The Norfolk post. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1865-1866, 1865-07-13
OFFICIAL.
LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES
PASSED AT THE SECOND SESSION OF THE THIN
TFFOURTH CONGRESS-.

LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES.
PASSED AT THE SECOND SESSION OF THE THIR-
TEFOURTH CONGRESS.
AN ACT making Appropriations for the Support Of the
Army for the Year ending thirtieth June, eighteen
hundred and sxty-six.
Be il enacted by the Senate and House Of Representatives.
of the United States Of America IN Congress assembled,
That the following sums Se and the same are hereby
propriated of any money in the Treasury not other
wise appropriated for the support OF the army for the
year ending the thrteh of June eighteen hundred and
sixtysix:
For expenses of recruiting transportation of recruits
and compensation to citizen surgeons for medical attend
ance, three hundred thousand dollars
For bounties and premiums for the enlistment Of re-
Crts for the regular army three hundred and fifty thou
sand dollars.
For pay of the army, ten million dollars.
For Communication of officers subsistence one million
seven hundred and and tortyseven thousand three hun
dred and twenty-tour dollars.
For Communication OF forage for officers horses, one hun
bred and four thousand six hundred dollars
For payments in lieu of clothing for officers servants
eighty-two thousand hundred and sixty dollars
For payments to discharged soldiers for clothing not
drawn, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
For pay'of volunteers, two hundred million dollars
For subsistence in kind for regulars, volunteers and
drafted men, ninety-two million seven hundred and
eghtytwo thousand and fortythree dollars and seventy
= cents.
For the regular supplies of the quartermasters de-
partmept 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 quarter
masters 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 be mounted, and
for the authorized number of officers horses when
ing in the field and at the ouposts including bedding for
the animas of straw for soldiers bedding and Of
tionery, including blank books for the quarermasters
department. certificates for discharged soldiers, blank
forms for the pay and quarternsters departments; and
for the printing of division and department orders and
reports fifty million dollars.
For the incidental expenses of the qarermasters de.
partment consisting of postage letters and packages
received and sent by officers of the army public
vice; expenses of cours-martia military commissions
and courts Of inquiry including the additional compen-
saton of Judge advocates, recorders, members, and wit
nesses while that service; under the act of March
sixteenth, eighteen hundred and two, extra pay to sol
diers employed under the direction of the qartermas-
ters department. in the erection of barracks quarters
storehoses and hospitals in the construction of roads,
and other constant labor for periods of not less than
ten days. under acts of March second, eighteen hundred
and nineteen and August fourth, eighteen hundred and
ftyfour, including those employed clerks at division
and department headquarters expenses of expresses TO
and from the frontier posts and armies in the field; of
to paymasters and other dsbursing officers and to
trains where military escorts cannot be urnislcd
penses of the nterment OF officers killed in action
who die when on duty in the field, at posts the
frontiers at other posts and places when ordered by
the Secretary Of War; and OF noncommlssoned officers
and soldiers; authorized Office uniture hire OF labores
In the quaremasters department. including the hire Of
interpreters spies and guides for the army compensa
ton of clerks to officers OF the qlartermasters depart
ment; compensation of forage and wagon masters,
thorzed by the act of July hth eighteen hundred and
thirtyeight for the apprehension OF deserers and the
expenses incident TO their pursuit. and for the following
expenditures required for the several regiments of
airy the batteries of light artillery and such companies
of infantry as may be mounted viz the purchase of
travelling foge backsmiths and shoeing TOOLS horses
and mule shoes and nails iron and steel for shoeng hire
OF veterinary surgeons medicines for horses and miles,
picket ropes and for shooting the horses of the corps
named; also generally the proper and authorized ex
penses for the movements and operations of army
not expressly assigned to any other department. ten mil
lion dollars.
For the purchase Of cavalry and artillery horses wen
ty-one million dollars.
For transportation of officers baggage, five hundred
thousand dollars.
For transportation of the army including the baggage
of the troops when moving either by land water; of
clothing, camp and garrison equpage from the depqts at
Philadelphia, Cincinat and New York to the several
posts and army depots and from those depots TO the
troops in the field and of subsistence from the
places Of purchase and from the places of delivery under
contract to such places the circumstances of the
vice may require them to be sent of ordnance ord
stores and small arms, from founderes and armo-
ries to the arsenas, fortcations frontier posts and
army depots reghs wharfage, tolls and ferriages for
the purchase and hire of horses mules oxen and har
and the purchase and repair of wagons CARTS and
drays and of ships and other seagong vessels and boats
required for the transportation OF supplies and for garr
purposes for drayage and carriage at the several
poss hire Of teamsters; transportation of funds for e
pay and other dsbursng departments the expense of
sailing public transports on the various rivers the Gulf
of Mexico and the Atlantic and Pacific; and for procur
ing water at such posts from their situation require
it to be brought from disance and for clearing roads
and removing distractions from roads, harbors and ry
ers the extent which may be required for the actual
operations Of the troops in the field thirty million dol
lars.
For the hire or Communication of quarters for officers on
military duy hire of quarters for troops; of store
houses for the bookkeeping of military stores of grounds
for summer cantonments for the construction of tempo
rary huts hospitals and stables and for repairing public
buildings at established posts, five million dollars.
For heating and cooking stoves, hundred thousand
dollars. I.a.
For constructing and extending the telegraph for mill
tary purposes and for expenses in operating the same
Eve hundred thousand dollars.
For supplies, transportation, and of prisoners Of
war, cne million OF dollars.
For clothing for the army, camp and garrison equip
age and oi' expenses Of offices and arsenals fifty million
dollars.
For contingencies of the army, four hundred thousand
dollars .. .-.
For the medical and hospital department, six million
dollars
For expenses of the commanding generals office, ten
thousand dollars.
For the secret service hundred thousand dollars.
For armament of Notifications, three million five hun
dred thousand dollars.
For the current expenses of the orlnanqServce one
million two hundred and fifty thousanddol
For ordnance ordnance stores, and supplies including
horses, and the purchase and manufacture of army
courements and horse equipments for volunteers and reg
nars twenty million dollars.
For the manufacture of arms at the natione armory
three million Eve 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 million
five hundred thousand dollars.
For repairs and improy at arsenas, including
new and additions to present buildings, and machinery
FOOLS and fixtures, five hundred thousand dollars
For signal service of the army, one hundred thousand
dollars
For salaries of two clerks in the signal Office two thou
sand eight hundred dollars.
SEC. 2 And BEL further enacted, That to supply de-
ciency in the appropriations for the current fiscal year.
for ordnance ordnance stores and suppes including the
purchase and manufacture of arms, Announcements and
horse equipments for volunteers and regulars the sum OF