The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1868-06-23
TPUBLIC-No. 1871


the army for the year ending June thirtieth,
eighteen hundred and sixty-nne, and for other
purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Rep
rescntatives of the United States of of America
in Congress assembled, That the following sums
be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, out
OF any money in the treasury not otherwise APP
propriated, for the support of the army for the
year ending the thrtieth 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-thrce thousand
four hundred and thirteen dollars.
For communication of forage for officers; horses,
twenty thousand dollars.
For payments i'm lieu of clothing for officers
servants, two hundred and fifty thousand dol
lars.
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 hun
dred thousand dollars PyODided That all sums
that have accrued to the credit of the medical
and hospital department from the sale of medi-
cal 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 treasury
at the close of the current fiscal year.
For army medical museum. five thousand dol
lars.
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'
department, to-wit:
For the regular supplies of the quartermas-
ters' department, consisting Of fuel for officers,
enlisted men, guards hospitals, storebouses,
and offices; of forage in kind for the houses
ment at the several posts and stations, and with
the armies in the field, for the horses of the
era regiments of cavalry, the batteries of artil-
lery, and such companies of infantry as NAV be
mounted, and for the authorized number of Off
GERS horses when serving in the field and at the
outposts. including bedding for the animals; of
straw for soldiers bedding; and of stationery,
including blank books for the quartermasters'
department, certificates for discharged soldiers,
blank form for the pay and quartermasters' de-
partments, and for printing of division and de-
partment 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-martal, military commissions and
courts of inquiry, including the additional COM
pensation of judge advocates recorders, mem
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 9uartermasters' department in
the erection of barracks, quarters, storehouses
and hospitals, in the construction of roads, and
other constant labor for periods of not less tDan
ten days, under the acts Of March two, eighteen
hundred and nineteen, and August four, eigh-
teen hundred and tiIty-four, incluning those en-
poyed as clerks at division and department
headquarters; expenses of expresses to and from
the frontier posts and armies in the field; of es-
corts to paymasters and other discussing officers
and to trai S where military escorts cannot be
furnished; expenses of the interment of officers
killed in action, or who die when on duty in the
field, or at posts on the frontiers or at posts and
other places when ordered by the Secretary of
War, and of non-commissioned officers and sol
diers, authorized office furniture; hire of labor
ers in the quartermasters' department, including
the hre OF interpreters spies, and guides for the
army; compensation of clerks to officers of the
quartermasters' department; compensation OF
forage and wagon masters authorized by the act
of July fifth, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight:
for the apprehension of desertcrs and the eXpen-
scs incident TO their pursuit; and for the follow
ing expenditures required for the several regi-
ments OF cavalry, the batteries of light artillery,
and such companies of infantry as may be
mounted, viz: the purchase of travelling FORCES,
blacksmths' and shoeing tools, horse and mule
shoes and nails, iron and steel for shoeing, 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 movement and
operations OF an army, not expressly assigned
to any other department, two million dollars
For mileage, or the allowances made to officers
OF the Amy, for the transportation of themselves
and their baggage when travelling on duty with
out troops, escort or supplies, two hundred
thousand dollars.
For transportation of the army, including bag
gage OF the troops when moving either by land
or water, OF clothing, camp and garrison equip
age, from the depots of Philadelphia Cincinnati
ii, and NewYork to the several posts and army
depots, and from those depots to the troops in
tue field, and of subsistence stores from the
places of purchase, and from the places of de-
livery under contract, to such places as the cir
cumstances of the service may require them to
be sent; of ordnance, ordnance stores, and
small-arms from the boundaries and armories to
the arsenas, Notifications, frontier posts and ar
my depots; freights, wharfage, tolls, and ferri-
ages; 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 sea going vessels and boats required for
the transportation of supplies, and for garrison
purposes; for drayage and carriage at the several
posts; hire of teamsters; transportation of
funds tor the pay and other discussing depart
ments; the expense of sailing public transports
on the various rivers, the Gulf of Mexico, and
the Atlantic and Pacific foI procuring water at
such posts as from their situation require it to
be brought from distance; and for clearing
harbors, and rivers to the extent which may be
required for the actual operations of the troops
in the field five million dollars
nT m Ht of quarters tor Off
troops of storehouses for the safe-keeping of
military stores, and of grounds for summer can
huts, hospitals, and stables, and for repairing
public buildings at established posts, two mil
lion dollars.
For heating and cooking stoves, twenty five
thousand dollars
For the ordnance service, required to defray
the current expenses at the arsenals of receiving
storea and Issuing arms and other ordnance sup
plies; of police and Office duties; of rents tolls
fuel and lights; of stationery and office furni,
ture; OF tools and instruments for use; OF pub
lie animals, forage, and vehicles; incidental ex-
penses OF the ordnance service, including those
attending practical trials and tests of ordnance
small-arms and othnr ordnance supplies two
hundred thousand dollars Provided, That no
money appropriated by this act shall be used to