The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1873-06-12

ment. certificates of discharged soldiers, blank
forms for the Pay and Quartermasters, depart
ments, and for the printing Of division and de-
partment orders and reports, each Item being
for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy
three, five hundred and ninety thousand dollars.
a For incidental expenses, consisting of postage
and kilograms or dispatches received and sent on
public business, extra pay to soldiers employed
ander the direction of the Quartermasterfs de-
parment in the erection of barracks, quarters,
Estorehouses, and hospitals; in the construction
of roads and other constant labor, tor periods
not less than ten days including those employed
as clerks at division and department headquar-
tiers, and hospital stewards on clerical duty ex-
penses of expresses to and from the frontier
posts and armies in the field of escorts to pay
masters and other disbursing officers, and 10
trains, where military escorts cannot be furnish
ed; expenses of the interment of officers killed
in action, or who die when on duty in the field
or at posts on the frontier or other places when
ordered by the Secretary of War, and OF non
commiss toned officers aad soldiers; authorized
office furniture hire of labor in the Quarter
masters department, including the hire of inter-
prefers, spies. aud guides for the army; compen-
sation Of clerks for officers of the Quartermast-
er's department; compensation Of forage and
wagon masters: for the apprehension, securing,
and delivering of deserters and the expenses in
cident to their pursuit, and for the following ex-
pendtures, equired for the several regiments of
cavalry, the batteries of light artillery ard such
companies of infsntry and scouts may be
mounted viz: the purchase of travelling FORCES,
blacksmiths' and shoeing tools, horse and mule
shoes and nails, iron and steel for shoeDg; hire
of veterinary surgeons medicines for horses and
mules picket ropes; and FOR shoeing the horses of
the corps named; also, generally the proper and
authorized expenses for the movement and oper
ations Of the army not expressly assigned to any
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dred and seventy two, two hundred thousand
dollars
For incidental expenses, above set FORTH
for fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy
three, enc hundred thousand dollars.
Army transportation.
For transportation Of the army, including the
baggage of the troops, when mosng either by
land or water; of clothing, camp, and garrison
equipage from the depots at Philadelphia. and
JetfersonTille to the several posts and army de-
pots, and from these depots to the troops in the
field; of horse equipments and of subsistence
stores from the places of purchase and from the
places eff delivery, under contract, to such places
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 arsenals, Notifications, frontier posts and
army depots; freights, wharfage, tolls and fec
riages; the purchase and hire of horses, mules,
exen end harness, and the purchase and repair
of wagons CARTS and drays, and of ships and
other sea going vessels, and of boats required
forthe transportation OF supplies and for garri-
purposes; for drayage and carriage at the
several posts ]: hire Of transfers tran portation
of funds for the Pay and other disbursng de-
partments; the expense of sailing public trans
ports on the various rivers the Gulf of Mexico
the Atlantic, and the Pacific; for procuring wa
ter at such posts as from their situation REQUIRE
that It be brought from distance; and for Clean
ing roads and for removing distractions from
roads, harbors, and rivers, to the extent which
may be required for the actual operations of
troops in the field, for fiscal year eighteen hun
bred and seventy-two, six hundred thousand dol
lars.
For transportation of the army, including The
items as above set forth, for fiscal year eighteen
hundred and seventy-three, five hundred thous-
ard dollars.
Barracks and quarters: For rent or hire of
quarters for troops, and for officers on military
duty; Of storehouses for safe keeping of miit,s-
ry 81 ores; OF Offices; of grounds for camps and
cantonments, and fer temporary frontier stations;
TOR construction and repair of temporary huts
of stables and other military buildings at estab-
lished posts, and for repairs of buildings occu-
pied by the army, for fiscal year eighteen hun
bred and seventy three, two hundred and fifty
thousand dollars. IN
Clothing and equipage: For purchase ana
manufacture of clothing, camp and garrison
equipage, and for preserving ana e-packing hock
of clothing, camp and garrison equipage,' and
materials on hand at the Schuylkill arsenal and
other depots, for fiscal year eighteen hi ndred
and seventy three one hundred and thirty til GU
sand dollars.
PAY DEPARTMENT.
General expenses Of Paymaster- Generals of
fee:
For postage on letters and packages, and tele-
grams received and sent by officers of the
army public business; the additional compen-
saton of judge advocates, recorders, members,
and witnesses. while on courtmartial service,
and the travelling expenses of paymasters clerks,
for fiscal year eighteen hundred and sefenty-tw
six thousand dollars.
For postage on letters and packages received
and sent by officers of the army on public SER
vice, cost Of kilograms compensation of citi.
zen witnesses atten ling upoa courmartial mill
tary commissions, courts of inquiry, and travels
ing expenses of paymasters clerks for fiscal
year eighteen hundred and seventy three seven.
ty-fve the usand dollars.
Mileage. Paymaster- Generals office For al
lowances made to officers of he army for trans
portation of themselves and their baggage when
travelling on duty without troops, escort, or sup
plies, for fiscal year eighteen hundred and sew
enty three, seventy five thousand dollars.
10 enable the secretary of War to pay certain
Indebtedness incurred by the officer in Charge Of
public buildings and grounds in the city of Wash
ington during the fiscal year ending June Thrift
eth, eighteen hundred and seventy IN furnishing
the Executive Mansion one thousand four hun
dred and ninety five dollars and thirty.six cents;
and the officer in charge of the public buildings
and grounds shall have the rank, pay aud emo-
ument of a colonel.
Il 10 enable the Secretary of War to pay W. II.
Shirley, for additional clerical services hereto
fore employed by him in the investigation and
settlement Of accounts for abandoned and cap
tured property, one thousand dollars.
SIGNAL SERVICE.
Observation and report Of storms: For espense
Of the manufacture, purchase repair of mete-
orogcal and other necessary instruments for tel
egraphing reports for expenses of storm signal
announcing the probable approach and force Of
storms for instrument shelter: for hire furni
ture,and expenses.of Offices maintained for public
use, in cities or post receiving reports for mans
bulletins, and so forth. to be displayed in cham
bers of commerce and boards of trade rooms. and
for distribution to agricultural, scientific. and
other associations: for books and stationery
and for incidental expenses not otherwise nroyi-
ded for, for the fiscal year of eighteen hundred
and seventy three, eighty eight thousand dollars
MEDICAL AND HOSPITAL DEPARTMENT.
10 enable the Secretary of the Treasury to set
tie the accounts of discussing officers for expend
| lures already made in pursuance of law. which
will not involve any actual expenditure, a trans
| fer ON the hooks nf he trao-urx, Of tr,a