The Washington union. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1857-1859, 1859-03-09
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AN ACT making appropriations FOR the support Of the
army for the year ending the tLirteth of june eigh-
teen hundred aud sixty
Be aeaael Jg The Sear and Ioase of RepfesApahpes Of
he tod State Of ABiea C6a9res asseJia That the.
following be- and the hereby appropria-
ted out of any money in the treasury not otherwise APP
poprated for the support of the army for the year end
ing the thirtieth of june eighteen hundred and sixty
For expenses of recruiting transportation o., recruits,
three months extra pay to commissioned officers,
musicians, and priyates reenlistment, eighty nine
thousand nine hundred and nnenine dollars
For pay of the army, three million and ninety one
thousand seven hundred and eighty four dollars
For Communication of officers subsistence, nine hundred
and ninetyeght thousand four hundred aud thrtyiour
dollars and fifty cents.
For Communication OF forage for officers horses, one
hundred and four thousand hundred and twenty eight
dollars
For payments to discharged soldiers for clothing not
drawn, fifty thousand dollars
For payments in lieu of clothing for officers servants
thirty nine thousand eight hundred and ninety dollars
For subsistence in kind million nine hundred and
sixty nine thousand five hundred and forty dollars
For clothing for the army, camp, and garrison equip
age and iron be,steads for barracks million
hundred and twenty aine thousand eight hundred and
nine dollars and seventy y-eight cents
For the regular supplies Of the quarternaster depart
ment consisting of fuel for the officers, enlisted men,
guard hospitals storehouses, and Offices Of forage In
kind for the horses mules and oxen OF the quarernas
ter department at the several posts and stations and
with the armies in the field for the horses OF the two
regiments of dragoons the two regiments W cavalry,
the regiment of mounted rlemen the coinpanics OF
light artillery, and such companies infantry may be
mounted and for the authorized number Of oficers'
horses when serving in the field and outposs in
cludng bedding for the animals straw for soldiers bed
ding, and of stationery including blank books for tha
quartermasters department. certificates for discharged
soldiers blank forms for the pay and quarermasters de-
partments and for the printing OF division and department
orders and reports one million four hundred and forty
thousand dollars
For the incidental expenses of the quarermastei dc
partment consisting of postage letters and packets
o ne arm on
expenses of courts martial and courts Of Inquiry including
the additional compensation of Judge advocates ecoders,
members and Witnesses while that service, under the
act of March sixteenth eighteen hundred and two extra
pay TO soldiers employed under the direction of the quar-
temasters department in the erection of barracks quar-
ters storehouses and hospitals in the construction of
roads and other constant labor periods Of not less
than ten days. under the acts OF March second eighteen
hundred and nineteen, and August fourth eighteen hun
dred and -four, including those employed clerks at
division aud department headquarters expenses of
presses to and from The frontier posts and armies in the
field of escorts to paymasters and other discussing ofi
GERS and to trains where military escorts cannot be fur
nished expense of the intenent of officers Killed in
on who die when duty in the field at the posts
on the frontiers, and of commissioned officers and
soldiers authorized Office furniture hire Of aborers in
the quarteasters department, including the hire OF in
tepretcis Spies and guides for the army compensation
of clerks OF the officers of the quartermaser department.
compensation of forage and wagon masters authorized by
the act of July iith eighteen hundred and thirty eight
for the apprehension of deserters and the expenses Incl
dent to their pursuit and for the following expenditures
required for the two eegments OF Dragons the reg
mcnts OF cavalry the regiment OF mounted riemen and
such companies OF infantry may be mounted viz the
purchase Of travelling orges blacsmiths and shoeing
tools, horse and mule shoes and nails iron and steel for
shoeng hire of veterinary surgeons medicines for horses
and mules picket ropes and for shoeng the horses OF the
corps named, four hundred and fifty Thousand dollars
Prod That the amount of this appropriation b,ow the
estimates shall be deducted from amount estimated
f,r pay of laborers in the quarernaster Department.
For constructing barracks and other buildings al posts
which il may be necessary to occupy during the year
and for repairing, altering, and enlargng buildings
at the established posts including hire communication
of quarters for officers military duty hire Of QUAR-
tiers for troops, of sorehouses for the safe keeping
of military stores, and of grounds for summer car
tonmens and for temporary frontier stations three hur
dred thousand dollars Eropaed That no permanent
barracks and quarters shall hereafter be constructed u
less detailed estimates shall have been previously sub
mited to Congress and shall have been approved by
special appropriation for the same.
For mileage the allowance made to officers OF the
army for the transportation of themselves and their Bag
gage, when travelling duty without troops escorts
or supplies one hundred and twenty-five thousand dol
lars Propdd, That mileage shall he allowed when
the officer has been transferred relieved his own re-
quest
For transportation of the army including the baggage
OF the troops when moving either 10y land water of
clothing camp and garrison cqupage from the tcpot MT
Philadelphia TO the several posts and army depos and
from those depots to the troops in the field Of horse
equipments and of subsistence from the places purchase
and from the places of delivery under contract to such
places the circumstances of the service ay require
them to be sent of ordnance ordnance stores and small
arms from the foundries and anories to the asenals
ortiicatons frontier posts aud army depots freighrs
wharfage tolls and errages for the purchase and hire
VI horses mules and oxen and the purchase and repair
OF wagons carts and days and of ships aud other sea-
BohB Vessels nhu pus required The
supplies and Tor garrison purposes or drayaee and CART
age at the several posts hire o teamsters
tions OF funds for the pay and other disbrsn der,
ments the expense of sing public transports n tbe
various rivers, the Gulf of Mexico and the A,,antc ana
Paclhc and for procuring at such pos,s ne from,
and Tor clearing roads and removing distractions therein
to the extent which may be required for the actual
tions OF thetroops the frontier three million dollars
For the purchase of horses for the regiments Of
dragoons the two regiments a cavalry the yegint of
mounted rhemen, and the companies of light artillery
two hundred thousand dollars.
For contingencies of the army fifteen thousat.a dol.
lars
For the medical and hospital departments nlnety-one
thousand dollars
For contingent expenses OF the adiutant generals de-
partment at department. headquarters, five hundred dol
lars.
For compensation of the clerk and messenger in abe
office of the commanding general thousand dollars
For contingent expenses the office OF the command
Ing general, three hundred dollars.
For armament Of fortfoations two hundred thousand
dollars of which fifty thousand dollars are to be used
for experiments ON heavy ordnance
For ordnance, ordnance stores and supplies incl lane
horse equipments for the regiments two nndeI
thousand dollars
ciudng experiments in and am orn,tion mot otbo
yuiue prnN f.laIf frr h.x.yr A