The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1866-11-02
PCBLIC-No. 103.

Az ACr making appropriations for the sup
port of the army for the year ending thir-
tieth of June, eighteen hundred and sixty
seven and for other purposes.
Be Il enacted by the Senate and House Of Rep
reseAtttjreS Of the United States Of 1mcIica IN
Congress assembled, That the following sums
be, and the same are hereby, appropriated,
out of any money in the treasury not other
wise appropriated, for the support of the
army for the year ending the thiTtieth of
june, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven.
For expenses of recruiting, transportation
of recruits, and compensation to citizens sur
geOns for medical attendance, three hundred
thousand dollars.
For pay of the army, ten millions seven
hundred and twelve thousand and fifty-two
dollars.
For Communication of officers subsistence.
one million six hundred and tifty-one thous-
and five hundred and eleven dollars and fifty
cents.
For Communication of forage for officers
horses. one hundred and five thousand two
hundred dollars.
For payments in lieu of clothing for
officers servants, one hundred and ninety
one thousand seven hundred and sixty-six
dollars.
For payments of discharged soldiers for
clothing not drawn, one hundred and fifty
thousand dollars.
For subsistence in kind for regulars and
volunteers, five million three hundred and
one thousand six hundred and twenty-five
dollars.
For the regular supplies of the quarter
masters department. consisting of fuel for
the officers enlisted men, guard, hospitals.
stOrehOuses, and officers; of forage in kind
for the horses, mules, and oxen for the quar-
teTmasteT'S department, at the several posts
and stations, and with the armies in. the
field; for the horses of the several regiments
-.
such companies of infantry as may be mount
ed 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 station
cry, including blank books for the quarter
masters department, certificates for dis
charged soldiers, blank forms for the paw
and quartermaster's Departments and for
the printing of division and department or
ders and reports, four millions one hundred
thirty-four thousand four hundred and nine
tv nine dollars and thiTtY-three cents.
For the incidental expenses of the quar-
teTmaster's department, consisting of post
age on letters and packages received and
sent by officers of the army on public ser
vice: expenses of courts-martial, military
commissions, and courts of inquiry includ-
ing the additional compensation of judge
advocates recorders, members and witness
ses, 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 department,
in the erection OF barracks, quarters, store
houses and hospitals; in the construction of
roads and on other constant labor. for Pc
RODS of not less than ten days, under the
acts of March second, eighteen hundred and
nineteen, and August fourth, eighteen hun
dred and fifty-fonr including those employed
as clerks as division and department head
quarters; expenses ofexpresses to and from
the frontier posts and armies in the field; of
escorts to paymasters and other discussing
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 non-
Commissioned officers and soldiers; author