Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1874-08-07

ing, camp aud garrison equipage, and for
preserving and repacking stock OF cloth
ing, camp aud garrison equipage, and ma
f. iIls on hand ut the Schuylkill Arsenal
and other depots, ono million four nun
dred and filtyi Thousand dollars Provided,
That mono of the money hereby appropri-
atcd shall be used in the purchase of hats,
uniform-caps, forage-caps, uniform coats,
uniform Jackets, flannel sack coats, and I'M
lined coats, which articles tho Quarternias-
ter's Department shall issue from the sup
ply now on hand, known as the old pat
tern and none of the articles above emu
merated shall be purchased until those now
ON hand are exhausted.
For preservation of clothing and equi-
page from moth aud mildew, thirty thOus-
and dollars.
For maintaining national military Como
| teries, one hundred and hlty thousand dol
| lars,
For Army contingencies not provided for
nv other estimates, embracing all branches
of the military service, one hundred thou
sand dollars: Provided, That none Of the
money hereby appropriated shall he OK
ncndcd. directly or Indirectly, for any use
not strictly necessary for and directly con-
ncctcd with the military service of the
Government.
For purchase OF medical and hospital
| supplies, pay of private physicians en-
| ploVed i'm cnlcruencies, hire Of hospital al
| tendants, expenses of purvcying- depots, of
medical examining boards, and incidental
| expenses of the Medical Department. two
hundred thousand dollars.
For the Army Medical Museum and for
| medical and other necessary works for the
library of the Surgeon Generals Office, ten
| thousand dollars.
For engineer-depot Mt WilletPs Point,
| New York, namely, remodeling portions
| of bridge equipage, and for the current OK
pensos Of the depot, purchase OF engineer
ing-materials for use in instruction OF en-
pineer- battalion, and purchase and repair
OF instruments for general service Of tie
Corps of Engineers, nine thousand dollars
For trials with tOTpedOes for harbor ana
| land defense, and 10 instruct the engln GER
| troops in their practical construction and
| application, ten thousand dollars.
For the ordnance-service required TO de-
| Crav the current expenses at the arsenals
| Of receiving stores aud issuing arms and
| other ordnance supplies; Of police and Of
| flee duties of rents. tolls, fuel, and lights;
| of stationery and oflice-furniture of tools
and instruments for use; of public ami
mails, forage, and vehicles incidental eX-
| nenses of the ordnance-service, including
| those attending practical trials and tests OF
ordnance small arms, and other ordnance
supplies, one hundred and twenty-five
| thousand dollars. Provided, That none of
| the money hereby appropriated shall be
| expended directly or indirectly, for any
use not strictly necessary for, and directly
| connected with, the military service of The
| Government; and this restriction shall APP
py to the use of public animals, forage,
| and vehicles And provided further, That
none of the money hereby appropriated
| shall he expended for the construction or
repair OF buildings.
For manufacture of metallic ammunl
ton for small arms, seventy-five thousand
| dollars.
For overhauling, cleaning and preserv-
ing new ordnance stores on hand at the ar
senals, fifty thousand dollars.
For repairing ordnance aud ordnance
stores in the hands of troops and for issue
| ut the arsenals and depots, twenty-five
| thousand dollars.
For saddlers' tools, smiths tools and ma
terials tool-bags, cavalry FORCES with their
| tools and materials, for the cavalry service,
| twenty thousand dollars.
For purchase aud manufacture OF ord
| nance stores, to fill acquisitions OF troops,
and for alteration of carriages now in use
in sea coast forts, one hundred thousand
| dollars.
Forinrantry, cavalry, and artillery equip
ments, consisting Of valises, haversacks,
| canteens, and great coat straps, and for re-
| covering cavalry saddles with leather, and
for manufacture OF saddle-bags and repair
ing horse equipments for cavalry troops,
one hundred thousand dollars.
For manufacture, at national armories,
of the new model breech loading musket
and carbine, adopted for the military ser
| vice on Recommendation of the board of
| officers convened under act of June sixth,
eighteen hundred and seventy-two, one
hundred thousand dollars: Provided, That
| no part of this sum shall be expended at
said armories in the perfection of patenta-
BILE inventions in the manufacture OF arms
by officers OF the army otherwise compen-
stated for their services to the United States.
For the construction of post on the
north fork of Loupe River in Nebraska,
fifty thousand dollars Provided, That the
cost of said post shall not exceed the amount
hereby appropriated.
SEC. 2. That all balances of appropria-
tons, for whatever account, made for the
service OF the Departments OF the Quarter
master General and of the Commissary
General of Subsistence, prior to July first,
eighteen hundred and seventy-two, which
on the thirtieth day of June, eighteen hun
dred and seventy-four, shall remain on the
books of the Treasury, shall be carried to
the surplus fund, except such as the Aud
itor of The Treasury whose duty 1t is to set
lie accounts against such appropriations
shall certify to the Secretary af the Treasu-
| ry to be necessary in the settlement of such
accounts as have been reported to him for
payment by the Quartermasters and the
Commissary Departments pending in his
office. And the Quartermastery General,
| Commissary General and Third Auditor oil
the Treasury shall continue to receive, eN-
anime and consider the justice and validi-
| ty of such claims as shall be brought be-
fore them under the act of July fourth,
eighteen hundred and sixty-four, and the
acts amendatory thereof; and the Secreta-
ry OF the Treasury shall make report Of
each claim allowed by them, ut the COM
mencement of each session of Congress, tC
the Speaker of the House of Representa-
tives, who shall lay the same before Con-
gress for consideration.
Approved, June 10, 1874.