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FORTY—FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 294. 1870. 317 stores, and small-arms from the founderies and armories to the arsenals, fortidcations, frontier posts, and army depots; freights, 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 sea-going vessels, and boats required for the transportation of supplies and for garrison purposes; for drayage and cartageat the P“bH° hmm" several posts, hire of teamsters, transportation of funds for the pay and pom` other disbursing departments, the expense 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 Water. be brought from a distance; and for clearing roads and removing Obstructions, obstructions from roads, harbors, and rivers to the extent which may be "?“gS· h‘"b°”* required for the actual operations of the troops in the field, five million nv m` dollars. For hire or commutation of quarters for officers on military duty, hire Hire, &c. of of quarters for troops, of storehouses for the safe-keeping of military ;l;“;?;rs&l;°°°’ stores, and of grounds for summer cantonments ; for the construction P i i of temporary huts, hospitals, and stables ; and for repairing public buildings at established posts, seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars. For the ordnance service required to defray the current expenses at Ordnance the arsenals, of receiving stores and issuing arms and other ordnance """"‘ supplies, of police and office duties, of rents, tolls, fuel, and lights; of stationery and office furniture; of tools and instruments for use; of public animals, forage, and vehicles; incidental expenses of the ordnance service, including those attending practical trials and tests of ordnance, small-arms, and other ordnance supplies, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars: Provided, That no money appropriated by this act shall be used f N° Pm t°_P**Y to pay for any new cannon or small-arms. Ogrsxslgzigsgn For establishing and maintaining national cemeteries, three hundred ltlationalcemethousand dollars: Provided, That twenty thousand dollars of this amount tegjsgviso be expended in planting and cultivating trees and shrubs in the several ` cemeteries. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the President be, and he is Number 0T_ hereby, authorized and directed, on or before the first day of July, eigh· ggéigfgfenm teen hundred and seventy-one, to reduce the number of enlisted men in the army to thirty thousand, and thereafter there shall be no more than thirty thousand enlisted men in the army at any one time, unless otherwise authorized by law. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the President be, and he is C¢¤"i¤i¤ 9B5C6T?, hereby, authorized, at his discretion, honorably to discharge from the §ggQn‘hj;;;¤§§*‘ service of the United States officers of the army who may apply therefor hono¤·ilily_dison or before the first of January next; and such officers so discharged ggglgggrlgllg under the provisions of this act shall be entitled to receive, in addition to &c_y P y’ the pay and allowances due them at the date of their discharge, one year’s pay and allowances. Seo. 4. And be it further enacted, That the President be, and he is _Cert¤ig caphereby, authorized, at his discretion, to place on the retired list of the z';?;`;,;?,,;, ' army, on their own application, any commissioned officers who have been placed upon the thirty years in the service, and the officers who may be retired by virtue 'ellmd lm; of this section shall be entitled to the same pay and emolumeuts as are thpir paysand now allowed, or may be hereafter allowed, to officers retired from active ‘*‘“° “‘“°“ ' service. Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That the proviso of the sixteenth b€Il·L¥}l2H§?:c¥;;ll§; Section of the act approved August three, eighteen hundred and sixty- mm,d,m,,,_ one, limiting the number of officers on the retired list to seven per centum peeled. of the whole number of existing officers, he, and the same is hereby, 1§3,·£,4gigg; repealed; and hereafter the number of officers who may be retired in' accordance with existing laws shall be in the discretion of the President: Numlbtg not to Provided, That the whole number on the retired list shall at no titi18;°£imi_m° exceed three hundred.