New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-08-15


also; generally, the proper and authorize,
| expenses for the movement and operation
OF an army not expressly assigned to an,
other department, three hundred anC
twenty-five thousand dollars.
Barracks and quarters: For rent or hire O
quarters for troops, and for officers on mill
taTy duty; of stOrehOuses for safe-keepin!
of military stores; of offices; of ground
for camps and environments, and for tenn
pOrary frontier stations; for construction
and repairs of temporary huts; of stablel
and other military buildings at established
posts; for construction and repair of hos
pitfalls; and for repairs of buildings Occu
pied by the army, six hundred and twenty
five thousand dollars; provided, that here
after barracks and quarters and all build
ings and structures whatever Of perma
nent nature, shall be constructed upOr
special authority, to be given by act O.
Congress, except when constructed by the
troops; and no such structures whose cost
shall exceed twenty thousand dollars shall
be erected or continued in erection unless
by such authority so specially granted
Clothing and equipage: For purchase and
manufacture of clothing, camp and garri
son equipage, and for preserving and re
packing stock of clothing, camp and garri
son eQuipage, and materials on hand at the
Schuylkill arsenal and other depots, one
hundred thousand dollars.
For the preservation of army cloth,
ing and equipage, fifty thousand dol:
lars provided, that there shall
be no claim upon the United States
for the use of any patent for the manner OF
or material for doing the same.
Ordnance and ordnance stores: For pur-
chase of ordnance and ordnance stores, 60
continue the armament of certain southern
forts, one hundred thousand dollars.
For establishing and maintaining national
military cemeteries, fifty thousand dollars;
and the appropriations for collecting, drill
ling, and organizing volunteers, heretofore
considered as permanent appropriations,
are hereby continued ard made available
for the service Of the present fiscal year
only, so far as the same may be necessary
to pay the usual clerical service heretofore
paid out of said appropriation in the War
Department.
MISCELLANEOUS.
For payment of any balance due, or to be
found due, during the present fiscal year,
to any State; for costs, charges, and ex-
penses contemplated and provided for in
and by the act approved July twenty
seventh, eighteen hundred and sixty-One
being an act to indemnify certain States for
expenses incurred by them in enrolling,
equipping and transporting troops for the
defense of the United States during the late
rebellion, one million dollars.
Signal O6ice.-ObservatiOn and report of
storms: For manufacture, purchase or re-
pair of meteorological and other necessary
for telegraphing reports; for
of storm signals, announcing prob
able approach and force of storms; for in
strument shelters; for hire, furniture and
expense of offices maintained for public use
in cities or posts receiving reports; tor maps,
bulletins, and SO forth, to be displayed in
chambers of commerce and board Of trade
rooms, and for distribution; for books and
stationery; and for incidental expenses not
otherwise provided for, siXty-One thousand
and fifty dollars; provided, that no part of
this appropriation, HOr of any apprOpria-
ton for the several departments of the gov
srnment, shall be paid to any Geographic
company which shall neglect or refuse to
transmit Geographic communications be-
tween said departments their officers, a agents
)r employees, under the provisions of the
second section Of chapter two hundred and
thirty of the statutes of the United States
or the year eighteen hundred and siXty-six,
and at rates OF compensation therefor to be
by the Postmaster General.
To furnish transportation to insane vol
nteer soldiers at any time entitled to be
admitted into the government hospital at
Washington, one thousand dollars.
For expenses Of the board Of visitors at
he Military Academy at West Point, two
thousand dollars.
Public buildings and grounds in and
lrOund Washington, under the Chief of
engineers of the War Department.: For re-
)aIrS and Improvements, viz: For survey
md map IN accordance with the provisions
# the joint resolution of July fourteenth,
Eighteen hundred and seventy, one thou
and five hundred dollars.
For grading and paving circle at the in
ersectiOn OF Vermont and Massachusetts,
venues for fiscal years ending June thir-
ieth, eighteen hundred and seventy, and
une thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sew
nty-OIe, five thousand seven hundred and
.ighty-nine dollars and eighty-two cents.
For stationery for the Office, one hundred
nd twenty four dollars and thirty-two
ents.
For repairs on the Executive Mansion,
Ell thousand three hundred and forty-tive
OlIas.
For additional compensation to the assist
Mt dOOr-kceper at the Executive Mansion,
Or the fiscal year ending June thirtieth,
Eighteen hundred and seventy-tWO, three
hundred and sixty dollars.
For the Executive avenue and adjacent
rounds, recently inclOsed, for grading, |
aving, and otherwise completing the work |
uring the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, |
ighteen hundred and sixty.nine, and June |
lrtleth, eighteen hundred and seventy,
twenty-five thousand two hundred and !
ineteen dollars and twenty-five cents.
Contingencies of the army prior to july |
rst, eighteen hundred and seventy: For |
ees of attorneys at law employed by the |
Var Department; expenses of suits incur
ed previous to act of June twenty-secOnd, !
ghteen hundred and seventy, creating !
ne Department of Justice; the costs and |
larges Of State penitentiaries for the care |
nd maintenance of United States military
)nylcts confined in them; the pay Of detect
res and scouts; and for compensation of
roYost marshals employed by the Secre-
Try OF War in eighteen hundred and sixty
70, fifty thousand dollars.
Freedmen's hospitals and asylum: To re-
lburse the COmmissary department for
Ipplies furnished to the freedmen's bureau
'iOr to June thirtieth, eighteen hundred
I'd seventy-One, thirty-four thousand dol
rs
Military convicts at State ppnitentiarips:
Or payment of costs and charges of State
for the care, clothing. main
nance and medical attendance of United
ates military COnviCts confined in them, !
Il thousand dollars,
To enable the Secretary of War to pay
r additional clerical services heretofore
lplOyed by him in the investigation and
ttlemcnt Of accounts for abandoned and
ptured property, one thousand dollars.
NAVY DEPARTMENT.
NAVAL ESTABLISHMENT.
Marine Corps: For rent of quarters for
icers, where there are no public quarters.
e thousand five hundred and thirty-nine
liars and thirteen cents.
For forage for horses belonging to field
d staff officers of the marines, one thou
ld four hundred and forty-seven dollars
d thirty four cents.
For indispensable miscellaneous articles
the use Of the marine barracks at Brook