New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-10-10

quHeu lot INC dAspOEtatlOn OF supplies ant
| 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. hOm their situation, require it t.
| be brought from a 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
! lions 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 for camps,
| and for summer cant0nments, and for TEN
| porary frontier stations; for the c0nstruc,
| 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 SchuylI1ilI 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 purveying depots, OF medical
examining boards, and incidental expenses
of the medical department, three hundred
thousand dollars.
For providing surgical apparatus or aD-
planes 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 p0nton 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; fpOlice 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 tile 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
'
five thousand dollars.
For overhauling, preserving, and clean
ing new ordnance stores on hand i'll 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 rifed
ordnance, two hundred and seventy thou
sand dollars: provided, that this aDpr0pria-
ton shall be applied to at least three models
of heavy ordnance, to be designated by
board Of officers to be appointed by the
Secretary of War. which report shall in
clude both classes, breech and muzzle load
ing cannon, and the powder and projectiles
necessary fer testing the same shall be sup
piled from stores on hand.
For constructing and testing Mofdt's
breech-loading field pieces. eight thousand
dollars; and Tor testing James Crockett's
graduating and accelerating cartridge, and
for experimenting with patent metallic
cartridge OF Willis E.. Moore, and other
improvements in ammunition, five thousand
dollars.
For purchase and manufacture of other
ordinance stores to fill requisition of troops,
fifty thousand dollars.
For manufacture of arms at the national
armory, one hundred and fifty thousand
dollars; provided, that no part Of this APP
shall be expended until a
breech-lOading system for muskets and car
bines shall have been adopted for the mill |
tary service upon the recommendation of |
the board to be appointed by the Secretary
Of War, which board shall consist of not |
less than five officers, as follows: one gen.
eral officer, one ordnance officer, and three
officers of the line, one to be taken from the |
cavalry, one from the infantry and one |
from the artillery; and provided further, |
that the system, when so adopted, shall be |
the only one to be used by the Ordnance |
Department in the manufacture of muskets
and carbines for the military service; and |
20 royalty shall be paid by the govern
nent of the United States for the use of
said patent to any of its officers or en-
oIoyes, or for any patent in which said Off
sers or employees may be directly or indI-
7ectly interested.
SEC. =. That hereafter it shall be Illegal
20 brand, mark, or tattoo on the body of
any soldier by sentence of c0urt-martial,
and the word corporal" shall be stricken
rom the forty-ffth Of the rules and article
or the government of the armies Of the
United States.
Approved, June 6, 1872.
GENERAL NATURE-NO. 1871
An act to continue the act to authorize the
settlement of the accounts of officers of
the army and navy.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House
u Representatives of the United States of
America in Congress assembled. That tbe
let to authorize the settlement of the ac-
cunts OF the officers of the army and navy.
June twenty third eighteen hun
tired and seventy, shall continue ana be il
orce for two years from June twenty-third.
Eighteen hundred and seventy-two, and no
Onger