, 1868-07-31

,sntatipes of the Uaited States Of america in Con-
0ress assembled, That the following sums be, and
and the same are hereby, appropriated, out OF
any money in the treasury not otherwise apPro-
prated, for the support of the army for the year
ending the the thirtieth Of June, eighteen hun
dred and sixty nine:
For expenses of recruiting and transportation
of recruits, one hundred thousand dollars
For pay of the army, fifteen million dollars.
For Communication of officers subsistence, two
million one hundred and thirty-three thousand
four hundred and thirteen dollars.
For commutation of forage for officers horses,
twenty thousand dollars.
For payments in lien of clothing for officers
servants, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
For payments to discharged soldiers for cloth
ing not drawn, two hundred thousand dollars.
For contingencies of the army, sixty thousand
dollars.
For medical and hospital department, two
hundred thousand dollars Provided, That oil
sums that have accrued to the credit of the med
ical and hospital department from the sale of
medical and hospital stores, or from any other
source, except appropriations made by act Of
March second, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven,
are hereby directed to be covered into the treas
ury at the close of the current fiscal year.
For army medical museum, five thousand
dollars.
For medical and other necessary works for the
dollars.
For expenses of commanding generals office,
five thousand dollars.
For regular supplies of the quartermaster's
department, to wit:
For the regular supplies of the quartsrmaster's
department, consisting of fuel for officers, en-,
listed men, guards, hospitals, storehouses, and
offices 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
regiments Of cavalry, the batteries of artillery,
and 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 outs
posts, including bedding for the animals of
straw for soldiers bedding and of stationery,
including blank books for the qnartermaster's 8
department, certificates for discharged soldiers,
blank forms for the pay and quartermaster's
departments and for printing of division and
department orders and reports, FIVE million
dollars.
For the general and incidental expenses of the
quartermasters department, consisting of post
age on letters and packets received and sent by
officers of the army on public service expenses
of courts martial, military commissions, and
courts of inquiry, including the additional com,
pensation Of judge advocates, recorders, men,
bers, and witnesses while on that service, under
the act Of March sixteen, eighteen hundred and
two; extra pay to soldiers employed under the
direction of the quartermaster's department in
the erection of barracks, quarters, storehouses,
and hospitals, in the construction of roads and
other constant labor for periods of not less than
ten days, under the acts of March two, eighteen
hundred and nineteen, and August four, eighteen
hundred and ffty-iour, including those employed
clerks at division and department headquar-
ters expenses of expresses to and from the
frontier posts and armies in the field of escorts
to paymasters and other disbursing officers, and
to trains where military escorts cannot be furS
nished; expenses of the interment of officers kill
ed in action or who die when on duty in the field,
or at posts on the frontiers at posts and other
places, when ordered by the Secretary of War,
and of non-commissioned officers and soldiers ;
authorized office furniture hire of laborers in
the quartermaster's department, including the
hire of interpreters, spies, and guides for the
army compensation of clerks to officers of the
quartermaster's department; compensation OF
forage and wagon-masters authorized by the act
of July fifth, eighteen hundred and thirty eight;
for the apprehension of deserters and the expeu,
ses incident to their pursuit and for the fol-
lowing expenditures required for the several
regiments of cavalry, the batteries of light artil,
lery, and such companies of infantry as may be
mounted, viz: the purchase of travelling forges
blacksmiths' and shoeing tools, horse and mule
shoes and nails, iron and steel for shoeinp, hire
mules, picket ropes, and for shoeing the horses
of the corps named also, generally, the proper
ana authorized expenses for the movement anC
operations OF an army, not expressly assigned
to any other department, two million dollars.
For mileage, or the allowances made to officer
OF the army, for the transportation of themselve
aud their baggage when travelling on duty with
out troops escort or supplies, two hundret
thousand dollars.
For transportation Of the army, including bag
gage OF the troops when moving either By LAM
or water, of clothing, camp and garrison equip
age, from the depots of Philadelphia, Cincinnati
and New York to the several posts and arm
depots, and from those depots to the troops i
the field, and of subsistence stores from th
places of purchase, and from the places of deliy
cry under contract, to such places as the circum
stances Of the service may require them to b
sent Of ordnance, ordnance stores, and small
arms from the founderies and armories TO th
arsenals, Notifications, frontier posts and arm
depots freghts Wharfage, tolls, and ferrages
the purchase and hire of horses, mules, oxen
and harness, and the purchase and repair of wag
ons, carts, and drays, and of ships and other sea
going vessels and boats required for the trans
portahon of supplies, and for garrison purposes
tor drayage and carriage at the several posts
hire Of teamsters transportation of funds fo
the pay aud other disbursing departments th
expense of sailing public transports on the VAR
Gus rivers, the GulI oil Mexico, and the Atlanti
and Paci6c for procuring water at such DOS,
as from their situation require it to be brougt
from distance; and for clearing roads aud r,
moving distractions from roads, harbors. an
rivers to the extent which may be required Il
the actual operations of the troops in the eel
i've million dollars.
For hire or commutation of quarters for Of
GERS on military duty hire of quarters for troop
of storehouses for the safe keeping of militia
stores and Of grounds for summer cantoumen,
for the construction of temporary huts, hospital
and stables, and for repairing public buiidiu
ut established posts, two million dollars.
For heating aud cooking stoves, twenty. e.
thousand dollars.
For the ordnance service, required to defr
the current expenses at the arsenAls of reeeivi,
stores and issuing arms and other ordnance an
plies OF police and Office duties of rents ,oI
fuel and lights of stationery and Office mr.
ture Of tools and Instruments for use of mi
animals, forage, aud vehicles; incidentaI syn.
ses OF the ordnance service, including those ,
tending practical trials and tests of orsns,,
smallarms, and other ordnance supnIiss :,
hundred Thousand dollars Propia,d Tn,
money appropriated BY this act shall be used