The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1869-05-27
OFFICIAL.
Laaos Passed By the Third Session of
The Fortietb Congress.
TPUBLGo-No. 38.1

AN ACI mdElI& appropriations
for the support of the army tor the
year ending June thirteen, eigh-
teen hundred and seventy, aad
for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate aud
House of Representatives of the
United States OF America in Congress
assembled, That the following sums
be, and the same are hereby, apprO-
priated, out of any mony in the treas
ury not otherwise appropriated, toI
the support of the army for the year
ending the thirtienth of une, eighteen
hundred and seventy:
For expenses OF recruiting and
transportation of recuits, fifty thou
sand dollars.
For pay Of the army eleven million
dollars.
For commutation of officers sub
sistenee, one million five hundred
thousand dollars.
For commutation of forage for off
GERS horses, twenty thousand dollars.
For payment In lieu of clothing for
officers servants two hundred thou
sand dollars.
For payments to discharged sol
diers for clothing not drawn, two hun
dred thousand dollars.
For subsistence in kind for regu al
troops employees, tour million five
hundred thousand dollars.
For contingencies OF the army, one
| hundred thousand dollars.
For medical and hospital depart.
ment, two hundred thousand dollars
For army medical museum, five
thousand dollars.
For the purchase artificial limbs fo
officers, soldiers, and sailors, fort,
thousand dollars.
| For medical and other necessar.
works for the library of Sturgeon Gen
erals office, two thousand dollars
For expenses of commanding gen
| erals office, five thousand dollars.
For expenses of the signal service o
the army, FIVE thousand dollars.
For regular supplies of the quarter
masters department., to wit:
For the regular supplies OF thu
duqrtermasters department, consistln
! of fuel for officers, enlisted men
| guards, hospitals, storehOuses, an
| offices; of forage In kind for tn
| horses, mules, and oxen OF tn
ouartermasters department at tn
several posts and stations, and Wit
| the armies in the field, for the horse
of the several regiments of cavalry
the batteries of artillery, and such CON
panies of infantry as may be mounted
and for the authorized number of ON
GERS horses when serving Ia the tlel
and at the outposts, including beddIn
for the animals; of straw for soldier.
bedding; and of stationery, lncludln
blank books for the quartermaster'
department, certificates Tor diS
charged soldiers, blank forms for th
pay and quartermasters' departmen
and for printing of division and dC
partment orders and reports, nv
million dollars.
For the general aud incidental ex
penses Of the quartermasters' depart
2 ment. consisting of postage on letter
= and packages received and sent Z
officers Of the army on public service
EXPENSES of courts martial, mllItal
: commissions, aud courts of inquir
including the additional compensate
of Judge advocates, recorders, men
hers. and witnesses while on that Sc
vice. under the act of March sixtee
] eighteen. hundred and two; extra p.
to soldiers employed under the dire
! | ton of the quarterhasters departmel
: in the erection of barracks, quarter
: storehOuses. and hospitals, in the CO..
E struction Of roads, and other constal
> .bor. for periods of not less than tC
t davs. under the acts OF March tV
e eighteen hundred and nineteen. al
. August forth, eighteen hundred al
fftv four. including those employs
d as clerks at division and departme
Headquarters expenses OF express
to aud from the frOuntier posts an
y armies in the field; of escorts to pa
l. masters and other disburslng Othcel
% and to trains where military escOT
v cannot be furnished expenses OF q
l. interment of officers killed In actl0
ss or who die when on duty IN the II
or at posts on the frontiers, or
n posts and other places. when order
bv the Secretary of War, and of no
9; commissioned officers and soldier
authorized office furniture; hire
laborers in the quarternasters d
- partment, including the hire Of into
:, prefers, spies, and guides for t
ts army; compensation OF clerks to OF
GERS of the quartermasters depal
y ment: compensation of forage a
q waeon-masters, authorized by the {
of July fifth, eighteen hundred q
=; thlrty-eight; for tie apprehension
s; deserters and the expenses incident
5S' their pursuit; and for the fOllowI
expenditures required for the seve
regiments of cavalry, the batteries
light artillery, and such companies
n. infantry as may be mounted, viz:
X purchase of travelling torges, bla'
Die smi hs' and shoeing tools, horse a
= mule shoes and nails, iron and st