New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-10-02

lGENERAL NATURE-No. 1l2.
An act making appropriations for the sup
port Of the army for 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 appropriated. for
the supporter the army for the year ending
June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sew
enty-three:
For expenses of the Commanding Gen
erals Office, five thousand dollars.
FOR expenses of recruiting and transpOrta-
TIOn of recruits, one hundred and twenty
thousand five hundred aud eighty dollars.
For contingent expenses of the Adiutant
Generals department at the headquarters
of military divisions and departments, five
thousand dollars.
For the expenses of the signal service of
che army, twelve thousand five 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.
FOrSCllOwances 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-
heers and Indian scouts, two million seven
hundred and seventy thousand nine hun
dred and forty four dollars.
For regular supplies Of the Quartermas-
ter's department, to wit: For the regular
supplies of the Quartermaster's 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 hSrses 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 Quartermasters de- |
partment certificates for discharged sol |
diers, blank forms for the Pay and Quarter
masters departments, and for printing of |
tour million dollars.
For incidental expenses, viz: For postage |
and kilograms or dispatches; extra pay to |
soldiers employed, under the 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
eighteen hundred and nineteen, and
August fourth, eighteen hundred and fifty
four, including those employed as clerks at
division and department headquarters;
expenses of expresses to and from the
frontier posts and armies In the field; of es-
corts to paymasters and other disbursing
officers, and to trains where military escorts
can not be furnished; expenses of the in
torment Of officers killed in action, or who
die when on duty in the field, or at posts
on the frontiers, or at posts and other places
when ordered by the Secretary of War,
and of non-commissioned officers and sol
diers; authorized Office furniture, hire of
!aborers in the Quartermaster's department.
including the hire of interpreters, spies and
guides for the army; compensation of clerks
20 Ofncers 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 |
OF deserters and the expense :
incident to their pursuit: and for tbe al
sral regiments of cavalry, the batteries of
light artillery, and such companies of in.
santry and scouts as may be mounte5
namely: the purchase of travelling forges
and shoeing tools, horse and
mule shoes and nails, iron and steel for
,hoeing, hire of veterinary surgeons, medi-
zines for horses and mules picket ropes,
md for shooting the horses of the corps
famed; also, generally, the proper and au
horned expenses for the movement and
operations of an army not expressly as
igned to any other department, one million
wo hundred thousand dollars. |
For purchase of horses for the cavalry )
nd artillery, and for Indian scouts aud for {
UGH infantry as may be mounted, three c
undred thousand dollars. e
For transportation of the army including s
aggage of the troops when moving either t
y land or water; of clothing, camp and v
arrison equippage from the depots Of Phil Il
delphia and Jacksonville to the several q
osts and army depots, and from those de- tt
OTIS to the troops in the field; of horse s,
luipments and of subsistence stores from n
le places of purchase, and from the places b
delivery under contract to such places | ID
the circumstances of the service may re- p,
lire them to be sent; of ordnance, ord re
ance stores and small arms from the foun- in
rIes ard armories to. the arsenals, tortitica- ii
oEs, frontier posts and army depots pl
eight, wharfage, tolls and ferriages; the CO
lrchase and hire Of horses, mules, oxen vi
Id harness. aud the purchase and repair