The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1873-06-26
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OF THE
Unite S t a t e s.,
PASSED AT THE
THIRD SESSION OF THE FORTY-SECoND
CONGRESS-.
GENERAL NATURE-No ST.

CONGhESS.
GENERAL NATURE-No 81.
AN ACT making appropriations for The supper
Of the army for the year ending June thirtieth
eighteen hundred and seventy tour.
B. 1t enacted by the Senate and House Of Repre-
.entutives of the United States Of America IN Con
gress assembled, That the following sums be, ant
the same are hereby, appropriated, out OF any
moneys in the treasury not otherwise approprla
ted, for the support of the army for the yea
ending June thirlieth, eighteen hundred an'
seventy -f0ur:
For expenses of the commanding generafs OF
fee, Eve thousand dollars.
For the expenses of recruiting and transpor
tation of recruits, one hundred and twenty ON
thousand dollars.
For contingent expenses of the Adjutant-Gen
erals department, at the headquarters of militia
ry divisions and departments, five thousand dol
lars
For the expenses Of the signal service of thu
army purchase equipment, and repair OF helt
electric teleRraphs and signal equipments, twelve
thousand five hundred dollars.
For pay OF the army and for allowances to Of
icers of the army Tor transportation OF Them
selves and their baggage when travelling on duty
without troops, escorts, or supplies, AMI for com
pensation of witnesses while on court martial
service; for travelling expenses Of paymast rs
clerks for payment of postage on letters AND
packages, AMI cost OF kilograms received and sent
by officers Of the army on public business,
twelve million three hundred Thousand dollars.
For subsistence of regular troops, engineers,
and Indian scouts TWO million five hundred thou
sand dollars.
For regular supplies Of the Quartermaster de
par ment, TO wit: For the regular supplies OF
the Quartermaster's department., consisting OF
stoves Tor heating and cooking, OF fuel Tor ofh-
GERS enlisted guar s, hospitals, store houses,
anu offices; Ut forage III kind for the norses,
mules, and oxen OF the Quartermasler's depart
meut at the several posts and stations, anu with
the armies in the field for the horses OF the sew
eral regiments cavalry, the batteries OF arille
~, ami such Companies o infantry and scouts as
may be mounted, ami for The authorized number
OF officers horses, lncluding peddlug for the AMI
mails: OF straw for soldiers Ded1lng and OF
stationery, including blank books, for the Quar-
termaster's department, certificates for dlscharg
ed soldiers, blank forms FOR the Pay and Quar-
termaslers departments, and for printing Oh dl
VISION and department orders anu reports, four
milton five hundred thousand doliars.
For Incidental expenses, VIZ: For postage and
kilograms or dispatches extra pay to soldiers
employed. under lhe direction OF the Quarter
master 5 department, in the erection Ut barracks,
Quarters, store houses, and hospitals in the con
sIruclon IT roads, ana otner constant labor, for
perlods OF not less Than ten days, under the acts
OF March second, eighteen hundred and nine
teen, and August fourth, eighteen hundred and
iiity tour, incluuiug those employed as clerks at
division nd department headquarters expenses
OF expresses to and from the frontier posts anj
armies the field, OF escorts to payma>ters and
other disbursing officers, and to trains where mil
i,ary escorts canpot be furnished; expenses Of
the lnermenl oil officers killed III action, or WHO
ule when duiy III the heid, OF at post on the
frontiers, or at posts and other places, when or
uered by the Secretary OF War, and OF non COM
mlssioned officers and soldisrs; authorized office
lurnlture; hire OF laborers In the Quaitermas.
ters department, inciuuIng the hire vi lnerpre-
ters, splue, and guides for the army; compensa
ZION clerks officers OF the Quarternaster $
department; compensation OF forage and wagon
MASTERS uihorlzed 10y The act OF July NTH, eight
cen hundred anu Lniri y-elghi; 1of the apprenen-
OF ANA the expense incident 70 tnelr
pursuit. aud tor The following expenditures re
CURED for tne several regiments vi cavalry, the
batteries oil night artillery, anu such companies
vi Infantry and SCOUTS may be mounted, name
~: the purchase OF travelling forges, black
smiths aud snoelng tools, horse and mule Shoes
and nails iron aud steel for shOeing, hire of ve-
er1nary surgeons medicines for horses and mules,
picket ropes, and Tor shoelng the horses OF the
corps named also, generally, the proper aud
lions of an army not expressly assigned to any
vther department, one million three hundred
thousand dollars
For purchase OF horses for the ca valry and ar
tillery, and Ior Indian scouts, and for such in
fanny as may be mounted, three hundred and
fifty thousand dollars.
For transportation of the army, including bag
gage If the troops when moving either by land
or water; OF cioLhing, camp and garrison equip
age from the depots at Philadelphia and Jefer
sonYiile 10 the several posts and army depots.
and from these depots to The troops III the field
Of horse equipments and Of subsistence stores
from the places OF purchase, and from the pla-
ces Of delivery under contract, to such places as
The circumstances OF the service may require
them to be sent; of ordnance, ordnance stores,
and small arms from the toundries and armories
TO the arsenals, Notifications, frontier posts, and
army depots; freights, wharfage, tolls, and fer
RACES; the purchase and hire of horses. mules,
oxen, and harness, and the purchase and repair
OF wagons, carts, aud drays, and OF ships aud
other sea going vessels, and boats required tor
the transportation of supplies and for garrison
purposes; for drayage ami Carriage at the sever
al posts, hire teamsters, transportation oil
funds Tor The Pay and other dlsburslng depart
ments the expense OF sailing pubilc transports
ON The various rivers, the Cuff Of Mexico, and
the Atlantic aud Pacific; for procuring water al
such posts as, from their situation. require it te
be brought from a distance; aud Tor clearing
ROADS anu removing DISTINCTIONS from roads. mar
bors and rivers " the extent which may be re
gu. red for the actual opertlons OF The troops In
the aId Iuur million i've hundred thousand dol
lars
For hire of quarters for officers on military du
ty, hire OF quarters t0r troops, of store houses
Tor the sale-KeepIng or military stores, offices
and OF grounds tor camps and Tor summer can
nnents, and for temporary frontier. stations
tor the construction OF temporary huts ana sta
bies; auu Tor repairing pubic buildings at tns
established posts, and for establishing Two new
posts between the Missouri river and Fort ELLIS
one million seven hundred thousand dollars
For construction and repairs Of hospitals, one
hundred thu usand dollars.
For pul chase and manufacture OF clothing
camp and garrison equipage, and for preserving
and repacking stock of clothing, camp and gar
rison equlpage, and materials on hand a
the Schuyikiil arsenal and other depots
one million five hundred and twenty three thou
sand five hundred and eight dollars and eighty
one cents Provided, That when the new uniform
is distributed the troops, the clothing OF th'
old style no longer to b. issued. incapable OF al
teration. shall be sold by the Secretary Of Wal
at public auction, after due public nolce ny ad
yertisement; and the gross pi oceeds OF sucf
sales shall be covered into the treasury
For establishing and maintaining natioua
military cemeteries, two hundred and seven
tv-fye thousand dollars: Frovadea, That the
heaustoues required by an act entitled "Ar
act to establish aud protect national cemeter
les" approved February twenty-second ,eigh