Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1863-08-08
OFFICIAL.
OFFICIAL.
LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES,
Passed at the Third Session Of the Thirty.
Seventh Congress-.
TPUBLIC-No. 1871

of June, eighteen hundred and sixty-fOur,
and for a deficiency for the signal service
for the year ending June thirty, eighteen
hundred and sixty-three.
Be 1t enacted By the Senate and House Of
Representatives Of the United States Of Amer
;ca in Congress assembled. That the follow.
ing sums be, and the same are hereby, appro.
priated, 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 seventy 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 dollars.
For collecting, drilling, and drilling, and
organizing volunteers. and all other necessa-
ry expenses, ten million seven hundred thou.
sand dollars.
For pay of tho army, nine million five hun.
dred and ninety-six thousand five hundred
and thirty-eight dollars.
For Communication of officers subsistence,
one million six hundred and twenty thousand
and forty eight dollars.
For commutation 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 officers
servants, seventy-six thousand nine hundred
and seventy dollars.
For pay of volunteers under acts of twenty
second aud twenty-ffth of July, eighteen
hundred and sixty-one, two hundred and six
tv-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, and hospital stew
arts. one hundred and forty million one hum
dred and thirty-two thousand six hundred
and eighty-nine dollars and twenty cents.
For the regular supplies of the quartcrmas-
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 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, the
batteries of artillery, and such companies Of
infantry as may be mounted, and for the au-
thorized number of officers horses when serv-
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 quartermaster' department.. Ger
tifcates for discharged soldiers, blank forms
for the pay and quartermaster's departments
for tho printing Of division and department
orders and reports. sixty-seven million two
hundred and seventeen thousand seven hun
dred and ninety-one dollars.
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. includ.
ing the additional compensation Of judge ad-
vocates, recorders, members, and witnesses,
while on that service, under the act Of March
10th, eighteen hundred and two extra pay
to soldiers employed, under the direction of
the quartermaster's department, in the erection
of barracks, quarters, storehouses. aud hospi
tails in the construction of roads, and on other
constant labor, for periods Of not less than ten
days, under the acts of March second, eigh-
teen hundred and nineteen, and August
fourth, eighteen hundred and fifty-four, in.
cluding those employed as clerks at division
and department headquarters expenses oi
armies in the field Of escorts to paymastera
and other disbursing officers, and to trains
where military escorts cannot be furnished
expenses of the interment 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.commissioned officers and
soldiers authorized Office furniture; hire Of
laborers in the quartermaster's department, in.
Guiding the hire Of interpreters, spies, and
guides for the army; compensation of clerks
to officers Of the quartermaster's department;
compensation of forage and wagon masters,
authorized by the act Of July fifth. eighteen
hundred and thirty-eight; for the apprehen.
sion o. deserters. and the expenses incident to
their pursuit and for the following expendi-
lures 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 forges,
blacksmiths' and shoeing tools, horse and
mule shoes and nails, iron and steel for shoe
ing. hire of veterinary surgeons. medicines for
horses and mules. picket ropes, and for shoe
ing the horses of the corps named also gen.
orally, the proper and authorized expenses
for the movements and operations Of an army
not expressly assigned to any other depart
ment, nineteen million one hundred and TWEEN.
ty-fve thousand dollars