New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1873-06-01
OFEICIAL.
G3sss ~ che United States Passed ~ the
Third Session of the FOvty.SecODd
O'au2resa.

Third session oil the FOVtysSecOO0
Congress.
GENERAL NATURE-So. 81.
A. acs making appropriations for the sup.
port Of the army for the year ending
sjune thrtieth, eighteen hundred and
seventy four.
Be:, enacted by the Senate and House
OF Representatives of the United States OF
Amer!ca in Congress assembled. That the
following sums be, and the same are here
by appropriated, out of any moneys in the
treasury not otherwise appropriated, Tor
the support of the army for the year end
ing June thirtieth. eighteen hundred and
seventy-fouls
For expenses Of the commanding gen.
erals office, five thousand dollars.
For expenses OF recruiting and transpor.
cation of recruits one hundred and twenty.
Nne thousand dollars.
For contingent expenses OF che Adjutant
Generals department, at the headquarters
OF military divisions and departments. five
thousand dollars.
For the expenses OF The signal service Of
the army. purchase, equipment, and repair
of field electric telegraphs and signal equip.
ments. twelve Thousand tive hundred doll
Jars.
For pay of the army and for allowances
10 officers of the army tor transportation OF
themselves and their baggage when travel.
ing on duty without troops, escorts or sup
plies, and for compensation of witnesses
while on court martial service; for travel.
ing expenses of paymasters' clerks; for pay
Ment of postage On letters and packages,
and cost OF kilograms received and sent by
officers of the army on public business,
twelve million three hundred thousand dol
Sars.
For subsistence of regular troops. engi-
0eers, and Indian scouts, two million five
lundrad Thousand dollars.
For regular supplies of the Quartermas.
ier's department, to wit: For the regular
supplies Of the Quartermasters depart.
mert, consisting of stoves tor heating and
cooking. of fuel for officers, enlisted men,
guards, hospitals, stOrehouses, and offices;
of forage in kind for the horses mules, and
oxen of the Quartermaster' department at
the several posts and stations, and with
the armies in the field; for the horses
of the several regiments of cavalry, the bat
teries of artillery, and such companies OF
infantry and scouts as may be mounted,
and for the authorized number Of officers
horses, including bedding for the animals:
of straw for soldiers bedding; and of sta
tionery, including blank books. for the
uuartermaster's department, certificates for
discharged soldiers. blank forms for the pay
and auartermaster's departments, and for
printing of division and department orders
and reports, four million hve hundred thou
For incidental expenses. viz: For postage
autstele grams or dispatches: extra pay to
soldiers employed. under the direction of
the uuartermaster's department, in the
erection of barracks, quarters. storehouses
and hospitals, in the construction OF roads
and other constant labor, for periods OF not
less than ten days, under the acts OF March
second. eighteen hundred and nineteen. and
August fourth, eighteen hundred and fifty
four including those employed as clerks at
division and department headquarters: ex-
penses of expresses to ana from the frontier
posts and armies in the field, of escorts to
paymasters and other disbursing officers.
and to trains where military escorts can
not be furnished; expenses of the inter
ment of officers killed in action, or who
die when on duty in the field, or at post on
the frontiers. or at posts and other places,
when ordered by the Secretary OF War,
and of non-commissiOned officers and sol.
diers; authorized office furniture hire OF
laborers in the Quartermaster's depart
ment, including the hire of interpreters
spies and guides for the army; compensa-
ton of forage and wagon masters author
lied by the act of July fifth, eighteen hun
dred and thirty eight; for the apprehension
Of deserters, and the expense incident to
their pursuit; and for the following expen-
dtures, required for the several regiments