New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-07-30
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OFFICIAL J0ARNAl OF THE UNITED STATES
OFFICIAL JOURNAL Of NEW ORLEANS
OF f &c l..
LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES.
Passed at the Second Session of the Forty.
First Congress.
GPuBLIC. No. 1851

thirty, eighteen hundred and seventy one
and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House o
REPRESENTATIVES of the United States o
America in Congress assembled, That thu
following sums be, and the same are hereby
appropriated out of any moneys In me
treasury not otherwise appropriated, 1Oi
the support of the army for the year end
ing the thirtieth of June, eighteen nun
bred and seventy-one:
For expenses of recruiting ana transporta
ton of recruits four hundred and seventy
two thousand dollhr'.
For pay of army, twelve million nine hun
dred and thirty-fiye 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
thousand dollars.
For payment to discharged soldiers for
clothing not drawn, two hundred thousand
dollars. And the proper accounting officers
Of the treasury are hereby authorized and
required to transfer from any surplus OF the
past appropriations for the "pay Of the
the army, or of the volunteers" not other
wise disposed of by law, such sum as may be
sufficient to cover deficiencies in the apprO-
priatiOns +" for payments to discharged SOL
diers for clothing not drawn" for the fiscal
year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hun
dred and seventy.
For subsistence in kind for regular troops
and employe(e]s, four million thirteen thou
sand nine hundred and seventy-seven dollars
and twenty-five cents.
For contingencies Of the army, eighty
Thousand dollars.
For army medical museum, five thousand
dollars.
For medical and other necessary works
for the library of Surgeon Generals office,
three thousand dollars.
For expenses OF Commanding Generals
Office, five thousand dollars.
For expenses of the signal service of the
army, five thousand dollars.
For regular supplies of the Qnartermas-
ter's department, to wit: For fuel for officers,
enlisted men, guards, hospitals, storehouses,
and Offices; of forage in kind for the horses,
mules, and oxen of the Quartermaster's de-
partment 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 cOmpa-
MES of infantry as may be mounted, and for
the authorized number of officers horses
when serving in the field. and at the out
posts, including bedding for the animals; of
straw for soldiers bedding; and of station
cry, including blank books for the Quarter
masters department, certificates for dis
charged soldiers, blank forms for the Pay
and Quartermaster's departments, and for
printing of division and department orders
and reports four million five hundred thou
sand dollars.
For the general and incidental expenses
of the Quartermaster's department, con-
sisting OF postage on letters and packets re-
ceived 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 advocates, recorders, members and
witnesses while on that service, under the
act of March sixteen, eighteen hundred
and two; extra pay to soldiers employed I'M
der the direction of the Quartermaster's de-
partment, in the erection of barracks, quar-
tiers, storehouses, and hospitals, in the con-
structiOn 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 fifty -four, including those en-
ployed as clerks at division and department
headquarters; expenses of expresses to and
from the frontier posts and armies in the
teld; OF escorts to paymasters and other
disbursing officers, and to trains where mill |
tary 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 |
soldiers; authorized office furniture; hire Of
including the hire of Interpreters, spies, |
and guides for the army; compensation of
clerks to officers of the Quartermaster' de-
partment; compensation of forage and |
wagon masters, authorized by the act of |
July five, eighteen hundred and thirty EIGHT; |
for the apprehension of deserters, and the |
expenses incident to their pursuit; and for
the following expenditures required for the
several regiments of cavalry, the batteries
of light artillery, and such companies of in
fantry as may be mounted, viz: the purchase
of travelling FORCES, blacksmith and shOeing
TOOLS horse and mule shoes and nails, iron
and steel for shOeing hire of veterinary sur
geons, 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 as
signed to any other department, eight hun |
dred thousand dollars. .f,. .g
For mileage, or the allowance made to |
officers OF the army for the transportation of |
themselves and their baggage, when travel |
| ling on duty without troops, escorts or |
supplies, fifty thousand dollars.
For taking meteorological observations and /
giving notice on northern lakes and seabOard |
of approach and force of storms, fifty thou
sand dollars. @
For transportation of the army including
baggage of the troops when moving either
by land or water, of clothing, camp, and
garrison equipage from the depots Of Phil 7
adelphia, Cincinnati, and New York to the
several posts and army depOts, and from
those depots to the troops in the field and
of subsistence stores from the places of pur- |
chase, 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 |
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and army depots; freights, Wharfage, tolls, |
and ferriages; the purchase and hire of |
horses, mules, oxen, and harness, and the
purchase and repair of wagons, carts, and |
draws, and of ships and other sea-going YES
sells. and boats required for the transporta-
ton of supplies and for garrison purposes;
for drayage and carriage at the several posts,
hire of teamsters, transportation OF funds |
for the pay and other disbursing depart
ments tile expense of sailing public trans
ports ON the various rivers, the Gulf of |
Mexico and the Atlantic and Pacific; for |
procuring water at such posts as, from their |
require it to be brought from I
distance; and for clearing roads and remov-
ing distractions from roads, harbors, and
rivers to the extent which may be required
for the actual operation OF the troops LII the
field, five million dollars.
For hire or Communication of quarters
for officers on military duty, hire
of quarters for troops OF store
houses for the safe-keeping of military
stores, and of grounds for summer canton
ment; for the construction of temporary
huts. hospitals and stables; and Tor repair
NO public buildings at established posts,
seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars;
For the ordnance service required to de-
raw the current expenses at the arsenals,
If receiving stores and issuing arms and
,ther ordnance supplies, of police and Office
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