Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1874-07-23
GENERAL NAruRE-No. Al

! Lsoet'H''oeS " he O0lted States OF America IN
Congress assembled, That the following sums
be, and the same are hereby, appropriated. out
OF any money IN the treasury not otherwise
appropriated, for the support of the army for
the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hun.
dred and seventy-five, as follows:
For expenses of the Commanding Generals
Office, five thousand dollars.
For expenses of recruiting and transporta-
ton of recruits, one hundred and five thousand
dollars. And no money appropriated by this
act shall be paid for recruiting the army be-
vond the number of TWENTY-FIVE Thousand en-
ing, however, in this act shall be construed to
diminish the Signal Service, which shall be
maintained as now organized under the author
ity of the Secretary of War
For contingent expenses of the Adjutant-
Generals Department at the headquarters of
military divisions and departments, three
thousand dollars.
For expenses of the Signal Service of the
Army, purchase, equipment and repair of
electric field -telegraphs and sigpal.eouinments
twelve thousand five hundred dollars
For pay of the Army, and for allowances
to officers of the Army for transportation of
themselves and their baggage when travelling
on duty without troops, escorts, or supplies,
and for compensation of witnesses while on
court-martial service, for travelling expenses
of paymasters' clerks; fer payment of postage
on letters and packages, and cost of telegrams
received and sent by officers of the Army on
public business, eleven million four hundred
thousand dollars: Provided, That only actual
travelling expenses shall be allowed to any
person holding employment or appointed un-
der the United States, and all allowances for
mileages and transportation in access of the
amount actually paid are hereby declared ills-
gal; and no credit shall be allowed to any of
The disbursing officers of the United States for
payment or allowances in violation of this pro
vision.
For subsistence of reglar troops, engineers,
and Indian scouts, two million four hundred
and nine thousand dollars.
For regular supplies of the Quartermaster's
Department, to-wIt: For the regular supplies
of the Quartermaster's Department, consisting
of stoves for heating and cooking; of fuel for
officers, enlisted men, guards, hospital, store
houses, and offices; of forage in kind for the
horses, mules and oxen of the Quartermastef's
| 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 in
| fantry and scouts as may be mounted, and for
| the authorized number of officers horses, in
| Guiding bedding for the animals; of straw for
soldiers bedding; and of stationery, includ
| ing blank books for the Quartermaster's De-
partment, certificates for discharged soldiers,
| blank forms for the Pay and Quartermaster' s
| Departments, and for printing Of division and
| department orders and reports, four mi lion
| two hundred and fifty thousand dollars: Pro
thus appropriated may be applied by the Com
| mssary General of Subsistence prior to the
| first day of July, eighteen hundred and seven
| ty-four, to the purchase of subsistence sup
plies intended for the posts supplied through
the Upper Missouri, and for other distant
posts.
For incidental expenses, to-wit: For postage
and kilograms or dispatches; extra pay to
| soldiers employed under the direction of the
| Quartermaster's Department, in the erection
of barracks, quarters, store-houses and hospi-
! tails; in the construction of roads and other
| constant labor, for periods of not less than ten
| days, under the act of March second, eighteen
| hundred and nineteen, and August fourth
eighteen hundred fifty-four, including those
! employed as clerks at division and depart
ment headquarters; expenses of expresses to
| aud from the frontier posts and armies IN the
! field of escorts to paymasteFs and other dis
| bursting officers, and to trains where military
escorts cannot be furnished; expenses of the
| interment of officers killed in action, or who
| die when on duty in the field, or at posts on
| the frontiers. or when travelling on orders, and
| of on-commissioned officers and soldiers; au-
thorized office -furniture hire of laborers in the
| Quartermaster's Department, including the
| hire of interpreters spies, and guides for the
| Army: compensation of clerks to the Officers
| of the Quartermaster's Department; compensa-
ton of forage and wagon masters autheoized
| bv the act of July fifth, eighteen hundred and
thirty eight; for the apprehension of deserters
and the expense incident to their pursuit; and
for the following expenditures required for ths
several segiments of cavalry, the batteries o.
light artillery, and such companies of infantry
and scouts as may be mounted, to-wit, hire O
| veterinary surgeons, medicines for horses anC
mules, pieket-ropes, and for shoeing the horses
of the corps named; also, generally, the prope
| and authorized expenses for the movement anC
operations of the Army not expressly assigned
to any other department., one million two hun
dred thousand dollars.
For purchase of horses for the cavalry anC
, artillery, and for the Indian scouts, and 70
such infantry as may be mounted, three hun
| dred thousand dollars
For transportation of the Army, including
baggage of the troops when moving either bl
, land or water; of clothing, camp and garrison
, equipage from the depots at Philadelphla anC
] Jacksonville to the several posts and army
depots, and from those depots to the troops ii
the field; of horse-eq9ipments and OF subslst
ence-s stores from the places of purchase, AM
J from the places of delivery under contract t.
such places as the circumstances OF the serVle
may require them to be sent; of ordnance, ord
nance-stores, and small arms from the founde
ries and armories to the arsenals, fortiheat atons
| frontier-posts, and army-depots; helghts
| Wharfage tolls, and ferriages; the purehas
and hire of horses, mules, oxen, and harness
. and the purchase and repairs of wagons cart
and draws, and of ships and other sea-goln
. ! vessels and boats required for the trsnspcrta
4 dravage and carriage at the several posts; hlr
: of teamsters, transportation of funds for tn
. pay and other disbursing departments; the ex
: pense of sailing public transports on the warn
7 Gus rivers, the Gulf of Mexico, and the At
Iantic and Pacific; for procuring water at suei
posts as from their situation require 1t to b
l brought from a distance; and Tor cIearlnl
: | roads, and for removing distractions iron
roads, harbors, and rivers to the extent WhIel
NAV be required for the actual operations {
| the troops in the field, four million dollars.
That ne part of the money appropriated ,.
this act shall be paid to any rail road compan
for the transportation of any property or troop
of the United States over any railroad which
in whole or in part, was constructed BY the ale
of grant of public land on the condition tina
such railroad should be ga public highway 10
| the use of the Government of the United state
free from toll or other charge" or upon an!
other conditions for the use of such road Iol
such transportation; nor shall any allowance
be made out of any money appropriated o.
this act for the transportation OF onleers OF u
, | Army over any such road when on duty AM
| under orders as a military officer OF the Una
! ted States. But nothing herein eontalne,
: shall be construed as preventing any such raj
| road from bringing suitin the court Of claim
8 for the charges for such transportations an
recovering for the same, if unidentified there
, to by virtue of the laws force prior to tn
. | massage of this act.
For hire of quarters for officers on miGtar
. duty; hire of quarters for troops; Of store
houses for the safe keeping of military store:
offices, and of grounds for camps and summe
cantonments, and for temporary frontier -sts
tions; for the construction of temporary hut
and stables; and for repairing public building
at established posts, one million four hundre
thousand dollars.
For construction and repairs of hospitals
one hundred thousand dollars.
For purchase and manufacture of elsthins
camp and garrison equipage, and for PreserV
3 ing and repacking stock of clothing cam
and garrison equipage, and materials on ham
at the Schuylkill Arsenal and other dePota, On
million four hundred thousand dollars; Frs
=. uided, That none of the money hereby epprS
: priated shall be usedin the Purcesse OF nay nav
uniform. cans. uniform coats, uniform. jacket
; flannel sack coats. which articles the Quartel