New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-09-20

| qulTeQ fOr Inc transportation Oh suppleS ana
for garrison purposes; for drayage and cart
| age at the several posts, hire OF teamsters,
transportation Of funds for the pay and
| other disbursing departments; the expense
OF sailing public transports on the various
rivers, the gulf Of Mexico, and the Atlantic
| and Pacific; for procuring water at such
| posts as, from their situation, require it to
| be brought from distance; and for clear
| ing roads and removing Instructions from
roads, harbOrs and rivers to the extent
| which may be required for the actual opera
| tions Of troops in the field, four million dol
! lars.
For hire of quarters for officers on mill
! tary duty, hire of quarters for troops, OF
store houses for the safe-keeping OF military
stores, of offices and Of grounds tor camps,
! and for summer Cantonments, and tor TEN
porary frontier stations; for the construc-
| ton Of temporary huts and stables; and for
| repairing public buildings at established
| posts, one million two hundred and fifty
! thousand dollars.
For construction and repairs of hospitals,
|. 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 for
preserving and repacking stock of clothing,
camp and garrison equipage, and ma
terials on hand at the Schuylkill arsenal
and. other dep0ts, seven hundred and sew
enty thousand dollars.
For the necessary expenses of such sales
Of stores or material belonging to the army
establishment as may be authorized by law,
ten thousand dollars.
For establishing and maintaining national
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-fve thousand dollars.
For purchase of medical and hospital sup
plies, pay Of private physicians employed
in emergencies, hire OF hospital attendants,
expenses of puryeylng depOts, OF medical
examining boards, and incidental expenses
of the medical department. three hundred
thousand dollars.
For providing surgical apparatus or APP
pliances 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 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
ing ponton material and for current ex-
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 ofsiege 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 smal-arms, one hundred and twenty
five thousand dollars.
For oyerhauling, preserving, and clean
ing new ordnance stores on hand in the
arsenals, seventy five thousand dollars.
For sea-coast cannon, and carriages for
the same, one hundred and twenty thou
sand dollars.
For experiments and tests of heavy rif1ed |
two hundred 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 be appointed by the
of War. which report shall in
clude both classes, breech and muzzle load |
ne cannon, and the powder and proiectiles |
necessary for testing the same shall be sup
Piled from stores on hand.
For constructing and testing M0fat's
breech-loading tield-pieces, eight thousand
dollars; and for testing James Crockett's
graduating and acceleratlng cartridge, and
for experimenting with patent metallic
cartridge of Willis E. Moore, and other
improvements i'll ammunition, five thousand
lOllaIs.
For purchase and manufacture of other
ordinance stores to fill requisitiOn of troops,
fifty thousand dollars.
For manufacture of arms at the national
lrmory, one hundred and fifty thousand
lollars; provided, that no part of this APP
shall be expended until
system for muskets and car
liEes shall have been adopted for the mill
AIRY service upon the recommendation Of
he board to be appointed by the Secretary
If War, which board shall consist of not
ess than five officers, as follows: one gen
raj officer one ordnance officer, and three
ulcers of the line, one to be taken from the
,avalry, one from the infantry and one
rom the artillery; and provided further,
hat the system, when SO adopted, shall be
he only one to be used by the Ordnance
Department in the manufacture of muskets
md carbines for the military service: and
10 royalty shall be paid by the govern
rEent of the United States for the use of
aid patent to any Of its officers or EN-
,loyes, or for any patent in which said Off
ors or employees may be directly or indl-
ectly interested.
SEC. :. That hereafter it shall be illegal
o brand, mark, or tattoo on the body Of
my soldier by sentence of cOurt-martiaI,
md the word corporal shall be stricken
rom the forty-tifth of the rules and article
or the government of the armies of the
United States.
Approved, June 6, 1872.
GENERAL NATURE-No 1871
IN act to continue the act to authorize the
st settlement of the accounts of officers Of
the army and navy.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House
# Representatives of the United States of
America in Congress assembled, That the
ct to authorize the settlement of the &C
cunts of the officers of the army and navy,
pproved June twenty third, eighteen hun
red and seventy, shall continue and be il
orce for tive years from June twentY-third,
iuhteen hundred and seyenty-rwO and no /