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LAWS
OF THE
UNITED STATES
PASSED AT THE
THIRD SESSION OF THE FoRTY-sECoND
CONGRESS.
GENERAL NATunE-No. 57.l

GENERAL NATURE-No. ST.
AN ACT making appropriations for the sup
port of the army for the year eGding June
thrtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy four.
of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise
appropriated, for the support of the army for
the year ending june thirtieth, eighteen hun
dred and seventy-fOgr.
For expenses of the commanding generals
office, five thousand dollars
For expenses of recruiting and transportation
of recruits, one hundred and twenty-one thou
sand dollars.
For contingent expenses of the Adjutant
Generals department., at the headquarters of
military divisions and departments, five thou
sand dollars.
For expenses of the signal service of the
armp, purchase, equipment, and repair of field
electric telegraphs and signal equipments,
twelve thousand five hundred dollars.
For pay of the army and for allowances to
officers of the army for transportation of them
selves and their baggage when travelling on
duty without troops, escorts or supplies, and for
compensation of witnesses while on court mar
tai serAicc; for travelling expenses of paymas-
ters' clerks; for payment of postage on letters
and packages, and cost of kilograms received
and sent by officers of the army on public bust
ness twelve million three hundred thousand
dollars
For subsistence of regular troops, engineers,
and Indian scouts, two million five hundred
thousand dollars.
For regular supplies of the QuartermasteIs
department. to wit: For the regular supplies
of the Quartermaster's department, consisting
of stoves for heating and docking, of fuel for
officers, enlisted men, guards, hospitals, store
houses, and offices; of forage in kind for the
horses, mules and oxen of the Quartermaster-
er's department at the several posts and sta
tians, aud with the armies in the field; for the
horses of the several regiments of cavalry, the
batteries of artillery, and such companies of
infantry aud scouts as may be mounted, and
foa the authorized number of officers horses
including blank books, for the Quartermasters
department, certificates for discharged soldiers,
blank forms for the Pay and Quartermasters
departments, and for printing of division and
departmentment orders and reports, four mil
lion five hundred thousand dollars.
= For incidental expenses, viz: For postage
and kilograms or dispatches; extra pay to sol
dIers employed, under the direction of the
Ouartermasters department., in the erection of
barracks, qua.ters, store houses, and hospitals,
in the construction of roads, and other constant
labor. for periods of not less than ten days,
un Ter the act of March second, eighteen hun
dred and nineteen, and August fourth, eighteen
hundred and fifty -four, including those employ
ed as clerks at division aud department head
Quarters: expenses OF expresses TO AID from
the frontier posts and armies in the field, of
escarts to paymasters and other discussing Of
ficers. and co trains where military escort can
not be furnished; expenses of the interment of
officers killed in action, or who die when on
duty in the field, or at post on the frontiers, or
at posts aud other places, when ordered by the
Secretary of War, and of non-cOmmissoned Of
ficers and soldiers; authorized office furniture;
hire of laborers in the Quartermaster's depart
ment including the hire Of interpreters, spies,
and guides for the army compensation of clerks
to officers to the Quartermasters department.
compensation of forage and wagon masters au-
thorlzed by the act of July fifth, eighteen hun
bred and thirty eight; for the apprehension of
(eserters anil the expense incident to their pursuit.
and for the following expenditures required for the
artillery. and such companies of infantry and secon
as may be mounted, namely: the purchase OF travel
Ino fr1es blacksni bs and sloeing tools, horse and
mule shoes and nails iron aha steei ior shoeng, the
uIss ncket-ropes, aud for shoeng the horses of the
cnTns named also, generally, the proper and author
ized expenses for the movement and operations of an
army not expressly assigned to any othsr depart
ment one million three hundred thousand dollars
For purchase of horses for the cavalry and artillery
and for Indian scouts and for such infantry as MOI,
be mounted, three hundred and fifty thousand dol.
lars. -
For transportation Of the army, including baggage
OF me troops when moving either by land or water
Oh ciot mug camp anu garltso equipage from the de-
pots OF Philadelphia and Jehersonvile to the several
posts AMI army depots, from those depots to the
troops IN the ffeff of horse-eqnpments and OF SUD
sstence stores from the pices of purchase, and from
the places of delivery Ter contract to such places
as the circumstances of the service may require them
tn be sent; OF ordnance ordnance Stores and small
arms from the f)undiies and armorles 10 the arse
nails fortihcatiOns frontier posts anu army dep0ts;
feights wharfage tolls, and ferriages; the purchase
an hire of horses mnfes. oxen aud harness. and the
purchase and repair Of Wagons carts and drays, and
of ships and other sea-gong vessels and boats re-
auired for the transportation OF supplies and Tor gar
rson purposes TOR drayage and Carriage at the several