Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1862-08-01

LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES
Passed at the Second Session of the Thirty Seventh
Congress
TPUBL1c-No. 1897

AN All making appropriations for the sup
port of the army for the year ending
the thirtieth of june eighteen hundred and |
siXty-three, and additional appropriations !
for the year ending thirtieth of June, eight
cen hundred and sixty two, and for other
purposes.
Be it enacted bv the senate and house OF re-
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 thlrteth OF June, eight |
cen hundred and sixty-three.
For the recruiting service of the army,
namely: For the enlistment of recruits, for
quarters, fuel, stationery, straw, postage,
hunks, compensation to citizen surgeons for
medical attendance, transportation from rem
devious to depots, and all other expenses I'M
til put in march to join regiments, one hun
dred and eighty thousand dollars.
For purchase of books of tactics and in
structions for volunteers, fifty thousand dol
lars.
For pay of the army, eight million nine
hundred and five thousand three hundred and
eighteen dollars.
For commutation of officers, subsistence,
one million five hundred and seventy-four
thousand one hundred and eighty-six dollars
and fifty cents.
For Communication of forage for officers
horses, two hundred and eighty-three thou
sand four hundred and fourteen dollars
For payments to discharged soldiers for
clothing not drawn, one hundred and fifty
thousand dollars.
For payments in lieu of clothing for officers
servants. seventy-one thousand six hundred
and thirty dollars.
For pay of volunteers under acts of twen-
ty-second and twenty-tifth 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 Provided that the president shall not
be authorized to appoint more than forty ma
jor generals nor more than two hundred brig
adler generals. And all acts and parts of
acts authorizing greater number of mayor
and brigadier generals than are above provid-
ed for are hereby repealed,
For subsistence in kind for regulars and
volunteers, seventy eight millions three hun
dred and eighty-six thousand six hundred and
forty dollars and eighty cents.
For the regular supplies of the quartermas-
ter's department, consisting of fuel for the Of
icers, enlisted men, guard, hospitals, store
houses, and officers of forage in kind for the
horses, mules, and oxen of the quartermas-
ter's department at the several posts and sta
tons, and with the armies in the field; for the
horses of the several regiments of cavalry.
batteries Of artillery, and such companies of
infantry as may he mounted, and for the au-
thorized number of officers horses when sery-
ing in the field and at the outpostS, including
bedding for the animals of straw for soldiers
bedding, and of stationery, including blank
books for the qUartermasters department, GER
tificates for discharged soldiers, blank forms
for the pay and quartermasters departments;
and for the printing of division and depart
ment orders and reports, thirty six million
nine hundred and twelve thousand dollars.
For the incidental expenses Of the quarter
masters department, consisting of postage on
letters and packets received and sent by of
ticerS of the army on public service; expenses
of courts martial and courts of inquiry, in
Guiding the additional compensation of judge
advocates, recorders, members and witnesses,
while on that service, under the act of March
sixteenth, eighteen hundred and two; extra
pay to soldiers employed, under the direc-
ton of the quartermasters department, in
the erection of barracks, quarters, store
houses, and hospitals; in the construction
Of roads and on other constant labor,
for periods Of not less than ten days.
under the acts of March second, eighteen
hundred and nineteen, and August fourth,
eighteen hundred and fitty-four, including
those employed as clerks at division and de-
partment headquarters; expenses of express
the field; Of escorts to paymasters and other
disbursing officers and to trains where militia
ry escorts cannot be furnished expenses of
the interment of officers killed in action, or
VINO die when on duty in the field, or at posts
on the frontiers, or at other posts and places
when ordered by the secretary of war, and Of
nOn-cOmmissioncd officers and soldiers; au
thorized Office furniture; hire of laborers in
the quartermaster's department, including the
hire Of interpreters, spies, and guides for the
army; compensation of clerks of the officers
Of the quartermasters department; compen-
saion OF forage and wagon masters, author
lied by the act of July fifth, eighteen hundred
and thirty-eight; for the apprehension of
deserters, and the expenses incident to their
pursuit.; and for the following expenditures
required for the several regiments of cavalry,
the batteries Of light artillery, and such
companies of infantry as may be mount
ed, VIZ the purchase of travelling FORCES,
biacksmlths and shooting tools, horse and
mule shoes and nails, iron and steel for
shoelng, hire Of veterinary surgeons, med-
cines for horses and mules. picket ropes, and
for shoeng the horses of the corps named;
also, generally, the proper and authorized eX-
penses for the movements and operations of
an army not expressly assigned to any other
department, twenty million eight hundred and
thirty-siX thousand seven hundred and fifty
dollars.
For the purchase of cavalry and artillery
horses, five million four hundred thousand
dollars.
For mileage, or the allowance made TO of
fcers of the army for the transportation of
themselves and their baggage, when travelling
on duty without troops, escorts, or supplies,
one million two hundred and ninety-one
thousand six hundred dollars.
For transportation of the army, including