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FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 41. 1899. 777 the officcrs of the Quartermastefs Department, and incidental expenses of recruiting; for the apprehension, securing, and delivering of deserters, and the expenses incident to their pursuit, and no greater sum than ten dollars for each deserter shall be paid to any 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 courtmartial sentence involving dishonorable discharge; and for the following expenditures required for the several regiments of cavalry, the batteries of light artillery, and such companies of infantry 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 ropes, blacksmiths’ tools and materials, horseshoes and blacksmiths’ tools for 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 operation of the Army, and at military posts, and not expressly assigned to any other department, one million three hundred and fifty thousand dollars. For horses for cavalry and artillery, namely: For the purchase of P*¤¤*¤¤¤ of l¤¤¤¤¤· horses for the cavalry and artillery, and for the Indian scouts, and for such infantry and members of the Hospital Corps in icield campaigns as may be required to be mounted, and the expenses incident thereto, two hundred and ninety-two thousand five hundred dollars. For transportation of the Army and its supplies, namely: For trans- T¤¤¤1><¤¤·¤•>¤· portation of the Army, including baggage of the troops when moving either by land or water, and including also the transportation of recruits and recruiting parties heretofore paid from the appropriation for “Expenses of recruiting;" of supplies to the militia furnished by the War Department; of the necessary agents and employees; of clothing, camp and garrison equipage, and other quartermaster stores from army depots or places of purchase or delivery to the several posts and army depots and from those depots to the troops in the field; of horse equipments and subsistence stores, from the places of purchase and from the places 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 foundries and armories to the arsenals, fortifications, frontier posts, and army depots; freights, wharfage, tolls, and ferriages; the purchase and hire of draft and pack animals and harness, and the purchase and repair of wagons, carts, and drays, and of ships and other seagoing vessels and boats required for the transportation of supplies and for garrison purposes; for drayage and cartage at the several posts; hire of teamsters and other employees; —¢¤=¤¤p¤r¢¤.¤tctransportation of funds of the Army; the expenses of sailing public transports on the various rivers, the Gulf of Mexico, and the Atlantic and Pacific oceans; for procuring water, and introducing the same to buildings, at such posts as from their situation require it to be brought from a distance, and for the disposal of sewage and drainage, and for constructing roads and wharves; for the payment of army transports- Pggggmo ¤¤¤d· tions lawfully due such landgrant railroads as have not received aid gm ` in Government bonds (to be adjusted in accordance with the decisions of the Supreme Court in cases decided under such land-grant acts), , but in no case shall more than fifty per centum of full amount of service ·'“**‘“’“""· be paid: Provided, That such compensation shall be computed upon _,’;;g**°*· the basis of the tariif or lower special rates for like transportation per- ' formed for the public at large, and shall be accepted as in full for all. demands for such service: Provided further, That in expending the $*;*1 °g>°bfm gif, By money appropriated by this Act a railroad company which has not m ° I ° received aid in bonds of the United States, and which obtained a grant of public land to aid in the construction of its railroad on condition that such railroad should be a post route and military road, subject to the use of the United States for postal, military, naval, and other Government services, and also subject to such regulations as Congress may impose restricting the charge for such Government transportation, having claims against the United States for transportation of troops