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

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dollars.
For the medical and hospital department. |
including pay of private physicians, purchase |
and repair of surgical instruments, purchase |
of extra hospital bedding, clothing, ice, pay
Of male citizens as hospital attendants; the
maintenance of sick and wounded soldiers,
placed in private houses or hospitals and
other necessary comforts for the sick and con-
valescing in the various military hospitals,
five millions seven hundred and five thousand
nine hundred and eighty-four dollars.
For contingent expenses of the adjutant
generals department at department headquar-
tiers, two thousand dollars.
For supplies, transportation, and care of
prisoners Of war, three million three hundred
and seventy-three thousand seven hundred
and heavyweight dollars.
For armament of Notifications, one million
siXty-two thousand six hundred dollars.
For the current expenses of the ordnance
service, seven hundred and thirty two thou
sand six hundred dollars.
For ordnance, ordnance stores, and sup
plies, including horse equipments for all
mounted troops, seven million three hundred
and eighty thousand dollars.
For the manufacture of arms at the nation
al armory, one million eight hundred thou
sand dollars.
For repairs and improvements and new ma
chinery at the national armory at Springfield,
| Massachusetts, one hundred and fifty thou
sand dollars.
For the purchase of gunpowder and lead,
one million one hundred thousand dollars.
For additions to and extension of shop
room, machinery, tools, and fixtures at arsen-
ais, five hundred thousand dollars.
For the purchase and manufacture of arms
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ordnance Stores thirteen million dollars.
For surveys of military defences, one hun
bred and fifty thousand dollars.
For purchase and repair of instruments, ten
thousand dollars.
For printing charts of lake surveys, ten
thousand dollars.
For continuing the survey of the northern
and northwestern lakes, including Lake Supc-
rior, one hundred and five thousand dollars.
For completion Of fort Clinch, Amelia Is
land, Florida, one hundred and fifty thousand
dollars.
For secret service fund, and to reimburse
| the contingent fund of the army, five thou
sand dollars.
For payment of bounty to volunteers, and
to the widows and legal heirs OF such as may
die or be killed in the service of the United
States, authorized by the fifth and sixth sec
the employment of volunteers to aid in en-
forcing the laws and protecting public proper
ty, approved July twenty-second, eighteen
hundred and siXty-one, twenty millions of dol
lars, or so much thereof as may be found ne
ceSsary.
For collecting, organizing, and drilling vol
unteers, in addition to any sums heretofore
appropriated for that purpose, five millions of
dollars.
For providing for the comfort ofdischarged
soldiers who may arrive in the principal cities
of the United States SO disabled by disease or
wounds received in the service as to be una
bic to proceed to their homes, and for for
warding destitute soldiers to their homes two
millions of dollars. to be applied and expcnd-
ed under the direction of the president of the
United States.
For charging, repairing. and furnishing
the northwest executive building, twenty
thousand dollars.
For grading and improving that part of Ju-
dietary square, in the city of Washington, up
on which the general hospital of the United
States is located, four thousand dollars. to be
expended under the direction OF the surgeon
general.
Sect. 2 And be it further enacted, that so
much of the seventh section of the act approx
cd third March, eighteen hundred and fifty
one, entitled, AN act to found a military as
YUM for the relief and support of invalid and
disabled soldiers of the army of the United
States" as requires that ''all moneys, not ex-
ceeding two-thirds of the balance on hand, of
the hospital fund and of the post fund of each
military station, after deducting the necessary
expenses" shall be set apart for the support
of the military asylum, be and the same is
hereby repealed
Sect. 3. And be it further enacted, that the
enlisted men of the ordnance department now
designated as master workmen shall hereafter
be designated and mustered as sergeants
those now designated, as armorers, carriage
makers, and blacksmitlls shall be designated
and mustered as corporals; those now desig-
mated as artifcers shall be designated and
mustered as privateS Of the second class 4: Pro-
yided, that the pay, rations, and clothing now
authorized by law to the respective grades of
enlisted ordnance men shall not be changed.
Sect. 4. And be it further enacted, that in
all cases where recruiting officers have in good
faith paid the two dollars for bringing accept
ed recruits to the rendezvous, before receiv-
ing notice Of the repeal of the regulation al
lowing the same the accounts of such officers
shall be allowed in settlement by the treasury
department
Sect. 5. And be it further enacted, that
there shall be added to the clerical force of
| the surgeon generals office one clerk of class
| one and one clerk of class two: and there
shall be added to the clerical force of the paw
master generals office twenty clerks of class
two and twenty clerks of class one and there
shall be added to the clerical and other force
Of the adjutant generals office four clerks of
class two, six clerks fclass one, and ten other
clerks at monthly compensation of sixty dol
lars each and the adjutant general may de-
tail ten more nOn-commissioned officers of the
army as clerks in his office; and the sum of
| fitty-one thousand two hundred dollars is here
| by appropriated out of any money in the treas
ury not otherwise appropriated to pay the
salaries of the clerks hereby authorized.
Sect. 6. And be it further enacted, that sec
ton five of the act ''to authorize the employ
ment of volunteers to aid in enforcing the laws
and protecting public property" approved
July twenty-second, eighteen hundred and
sixty-one, and section five of the act ''to in
crease the present military establishment of
United States" approved July twenty-nine,
eighteen hundred and sixty-one, shall be so
construed as to allow twenty-five dollars of
| the bounty Of one hundred dollars therein
! provided to be paid Immediately after enlist
ment to every soldier of the regular and vol
unteer forces hereafter enlisted during the
continuance of the existing war, and the sums
OF seven millions five hundred thousand dol
lars is hereby appropriated for such payment.
Sec. Z. And be it further enacted, that all
the aides-de-camp appointed by authority of
the act approved fifth August, eighteen hun
dred and siXty-two, entitled San act supple-
mentary to an act entitled an act to increase
the present military establishment of the Uni