Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1863-02-13

eUBLIC-No. II.
AN Act making appropriations for the sup
port of the army for the year ending the
thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and
sixty-tour, and for deficiency for the sig
nal service for the year ending June thirty,
eighteen hundred and sixty-three.
Be it enacted by the senate and house of
representatives of the United States of Amer
lea i'll congress assembled, that the following
sums be and the same are hereby appropri-
ated, 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-four:
For expenses Of recruiting, transportation
of recruits, and compensation to citizen sur
geons for medical attendance, two hundred
and seyenty-five thousand dollars.
For bounties and premiums for recruits of
the regular army, three hundred and twenty
four thousand dollars.
For bounties for recruits of the volunteer
service, five million dollarsg
For collecting, drilling, and organizing vol
unteers, and all other necessary expenses,
ten million seven hundred thousand dollars.
For pay of the army, nine million five
hundred and ninety-six thousand five hundred
aud thirty eight dollars.
For commutation of officers subsistence
one million six hundred and twenty thousand
and torty-eight dollars.
For Communication of forage for officers
horses, one hundred and four thousand six
hundred dollars.
For payments to discharged soldiers for
clothing not drawn, one hundred and fifty
thousand dollars.
For payments in lieu of clothing for Of
ficers' servants, seventy-six thousand nine
hundred and seventy dollars.
For pay of volunteers under acts of twenty
second and twenty-fift of July, eighteen
hundred and sixty one, two hundred and six
ty-siX million four hundred and ten thousand
nine hundred and eighty-one dollars and six
cents.
For subsistence in kind for regulars, volun-
teers, engineers, Indians, ana hospital stew
ards, one hundred and forty million one hun
dred and thirty-twO thousand six hundred and
eighty-nne dollars and twenty cents.
For the regular supplies of the quartermas-
ter's department, consisting of fuel for the
officers, enlisted men, guard, hospitals, store
houses, and offices; of forage in kind for the
horses mules, and oxen of the quartermas-
ters department at the several posts and sta
tons, and with the armies in the field for the
horses of the several regiments of cavalry
the batteries of artillery, and such companies
of infantry as may be mounted and for the
authorized number of officers horses when
serving in the field and at the outposts, in
Guiding bedding for tine animals; of straw for
soldiers bedding, and of stationery, including
blank books tor the quartermaster'S depart
partment, certificates for discharged soldiers,
blank forms for the pay and quartermaster's
departments; and for the printing of division
and department orders and reports, sixty
seven million two hundred and seventeen
thousand seven hundred and ninety-one dol
lars.
For the incidental expenses of the quarter
masters department, consisting of postage on
letters and packets received and sent by Off
GERS of the army on public service; expenses
of courts martial and courts of inquiry, in
Guiding additional compensation of judge adj
vocates, recorders, members and witnesses,
while on such service, under the act of March
sixteenth, eighteen hundred and two; extra
pay to soldiers employed, under the direction
of the quartermaster's department, in the cree
ton of barracks, quarters, storehouses, and
hospitals; in the construction of roads, and
other constant labor, for periods of not less
than ten days, under the act of March second,
eighteen hundred and nineteen, and August
fourth, eighteen hundred and fifty-four, in
GLIDING those employed as clerks at division
and department headquarters; expenses of
expresses to and from the frontier posts and
"rHiles IN the held; OF escorts to paymasters
ana other disbursng officers, and to trains
where military escorts cannot be furnished;
expenses OF the lnterment 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-commssioned officers and
soldiers; authorized Office furniture; hire of
laborers in the quartermaster's department,
including the hire of interpreters, spies, and
guides for the army; compensation of clerks
to officers of the quartermaster's department;