The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1866-11-02

OF deserters, and the expenses incident to
their pursuit; and for the following eXpendl-
lures required for the several regiments OF
cavalry, the batteries of light artillery, and
such companies of infantry as may be
mounted, viz: the purchase of travelling
torges, blaeksmiths, and sheelng tools,
horses and mule shoes and nails, iron and
steel for shoeing, hire ofveterinaTy surgeons,
medicines for horses and mules, picket ropes
and for shOeing the horses of the corps nam /
ed; also, generally, the proper and authorized 1
expenses for the movements and operations /
of an army not expressly assigned to any /
other department, one million dollars.
For the purchase of cavalry and artillery |
horses, seven hundred and thirteen thousand 1
one hundred dollars.
For transportation Of officers baggage, !
fifty 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 equippage, from the depots at |
Philadelphia, Cincinnati, and New York TO
the several posts and army depOts, and from
those depOts to the troops in the field; and
of subsistence stores from the places of pur-
chase, and from the places of delivery under !
contract, to such places as the circumstances
of the service may require them to be sent;
of ordnance, ordnance stores, and small
arms, from foundTies and armories to the
arsenals, Notifications, frontier posts, and
army depots; treights, wharfage, tolls, and
terriageS: for the purchase and hire OF
horses, mules, oxen, and harness, and the
purchase and repair of wagons carts, and
drays, and of ships and other sca-9olng
vessels and boats required for the transport
alton of supplies and for garrison purposes;
for drayage and carriage at the several posts;
hire Of teamsters; transportation of funds Tor
the pay and other disbursing departments
the expense of sailing public transports 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 it to be brought from distances and
for clearing roads, and removing obstruc-
tions from roads, harbOrs, and rivers, to the
extent which may be requiresiAfor the actual
operations of the troops in tae held, lYe NIL
lion dollars
For hire of communication quarters for
officers on military duty; hire of quarters for
troops; of stOreh0uses for the safe-keeping o.
military stores; of grounds for summer can
tonments; for the construction of temporary
huts, hospitals, and stables, and for repair
ing public buildings ct established posts, SIX
hundred and twenty-tour thousand and thIr-
I ty-eight dollars.
! For contingencies of the army, one hun
bred thousand dollars
! For the medical and hospital department,
| five hundred thousand dollars.
| For repairs, Improvements, and new ma
chinerv at the national armory, one hundred
/ thousand dollars.
j For repairs and Improvements at arsenals,
/ including new and additions to present
/ buildings and machinery, tools, and fixtures,
/ fifty thousand dollars.
For the purchase of site and erection of
/ magazines for storing gunpower, two hun
/ bred thousand dollars.
For the purchase of land for charging the
! Watervleit arsenal thirty thousand dollars.
SEC. ,. Ind be it further enacted, That
/ the sum of one hundred and forty-siX thou
sand dollars be- and the same is hereby APP
prOpriated out of any moneys in the treasury
not otherwise appropriated, to be disbursed
I by the Secretary of War in the erection of
/ fire proof buildings at or near SchuyllIill
arsenal in the State of Pennsylvania, to be
used as store houses for government prop
/ erty at that post.
SEC. Ind be 4 further enacted, That
the following sums be and the sare are here
! by appropriated, out Of any mOI-y in the
. treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the
! support of the Bureau of Refugees, Freed
men and Abandoned Lands for the fiscal
/ year commencing July iTst, eighteen hun.
/ dred and siXty-six nancy:
The salaries ofassistalt and sub-assistant
/ commissioners, one bundled and forty-seyen
+ thousand five hundred dollars.
For salaries of clerks, eihty-twO thousand
+ eight hundred dollars
For stationery and printing sixty-three
/ thousand dollars.
For quarters and fuel fifteen thousand
1 nine hundred dollars.
For clothing for distribution. one million,
one hundred and seventy thousand dollars.
For commissary stores, THEE million one
/ hundred and six thousand two hundred and
fifty dollars.
For medical department. five hundred
/ thousand dollars
For transportation-one million three hun
dred and twenty thousand dollars.
For school superintendent twcntY-one
thousand dollars
For repairs and rent of school houses and
| asylums FIVE hundred thousand dollars.
For telegraphing, eighteen thousand dol
! lars.
SEC. 4, And be it further enacted, That the
| Quartermaster's department shall in all
cases in obtaining supplies for the military
| service, state in advertisements for bids for
contracts, that preference shall be given to
articles of domestic production and manu-
/ tacture, conditions of price and quality being
/ equal, sand that such preference shall be Civ
F en- to articles Of American production and
manufacture, produced OH the Pacific coast,
/ to the extent of the consumption required by
/ the public service there; and in advertising
for army supplies the Quartermaster's de
partment shall require all articles which are
/ to be used in the States and Territories of
/ the Pacific coast to be delivered andinspected
/ at points designated in these States and Ter
ritories; and the advertisements for such
supplies shall be published in newspapers of
the cities of San Francisco. in California and
Portland, in Oregon.
/ SEC. ). Ind be it further enacted, That sec
! ton seventeen of an act entitled " An act
| to define the pay and emOluments of certain
officers of the army, " approved July seven
/ teen, eighteen hundred and siXty-two, and a
resolution entitled A resolution to author
/ ize the President to assign the command of
troops III the same field or department, to
/ officers of the same grade without regard to
son MI y 81.
hundred and siXty-two, be and the same are
F hereby repealed. And no officer in the mill
/ tary or naval service shall in time of peace,
/ be dismissed from service except upon and in
! pursuance of the sentence of a court-martial
/ to that effect, or IN communication thereof
/ SEC. o. Ind be 1t further enacted, That the
/ superintendent of the United States Mill
tary Academy may hereafter be selected, and
the officers on duty at that institution de-
tailed from any arm of the service; and the
supervision and charge of the Academy shall
be in the War Department under such
officer or officers, as the Secretary of War
may assign to that duty.
SEC. :. And be II further enacted, That
when 1t Is necessary to employ soldiers as
artificers or laborers i'll the construction of
permanent military works. public roads, or
other constant labor of not less than ten
days duration in any case, they shall receive
in addition to their regular pay, the follow
ing additional compensation therefor enlist
ed men, as artihcers, and non-cOmmissioned
officers employed as Overseers of such work,
/ not exceeding one OyeTSeer for every twenty
men thirty-hve cents per day,and enlised men
employed as labOrers twenty cents per day.
but such working parties shall only be au-
thOrized on the written order of command
ing officer. This allowance OF extra pay is
not to apply to the troops of the engineer
and ordnance departments
SEC. z. Ind be it further enacted, That the
allowance now made by law to officers
travelling under orders where transportation
is not furnished in kind shall be increased to
ten cents per mile.
Approved, July 13. 1866.