses shall be purchased in the open market at all military plosts or stations, when needed, ata maximum price to be fixed by the Secretary of War. Banach und q¤¤r— Bnmaoxs AND oU.nrrrms:,For barracks and quarters for troops, M" other than seacoast artillery, storehouses for the safe-keeping of military stores, for offices, recruiting stations, to provide such furniture for the public rooms of officers’ messes and such heavy permanent furniture for officers’ quarters at military posts as may be approved by the Secretary of War, 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 extra-duty pay gg’;;*;*·j;m,°n r9_ of enlisted men employed on the same: Prmjded, That no part of the seamen. moneys so appropriated shall be paid for commutation of fuel or for ,,,§,I’Q’,'§‘§,',§2$_!t°° °° quarters to officers or enlisted men: 1%;·mw'ded fi¢re‘/cer, That section 8l;;>g®,2°» P· EL nine of an Act approved June seventeenth, eighteen hundred and ` seventy-eight (Twentieth Statutes at Large, page one hundred and fifty-one), be. and the same is hereby, amended to read as follows: “That at all posts and stations where there are public quarters belong-
