The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1870-11-12


and empleyelels. four million thirteen tbon- !
sand nine hundred and seventy seven dol |
lars and twenty-five cents.
For contingencies of the army, eighty thou
sand dollars.
For army medical museum, five thousand
dollars.
For medical and ether necessary works for
the library of Surgeon Geuerals office: three
thousand dollars
For expenses of Commanding General,s
office, five thousand dollars
For expenses of the signal service of the
army, i've thousand dollars.
For regular supplies of the Quartermas.er's
department., to wit: For the regular sap.
plies of the Quar.erTnasters department, Coz
sisting OF fuel for officers, enlisted men,
guards; hospitals, storehouses and offices; Of
forage in Kind fnr the horses, mules, and
oxen OF the Gu rterU,aster's department at the
several 20 is and stations. aud with the armies
IN the he!d, los the Horses of the several rcgi
ments of cavalry, the batteries of artillery,
aud such coinpanies of infantry as NAV be
mounted, aud for the authorized nnmber of
officers hcrses when serving in the field, and
of the outrusts, including bedding for the ami
mails Of straw for soldiers bedding and of
stationery, including blank books for the
Quarter,nasters department, and for printing
of division and department orders aud reports,
four mill Oh five hundred thousand dollars
For the general and medicinal expeIrses of
the Sdarterma~ter's department, consisting Of
postage on letters and packets received and
sent by officers of the army on pnblic service
sions. and courts of inquiry, including the ad-
diiionat compensation of judge advocates. re-
corders, members. and Witnesses while ON that
service, under the act of March sixteen
eighteen hundred and two; extra nav to sol.
tiiers employed under the direction of the
Quartermaster s department, in the erection of
barracks, quarters, storehonaes, and hospitals
In the construction of roads, aud other con-
slant labor. for periods OF not less than ten
days, under the acts of March two eighteen
hundred aud nineteen, and August four, eigh.
teen hundred and fifty four, Including those
employed at division and department bead
quarters; expenses of expresses to and frou
the frontier posts and armies in the field of
escorts to paymasieis and other discussing
officers, aud to trains where military escorts
cannot be furnished expenses of the inter
meut of officers killed in action, or who die
when duty iu the lieid 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 authoriz
ed 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 department; compensa-
ton of forage and wagon masters, authorized
by the act of July five, eighteen hundred aud
thirty eight; for the apprehension of desert
ers. and the expenses incident to their pur
| suit; and for the following expenditures re-
| qnire d for the several regiments of cavalry
| the batteries of light artillery, and such coIu-
| panies of Infantry as may be mounted, viz
| the purchase of travel ing fofges, blacksmiths'
and sh0eiug tools. horse and mule shees aud
nails. iron and steel fot shoeng: hire eff
| veterinary surgeons, medicines for horsea and
mules. picket ropes, and for shoeing the horses
| of the corps named: also, generally, the pro
| Per and authorized expenses for the move
ment and operations of an army, not express
1 iy assigned to any other department. eight
hundred thousand dollars.
For mileage, or the allowance made 10 Off
I GERS of the army for the TRANSPORTATION of
! themselves and their baggage. when travel
| l'Iing on duty without troops, escorts, or sup
| piIes. fifty thousand dollars
| For taking meteoroiog gicar observations and
giving notice Oh northern lakes and seaboard
| OF approach end force OF storms, fifty thou
| sand dollars.
For the transportation of the army, incIud
| ing baggage of the troops when mo wing either
| by lond or water, of clothing, camp and gar
| rison eqaipage from the depots Of PbiIadeI-
Phia, Cincinnati, and New York 40 the sey
| erai posts and army depots, aad from, those
depots to the troops in the field; aud of snb
slstence stores from the places of purchase
| and from the places of delivery auder con-
tract, TO SUCH places the circumstances Of
the service may require them to be seat of
ordnauce, ordnance stores. and small arms.
FROM the founderies and xru.ories TO the
arsenais, fortihcatous, frontirr poIs and
army depots, treights. whai fage, tolls. and
ferrIages the purchase and hire of horses
mules, oxen, aud harness, and the pnrchase
and repair OF Wagons, carts; and Oh avs and of
ships and other sea going vessels, and boats
required fer the transportation of suuDiies and
age AT the several posts, hire of ieams;ers
transportation of funds for the pay and other
dlstnrsIng departments, the expense of sailing
public transports the various rivers the
Guif OF Mexico, and the Atlantic aud The pa,
Gilt; tor procuring wafer at such posts Ms.
from their situation, require it to be brought
from u distance: aud tor clearing roads aud
removing distractions from roads. barbors.
and rivers 10 the extent which NAV be re-
CURED for the actual operations of the trsop,
III the held. i've million dollars
For hire or copfnut alton of uuarters fur
| officers on military duty. hite of Quarters for
troops, of storehousss Tor the saf. sepjny of
military stores, aud of grounds for summer
cantoRnents tor the construction of tempo
| rary huts, hospitals, and stables and for re-
pairing public buildings at established posts,
| seven hundred and fifty Thousand dollars
For the ordnance service required to 6efray
the eurrent expenses at the arseuais, of re-
ceiying stores and issuing arms and other
ordnance supplies, of police and Office du, les,
of rents, tolls, fne, and lights of stationery
and Office furniture of tools and instru u nts
for use; of public animals, forage, and We
hicles; incidental expenses of the ordnance
service, including those attending practical
trials and tests of ordnance, small arms, and
other ordnance supplies, hundred and
| fifty thousand dollars: Provided, That ne
money appropriated by this act shall be used
TO pay Tor any new cannon or small arms.
For establishing and maintaining national
cemeteries, three hundred thousand dollars
Provided, That twenty thousand dollars of