Smyrna times., 1865-05-24
OFFICIAL.
LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES,
Pssssd at the First Session of the IRirty.e;ghth
Congress.
1PuBLIc-No. 101.1

An ACT making appropriations for the support ofthe
army for the year ending the thrtleth June, eigh-
teen hundred and sixty Ave, and for other purposes.
BE il enacted by the Senate and House Of Repre- |
sentatires Of the United States of America in Con-
gres assembled, That the following be and the
same are hereby appropriated out of any money ID
the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the
port of the army for the year ending the thrue'n
June, eighteen hundred and sixty-tive:
For expenses of recruiting, transportation =. % Ie
cruits, and compensation to citizen surgeons o NV
dical attendance, three hundred thousand dollars:
For purchase of books of tactics anu N''A 'AU''''"'
f. oo~t;nOant o,nenses at the Adlutant Generals |
a.nament at the of the several militia
ry departments, five thousano doials' g.,
Far copvng official reports of the armies OF the |
Iri,ed States for publication five thousand dollars.
For bountics and premiums for the enticement en-
lstmen OF recruits for the regular army, three hun
dred aud fifty thousand dollars.
For the pay of advance bounties to volunteers and
drafted men, five million dollars.
For pay of premiums, rent of buildings and |
grounds, transportation, subsistence, lodging, COM
mutation of fuel and quarters straw, postage, station
cry, advertising, medicines, and medical attendance,
and all other necessary expenses incidental to the
Collecting drilling, and organizing vour teers, and
for the necessary expenses under the enrolment act
five million dollars.
For pay of the army, nine million nine hundred
and seventy-one thousand two hundred and forty
three dollars and sixty cents.
For commutation of officers subsistence, one mil
lion seven hundred and twenty three thousand six
hundred and twenty nine dollars and fifty cents.
For commutation of forage for officers horses,
hundred and four thousand six hundred dollars.
For payments in lieu Of clothing for officers SER
wants, eighty-two thousand eight hundred and twen
ty dollars.
For payments to discharged soldiers for clothing
not drawn, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
For pay of volunteers, including the bOunties au-
thorzed by law, hundred and seventy-seven mil
lion four hundred and sixty 1.-TWO thousand seven hun
dred and twenty eight dollars and twenty-five cents:
Pr1uided, That if any officer in the regular vol
unteer forces shall employ soldier servant,
such officer shall not be entitled to any pay allow
for servant servants but shall be subject
TO the deduction 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" approved July seventeen, eight
cen hundred and siGty-t And proUided, further.
That the second section of the act entitled San act
giving further compensation to the captains and SUBJ
aterns 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, CON-
pensatlOn for his duties and responsibilities with re-
spect to the clothing, arms, and accouements the
company, shall be construed TO apply only to comPa-
ny officers in actual command as aforesaid
For subsistence in kind for regulars, volunteers
and drafted men ninety-one millions, four hundred
and twenty-five thousand four hundred and twenty
SIX dollars and thirty cents.
For the regular supplies Of the quartermaster's de-
partment, consisting of fuel for the officers, enlisted
men, guard hospitals, storehouses, and offcec; of
forage in kind for the horses, mules, and for
the quartermasters department. at the several posts
and stations, and with the armies in the fed for
the batteries of artillery and such companies of in
fantry as may be mounted, and for the authorized
nuuaber of officers horses when serving in the field
and at the outpOss, including bedding for the ami
mails; of straw for soldiers bedding, and of station
cry, including blank books for the quartermasters IS
department. certificates for discharged soldiers blank
forms for the pay and quartermaster's depart
nents and for the printing of division and depart
hent orders and reports, sixty million dollars
Eor the incidental expenses of the quartermasters g
uepaaItment' consisting of postage letters and
PacAages received and sent by officers of the army
on Puonc service; expenses of courts-martial militia.
ry commissions, and courts of inouirv ncInd;nr Oh
additional compensation of Judge advocates record
ers members, and witnesses, while on thai service
under the act of March sixteenth, eighteen hundred
and two, extra pay to soldiers employed, under tn
direction Of the quartermaster's department in tn
erection of barracks quarters storehouses, and hos
pitals; in the construction OF roads, and on othe
constant labor, for periods Of not less than ten days
under the acts of March second, eighteen hundre
and nineteen, and August fouth (fourthO eightee
hundred and fifty-tour, including those employed
clerks at division and department headquarters; e1
penses of expresses to and from the frontier post
and armies in the field of escorts to paymasters an
other disbursng officers and to trains where militar
escorts cannot be furnished; expenses Of the inte
of officers killed in action, or who die when o.
duty in the field, or at posts on the frsnters, or
other posts and places when ordered by the Secrets
ry ofWar, and of non. commissioned officers and SO
dleFs authorized office furniture hire of la0orers
the quartermaster's department, including the hi
of interpreters, spies, and guides for the army con
pensation of clerks officers of the quartermaster
department; compensation of forage and wage
masters, authorized by the act of July hfth eighef
hundred and thirty eight; for the apprehension OF
serters, and the expenses incident to their pursuI
and for the following expenditures required for u
several regiments Of cavalry, the batteries OF lg
artillery, and such companies of infantry as may
mounted, vz the purchase OF travelling forge
backsmths' and shoeng tools, horses and mu
shoes and nails, iron and steel for shoeing, hire
yeterenaTy surgeons, medicines for horses and mule
picket ropes, and tor sOeIng the horses Of the
named; also generally, the proper and authorize
expenses for the movements and operations Of a
army not expressly assigned to any other depal
nIent, thirteen million dollars.
For the purchase Of cavalry and artillery horse
iwenty-One million dollars.
For mile age, or the allowances made to officers
ioe army for the transportation of themselves al
their baggage, when travelling duty witho
troops escorts, or supplies, seven hundred thousar
dollars.
For transportation Of the army, including the ba
gage of the troops when moving, either by land
water; of clothing, camp and garrison equipag
from the depots at Philadelphia, Cincinnati al
New York to the several posts and army depots, al
from those depots to the troops in the field and
subsistence stores from the places of purchase al
from the places of delivery under cbntract, to su,
places az the circumstances of the service may 7
qurc them TO be sent of ordnance, ordnance stor,
and small arms, from founderies and armores to d
arsenas, Notifications, frontier posts, and army
pots, frsghts wharfage, tolls and ferriages; for
purchase and hire of horses, mules, oxen, and hi
ness, and the purchase and repair Of wagons, car
and drsys, and of Ships and other sea-goiEg vesse
and bouts required for the transportation OF suppl
and for garrison purposes; for drayage and carta
at the several posts hire fteamsters; transportati
of funds for the pay and other disbursing depa
Tnents; the expense OF sailing public transports