The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1866-08-16

dollars and thirty three cents.
the incidental expenses of the uuartermaster's
department, consisting of postage on letters and
packages received and sent by officers of the army
on public service expenses of court-martial militia
ry commissions, and courts ofinquiry. including the
additional compensation ofjudge advocates, record
ers, members, and Witnesses while that service
ander the act of March sixteenth eighteen hundred
and two, extra pay to soldiers employed, under the
direction OF the quarters department, in the
ton of barracks quarters, store houses and hosp
tails in the construction of roads and other constant
labor for periods of not less than ten days under the
acts of March second, eighteen hundred and nine
teen, and4August fourth, eighteen hundred and fifty
oUrincluding those employed clerks at division
and department headquarters; expenses of express
es TO and from the frontier posts and armies in the
field: of escorts to payIsasters and other discussing
officers and to trains where military escorts cannot
be furnished; expenses Of the nterment of officers
killed in action or who die when on duty in the
field, or at posts on the frontiers, ut other posts
and places when ordered by the Secretary of War,
and of non-commissoned officers and soldiers, au-
thorized Office furniture hire of laborers in the
quartermasters department, including the hire Of
Interpreters, spies, and guides for the army; com
pensation Of forage and wagon masters authorized
by the act Of Julylth eighteen hundred and thirty
eight for the apprehension OF deserters, and the eX-
pepses incident to their pursuit. and for the follow
ing 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 travelling FORCES. blacksmiths and shoe
inc tools horses and mule shoes andinais iron and
steel for shooting, hire OF veterinary surgeons, medi
cines for horses and mues. picket ropes, and for
shooting the horses of the corps named also. gener-
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movements and operations of an army not expressly
assigned to any other department, one million dol
lars
For the purchase Of cavalry and artillery horses
seven hundred and thri cen thousand one hundred
dollars.
For transportation of officers baggage, fifty thou
sand dollars.
For transportation of the army, including the bag
gage Of the troops when, moving either by land or
water; of clothing, camp and garrison equpage from
| the depots at Philadelphia, Cincinnati. and New
York to the several posts and depots and army de-
pots and from those depots TO the troops in the field
and 9suos stencc stores from the places purchase
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 foundres and armories
to the asenas, fortifcatoDs frontier posts and ar
my depots; freights wharfage tools 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 going
sells and boats required for the transportation Of sup
plies and for garrison purposes; for drayage and
carriage at the several posts hire of teamsters
pOrtaton of funds for the pay and other discussing
departments; the expense of sailing public trans
ports 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 distance; and for clearing roads and
removing distractions from roads, harbors and riv-
ers to the extent which may be required for the
tual operations of the troops in the field five million
dollars.
For hire of Communication quarters for officers on
military duty; hire ofquarers for troops of store
houses for the safe keeping of military stores of
grounds for summer environments; for the construc-
ton Of temporary huts, hospitals, and stables, and
for repairing public buildings at established posts,
SIX hundred and twentyfour thousand and thirty
eight dollars.
For contingencies of the army, one hundred thou
sand dollars.
For the medical and hospital department five hun
bred thousand dollars.
For repairs, improvements and new machinery at
the national amory, one hundred thousand dollars
For repairs and improvements at arsenals, inclu-
ding new and additions to present buildings and
machinery, tools, and fixtures, fifty thousand dol
lars.
For the purchase of site and erection of magazine
for storing gunpowder, two hundred thousand dol
lars
For the purchase of land for charging the Water
Welt arsenal, thirty thousand dollars.
Sec. 2. A7cd be attWrtter enacted, That the sum
of one hundred and forty-siX thousand dollars be,
and the same is hereby appropriated out Of any
eys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated to be
disbursed by the Secretary of War in the erection OF
fire proof buildings at or Schulkill arsenal in
the State of Pennsylvania TO be used store hou-
ses for government property THAT post
| Sec. 3. A1ld be ii FURTHER enacted That the fol-
lowing sums be, and the same are hereby appropra-
ated, out of any money in the treasury not
otherwise appropriated, for the support of the Blu
reau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands
for the fiscal year commencing July 1st eighteen
hundred mo I'd, and /! si * namely
nlssloners one hundred and forty-seyen thousand
five hundred dollars.
For salaries Of clerks, eighty-two thousand, eight
hundred dollars
For stationery and printing sixty three thousand
| dollars.
For quarters and fuel fifteen thousand nine hun.
| cred dollars.
For clothing for distribution one million one hun.
bred and seventy thousand dollars.
For commissary stores three million one hundred
and Sax thousand two hundred and fifty dollars
For medical department, five hundred thousand
dollars.
For transportation-one million three hundred
and twenty thousand dollars
For school supenntendents, twenty-one thousand
For repairs and rent of school houses and asylums
five hundred thousand dollars
For telegraDhing, eighteen thousand dollars
Sec. d. ana be u FURTHER enacted That the Omar.
termasters department shall in all cases in obtanno
supplies for the military service state in advertise
ments for bids Tor contracts that preference shall
De given to articles of domestic production and
manufacture, conditions OF price and quality being
equal and that such preference shall be given TO ar
9cies OF american production and manufacture, pro-
duced on the Pacific coast to the extent ofthe con
sumption required by the public service there: and
IN advertising for army supplies the Quartermas-
ers department shall require all articles which are
to be used in the States and Territories of he Pacific
coast to be delivered and inspected at points desig
mated IN these states and Territories; and the advef
| tlsements Tor such supplies shall be published in
newspapers of the cities of San Francisco in Cali
| fornia, and Portland in Oregon
Sec; .. 1mo be 1tatrthe" enacted, That section
seventeen OF an act entitled IAN act to define the
pay ana e1oiuments of certain officers of the army
approved July seventeenth, eighteen hundred and
slxtytw and resolution entitled "A resolution To
authorize the President to assign the command of
troops III the same field department to officers of
the same grade without regard to seniority approved
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and the sa1ne are hereby repealed And no officer in
the military or naval service shall in time of Deace
De dismiss 9d from service except upon and in pur-
suhce OF lac sentence of court-martial to that eff
iect or In commutation thereof
Sec; g. 4ndbe II further enacted, That the Super
lhUehdent OF the United States Military Academy
may hereafter be selected, and the officers on duty
az that lnstuuon detailed from any arm of the ser
Twice; and the supervision and CHARGE of fine Acad
envy shall be IN the War Department under such
officer or officers, as the Secretary of War NAV as
| sign to that duty. 80
Sec. 7. lind be IL tu1ther enacted. That when if
is necessary to employ soldiers as artifcers or Ia
borers IN the construction of permanent military
WORKS pubic roads. other constant labor of NOT
less IMAM ten days duration in any case thew shall
receive IN addition to their regular pay the following
IaddItonal compensation therefor enlisted men
TWorklng as artiicers and non-commissioned Officers
employed as oyerseers of such work. not exceeding
one oVerseef Tor every twenty men, thrty-ve cents
per day-and enlisted men employed as laborers
twenty cents per day, but such working parties shall
only be authorized on the written order of CON,
handing officer This allowance ofextra nav is not
to appyto the troops of the engineer and ordinance
departments. ~ " 'e
Sec. 8. and be it further enacted, That the al
loWance now made by law to officers TRAVELLING nm
der orders whore transportation is not furnished in
klnd snail be increased to ten cents per mile
| Approved July 10, 1866.
LPUBLIC-No. 104
AN ACT relating to pilots and pilot regulations
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Ronresan
tves of the United States of America in ConGreSe
pied, mat no regulations or provisions shall he
adopted by any State of the United Sstes of Anari
ca winch shall make any discrimination in the rate
OF p1lotage half piOtape between vecee cojiin
between the ports ofdifferent states or anJy diSiS
lauoh aStlhstVessels propelled in whole ar in mart
ny sea OF against national vessels of tbe T1nftod
,Lin anu al eNist!ng regulations or provisions
making any such discrimination, as herein n7en+ior
ed. are hereby annulled and ahrorota5 1O1oioiI-