Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (Charles City, Iowa) 1861-1864, 1862-08-14

OF the army for the year ending the
thlrtieth OF June, eighteen hundred
and sixty-three
For the recruiting service of the
army, namely for the enlistment o
recruits, for quarters, fuel, stationery
straw, postage, hunks, compensation
to citizen surgeons for medical atten
dance, transportation from rendezvou:
to depots, and all other expenses un
til put in march to join regiments, on,
hundred and eighty thousand dollars
For purchase of books of tactics
and instructions for volutccrs, fifty
thousand dollars.
For pay of the army, eight millior
nine hundred and five thousand three
hundred and eighteen dollars.
For Communication of officers subsis
tence, one million five hundred and
seventy-four thousand one hundred
and eighty-six dollars and fifty cents
For Communication Of forage for Off
GERS horses, two hundred and eighty.
three thousand four hundred and four.
teen dollars.
For payments to discharged soldiers
for clothing not drawn, one hundred
and fifty thousand dollars.
For payments in lieu of clothing fol
officers servants, seventy-one thou
sand six hundred and thirty dollars.
For pay of volunteers under acts o
twenty-second pnd twenty-fifth of Ju
ly, eighteen hundred and sixty-onc
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 major generals, nor more thar
two hundred brigadier generals. And
all acts and parts of acts authorizing
a greater number of major and briga
dier generals than are above provided
for are hereby repealed.
For subsistence in kind for regulars
and volunteers, sevcnty-eight millions
three hundred and eighty-six thousand
six hundred and forty dollars and
eighty cents.
For the regular supplies of the quar-
termaster's department., consisting OF
fuel for the officers, enlisted men
guard, hospitals, storehouses, and Off
ces Of forage in kind for the horses
mules and oxen of the quartermaster's
department at the several posts and
stations, and with the armies in the
field for the horses of the several
regiments of cavalry, batteries of ar
tillery, and such companies Of infant
ry as may be mounted, and for the au
thorized number of officers horses
when serving in the field and at the
outposts, including bedding for the
animals of straw for soldiers bed
ding, and of stationery, including
blank books for the quartermastcrs
department, certificates for discharged
soldiers, blank forms for the pay aud
quartcrmaster's departments; aud for
the printing Of division and depart
ment orders and reports. thirty-six
million nine hundred and twelve thou
sand dollars.
For the Incidental expenses of the
SGrmaster's department, consist
fpf postage on letters and packets
rcceived and sent by officers of the
army on public service expenses OF
courts-martial and courts of inquiry
including the additional compensation
Of Judge advocates, recorders, mem
bcrs, and witnesses, while on that
service, under the act of March six
tcenth, eighteen hundred and two
extra pay to soldiers employed, under
the direction Of the quartermaster'S
department, in the erection of bar
racks, quarters, storchouses, and hos
pitfalls ; in the construction of roads
aud on other constant labor, for peri
ods of not less than ten days, under
the acts of March second, eighteen
hundred and nineteen, and Angus,
fourth, eighteen hundred and fifty-four
including those employed as clerks al
division and department headquar
ters expenses Of expresses to and
from the frontier posts and armies in
the field ; of escorts to paymasters
and other disbursing officers and to
trains where military escorts cannot
lie furnished !; expenses Of the inter
ment of officers killed in action, or
who 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-com-
missioned officers and soldiers au-
thorized Office furniture hire of labo-
rers in the quarter-masters depart
ment, including the, hire of inter-
prefers, spies, and guides for the
army; compensation Of clerks OF
the officers of the quartcrmasters
department; compensation of forage
and wagon masters, authorized 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 follow
ing expenditures required for the sew
eral regiments of cavalry, the bate
ries of light artillery, and such com
panies of infantry as may be mount
ed, viz: the purchase Of travelling
forges, blacksmiths' and shocing
tools, horse and mule shoes and nails
iron and steel for shoeing, hire for We
terinary surgeons, medicines for hor
ses and mules, picket ropes, and fol
shoeing the horses of the corps nam
ed also, generally, the proper ane
authorized expenses for the move
ments and operations Of an army no
expressly assigned to any other de
partmcnt, twenty million eight hun
dred and thirty-six thousand sever
hundred and fifty dollars.
For the purchase of cavalry and al
tillery horses, five million -four hun
dred thousand dollars.
For mileage, or the allowance mad
to officers of the army for the trans
portation of themselves and their bag
gage, when travelling on duty Will
out troops, escorts, or supplies, on
million two hundred and ninety-on
thousand six hundred dollars.
For transportation of the army, il
cludlng the baggage of the troop