New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-07-29
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OFFICIAL IOARNAt OF THE UNITED STATES
OFFICIAL JOURNAL OF NEW ORLEANS
OF CIAL.
LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES.
Passed Mt the Second Session Of the Forty.
First Congress.
TPrRI1C. No. 1851

port OF the army 1of the Ftai eh'iiS o'tho
thirty, eighteen hundred ana se'ehty-one'
and for other purposes.
Re il enacted by the Senate and House OF
Representatives of the United States OF
America in Congress assembled, mat the
following sums be, and the same are hereby,
appropriated out of any moneys IN tEe
treasury not otherwise Appropriated 10Y
the support of the army for the year end
ing the thirtleth OF June, elSHleen n"li-
dred and seventy-One:
For expenses of recruiting and 'ransporta-
ton Of recruits, four hundred ana seventy
two thousand dollars.
For nav of army, twelve million nine hun
bred and thirty-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 Quartermasters 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 ana
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 i'll 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[els, 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 Quartermas-
ter's department to wit: For fuel for officers
enlisted men, guards, hospitals. storehouses,
and Offices; of forage in kind for tie 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 department. con-
sisting of postage on letters and packets re-
ceived and sent by officers of the army on
public service: expenses OF c0urts-lnartlal,
military commissions, and courts Of inqi liry.
including the additional compensation OF
judge advocates. recorders members and
hat al he
act Of March sixteen, eighteen hundred
and two extra pay 10 soldiers employed IN
der the direction of the Quartermaster de-
partment, in the erection of barracks, quar-
tiers, storehouses, and hospitals. III 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 ffty-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
field; 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
laborers in the Quartermaster's department.
including the hire of interpreters, spies.
and guides for the army; compensation of
clerks to officers of the Quartermaster's 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
For mileage or the allowance made to
officers OF the army for the transportation of
themselves and their baggage, when travel
Hing on duty without troops, escorts or
supplies, fifty thousand dollars.
For taking meteorological observations and
giving notice on northern lakes and seaboard
OF approach ana 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 e1uipage from the depots of Phil
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 fOunderies and armOries to
the arsenals, Notifications, frontier posts,
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
drays, and of ships and other sea-goinS ves-
sells, and boats required for the transpOrta-
tion 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, the 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
situation, require it to be brought from a
distance; and for clearing roads and remov-
ing distractions from roads, harbors and
rivers to the extent which NAV be required |
for the actual operation of the troops in 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 for repair
ing public buildings at established posts,
seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars
For the ordnance service required 10 de- |
fray,the current expenses at the arsenals,
&C ,,o.o;,-;no ctoraS and isSIlinp arms and |