The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1866-12-08
CHAP. XIV.

An Act making Appropriations for the Support
of the Army for the Year ending the thirtieth
of June, eighteen hundred and sixty -four, and
for a Deficiency for the Signal Service, for the
Year ending June thirty, eighteen hundred and
siXty-three.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Rep
resentatives of the United States of America in
Congress assembled, That the following sums be-
and the same are hereby appropriated, out ofany
money i'll the Treasury not otherwise appropri-
ated, for the support Of the army for the year
ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred
and siXty-fOu
For expenses of recruiting, transportation of
recruits, and compensation to citizen surgeons
for medical attendance, two hundred and seventy
five thousand dollars.
For bounties and premiums for recruits of the
regular army, three hundred and twenty-four
thousand dollars.
For bountieS for recruits Ofthe volunteer service
five million dollars
For collecting, drilling, and organizing volun-
teers, and all other necessary expenses ten mil
lion seven hundred thousand dollars.
For pay of the army, nine million five hundred
and ninety thousand five hundred and thirty
eight dollars
For communication of officers subsistence one
million six hundred and twenty thousand and
forty eight dollars.
For commutation of forage for officers horses,
For payments to discharged soldiers for cloth
ing not drawn, one hundred and fifty thousand
dollars.
For payments in lieu of clothing for officers
seventy dollars.
For pay of volunteers under acts of twenty
second and twenty fifth off uly, eighteen hundred
and siXty-one, two hundred and sixty-siX million
four hundred and ten thousand nine hundred and
eighty dollars and six cents.
For subsistence in kind for regulars, volunteers,
engineers, Indians, and hospital stewards, one
hundred and forty million one hundred and thirty
two thousand six hundred and eighty ty-nine dollars
and twenty cents.
For the regular supplies of the quartermaster's
department. consisting of fuel for the officers
listed men, guard, hospitals, storehouses, and
officers of forage in kind for the horses, mules
and oxen of the quartermaster's department at
the several posts and stations and with the armies
in the field for the horses of the several regi-
ments of cavalry, the batteries of artillery, and
such companies of infantry as may be mounted,
and for the authorized number of officers horses
when serving in the field and at the outposts, in
cluding bedding for the animals; of straw for
soldiers bedding, and OF stationery, including
blank books for the quartermaster's department,
certificates for discharged soldiers, blank forms
for the pay and quartermasters departments :; for
the printing of division and department orders
and reports, siXty-seven million two hundred and
seventeen thousand seven hundred and ninety
one 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; expenses OF courts
martial and courts of inquiry, including the ad
ditional compensation of judge advocates, re-
corders, members, and witnesses, while on that
service, under the act of March sixteenth, eigh-
teen hundred and two extra pay to soldiers en-
ployed, under the direction ofthe quartermasters
departmcnt in the erection of barracks, quarters,
stOrehouSes, and hospitals; in the construction
of roads, and other constant labor, for periods
of less than ten days, under the acts OF March
second eighteen hundred and nineteen, and Au-
gust fourth eighteen hundred and ffty-four, in
Guiding those employed as clerks at division and
department headquarters expenses OF expresses
to and from the frontier posts and armies in the
field; of escorts to paymasters and other disburs-
ing officers, and to trains where military escorts
cannot be furnished expenses of the lnterment
o. officers killed in action, or who die when on
duty in the field at posts on the frontiers, or
at other posts and places when ordered by the
Secretary of War, and of non On-cOmmissioned Off
GERS and soldiers authorized office furniture;
hire of laborers in the quartermasters depart
ment, including the hire of interpreters, spies,
and guides for the army; compensation of clerks
to officers of the quartermasters department;
compensation of forage and wagon masters, au-
thorized by the act of July fifth eighteen hun
dred and thirty-eight; for the apprehension of
deserters and the expenses incident to their pur-
suit j.; and for the following expenditures 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 travel
ling forges, blacksmiths' and shoeing tools, horse
and mule shoes and nails, iron and steel for shoe
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 expenses for the move
ments and operations of army not expressly
assigned to any other department., nineteen mil
lion one hundred and twenty-hv thousand dol
lars.
For the purchase of cavalry and artillery horses,
tWenty-three mllllOn one nunOreQ anu elSnIy-
nine thousand three hundred and seventy-fve
dollars.
For mileage or the allowance made to officers
of the army for the transportation OF themselves
and their baggage, when travelling on duty with
out troops, escorts, or supplies, one million Of
dollars.
For transportation of the army, including the
baggage of the troops when moving, either by
land or water ;7of clothing, camp, and garrison
equipage, from the depots at Philadelphia and
NeV York and Cincinnati, to the several posts