Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1861-07-26

LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES.
fa'sed at the First Session of the Thirty-seventb
Congress.


ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty
COY
Be enacted By The Senate and House of representa-
tees Of ne United States Of america Congress as
SetlbIed, That the following sums be and the same
are hereby appropriated, out of any money in the
Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the sup
port OF the army for the year ending the thrtieh of
June, eighteen hundred and siXty-two.
For expenses of recruiting, transportation of re-
cruits from the different rendezvous to general de-
pots, procuring of medical attendance and all other
expenses attending the raising of twenty-our thou
sand TWO hundred and eghty-iiye men, to be organ
lied into nine regiments Of infantry one regiment
of cavalry, and one regiment of artillery, us per
general orders number sixteen, dated War Depart
ment, Adjutant Generals Office, Washington, May
fourth, eighteen hundred and siXty-one three hum
dred and fitty-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-nine thousand eight hundred and forty
eight dollars and eighty weight cents.
For Communication of otcers' subsistence, four
hundred and seventy-eight thousand three hundred
and seventeen dollars and sixty cents.
For commutation of forage for officers horses,
seventy-three thousand and iity-sX dollars.
For payments in lieu of clothing for officers
wants. ifty-seyen thousand one hundred and eighty
dollars
For pay of the three months volunteers, two
million five hundred and seven thousand dollars
For pay of the two and three years. volunteers,
fifty five million dollars.
For subsistence in kind for regular troops, two
million four hundred and ninety three thousand four
hundred 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 quartemaster's
department, consisting of fuel for the officers en-
listed men guard hospital, storehouses, and Offices
of forage in kind for the horses, mules, and oxen of
the Quarermasters department at the several posts
and stations, and with the armies i'll 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
afs blank books
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-fiv thousand, fifty dollars
and thirty-seyen 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-maItial 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 i'll the erection of barracks, quarters,
storehouses 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, nciud-
ing those employed clerks at division and de-
paItment headquarters; expenses of expresses to
and from the frontier posts and armies in the field
of escorts to paymastels and other disbursing Off
GERS and to trains where military escorts cannot be
furnshed expenses of the interment of officers kill
ed in action or who die when on duty i'll the field
or at the posts the frontiers at other posts
and places, when ordered by the secretary of war,
and of non-commissoned officers and soldiers;
thoTized office furniture; hire of laborers in the
quartermasters department. including the hire of in
terpreters and guides for the army compensation of
clerks to officers of the quartermaster's department.
compensation of forage and wagon masters, author
lied by the act of fifth July, eighteen hundred and
thirty eight for the apprehension OF deserters and
the expenses incident TO their pursuit. and for tile
following expenditures required for the regiments
of dragons and light artillery viz the purchase of
travelling FORCES, backsmiths and shoeing TOOLS
horse and mule shoes and nails iron and steel for
shoeing, hire of veterinary surgeons, medicines for
horses and mules, picket ropes, and for shoeng the
horses of the corps named, seven million six hun.
bred and siXty-siX thousand six hundred and sixty
six dollars
For the purchase of dragoon and artillery horses
ten million five 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 supplleS iYe hundred thousand
dollars
For transportation of the army, including the
baggage of the troops, when moving either by land
water; OF clothing, camp and garrison equpage,
from the depot at Philadelphia to the several posts
and army depots, and from those depOts to 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 arms from the foundries
and armOres to the arseIials, Notifications, frontier
posts, and army depots; freights wharfage, tolls,
and ierliages; the purchase and hire OF horses,
wagons, carts, and drays; and Of ships and other
sea-gong vessels and boats required lor the trans
poration of supplies and for garrison purposes for
drayage and carriage at the several posts; hire of
teamsteTs transportation OF funds for the pay and
other dsbursng departments; the expense OF sailing
public transports the various rivers, the Gulf OF
Mexico, and the Atlantic, and Tor procuring water
such posts from their situation require it to be
brought from 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 tfty-four dollars.
For gunboats on the western rivers, one million
dollars
Hire of quarters for troops of storehouses for the
safe-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, thir
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 seventy-one thousand
eight hundred and forty-one dollars.
For armament of Notifications, four hundred and
fifty-seven 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, i'll
Guiding horse equipments for all mounted troops
two million three hundred and sixty thousand dol
lars.
hundred and seventy-three thousand three hundred
and ten dollars.
For increasing the manufacturing capacity of the
national armory, four hundred and twenty-five
thousand five hundred dollars.
For the purchase OF gunpowder and lead, four
hundred and filty-one thousand seven hundred and
eighty dollars.
For the purchase of artillery horses two hundred
and seventy-iye thousand dollars
For additions to and extensions of the shop-room,
machinery tools, and fixtures at the different
mails, one hundred and twenty-six thousand six hum
dred and ninety dollars
For the following Notifications;
Fort Montgomery, Lake Champaign, New York,
twenty thousand dollars.
Fort Knox, Penobscot river, Maine, twenty thou
sand dollars,
Fort on Hog Island Ledge, Portland harbor
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 twen-
ty-1ive thousand dollars.
Fort Calhoun, Hampton Roads, Virginia, twenty
five thousand dollars.
Fort Taylor, Key West, Florida, one hundred
thousand dollars.
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
fornia 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
thousand dollars.
For contingencies of fortiicatons thirty thousand
dollars
For surveys for military defences, fifty thousand
dollars.
For amount required to refund to the State ex-
penses incurred account ofvounteers called into
the field, ten million dollars
Sec 2. And be it further enacted, That the following
sums be and they are hereby appropriated to be
wise appropriated, for arrearages for the year end
ing thrtieth of June, eighteen hundred and sixty
one.
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