Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1861-08-03

uepdttlneDl, cObSlSting OF postage on letters ana
packets received and sent by officers OF the army on
public service; expenses of courts martial and
courts of inquiry, including the additional compen
sation OF judges advocate, recorders, members and
witnesses, While that service, under tie act OF
eighteen hundred and two; extra pay to soldiers
employed under the direction of the quaftermasters
department i'll the erection of barracks, quarters,
stoiehouses and hospitals in the construction OF
roads, and other constant labor, 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 hund ed and fifty -four, includ-
ing those employed as clerks at DIVISION ana de-
-paitment headquarters; expenses OF expresses 10
and from the II ontier posts and ~ mics III the held
OF escorts TO paymastes and other DISTURBING ON
ceis and to trains where military escorts cannot De
furnished expenses of the ineiment OF ofhcers KILL
ed in action, or who die when ON duty i'll the heId,
at the posts the frontiers, or AT other posts
and places, when Ordered BY the secretary OF war,
and of non-commissioned officers and soldleisi nu-
thorized office furnituie hire of laborers III the
quareImasters department. including the hire OF III
terpreters and guides for the amy 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
thity'eght; for the apprehension of deserters and
the expenses incident TO their pursuit; and Tor the
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 Tor
shoeng, hire OF veterinary surgeons, medicines Tor
horses and mules picket ropes, and for shoeng the
horses OF the corps named, seven million SIX hun
dred and sixty six thousand six hundred and sixty
six dollars.
or the purchase OF uTugOOu ana tllIery nOlses,
ten million five hundred and fourteen thousand five
hundred dollars
For mileage, or the allowance made TO officers OF
the army Tor the transportation OF themselves AID
their baggage when travelling on duty without
troops, escorts, or supplies FIVE hundred thousand
dollars.
For transportation of the army, including the
baggage of the Il OOPS when moving CilleI by and
or water; of clothing, camp ald gaIri' on cqupage,
from the Gepot at lllaGe Ina lie several posts
and army uepots, 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 aims from the foundries
and aTmories 10 the aTselas tortihcatioDs frontier
posts, and army depots; treights, wharfage tolls,
aud ferriages; the purchase and hire OF horses,
mules, and harness, and the purchase and repair of
wagons, carts, and drays; and OF ships and other
sea-gong vessels and boats required or the trans
portaion OF supplies and for garrison purposes; for
drayage and carriage at the several posts; hire Of
Transfers transportation OF funds for the pay and
other disbursing departments the expense OF sailing
public transports the various rivers, the Gulf OF
Mexico, and the Atlantic and for procuring water
at such posts from their situation require it TO be
brought from distance; and Tor clearing roads
and removing distractions from roads. harbors and
rYeis, 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 ffty-tour dollars.
For gunboats on the western rivers, one million
dollars.
Hire quarters for troops; of storehouses for the
ka1e-keeplE OF mlntary StO1eSi grounds Tor sum-
mer environments and Tor temporary huts one mil
lion five hundred thousand dollars.
For clothing camp and garrison equipage, thir
teen million four hundred and sixteen thousand
four hundred and thirty-seyen dollars and two
cents.
For contingencies OF the army two hundred
For the medical and hospital departments, one
million two hundred and seventy -one thousand
eight hundred and forty-one dollars
For armament of foititications four hundred and
fity-seyen 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
cluding 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 seveuty-thlee thousand thee hundred
and ten dollars.
For increasing the manufacturing capacity of the
national armory, four hundred and twenty two
thousand five hundred dollars.
For the purchase OF gunpowder and lead, four
hundred and tity-one thousand seven hundred and
eighty dollars.
For the purchase of artillery horses two hundred
and seventy live thousand dollars
For additions to and extensions of the shop-room,
machinery, tools and fixtures at the different arse
mails, one hundred and twenty thousand six hun
dred and ninety dollars
For the following toriiicatons;
Fort Montgomery, Lake Champlain, New York,
twenty thousand dollars.
Fort Knox, Penobscot river, Maine, twenty thou
sand dollars.
Fort on Hog Island Ledge, Portland larbOr.
Maine, fifteen thousand dollars
Fort Adams Newport harbor, Rhode Island five
thousand dollars.
Fort Richmond, Staten Island, New York ten
dollars.
Fort on site of Fort Tompkns, 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 five 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.
ort at Alcatraz Island San Francisco bay, Cali
fornIa, twenty-five thousand dollars
Fort at Sandy Hook, New York harbor, one hun
dred thousand dollars.
For repairs and alterations of barracks quarters
at forts not permanently occupied by troops, ten
thousand dollars.
dollars.
For surveys for military defences, fifty thousand
dollars.
For amount required to refund to the State ex-
penses incurred account ofvoluneers 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
paid out of any money in the Treasury not other
wise appropriated, TO: arrearages 10. the year end
ing thiTtieth of June, eighteen hundred and sixty
one.
For subsistence in kind for three months volun-
teers one million two hundred and eightyone 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 iorty-sx dollars and sixty-three
cents
For incidental expenses of the quartermasters de-
partment, three hundred and sixty-tiye thousand
and thirteen dollars and eighty cents.
For transportation of the army and its supplies
one hundred and eightysix dollars and eighty zone
cents.
For transportation of officers baggage, fifteen
thousand three hundred and sixty-seven dollars
For purchase of dragon horses two hundred
and ninety thousand three hundred and thirty
five dollars.
million three hundred and fifty thousand one hun
dred and iitty-one dollars and thirty eight cents
f9r current expenses OF ordnance service, TWEEN
ty thousand dollars
For ordnance, ordnance stores and supplies in
Guiding horse equipments for all mounted troops.
four hundred thousand dollars
Fol 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
For purchase of artillery horses, twenty-five thou
sand dollars.
For hire of quarters for troops of storehouses for
the safe keeping OF military Stores of grounds for
summer cantonments and for temporary huts one
hundred and fifty -eight thousand two hundred and
eighty-three dollars, and eighty one cents
Sec. g. and be IL further enacted, That all appropra-
tons, and all provisions of law herein contained
applicable to threc years volunteers shall apply to
two years volunteers who have been or NAV be re-
ceived into the service of the United States for a
period exceeding three months
Approved July II, 1861.
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AN ACT 10 alter and regulate the navy ration.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Rsp,esenta
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