Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1861-07-30

department, consisting of postage on letters and
packets received and sent by officers OF the army
public service; expenses OF courts-martial and
courts OF inquiry, including the additional cOmpen-
satlon oiJudges advocate, recorders members and
witnesses, while on that service, under the act OF
eighteen hundred and two; extra pay TO soldiers
employed under the direction OF the quartermasers
department in the erection OF barracks, quarters,
storehouses, and hospitals, in the construction OF
roads, and other constant lnbor Tor periods of not
less than ten days, under the acts of second Of
March, eighteen hundred and nineteen and OF fourth
of August eighteen hundred and fifty Jour, includ
ing those employed as clerks at division and de-
partment headquarters expenses OF expresses to
and from the frontier posts and armies in the Held !
of escorts to paymastels and other DISTURBING OIL
GERS and to trains where military escorts cannot be
furnished expenses OF the interment of officers kill
ed in action, or who die when on duty in the held
at the posts the frontiers, or at other posts
and places, when ordered by the secretary of war,
and of non-commissioned officers and soldiers; au-
thorized office furnituIe hire of laborers in the
quaiteimasters department. including the hire of i'll
terpreters and gudes for the army compensation of
clerks to officers of the quartermasters department.
compensation of forage and wagon masters, author
lied by the act of fifth July eighteen hundred and
thirty eight; for the apprehension of deserers and
the expenses incident to their pursuit; and for the
following expenditures required for the regiments
of dragons and light artillery, viz the purchase of
travelling torges, blacksmiths' and shoeing tools,
horse ana mule shoes and nails, iron and steel for
shoeng, hire of veterinary surgeons, medicines for
horses and mules. picket ropes, and for shoeing the
horses OF the corps named, seven million six hun.
dred and sixtysix thousand six hundred and sixty
six dollars.
For the purchase of dragoon and artillery horses,
ten million i've hundred and fourteen thousand five
hundred dollars.
For mileage, or the allowance made to officers OF
the army for the transportation of themselves and
their baggage when travelling on duty without
troops, escorts or supplies, 1--WE hundred thousand
dollars
For transportation of the army, including the
baggage of the troops, when moving either by land
or wateri OF clothing, camp ana garrison equlpage,
from the depot at hlaoellia 10 the several posts
and army depots, ana nom those depots 10 the
troops in the field; and subsistence from the places
OF purchase and from the places of delivery, under
contract, to such places the circumstances OF the
service may require them TO be sent OF ordnance,
ordnance stores and small from the loundries
and armories to the arsenals tortiicatons frontier
posts, and army depots; fIeights, wharfage, tolls,
and ferrlages; the purchase and hire OF horses
mules, ana harness, and the purchase and repair of
wagons, carts, and draysi and of ships and other
sea-golng vessels and boats required the trans
portation of supplies and for garrison purposes for
drayage and carriage at the several posts hire of
teamsters transportation OF funds for the pay and
other dlsbursng departments the expense of sailing
public transports on the various rivers the Gulf Of
Mexico and the Atlantic, and for procuring water
at such posts from their situation REQUIRE il to be
brought from a distance; and Tor clearing roads
and removing distractions from roads, harbors, and
rivers, to the extent which may be required for the
actual operation of the troops in the field sixteen
million two hundred and twenty thousand nine hun.
dred and ffty-iour dollars.
For gunboats ON the western rivers one million
dollars.
sate-keeping of military stores OF grounds for sum-
mer environments and for temporary huts, one mil
lion five hundred thousand dollars.
For clothing, camp and garrison equipage. thr.
teen million TOUR hundred and sixteen Thousand
four hundred and thirty-seven dollars and two
cents.
For contingencies Of the army, two hundred
thousand dollars.
For the medical and hospital departments, one
million two hundred and seyenty-one thousand
eight hundred and forty-One dollars.
OF armament OF Notifications, four hundred and
ftty-sepen thousand six hundred dollars.
For the current expenses of the ordnance service
TWO hundred and six thousand two hundred and
ninety-two dollars.
For ordnance, ordnance stores, and supplies, in
Guiding horse equipments for all mounted troops
TWO million three hundred and sixty thousand dol
lars.
For the manufacture of arms, two million five
hundred and seYenty-three thousand three hundred
and ten dollars.
For increasing the manufacturing capacity of the
national armory, tour hundred and twenty two
thousand five hundred dollars.
For the purchase OF gunpowder and lead, four
eighty dollars. =
For the purchase of artillery horses, two hundred
and seventy-five thousand dollars
For additions to and extensions of the shop-room
machinery, tools, and fixtures at the different arse
mails, one hundred and twenty-siX thousand six hum
dred and ninety dollars
For the following Notifications:
Fort Montgomery, Lake Champlain, New York,
twenty thousand dollars.
Fort Knox, Penobscot river, Maine, twenty thou
sand dollars.
-Eort on Hog Island Ledge, Portland ihurinrr.-
Maine fifteen thousand dollars.
Fort Adams, Newport harbor, Rhode Island, five
thousand dollars.
Fort Richmond, Staten Island, New York ten
thousand dollars.
Fort on site of Fort Tompkins, Staten Island, New
York fifty thousand dollars.
Fort at Willet's Point, opposite Fort SCHUYLER
New York, one hundred thousand dollars.
Fort Carroll Baltimore harbor, Maryland TWEEN.
ty.fye thousand dollars.
Fort Calhoun, Hampton Roads, Virginia twenty
five thousand dollars.
Fort Taylor, Key West, Florida. one hundred
Fort Jefferson, Gardo6Key, Florida, one hundred
thousand dollars.
Fort at Fort Point, San Francisco bay, California,
fifty Thousand dollars.
Fort at Alcatraz Island. San Francisco bay, Cali
fornIa, twenty-five thousand dollars.
Fort at Sandy Hook, New York harbor, one hun
For repairs and alterations of barracks quarters
at forts not permanently occupied by troops, ten
thousand dollars
For contingencies Of Notifications thirty thousand
dollars.
For surveys for military defences, fifty thousand
dollars.
For amount required to refund to the State ex-
penses incurred ON account ofyounteers called into
the field, ten million dollars.
Sec. 2 And be 1t further enacted That the following
sums be and they are hereby appropriated, to be
paid out of any money in the Treasury not other
wise appropriated, for aITearages to- the year end
ing thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and sixty
one
For subsistence in kind for three months voun-
teers, one million two hundred and eghtyone thou
sand dollars.
For subsistence in kind for two and three years.
volunteers, four hundred and twenty thousand
dollars
For the regular supplies of the quartermaster's
department, five hundred and sixty-fve thousand
two hundred and forty-six dollars and sixty-three
cents.
For incidental expenses of the quartermasters de-
partment three hundred and sixty-fve thousand
and thirteen dollars and eighty cents
For transportation of the army and its supplies,
two million, two hundred and ffty-iour thousand
one hundred and eighty six dollars and eighty-one
cents.
For transportation of officers baggage, fifteen
thousand three hundred and sixty-seven dollars.
For purchase of dragoon horses, two hundred
and ninetyseyen thousand three hundred and thirty
live dollars.
For clothing, camp and garrison equipage, one
million three hundred and fifty thousand Que hun
bred and ffty-one dollars and thirty eight cents.
For current expenses of ordnance service, twen-
ty thousand dollars.
For ordnance ordnance stores and supplies, in.
Guiding horse equipments for all mounted troons
four hundred thousand dollars.
For manufacture of arms, sixty thousand dollars
For increasing the manufacturing capacity of the
national armory, fifty thousand dollars.
For the purchase of gunpowder and lead, forty
thousand dollars
For purchase of artillery horses, twenty five thou
sand dollars.
For hire fquarers for troops of store houses for
the safe keeping of military stores, of grounds for
summer environments, and for temporary huts, one
hundred and ftty-eight thousand two hundred and
eighty-three dollars, and eighty cents
Sec. And be 1t further enacted, That all appropra-
tions, and all provisions of law herein contained
applicable to three years. volunteers shall apply to
two years volunteers who have been may be re-
ceived into the service of the United States for a
period exceeding three months.
Approved July H. 1861.
tPUBLIc-No. II
| AN ACT TO alter and regulate the navy ration.
BE ii enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives Of the United States Of America Congress sss-
bed That the navy ration shall consist of the follow
ing daily allowance of provisions to each person. one
| pound of salt pork, with half pint Of beans or
peas; or one pound OF salt beef, with half pound
OF Hour, and two ounces of dried apples, or other