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254 SIXTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 115. 1910. such e enses incurred rior to the twenty-first day of April, eighteen hundrexdi and ninety-eight; authorized office furmture, hire of laborers in the Quartermaster’s Defpartment, including the care of officers’ mounts when the same are urnished by the Government and the hire of interpreters, spies, or guides for the army· compensation of clerks and other employees to the officers of the Quartermastefs Department, and clerks, foremen, watchmen, and organist for the United States military prison, and incidental expenses of recrurting; for the ap rehension, securing, and delivering of deserters, including escaped military prisoners, and the expenses incident to their pursuit, and no greater sum than fifty dollars for each deserter or escaped mrlrtary prisoner shall, in the discretion of the Secretary of War, be paid to any civil officer or citizen for such services and erjlpenses ; for a donation of five dollars to each dishonorably discharge prisoner_upon release from confinement, under court-martia sentence, rnvolving ‘ H°"°°‘P°““‘“"°‘ dishonorable discharge; for the following expenditures required for the several regiments of cavalry, the batteries of light arti lery, and such com amos of infantry and scouts as may e mounted, the authorized) number of 0Hicers’ horses, and for the trains, to wit: Hire of veterinary surgeons, purchase of medicines for horses and mules, picket ropes, blacksmith’s tools and materials, horseshoes and blacksmith’s 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 operations of the army, and at militar posts, and not expressly assigned to any other depart- A¤¤>¤¤¤- ment, two mihion two hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. Hons. ew- Honsns Fon CAVALBY, AETILLEEY, AND ENGINEERS: For the purchase of horses for officers entitled to public mounts, for the cavalry, artillery, and engineers, service sc ool and staff colleges, and for the Indian scouts, and for such infantry and members of the Hospital Corps in field campaivns as may be required to be mounted, and the expenses incident tliereto, four hundred and thirty-four thousand four hundred and eighty-seven dollars and ninety cents: W .Pr0mk1ed, That the number of horses plurchased under this appropriation, added to the number now on and, shall be limited to the actual needs of the mounted service, including reasonable provisions for remounts, and, unless otherwise ordered by the Secretary of War, no part of this approtpriation shall be (paid out for horses not purchased by contract a ter competition uly invited by the Quartermaster’s Department and an inspection under the direction and authority of the Secretary of War. When practicable, horses shall be purc ased in the open market at all mi itary posts or stations, when needed, at a maximum price to be fixed by the Secretary of B¤¤¤<1i¤s· War: Provided, That no part of this a propriation shall be used for R¤¤¤¤¢¤¢>¤- breeding lpurposes: Prmnkled further, Tfiat no part of this appropriation sha} be expended for the purchase of any horses belbw the standard set by army regulations for cavalry and artillery horses: L_;_:¤;<£&¤3frt?0¤%Q*; And provided further, That hereafter when a mounted officer is mhuuzy. ordered to duty beyond the seas or to make a change of station in the United States in which the cost of transportation for his authorized number of owned horses exceeds the sum at the time allowed for that purpose in the Army Regulations, the Secretary of War is authorized, under such regulations in respect to inspection and valuation as he may prescribe, in his discretion to permit the purchase of said horses by the Quartermaster’s Department, at a price not exceeding the average contract price aid for horses during the preceding fiscal year, the exact Fprice to be fixed by a board of officers. tegeem me qu"' BARRACKS QND QUARTERS! OI` b8l`I`$l(‘kS, l18l‘t€1‘S, Stables, store- ' houses, magazines, administration and office(i>uildings, sheds, shops, and other building necessary for the shelter of troops, public animals, and stores, and for administration purposes, except those