Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1873-04-04

infantry as may be mounted. three hundred
thousand dollars.
For transportation of the army. including
baggage Of the troops when moving either by
land or water; of clothing, camp and garri-
son equipage from the depots of Philadelphia
and Jacksonville to the several posts and
army depots, and from those depots to the
troops in the field; OF horse equipments and
of subsistence stores from the places OF puT-
chase and from the places of delivery under
contract to such places MS the circumstances
of the service may require them to be sent
Of ordnance, ordnance stores, and small-arms
from the foundries and armories to the arse
mails. Notifications, frontier posts, and army
depOts; freight, wharfage, tolls, and ferri-
ages; the purchase and hire of horses, mules,
oxen and harness, and the purchase and re-
pair Of wagons, carts, and drays, and of ships
and other sea-gOing vessels, and boats re-
qured for the transportation oi supplies and
for garrison purposes; for drayagO and cart
age ut the several posts, hire Of transfers
Of funds for the pay and other
dshursing departments; the expense Of sail
ing public transports on the various rivers,
the Gulf of Mexico, and the Atlantic and
Pacific: for procuring water ut such posts ~,
from their situation, require ii To bC brought
from distance; and for clearing roads and
removing Instructions from roads, harbors,
and rivers to the extent which may he re-
ullllft lOI utllHti WI Nllt AiObHH
in the field, four million dollars.
For hire ofquarters for officers on military
duty, hire of quarters for troops, Of store
houses for the saie-keepng of military stores,
of offices, and of grounds for camps, and for
summer environments, and for temporary
frontier stations; for the construction of tenn
porary huts and stables; and for repairing
public buildings at established posts, one
million two hundred and fifty thousand dol
lars.
For construction and repairs of hospitals,
one hundred Thousand dollars.
For heating and cooking stoves, ten thou
sand dollars.
For purchase and manufacture of clothing,
camp and garrison pquipage, and for proserv-
ing and repacking stock of clothing, camp
and garrison equipage, and materials on
depots, seven hundred and seventy thousand
dollars
For the necessary expenses of such sales of
stores or material belonging to the army es-
tabishment 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 militia
ry service, seventy-fve thousand dollars.
For purchase of medical and hospital sup
plies. pay of private physicians employed in
emergencies, hire of hospital attendants, ex-
pcnses of purveying depOts, of medical ex
aiming boards, and incidental expenses oI
the medical department, three hundred thou.
sand dollars.
For providing surgical apparatus or appli
ances for the relief of persons disabled in the
military and naval service of the United
States and not included within the terms o
any law granting artificial limbs or Other
special relief, ten thousand dollars, to be eN
pended under the direction of the Secretary
of War: Provided, That "A report shall be
made to Congress ut ITS next annual session
showing the name and residence of each per
son relieved, and the nature and cost of the
apparatus provided
For the Army Medical Museum and medi-
cal and other necessary works Tor the librnl
of the Surgeon-G Generals Office, ten thou
sand dollars.
Engineer department at Willett's point:
For protection of ponton-boats, remodel
ing ponton material. and for current expen
ses 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 Tor general ser
vice of the corps of engineers, ten thousand
dollars.
For purchase of siege and mining mater
al, and for simple Photographic apparatus
for copying maps. one thousand dollars.
For expenses of trials with torpedoes for
harbor aud land defense, and material fo
same. ten thousand dollars.
For the ordnance service required to de
fray the current expenses ~ the arsenals o.
receiving stores and issuing arms and othel
ordnance supplies: of police and office du'
ties Of rents, tolls, fuel, and lights of sta
tiourry and office furniture; of tools and in
struments for use fpublic animals, forage
and vehicles incidental expenses of the ord
nance service, including those attending
practical trials and tests of ordnance, small
arms, and other ordnance supplies, two hun
dred thousand dollars.
For manufacturing metallic ammunition
| for small-arms, one hundred and twenty -iv
thousand dollars.
For overhauling, preserving, and cleaning
new ordnance stores on hand in the arsenals
sevrnty-tive thousand dollars.
For sea-coast cannon, aud carriages for
| the same, one hundred and twenty thousand
| dollars.
! For experiments and tests of heavy rihe
| ordnance, two hundred aud seventy thou
! sand dollars Provided, That this appropria
| ton shall he applied to at least three modrl'
| of heavy ordnance. to he designated by q
board of officers to he appointed 10y the Sec
| rotary of War, which report shall incud,
| both classes, brcech and muzzle loading ca
non, and the powder and projectiles necessa
| ~ for testing the same shall he supplied iron
| stores on hand.
| For constructing and testing Moiliu
breech- loading iicld-pieces, eight thousan,
dollars; and for testing James Crockett
graduating and accelerating cartridge. an'
| for experimenting with patent metallic cart
ridge of Willis F.. Moore, and other improve
mcnts in ammunition, five thousand dollars
For purchase and manufacture of othe
ordnance stores to fill requsition OF troops
fifty thousand dollars
For manufacture of arms mt the nations
armory, one hundred and fifty thousand do
lars Provided That no part of this apprC
| priation shall be expended until breecl
| loading system for muskets and carbino
shall have been adopted for the military sci
vice upon the recommendation OF the boar
to be appointed by the Secretary of Wa
which board shall consist of not less than tiy
officers, rs follows one general officer, on
ordnance officer, and three officers OF th
line, one to he taken from the cavalry, on
from the infantry, and one from the artil
lery: And provided further, That the sy,
tcm when so adopted, shall be the only on
to be- used by the Ordnance department /
the manufacture OF muskets and carbnes f
the military service; and no royalty shall b
palu ny tht government vi INV ohitcu SIs'Ie
for the use of said patent TO any Of its Officer
or employees. or for any patent in whic
said officers or employees may be directl
or indirectly Interested.
SEC. g. That hereafter il shall he illegal
brand, mark, or tattoo on the body of an
soldier by sentence of court-martial and II
word corporeal shall he stricken frOr
the forty-flth OF the rules and articles for tn
government of the armies of the Unite
States,
Approved, June 6, 1872.
AYERS HAIR COR