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FORTY——FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 116. 1871. 523 Iery, and such companies of infantry as may be mounted, namely: The purchase of traveling forges, blacksmiths’ and shoeing tools, horse and mule shoes and nails, iron, and steel for shoeing, hire of veterinary surgeons, medicines for 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 an army not expressly assigned to any other department, nine hundred thousand dollars. For purchase of horses for the cavalry and artillery, and for Indian Qavslry wd scouts, four hundred and fifty thousand dollars. "mmry °"’°°‘ For transportation of the army, including baggage of the troops when _T¤·¤Sl><>¢Y¤· moving either by land or water; of clothing, camp and garrison equipage mu' from the depots of Philadelphia and Jeffersonville to the several posts and army depots, and from those depots to the troops in the field; and of subsistence stores from the places of purchase, and from the places of 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 armories to the arsenals, fortidcations, frontier posts, and army depots; freights, whartage, 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 sea-going vessels, and boats required for the transportation of supplies and for garrison purposes; for drayage and cartage at the several posts, hire of teamsters, transportation of funds for the pay and other disbursing departments; the expense of sailing public transports on_ the various pubnc mms. rivers, the Gulf of Mexico, and the Atlantic and Pacific; for procuring l><>”*S- water at such posts as, from their situation, require it to be brought from WMM" a distance ; and for clearing roads and removing obstructions from roads, Obstructions, harbors, and rivers, to the extent which may be required for the actual h"b°”• operations of the troops in the field, four million dollars. ° For hire of quarters for officers on military duty, hire of quarters for Hire, &c. or troops, of storehouses for the safekeeping of military stores, and of grounds ;l;‘“;;f;$&lg““· for summer cautonments; for the construction of temporary huts, hospi- p ’ ` tals, and stables ; and for repairing public buildings at established posts, one million dollars. For heating and cooking stoves, five thousand dollars. Stoves. For purchase and manufacture of clothing, camp and garrison equipage, Clothing and and for preserving and repacking stock of clothing, camp and garrison <>¤¤1P€q¤iL>¤e<>- equipage, and materials on hand at the Schuylkill arsenal and other depots, five hundred thousand dollars. For establishing and maintaining national cemeteries, two hundred National thousand dollars. °°““"°"‘°s‘ For army contingencies, namely: Such expenses as are not provided Contingencies. for by other estimates, embracing all branches of the military service, fifty thousand dollars. For purchase of medical and hospital supplies, pay of private physi— h M<g;ii§=¤l¤¤<i cians employed in emergencies, hire of hospital attendants, expenses of p%;l:gwi“P' purveying depots, of medical examining boards, and incidental expenses of the medical department, two hundred thousand dollars. For the Army Medical Museum and medical and other necessary works Army Medical for the library of the sul·geon—general’s office, seven thousand dollars. M“S?“m‘ · For trials with torpedoes for harbor and land defence and to instruct 'l(;;g¤f:·;_¤g*a5<3¤‘· the engineer troops in their practical construction and application, ten £g,.’&c_de,~em,8_ thousand dollars. For completion of barracks and ofFlcers’ quarters at the engineer depot W§{1;{¤<}l<¤i:·: at Willet’s Point, New York, twenty-five thousand dollars. i ii S 0 _` F or repairs and preservation of bridge equipage, ten thousand dollars. EBF1d8S Mlm- For purchase and supply of material and labor for repairs of quarters P gpracksr &c_ and barracks at engineer posts, two thousand dollars. at engineer For the ordnance service required to defray the current expenses at P°““·