Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1874-09-25

| That the same shall not involve any actual
expenditure of money from the Treasury.
To pay John Cooper, Of the John Cooper
Engine Manufacturing Company, for tools
| and work done on the Southwest Pass
lighthouse in eighteen hundred and sew
euty-two, five hundred and fourteen dol
lars and tweuty-nine cents.
WAR DEPARTMENT.
QUARTRRMAsTER's DEPARTMENT.
Regular supplies For fuel for officers,
enlisted men, guards, store-houses, and OIL
fees, forage for the horses, mules, and OK
en- of the QuarIermaster's Department at
the several posts aud stations, and with the
armies in the field, and for horses of the
several regiments of cavalry and batteries
of artillery, and such companies of infant
ry and scouts as may he mounted, and for
the authorized number of officers horses,
including bedding for the animals, straw
for soldiers bedding, stationery, including
blank books for the Quartermaster's De-
partment, certificates of discharged SOL
diers, blank forms for the Pay and Quar-
ternasters Departments, and for the print
ing OF division and department orders and
reports, being for the service of the fiscal
year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hun
dred and seventy-three, one hundred thou
sand dollars.
For incidental expenses, consisting of
ppsAdEt duu ltltkI VI htSihltutS re-
ceived and sent on public business, extra
pay TO soldiers employed under the direc-
tiOn of the Quartermaster's Department in
the erection of barracks, quarters, store
houses, and hospitals in the construction
of roads and other constant labor, for peri
ods of not less than ten days, including
those employed as clerks at division and
department headquarters, and hospital
stewards on clerical duty; expenses Of eX-
presses to and from the frontier posts aud
armies in the field of escorts to paymas-
ters and other disbursing 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
frontier or other places, when ordered by
the Secretary of War, and of non n-comms-
stoned officers and soldiers; authorized Of
flee furniture; hireof labor in the Quarter
masters Department, including the hire of
Interpreters, spies, and guides for the Ar
my; compensation of clerks for officers Of
tho Quartermaster's Department compen-
sation of forage aud wagon masters for
the apprehension. securing and delivering
of deserters, and the expenses incident 10
their pursuit; and for the following eX-
penditures, required for the several regi-
ments of cavalry, the batteries Of light ar
tillery, and such companies of infantry
aud scouts as may be mounted, namely I:
the purchase of travelling fDrges, black
smiths and shueing tools, horse and mule
shoes and nails, iron and steel for shoeing (;
hire of veterinary surgeons; medicine for
horses and males; picket ropes aud for
shoeng the horses of the corps named al
so, generally, the proper and authorized
expenses for the movement and operations
of the Army not expressly assigned to any
other department., being a deficiency for
the fiscal year ending June thirlieth, eigh-
teen hundred and seventy three, two hun
dred thousand dollars.
For transportation Of the Army, includ-
Ing the baggage of the troops, when NOV
ing either by land or water; of clothing
and camp and garrison equip page, from tho
depols at Philadelphia and Jetiersonville
to the several posts and Army depots, and
from these depots TO the troops in the field;
of horse equ quipments and Of subsistence
stores from the places ofpurchase and from
the places of delivery, under contract, TO
such places IA the circumstances of the SER
vice may require them to be sent; of ord
nance, ordnance-stOres, and small arms,
from the fuuuderes and armories to the ar
senals fortiications, frontier posts, aud
Army -depOts ireights, wharfage, TOLLS and
ierrages; the purchase and hire Of horses,
mules, oxen. and harness, and the pur-
| chase and repair of wagons, carts, and
drays, and of ships and other sea-gOing
vessels, and of boats required for the trans
portatiun of supplies and for Garrison-pur-
| poses for dTayaee and carriage at the sew
| eral posts hire of teamsters transpOrta-
| ton of funds for the Pay and other dis
| bursting Departments the expense of sail
| ing public transports ON various rivers, the
Gulf of Mexico, the Atlantic, and the Pa
| citic; for procuring waller at such posts as
| from their situation require that ii be
| brought from a distance; ; and for clearing
| roads, and for removing distractions from
| roads, harbOrs and rivers, 10 the extent
| which may be required for The actual oper-
| of ..fi Ia, hn fol hat NJ IaH
cheney for the fiscal year ending June thir-
| tieth, eighteen hundred aud seventy three,
| not including Pacific railroad accounts, one
hundred and sevGnty-tve thousand dollars:
PrOVided, That no part of tue sum appro-
| priated by any provision of this act shall
| be paid to any railroad company which has
| received a 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.
Ban racks aud quarters: For rent or hire
of quarters for troops, and for officers Oh
| military duty; OF stuTe-houSeS for safe
keeping of military stores of ofices o.
grounds for camps aud canlonments, an6
for temporary frontier stations for con
structon and repair of temporary huts, o
stables and other military buildings at es
tablished posts, and for repairs Of build,
inCs occupied by the Army, being def.
y
eighteen hundred and seventy-three, nine
ty thousand dollars.
Signal-Oflice: For expenses of the ob,
servatiou aud report vi storms by tele
graph and signals; for the manufacture
purchase, or repair of meteorological ant
other necessary Instruments for telegraph
ing reports for expenses of storm signals
announcing probable approach and force o
storms; for instrument shelters for hire
furniture and expenses of offices, main
tanned for public use, in cities or ports re
ceiving reports for river-reports for map
and bulletins, to be displayed in chamber
of commerce and boards of trade rooms
and for distribution for books and sta
tionery and for incidental expenses no
otherwise provided for, being deficiencl
for the fiscal year ending June thirtiet
eighteen hundred and seventy-four, forty
five thousand dollars.
To pay Benn Pitman balance due hin
for transcribing Photographic notes of tn
testimony and proceedings OF the court Q
inquiry into the operations of the Arm
: under the command of Major-General 1
G. Buell., in Kentucky and Tennessee, dul
, ing the winter and spring of eighteen hun
dred and sixty-two and eighteen hundre
, and sixty-three, nine hundred and ninet
: dollars and fifty cents.
| For compensation of the two commits
sioners appointed from civil life on II
D military-prisOn board, under the secon
= section of IAN act to provide for the estal
/. lishment of military prison, and for il
: | government aDDrOVed March third eipI