The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1872-08-31
[oSTIoIAL.l
L0sCs of the United States
PASSED At TEE
Second Session Of the FOrty.Second Congress
GENERAL NAruRE-No. 112.1

GENERAL NAruRE-No. Ill.,
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.
ne u enacted By the Senate and House OF hep
TeSentdtaUeS of the United States Of America "
congress assembled, That the following sums be
ana the same are hereby, appropriated, out o
any moneys in the treasury not otherwise aP
pioprlated, for the support OF the army Tor Tn:
year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundreo
ana seventy-three: :, or
for expenses OF the Commanding 1eneral vi
nee, I'VE thousand dollars:
For expenses of recruiting and transports
ton of recruits, one hundred and twenty thous
and five hundred and eighty dollars.
For contingent expenses of the adJutant zen
erals department at the headquarters OF mill
tary divisions and departments, i've 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 dis
charged soldiers for clothing not drawn, twelve
million one hundred and five thousand fiv'
hundred and ninety-one dollars and thirty-tw'
cents.
For allowances to officers of the army fo
transportation of themselves and their baggage
wnen trsveiing on duty, without troops, escort
or supplies, TWO hundred and forty thousan
dollars.
For general expenses such as the compen.-
ton OF witnesses While on court martial servil,
and travelling expenses of payinaster's clerj,
and postage on letters, and packages, and tl-
grams received and sent by officers of the aniy
| on public business, military commissioned
court Of inquiry, one hundred thousand dohrs.
For subsistence OF regular troops, engineers,
| and Indian scouts, twomi1lion seven bnnired
II
| four dollars.
For regular supplies Of the Quartern, ster's
department, to wit: Fer the regular SUPPLIES
of the Quartermasteri department.. consisting
of fuel for officers, enlisted men, guards, tore
houses, and offices Of forage in kind fr the
horses, mules, and oxel Of the Quarterm,ster's
department, at the sevgal posts and stations,
and with the armies in he field; for thehorses
of the several regimentiof cavalry, the batter
and seo,s sg meAss end ier The al,
thoris nns, maj offcers horses, including
Wedding for the finals OF straw ior soluierS
E bedding; and stationery, inU con-
e tif;cates for charged soldiers, blank forms
D for the Paw a, Quartermasters departments,
and for Mig of division and department or
ders and rarts. four million dollars.
For ;ncidital expenses, viz: For postage
and telacro,s or dispatches extra pay to SOL
diers en3rJved, under the direction OF the
Quarterm yter's department in the erection OF
barracks. quarters, store-houses, and hoPltals,
in the obstruction of roads, ana other constan'
Iahor e. neriods of not less than ten days, un.
der a. scts of March second, eighteen hundred
and n;,eteeu, and August fourth, eighteen and
fift,' four. Including those employed as clerks
| at S;v;s;on snd department headquarters; ex
penses ~ expresses to and from the frontier
posts am armies in the field; of escorts to pay
MASTER and other disbursing officers, and t.
trains where military escorts cannot be fur
niAhed; expenses of the interment OF officer
killed in action, or who die when on duty il
the fald, or at posts on the frontiers,or at post
/ end other placea when ordered by the SeGreta
~ OSW War, and Of non-comwissloned officer
and soldiers; authorized Office furniture, hir
OF laborers in the Quarternaster's department
including the hire of interpreters, spies an,
guides for the army; compensation of clerk
to officers of the Quartemaster's department
compensation of forageand wagon masters an
thorized by the act of uly fifth, eighteen hmm
dred and thirty-eight for the apprehension o
deserters, and the ex ense incident to their pur
suits; and for the Glowing expenditures re
quired for the severll regiments OF caNsl,y, chi
batteries of light artillery, and such Compare,
of Infantry and scouts as may De mounted
uoahely: the purchase OF travelling forge.
shoes and nails, irou and steel for shoeing, hin
of veterinary surgeons, medicines for horse
and mules, picket ropes, and for shoeing til
horses of the corps named also, generally, til
proper and authorized expences for the NOV
| ment and operations of an army not expressl
| assigned to any other department, one millo
two hundred thousand dollars.
For purchase of horses for the cavalry an
artillery, and for Indian scouts and for sue
| infantry as may be mounted, three hundre
| thousand dollars.
For transportation of the army, includir
baggage of the troops when moving either
land or water; of clothing, camp, and garriso
| eauipage from the depots of Philadelphia an
| Jacksonville to the several posts and arm
/ aepots, and from those depots to the troops
the heio Va N.Y. an ipments of subsisteDt
| stores from the places OF purchase and from, RI
the places of delivery under contract vv-- y
places as the circumstances Of the service ma
| require them to be sent; of ordnance store
| and small-arms from the foundries and armt
ries to the Brsenals, Notifications, frontier pos
and army depots; freight, wharfage, tolls, an
ferriages the purchase and hire of horse
mules, oxen, and harness, and the purchs snip
4 repair of wagons, carts, and dravssts require
Iot other sea-gong vessels, Us and tor gar
| riso- c tyanssaartation-s&so ana carriage at til
several posts, hire of teamsters, transportatio
Of funds for the pay and other discussing dc
partments; the expense of sailing public trans
J ports on the various rivers, the Gulf of Mexico
and the Atlantic and Pacific; for procuring wa
ter at such posts as, from their situation re
| quire it to be brought from distance; and 70
clearing roads and removing distractions fror
roads, harbors, and rivers to the extent whic
may be required for the actual operations oftb
troops in the field, four million dollars.
| For hire of quarters for officers on militar
duty, hire of quarters for troops, of store-h house
for the safe keeping of military stores, of off
ces, and of grounds for camps, and for summe
cantonments, and for temporary frontier sta
tons; for the construction of temporary hut
and stables; and for repairing public build
ings at established posts, one million two hun
dred and fifty thousand dollars.
| Fer construction and repairs ofhospitals. on
hundred thousand dollars.
For heating and cooking stoves ten thousau
| dollars.
For purchase and manufacture of clothiue
camp and garrison equipage, and for presery
ing and repacking stock ofclothing, camp. an,
| garrison equipage, and materials on hand a
the SchuylkiA arsenal and other depots, seyel
hundred and seventy thousand dollars.
For the necessary expenses of such sales Il
stores or material belonging to the army estab
| thousand dollars.
For establishing and maintaining nationa
military cemeteries, two hundred and fift,
thousand dollars.
For army contingencies, namely, such ex
penses as are not provided for by other est
mates, embracing all branches of the militar,
service, seventy-fve thousand dollars.
For purchase of medical and hospital sun
plies, pay of private physicians EMPLOYED !,
emergencies, hire ofhospital attendants, expen
ses of purveying depots, of medical examinin.
boards, and incidental expenses of the Medica
department three hundred thousand dollars
For providing surgical apparatus or appli
canoes for the relief of persons disabled in the
military and naval service of the United States
are not included within the terms of any Law
granting artificial limbs, or other special relief
ten thousand dollars, to be exper Iier the
direction of the Secretary of ~ divided
That report shall be made to g. IS at it:
rext opnuai- sAssian showing tn, me and
Residence of each person relieved. al the ma.
ture and cost of apparatus provided.
For the Army Medical Museum and medical
and other necessary works for the library of the
surgeon Generals Office, ten thousand dollars
Engineer department at WflIett's point:
For protection of ponton- boats, remodeling
ponton material, and for current expenses of
depot, five thousand dollars.
For modification and repair ofbuildings, five
thousand dollars
For erection of new chapel, five thousand dol
lars.
For repairs of instruments for general service
OF the corps of engineers, ten thousand dollars
For purchase of seige and mining material
and for simple Photographic apparatus for copy
ing maps, one thousand dollars.
For expenses of trials with torpedoes for har
Dor and land defense, and material for same,
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