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FIFTIETH CONGRESS. SEss. I. Ch. 4. 1888. _ 9 SALAR1Es OFFICE or QUARTERMAsTER-GENERAL: One clerk of rg;:¤g,<;,,r¤¤ee¤er—Ge¤- class one. nine dollars and seventy-eight cents; four copyists, twenty- e Salaries?. nine dollars and thirty-six cents; one watchman, flve dollars and eighty-seven cents; in all, thirty-five dollars and one cent. To the following agents employed by the Quartermaster General Investigatmgagencs in the investigation of claims for settlement by the Treasury Depart- V°l‘13*p·381· ment, under the act of July fourth, eighteen hundred and sixty- A four: Four agents, at one thousand four hundred dollars each per annum, eighty-seven dollars and fifty-one cents. For per diem in lieu of subsistence of the agents while traveling Per <1iem,etc. on duty, not exceeding three dollars per day, and for actual necessary expenses for transportation, one hundred and thirty-four dollars. SIGNAL sERv1oE. Siseel Service- TRANSPORTATION : For transportation of men, includin their T¤¤¤S1>¤¤e¤i<>¤- lllaggggpfdapfl for transportation of material, two thousand three un e dollars. For renewal of the Signal Service cable at the mouth of the Co- b,C°*¤m*>f¤ River eelumbia River, in Oregon and Washington Territory, five thousand °` dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary: Provided, That no P"""’°· part of this money shall be used in la *ing a new cable at such point until the Secretary of War shall be fully satisfied that it is impossible, with all reasonab e and proper efforts, to repair the broken cable at B°P°·**‘- such place, for the repair of which the sum of five hundred dollars of the above amount may be used. REGULAR SUPPLIES: For commutation of fuel for not exceeding G<>mm¤wuoucrtueL two hundred and twenty men of the Signal Corps on duty at the office of the Chief Signa Oihcer and at signal stations throughout the United States, one thousand nine hundred and seventy-seven dollars and thirty cents. Bi-uznaoxs AND QUARTERS! For commutation of quarters to not teB¤rr¤e1¤¤¤<1 quuexceeding two hundred and twent enlisted men of the Signal Corps E" on duty at the office of the Chief S,ignalOiiicer and at signal stations thrczluglhout the United States, three thousand six hundre and ninety- six dollars. PAY DEPARTMENT. Peydepartmenr. For mileage to officers when authorized by law, two thousand six Mileagehundred and eighty dollars and twelve cents. That so much of section two of the sundry civil appropriation act, gqccuncs or calmed approved March third, eighteen hundred and seventymine, as pro- sQ’olf2l:;dh(alp.182 sec. V1t¥€S that amounts due upon certificates issued, or which may be is- 2- P- m e¤¤e¤¤e·l- sued, biy the accounting officers of the Treasury, in settlement of claims or pay, bounty, prize-money, or other moneys due to colored soldiers, sailors, or marines, or their legal representatives, shall be paid only to the party named in the certificate, and in current funds or by post-ofiice money-order, and not by check or drafts, be, and the same is hereby, repealed; and hereafter the said claims of colored soldiers, sailors, and marines shall be paid in the same manner as similar claims are paid to white soldiers, sailors, and marines. QUARTERMASTER’S DEPARTMENT. p3{:,Zt§{m”t°r~SD°` Fon TRANSPORTATION OF THE ARMY AND ITS SUPPLIES : For trans- tiéfmy *¤¤¤P°’*°e ortation of the Army, including baggage of the troops when moving ' by land or water ; of clothing. camp and garrison equilpage from the depots of Philadelphia and J edersonville to the severa posts and Army depots, and from those depots to the troops in the iield; of horse equgpments and of subsistence stores from the places of purchase and rom the places of delivery, under contract, to such places