Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1861-08-05


TPupIIo-No. 81
AN ACT making additional appropriations for the
support of the army for the fiscal year ending
June thirtieth eighteen hundred and sixty two,
and appropriations OF afrearages for the fiscal year
ending June thirtieth. eighteen hundred and sixty
one
sires Of e United States Of america IN Congress as.
se,nblsd That the following sums be and tile same
are hereby appropriated, out of any money in the
Treasury, not otherwise appropriated. for the sun
mort of the army for the year ending the thireth of
June, eighteen hundred and siNty-two.
For expenses of recruiting, transportation of re-
cruts from the different rendezvous TO general de-
pots procuring of medical attendance, and all other
expenses attending the raising OF twenty-four thou
sand ;wo hundred and eighty live men, to be organ
lied into nine regiments of infantry, regiment
of cavalry, and one regiment Of artillery as per
general orders number sixteen. dated War Depart
ment, Adjutant Generals Office Washington. MAY
fourth, eighteen hundred aud sixty -one three hun
dred and ffty-eight thousand dsllars
For purchase OF books Of tactics and instruction
for the volunteers, fifty thousand dollars.
For pay of the army, three million nine hundred
and sixty mine thousand eight hundred and forty
eight dollars, and eighiy-eight cents
For communication OF officers subsistence. -four
hundred and sesenty-eiglt thousand three hundred
and seventeen dollars and sixty cents.
For Communication of forage for officers horses
seyepty-three thousand and fty-siX dollars.
For payments in lieu of clothing for officers ser.
wants. fiftyseyen thousand one hundred and eighty
For nav of the three months volunteers, two
million five hundred and seven thousand dollars
-i For subsistence in Kind for regular troops, two
million four hundred and ninety thousand four
ndred and ninety-seyen dollars and fifty cents.
For subsistence in kind for two and three years
volunteers twenty-three million eighty four thou
sand two hundred and eighty four dollars.
For the regular supplies OF the Quartermasef's
department. consisting of fuel for the officers, en-
listed men, guard. hospital, sorehOuses and offices:
of forage in kind for the horses mules and oxen OF
the quartermasters department at the several posts
and stations and with the armies in the field; for
the horses of the regiments of dragons, and for the
authorized number of officers horses when serving
in the field and at the outposts, including bedding
for the animals; of straw for soldiers bedding; and
of stationery, including blank books for tile quar-
termaster's department. certificates for discharged
soldiers blank forms for the pay and quartermas-
ters department, and for printing of division and
department orders and reports, fourteen million two
hundred and siXty-tve thousand, ffty-n dollars
and thirty-seven cents
For the incidental expenses of the quartermasters
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-
sation OF judges 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 quartermasters
department in the erection of barracks, quarters
stoTehouses, and hospitals, in the construction of
roads, and other constant labor, for periods Of
less than ten days, under the acts of second of
March, eighteen hundred and nineteen, and offourth
of August, eighteen hundred and fifty -four, incud-
ing those employed as clerks at division and de-
partment headquarters; expenses of expresses to
and from the frontier posts and armies in the field
of escorts to paymasteis and other Disturbing Off
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 field,
or at the posts the frontiers, at other posts
and places when ordered by the secretary OF war.
and of non-commissioned officers and soldiers; au-
thorized Office furniture; hile Of laborers in the
quartermasters department, including The hire of in
terpreteTs and guioes Tor the army compensation OF
clerks to officers OF the quartermasters department
forage amt nt-
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 Tor the
following expenditures required for the regiment:
of dragons and light artillery, viz; the purchase
travelling FORCES, backsmiths' and shoeing tools
horse and mule shoes and nails, iron and steel TO
shoeing, hire OF veterinary surgeons, medicines 10
horses and mules. picket ropes and for shoeing Iii
horses OF the corps named, seven million six hun
dred and siAty-slA thousand six hundl ed and sixty
six dollars.
For the purchase of dragoon and artillery horse
ten million five hundred and fourteen thousand fl,
hundred dollars.
For mileage, or the allowance made to officers {
the army for the transportation OF themselves an
their baggage when travelling on duly withou
troops escorts, or supplies, FIVE hundred thousan
dollars.
For transportation of the army, including tn
baggage of the troops, when moving either by lam
or water; of clothing, camp and garrison eQuipage
from the depot at Philadelphia to the several post
and army depots. and IRON those depots 10 III
troops in the field; and subsistence from the place
OF purchase and from the places of delivery, unde
service may require them to be sent; of ordnance
ordnance stores, and small arms from the 1oundrie
and armories TO the arsenais Notifications, frontie
posts, and army depOts Heights, wharfage, tolls
and r1hsealhss Ii1I1.zaiis2 of horses
mulN and harness, and the purchase and lepaiy o
Wagons, carts, and dlays; and OF ships ana othe
sea5yong vessels and boats required Tor the trans
p0fation of supplies and for garrison purposes; 10
drayage and carriage at the several posts; hire o
teamsteTs; transportation OF funds for the LAY ant
other disbursing departments the expense OF sain,
public transports on the various rivers, the Gulf
Mexico, and the Atlantic, and Tor procuring water
at such posts as from their situation require it be
brought from distance; and for clearing roads
and removing distractions from Dads, harb0rs 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
bred and fifty dollars
For gunboats the western rivers, one million
dollars.
Hire quarters for troops of storehouses for the
safe-keeping Of military stores of grounds for sum
mer environments and Tor temporary huts, one mil
lion five hundred thousand dollars.
For clothing, camp and garrison equipage, ihr
teen million TOUR hundred and sixteen thousand
four hundred and tllirty-seven dollars and twi
cents.
For contingencies OF the army, two hundre,
thousand dollars.
For the medical and hospital departments on
million two hundred and seventy zone thousant
eight hundred and forty-one dollars.
For armament of Notifications, four hundred ant
ffty-seven thousand six hundred dollars
For the current expenses of the ordnance service
two hundred and six thousand two hundred an,
ninety-two dollars.
For ordnance, ordnance stores, and supplies in
GLIDING 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 armoIy, four hundred and twenty two
thousand five hundred dollars.
For the purchase of gunpowder and lead four
hundred and iitty-one thousand seven hundred and
eighty dollars.
IS,r4 l.a
and seventy five thousand dollars.
For additions 10 and extensions of the sbop-room,
machinery, tools and fixtures at the different arse
mails, one hundred and twenty-sx thousand six hun
bred and ninety dollars
For the following Notifications:
Fort Montgomery, Lake Champlan New York
twenty thousand dollars.
Fort Knox, Penobseot river, Maine, twenty thou
sand dollars.
Maine, fifteen thousand dollars.
Fort Adams, Newport harbor, Rhode Island, five
thousand dollars.
Fort Richmond, Staten Island, New York, tel
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.tiye thousand dollars.
Fort Calhoun, Hampton Roads, Virginia twenty.
five Thousand dollars.
Fort Taylor, Key West, Florida, one hundred
Fort Jefferson, Garden Key, Florida one hundred
thousand dollars.
Fort at Fort Point, San Francisco bay California
fifty thousand dollars.
Fort at Alcatraz Island, San Francisco bay, Cali
fornla, twenty-five thousand dollars
Fort at Sandy Hook, New York harbor one hun
bred thousand dollars.
For repairs and alterations of barracks quarters
at forts not permanently occupied by troops, ten
t 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 ofyolunteers called into