Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1873-03-22
Passed at the Third Session Of the Fort!
First Congress.
IpUBLIsHED BY AUTHORITY

CHAP. .CCCXYI-An Act making appro-
priations for the Support of the Army for the
Year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hum
bred and seventy three and for other pur-
poses. =, 81. Lv, II -.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House Of
Representatives of the United States Of Ameri-
ca in Congress assembled, That the following
sums be- and the same are hereby, appropri-
ated, out of any moneys IN the treasury not
otherwise appropri ated, for the support OF
thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy three :
For expenses of the commanding generals
office FIVE thousand dollars.
For expenses of recruiting and transportation
of recruits, one hundred and twenty thousand
five hundred and eighty dollars.
For contingent expenses of the Adjutant
Generals department at the headquarters OF
military divisions and departments, five thou
sand dollars. gtr.- -.,. -..-
FORTY SECOND CONGRESS. SEss. II.
Ca. S21 322 1872. set
CHAP. CCCXXI-An Act to continue the
Act to authorize the Settlement of the Ac-
counts of Officers of the Army and Navy.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of
Representatives of the Udited States of Ameai-
ca in Congress assembled, That the act to
authorize the settlement of the accounts of the
officers of the army and navy, approved June
twenty third, eighteen hundred and seventy,
shall continue and be in force for two years
from June twenty third, eighteen hundred and
seventy two and no longer.
FORTY SECOND CONGRESS. sess, II.
Oh. 316. 1872.
For the expenses of the signal service of the army
twelve thousand FIVE hundred dollars.
For pay of the army and for payment to discharged
soldiers for clothing not drawn, twelve million one
hundred and five thousand five hundred and ninety
For allowances to officers of the army for transporta
ton of themselves and their baggage when travelling
on duty without troops escorts or supplies, two hun
dred and forty thousand dollars.
For general expenses. such as the compensation of
witnesses while on court martial service and travelling
and packages and kilograms received and sent by Off
GERS of the army on public business military commits
sons and courts of inquiry one hundred thousand dol
For subsistence Of regular troops. engineers and In
dian scouts two million seven hundred and seventy
For regular supplies Of the quartermasters depart
ment. to wit:
For the regular supplies of the quartermasters de-
partment, consisting of fuel for officers. enlisted
guards hospitals stOrehouses and offices of forage in
masters department at the several posts and stations
and with the es in the field for the horses of the
several regiments Of cavalry the batteries of artillery
mounted, and for the authorized number of officers
horses including bedding for the animas Of straw for
books for the quartermasters department certificates
for discharged soldiers. blank forms for the pay and
and department orders and reports. four million
dollars.
For incidental expenses, VIZ:
For postage and kilograms or dispatches; extra pay
to soldiers employed under the direction of the quar-
termasters department, in the erection of barracks
quarters and hospitals in the construction
roads and other constant labor for periods of less
than ten days. under the acts of March second eighteen
hundred and ffty-four. including those employed as
clerks at division and department headquarters; ex
penses of expresses to and from the frontier posts and
armies in the field; Of escorts to paymasters and other
disbursng officers and to trains where military
cannot be furnished expenses of the interment of Off
He'd in or who ia yyha on dutv in tha
places when ordered BY the Secretary Of Way and of
ed Office furniture, hire of laborers in the quar-
termaster's department, including. the hire of
compensation Of clerks to the officers Of the
xuartermaster's department; compensation of for
Of July fifth eighteen hundred and thirty eight; for
the apprehension Of deserters and the expense Incl
dent to their pursuit; and for the following expendi
required for the several regiments of cavalry the
batteries Of light artillery and such companies Of in
fantry and scouts as may be mounted namey the pur
horse and mule shoes and nails iron and steel for shoe
ing hire of veterinary surgeons medicines for horses
the corps namsd also generally the proper and au
thorized expenses for the moyemant and operations of
one million two hundred thousand dollars.
For purchase OF horses for the cavalry and artillery
and for Indian scouts and for such 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 garrison
equipage from the depots of Philadelphia and
Jacksonville to the several posts and army de-
pots, and from those depots to tue troops in the
field; of horse equipments and of subsistence
stores from the places of purchase, and from the
places of delivery under contract to such places
as the circumstances of the service NAV require
them to be sent; Of ordnance, ordnance stores
and small arms from the founderies and armor-
les to the arsenals, Notifications, frontier posts
and army depots; freiget, wharfage, tolls and
ferriages; the purchase and hire of horses,
mules, oxen and harness and the purchase and
repair of wagons, carts and drays and of ships
and other sea-going vessels and boats required
for the transportation of supplies ard for garri.
SON purpo ses; for drayage and carriage at the
several posts, hire of teamsters transportation of
funds for the pay and other disbursing depart
ments the expense Of sailing public transports