Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1871-06-03

dollars. ~A'11~"u
To pay the costs and charges Of State psni-
and medical attendance, aud Ike necessaries OF
United States military convicts confined there
In, thirty thousand dollars.
cadet quartz rs at West Point, recently DESTROYED
by fire, forty thousand dollars, or 80 much
thereof as may be necessary.
PAYMAsTkR GENERALS DEPARTMENT.
Kay OF the army: For pay TO officers, nine
hundred and eight thousand three hundred and
thirty-t three dollars and thirty. three cents.
Mileage: For allowance paid to officers Of the
army while travelling on duty without troops.
two hundred thousand dollars.
Clothing TO discharged soldiers: For payment
nine hundred and nine thousand four hundred
and eighty-th three dollars and twenty cents.
QUARTkRMAsTER GENERALS DEPARTMENT.
+ or extra pay to soldiers employed under the
oifection OF the Quarter masters department in
the erection OF barracks, quarters, storehouses
and hospitals; in the construction Of roads and
other constant labor for periods Of not less than
Yen Gays, including those employed ae clerks at
division and department headquarters expenses
OF expresses to and from the frontier posts ana
armies in the Held; Of escorts to paymasters
and other disburstng officers, and to trains where
military escorts cannot be furnished; expenses
OF the interment Of officers killed in action or
VINO die when on duty in the field or at posts on
Secretary OF War, and of non-commiasioned
ofhcers and soldiers; authorized Office furniture:
biz % Of laborers In the Qusrtermasters Depart
AHStet aISiuOiuk Inc uAIS VI interpreters. BDlee.
and guides for the army; compensation to clerks
to officers Of the Quartermaster's department:
compensation OF forage and wagon MASTER;
Tor the apprehension, securing, and delivery OF
oeserferss and the expenses incident to their
pursuit; and Tor the following expenditures
required Tor the several regiments Of cavalry
the batteries OF light artillery, and such com.
panies OF infantry as may be mounted, nameIy
the purchase Of travelling FORCES, blacksmith,s
and khoeing tools, horse and mule shoes and
nails, Iron, and steel for shoeing hire of yeteri-
nary surgeons, medicines for horses And mules
picket ropes, and for shooting the horses of the
corps above named; also, generally, the proper
ana authortzed expenses for the movement and
opefauone OF the army not expressly assigned
70 any other department., three hundred and
ffty thousand dollars. go = - so
For hire Of quarters for officers ON military
DUTY; hire OF quarters for troops, Of storehouses
for the safe keepipg Of military stores, and of
OF temporary buts, hospitals, and stables. And
for repairing public buildings at establisned
posts, three hundred thousand dollars.
For the contingent expenses of the Office NJ
the Quartermaster General, two thousand Eve
hundred collars. "a -
Signal Onice-Observation and report Of
storms: For expenses OF the manufacture, pur-
chase, or repair OF meteorological and other
necessary Instruments; for tele graphing reports:
for expenses OF storm-signals announcing prob,
able approach and force of storms: for instrr,-
ment shelters; for hire and expense Of offices
maintained for public use in cities or ports re-
ceiyiDg REPORTS for maps, bulletins, 10 be dis
played In chambers OF commerce ard boar6-ef-
trade rooms; for books and Stationery and for
Incidental expenses not otherwise provided fer