The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1866-11-01
NO. 97

companies OF infantry as may be mounted,
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 soldiers 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, thirty-six million nine hundred
and twelve thousand dollars.
For the Incidental expenses of the quarter
masters department, consisting of postage
| on letters and packets received and sent BY
officers of the army on public service; ex-
penses of courts-martial and courts ofinquiry,
including the additional compensation of
Judge advocates, 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 direction of the quartermaster's depart
ment, in the erection of barracks, quarters,
| storehouses, and hospitals; in the: constrHc-
| ton 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, eighteen hun
dred ffty-four, including those employed as
clerks at division and department. head
quarters expenses of expresses to and from
the frontier posts and armies in the field ;sof
escorts to paymasters and other disbursing
officers and to trains where military escorts
cannot be furnished expenses of the inter
ment of officers killed in action, or who die
when on duty in the field, or at posts on the
frontiers, or at other posts and places when
ordered by the Secretary of War, and of nom
commissioned officers and soldiers; authoriz-
ed Office furniture; hire of laborers In the
quartermaster's department., including the
hire of interpreters spies, and guides for the
army compensation of clerks of the officers
lnf ho orfp
sation of forage and wagon masters, au-
thorized by the act of July fifth, eighteen
hundred and thirty-eight, for the appFehen-
sion of deserters, and the expenses incident
to their pursuit and for the following ex-
penditures required tor the several regiments
of cavalry, the batteries of light artillery. and
| such companies of infantry as may be mount
ed, viz: the purchase of travelling forges,
blacksmiths' and shoeing tools, horse and
mule shoes and nails, iron and steel fershoe-
ing, hire of veterinary surgeons, medicines
for horses and mules, picket ropes, and for
shoeing the horses of the corps named also,
generally, the proper and authorized expen-
ses for the movements and operations of an
army not expressly assigned to any other de-
partment, twenty million eight hundred and
thirty-six thousand seven hundred and fifty
dollars.
For the purchase of cavalry and artillery
horses, five million four hundred Thousand
dollars.
For mileage, or the allowance made to of
ficers of the army for the transportation of
themselves and their baggage, when travel
ling on duty without troops, escorts, or sup
plies, one million two hundred and ninety
one thousand six hundred dollars.
For transportation of the army, including
the baggage of the troops when moving,
either by land or water; of clothing, camp
and garrison equipage, from the depotsr at
Philadelphia and New York to the several
posts and army depots, and from those depots
to the troops in the field; and subsistence
from the places of purchase and from the
places of delivery under contract, to such
places the circumstances of the service
may require them to be sent of ordnance,
ordnance stores, and small arms, from foun-
deries and armories, to the arsenals, fortifca-
tions, frontier posts, and army depots; |;
freights, wharfage, tolls, and ferriages; 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 sea-going vessels, and boats required
for the transportation of supplies and for
garrison purposes; for drayage and carriage
at the several posts hire of teamsters trans
portation of funds for the pay and other dis
bursting 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 that it be brought
from distance; and for clearing roads, and
removing distractions from roads, harbors,
and rivers, to the extent which may be re-
quired for the actual operations of the troops
in the field, forty million dollars.
For hire or communication of quarters for
officers on military duty hire of quarters for
troops; of storehouses for the safe keeping of
military stores, of grounds for summer can
tonments, for the construction of temporary
r..
public buildings at established posts, four
million two hundred and thirty four thou
sand dollars.
For heating and cooking stoves, ninety
thousand dollars.
For maintenance of gunboat feet proper.
two million one hundred and sixty thousand
dollars.
For maintenance of steam rams, one hun
dred and eighty thousand dollars.
For contingencies of the army, five hun
dred thousand dollars.
For clothiug for the army, camp and gar
rison equipage, and for expenses Of Offices
and arsenals, thirty-nine million three hum
dred and twenty-five thousand five hundred
and thirteen dollars and twenth-five cents.
For constructing and extending the tele-
graph for military purposes, and for expenses
in operating the same, five hundred Thousand
dollars.
For the medical and hospital department
including pay of private physicians, purchase
and repair of surgical instruments, purchase
of extra hospital bedding, clothing, ice, pay
of male citizens as hospital attendants the
maintenance, of sick and wounded soldiers
placed in private houses or hospitals; and
other necessary comforts for the sick and
convalescing In thevarious military hospitals
five million seven hundred and five Thousand
nine hundred and eighty four dollars
For contingent expenses of the adjutant-
generals department at department. head.
quarters, two thousand dollars.
For supplies, transportation, and care %
, prisoners of war, three million three hun
. dred and seventy three thousand seven hun.
dred and twenty -eight dollars.
For armament of fortifcations, one mil
lion sixty-two thousand five hundred dol
lars.
For the current expenses of the ordnanct
service, seven hundred and thirty-two thou
sand six hundred dollars