Smyrna times., 1865-05-24

tIe various rlVerSy Tue OulI OF MeAlcOS anu
lanc and Pacific; and for procuring water AZ suI
posts as, from their situation, require 1t to DC
from distance and for clearing roads, anu reios
ing distractions from roads, har6ors' anu i.e'S
the extent which may be required 1or the avt"ai U
er,tions of the troops in the field forty million dol
lars. .. r. A.:
On military duty; hire of quarters for troops Of
storehouses for the safe keeping of military stores
of grounds for summer cantonments for the con- |
struction of temporary huts, hospitals, and stables,
and for repairing public buildings at established
posts, five million dollars.
For heating and cooking stoves, one hundred thou
sand dollars
For constructing and extending the telegraph, for
military purposes and for expenses in operating the
same two hundred and seventy-fve thousand dol
lars.
For supplies transportation, and care of prisoners
Of war; nine hundred thousand dollars.
For purchasing, constructing, and maintenance of
steam rams, two hundred and seventy-fve thousand
dollars.
For clothing for the army, camp and garrison
edupage, and for expenses Of offices and arsenals
fifty eight million dollars.
For contingencies of the army, four hundred thou
sand dollars.
For medicines, instruments, and dressings two
million seven hundred and fifteen thousand dollars.
For hospital stores, bedding, and so forth, three
million hundred and eghty-seven thousand
eight hundred and ffly-two dollars.
For hospital furniture and field equipments, 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.
| For hospital clothing, seven hundred and fifty
| thousand dollars.
For citizen nurses, two hundred and ten thousand
| dollars.
For care of sick soldiers in private hospitals thr.
| ty-one thousand two hundred dollars.
For artificial limbs for soldiers and seamen, forty
! FIVE thousand dollars.
| For citizen physicians, and medicines furnished
| by them, four hundred and five thousand dollars
| For hire of clerks and laborers in purVeying de-
| pots, seventy five thousand dollars.
For examining and recording meteorological OBJ.
servations 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 depart
ment, forty-seven thousand eight hundred and thir-
ty-eight dollars.
| For laboratory for testing and rearranging medi-
cines and hospital supplies, five thousand dollars
For washing and washing machines for hospitals
where matrons cannot be employed, fifteen thousand
! dollars
For expenses of the commanding generals Office,
| ten thousand dollars.
For the secret service, one hundred thousand dol.
lars.
For armament of Notifications, two million dollars.
For the current expenses of the ordnance service,
| five hundred thousand dollars.
For ordnance, ordnance stores, and supplies, nclu-
ding the purchase and manufacture Of arms accou-
trements and horse equipments for volunteers and
regulars, twenty million dollars.
For the manufacture OF arms at the national r.
mory, two million five hundred thousand dollars.
For repairs, improvements, and new machinery at
the national armory, one hundred thousand dollars.
For the purchase of gunpOwder and lead, two mil
lion dollars.
/ For renairs and announcements at arsenaIs incIud
ing new and additions TO present buildings, and
chinery, tools, and fixtures, two million dollars.
For the signal service Of the army, one hundred
thousand dollars.
For compensation oftwo clerks in the signal Office
two thousand eight hundred dollars.
Sec. 2. And be il 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
equipage rations, medical and hospital atten dance
pay and emoluments, other than bounty, as Other
soldiers of the regular volunteer forces of the Uni
ted States of like of the service, from and after
the first day of January, eighteen hundred and sixty
four; and that every person Of color who shall here
after be mustered into the service shall receive sncf
sums in bounty as the President shall order in the
different States and parts OF the United States,
e exceeding one hundred dollars.
e Sec s. And be It further enacted, That all per
sons enlisted and mustered into service as vol oanteer
er uhue the call, dated October seventeen eghteeI
- '"NJ -HitcSS LOT tIree nuuQreQ IhOuSdnl
ID volunteers, who were at the time of enlistment actu
m ally enrolled and subject to draft in the State i
which they volunteered shall receive from the Ini
K ted States the same amount of bounty without re
Is gard to color.
ID Sec. 4. And be il further enacted, That all pei
" sons Of color who free the nineteenth day
r. April, eighteen hundred and sixty-on and who hav
been enlisted and mustered into the military servc
at Of the United States shall. from the time of their
iistment, be entitled TO receive the pay bounty
d. clothing allowed to such persons by the laws exs
ing at the time of their enlistment And the Alto
ney General of the United States is hereby auhor
n ed to determine any question of law arising unde
RS ts provision. And if the Attorney General afor'
on sald Shall determine that any of such enliste
en- persons are entitled to receive any pay, bounty
le- or clothing, in addition to what they hav
ii already received, the Secretary of War shall max
he all necessary regulations to enable the pay depart
ht men TO make payment in accordance with such de
no termination.
es Sec D. And be further enacted That all enlis
lle ments hereafter made in the regular army of tn
of oniGo states during the continuance of the presen
es, rebellion, may be for the term Of three years.
ps Approved, June Is, 1864.