Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1860-08-16
By AUTHORITY.
LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES.
ruhlic 81.

AN ACT making appropriations Tor tno support
OF the army for the year ending the thiruetn OF
June, eighteen hundred and sixty-one
B,a enacted by the Senate and House Of Repre
seacatives Of tte United STATES Of Ameicd "a Con,
oyess assembled, That the following sums be, and
the same are hereby, appropriated, out OF any mo
uey in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, Tor
the support of the army for the year ending the
thirteth of juno, eighteen hundred and sixty
one.
For expenses Of recruiting, transportation of re-
cruits. three months extra pay to non coum's
stoned officers, musicians, aud pnyates on re'en'
stmeut, fifty thousand dollars.
For pay Of the army, three million five hundred
and ninety.one thousand seven hundred and egh
ty.iour dollars.
For commutation Of officers subsistence, nine
hundred and ninety eight thousand four hundred
and thirty four dollars and fifty cents.
For commutation of forage for officers horses,
one hundred and twenty four thousand one hun.
dred and twenty. ght dollars.
For payments to discharged soldiers for cloth
ing not drawn, fifty thousand dollars.
For payments in lieu of clothing for officers
eervants, thirty niue thousand elsht hnnuItd ana
ninety dollars.
For subsistence in kind, two million aid fifty
eight thousand six hundred dollars.
For clothing for the army, camp and garrison
euuipage and iron bedsteads for barracks, eight
hundred aud thIty.two thousand nine hundred and
eighty-one dollars and twelve ceuts.
For the regular supplies Of the quartermaster's
department. consisting OF fuel lor the officers, Gu.
listed men, guard, hospitals, storehousos and of
fees; of forage in kind tor the horses, mules, and
oxen of the quartermasters department at the scv.
ernl posts and stations and with the armies in the
field; for the horses Ot the two regiments OF drl-
goons, the two regiments OF cavalry, the regiment
OF mounted riAemen, the companies of light, artil
lery, and such companies OF infantry as may be
mounted and for the authorized number of officers
horses when serving in the field and ut the out
posts, including bedding for the animals, of straw
for soldiers bedding, and of stationery. including
blank books for the quartcrmister's department
certificates for discharged sold ers, blank forms
for the pay and quartcrmaster's departments; ant
for the printing of division and department order,
and reports, one million five hundred and eight.
thousand dollars.
For the incidental expenses Of the quartermas
ters department. consisting of postage of letter
aud packets received and SEN by officers OF tn
army on public service; expenses OF courts mar
tal and courts OF inquiry, including the additlOna
compensation ol Juuge advocates recorders, mem
bers, and witnesses, while on that service, unde
the act OF March sixteenth, eighteen hundred am
two; extra pay TO sOldisrs employed, under tue di
recton OF the quartrrmastur's department, IN tn
erection of barracks, quarters, storchOuscs am
hospitals; in the construction OF roads, and Ohe
constant labor for periods of not less than te
dred ami nineteen, and August fourth, cightce
hundred and ilty.iour, including those employee
as clerks at division and department headquarters
expenses of expresses to and from the tronte
posts and armies in the field; of escorts TO pay
masters and other dsbursng officers and to train
where military escorts cannot be furnished; cX
pcuse of the interment of officers killed in action
or who die when on duty in the field, at til
posts ON the frontiers, and of non cOmmssOne
officers and soldiers; authorized olicc furniture
hire of lnUOrers in the quartermasters department
including the hire oi Interpreters, SPIES and gud'
Tor the army, compensation OF clerks ot the oil
GERS of the quartcrmaster's department; compel
sltion OF forage aud wagonmasters, authorized t
the act of July fifth, eighteen hundred and thirt
eight; for the apprehension Of deserters, and tt
expenses incident to their pursuit; and for the ia
lowing expenditures required Tor the two regimen
oi dragOOus the two regiments OF cavalry, the rel
imcnt Of mounted riilcmcn, and such companies
infantry as may be mounted, viz; the purchase
travelling lorges bltcksmiths' and shoeing tool
horse and mul" shoes aud nails, iron and steel IL
thoeing, hire of veterinary surgeons, medicines {,
horses ana mules picket ropes, aul for shOclng III
horses of the corps named, tour hundred and se'
enty five thousand dollars
For constructing barracks and other building
At posts which it may be necessary to occupy dl
ring the year; for repaing, altering, and enlirgu
buildings at the established posts, including hire
commutation of quarters for onices ON mihtal
dutyi hire of quarters for troops, of storehous,
Tor the keeping of military stores, of grounds I,
summer cantonmcnts; for temporary frontier sti
tiOns, including fifteen thousand dollars for III
purchase of stoves, three hundred and fifty min
thousand three hundred and hity.one dollars an
iity-iour cents, to be expended as follows; viz:
For rents, including hlrc or commutation
quarters for officers on military duty hire ofqua
turs for troops oi storehouses for the safe keepn
ofmillLary stores, OF grounds for summer cantor
ments, and construction and repair OF barracks
temporary frontier stations, for the purchase
stores, and six hundred and eight dollars and eigl
ty seven cents tp be paid as back rent to the sit
of Fort Davis, Texas, one hundred and ninety. .Gv
thousand two hundred aud forty six dollars ali
twenty nine cents:--
For ropairing,alteriug and cularging buildings
established military posa, one hundred md thrt,
live thousand, five hundred and forty seven do
lars;-
For constructing barracks and other building
at the following posts, towit At Barrancas bl
racks, Key West, Fort Mackinac, in the dcpaI
ineut OF the east, twenty thousand hvc hundr'
aud seventy eight dollars aud fifty cents, at Il
nccia barracks in the department OF ClliIoni
three hundred aud six dollars and seventy Ii
cents; ut Fort Vancouver in the department
Oregon, seven thousand six hundred ami sevent
three dollars.
For mileage, or tie allowance made to Office
Of the army for the transportation of thcmsclv
and their baggage, when travelling on duty Wit
out troops, escorts or supplies, one hundred III
twenty five thousand dollars
For transportation of the army, Including Il
baggage of the troops when moving either by lal
az water orclothing, camp and garrison cqupag
from the depot nt Philadelphia to the several pos
and army dopots, and from those dcp1ts To Il
troops in the field; OF horse equipments and
subsistence from the places OF purchase aud fro
the places of delivery under contract, to sue
places NJ the circumstances of the service may n
Qure them TO bc sent; of ordnance, ordnant
stores, aud small arms from tuundrcs and arm
iies to the ar1enNls iortihCatiuus, frontier pos
and army depols; lfcights wnrlage, tolls and ic
ringes; for the purchase and hire of horses mul
and oxen, aud the purchase and repair OF wagon
carts and drIys, and of snlps, and other sea guil
vessels aud boats required for the transportation
supplies, aud for garrison purposes; tor dmVaj
and carriage atthc several posts; hire oltcam,trI
transportation OF funds ior the puy aud other III
hur4ug departments; the expense OF sailing pu
lie transports on the various rivers the Gulf
Mexico, and the Atlantic and Pacific; and f
pcurng water ut such posts, as from their situ
tion require that it bee brought from a distnuc
aud for clearing roads, aud removing obstructio
theren to the extent which may hc required
the actual operations oI the troops ON the 'front.',
two million three hundred and sixty thousand d,
lars.
For the purchase Of horses ior the two re-
mcnts Of dragons, the two regiments Of caval
aud the regiment of mounted riNcmcn, one h,
drci auA fifteen thousand dollars.
For contingencies ol the army, twenty five th