New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-09-25
lGgNgRAL NArURE-No. II2.1

port of the army Tor the year ending June
thirty, eighteen hundred and seventy
three, and for other purposes.
BE it enacted by the Senate and House OF
Representatives of the United States of
America in Congress assembled, That the
following sums be, and the same are hereby,
appropriated, out Of any moneys IN the
treasury not otherwise. appropriately for
the support of the army for the year ending
j une thIrtieth, eighteen hundred and sew
enty-three:
For expenses of the Commanding Gen
erals office, FIVE thousand dollars.
For expenses of recruiting ana tTansporta-
ton 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, twelve thousand i've hundred
dollars.
For pay Of the army, and for payment to
discharged soldiers for clothing not drawn,
twelve million one hundred and five thou
sand five hundred and ninety-one dollars
and thirty-twO cents.
For allowances to officers Of the army for
transportation Of themselves and their bag
gage, when travelling on duty, without
troops, escorts or supplies, two hundred
and forty thousand dollars.
For general expenses, such as the com
pensation of witnesses while on court-mar-
tial service, and travelling expenses of pay
masters clerks, and postage on letters, and
packages, and kilograms received and sent
by officers Of the army on public business,
military commissions and courts OF inquiry,
one hundred thousand dollars.
For subsistence of regular troops, engi-
neers and Indian scouts, two million seven
hundred and seventy thousand nine hun
cdred and forty four dollars.
For regular supplies of the Quartermas-
fers department, to wit: For the regular
supplies of the Quartermaster' department,
consisting Of fuel for officers, enlisted men,
guards, hospitals, storehouses and offices; of
forage in kind for the horses, mules and
oxen of the Quartermaster's department,
at the several posts and stations, and with
the armies in the field; for the horses of the
several regiments of cavalry, the batteries
of artillery, and such companies OF infantry
and scouts as may be mounted and for the
authorized number Of horses, including
bedding for the animals; of straw for sol
diers' bedding, and of stationery, including
blank books for the Quartermaster's de-
partment certificates for. discharged sol
diers, blank forms for the Pay and Quarter
masters departments and for printing OF
division and department orders and reports,
four million dollars
For incidental expenses, viz; For postage
and kilograms or dispatches; extra pay to
soldiers employed under tie direction of
the Quartermaster's department, in the
erection of barracks, quarters, store houses
and hospitals, in the construction of roads,
and other constant labor, for periods of not
less than ten days, under acts OF March
second, eighteen hundred and nineteen, and
August fourth, eighteen hundred and fifty
four, including those employed as clerks at
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expenses of expresses to and from the
frontier posts and armies IN the field; Of es-
corts to paymasters and other discussing
officers, and to trains where military escorts
can not be furnished; expenses of the in
terment of officers killed in action, or who
die when ON duty in the field, or at posts
on the frontiers, OF at posts and other places
when ordered by the Secretary OF War,
and of northumberland officers and sol
diers authorized office furniture, hire of
iaborers in the Quartermaster's department.,
including the hire of interpreters, spies and
guides tor the army; compensation of clerks
to officers of the Quartermaster's depart
ment; compensation OF forage and wagon
masters authorized by the act of july fifth.
eighteen hundred and thirty-elght; for the
apprehension OF deserters aud the exDense
incident to their pursuit; and FOR the fol-
lowing expenditures required for the sew
eraI regiments of cavalry, the batteries of
light artillery, and such companies OF in |
fantrv and scouts as may be mounted
namely: the purchase of travelling FORCES,
blacksmiths' and shoelng tools, horse and
mule shoes and nails. iron and steel for
shoeing, hire of veterinary surgeons, medi-
cines for horses and mules, picket ropes,
and for shooting the horses of the corps
named; also, generally, the proper and ait
thorl2ed expenses for the movement and
operations OF an army not expressly as
signed to any other department., one million
two hundred thousand dollars,
For purchase Of horses for the cavalry
and artillery, and for Indian scouts aud for
such infantry as may be mounted, three
hundred thousand dollars.
For transportation OF the army. including |
baggage Of the troops when moving either |
by land on water; OF clothing, camp and /
garrison equippage from the depots OF Phil /
adelphia and Jettersopviile- To the several I
posts and army depots. and from tnose,de- |
pots to the troops in the field; OF horse |
equipments and OF subsistence stores from
the places Of purchase, and from the places
ol delivery under contract to such places /
as the circumstances of the service may re-
qHlre them TO be senG cf ordnance, ord I
nance stores aud small arms from the fouE-
dries and armoiies to the arsenals tortitfca-
lions, frontier posts and army Gepcts
freight, wharfage, tolls and ferriages; tile /
purchase and hire OF horses, mules, oxen
and harness, and tile purchase and repair