The weekly standard., 1870-08-17
IPUBLIC No. lS5. |


An act making appropriations for the support
of the army for the year ending June thirty,
eighteen hundred and seventy one, and for
other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Rep.
rcsentatives of the United States OF America in
Congress assembled, That the following sums
| be, and the saiUa ale hereby, appropriated out
of any moneys in the treasury not Otherwise az
propriated for the support of the army tor the
year ending the 30th OF June, eighteen hundrcd
| and scycnty-one
For expenses OF recruiting and transpo: tation
OF recruits, four hundred and seventy-twC thou
| sand dollars.
For pay OF the army, twelve million nine hun.
dred and fifty five thousand, three hundred and
ninety dollars.
For communication in lieu of forage for Off
GERS horses, where the same is not furnished
by the Quartermaster's department, two thou
| sand dollars.
/ For payments to discharged soldiers for cloth
! ing not drawn, two hundred Thousand dollars.
And the proper accounting officers OF the treas
| ury are hereby authorized and required to trans
fer from any surplus OF the past appropriations
| for the "pay of the army, or of the volunteers,
not otherwise disposed of by law, such sum as
| may be sufficient to cover deficiencies in the ap
| preparations ''for payments TO discharged sol
diers for clothing not drawn" for the fiscal year
| vending June tliirtieth eighteen hundred and
seventy.
For subsistence in Kind for regular troops and
and employe[els. four million thirteen thousand
nine hundred and seventy-scvcn dollars and
| twenty two ceiis. -
For contingencies Of the army, eighty thou
For army medical museum, sayct thousaud dol
For medical and other necessary works foi
| hp1 fu Cen.
| Thousand dollars.
Forexpcnscs of Commanding Generals Office
| five thousand dollars.
For expenses of the signal service OF TIE army
| five thousand dollars.
For regular supplies OF the QuaItcrnrastcr't
| department, 10 wit: For the regular supplies oi
| the Qnaricrmaster's department, consisting oi
fuel for officers, enlisted men, guards, hospitals
| storehouscs, and offices; forage in kind for The
| horses mules, ard oxen of the QuarternastcBs
department. at the several posts and stations, ana
with the armies in the field for the horses OF the
several regiments OF cavalry, the batteries o
| artillery, and such companies OF infantry as may
be mounted, and for the authorized number Of
officers horses when serving in the field, and al
the outposts, including bedding for the animals:
| of straw for soldiers bedding and of station.
cry, including blank books tor the Quartermas.
| ter's department. certificates for discharged sol
diers, blank forms for the Pay and Quartermas.
| ters departments, aud 1or printin: of divisions
| :,
| five hundred thousand dollars.
For the general and incidental expenses OF the
| Quartermasters department, consisting OF pos
tage 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 Quartcrmaster department,
| in the erection of barracks, quarters, store.
| houses and hospitals, in tue construction of
| roads, and other constant labor, Tor periods of
| not less than len days, under the acts OF March
two eighteen hundred and nineteen. and August
| four, eighteen hundred and fifty four, including
those employed as clerks at division and depart
| INK nj headquarters expenses oi tN:'r, sses 10
and from the ifonlicr posts aud ui.n". in the
| field Of escorts 10 paymasters aud other dis
bursting officers; and to trains where military
escorts cannot be furnished; expenses of the in
terment of officers killed in action, or who die
when on duty in the field. or al posts on the
| frontiers, or ut posts and other places with or
| dered by the Secretary of Wari and of non-com-
| missioned officers and soldiers authorized of.
| flee furniture; hire of laborers in the Quarter
masters department, including the hire of in
| terpretcrs, spies and guides for the army; com.
! pcnsation of clerks to officers of the Quarter
| masters department; compensation of forage
and wagon masters, authorized by the act of
| July five, eighteen hundred and thirty. eight :;
ior the apprehension of deserters and the ex,
penscs incident to their pursuit, and Tor the fol-
lowing expenditures required for the several
regiments of cavalry the batteries OF light ar
tilleIy, and such companies of infantry as may
be mounted, viz the purchase of travelling
iorgcs, blacksmiths' aud shocing tools. horse
and mule shoes aud nails, iron and steel for shoe
ing, hire of veterinary surgeons, medicines for
horses and mules, picket ropes. and lor shoeng
the horses oi the corps named also, generally,
the proper and authorized expenses for the
movement and operations of an army, not ex.