Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1865-03-30
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AN ACT making appropriations for the
support Of the army for the year ending
the thirtieth June, eighteen hundred and
sixty-ive, and for other purposes.
BE 10 enacted by the Senate and House Of
Representatives Of the United States of Amer
tea in Congress assembled, That the following
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 five:
For expenses of recruiting, transportation
of recruits, and compensation to citizen sur
geons for medical attendance three hundred
thousand dollars.
For purchase of books of tactics and in.
structions for volunteers, fifty thousand dol
lars.
For contingent expenses of the Adjutant
Generals department at the headquarters of
the several military departments, five thou
sand dollars.
For copying official reports of the armies
| of the United States, for publication, five
| thousand dollars.
For bounties and premiums for the entice-
nlent enlistment of recruits for the regular
| army, three hundred and fifty thousand dol
| lars.
For the pay of advance bounties.to volun-
| teers and drafted men, five million dollars.
| fOE pay Ol PREMIUMS IcllI VI
] and grounds, transportation, subsistence,
| lodging, Communication of fuel and quarters,
| straw, postage, stationery, advertising, medt-
| cines, and mediCalt attendance, and all other
! necessary expenses incidental to the collect
| ing, drilling, and organizing volunteers, and
| for the necessary expenses under the enrol
ment act, five million dollars.
For pay of the army, nine million nine
hundred and seventy one thousand two hun
| 1 4 e. ftyr 20
| For Communication of officers subsistence,
one million seven hundred and twenty-three
| thousand six hundred and twenty-nine dol
lars and fifty cents.
For commutation of forage for officers
horses, one hundred and four thousand six
| hundred dollars.
For payments in lieu of clothing for Off
| GERS servants, eighty-two thousand eight
| hundred and twenty dollars.
| For payment to discharged soldiers for
clothing not drawn, one hundred and fifty
| thousand dollars.
| For pay of volunteers, including the boun-
| ties authorized by law, one hundred and
seventy-seyen million four hundred and
| sixty-two thousand seven hundred and
| twenty-eight dollars and twenty-five cents
| Provided, That if any officer in the regular
or volunteer forces shall employ soldier as
| a servant, such officer shall not be entitled
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servants, but shall be subject to the deduct
| ton from his pay required by the third
| section of the act entitled "An act to define
| the pay and emoluments of certain officers
of the army, and for other purposes" ap-
| proved July seventeen, eighteen hundred
| and sixty-two And provided further, That
! the second section of the act entitled IAN
act given further compensation to the cap
! tains and subalterns of the army of the
| United States in certain cases" allowing ten
| dollars additional per month TO any officer
| in actual command of a company, as COM
| pensation for his duties and responsibilities
wit respect TO the clothing, arms, and ac-
| coutremeRts of the company, shall be con-
strued to apply only to company officers in
| actual command as aforesaid.
| For subsistence in kind for regulars, vol
| unteers, and drafted men, ninety -one million
four hundred and twenty-five thousand four
| hundred and twenty-six dollars and thirty
| cents.
For the regular supplies of the quarter
masters department, consisting OF fuel for
| the officers, enlisted men, guard, hospitals,
storehouses, and offices; of forage in kind
| for the horses, mules, and oxen for the quar-
| termaster's department, at the several posts
| and stations and with the armies in the field
| for the horses of the several regiments of
| Cavaly, the batteries of artillery, and such
and for the authorized number of officers
| horses when serving in the field and at the
| outpostS, including bedding for the animals;
| of straw for sollers' bedding, and of sta
| tionery, including blank books for the quar-
| termaster's department, certificates for dis
charged soldiers, blank forms for the pay
and quartermaster's departments; and for
the printing of division and department
| orders and reports, sixty million dollars.
| For tba iDpiHanfal ~ pf no
tcrmaster's department, consisting Of post
age on letters and packages received and
sent by officers of the army on public service,
| expenses OF courts martial military COM
| missions, and courts of inquiry, including
| the additional compensation of judge advo.
Gates, recorders, members, and witnesses,
| while on that service, under the act of March
| sixteenth, eighteen hundred and two; extra
| pay to soldiers employed, under the tdirec-
ton of the quartermaster's department, in
| the erection Of barracks, quarters, store
houses, and hospitals; in the construction
of roads, and on other constant labor, for
periods of not less than ten days, under the
acts of March second, eighteen hundred and
nineteen, and August fourth fourth, eigh-
teen hundred and fifty-four including those
employed as clerks at division and depart
ment headquarters; expenses of expresses to
and from the frontier posts and armies IN
thS hSib vi VoColto w iiaotSio anu OblicE
disbursing officers and TO trains where
military escorts cannot be furnished; ex-
penses of the interment of officers killed in
action, or who die when on dnty in the field,
or at posts on the frontiers, or at other posts
and places where ordered by the Secretary of
War, and of noncommissioned officers and
soldiers; authorized office furniture; hire
of laborers in the quartermaster's depart
ment, including the hire of interpreters,
spies, and guides for the army; compensa-
ton of clerks to officers of the quartermas-
ter's 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 following expenditures required for
the several regiments of cavalry, the batter
les Of light artillery, and such companies of
infantry as may be mounted, viz: the pur-
chase of travelling forges, blacksmiths' and
nails, iron and steel tor shoeing, hire of vet
Urinary surgeons, medicines fot horses and
mules, picket ropes, and for shoeing the
horses of the corps name,l; also generally,
the proper and authorized expenses for the