Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1865-03-30
expressly assigned to any other department,
thirteen million dollars.
- or the purchase OF cavalry and ARTILLERY

officers of the army for the transportation on
themselves and their baggage, when travel.
ing on duty without troops, escorts, or sup.
plies, seven hundred Thousand dollars.
For transportation of the army, including
the baggage of the troops when moving.
either by land or water; of clothing, camp
and garrison equipage, from the depots at
Philadelphia, Cincinnati, and New York 70
the several posts and army depots, and from
those depots to the troops In the field: an4
OF subsistence stores from the piacea OF pur~
chase, and from the places of delivery under
contract. TO such places as the circumstan-
ces of the service may require them to bs
sent; of ordnance stores, and smalLarms.
from the foundries and armories to the ar
senals, Notifications, frontier posts, and
army depots; freights, wharfage, tolls, and
terriages; for the purchase and hire OF
horses, mulos, oxen, and harness., and the
purchase and repair of wagons, carts, and
drays, and of ships and other sea-going veS-
sells and boats required for the Transports
ton of supplies and for garrison purposes:
for drayage and carriage at the several posts:
hire of teamsters; transportation of funds
for the pay and other discussing depart
ments the expense OF sailing public trans.
ports on the various rivers, the Gulf OF
Mexico, and the Atlantic and Pacific; and
for procuring water at such posts as, from
their situation, require IL to be brought from
a distance; and for clearing roads, and re-
moving distractions from roads, hsrbors,
and rivers, 10 the extent which may be re-
quired for the actual operations of the troops
in the field, forty million dollars. ....
For hire or Communication of quarters for
officers on military duty; hire of quarters
for troops; OF storehouses for the sate-keep-
ing of military stores; of grounds for sum
mer environments; for the construction OF
temporary huts, hospitals, and stables, and
for repairing public buildings at established
posts, five million dollars.
For heating and cooking stoves, one hun
bred thousand dollars. .s . .
For constructing and extending the tele-
graph, for military purposes, and for eX-
penses in operating the same, two hundred
and seventy-five thousand dollars. .
For supplies, transportation, and care OF
prisoners of war, nine hundred thousand
dollars.
For purchasing, constructing. and main
tenance of steam rams, two hundred and
seventy five thousand dollars.
For clothing for the army, camp and gar
rison equipage, and for expenses Of Offices
and arsenals, fifty-eight million dollars.
For contingencies of the army, four hun
dred thousand dollars.
For medicines, instruments, and dress
ings, two million seven hundred and ffteen
thousand dollars.
For hospital stores, bedding, and so forth,
three million five hundred and eighty seven
thousand eight hundred and fiftv-two dollars
For hospital furniture and field equip
ments, six hundred and eighteen thousand
dollars
For books, stationery, and printing, one
hundred and twenty thousand dollars.
For ice, fruits, and other comforts, three
hundred thousand dollars. 7-
For hospital clothing, seven hundred and
fifty thousand dollars. ..- +4
For citizen nurses, two hundred and ten
thousand dollars.
For care of sick soldiers in private hospi-
tails, thirty-one thousand two hundred dol
lars. ..... 49,.
For artificial limbs for soldiers and sea-
mem, forty.five thousand dollars.
For citizen physicians, and medicines fur
| nished by them, four hundred and five
thousand dollars. #+.+@
For hire of clerks and laborers in purvey-
ing depots, seventy-fve thousand dollars.
For examining and recording meterorlog-
| ical observations taken at the military posts
| of the United States army, seven hundred
| and fifty dollars.
For army medical museum, five thousand
| dollars. ... ..... .... ,-
| For contingent expenses of the medical
| department, forty-seyen thousand eight
| hundred and thirty light dollars.
For laboratory for testing and rearranging
medicines and hospital supplies, five thou
sand dollars. ..1 -.e .a.-.. ..#.-
| For washing and washing machines for
| hospitals where matrons cannot be employ
| ed fifteen thousand dollars. es.s-Hf-. N .a
| For expenses of the commanding gen.
| erals Office ten thousand dollars.
| For the secret service, one hundred thou
sand dollars. rslI ...8srfraa s-sf sh
For armament of Notifications, two mil
| lion dollars. ''h &
For the current expenses of the ordinances
| service, five hundred thousand dollars. s
| For ordnance, ordnance stores, and sup
| plies, including the purchase and manufac-
| ture of arms, accoutrements, and horse
| equipments, for volunteers and regulars,
| twenty million dollars. r-e8 aa.eW
For the manufacture of arms at the ma
| tional armony, two million five hundred
| thousand dollars. fH
For repairs, Improvements, and new ma
| chinery at the national armory, one hundred
thousand dollars. %
For the purchase of gunpowder and lead.
two million dollars. ....ta s.#t ne gs
For repairs and improvements at arsenals,
including new and additions to present build
ings, and machinery, tools, and fixtures, two
million dollars. s -.f
For the signal service of the army, one
| hundred thousand dollars.
For compensation of two clerks in the sig
nal office, two thousand eight hundred dol
lars. #..# aera
SEC. 2, And be ii further enacted That all
persons of color who have been or may be
mustered into the military service of the
United States shall receive the same uniform
clothing, arms, equipments, camp equip
age, rations, medical and hospital attend
ance, pay and emoluments, other than
bounty, as other soldiers of the regular or
volunteer forces of the United States of like
arms of the service, from and after the first
day of January, eighteen hundred and sixty
four; and that every person of color who
shall hereafter be mustered into the service
shall receive such sums in bounty as the
President shall order it the different States
and parts of the United States, not exceed
ing one hundred dollars.
SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That all
persons enlisted and mustered into service
as volunteers under the call, dated October
II, 1863, for three hundred thousand volun.
teers, who were at the time Of enlistment
actually enrolled and subject to draft in the
State in which they volunteered, shall re-
ceive from the United States the same
amount of hOunty without raUard TO color