the field; of escorts to paymasters and other disbursing officers, and to trains where 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 posts on the frontiers, or when traveling on orders, and of non-commissioned officers and soldiers; authorized officefurniture; hire of laborers in the Quartermaster's Department, including the hire of interpreters, spies, and guides for the Army; compensation of clerks to 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 of deserters, and the expense 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, to wit, hire of veterinary surgeons, medicine for horses and mules, picket-ropes, and for shoeing the horses of the corps named; also, generally, the proper and authorized expenses for the movement and operations of the Army not expressly assigned to any other department, one million two hundred thousand dollars.

For purchase of horses for the cavalry and artillery, and for the Indian scouts, and for such infantry as may be mounted, three hundred thousand dollars.

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 smallarms from the founderies and armories to the arsenals, fortifications, frontier-posts, and army-depots; freights, wharfage, tolls, and ferriages; the purchase and hire of horses, mules, oxen, 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, transportation of funds for the pay and other disbursing departments; the expense

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 clearing roads, and for removing obstructions from roads, harbors, and rivers to the extent which may be required for the actual operations of the troops in the field, four million dollars.

That no part of the money appropriated by this act shall be paid to any railroad-company for the transportation of any property or troops of the United States over any railroad which, in whole or in part, was constructed by the aid of a grant of public land on the condition that such railroad should be "a public highway for the use of the Government of the United States free from toll or other charge," or upon any other conditions for the use of such road, for such transportation; nor shall any allowance be made out of any money appropriated by this act for the transportation of officers of the Army over any such road when on duty and under orders as a military officer of the United States. But nothing herein contained shall be construed as preventing any such railroad from bringing a suit in the Court of Claims for the charges for such transportation, and recovering for the same, if found entitled thereto by virtue of the laws in force prior to the passage of this act.

For hire of quarters for officers on military duty; hire of quarters for troops; of store-houses for the safe-keeping of military stores, offices, and of grounds for camps and summer-cantonments, and for temporary frontier-stations; for the construction of temporary huts and stables; and for repairing public buildings at established posts, one million four hundred thousand dollars.

For construction and repairs of hospitals, one hundred thousand dollars.

For purchase and manufacture of clothing, camp and garrison equipage, and for preserving and repacking stock of clothing, camp and garrison equipage, and materials on hand at the Schuylkill Arsenal and other depots, one million four hundred and fifty thousand dollars: Provided, That none of the money hereby appropriated shall be used in the purchase of hats, uniform-caps, foragecaps, uniform-coats, uniform-jackets, flannel sack-coats, and unlined coats, which articles the Quartermaster's Department shall issue from the supply now on hand, known as the old pattern; and none of the articles above enumerated shall be purchased until those now on hand are exhausted.

For preservation of clothing and equipage from moth and mildew, thirty thousand dollars.

For maintaining national military cemeteries, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars.

For Army contingencies not provided for by other estimates, embracing all branches of the military service, one hundred thousand dollars: Provided, That none of the money hereby appropriated shall be expended, directly or indirectly, for any use not strictly necessary for and directly connected with the military service of the Government.

For purchase of medical and hospital supplies, pay of private physicians employed in emergencies, hire of hospital-attendants, expenses of purveying-depots, of medical examining boards, and incidental expenses of the Medical Department, two hundred thou sand dollars.

For the Army Medical Museum and for medical and other necessary works for the library of the Surgeon General's Office, ten thousand dollars.

For engineer-depot at Willett's Point, New York, namely, remodeling portions of bridge equipage, and for the current expenses of the depot, purchase of engineering-materials for use in instruction of engineer-battalion, and purchase and repair of instruments for general service of the Corps of Engineers, nine thousand dollars.

For trials with torpedoes for harbor and land defense, and to instruct the engineer- troops in their practical construction and application, ten thousand dollars.

For the ordnance-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, tolls, fuel, and lights; of stationery and office-furniture; of tools and instruments for use; of public animals, forage, and vehicles; incidental expenses of the ordnance-service, including those attending practical trials and tests of ordnance, small-arms, and other ordnance supplies, one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars: Provided, That none of the money hereby appropriated shall be expended, directly or indirectly, for any use not strictly necessary for, and directly connected with, the military service of the Government; and this

vehicles: And provided further, That none of the money hereby appropriated shall be expended for the construction or repair of buildings.

For manufacture of metallic ammunition for small arms, seventyfive thousand dollars.

For overhauling, cleaning, and preserving new ordnance stores on hand at the arsenals, fifty thousand dollars.

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

For saddlers' tools, smiths' tools and materials, tool-bags, cavalry forges, with their tools and materials, for the cavalry service, twenty thousand dollars.

For purchase and manufacture of ordnance stores, to fill requisitions of troops, and for alteration of carriages now in use in sea coast forts, one hundred thousand dollars.

For infantry, cavalry, and artillery equipments, consisting of valises, haversacks, canteens, and great coat straps, and for recovering cavalry saddles with leather, and for manufacture of saddle-bags and repairing horse equipments for cavalry troops, one hundred thousand dollars.

For manufacture, at national armories, of the new model breech loading musket and carbine, adopted for the military service on recommendation of the board of officers convened under act of June sixth, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, one hundred thousand dollars: Provided, That no part of this sum shall be expended at said armories in the perfection of patentable inventions in the manufacture of arms by officers of the Army otherwise compensated for their services to the United States.

For the construction of a post on the north fork of Loupe River in Nebraska, fifty thousand dollars: Provided, That the cost of said post shall not exceed the amount hereby appropriated.

SEC. 2. That all balances of appropriations, for whatever account, made for the service of the Departments of the Quartermaster General and of the Commissary General of Subsistence, prior to July first, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, which on the thirtieth day of June, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, shall remain on the books of the Treasury, shall be carried to the surplus fund, except such as the Auditor of the Treasury whose duty it is to settle

accounts against such appropriations shall certify to the Secretary of the Treasury to be necessary in the settlement of such accounts as have been reported to him for payment by the Quartermasters and the Commissary Departments pending in his office. And the Quartermaster General, Commissary General, and Third Auditor of the Treasury shall continue to receive, examine, and consider the justice and validity of such claims as shall be brought before them under the act of July fourth, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, and the acts amendatory thereof; and the Secretary of the Treasury shall make report of each claim allowed by them, at the commencement of each session of Congress, to the Speaker of the House of Representatives, who shall lay the same before Congress for consideration.

Approved, June 16, 1874.

BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF WAR:

OFFICIAL:

E. D. TOWNSEND,

Adjutant General.