New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1868-07-05
TPuBLIC-No. 3s.1
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An ACT making annrnnr

AN ACT making appropriations for the support of
the army for the year ending June thirtieth,
eighteen hundred and sixty nine, and for other
purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Repre-.
sentatives of the United States of America in Con.
gress assembled, That the following sums be aud
the same are hereby appropriated out of any money
support Of the army for the year ending the thrtieth
of June, eighteen hundred and sixty. nine:
For expenses of recruiting and transportation of
recruits, one hundred thousand dollars
Tor pay Of the army fifteen million dollars.
lion one hundred and thirty three thousand four
hundred and thirteen dollars.
For Communication of forage for officers horses
twenty thousand do lars.
For payments in lieu Of clothing for officers ser.
wants. two hundred and fifty thousand dollars
For payments to discharged soldiers for clothing
not drawn, two hundred Thousand dollars.
For contingencies Of the army sixty thousand dol
For medical and hospital department two hppd.
red thousand dollars: Provided That all sums that
have accrued to the credit of the medical and hos
ptal department from the sale OF medical and hos
ptA stores, from any other source except AppTo.
priahons made by act OF March second, eighteen
hundred and sixty sevtn are hereby directed to be
covered into the treasury at the close Of the
fiscal year.
For army medical museum five thousand dollars
For medical and other necessary works for the
library of Surgeon Generals office, two thousand
dollars
For expenses of commanding generals Office, five
thousand dollars.
For regular supplies of the quartermasters' depart
For the regular supplies of the quartermasters'
men, guards hospitals storehouses and offices; Of
forage in kind tor the horses, mules and oxen OF the
stations and with the armies in the field for the
horses Of the several regiments of cavalry the bat
may be mounted, and for the authorized number of
officers horses when serving in the field and at the
outposts, including bedding for the anmals of
straw for soldiers bedding; and Of stationery nclud
ing blank books for the qqartermaslers department.
certificates for discharged ders, blank forms for
the pay and quartermasters' 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 postage
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 compensation of judge Ad-
yocHtes, recorders members and witnesses while on
that SERVICE under the act of March sixteen eight
cen hundred and two; extra pay to soldiers employed
under the direction Of the quartermasters depart
ment in the erection of barracks quarters store
houses ana hospitals; in the construction OF roads,
and other constant labor for periods OF not less than
hundred and nineteen, and August four, eighteen
hundred and fifty four including those mplOy ed as
clerks at division and department headquarters;
penses of expresses and from the frontier posts
and armies in the fed; Of escorts to paymasers and
tary escorts can not be furnished; expenses of the
I'M erment o! officers killed action or who die
when duty in the field, or at pests on the from
tiers at posts an other laces, when ordered by
the Secretary OF War, and of non commissioned
hire of laborers in the quArtermasters department.
including the hire of Interpreters. SPIES and guides
the duarterinasters' department: compensation of
forage and wagon masters authorized by the act of
the apprehension of deserteTs and the expenses in
cident to their pursuit; and for the folloSng ex-
cavalry the batteries of light artillery, and such
companies Of infantry as may be mounted, VIZ: the
ing TOOLS horse and mule shoes and nails, iron and
steel for shoeng, hire Of veterinary surgeons medi
cines for horses and mules, picket ropes and for
shoeing the horses of the corps named; also, gem
orally, the proper and authorized expenses for the
movement and operations of an army, not expressly
assigned to any other department, two million dol.
For mileage or the allowances made to officers of
the army, Tor the transportation of themselves and
their baggage when travelling on duty without
dollars.
of the troops when moving either by land or water,
depots Of PhIladephia, Olncinnati, and New York
to the several posts and army depots and from those
depots to the troops IN the held and OF subsistence
stores from the places Of 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 the boundaries and armories to the arse
mails forthcations, frontier posts, and army depots
freghts, wharfage, tolls and terrages 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 vessels and boats
required for the transportation of supplies and for
garrison purposes; for drayage and carriage at the
funds for the pay and other dsbursing departments
! the expense of sailing public transports on the
various rivers the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic
and Pacific: for procuring water at such posts as
from their situation require it to be brought from
distance; and for clearing roads and removing OBJ,
structiens from roads, harbors and rivers to the
tent which may be required for the actual operations
! of the troops in the field, five million dollars.
For hire or Communication Of quarters for officers
military duty hire Of quarters for troops, Of store
houses for the safe-keeping OF military stores, ana
! OF grounds for summer environments; for the con-
struction of temporary huts hospitals and stables,
and for repairing public buildings at established
| posts, two million dollars
For heating and cooking stoves, twenty-five thou
| For the ordnance SERVICE required TO defray the
current expenses at the arsenas Of receiving stores
police and Office duties OF rents, tolls. fnel ana
lights; Of stationery and office turnitare q tools
and instruments for use; of public animss. forage.
and vehicles incidental expenses OF ths ordnance
service including those stifndng prSctlesi tIla s
nSnoe snnpIies two hundred thousand dollars: Pro
yded That no %q ay or small arms
| Eor purohssing three acres OF land adjoining Fed
erai square at Springfield armory, three thousand
son Grams AND IMPROVEMENTS OF ARxoR1Es AM
! For arsenal and armory at Rock Island Illinois
| three hundred and eighty thousand dol ars: pro
vded that eighty Thousand dollars Of said sum shall
be devoted to the development of the waterpower t.
carry out existing contracts y ~ =.
| twenty thousand dollars.
For arsenal at St. Louis Missouri, five Thousand
For Augusta arsenal, Augusta, Georgia, ten thou
sand dollars.
| seven thousand i've hundred dollars.
For Benecia arsenal, Bsneeia California, ten thou
For Vancouver arsenal Vancouver, Washington
Territory hve thousand dollars
bama, i've thousand dollars, -
For Watertown arsena Waterfront, Massaehu
sets, fifteen thousand dollars
FOR Allegheny arsenal. Pittsburgh, Pennsyl gAnia
1--WE thousand do lars. .- -
For Fort Monroe arseua al Old Point Comfort, Viz
ginia four thousand five hundred dollars
For FEankford arsenal Bridesburg, Pennsylvania
| eight hundred and eighty dollars.
For ksnnebec arsenal, Augusta, Maine, two thou
| sand dollars
For. Leavenworth arsenal LeayeHworth, Kansas
For New York Arsenal Governors leland, NsV
York, three thousand dollars.
For Ptkesyile arsenal, Pifesville, Maryland, eigh
For the preservation ard necessary repairs of tn
fortihcations and the works Of Defense two hundre
thousand dollars.
SIC And be it further enacted, That Of the Al
ton Of sixty thousand dollafs for publishl
the medical and surgical history OF the rebellion an
the medical statistics of the Provost Marshal Gel
erals office, made in an act approved July twent
sand dollars shall be devoted TO the preparation an
. Dublica ION of i've thousand copies Of the Medic
Statistics Of the Provost Marshal Generals burea
and that the work shall be compiled and complete
! the immediate direction Of the Secretary Of Wa
and without the iRterierenceo Of Any ether officer.
Approved june g ls6a
LPuBLIc-No. 49,
AN ACT to amend an act endtled = An act for q
rslief Of tbs Inhabitants Of cities and towns nps
ths public lands" approved March two, e1ghte'
Be II enseted by the Senate and House Of kepf
sentatives Of the United States Of America in Oe
gr0ss assembled, That the Inhabitants OF any TOW
located on the public Land Of the United Statas nj
avail themselves, II the town authorities elect 90
DO, Of the provisions Of the act Of March tT9s Gig
| aan hundred And aiufr-NQQeD nuftfiod An act II