New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-10-09
GENERAL NArURE-No. lI2.7

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 th1rtieth, 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 Adjutant
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 nav 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
7naste@st clerks, and postage Onletters, 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-
fer'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 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 I
masters departments, and for printing of
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
second, eighteen hundred and nineteen, and
August fourth, eighteen hundred and fifty
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 dlsburslng
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 nou-commissiOned officers and sol
diers; authorized Office furniture, hire of
laborers in the Quartermaster's department, |
including the hire of interpreters, spies and |
guides fol. the army; compensation of clerks |
to officers OF the QuartermaSter'S depart |
ment compensation of forage and wagon |
masters authorized by the act of July fifth. |
hundred and thirty-elght; for the |
of deserters and the expense Il
incident to their pursuit; and for the fol
lowing expenditures required for the sew
eral regiments of cavalry, the batteries of
LIGHT artillery, and such companies Of in
fantrv and scouts as may be mounted |
namely: the purchase Of travelling FORCES,
and shoeing tools, horse and |
mule shoes and nails iron and steel for
Shooting, hire of veterinary surgeons, medi- |
zines for horses and mules, picket ropes, |
and for shoeing the horses of the corps |
named; also, generally, the proper and au |
5horized expenses for the movement and |
operations of an army not expressly as |
signed to any other department, one million |
,wo hundred thousand dollars.
For purchase of horses for the cavalry
ind artillery, and for Indian scouts aud for
uch infantry as may be mounted three /
,undred thousand dollars.
For TRANSFORMATION OF the army, including
apgage of the troops when moving either
II land or water; of clothing, camp and
arrison equippage from the depots OF Phil
delphia and Jetfersonyille to the. several
osts and army depots, and from those de
ats TO the troops in the field; OF horse
sninnents and Of subsistence stores from
Is places of purchase, and from the places
7 delivery under contract to such places
+I1e circumstances of the service may re-
nine them 70 BE sent; of ordnance, ORD
9nee stores and small arms from the toua-
ries and armories to the arsenais, tortlnca-
ops. frontier posts and army depots
eight, Wharfage, tolls and terf1aages; me
1rebase ana hire of horses, mules oxen
n harness. and the purchase and repair