New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-10-08
GENERAL NATURE-No. 1921

An act making appropriations for the sup
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 rehereby
appropriated, out of any moneys in the
treasury not otherwise appropriated, for
the support Of 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-
ton of recruits, one hundred and twenty
Thousand five hundred and 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
the 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.
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 courtmar-
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
bred 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 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 the direction of
the Quartermaster's department, in the |
erection Of barracks, quarters, store houses
and hospitals, in the construction or roads, |
and other constant labor, for periods of not |
less than ten days, under acts OF March !
second eighteen hundred and nineteen, aud |
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 II the field; of es- |
.C0rts 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, 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
lRborers in the Quartermasters department, |
including the hire of interpreters, spies and
guides for the army; compensation of clerks
10 omeers OF the Quartermaster's depart
ment; compensation of forage and wagon
masters authorized by the act of july fifth.
eighteen hundred and thirtv-e1pht. for the
apprehension of deserters and the expense
incident to their pursuit. and for the fol
lowing expenditures required for the sew |
erai regiments of cavalry the batteries of
llght arUlueFyr and such companies of in
tantry and scouts as may be mounted
namely: the purchase of travelling forces
and shoeiug tools. horse and
mule shoes and nails, iron and steel for
shoeing, hire Of veterinary surgeons, medi-
cines for horses and mules, picket roDes
and for shoeing the horses of the c6rns
named; also, generally, the proper and an
thorized expenses for the movement aha
operations of an army not expressly as as. +
signed to any other department, one million, 4
jwo hundred thousand dollars. Il
For purchase of horses for the car,o7r,v 8
md artillery, and for Indian scouts aud for O
UGH infantry. as may be mounted. tbrea c,
undred thousand dollars. a
For transportation of the army, inciudiDg -
aggage of the troops when moving either Il
Y land or water; of clothing, camp and | W
arrison equippage from the depots Of Phil ii
delphia and Jetfersonville to the several IS
Osts and army depots, and from those de- ii
DTS to the troops in the field; Of horse So
Iuipments and Of subsistence stores from re
e places of purchase, and from the places hi
delivery under contract to such places pC
the circumstances Of the service may re- pc
lire them to be senG of ordnance, ord re
nee orcs'and small arms from the foun- IN
les and armores to the arsenals, tortitica- ia
rs, frontier posts and army depOts 1 pr
light wharfage, tolls and ferriages; the co
rchase and hire of horses, mules, oxen vi!
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