matrons, military convicts at posts, prisoners of war (including Indians held by the Army as prisoners, but for whose subsistence appropriation is not otherwise made), estimated for the fiscal year on the basis of nine million nine hundred and sixty-eight thousand four hundred and fifty rations; for sales to officers and enlisted men of the Army; for authorized extra issue of candles and salt and vinegar; for public animals; for issues to Indians visiting military posts and to Indians employed with the Army, without pay, as guides and scouts; for payments for cooked rations for recruiting parties or recruits; for hot coffee, baked beans, and canned beef for troops traveling when it is impracticable to cook their rations; for scales, weights, measures, utensils, tools, stationery, blank books and forms, printing, advertising, commercial newspapers, use of telephones, office furniture; for temporary buildings, cellars, and other means of protecting subsistence supplies (when not provided by the Quartermaster's Department); for bake-ovens at posts and in the field, and repairs thereof; for extra pay to enlisted men employed on extra duty in the Subsistence Department for periods of not less than ten days, at rates fixed by law; for compensation of civilians employed in the Subsistence Department; and for other necessary expenses incident to the purchase, care, preservation, issue, sale, and accounting for subsistence supplies for the Army; for the payment of the regulation allowances for commutation in lieu of rations to enlisted men on furlough, to ordnance-sergeants on duty at ungarrisoned posts, to enlisted men stationed at places where rations in kind cannot be economically issued, to enlisted men traveling on detached duty when it is impracticable to carry rations of any kind, to enlisted men selected to contest for places or prizes in the department, division, and Army rifle competitions, while traveling to and from places of contest, in all one million seven hundred and forty-five thousand dollars, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War; and not more than one hundred and ten thousand dollars thereof shall be applied to the payment of civilian employees of the Subsistence Department.

QUARTERMASTER'S DEPARTMENT.

Regular supplies: For the regular supplies of the Quartermaster's Regular supplies. Department, consisting of stoves and heating apparatus, and repair and maintenance of the same, for heating barracks and quarters; of ranges and stoves for cooking; of fuel and lights for enlisted meu, guards, hospitals, storehouses, and offices, and for sales to officers; of forage in kind for the horses, mules, and oxen of the Quartermaster's Department at the several posts and stations and with the armies in the field, including its care and protection; for the horses of the several regiments of cavalry, the batteries of artillery, and such companies of infantry and scouts as may be mounted, and for the authorized number of officers' horses, including bedding for the animals; of straw for soldiers bedding; and of stationery, including blank-books for the Quartermaster's Department, certificates for discharged soldiers, blank forms for the Pay and Quartermaster's Departments, and for printing division and department orders and reports, two million six hundred and seventy-eight thousand dollars: Provided, That no part of this appropriation shall be expended on printing unless the same shall be done by contract, after due notice and competition, except in such case as the emergency will not admit of the giving notice for competition.

Proviso.
Printing.

Incidental

ex

Incidental expenses: For postage; cost of telegrams on official business received and sent by officers of the Army; extra pay to soldiers penses. employed 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 quartermaster's at military posts; for expense of expresses to and from the frontier posts and armies in the field, of escorts to paymasters and other disbursing officers, and to trains, where

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military escorts cannot be furnished; expenses of the interment of officers killed in action, or who die when on duty in the field, or at military posts and on the frontiers, or when traveling under orders, and of noncommissioned officers and soldiers; 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; compensation of forage and wagon masters authorized by the act of July fifth, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight; for the apprehension, securing, and delivering of deserters, and the expenses incident to their pursuit; 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, and for the trains, to wit: Hire of veterinary surgeons, medicine for horses and mules, picketropes, 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 movement and operations of the Army, and not expressly assigned to any other department, six hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars: Provided, That two hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars of the appropriation for incidental expenses, or so much thereof as shall be necessary, shall be set aside for the payment of enlisted men on extra duty at constant labor of not less than ten days; but no such payExtra-duty pay. ment shall be made at any greater rate per day than is fixed by law for the class of persons employed and the work done.

Proviso.

Purchase of

horses. Proviso. Limitation.

Transportation.

For purchase of horses for the cavalry and artillery, and for the Indian scouts, and for such infantry as may be mounted, one hundred and thirty thousand dollars: Provided, That the number of horses purchased under this appropriation, added to the number on hand, shall not at any time exceed the number of enlisted men and Indian scouts in the mounted service; and that no part of this appropriation shall be paid out for horses not purchased by contract, after competition duly invited by the Quartermaster's Department, and an inspection by such Department, all under the direction and authority of the Secretary of War.

Army transportation: For transportation of the Army, including baggage of the troops, when moving either by land or water; of clothing, camp and garrison equipage from the depots of Philadelphia and Jeffersonville to the several posts and Army depots, and from those depots to the troops in the field; of horse equipments and of 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 draught and pack animals, and harness, and the purchase and repair of wagons, carts, and drays, and of ships and other sea-going vessels and boats required for the transportation of supplies and for garrison purposes; for drayage and cartage at the several posts; hire of teamsters; extra-duty pay of enlisted men driving teams, repairing means of transportation, and employed as train-masters and in opening roads and building wharves; transportation of the funds of the Pay and other disbursing Departments; the expenses of sailing public transports on the various rivers, the Gulf of Mexico, and the Atlantic and Pacific; for procuring water 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 clearing roads, and for removing obstructions from roads, harbors, and rivers to the extent which may be required for the actual operation of troops in the field, in all two million eight hundred thousand dollars: Provided, That no part of this approLimit of draught priation shall be expended in the purchase for the Army of draught animals until the number on hand shall be reduced to five thousand,

Proviso.

animals.

and thereafter shall only be expended for the purchase of a number sufficient to keep the supply to not exceeding five thousand.

Arrears of Army transportation on certain land-grant railroads: For Arrears of transthe payment of Army transportation lawfully due such land-grant rail- portation on cerroads as have not received aid in Government bonds, to be adjusted by railroads. tain land-grant the proper accounting officers 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 the full amount of the service be paid, fifty thousand dollars: Provided, That such compensation shall be computed upon the basis of the tariff rates for like transportation performed for the public at large, and shall be accepted as in full for all demands for such services.

Proviso.

Rates.

Barracks

and

Provisos.
Expenditures

Barracks and quarters: For barracks and quarters for troops, storehouses for the safe-keeping of military stores, for offices, and for the quarters. hire of buildings and of grounds for summer cantonments and for temporary buildings at frontier stations, for the construction of temporary buildings and stables, and for repairing public buildings at established posts, six hundred and twenty thousand dollars: Provided, That no expenditures exceeding five hundred dollars shall be made upon any building or military post, or grounds about the same, without the approval exceeding $500. of the Secretary of War for the same, upon detailed estimates by the Quartermaster's Department; and the erection, construction, and repair of all buildings and other public structures in the Quartermaster's Department shall, as far as may be practicable, be made by contract, after due legal advertisement: And provided further, That no more than one million three hundred thousand dollars of the sums appropriated by contract. this act shall be paid out for the services of civilian employees in the Quartermaster's Department, including those heretofore paid out of the ees. funds appropriated for regular supplies, incidental expenses, barracks and quarters, Army transportation, clothing, and camp and garrison equipage; and that no employee paid therefrom shall receive as salary more than one hundred and fifty dollars per month, unless the same ry. shall be specially fixed by law; and no part of any of the moneys so appropriated shall be paid for commutation of fuel and for quarters to officers or enlisted men.

Work to be by

Civilian employ

Maximura sala

Shooting ranges,

etc.

For shelter and shooting-galleries and ranges, and repairs thereof, ten thousand dollars. Construction and repairs of hospitals: For construction and repairs Construction and of hospitals, including the extra-duty pay of enlisted men employed on repairs of hospitthe same, one hundred thousand dollars.

als.

Army and Navy Hospital, Hot Springs, Arkansas: For one hydraulic Army and Navy passenger elevator for central hospital building, two thousand dollars; Springs, Ark. Hospital, Hot and for finishing in hard-oil the inside wood-work of all buildings, painting verandas, and for painting exterior brick-work of all buildings, five thousand five hundred dollars; in all, seven thousand five hundred dollars.

Quarters for hos

Proviso.
Posts to be des-

tary of War, etc.

Clothing, camp and garrison equipage.

For construction and repair of quarters for hospital-stewards, including the extra-duty pay of enlisted men employed on the same, nine pital-stewards. thousand six hundred dollars: Provided, That the posts at which such quarters shall be constructed shall be designated by the Secretary of War, and the quarters shall be built by contract, after legal advertise- ignated by Secrement, whenever the same is practicable; but the cost of construction of quarters at any one post shall in no case exceed eight hundred dollars. Clothing, camp and garrison equipage: For cloth, woolens, material, and for the manufacture of clothing for the Army; for issue and for sale at cost-price, according to the Army Regulations; for altering and fitting clothing, and washing and cleaning when necessary; for equipage, and for expenses of packing and handling, and similar necessaries, one million one hundred and fifty thousand dollars: Provided, That out of the money hereby appropriated for clothing and equipage of the Army there shall not be expended at the Military Prison at Fort Leavenworth a sum in excess of one hundred and twenty-five thousand dol- at Military Prison. lars.

Prociso.

Limit of expense

Medical Depart

ment.

Supplies, etc.

MEDICAL DEPARTMENT.

Medical and Hospital Department: For the purchase of medical and hospital supplies, expenses of medical purveying depots, pay of employees, medical care and treatment of officers and enlisted men of the Army on duty at posts and stations for which no other provision is made, for the proper care and treatment of cases in the Army suffering from contagious or epidemic diseases, advertising, and other miscella neous expenses, including disinfectants for general post sanitation and the supply of the Army and Navy Hospital, at Hot Springs, Arkansas, in all two hundred thousand dollars; and not over thirty-six thousand Civilian employ- dollars of the money appropriated by this paragraph shall be applied to the payment of civilian employees of the Medical Department. Army and Navy Army and Navy Hospital, at Hot Springs, Arkansas: For service at Hospital, Hot the Army and Navy Hospital, at Hot Springs, Arkansas, ten thousand Springs, Ark. dollars.

ees.

Army Medical Museum.

Library.

Engineer De

partment.

Incidental ex

penses.

Materials for in

Medical Museum and Library: For Army Medical Museum, preservation of specimens, and the preparation or purchase of new specimens, five thousand dollars; for the library of the Surgeon-General's office, ten thousand dollars; in all, fifteen thousand dollars.

ENGINEER DEPARTMENT.

Engineer depot at Willet's Point, New York: Incidental expenses of the depot, fuel, chemicals, stationery, extra-duty pay for soldiers employed in wheelwright's work, engine-driving, draughting, printing, photographing, and lithographing engineer documents, repairs of public buildings, and unforeseen expenses, three thousand dollars;

For purchase of materials for the instruction of engineer troops at structing engineer Willet's Point in their special duties of sappers, miners, and pontoneers, troops. one thousand dollars;

Repairs of instruments, etc.

Library.

Ordnance Department.

Current expenses.

Ammunition for small-arms, etc.

For repairs of instruments for general use of the Corps of Engineers, and for the purchase of small instruments to fill requisitions, two thousand dollars;

Library of the Engineer School of Application: Purchase of profes sional works of recent date treating of military and civil engineering, five hundred dollars; in all, six thousand five hundred dollars.

ORDNANCE DEPARTMENT.

Ordnance service: For current expenses of the orduance service required to defray the current expenses at the arsenals; of receiving stores and issuing arms and other ordnance supplies; of police and office duties; of rents, tools, fuel, and lights; of stationery and office furniture; of tools and instruments for use; incidental expenses of the ord nance service, and those attending practical trials and tests of smallarms, and ordnance supplies, including payment for mechanical labor in the office of the Chief of Ordnance, eighty thousand dollars.

For manufacture of metallic ammunition for small-arms and ammunition for reloading cartridges, and tools for the same, including the cost of targets and material for target-practice, one hundred thousand dollars.

Repairing ord- For repairing ordnance and ordnance stores in the hands of troops, nance and ord- and for issue at the arsenals and depots, five thousand dollars.

nance stores.

Ordnance stores.

Equipments.

For purchase and manufacture of ordnance stores to fill requisitions of troops, seventy-five thousand dollars.

For infantry, cavalry, and artillery equipments, including horse equipments for cavalry and artillery, seventy-five thousand dollars. Manufacture of For manufacture of arms at the National Armory, four hundred thousand dollars: Provided, That not more than sixty thousand dollars of the money appropriated for the Ordnance Department in all its Civilian clerks. branches shall be applied to the payment of civilian clerks in said De

arms.

Proviso.

partment.

RECRUITING SERVICE.

For expenses of recruiting and transportation of recruits from rendezvous to depot, one hundred thousand dollars.

SIGNAL SERVICE.

Signal Service.

For expenses of the Signal Service of the Army, as follows: Pur- Expenses. chase, equipment, and repair of field electric telegraphs; signal equip ments and stores; binocular glasses, telescopes, heliostats, and other necessary instruments, including absolutely necessary meteorological instruments for use on target-ranges; telephone apparatus and maintenance of same, in all three thousand dollars.

CONTINGENT EXPENSES.

For contingent expenses of the office of the Lieutenant-General, one thousand two hundred dollars.

For contingent expenses of the Adjutant-General's Department at the headquarters of military divisions and departments, two thousand dollars. For all contingent expenses of the Army not provided for by other estimates, and embracing all branches of the military service, to be expended under the immediate orders of the Secretary of War, fifteen thousand dollars.

Approved, February 9, 1887.

Contingent ex

penses.

Lieutenant-General's Office. Adjutant-General's Department. Not elsewhere provided for.

CHAP. 128.-An act to authorize Frank W. Hunt to erect and maintain a ferry across the Missouri River at the military reservation of Fort Buford, Dakota Territory.

Feb. 11, 1887.

Frank W. Hunt

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That Frank W. Hunt, his heirs authorized to or assigns, be, and they are hereby, authorized to erect and maintain a maintain a ferry ferry either by wire, cable, or steam, across the Missouri River, at the across Missouri military reservation of Fort Buford, Dakota Territory, for a period of River, at Fort Buten years. ford, Dakota.

SEC. 2. That the rates of toll across said ferry shall be fixed or established from year to year by the Secretary of War.

SEC. 3. That while this charter is in existence no toll or charge shall be made for crossing the United States mail over said ferry; that the point of crossing the Missouri River to establish this ferry shall be determined upon under the authority of the Secretary of War. SEC. 4. This act may be amended or repealed at any time. Approved, February 11, 1887.

Tolls.

Mails.

CHAP. 129.—An act to amend section sixteen hundred and sixty-one of the Revised Statutes, making an annual appropriation to provide arms and equipments for the militia.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section sixteen hundred and sixty-one of the Revised Statutes be, and the same is hereby, amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Feb. 12, 1887.

Arms for militia. R. S., sec. 1661, p. 290, amended. Annual appro

"SECTION 1. That the sum of four hundred thousand dollars is hereby annually appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the Treasury not priation. otherwise appropriated, for the purpose of providing arms, ordnance stores, quartermaster's stores, and camp equipage for issue to the militia.

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