Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1874-09-03

including blank books for the Quartennaster's
Department, certificates of discharged soldiers,
blank forms for the Pay and Quartermaster's
departments, and for the printing of division
ana department orders and reports, being for
tne service OF the fiscal year ending June thlr-
teth' eighteen hundred and seventy-three,
one hundred thousand dollars
For incidental expenses, consisting of post
age and kilograms or dispatches received and
sent on public business, extra nav to soldiers
employed under the Direction of the Omar
termaster's Department in the erection of
barracks, quarters. store houses and hospitals.
IN the construction of roads and other con.
slant labor, for periods of not less than ten
days, including those employed as clerks at
division and department headquarters, and
hospital stewards on clerical duty; expenses
OF expresses to and from the frontier posts and
armies in the field; of escorts to pavmasters
and other disbursing officers, and to trains
where military escorts cannot be furnished:
expenses OF the interment of officsrs killed in
action, or who die when on duty in the field
or at posts the frontier or other places
when ordered by the Secretary of War, and
of non-commissioned officers and soldiers;
authorized office furniture; hire of labor in the
Quartermaster's Department, including the
hire of Interpreters, spies and guides for the
Army; compensation of clerks for officers of
the Quartermaster's Department; compensa-
ton OF forage and wagon masters; for the ap-
prehension, securing and delivering of de-
serters, and the expenses incident to their pur-
suit; and for the following expenditures, re-
quired for the several regiments of cavalary,
the batteries Of light artillery, and such com
panies of infantry and scouts as may be
mounted, namely: the purchase of travelling
forges, blacksmiths' and shoeing tools horse
and mule shoes and nails, iron and steel for
shoeing; hire of veterinary surgeons; medicine
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 operations of the Army
not expressly assigned to any other depart
ment, being deficiency for the fiscal year
ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and
seventy-three, two hundred thousand dol
lars
For transportation of the Army, including
the baggage of the troops, when moving eth
er by land or water; of clothing and camp and
garrison equipage, from the depots at Phila-
delphia and Jacksonville to the several posts
and Army depots, and from these depots to
the troops Tin the field; of horse-equipments
and of subsistence-stores from the places of
purchase and from the places of delivery, un-
der contract, to such places as the circum-
stances of the service may require them to be
sent; of ordnance, ordnance-stores, and small
arms, from the founderies and armories, to tile
aTsenals, Notifications, frontier posts and Ar
my depots; freights. wharfage, tolls and fer
riages; the purchase and hire of horses mules,
oxen and harness, and the purchase and re-
pair of wagons, carts and drays, and of ships
and other sea going vessels, and of boats re-
quired for the transportation of supplies and
for garrison purposes; for drayage and carriage
at the several post; hire of teamsters; trans
portation of funds for the Pay and other dis
bursting Departments; the expenses of sailing
public transports on various rivers, the Gulf
of Mexico, the Atlantic, and the Pacific; for
procuring water at such posts as from their
situation require that it be brought from dis
tance: and for clearing roads and for remoV-
nhatpnatiOOa from rOodr bor ond riv
ers, to the extent which may be required for
the actual operations of troops in the field, be-
ing deficiency for the fiscal year ending
June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy
three, not including Pacific railroad accounts,
one hundred and seventy-6ve thousand dol
lars: PrOUided. That part of the sum ap
propriated by any PROVISION of this act shall
be paid to any railroad company which has
received grant of land on the condition that
its road SHOULD be public highway for the
transportation of the property and troops of
the United States free from toll or other
charge.
Barracks and quarters: For rent or hire of
quarters for troops and for officers on military
duty; of store houses for safe keeping of mill
tary stores; of Offices; of grounds for camps
and cantonments, and for temporary frontier
| stations; for construction and repair of tenn
porary huts, of stables and other military
buildings at established posts, and for re-
pairs of buildings occupied by the Army, be-
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June thirtieth. eighteen hundred and seventy
three, ninety thousand dollars.
| Signal-Office: For the expenses of the OBJ
servation and report of storms by telegraph
and signals; for the manufacture, purchase or
repair of meteorological and other necessary
instruments; for telegraphing reports; for eX-
penses of storm 81 gnals, announcing probable
| approach and force of storms; for instrument
| shelters; for hire, furniture and expenses of
offices, maintained for public use, in cities or
| ports receiving reports; for river reports for
| maps and bulletins, to be displayed in cham
bers of commerce and boards of trade rooms,
| and for distribution, for books and stationery;
| and for incidental expenses not otherwise pro-
vided for, being deficiency for the fiscal year
ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and
| seventy four, forty-five thousand dollars
To pay Benn Pitman balance due him for
transcribing photographic notes of the testi-
mony and proceedings of the court of inquiry
| into the operations of the Army under the
! command of Major General D. G. Buel, in
Kentucky and Tennessee, during the winter
and spring of eighteen hundred and sixty-two
and eighteen hundred sixty three, nine hun
dred and ninety dollars and fifty cents.
For compensation of the two commissioners
appointed from civil life on the military pris-
on board, under the second section of "An act
| to provide for the establishment of a military
prison, and for its government" approved
March third, eighteen hundred and seventy.
three, while actually duty, four hundred
and sixty dollars; for travelling expenses OF
| said commissioners and of the Secretary oi
dred dollars: ProUided, That the duties OF
said commissioners shall cease after the eXpi-
ration of the current fiscal year.
INTERIOR DEPARTMENT.
INDIAN OFFICE.
For this amount, or so much thereof as may
| be necessary, for the subsistence and civiliza-
ton of the Arickarees, Gros Ventres, and
Mandans, to be expended in goods and pro
| visions and other articles, as the President
may determine, for agricultural and mechani-
col pursuits, and for the pay of employees, up
| to June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sew
ty-four, twenty-fve thousand dollars.
For this amount much thereof as may
| be necessary, to subsist the Naval 10 Indians,
in accordance with the estimate of L. E. Dud-
| ley,superintendent of Indian affairs,up to June
| thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy four,
| twenty-five thousand dollars.
| For this amount. or so much thereof as may
| be necessary, to pay for the services and ex-
difference between the sum required, thirty
thousand dollars, and the amount appropria-
ted February fourteenth, eighteen hundred and
seventy three, twelve thousand four hundred
dollars, seventeen thousand six hundred dol
lars.
For the first of ten instalments, to be paid,
under direction of the President, to the Flat
head Indians removed from the Bitter Root
| Valley to the Jocko reservation, IN the Terri
tory of Montana, in accordance with the Sc
cond section of the act entitled ''An act to
provide for the removal of the Flathead and
other Indians from the Bitter Root Valley In
the Territory of Montana approved June
fifth, eighteen hundred and seventy two, five
thousand dollars: ProUided, That said sum
shall be paid only to those Indiana of said
tribe who shall have settled upon the Joeko
reservation.
For this amount. or so much thereof as may
be necessary, for.the removal and subsistence
up to July first, eighteen hundred and seven
ty-four, of the Kickapoo Indians who have
been removed from the borders of Mexico and
Texas to the Indian Territory, said amount to
be expended under the direction of tie Seere.