New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-09-27

tIduS pOildtiUu VI luUuS 4OE luF pay an
other disbursing departments; the expens
of sailing public transports on the variou
rivers, the gulf Of Mexico, and the Atlanh
and Pacific; for procuring water at sucI
posts as, from their situation, require 1t t
be brought from a distance: and Tor clear
ing roads and removing Instructions iron
roads, harbors and rivers to the eAten
which may be required for the actual opera
lions Of troops in the field, tour million dol
lars.
For hire Of quarters for officers on mill
tary duty hire Of quarters for troops, o
store houses for the sate-kecping OF military
| stores Of offices and OF grounds Tor camps
and for summer cantOnmentsy and for TEN
| DOrary frontier stations; for the construc
ton of temporary Iuts and stables; and to-
repai1ing public buildings at established
posts, one million two hundred and fifty
thousand dollars
For construction and repairs of hospitals
one hundred thousand dollars.
For heating and cooking stoSes. ten thc5
sand dollars
For parchase and manufacture of cHotH
l ing, camp and garrison Gquipagee and fol
! preserving and repacklng stock Of clothing
camp 9nd garrison cquipage. and ma
terials on hand at the Schuylkill arsenal
| and other depOts, seven hundred and Sey.
cnty thousand dollars
! For the necessary expenses Of SUCH safes
Of stores or material belonging TO the army
establishment as may be authorized by law,
| ten thousand dollars
For establishing and maintaining national
military cemeteries two hundred and fifty
| thousand dollars
For army contingencies. namefyo sucfexe
| penses as are not provided for by other esti-
mates embracing all branches Of the mill.
tary SERVICE seyenty-tve thousand dollars
For purchase of medical ana hospital Aupo
plies pas OF private physicians employed
IN emergencies, hire OF hospital attendants
expenses OF purVeying dcporso OF medical
examining boards, and incidental expenses
OF sl% medical department. $hGee hundred
thousand dollars
For providing surgical apparatus or APP.
piances for the relief OF persons disabled
IN the military and naval service of the
United States, and not included within the
terms Of any law granting artificial limbs
or other special relief ten thousand dollars,
to be expended Gnder the direction OF the
Secretary Of War: provided that a report
shall be madG to Congress, at its next an
nual session, showing the name and resi-
dencezOf each person relieved and the nate
ure and cost Of the apparatus provided.
For the Army Medical Museum and medi.
cal and other necessary works for the libo
rary OF the Surgeon .GeneSaI's Office ten
thousand dollars
Engineer department. az WilHctt's Point.
For protection OF ponton boats, remodel
Ing pOntOn material, and for current exc
pcnses of depot five thousand dollars
For modification and gepair Of bSlildings,
five thousand dollars.
For erection of new chapel, Eve thousand
dollars
For repairs of instruments for general
service Of the corps of engineers ten thou
sand dollars
For purchase ofsfege and mining material.
and for simple Photographic apparatus for
copying maps. one thousand doIlarso
For expenses of trials with togpedoes, for
harbor and land Defense anu material tor
samee ten thousand dollars
For the ordinance service required 20 de. !
fray the current expenses at the arsenals: |
of receiving stores and issuing arms and 7
other ordinance supplies: OfpOlice and office |
duies8 of rents, tollss fuel and lights; |
OF stationery and office furniture: of tools !
and Instruments for use; of public animals: !
forage and vehicles incidental expenses !
Of the ordinance SERVICE including those !
practical trials and tests of ora.
lanceo smallarmse and OTTER ordnance sup
plies, two hundred thousand DOLLARS
Fog manufacturing metallic ammunition
or smaEarmsp ono yluDdge1 ard twenty. !
i've thousand dollars
For 0@@rhauiingo preservingo and clean
ne new ordnance stores on hand in the
Tsenafso seventy five thousand dollars.
, For seacOast cannono and carriages for
he same one jIundGsI and twenty thou.
and dollars
For experiments and tests of heavy rifled
ldnances TWO hundred and seventy thou
and dollars provided. that this approp1ia.
ION shall be applied to at least three models.
heavy ordnance to be designated by q
card OF officers 20 be appointed by the
OF War; which gepOrt shall in
tIlGp hot h classes hrqagb and IL To- !
IL cannon. and the powder and DroiectiIcs
ecsssary SoS testing the same shall be SUD.
lied from stores on hand.
Fog constructing and testing No!fat's
feech-1oading field pieces, eight thousand !
"llars; and tCU testing James Crocketts .
raduatng and ac"eIeraslng cartridge. and :
" experimenting with Y5&tcnt metallic ,
'rtridg6 .! Willis L. Moore, and other
improvements III SmmUnlttOHs five thousand F.: {
Jllarso !
For purchase AMI Manufacture of other =
'dinauce stores to ill acquisition OF troops. =
tv thousand dollars "
@Or manufacture of arms az the nati0na! | J.
mory's one hundred and fifty thousand -
rIlars: provided, that no part of this am. ! :
opriation shall be expended until
eech-oading system for muskets and ear
mes shall have been adopted for the mill. a
~ service upon the recommendation of Il
G board to be appointed by the Secretary S,
War, which board shall consist of not 81
Is than five officers, as follows: one gene q
al officer, sOne ordnance officer, and three ?
icerS OF the line one to be taken from the J a
vaIry, one from the infantry and one 81
IN the artillery; and provided further, ! v
at the system, when so adopted, shall be =
} only one to be used by the Ordnance II
apartment in the manufacture of muskets ! ii
d carbines for the military service: and ! IS
royalty shall be paid by the govern Il
mt OF the United States for the use of IS
d patent to- any OF its officers or emo 81
yes, or for any patent in which said off. NJ
tIy interested. ST
SEC. ;. That hereafter It shalt be illegal in
brand, mark, or tattoo on the body Of co
soldier by sentence of cOurt-martjal, ht
l the word corporal" shall be stricken p
IN the 1orty-fifth Of the rules aud article tn
the government OF the armies Of the
tied States. GO
Approved June 6, 1879. Pr
GENERAL NATURE-No. ii3.9 10 10
act to continue the act to authorize gRe du
1tIement Of the accounts Ot officers of an
nc army ana navy as:
e it enacted by the Senate and Uouse OF
Of the United States Of iut
erica in Congress assembled. That the me
to authorize the settlement of the ac- The
hts of the officers of the army and navy sht
roved June twenty-third, eighteen hun con
i and seventy, shall continue and be il, or
e tor two years from June twentv-third obs
tecn hundred and seventytwo. and no ma
,er. alt
bproved June :, 1872 s
GENERAL NATURE-No. ll4G ans
act to authorize the appointment Of ND