Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1871-05-23

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LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES.
Passed at the Third Session Or the Forty first
Congress.
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lGENERAL NATUHK-No. 49,
AN ACT making appropriations for the support
of the army for the year ending June thirty,
eighteen hundred and seFenty-two, and for
other purposes. 'l0H ,oU0UJ Y3HB1
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Re
personalities 9ftthe Vnited States of Anieriea
be, ana the same are hereby, appropriated out
of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise APP
| propriated, for the support of the army for the
year ending june thirty, eighteen hundredsand
For expenses Of the, Generals office, fse
thousand dollars.E x 4 .H
| For expenses of recruiting and transportation
of recruits, one hundred and twenty thousand
| five hundred and eighty dollars.
erals department at the headquarters of mill;
| tary divisions and departments, ayssshoussnd
A dollars. -esSeez.SzsA sN y
For the expenses Of the signal ssrviGcAof the
army five thousand dollars. ~ "a
| For pay Of esarpy, and for payment to
discharged soldiers for clothing NOT drawn,
| twelve million three hundred thousands dollars,
of which sum one hundred thousand dollars,
and nosmoro, may be. expended forspay of In
| For allowance to officers of the army for
| transportation of themselves and their baggage,
| when travelling on duty without troops, escorts,
or supplies, enc hundred and fifty Thousand
| dollars. ~--z-S2.ss
| For general expenses, .ucha. the additional
compensation OF Judge iad vocates, Irecorlers,
members land witnesses while-on eetart-fiaSrtial
service, and travelling experses off pay masters
clerks, and postage ON letters Hnd packages and
| kilograms received and sent by officers of the
army on public business. one hundred thousand
dollars sri I.o sas 10. iaz Iike7u9 sriI II =
| F6rasubsistence of regular troops, engineers,
and Indian scouts two million nine hundred
thousand dollars of which sum fifty fKe thSus-
and dollars, and no more, may be expended for
| Subsistence Of Indian scouts. Ty.y sy5x<l
| For regular supplies of the Quarterniastcr' 8
| department, consisting of fuel for officers. en-
listed men, guards, hospitals storehouses, and
offices; of forage in kind for the horses, mules
and oxen of the Quartermasters department at
the several posts and stations, and with the ar
mics in the field; for the horses of the several
regiments of cavalry, the batteries of artillery
and such companies of infantry as may be
fcers' horses when serving in the field, and at
tho out-posts, including bedding for the animals;
of strawdes soldiers bedding and of station
cry, indlhdine blank books for the Quartermss-
ter's department., certificates for discharged sol
diers, blank forms for the Pay and Quartermas-
rTdepartnentss and for printing Of arsion
and ae5ar tnfent orders and reports fe,ir million
uG For ira psy t. .olders employed under thSe
direction of the QuarterDaster's department. in
the erection of barracks, quarters, 'stefehouses
and hospitals, in the construction of roads, and
a other constant labor, for periods not less than
ten days, pnderthe actsef March two, eighteen
hundred and% nineteen, and August four
eighteen hundred and fifty-four including those
employed as clerks at division and department
Headquarters expenses ofsexpresses to and frcm
the frontier posts and armies in the field OF es-
| coots to paymasters and other disbursing Off
GERS, and to trains where military escorts can
not be, furnished; expensesso of the INTERN ent of
officers killed in action, or who die when on
duty in the field, or at post on the frontiers, or
ut posts and other places when ordered by the
Secretary of War, and of non ssiongd of
Il fcefs and soldiers; Authorized ofice farfitdfe,
hire of laborers in the CONTROVERSIES depart
ment including Che hire Of ihterpretefs, spies,
and guides for the army; compensation of
: ment; compensation of forage and wsgon-mas-
ters, authorized by the act Of July five, eighteen
of deserters, and the expense. incident to- their
/ pursuits and for the following Expenditures re-
quired for the several regiments of cavalry, the
= batteries of light artillery, and such companies
of infantry as may be mounted, namely: The
purchase of travelling FORCES blacksmith and
shooting tools, horse and mule shoes and mails,
iron, and steel for shoeng, hire of veterinary
ct ropes, and for shoeing the horses of the corps
named also, generally, the proper and author
lied expenses for the movement and operations
Of an army not expressly assigned to any other
department, nine hundred thousand dollars.
For purchase of horses for The cavalry and
artillery, and for Indian scouts, four hunded
I and fifty thousand dollars. e 3 ga gFs
For transportation of the army, Including
baggage of the troops when moving by land OF
water of. clothing, camp and garrison equipage
from the depots Of Philadelphia and Jefferson:
vile to the several posts and army depots, and
from those depots to the troops In the field
and of subsistence stores from the place. Of
purchase, and from the places of delivery un-
der contract, to such places MS the circumstances
of the service may require them to be sent; Of
ordnance, ordnance stores, and small-arms from
the founderiss and armories TO the arsenals
II Notifications frontier posts, and army uepots
freights, wharfage tolls, and ferriages the
8 purchase and hire of horses, mules, oxen, and
II harness, and the purchase and repair of wag.
ons, carts, and drays, and of ships and othel
, ea-goiDg vessels, and boats required for the
transportation of supplies and for garrison ptir.
poses; for drayage and carriage at the severa
posts hire of teamsters, transp ortatiOn OF fund.
for the Pay and other disbursing departments
the expenses DISABLING public transports on ltht
various rivers, the Gulf Ct Mexico. and tb'
such posts as, from their Situation, require It t.
be brought from a distancei and fer clearing
roads and removing Instructions from roads
I'll harbors, and rivers, to the extent which may b.
q required for the actual operationsof tho troop
= in the field, four million dollars.
For hire of quarters for officers on militar,
= duty hire of quarters for troops, of storehouse
for The safeskeepihg Of military stores f3nA
y grounds for summer cantonments for the con
! struction of temporary huts, hospital and sta
"A bles; and for repairing pub buildings at q
II tablished posts, one million dollars
d Esr heaing and cook iig stoyesi me tsppsdn'
II For purchase and manufacture of clothing
al ing and repac kihgstoc Of clothin&l camp an
garrison eqnipage, and insterisls on hand At tn
SchuyIkill arseIal and other. depots, i've hun
dred thousand doliars.ofslss 10
For establishing and ma intaipg nati0pi