New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-09-21

rs ObnSr ul5Durslng departments; the eXpen
- of sailing public transports on the warrior
rivers, the gulf of Mexico, and the Atlant
and Pacific; for procuring water at SUI
posts as, from their situation, require it
le be brought from a distance; and for clea
st ing roads and removing distinctions fro
roads, harbors and rivers to the exte1
which may be required for the actual Oper
tons Of troops in the field, four million do
p lars.
n For hire of quarters for officers on mil
tary duty hire Of quarters for troops,
If store houses for the safe-keeping of miIitar
If stores, of offices and of grounds for camp
10 and for summer environments, and for ten
e pOrary frontier stations for the construt
p ton of temporary huts and stables; and fc
l., repairing public buildings at estabIishe
J. posts, one million two hundred and fit
l. thousand dollars.
d For construction and repairs of hospitals
e one hundred thousand dollars.
For heating and cooking stoves, ten thou
sand dollars.
For purchase and manufacture of cloth
ing, camp and garrison equipage. and 70
+ preserving and repacking stock of clothing
) camp and garrison equipage, and ma
terials on hand at the SchuyIkilI arsena
and other depOts, seven hundred and sew
enty thousand dollars.
For the necessary expenses of such sale
OF stores or material belonging to the army
|
ten thousand dollars.
For establishing and maintaining natiOna'
military cemeteries, two hundred and fifty
thousand dollars.
For army contingencies, namely such ex
penses as are not provided for by other esti
mates, embracing all branches of the mill.
tary service, seventy-fiye thousand dollars
For purchase of medical and hospital sup.
plies, pay OF private physicians employed
IN emergencies, hire of hospital attendants.
expenses of purveying depOts. OF medical
examining boards, and incidental expenses
OF the medical department, three hundred
| thousand dollars.
For providing surgical apparatus or ap-
plances for the relief of persons disabled
in the military and naval service of the
| United States, and not included within the
terms OF any law granting artificial limbs,
| or other special relief, ten thousand dollars
| to be expended under the direction Of the
Secretary OF War; provided, that a, report
shall be made to Congress, at its next an
| nual session, showing the name and resi-
| dence OF each person relieved, and the nat
| ure and cost OF the apparatus provided.
| For the Army Medical Museum and medi-
| cal and other necessary works for the lib
rary Of the Surgeon Generals Office, ten
thousand dollars.
Engineer department at Willett's Point.
For protection of pontOn boats, remodel
DEbGOA4 4udGbIIiIy anu lot current 6X-
penses OF depot, five thousand dollars
For modification and repair of buildings.
five thousand dollars.
For erection of new chapel, five thousand
dollars.
For repairs of instruments for general
service of the corps of engineers, ten thou
sand dollars.
For purchase of siege and mining material.
and for simple Photographic apparatus for
copying maps, one thousand dollars
For expenses of trials with torpedOes, for
harbor and land defense, and material for
same, ten thousand dollars.
For the ordinance service required to de-
fray the current expenses at the arsenals; |
of receiving stores and issuing arms and
other ordinance supplies; ofpolice and office |
duties; of rents, tolls, fuel and lights: |
OF stationery and office furniture; of tools |
and instruments for use; of public animals |
forage, and vehicles; Incidental expenses |
OF the ordinance service, including those |
attending practical trials and tests of ord |
nance, small-arms, and other ordnance sup
plies, two hundred thousand dollars
For manufacturing metallic ammunition
for smalLarms, one hundred and twenty
five thousand dollars.
For overhauling, preserving, and clean
ing new ordnance stores on hand in the
ar8enals, seventy five thousand dollars.
For seacoast cannon, and carriages for
0Ac SAMMY O1AC 1luAdlGu anu lW6utH GnOu-
sand dollars.
For experiments and tests of heavy riaed
ordnance, two hun red and seventy thou
sand dollars; provided, that this appropria-
ton shall be applied to at least three models
Of heavy ordnance, to be designated by
board OF officers to@pe appointed by the
of War. which report shall in
,lude both classes, breech and muzzle load
ng cannon, and the powder and projectiles
necessary for testing the same shall be sup !
piled from stores on hand.
For constructing and testing Moffat's
oreech-loading field-pieces, eight thousand
lollars; and tor testing James CrocI1ett's
graduating and accelerating cartridge and
or experimenting with patent metallic
cartridge of Willis E. Moore, and other
in ammunition, five thousand
I0ilars d;
For purchase and manufacture of other !,
ordinance stores to fill requisition of troops, 9
fly thousand dollars.
For manufacture of arms at the national !
rmory, one hundred and fifty thousand :
ollars; provided, that no part of this ap- =
roprlation shall be expended until a
reech-l0adlng system for muskets and car
ines shall have been adopted for the mill q
airy service upon the recommendation of 1
he board to be appointed by the Secretary s
War, which board shall consist of not S
ISIS than five officers, as follows: one gen 9
raj officer, lone ordnance officer, and three ?
Ulcers OF the line, one to be taken from the a
avalry, one from the infantry and one s
ON the artillery; and provided further, Y
lat the system when SO adopted, shall be I
le only one to be used by the Ordnance a
epartment.in the manufacture of musket5 n
nd carbines for the military service; and i
0 royalty shall be paid by the govern u
ent Of the United States for the use of is
nd patent to any of its officers or EN- "
oyes, or for any patent in which said off Ii
RS or employees may be directly or indl- y
city interested. 81
SEC. 2 That hereafter it shall be illegal IL
brand, mark, or tattoo on the body of G.
~ soldier BY sentence of eourt-martial, n
III the word "cOrporeal" shall be stricken III
ON the forty-fifth Of the rules and article u
T the government of the armies of the
nited States. g
Approved, June 6, 1872. p
GENERAL NATURE-No. 1877 ~
n act to continue the act to authorize the d,
settlement of the accounts of officers of Al
the army and navy. As
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of
Representatives of the United States Of in
nerica in Congress assembled, That the M
t to authorize the settlement of the &C til
UNITS of,the officers of the army and navy, sh
provnd limo tu0aT b+oo, I,,-, N