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FIFTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. Il. C11. 831. 1901. 1025 forms for the Pay and Quartermaster’s Departments, and fO1' pr nting Department orders and reports, one mill1on five hundred thousand dollars. INCIDENTAL EXPENSES: For postage; cost of telegrams on official l“°‘d°¤°°l°xP°¤¤€¤ business received and sent by officers of the Army; extra pay to soldiers employed on extra duty, under the direction of the Quartermaster’s Department, in the erection of barracks, quarters, and storehouses, in the construction of roads, and other constant labor for periods of not less than ten days, and as clerks for post quartermasters at militar posts, and for rison overseers at posts designated by the War Department for tlge confinement of general prisoners; for -’:·i expenses of expresses to and from frontier posts and armies in the ’ Held, of escorts to paymasters and other disbursing officers, and to trains where military escorts can not be furnished; expenses of the interment of officers killed in action or who die when on duty in the Held, or at military posts, or on the frontiers, or when traveling under orders, and of noncommissioned officers and soldiers; and that in all cases where they would have been lawful claims against the Government, reimbursement may be made of expenses heretofore or hereafter incurred by individuals of burial and transportation of remains of oizlicers, including acting assistant surgeons, not to exceed what is now allowed in the cases of officers, and for the reimbursement in the cases of enlisted men of what is now allowed in their cases, may be`paid out of the proper funds a propriated b , this Act, and that the disbursing officers shall be credited with such reimbursements heretofore made; authorized office furniture; hire of laborers in the Quartermaster’s Department, including the hire of interpreters, spies, or guides for the Army; compensation of clerks and other employees to the officers of the Quartermaster’s Department, _ and incidental expenses of recruiting; for the apprehension, secur- - ·g ing, and delivering of deserters, and the expenses incident to their pur- Ev: suit, and no reater sum than fift dollars for each deserter shall, in the · discretion otg the Secretary of Wir, be paid to any civil officer or citizen for such services and expenses; for a donation of five dollars to each dishonorably discharged prisoner upon his release from conHnement, under court—martial sentence,. involving dishonorable discharge; for the-folfowing 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, pu1·- chase 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 an operation of this Army and at military posts, and not expressly `gssigned to any other department, seven hundred and fifty thousand 0 ars. . , To enable the Secretary of War in his discretion to cause to be .T*:*¤*P9Ri¤8 '$°l· transported to their homes the remains of officers and soldiers who die g$i$VieZimmns’fQi€igp= = at military camps or who are killed in action or who die in the Held or A il H hospital in Alaska and at places outside of the limits of the United States, or who die while on voyage at sea, one hundred thousand dollars. Taansronmrxon or THE ARMY AND irs surrmnsz For transporta- T’““SP°’“’“°“ tion of the Army, including baggage of the troops when movingeither by land or water, and including, also, the transportation of recruits and recruiting parties heretofore paid from the appropriation for “Expenses for 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 von xxx1———-65