New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-10-09


CURED for the transportation Of supplies and
for garrison purposes; for drayage and cart
age at the several posts, hire of teamsters,
transportation of funds for the pay and
other disbursing departments; the expense
of sailing public transports on the various
rivers, the gulf of Mexico, and the Atlantic
and Pacific; for procuring water at such
posts as, from their situation, require it to
be brought from a distance: and for clear
ing roads and removing Instructions from
roads, harbOrs and rivers to the extent
which may be required for the actual opera
tions of troops in the field, four million dol
lars.
For hire of quarters for officers on mill
tary duty, hire of quarters for troops, of
store houses for the safe-keeping Of military
stores, Of offices and of grounds for camps,
and for summer environments, and for tenn
porary frontier stations; for the construc-
ton of temporary huts and stables; and for
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 for
preserving and repacking stock OF clothing,
camp and garrison equipage. and ma
terials on hand at the Sc6uylkiH arsenal
and other depOts, seven hundred and sew
enty thousand dollars.
For the necessary expenses Of such sales
of stores or material belonging 10 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, namely, such ex-
penses as are not provided for by other esti-
mates, embracing all branches of the mill
tary service, seyeutyfve 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
planes 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 report
shall be made to Congress, at its next an
nual session, showing the name and resi-
dence OF each person relieved, and the nat
ure and cost OF tile apparatus provided.
For the Army Medical Museum and med;
cal and other necessary works for the lib
rary of the Surgeon Generals Office, ten
thousand dollars
Engineer department at Willett's Point
For protection of ponton boats, remodel
ing ponton material, and for current ex-
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 for 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-
fray the current expenses at the arsenals;
of receiving stores and issuing arms and
other ordinance supplies; ofpolice and Office
duties; of rents, tolls, fuel and lights;
of stationery and office furniture: of tools
and instruments for use: of public animals;
of the ordinance service, including those
practical trials and tests of, ordo
nance, small-arms, and other ordnance SUPP
plies, two hundred thousand dollars
For manufacturing metallic ammunition
for small-arms, one hundred and twenty
five thousand dollars.
For overhauling, preserving, and creanas
ing new ordnance stores on hand in the
arsenals, seventy five thousand dollars.
For sea-co&st cannon. and carriages for
the same, one hundred and twenty thou
sand dollars.
For experiments and tests Of heavy rfHed
ordnance, two hundred and seventy thou
sand dollars; provided that this appropriaa
ton shall be applied to at least three models |
If heavy ordnance, to be designated by
board Of officers to be appointed by the
Of War. which report shall in
dude both classes, breech and muzzle load !
ng cannon, and the powder and projectiles
for testing the same shall be sup |
)lied from stores on hand.
For constructing and testing Motfats |
1reech-loading tield-peces, eight thousand |
dollars; and tor testing James Crockett's |
and accelerating cartridge, and |
or experimenting with patent metallic |
cartridge of Willis Z. Moore, and other |
in ammunition, five thousand |
dollars.
For purchase and manufacture Of other
ordinance stores to fill requisit0n of troops, |
fifty thousand dollars.
For manufacture Of arms at the national |
lrmory, one hundred and fifty thousand |
dollars; provided, that no part OF this APP |
shall be expended until a
,reech-loading system for muskets and car
)ines shall have been adopted for the mill
airy service upon the Recommendation of
he board to be appointed by the Secretary
# War, which board shall consist of not
ess than five officers, as follows: one gen
raj officer, lone ordnance officer, and three
Ulcers of the line, one to be taken from the I
avalry. one from the infantry and one
rom the artillery; ana provided further,
hat the system, when so adopted, shall be
he only one to be used by the Ordnance
Department in the manufacture of muskets
nd carbines for the military service; and
10 royalty shall be paid by the govern
lent of the United States for the use of
aid patent to any of its officers or EN-
loyes, or for any patent in which said Off
ers or employees may be directly or indl-
ectly interested.
Sec. =. That hereafter it shall be illegal
0 brand, mark, or tattoo on the body OF
ny soldier by sentence Of court-martial,
nd the word ''corporeal shall be stricken
rom the forty-ffth of the rules and article
Or the government of the armies of the
United States.
Approved, June 6, 1872.
GENERAL NATURE-No, lI3l
N act to continue the act to authorize the
settlement of the accounts of officers of
the army and navy.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House
{ Representatives of the United States of
merca in Congress assembled, That the
ct to authorize the settlement of the ac-
cunts of the officers of the army and navy,
pproved June twenty-third, eighteen hun
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