New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-07-22

America in Congress assembled, That the
following sums be, and the same are hereby
appropriated, out of any moneys in the
treasury not otherwise appropriated, for
the support of the army for the year end
ing June thirty, eighteen hundred and
seventy-twO: f
For expenses of the commanding gen.
erals office, five thousand dollars.
For expenses of recruiting and trans
portation of recruits, one hundred and
twenty thousand five hundred and eighty
dollars.
For contingent expenses of the adjutant-
generals department at the headquarters
of military divisions and departments, five
thousand dollars.
For the expenses of the signal service of
the army, five thousand dollars.
For pay OF the army, and for payment to
discharged soldiers for clothing not drawn,
twelve million three hundred thousand dol
lars; of which sum one hundred thousand
dollars, and no more, may be expended for
pay of Indian scouts. f
For allowance to officers of the army for
transportation of themselves and their
baggage, when travelling on duty. without
troops, escorts, or supplies, one hundred
and fifty thousand dollars.
For general expenses, such as the addi-
ditional compensation of judge advocates,
recorders, members, and witnesses while on
court-martial service, and travelling ex-
penses of paymasters' clerks, and postage
on letters and packages, and kilograms re-
ceived and sent>by officers of the army on
public business, one hundred thousand dol
lars.
For subsistence OF regular troops, en-
gineers, and Indian scouts, two million nine
hundred thousand dollars. of which sum
tfty-fve thousand dollars, and no more,
ha oynaphan for 1Ih aiatanna pf Indian
scouts.
For regular supplies of the quarter
masters department, to wit: For the regu-
lar supplies of the quartermaster depart
ment consisting of fuel for officers, enlisted
men. guards, hospitals, storehOuses, and
offices; of forage in kind for the horses,
mules and oxen of the quartermasters de-
partment at the several posts and stations,
and with the armies in the field; for the
armies in the field; for the horses of the
several regiments of cavalry, the batteries
of artillery, and such companies of infantry
as may be mounted, and for the authorized
NUN Der of officers horses when serving in
the field, and at the outL osts, including
bedding for the animals; of straw for sol
diers bedding; and of stationery, including
blank books for the quartermaster's depart
ment, certificates for discharged soldiers,
blank forms for the pay and quarter
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division and department orders and reports,
four million dollars.
For extra pay to soldiers employed under
the direction of the lquartermaster's de-
partment, in the erection of barracks, quar-
tiers, storehouses, and hospitals, in the con-
struction of roads, and other constant la
Dor, for periods of not less than ten days,
under the acts of March two, eighteen hun
brad and nineteen and August four. eight
IL,
employed 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 military es-
corts can not be furnished; expenses of the
interment of officers killed in action, or who
die when on duty in the field, or at post on
the frontiers, or at posts or 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, includ-
ing the hire ofinterpreters. spies and guides
for the army; compensation OF clerks to
officers of the quartermasters department
compensation of forage and wagon-masters,
authorized by the act of July five, eighteen
hundred and thirty-eight; for the apprehen-
sion of deserters, and the expenses incident
to their pursuit; and for the following ex-
penditures required for the several regi-
ments of cavalry, the batteries of light artil'
lery, and such companies OF infantry as
may be mounted, namely: The purchase of
travelling FORCES, blacksmiths' and shoeing
tools, horse and mule shoes and nails, iron.
and steel for shoeing, hire of veterinary
surgeon, 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
assigned to any other department nine
hundred thousand dollars.
and artillery, and for Indian scouts, four
hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
For transportation of the army, includ-
ing baggage of the troops when moving
either by land or water; of clothing, camp
and garrison equipage from the depots OF
Philadelphia and Jacksonville to the sew
eral posts and army depots, and from
those depOts to the troops in the field: and
of subsistence stores from the places OF
purchase and from the places of 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 the arsenals, Notifications, from
tier posts, and army depots; freights, wharf
age, 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-going vessels, and boats required fol-
the transportation of supplies and for gar
rison purposes; for drayage and carriage at
the several posts, hire of transfers, trans
pOrtation of funds for the pay and other
disbursing departments; the expense OF
i1inr publio tpao rfs tho ya III iv.
ers. 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 distance; and tor clear
ing roads and removing Instructions from
roads, harbors, and rivers. to the extent
which may be required for the actual OPP
eratiOns of the troops in the field, four
million dollars.
For hire of quarters for officers on mill
tary duty, hire of quarters for troops, OF
storehouses for the safekeeping of military
stores, and of grounds for summer canton
ments; tor the construction of temporary
huts, hospitals, and stables; and for repair
ing public buildings at established posts,
one million dollars.
For heating and cooking stoves, five thou
sand dollars.
For purchase and manufacture of clothing,
camp and garrison equipage, and for pre-
serving anu fepacklnS stock OF clOJnlng'
camp and garrison equipage, and materials
on hand at the Schuylkill arsenal and other
dcpots, five hundred thousand dollars.
For establishing and maintaining national
cemeteries, two hundred thousand dollars.
For army contingencies, namely: Such ex-
penses as are not provided for by other estl-
mates, embracing all branches of the mill
tary service, fifteen thousand dollars.
For purchase of medical and hospital sup
plies, pay of private physicians employed in
emergencies, hire of hospital attendants,
expenses of purveying depots, of medical
examining boards, and incidental expenses
of the medical department, two hundred
tbousopd dollars