Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1860-08-29
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Public Laws of the United States
Passed at the first session Of the Thiry-SiA Congress

: : eighteen hun red and sixty one.
Be i enacted By the and Eouse Of Repreentatise
Of tile Uni. States of Aasrcd IN CO1grssy assembled Tha
the 70 lowing be- and the hereby appropriated
out Of in the otherwise appropriated 70
the support Of the for the year ending the theth
! June, eighteen bundled and sixty
For expenses of recruiting Transportation of recruits tre
months extra pay noncommssioned officers, musicians,
priIate5 on re enlistment, fifty thousand dollars
For pay Of the army three million, fvs hundre1 and ninety
one thousand hundret and eighty four dollars.
For Communication Of officers subsistence nine hundred
afty cents
For cOmmutaon of forage for officers horses hundred
For payments to discharged soldiers for clothing drawn
nfy thousand dollars.
For pa lieu of clothing for officers servants thirty
nine thousand eight hundred and ninety dollars
For subsistence in kind million and ftyesh thousand
Fer clothing for the army camp and garrison equipsge and
iron bedseads for barracks eight bundled and rytwo thou
sand nine hundred and eighty dollars and twelve cents
For the regular supplies Of the quarten asters
consisting OF fuel for tie oeefs enlisted men, guard
storehoue5 ar oces oil forage In KIND or me horses mules
and Of the departm at the ss'ea posts
stations and with the field for the horses Of
the two msn Oh dragoons the TWO regiments cVay the
regiment Of mounted rhenen the companies Of light artillery
authorized number officers serving the field
and the outpost including bedding for the anma OF straw
for soldiers bedding and Of stationery, including blank books
for the qusrtemaste department. certificates for discharged
soldiers 6ans forms r the pay and depart
and reports, million five hundred and eighty thousand dol
| lars.
consisting OF postage letters and packets received and sent By
officers of the army on public service expenses courts mar
a and courts Of inquiry including the additional expenses Of
judge advocates recorders, members and Witnesses while
thai service 1nir the act OF March sixteenth eighteen hundred
the quarteTmaster department. in the erection Of barracks,
quarters, storehouses and hospitals in the construction Of
roads, and other labor for periods of not less than
under the Of March second eighteen hundred and
nineteen and August fourth eighteen hundred and IN
Guiding those employed clerks at division and department
headquarters Of expresses 10 and from the roT tier
posts armies n the field Of escorts paymaster and other
furnished expense IT the inerment Of officers killed in acen
who die when duty in the field at the posts the from
Of commissioned officers and soldiers authorized
furniture hre Of laOore in the quartemasters depart
ment including the hlre OF Interpreters ps ana guides Tor
the army compensation Of clerks Of the officers Of the quarter
masters dePartme compensation Of forage and wsgona as ers
authorized by the act Of July hh egh een hundred and thirty
eight the apprehension Of dasees and the expenses Incl
dent their pursuit and fer the following expenditure
qus for the two nf dragoons the two Of
cavalry the regiment Of mounted hemen and such companies
Of infantry be mounted viz the purchase Of travelling
orges smiths sheng tos and mule shoes and
nails iron and STEEL for hire Of veterinary surgeons
medicine, for horses and mules picket and for soeng
the horses Of the named four hundred and seventy
thousand dollars.
be to during the for repairing,
altering and enlsgng buildings at the established posts incu
ding hire commuaan Of quarters for OeeFs military
duty hire of quarters for troops for stoehouse for the keep
ing military store grounds
temporary frontier stations including fifteen thousand dol
lars for the purchase Of stoves three hundred and fifty nine
thousand thr hundred and fifty dollars cents,
to be expended as follows viz:
For rents including hire Communication Of quarters for on
military duty hire OF quarters for troops, sorehouss
the safe keeping military of grounds for
and Construction and repairs barracks tempo
DIRE gh dollars and gyseven be paid
thousand two hundred and foIyK dollars and twenty nine
cents
military posts hundred and thirty five thousand, fYe hun
dred and forty seven dollars
constructor buildings at the following
posts to Wit At Barrancas barracks Key West FORT Macknac
the department # the twenty thousand hundred and
seventy eight dollars and fifty BeDca in
the department OF California tn hundred and dollars
five Fort Vancouver department of Ore
seven hcuard six hundred and seventy dollars.
mileage, the allowance made
the transport ion Of themselves and their baggage when travel
duty without troops escorts supplies one hundred and
twenty five thousand dollars.
For transportation of the army, including the baggage the
troops when moving either by land clothing camp
and garrison equpsge, from the depot at Phia epha TO the
several posts ard depOts and from those depots
troops in the fed Of horse equipments and Of subsistence from
the places and from the places OF delivery under
such pacs the Of may
quire them be Of ordnance ordnance sore
from foundees and srmOea the arsena fOrhcaons,
frontier posts and dpos fegh wharfage, tolls, and
f.rags for the purchase and hire horses mules oxen
and the purchase and repair Of wagons CARTS ys and Of ships
and other vessels, and ats red for the
carta~e At h. several Dos hire Of tesmster,
of funds for the pay other Disturbing departments
Gulf Mexico ntc Pacific for procuring
water at such posts from their suson require that
obucons therein to the extent which may required for
actual operations Othe troops the frontier million
hundred aud sixty thouSsnd dollars.
For the purchase horses for the regiments Of dragoons
the two regiments of cavalry and the regiment mounted rife
men, one hundred aud fifty thouSa' dol
For contingencies Of the twenty five thousand dollars
For the me ics and hospital departments. seventy
and two hundred and twenty five dollars and fifty
For contingent expense gtneTss department
at department headquarters, five hundred dollars.
For compensation Of the clerk and messenger the office Of
the commanding general, two thousand dollars.
For expenses the office Of the commanding
raj, three hundred dollars.
Of forfcaions, dOlsrs
FIR the expenses the SERVICE hundred
and fifty six thousand dollars.
For ordnance ordnance supplies, including
eouimeu for the mounted regiments, two hundred and fifty
thou and dollsrs.
For horses and horse medicines for the beresof light art
cry thirty thousand dollars.
the manufa of at the national armOrs two
hundred and ty thousand dollars.
Fer repairs and i'm Smachnery at Spring
fe ry, Maschu ettS Of which twelve thousand dollars
water shops sixty three thousand six hundred and twenty
five dollars.
repairs and improvements and new machinery at Harper
Ferry srmory sixty five thousand five hundred dollars
For the Allegheny arsna six thousand three hundred and
Fcrs he Benicia arsenal, fifty thousand dollars. |
For Charleston arsenal, fifteen thousand dollars
and fifty dollars.
For New York arsenal one thousand huDdred dollars.
For North Carolina arsena REPAIRS and fixtures five
thousand five hund ed dollars.
Fer St Louis arsenal three thousand fifty
dollars.
For Texas arsenal, forty three thousand dollars.
For Washing arsenal two thousand five hundred dollars.
For Wartown arseRs two thousand five bundled dolar.
For Watervliet arsenal, eleven thousand dollars
For contingencies Of arsenals, twenty thousand dollars
surveys military deences geographical explorations
and reconoances for military purposes and surveys with the
armies in the field, fifty thousand dollars.
For printing charts Of lave surveys, thousand dollars
For continuing The Of the northern aid northwestern
lakes including lake SUPERIOR eventy.fve thousaud doa,s
For the manufacture purchase apparatus equipments
for field signals two thousand dollars. that added
to the st fl Of the army signal officer with the rank, pay
and allowances # major Of cavalry who shall have charge
Of all bosks ers and sppaatus connected herewith
For snd selection Of Sites and plans nd estimates
for military posts on or near tie valley Of the Red River
North between the forty sixth and and forty ninth degrees Of
north latitude and at Fort Cobb, Indian Terri
hvs thousand and that report thereon
to the Of Congress.
For econsTuctnE the stables at Carlisle barracks eight tous
the Third Auditor of Treasury to settle the suspen
ded accounts Of officers for disbursements through the
master genera department for supplies furnished and stores
Transported for the hree Ofvounteer called into The
te United States in the Territory Of Kansas
teen hundred and fifty by authority Of the War Department
The sum OF i've thousand dollars much thereof may
To able the Secretary e the restore their rea
ves in Wiscon in four orphan children Edward Mmore
about the ryfst day Of August eighteen fifty
nine ab ut one hundred miles north sstLake City, party
H ludans Tor Norm disguised such who escaped
massacre and found refugees Camp Floyd, fifteen hundred dol
lars.
srG ARd6e IL further enacted That there be added to the
medical corps the army four surgeons and four assistant sur
SEC An be- II Srt6er e11ctS5 Tnat he fooriag sums
be- and they hereby sppropra ed, Of in the
not otherwise appropriated for the following rea
Fort Montgomery Lake Champaign New York, thousand
Fort knox, Penob.cot Bay Baine twenty thousand dollars
FOrt Bong Island Ledge, Portland harbOr, Maine thirty
Port Winthrop harbor, Massachusetts,, ten thousand
dollars
Fort at the Bedford babOr, Massachusetts,
twenty five thousand dollars.
Fort Adams Newport hsrbor Rhode IsaOd five thousand DOL
lars
Richmond, Island, New York, fifteen thousand
dollars
the sits Of Fort TOnpkis Staten Island, New York.
twenty five thousa nd dollars
Additional batteries Hamilton the NarTews, New
York, fifty thousand dollars
Fort IalrO Baltimore harbOr, Maryland, ATTY thousand dol
lars. .--..
Fort Delaware Delaware River fly thousand dollars
Hampton Roads, Virginia Ave thousand dollars
Artesan well at Fort Monroe six tbousand dollars.
Repairing Mt bridge Mill Creek, near Fort
Mcnrle, five hundred dollars
Fort Calhoun, Hampton Roads virsniA, y thousand dol