Weekly North Carolina standard., 1858-07-14
IBY AUTHORITY

Laws OF
Passed at the First Session ef the 7Hiry-Fh ON gress.
AN ACT making appropriations for the support of the
army for the year ending the threth June eighteen
hundred and fifty nine
Be enacted By Senate and House of Representatives.
te limited Stds et Anerica an Congress assembled, That
the following be- and the hereby appropa
ted out Of in the treasury not otherwise ap
poprated for the support of the army for the ending
the ihirtieih, of June eighteen hundred AMI ffynine
For expenses Of recruiting transportation of recruits
three months extra pay nun-commssioned officers,
musicians privates re-enlstment hundred and
ten thousand dollars.
For pay of the army three million five hundred and
nnety-one thousand seven hundred and eighty dol
lars.
For Communication of officers subsistence nine hundred
and thousand four hundred and thirty -four dol
lars and ty Procil That the superintendent of
men Of President shall have the local rank the pay
and allowances of Colonel of Engineers: that the
mandant of the curps of cadets the military acaderny
while rvng such by appointment of the President
shall have the local rank the and allowances of Lieu
Colonel Engineers besides his duties
shall be charged with the duty of in the tactics
of the three said academy and that the senior
saut instructor each of the of service viz
ery cavalry, and inauty, shall severay receive the
pay and allowances of the assistant professor of mahe
For commutaton of forage for officers horses hun.
dred and twentyour thousand hundred and twenty
eight dollars
For payments to discharged soldiers for clothing
drawn fifty thousand dollars.
For payments in lieu of clothing for officers servants
thirynne thousand eight hundred and ninety dollars.
For subsistence in kind, million three hundred and
five cents
For clothing for the army. camp garrison equpage
million and sixtytwU thousand seven hundred and
| two dollars and ninety y-nine cents.
For the regular supplies of the quartermasters depart
menf, consisting OF fuel for the officers, enlisted
guards hospitals sorehouses and Offices of forage in
kind for the horses mules and oxcn of the
department posts and stations and with the
armies in the field for the horses regiments of
dragons, the two regiments Of cavalry the regiment of
mounted rifemen, the companies of light artillery and
such companies infantry may be mounted d for the
authorized number of officers horses when serving the
heid and at the ouposts including bending for the animals
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company and other blank books for the army
discharged soldiers blank forms for the pay and quar-
testers departments; and for the printing of division
ana department orders regulations and and reports
one million seven hundred and fortyfve thousand dol
For the incidental expenses of the quarermasters de-
ceved sent by the officers Of the army on public ser
vice. expenses of courts martial and courts of inquiry,
cudng the additional compensation of Judge advocates re-
corders members, and witnesses while that service
under the of March sixteenth, eighteen hundred and
two; extra pay to soldiers employed under the direction of
the quartemasers department in the erection of barracks
quarters stoeouses and hospitals IN the construction of
and on other constant m labor for periods Of not less
hundred and Nineteen and August fourth, eighteen hun
dTed and iiy"n including those employed as clerks at
presses TO and from the frontier posts and armies in the
hed Of escorts TO paymasers and other disbarsng Off
and to trains where military be fur
nished expense of the INTERIM mt of officers killed in
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diers; authorized Office future hire of laborers in the
masters authorized by the act of July fifth eighteen
hundred aud threght for the apprehension of deserer
and the expenses incident to their pursuit the following
the two regiments. of cavalry, the regiment of mounted
and such companies Of infantry as may be noun;
shoeing TOOLS horse and mule shoes and nails iron and
s and ss Of Ds Sdn
of tho those corps five hundred thousand and dollars
For constructing bal cks and other buildings at posts
for repairing trng and enargng buildings the estab
of fnr of
stoehouses for the safe keeping of military stores and
frontier stations hundred and ninety thousand dol
repairs barraks Baton Rouge Louisiana
the of twenty-five thousand dollars, expended
under the direction of the Secretary of War.
por mileage , or the allowance made to officers Of the
gage when travelling on duty without troops escorts
For transportation of the amy including the baggage
of the troops when moving either by land or water of
clothing camp and garrison equpage from the depot at
Philadelphia to the several posts army depos horse
equipments and of subsistence from the places of purchase
the Ps of lii under such
to be sent of ordnance ordnance stores and small ANS
from, 'Ss ana and to the
tolls and fcrages for the purchase and hire of horses
required for the transportation of supplies and garrison
hire of fransporatios of funds for the nav
and other dsbursng departments the of sailing
and the Pacific; and for procuring water at
such posts from their situation require that be brought
from distance und for clearing roads removing ob.
strucons from roads harbors. and rivers the extent
which be required for the actual operations of the
troops the frontier three million four hundred thousand
dollars
For the purchase of horses for the regiments of
goons the two regiments of cavalry the raeiment of
mounted ,emen and the companies Of light artillery
For contingencies Of the army thousand dol
| lars.
For the medical and hospital departments hundred
and five thousand dollars
For contingent expenses of the adjuant generals de-
parment at division and department headquarters i've