New Orleans Republican., 1872-10-05
GENERAL NATURE-No. 1921

GENERAL NATURE-NO. III.
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 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 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-tw0 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 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 of the 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 Quartermasters 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
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 paw 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 III the field; Of es-
corts to .,paymasters and other disbursing
officers, and to trains where military escorts
can not be fuTnished 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 a. posts and other places |
when ordered by the Secretary Of War,
and Of non-commissioned officers and sol
diers; authorized office furniture, hire Of
iaborers in the Quartermaster's department.,
including the hire of interpreters, spies and
guides for the army; compensation of clerks
20 officers of the Quartermaster's depart
ment; compensation of forage and wagon
masters authorized by the act of july fifth,
eighteen hundred and thirty-eIght; for the |
OF deserters and the expense
Incident to their pursuit; and for the fol
OWING expenditures required tor the sew
sral regiments of cavalry, the batteries of
light artillery, and such companies of in
antry and scouts as may be mounted.
namely: the purchase Of travelling forces I
sd shoeing tools, horse and
mule shoes and nails, iron and steel for
hoeing, hire Of veterinary surgeons, medi
ines for horses and mules, picket ropes.
IND for shoeing the horses of the corps
FAMED; also, generally, the proper and au-
hoflzed expenses for the movement and
lperatlons ot an army not expressly as |
lgned to any other department, one million Z
W0 hundred thousand dollars. t
For purchase of horses for the cavalry s
nd artillery, and for Indian scouts and for 3
uch infantry as may be mounted three @
undred thousand dollars. .
For transportation of the army. ineludino :,
aggage of the troops when MOVING eitbe7, Il
y land or water; of clothing, cnnn ana n
arrison equippage from the depots Of Phi. ii
delphia and Jetfersonyille to the several d
osts and army depots, and from those IA ri
OTIS to the troops IN the field; Of horse n
luipments and of subsistence stores from n
le places of purchase, and from the places | hi
delivery under contract to such places pt
J the circumstances Of the service may re- D,
ulre them to be sent; ct ordnance, ord X
ance stores and small arms from the fOun- in
ries and armories To the arsenals, tortifiea- tt
ons, frontier posts and army GepOts | pl
eight, wharfage, tolls and ferriages; the | ct
lreha5e and hire of horses, mules oxen vi
~ dalnessO auG the purchase and repair