New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-09-21
GENERAL NAruRE-No. 1l2.l

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 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 Adutant
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
anu IOfGy thousand dollars.
For general expenses, such as the com
tpensation 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-
neers 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 ofthe 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 NAV 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 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 titty-
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 disbursng
officers, and to trains where military escorts
can not be furnished; expenses of the in
torment of officers killed in action, or who
lie 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
1iers; authorized office furniture, hire of
.aborers in the Quartermasters department,
the hire of Interpreters, spies and
guides for the army; compensation of clerks
TO othcers OF the QuaTtermaster's depart
menti compensation of forage and wagon {
masters authorized by the act of July fifth, {
eighteen hundred and thirty-eIght; for the |
Of aeserters and the expense c
incident to their pursuit; and for the fol- |
ewing expenditures required for the sew
ersl regiments OF cavalry, the batteries of
light artillery, and such companies ot in
santry and scouts as may. be 1nounted
namely: the purchase of travelling forces I
and shooting TOOLS horse And
mule shoes and nails, ir3n and steel foT
lhoeing, hire of veterinary surgeons, medi-
zines for horses and mules, picket ropes.
md for shoeing the horses of the corps
famed; also, generally, the proper and au
horized expenses for the movement and
'perations Of an army not expressly as l
igned to any other department, one million I
wo hundred thousand dollars. t
For purchase of horses for the cavalry S
nd artillery, and for Indian scouts aud for o
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 W
arrison equippage from the depots of Phil Il
ielphia and JetfersonyiHe to the several (.
osts and army depots and from those de- ii
DTS to the troops in the field; of horse 81
Iuipments and of subsistence stores from II
e places of purchase and from the places | b
delivery, under contract to such places pa
the circumstances of the service may re- Pr
lire them to be sent; of ordnance, ord re
nee stores and small arms from the foun IN
les and armories to the arsenals tortitica- th
ms, frontier posts and army. depots pr
light, wharfage, tolls and fernages; the co
rchase and hire Of horses, mules, oxen VI
d harness, and the purchase and repair