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FORTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. GH. 35( 1879. 3] For contingent expenses of the Adjutant-General’s Department at the Adj utnmt-Genes ggxggiarters of military divisions and departments, three thousand ‘°1’° D°P¤”m**¤*- For expenses of the Signal Service of the Army, purchase, equipment, Signal Service and repair of electric Held-telegraphs and signal equipments, ten thousand five hundred dollars. _ PAY D1¤1>AJz1‘M;ENT.—For pay of the commissioned and non—com.mis- Pay of Army. ·sioned oincers, privates (including those employed as Indian scouts), storekeepers, musicians, and veterinary surgeons, artificers, farriers, and saddlers, except as hereinafter enumerated, nine million eight hundred and eighty thousand dollars. . MISCELLANEOUS.—FOY the pay of contract surgeons, one hundred and Contract e ii r - sixty-tive thousand dollars. Swis- For the pay of iiflyfour paymasters’ clerks, sixty-four thousand eight P a y ni a s the r s’ hundred dollars. ¤1·>rk¤- For the pay of one hundred and eighty-six hospitalstewards, sixty-six I-Iespital-s the w - thousand dollars. ards. For the pay of two hundred hospital-matrons, twenty-four thousand Hospitn.l—iua— d0]]3,rS_ trons. For one hundred and forty-seven commissary-sergeants, fifty-nine Commissary-sun ‘ thousand dollars. 86*-MS- For messengers to paymastersjifteen thousand dollars. Messen gers to paymasters. For extraeduty pay to enlisted men, thirty thousand dollars. EKU Mluty 1*"·Y· For travel-pay and commutation of subsistence to discharged soldiers, Travel-Pwthree hundred and seventy thousand dollars. d Por retained pay to discharged men, three hundred and forty thousand Retained pay. o ars. For commutation of ofEicers’ quarters at places where there are no 0iHcers’ quarters. public quarters, one hundred and fifty-six thousand dollars: Provided, No allowamt for That no allowance shall be made for claims for quarters for servants “”’“"·*8· heretofore or hereafter; and that the rate of commutation shall hereafter Raw of commutabe twelve dollars per room per month for officers’ quarters, in lieu of ten #0**- dollars, as now provided by law. For pay to soldiers for clothing not drawn, four hundred and nfiw Clothing net H1011S3i11d d0l12»I‘S. drawn. For additional pay to enlisted men, four hundred and forty thousand Additional pay dollars. to enlisted men. For mileage of officers of the Army when traveling under orders, one Mileage. hundred and seventy thousand dollars. For cost of telegrams; and telegrams are authorized to be transmitted Telegmins. by railroad companies which may have telegraph lines, and which shall Transmi i 1 ea 1» y~ file their written acceptance of the restrictions and obligations imposed ¢·M?>·v¤¢l¤<>M1¤¤¢¢i·>¤- on telegraph companies by title sixty-five of the Revised Statutes, for R. S., Title os. the government and for the general public, at rates to be fixed by the government, according to the provisions of title sixty·ve of the Rcvised Statutes; and also for compensation of citizen witnesses attend- witnesses, ing upon courts-martial, military commissions, courts of inquiry; traveling expenses of paymasters’ clerks, seventy thousand dollars: Provided, Proviso. That the appropriations under the head of "Pay Department” in this Appropriation-ee act, amounting to twelve million two hundred and ninety-nine thousand wrwt eight hundred dollars, shall be accounted for by disbursing officers under the title of “Pay, and so forth, of the Army, eighteen hundred and eight ”. - QSUIESISTENOE DEPARTMENT.-For subsistence of twenty-five thousand Subsistence. enlisted men, one hundred and twenty additional half-rations for sergeants and corporals of ordnance, women to companies (laundresses), one thousand eight hundred and seventy-Eve civilian employees, one hundred and twenty-Eve contract-surgeons, two hundred liospitalmatrons, one hundred and ten military convicts, and five hundred prisoners of war (Indians), in all ten million nine hundred and one thousand four hundred and fifty-five rations, at iwventy cents each; for diderence be-