Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1862-09-11
oFFIcIAL.
LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES
Passed at the Second Session Of tia TAirtyl
Sspenth Congress.
IpuRLlc NO. 1O9.1

LPUBLlc NO. 109.1 - 81 3 ~
AN Act making appropriations for the
support of the army for the year ending
the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred
and sixtyethree, and additional appro-
priations for the year ending thirtieth
of fJpne, eighteen hundred and sixty
two, and for other purposes. -
Be,it'enacted by the Senate aud House
of Representatives Of the United States of
America in Congress assembled, That,
the following sums be and the same are
hereby appropriated, out of any money in
the treasury, not otherwise appropriated,
for the support of the army for the year
ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen
hundred and 'sixty-three:
For the recruiting service of the army,
namely: For the enlistment of recruits,
for quarters, fuel, stationary, straw, pos
tage, hunks, compensation to citizens
surgeons for medical attendance, transpor-
tation from rendezvous to depots, and all
| other expenses until put in march to join
regiments, one hundred aid eighty thou
sand dollars. a. a. tasrf sgl 4 q
.yfors purchase of bookssof tactics and
instructions for volunteers, fifty thousand
dollars. s=r-5-ari !, 1-r-f-
For pay of the army, eight million nine
hundred and five Thousand three hundred
and eighteen dollars.
REORGANIZATION of officers subsistence,
one million five hundred and seventy-four
thousand one hundred and eighty six
dollars and fifty cents. saua 3
For communication of forage for officers
horses, two hundred and eighty-three
thousand four hundred and fourteen dol
lars.
For payments to discharged soldiers for
clothing not drawn, one hundred and fifty
thousand dollars. -. - -,
For payments in leu OF clothing for
officers servants seventy-one thousand six
hundred and thirty dollars.
For pay of volunteers under acts of
twenty second and twenty-ffth of July,
eighteen hundred and siXty-one, two
hundred and twenty six millions two
hundred and eighty three thousand two
hundred and eighty-two dollars Proyi-
ded, That the President shall not be
authorized to appoint more than forty
major generals, nor more than two hun
dred brigadier generals. And all acts
and parts of acts authorizing greater
number of major and brigadier generals
than are above provided for are hereby
repealed, i,5..-.
For subsistence in kind forregulars and
volunteers, seventy-eight millions three
hundred and eighty-siX thousand six hun
dred and forty dollars and eighty cents.
For the regular supplies of the quarter
masters department, consisting of fuel for
the officers enlisted men, gunrd, hospitals,
storehouses, and Offices of forage In kind for
the horses. mules, and oxen of the quarter
masters department at the several posts aud
stations, and with'the fRFmies in the. field;
for the horses of the several regiments of
cavalry, batteries otartillery, and such
companies of infantry as may be mounted,
and for the authorized number of officers
horses when serving in the field and at tho
outposts, including bedding for the ani-
mails; of straw for soldiers bedding, and of
stationery including blank books for the
quartermasters department, certificates for
discharged soldiers; blanE forms for the
pay and quartermasters departments; and
for the printing OF division and depart
ment orders and reports, thirty.six million
nine hundred aud twelve thousand dollars.
For the incidental expenses of the QUAR-
termaster's department., consisting of post
age on letters and packets received sifnd
sent by officers Of the army on public ser.
vice; expenses sof'courtssmartial. aud courts
of inquiry, including the additional COM
pensation of Judge advocates, recorders,
members, and witnesses, while on that SER
vice, under the act of March sixteenth,
| eighteen hundred aud two; extra pay to
the soldiers employed, under the direc-
ton of the qpartermaster's department, in
the erection of barracks quarters, store
houses, and hospitals, in the construction
of roads and on other constant labor, for
4 periods of not less than ten days, under the
acts of March second, eighteen hundred sud
nineteen, and August fourth, eighteen hun.
dred and fftY-four, including those en-
lployed as clerks at division and departs
ment headquarters; expenses of expresses
to and fromathe frontier posts and armies
\ in the field; of escorts to pAymasters and
other disbursing officers and to trains where
military escorts cannot, be furnished ex-
penses of the futerment Of officers killed in
action, or who die when on duty in the
field, or at posts ON the frontiers, or at 9th.
er postsand places when ordered by the
| Secretary, of War, and of non-commissi0n-
ed officers and soldiers authorized Office
furniture hire of laborers Ia the quarter
masters department, including the hire of
Interpreters, spies, and guides for thearmy;
4 quarter masters departlnents compensation
! of forage and wagon masters, AUTHORISED
\ by the act of July 9Th, eighteen hundred
1 dred, aud thirty eight for the apprehension
1 of desertefs, and the expenses incident to
1 their pursuit + aud for the f6lIowing expen.
4 ditnres required for the several regiments
of cavalry the ba ttefies. Of light arti ilerY,
aud such sornp hniss OF Infantry as may Be