New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-09-28


: OF SAILING public transports on the variou
rivers, the gulf Of Mexico, and the Atlanti
and Pacific; for procuring water at sue
posts as, from their situation, require it
e be brought from a distance; and for cleal
+ | ing roads and removing Instructions fror
roads, harbors and rivers to the eXten
which may be required for the actual opera
tons Of troops in the field, four million Do
: lars.
q + For hire of quarters for officers on mil
tary duty, hire Of quarters for troops, o
{ store houses for the safe-keeping OF militar,
+ stores, Of offices and of grounds for camps
, | and for summer environments, and for TEN
! | porary frontier stations for the cOnstruC
= tion Of temporary huts and stables; and TO
repairing 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 stoves, ten thou
sand dollars.
For purchase and manufacture Of cloth
ing, camp and garrison equipage, and f0l
preserving and repacking stock Of clothing
camp and garrison equipage. and ma
terials on hand at the SchuylkilI arsena
and other depots, seven hundred and sew
enty thousand dollars.
For the necessary expenses of such sales
OF stores or material belonging to the army
establishment as may be authorized by La
ten thousand dollars.
For establishing and maintaining national
military cemeteries, two hundred and fifty
thousand dollars.
For army contingencies, namely, such ex-
penBes as are not provided for by other esti-
mates, embracing all branches of the mill
tary service, seventy-ive 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, three hundred
| thousand dollars.
For providing surgical apparatus or APP
| phances 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 under the direction of the
Secretary of War; provided, that a report
shall be made to Congress, at its next an
nuaI session, showing the name and resi-.
deRce OF each person relieved, and the nat
ure and cost OF the apparatus provided
For the Army Medical Museum and medio
cal and other necessary works for the lib
rary OF the Surgeon Generals Office ten
thousand dollars .
Engineer department a8 WilIett's Point.
For protection Of ponton boats, remodel
ing pOnton material, and for current eS-
penses of depot, five thousand dollars.
For modification and repair OF buildings,
five thousand dollars.
For erection Of new chapel, five thousand
dollars
For repairs of instruments for general
service Of the corps Of engineers, ten thou
sand dollars.
For purchase ofsiege and mining material. |
and Tor simple Photographic apparatus for |!
copying maps. one thousand dollars
For expenses of trials with torpedoes, for |
harbor and land defense, and material for
same, ten thousand dollars
For the ordinance service required to de-
tray the current expenses at the arsenals:
OF receiving stores and issuing arms and
other. ordinance supplies; of police and office
duties; OF rents, tolls, 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 ord
nance, small EARNS, and other ordnance sups
plies, two hundred thousand dollars.
- For manufacturing metallic ammunition
Tor smajEarms, one hundred and tweQtyoj
five thousand dollars
For oyerhaulingo preserving, ana Clean
ng new ordnance stores on hand in the
lrsenals, seventy five thousand dollars
For sea coast cannon, and carriages for
he same, one hundred and twenty thou
and dollars.
For experiments and tests of heavy rYfed
two hundred and seventy thou
and dollars; provided9 that this apprOpria-
ion shall be applied to- al least three models !
i heavy ordnance. to be designated by a 9
oard OF officers to- be appointed by The !
ecTetary of War; which report shall Inc '
Jude both classes breech and muzzlee load =
lg cannon, and the powder and proieetiles !
: GceIsSary 5or testing the same shall be sup.
he'd from stores on hand !
For constructing and testing NoffaSos ,
reech-loading tield-peces, eight thousand q
olIars; and Tor testing James Grockett's =
raduatlng and accelerating CARTRIDGE. and -
II experimenting with patent metallic -
trtridge of Willis e MoOreo and other d;
improvements IN ammunition, i've thousand e
)llars. D
For purchase and manufacture Of other II
,dinance stores to fill gequjsitio1 of troops, y,
tY thousand dollars al
For manufacture Of arms at the national | =;
mory, one hundred and fifty thousand ! LII
)llars; provided, that no part Of this an. v
opratlon shall be expended until a 81
eech-loadlng system for muskets and care
mes shall have been adopted for the mill al
ry service upon the recommendation of TO
e board to be appointed by the Secretary Sc
War, which board shall consist of NOT sh
's than i've officers, as follows: one gen 81
Al officer, lone ordnance officer, and three pc
lcefS OF the lne, one to be taken from the az
valry, one from the infantry and one SIC
I'M the artillery; and provided further, va
1t the system, when so adopted shall be tn
only one to be used by the Ordnance ma
partmeut in the manufacture of muskets ha
carbines for the military service: and is
royalty shall be paid by the govern tn
ut of the United States for the use of is
d patent to any Of its officers or EN- viz
yes, or for any patent in which said Off ma
s or employees may be directly Or indi- ye
tly interested. sio
,EC. . That hereafter it shall be illegal nG
brand, mark, or tattoo on the body of COZ
soldier by sentence of court-martiaI, he1
l the word corporal" shall be stricken mi
m the forty -tifth of the rules and article tul
the government Of the armies of the
tied States. gOi
approved, June s. 1872. pre-
Sta
GENERAL NATURE-No. I13.T for
act to continue the act to authorize the Gn p
sttlement of the accounts of officers of anT
le army and navy. ass
e it enacted by the Senate and House of
Representatives of. the United States of ind